At the end of the first month of the first lunar month, Grandma Zhou was taken to live in the Le family again by a girl. She didn't have to look at her daughter-in-law's face or worry about her granddaughter's marriage. She was in a great mood, her food tasted delicious, and she was in great health.
She had been thinking about what her third aunt said about returning to Meicun to sweep the tombs during the Qingming Festival. She was afraid that the Song family would come back and see her making excuses at the Le's house and go to the Le's house to take the opportunity to get married, which would bring trouble to her son-in-law and the girl.
Go back to your own home and stay for a while.
Sister-in-law Zhou signed an agreement for Zhou Chunmei to marry in the Liu family. She was in a good mood. She secretly waited for the girl to become an old lady after she got married. She was also afraid that Zhou Xialong would regret it, so she did not run away to her parents' house, but stayed at Zhou's house to keep an eye on her.
Following Zhou Xialong’s actions.
When her mother-in-law came back to live in the Le family, she became even more nervous. She was afraid that her mother-in-law would instigate Zhou Xialong to break the agreement and ask Zhou Chunmei to return to the Zhou family to get married. She was always on guard, but she had not made much progress in anything else. Her detective ability was increasing day by day.
Grandma Zhou had just stayed home for two days. On the day before Qingming Festival, the Song family came again.
There are four people in the Song family. Zhou Shirley, Song Pengcheng and his wife brought their two sons. The grandsons want to study, but they did not bring Jiudao back, so the four of them went back to Meicun to visit the graves.
It was already afternoon when the Song family arrived at Brother Zhou's house. Brother Zhou was not at home, but Grandma Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou were at home. Sister-in-law Zhou was a little confused when she saw the Song family and couldn't remember who they were.
When Zhou Shirley saw Zhou Xialong's wife, she enthusiastically took the hands of her nephews-in-law, one on the left and the other on the right, and they called her sweet.
Grandma Zhou said in a calm tone: "Xiao Liu, they are the third sister and third brother-in-law of Xia Long's father. They came back once on the fourth day of the first lunar month this year. It is not convenient to go up the mountain in the first month of the year. We come back to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival. They have a lot of housework, so they will go to the mountain tomorrow.
If you want to go back in a hurry, you don’t need to clean up the guest room, just let them stay in Chunmei Tianming’s room for one night,”
"Oh, it's the third aunt and the third uncle. You guys go to the main room and sit down first." My mother-in-law explained who the guests were. Sister-in-law Zhou greeted them and invited the four people into the main room to be entertained by her mother-in-law. She went to look for melon seeds that could entertain the guests.
candy.
It was Qingming Festival in April, the spring cold had not gone, and the main room was a bit cold. Grandma Zhou did not want to wrong herself, so she took her third aunt and her family to sit in the kitchen. The Song family came back the day before Qingming Festival and made up their minds to stay one night. She took it as a
When you stay with ordinary friends at home, treat them in a nonchalant manner without being enthusiastic or cold-faced.
Sister-in-law Zhou brought candies to her relatives, and followed her mother-in-law's instructions to go downstairs to tidy up Chunmei and Tianming's rooms on the second floor. The two rooms were fully furnished and needed a little tidying up.
Zhou Shirley was secretly happy that her sister-in-law's face was not as cold as the first month of the year, and she was not in a hurry to ask for gossip. She only talked about trivial things about life that were not important, such as visiting graves during the Qingming Festival or feeling that the village had changed a lot.
Grandma Zhou did not give any cold looks to her relatives, and the atmosphere was quite good.
After sitting and chatting for a long time, Zhou's daughter-in-law wanted to go to the garden to look for vegetables. Zhou Shirley looked at the opportunity and followed her for a walk in the garden. When she got to the vegetable garden, she first praised the neatness of the vegetables and praised the vegetable grower for being a good hand, pretending to be nonchalant.
Question: "My niece-in-law, dawn is far away and I can't visit the grave. Why hasn't our grand-niece Chunmei come back yet?"
