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Chapter 506 Risking one's life to accompany relatives and friends to gather together
At this moment, a warm breeze blew past, caressing my cheeks. The temperature given by the sun was just right. However, Old Xu's house was already crowded, so the heat was rising, making everyone sweat on their temples, with beads of sweat accumulating on their foreheads and noses.

Seeing so many people coming, Lao Zhao, Lao Yan, Lao Bai, Lao Hu, Lao Tang and the accountant went to the west room to escape the summer heat. It was not a problem for them to leave. After all, they had no relatives with Chai Liangyu, Wu Zhouquan and others, so there was no need to show up and say hello.

A group of people walked leisurely into the outer room. As soon as they reached the door, Chai Liangyu, who was walking side by side with Xu Ning, narrowed his eyes and pretended to be unhappy and said, "Old Chang, something is wrong with you! Your big brother is here, why don't you go out and greet me? You are picking on me!"

Chang Danian stood beside the stove holding the child in his arms, and said stiffly, "You can choose whatever you want! Who are you? I have to welcome you, and while I have time to welcome you, I have to play with my eldest grandson."

"Hahaha, look at your sour temper, you get irritated at the slightest provocation!" Chai Liangyu didn't care. His friendship with Chang Danian and Xu Pao didn't happen overnight, it was the result of years of hard work.

Maybe some people think Chai Liangyu's words are a bit strange, but in fact, this is the habit of the brothers getting along with each other. Feelings are not something that can be expressed with words...

"Uncle!" Chang Juan and Chang Lihong shouted in unison.

Chai Liangyu paused, paused for a moment, and said, "Juan! Lihong! Oh my god, I almost didn't recognize you two standing together."

Chang Juan said with a smile: "Yes, uncle, we haven't seen each other for years."

"Not bad at all. The last time I saw you, you were getting married to Baoquan. When did Lihong get married?"

"Uncle, I got married the year before last, and this is my little treasure."

"Hey, this kid has thick eyebrows and big eyes. He looks a lot like you, doesn't he? Lao Chang."

Chang Danian curled his lips: "Need I say that? He also has half the blood of the old Chang family!"

"Haha, this guy is crazy about you. I think you are more energetic these days than before."

Chang Danian said casually: "It's enough to think it through. Come into the house quickly and don't leave it piled up."

Xu Ning held the cake box and explained, "Uncle, Sister Lihong was introduced by Uncle Yu. She is Li Feng, who bought and sold meat with my uncle. Do you remember her?"

"Yes! You told me, but I definitely wouldn't recognize him if I saw him."

Chang Danian said: "Then how did you meet him? We have never met each other."

At this time, the curtain of the east room was lifted, and Sun Jishan was seen with a smiling face, his head poking out of the door frame, and said, "Uncle! I am Sun Jishan, and Lian Jun is my nephew."

Chai Liangyu was startled for a moment, then he stretched out his hand and shook it tightly, "Hey, relative! When did you arrive?"

"I just arrived a short while ago, please come in..."

After Chai Liangyu, Xu Ning, Xu Laonian and others entered the house one after another, Chai Shao, Chai Feng and the third sister-in-law called Sun Jishan "Brother" when they passed by. Sun Jishan shook hands with them, smiled and nodded.

The first two times the Chai and Sun families met, Sun Jishan was not present because he was attending a meeting in the city, so they never met.

Then, Xu Laonian introduced Yang Yusheng, Du Shoucai and others, and everyone greeted them by shaking hands, nodding, or passing cigarettes.

After everyone was seated, Xu Ning and Xu Long became waiters, serving tea and water.

Chai Liangyu took off his shoes and sat on the kang, while Chang Danian sat on the edge of the kang holding the child. The two brothers were close to each other, and even though they didn't look at each other or talk, they felt comfortable just sitting next to each other.

The house was soon filled with noise. Older men sat cross-legged or with their legs crossed together chatting, while young people sat on stools, holding teacups and eating melon seeds, whispering to the people next to them.

Han Fang, Guan Mei, Guan Hua, Sun Lianfang and others who were holding the child went to the east wing. A moment later, Chang Lihong came in and took Xiaobao away from Chang Danian's arms. Although the child did not cry, Chang Danian was old and his arms were prone to soreness from holding the child all the time.

After Xu Ning poured tea for everyone, he sat down next to Chai Shao. At this moment, Chai Shao and Chai Feng were chatting with Du Shoucai, while Chai Bing was chatting with Xu Long, Xiao Du and others. They were basically in groups of three or five.

Chai Shao saw him approaching and smiled, then heard him ask: "Brother, why didn't my eldest and second sisters-in-law come over?"

"They both have to stay home to take care of the children, and the store also needs people."

Except for the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law, almost the entire Chai family showed up, which can be said to have given enough face to Xu Ning of the Xu family. The same was true for the Wu family. Except for Wu Zhouliang, even Wu Haiquan and his wife took the time to come. There is nothing much to say about this friendship, just remember it in your heart.

At this time, the elderly group sitting on the kang cheered, and after listening carefully, it became clear that they knew Xu Ning's wedding date.

