Chapter 478 Discussing the Banquet
The next morning, Sun Bomin and Su went to Yangjia Village to ask fortune teller Yang to choose a date for the banquet.
After Sun Shan finished washing up and reading for a while, the house became extremely lively.
Especially when the second sister Lixia brought the little crybaby over, although he didn't cry now, this kid was born with a loud voice. As soon as he arrived at the Sun family's old house, the whole house was filled with his voice, noisy and noisy, and one kid was as loud as all the kids in the Sun family.
Lixia looked at the little crybaby unhappily and really wanted to pick up a stick and beat him.
The little crybaby has a completely different temperament from Zheng Hongyuan, and of course, different from the Zheng family's temperament. There is no such noisy boy in the Zheng family.
When a little crybaby meets a beautiful girl, they are like-minded, in cahoots with each other, like snakes and rats running together, like a turtle and a mung bean - they are attracted to each other.
When the two cousins met, they started talking in a flurry and looked suspiciously, and no one knew what they were going to do.
Lixia saw Sun Shan wake up and said with a smile: "Shanzi, come and have breakfast. You must be tired after walking such a long way."
Sun Shan nodded and said, "It is true that I am a little tired. The mountain road is not easy to walk on."
The mountain road is difficult to walk on, but dealing with the villagers yesterday was even more tiring.
Guyu and Hanlu brought breakfast to Sun Shan from the kitchen.
Guyu smiled and said, "Come and have breakfast, you must be hungry."
Hanlu couldn't hold back and asked directly, "Shanzi, you are engaged. Are you engaged to the Miss He from the prefectural city?"
This morning, Su told the Sun family the news, and everyone was surprised.
The Sun family had always been looking for a blind date for the girl, but who would have known that after passing the exam, he not only became a juren, but also had a fiancée.
The speed was so fast that Guyu and her sisters couldn't react for a while.
Sun Shan took a sip of mussel porridge and said with a smile, "She is Miss He. Aunt Yu Niang's mother-in-law introduced her to me. She is a relative of the He family."
Baoger's grandmother acts as a middleman, which is actually equivalent to a matchmaker. It is certain that she is right in introducing the couple.
Of course, if it happens in Guangzhou, we must invite official media to make it official.
When Lixia heard that it was the He family's daughter, she said happily, "The He family's daughter is good. It's better than looking for one in Huangyang County. We are in a small place, and it's not easy to find a girl that suits your taste."
Guyu was also happy that Sun Shan had finally found the right girl, and said with a smile, "My mother said that after the banquet, we will go to Hejia Village to get engaged, and then Shanzi will go to Beijing to take the exam, and get married when he comes back. Well, we are finally settled."
Hanlu said jokingly, "Big sister, maybe Xiatou will have a little cousin next year."
Guyu nodded happily and said, "Okay, it's good that Xiatou has a little cousin. Grandma, Dad, and Mom will feel relieved."
Guyu looked at Sun Shan with satisfaction, and was very happy to think that he was about to get married and have children.
Now our family has everything except children. If my younger brother gets married and has children, our family will be even more perfect.
After breakfast, Sun Shan played with the children at home for a while and shared the things he brought from Fucheng with them.
As for the sisters, Sun Shan couldn't think of what to give them, so he gave each of them a box of rouge.
This was introduced by Sister Yun. She said girls will always like it.
As expected, all three sisters liked it very much. As for Huang and Su, Sun Shan bought them a jade bracelet.
This was what Sun Shan wanted to buy himself. He liked jade, so he gave what he liked to the person he liked.
After receiving the gifts, Huang and Su complained that it was a waste of money, but they kept smiling, and it was obvious that they liked them very much.
After Sun Bomin and Su came back at noon, they consulted with the village chief and clan leader and decided to hold a banquet for the successful candidates three days later.
As to how long the festival would last, the villagers were arguing fiercely.
