In this small county town, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from Huxia City, the capital of Zhongjiang Province, but is surrounded by mountains on three sides, girls like Lu Yan have been brainwashed by the environment since they were young. Anyone who has brothers in the family,
Sisters must make way for their brothers. This is how normal life is. Even when we get married, we must exchange gifts for our brothers.
Although Lu Yan occasionally feels unfair, the reality is like this and she has no way to change it. Moreover, although she is dissatisfied with her mother Liang Ping's dominance in this family, as she grows older, she gradually realizes
In fact, it is still not easy for me to be a mother. My father is in poor health and has a weak character. The family is basically supported by my mother alone.
And although her mother Liang Ping is tight-lipped, this tightness is not just for Lu Yan, but for everyone in the family, even the most favored younger brother Lu Liang, who doesn't have much pocket money.
And Liang Ping was even more reluctant to let go of herself. Lu Yan always remembered that Liang Ping had a hand-sewn cotton-padded jacket. Ever since she could remember, her mother would wear that cotton-padded jacket every winter to keep out the cold. For many years, her mother just wore a mask outside.
A smock that I made using my sewing machine.
In an era when down jackets were everywhere on the streets, such cotton-padded jackets had long been eliminated. Even though Lu Yan bought a down jacket for her mother when she went out to work, she treasured it and put it in her closet. She still wore that jacket without knowing it was being beaten.
There were so many patches of cotton-padded jacket, but now it was covered with a blouse bought from the wet market that others wear when cooking.
But life at home is indeed much better than before. Liang Ping even dared to think about buying a house in the county. Lu Yan had very complicated feelings towards such a mother and family.
So when Liang Ping proposed to ban her daughter from dating Shao Yang, although Lu Yan was sad, she did not react excessively and just asked why.
"Why? Why did you say? Look at me. When I married your father, I jumped into a pit of fire all my life. I asked that Shaoyang family and they couldn't even come up with the money for the bride's gift. How could you marry him?
Have a good life?"
"But he has skills and has opened a shop. After two or three years, he can always come up with the money for the gift." Lu Yan was not convinced.
Liang Ping sneered: "Oh, I have had so many beautiful dreams in my life, but they all turned out to be nothing in the end. Do you know why your Lu family was so poor before? It's because your grandparents are sick, and no matter how much money you earn, you have to throw it into medical treatment. It's hard to
The two old men got through it, and your father got sick again, so I came here clutching my chest, and I will be very poor for the rest of my life."
"Finally, you have grown up and you can help the family. Find a man like this. Although he didn't say that his parents were sick, he said that he couldn't help at all. Why can't he help? Shut up.
You, a fool like you, are still going to jump into the fire pit in what age are you, even though you can see it with your eyes?"
Lu Yan retorted: "Mom, don't you just think that he can't afford the gift money, so you are critical of him?"
Liang Ping didn't bother to say more to her daughter, who had always been quite obedient, and simply summed it up in one sentence: "You think so, just ask him to bring you 60,000 yuan in gift money now. I nodded without saying a word. From now on, you can do it yourself."
It's your own business to endure hardship."
Now it was Lu Yan's turn to be speechless, because she also knew that it was a joke for any family in the county to marry their daughter without getting a bride price. After holding it in for a long time, Lu Yan said: "Can't you wait two years? I don't think so.
If you are in a hurry to get married, wait until he makes money in two years, and then you will have the money for the bride price."
"Wait two years? How much will the house price cost after waiting two years? Will he get more betrothal gifts as much as the price increases by then? Besides, you are a girl. If he has bad intentions, he will make you bigger first.
Now, where will I go to cry?"
The mother and daughter broke up on bad terms, and Lu Yan began to meet Shao Yang in secret, while Liang Ping began to find a matchmaker to introduce her daughter to a partner.
The competition really began. For the first time, Lu Yan did not go to the blind date arranged by Liang Ping. Liang Ping went directly to the bakery in Shaoyang and made a scene for a long time.
The second time, Lu Yan went there, but she didn't give him a good look. Liang Ping was even more upset. The breakfast shop was closed for the whole day, and she took the car to her hometown in the countryside of Shaoyang early in the morning to cause a scene.
Lu Yan really didn't expect Liang Ping to do such a great job. Her eyes were swollen from crying. After lying at home for three days and three nights, she took the initiative to break up with Shaoyang.