Chai Liangyu clapped his hands and said, "Oh my god, why didn't Erning tell me on the phone that he was getting married the other day?"

Everyone in the room turned their heads when they heard this. Chai Shao was close and clearly saw his expression change: "When did you get married?"

Xu Ning saw that everyone was looking at him, and he said with a smile: "September 9th, what's going on? Don't be picky, uncles and brothers, I was thinking of telling you this afternoon..."

Chai Feng slapped his thigh and said, "Oh! Look, you're still hiding this from me? You should have told me on the phone earlier so I could bring something for my sister-in-law."

This was not a joke. His family ran a small store that sold daily necessities, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, tea, etc. It would not be a big deal if he just took two wooden combs. It was not necessary to see Xu Ning's wife empty-handed.

Xu Laonian replied, "Why bring anything? I'm glad you guys can come. Besides, he's getting married in two months, so you guys have to come then."

Du Shoucai said: "Not really, just take your time, it's not possible to get everything done in one go."

Sun Jishan said with a smile: "This time we are building the house and putting up the beams. Next time will be Erning's wedding. In two months we can still sit together and have fun."

Chai Liangyu pointed at Xu Ning with a stern face and said, "I'll let you off this time, but if it happens next time, I'll have to pick a fight with you!"

Hearing this, everyone burst into deafening laughter.

Chai Liangyu made an appropriate joke and covered up the matter.

There was nothing wrong with this kind of thing in the first place. It was just a bunch of old men making a few jokes with Xu Ning and no one took it seriously.

Xu Ning laughed and said, "Hahaha, OK, don't worry!"

Yang Yusheng said with a straight face: "You are the host today, you must accompany these uncles of yours!"

"Of course I will! If I don't make you guys drunk, I won't leave the table! Besides, my dad is the pillar of our family. He can be said to be the golden hoop and the stick. No matter what happens, my dad will rush to the front, right? Dad."

When Xu Laonian heard the little idiot praising him kindly, he immediately smiled and said, "Of course! I will accompany you today even if I have to risk my life..."

At this time, Liu Lizhen lifted the door curtain to take a look. She originally wanted to help her old son out, but she didn't expect to hear such a conscienceless remark. She pointed at him with gritted teeth: "You are such a tiger whistle!"

“Hahahaha…” Upon hearing this, everyone in the room laughed wildly with their heads raised. Some even slapped their legs and the edge of the kang, unable to hold back.

Yang Yusheng said with a smile: "What my sister-in-law said is right. You are risking your life on such a happy day. You really have a good life!" Xu Laonian rubbed his face and said shyly: "Ah, I am just excited. Don't be surprised. I talk nonsense when I am excited. I will punish myself by drinking two glasses of wine later."

The east room was bustling with people, with one level of noise overlapping the other, and laughter was even more lively than at a big market. I wasn't very familiar with some of the people there, but I became familiar with them after a few words.

Those who can sit in the east room are basically those who have a very good relationship with the Xu family or are relatives. They don’t need to hide anything when chatting with each other. They just talk about anything and have a very pleasant chat for a while!

The many old ladies had nothing to do in the east wing, so they put the aluminum basins for washing dishes in the courtyard. Since the dog gang had been sent to Lao Wang's house, there was a vacant space, and six or seven old ladies happened to sit here, chatting while doing their work.

Yang Liguo, who was preparing dishes at Lao Wang's house, held a long-handled spoon in his hand. However, he had not yet started cooking. He had just prepared some dishes that needed to be fried. It would be in time to fry them when it was time for dinner...

At around 11 o'clock, a Dongde Lao Yifa slowly stopped in front of Old Xu's house. Liu Lizhen looked up and saw Guo Xingmin and Zhang Deyu, as well as Xu Laonian and Wang Erli's apprentices, the heads of the procurement and transportation departments of the canteen, and others.

This East German old Yifa is considered a very powerful car at present. It is equipped with an air-over-oil brake system. Although the braking performance is not good and it needs to brake three or four seconds earlier than other cars to ensure safety, it accelerates very quickly and has a dump function, which makes it very convenient whether transporting wood or coal.

There are many kinds of vehicles in the forest farm. The most common ones are old Jiefang and Yellow River. Other vehicles include Isuzu, New Dongfeng, and the second generation Jiefang...

Liu Lizhen stood up and shouted towards the east room, and then the Xu family members in the room ran to the courtyard.

From a distance, Xu Laonian smiled and said, "Hey, Secretary, Director!"

Zhang Deyu smiled at him. Guo Xingmin was very concerned about this title and said, "Brother, please don't insult me!"

"Hahaha, what's the big deal..."

After Xu Laonian greeted the others, Xu Ning, Liu Lizhen, Han Fengjiao, Wang Shujuan and others invited everyone into the house.

Zhang Deyu walked into the courtyard and asked, "Have you finished putting up the beams?"

"Yeah, it was finished around nine o'clock. They're sealing the roof over there now. I estimate it will be finished in another half an hour."

As they walked to the outer room, Sun Lianfang, who was guarding the pot in the courtyard, called out, "Uncle and Madam, my dad and his friends are coming over!"

