Surprise! The rough husband is the hidden boss of the period literature

Chapter 140 Engagement
On the day of the engagement, the weather was clear and the breeze blowing in from the gap between Yitai Mountain and Yima Mountain brought a slight coolness, alleviating the summer heat.

The engagement banquet was held at Jiang Baohua's house. Several earthen pots were set up at the door. Zhou Guizhi led several women in the clan to prepare the banquet, pick and wash vegetables, and cook sorghum rice in a big pot.

Jiang Xingbing and his brothers borrowed tables, chairs and benches, and Hu Hai, Dong Youfu, and several cousins ​​of the Jiang family began to slaughter pigs, kill roe deer, skin rabbits, and clean pheasants.

Around noon, the aroma of meat filled the air, carried by the wind and smelled throughout the village.

The children came running happily, moving between the tables, chairs and benches, circling around the earthen pot, waiting for the meal to start.

Only when most people had arrived did Jiang Baohua arrange for people to lead the seats, that is, who would sit at the first seat and who would sit at the first seat at the first seat, etc. There were all kinds of rules for this.

Even though the four olds have been destroyed, the dignity that the elders and predecessors still have in the countryside cannot be lost.

If it is not arranged properly, a happy event will become unhappy because of such troubles.

What's more, although Xu Qinghuan was an educated youth, people from her parents' home also came today. Li Shouzhi and his wife, as representatives of the girl's parents, came early in the morning and gave Xu Qinghuan a big red envelope with two hundred yuan in it.

Before the meal started, Li Shouzhi went to visit Mr. Jiang, and was now accompanied by the elders of the Jiang family to talk.

Jiang Xingye was wearing a grass-green military uniform today, which was a gift from Li Shouzhi. He was tall, with broad shoulders and long legs. It was so hard for him to wear a decent set of clothes, which made him look even more sturdy and upright.

The first thing he did when he saw Xu Qinghuan was to give Xu Qinghuan the 700 yuan he had just received, which was still hot, "for the pork from last time."

There was a thick stack. Xu Qinghuan looked at him in shock. "Aren't you going to keep some?"

He shook his head, "All for you!"

He held the money in front of Xu Qinghuan with both hands and looked at her expectantly.

Xu Qinghuan paused for a moment before taking the money and said, "I'll save it for you!"

"This is for you to spend. No need to save it. Just buy whatever you want to eat." Jiang Xingye said seriously.

He wanted her to eat white rice and white flour steamed buns every day, and to eat meat whenever she wanted. Even in this poor place, she could be pampered.

He just felt that she should be well-dressed and well-fed, that she was different from all the other girls in the world, and that she should be held in high esteem and supported.

Xu Qinghuan stood on tiptoe and kissed the corner of Jiang Xingye's lips.

She had lipstick on her lips, leaving a mark on his face. Xu Qinghuan used her white and tender fingers to help him wipe off the mark. When she was about to pull it back, she was caught by Jiang Xingye. He saw the mark on her finger and his eyes deepened slightly.

Dong Aimei hid among the firewood piles and watched Jiang Xingye go to pick up Xu Qinghuan. The two of them walked together, a handsome man and a beautiful woman. Although they didn't speak, the intimacy between their expressions could not be concealed, which made her feel suffocated.

"Welfare money!" Dong Aimei cursed in a low voice. She wanted to call her a vixen, but after her four front teeth fell out, her speech was lisp and she could not speak clearly.

Dong Aimei was pulling the dry grass on the haystack hard. Suddenly, a thorn was caught in her hand and the thorn pierced into her fingers. She cried out "Ah" in pain.

Jiang Xingye reflexively hugged Xu Qinghuan in his arms, looked over and saw that it was Dong Aimei, who was peeping at them. His brows were cold and his eyes were fierce, staring at Dong Aimei like a beast.

Dong Aimei hurriedly pulled away the thorns, and her hands were pricked and bleeding. She ran away in a panic. Despite this, Jiang Xingye still felt disgusted as if he had stepped on a pile of dog shit before dinner.

Xu Qinghuan didn't care. After Dong Aimei's points-collecting work failed, many young comrades in the production team were vying for this job.

The rush harvest will begin tomorrow. Dong Aimei injured her hand today. Doesn’t she plan to work tomorrow?
"Aye, do you want to be a scorekeeper?" Xu Qinghuan sensed Jiang Xingye's irritability and shook his hand. Although he let go quickly, this action still soothed his emotions well.

"No!" Jiang Xingye didn't expect that his girlfriend actually wanted him to be a scorer. If he wanted to be a scorer, it would not have been someone else's turn.

"Why? There are seven work points a day, and you don't have to do any heavy work." Xu Qinghuan asked in confusion.

