Thanks to the matchmaker who was afraid that the marriage would be ruined, the news that Li Lanlan was going to marry a scholar of the Lin family spread throughout the village the next day.
To say that the news spread quickly, a large part of it was because the Lin family and the Li family were not in a good condition.
Although Lin Shiheng is a scholar, he has no power to hold the chicken, and he has never seen him go to the ground. It was okay to have two brothers to take care of him before, but now the family is divided, and he also brings two old people with him. Marrying it is not a happy life. , that is to serve the family as coolies.
Not to mention Li Lanlan, she is good-looking and diligent and capable. She can't bear to have a foolish father if she is caught outside the house.
These days, the people in the village are miserable, and they only want to save money. Li's father is good. If he has money, he can use it to do good deeds. If he married Li Lanlan, such in-laws would definitely not be able to help at all. Maybe Will depend on my husband.
Both of them are not in a good condition, and they both have a good skin. Those villagers who have school-age children at home are extremely vigilant. On weekdays at home, they are repeatedly told not to approach Lin Shiheng and Li Lanlan, lest young people not be Sensible, was coaxed by Pi Xiang.
No one expected that the two people secretly despised by the villagers would become a couple.
The elders in the village think this is good. They are together, and their children will not join up again. However, there are many unhappy people in the younger generation.
The worries of the elders are not unreasonable. Most of the juniors are not as visionary as the elders, and they have never felt the burden of the family. They want things to be more idealized. Li Lanlan is fine. Although she is good-looking, she works well and has a bright temperament. , but the father really persuaded him to quit.
Lin Shiheng is very different. He has a good life, and he looks like a clean scholar on weekdays. He even walks with his own demeanor, which is completely different from those who do farm work in the village.
Although he didn't get admitted to Juren, isn't he only twenty-two years old? Now that it is difficult, what is there to be afraid of? If he is admitted to Juren, will he still worry about silver taels
There are quite a few girls who have this idea, but unfortunately they are suppressed by their family members. They are naive, but their elders are not naive. Is it a joke to support two 60-year-olds? Maybe Lin Shiheng has no money to study at all. For the girl's family, getting married is a lifetime thing, and no matter how much you regret it, you can't change it. people.
The girls in the village are not all favored, but most of them are more favored than the men in the family. They dare not resist their elders. No matter how much they like Lin Shiheng, they only dare to hide shyly when he comes out. .
Now that he knew that he was engaged, the girls in the village who liked Lin Shiheng were dumbfounded.
If you have a good temperament, you can think about it, even if you wipe two tears, some people with a bad temperament will not be very positive.
The Li family does not have a mistress, and Li's father is not clear. Of course, no one in the family prepares clothes for Li Lanlan, a girl who is about to get married. No matter how poor the village is, every daughter needs to buy new clothes when she gets married.
Since the death of Li's mother, Li Lanlan has been the housekeeper of the Li family, so she also knows that the family can't afford to make new clothes for herself, and Li's father doesn't know where to go to do good deeds. After eating enough, according to common sense, Li Lanlan, who is engaged and wants to raise her skin at home, can only go out to work.
As soon as she went out, she happened to meet a girl in the village who had always liked Lin Shiheng.
This girl is called Zhou Daya, a very common name, but she looks a bit delicate. Because there are many brothers in the family, she and her sisters are fortunately not to go to the ground, and the people will be more tender and white. Consciously, she is different from a girl like Li Lanlan who wants to go to the ground, and she is more noble.
In the end, the noble she couldn't marry Lin Shiheng, but Li Lanlan got this good.
Zhou Daya didn't cry like some girls who really like Lin Shiheng, she was more annoyed that her family had no foresight, just because the situation of the Lin family was not good, she stopped her from marrying her, and she was also annoyed that Lin Shiheng had no vision. Taking the initiative to propose a marriage, the biggest annoyance was that Li Lanlan, a motherless woman, was sitting in the position she could not ask for, hahaha, who was secretly high up on the old woman who had commented on it many times.
Because of Li Lanlan's good looks, Zhou Daya, who feels that she is a beauty, has never liked her very much. Seeing that Li Lanlan is eighteen and has not married yet, I don't know how happy she is, and how many times she talked behind her back, but she actually married Lin Xiucai, who has never been able to marry as he wishes.
She was so angry that she didn't sleep well all night, and when she woke up the next morning and saw Li Lanlan who was going to do farm work, she immediately felt that she was not good anywhere.
Zhou Daya was unhappy herself, and she didn't want to make Li Lanlan, who took her place, cheer up, so she turned her back to Li Lanlan without any hesitation and just pretended that she didn't see her coming, and pulled her little sister to start laughing loudly.