After saying that, she walked out of the yard with a fire poker in her hand and waved at the car coming from a distance.

Upon hearing this, Xu Laonian was about to turn around and walk out. Xu Ning pushed his back and said, "Dad, go into the house with my Grandpa Zhang and Uncle Guo. I'll go outside to greet them."

At this moment, Lao Yan, Lao Zhao and others who were sitting in the west room lifted the door curtain, greeted Zhang Deyu and Guo Xingmin, and asked Xu Laonian and Wang Erli's apprentices, the transportation section chief and the canteen purchasing staff to go to the west room. In this way, only Zhang Deyu and Guo Xingmin entered the east room.

Xu Ning, Xu Long, Liu Lizhen, Han Fengjiao and others also walked out of the door. As soon as they reached the door, they saw Sun Jiwei, Yehe Erniang, Third Aunt, and Sun Lianxu getting off the car. They all waved warmly. Since the Sun family had never seen Han Fengjiao, they introduced her to her.

Sun Jiwei explained: "Oh my god, I left home at around five in the morning, and halfway through I came across a fallen tree. I don't know who cut it down in the middle of the road, otherwise I would have arrived around ten o'clock."

Sun Jiye added: "I got off the car with the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle and fired two shots into the air, but there was no sound."

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Since you fired the gun, they definitely won't dare to come out. Let's go inside quickly. My uncle is also staying inside."

This kind of thing is quite common nowadays. Anyone who drives has basically heard of it. Some people cut down trees to block the road, and some people place large rocks. When the driver stops the car, people will run out from both sides or one side of the forest, holding old foreign cannons or tools such as guillotines, axes, and shovels.

They are not here to repair the road, but to stop people on the road and ask for money. In the Northeast dialect, they are called robbers. If you don't have a weapon, you will definitely be blackmailed. But they will not hurt people easily, unless they are very hungry and meet a driver who doesn't talk much and swears...

Sun Jiwei nodded and said, "I saw it, why didn't Sheng's wife come over?"

Liu Lizhen said: "She is pregnant, there are so many people in the room, if she gets touched..."

Sun Lianfang took her mother's arm and chattered to introduce Meng Ziyan to them. Xu Ning smiled and said, "This is our second uncle, second aunt, third uncle and third aunt."

After Meng Ziyan called people enthusiastically, they walked towards the house. When they reached the outer room, Xu Laonian came out to greet them, and hurriedly stretched out his hand with a smile to shake hands with Sun Jiwei and Ye.

After they entered the room, there was no room for anyone else to stand. Chai Shao, Xiao Du, Yan He and others had to stand next to the floor cabinet to make some space. Wei and Ye first greeted Yang Yusheng, Sun Jishan, Wu Zhouquan, Chai Liangyu and others, and then Xu Laonian introduced the others to them. After Wei and Ye got on the kang, the others in the room reluctantly sat down.

Liu Lizhen, her second mother and her third aunt walked around the house and then went out to the east wing to chat.

Xu Laonian took out cigarettes from his pocket and passed them out to everyone, saying, "Our room is really small. There's no room for so few people."

Yang Yusheng said, "I see the new house at the north end is quite big. The outer room can accommodate three tables of people, right?"

"Well, my house is small... My oldest son studied the layout and said that we should make a whole reception room in the outer room. That way, it will be enough for three tables! But the room we live in is a little small..."

Sun Jishan said: "This design is correct. Nowadays, the houses in the city all have the outer rooms on the north side, and the south side is a two-meter-wide corridor..."

"..."

A moment later, Wang Minfu and Guo Hongxia came on their bicycles. When Xu Laonian went out to greet his in-laws, he happened to meet Du Manzhi, who had just returned from a meeting at work. If it weren't for the meeting, he would have come here in the morning and would not have waited until lunchtime to come.

Wang Minfu and his wife were not from Nanxing Village. They went to the street to give gifts. The one who was getting married was the youngest son of Wang Minfu's uncle. Today was the wedding day. After picking up the bride in the morning, they gave gifts in advance and hurried back without having lunch.

At this point, all the relatives and friends of the Xu and Wang families had arrived, and the time had reached 11:45.

Lao Jiang, Lao Wei, Yu Kaihe and others, who were finishing the roof of their new house at the north end, strolled into the courtyard and immediately filled it up.

Xu Ning held two water spouts in his arms and scooped two scoops of water into the basin. Yu Kaihe stood beside him and said, "After washing our hands, we have to go back and change our clothes."

"Ah, then let Huzi drive you there..."

Lao Jiang said, "Come on, it's not that far away."

"Otherwise, I'm thinking of driving to pick up Niu Baotian."

Yu Kaihe asked in confusion: "Are you driving a car? Forget it. It would be hard for him to ride a car with his legs. You might as well drive a donkey instead."

Xu Ning lowered his head and thought about it, and nodded: "Okay. Big brother? Come with me."

"Okay! I need to go home and change my clothes. Let's go now. We need to put the table and other things away when we get back."

Wang Hu and Guan Lei said, "We will let them go, you don't have to worry."

(End of this chapter)