sbdcsierra Chapter 1643 Writing the Gift Account Chapter 4
Chapter 1643 Writing the Gift Account Chapter 4
Chapter 1643 Writing Gift Account Fourth
Culture is something that exists or it doesn’t.
Zhao Jun is an uneducated person. In his previous life, he traveled all over the country and was a local tycoon for a while.
But during that period, the people who interacted with Zhao Jun were all local rich people like him. They gathered together to eat, drink, play cards, and study young girls.
Later, Zhao Jun fell into poverty, but he happened to encounter the era of information explosion. Short videos can bring people all kinds of knowledge, useful or useless.
But behind this there is something called big data, and short video platforms will not randomly recommend videos or live broadcasts to people.
At that time, Zhao Jun was watching a certain platform, and he often browsed it when he had nothing to do. But the jokes he browsed were all videos of middle-aged women dancing and twisting the Yangko dance, which might be related to culture...
No matter what, Zhao Jun is just uneducated. As soon as he said this, the atmosphere in the room changed instantly.
Some people who were as uneducated as Zhao Jun didn't think it was a big deal, and they couldn't tell right from wrong. But those who had read books had a different reaction at this time.
Those who knew Zhao Jun were speechless and worried about him, while those who didn't know Zhao Jun just stared at him blankly.
"Haha..." Suddenly, a short laugh broke the slightly awkward atmosphere in the room. Everyone looked up and saw Li Ruhai in a Zhongshan suit laughing, "My eldest brother is humorous and always likes to joke with us, haha..."
As soon as Li Ruhai said this, the atmosphere in the room instantly eased a lot. No matter what, Li Ruhai found a way out for Zhao Jun, and this way out was really good.
"Not bad!" Zhou Chunming raised his finger and pointed at Zhao Jun, saying with a smile: "This kid has had an interesting day."
No matter how stupid Zhao Jun was, he knew that he had made a fool of himself. He didn't dare to say anything else and just grinned and smiled with Zhou Chunming.
"Okay, that's good!" Zhang Shaowen said with a smile: "The old man spoke, and it was serious and lively!"
Everyone in the room who was on Zhao Jun's side smiled as Zhang Shaowen said.
"Oh! Dear leaders." At this time, Zhao Guofeng also came to the rescue of Zhao Jun and said to Chu Anmin, Zhang Shaowen and others, "I think it's almost time. Should we go over there?"
"Let's go!" Chu Anmin stood up first, and then everyone followed him out.
As soon as Chu Anmin went out, he saw four people jogging towards the front of the house.
"Oh!" Chu Anmin was stunned and blurted out, "Why are you here?"
The four people who came were none other than the tiger-hunting team of the Security Section of the Forestry Bureau and Zhao Youcai's good comrades: Li Chunming, Zhao Jicheng, Qin Zhusong and Zhang Dongzhi.
"Director Chu, isn't Master Zhao's son getting married today?" Li Chunming said, "Let's come over and join in the fun."
At this time, Zhao Youcai, who was supported by Li Dayong and Zhou Jianjun, recognized his friends and hurriedly stumbled forward and said, "Chief Li, why are you here just now?"
"Oh my god, Master Zhao." Li Chunming said bitterly, "We came out a long time ago, but the car broke down halfway."
Hearing what he said, Zhao Jun stepped forward and asked, "Then how did you get here?"
"Later, we came here by Senti Mosga." Li Chunming said so, and Zhao Jun hurriedly asked, "Did Mosga go back?"
"No." Li Chunming said, "They are waiting for us outside your village. We thought we would come here to take a look, write greetings and leave."
"What's that for?" Zhao Jun heard this and turned to call Li Baoyu, "Baoyu, drive quickly and pick up the master. Let him have a meal at home, we have nothing to say."
Zhao Jun's last sentence, "We didn't say anything," meant that the driver would be provided with food when he came and he didn't need to worry about gifts.
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Baoyu responded and ran away.
Seeing that Zhao Youcai was dying, Wang Meilan hurried forward to greet Li Chunming and the other three, saying, "Chief Li, let's go and have a meal. We have come all the way here, we can't leave without a meal."
After receiving Wang Meilan's invitation and seeing that Zhao Jun had made all the arrangements, Li Chunming and the other three happily went to the backyard with everyone else.
At this moment, Wang Meilan suddenly realized something was wrong. She slowed down a little and ended up in her parents' house.
"Yu." Wang Meilan asked Ma Ling's third aunt Wang Cuiyu, "Where are our sixth uncle and sixth aunt? And fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law, why don't I see them?"
Yes, Wang Changhai and his family are missing.
"That..." Wang Cuiyu hesitated when Wang Meilan asked. At this time, Wang Cuihua came over and held Wang Meilan and said, "Mother-in-law, Uncle Six won't let me tell you."
"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled, and then she heard Wang Cuihua say, "They left on that... the big Liberation truck from Lingnan."
"Ah?" Wang Meilan's face changed instantly when she heard that. When she turned around and looked back, all she saw were the mountains in the distance.
