If Xu Shiyan had shouted like this outside, Xu Shiqin would have rushed out with his niece and nephew.
But today there was no movement at home. Xu Shiyan felt strange and led his wife to the yard.
Until the two of them walked outside the door, and just as they were about to reach out to open the door, the door opened from the inside.
"Third brother, are you back?" It was Xu Shiqin, but he looked unhappy.
"What's going on? Is there something going on at home?" Xu Shiyan was puzzled and couldn't help but ask.
"Don't mention it. Didn't fourth brother get engaged on the sixth day of the lunar month? Something went wrong with the Wu family."
Xu Shiqin sighed and reached out to help Su Anying through the door. "Third sister-in-law, be careful. Stomp your feet and don't slip."
A foot of snow was brought in from outside, and everyone stamped their feet when they came in. The door was wet and slippery.
Xu Shiqin was worried about his sister-in-law and supported her carefully.
"What's wrong? What else can be wrong?"
At first they were optimistic about your fourth brother and wanted to follow you shamelessly, but now something is wrong?"
Xu Shiyan was stunned. He didn't remember that such a thing happened in his previous life?
Xu Shide, the fourth son of the Xu family, teaches in Qingling, and has been in a relationship with Wu Qiuyan, the daughter of the Wu family in Qingling, for several years.
The brothers of the Xu family are all good-looking, but Xu Shide is lively and has a good temper. As soon as he went to Qingling to teach, he was attracted by the Wu family.
The eldest daughter of the Wu family is named Wu Qiuyan, who is one year younger than Xu Shide and looks pretty good. His youngest son happens to be in Xu Shide's class.
The Wu family took a fancy to Xu Shide, and no matter what kind of food they cooked, their youngest son would drag Xu Shide to the house for dinner.
After this back and forth, Xu Shide and Wu Qiuyan fell in love.
The Wu family had long wanted to settle the marriage, but the Xu family never agreed.
The main reason is that Xu Shiyan has never had a partner, and the Xu family is still very particular about rules. If the elder brother is not married, the younger brother cannot marry a wife first.
Finally, in the spring of this year, someone introduced Su Anying from the camp to Xu Shiyan. The Xu family was anxious, and they decided to get married without even meeting each other.
Xu Shiyan had just gotten engaged, and the Wu family was urging them to get engaged too, for fear that something might go wrong with the marriage.
In these years, most people do not get engaged too early. They usually get engaged one month before the wedding, or at the beginning of the month, and get married at the end of the month.
You have to know that once you are engaged, you have to move around as relatives, and you are not allowed to give some gifts during the holidays? As for the five sons of the Xu family, they can't come up with money.
Therefore, the Xu family has not been in a hurry and only found a matchmaker to discuss the marriage with the Wu family in autumn.
It was also said very well at the time that we would get engaged on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month and get married on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month.
It happened that the team had divided money and food, so they had plenty of money, so they killed a pig and held a banquet before the New Year, and celebrated the New Year after getting married.
Unexpectedly, the Xu family's wedding items were all ready. Xu Shide's school was on winter vacation and he was preparing to come back to get engaged. Something went wrong on the Wu family's side.
"The Wu family said they would need a hundred yuan as a bride price, as well as a radio, a bicycle, and a sewing machine. If you don't have these, you won't get engaged."
Xu Shiqin was very angry. These items together cost five to six hundred yuan.
The key is that bicycles also have radios and sewing machines, which are impossible to buy without industrial tickets.
There are no workers in the Xu family, so where can I get industrial tickets?
Besides, even if there is an industrial ticket, where will these hundreds of dollars come from?
In order for Xu Shide to get married, the family has made a complete set of furniture and bedding. They also bought Wu Qiuyan two pounds of wool, a watch, a pair of leather shoes, and made two sets of single-cotton clothes. Aren't these all money?
When Xu Shiyan heard this, he was quite surprised. The Wu family has such a big appetite that they really dare to ask for it.
After entering the east room, they saw Xu Chenghou, Zhou Guilan and his wife sitting on the south Kang.
Xu Chenghou held a cigarette pot in his mouth and smoked puff after puff. Zhou Guilan's face didn't look good either.
Seeing Xu Shiyan and his wife come in, Xu Chenghou quickly knocked the pot of his pipe under the edge of the kang and stopped smoking.
"San'er and his wife are back? Come and sit here. Your mother has been talking about it these past few days. I wonder when you two will go down the mountain?"
Xu Chenghou's attitude was unexpectedly gentle.
This winter, Xu Shiyan brought a lot of food to his home. Whether he hunted wild boar, black blind man or roe deer, he would always have people bring back half of the food.
It can be said that after winter, the Xu family has not stopped eating, and their life is much better than in previous years.
Who in the village doesn't envy the Xu family now? They say that Xu Chenghou and his wife raised a capable son, and the whole family followed him.
Xu Chenghou also felt that his face was radiant, and his attitude towards this third son was naturally completely different.
Xu Shiyan's attitude toward his father made him wonder. Did his father take the wrong medicine? He had never seen his father so kind before.
It was Zhou Guilan who pulled her son, and Xu Shiyan sat down, followed by Su Anying sitting on the edge of the kang.
"Dad, Mom, I just heard Lao Liu say what's going on?" After Xu Shiyan sat down, he had to ask.
"Oh, don't mention it. The whole family is worried about the fourth child's marriage." Zhou Guilan sighed and told Xu Shiyan the matter.
"You said that the engagement day was just around the corner, and then something like this happened over there.
We can still get the one hundred yuan betrothal gift with tight hands, but where can we buy the radio and bicycle?
Isn't this embarrassing?" Zhou Guilan said, her eyes turning red.
Outsiders look at the five sons of the Xu family as having a prosperous life, but in reality, who knows which family is having a hard time.
Just having these five sons get married is enough of a headache.
It can be said that the first three went smoothly.
Even though the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law were both educated youths, they didn't want this or that at the beginning. They arranged their marriage according to the rules of the village.
If the fourth daughter-in-law gets married and she really follows the Wu family's request, what will the first three daughters-in-law think? Will they be happy?
What about Lao Wu’s wife at the back? When Lao Wu gets married, will she want more?
Zhou Guilan felt really sad and almost died of worry.
"What are you worried about? I didn't like the old Wu family at first.
How can their family do things like this? What's wrong with a nice eldest daughter who can't get married? She drags the young man home all day long?
What the hell is this?" Xu Cheng glared at Xu Shide, who was sitting on the North Kang, angrily.
"You seem to be quite smart, but if you do something stupid, you won't have anywhere to eat, right? You'll have to go to his house to eat?
You can't find a wife? Do you have to find one from the old Wu family?" Xu Chenghou was so angry that he turned on his fourth son.
Xu Shide was also very depressed. What had been agreed upon suddenly changed his mind. Is he going to get married or not?
"People have long said that we are going to get engaged, but you two don't agree and are reluctant to give up the little things and money for the festival.
If we had gotten engaged early, would this have happened?" Xu Shide lowered his head and muttered softly.
"You bastard, tell me that again? I'm going to kick you to death today."
Xu Chenghou is not deaf, so how can he not hear what his son says?
At that time, he became angry. He raised his hand and picked up the broom to beat his son.
Xu Shixian and others were all in the east room. How could they really let their father beat the fourth child? So he quickly came up to stop him.
"Dad, if you have something to say, please say it, but don't do anything."