Chapter 758: With this, why wouldn't the Li family flourish?

Huang Ling didn't really care about the relatives of the Li family that Li Junshan mentioned before.

Her father-in-law and mother-in-law didn't come to attend the wedding here, she still had some small opinions. Although the two places were far apart, it was her son's wedding after all. According to Huang Ling's meaning, the two of them saved money and sent the ticket money to the hometown, as long as people could come.

She liked Li Junshan as a person, and didn't care how poor his family was. After marriage, the two lived in Kuitun, had their own small courtyard, and Li Junshan was not a son-in-law, which was quite good.

Li Junshan said that he would go back to his hometown when he had time after marriage, but Huang Ling was not very willing when she learned that his father-in-law and the others were not coming.

Along with that, she didn't have much enthusiasm for Li Qing Xia and the others.

She had met Li Jianguo and the others before, and the impression was okay, but others didn't have a good impression.

It was just unexpected that Li Qing Xia "cursed" her father-in-law in the first sentence, which made Huang Ling a bit confused.

At this time, the traditional concept of family was quite strong, even if it didn't talk about feudal superstition, it didn't flourish to curse others for illness.

She turned her head to look at Li Junshan, still thinking whether her father-in-law really broke his leg, and her husband didn't tell her.

Unexpectedly, what she saw was that Li Junshan was also confused.

At this time, most people believed it to be true, and a very small number of non-Li family members guessed it.

Li Qing Xia didn't care, he strongly disagreed with this approach of his nephew Li Xingguo. The child held such a wedding once in his life, and it was winter, not in the busy farming season, so what if he came over?

He went back in autumn, Li Xingguo was fine, saying that his son would not come back to Northern Xinjiang in the future, he just didn't want to spend this money, and didn't want to recognize this relative.

It was originally a good thing, but it turned out like this. In Li Qing Xia's view, this nephew was short-sighted.

Scolding him for breaking his leg was considered good for him.

"... Secondly, it is also hoped that the two newcomers will live a good life in the future, give birth to a big fat boy as soon as possible, and also work hard to contribute to the four modernizations..."

Li Qing Xia was obviously prepared. Although he spoke in the hometown dialect, there were many people from the Central Plains in the Kuitun area, so listening to this dialect felt intimate. And Li Qing Xia was quite fully prepared, speaking without stuttering, with a loud voice, even the children stopped playing and listened there.

"... Thirdly, it is hoped that the relatives and friends who came will eat and drink well. Fine, I'll say so much!"

After speaking, he arched his hands and sat down.

Chairman Liu didn't expect Old Li to speak quite well. Looking at everyone's expressions, this response was good. I heard that this Old Li was a pure farmer, it seems that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers among farmers.

Next was the speech by the bride's representative. The bride's representative was Huang Ling's uncle Huang Xianfeng, a squad leader of the Construction Installation Company, managing ten construction workers.

Although Li Junshan was not in his squad, he knew about Li Junshan, and after understanding, he felt that he was quite reliable.

As a squad leader, Huang Xianfeng's theoretical level was naturally higher than Li Qing Xia's. What he said were all those words that conformed to the characteristics of the era, some of which could be seen from the newspaper.

Originally, Chairman Liu wanted Factory Director Du to say a few words, but Factory Director Du was thinking about chatting with Li Long about the details of the harvester, so he hurriedly refused.

After Huang Xianfeng finished speaking, Chairman Liu began to witness the marriage, read the marriage certificate, and then announced the start of the wedding banquet.

The cafeteria was immediately lively.

The stove fire was burning, it was freezing outside, but it was warm as spring inside. The chef was the original company's chef, and he was quite good at making this kind of food. Li Junshan prepared for a long time, and winter ingredients could also be stored, so the wedding banquet was quite rich.

A total of six tables were opened, mainly inviting Li Junshan's good friends and relatives from Huang Ling's side. Li Jianguo and the others were at a separate table as the groom's relatives, Factory Director Du was also at this table, and Ma Aihong came over to take care of them from time to time.

Halfway through the meal, the bride and groom came to toast. Huang Ling had a smile on her face this time. Just now, her family told her that although there were few people coming from Li Junshan's side, the weight was not light. That Factory Director Du was on the same level as the manager of this Construction Installation Company.

