Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 633

Chapter 633: Chapter 629: Adding Lamps, Good Fortune 01【Monthly Ticket 650+】

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As early as possible in the morning, the borrowed bowls and dishes were ready, and that afternoon, the invited kinfolk and older aunties helped wash and prepare them.

This time around, the Xie Family was hosting a lantern-adding ceremony for both Xiao Ba and Xiao Jiu, so the number of guests was quite large, especially since Xie Jinggang had been doing well in town, and many colleagues knew he had another boy. They had asked about the lantern ceremony for his child early on and said they would come to celebrate with drinks.

When calculated, the total number of tables needed for the feast on the sixth day of the new year was at least twenty.

In the context of the 1980s, it really was a grand feast.

There was no choice; just the Xie Family alone accounted for three tables, and then the extended family and the same clan took up another seven or eight tables [these were usually attended by the whole family, which is why there were so many].

Yan Jinsu also accounted for nearly two tables, and both the Zhang and Li Families said in advance that their whole families would come. The Li Family was also bringing the Chen family, and two tables might not be enough.

Xie Jingchen’s comrades in the area were not few and, for security reasons, Xie Jingchen also invited three tables.

Just like that, there were already more than ten tables, and the relatives and colleagues of Xie Jinggang and his wife hadn’t been counted yet...

So, while it seemed like a lot of tables, the invitations were actually quite limited when spread out.

Fortunately, these people didn’t all arrive at once. In the countryside, weddings are catered to guests as they arrive, and the Xie Family only needed to prepare twenty tables and chairs.

On such a joyful occasion as the lantern-adding ceremony, and with Xie Tiesheng being a village official with good standing in the village, even if just one person from each family came the count was there.

It has to be said that the Xie Family was a large clan, and although they prepared many dishes, they were not short on talented cooks.

In the countryside, a wedding feast typically includes three meals.

Yes, that’s right, three meals. Rural people do everything in a similar way, a meal is served before the main banquet, and regardless of ability, an informal meal is usually offered.

For those with better means, the meal includes meats and vegetables, and even if not, the dishes are rich in oil. As it’s a gesture of inviting people, there has to be an informal meal before the main one.

If there are leftover dishes after the feast, close relatives might stay and eat another meal before returning the borrowed tables, chairs, and dishes to the village committee...

Thus, even though the sixth day has not arrived, on the fifth day, relatives from the same clan have already voluntarily come to help.

The dishes for the main banquet were decided early in the morning by the whole family. Xie Jingchen had already prepared the necessary goods as calculated by Mr. Xie.

This included salt, oil, soy sauce, vinegar, rice, sugar, cigarettes, liquor, water, paper, etc., all prepared before the new year.

This afternoon, before five o’clock, the Xie Family started with four tables, offering an informal meal first to the relatives who had come to work.

Yan Jinsu was constantly watched by Zhou Xiuhua, who refused her offer to help, until Wang Chunmei noticed her discomfort.

Yan Jinsu did not grow up in the village but she was very perceptive. From time to time, she would overhear the older aunties behind her back calling her too ’delicate’ and just sitting there waiting to eat—

Upon hearing this, Yan Jinsu felt annoyed and almost retorted: Damn, did I eat your family’s rice!