Letters went back and forth between Qingshuihe and the troops. In the blink of an eye, July passed and August entered.
The rice in the field has been filled with grain, and the ears of rice are getting fuller day by day. The rice is slowly bent over, and many wild fruits in the mountains are beginning to ripen. The persimmon tree in the backyard of the house is also full of small green persimmons. It can be eaten before and after frost.
On August 15th, Wang Chunhua went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy two catties of mooncakes, five kernels. This kind of mooncakes was disliked in later generations. Children nowadays look forward to it, and they can only eat it once during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
A few days before the festival, Li Yuegui sent a message to her two daughters. Their uncles and aunts were planning to make an appointment for their future daughter-in-law. Usually, the elders would not come to the door for this kind of thing. Her natal family was not prosperous, and her sister-in-law didn't have many relatives, so Li Yuegui wanted her daughter to go with her.
On that day, He Xiaoyun got up early in the morning, cleaned herself up, and told Wei Yuanhang not to lose her temper at home, and then went to the commune to reunite with her sister, and the two sisters continued to rush to their uncle's house.
It's rare that she doesn't have to take care of the child, so He Xiaofen feels relaxed and even walks briskly. She asked He Xiaoyun, "Is Xiaohang handed over to your mother-in-law?"
"Well, Jianhua is at home, and he will play with the children." He Xiaoyun said.
"Siblings are good in the family." He Xiaofen is not without envy, "Unlike my mother-in-law, let her help take care of the children, it just hurts here and there, and if you say she doesn't look at it, she won't look at it. I can do it when I'm busy and tired. I can take care of it, but she still urges me to give birth to a boy all day long, what is the purpose of giving birth, no one cares about it, can he grow by himself?"
Her husband has only one younger sister and no brothers, so the mother-in-law stares at her belly all day long, wishing her daughter-in-law would give birth to a grandson immediately.
He Xiaoyun frowned slightly. Her sister's two children were young, and if the family members were unwilling to help, even if the next child could have a boy, they would not be able to take care of it.
"What does brother-in-law say?"
"Him?" He Xiaofen snorted, "He couldn't figure it out. At the beginning, he also stood on his mother's side. After all, he wanted a son. Later, I had a showdown with him. It's okay to have a son. I'll bring two sons." If the first daughter goes back to her natal family, he will find another woman to give birth to, and he can have as many as he wants! He was bluffed and behaved like a quail."
He Xiaoyun wanted to laugh when she heard that, "Brother-in-law still values you, I think he really loves Xiaohua and the others, next time something like this happens, you ask brother-in-law to tell your mother-in-law, and you don't want to quarrel with her."
He Xiaofen let out a cry, and said rather curiously: "I didn't expect you to understand it quite well. It seems that after getting married, you have grown much better than before."
"How stupid do you think I am?" He Xiaoyun feigned anger.
"It's not stupid," He Xiaofen said slowly with a smile, "It's stupid, stupid, stupid."
He Xiaoyun made a gesture to hit her, and the two sisters were arguing while walking on the road.
After arguing for a while, He Xiaofen sighed with a smile: "Actually, I know that your brother-in-law is not very capable and has soft ears, but I also have a bad temper. I really want to find someone with the same bad temper as me. I don't know how to live my life." .As for my mother-in-law, she just keeps her mouth open, so let her go."
You have to live your own life, and only you know whether it is suitable or not.
He Xiaoyun nodded lightly, and after a while, said hesitantly: "Sister, Hanghang and I may join the army in the future."
"Really?" He Xiaofen was surprised.
"Jianwei mentioned it before returning to the army last time, but I haven't told my mother yet."
"Isn't that great!" He Xiaofen patted her hand, "When I went to the army, the small family lives alone, and there are no elders looking after me, how comfortable I am."
Freedom should be quite comfortable, but what makes He Xiaoyun difficult is, what stage is she and Wei Jianwei at now? When they get to the army, do they have to sleep in the same bed? Although in the eyes of others, it is only natural for couples to sleep together, but her situation is special.
Even if it's a relationship, the progress is not so fast that they can lie in the same bed now, right
In the mind of a single dog, don't you have to make a date first, then hold hands, and then kiss, what are you doing? As for sex, she really has no idea.
Seeing that she didn't speak, He Xiaofen said: "What do you think? Don't you want to be at home?"
He Xiaoyun couldn't explain the real reason, so she nodded vaguely.
"Then you are willing to give up your brother-in-law?" Her sister teased.
He Xiaoyun looked at her helplessly.
"All right, all right, I won't make fun of you." He Xiaofen said cheerfully, "Looking at what you said to me just now, I thought you understood it very well. Why is it my turn to be childish again? Why don't you miss us? Let's go. It’s not that he won’t come back. Jianwei still has family leave every year. The three of you come back together. Maybe the relationship will be better if we are separated. You see, when we were young, we were together and fought all day. Now it’s rare to see each other. No more noise."
He Xiaoyun sighed lightly, nodded, and put the matter aside for the time being.