Today the manager didn't come because of something, but this Factory Director Du came, which showed that the Li family had connections. And they could see that this Factory Director Du didn't have any airs after coming, and chatted very well with Li Long, the uncle of Li Junshan, that kind of equal chatting feeling.

This was interesting.

The Huang family's evaluation of the Li family changed, and Huang Ling herself also thought of the words Li Junshan said before, and her attitude naturally changed.

Li Long didn't drink, it was hard to say whether he would go back today, if he went back, he had to drive, so he didn't drink this wine.

Factory Director Du also joked with him:

"Little Li, this won't do. Anyway, Junshan is your junior, you have to drink the toast at the wedding."

"Old Du, you are wrong. I have to drive." Li Long retorted, "If I drink too much, what if the car drives into the ditch?"

"Drive into the ditch, drive into the ditch, your jeep is not heavy, three or five people can push it out." Factory Director Du joked, "Besides, it's nothing if you stay for one night, right? In this middle of winter, there is nothing to do when you go back, right?"

Persuaded like this, Li Long had to drink.

At this time, the amount of toasting was still very large. The groom toasted two cups of spicy wine (white wine), and the bride toasted two cups of sweet wine (red wine), all 50-gram cups. These two kinds of wine mixed together, people with average drinking capacity, usually fell down.

Before drinking, Li Long said to Li Junshan:

"Junshan, you are married, you will have a separate family in the future, live a good life, wish you a happy life together!"

Drinking Huang Ling's wine, Li Long also opened his mouth and said:

"Little Huang, Junshan is a person who lives a steady life, I see you are also a reasonable and thoughtful person, wish your life gets better and better."

Li Long drank the two cups of sweet wine, and then immediately said to Li Junshan:

"Junshan, hurry up and toast Old Du, right, Factory Director Du... Old Du, come, come, come, it's your turn!"

It should have been toasting Factory Director Du, the guest of honor, first, but Old Du insisted on toasting the groom's main guest first, so Li Long finally received the wine.

Li Junshan followed the trend and immediately came over to toast Factory Director Du.

The onlookers had already seen that Li Long and Factory Director Du had a deep relationship—otherwise, how could he call him Old Du? Even Chairman Liu didn't call him Old Du.

At the banquet, some people had already started to play fist, shouting loudly, some were eating vegetables, the dishes at this banquet were not something that could be eaten often.

Some people's attention was on Li Long and the others, wanting to see the movement here.

Some of the bride's relatives, such as Huang Ling's mother, were flipping through the gift list.

Everyone gave three or five yuan, which was considered the basic market. Those with a particularly good relationship gave ten yuan, which was already considered a lot.

Then she saw a row of twenty yuan—Li Qing Xia, Li Jianguo, Li Anguo, Li Long...

Yo, Junshan's family gave quite a lot of money!

Even Yang Yongqiang gave ten yuan.

Huang Ling's mother Yang Xiaomei was quite satisfied. As a relative, she knew that these were Li Junshan's relatives, although the blood relationship was close, it was not one family after all.

This twenty yuan was equivalent to nearly half a month's salary of a worker, not a little.

The human feeling was good.

The wedding banquet was almost at the end at about four o'clock in the afternoon. The Li family was the last to leave.

Li Qing Xia and Li Jianguo both drank a bit too much. Factory Director Du left relatively early because he had something to do, staying at the banquet for about forty minutes before leaving.

Today the Li family gave face, and the company's workmates plus the bride's relatives were quite "enthusiastic" to Li Jianguo and the others, and the toasting was one cup after another. Except for Du Chunfang who didn't drink, others including Li Long drank quite a lot.

It was just that Li Long didn't have any movement, and later blocked a lot of wine.

When leaving, Yang Yongqiang and others helped Li Qing Xia and the others, Li Long stayed at the end, and said to Li Junshan and Huang Ling who sent him:

"We are in Maxian, far from here, if there is anything, make a phone call, or send a letter."

As he said, he took out a stack of money from his pocket and stuffed it into Li Junshan's hand:

"Junshan, I am an elder anyway, it is not convenient to put this money in the gift list, handing it to you face to face, it is a little support from the Li family to your small family. If you live well, we will be relieved."

Li Junshan wanted to decline, but Li Long didn't let him, waved to Huang Ling, and left.

