March 3rd, which is Tuesday, the 26th day of the first lunar month, is a good day to get married.
At this time, the snow on the mountain road had melted away, and although the road was still a little muddy, it was already possible to drive to the county seat by horse-drawn carriage.
Early that morning, Su Mingzhe came to the old village chief's house, borrowed his carriage, and asked him to issue certificates for himself and Zheng Juan.
"Then you go and come back quickly."
The old village chief fully approved of the marriage between Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan.
In the opinion of the old village chief, Zheng Juan is a girl who is good at housekeeping, gentle and kind, and she is not bad in appearance. She is much better than the three female educated youths Wang Yafang, Xu Kai and Yu Hong.
"Village chief, aunt, let's go."
Su Mingzhe waited for the old village chief to hitch the carriage, and then asked Zheng Juan to sit in the middle of the carriage, while he sat in front of her to protect her from the wind.
At this time, some villagers heard the news and came over to congratulate him.
"When we come back, we will bring you wedding candies."
Su Mingzhe waved to the villagers, his face beaming with joy, he waved his whip, his horse's hooves flew, and he loaded the carriage and ran towards the county town.
Su Mingzhe's driving skills were better than those of the old village chief. He arrived at the county seat at around eight o'clock in the morning.
When they arrived at the county town, Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan first went to the Educated Youth Office, found Director Yang, and told him the good news that they and Zheng Juan were getting married.
"It's good to get married. Once you get married, you can calm down."
Director Yang didn't shy away from anything he said.
When Su Mingzhe brought Wang Yafang and Zheng Juan to his home as guests, as well as when Su Mingzhe brought Xu Kai, Director Yang could see that Su Mingzhe was particularly popular with girls.
Now, Su Mingzhe is willing to get a marriage license with Zheng Juan, which will save the trouble of delaying other girls.
Su Mingzhe pretended not to understand what Director Yang said:
"Uncle, after Juanzi and I received the certificate, we will go home and have a banquet with my aunt. You can come back early after work."
"Don't worry, I'll be back in a minute."
Director Yang heard that the two were preparing to have lunch at his home, so he did not delay the two of them. He waved his hand and asked them to go through the formalities quickly.
Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan rushed to the Civil Affairs Bureau and took out the certificate.
The clerk took the certificate and looked at it, and immediately frowned:
"Aren't you from the commune below? Why did you come to the county seat to do it?"
As the clerk spoke, he explained the policy again.
It turns out that you do not need to come to the county town to apply for marriage registration. You can also register at the rural commune and township government.
Now that the two people left the commune and went to the county town to handle the matter, the staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau did not really want to handle it for them.
In desperation, Su Mingzhe had no choice but to use Director Yang's signature:
"Comrade, my uncle works at the Educated Youth Office. He is Director Yang of the Educated Youth Office. He is the only elder of my wife and I in Mulan County. I must tell him about such a big thing as getting married, so this is why
Come to the county town to complete the registration procedures."
When the staff heard that Director Yang of the Educated Youth Office was Su Mingzhe's uncle, they couldn't continue to embarrass and delay. After sighing, they helped complete the procedures.
After completing the formalities, I was given food stamps for two pounds of melon seeds and one pound of sugar.
Things like melon seeds and sugar are controlled items, and the country must use them to generate foreign exchange, so they cannot be easily bought or sold.
In China, generally only newlyweds who are getting married are eligible to receive some non-staple food stamps from the Civil Affairs Bureau.
When Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan got the red marriage certificate, they immediately went to buy melon seeds and candies, and then came to Director Yang's house.
When Director Yang's wife heard that Su Mingzhe had brought Zheng Juan to the city to get the certificate, she was immediately happy to cut some meat to celebrate the two of them.
Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan couldn't stop them even if they wanted to.
There was no choice but to go shopping with Zheng Juan, while Su Mingzhe stayed at home to cook.
At noon, Director Yang came back for dinner.
"Although it's lunch, let's drink a little. After all, this is a good day for Xiao Su and Juanzi to get married."
"You don't work anymore?"
Director Yang's wife brought a bottle of liquor over and asked her man curiously: "Didn't you say you don't drink at work?"
When Su Mingzhe heard this, he also wanted to persuade Director Yang to replace wine with tea.
"I've put off my afternoon work."
Director Yang was really happy. When several of his children got married, they just sent a telegram, wrote a long letter, and sent a few photos.
Now, he regards Su Mingzhe as his own child, and that's why he is so happy.
After drinking a few glasses of wine, Director Yang pulled Su Mingzhe into a conversation and started talking about work again.
"Men get married first and then start a career. Now that you are married, you should concentrate on fighting for the construction of the motherland and contributing to the motherland."