When Lu Yan said this, her face was full of tears. In these tears, she not only recalled the sadness and despair at that time, but also boundless regret: "I felt at that time that if I didn't accept my mother's
According to the arrangement, the store in Shaoyang will not be able to open sooner or later, and he also hopes that the store will repay his debts and support his family, but I did not expect that so many things would happen later."
After lying at home for a few days, Liang Ping saw that Lu Yan spontaneously fell asleep. She didn't know the reason during that time, but she was not in a hurry to arrange a blind date for Lu Yan.
Probably because she wanted to give her daughter a buffer period, after a month or so, Liang Ping started to get serious. She was picking and choosing from the matchmaker, and finally she chose a young man named Zou, whose family happened to be willing to provide a bride price of 60,000 yuan.
, and as long as both parties are successful, they can immediately come up with cash.
This time, Liang Ping personally took Lu Yan on a blind date, and went directly to the groom's home. When the Zou family saw Lu Yan, both generations were very happy, and they were even more enthusiastic about the mother and daughter.
No, Liang Ping took advantage of the Zou family's eagerness to get married. She not only visited the Zou family, but also increased the bride price by eight thousand yuan.
Although the Zou family hesitated for a moment, they couldn't resist their son's willingness, so they agreed, but they also made a request to hold the wedding as soon as possible, because their son was not yet of legal age for marriage, so they could hold the wedding first that year, and wait.
In the second year, when the man reaches the age, he will go to get the marriage certificate.
Liang Ping agreed without saying a word, because there were too many such things in the countryside. Sometimes, the couple had not reached the legal age of marriage until the child was old enough to get a marriage certificate. What's more, when they got married,
You don't even need to get a certificate of age, you are automatically divorced.
At that time, Lu Yan was basically heartbroken. She was like Liang Ping's puppet. She would do whatever she said.
"At that time, I thought that I could just live like that. I would live my life no matter what. As long as my mother was satisfied, I would be at peace. But I didn't expect that I still couldn't get through it." Although Lu Yan stopped crying,
But the bitterness on his face was a bit stronger.
Later, Lu Yan actually followed the arrangements of the two families and held a banquet with the young man from the Zou family in the village.
"That night, their family members all drank too much, and the man was even more drunk. I was the only one who was sober. The more I thought about it, the more unwilling I felt, even disgusting, so I ran out in the middle of the night.
I really had nowhere to go, so I stayed up late at night in a small hotel in that town. In the morning, there was a shuttle bus, so I took the shuttle bus back to the county seat and looked for Shaoyang."
The three of them, Wen Mengran, were all shocked by Lu Yan's words. She must have been forced to completely lose her mind and run away on the wedding night. How confused and uneasy she must have been at that time, and how uncertain she was about fate and fate.
Is it because you are unwilling to accept your marriage that you run away like this regardless of it?
"I just wanted to disappear. As long as I disappeared and died, I would no longer be living with that person, and all the pain would be over. But I also wanted to see Shaoyang again before I died, but I
After seeing him, I couldn't bear to die, but I didn't know what to do in the future, so we discussed hiding me first."
But things did not develop as Lu Yan and Shao Yang thought. Liang Ping searched for Lu Yan several times in Shaoyang but failed to find her, but actually committed suicide by drinking pesticide. Under such circumstances, Lu Yan had to show up, but
The first time Liang Ping met Lu Yan at the county hospital, she actually didn't ask her to go back to Zou's house, but made another offer that Lu Yan couldn't refuse.
Liang Ping asked Lu Yan to get a marriage certificate with another young man named He. Before getting the certificate, Lu Yan saw with her own eyes that Liang Ping had accepted the bride price of 88,000 yuan from the other party.
After receiving the certificate, Lu Yan ran away again. This time, she ran further and simply went to the place where she used to work and found a job.
Yes, Liang Ping's condition is that as long as Lu Yan and the person named He get a marriage certificate, she will not care about anything else. And for Lu Yan, since it was the first time to run away, why can't she run away?
What about the second time?
By this time, Lu Beicen, who was standing in the corner outside the camera, frowned and looked at Wen Mengran, who was sitting opposite Lu Yan. This matter had become not as simple as imagined, but more like a
Wen Mengran was also aware of the marriage deception in Decomposition Action, and asked: "Did your mother give you permission to escape from marriage for the second time, or was it something you both negotiated?"
