Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

May Day is a golden day, and Zhang Xiuhua has been busy since early morning.

Although the bride and groom are from the same village, we cannot take them directly from Xiangxiang's home to theirs. It is too close. It is outrageous that they arrive at the destination before "Happy Reunion" is finished!

For the sense of ceremony, the band took the bride and walked around the village again, inviting all the young and old in the village to come out and watch the fun.

This made the puppy's father very angry and he suspected that they were showing off on purpose.

Look at the band playing vigorously. Even at such a close distance, the bride is still sitting in the sedan. The villagers run after the sedan, wanting to see what the bride looks like.

He was speechless. Living in the same village, everyone knew what Xiangxiang looked like. They had seen her since childhood, but everyone just couldn't get tired of it and had to see what Xiangxiang looked like after putting on makeup.

They all look so ignorant of the world, which is really shameful.

The puppy's father became more and more dissatisfied as he looked at it.

No one cared what he thought. The villagers followed the car, afraid of missing the excitement.

The car drove around the village and arrived at Zhang Xiuhua's house. The car door was opened by the best man. Xiangxiang was wearing a white wedding dress and exquisite makeup, which stunned everyone.

Is this still the Xiangxiang they knew? How could she become so beautiful?

Children will not hide their emotions and will scream exaggeratedly.

The women looked at the wedding dress and asked in confusion, "Why is it white?"

In fact, people at that time did not wear wedding dresses when they got married, but red cheongsams or dresses, with their hair tied up in a bun, and their headdresses were usually pink.

But Jidong was wearing a suit and Xiangxiang was wearing a white wedding dress, imitating Western wedding customs. Everyone was still very surprised.

When everyone learned that this was a Western custom, they quickly accepted it.

An old lady exclaimed, "You know what, this white wedding dress is pretty."

Aunt Li Si knew the inside story, so she told them, "This wedding dress costs a lot of money. I heard that Xiangxiang designed it herself and asked a designer to make it. It's a unique style. Look, her wedding dress is inlaid with pearls and rhinestones. It's so shiny."

Everyone thinks it's expensive just by listening to it.

After the bride was picked up, the banquet officially began.

Zhang Xiuhua spent a lot of money to prepare for this wedding. According to the southern standards, she prepared eight cold dishes and fourteen hot dishes. The fourteen hot dishes included two soups, eight stir-fries and four main dishes.

The dishes in rural banquets are usually solid. For example, braised beef is just beef, without side dishes like potatoes. At most, some coriander will be sprinkled on it to enhance the aroma.

Once the banquet officially begins, other people cannot sit at the table, but they can still watch the chefs busy themselves.

Rural banquets are all bought by the chefs themselves, and some difficult dishes are prepared a day in advance.

Therefore, there are very few hygiene accidents at rural banquets. Once a chef has such an incident, his career is over and he will never be able to get any work in his life. Gossip spreads very quickly in rural areas. If something went wrong at today's banquet, the whole county would know about it in less than a day. Who would dare to hire this chef?! That's not a wedding banquet, that's bringing hatred to your family.

The villagers looked at the feast and saw that there were king crabs, which were as big as plates. They whispered to the people next to them, "This crab alone must cost ten yuan, right?"

Ten yuan at this time is equivalent to one thousand yuan in 2024. They are villagers, and their gift is only five yuan. The price of this crab is more expensive than their gift money.

Aunt Li Si thought so too, "Other crabs are not this big."

The chef who prepared the banquet is very talented; he is a chef of a five-star hotel in the capital.

She asked Youcai about the price of crabs and learned that one crab really cost ten yuan. Everyone was amazed. The quality was too high.

Seeing everyone gathered around the table to watch the fun, Youcai said, "Actually, the crab is not the most expensive. The foie gras is the most rare."

He pointed to a white plate with a fist-sized piece of foie gras on it and said, "In a five-star hotel, this dish would cost one hundred and twenty yuan."

Everyone opened their mouths wide, a little bit unable to believe it.

Aunt Li Si looked at it and said, "Is it goose liver? Goose liver is not that big."

"Yes! This is Landes goose, and the liver is specially eaten." Youcai smiled, "This is a famous French dish, and I made it in French style. You can try it when the time comes."

Everyone in the village knew that Youcai opened a restaurant in the capital, where the most famous restaurants in the country gathered. His cooking skills were naturally impeccable, and everyone couldn't help but look forward to it.

Zhang Xiuhua came over with the plates and told everyone not to gather around as it would be bad if the hot soup spilled on them.

The adult immediately took the child away.

However, because Zhang Xiuhua's meals were so good, the heads of families came to attend. Some families' strong laborers went out to work, so the women came. After all, they couldn't just let the children come, lest they miss out on the delicious food.

