He Dazhuang gave Li Ye a hard hug, then complained with a smile, "Come on, Li Ye, your child is already this big, yet you never sent me a wedding invitation. We were classmates, weren't we? Getting married was such a big deal, and you didn't even invite me? That was pretty damn unkind."
"..."
Li Ye, who had just given He Dazhuang a polite response, nearly cursed out loud.
Never mind that he and He Dazhuang had not been close in the first place. He Dazhuang had been assigned to Golmud in Qing Province, two thousand kilometers from the capital. In the inconvenient transportation of the eighties, sending him an invitation would have been nothing but making trouble for him.
Hmm, wait. When He Dazhuang got married two years ago, he had written to notify every classmate in the capital.
Then none of them had gone. They had only mailed their cash gifts over.
But this time, He Dazhuang had come for Chen Xiaoling's wedding. Li Ye could not very well say that his earlier words had merely been hypocritical pleasantries.
So Li Ye said evenly, "When I got married, we'd only just parted ways. You would have had to take a train from Qing Province for three days and three nights. I really couldn't bear to put you through that."
He Dazhuang said forthrightly, "Listen to yourself. We were classmates. Forget three days and three nights—even eight days and eight nights, I'd have come."
"..."
Seeing He Dazhuang bragging, Sun Xianjin smiled and asked, "Hey, He Dazhuang, how did you get here this time? By train again?"
He Dazhuang said proudly, "No, I flew here. Starting last year, I qualified to fly."
The mainland had only abolished the requirement to hold a letter of introduction when purchasing plane