"You said Chunmei, Chunmei has to go to work and is busy preparing for her wedding. She probably won't have time to come back during the Qingming Festival this year." The child's third aunt's grandmother cared about Chunmei. Sister-in-law Zhou was very happy and told her girl that she was getting married as if to show off.
good news.
"Hey, Chunmei is getting married. It's a big event. When will she get married? The wedding has to be a grand affair. Should we do it in the village or go to a hotel for a banquet? Who is Chunmei's partner from? She must be a promising person."
Zhou Xueli was stunned. They really hadn't found out that Zhou Chunmei was planning to get married. When did this happen? Was it agreed upon recently?
"Chunmei's partner is from a neighboring county. The husband's family is a mining boss, and his family is quite good. The two have been dating for a long time. They are scheduled to get married on May Day next month. The husband doesn't care about a small amount of money and plans to have a banquet in a hotel.
…”
His girl had found a rich man, and Sister-in-law Zhou was so proud that she wanted to let the whole village know how good the girl was, so she naturally took the opportunity to brag, not even to the man's family and the girl.
God.
Zhou Xueli was stunned for a while. She remembered that her son once said that Zhou Chunmei was similar to most rural girls. She had a family spirit and did not look like a lucky person. From what her niece said, Zhou Chunmei was married to a high school. Could it be that she was an old woman?
The ancestors of the Zhou family opened their eyes, so the girl from the Zhou family was blessed to have great luck if she stepped on dog poop and was favored by a wealthy family?
She was surprised in her heart. She didn't show anything on the surface, but she praised her again, saying, "What is a blessing? What is smart and generous?"
The grandniece praises her like a flower.
That meal of ecstasy soup also made Mrs. Zhou dizzy. She couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north. She naturally asked questions and answered questions. The relationship between the two instantly became closer, like a close aunt and nephew.
Zhou Chunmei's wedding was a good opportunity to get closer. Zhou Shirley was naturally very interested and asked a lot of questions, focusing on the specific date of Zhou Chunmei's wedding, the formal banquet on that day, and where the hotel would be. She and her sons were also coming back.
Let’s have a cup of wedding wine and be a little happy.
Asked where the hotel where Zhou Chunmei's wedding reception was held was, Sister-in-law Zhou blurted out: "The groom's family is from the neighboring county of Zhu County, and the hotel is also set in Zhu County."
Zhou Shirley paused for a moment: "It's normal for the husband's family to book a hotel in their county. It's impossible for the Zhou family's hotel to be booked there. There's no reason for the Zhou family's family to go to a neighboring county to have a drink."
"Chunmei is getting married at my grandma's house, so the hotel will naturally be located in Zhuxian County." Sister-in-law Zhou didn't think so much, so she answered casually.
"What?" Zhou Shirley suspected that her ears were prematurely deaf, and her voice rose an octave: "Chunmei got married at my grandma's house? Where does this come from? Zhou Chunmei's surname is Zhou, and Chunmei's grandma and father are living well, so how can she be married to her grandma?
What does it mean to get married at home? What does it mean to be a man? What does grandma’s family mean? Maybe I thought the Zhou family was dead and no one could speak to me, so I did such a shameless thing."
Auntie’s voice was sharp, and Sister-in-law Zhou’s mind, which was dizzy with excitement, suddenly cleared up, and the skin on her back was tense. She explained sarcastically: “Third aunt, grandma’s house is close to the husband’s house, so it is convenient for marriage. Your nephew Xia Long also agrees.
Liao Chunmei got married at my grandma’s house.”
Zhou Shirley stared at her nephew's daughter-in-law suspiciously for several times, sensing that there was a story in it, so she didn't ask any more questions. After picking the vegetables, she returned to Zhou's house. Xia Long's daughter-in-law went to wash the vegetables. She went back to the kitchen and said a few words about the vegetables in the garden.
It's great, as if he asked casually: "Afu's wife, I heard from my niece that Chunmei is getting married. When will she post to inform her relatives and friends?"
"That's what happened," the sister deliberately asked the topic, and Grandma Zhou didn't avoid it: "Xia Long's wife and her family have discussed it, and let Chunmei marry at her grandmother's house. Chunmei turned out to be the wife of her grandmother.
