The Era of Hard Work

   Chapter 223 Reasonable (please subscribe)

  Even today, matchmakers still exist in rural areas. They are not specialized in this, but are basically part-time part-timers, acting as a messenger.

   Those who talk to themselves in the countryside often find a middleman like a matchmaker.

  Because there are countless strange rules of marriage in rural areas, such as Majia Village and Lujia Village are so close together, many rules are different.

   It's a bad thing to say. Many elderly people in rural areas are extremely stubborn in this regard. They have to follow local rules. The biggest role of the middleman is to act as a lubricant, preventing the two sides from breaking down without a good word.

   In the main room, Lv Zhenlin was in charge of the talks, and Lv Dong checked and filled the gaps.

  Fang Yan knew that Lu Dong was slick, so she asked Lu Chun to tell him before he came that he had to open his mouth when it was time to speak.

   In the words of Lu Chun and Fang Yan, their real matchmaker is Lu Dong.

  The matter of getting married should be discussed later. Today, I came to talk about the pre-marriage procedures and the most important dowry.

   Both sides are a little anxious. No matter Lv Chun or Fang Yan, their age is here. If they didn't work in the public sector, they would be in the countryside. It would be a big problem.

Fang's father first talked about the matter here: "Uncle Lu, Lu Chun and Fang Yan are both busy with their work. They are all people of the country, and only if they have a country can they have a family. Personal affairs should not delay the public affairs too much. I mean, why don't we have a big meeting and a small meeting together, and the country also advocates learning advanced experience, so let's hold an engagement ceremony directly?"

  Lv Zhenlin heard it, and it was exactly what he wanted: "Okay! I think this is fine. Fang Yan and Lv Chun are both working in the city, and these things in the city will not let the people in their units talk about it."

   Lu Dong could see that Father Fang was a reasonable person.

  Fang's father is really thinking about his daughter. The man is about to be promoted to the director. The 27-year-old director has a bright future!

   Besides, the man also bought a wedding room near the workplace of the two in the future.

  These outdated rules in the village are comparable to the happiness of my daughter? He doesn't have a son, so what does he need so much for?

   Lu Zhenlin asked, "I heard that there is a saying here that there is a top ten? What is it?"

Fang's father said: "This can't be saved. I'm not at home, so it doesn't matter. Fang Yan is a motherfucker. He's on the street all day, so he can't just let people gossip. That's what I think. As for the stuff, I'll ask Lv Chun to buy it once. It's alright, pull over with Fang Yan when you have time, and I'll ask Fang Yan to pull it back to Lu Chun when I'm done."

   "This is not good." Lu Zhenlin said that if he knew it was easy to talk about, he should have asked Lu Jianguo and his wife to come directly: "Our man has to show sincerity..."

  Fang's father said again: "Uncle Lu, nothing is as important as the happiness of the two children. Is this the truth?"

   Lu Zhenlin said, "Yes, we are all thinking about our children. When we have children, isn't our life just like a child?"

  The conversation went very smoothly, and there was no need for Lu Dong to play the side drums at all, and the amount of the betrothal gift took the middle number of the customs on both sides.

  The woman has already made such a big concession, and the man will naturally have to express it, taking a pair of 20,000 yuan.

  According to the custom on the north side, the bride price starts at 30,000.

The meaning of    Fang's father is also very clear, and the gift money will be dowry back.

   Lu Dong really acted as a driver, and he didn't say anything from the beginning to the end.

   The two sides also agreed to get engaged next month and get married in the fall.

   For specific days, you have to invite someone to watch it.

  According to the rules on Beihe's side, the man's guests who did not stay to talk about things were eaten. Lu Dong and Lu Zhenlin didn't stay long, and took the initiative to leave before eleven o'clock.

   The preference for boys over girls here is more serious than that of Qingzhao, but when it comes to marriage, the man is even more aggrieved than his third grandson.

   Lu Dong drove up to Santana and pulled Lu Zhenlin back.

   Lu Zhenlin said: "Your brother is lucky, the person you are looking for is sensible, and it is rare in our Qingzhao."

   "People are teachers, teaching and educating people." Lu Dong said with a smile: "Of course the ideological awareness is high."

   Lu Zhenlin shook his head: "Not every teacher has such a high level of consciousness."

   Lu Dong agrees, this is the truth, most people in any profession are ordinary people.

   went back to Lujia Village and went to the uncle's house to talk about the situation. Lu Jianguo and Li Min were both relieved.

   There is a saying that is good, no matter how good it is to get a daughter-in-law, you can't stand the unreasonable mother-in-law behind her.

   Lu Dong went out and called Lu Chun, so that the elder brother could be relieved.

   Just after the call, Lv Jianren came from the south on a 125 motorcycle, and the car stopped beside Lv Dong: "Are you back?"

   Lu Dong said: "It's pretty smooth to be back."

  Lu Jianren laughed: "When can I drink my nephew's wedding wine?"

   "Soon." Lu Dong said vaguely.

   Lu Jianren greeted him: "Get in the car, go, have a drink with your seventh uncle, I made some new dishes, go and try it?"

   Lu Dong hadn't eaten with him for a long time, so he went back to say hello to his uncle, got on Lu Jianren's motorcycle, and returned to the old street.

   Lu Jianren went to cook the vegetables himself. Lu Dong thought that Nails would come back for dinner soon, so he rode his motorcycle and went to the braised meat shop in the village to buy some pork head meat and chicken feet.

   When I came back, I smelled a burnt fragrance, which was indescribably hooking.

   Soon, Hongbing and Xiaoguang, the two apprentices of the seventh uncle who worked in the processing factory, also came over. Lu Dong made tea, told them to sit down and took a bottle of wine to open.