Uncle Sun insisted on holding the ceremony for seven days and seven nights. This was a once-in-a-century event in Sun Village, so it had to be a grand celebration. If the economy allowed, Uncle Sun was thinking of holding it for a month.
The village chief also thought so, and thought that this was a rare happy event, and if it was not celebrated with great fanfare, there might not be a chance to hold it in the future.
It's not possible to pass the imperial examination just by taking it, and he doesn't want to miss this opportunity to bring fame to Sunjia Village.
Sun Boming and Su also thought that the ceremony should last for seven days and seven nights so that people in the surrounding area would know that they were now promoted to old master and old lady.
Their identities today are different from those of the past.
They can now be said to be a family of farming and reading.
This time, Huang also agreed to hold the party for seven days and seven nights. The Sun family would pay the bulk of the money, and the villagers would chip in a little. In addition, vegetables and rice were readily available and had little cost, so all they had to do was buy some meat.
There is no need to make the wedding banquet too luxurious in the countryside. A medium to high standard will do and it won’t cost much.
The only one who held an opposing opinion was Sun Shan.
Sun Shan didn't want to make it too sensational or exaggerated.
Seven days and seven nights was too much of an exaggeration. He firmly objected: "Village head, clan elders, grandma. It doesn't need to take that long. Three days will be enough. I don't want to spend too much energy on the banquet."
Uncle Sun immediately retorted: "Shanzi, there's no need for you to do this. Just send someone and we'll do the rest."
Even the simple, honest and taciturn Second Uncle Sun said, "Shanzi, your Third Uncle is right. When the time comes, you can come over and take a look. Just say hello to the villagers. It won't be a problem for you."
Sun Shan still disagreed and said, "I still have to go to Beijing to take the exam, so I need time to study. I don't want to wait too long, as this will affect my studies."
This is indeed a big problem. Juren is not the ultimate goal of Sunjia Village, not even Jinshi.
Getting promoted, getting rich, and becoming a high-ranking official is the ultimate fantasy of Sunjiacun.
The group discussed it over and over again, and also consulted the experienced He family representative He Shuyu, and finally decided to hold it for five days and five nights.
Sun Shan’s three days and three days was like a scholar’s banquet, of too low a grade and unworthy of his status as a juren.
Sun Shan had no choice but to accept it.
He can't defeat everyone in the village.
He Shuyu laughed as he watched from the side. At the beginning, the eldest brother also strongly opposed it like Sun Shan, but in the end, his opposition was ineffective and everything he did was in vain. How could he win over the elders?
As for the money for the banquet and wine, everyone discussed it.
For the Huang family, Sun Boming paid the majority, Second Uncle Sun and Third Uncle Sun paid the middle, and the villagers paid the minority.
So somehow the funds were gathered together.
As for the venue for the banquet, it was set up in the open space in front of the ancestral hall.
The village chief and the elders of the tribe were afraid that too many people would come to the banquet, so they had to find an open place.
Sun Shan asked an inopportune question: "Grandpa Village Chief, what if it rains?"
The village chief was very angry. Sun Shan was a good student, but he was so stubborn and foolish that he couldn't even say a nice word.
They were chatting animatedly when suddenly someone said something that spoiled the mood.
If he wasn't the protagonist and a scholar, the village chief really wanted to bring the brothers and sisters in Sunjia Village to beat Sun Shan up.
The village chief patted his chest and said confidently: "Don't worry about that. It will definitely not rain in those days."
Sun Shan didn't understand where the village chief got the confidence from.
The village chief glanced at Sun Shan and said confidently, "Fortune teller Yang said that it will be a sunny day with clear skies and clear air. It won't be wrong if we listen to him."
Sun Shanda was speechless. Feelings are calculated and have no scientific basis.
However, seeing that the village chief and a group of elders rolled their eyes at him, Sun Shan didn't dare to say anything.
Although it was his Juren banquet, he did nothing except show up.
If you don't work, you shouldn't have any opinions, so Sun Shan wisely chose to keep quiet.