"Brother Liu, Xie Cheng will get married on the fourth day of the next month, and you must come when the time comes."

"Xie Cheng'er grew up watching me, and I'm getting married? Where is the great event? Donglai Shun or a tavern? ”

"This is the invitation, it is clearly written, you can take a look." The three mothers felt a little embarrassed.

"Shout, and invitations! The three masters are not cultural people, they are really exquisite... Hiss... 6 Dollars Gift Money! Liu Cheng took the invitation, just looked at it twice, and couldn't help but gasp.

The gift money is 6 yuan, each family can only send one person as a representative, and the place where the wedding banquet is held is in the front yard....

The old Yan family's abacus beads are tinkling, do you treat everyone else as a big wrong?

"Lao Liu, we have been old neighbors for so many years, and your third son is still in Lao Yan's class, and you don't want to..."

“.... Ahh Liu Cheng scratched his head and laughed embarrassedly, "If I have time that day, I will definitely go." ”

The third mother: "My old Yan has checked, the fourth day of the next month is Sunday, you must be free." ”

Liu Cheng: "......"

After sending away the three mothers, Liu Cheng returned to the house angrily and showed the invitation to Liu's sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law Liu put down the fire chopsticks, jumped on her feet, and pinched Liu Cheng: "The old Yan family is doing this, don't you know if you want to take advantage of our family?" Why did you say yes? ”

"What are you about.

I can be a mallet!

6 yuan gift money, it's too dark.

When the residents of our compound get married, it is generally 2 yuan.

But they all live in the same compound, and they don't see anyone when they look up.

They sent the invitation, and it was not appropriate for us not to go. ”

Liu Cheng had no choice but to squat at the door and smoke the dry tobacco pouch.

The smoke obscured his rough face, carved by the years.

He is a porter, with a salary of only 31 yuan a month, and he has to support his blind mother and six babies, and his life is also tight.

When Sister-in-law Liu saw the man's appearance, she knew that it was impossible to ask him to refuse directly.

Put on a padded jacket and walked out: "The Yan family must not only invite our family, let's go to the old camphor tree and listen to what the big guy has to say?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, what do people do, let's do it."

...

When they came to the middle courtyard, the two suddenly felt that they had come to the right place.

Under the old camphor tree, it was already full of people.

The big guys are all worried about the Yan family's invitations, and the reasons are similar to theirs.

If you go to the banquet, the gift money is too heavy.

If you don't go, you can't pull your face, and you feel like it's too bad.

Even the seventh-level forging worker with a monthly salary of seventy-three was so angry that the corners of his mouth trembled.

"Lao Yan Yete is not a thing, other people's families hold wedding banquets, and the gift money is handed over casually, just to celebrate.

It's good for him, he must let each family pay 6 yuan, why, just because he is a cultural person? Is it a stinky old man (9)? ”

The bangs look down on Yan Bugui the most.

- Of course, the main reason is that he didn't become a leader because of his low education.

And Yan Bugui likes to put the genealogy of cultural people in front of him.

"I agree with the second uncle." Xu Damao, who has always had a good relationship with the Yan family, also felt that Yan Bugui was too much.

The gift money of 6 yuan is enough to go to Lao Mo to eat noodles.

For a while, the big guys under the old camphor tree were indignant at the Yan family's behavior.

However, no one can do it.

In these years, people pay attention to face, even if they can't open the pot soon, the whole family only has a pair of pants, and they have to raise money to attend the wedding of relatives and friends, otherwise they will be poked in the backbone in the future.

Yan Bugui's move is called absolute.

Just when the big guy sighed, He Yushui squatted down, pinched up a dead leaf, and said with a long sigh: "It would be nice if Brother Wei Dong also held a wedding banquet on the 4th of the first month of next month, and we would have an excuse not to eat the Yan family's wedding banquet." ”

These words woke up the people.

"Smack!"

Xu Damao, who was the first to react, slapped his thigh violently.

"yes, how did I forget about it. The two families held a wedding banquet at the same time, we could only choose one to go, and the Yan family had nothing to say. Silly Zhu, you have a good relationship with Li Weidong, go and ask. ”

Silly Zhu covered his thighs and grinned in pain: "Xu Damao, your grandson thief did it on purpose, right?" ”

"Hehe, I'm so excited, mistaken, mistaken..."Xu Damao took advantage of it, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

"I think you kid is begging for a beating!" Silly Zhu is not used to him, so he rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush forward.

Liu Haizhong stopped between the two and said, "Don't quarrel, this matter is related to the unity and stability of our compound, silly pillar, you should hurry up and ask Li Weidong." ”

"This time, I will keep the account first, and I will settle it with you next time!"