Wang Meilan's eyes felt a little sore, but the person was gone, and she couldn't blame her mother-in-law.
……
When I walked to the backyard of the Zhao family, I heard bursts of laughter coming from the big shed.
As soon as Zhang Shaowen entered the shed, he saw this scene: men, women, young and old gathered together, all with smiles on their faces, the adults were chatting, some of them were very quiet, and some were laughing wildly.
The children were eating melon seeds and peanuts. Some of them were quietly putting the melon seeds and peanut kernels into their mouths, while others were competing with each other to see who had more melon seeds and peanuts in their pockets...
Ninety percent of the hooligans Zhang Shaowen had seen always looked miserable in their lives. It was rare for the people of Xishantun, who had just escaped from their hooligans, to have such a mental outlook at this time.
The wedding proceeded in an orderly manner, with speeches given by the master of ceremonies and the witnesses.
Li Dazhi and Zhao Weipeng were very unhappy when they saw Zhang Shaowen praising Zhao Jun as the witness.
As the master of ceremonies and witnesses left the stage, Zhao Guofeng came out to say a few words, and then waited for the feast to begin.
There was about five minutes before Zhao Guofeng spoke and the meal began.
These five minutes are reserved for guests to write gift bills.
The only three people in the Zhao family who could accept gifts were Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai, and Wang Meilan.
Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were too young. Zhao Chun could have been married, but she didn't have many connections. As for Zhou Jianjun, it was not the case that his brother-in-law got married and his brother-in-law accepted gifts.
There are three people in the Zhao family who can accept gifts, and each of them has a gift account.
The gift should be written into the gift account of the person the guest came for.
Li Chunming and other three wrote the money to Zhao Youcai's account. These four people were saved by Zhao Youcai, so the total amount was twenty.
The Zhao family's gift account was also written by the village accountant Tan Chaoyang, and the person who collected the money was Zhang Yuanmin.
Seeing that Li Chunming and the others had all given twenty yuan, Zhang Shaowen thought for a moment and took out two big unity notes from his pocket, handed the money to Zhang Yuanmin, and said to Tan Chaoyang, "Come, write twenty yuan to Zhao Jun. My name is Zhang Shaowen."
Seeing this scene, Zou Yunchuan and the two clerks Liu and Wang were all dumbfounded.
The people of Xishantun seemed to have their own gift accounts, so the only ones who needed to keep accounts for this leisurely feast were Li Chunming and his three companions, as well as a few others.
The gift account records the interpersonal relationships and also records face.
They had no courtesy to the Zhao family before, so if they had to write a letter, writing five yuan would be a favor. But they were all well-known in the village, so in order to save face, they had to follow the crowd in writing a letter of courtesy.
Everyone else wrote twenty, especially Zhang Shaowen who came with them, who also wrote twenty. What should the three of them do?
At this time, the two clerks turned their eyes to Zou Yunchuan, wanting the deputy head of the village to take the lead by giving him five or ten yuan.
Zou Yunchuan couldn't take care of this guy. What he was struggling with at the moment was who should he write the gift bill to.
He didn't know Zhao Jun at all, so if he was going to write anything, it would be to Wang Meilan.
Just as Zhang Shaowen said, they and Wang Meilan both worked in the township and were colleagues.
But Zhang Shaowen wrote the gift to Zhao Jun, which made Zou Yunchuan difficult.
At this moment, Zhang Shaowen actually took out another twenty yuan from his pocket, handed it to Zhang Yuanmin, and then said to Tan Chaoyang: "Write this twenty yuan on the account of Village Chief Wang."
One was a young man he favored, and the other was the daughter of his benefactor. Zhang Shaowen generously wrote a gift to each of them.
Seeing this, Zou Yunchuan heaved a sigh of relief. In this case, he could write it to Wang Meilan's account without any problem.
But the two clerks, Liu and Wang, were now in despair. It seemed that they could not escape the twenty-yuan gift.
But just as Zou Yunchuan stepped forward and stretched out his hand to take out the money, he saw Zhang Shaowen took out another five yuan and said, "Write another five yuan to Zhao Jun's account. This is Zhang Jingye's, the one who loves his job and is dedicated to his work."
Although they are from the same family, Zhang Jingye is already over 30. There is nothing wrong with bringing a child to a banquet, but it is not normal to bring a child this old to a banquet.
Seeing this, the two clerks, Liu and Wang, were overjoyed and took out five dollars from their pockets.
Zou Yunchuan, who had just accepted his fate, now breathed a sigh of relief. He took out ten yuan and wrote it on Wang Meilan's account.
At the same time, Zhang Xinglong, who was not far away, handed a gift account with money rolled up in front of Wang Meilan and said, "Captain, this is a gift from the people of Xishan Village to you."
After that, Zhang Xinglong tapped the gift account twice with his fingers, and then continued: "There are 58 households in our village, and each household gave five yuan."
There are only fifty-eight households in Xishantun, with each household giving five yuan as gifts, so the total amount of gifts was less than three hundred yuan, but there were nearly thirty tables.