"Uncle Yang, don't worry, I will definitely calm down and work hard."
Su Mingzhe still took Director Yang's hard work and advice seriously.
Seeing that Director Yang was worried about him, Su Mingzhe simply said that he would go back to Jichun City next week to try to get the bulldozer he ordered years ago.
When bulldozers are available, Su Mingzhe will first build the road from Baiya Mountain to the county seat.
But the road from Baiya Mountain to the county seat will only be repaired in a year or two at most.
By then, the road construction team has been trained, and it would be a pity to just waste it.
Su Mingzhe hoped that Director Yang would support him and do some work for this team in the county, and strive to turn this team into a regular army.
Director Yang couldn't help but raise his thumb after listening to Su Mingzhe's words.
While other educated youths are still waiting to be assigned, Su Mingzhe is already creating jobs.
This is the difference between having capabilities and structure.
After lunch, Director Yang, who was drunk, went back to the bedroom to rest. Su Mingzhe took Zheng Juan to buy some things, so he left.
At around six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had already set, and Su Mingzhe drove the carriage back to the village.
Su Mingzhe took out the wedding candies and distributed them around the villagers.
Back at school, Su Mingzhe distributed wedding candies and melon seeds to the other four people.
Wang Quan was the first to congratulate.
The three girls, Yu Hong, Wang Yafang, and Xu Kai, looked at the marriage letters between Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan, and they all began to regret their recent nonsense.
Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan were originally going to get the certificate after building their new house, but the two girls, Wang Yafang and Xu Kai, became more and more hostile to Zheng Juan.
In order to make these two female educated youths give up, Su Mingzhe decided to get the certificate from Zheng Juan in advance.
Sure enough, after seeing both Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan receiving their certificates, Wang Yafang and Xu Kai slowly gave up their hostility towards Zheng Juan.
In a blink of an eye, it’s Thursday.
Early in the morning, the old village chief drove a carriage to send Su Mingzhe and Yu Hong to the county seat.
The forest farm team had been waiting at the intersection for a long time. When Gao Yaxuan saw the two of them, he helped put their things in the pockets of the car and urged them to get in the car:
"Su Zhiqing, please get in the car quickly. The temperature has increased in the past two days. Someone sent a message saying that a section of the road has been washed out. We may have to take a detour this time."
"Okay, Brother Gao."
Su Mingzhe pulled Yu Hong into the car pocket, and then the two of them helped each other and wrapped their bodies tightly in animal skins.
After the car got on the road, the speed was not very fast.
The road from Mulan County to Jichun City is basically built along the river. Every spring, when the river surface becomes clear and there are freezing floods, this section of the road is in danger of landslides.
In previous years, the cold floods started at the end of March and early April. This year, the temperature was a bit abnormal. It was only in early March and the cold floods came. This also resulted in many riverside roads not being protected and many landslides.
At such a slow speed, the car started to hit a large cave in the middle of the road.
Fortunately, the road administration unit has made urgent repairs, and the convoy can still pass through with caution.
However, driving at this speed is such a waste of time.
It was around seven o'clock in the evening when the motorcade finally arrived in Jichun City.
Although Yu Hong's family is also from the Gongle District, they are not from the Guangzhou Film Festival.
Because it was very dark, Su Mingzhe asked Yu Hong to wait on the roadside for a while. He first sent the leather goods home, and then told his mother Jiang Cuiping before sending Yu Hong home.
On the way to send Yu Hong home, Yu Hong introduced her family to Su Mingzhe.
She has a brother and sister above her.
It's just that her sister got married early and is now a housewife, so she doesn't have to go up the mountain to jump in line.
Her brother had already gone to work in the factory, so although she was the youngest child in the family, it was her turn as the youngest child to join the team after the movement to go to the mountains and countryside was launched.
After sending Yu Hong home, Su Mingzhe went to the bathhouse to take a bath again.
On the second day.
Su Mingzhe went to sell leather goods alone. After selling the leather goods, he went to the machinery factory to pay the remaining balance of the bulldozer and urged Director Bai to ship the goods as soon as possible.
Director Bai naturally would not embarrass Su Mingzhe. He paid the money for the goods and promised to deliver them to Mulan County within half a month.
Su Mingzhe said goodbye and left the machinery factory, bought some gifts, and came to Zheng's house.
He was already the son-in-law of the Zheng family. Su Mingzhe was not polite. He called someone and pushed the door open:
"Auntie, Guangming."
"Mingzhe is back."
Zheng's mother was a little disappointed when she saw Su Mingzhe come back alone, but when she saw the bags of gifts Su Mingzhe brought and the envelope that fell into her hand, she smiled from ear to ear.
