Return To 1977 Chapter 658: Seats

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Our country is the most particular about dignity and order.

In a family, the status of parents and children can never be equated. In a unit, there is always a difference between leaders and ordinary employees.

Even illiterate people understand this. This was the same even in the years when "the most equal" and "the working people were the masters of the country".

So in all our social activities, there are always differences based on etiquette.

The same goes for seats. Whenever seniors, juniors and seniors gather together, they must sit in the traditional order.

Specifically, when it comes to private wedding events, since there are many people invited, there are both relatives and friends among the guests, and it is impossible to arrange their seats in the same order. You can only sit separately and sit in sequence by table. Usually there are four types: VIP seats, newlyweds seats, close relatives seats, and friends seats.

Needless to say, the details of how to arrange seats are very trivial and complicated. Even if you make comprehensive considerations and make overall arrangements. It is also difficult not to make mistakes.

The place where problems are most likely to occur is precisely the VIP seat, also known as the "guest seat" or "chief" seat. This is why the dispute between the Hong and Xu families happened.

VIP seats actually do not just refer to one table, but are roughly divided into two types.

The first type is mainly a special courtesy for weddings. For example, the boy's and girl's parents must accompany them in person.

For example, entertaining wedding guests invited by two families, such as marrying a wife, seeing off a wife, marrying an official guest, seeing off an official guest, etc.

In the past, it also included children holding up hijabs and gold and silver water bottles. Just like today's usual witnesses, introducers, master of ceremonies, best man, bridesmaid, and children who pull the bride's veil.

The second type is mainly those who are invited to high-ranking official positions by the family, those who are famous, and celebrities in society.

This not only requires setting up a separate class, but also arranging the tables and seats according to the rank, fame and social prestige. They should also be accompanied by members of the family and sit with people of equal social status and status.

According to the original arrangement, there were actually four VIP seats for the Hong family.

At the first table were the parents of Hong and Xu, the groom and the bride, Chang Xianzhang, Gu Lingye, the "aunt" of the Xu family and Xu Xiaojun.

At the second seat were Yuntai and his wife, Shou Jingfang and Director Song and his wife, as well as several important leaders of Chongwen District.

At the third seat were Hong Yanzheng and his wife, Xu Manli's parents, Director Chang and his wife, He Jiefu, Mr. Shan, Wang Hanping, Lao Su and Yu Wanyu.

On the fourth seat was Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan accompanying the three "Hai Bangzi", Song Guofu, Song Pingping, Yang Weifan, Zhou Manna, Su Xiaoming and others.

Then down are the seats for newlyweds, close relatives, and friends.

As for what differences the Xu family has?

Dareqing can be summed up in three words, snobbish.

First of all, Xu Bingquan and his wife not only believed that the two district leaders should sit on the first seat no matter what, they also wanted the Hong family to arrange "connections with superiors" to this seat.

In addition, they thought that although the Yuntai couple and Shou Jingfang were the closest relatives of the Hong family, the Yuntai couple were taciturn and too rustic, and they were just two farmers. Shou Jingfang, on the other hand, has an arrogant attitude and is nothing more than a medicine master.

Compared with the secretary of the district catering company, the director of the district health bureau, and the deputy director of the Chongwen branch, the gap in social status is too big.

So they hope to arrange only leading cadres of the same level from the Hong family to sit at this seat. It would also be fine if they are famous actors and other literary and artistic workers.

Even the two of them didn't even care much about the "bridal wife" on their side, and insisted on arranging for the "aunt" to attend the wedding banquet. This is called killing the donkey.

Of course Hong Lucheng was not happy. Just argue with reason and say it's disrespectful and hurts feelings.

However, Xu Bingquan believed that Hong Lucheng's persistence was a failure to adapt to the past and could not keep up with the social situation.

Think about it, how can people with completely different values ​​convince each other?

So even though Wang Yunlin wanted to make peace on the side, the situation was still deadlocked, and she was vaguely blushing.

It has to be said that fortunately Li Fu has good eyesight.

One is that he rushed over in time when he saw something was wrong. Find out what's going on, comfort him first, and then try to persuade him separately.

The second thing is that he had already seen some signs.

He found that Yuntai and his wife, Shou Jingfang and the officials were uncomfortable sitting together, and the grandson brought by Mr. Chang and his wife kept making troubles looking for his mother.

After weighing all the circumstances together, he advised Hong Lucheng to simply give in.

The last thing to worry about is that it is not cost-effective for the two in-laws to have a dispute at this time. Just let the matter rest and let him negotiate and try to adjust the seat again. It's not more reasonable than that.

Then turning around, Li Fu discussed with Xu Bingquan again.

First, let me explain that the person who borrowed the car for the Hong family was Yang Weifan, a famous actor with teacher-level treatment and a son of a high-ranking cadre. Normally, his status would be enough, but he is Hong Yanwu's friend, who belongs to the younger generation, and it is not easy to sit with the elders.

Secondly, Director Chang came with a family of five. In addition, literary and artistic workers also have their own circles, and most of them are lesbians. It would not be appropriate to accompany the second seat.

So it’s okay to adjust seats. However, due to the relationship between the Hong family, the only people who can accompany the first seat are Director Song and his wife, who are both department and bureau-level cadres with the district leaders, and He Jiefu.

As for the second seat, no one from the Hong family would accompany them, so the leading cadres known to the Xu family could only sit by themselves.

In response, Xu Bingquan and his wife agreed after thinking about it.

Because even though they failed to achieve their goal of being on the same page as the higher class, the Hong family finally gave in. This was a facial victory.

And the fact that the Hong family lacks someone to sit with them at the second seat proves that the Xu family has the advantage in terms of social relations.

Thinking about it again, I am still suppressing the junior high-ranking cadre. After all, the other party is also a junior. Once the people arrive, they can have a good chat when the banquet starts and toasts, and they may not be able to get close to each other.

In this way, the two families finally reached an agreement, and with Li Fu's help, the seats were adjusted again.

In the end, it became the first parents, Xi Hong and Xu, the groom and the bride, two district leaders, Director Song and his wife, and He Jiefu.

The second seat is occupied by some leading cadres in the Xu family's social circle.

The third seat, Yuntai's family, accompanied Director Chang's family.

The fourth seat was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Hong Yanzheng, Xu Manli’s parents, Shou Jingfang, Shou Zheng, Lin Su, Mr. Shan, Wang Hanping, Lao Su and Yu Wanyu.

On the fifth seat were Hong Yanwu, Chen Liquan, the three "Hai Bangzi", Song Guofu, Song Pingping, Yang Weifan, Zhou Manna, Su Xiaoming and the others.

But who would have thought that after Xu Bingquan and his wife spent a lot of time looking for things, and were satisfied, they could rearrange the seats and the results were not as good as they imagined. In turn, it almost made them blush.

What does it mean to be trapped in a cocoon? What does it mean to be clever but be misled by cleverness? It's all wrong.