My village can't be like this

Chapter 226
Time is slowly passing by, and the day of August [-]th has arrived soon.

During this period of time, Zhang An's family also prepared everything that should be prepared.

Early in the morning, many relatives and friends gathered in Zhang An's house.

According to the custom in the village, everyone is required to come and help pick out Xi baskets and pork legs on the day of the visit.

Xiluo is a basket woven from bamboo strips, with a square bottom, a round opening on the top, and a bamboo cover on top.

This thing is in the village, and everyone usually uses it to carry all kinds of food.

As long as the big red happy characters are pasted on it, this ordinary basket will become a beaming happy basket.

And inside this happy basket, there are gift money, tobacco, wine, tea, sugar, etc. that have been prepared for a long time.

On the day of engagement, the man will invite relatives and friends at home.

When they came over, they needed to help pick up these baskets filled with things, and send them to the woman's house to deliver the job.

From the past until now, when recruiting, the more people go and the more favors come to the door, the greater the ostentation.

Zhang An had seen it before. When a family in the next village went to send a job offer, they picked 66 baskets of wedding baskets.

The scene looked a bit bluffing, there was a long line of people queuing from the front to the back.

In the past, many families got married, and both men and women lived in the mountains.

So when proposing marriage, everyone just walked over carrying baskets.

It's just that there are cars in many places now, so everyone rides there with their baskets, and after getting out of the car, they continue to pick at the woman's house.

But today, Zhang An's family didn't plan to pick many happy baskets to go there.

If Su Ying's family was in any village, Wang Fang would have to carry 88 loads to go there.

But there is no way, Su Ying's family is in the city, and the house is not spacious enough.

Unlike in the village, no matter how many people come to send jobs, they can all be entertained.

If there are too many people going today, their house will not be able to entertain them, and it will be troublesome then.

This was also discussed by Su Shaowen and Zhang Jianguo when they were at Su Ying's house.

But this time, Zhang An prepared three cars, because Li Hongbin had two.

So today not only Zhang An and Li Hongbin were driving, Zhang Ping was also pulled over to be the driver for a day.

Seeing that the time was almost up in the morning, Zhang Jianguo began to greet people to get on the bus.

This time, there were more than a dozen people accompanying him, all of whom were close relatives of Zhang An's family.

The two oldest elders, Zhang Erye and Zhang Siye, took the lead.

Because Zhang An's grandparents are gone, they need to come forward to support Zhang An.

Then there are Zhang An's two uncles and aunts, and a few relatives who have a good relationship and can speak well.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang greeted everyone to get on the car after putting the things in the car and getting ready to set off.

There are quite a few people in Su Ying's family today, and it's not just Miss Su Ying's family who came here.

And Su Ying's grandparents, uncles and uncles came early this morning.

When Zhang An and his party arrived, they all went downstairs to greet them.

When the people from Zhang An's family picked up Xila from the car, they accompanied him and invited him in.

Su Ying looks very good-looking today, it can be said that it is the best-looking day for Su Ying so far.

Zhang An didn't know that she got up early in the morning to dress up this body, and spent a lot of effort.

Not only did he put his hair up, but he also put on hair accessories that he seldom used.

Especially the pale pink cheongsam, which fully reflected her gentleness, virtuousness, poetry, calligraphy and painting.

This skirt was bought when Zhang An went shopping with her last time.

At that time, Zhang An took a fancy to this dress at a glance.

Then let Su Ying try it on, and it surprisingly fit Su Ying's figure.

After buying it back, Su Ying never took it out to wear it.

Zhang An is going to come to propose marriage today, and she wants to dress herself up beautifully.

After all, isn't the old saying that a scholar dies for his confidant, and a woman is honored by the pleasing.

Zhang An got out of the car and took out the bouquet of bright red roses that he had prepared in advance.

Then he walked up to Su Ying and gave her the rose in his hand.

This flower was not bought by Zhang An, but he made it out in the space in advance.

Before that, he wanted to go to the city to see where he could buy flowers, but most of the popular ones were plastic imitation flowers.

After looking around, I found that only a few flower shops were selling flowers.

But those flowers from the flower shop can't wait that long to buy back.

