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Chapter 63 Fat Sister Calls You to Eat Noodles 1
Duan Yanfei lost interest in wearing flowers, but Sun Jianchuan pinned the flower that Chen Xi smashed on the back of his head when he was angry to his baseball cap, and insisted that it was "given" to him by Chen Xi himself.Chen Xi was already numb to his intermittent cheering up and regularity comparable to his aunt's confession.

He wore that big red flower until Wei's wedding banquet.Good looks have advantages after all, not to mention that Sun Jianchuan still has a kind of self-confidence that he doesn't care about. This ridiculous outfit is abruptly shown by him with a bit of flamboyant tone. People who know him will make fun of him when they see him.For example, Brother Yang held his shoulders and said with a smile: "Yo ho, I thought today's groom is here!"

Chen Xi said, "I think he looks like a senior official from Ximen."

Sun Jianchuan looked pale.Just at this time Wei Jia passed by, Sun Jianchuan seized the opportunity to stop him and forcefully greet him, only waiting for him to ask questions.But Wei Jia seemed to have something to do, so he was about to leave after a few words.Sun Jianchuan was very disappointed, and couldn't help reminding: "You didn't look at me carefully, didn't you notice that I am different today?"

Wei Jia glanced at him hastily: "The flowers are not bad."

"Chen Xi gave it to me!"

"Really?" Someone in front was urging Wei Jia, he responded and turned to Sun Jianchuan and said, "Find a seat and sit down first, we are ready to start the banquet."

Sun Jianchuan yelled at his back: "Hey...do you know what sending a little red flower means?"

"It means you performed well in the kindergarten during the day." Wei Jia walked away, and Chen Xi's voice came from Sun Jianchuan's ear.

According to the local customs, the flowing water banquet for the wedding has been set up for three full days, and the guests will leave after tonight.The village women who came to help came forward to greet them to sit down. Chen Xi and Duan Yanfei were arranged at tables full of female guests, and Sun Jianchuan sat at the main table as his father's representative.

The banquet extended from the courtyard of Wei's house to the open space outside.The banquets in the country are not as glamorous and exquisite as those in the city, but they do not have a lot of ostentation.Several large pots were set up at the entrance of the kitchen. The chef and a few helpers kept moving. The large bowls full of vegetables were piled up on the wooden chopping board, and the steam and white smoke from the hot dishes were steaming. And rise.

It was getting dark early, and under the temporary wedding shed, the high-wattage incandescent lamps illuminated the faces of all the guests. Children in thick cotton padded clothes chased and played around, and the smell of fireworks and human beings filled every corner.

In the usual way, Chen Xi would have liked such a scene, and might have had a few cups of peanuts on the table in due course.But in this courtyard, part of her memory still lingers two years ago.The table she was sitting at was right under the pear tree in the northwest corner of the yard. The branches of the tree were bare, and the fruits and leaves that were still raw when they left disappeared without a trace. I do not know where to go.Sun Jianchuan at the main table was originally very reluctant to gossip with his relatives in his hometown, but after a bowl of wine, he punched more vigorously than anyone else: he took off his coat and wore that dazzling flower on his head. With one foot on the stool, he imitated the others and shouted wine orders in a half-understood dialect.The stool under his feet was familiar to Mr. Chen, it was thicker than other stools, it hadn't been painted, and the surface had been carefully polished.Wei Le said that this stool was made by Wei Jia when he was in junior high school. Chen Xi saw the sketch he drew at that time on the bookshelf in his room. It should be his first attempt at carpentry. The drawings and finished products are both childish. , but it is very stable to sit on.When living here, Chen Xi often moved this stool and sat in the middle of the yard, drying her wet hair with the summer night wind.

In the yard she remembered, there were no cheers, no lights and festoons, only the chirping of insects at night, the kicking of horses, and the wind blowing through the pear trees, which made the clothes hangers on the wires rustle slightly.Wei Le's favorite TV series came faintly from inside, and after the broadcast, she would sit on the stone steps beside Chen Xi and chat about the plot.Wei Jia seldom participates in their girls' conversations, he always has a lot of things to do, Chen Xi turns his head "occasionally", but he can always catch his figure within sight.

