Chapter 650 Wedding Banquet! Fatty!
At the end of February, Ma Hua and Qin Jingru got married. They held two wedding banquets. On Saturday, the 27th, they hosted a banquet for Ma Hua's relatives at his home.
On Sunday, the 28th, another banquet was held in the courtyard, with 18 tables.
There were eleven tables for the people in the compound, and except for Yan Pigui, everyone, young and old, was invited. Ma Hua's family had one table, Ma Hua's friends and co-workers had two tables, and Qin Jingru's family had four tables.
Because the tables in the compound were small, ten dining tables were borrowed from the railway steel plant. Although they were long tables, each table could seat fourteen people.
The head chef is still Nan Yi, and he also invited three of his fellow apprentices. The food they cook is mainly Shandong cuisine, and all the ingredients are obtained from Cao Dongfang.
Each table can have no less than 15 catties of cooked meat, an average of 1.5 catties per person, so that everyone can eat to their heart's content. Qin Jingru really has no shortage of money.
Including the wedding banquet of Ma Hua’s family, it almost scared the people in Ma Hua’s family. From meat to shrimp, there were a lot of good things.
There were several types of dishes that Ma Hua's family had never seen before, let alone eaten. Qin Jingru and her sister spent nearly 900 yuan on the ingredients alone.
This amount of money was really a lot at that time.
She invited everyone in the compound, and also had plenty of cigarettes, alcohol, firecrackers, melon seeds, and peanuts. Qin Jingru was not short of money.
It's also to build relationships with the people in the compound. After all, she and Ma Hua are both outsiders, so it's no problem for He Daqing to protect Ma Hua.
But Qin Jingru and Ma Hua were willing to maintain good relations with the people in the compound. Qin Jingru was still quite particular and bought another house with a separate entrance not far away.
Ma Hua took the bride back to the courtyard, held the wedding, and accepted everyone's blessings.
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Cao Dongfang did not go out at the end of February. He attended the wedding of Ma Hua and Qin Jingru and sat in Dongkuayuan at the same table with He Daqing and his son.
The central courtyard was filled with the mother's family, the steel rolling mill, and Ma Hua's family. He Daqing did not go to the main table because of his master's relationship, so they were very close to each other.
There are thirteen people at the table, including four children, He Xiao, Tingting, Yangyang and Duoduo.
"Uncle, there are so many people. Is Aunt Jingru getting married?" Duoduo asked.
"Yes, Aunt Jingru is getting married! This is the wedding banquet!" Cao Dongfang replied.
"knew!"
"Dongfang, I see you're always in the courtyard. Aren't you busy with work?" He Daqing asked.
"I'm not busy. It won't be too busy until 75 years later. I'll have less things to do, which will be good for everyone!" Cao Dongfang said with a smile.
"That's right. If you're busy, the country will be busy. It's good to spend more time playing with the children in the courtyard!"
Sha Zhu, "The weather is still a little cool at the end of February, so it would be best if Qin Jingru and her friends got married in April!"
"Ma Hua and Qin Jingru are both grown up, 27 or 28 years old, if they don't get married, everyone will be anxious.
Dongfang is getting married on the 26th, it's getting late now, so hurry up with the rain! "He Daqing gave the reason.
"Dad, what does it have to do with me? I'm not even 26, no need to rush!" He Yushui didn't want to be blamed.
"I'm already twenty-six, how can I not be anxious? Girls who used to be sixteen have started getting married!" He Daqing still had the same idea.
“Old idea!”
"Aunt Yushui is going to get married too?" Tingting asked.
"It has nothing to do with you. Are you guys cold?" Cao Dongfang asked the three children.
"It's a little cold!" The daughter felt a little cold.
Upon hearing this, Cao Dongfang opened the 'virtual world' to raise the temperature here so that no one would feel cold.
"It seems that college students nowadays get married late. Among the new college students assigned to our factory, few are married!" said Xiang Zhaodi.
"Yushui should get married soon, you've been bothering me every day!" Shazhu felt that He Yushui always argued with him and he felt very embarrassed.
"No, I'm annoying you!"
Cao Dongfang, "Yushui, if you meet a good man, just date him. Marriage won't affect what you do. You have a house nearby, so you can just buy a car for work. It's not expensive!"
"Dongfang, how much is a car? It's not expensive, buy one and it will be convenient for going out!" He Daqing asked.
"A good 'Xiaoqi' car costs 30,000 yuan. Cars are cheap now, and prices haven't risen much!"
He Daqing, "This price is cheap, the price of ten color TV sets, Yu Shui, I will buy you one!"
"It's quite cheap. Brother Dongfang sells them. I'll buy one for work!"
"Brother, I want one too so I can have dinner at home later!" Cao Jiajia thought she needed one too.
"Can!"
"You are a student, why do you drive a car?" Cao's mother heard that Cao Jiajia wanted to buy a car.