Chatting along the way, they finally arrived at their uncle's house. The small courtyard was very lively. The aunt stood at the door with a happy expression on her face. When she saw them, she kept saying, "It's time to come! Come in and have something to eat."
The matchmaker looked at the two sisters and asked their aunt, "Are these the two daughters of your sister-in-law? Oh... they are so beautiful, did you mention them?"
The aunt laughed and said, "You have children, so your plan won't work this time."
The matchmaker couldn't help but look regretful, if such a beautiful girl were to be her matchmaker, wouldn't the young guys from the nearby villages choose him
In addition to their sisters, two young men from the clan also came to help pick the bride price. Seeing that it was almost time, they set off for the woman's house.
He Xiaoyun and He Xiaofen came to gather the number of people, and they still walked all the way to talk about it. When they arrived at the woman's place, they followed the matchmaker through the process and saw the future bride. To He Xiaoyun's surprise, she was still very young, only seventeen or eighteen. years old.
Leaving from the woman's house, my aunt kept them for lunch before letting them go back.
It was already afternoon when we rushed back to Qingshuihe, Wei Yuanhang just woke up from a nap, when he saw He Xiaoyun coming home, he was overjoyed and hurried up to hug her.
He Xiaoyun really couldn't hold him, so she hugged him meaningfully, and then took out the dried fruit and fruit that she brought back, "Here, this is for you to eat."
"Is the bride beautiful?" Wang Chunhua asked.
"It's pretty. When we went, she was still feeding the chickens. She looked very diligent." He Xiaoyun peeled an orange for Wei Yuanhang.
Feng Qiuyue also said: "When I went back, my mother often said that there is no girl on the team who is more diligent than Xiao'e. If her brother hadn't reached the age of marriage, the family would not let her marry so early."
After Wang Chunhua heard this, she said, "I think her parents are very biased. The daughter is so cute and sensible, so they married her off early just to marry her son, regardless of how a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl behaves in her husband's family? "
"There are too few people who can think like mom." Feng Qiuyue sighed.
"Your Aunt Zhang often said that it was because I had three sons that I could stand and talk without pain in my back. In fact, I really think that my daughter is pretty good. The baby in your womb, Qiuyue, and Xiaoyun and you in the future, no matter whether it is still alive or not. If I don’t give birth, if I give birth to a boy or a girl, I feel the same pain.”
He Xiaoyun and Feng Qiuyue looked at each other and laughed.
On the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family sits in the yard to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.
Earlier today, they received a letter from Wei Jianwei stating that his application to join the army had been approved.
But He Xiaoyun thought about it and felt that it was not the time to look for him for the time being. My sister-in-law needs someone to take care of her when she is in confinement. How can she leave when she is busy
Hearing her worries, Feng Qiuyue hurriedly said: "I'm fine, if it's really not working, I can ask my mother to come and help."
"My aunt is getting old, how can she be as energetic as our young people? And when Hanghang was born, my sister-in-law took care of me." He Xiaoyun said.
Feng Qiuyue smiled and said, "Isn't this because Jianwei is in a hurry."
Wang Chunhua said: "Don't be in a hurry, Xiaoyun has a heart, so just do what she says."
Wei Yuanhang gnawed on a mooncake and asked his mother, "Mom, are we going to find Dad?"
"That's right, but not now, we have to wait until the little brother and little sister are born."
"Little brother and little sister come out, are we going to find Dad?" the child asked again.
He Xiaoyun nodded, "Why, don't you seem very happy?"
Wei Yuanhang lowered his head and thought for a while, then said surprisingly: "Shall we take Yanyan with me?"
When the others heard it, they were all overjoyed. Wei Jianhua stepped forward and pinched his cheek, teasing him, "You little brat thinks so beautifully. What are you doing with Yanyan? Will you be your daughter-in-law?"
The child's idea is very simple, "Yanyan can play with me."
He Xiaoyun shook her head helplessly and said, "Don't worry, there will be new friends to play with you."
When she returned to her room at night, she took out Wei Jianwei's letter and read it again.
Although the other party didn't say it clearly, it could be seen between the lines that he was in a good mood.
He Xiaoyun muttered, why are you so happy, she didn't intend to go to him right away.
The letter said that the dried peaches sent to him last time were snatched up as soon as they arrived in the army, and he only tasted them.
He Xiaoyun felt that he was a bit stupid, wouldn't it be great to bully her at home, how could he not be able to grab others outside
There is nothing extra at home. Wei Yuanhang just finished his share two days ago, but the hawthorn is almost ripe recently, so he can give him some to bask in then.
If Lin Yuefei knew what Wei Jianwei wrote, he would probably vomit blood and shout shameless!
No matter whether it is Lao Wang or Lao Wei, if one goes along with something and blames him, it is shameless to the end! Be stingy, eating a mouthful of dried peaches from him can train people to the point where they can't get up, and it's called a "comparison", and they have the nerve to pretend to be pitiful with his wife in the letter, shameless!
He felt that his fate was very bad, very pitiful, why did he meet these gangsters