Jiang Xingye said, "As long as the members go to work, they must stay in the fields and cannot leave for even a moment. I have other things to do."

Xu Qinghuan then remembered that the boss also had a production area in the mountains. That was his main business, and the work in the production team was just a side job.

"Then you should take care of yourself." Xu Qinghuan warned. "Yes!" Jiang Xingye's eyebrows and eyes softened, and his face became even more dazzling. "I will."

Several educated youths from the educated youth point accompanied Xu Qinghuan to sit at the head seat, and the rest of the people sat down one by one according to Jiang Baohua's arrangement. Zhou Guizhi arranged for people to start serving the dishes. Today there were dishes and wine. Although it was grain wine from the supply and marketing cooperative, it was still very rare.

There were five main dishes, two vegetarian dishes, and a mushroom soup, a total of eight dishes, which was unprecedentedly rich.

Jiang Xingye’s engagement banquet can be said to be the most high-profile wedding event held by the production team in recent years.

The men who wanted to drink had a slightly better situation at the table, but the women who sat at the table were so busy that their chopsticks were everywhere. As soon as the dishes came, they were all snatched up. Not only did they eat themselves, but everyone also took a bowl and filled some up to take home for their children.

When Qiao Xinyu and others saw this, they were shocked. Fortunately, they sat at a table alone. If they sat at the same table with those women, she would probably only be able to eat a handful of food at most.

However, they ate very quickly at this table.

Who doesn’t lack food these days, and who doesn’t crave meat?

Lu Nianying was not able to sit at the same table with Xu Qinghuan, but sat at the same table with Qiu Linghua and others.

First, Qiu Linghua wanted to introduce her son Sun Laizi to her. When the dishes were served, Qiu Linghua didn't pay attention to her. Lu Nianying finally breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that out of the three dishes served, she only had time to eat one with her chopsticks.

There was a big bowl of braised pork, with a total of twenty pieces, but she didn't get a single piece. In the end, even the soup was poured into the bowl that Qiu Linghua brought.

"Hehe, since you guys don't like this little soup anyway, it belongs to me!" After Qiu Linghua poured it, she licked the bowl with her tongue.

Lu Nianying almost vomited.

The rabbit stewed with potatoes was served, and Lu Nianying was about to stand up to grab it, but Qiu Linghua suddenly stood up and twisted her elbow, hitting Lu Nianying in the chest, and she almost fell down.

By the time she managed to hold on to the table, another bowl of food was gone.

In the end, she only ate half a bowl of sorghum rice and two chopsticks of vegetarian dishes.

Not many people were fighting over the last two vegetarian dishes, but after everyone had one chopstick, there was nothing left. Lu Nianying only took four chopsticks of food in total. Fortunately, the last mushroom soup also had meat added, so she was lucky and finally got to eat a piece of meat.

The key point is that in order to gain a sense of existence in front of Xu Qinghuan and show that she lived a better life than Xu Qinghuan, she gave a dollar as a gift while other educated youth only gave 20 cents.

One dollar could buy half a pound of meat even without the meat ticket. However, she only ate two pieces of meat at the banquet, which made Lu Nianying so angry that she almost died.

This bunch of country bumpkins look like they have never seen meat in their lives. They deserve to die in poverty.

Xu Qinghuan, this idiot, actually rushed to marry a country bumpkin. He is a hopeless piece of shit and deserves to be abandoned by his mother.

Song Wanlin drove into the village, not seeing anyone along the way. Finally, he met a child. The driver got out of the car to ask. Jiang Xiaocao heard that they were looking for Xu Qinghuan and became suspicious. "What do you want from Xu Zhiqing?"

The driver said it was Xu Zhiqing's mother who came to look for Xu Zhiqing. She glanced at Song Wanlin, her eyes rolling around, and pointed to a long road to the driver, "You go around this way. Cars can't go anywhere else."

Then, she ran to the door of Jiang Baohua's house, saw Jiang Erya, waved, and called her over, "Someone is looking for your aunt, saying that your aunt's mother is here. Tell your aunt quickly, that person looks very fierce!"

Although she was young, she had heard a lot of gossip. The educated youth were unwilling to marry people from the production team. She was worried that Xu Zhiqing's mother would not allow Xu Zhiqing to marry Ono Ge, so she came to cause trouble on purpose.

When Jiang Erya heard this, she hurried over to tell Xu Qinghuan, "Aunt, someone is here and says it's your mother!"

As they were talking, the driver had already driven over. From the car, Song Wanlin saw Xu Qinghuan sitting in the chief seat. She was wearing a red dress that made her look like a beautiful jade. She was listening to a child with a smile on her face.

Xu Qinghuan noticed something, looked up, and his eyes met Song Wanlin's.

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