Since years ago, Zheng Juan followed Su Mingzhe to Baiyashan Village in Mulan County. Zheng's mother worried more than once that Su Mingzhe had abducted her beautiful daughter and would she come to visit her and her son again?
I will continue to provide living expenses for my family.
Fortunately, Su Mingzhe came again and did not forget about living expenses.
Only then did Zheng's mother sigh, luckily she didn't see the wrong person at first.
"Brother."
Zheng Guangming wore glasses and his eyes were particularly bright and energetic. When he saw Su Mingzhe, tears flowed down his face.
"Why are you still crying?"
Su Mingzhe teased his brother-in-law for a while, and then took his pulse as a follow-up examination:
"Auntie, Guangming's eyes are almost healed. I will wear these glasses for another month. Next time I come over, I will give Guangming a new pair."
"good."
Zheng's mother is not good at words, so whatever her son-in-law Su Mingzhe says, she does.
Su Mingzhe simply talked about his and Zheng Juan's work in White Ya Mountain alone.
He said that he and Zheng Juan had received the certificates.
He said that he was preparing to build a new yard in Bai Yashan Village.
Su Mingzhe finally said that when the new yard was built, he would invite his mother and son to live together in White Ya Mountain.
"You kid, you and Juanzi won't worry about me and Xiao Ming so much. I can take care of myself. Xiao Ming can see now and can take care of himself..."
Zheng's mother wanted to refuse. She didn't want to disturb the lives and work of Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan.
Su Mingzhe insisted on inviting the two of them over:
"Auntie, it's okay if you really don't want to leave Jichun City, but Juanzi and I are going to hold a wedding then, and you and Guangming will definitely go there to attend. If you feel uncomfortable living there in Baiya Mountain, then
I'll take you and Guangming back to the head office, right?"
"That's okay."
Seeing that Su Mingzhe had said so much, Zheng's mother did not continue to refuse.
After having lunch at Zheng's house, Su Mingzhe went to the store to buy gifts and came to Zhou's house.
Before Zhou Bingyi went to the Corps, he came to Su's house specifically to deal with his brother Zhou Bingkun's affairs and left a letter for Su Mingzhe.
When Su Mingzhe returned home yesterday, his younger brother Su Mingxue took out this letter.
In the letter, Zhou Bingyi wrote that he asked Su Mingzhe, an old classmate, to help take care of Zhou Bingkun and bring him to White Ya Mountain. It would be best to arrange for him to be recommended for a place in college.
This was originally something Su Mingzhe had promised a long time ago, so naturally he would not go back on it.
Zhou family.
After Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Bingyi left one after another, the Zhou family now only has three people at home, Zhou's mother, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingkun.
Compared with the plot of the original book and TV series, Zhou Rong has not yet pursued her love at this time.
I don't know whether it was because Su Mingzhe cut off Zhou Rong's red line, or because Zhou Rong was worried about the future of her younger brother Zhou Bingkun, so she stayed at home.
Anyway, when Su Mingzhe came to the Zhou family with gifts, the Zhou family was very happy. Even Zhou Rong welcomed him into the house with a smile.
"Auntie, Zhou Rong, and Bingkun are all at home."
Su Mingzhe entered the room with a smile and handed the gift to Zhou Bingkun.
"Brother Mingzhe, come and sit on the kang."
Zhou Bingkun seems to be a naive guy, but he has a sensitive mind. When he saw Su Mingzhe come to the door, he wanted to ask him about jumping in line, but he was afraid that Su Mingzhe would refuse, so he could only look at Su Mingzhe eagerly with his honest and honest eyes.
Su Mingzhe sat on the kang and chatted with Zhou's mother Li Suhua for a while.
The old man still felt sorry for his old problem, so he took the initiative to ask:
"Mingzhe, Bingyi has been away for half a month. The streets have been urging Bingkun to do something recently. Can you help make arrangements for Bingkun to follow you to Mulan County?"
Li Suhua didn't feel confident. After all, it had been several months since Su Mingzhe asked Zhou Bingkun to go to Mulan County.
Who knows if things have changed.
What if Su Mingzhe is unwilling to help Zhou Bingkun?
"no problem."
Su Mingzhe took a look, and the three Zhou family members looked at each other eagerly, and laughed:
"Auntie, I have said before that you just need to be at ease when you hand Bingkun over to me. I regard Bingkun as my biological brother. When he follows me to Mulan County, I will definitely not let him go.
He was wronged."
"Mingzhe, you still have the ability."
Li Suhua relaxed a little when she heard that Su Mingzhe agreed again.
At this time, she noticed that Su Mingzhe had been sitting for a while, and his two children had not yet poured a glass of boiling water.
"Bingkun, hurry up and get some water for your brother Mingzhe. This kid has no eyesight at all."
This chapter has been completed!