69novels Chapter 359
Chapter 359
Everyone sat in the living room and chatted for a while, and then Old Lady Chen came back.
Old Lady Chen is also in her seventies this year, about 1.5 meters tall, slightly fat, and healthy. She came back with two buckets on a shoulder pole.
Seeing everyone at home, she was not surprised. She nodded to everyone, took out four cabbages from the bucket, and handed them to Chen Xiaojin.
"We grow our own cabbages, and bring some to Xiaolu's family."
"Let your mother and others make the decision on the marriage. Grandma won't go. Xiaolu's parents can agree to any conditions they can agree to."
"Don't we have to renovate the house? When the time comes, the two of us old people can just build a thatched house on the vegetable field next to it, and we won't live with you. You can talk to Xiaolu and others about this..."
Old Lady Chen took Chen Xiaojin and gave him detailed instructions.
She won't go to the marriage this time, and let Shen Su and others handle it.
Chen Xiaojin listened to the whole thing, nodded continuously, and didn't say anything else.
After they finished talking, Shen Su said to Old Lady Chen: "Just wait for good news at home."
After that, she picked up the gifts to be sent to Chen Lu's house and led everyone out of the house.
Chen Lu's house is in Dongchen Village next door, no more than two kilometers away from Chen Xiaojin's house. Everyone got on the tricycle and arrived in a short while.
As soon as the tricycle arrived at the door of Chen Lu's house, five people from their family came out to greet them, Chen Lu and her four elders, two men and two women.
"Uncle, aunt, uncle, aunt, uncle, Xiaoyin, you are here."
Chen Lu greeted them with a smile.
After greeting everyone, she introduced the two sides to each other.
On Chen Lu's side, her father Chen Dongsheng, her mother, her aunt and her uncle, and her brother Chen Shengsheng were boiling water and making tea in the house.
On Chen Xiaojin's side, Shen Fei and others, as well as Chen Xiaoyin, also came.
Meeting on the first day of the new year, both sides were quite polite, with smiles on their faces.
Seeing Shen Su's golden hair, Chen Lu's family was not surprised, they should have known about it a long time ago.
After introducing each other, Chen Dongsheng smiled and said to everyone: "Let's go into the house to drink tea first. I knew you were coming, so I asked them to boil water just now."
"You are too polite, just drink some water. By the way, here are some seafood, cigarettes, alcohol, and cabbage grown by his grandma. Let you try it." Shen Su smiled and responded.
Li Weixi and Chen Xiaojin on the side presented the gifts they prepared this time, including cigarettes, alcohol, seafood, and four cabbages grown by old lady Chen herself.
Seeing those gifts, Chen Lu's family all had smiles on their faces, and Chen Lu's mother and aunt reached out to take them.
"You are too polite, just come, what else do you want to bring." Her mother carried the things, smiling, and greeted everyone to enter the house.
Their house looks newer than Chen Xiaojin's. It should have been built in recent years. It is a one-story bungalow with a long strip shape, about four meters wide and more than ten meters long.
The living room is right after the door. There is no brick in the living room, just cement floor, and the walls around are painted white.
There is a coffee table and many small stools in the living room, which should have been prepared in advance.
A short and fat young man in his twenties was making tea next to the coffee table. When he saw everyone enter the house, he smiled at everyone and asked everyone to sit down and drink tea.
"My family is not well off, don't mind, sit down and drink tea." Chen Dongsheng said to everyone with a smile.
"This house should have been built in recent years, right? It's nice and new." Li Weixi responded politely, and found a place to sit down with Shen Su.
Shen Fei, Shen Yong and others who came with him also took a small stool and sat down by the coffee table.
The house itself was not wide, so with so many people coming in at once, it seemed a bit crowded, but fortunately, there was enough room.
After everyone sat down, they drank tea together for a while, exchanged polite words, and then got down to business.
Li Weixi asked Chen Dongsheng directly:
"Xiao Lu's father, I'm not a local here, and I don't know much about our customs. Do you have any requirements for the marriage of the two children? What should we pay attention to?"
Hearing this, Chen Lu's parents looked at each other, and Chen Lu's mother spoke:
"Since you mentioned this, I will tell you a few small requirements here."
"First of all, Xiao Jin's house needs to be renovated. We went there once last month. To be honest, I'm really not satisfied. The house... Well, I heard from Lulu that you are planning to renovate it?"
Shen Su nodded and said, "Well, don't worry about this. We will start to renovate the house and buy new tables, chairs, benches and beds. The wedding room must be ready for the young people."
"Well, there areWe feel more assured after hearing your words.
Then I will state a few requirements. First of all, furniture, TV, refrigerator, sewing machine, motorcycle, these are the common ones that must be available.
In addition, the three golds for marriage must be provided, and there is also a betrothal gift. It is not easy for our family to raise Xiaolu, and the betrothal gift is 28,000 yuan..."
Chen Lu's mother straightforwardly stated the requirements they had discussed in advance.
Renovate the house, buy a TV, refrigerator, sewing machine, motorcycle, and three golds, plus a betrothal gift of 28,000 yuan.
Hearing their requirements, Shen Su and Li Weixi were stunned.
Shen Fei, Shen Yong, and Lin Cuihong were also a little stunned.
What are these small requirements?!
Shen Fei roughly calculated in his mind that if all their requirements were to be met, 50,000 yuan would not be enough!
Working in a factory in Guangdong in this era is considered to be relatively easy to make money. Hu Hansheng said that it is only about 600 yuan a month at most.
In this era of salary level, marrying Chen Lu can't be done with 50,000 yuan?!
"Xiao Lu's mother, are you kidding? Not many people in our local area can do this, right? "Shen Su said to Chen Lu's mother with an awkward smile.
It's outrageous. She originally budgeted six to eight thousand yuan for her son's wedding. This was the result of a continuous increase after she asked Shen Wenbo and Shen Erya about their wedding expenses.
After all, Shen Wenbo and Shen Erya had basically no expenses when they got married. Shen Erya's wedding cost less than three hundred yuan.
Shen Wenbo also spent very little. He just spent some money on a guest at Zheng's house and took two hundred yuan home.
Both of them got married in recent years, and the expenses did not exceed five hundred yuan.
Shen Su originally thought that even if Wenbo and Erya's situation was a little special, the difference from a normal marriage should not be too big, right?
Who knew that the difference was thousands of times?!
She and Li Weixi had also attended other people's wedding banquets in Guangzhou, but it was not so exaggerated?!
This is outrageous!
At this time, Chen Lu's aunt smiled and said:
"It's not an exaggeration. My cousin got married two months ago with this standard. Aren't you doing business in a big city? This shouldn't be too much for you, right? "
Doing business in a big city?!
Not too much?!
After hearing what her aunt said, Shen Su, Li Weixi, Shen Fei and others all understood.
This is because they heard that Shen Su and others were doing business in a big city, and they thought they were very rich, so they wanted to make a fortune...