Sutton's Burdened Heart Chapter 4

It turned out that the recruitment of sports classes the year before last was the idea ofn the deputy county magistrate in charge of education, science, culture and health in Nanyi County at that time. The magistrate in charge was trained from the regional administrative office. 

He was young and enterprising. It is said that the implementation of the country's "Olympic Strategy" starts from rural areas and from young people. It was also the county magistrate in charge who was too impatient and made the decision at the joint meeting of the County Sports Committee and the County Education Bureau. First, minutes of the meeting were formed, and later red-headed documents were issued. Then people were selected from across the county, and classes were quickly opened.

I don’t know if the county magistrate was careless or something else happened, but this matter was not formally submitted to the county standing committee. Now, the young county magistrate has been transferred to another area, and the new county magistrate denies this. When the matter was submitted to the County Standing Committee for discussion, the secretary and county magistrate also felt that they could not afford to support dozens more people who were dependent on the finance department, so they instructed the Personnel Bureau to check state documents. So, this matter went south. Li Ye and dozens of classmates had already reserved public meals, but they couldn't eat them.

Li Ye's mother smiled bitterly, became cheerful again, and said to Zhang Suping, "It's nothing. I can still have no food to eat. Let's talk about your business first." Li Ye also smiled and said, "Nothing, it's nothing." , It’s just a matter of anger. Su Ping, please tell me.

Zhang Suping lowered her head and said, "Aunt Li, you have to help me tell this matter. It's Zhang Zhilin. I also told Aunt Caihong's family."

Li Ye's mother sighed, "You are really early in charge. You three are not stupid, and you are the most alert. Just wait. I discussed it with your aunt Caihong and said that this is what your sisters-in-law want. , I’m afraid your elder brother won’t be happy. I’ll tell your elder brother that this is good for everyone.”

Zhang Suping's marriage went extremely smoothly. Suping's eldest and second brothers secretly gave her a small scroll. The eldest brother's was four hundred and sixty-one, and the second brother's was three hundred. Suping told her eldest brother that she didn't want to accompany her, and she didn't want the money that her brothers would give her in private. The eldest brother suddenly slapped her and told her to leave her alone. Then he squatted on the ground and covered his face. After a long time, he slowly got up and left.

On August 14, Zhang Caihong and Li Ye went to the formal engagement party for the first time as Suping's natal family. On the square Eight Immortals table, there is one set of noodles, eight plates of stir-fried vegetables, eight large steaming bowls, four plates of dried fruits, four kinds of candies, four courses of rice soup, two courses of dumplings, and one mixed dish. Thirty-two kinds of food were served, and none was missing. Each dish was served on red lacquered plates, and they were all filled to the brim.

The engagement banquet is more exquisite than the wedding banquet. After all, those who eat the engagement table are close relatives and best friends of both parties. The quality of the engagement banquet at the husband's family is often a yardstick used by the mother's family to judge whether the husband's family is sincere and in good circumstances. In the past, there was little food in the village, and even though they followed the thirty-two ways of eating, they often made the head of the business very worried. In order to make a meal, some people fry the vermicelli in oil and serve it to the banquet. If they really couldn't get thirty-two dishes together, my mother-in-law's family wouldn't be picky about it. Everyone just made do with it and lived a poor life.

After the land was secured, there were more things in the land, so it was natural to have to pay attention to the distance between them. The importance of the engagement banquet was brought up again.

Seeing sea after sea of food being served like water, Su Ping felt calm. The wine cups of the mother-in-law's family who came to the wedding banquet were also getting higher and higher.

My husband’s family gave me the money to buy clothes on the spot, six hundred and eighty! At that time, my husband's sister-in-law gave it to Sister-in-law Suping, and Sister-in-law Suping stuffed the red envelope into Suping's pocket. Caihong's mother immediately took out the red envelope from Suping's pocket and said, "It's not like my husband's family didn't give it to me. 

Let's show it to everyone. We are all decent!" So she counted them one by one with saliva, six hundred eight! In the surrounding villages, this is a large number. My husband's aunt said to Granny Suping, "Look how good your life is, you have another daughter." Mother-in-law Suping clapped her hands and said to Brother Suping, "This Suping is my daughter. I have fallen in love with her a long time ago. These two people are so lucky."

Zhang Caihong and Li Ye smiled at each other and gently moved Suping's head with their hands to ask her to look at Zhang Zhilin who was standing at the door of the hall. When Suping turned her head around, Zhang Zhilin was gone.

When the lights are about to turn on, the engagement party is finally over.

When Zhang Suping and her three friends arrived home, Li Ye suddenly called someone, "Auntie, when did you come back?"

Zhang Caihong took a look and saw that the woman in the shadow was his aunt who worked in the provincial capital. While she was in shock, Caihong's mother had already stepped forward and took Aunt Caihong's hand...

Under the fluorescent lamp in the main room of Caihong's house, there are almost no wrinkles on the face of the nearly fifty-year-old aunt. Caihong's mother, who was holding her eldest aunt's hand, was six or seven years younger than her eldest aunt, but her face was covered in soot. If she hadn't had a few glasses of wine at the engagement party, it would have looked even darker.

Zhang Caihong was confused for a moment: The people in the city are really different from the people in the country!