The crazy kid froze for a moment. He wanted to say that his family couldn’t afford a wedding gift, but when he opened his mouth, no words came out.
Sanzi knew what he was hesitating about, so he said, “Go ahead. Most of the people from Yunjia Village who came to attend Lin Ye’s wedding didn’t bring wedding gifts. We’re all poor people here. What could we possibly afford? Don’t listen to them. Their families can’t afford much either.”
Sanzi wasn’t merely trying to comfort him. Lin Ye had held the wedding feast simply to celebrate and have fun; he had never asked anyone to bring gifts.
Although a few families had brought wedding gifts, they were all inexpensive things. Some had embroidered a pair of pillow covers for the newlyweds, some had brought a dozen or so eggs, and others had brought some unusual local items. In any case, none of them were worth much.
Of course, there were also plenty of people who had simply brought their entire families along to take advantage of the free feast.
After hearing what Sanzi said, the crazy kid hesitated for a moment before turning around to run home.
Sanzi grabbed him by the arm, reached into his pocket, pulled out seven or eight pieces of candy, and stuffed them into the boy’s hand.
The crazy kid softly said, “Thank you,” then happily hugged the candy and ran off.
When the wedding banquet officially began, the scene was actually rather chaotic.
The Lin family’s courtyard was small, so the banquet tables had been set up in the open space outside the house. There were so many tables that they had completely blocked the road.
Sanzi and the others were so busy that they were practically running around in circles, constantly carrying dishes to the different tables.
Most of the dishes had been ordered by Lin Ye from restaurants in town. The food had already been delivered before the banquet began. Since Lin Ye had ordered so much, he had to place orders with several different restaurants.
The crazy kid’s family arrived rather late. By the time they got there, almost all the tables were already full. They had no choice but to sit together with Yun Dali’s family. Neither Yun Xiaoshu nor Yun Yushan had come. The people who came were Yun Dali, Yun Xu-shi, and Yun Xiaoxiang.
Also sitting with them was Yun Dali’s older brother’s family. Nobody wanted to sit with Yun Dali’s family, so the two families ended up occupying an entire table by themselves.
Yun Xiaoxiang had just picked up a steamed dumpling and was about to put it into his mouth when he caught sight of the crazy kid’s family approaching their table. Before he could even put the dumpling into his mouth, he shouted at them, “You’re not allowed to come over here!”
The crazy kid’s family were all honest, simple people. When Yun Xiaoxiang glared at them with obvious disgust, they couldn’t help stopping.
The crazy kid’s A-mo was very unhappy. He stubbornly pulled the boy over and sat down at the table. “What? This isn’t your table. Why can you sit here while we can’t?”
The crazy kid’s A-mo was the only person in their family who dared to argue with others. The men in the family were all honest and straightforward. Precisely because they were too honest, their family was often bullied in Yunjia Village. The reason their family was so poor was because the crazy kid’s father had no farmland.
Although there were many men in their family and they were all capable farm workers, renting farmland meant paying a heavy share of the harvest as rent. After paying such a large amount of rent, there simply wasn’t enough food left to feed all the mouths in their family, no matter how much grain they grew. That was why their family had remained poor for so long.
Their eldest son was already twenty-six and still hadn’t found a ger to marry. With so many people in their family, they could barely hold their heads up in Yunjia Village. People often mocked them, saying that having so many men in the family was useless.
Yun Xiaoxiang put his chopsticks down on the table and looked the entire Old Liu family up and down before giving a mocking laugh. “You saw a free feast and came here to freeload, didn’t you?”
As soon as Yun Xiaoxiang finished speaking, the crazy kid’s A-mo immediately shot back, “Aren’t you doing the same? We’re all the same.”
Yun Xiaoxiang was so angry that his eyes widened. He was just about to say something more when Yun Dali grabbed him. “Stop making a scene. You’re embarrassing yourself.”
After being scolded by Yun Dali, Yun Xiaoxiang could only reluctantly pick up his chopsticks and continue eating.
Yun Dali had noticed that Lin Ye was holding a wine cup and looking in their direction. He was still somewhat afraid of Lin Ye. That little bastard might look delicate and fair on the outside, but there was something dark and ruthless beneath that appearance, black as ink. Yun Dali had only come here to eat and drink for free. He certainly didn’t want to provoke Lin Ye again and bring trouble upon himself.
The crazy kid looked at the dishes covering the table and sniffed hard before sitting down beside his A-mo and starting to eat. He took a bite of meat first. He hadn’t had meat in a long time, and he was terribly hungry for it. Seeing how eagerly the crazy kid was eating, his A-mo’s eyes turned red. If he hadn’t been afraid of being laughed at, he probably would have cried. These were hard times, and honest people had a difficult life. If their family continued relying solely on farming, they would probably starve to death sooner or later.
Yun Xiaoxiang glanced at the crazy kid before turning his head away with a snort.
Yun Xiaoxiang’s cousin, Yun Xiaoshan, was only nine years old. He happened to be sitting directly opposite the crazy kid. He spat toward him. “So dirty. A-mo, I don’t even want to eat anymore.”
His A-mo, Yun Linshi, glanced at the crazy kid but said nothing. He simply stood up and pulled all the better dishes toward their side of the table.
The crazy kid’s A-mo froze for a moment, but he didn’t dare make a scene here. After all, they had been invited by the Lin family. They were grateful to the Lin family and didn’t want to cause trouble during someone else’s wedding.
Apart from the crazy kid’s A-mo, who had a stubborn temperament, everyone else in their family was honest and straightforward. Moreover, they were all men, and it wasn’t appropriate for them to argue with another family’s ger. So the crazy kid’s family said nothing about Yun Linshi’s behavior. However, remaining silent and refusing to argue was completely useless against unreasonable people. Such silence would only encourage their arrogance.
After several rounds of drinking, everyone had eaten more or less their fill. Yun Xiaoshan was about to leave with his A-mo. Before leaving, he took quite a lot of food from the table. When he could no longer carry anything else, Yun Xiaoshan suddenly spat several times onto the remaining dishes.
Then he looked at the crazy kid with a smug expression. The crazy kid had a stubborn temperament and was also very protective of his family. Seeing that his brothers hadn’t finished eating yet, he immediately understood that Yun Xiaoshan was deliberately trying to stop his family from eating.
The crazy kid became furious. He suddenly stood up and said coldly, “Apologize!”
Yun Xiaoshan stuck out his tongue at him. “No! Your whole family is a bunch of poor people. You deserve to eat my spit.”
The crazy kid walked around the table straight toward Yun Xiaoshan, but Yun Xiaoshan’s A-mo immediately stepped in front of him.
Yun Linshi raised his voice and shouted, “Crazy kid, today is Lin Ye’s wedding. Are you seriously going to cause trouble here?”
Yun Linshi immediately tried to make the crazy kid look like the troublemaker. The crazy kid became even angrier, and his eyes turned completely red.
The crazy kid’s third older brother, Liu Qingge, hurriedly stood up to pull him back, but he was grabbed by their fourth brother, Liu Yunge.
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