Lu Yan shook her head: "She just said that if I agreed to this condition, she would never care about me again and would not commit suicide. At that time, I just felt that I could finally be free, and I agreed without thinking too much."
Wen Mengran asked again: "Who did you consult before coming here? Was it a professional lawyer or someone else?"
Shao Yang had obviously realized that something was wrong. He changed his previous silence and directly interjected: "Is there something wrong?"
Wen Mengran pondered for a moment before saying: "My personal suggestion is that you should go home as soon as possible to discuss with your mother and return the bride price. I don't know what the He family knows now and why they didn't call the police. But judging from the plot
Look, we can’t intervene in your mediation, because it may already involve criminal behavior, and the police need to intervene to make a final determination."
Lu Yan was immediately frightened. She stood up from her chair in fright and hid beside Shaoyang. Shaoyang was still a little calmer: "I'm asking a relative of mine who usually writes some litigation materials for others. He
The bottom line of this case is that as long as you pay back the money, nothing will happen."
Wen Mengran shook his head: "I can't say what he said is wrong, but in your situation, you certainly can't count the whole team. After all, can you take out the money and pay it back now? As you just said, you need those two
I give you one year, but if they don’t agree and you don’t pay the money, then our mediation will definitely be detrimental to you.”
"And Lu Yan, I think you are pregnant because you are like this. You are obviously not willing to go to either of those two houses now. When you are losing both your life and money, and your mother is acting recklessly and is unwilling to refund the money, then they will definitely
If you call the police, there will be no way out."
Lu Yan's face began to turn pale, and Shao Yang seemed to feel her fear. He stretched out a hand to hug her from behind. He thought for a while and then said: "Anyway, reporter Wen, thank you, then we will leave today.
Let's go back and think of a solution. I hope you can help keep today's matter a secret. I believe that Yanzi's mother did not have any intentions, but just did not understand the law, which led to today's situation. We will definitely raise money as soon as possible to pay back their money.
Up."
Wen Mengran signaled Xue Feng to turn off the phone, and after thinking about it, he reminded her: "Lv Yan had better think of a way to remind your mother, have a better attitude in front of the judge, and refund the compensation as soon as possible. You are pregnant now. If the other party calls the police, your mother will
There is a high possibility of being caught."
Shao Yang supported Lu Yan and thanked her repeatedly before walking out of the room.
Wen Mengran sent her out and closed the door. Seeing Lu Beicen and Xue Feng both looking at her, they shrugged and showed a helpless expression: "It seems that the trip was in vain. Let's take a break and then go back.
Or should we leave now?"
Lu Beicen shook his head, pulled up a chair and sat down, and asked very puzzledly: "Why do these two parties say different things about this matter? According to what this girl said, the boy's family must call the police.
That's why her mother hid her and didn't let her show up. Maybe what she said was not entirely true. Otherwise, why would she have come back again and become pregnant? By the way, how did you know she was pregnant?
of?"
"You can't tell from standing in the corner, but it's very clear when she's sitting in front of me. She looks like she must be three or four months old, and when she talks, she occasionally makes a little nauseating movement."
Wen Mengran unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, took a sip and continued: "And she is already married to two families, and she has such a mother, and she has to pay such a debt. If Shaoyang didn't love her,
If you love her so much, why would you want to go into debt with her? There is only one possibility, that is, Lu Yan is pregnant with Shao Yang's child."
Xue Feng also took a bottle of water and took a sip, and said with some doubts: "Don't you think Shao Yang will doubt whether the child is his? After all, Lu Yan has gone to two families, and the first family will do what she wants.
, it should be after the bridal chamber, right?”
Wen Mengran combed his hair and sighed: "There are weird things every year, but there are so many this year. Who knows what he is thinking. There may be a time difference. What these groups of people said are different, and they are all right.
I can’t figure out who is real and who is fake. Forget it, we are neither police nor judges. Let’s just mention it for the moment and treat it as a failure. Let’s go back early.”
"Then what should you do with this material? Shall I wash it off?" Xue Feng asked.
"Let's keep it for now. Although we can't mess with whether this matter is reported to the police or not, if someone calls the police and the case is successfully filed, and the police want to investigate and find us, we still have to provide it."