Chapter 100 Hao Yucheng's Wedding 1

Chapter 100 Hao Yucheng's Wedding 1

After Hao Yu's new house was dried out, all his belongings were moved from Jiang Yuan's house and the carpenter's house to his new house. It was already March 22nd, and there were only four days left until Hao Yu and Miss Chen's wedding day.

After a simple hot pot banquet, Hao Yu, with the help of Jiang Yuan, Xie Wanniang, and others, began to prepare for his own wedding.

The kitchen was Xie Wanniang's domain. Aunt Chen and the six women who had been invited by Wang Xiaozhi to help when they were building the house before had all informed Xie Wanniang in advance that they would come to help a day early.

Jiang Yuan, Wang Xiaozhi, and Chen Zhao were responsible for helping Hao Yu with all external matters, including purchasing ingredients, preparing red envelopes, arranging vehicles and manpower needed for the day, and borrowing tables, chairs, benches, bowls, chopsticks, plates, and other utensils from the villagers.

Everyone busied themselves and managed to prepare everything before the auspicious day arrived.

On March 26th, Hao Yu, accompanied by the matchmaker, Jiang Yuan, and the two sons of Doctor Chen, went to the Chen family to fetch her bride.

Meanwhile, Xie Wanniang and the others were also busy at home.

In rural areas, weddings don't have as many elaborate customs as those in wealthy families. The general process is roughly the same, so no one will jump out to find fault or criticize.

Sure enough, villagers who came one after another to give gifts soon filled Hao Yu's courtyard.

Yes, the courtyard was filled with tables and chairs that Hao Yu and his friends had borrowed from other villagers. Those villagers who had only given three or five copper coins, a small piece of cloth, five or six eggs, a pound or two of fine grains, half a pound or a pound of brown sugar... or even two sauerkrauts or a basket of wild vegetables were all sitting casually in the courtyard, chatting loudly with others they were on good terms with.

Chen Zhao was in charge of receiving and recording the gifts, while his three brothers, along with the village head's two sons, were responsible for helping Hao Yu greet the villagers who came to offer their congratulations.

On the table were copper kettles and large bowls that Xie Wanniang and the others had set out in advance. After the villagers sat down, they poured themselves their own tea.

Chen Zhao's three brothers and the village head's two sons only needed to refill the copper kettles for them whenever a table ran out of water.

As for Chen Lizheng, Doctor Chen, and the village elders, they wouldn't come so early, nor would they sit with the villagers in the courtyard.

In the main room, there is a large square table and high-backed chairs specially prepared for them. They will come over to witness the wedding ceremony and take their seats when the time is about right.

The Wang Dayou and Wang Eryou families, who were itching to cause trouble, hesitated because it was Hao Yu's wedding, not Jiang Yuan's, and because Chen Lizheng had recently harbored many grievances against them. They simply didn't dare to follow their hearts and go looking for trouble with Hao Yu.

The Wang family, who had failed to gain an advantage earlier, did have some visitors, but they came empty-handed, bringing nothing with them.

People who are shameless to a certain extent don't even need Chen Zhao and others to drive them away. The villagers who came to congratulate them with gifts united as one and squeezed them out.

On the one hand, everyone brought something, but Wang Da Niang's son and daughter-in-law didn't, which made everyone feel like they were being taken advantage of.

On the other hand, given how shameless this family is, if they were to sit at the same table as this couple, the latter would definitely take at least half of the good stuff on the table, eating and taking what they could.

Whether others are eating or taking food, they will only use their own chopsticks to pick from the plate or bowl. "Everyone at the table gets a share" is an unspoken rule that everyone has tacitly followed for a long time.

But if you sit at the same table with this family, and whatever good food is served, they will immediately grab the plates or earthenware pots and place them in front of them.

They each ate a bowl, and what was left was for the others at the table.

Who can tolerate this?

You can scold him and he'll ignore you; you can take things from him and he won't be afraid of overturning plates or pots and ruining things, but he'll always have some reservations when he does it.

When the same thing happens repeatedly, even the slowest villagers will inevitably develop the highest level of wariness towards this family.

This resulted in all the villagers refusing to sit at the same table as the couple.

Wherever they sit, the villagers who were originally sitting at that table will grumble and swear as they take their bowls and chopsticks and move to another table to share with the villagers.

Once those people left, the two of them sat there alone. Since they hadn't given any gifts, they knew the host wouldn't serve them any food.

So the two of them shamelessly went to other tables that were short of people and squeezed in with another group of villagers.

Then, the villagers at that table also moved to another table, grumbling and cursing.

This happened repeatedly, and soon the courtyard became noisier than a vegetable market.

Even Xie Wanniang and the others who were preparing food in the kitchen were drawn out by the commotion outside.

After figuring out what had happened, Xie Wanniang went over wearing an apron.

She was afraid that if the commotion continued, the villagers would get angry and fight with the Wang couple who were shamelessly chasing after them, ruining the festive atmosphere of the day.

After giving Chen Zhao, who was looking indignant, a few words of advice, Xie Wanniang went over, grabbed Wang Da Niang's daughter-in-law by the hair, and dragged her outside the courtyard gate without saying a word.

Chen Zhao and his cousin followed closely behind, grabbing Wang Da Niang's son by the arms and dragging him out of Hao Yu's house.

During their actions, the three of them walked along the bluestone path in the center of the courtyard, deliberately avoiding the tables placed on both sides of the path. So, apart from the bench occupied by the couple, which fell over due to their actions, everything else remained in its original position, completely unaffected by the disturbance.

The villagers, who were annoyed by the family, cheered loudly. The couple, who not only didn't gain anything but were also dragged out by force, were furious.

In the past, when other families in the village had weddings, they and their family members did similar things. But even if those families disliked them, they would swallow their anger in order to ensure that their own weddings could proceed smoothly.

They had never encountered such a tough nut to crack before, one that would drag them out without a second thought.

Without a second thought, the two started hurling insults. They even decided to stay at Hao Yu's doorstep and cause trouble for her marriage by throwing a tantrum.

However, before the two could even finish uttering their first curse, Xie Wanniang had already mercilessly given each of them a kick to the chest.

The two men were kicked back several steps. The next moment, Brother Chen Zhao and Xie Wanniang rushed over and stuffed two pieces of rag into the mouths of the two men who were unsteady on their feet.

The two tattered cloths were used by Hao Yu to wipe her feet and by them to wipe tables and chairs. Although they were worn out, they didn't have any strange smells, which made Xie Wanniang very regretful.

If it weren't for the practical constraints, she really wanted to use something incredibly ugly to shut up those two foul mouths.