Chapter 54 Making a lot of money

After all, the situation is different and the procedure is reversed. Last time, he collected the money first and each household handled it as their own business.

This time, he just wanted to take advantage of the situation. Not only did he want to eat it back, but he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit.

"Look at me, why should I worry about you? You are different now. Let me tell you..."

As the third aunt said this, she pulled Li Zhiguo's arm, forcing Qin Huairu to take the bicycle.

"Uh, Third Aunt, you say."

Li Zhiguo once again felt that he had gone the wrong way.

"Xu Damao tried to imitate you in spreading sweets, but he ran out of sweets before he even reached the middle courtyard, which made the new bride look unhappy.

In the end, he asked me to buy another ten kilograms, otherwise, there would be no sugar to pour on the table. "

The three aunts started laughing as they spoke.

Li Zhiguo whispered, "Didn't you take advantage of the opportunity to grab a few?"

"Why not? I grabbed three handfuls and left them at home."

The three aunts also lowered their voices, and the two of them were almost together, which made Qin Huairu, who was following behind with her bicycle, feel complicated.

If Auntie wasn't already a mother of four children, she would have suspected something.

"Oh, you've made a fortune, but three is not right. Good things come in pairs. What about your four children? Go grab some later.

By the way, where is Jie Di? You didn’t hold her.”

"Yeah, where's my Jie Di? She's fine. She fell in the backyard. There are so many people watching. What can happen to her?"

The third aunt is raising her child in a free-range style. The previous three also raised their children this way. There is nothing wrong with it.

Li Zhiguo shook his head and decided not to ask the three aunts to take care of his children in the future.

At this time, the central courtyard was empty, and everyone was in the backyard. When they went in, everyone was already at the table, waiting for the meal to begin.

"Li Zhiguo, here, I'm waiting for you, come in quickly."

Yan Bugui was already packing up his belongings. Now that the guests had arrived, he, as the accountant, could finish his work and hand the money over to Lao Xu. He felt relieved and could eat and drink to his heart's content later.

"coming!"

He responded and whispered, "Huai Ru, you can also go inside and sit at the same table with the bride. Eat as much as you want. Our family has given us a gift."

"Well, it's three dollars. I have to eat it back."

Qin Huairu actually thought it was a gift, and happily followed him into the house.

Xu Damao's house can be considered to have two rooms, but the main room outside is a bit small. Overall, it is separated by a large room, so there is no room for his wife to live in it after he gets married.

"Da Mao, congratulations!"

After entering the house, Li Zhiguo saw a newlywed couple and a few unfamiliar middle-aged women, who were probably from her mother's family.

"Li Zhiguo, you have to drink well today. I asked Jia Dongxu to drink with me."

Xu Damao gaped. He learned this from someone else. Otherwise, with his alcohol tolerance, he would have been in trouble today.

"You are this!"

Li Zhiguo gave a thumbs up. Xu Damao had gained a lot of experience with him, and his bronze trumpet was advancing.

But they were all small matters, he had already conquered Xu Damao's mother.

"This is your wife, I wonder if you would introduce her to me."

Li Zhiguo looked at Tang Chunyan, who had short hair and a round face. She had never worked since she was a child, so she was well-fed and had a round face.

But let Xu Damao handle this kind of work without any involvement at all!

Xu Damao suddenly became nervous, but with so many people watching, he had to bite the bullet and introduce: "Chunyan, this is Li Zhiguo from our backyard. His house is in the house across the street. This is his wife Qin Huairu, also my sister Qin."

Tang Chunyan looked at Li Zhiguo with some curiosity. She felt that the atmosphere was a little abnormal since this man entered the room.

"Hello there!"

"Good for you too! It's a blessing for Damao to marry you."

Li Zhiguo said something nice, it was free wine, and there should be no ambiguity.

Without wasting everyone's time, he took a seat. Qin Huairu was also arranged to sit at the inner table by Xu's mother. Chen Bihua was also there. They were all female relatives.

"Hey, Uncle Er, you look very energetic today. I didn't pay attention just now and almost thought it was the leader who came."

What can I say about Liu Haizhong? He is not as cunning as Yi Zhonghai, and not as scheming as Yan Bugui, but his fighting ability is still solid.

"You're the only one who can talk! Go with the second uncle later."

Liu Haizhong was smiling happily, and passed the wine to others through Yan Bugui.

Yi Zhonghai and Lao Xu were both at the table, along with a few other men from the courtyard, so they made up a table, the same as the main table when Li Zhiguo hosted a banquet before.

Only the masters in the courtyard can sit at this table. Ordinary men who are weaker in weight will go outside on their own initiative.

Yan Bugui moved the peanuts in front of Li Zhiguo. No one would say anything, so he took the opportunity to eat more.

"The meal is ready. How about the chicken stewed with mushrooms?"

The names of dishes were being called out outside. Shazhu was a bad boy. He asked the kitchen helper to start serving the dishes before they were all ready.