Zhang An learned the packaging from the staff in the store, and then planted some in the space himself.

In this way, there is no need to worry that these flowers will wither easily after being bought in advance.

After Su Ying's grandfather greeted Zhang An's two grandfathers to go upstairs, the people behind also began to carry things into the house.

Fortunately, Su Ying's family is not a local minority, so no relatives came out to block the door.

Otherwise, it is estimated that Zhang An's two aunts will have to fight with others for a while before they can enter the house.

When they arrived at the house, everyone helped to arrange the things that Zhang An's family had brought over in front of the heaven and earth tablet.

At this time, it was Zhang Erye's turn to act.

Because he is the oldest person in Zhang An's family, today he also plays the role of Mr. Li.

Usually for an engagement, Mr. Li needs to come out and sing the opening and closing lines.

So Zhang Erye arranged his clothes and prepared to open and close them for Zhang An. (There are many dialects, so I won’t write them out)

Don't look at Erye Zhang's age, but his voice is full of spirit.

Then they went to Su Ying's house and sent someone to start pointing gifts, usually the elders of the family.

So this matter, naturally it was their father's turn to come forward.

At this point, the marriage of the two families has been decided, and the new daughter-in-law can be married only when the wedding date arrives.

When it was time for lunch, the uncles of Su Ying's family got orders from the elders in the family.

It is necessary to entertain these relatives from Zhang An's family, so that they can drink to their heart's content and fully fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

So on the wine table, a war without gunpowder began.

Except for Zhang An and a few people who need to drive, the others are basically one-on-one.

But they seem to have misjudged their target. When it comes to drinking, uncles like Zhang An really don't have the slightest fear.

Not only them, but even the accompanying female compatriots, their drinking capacity should not be underestimated.

Knowing that there was such a time, when Zhang An invites people, he always invites people who drink a lot.

Even Zhang Jianguo, who was usually advised by Zhang An to quit drinking, let go of drinking today.

At the end of the meal, not to mention the male compatriots, the whole table really admired these female compatriots.

When half of the wine in the porcelain bowl was poured down, she only blushed a little, not overly arrogant.

This is also the reason why Changqing Village has trained its children to drink alcohol since they were young. When necessary, they can't be cowardly at all.

. . .

After going to the village to propose marriage, the life of Zhang An's family returned to the old rhythm.

In August this year, the temperature was exceptionally hot.

Even though it is already the middle of the dog days, it is considered the hottest period of the year.

But during this time last year, Zhang An didn't feel so hot.

After dinner, I originally wanted to lie in the yard and enjoy the wind to cool off.

Unexpectedly, leaning on the recliner, Zhang An felt like an electric blanket.

If Zhang An's family has a temperature gauge, they will find that the temperature this year is much higher than in previous years.

Although it is said that the mind is calm and cool, Zhang An's heart is indeed quite calm, but the physical high temperature cannot be lowered.

So Zhang An stopped lying down, got up and walked towards the river.

In such hot weather, I would feel sorry for myself if I didn’t take a dip in the big river.

"Hey, where are you two going?"

Halfway through the walk, Zhang An saw Huang Ming and Zhou Yang in front of him.

So Zhang An chased after them, and several people walked side by side towards the entrance of the village.

"The weather is so hot that we can't stay at home any longer. We're going to swim in the river for a while to cool off."

"That's right, let's go together."

Originally, the three of them planned to go downstream, because not far away was the place where Zhang An and the others often swim.

But when they reached the end of the bridge, they found that the place they used to go to on weekdays was crowded with many people.

It is usually used as a paradise for children to play with water, and many adults also came here today.

It seems that this year it's really not that Zhang An and the others are afraid of the heat, but that the temperature is too high during this period.

In previous summers, some adults would come to the river for a walk, but it would not be like today, where a bunch of people stayed on the river beach.

"Let's go up there, there are too many people here."

Seeing so many people, Zhang An no longer wanted to squeeze in with them.

"Okay, let's go upstream then."

Zhang An doesn't like crowds when swimming in the river.

The main reason was that there were too many people, and Zhang An didn't want to squeeze in together.

Another Zhang An was worried that if some ignorant Piwazi urinated in the river, he would be fucked.