Getting married, hosting banquets, and sending out invitations are all matters at my grandma’s house, and the Zhou family doesn’t care about that.”
Song Pengcheng originally heard from his wife that Zhou Chunmei was getting married, and secretly thought that this was an opportunity to get closer to the Zhou family. He was thinking about how many gifts he would prepare to earn some respect for his family. But when his sister-in-law said that Zhou Chunmei was getting married at her grandmother's house, he was completely confused.
, what, what, Zhou Chunmei got married at her grandmother’s house?
To be honest, if his girl had proposed returning to her grandmother's house to get married while he and his close relatives from the Song family were still alive, he would have kicked her out immediately, as if he had never given birth to such an unfilial daughter.
He couldn't afford to let the girl get married at her grandma's house.
However, now the girl from the Zhou family is going to marry at her grandmother's house. It seems that the Zhou family has agreed to it, as is his wife's sister-in-law's sister-in-law?
Song Pengcheng couldn't believe it and asked: "His aunt, a girl from the Zhou family is getting married at her grandma's house. Isn't this inappropriate? It's not in line with etiquette, and someone will poke her in the back."
"It's not up to the son to grow up, and it's not up to the girl to stay in the family. Zhou Chunmei and her mother think it's better to marry into her grandma's house, so let them do it. A married woman throws away water. A girl gets married, has a family, and lives a happy life.
Whether it's good or bad has little to do with her mother's family, so Chunmei can get married wherever she wants."
Grandma Zhou is very calm. The girl from the Zhou family is getting married at her grandma's house. She and Xia Long will not be the ones who get poked in the back in the future. If others want to scold the Liu family, they will scold the Liu family for not knowing etiquette. She doesn't have to worry about it, let alone get angry because of it.
The sister-in-law of her natal family made a pun, and Song Pengcheng also understood. The sister-in-law does not care where Zhou Chunmei gets married, because the married girl throws water on her. The married girl is the daughter-in-law of another family, and her honor and disgrace belong to her husband's family and are not much different from her natal family.
relation.
Similarly, Zhou Shirley is also a girl from the Zhou family, and like water thrown away, whether her life is good or bad after marrying into the Song family has nothing to do with the Zhou family.
It has to be said that the older the sister-in-law is, the more powerful she becomes. Song Pengcheng thought of the phrase "Three days after a separation, you should look at each other with admiration." Nowadays, the sister-in-law of the mother's family should not be underestimated. She can no longer be regarded as the ignorant country woman she used to be.
People treat it generally.
Zhou Shirley also heard some clues and had a plan in her mind. It seemed that her nephew's daughter-in-law was not liked by her sister-in-law, and Zhou Chunmei was not liked by her grandma and her father because she wanted to marry at her grandma's house, so their family could not do the same.
By working hard on Zhou Chunmei and Xia Long's wife, Zhou Chunmei doesn't need to prepare any big gifts for her wedding.
Song Deyang and Song Dexu were not stupid either. They figured out some clues from their aunt's tone and knew how to deal with it. They never mentioned Zhou Chunmei's marriage.
Sister-in-law Zhou was washing vegetables when she heard Third Gu running to tell her mother-in-law about Chunmei getting married at her grandmother's house. She was very nervous at first, fearing that Third Gu would instigate her mother-in-law to cause trouble, but when her mother-in-law didn't care, she felt relieved.
I also made a note of the third aunt in my mind. What is the role of an aunt who is married outside to take care of her mother's family affairs?
Especially since the third aunt has been married for so many years and is separated from her girl by two generations, how can she have the nerve to instigate her mother-in-law to control where her granddaughter gets married?
She thought the third aunt was too busy, and Sister-in-law Zhou didn't really like the Song family, so naturally she couldn't show any enthusiasm and her attitude was much colder.
The old lady of the Zhou family didn't talk about Zhou Chunmei's marriage, and the Song family was smart enough to pretend they didn't know about it. No one mentioned it, they only talked about insignificant matters, and the conversation became more and more speculative.
Someone was building a house in a village across Jiudao Street. Brother Zhou and a few buddies in the village went to work. He and his companions went out early and came back late, and did not finish work until evening.