After the first round of banquet ended, others had already lined up to wait for their turn at the table.

When the guests left the table, they were surrounded by villagers and asked, "Is the foie gras delicious?"

"It's delicious! But there's too little of it. I only got a little bit." Some people were still not satisfied.

The villagers look forward to being at the table and having good food.

Song Lianhua also came to the banquet. She ate very well, but she asked Zhang Xiuhua, "When your family's Youcai got married, the banquet standard was not so high, right?"

This statement hides a trap: the stepson's wedding banquet was average, but the nephew's was so good. Is this partiality?

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "I paid the same amount for them, and the extra money was paid by Jidong himself. I can't stop him, right?"

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on and smiled at Jidong, "You've really invested a lot this time."

The groom Jidong was feeling very proud and said, "What's important is that you eat well."

These words were spoken so openly that the villagers felt comfortable listening to them and responded with smiles.

After the banquet, everyone praised the banquet presented by the next host.

Everyone compared the two banquets. Xiangxiang's family also held a banquet, but she was getting married, so there was only one meal at noon. The standard of the banquet was the same as Zhang Xiuhua's family. After the food was cooked, Xiangxiang's parents brought the dishes from Zhang Xiuhua's family. The money for the banquet was paid by Xiangxiang's parents.

Although Xiangxiang is marrying Jidong, Xiangxiang's parents only have Xiangxiang as their daughter. So the gift money from both families will be given to the younger generation. In fact, it is all collected by Xiangxiang.

The couple had already agreed that Xiangxiang would be in charge of household affairs and Jidong would not interfere.

The standard of the banquet at Zhang Xiuhua's house is simply not on the same level as that at Xiaogou's house.

Ergou's father spent a lot of money on his youngest son. After all, he married a daughter-in-law from the city, so he had to give face to his in-laws. He also had to show off his family's strength in front of his daughter-in-law. Unfortunately, he was unlucky and happened to get married on the same day as Jidong. Then he was outdone in every aspect.

First of all, the wedding specifications. Jidong specially found a car to pick him up. But Xiaogou's family used a farm tricycle. This was very prestigious in the past, but there is always harm when there is comparison. People who don't know the truth thought that they were going to take the bride home to do farm work when they saw this scene.

The second thing was the betrothal gift. Zhang Xiuhua gave Xiangxiang 20,000 yuan in betrothal gifts according to the standard that Youcai gave Zhenzhen, and there was also 10,000 yuan for jewelry. Xiaogou gave the woman 2,000 yuan in betrothal gifts.

Then there was the bride's dowry. Xiangxiang's parents were very generous with their daughter's money. They gave her a dowry of 50,000 yuan. This amount of money is a lot of money even in the city.

Xiaogou's wife is from the city, but Xiaogou's family only gave 2,000 yuan as a dowry. How could her parents give their daughter a high dowry? So they gave her double the dowry. It was equivalent to 4,000 yuan for the couple. Not even a fraction of Xiangxiang's.

Now even the banquet was outshined, and the dog's father's expression could be imagined. He felt that Li Jianguo and his wife were specifically unlucky for his family. Not only did the son he raised with his own hands get kidnapped by Zhang Xiuhua, but they even bullied him at his youngest son's wedding.

If Zhang Xiuhua knew what he was thinking, she would only feel wronged. You don't love your eldest son, causing him to become alienated from you, and you blame her?

You blame her for not wanting to make your wedding better?

The puppy's father was depressed when he saw that everyone was discussing the banquet, so he asked the trumpet player to perform well to bring back the popularity!

The masters secretly complained, thinking: How much money you pay yourself, you don't know. Who would shout until their voice is hoarse for that twenty yuan?

Then something happened that made the puppy's father even more depressed! His radio had been playing for a long time, and the song and dance performance had already begun, but no one came to watch.

It's evening now, a rare rest time, how come there is no one here?

His wife went out to inquire and came back in shock. "Li Jianguo invited a singing and dancing troupe. They were balancing bowls on unicycles! The whole village went to watch the fun!"

The puppy's father widened his eyes slightly and wanted to say something, but the person in charge of the performance turned off the radio and said, "Let's go and take a look!"

The puppy's father was anxious and stamped his feet, "I paid, where are you going?"

"There's no one around anyway! Let's go watch their performance first, and when they're done, we can come back and dance, right? It won't delay anything!"

The puppy's father thought it was right, so he watched it too.

But he never expected that the performance would last until 10 o'clock in the evening. When the stall was closed and ready to go back, the puppy's father wanted to take the people he had invited back to continue the performance, but the villagers yawned and went home in pairs. I'm so sleepy. I have to get up and work tomorrow morning. I'll go to bed early.

So the puppy's performance never started again.