So Zhang An chose to go to a place where there were no people on it, and there were fewer people and it was quieter.

Although the river over there was relatively deep, Zhang An wasn't worried at all, because they all had good water quality.

It is said to be upstream, but it is actually next to Zhang An's nest.

Passing by the melon field, Zhang An specially picked a watermelon and took it with him, soaking it in water to eat later.

Although Zhang An's family had already picked a lot of watermelons in the melon field, Ding Yi called someone to come and pull them several times.

But now in this field, there are still some mature and immature ones.

However, Zhang An reckons that this is almost the last batch. When the last small melons grow and mature, this season of watermelons will come to an end.

When he came to the river, Huang Mian couldn't wait to jump off the bank.

This guy is like a big fish, turning up the river water a lot.

Huang Ming dived from entering the water to the middle of the river before getting his head out of the water.

"What are you two waiting for, come down quickly, how comfortable this water is."

Speaking of which, the guy dived into the water again, and when he came out again, he shook his hair.

Seeing Huang Ming swimming freely, Zhang An and Zhou Yang also entered the water one after another.

Just touching the water surface, the original hot feeling disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by coolness through the body.

Then Zhang An plunged into the water, planning to dive for a while.

Unexpectedly, just after swimming for a while, he encountered a big black shadow at the bottom of the river.

Zhang An soon recognized that the black shadow in front of him was the big herring that had been placed in the river before.

The big herring didn't stick to Zhang An as usual, but got under Zhang An's body.

Then Zhang An felt as if he was being lifted up by something.

Only then did he realize that the big herring had recognized him and swam over here.

Then it found that Zhang An had got to the bottom of the water. It probably thought that Zhang An was drowning, and wanted to carry Zhang An out of the water.

Just because of this, Zhang An felt that it was very worthwhile to release this big guy, because it was so cute.

Zhang An thought, then turned over and swam in the water, and patted its smooth fish head with his hands.

Only then did Big Herring realize that Zhang An was not drowning, so he swam over to post with Zhang An.

After a while, Zhang An heard Zhou Yang and Huang Ming calling him on the water.

Only then did he pat the big herring and let it swim up to play.

After all, it would not be good for Zhou Yang and Huang Ming to see it. Maybe tomorrow a mermaid love story will be made up and spread in the village.

"Ah, what's wrong?"

After surfacing, Zhang An asked Huang Ming and Zhou Yang.

"Oh, you have been diving for so long, I thought you fell in, and I was planning to go down with Daming to find you."

Huang Ming and Zhou Yang were really scared just now, because Zhang An had been diving for several minutes.

"Haha, I've reached my limit, and I'm ready to come out if you don't call me."

Only now did Zhang An realize that his water quality had become better than before.

I didn't feel anything after staying in the water for so long just now, which is probably due to the benefits of space.

"Brother An Zi, how did you manage to hold your breath?"

Several people found a big rock to lean against, and Huang Ming couldn't help asking questions.

Although Zhang An did not use his hand to time the time when Zhang An dived to the bottom just now.

It can be roughly estimated that it will take about four to five minutes.

And he saw that Zhang An was so relaxed when he came out, he probably could stay in the water for a while.

As for himself, he can hold back in the water for at most one or two minutes, and a little over two minutes is already the limit.

"Um, I don't know about this, because I haven't practiced it before, but it's better not to deliberately practice this thing, maybe it will disappear after practicing."

When Huang Ming talked about holding his breath, Zhang An's mind naturally came up with the joke about holding his breath.

Three people went to participate, but everyone only found No.3 standing on the podium.

And No.1 and No.2 have been vacant, and the result has not been seen for a long time.

Everyone only thought that these two were masters, able to last for so long in the water.

But I didn't expect that when I finally pulled it up, people rolled their eyes.

So don't deliberately hold back this thing, come up if you feel that you can't stand it.

Don't force yourself all the time, when you want to come up, you won't be able to come up.

"Come, come, come and eat a melon."

Zhang An leaned on the big rock on the shore, and opened the watermelon he had just picked in a circle.

The three of them just leaned against the boulder and floated on the water.

Enjoying watermelon while taking a bath is simply not too refreshing.

(End of this chapter)