Silly Zhu said a cruel word, turned his head and ran to the Li family in the backyard.

...

Inside the house.

Li Weidong was drawing, and after listening to the stupid pillar's words, he frowned: "Didn't I say that the family can't hold a wedding banquet because of poverty?" ”

Silly Zhu looked at the bicycle, radio, and sewing machine in the house, pursed his lips and said nothing.

Yu Li, who was cleaning up the house next to her, also wiped her hands, walked over and nodded in agreement: "Brother Zhuzi, Wei Dong and I are not the kind of extravagant and wasteful people. I thought about it, when Wei Dong went out to pull goods, I would also go with him, which was a travel wedding. ”

"Traveling Wedding..."

Silly Zhu was speechless, so he could only turn his head and run out and tell the big guy what Li Weidong meant.

The last hope is gone, and the big guy explodes all at once.

After scolding Li Weidong fiercely for not knowing how to think about others, everyone sighed and drooped their heads.

It's like the leeks that an aunt planted in the flower pond, the kind that hasn't been watered for two months.

"Smack!"

I have to say that Xu Damao is still brainy, he slapped his thigh again and said, "Isn't Li Weidong not able to afford a wedding banquet?" We can scrape together some money for him. ”

Lou Xiao'e twisted his waist fiercely, "Stinky problem!" To slap the legs, pat your own. ”

"Shoot yourself, it hurts too much......" Xu Damao glared at her.

"Then I won't be in pain? I think you're in arrears! ”

When the two of them were talking, they were about to move their claws and scratch them.

Liu Haizhong hurriedly stopped the two of them, looked at the big guy, and said, "I think Xu Damao's idea is good, anyway, he ended up eating it in his own stomach, and it is not a waste." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"A table of good dishes doesn't cost a few dollars, at most more than 1 yuan per household."

"I passed by the front yard just now, but I saw Lao Yan buying a lot of big turnips."

"With Lao Yan's strength to slam the door, it will be difficult for us to find a piece of meat on the table when the time comes."

"Ahem, you still want to eat meat, didn't you see Jia Zhang's jumping up and down? She must have gone with a basin this time. ”

"I think it's more appropriate to pool money to hold a wedding banquet for Li Weidong."

"Just be a big guy and make money for a big meal, so that the babies can satisfy their hunger!"

……

The two evils are subordinate to it, compared with the gift money of 6 yuan, it seems that it is acceptable to pool money to hold a wedding banquet for Li Weidong.

Seeing that the big guys agreed with his proposal, his heart suddenly blossomed.

He had long wanted to show his existence in the courtyard.

It's just that there is an eighth-level fitter on the top, and there is Yan Bugui, an elementary school teacher, on the bottom, and he can't interject.

It's time for him, the second uncle, to show his face this time.

"Then it's decided, I'll personally negotiate with Li Weidong."

...

Liu Haizhong came to Li's house with everyone's expectations and told everyone what they meant.

"So, you pooled the money to hold a wedding banquet for me, and I don't have to pay for it?" Li Weidong was also stunned by his brain circuit.

Isn't this crowdfunding in the past life?

Bangs patted his chest and promised: "Not only do you not want to pay, you don't have to reach out to help." Although my Lao Liu is only the second uncle, he still has a lot of prestige in the courtyard, and I promise to do it properly for you, and you and Yu Li are waiting to eat ready-made. ”

Hey, it's kind of interesting, pick up a wedding feast for nothing.

Sure enough, as long as I lie flat, you can't exploit me.

Li Weidong: "If I don't accept it, I'm sorry for the expectations of the big guys?" ”

"That's for sure, our whole hospital is looking forward to holding a wedding banquet for you!" Bangs nodded heavily.

Li Weidong: "If I don't accept it, will it destroy the stability and unity of our compound?" ”

"That's absolute, it's the cry of the masses!" I'm about to cry in my bangs.

Nima, be a person.

Li Weidong let out a long sigh, and lay back directly, that is, he leaned back tactically, and his face was full of compassion: "Alas, I wanted to respond to the call from above and carry forward the style of diligence and thrift, since this is the expectation of the big guy, I can't refuse." Who made me pay attention to uniting the masses! ”

"For the sake of the big guy, I decided to sacrifice myself and go against the principle of once."

“......”

Liu Haizhong always felt that Li Weidong was cheap and well-behaved.

But this matter is really not fun without Li Weidong.

He could only sneer and said, "Wei Dong, your sacrifice, the second master remembers it in his heart." ”

...