Chapter 67: Marriage
Early on Sunday morning, Xu Damao took away the beautifully dressed girl.
This morning, Nan Nan didn't comb her braids, and Chen Jingnian used the little rabbit hairpin to pull her hair up.
Before going out, the little girl looked in the mirror with bright eyes, looking at herself inside in disbelief.
Nan Nan looks very atmospheric, with a straight nose and mouth, soft eyebrows and eyes, unlike Chen Huiling and Chen Jingnian's angular facial features, especially the eyes are too sharp.
Nannan's eyes are like her mother Li Yulan, with a faint sense of relief and warmth.
The careful dressing makes the girl look like she has grown up a lot, cute and dignified, but she can't laugh, because when she smiles, she reveals the front teeth that have just popped out a little bit, and immediately changes from very good-looking to very funny.
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Xu Damao's parents arrived at the courtyard early and greeted the neighbors who came to help and congratulate.
The two of them were dressed very festively, but they still couldn't hide the bitterness on their faces.
Chen Jingnian took advantage of the effort to help set the table and chairs, and carefully examined this wonderful couple.
He felt that these two people looked like a husband and wife, and even gave him the illusion that they were not husband and wife but siblings.
The same long face, the same cheeks that have been scraped by a scraper, Chen Jingnian feels that these two male and female should be called angle iron, or male angle iron and female angle iron.
"Old, who will help get some more mud."
A lean man was building a stove in Fangshan, wearing a white dress and a chef's hat.
"Big brother of the Qi family, help, get some mud!"
Xu Damao's mother walked up to the eldest son of the old Qi family in the West Cross Courtyard and said with a smile.
"Well, let's go!"
The eldest son of the Qi family is the man with the most lines in the play, and he can be regarded as the younger generation in the courtyard who is more active.
"Yo, you're a two-knife cook! When a cook builds a stove, can't even prepare a plaster? Are you a traitor? It's not that I secretly came out to pick up the job from the master. ”
He Yuzhu held his hands, walked slowly and leisurely from the side door, and said with a smile.
"Silly Zhu, you are talking cool here, you can stay wherever you like!"
Xu Damao's father, Xu Fugui, stopped in front of He Yuzhu and scolded unhappily.
turned to smile and said to the cook: "Master Niu, you are busy with you, take care of him, he is a bastard." ”
"Master Xu, don't worry! I know him, isn't he the stupid pillar of He Daqing's son! You just let him be happy, an eighth-level cook who can only nest in the factory canteen, earning more than 30 yuan a month, he will be virtuous for the rest of his life! ”
Master Niu glanced at He Yuzhu with disdain, and continued to smear the mud in the basin on the stove that had been built.
"Sun thief, you are a white oil residue - short refining!"
He Yuzhu took his hand out of his pocket, rolled up his sleeves, and scolded Master Niu.
"Silly Zhu, you dare!"
Xu Fugui opened his arms, stood in front of Master Niu, and shouted.
"Master Xu, you don't have to be afraid, I'll just stand here, you see if he dares to touch me, if he dares to move a finger of me, I will let him be like his father in Sijiu City."
Master Niu picked up the spoon, knocked on the wok, and said with a smile.
At this time, Yi Zhonghai walked over, stepped forward and grabbed He Yuzhu, and said sharply: "Zhuzi, you go back for me, you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the rain!" ”
"Hey, if you can fry two dishes, you really take yourself seriously, be a person in advance, shit Tan's family cuisine, and be an eighth-level chef for the rest of your life!"
Master Niu watched He Yuzhu being pulled away, took out the kitchen knife and other things in his pocket, and put them aside.
A few women who helped with the help began to wash the vegetables, while Master Niu asked the little apprentice who came with him to start cutting meat and preparing vegetables.
The flames rose, the oil in the pot splashed, and a large amount of foam floated in an instant, and the surrounding crowd greedily smelled the smell of rapeseed oil after it was heated.
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"How's it going? As soon as I woke up, who wanted to miss a good show! ”
Pi Xiaotao came out of the deaf old lady's house, yawned, walked up to Chen Jingnian, and said with a smile.
"Did you wash your face? A face full of, a mouthful of breath! ”
Chen Jingnian looked at the girl's unkempt hair and said sarcastically.
