Fang Tingting came back, Bao Yumei and Fang Caiyu were already waiting for her. Fang Caiyu asked Tingting what Guo Jian said to her. Fang Tingting said, the man's side is ready, just wait for us. And told my mother and aunt, Guo Jian also told me, let's not handle the marriage too shabby, if the funds are not enough, let my aunt go to them to bring it up, and the Guo family will be responsible, but also said that we can't open their mouths, otherwise, they are not stupid, and they will look at us differently.

Bao Yumei asked her daughter to go first, and she had to discuss something with her aunt. After Fang Tingting left, Bao Yumei said to Fang Caiyu: "Auntie, do you think we can make some more requests to the Guo family about this matter, I want to make Tingting's marriage more grand." Fang Caiyu said with a smile: "Tingting also passed on the other party's words to us just now, and I think it's not impossible to raise the dowry appropriately." However, we must grasp this scale well, and we must not ask for a sky-high price. Bao Yumei nodded, and asked Fang Caiyu to come up with a number that the other party would recognize. Fang Caiyu said, this requires you to take into account all the specific things and get an accurate data, and I will have the bottom in my heart when I go over and put forward the conditions, and I can't be sloppy now. Bao Yumei then said, then I will carefully calculate it first, and then I will hand you a detailed list, and then I will ask my aunt to contribute more. Fang Caiyu agreed: "Sister-in-law Yumei, you have to make the list carefully, don't leave anything out, otherwise, you will be the one who suffers, and I will definitely report your situation here to the Guo family at that time." ”

When Fang Tingting got married, she naturally had to take into account the relatives of Fang Benquan and Bao Yumei, including some distant relatives of the Fang family and neighbors and uncles in the village. In the order of proximity, a long list began to come out. Once the list of invitees is clear, the rest of the matter is much simpler. As long as the number of dishes on each table of the banquet, the amount of tobacco and alcohol and the number of return gifts are listed in a table, so that the cost of the banquet can be calculated for one day and the number of days of the banquet. This is a huge number, Bao Yumei's own culture is low and she can't figure it out, so she has to invite young people to calculate it, but she can't let people who have nothing to do with her come to calculate it, because this is also an internal secret matter, and it is impossible to be leaked out before the happy event is held, and it will be spread in an uproar.

Bao Yumei handed over this matter to her brother Bao Xianneng to calculate. Xian Neng is a junior high school graduate, and his education level is not low, Bao Yumei thinks that her younger brother will definitely be able to complete this matter beautifully. Only then did I know that Bao Xianneng worked on the draft all day and didn't figure out anything. Bao Yumei saw that her brother couldn't do it, so she had to find Fang Qiuping and ask him to come and budget the account first. Fang Qiuping handed over a detailed list to Bao Yumei in less than an hour.

Fang Caihe has been looking forward to the marriage of her niece Fang Tingting. In this matter, although Bao Yumei has never discussed with her, she has not even said hello to her. But Fang Caihe still has the ability to learn that Fang Tingting's wedding date is scheduled for this year's Mid-Autumn Festival. Fang Caihe was very dissatisfied with her sister-in-law Bao Yumei's arrogance, the wedding was so close, Bao Yumei didn't even tell her, she could have refused to go to the banquet when Fang Tingting got married. It is not rude to do this, and Bao Yumei has nothing to say. But Fang Caihe is a person who likes to join in the fun, she has to make up for the excitement of others, and her niece's absence from the marriage for no reason will be laughed at, and she doesn't care about the bride price she pays. She Fang Caihe's niece got married, and if she didn't give a bride price, she would be gossiped and looked down upon by others, but Bao Yumei hid it from her and didn't tell her, which made her angry.

Bao Yumei actually didn't mean to snub Fang Caihe. She just regarded Fang Caihe as if she was as close to the Fang clan as she was. She didn't have time to think about making arrangements for these neighbors in the courtyard now, her own relatives, Fang Benquan's relatives, and Zhu Xiuya's two godsons had to be notified as soon as possible; The second group is Fang Benquan's distant relatives, and of course these relatives are not very important. However, this time it is necessary to inform them all, which is reasonable and reasonable; Another very important point is that when Bao Yumei marries her daughter, the gifts given by relatives are heavier than the gifts given by her son's marriage. These rules were all set by the ancestors, and they were not initiated by her, Bao Yumei, and Bao Yumei couldn't waste this profit opportunity in vain. The neighbor is different, although the neighbor also wants to give a gift, but the gift can be determined by the actual situation of their own family, polite, closer, will naturally give more, send a little heavier; On the contrary, if it is an ordinary neighbor relationship, there is no need to send too much, as long as you pay for a meal.

Bao Yumei deliberately put Fang Caihe at the level of her neighbors, which was clearly an insult to her sister-in-law Fang Caihe. Bao Yumei knows this, and she knows Fang Caihe even better. Now Fang Caihe can use Bao Yumei's rude behavior to promote and attack.

Fang Caihe's current shortcoming is whether Bao Yumei has notified all other relatives, or to what extent the work of notifying relatives has been carried out. This Bao Yumei did a very good job of secrecy, and Fang Caihe inquired for several days but did not get accurate information. In this way, Fang Caihe couldn't have a seizure for a while. Because her sarcasm will be said by Bao Yumei to be deliberately slanderous, Bao Yumei will say that she has not notified other relatives at all, so it is also unfavorable to Fang Caihe, others think that Fang Caihe is a trick to save a gift money, so it will end up a laughing stock.

Bao Yumei was indeed very cautious, and she did not let Fang Caihe find any evidence to prove that Bao Yumei had snubbed her in this matter. Of course, Fang Caihe has now been invited by Bao Yumei. Bao Yumei played a trick and set Fang Caihe's invitation time on the day before she invited her neighbors, isolating her between relatives and neighbors, and did not deliberately explain the reason. It made Fang Caihe uncomfortable inside and out.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here, and it's a good day for reunion. For Fang Tingting and Guo Jian, it was another happy day. The Guo family's welcoming team set off early to come to the Fang family, and the Fang family invited all their relatives before Fang Tingting left for the Guo family. In the evening, the Guo family was responsible for hosting a banquet to entertain all the guests.

The wedding banquet at noon was held in the courtyard of the Fang family. Bao Yumei invited the chef and three sous chefs of the "Friendship Hotel" in town through the relationship of Fang Caiyu's son-in-law Zhu Chengwu, including a group of side dish staff. Cook at Bao Yumei's house at noon, and go back to the hotel in the evening to be responsible for Guo Qingpeng's wedding banquet and food. Bao Yumei has raised the grade of wine and food a lot. According to the standard banquet of Hucun in ordinary fashion, each table is nine meat dishes, with six vegetarian dishes and three cold dishes, which is considered high-end. Vegetarian dishes are collected at home, and there is no need to pay for them, so of course everyone doesn't care about vegetarian dishes. Except for pork, which can be pulled out of their own pigsty and slaughtered, other meat dishes generally need to be purchased at the vegetable market in advance. Therefore, the quality and quality of procurement vary depending on the change of ingredients. For the average farmer's wedding, who can afford to hire a professional chef? Generally, the neighbors come to help solve it. There is no standard for whether the dish is cooked to everyone's taste, and everyone can only rely on the taste of the person in charge to measure it. Therefore, after each invitation, there will be a lot of discussions, some people complain that the food is too salty, and some people will think that the food is too light. Some people naturally find it very much to their taste, neither salty nor bland.