"This uncle of yours, his drinking capacity is really good!" Huang Ling didn't talk about the money, she had actually been observing Li Long later, Li Long drank at least two bottles (500 ml kind), and now it looked like there was no alcohol state at all.

Secondly, it was Li Jianguo, Li Jianguo's expression was also very clear, but it could be seen on his face that he drank too much.

Li Anguo's drinking capacity was the worst, and he couldn't walk back by himself at this time. Chen Li Rong and Yang Yongqiang helped him, and he was still muttering something. "This money..." Li Junshan thought for a while and said: "Since Uncle Long gave it to us, then we will add a little to buy a sewing machine, you have always been thinking about it."

Li Junshan got married, the house was bought with borrowed money, there was a bicycle, and there were no other big items left.

The bride's side could feel Li Junshan's sincerity, and there were not many requirements. Now with the gift money, plus the one hundred given by Li Long, they could buy another big item.

"Can this work? This uncle of yours..."

"Don't worry, he has money. And he is good to us." Li Junshan smiled. Originally thought everything was changing, but now it seems that many things actually didn't change.

Li Long saw that his father and mother were still fine, so he went to his second brother's house with them.

After Li Jianguo and the others entered the house and drank water, they came out and sat in the jeep. This was preparing to go back to the guesthouse to rest.

It was definitely impossible to go back to Maxian today, according to the current situation, they needed to rest well. Li Anguo's house couldn't sleep.

Yang Yongqiang and the workmates put Li Anguo down and said goodbye one after another. Yang Yongqiang also told Li Long that he would ask for leave to go back before the New Year, and then come to find Li Long to play.

After they all left, Li Long looked at the courtyard, touched his chin and thought for a while, seeing Li Anguo checking the schoolbags for Xueping and Li Xue Qin who had just returned, he dragged him out and whispered in the courtyard:

"Second brother, I think you should change to a bigger courtyard?"

"Change? Change to where? It's quite good to live here, not far from the unit, and it's enough for our family of four..."

After finishing speaking, Li Anguo felt something was wrong and smiled apologetically:

"It's just that there is no place for you to live when you come, this is troublesome..." "So my meaning is, you change to a bigger courtyard. Buy it nearby, and it's close to the unit and school. If you don't have enough money, take it from me first—our brothers don't talk about whether to return or not, anyway, you have to live comfortably."

Li Anguo hesitated.

Didn't he want to live in a big house? Of course he wanted to. Wasn't it because he didn't have the economic conditions?

The younger brother had money, he knew this when he first came to Northern Xinjiang. After all, he took the four of them to earn so much money, so he must have more money himself.

Plus the tossing in these few years, if he wanted to buy a courtyard, it should be very easy.

The price of better courtyards in Kuitun has also risen. Li Anguo had seen a bigger courtyard nearby. The house needed one more room, the space was also large, the courtyard was not like the one where Section Chief Ma lived, which could only put things and not plant vegetables, and the location was also good.

Such a courtyard cost more than a thousand.

There was another one that was a house, no courtyard. A row of three bungalows also cost more than six hundred yuan.

There were many people coming here to work, and the original housing itself was small, so the prices all went up.

"Actually, I also saved some money, thinking about changing places in a few years—" Li Anguo said, "Little Long, this matter... can I discuss it with your sister-in-law?"

"Fine. I have to come over in a week, and then I'll come to the agricultural machinery factory to pull things. At that time, I'll come over to see again. If you need it, I'll leave you a thousand yuan, enough to buy a courtyard."

There was no need to say where the eldest brother lived. Although it was a bit old, the place was enough. Plus the eldest brother had a tractor at home, and the life in the future would definitely be better than ordinary people.

!

The courtyard where Sister Li Xia lived was even bigger, not much worse than the one in the Fourth Team. The brother-in-law was a worker in the food factory, anyway, it was no problem for the family to eat meat often.

Shicheng and Maxian were close, and he could help out from time to time.

It was just that this second brother was far away, and there was no way to run over often.

But as his brother, Li Long wanted to change their living environment, so at least they would live better.

There was also one main point. Li Long vaguely remembered that the north side of KT city had been developing, and buying a bigger courtyard, when the land was requisitioned, the subsidy would be much more, which could be considered as directly giving the second brother a sum of expected savings.

