On the evening of June 5, the courtyard of Haijufu's house has already been renovated, and the wedding shed and lanterns are in place, waiting for tomorrow to officially come in handy. Dozens of villagers who had helped out in Haijufu's house for a day had already sat around four ten-person tables at this time, feasting on the various dishes that were served one after another.

"Ah Fu, I won't say anything else about the wedding preparations for the second baby, it's just that this master invited you to give you a long face." An old man with an orange peel-like fold face, picked up a piece of oily wheat cabbage on the plate and put it in his mouth under the eyes of the crowd sitting around the table, squinted his eyes and swallowed it after a few clicks, and said to Hai Jufu, who was sitting beside him, in an old-fashioned manner.

This old man's name is Hai Siquan, although he is in his early eighties this year, he is not deaf or blind, his waist is still straight, and his voice is still as muddy as thunder. The old man's status in the village is not ordinary, although he is not the oldest among the people surnamed Hai in the entire Haiwozi Village, he is the person with the highest seniority. How high is the seniority? Even Hai Jufu, a person who has become a grandfather, has to call this old man a fourth grandfather! So it's no wonder that a group of young people, half-old men, and old men at the table watched this old man take a mouthful of food from the plate, although they secretly swallowed their saliva, they couldn't reach out and grab it.

After watching the old man Hai Siquan swallow a mouthful of Zuihou, the old man sitting on the other side of Hai Jufu spoke: "Yes, Ah Fu." The craftsmanship of this master you invited is good, it shouldn't be said to be good, it should be said to be top-notch. But well...... Although this dish is good enough, this dish is a little slow! ”

The second old man who spoke was called Hai Jingde, who was about the same age as Hai Siquan, but a generation younger, and was Hai Jufu's own uncle, so Hai Jufu still had to laugh when he answered this. Seeing that it was just an ordinary plate of stir-fried oil and wheat vegetables that was divided up in less than a minute after the plate fell off the table, Hai Jufu said a fair word with a smile: "Third uncle, this dish is not slow." As soon as everyone sat down, there were already six dishes. It should be said that everyone eats fast, right? ”

Saying that, Hai Jufu also looked around at the 'progress' of the other three tables. Sure enough, even the old men at the first table ate a few dishes and wiped them clean, not to mention the young people at the other three tables? I had already drunk the soup from a few dishes, and I was staring at the path leading to here in the backyard where the stove was placed.

"Oh? Really? Hai Jingde looked up at the sky, and then suddenly said: "Isn't it, the sun just went down when I sat down before, and now the sky is still bright!" ”

Seeing that whether it was the old man at the head table or the young daughters-in-law at the other tables, they all showed their impatient greed, Hai Jufu tentatively asked the old man Hai Siquan at the head of the table: "Do you want to ...... Shall I take a look at the back? ”

Old Man Hai Siquan took out the majesty of his elders, "Then why are you still staying here?" Don't go yet! "Old children, old children, that is, the older you are, the more like children. The old man Hai Siquan is no exception, let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about gluttony, which is the same as those boys who wear open crotch pants and expose little birds running around like crazy.

Hai Jufu hurriedly took the order to leave the table and walked to the place where the stove was placed in the backyard.

By the two earthen stoves in the backyard, Zhang Jin, who was shirtless, was wielding a shovel that was used as a cooking shovel to wave and stir in the two cauldrons side by side. His forehead was covered with fine and dense beads of sweat, and from time to time one fell on the red-hot stove iron, and in the sound of 'Xuanla', a wisp of white mist rose up.

Under the 'secret supervision' of Hai Jufu on the side, soon, the small half pot of 'rice wine beef liver' on the stove on the left was fried with the smell of fragrant fragrance. Zhang Jin neatly turned off the blower of the stove on the left, shoveled four shovels like flying, and loaded the four plates that were laid out next to him one by one, and hurriedly said to the Haigensheng couple who helped next to him: "Brother Gensheng, sister-in-law, it's okay again, you can take it out!" He put the lid on the big pot of seafood soup boiling on the stove on the right, and after reducing the power of the blower, he had the time to tear off the towel hanging on the side and wipe the sweat from his forehead.

When Zhang Jin raised his hand to take the towel, he inadvertently saw Hai Jufu standing next to him for a while, Zhang Jin joked: "Why doesn't Uncle Jufu eat it?" Wouldn't you be worried about me, afraid that I would mess you up, so you came to supervise me, right? "Because there are too many old men of the uncle's generation that Zhang Jin saw today, he had no choice but to change the name of Hai Jufu, no longer called 'Uncle Hai', but changed to 'Uncle Jufu'. ,

After Hai Jufu handed Zhang Jin a cigarette and lit it for him, he said with a smile: "How can Uncle not trust you?" Don't say anything else, you really give your uncle a long face today! I don't know what you do! This belongs to this. As he spoke, Hai Jufu raised his thumb high.

After chatting for a while, seeing that Hai Gensheng had already cleaned the cauldron of fried 'rice wine beef liver' before, Zhang Jin was about to take charge of the next dish again. Hai Jufu hurriedly stopped, "Xiao Zhang, look at your tired sweat." Don't rush to get it, just rest for a while. ”

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On the first day of the wedding banquet, the 'Xie Xiang Banquet' was naturally complete under Chef Zhang's superb cooking skills. Although the villagers who helped were full of ditches and burped, they felt that their stomachs were unbearable, but they all felt that they had not yet eaten enough, and they began to look forward to the wedding banquet the next day.

