Xiuzhi asked Shi Ke, "Keke, do you still remember their address?"

Shi Ke nodded and shook his head, "I just remembered that it was called Xinzhuang. When I got home, I wrote a letter there. I don't know if I remembered the wrong address. The letter was returned with the following words:

There is no trace of this place.”

When Shi Ke first returned to her parents, she wrote a letter to Zhao Liangsheng and the others, but she had never written a letter before and her address was incomplete. She only wrote Xinzhuang Village, City Z. City Z was so big, and she didn’t know it at the time.

The staff did not check which district the letter was sent to. They just put a small note on it saying that this place was not found and returned it. For this reason, Shi Ke was sad for a long time when he received the reply.

Xiuzhi sighed, "Oh~ this is life."

I don’t know why, but Xiu Zhi becomes more and more accepting of her fate as she gets older, especially after some past events. Looking back, she feels that it was destined.

The family cried loudly, but they had no choice but to accept the reality. Xiuzhi felt sorry for her son-in-law who died at a young age, and also felt sorry for her daughter who was having a hard time raising a litter of young children alone. The old man was anxious, but she

Not knowing how to help, she hurriedly opened the cabinet and took out a small bundle, "Yingzi, Mom has saved some money here, take it and buy something for the children to eat."

Wang Ying hurriedly pressed Xiuzhi's hand and said, "Mom, I don't want it, I have money."

Xiuzhi pushed her daughter's hand aside, "What money do you have? When Dayong was alive, Dayong could make money. When Dayong is gone, who will make money for you?"

"Mom, I'm so rich." Wang Ying said, grabbing the baggage and putting it aside. "After Dayong left, my employer asked me to take over. Now I can earn money to support my children."

"You're at work." This result immediately made Xiuzhi feel relieved, "That's good."

Wang Youyuan's family lived in the town, and there was a small market just outside the alley. In the next few days, Xiuzhi arranged for Wang Youyuan to go to the market to buy groceries every day. She had said comforting words so many times that she didn't know what to do anymore.

To express her love and affection for the child, she only knew how to give Wang Yingniang some delicious food in various ways.

On New Year's Eve, Wang Ying had to return to her husband's house. Although Dayong was gone, as Lao Shi's eldest daughter-in-law, she and the four children of Lao Shi's family could not celebrate the New Year at her parents' house.

The New Year must be spent at the old house. After breakfast, Ruicheng brought He Xiaoxia and their two children over to the old house.

Ruifu's business gets busier and busier as the New Year approaches. At the end of the year, every house has to be cleaned to celebrate the New Year, and some things that are in the way are cleared out. These things also take up space. If you can sell them for two yuan, it's better. Ruifu will

By buying them at extremely cheap prices, sorting them out and then selling them, the money earned in one year is as much as two months. Ruifu did not dare to waste this golden period and worked until the 29th of the year before resting.

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Ruifu was busy, but he still took his life-long affairs to his heart. He would always visit Cheng Liyun when he had time to remind her not to forget his affairs.

In Cheng Liyun's eyes, Ruifu's requirements are too high. You said that you are an old bachelor in your thirties and you are always looking for a eldest daughter. Do you think eldest daughters are so easy to find? You are not a young man.

There is plenty of time to choose someone of the same age. For people of your age, it is not easy to find a eldest daughter. In these days, rural girls get married early, and the suitable one has already settled on a family before they are twenty.

If you can keep your daughter until she is twenty-five and she is not married, she will become an old girl. Even the parents of an old girl will not be willing to marry your daughter to you, an old man in his thirties. Now your family is too poor to be considered a wife.

There are many young people, and if they are not too poor, it is possible to find a man several years younger than themselves. There are also eldest girls in their twenties, eighties, nineties, and thirties, but they are either stupid or foolish, and Ruifu does not want this.

At first, Cheng Liyun was concerned about Ruifu's face and didn't speak so clearly. She agreed whenever Ruifu came to her. Later, when Ruifu came more often, she simply opened the window and said frankly, "Third son,

Let me tell you the truth, if you still say that you don’t want it unless you are an eldest daughter, then aunt really can’t find one for you. You see, you are not young anymore. If you can fall in love with an eldest daughter, she may not be able to fall in love with you.

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In fact, Ruifu also understands this truth, but he just doesn't want to be a stepfather. Ruifu thought for a while, the conditions are really not too strict, otherwise he may not be able to get a wife when he reaches forty. Ruifu scratched his head

, "Aunt, it's fine if you're not an eldest daughter, and it's not impossible for you to be a younger daughter-in-law, but you must not have children."

Cheng Liyun glanced at Ruifu lazily and said, "Okay, I'll take note of it."

It was a coincidence that a few days after Cheng Liyun promised Ruifu, there was such a family for her to catch up with.

Speaking of which, this incident can be considered an injustice and a tragedy caused by bad rural habits.

In these days, rural families were not rich, and it was common for older men and young men to find wives who could not find wives. As time went by, a new custom was born - marriage exchange.

