Such a gossipy sentence quickly attracted everyone's attention, so some people immediately expressed their opinions.
"Where did it come from? You look like a pretty young girl, why can't you think about it?"
"Ah, you didn't buy it, did you?"
"What did you buy? The girl from Shannan is willing to marry him!"
"Impossible! Lao Zheng is turning 40 this year. If he really has this ability to coax people, why would his first two wives have to get divorced even if they live and die?"
Lao Zheng was a well-known bachelor in his village. Twenty Lang was actually married when he was a year old, but only six months later, his new wife quit, saying that he had no future and wanted a divorce.
Divorce was not popular at that time, and neither of them provided proof. As soon as the burden was settled, the wife went south to work.
Two years later, the matchmaker in the village introduced another one, a widow. He thought that since both of them were poor, they should not dislike each other for being hopeless...
Within two years, the widow stopped working.
I have found a better one, and now I am remarrying to Pine Tree Town, which is further away.
It's good now. I heard that the girl from Shannan is only in her early twenties. Why is she so determined to fall in love with Lao Zheng?
Everyone was chatting away, and their voices were so loud that you could hear them even standing on the road, let alone entering the yard.
When Qiao Qiao walked slowly all the way, the background of the story was almost clear to her.
Qiao Qiao, who broke into the courtyard for unknown reasons:...
Everyone in the live broadcast room who was halfway through eating the melon:...
【You say it! Old lady, you should say it!】
[That’s right! Why? Why did you only say half of it? 】
[Good guy, watermelons are not for sale, so you have to eat them all]
【Quick, quick, quick! Ask! Why!】
And the old man and lady in the yard here looked at Qiao Qiao with great enthusiasm:
"Jojo is here?"
"Look at how hot it is and how red your face is...go drink some water quickly."
"Qiaoqiao, why do you have to put on a show when you go to your grandpa's place?"
"Oh, are you taking a video?"
"Take a video? Let me take one for you, Grandma Wang. Just a hard-working, simple one..."
"Wang Juhua! You still work hard? You are the only one who can talk. Can you do as much as me?"
"You work with your hands and don't use your mouth. It's not easy for you to work by yourself, and you think others are as easily distracted as you..."
Seeing the two old ladies choking again, the barrage became more and more excited!
【Fight, fight!】
[Although it is very immoral... but it would be really interesting if we started fighting...]
[Wow, is this the working environment in rural areas? 】
[There are no secrets in the village, there are so many melons——]
【At this moment, I am the melon field】
It's a pity that except for Zhang Yanping who took a moment to look at Taotaobao, no one would watch the barrage at all.
Song Youde was no longer surprised by all the excitement, and instead asked Qiao Qiao: "What are you taking pictures of?"
Qiao Qiao pointed to the half-woven straw mat in his hand:
“We’re halfway through the filming of brewing and we have to wait, so we’re going to do a live broadcast of weaving straw mats first.”
"Okay, then you can take the photo -"
Song Youde pointed to the wall: "Just put it there, okay? Anyway, as long as you can take a picture, you can take a rest."
"oh."
Qiaoqiao obediently put the stand aside and went to drink water by herself.
The barrages in the live broadcast room were scrolling one by one, and the scene was particularly intense. Fortunately, everyone in the courtyard lived up to their expectations——
Grandma Wang, who had just raised the topic before, said again:
"...Shannan is a poor place. Young people today don't even know that. In the past, many people liked to go there to buy wives."
When she said this, she suddenly said "Hey!" and looked in Qiaoqiao's direction warily and nervously: "I won't be photographed when I say this, right?"
"What are you afraid of? I watched the Douyin video that my daughter-in-law made. Before posting it, I had to edit it with my phone and set it to music. There was no sound at all."
"Oh, oh, oh." Grandma Wang lowered her voice again to create a sense of mystery: "Oh, our village doesn't have it. It's so worthless to spend money to buy someone else's house... I'm not exaggerating, my village is really good."
"That's that's..."
When I mentioned my hometown, everyone was full of praise again.
However, what Grandma Wang said is also true.
In the past, marriage did not require a house or a car. It only depended on whether the young man was willing to work and whether the family could get along well...
Their Yunqiao Village is really pretty good.
Even the lazy guy who is looked down upon by others has not reached this level.
Grandma Wang sighed:
"But it wasn't like I didn't have many requirements at that time. I remember that my eldest son wanted to get a wife, and the matchmaker brought the girl to see her."
"The rules at that time were that you had to take people to the granary to see if the grain was stacked high. Oh, you also know that my family really didn't have any money at that time. I was so poor that I had to rely on my relatives.
I pieced together three sacks."
"At least I didn't mind it. The famine had just ended at that time... I just made do with it."
Qiaoqiao drank some water and was sitting on the porch, listening obediently. When she heard this, she asked, "Why do you want to look at the grain stack?"
"Because at that time, you couldn't buy anything with money, and the tickets were very few, so food was the hard currency." Song Youde sighed. There was no information in the mountain village. He still had a stack of tickets, but he didn't have time to use them.
"The availability of food is the standard to measure whether a man can support his family in Hukou."
Oh. Qiao Qiao understands.
I also understand the barrage.
【Increased knowledge!】
【This live broadcast is not a loss!】
[I just asked my mother, and she said this was the rule here before. 】
[It’s the same here. My mother said she was deceived miserably—my grandfather was in charge at the time, and there was a lot of food in the house, but he didn’t feed it, so he had to save money]
At this moment, someone outside weaving straw mats laughed:
"Wang Juhua, you could still borrow three sacks at that time. As for the Lao Zheng you just mentioned -"
Lao Zheng is only forty years old, so he is really a junior compared to those here, but the whole village calls him that, and everyone just follows him in confusion.
"I remember that when he first got married, he couldn't afford a grain of rice at home. He went around and around to borrow a liter from his aunt."
"The matchmaker took the girl into the granary. When she saw that she couldn't even feed a mouse, her face turned dark."
Qiao Qiao turned into a little question mark again: "What is Shengzi?"
Song Youde made a gesture: "I used to be poor. The entire brigade only had one steelyard, and every time I wanted to use it, I had to go to the village chief... so every household had a wooden or pottery container."
"There are rectangular ones, square ones, round ones, etc., but basically, it takes one liter to fill, so it's called a liter. According to current calculations, one full liter requires four kilograms of grain."
Good guy!
Everyone was amazed by the barrage.
【So there is such a thing? 】
[Why are there none of the chronicle articles I read? 】
[Every region is different...]
[A brigade only has one steelyard... I can imagine how poor they are now]