June 18th is a very auspicious day.

Donghuashi Primary School to the east of Nanchen Village is very lively. It is now a little after nine o'clock. Dozens of students are lined up neatly on the playground, waiting for a big scene.

The school was built at the end of last year and put into use at the beginning of the year. It has nearly 1,300 teachers and students.

Music, calligraphy, art, and sports equipment classrooms are all independent, and various teaching facilities are fully equipped.

There is another functional classroom that has not been put into use, and that is the computer room.

The decoration of the computer room has been completed, and the air-conditioning, dust-proof, and anti-static facilities have been debugged. We are just waiting to install the computer.

One of the big events today is the computer donation ceremony.

The weather in June was already a bit sunny, and the children, holding mineral water in their hands, began to use their small hands to block the dazzling sunlight, and looked in the direction of the gate.

On the top floor of the office building in the distance, in the lecture theater, dozens of parents of students were lying in front of the windows looking out.

One of the children's mothers said: "It's been in the sun for a quarter of an hour, why haven't you come yet?"

Another person also said, "I brought my child here early in the morning, but he didn't attend any classes today. Who is responsible for the missed homework?"

The surrounding parents glanced at the two speakers, but no one answered.

The students on the playground are not just students from Donghua Primary School, but also from other primary schools in the town.

These students are "poor students", or their families are financially strapped, or their parents or relatives are injured or injured.

Today the town is holding the "Sunji Town's First Youth Collective Wedding". The first part of the wedding is "planting a couple's tree".

The tree species chosen for the couple’s tree is the ginkgo tree.

The ginkgo tree is called a "living fossil" and people call it a longevity tree.

This kind of tree is dioecious, so it is also called the couple tree. It is indeed very suitable to plant this kind of tree when you get married.

(ps: Book friends, do you know how to distinguish male and female ginkgo trees and form a pair?)

The secretary of the town Youth League Committee who organized the event held a loudspeaker in his hand and said blessings:

"Marriage is the beginning of happiness. May your love grow as strong as these trees."

"Plant a couple tree at a newlywed, and a hundred years of blessings will last a lifetime."

Today's tree planting location is in the Donghua Mingyuan residential area developed by Donghua Group. The tree pits have been dug and the saplings are placed in the pits. The couple attending the wedding only need to straighten a few seedlings, then cultivate the soil, water them, and hang them.

Put the sign up and the mission is accomplished.

It's just that today the bride and groom were a little constrained in their clothes. They were wearing bright red Hanfu. More than a hundred people gathered in a crowd, wearing Hanfu, just like the opera singers.

The original plan was for the man to wear a suit and the woman to wear a wedding dress, but Chen Lidong rejected it and insisted on a Chinese-style wedding.

The clothes are specially customized for you by Donghua Garment Factory.

Donghua Garment Factory does not belong to the Donghua Group, but was funded by Chen Lidong and Chen Liwei, and founded by his sister Chen Lihong. By processing work clothes for the Donghua Group every year, there is no need to worry about having no work.

Now Chen Lidong has experienced the trouble of this kind of Hanfu. His feet are cloth shoes with round mouths. The soles of his pair were bought by his mother. The lower body is an apron. Wrong, the correct term is "shang".

The clothes we usually talk about should be upper garments and lower garments.

How to wear this "lower garment"? It is just a piece of cloth wrapped around the waist, tied with a belt, and tied tightly. Of course, there are no bare legs inside, it is a light bloomer, just like those used to perform the Yangko dance.

Fortunately, considering that the wedding was in the summer, the top did not have a wide robe and long sleeves, but a "short dress".

But to be honest, it's a bit awkward for a man to dress like this, and it would be even more awkward for a man to shovel soil and plant trees.

There were many aunts and sisters around, pointing and laughing from time to time.

Chen Lidong and Sun Jie only returned from the Far East a few days before the wedding. The main reason was that it was too difficult to earn 100 million gold coins.

Moreover, I took my daughter-in-law out with me this time, and I have to accompany her every now and then. It was considered an early honeymoon trip.

At this time, Chen Lidong was struggling to shovel the soil with a shovel. Because the soil here in Nanchen Village is relatively sticky, and the tree pit was newly dug with a small wheeled excavator in the morning, the soil in the pit has a relatively high moisture content. Hanging the shovel

If there is mud, it will not work if you shovel the soil again.

Normally, I should use my feet to rub the mud off the shovel, but the new shoes on my feet didn't allow it, so I looked embarrassed.

Sun Jie held on to the sapling and laughed. She didn't dare to lower her head too much because she got up early to get her hair done, and she still had to wear a hair crown that weighed half a kilogram. The hair crown was stuck on her hair with hairpins. The makeup artist warned her not to make any big movements.

Avoid messing up your hair shape.

Originally, only a quarter of an hour was scheduled for the tree planting, but after the tree was planted, the newlyweds had to wash their hands and tidy up their clothes, so it was delayed by more than ten minutes.

Next, go to school and engage in the second activity: "Forging the Same Heart".

The content of this link is that the newlyweds pair up with poor primary school students and donate 500 yuan every year to help the poor students complete their studies until high school. Of course, there is nothing wrong with sponsoring this student to go to college.