When Brother Zhou came home and saw the Song family, he was neither surprised nor surprised. He treated them as ordinary guests and never took the initiative to talk about the affairs of his brother-in-law's family when chatting with his cousins.
The two Song brothers whispered for a while while sleeping and exchanged opinions. They agreed. They felt that their cousin and aunt did not value Zhou Chunmei. Zhou Chunmei did not have much say in the Zhou family. There was no need for them to spend time with Zhou Chunmei, so they drank wedding wine.
Nothing, absolutely unnecessary.
Zhou Chunmei won't get married in the Zhou family, and the Zhou family won't hold a wedding banquet. They don't have to come back to have a wedding banquet, and they also lose an opportunity to get close to the Zhou family. So, now that everyone knows that Zhou Chunmei is getting married, do you want to give her a red envelope?
The two brothers thought about it over and over, and finally reached an agreement that they should skip the red envelopes. My cousin was not willing to marry them in the first place, so if they gave them red envelopes, it would not be a favor to their grandma. My cousin might think that they
I don’t have any eyesight, and I don’t like it even more.
The next day is Qingming Festival, the day to sweep tombs and worship ancestors.
Brother Zhou and his companions also had three days off to visit their ancestors' graves or manage the crops at home. Therefore, he did not go out to work that day and went up the mountain to sweep the graves with his Zhou family members.
The four members of the Song family came back to sweep the tomb, and they also brought the papyrus used for sweeping the tomb, and brought back the meat cut on the street. They had dinner on the morning of Qingming Festival, and cooked the meat with the Zhou family's mother and son, and took small pots, bowls and cups.
Such supplies are packed in backpacks.
On Qingming Festival, God was lucky, it didn’t rain and it was a cloudy day.
At around eight o'clock in the morning, Village Chief Zhou Bapi and others packed up, set off, and went to Zhou Xialong's house to call Grandma Zhou and her family to accompany them.
This time, Brother Zhou agreed with his sister and brother-in-law in advance that sweeping the grave would not be possible, so as not to let the Song family take advantage of the situation. Therefore, Brother Zhou waited until his cousins arrived and set off immediately.
A team of dozens of people from the Zhou family headed towards the mountains. Song Pengcheng wondered why Zhou Qiufeng and the Le family were not traveling together.
The Song brothers were also puzzled. The information they found out said that the Le family and the Zhou family usually went together to visit graves in the past. Why didn't they go together this year?
They wanted to find out the reason, but were afraid of being noticed by others, so they refrained from asking and walked all the way to the foot of the mountain and climbed the mountain.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, waited until the Zhou family had set off for about half an hour before setting off with incense and paper for ancestor worship, Leshan and the wolf dog, and Mr. Hua also accompanied him.
The youngest of the ants, he naturally abided by the "family customs" and avoided it the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. He stayed in the south building of Lejia eating cold food, and naturally did not show up on the day of Tomb-Sweeping Day.
The old man just didn't go out and wander around, and didn't avoid Huayan and Leshan. He still supervised Leshan's reading and horse walking every day, and he didn't relax his teachings to his little disciple.
Leshan's father, Zhou Qiufeng, took Leshan up the mountain, accompanied by Mr. Hua's heavyweight bodyguard, to visit the graves of the first two generations of the Le family, then to visit the graves of the ancestors of the Chen family, and then to pay homage to Leshan.
My grandfather came down the mountain and went home.
They didn't know when the Zhou family would return, and they didn't want to meet the Song family who were at the Zhou family. They didn't make any other delays on the way to sweep the tomb. They didn't dig bamboo shoots or wild vegetables. They left after sweeping the tomb and it wasn't even noon when they got home.
Brother Zhou and others paid homage to the ancestors of the Zhou family and did not return home until mid-afternoon. It was quite late after dinner, so the Song family naturally did not leave and stayed overnight.
The next day, since the Song brothers had their own affairs, they naturally had to return to Chang City. Song Pengcheng and Zhou Shirley wanted to stay a few more days, but the Zhou family's mother and son did not accept guests, so they had no choice but to go home with their sons.
