On the third day of the first lunar month, every household was still immersed in the New Year's celebrations, and the two families of the Li family headed towards the Wang family in great force.
Wang Yulan's family lives in the west of the village, at the foot of the vast green mountains. Behind their house is a river that flows all year round. The river is crystal clear. When she was young, Yulan and Li Wei often went to the ditch to fish and catch loaches.
The Wang family is poor, and now they cultivate a few acres of thin land to provide food and drink for six mouths. The house is low and has two thatched roof rooms. There is a persimmon tree in the Wang family's yard. Its leaves have long since fallen off, leaving only bare branches. A big yellow dog was tied under the tree as a guard.
Seeing someone coming, the big yellow dog that was lying under the tree suddenly got up and rushed up to bark at them. If it hadn't been tied up with a rope, it would have come up to bite people.
Li Wei was a little afraid to come forward when he saw the vicious dog. Li Jianping suddenly turned around and said to Li Wei: "Wei Wei, do you still remember? When you were three or four years old, you ran around wearing crotchless pants. When you arrived at Yulan's house, you wanted to find her. Yu Lan was bitten on the butt by their dog? "
Li Wei looked a little embarrassed and said, "Can that dog survive until now?"
Li Jianping smiled and said: "That's impossible. I can't remember how many dogs their family had, but I still remember the time you were bitten by a dog. That day you covered your butt and didn't dare to go home. You wanted to cry but didn't dare. The appearance is really interesting.”
The barking of dogs made the Wang family come out, and the first one to come out was Wang Jianguo.
"Brothers Mingguo and Minghua are here, and so are the sisters-in-law. Please come sit down in the room quickly." Wang Jianguo greeted them with a smile on his face, and naturally reached into his trouser pocket and took out a pack of cigarettes. , want to pass cigarettes to the two of them. Ming Guo and Ming Hua both accepted it politely. Wang Jianguo took the initiative to strike a match and light cigarettes for the two brothers, and then went to greet Zhang Weihong and Liu Chunzhi again. I greeted Jian Ping and Jian Fei again.
When everyone arrived and entered the main room, Li Wei saw that all the seven aunts and eight aunts from the Wang family were here. Half of the people sitting in the room didn't even have a stool at the moment. How could they sit down
Wang Jianguo introduced two relatives, and everyone just nodded and greeted them without saying much about etiquette.
Wang Yulan and another girl walked in. Wang Yulan reached out to pull Li Wei, and said to Li Wei with a smile: "Wei Wei, this is my sister Hongmei."
Li Wei had no impression of this girl, so Wang Yulan whispered a few words and asked Yulan to go to her room. Li Wei followed Yulan away, leaving the elders in the room chattering there.
Liu Chunzhi kept her head down the whole time, and she hadn't said more than five sentences since entering the room. These relatives of the Wang family all have loud voices and are annoyingly noisy.
The room where Wang Yulan lived was very dim, with no windows on the wall. There was a small hole in the thatched roof, covered with a transparent and shiny thing, whether it was a plastic sheet or a piece of glass.
The gray-white curtains were hung, and Yulan's red plum cousin was sitting on the bed. Yulan asked Li Wei to sit on the bed as well.
Li Wei is not used to sitting on other people's beds, even if she lives in a dormitory, she does not have this habit.
Li Wei sat down on a bamboo stool.
Hongmei hurriedly asked Li Wei: "We have met before, do you still remember me?"
Li Wei shook his head with a confused look on his face: "I don't have a good memory."
Hongmei laughed: "You used to call me sister when you followed Yulan. It's only been a few years, but you forgot. I heard that your family moved to the city. Do you work in the city?"
"Going to school without me."
Wang Yulan quickly interrupted: "Sister Hongmei, don't you know, Weiwei is already in her second year of high school. She will take the college entrance examination in one year."
"Take the college entrance examination? Female college students?" Hongmei said with some confusion: "I have only heard of female college students but never seen them."
Yulan said to Li Wei again: "Weiwei, the person my sister Hongmei married last year."
Li Wei didn't seem to be interested in hearing about this cousin Hongmei, and his face was always calm.
Wang Yulan became concerned about her cousin Hongmei's married life again. Hongmei, regardless of whether there were outsiders present or not, began to talk to her cousin about her mother-in-law's faults, as well as the difficulties of her sister-in-law and brother-in-law. At the end, I would like to add: "Yulan, getting married will open your eyes. If you meet any kind of difficult mother-in-law or sister-in-law, you will never be able to escape the sea of misery in your life."
The Li family came to propose marriage today. I don't know whether Hongmei's careless words were intentional or unintentional. Li Wei was filled with embarrassment.
The elders were talking nonsense here, and Zhang Weihong was chatting animatedly with a female relative of the Wang family. The aunt just now clearly saw a tall, decent-looking girl wandering in front of her. She got up and didn't see where the girl had gone.
"Sister, are you looking for someone?"
"She's tall, she must be your daughter. I feel like my eyes light up, she looks like a neat person. How old are you? Have you said we're getting married?"
When Zhang Weihong heard this person's description, she wondered if she was talking about Li Wei. She quickly smiled and said, "Why do you want eldest sister to arrange a marriage for our family Weiwei?"
The woman smiled and said: "I like to be a matchmaker, and I think this girl is pretty good, and she might be able to talk about a good family. My distant relative also has a suitable candidate, who is also tall, and is just right for your girl. It's just that. I don’t know what you think?”
Zhang Weihong asked hurriedly: "Oh? What do you do at home? How is the young man doing?"
The woman opened her mouth with a sharp mouth. Zhang Weihong found it interesting, and finally couldn't help but shook her head and said with a smile: "I can't make the decision in this matter. I am her aunt, and her mother is sitting over there. You Ask her."
When the woman heard about it, she hurriedly walked over to Liu Chunzhi and told Liu Chunzhi what she had said to Zhang Weihong. Liu Chunzhi was thinking that her daughter was also a high school student, and she might be a college student in the future. Can dogs and cats be worthy
She prevaricated nonchalantly: "Our family Weiwei still wants to study, so we don't want to talk about our marriage."
"Studying? How old are you to still study?"
"Not yet eighteen."
The woman was a little unbelievable and said: "Your family is really spoiled for their daughter. It is obvious that she will marry into someone else's family in the future, but you still provide so many books."
Liu Chunzhi became unhappy for a moment, and said with a long face: "How can you talk like this? I am willing to pamper our daughter, and I am willing to spoil my daughter. How about using your family's money?"
Only then did the woman realize that she had said the wrong thing and said with some embarrassment, "Sister, don't be angry. That's your family's business. Of course I can't control it."
"Sister? You have more white hair on your head than me. Who do you call sister?" In the past few years, Liu Chunzhi has become more and more afraid of people mentioning her age.
At this time, Zhang Weihong came to act as a peacemaker and came out to dissuade the two of them. They didn't stop until dinner was served.
(End of chapter)