Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 357 Meeting the in-laws

Chen Yunzhe and Chen Yunhan got married on the same day, and the Chen family held a grand banquet to entertain the guests.

The first group of banquets was to entertain the bride's family members, officials from the county government and other places who came to congratulate her, and the prominent families in the city.

The second banquet was to entertain key members of the militia, neighbors, relatives, friends and others.

The third group is to entertain the chef, apprentices, helpers, servants in the house, etc.

The banquet started at noon and lasted until the evening. By the time everything was cleaned up and put away, it was dark.

The chef and his apprentices all received generous red envelopes and left happily.

Each of the helping wives and old women received a lot of melon seeds, candies, meat slices, meatballs and other things that were not used for the banquet, and they all went home happily.

After the lunch banquet, the people from Shen Lizhen's school said goodbye and left one after another.

They all came from other places just to see their junior sister off and see her get married.

Now that they saw with their own eyes that their junior sister had found a good home, they felt relieved.

After all, these people have different identities. If they stay outside for too long, what if they meet their old enemies?
To avoid any complications, it is better to go back early.

The He family members were not in a hurry to leave. They wanted to stay and return to Liaoyang after meeting their in-laws tomorrow.

Those young people who were clamoring to make trouble in the bridal chamber were basically drunk by Qu Shaoyang and his men.

There were only a few kittens left, and they couldn't cause any trouble. So they gave up after being persuaded by everyone else.

After all the guests left, the Chen family finally returned to peace. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and could have a good rest.

As the golden boy who holds the sedan chair and is also the one who rolls the kang for his two uncles, he has a very busy day.

He was so tired that he fell asleep immediately after getting on the kang. However, he slept so deeply in the middle of the night that he didn't wake up even when he had to pee, and his pee soaked all the bedding.

Li and Chen Xiuyun slept on the same kang, and she could hug her eldest grandson at night.

I reached out my hand in the middle of the night and felt something wet. I quickly got up to take a look and saw that it was such a big pee.

So, in the middle of the night, the mother and daughter got up to change the bedding and clothes for Gensuo.

I woke Genyou up, fed him and helped him pee, and after I finished everything, I went back to sleep.

Early the next morning, Chen Yunzhe and Chen Yunhan each brought their wives to the main courtyard to meet their parents.

Both daughters-in-law changed out of their gorgeous and complicated wedding dresses from yesterday. Although they were also wearing bright red coats and skirts, the styles were much simpler.

The two couples came to the hall and the servants from the mansion brought tea. Shen Lizhen took the tea bowl first and served tea to Doctor Chen and his wife.

Doctor Chen and Mrs. Li took the tea bowl and took a sip, then took out the red envelope they had prepared in advance, gave it to Shen Lizhen, and said a few words of blessing.

Next was He Qingzhu, and the same procedure followed.

After the tea was served, the two brothers of the Chen family quickly introduced the people in the room to their wives.

The elders usually give red envelopes to the newlyweds, and the peers give each other gifts when they meet.

What Chen Xiuyun prepared for her two sisters-in-law was a pair of jade ruyi made of Hetian white jade and carved with pomegranate patterns.

Pomegranate symbolizes having many seeds. When carved on a ruyi, it is called a baizi ruyi, which is the best gift for newlyweds.

According to the rules, Shen Lizhen and He Qingzhu gave each other embroidered handkerchiefs and purses in return.

Everyone in the room got to know each other, and it was getting late, so Li told everyone to start eating quickly.

According to the rules of a wealthy family, a new daughter-in-law cannot eat with her parents-in-law. She must stand beside them, help serve porridge, set aside dishes, and wait on them.

Just as Shen Lizhen and He Qingzhu were about to stand behind their parents-in-law, they were stopped by Li.

"No, no, we don't have those rules in our house. Just sit down and eat quietly. We don't care about those things."

Li was not used to acting like a mother-in-law, so she tried to avoid unnecessary rules.

"From now on, you can live a good life, which is better than anything else.
I will be satisfied if my husband and I can live in harmony and have a grandson sooner rather than later."

The two new brides were at a loss as to what to do.

Chen Yunzhe glanced at his younger brother, and the two of them walked forward, each pulling their wife to sit down.

"Just sit down and eat. We don't have so many rules in our house."

Just like that, the two new brides sat down and ate their meals.

After breakfast, Doctor Chen sent his son to the west courtyard to invite the He family over for a small gathering.

I was busy entertaining guests yesterday and didn't have much time to sit down and have a good chat.
We finally have some free time today, so the two families got together and had a lot of fun talking and laughing.

Chen Yunhan's fellow apprentices were all very curious about Qu Shaoyang.

In just a few years, Qu Shaoyang was able to go from a small-time migrant worker to a rising celebrity in Dongbiandao. It has to be said that this experience is very attractive.

So, these young people gathered around Qu Shaoyang and asked all kinds of questions.

Qu Shaoyang was also happy to deal with these people, so he chatted with them and talked about their past experiences of rafting, hunting and mountain range hunting.

These young men of Changfeng Escort Agency have been learning from their masters since they were young. After they have learned, they follow their masters to escort or guard the houses of wealthy families.
I had never been to the mountains and didn't understand anything about what was happening there, so I listened with great interest.

Before I knew it, it was noon.

The Chen family prepared a banquet to entertain all the people from the escort agency. After lunch, the people from the He family who came to escort the bride said goodbye and left.

He Qingzhu was reluctant to see her relatives leave and couldn't help but shed tears.

Chen Yunhan took one look and hurried to comfort her, "Don't cry, wait a few days, I will accompany you back to Liaoyang, let's stay longer and come back."

When a woman gets married, she usually returns to her parents' home after three days. If her parents' home is relatively close, she can go back and forth on the same day, and she has to return to her husband's home before sunset.

If the distance is far and the mother cannot return home on the same day, she will usually return home seven or twelve days later, and the son-in-law can stay with her at her parents' home for a few more days.

Liaoyang is not close to Kuandian, so I definitely can't get back that day.
Therefore, the two families made an agreement before the wedding that seven days after the wedding, Chen Yunhan would accompany He Qingzhu back to Changfeng Escort Agency and stay longer.

After seeing off the He family, it was time for Li’s relatives from her mother’s side to leave as well.

Before leaving, Li gave a lot of food and daily necessities to her cousin and his wife.

Those things are not worth much money, so I can just give them to my relatives to make them happy, and show them off to my fellow villagers when I go back.

Otherwise, Li's sister-in-law would always nag her that her nephew had become successful and capable, and should help his cousins.

Li knew too well what her nephews from her natal family were like. It would be good for them to live a peaceful and stable life by farming, and not to act in a high-profile manner.

If I really assign them a task, it might be messed up, and my son will be in trouble.

In order to have peace in the future, Li would rather give up some things than get into a lot of trouble.

(End of this chapter)