"It's convenient to drive. I can get home in 20 minutes and I don't have to eat in the cafeteria anymore!"
"Jia Jia and Yu Shui both know how to drive, so we can buy one and not drive into the campus. We can drive it after school and go home for dinner. A car is not expensive!"
"Jia Jia, buy it!"
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He Daqing, "The dishes are here, everyone, eat them. There are quite a lot of ingredients, six cold dishes and ten hot dishes. Let's try Brother Nan Yi's cooking skills."
"Everyone, eat your food!" said Cao's mother.
"Uncle, braised pork!" Duoduo wants to eat meat.
"Duoduo is a little girl who likes to eat braised pork. Tingting, does Yangyang eat braised pork?" Xiang Zhaodi asked.
"I eat!" The son also ate.
“I don’t want to eat!” The daughter said.
Song Xianxian, "Zhao Di, you eat, I'll pick up some food for them. Duoduo likes to eat meat, so he's a little fatter. Yangyang also likes to eat meat, and Tingting is average!"
"I like braised pork and lamb!" said Duoduo.
"I'm giving you meat, so you have to eat the vegetables too!" Cao Dongfang and Song Xianxian picked up some meat for Duoduo and Yangyang respectively.
"It tastes good, basically on the same level as Nanyi. Dongfang, does Zhuzi make more money opening a barbecue restaurant than selling snacks?" He Daqing asked Cao Dongfang.
Cao Dongfang, "It's not less than selling snacks by myself. It's more tiring to earn more. Uncle He is about to retire. Opening another store won't affect the snack business.
Eight hundred yuan a day is relatively easy to earn. The country raises wages every year, and ordinary people have more money. A barbecue meal costs about five or ten yuan per person. Everyone can afford it!
"Barbecue is not expensive and makes a lot of money, so why doesn't it affect selling snacks?" Shazhu didn't understand.
"The kebabs are sold from 7pm to midnight, which is separate from the snack selling time. You can let the workers put on the skewers in the afternoon and you sell them in the evening!" Cao Dongfang explained.
"That's fine. I'll open one when I retire, and Zhu will work with me. I'll have the time, and I can make snacks during the day!"
"It's easy to learn how to make snacks. Now there are more Mahua in Siheyuan, so you can learn it in no time!"
He Daqing, "Yes, Dongfang, the country is going to raise wages every year, the country has money!"
"The country has money now. We plan to increase wages for at least seven or eight years. We will also increase prices and devalue the currency until at least 90!"
"Is a salary increase a good thing, or is it better to make money as a businessman? How much can Chen Xueru's shop earn in a month? It's a big red shop, so eye-catching!" He Daqing asked.
“Businessmen definitely make more money than workers, but they may lose money in ten years.
I took Chen Xueru to her shop many years ago. She said she made over 50 a month and she liked the bright red color. It’s her own shop, so it’s fine as long as she likes it!
"50 a month is not much, it's less than what our family earns!" Sha Zhu didn't think it was much.
"You guys are also doing business, the volume is no less than hers, she only makes 50 by making clothes, not counting the rain, Jia Jia and the others make money by selling TVs!"
"There are quite a lot of people making clothes for Chen Xueru. When the price of cloth goes up in the future, they will earn more. The Chen family has been in the cloth business for decades." He Daqing knew about Chen Xueru's affairs.
"Uncle, braised pork!" Duoduo still wants to eat meat.
"I want one too!" "My son wants one too."
"There's mutton, so eat less braised pork!"
"The braised pork is fragrant and delicious!" Duoduo always has a reason.
"Little fat girl, you like to eat meat!" Song Xianxian said with a smile.
"Duoduo is not fat, Duoduo is beautiful!" Duoduo retorted.
“You’re not fat, eat meat!”
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Qin Jingru and Ma Hua came to toast. Starting from He Daqing, Cao Dongfang meant that at the wedding banquet, only seniority was considered, and position did not need to be considered.
After drinking the wedding wine of the bride and groom, Cao Dongfang gave Qin Jingru a set of jewelry.
Although no gift money is required, Cao Dongfang thinks it is better to give a gift when attending the wedding.
A set of diamond jewelry is not a very valuable item, but there are eight people from the Cao family coming to the wedding banquet, so they can't eat for free.
After Qin Jingru toasted, she and Ma Hua left happily and went to the next table to toast.
There were gold jewelry in the country, but no diamond jewelry. Qin Jingru was very happy, but Qin Huairu, who came with her, was very depressed.
She didn't.
Qin Jingru and Ma Hua gave two red envelopes to He Xiao, Tingting, Yangyang and Duoduo respectively.
The money is not much, just ten yuan in a red envelope, but it is a token of my thought.
"Uncle, I'm full! I'll be waiting for you!" Duoduo patted his belly.
"Half of the dishes have not been served yet. Duoduo, you can't do it!" Cao Dongfang said with a smile.
"hey-hey!"