There is a certain rule to this: the slower the food is served, the more the diners will eat, and the more they will finish their plate. The faster the food is served, the more their eyes will be bigger and their stomachs will be smaller, and a lot of food will be left over.

Just as a dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms was served to the first table, someone was so ruthless and unethical that he accurately picked up the chicken leg with his chopsticks, and with his other hand he grabbed it and pulled it, and the chicken leg fell into the bowl of the child next to it.

This is a tactic. If you put the bowl down, you can keep it and take it home.

"Oh, can your child finish such a big chicken leg?"

Another auntie was muttering something, and her chopsticks were just a step slower, but she also grabbed another chicken leg.

This situation made the residents at the back tables feel like they were facing a great enemy. They followed the figure of the auntie serving the food, and finally the second pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms was served.

This happened to be the table where Jia Zhang and the third aunt were sitting, close to the chopping board, and they had been waiting there.

The third aunt had long forgotten her four children, and Jia Zhang didn't care about her son and daughter-in-law. They both started at the same time, one hanging upside down from the southeast corner, and the other running from the northwest, and they almost simultaneously inserted their chopsticks into the fat chicken.

But there were two other aunties at the table who were not slow either. They followed closely with their chopsticks, and finally the chicken was torn into pieces.

Jia Zhang was unlucky and only grabbed the chicken head and neck. She was so angry that she almost fainted.

At this moment, Li Zhiguo looked around and asked, "Why is Jia Dongxu not here?"

"Here it is!"

Xu Damao smiled and pointed to the corner where a person was sitting. Jia Dongxu looked at everyone drinking wine with eager eyes.

"No, Damao, you can do this!"

Li Zhiguo thought about it and concluded that Jia Dongxu was probably framed by the gift-giving issue, otherwise how could he stay so quietly and wait to drink with him?
Xu Damao grinned and said, I learned all this from you.

Li Zhiguo didn't care about the Dongxu brothers. The dishes were served, but they were not normal and the speed was a bit slow.

By the time the next dish came, there was nothing left of the pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms.

The people at the main table were all drinking and didn't move their chopsticks very often.

Yan Bugui frowned, knowing that something bad had happened, and moved his lips, but ultimately said nothing more.

"Come and go!"

Li Zhiguo raised his glass and said, "Just eat and drink well, that's all. It's none of his business if Sha Zhu is harboring bad intentions."

The dishes are served really slowly. You finish one dish at a time. If others start eating but you don't, the food will be gone in a moment.

Lao Xu reacted suddenly and shouted, "Lao He, hurry up and serve the dishes. Damao wants to toast."

"coming!"

He Daqing glared at his stupid son and said, "Hurry up and serve the food. I've collected the money."

"I'm coming!"

Sha Zhu was happy and felt that it was almost done. The serving of dishes suddenly sped up, with two dishes being served at once, which relieved the pressure on the main table, but the battle outside was still fierce.

"Da Mao, take your wife to toast."

Old Xu only said that today's banquet was arranged according to the last time Li Zhiguo hosted a banquet.

Xu Damao quickly called Jia Dongxu over and started toasting, starting from the main table.

Because of this delay, when I looked outside, I was dumbfounded. The plates on the table were empty. Fortunately, the food was still in the bowl, so it didn't matter.

"Everyone has a good time eating and drinking!"

Xu Damao gritted his teeth and toasted her, not noticing that his new wife looked unhappy.

After more than a dozen tables were served, the dishes and flour were served, but they were all gone.

Even at the last table, there was no soup on the table, just pure white, a lonely toast.

Jia Dongxu collapsed halfway through the meal. Sha Zhu didn't help him and just fell asleep on the chopping board without eating a single bite.

Li Zhiguo was so drunk that he wiped his mouth and walked out of the main room. When he saw the situation outside, he was shocked even though he was mentally prepared.

Same dishes, same quantities, and even more white flour was planned this time.

Last time he hosted a wedding, there was some leftovers that had to be packed up, but this time there wasn’t enough at all.

"Woo, mom!"

"Oh, it's you again, Yan Jiedi."

Li Zhiguo picked up the unfortunate child and held him in his arms. The three aunts disappeared.

"Da Mao, take your wife to eat quickly, don't let her go hungry. You organized a great banquet, it's very impressive, don't you think?"

He was really trying to help save their face, otherwise the Xu family wouldn't treat them to a meal in the future.

"Xu Damao, we are all done eating."

"Xu Damao, I wish you two a happy wedding."

"Da Mao, please add two more dishes tonight. Don't be polite to us."

Okay, there are some who disagree, but everyone is happy.

Only then did Xu Damao smile. Li Zhiguo still had a solution at the critical moment.

"Da Mao, I'm drunk. I'm going to go back and take a nap first."

Li Zhiguo left after he finished speaking, he really wanted to catch up on some sleep.

Tang Chunyan whispered, "What does Li Zhiguo do in your hospital? Everyone seems to listen to him, and your co-workers also give him face."

