Chapter 90: Taking Photos

Mai Sui and Shen Xingchen came out of the family quarters of the machinery factory and rode their bicycles slowly back.

When passing a photo studio, Shen Xingchen suddenly braked, turned around and said to Mai Sui: “Sui Sui, let’s take a photo, okay?”

“Okay.”

Mai Sui would not refuse such a small thing.

Shen Xingchen saw the prop flowers in the photo studio, and suddenly had an idea, so he pinned a big red flower on his chest and Mai Sui’s chest.

Although most of the current photos are black and white, both of them are wearing flowers on their chests, and you can tell at a glance that they are newlyweds.

Let Mai Sui take it to her comrades in the army, especially to Qi Chuanqing, so that they can take a good look.

Master Huang, who was taking the photo, understood it at a glance, and said with a smile: “You just got married, right?”

Shen Xingchen nodded shyly, even though they did not get a marriage certificate today.

“Then let’s change the pose and take a few more photos. Come on, come on, smile.”

Finally, Shen Xingchen gave Master Huang an extra five yuan and asked him to help him develop the photos quickly.

He and Mai Sui sat on the bench in the photo studio and waited.

Master Huang didn’t want to agree, but Shen Xingchen allowed him to use their photos as samples and put them in front of the photo studio. Master Huang agreed.

He has been taking photos for so many years, and it is rare to see people as good-looking and photogenic as Shen Xingchen and Mai Sui.

The photo studio has been doing bad business recently. If it continues like this, it will probably close soon.

In order to keep his job, he wanted to take the opportunity to promote it and improve his performance.

Shen Xingchen and his family live in the countryside, and it is not easy to go to the city. It takes several hours to go back and forth.

In addition, today is Saturday, and he may have no time to decorate the new house tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, he will have a wedding banquet, so he has no time to go to the city to get the photos.

But Shen Xingchen wanted to take out the photos and show them to the whole village on the wedding day to prove his “status”.

So, this photo must be taken back today!

Shen Xingchen also bought an extra-large transparent glass photo frame, which was about 50cm×40cm.

He put the washed photos in one by one. In the middle was a five-inch photo of two people, and next to it were smaller single or double photos, covering the entire photo frame.

The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful, and they looked very pleasing to the eye.

Not only did Shen Xingchen love it, but even Master Huang wanted to get one after seeing it.

Finally, Shen Xingchen wrapped the photo frame with red silk, tied it in front of the bicycle, and went home.

When he was about to reach Lianhua Village, Shen Xingchen untied the red silk again, and clamped it under his armpit with one hand, and deliberately turned the side with the photo outward.

Mai Sui was puzzled: “What are you doing?”

Shen Xingchen said shyly: “Aren’t photos taken to be shown to people? I took them out in advance so that everyone won’t see them.”

Mai Sui:…

Sure enough, as soon as Shen Xingchen entered the village, a group of chattering little kids followed him from the entrance.

Shen Xingchen gave each of them a candy, and Maoqiu took the lead and shouted: “Shen Zhiqing and Sister Mai Sui are getting married.”

Everyone followed: “Married! Married! The bride and groom are here~”

The villagers heard the voice and looked over curiously.

Wow, the bicycle was full of large and small bags, and Shen Zhiqing was holding a large photo frame in his hand.

People like to watch the fun, and everyone surrounded him at once.

Shen Xingchen readily showed them the photos.

Although he was very happy in his heart, he pretended to be normal.

When everyone saw the photos, they asked in unison: “Shen Zhiqing, are you getting married?”

“Yes, the wedding will be held next Monday, in the square in front of the village committee. Come early to have a drink.”

“Congratulations, your photos are really beautiful, like a fairy descending from heaven. When I get married, I will also take a photo.”

“Zhang San, I’m afraid you can’t take such an effect. Don’t you know what you look like and what Shen Zhiqing looks like?”

The surrounding villagers laughed.

Zhang San was not angry. He laughed a few times and looked at Shen Xingchen’s photo frame again and again.

He was visibly curious. The villagers standing behind also wanted to see it, and everyone rushed to pass it around.

Shen Xingchen was afraid that they couldn’t see it, and he was also afraid that they would drop it. After all, there was a layer of fragile glass on it.

So he kept shouting: “Be careful, don’t grab it, come one by one, everyone can see it!”

Fortunately, the photo frame was fine in the end.

A large group of people sent Shen Xingchen and Mai Sui, as well as their photo frames, bicycles, etc. back home.

Mai Hongcai was frying melon seeds at home to entertain guests on the wedding day.

Mai Laosan was not at home. He said that he went to the commune with Mai Xiangdong to buy wine.

How can you get married without wine!

However, wine is not easy to get. Without Mai Xiangdong’s connections, Mai Laosan might not be able to get it.

Of course, there are cigarettes.

Didn’t Shen Xingchen give Mai Laosan and the others a pack of cigarettes last time?

They were reluctant to smoke, so it was just right to take them out for the wedding.

With cigarettes and wine, the level of the wedding was immediately raised.

There is absolutely no family in the entire Lotus Village that can have such a grand ceremony.

Mai Xiangnan was not idle either, he was chopping wood in the mountains.

A lot of firewood was needed to prepare the feast on the wedding day, otherwise what would be used to cook rice and fry vegetables.

In short, Mai Sui got married, and the whole old Mai family (except Mai Xiangbei in the city) took action.

Mai Sui was infected by everyone and wanted to do something, so she immediately said that she would go to the mountains to catch a wild boar.

Mai Hongcai immediately stopped her: “Sister, don’t go yet. Dad specifically told you to go at night before he went out, so as not to be seen.”

Because the wild boars in the mountains belong to public property, how can you take them back to your home in broad daylight.

Mai Laosan has thought about it. He will go to the commune to buy wine today, and then pretend to buy a pig.

When Mai Sui goes to the mountains to catch pigs at night, they will deal with the pigs overnight and divide them into pieces, so that no one will know.

So as to avoid some petty people gossiping everywhere.

As for whether Mai Sui can catch a pig, isn’t this nonsense? Of course he can!

Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai now have blind confidence in Mai Sui. It may be difficult for her to get 100 points in the test, but if she is asked to catch a pig in the mountains, she will succeed 100%!

When Shen Xingchen heard that Mai Sui was going to the mountains to hunt at night, she immediately stepped forward to stop her:

“No! It’s too dangerous in the mountains at night, you can’t go!

At worst, I will think of a way tomorrow to see if I can buy more meat. If I can’t buy pork, I will buy a few more chickens.

I don’t believe that other people in the village can buy a pig when they get married.”

This kind of thing is rare, not to mention in the countryside, even in the city.

Shen Xingchen felt that no matter what, Mai Sui’s safety was the most important, and everything else was secondary.

No matter how powerful Mai Sui was, he was still worried.