Through carrier pigeons, Su Nanbing and Ruan Xiuxiang chatted and wrote letters, and met secretly whenever they could.
After three days, after discussion, the Ruan family felt that they should have a casual meeting with the Su family to have a good chat, and asked Aunt Xu to pass on the news. However, the Su family kept using the excuse of "rethinking it again" and never took it seriously.
Set a time to meet.
"What's going on? Our girl's family has agreed to meet casually. Why is there no news from their boyfriend's family?"
A Xiang's two sisters-in-law were very anxious because they felt that the marriage with the Su family was indeed a good one.
Axiang's parents, who were still hesitant at first, began to worry when they saw that the Su family did not agree to a casual meeting. After all, their Axiang was already twenty years old after the Chinese New Year, which was not considered young in the countryside, and in the past two years, they
There were only a few people at home who proposed marriage.
I don’t know who spread the news, saying that their family’s Axiang is well-educated and has high demands on the groom’s family, which scares everyone away...
Young people in the village basically follow their parents' arrangements when getting married. Parents in rural areas like most a daughter-in-law who is hard-working. She can take care of the elderly and children. It is best to have a big belly and work in the fields to earn work points.
, everyone praises this kind of thing.
As for reading and literacy, there is no use at all. Why spend the gift money to marry such a wife back home?
The villagers never mentioned these words in front of the Ruan family, but secretly they often said that the captain had raised Axiang badly. A good girl was not at home learning to sew clothes with embroidery needles and cultivate the land with a hoe.
She went to school with a pen holder.
This word spread to ten, and people in other villages also knew that Axiang, the wife of Captain Ruan's family in Shangtang Village, was beautiful, but not suitable to marry home.
"Axiang's father, what should we do about this?" Zhou Hong said to her husband at night, "How about I go to Su's house and ask about the situation? Is it because last time our family's Axiang ran to their house alone?
Do they think Axiang has no rules?"
"Hey, where are you going? Don't you think it's embarrassing?" Axiang's father Ruan Dazhi sighed, "Don't go..."
"But Ayu and Xiaofang both said that the Su family is good. If the second son of the Su family is really the platoon leader, then we, Axiang, have missed a great marriage, and maybe there will never be such a good marriage in the future.
"
Ruan Dazhi said: "Didn't Zhongzhong say that the Su family deceived us about the platoon leader?"
"You don't know what kind of character Qiuru's husband is? I can only trust two out of ten of his words. I still believe in Ayu and Xiaofang. They both said that the Su family is good, so it shouldn't be bad.
Besides, even if the Sunan soldier is not a platoon leader, but just an ordinary conscript, I actually think it’s pretty good. Now that conscripts are assigned jobs after they retire, they might be able to work in a factory.”
After listening to what his wife said for a while, Ruan Dazhi began to get entangled, "But the matchmaker is responsible for running both sides of the blind date. If one party doesn't agree to continue to meet, it means they are dissatisfied with the marriage. The other party can no longer disturb others..."
"Of course I know this! But the Su family didn't say they were dissatisfied with our Axiang. They only said they would consider it. I think this marriage is still possible, but it's inconvenient for Aunt Xu to send messages back and forth. Why don't we
Let's go to Su's house in person."
"No, no, it's obvious that you're cheating on others. How embarrassing would it be if the people in the village knew about it?"
As soon as Ruan Dazhi finished speaking, his wife pinched his arm hard, causing him to scream in pain, "What are you doing?"
"Is your face more important or your daughter's lifelong happiness? I don't care, I have to go to Su's house tomorrow anyway!"
Having said this, Zhou Hong covered herself with the quilt, looked angry, turned sideways and closed her eyes.
Ruan Dazhi saw that his wife was angry, and struggled for a long time. Finally, he patted his wife on the back and said, "Okay, don't be angry. I just promise you. For Axiang's happiness, I will risk my old face."
"
Early the next morning, they found Chen Xiaoyu, Axiang's second sister-in-law, and asked her to lead the way to Su's house.
As soon as the three people walked into Luohu Village, someone from the production team recognized Ruan Dazhi and whispered to another person next to him: "Isn't that the production captain of Shangtang Village? Why did you come to our village? Are you here to see our captain?"
"
"Let me ask, what's going on? You're not here to repair the river again, are you?"
"Isn't it? It's not long after the Chinese New Year. I've finally had a little leisure time at work recently, and I have to build rivers and clear out the sludge?"
They complained for a while, and one of them couldn't help but ran to Ruan Dazhi and asked him if he came to Captain Luo to discuss repairing the river. He also said that the river had problems every year and repaired it every year. This was to kill people.
Don’t give up until you’re exhausted...
Before he could finish speaking, Ruan Dazhi hurriedly interrupted: "No, I'm not here to see Captain Luo. It hasn't rained heavily this year, so the river is fine."
"Ah? If you're not looking for Captain Luo, then why are you coming to our village?" After a while, several people gathered around and asked Ruan Dazhi curiously.
Ruan Dazhi blushed in embarrassment and didn't know what to say to explain. Next to him, his second daughter-in-law, Chen Xiaoyu, said, "We came to the Su family to discuss marriage."
Ruan Dazhi was startled, "Ayu, what are you talking about?"
"Dad, sooner or later everyone has to know. Anyway, our two families are getting married soon. It will only happen sooner or later."
After saying these words, Chen Xiaoyu winked at her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law reacted and quickly dragged her husband away.
When crossing the bridge, Ruan Dazhi was furious, "Ayu, how could you tell such a lie in front of so many people? If the Su family has no intention of getting engaged to our family, what will Axiang do in the future? Who wants her?
?She can't get married."
"Things have come to this point, no matter what we rely on, we must rely on the Su family!"
The courtyard gate of the Su family could already be seen. Chen Xiaoyu said to her father-in-law: "Dad, I will not harm Axiang. The Su family is really good. If Axiang can marry into this family, she will have a blessed life in the future...
…”
While they were talking, the Su family was having breakfast.
"Yesterday Aunt Xu came to ask questions again. She asked if she wanted to have a rough meeting with the Ruan family." Bai Lu said.
After listening to his wife's words, Su Jianmin turned to ask Nan Bing, "Second brother, what are you thinking? Don't you really like Axiang? We have met in private several times, why do you still think about it? Keep dragging others down?"
"This is what Axiang asked for."
"Ah?" Su Jianmin was surprised, "Axiang asked for it?"
Su Nanbing nodded, "Yes, she said that according to the rules of the village, you will be engaged after a casual meeting, and then talk about wedding gifts and other things. She doesn't want to get engaged so quickly. She wants to do like the people in the city, first... first...
"
After listening to him hemming and hawing for a long time, his father frowned impatiently and asked, "What first? You tell me."
"Free love first." Su Nanbing felt that it was very awkward to talk to his parents about these things. "In short, we will think about the matter between Axiang and me before we decide. Parents, you just need to help deal with that Aunt Xu."