These primary school students were recommended from various primary schools in the town. More than 60 newlywed couples first drew a sequence number, and then selected the students to be supported according to the sequence number. Students who passed the number would be assisted by other people from the Donghua Group.

The files of poor students are relatively detailed, including the children's photos, basic information, and family circumstances.

The person Chen Lidong and his wife are helping is Liu Aiying, a fourth-grade girl. Her father and mother both suffer from polio.

Chen Lidong actually knew Liu Aiying's parents. Liu Aiying's father, Liu Zhenjun, learned appliance repair from Sun Jie's father.

Later Liu Aiying opened an electric car dealership after graduating from high school. This child was filial and took good care of his parents.

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After more than 60 couples planted the trees, they got on their bicycles, with the groom pedaling and the bride sitting in the back seat, laughing and joking all the way to school.

Under the guidance of the staff, everyone parked their bicycles at the designated location and then gathered on the playground.

Everyone stood in an arc facing the direction of the sun. On the opposite side, children wearing red scarves and holding flowers were already standing in a square formation.

In the front row was a pair of students. At the instruction of the chairman of the Town Women's Federation, they began to recite the congratulatory message "To You".

When they read, "You are the advanced representatives of the young people in this town," Sun Jie reached out and pinched Chen Lidong's ribs and muttered, "You are so thick-skinned."

Finally, the children chanted in a childlike voice: "I wish you: be ambitious, work hard, respect the elderly and love the young, honor your parents, respect and love each other, be diligent and thrifty in running the house, stay together forever, and grow old together."

These sentences are recited in unison with a soft and tender voice. Do book lovers like it?

Next is the key point. The chairman of the Women's Federation began to read out the list of couples, and then the primary school student whose name was called ran to the opposite side of the newlyweds, presented flowers, received the red envelope, and then turned around and stood in front of the newlyweds.

After getting married, we had to take photos together.

After the event was completed, Wang Jiayin took over the microphone: "Everyone, please allow me to take up a moment of your time."

After everyone started to pay attention to her, he continued: "Dear newlyweds, on this great day, our Donghua Group has decided to donate a batch of computers to Donghua Experimental Primary School on behalf of all the newlyweds in the name of this collective wedding organizing committee.

It is also an expression of our thoughts on our occupying school resources.

These computers are Donghua’s own brand and use the best performance accessories available today, which is disrespectful.”

The next program is to visit the computer room of the school.

The computer room is on the first floor of the multi-functional teaching building, with a total space of 200 square meters. There are two rows of more than 100 computers. All the computers are Donghua brand. Some of the computer monitors have nameplates clearly attached:

Donated by Mr. ××× and Ms. ×××.

In fact, more than half of the more than 60 couples who participated in the collective wedding belonged to the Donghua Group.

As Donghua employees, everyone has a strong sense of pride when the group operates this way.

Other newcomers include those from the town government, the school, and some growers and farmers from a certain village team. Do you object to this kind of "being represented" without consent? No! No matter how many, you are willing!

It's just that a reporter despised it in his heart: Bah, it's just a show. But he also has to admire Donghua's generosity.

The third part of the collective wedding is: "Take the road of love".

Where is the Love Road? It leads from the school to the mass cultural and sports activity center next to the town government. This road is called "Love Road" today.

The newly built cultural and sports activity center in the town has a large auditorium on the second floor, which can show movies and perform performances.

There is a square outside, where open-air gatherings can be held and commercial exhibitions can be organized. In the future, people like Wang Guiqing can perform square dancing.

Today it is used as the main venue for collective weddings.

It's about 3 kilometers from the school to the venue, and it normally takes 15 minutes to ride. But it's hard to tell if you're bringing someone with you, because these newcomers have different physiques and weights.

The road is an asphalt road that was repaired last year and has a dedicated non-motorized lane. Today, there are more personnel directing traffic at the intersection.

As all newlyweds know, the main part of a collective wedding is that the thoughtful bride prepares things for her lover.

The newlyweds they met formed a long queue of bicycles. The bride sat in the back seat and hugged her lover's waist, handing over something from time to time: chocolate, mineral water, wet wipes, spinach...

Seeing others rushing to pedal fiercely, Sun Jie complained a little: "You ride so slowly, did you do it on purpose?"

Chen Lidong said: "Yes, I won't ride slower. Brother Taishun is older and has to be at the bottom. I have to take care of his mood."

"Bah, Li Taishun is gone! ... I have prepared chocolates for you, just take your time."

"How about you come and ride."

"You should be more handsome!"

The fact is that the pair of Li Taishun and Sun Lan are better than anyone else, and they actually took the first place. People from the Northeast should not be underestimated.

How to get the first place? Because Sun Lan prepared a lot of red envelopes.

Whenever they get close to the pair riding in front, or if someone wants to pass them, they throw red envelopes at them.

No, Li Hanwu was rushing forward with his back bent. Li Taishun leaned over, smiled at him, and called "buddy". When Li Hanwu paused for a moment, Sun Lan shouted to the bride: "Go on", and then
To be continued...