PFC Chapter 207
Chapter 207
周六
Qi Cheng got up in the morning and looked at the weather outside. It was sunny.
After thinking about it and finding nothing to do today, he called Zhou Lu and asked him if he was going out to sea today. After receiving a negative answer, he drove directly to Zhou Lu's restaurant.
An arch has been built at the entrance of the compound, and several drummers are resting in the yard. It is obvious that a wedding is going to be held here today.
Zhou Lu was not very busy. He was still chatting with the group of aunts playing drums at the door.
"Qi Cheng, you're here just in time. Go help carry the dishes in the kitchen later." Zhou Lu patted Qi Cheng's shoulder. "We're a little shorthanded today."
This was also his first time hiring people, and he didn't know how many people he should hire.
"Okay." Qi Cheng agreed readily. "Your business is pretty good. It's only been open for a few days, and you've already taken on several wedding banquets."
Zhou Lu smiled and told him to open his eyes today. This wedding was different from the usual ones. It was a grassy wedding.
Looking at the place where Zhou Lusui pointed, Qi Cheng asked in surprise: "If I remember correctly, it should be a lawn wedding, yours is a bit rough."
"This wasn't built by me, it was built by the wedding company..."
As the two were talking, the wedding procession had arrived in front of the hotel. Several drums began to beat violently, and two mighty lions came out of the hotel and began to roll up and down.
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"What a grand sight!" Little Suozi's mother exclaimed in admiration. "Look at all the cars here. When I got married, I couldn't even afford to hire a donkey cart; I walked here."
Everyone in the village nodded.
The nobles of all dynasties took a few glances at it and thought it was not an important matter, so they continued to study how to assemble the generator.
Can't compare to their luxury.
When the bride got off the car, the ancient people were shocked. Why was she wearing a white dress on such a happy day? Although the dress looked very gorgeous.
"Why don't you wear red..."
"The aesthetics of later generations may be different from ours..."
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After completing several designed ceremonies in front of the door, relatives and friends followed the bride and groom to the lawn.
There was indeed a small lawn here, but it had become overgrown with weeds due to years of neglect. Now it is late autumn and the color of the lawn is not very good.
The wedding company had no choice but to lay a layer of artificial turf in the front and did not take care of the weeds in the back, so some relatives and friends who walked slowly were almost in the pile of weeds.
The bride and groom were exchanging rings in front, while some relatives and friends were whispering and complaining in the back.
In fact, not only these relatives and friends did not understand, but the ancient people outside the sky were even more confused.
"Is this a wedding? Why is it being held in a thatched cottage? Isn't there a hall behind this? Why don't they hold it inside the hall?"
"This..." The ancients could not explain this at all. They could only guess that it might be a more popular method in later generations. After all, so many years have passed, it is impossible to be exactly the same as in ancient times.
“Why did this become popular in later generations?”
"It doesn't matter what kind it is, as long as the food on the table is good."
Qing Dynasty
Although most people could not understand it, a small number of people had some guesses. The pattern of this wedding was somewhat similar to that of Western weddings. Although they had not experienced it, they had heard about it from missionaries.
However, he was supposed to be a missionary but ended up being a host.
That's a bit interesting.
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Qi Cheng watched for more than half an hour, and the lawn wedding was finally over. Friends and relatives went to the banquet hall in groups of three or four, and the people from the wedding company began to pack up the prepared snacks.
At this time, Zhou Lu called Qi Cheng and hurried to the banquet hall to help. He was looking for some people from the village today. They had never organized a wedding banquet and were a little flustered.
When we got to the hall, the screen showed the bride and groom getting to know each other. At the back of the hall, several aunties were constantly distributing food, pushing carts to each table.
The first few dishes were cold dishes served on small plates.
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"Why are there only cold dishes, and the plates are so small, can the guests eat their fill?" The ancients were full of questions. People in later generations were quite wealthy, so why were the plates at the wedding so small?
"I... this is too crude. Just serving a pig's head." The ancients who felt that the food was scarce a moment ago were speechless. Why didn't people in later generations play by the rules?
How did this dish become popular? The pig's head doesn't even have the bones removed.
Then they looked at the family meal and the three main dishes that were served. Although these dishes had appeared on the screen before, it did not stop them from drooling with greed.
It looks delicious.
Next came fried shrimps, roast chicken, braised pork and other meat dishes. Now they didn't say that wedding banquets in later generations were simple. They stared with wide eyes to see what other dishes were served.
Finally, there is a soup with several fruits mixed together.
In a small mountain village in the north, several children stood under the earthen wall, counting the fruits inside.
"Mom, there are hawthorns and peaches in there," a child said, pointing to the canopy. "I've eaten both. Hawthorns are sour, and peaches are sweet."
"What's that red thing? Is it a wild fruit from the mountains?"
"It should be cherries."
"What about those yellow petals and the little white square? Is that also a kind of fruit?"
My mother, who had never left the mountain village, had no idea what it was, so she could only make up a lie and say it was a fruit that grew outside the mountains.
"It's so good to be in the afterlife. I can eat so many fruits."
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After Qi Cheng helped to prepare the dishes, he asked Zhou Lu to prepare something delicious for him. He wanted to eat real seafood and not be fooled by the things at the wedding banquet.
"These things are of good quality, how can they be called shoddy?" Zhou Lu coughed. "What do you think of this wedding banquet? It's quite acceptable, right?"
"Almost okay, but yours is a bit retro. The canned fruit soup at the end is usually not available nowadays, and desserts are usually pumpkin sticky rice or something like that."
Zhou Lu chuckled and said, "Don't worry about whether it's retro or not, just tell us whether everyone likes it or not."
"When we were kids, if we saw this dish, we would fight for it. If we were slow, we wouldn't be able to eat it."
Qi Cheng nodded. It was indeed like that when he was a child.
"Come to think of it, you're not young anymore. When are you planning to get married?" Zhou Lu patted Qi Cheng's shoulder.
"You kid...you're not married yet, why are you talking about this?" Qi Cheng laughed. "Who was the one crying and wailing a few days ago?"
"I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense." Zhou Lu looked outside, "Can you take care of my business after you get married?"
"You kid." Qi Cheng grabbed Zhou Lu's arm, "You're no longer the good ox or horse I knew. If you keep going like this, you'll end up hanging on a lamppost..."