Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

Chapter 422 Marriage (3)

Soon Yan Jiecheng also came back from his wife's house. It must be said that Yan Fugui was quite good at choosing a daughter-in-law, and he really found a good one.

Yan Jiecheng’s wife is Hu Xia, who is also very pretty. Although she doesn’t have a job, at least she has a city hukou.

There are three children in Hu Xia's family, two girls and one boy. Hu Xia is the second child, the one who is not loved by her father and mother. Her father favors her older sister and her mother favors her younger brother. From childhood to adulthood, whenever her older sister and younger brother make mistakes, her parents punish her. Whenever her parents are in a bad mood, they beat and scold her to vent their anger. She is the second child and is not liked.

So Wu Xia was anxious to get married, seeing that the Yan family was well off, with bicycles and a radio.

I heard that father-in-law Yan Fugui even rented a back house specifically for the couple.

Director Wang also took into consideration that Yan Jiecheng would indeed need a house after getting married, and there happened to be a vacant back room, so he did not make things difficult and directly rented it to the Yan family.

So even though Yan Jiecheng was still a temporary worker, Hu Xia still agreed to the marriage. She now just wanted to leave the Hu family as soon as possible and live her own life.

The Hu family didn't take Hu Xia's marriage seriously. They just accepted a five-yuan betrothal gift and agreed to let her marry.

"Dad, Mom, what's wrong with you? Why do you all look so sad?"

Yan Jiecheng asked in confusion.

After all, the most important event in his life had finally come to fruition. He already had a wife, they had obtained their marriage certificate, and all that was left was to have a meal together.

"Boss, why don't we just not have a wedding banquet and just have a meal with our in-laws?"

Yan Fugui no longer wanted to hold a banquet, so he talked to Yan Jiecheng.

"Uh... Dad, what's going on? Why are you suddenly not holding the banquet? I've already told Xiaoxia that we're going to hold it! And I've already told my colleagues and classmates, what should I do when the time comes?"

Yan Jiecheng asked in great confusion.

"Brother, everyone in the courtyard knows that Dad wants to make money from membership fees, so no one wants to come." Yan Jiekuang interrupted.

“Uh…” Yan Jiecheng was speechless. After all, he knew about this matter. Which host would not want to get some money back when hosting a banquet?

"Okay, Boss, it's good not to do it. We can save a lot of food. The sweet potatoes we got from Zuojiazhuang are enough for us to eat for a long time."

The third aunt also advised that the whole family had bought a lot of sweet potatoes for this banquet, and they were thinking of letting everyone eat sweet potatoes at the banquet.

"Okay, then Dad, please return the fifteen dollars I spent on the wedding banquet to me."

Yan Jiecheng thought that he would not be holding a wedding, so naturally he wanted to take back the money that had been given previously.

"Boss, what are you thinking? Even if we don't hold a wedding banquet, we still have to set up a table for the in-laws to come. They can't collect money for the banquet, so they will lose money. This big table of food is free! This money will be used as food expenses."

Naturally, Yan Fugui was unwilling to return the money to Yan Jiecheng. There was no reason to give it back since it had already entered his pocket.

"That table shouldn't cost fifteen dollars, right?" Yan Jiecheng became anxious. His father actually wanted to take all the fifteen dollars.

"Well, the remaining money will be used as furniture. I've asked Uncle Li in your backyard to make furniture for you."

Yan Fugui said that in fact, they did make some furniture, but just a few long benches and a simple bed, all made from some scraps and wood brought back by the children before, in order to save money.

"Well...then buy a few more. There's nothing in my back room." Yan Jiecheng thought it made sense. Furniture would cost some money, so he didn't say anything. As for whether to hold a banquet or not, it really didn't matter. After all, many people don't hold banquets nowadays.

"Okay, I'll try my best." Seeing that Yan Jiecheng agreed, Yan Fugui naturally agreed.

……

Just like that, everyone in the hospital knew about the wedding banquet organized by the Yan family. It turned out that it was just a trick to fool them. They were really planning to fleece them. They all said that if the Yan family still planned the wedding, their family would at most contribute a dime!