The next day was close to noon, when Zhang Jin was still preparing the ingredients for the noon wedding banquet and the evening banquet by the kitchen knife flying on the board in the courtyard of Haijufu's house, the mobile phone in Zhang Jin's pocket suddenly rang.

Zhang Jin took out his mobile phone casually, and pressed the answer button and put it to his ear without looking at the caller ID: "Hello, I'm Zhang Jin, who are you?" ”

"Boss, I'm the third! The fourth child and I are about to arrive at that Haiwozi Village, you pick us up at the entrance of the village! Even if Xiao Fei's loud voice came out of the earpiece, it was still full of power, which made Zhang Jin frown.

"What are you doing here?"

"Hehe, a few of us are here for a wedding banquet, and we're visiting relatives and friends by the way!" Xiao Fei replied with a grin.

Before Zhang Jin could continue to ask, Xiao Fei hurriedly said, "Don't be verbose, we're almost there." Hurry up and pick us up. It's my car. With that, he hung up.

Zhang Jin was helpless, so he had to say embarrassedly to Hai Gensheng, who was helping him: "Brother Gensheng, I have two friends who are coming, do you think you can find someone to help me pick them up at the entrance of the village?" They were driving the same grey Land Rover I had when I first came here. ”

Hagen replied angrily, dragged over a thirteen or fourteen-year-old baby, and then drove the baby out.

After a while, when Xiao Fei and Wei Feng took Lan Feifei and Mu Xinran into the backyard as the kitchen of the wedding banquet, Zhang Jin hurriedly greeted him, first said hello to the two younger siblings, and then said viciously to Xiao Fei and Wei Feng: "You two guys are idle and have nothing to do here?" What should you do when people get married? Do you know anyone? ”

Wei Feng stretched out his hand and shook his face with a nonchalant face: "Ann, Ann, boss, what are you worried about?" Since it is a wedding banquet, of course, strangers will not be denied to participate! Have you ever seen a wedding feast drive people away? Besides, when you were in college, you took us to a wedding banquet where we didn't know anyone! ”

Wei Feng is talking about another legendary incident of Zhang Jin in college. At that time, Zhang Jin, who was from an ordinary family, spent money like water because of pickling girls, and he was often shy in his pocket by the middle of the month, and he had to rely on his brother to help. However, because the brothers have a strict family education, limited funds, and some extravagant spending money, people like Xiao Fei and Wei Feng often lament that 'the landlord's family has no surplus food'.

So at the end of a month, when a few people who hadn't had a big fish or meat for a few days saw that a hotel was holding a wedding, Zhang Jin's head turned and he had the idea of rubbing rice. First, they used the excuse of 'borrowing the bathroom' to sneak into the hotel, and after passing the pass of receiving the bride price, several people sat in the banquet hall in the name of the groom's distant relatives under Zhang Jin's encouragement, and wisely chose a table of the bride's friend. There are several brothers covering each other, and no one can see the flaws. After a big bite to chew, he fled.

Regarding Wei Feng's justified excuse after the old matter was revisited, Zhang Jin was a little speechless, this kind of statement that the spear of the other attacks the shield of the other is really difficult to refute. It took a while for Zhang Jin to come up with a reason to refute: "I led you to eat because it was in the city, and everyone didn't know each other, so they could meet each other." But almost all of the people in this Haiwozi village are from one tribe, who doesn't know whom? How many can my mother's family come? Can you blend in? Besides, at least the baby who just picked you up knows that you were brought here by me, aren't you embarrassing your boss? ”

Zhang Jin's angry look finally caused Lan Feifei to laugh and say in a coquettish voice: "Brother Zhang Jin, don't listen to the wind." We've all given a bride price. Weddings here in southeast Guangdong are like this, even if people who don't know each other come to congratulate the newlyweds, the newlyweds are welcome. ”

Regarding Lan Feifei, a native, Zhang Jin naturally believed it and breathed a sigh of relief.

But Wei Feng, who was enjoying the pleasure of 'flirting' the boss, was dissatisfied, and after reaching out and flirtatiously patting Lan Feifei's buttocks, he said viciously: "How can this be reasonable, against you, dare to demolish your man's platform?" I'll clean you up when I get home, and I'll be punished! ”

Although Wei Feng's buttocks attack and the ambiguous word 'big punishment' in his mouth made Lan Feifei a little ashamed, she still stuck out her tongue mischievously and made a grimace, "If Fengfeng is the worst, he will bully others." After speaking, before Wei Feng's right hand fell again, he nervously covered his little buttocks with both hands and hid behind Mu Xinran, learning to ostrich.

The two lunches and evenings were under Zhang Jin's management, which naturally made the relatives and friends of both men and women who participated in the banquet full of praise, and when the eight plates and eight bowls of each table were removed, not only did they have no dishes and soup, but they were as clean as if they had been washed. After the main banquet in the evening, the task of cleaning up the mess naturally will not fall into the hands of Zhang Jin, who has been tired for a day, and some villagers in the same village will help.