Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife - Chapter 67

Wedding Banquet
After drinking the wedding tea, Li Chenmo helped Lu Jueyu put on a thick padded jacket, and then went to the living room to attend the wedding banquet together. In this day and age, brides are not left alone in the wedding room waiting for their husbands. Both the bride and groom attend the wedding reception with the guests.

Since Li Chenmo is the youngest son and Lu Jueyu is the only daughter, both families attach great importance to the wedding.

In addition to braised pork, there are herbal chicken soup, roast duck, steamed fish, mixed vegetables buns, fried noodles, mapo tofu, and white rice. There are a total of seven dishes and fragrant white rice, which is very luxurious. Not only is meat expensive, but it is also not easy to eat fresh vegetables in winter. When the guest saw that each table had a bottle of Baijiu, everyone was overjoyed.

For a wedding banquet held in a village, as long as there is one meat dish and three vegetables dishes, plus white noodles, it is already considered a luxurious wedding banquet. As for Li Chenmo and Lu Jueyu’s wedding banquet, it was even better than those hosted by those rich people in the capital.

While enjoying the delicious food, everyone couldn’t help but whisper about the cost of today’s wedding banquet. Although it looks and tastes good, a bottle of baijiu already costs 100 yuan. What’s more, those meat, white noodles, white rice, and vegetables not only need money, but also coupons. Every female guest has a high degree of awareness of the price, and at a glance, they know that each table costs at least 250 yuan, if not more.

Today’s banquet is only for entertaining relatives and friends, so there are only four tables in the living room and six tables in the main hall. But every dish on every table was served in a huge portion, which surprised everyone. As for the villagers who were not invited to the wedding banquet, the Lu family and the Li family had already prepared several large pots of fish soup and snacks such as melon seed and biscuits.

Everyone knows that if they want to drink fish soup, they have to bring their own bowl, so when the guests are eating and drinking in the living room and the main room, there are two queues of villagers holding bowls waiting for their turn to get a bowl of fish soup in the front yard.

At this moment, Pan Meijia and Wang Muxiao’s bosom friend Liu Hua are very busy. After Pan Meijia filled the bowl with fish soup, Liu Hua handed a small bag of melon seeds and a piece of biscuit to the villagers. Although they couldn’t taste the food of the wedding banquet, they were already very satisfied with the fish soup and snacks.

The congratulations from the villagers continued until afternoon. Even small children let out a rainbow fart or two in the hope of getting more fish meat or snacks. Pan Meijia would laugh when she heard their childish and sweet words, and gave them more fish meat.

Although it was not her family’s joyous occasion, Pan Meijia was still very happy for Lu Jueyu. Therefore, even the Lu family did not ask her for help, she helped them out of her own will. It took them more than two hours to distribute the fish soup and snacks to the villagers.

When she reached the last villager, Liu Hua discovered that they were a pair of brother and sister. Their clothes were old and dirty with many holes. They didn’t bring any bowls. Under normal circumstances, when people hold a wedding, they don’t like such guests, thinking that it will bring bad luck.

But Pan Meijia is an educated youth who is receiving education in the capital. So when she saw them, she didn’t think too much, and asked, “Did you bring the bowl?”

“Sister, we don’t have a bowl. Can we borrow your bowl and have some soup?” the little boy asked politely.

“Of course. Wait a minute.” Pan Meijia said with a smile.

Since they had no bowls, she went to the kitchen and found two bowls for them. When she came back, she brought two big bowls. She scooped up all the fish soup, filled their bowls to the brim, and handed them out, saying, “Hold carefully, it’s hot.”

The siblings thanked her and walked to the corner to eat with the bowls in hand. Seeing them sitting on the cold ground, she went and brought them two chairs and a brazier. Seeing that she was so kind to the orphans, Liu Hua couldn’t help clicking her tongue. The two children were abandoned by their mother shortly after their father drowned due to an accident.

Since then, they have survived only because of the compassion of the villagers. Occasionally a villager will give them some food. But the food is limited, at most they can only give them a pancake or two in a few days. So, the siblings usually starve for days before they can eat pancakes.

While eating, Pan Meijia and Liu Hua started to clean the front yard. After they finish drinking the fish soup, the siblings help them clean up without saying a word. Seeing that they were so diligent, Pan Meijia gave them the remaining snacks before letting them go back.

Seeing that Pan Meijia was so generous with Lu Jueyu’s things, Liu Hua couldn’t help asking, “I said, girl. Are you Lu Jueyu’s best friend? How could you give them all of the snacks? She won’t blame you in the future, right?”

Pan Meijia didn’t feel offended by her words, and said, “Jueyu won’t blame me. These snacks are prepared for guests. Since they are here, they are guests. So, we can give it to them.”

Normally, if there are leftovers after handing out the food during a wedding banquet, they are given to helpers. Therefore, those snacks should be shared equally between her and Pan Meijia. Liu Hua looked at Pan Meijia from head to toe, and said, “You are so generous.”