The Green Tea’s Crushing Victories in the ’70s

Chapter 486 - The look on Wen Rugui made everyone laugh. (2)

Tong Xuelu had yet to respond to that when Xiao Yanghua came over to tease his son. “Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself when your cousin is better than you? I’d be too shameful to come if I were you.”

Xiao Weiguo, “……”

Third Grandpa’s branch came over afterward as well. As though they had discussed about it ahead of them, they, too, gave Tong Xuelu money.

When Tong Xuelu looked into the red envelopes that night, she counted a total of 800 yuan!

Oh boy oh boy! That was a lot of money!

Everyone came over early the next morning to help out.

Tong Xuelu opted out of holding the banquet at the hotel as that would be too ostentatious.

It was customary to have banquet at home at this day and age. Holding that at restaurants were unheard of. She didn’t want to be the one to be made an example of.

As for why the Tong’s place. It was because the Tong’s place was spacious. Not to mention that this was technically the Wen’s family’s property.

Any other person might be bothered by the fact that the banquet was held at the bride’s place, but that did not bother Wen Rugui at all.

As the restaurant must remain open, the gang decided to send Chef Meng over to cook and to bring with him a radio as gift.

The radio was bought with money and tickets from a few of them at the restaurant.

A radio ran about 40 ~ 50 yuan back then. But considering that this was just the engagement banquet, not a standing custom back then, this was quite a fancy gift already.

Tong Xuelu smiled and accepted the gift. She then showed Chef Meng and his team to the kitchen.

Wen Rugui was hosting outside and had smile so much that his mouth felt stiffed.

Seeing that there were no more new guests arriving, Wen Rugui filled Tong Xuelu’s ceramic mug with some water and added some brown sugar in it before he brought it over to the kitchen for Tong Xuelu.

Tong Xuelu’s First Aunty saw him coming over and teased. “Oh my, Xuelu’s fiancé is so sweet. Xuelu is such a lucky girl!”

Third Aunty smiled and nodded. “Exactly, I’ve been married to Xuelu’s cousin for years and he had never poured me a glass of water!”

The tips of Wen Rugui’s ears turned red slowly but he looked at Tong Xuelu with such tenderness in his eyes.

Tong Xuelu took the mug from him and took a sip. It was neither too hot nor cold. It was a perfect temperature.

Her lips curved upward reflexively.

The sweetness between the two made others felt that they had been shoved dog food.

There was an unexpected guest at the engagement banquet as well in addition to the few familiar families.

And that was Xiao Chengping, who had been around for a long while.

Xiao Chengping had been transferred back from his troop from Xinjiang and would be serving in Capital City going forward.

He had Tong Xuelu on his mind in the past, but that was mainly because they were childhood friends and that was memorable. He had quickly forgotten her when he got busy in his troop.

All he did was sigh when he learned from his cousin that Tong Xuelu was seeing someone. He accepted that quickly.

He would be able to find someone else.

They could still be friends even though they were not dating each other. With Tong Xuelu’s amazing cooking, he stated that they were friends one-sidedly.

Tong Xuelu was taken aback a little when she saw Xiao Chengping showing up with two jinof pork and two cans of malt. She asked reflexively, “Does your mom know that you are coming over here?”

Xiao Chengping scratched his head. “Yeah, she knows. She asked me to apologize for her for her past behaviors. Now that you are getting engaged, she would not say mean things to you anymore.”

Mother Xiao regretted it when she saw Tong Xuelu becoming more and more successful. Not so much that she regretted about stopping her son from seeing Tong Xuelu. She always felt that the two were not right for each other.

She regretted that she had looked down on Tong Xuelu and that she was confrontational with her. All in all, she only did that because Tong Xuelu was an orphan.

The more she thought about what she had done, the more shameful she felt. She was too embarrassed to show up in front of Tong Xuelu again.