Nowadays, when people hold wedding banquets in cities, the general gift amount is around 50 cents. After all, it is rare to have a good meal, so giving even 1 cent would be an embarrassment to the host!

Fortunately, the Yan family decided not to do it, otherwise it would have been a difficult ending.

In the next two days, Yan Fugui actually made some furniture for Yan Jiecheng. However, Li Dawa was too lazy to argue with Yan Fugui, so he added some scraps and some wood from Yan's family, and finally pieced together two long benches and a double bed.

Yan Jiecheng made three more sets for himself, completing the four-piece project.

The so-called "four ones" are a double bed, a washbasin, a thermos and a spittoon. In this era, getting married is not considered shabby if you have these four things!

The wedding day was quite lively. Yan Jiecheng spent ten cents to "borrow" Yan Fugui's bicycle, and then borrowed two bicycles from He Zhan and He Lai. He Lai felt embarrassed to refuse, after all, it was someone else's wedding day.

Yan Jiecheng did this and took his two younger brothers to the girl's home to pick up the bride.

The Hu family is really stingy. They didn't prepare any dowry for their daughter's marriage, and they even planned for the whole family to go to the Yan family for a meal.

In the courtyard, although no one else came, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong still came. After all, it was the wedding of the third uncle Yan Fugui, and it would be unreasonable for the two uncles not to show up.

There were also some friends of Yan Jiecheng and Hu Xia, plus Hu Xia's family, so there was just enough space for two tables.

Originally, when the Hu family saw that the Yan family had a bicycle and a radio, they thought that Hu Xia had married into a very good family. However, when they saw the third aunt and others bringing out the food, they rolled their eyes.

"Hey, my dear relatives, you should prepare some pickles to treat us on this happy day."

Hu's mother said sarcastically.

"That pickle is a side dish, a side dish! There's also meat here, fish and pork, how good."

The third aunt explained with a smile.

"Oh, who can eat this little food? It's gone in one chopstick."

Mother Hu squinted her eyes and whispered. The other members of the Hu family also put down their chopsticks, frowned and kept silent, obviously thinking that they had lost face today.

But when other people saw the dishes, they were also a little unhappy. But after all, they were all friends, and they didn't say anything unpleasant like the Hu family did.

Fortunately, Yan Fugui's family was thick-skinned enough and did not pay attention to these words, and finally the marriage was successfully completed.

The Hu family didn't say anything else. They just turned around and left after eating.

Soon, Yan Jiecheng and his wife took their friends to their own back room.

"Jie Cheng, your parents are incredible. They even dared to hold such a banquet!"

Friend A said with a smile.

"Hey, it's difficult now, it's good enough to have a good meal."

Yan Jiecheng can only fool people by using the current national conditions.

"Haha, this is the first time I've seen sweet potatoes used as the staple food at a banquet. Not to mention steamed buns, there should be at least a few wowotou."

Friend B also spoke up.

"Well... I have a big family and there's really not enough food!"

Yan Jiecheng said helplessly.

"Okay, okay, other couples just got married, you should stop making sarcastic remarks. Hu Xia, just take care of yourself."

At this time, a female friend of Hu Xia spoke up.

"Thank you." Hu Xia forced a smile and said.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong. I'm sorry, Jie Cheng. We didn't mean to say that."

Friend A said.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'll treat everyone to another meal next month when we get our salary," said Yan Jiecheng.

"Well, you two should quickly sing a song in front of the leader. How about singing The East is Red?"

"Yes, yes, yes. The East is Red. The East is Red!"

Suddenly everyone became excited.

Yan Jiecheng and his wife managed to get through the wedding safely.

At night, Hu Xia finally understood the family tradition of the Yan family, which was one word: stinginess. Even the money contributed by their friends was taken away by Yan Fugui.

However, Hu Xia was still quite satisfied. The Yan family treated everyone equally. No one would eat or take more than they wanted, nor would anyone be beaten or scolded without reason. Everyone was equal, and apart from being more frugal with money, there were no other major problems.

At least Hu Xia thought that Yan Jiecheng was an obedient person. He nodded and agreed to everything she said. After the family was divided, she would be the one in charge.

In short, she was still very happy about officially leaving the Hu family.