Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

Time always passes quickly when you are busy.

Cai Quanwu walked around the yard a few more times, took out his watch and looked at the time. It was already half past eight. The agreed time to meet at Xiao Wu's house was half past nine, so they could set off now.

So Cai Quanwu found Sha Zhu and the others and urged them to do it.

"Zhu Zi, Damao, Dongxu, the timetable is running out, you guys should prepare to leave."

"okay."

A few people agreed, and after some preparation, one of them pushed a bicycle out.

Sha Zhu rode his own bike, Jia Dongxu rode Cai Quanwu's bike, and Xu Damao's bike was allocated by the factory to his father for going out to show movies.

Not long after they left, guests began to arrive.

The first to come were Lao Qian and Brother Wang.

"Master Qian, Brother Wang."

When Cai Quanwu saw Lao Qian and Brother Wang, he quickly stepped forward to greet them.

"Congratulations. No, congratulations to your nephew." When Old Qian saw Cai Quanwu, he habitually joked with him.

"You are a little late. My nephew has gone to pick up the bride. I thank you on behalf of my nephew."

Cai Quanwu knew that Lao Qian was joking with him and teased him.

The two chatted with Cai Quanwu for a while, and then took the initiative to go to the third uncle to pay the gift money.

It was not convenient for Cai Quanwu to follow them at this time, so after they paid the gift money and came over, Cai Quanwu took them to Sha Zhu's house.

As soon as he entered the door, Lao Qian looked around the house and said with a smile:

"This house is nice, better than my house."

"Master Qian, do you need to tell me this? This is the main house in the courtyard." Brother Wang added.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Hurry up and sit down. I'll have someone make you some tea."

Cai Quanwu said this and instructed He Yushui:

“Yushui, make tea for Grandpa Qian and Uncle Wang.”

He Yushui's task today is to make tea for the guests, which was what Cai Quanwu had instructed in advance.

Hearing Cai Quanwu's order, He Yushui immediately took action.

Cai Quanwu made arrangements for the two people, gave them some cigarettes, said hello, and went out.

There are so many people here today, it’s impossible to only greet Lao Qian and Brother Wang.

Many people don’t know the Second Uncle.

Not long after Cai Quanwu went out, he met Director Ma, Master Chen, and Brother Li who came together.

"Director, Master Chen, Brother Li, welcome, welcome." Cai Quanwu saw them and greeted them enthusiastically.

After saying hello and waiting for everyone to present their gifts, Cai Quanwu also took them to Sha Zhu's house.

"Old Qian, Brother Wang, this is Director Ma from our store, as well as Master Chen and Brother Li."

"These are Master Qian and Brother Wang from the commissioned store. We should be in the same business, both selling things."

Cai Quanwu introduced Master Qian and his team to Director Ma and his team.

Afterwards, they exchanged some greetings and sat down to smoke and drink tea.

Seeing that all the people he knew had arrived, Cai Quanwu did not go out again, but stayed in the room drinking tea and chatting with the guests.

If Sha Zhu's co-workers come over, the second uncle will be there to receive them.

Time passed quickly as we chatted, and before we knew it, more than an hour had gone by.

Suddenly, I heard many children in the yard shouting, "The bride is coming, the bride is coming."

Hearing the shouting, Cai Quanwu and the others knew that Sha Zhu had returned to pick up the bride, and they all stood up and walked out.

When I walked into the yard, I saw Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu just entering the middle yard, followed by Sister Liu, Sister Zhao, Guan Jiaqi and others.

At this time, most of the people in the entire courtyard were in the central courtyard. They all swarmed over to watch the fun, making it impossible to get through.

"Make way, let the bride come in." The second uncle saw everyone surrounding and blocking the road, and shouted at the top of his voice.

When everyone heard what the second uncle said, they pushed each other and finally made way for them. Then Sha Zhu took Xiao Wu into the house.

When the bride entered the house, the men felt it was not convenient to go in, so they all found a place to sit outside and chatted with each other.

The women and children had less concerns and ran in and out.

Especially children, they can eat wedding candies.

Cai Quanwu didn't care about anyone else at this time and was greeting Xiao Wu's parents and relatives over there.

Then they started introducing each other, uncles, brothers, aunts and cousins ​​and so on.