   Nails came back, lunch started, and each of the four adults had a glass of wine.

   Lv Jianren brought out two new dishes from the kitchen.

   One of the fried dishes was slightly burnt, which was the source of the enticing burnt aroma that Lu Dong smelled.

  Lv Dong looked carefully, the brown beans on the plate were fragrant.

   Another plate, a shell with black stripes on a white background, cracked open, slightly larger than a bean. It looked familiar, but I couldn’t remember where I had seen it for a while.

  Nails said nothing, took a "bean" with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth: "Delicious! Delicious!"

   Lv Jianren's rare seriousness: "Try it all! Quick, try it while it's hot!"

   Seeing that Uncle Seven was so serious, Lu Dong was sure of one thing, this thing on the plate must be not serious.

   He picked one up with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. This thing is really delicious, a bit like crab paste and crab roe? Not too accurate.

   is not easy to describe.

   After eating a few in a row, Lu Dong picked up a shell and opened it like a melon seed.

  Lu Dong is very curious, no matter what the nails beside it, as long as it is delicious.

   "Seventh Uncle." Lu Dong asked, "What is this thing made of?"

  Lu Jianren's eyebrows ran to his hair: "Guess."

  Lu Dong looked at the apprentices of the seven uncles, Xiaoguang couldn't help laughing, and reminded: "The master said, this year, you will not be the leader of the Five Poison Sect!"

   "What does this have to do with the leader of the Five Poison Sect?" Lu Dong was surprised at first, then saw the shell with black stripes on a white background, and suddenly thought of the tickling spicy jar on the jujube branch, and suddenly realized: "This tickling spicy larva?"

  Lu Jianren picked up the wine and took a sip: "You guessed it right, there is no reward."

  Lu Dong doesn't feel sick at all. He even ate roasted bean worms and ground lizards when he was a child. Can he be afraid of these things? After eating a few more, he said, "Seventh Uncle, you are really good, you can even cook this one."

   Lv Jianren said, "I heard a brother in the northeast mention it before on the construction site. How about making this a main dish when Chunzi gets married?"

   Lu Dong said quickly: "Don't! Do you think everyone is like us? When a group of people vomit, my uncle and third grandpa will slap your skin."

   "I don't know how to enjoy delicious food." Lv Jianren shook his head and sighed.

   Lu Dong said again: "I understand, Seventh Uncle, tell me, how did you do this?"

   "This one is to pick out the bugs first and fry them in the pot over slow heat." Lv Jianren finally found the feeling of being a master in Lv Dong again: "This one, after washing it, directly burst it with shell salt."

  Xiaoguang answered: "It's just that the raw materials are not easy to get, recently we have removed all the ones on the embankment."

  Lu Dong thought, do you want to make some some other day and give Heidan a taste?

  Why do you think of black eggs?

   Lu Jianren was drinking and drinking, and Lu Dong clinked glasses with him and the other two.

  I have to work in the afternoon, and it is enough to drink a glass of wine.

   Lv Jianren was working in the food processing factory in the village. He was worried about being trained by Lv Zhenlin, so he restrained himself from drinking and mischievous.

  After eating, Lu Dong went to the river bank to take a look, and found that the wild jujube trees were terrible, each branch was broken, and it was difficult to find an itchy hot pepper pot.

   The itchiness on the embankment of Lujia Village, wouldn't the seventh uncle be eaten by extinction?

   Looking at the newly planted tree under the river bank, Lu Dong sighed, wanting to find more tickles, and will travel far this year.

   After getting off the embankment, on the way to the north of the village, this is the main road leading to the outside of the Lu's Food Processing Factory. The road is not hardened, it was originally a cement road, and the village has recently been paved with sand and gravel.

  Lu Dong came to Uncle Tie's chicken farm and processing factory, Uncle Tie Tie was loading some semi-finished products into the truck.

   "Fujiko, you came just in time." Uncle Tie washed his hands and came over and said, "I'm going to deliver to your store."

   He wiped his hands with a towel: "Your store is doing well. On average, you need one item a day."

   Lu Dong said: "Fried chicken is already popular, and there are no competitors."

  Uncle Tie has already tasted the sweetness of the processing factory and asked: "When will you expand the scale? The larger the volume, the lower the cost."

   Lu Dong told the truth: "Two more months."

   Most of the company's funds are invested in the two stores, and the turnover of the two stores is not a problem. If you want to open another store, even if it is a loan, you must ensure the healthy operation of the company's cash flow.

   In about two months, there will be definite news from the Feiyang Hotpot Restaurant in the county seat, and it happens that the two stores can also accumulate a large amount of money.

  Uncle Tie said the key point: "Dongzi, we agreed that the payment will be settled in ten days, but it can't be delayed."

   Lu Dong smiled: "Uncle Tie, we are all on our own, and no one can drag you?"

   Then, Lv Dong took his car to the north entrance of the village, and went home and rode a motorcycle to the university town.

  The business of the two stores is very stable. The Burger King opened here. It seems that boys have finally found a good place to invite girls to dinner. The two-person set menu in the store sells very well.

The popularity of    Burger King not only did not affect Lu's Mala Tang, but also made the flow of people in the vicinity further increase.

The agglomeration effect of    popularity is becoming more and more obvious.

In the   burger shop, Song Na was waiting for Lu Dong when she saw him come in and asked, "Drinking again?"

   Lu Dong said, "I met Uncle Seven and had a drink."

   "Wait." Song Na went out and went south, went to Huang Yong's Halloween supermarket to buy a piece of chewing gum, and came back to tear it open and gave it to Lu Dong: "Let's go to the provincial university to listen to the lecture, and we can't smell the wine."

   (end of this chapter)