Of course, such things still need to be said in advance. He seemed to remember that some people here saved money for a lifetime, and two years before the land was about to be requisitioned, they sold the courtyard at a low price, and then went to the newly developed building to buy a set of buildings.

Who could have thought that two years later, the land was requisitioned, and that set of courtyards could be exchanged for two sets of buildings!

Chen Li Rong called Li Anguo to serve the bowl, and dinner was ready.

Dinner was noodles, with meat cut inside, and the taste was quite fragrant.

Li Qing Xia and Du Chunfang ate less at night, which was half a bowl. Li Jianguo and Li Long had large appetites, and one bowl was not enough.

Chen Li Rong made a lot, there was not enough space in the house, so Li Long ate noodles outside.

Don't say, it was quite cold outside, the noodles were quite hot, and it had a unique flavor.

Li Anguo was also outside with him, picking a pair of chopsticks of cut salted leeks on the noodles, stirring and mixing them, the taste was very good.

After dinner, Li Long and the others drove the jeep back to the guesthouse. Halfway through, Du Chunfang said:

"The second one's room is so small, it feels suffocating to stay."

"That's because you are used to staying in the eldest's courtyard. Do you think everyone has such a big mansion?"

"Then Little Long's courtyard is big..." Du Chunfang said unconvinced.

"Can that be the same?" Li Qing Xia laughed angrily, "How many courtyards of that style are there in the whole county? Let alone the whole county, how many are there in the whole Northern Xinjiang?

You just say the second one's room is a bit small, but this courtyard, isn't it the same as our hometown? You have only been in Northern Xinjiang for a few years and you look down on that courtyard..."

"Isn't it because I feel his conditions should be better?" Du Chunfang rarely came out, rarely evaluated the situation of several children, and continued, "He is a worker, and it is said that his wife will soon enter the factory. As a result, this place where he lives, among the four, he is the worst."

There was no way to say this point.

"That's nothing, just let the second brother buy a big courtyard." Li Long said with a smile, "It's not that he can't buy it, and it's not that he doesn't have money?"

When he said this, the others didn't speak for a while.

Li Jianguo was the first to react, he smiled and said:

"Right, just let the second one buy a new courtyard. It's really not good to live in that room, the two children don't have their own place, I see that they have to wait for everyone to finish eating to study..."

He had already decided to support his second brother with a sum of money.

Li Qing Xia also had such an idea.

The living money in Li Qing Xia's hands was more than Li Jianguo's. He didn't worry about food and drink in the Fourth Team, and the money he saved, except for donating some money when he went back to engage in genealogy, the rest was still there.

When spring comes next year, Li Qing Xia thought that he could still earn a lot, so why keep the money?

Parents are biased in this regard, most of them are about the same as Li Qing Xia, whichever child lives poorly, then subsidize some, this is considered normal.

He thought that after Li Junshan's wedding banquet was finished, when he left, he would see the second one and quietly stuff some money, so that the second one could buy a decent house and be decent in the future.

The three people had ideas about this matter, but they didn't say it.

Returning to the guesthouse, it was already dark. Li Long locked the jeep, the four entered the room, washed and slept separately.

Waking up early the next day, they had breakfast in the guesthouse, and at eleven o'clock, Li Long drove the people to Li Anguo's house.

They planned to go to the factory's cafeteria with Li Anguo's family of four.

Li Qing Xia and the others came over as the groom's relatives. Li Junshan had discussed it with the bride's side, so there was no need for the families of both sides to meet, because it was just as a representative.

The master of ceremonies was the chairman of the trade union of the Construction Installation Company. When Li Long and the others arrived at the cafeteria, the two newcomers were already welcoming at the door.

Ma Aihong, as the general manager, arranged the seats for people. Li Long whispered to him that Factory Director Du was also coming. Ma Aihong was naturally happy and said he would arrange him at the main table.

Factory Director Du came half an hour before the banquet started. What surprised Li Long a little was that he also knew the trade union chairman. He could come, and the trade union chairman was also quite surprised—this trade union chairman was surnamed Liu. Chairman Liu chatted with Factory Director Du for a few words, knowing that he was invited by the groom's side, so he looked at Li Junshan with a different eye again.