"Oh," Matchmaker Li laughed, "Your Xiuyun wants ten kilograms of rice with two oil bottles? I can't tell you that."
"Then seven pounds?" Ye Chunhua frowned, "If it doesn't work, just five pounds..."
Matchmaker Li sighed, "Hey, let me help you talk about it, but first things first, even five kilograms may not necessarily be successful. There is a shortage of rice in the countryside now, and it is difficult to get food stamps, and bachelors would rather
I don’t want to find a biological wife even if I’m looking for a widow, especially someone like Xiuyun who has a son, who can easily get into trouble.”
There is a popular saying in rural areas, "It is better to marry a widow than a biological wife." Biological wives refer to women whose husbands are still alive but have remarried to other people.
Since people in the village do not get a certificate for marriage, a banquet with a few relatives is considered a marriage, so marrying a married woman can easily lead to conflicts.
For example, the woman said she was divorced, but right after the marriage, her ex-husband suddenly came to the door and said he was not divorced, and then there was a conflict...
This kind of thing is quite common in rural areas.
Ye Chunhua was anxious to take the more than two hundred yuan in her eldest daughter's hands and ask her to remarry. She said to the matchmaker: "Then I don't want rice, and I don't want any gift money! Please help me ask whose family it is."
I need a wife."
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Matchmaker Li was a little confused.
"Are you not in a hurry? I have a big family, and she suddenly brought her two sons. She has three more mouths at once, and I can't afford to support them," Ye Chunhua said.
Matchmaker Li no longer had any doubts, "Okay, I'll tell you as soon as I have news."
For a time, except for Fang Xiuyun who was kept in the dark, her brother and sister-in-law all knew that my mother went to find a matchmaker.
"Mom has her own way, haha. If my sister-in-law returns to Baihe Village with her children, the money will still belong to the Jiang family. But if she is divorced by her husband and remarries someone else, the money will belong to our family!"
Seeing her sister-in-law's happy expression, Zhao Xiaolan felt a little puzzled. She walked to her side and asked in a low voice: "Auntie, isn't she divorced?"
"As long as she tells the story about her passionate fight with that educated youth, will her husband still want her? It would be weird if he doesn't divorce her immediately!" Zhang Yingzi said.
"Ah?" Zhao Xiaolan blurted out, "Isn't this a bit too much?"
"Excessive?"
After asking back, Zhang Yingzi said displeasedly: "Don't make it sound like you are the most conscientious in the whole family! Don't you even think about it, if it weren't for marrying you, would our family need to build another house?"
"That new house is yours to live in, not me..."
"You don't live in the new house, but the house we lived in before has been vacated for you!"
Mentioning these things, Zhang Yingzi got angry and gritted his teeth and said: "The whole family hired Di Dad. He is the most honest person. It was obviously my parents who insisted on building a new house, but in the end they owed the carpenter, and the plasterer's list was all written on his own."
name.
At first, my father said that after receiving dividends at the end of the year, there would be a lot of money left after paying off the debt. But what happened? If we pay off all the more than 100 yuan we owe, then our whole family will not have to eat in the second half of the year.
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I’m not telling you, don’t show off your face if you don’t have money. Both parents have the same moral character. They talked nicely at first, but in the end we were left to wipe their butts.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a voice behind her said, "Have you said enough?"
Ye Chunhua had a calm face and walked to the eldest daughter-in-law, "Aren't your father-in-law and I trying to figure out a solution? Xiuyun has more than two hundred yuan in her hand. As long as she gets the money, it's not enough to pay her back.
Is it easy?"
Zhao Xiaolan, who had been somewhat sympathetic to Fang Xiuyun before, immediately changed her stance and agreed.
"Okay! Anyway, be strict with your mouth and don't let Xiuyun know about this!" Ye Chunhua said.
Fang Xiuyun knew nothing about her mother's family's thoughts, and was still complaining to her son, "Your father is so obsessed with face. How many days have passed, why hasn't he come to pick us up? He is really of……"
"Mom, can't we go back on our own?" Tugen shook her mother's hand, "I don't want to stay here anymore. Grandma and grandpa are so cruel. They only give me one sweet potato to eat every day. Why don't children eat too much?" Lots of stuff.”
"I don't want to stay here either. There's no pork here!" Tree Root said angrily. "We won't be allowed to eat the chicken in the yard either. I'm so angry!"
Fang Xiuyun couldn't help but feel that if she took her two sons back like this, how could Father Shugen listen to her again?
"Just wait a minute, your father will definitely come to pick us up soon, in two days at most, no, one day at most!" she promised.
Early in the morning, Shen Su'e was busy in the kitchen, making hot sauerkraut pancakes with white flour and sauerkraut, wrapping them in oil paper and giving them to her eldest son.
"Take these to eat on the road, and when they arrive at your wife's parents' house, you can talk nicely and coax her back, do you hear me?"
"Mom, I know."
Shen Su'e explained a lot more and said to Wu Chaozi: "You too, don't say what you shouldn't say, and say less things that offend people! Also, take good care of the Lingbao for me on the way! If you let me She bumped into each other..."
"Oh, how many times have you said this?" Wu Chaozi said impatiently, "Mom, please be at ease. My sister-in-law's village is not that far away. It will be there in an hour. You Don't make it sound like we're traveling far away."
Shen Su'e didn't want to nag anymore, "Okay, okay, go quickly."
She sent her son and daughter out. Xiao Lingbao waved his little hand and said, "Goodbye, mother. My eldest brother and fifth brother will be back soon."
"Okay, Lingbao, goodbye."
After saying that, she felt her right eyelid twitching non-stop, and hurriedly said to her husband: "Oh, I feel something is not right. I always feel uneasy. How about you call Dadongzi and the others back? What do you think? ah?"
"Weren't you the one who asked Dadongzi to pick up his wife yesterday?"
"Yeah, but my right eyelid is twitching so much. Isn't that a good thing and a bad thing? I feel like something is going to happen." Shen Su'e said, rubbing her eyelid.
Jiang Qingshan smiled and said: "Who told you that there is good fortune on the left and misfortune on the right? It's obviously bad on the left and good on the right. A twitching eyelid on the right is a good thing. Dadongzi will definitely be able to bring Shugenniang back today. I guess she herself wants to come back. La!"
"That's true. How could my mother-in-law let her married daughter live here for too long? Maybe they are burying her by now."
On the way to Fangjiacun, Lingbao was held by her eldest brother and then by her fifth brother for fear that she would fall.
"Are you tired, Lingbao? How about I carry you?" Wu Chaozi asked panting after walking for about forty minutes and passing a long steep slope.
The little baby shook her head, "I'm not tired..."
As soon as she uttered three words, a strange sound of "swishing" sounded from the woods not far away.
Before Dadongzi and Wuchaozi had time to react, a big wild boar sprang out of the forest and hit Lingbao directly.