You're urging me to get married just for the sake of a feast?

Time flies so fast, and it's already the day before Chen Ping's wedding banquet.

July 27, 3 a.m.

As soon as the alarm rings on his cell phone, Chen Yuan gets up from bed.

Today, I have to buy the meat and vegetables for tomorrow's banquet in advance. For side dishes, I can just pick them from my own vegetable garden. I can pick as many as I want. They are fresh and delicious.

The dishes for tomorrow's banquet have also been discussed with my uncle's family. There are a total of 16 dishes. In Chen Village, there are relatively few taboos for weddings. There are no hard and fast rules for the dishes. As long as the portions are sufficient and the dishes are good, and the folks are satisfied, it's fine.

In addition to the braised pork elbow, four-joy meatballs, steamed sea bass, and preserved vegetable braised pork, which are common hard dishes at rural banquets, there are other dishes.

Together, they decided on the list of 16 dishes.

Six cold dishes: cold lotus root slices, hot and sour lotus root, cucumber and pig ears, spiced beef, fruit salad, and salt and pepper prawns.

Ten hot dishes: braised pork elbow, four-happiness meatballs, steamed sea bass, braised pork with preserved vegetables, chicken casserole with dried bamboo shoots, stewed turtle with pork ribs, braised meat with sauce, roast duck with fruit wood charcoal, braised lamb chops, and egg soup.

My aunt is a hard-working person. Usually, the tails of lotus roots at home are chopped up to feed chickens and pigs. There are dozens of chickens and two pigs at home. One is just right for the banquet and the other is left for the New Year.

So there is less chicken and pork to buy.

Chen Yuan got up early in the morning and prepared to go to the county town with others to purchase ingredients.

Dongfeng Town is just an ordinary town. If you really want to hold a big banquet, you have to go to the county town to buy everything.

Chen Village is also 40 to 50 kilometers away from the county town. It takes an hour to drive. If you want to catch up with the morning market, you must get up early.

I made an appointment with Heizi from the village. His pickup truck was the most suitable for buying vegetables in the city. Chen Yuan added him on WeChat that day and just happened to need a car, so he made an appointment with him.

Chen An also went to the county town together. Originally, for such a purchase, in addition to the chef himself, a confidant of the host family had to be sent.

There are generally two ways to invite chefs to cook at home for a banquet in a rural area like this.

One is that the host family contracts all the food to the village banquet chef according to the price per table. The purchase of vegetables, cigarettes, alcohol, beverages, etc. are all provided by the village banquet chef. The host family is only responsible for paying the money and does not have to worry about anything, which saves worry and effort.

The other is that the host family sends a confidant to take the village banquet chef to the morning market to buy vegetables. This way, the things bought are assured, and it saves a lot of money compared to the previous method, but it is a bit troublesome and more worrying.

Because of the relationship between Chen Yuan and his cousin's family, this purchase was fully handed over to him.

Chen Yuan did not care so much. His cousin was getting married, so what's wrong with helping more? Besides, his uncle and his family also said that they would not let him help for nothing and would give him more money.

He did not care. If they gave him money, he would certainly accept it. After all, he was now a chef for the village banquet and relied on it to make a living!

A few days ago, Master Chen returned home from the hospital. Chen Yuan bought some fruits to visit him and gave half of the money he received for the funeral of the old secretary to Chen.

Seeing that this young man was so good at handling things, Chen immediately transferred his tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans and bowls to Chen Yuan at a bargain price.

Chen Yuan planned to cook a big banquet in the countryside. These things happened to be useful, and he was too lazy to do it again, so he would use them first.

In addition, Chen Yuan's old house had to be rebuilt into a wooden structure. Although the town would give some subsidies, if he wanted to make it more beautiful, he would have to pay more money.

Money is needed everywhere now, and it is difficult to move forward without money. He can't be too noble, otherwise it will be difficult for the villagers to charge him for banquets in the future.

According to the aunt, since our Chen Yuan wants to eat this meal, as a member of the old Chen family, he must put up Chen Yuan's brand.

You can't give less money for a banquet held by your family, but give more, so that everyone in Chen Village knows that this is the price for her nephew to hold a banquet in the future.

"Master Chen..."

Heizi's voice sounded outside the house. This guy is quite active. I sent him a voice message on WeChat last night, asking if his car was available, and by the way, I told him about my cousin's banquet, and I wanted to rent his car to go to the county morning market to buy vegetables.

As a result, this guy replied in seconds, and he didn't even ask the price, and he agreed directly.

Just kidding, there will be meat to eat if you follow Master Chen.

Their family has no personal relationship with Chen Jianjun, and Heizi is embarrassed to go to the banquet with a gift. But if they rented their own car to go to the county town, wouldn't this opportunity come? Then they could shamelessly give gifts and have a feast, wouldn't it be great!

When Heizi received Chen Yuan's voice message, he jumped up and down immediately, and his family thought he was crazy.

Thinking of the big feast that Chen Yuan prepared that day, Heizi didn't sleep much at night."Heizi, how come you got up earlier than me."

Chen Yuan had finished washing up, locked the door at home, and got into Heizi's car.

"Master Chen, you don't know, as soon as I received your WeChat message, I thought of the dishes you cooked before, and I couldn't sleep."

Heizi had a pair of panda eyes, which looked even darker in the hazy night.

"Haha, thank you for your hard work. If you really can't stand it, let's change seats and let me drive." Chen Yuan said politely and reminded him that it was dark and if he drove into the ravine by accident, it would be a big deal.

He also had a license, so there was no problem driving.

"Okay, then let you drive, and I'll drive when I come back." Heizi thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Chen Yuan was just being polite, but he didn't expect the other party to take advantage of the situation and directly let the driver's seat out.

The two changed positions. Chen Yuan fastened his seat belt and drove the pickup truck to Chen An's house.

"This guy didn't get up!" It was not easy to shout at the top of his voice in the middle of the night, so he called him.

The phone was answered, and the other party seemed to be holding back a lot of energy, "Well~~ I'm coming, I'm coming, wait for me to poop..."

Damn!

Chen Yuan quickly hung up the phone, and a picture instantly appeared in his mind. This guy is really lazy and poops a lot!

About a quarter of an hour later, Chen An finally opened the door and came out.

"Why are you so slow? It will be dawn soon, and you are still going to buy wool!" The speaker was Heizi. They were all from the same village, and the two were quite familiar with each other.

"Hey, Heizi brother, you didn't sleep? Did you go to buy gifts for the little sister again?" Chen An was too talkative, and he made fun of Heizi as soon as he got in the car.

Heizi was older than Chen Yuan and the others, and had been married. After the divorce, he lived with his parents with his children. If his family hadn't made some money from farming, he wouldn't have had the money to give those live-streaming beauties tips, and he would have been out of the village long ago.

"What kind of gifts are you giving? What nonsense are you talking about?" Heizi was angry, and quickly pressed a power button to turn off the phone screen so that the two of them couldn't see it.

But Chen An was holding his own phone in his hand, grinning, and he pointed the screen at Heizi.

There was a live-streaming lady on the screen, posing there.

"Thank you for the gift from brother 'Bai who doesn't understand the night during the day', Rong'er will always love you, muah."

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