After the introduction and a few polite words, Cai Quanwu passed out cigarettes and then invited them to sit down and have tea.

As for the two little guys Wu Chu and Wu Yue, they had already started playing with He Yushui.

"Old Cai, Chef Liu said the dishes are almost ready, we can start the meal."

About an hour later, the second uncle came in and announced that the meal could begin.

"okay."

"Everyone go out and sit down."

When Cai Quanwu heard that the banquet was ready, he quickly asked everyone to leave.

There weren't many tables at the banquet, just six in total.

Cai Quanwu arranged the people in the store to sit at one table with Lao Qian and Brother Wang, the people from Xiao Wu's family to sit at one table, and Guan Jiaqi and her daughter and Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu to sit at another table.

Cai Quanwu didn't take care of the rest of the people and left them to the second uncle to make arrangements.

We cannot deprive the second uncle of his happiness.

After the dishes were served, Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu stood up and sang a song of praise to thank the government.

These are some unique activities for newlyweds in this era and are unavoidable.

Finally, Director Ma served as a witness and said a few words of blessing, and the ceremony ended.

After going through the whole process, we started eating.

After eating a few bites of food, Cai Quanwu, as the elder of the man, started to toast on behalf of the man.

"Everyone eat, don't be polite, I'll toast to everyone."

Cai Quanwu first came to Xiao Wu’s parents’ table and had a drink with everyone.

After drinking with Xiao Wu’s parents, Cai Quanwu came to Director Ma’s table and also toasted them.

"Everyone, today there is plenty of meat and wine, please eat and drink well."

Afterwards, Cai Quanwu drank a glass at each table and returned to his own table.

As everyone drank some wine and got a little tipsy, they became less restrained and started talking more naturally, and the atmosphere gradually became more lively.

Chef Liu put a lot of effort into preparing today’s dish. It tastes great and has plenty of oil and fat. People with good living conditions can still handle it with restraint.

But those who usually live a simple life can't care about so much and start eating and drinking to their heart's content.

The kids are fine, everyone understands.

But it is difficult for everyone to understand Jia Zhang.

There was nothing to be done, because Jia Zhang's eating manner was so ugly, as if she was a starving ghost reincarnated, causing everyone to look at her.

Some people who didn't know the truth pointed fingers and whispered in private, saying that it was because the family was too mean to Jia Zhang and didn't give her food on a regular basis.

When Jia Dongxu heard these discussions, he was so embarrassed that he wanted to crawl under the table.

As a last resort, Jia Zhang was reminded several times before she calmed down a little.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, everyone had eaten almost enough, and the couple Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu started to toast each table.

Xu Damao fulfilled his promise, took a bottle of wine, followed behind to pour the wine, and also provided escort.

The newlyweds toasted, bringing the atmosphere to a climax.

The young men were drunk and enjoyed the fun, so they repeatedly attacked Sha Zhu, trying to get the groom drunk.

Fortunately, Xu Damao was there to protect him, so although Sha Zhu drank a lot, he was not really drunk.

It took Sha Zhu and his wife longer to finish the round of toasts than Cai Quanwu, as they made many individual toasts.

When they came back after toasting, everyone had eaten and drunk enough and the banquet was almost over.

After the banquet ended, Director Ma and his friends left first, followed by Master Qian and Brother Wang.

After a while, most of the guests had left, and the rest were basically neighbors in the yard.

Xiao Wu's parents also did not stay long. They gave Xiao Wu a few instructions, exchanged a few words with Cai Quanwu, and then said goodbye and left.

A small incident happened during this period. Wu Chu and Wu Yue were reluctant to leave and wanted to stay here.

Finally, under the coercion and inducement of his parents, he left reluctantly.

The main reason is that Sha Zhu and Xiao Wu promised them that they would let them come and stay on the next weekend.

As soon as Xiao Wu's parents left, Guan Jiaqi and Guan's mother also wanted to leave, but were stopped by Cai Quanwu. No matter what they said, Cai Quanwu would not let them leave.

The two men couldn't persuade Cai Quanwu, so they had to stay.

When most of the guests had left and only people were left in the courtyard, the second uncle directed the women to start cleaning up the dishes.

The second uncle really enjoyed the feeling of being a leader today. He was so happy that he drank two or three taels more.