"Look so closely! Smell it carefully, what the hell it smells like! ”
Pi Xiaotao leaned forward to Chen Jingnian as he spoke, and said with a provocative expression.
Chen Jingnian quietly stretched out his foot and hooked the stool, and Pi Xiaotao, who was about to move forward, tripped on the stool unexpectedly.
"Ahh
Pi Xiaotao threw himself forward and exclaimed.
"Be careful!"
Chen Jingnian reached out to support Pi Xiaotao, and his hands flicked and brushed at her side.
"Huh?"
Pi Xiaotao snorted, his face turned red instantly, and his eyes widened and he looked at Chen Jingnian in surprise.
"It's sensitive! It's just a little thinner! ”
Chen Jingnian helped Pi Xiaotao to sit on the stool and whispered.
Pi Xiaotao watched Chen Jingnian pout, carrying the table with others as if nothing happened, and the surprise in her eyes slowly turned into a smile with shame.
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More and more people came to the wedding, many of them workers Xu Damao had met at the rolling mill, and they were either holding daily necessities such as kettles and thermoses, or festively colored quilts, hand-embroidered pillowcases, and tablecloths that had been dismantled and crocheted with rods and threads.
Finally, the chairman of the trade union in the factory, Secretary Chang and Li Huaide, as well as Director Sun of the Propaganda Department, also came.
Xu Damao's two sisters sat behind a table covered with red paper, and wrote down the money and gifts that came to the wedding.
Yan Bugui stood at the long table and hesitated for a long time before he took out five cents from his pocket and handed it to Xu Damao's sister.
After one of Xu Damao's sisters took the money, she sang and said Yan Bugui's name and the amount of money in the gift.
The flesh on Yan Bugui's face shook with the syllables, staring at the banknote that was getting farther and farther away from him.
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When a Shanghai car slowly drove into Nanluoguxiang, Yan Jiekuang and a few other half-sized children lit firecrackers on bamboo poles.
Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e got out of the car in the face of the empty gunsmoke, followed by Nan Nan and a chubby little boy.
"Hey, sedan car! It's magnificent! ”
"The woman's own!"
"Ho, this car is brighter!"
"It's angry, it's so angry!"
The surrounding neighbors surrounded the car at the mouth of the alley, talking a lot, and their eyes were full of envy.
Lou Xiao'e led the girl, Xu Damao took the little boy's hand, and the two walked to the courtyard together amid the cheers of the people.
Lou Xiao'e permed a new hairstyle, and the curled bangs made the face look a little baby fat more rounded.
She wore a lilac top with a hot velvet collar and a pair of pants of the same color and material, and her fleshy figure held up the clothes and pants very full.
Xu Damao was wearing a set of tweeded earthy yellow Zhongshan suits, and his clothes and pants were ironed properly and straight, making this guy look a little handsome.
After the two got out of the car and heard so many compliments, Xu Damao's face couldn't help wrinkling, the corners of his mouth grinned on his head, and he greeted the neighbors all the way.
When Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e walked into the courtyard, the aunts and aunts in the courtyard welcomed them.
Following Lou Xiao'e's nannan, she pursed her lips and looked around, a smile flowed from the corners of her mouth, and she couldn't hold it anymore.
"Come, come, come, please stand up!"
Xu Damao's eldest brother-in-law maintained order in the backyard and circled a vacant lot in the yard.
When Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e stood up, he raised his hands and pressed down, and when the scene was quiet, he said loudly: "Next, please ask the permanent secretary of the rolling mill to speak!" ”
Secretary Chang walked to the middle of the clearing, raised his hand and waved it to the neighbors around him, then put his hands together in front of him, used all his strength, and said loudly: "Comrades, neighbors! On behalf of the rolling mill, I am here today to attend the ...... between Comrade Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e"
Chen Jingnian took advantage of the gap between Secretary Chang's speeches to give Xu Damao's sister a total of five cents in three installments, and watched her write Li Xianwen, Chen Huiling and her own names on the gift list.
This money is given according to the price code of the two families, no more and no less.
After Chen Jingnian finished the ceremony, he thought in his heart how to make up for the brick money, cement and sand money to Xu Damao.
He was thinking about things in his heart, the permanent secretary over there had already finished speaking, Chen Jingnian applauded with everyone, and then Li Huaide went up and said two more words, and the last couple of newcomers were hugged by everyone and walked into the new house.