From this, it can be seen that Wang Meilan, the fourth seat, is bound to lose money.
But Wang Meilan didn't care at all. She happily accepted the gift money and told Zhang Xinglong to eat and drink more.
At this time, the guests from my mother's family and the diners from Zhao's family all left the shed and walked towards the front yard.
The food prepared by the Zhao family was enough for them to sit down and eat. But it was not long after the last meal, and no normal person would be able to eat for a while.
Chu Anmin was also leaving, and he heard Chu Anmin say to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun, there's nothing else to do. I'm going back now."
When Chu Anmin came, he made an agreement with Zhao Jun that he, as the master of ceremonies, would see the wedding through to the end. However, before the fourth banquet began, he would marry Zhao Jun and then return to the city with his family.
Zhao Jun did not try to persuade him to stay. Because Director Chu had been out for a day, and it would take him five or six o'clock to get to the city from Yong'an. He would have to rest for a night and go to work tomorrow.
The main thing was that Director Chu had finished his meal, and Zhao Jun thought that everything had been arranged, so he could just leave.
But just when Zhao Jun wanted to say a few words of thanks to Chu Anmin, Tao Dabao suddenly came over and called Chu Anmin, "Old Chu, what are you doing? Come here, I've poured you some wine."
"I don't want to drink anymore." Chu Anmin said, "We'll drink again next time if we have a chance."
"What's the next time?" Tao Dabao said, "I finally caught up..."
Before Tao Dabao could finish, Chu Anmin interrupted and said, "What's so hard about it? Don't we always get together?"
This is true. Last year, Tao Dabao went to the city to look for Chu Anmin. They lived not far from each other, so it was not difficult for them to meet.
But as soon as Chu Anmin finished speaking, Tao Dabao raised his hand and pointed to the north, saying, "We always see each other. Isn't this the first time we met at home?"
Chu Anmin looked in the direction Tao Dabao pointed, and saw his mother and wife sitting together with Tao Dabao's wife Jiang Lan, Li Yunxiang and others. Also sitting at the same table were Tao Fulin, Tao Xiaobao and Tao Fei.
His daughter Chu Xiaoxue was also there, Chu Xiaoxue brought Li Tongyun with her. Similarly, his mother also brought Jie Sunshi.
"I..." Chu Anmin looked at it and it seemed that he couldn't leave. At this moment, Zhao Weipeng came over and called the two of them, "What are you two looking at? The wine has been poured for you two."
"It's okay, haha." Tao Dabao smiled at Zhao Weipeng, then asked in a low voice: "Fatty, whose daughter is that?"
"That's mine!" Chu Anmin glared at Tao Dabao warily. He suspected that Tao Dabao had fallen in love with his daughter.
Although Tao Dabao's children are still young, Tao Dabao's nephew Tao Fei is already at the age of marriage.
Chu Anmin could marry a rural girl as his daughter-in-law, but he didn't want to marry his daughter to the countryside.
But just as Chu Anmin finished speaking, Tao Dabao said, "I didn't say your daughter. I was talking about the one next to your daughter. She's pretty."
Chu Anmin: “…”
Zhao Weipeng smiled when he saw this and said to Tao Dabao, "That's the daughter of the old Li family. Her father is Li Dazhi, the director of Yongan Forestry Farm."
"Ah!" Tao Dabao nodded when he heard this. Zhao Jun, who was standing by, saw that Chu Anmin looked unhappy, so he stepped forward and said, "Director Chu, there are so many leaders here today, and my dad is drunk again. Can you help me greet them and entertain the guests?"
Chu Anmin glanced at Zhao Jun when he heard this. He smiled and said, "You kid, you even found a director to entertain guests for you."
Tao Dabao and Zhao Weipeng pouted when they heard Chu Anmin's words, but Chu Anmin waved his hand at them and said, "What are you looking at? Let's go, the wine is already poured!"
At Chu Anmin's table, except for the big boss Zhao Weipeng, everyone else is a leader, such as Zhou Chunming, Yu Xuewen, and Zhang Shaowen.
Zhang Shaowen took a look at the four cold dishes and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.
The cold dishes are all hard dishes. Among the four cold dishes, only one is vegetarian. But cucumbers can be found in the mountains in this season, which are more precious than meat!
Just as Zhang Shaowen was surprised, the helpers and kitchen assistants were almost non-stop as they delivered the dishes to the table one by one.
Six paths, eight paths, twelve paths, sixteen paths…
"How many dishes are there?" This was asked by Yu Xuewen. Their team was in good condition, but they had never seen such a banquet before. The dishes went on and on.
Zhang Shaowen didn't have time to say anything. He stretched his neck and walked to the left to look, making sure that the dishes the Zhao family served to the people of Xishantun were no different from those they served to them.
At this time, among the twenty-seven tables in Xishantun, no one, including adults and children, was talking. Everyone just kept eating.
As the vegetables and meat entered their mouths, the people of Xishan Village were filled with gratitude and admiration for Wang Meilan: The village chief didn't treat us hooligans as outsiders!