Now her eyes were looking at him equally involuntarily.After seeing off his relatives back at noon, Wei Jia asked Chen Xi to have a good sleep in the room.In fact, he himself has been spinning around for several days. From yesterday to now, he has barely closed his eyes. He is the one who should catch up on sleep.Duan Yanfei said what was in Chen Xi's heart, and she advised Wei Jia to go and rest for a while, even if she took a nap in the car.Wei Jia said that he was fine, he always felt little.Calls urging him to go back came one after another, and he hurried back after putting down the two girls at the racecourse.Chen Xi didn't believe his nonsense, what's the matter?There are times when the robot runs out of power.Wei Le had already left the house in good order, and now Chen Xi only hoped that the endless banquet would end early.

The cold dishes were brought to the table one by one, and after the face-to-face meeting when they entered, Chen Xi never saw Wei Jia again, and he didn't know why he was absent-minded at that time.He is today's host, there is no reason not to show up at the banquet.It happened that the fat lady brought the food to the table, and Chen Xi, who was puzzled, took the fat sister's hand and asked where Wei Jia had gone.
Fat sister replied angrily: "I originally registered the gift money at the front, but my father called me to the back of the house before the banquet started. I have been busy all afternoon, and I didn't eat half of the hot food. Why don't you call for me? Earlier, he asked me to get him something to eat for his stomach, and I ordered the noodles for him, and put them next to the big stove."

After Fat Sister said this, Chen Xi realized that Wei Linfeng had also disappeared for a long time.Is there any matter that father and son have to choose this time to solve?Chen Xi hesitated for a moment, she wasn't sure if she had the position to interrupt other people's housework.Fat sister gave her a slight push behind her, and urged: "Go quickly. Do me a favor and say that the noodles are going to be cold."

In Chen Xi's perception, the fat sister and his wife are the few people who sincerely protect the Wei Jia brothers and sisters.There must be a reason why she dispatched Chen Xi regardless of the occasion.

Duan Yanfei, who was chatting with others, spat out the melon seeds in her mouth, turned her head and said to Chen Xi, "I'll reserve a seat for you."

Chen Xi didn't want to pass through the banquet to attract attention, so she walked out of the courtyard gate and walked around the vegetable field by the west wall to the back of the house.She was familiar with the layout of the house, and within a few steps, she saw the gate behind the stable.

The fence gate was usually only fixed with bolts, but as soon as Chen Xi approached, he heard a familiar voice faintly.Coincidentally, Wei's father and son were on the other side of the stable, separated from her by a wall, and this was the only corner of their house that was not crowded.

Wei Jia's speech was faster than usual, Chen Xi didn't hear what he said, curiosity drove her to approach the door lightly.

"...How many times do I have to say it before you can listen to it? Those who come are just guests, without your hospitality! After all, they are also surnamed 'Wei', a root left by an old ancestor. You don't accept it. Their gift money, the faces of the two families have no place to put it. Your fifteenth uncle was originally in the county for a meeting, and today he specially..."

"I don't know Uncle Fifteen, I only know that he is Wei Kunxian's son."

Chen Xi heard what Wei Jia said this time.Who is Ke Wei Kunxian?She had vaguely heard of this name somewhere.

Wei Linfeng's voice was lowered, but his tone became more serious.He said: "The old things are rotten in the ground, and Lele now has a good home. What good is it for you to hold on to this matter? You, you, why are you more and more like your mother's brains! What do I usually tell you? A man is a man who has the heart to do great things if he can afford it! Yes, they didn’t make sense at the beginning, so I didn’t say you insisted on moving to the racecourse with Lele What, people in the village don’t communicate. But now that things are over, Wei Shiwu’s family came to celebrate Lele’s happy event, obviously wanting to repair the relationship between the two families. You are still young , You can’t just do things on the spur of the moment.”

Chen Xi remembered, isn't Wei Kunxian the old pervert of the third uncle?No wonder there were a few familiar faces at today's banquet, and they turned out to be his family members.She pricked up her ears even more now, holding her breath to listen to what they were saying.

"Wei Kunxian is dead, and Wei Le didn't mention that incident again, but it doesn't mean that the matter just passed away. You haven't been at home all year round, and you haven't heard how their family spread rumors in the village after the accident, and blamed Wei Le. Dirty water." Wei Jia paused for a moment and then continued: "I don't want to talk about this anymore, and it's not out of my will, I just feel that there is no need to repair the relationship with this kind of person."

After saying this, there was silence at the other side of the stable for a while, Chen Xi seemed to hear the "click" of a lighter, and soon a burst of smoke spread along with the cool air.

(End of this chapter)