"He, he didn't do anything!"

Xu Damao was speechless for a moment. How could he introduce it?

"What do you mean by "nothing"?"

Tang Chunyan pouted and looked unhappy.

"Alas! He has a stomach problem and is staying at home to recover. He is not working. Wife, you should have less contact with him in the hospital in the future. He is not a good person."

Xu Damao was also determined to take the risk. He didn't explain things clearly to his wife, for fear of falling into Li Zhiguo's trap.

Just at this moment, my mother came out of the house and asked, "Where is Li Zhiguo?"

"Mom, he drank too much and went home to sleep."

Xu Damao felt a little jealous. Why was his mother still thinking about Li Zhiguo? His father was still watching him in the room.

"Oh, he has a bad stomach, why did he drink so much? Take Chunyan to the inner room to eat, I'll bring Li Zhiguo a cup of hot tea."

After saying this, Xu's mother went back to the house to make tea.

Xu Damao is really confused. Last time he got drunk, I didn’t even come to care about him.

Tang Chunyan was also stunned and whispered, "Da Mao, didn't you say that Li Zhiguo is not a good person? Why does our mother seem to treat him very well?"

Xu Damao said numbly, "He is a liar. He deceived my mother and got his wife by trickery. Wife, I will tell you about this matter slowly this afternoon after dinner."

You have to see his true character and not be fooled by his appearance."

"Oh, did he lie to you?"

Tang Chunyan still didn't understand, how could it be considered a lie?

"That's impossible. Who am I? He can't fool me no matter who he is."

While the two were talking, Xu Fengling came out of the room holding a teacup.

"Sister, are you sending this to Li Zhiguo?"

Xu Damao was upset that his sister had also fallen into Li Zhiguo's trap.

"Yeah, Brother Li is drunk. I'll go see him."

Xu Fengling held the cup in both hands and ran to the room diagonally opposite.

"Da Mao, our sister was also deceived by Li Zhiguo?"

Tang Chunyan felt that Xu Damao was not telling the truth.

"Well! Fengling is still young and doesn't know much! She can't see Li Zhiguo's true face. Let's not talk about him anymore, let's go in and eat."

Xu Damao felt that if he continued talking, he would start to doubt his life.

After the couple sat down, luckily there was still a lot of food left on the table.

Tang Chunyan's face looked better too. She was not treated unfairly, it was just that the residents in the yard outside were too gluttonous.

"Xu Damao, Tang Chunyan, you guys eat first. I'm going to go back and see my husband."

Qin Huairu couldn't sit still anymore and wanted to go back to take care of people.

"Sister Qin, you should go quickly. My sister just brought tea to Li Zhiguo."

Xu Damao was also worried that it would be bad for his sister to stay with others for too long, so it was a good idea to let Sister Qin go home.

"Then you guys eat."

Qin Huairu then stood up and left the table.

Chen Bihua did not leave. She was still shouldering the heavy responsibility of packing. Her son Dongxu fell ill, and her mother-in-law did not know what happened.

After a while, Xu Damao and his wife finished their meal, and Xu's mother came over to collect the leftovers.

In the afternoon, after each family took the food they had grabbed home, they returned to the backyard to chat. The men drank a cup of tea, the women drank some peanuts and melon seeds, and the children shouted for candy.

The Xu family couldn't afford it anymore, so they urgently went to Chunqiao Grocery Store and made some purchases. Without even a careful calculation, they knew that their expenses today had exceeded their budget, and they would suffer a huge loss from the banquet.

Intermediate Courtyard, Jia Family!
Jia Dongxu was lying on the bed, unconscious.

Jia Zhang sighed, "Bihua, why did you come back empty-handed?"

"Mom, Aunt Xu cleaned up the leftovers on the table, so I can't pack them up and bring them back."

Chen Bihua was full herself, "Mom, how are you doing?"

"Don't mention it. Those three aunts, Aunt Chen and her eldest daughter-in-law, are all immoral. They would fight over every dish that came. I couldn't get more than the three of them, so I only had half a bowl left."

Jia Zhang was quite capable in fighting, but she ate while snatching food. Only when all the dishes were served did she think of shouldering the heavy responsibility.

Chen Bihua looked at the bowl on the table. There was only a chicken head and a piece of meat, and the rest was vermicelli.

"Mom, save it for Dongxu! He didn't eat anything for lunch."

"That's not necessary. Dongxu doesn't like chicken heads. We'll have another one in the evening when he wakes up."

As Jia Zhang said this, she grabbed the chicken head and took a big bite!
Seeing her daughter-in-law operating the sewing machine, she secretly took out a bowl of white flour and started eating it.

Seeing that her mother-in-law had her back to her and Dongxu was asleep, Chen Bihua took out a bowl of white flour. She thought they would share the flour if they kept it, so they could just eat it. She was pregnant and needed nutrition.

(End of this chapter)