As the name suggests, marriage exchange means that both families have sons and daughters. A daughter from your family will marry a son from my family, and a daughter from my family will marry a son from your family. There is also an exchange between three families. A will marry a daughter from family B, and B will marry a daughter from family C.

C's daughter, C then marries a daughter of A's family.

Song Siqiao has two brothers, the eldest brother Song Sili and the second brother Song Sijian. The family is poor. Song Sili is about to turn 27 and has not yet mentioned a wife. This makes Song Qingshu and Huang Dujuan extremely anxious.

After deliberation, Si Qiao was twenty-two years old this year, and at the age when it was time to find her in-laws, it was really impossible to find a suitable family and exchange marriages.

When the news spread, some people actually responded. After being introduced, the couple chose the Tan family from a neighboring village. The Tan family has a son and two daughters. The son Tan Jianjun is 26 years old, the eldest daughter Tan Hongmei is 19 years old, and the second daughter Tan Hongzhu is 10 years old.

Sixth, the reason why Song Qingshu chose the Tan family was for the sake of his daughter. Even though he was changing marriages, he had to think about his daughter’s future. The Tan family only had one son. From now on, the family’s property would fall on the young couple, and no one would compete with them.

The only regret is that Tan Hongmei is still young, so the two families discussed letting Song Siqiao marry her first, and then she would marry Song Sili when Tan Hongmei was twenty, which meant they had to wait an extra year.

The older generation discussed it, but ignored the ideas of the younger generation. Song Siqiao had listened to her parents since she was a child, and she would do whatever her parents said. However, Tan Hongmei didn't think so. She strongly opposed the change of marriage.

Especially if she has to be exchanged for a man who is so much older than her.

Tan Hongmei protested, but the objection was ineffective, and Song Siqiao successfully became her sister-in-law.

At the wedding, when Song Sili knew that the pretty girl in front of him was his future wife, his heart suddenly beat wildly with excitement, and his eyes were glued to Tan Hongmei's body and could no longer turn around.

Song Sili's performance made Tan Hongmei even more disgusted. She didn't like this man in the first place, but he still stared at her unscrupulously. This made Tan Hongmei feel as sick as swallowing a fly.

She glared at Song Sili fiercely and found a secluded corner to hide.

Marriage is a great event, even if it is a marriage change, Tan Jianjun and his parents want to make their son's wedding a lively event, so all relatives and friends are invited. There are so many people, the couple is very busy, and the eldest daughter doesn't know how to run away.

Where to hide and relax, can this old couple be willing?

Aunt Tan searched around but didn't see Hongmei, so she asked her second daughter who was helping to pour water, "Hongzhu, where has your eldest sister gone? The family is so busy, how come she doesn't have any eyesight?"

Hong Zhu looked around in the crowd in confusion, but she really didn't see the figure of the eldest sister, "I don't know, she was here just now."

Aunt Tan frowned and said, "Go and find it." As soon as she finished speaking, she put on a smiling face. She took two steps forward and took an elderly woman's hand affectionately, "Oh, sister-in-law, come here.

Come on, sit down in the room."

Tan Hongmei regretted it. She shouldn't have dressed up so beautifully today. If she had known she would have worn a shabby jacket, didn't brush her teeth, didn't wash her face, and didn't even comb her hair.

Hongmei dressed up extravagantly today. She specially wore a plum blossom jacket prepared for the Chinese New Year. The jacket was made of the latest style and had two pleats at the waistline. The clothes would not look so bulky when worn and could still be worn.

Showing off her waist, she wore two big braids on her head. She kept her hair long and the ends of the braids just hung on her slim waist.

Hongmei is about 1.6 meters tall, which is considered tall in this era. On her small face, there are a pair of big black and white eyes. The eyes are not double eyelids, the nose is not high bridge, let alone the mouth.

She has a small cherry mouth, but the combination of her facial features makes her look beautiful.

No wonder Song Sili couldn't turn his eyes away. Although he never talked about his wife, as a young man with normal development, it was impossible not to have fantasies about women, especially after attending other people's weddings and meeting other people's brides.

Your significant other has longing and expectations.

When they met today, he was immediately attracted to his future wife. His daughter-in-law was more beautiful than any bride he had ever seen. Song Sili felt as if she had eaten honey. Unexpectedly, when he went to the bathroom, he could not find Tan Hongmei when he came out.

The figure appeared, which made him regretful, saying that he would have held it back if he had known about it.

Hongzhu searched around before finding Hongmei in the corner. She hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Hongmei's hand, "Sister, I'm so busy, what are you doing here?"

Hongmei sat still, frowning and said: "Second sister, go outside and see if our sister-in-law and her eldest brother are still outside?"

"Hey~" Hongzhu pointed at Hongmei's forehead, "You must be embarrassed to meet your future son-in-law."

"Why are you so sorry?" Hongmei opened her sister's fingers and said, "I'm just annoyed that you keep looking at that person without looking in the eyes. I'm so annoyed."
Chapter completed!