"Have you heard that the Lin family is going to marry Li Lanlan? She's really unlucky. Last night my mother was still at the dinner table and said that the two old Lin family couldn't do their jobs and were still suffering from illness, and Lin Xiu was a scholar, even more so To live, to marry is to be a ready-made old mother to serve the family."
The little sister was engrossed in her work and didn't see Li Lanlan. When she heard Zhou Daya bring up this topic, she followed the trend with enthusiasm while doing things: "No, my mother also said that the Lin family is a superficial person, and this needs to be a scholar. , they have to provide for another patient, and they have to support their parents, no matter how big the family is, they can be tossed, not to mention they have no family."
She cooperated like this, and Zhou Daya's energy was even higher: "Also, Lin Xiucai basically doesn't walk around the village. When he was beautiful before, his mother said that Lin Xiucai wanted to marry someone from the city. Tell me, now at home It's hard, he married Li Lanlan, can he like her?"
Li Lanlan was not very sad when she heard what they said. She had already thought about this very thoroughly after she knew that Li's father promised herself to the Lin family. According to her own thoughts, the Lin family was definitely not a good place, but her thoughts were nothing. With the words of her parents' life matchmaker, her father had promised her to go out. If she didn't respond, it would be unfilial. If this reputation spread, she was afraid that she would not be able to marry in her life.
Anyway, she had already thought about it. After she got married, if the other side was willing to give her a bite to eat, she would wait for her.
Anyway, my mother is also dead, and my father does not have her in his heart. It is better to die early than to be bullied all his life.
Because she was already prepared, Li Lanlan didn't even bother to give birth when she was angry. She glanced at Zhou Daya and passed by the two of them with farm implements on their backs.
Her appearance made Zhou Daya, who wanted to see Li Lanlan collapse and cry, angry again. She stood up and looked at Li Lanlan's back angrily.
Zhou Daya's little sister looked a little embarrassed when she saw Li Lanlan passing by. After all, she talked behind her back, and seeing the indignant appearance of her sister, she couldn't help tugging at Zhou Daya's sleeve: "Da Ya, don't say anything. Well, she's not too bad."
"It's not so good, you didn't see her look of contempt, just wait and see, Lin Xiucai is different from the men in our village, he has high vision, Li Lanlan is a country girl, Lin Xiucai will definitely not see it Going to her and marrying her is to do farm work."
"Hey! Don't talk about it. You're talking about it even before you get married. You're not afraid of being scolded for being shameless."
Zhou Daya was really a little scared. She was just the age to discuss marriage. It would be bad if people saw her as an unmarried girl making irresponsible remarks.
So no matter how unwilling she was in her heart, she could only sit down and work, but she lowered her mouth and said, "Li Lanlan must have had a bad time when she married, and maybe she will be arrested at some point. Hugh went home."
Zhou Daya read it persistently all morning, as if cursing Li Lanlan like this would make her rich.
Others in the village are similar to her. Although they have no grudge against Li Lanlan, most people are not optimistic about this marriage. The specific reasons are similar to what Zhou Daya said.
Lin Xiucai doesn't go out very often, but as soon as he walks out, anyone with eyes can see that he is completely different from the people in the village, and when the Lin family hadn't split up before, Mother Lin never concealed that her son wanted to be admitted to Juren. Marrying a city girl, now the Lin family is seeing a bad life, and he wants to marry Li Lanlan, I am afraid it is also for farm work.
There is only one scholar in Lijia Village, but there are many people in the village and other villages who are close to each other, and they probably know some gossip.
For example, there was also a scholar in Wangjiacun, and that was 20 years ago. Wang Xiucai, like Lin Shiheng, failed repeatedly in exams, cost money to study, and he couldn’t do housework. Wang Xiucai’s family gradually showed signs of decline. .
So he married a lady and came back. The lady thought she was married to be a scholar's lady, but she married to serve the family. Wang Xiucai knew nothing but reading. The daughter-in-law has often sparred with her. Now twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the old lady is like an old woman. It is said that every time she goes back to her parents' house, she has to complain.
In the eyes of the villagers, this Lin Xiucai is the second Wang Xiucai.
He is even worse than Wang Xiucai. After all, Wang Xiucai's family does not have a father who can't do farm work and is still sick and needs to be raised with medicine.
Li Lanlan just took the people in the village into disapproval, and waited silently until the day they agreed to get married.
Li's father, who was doing good deeds everywhere, didn't go out to do good deeds on this day. An'an stayed at home, waiting for the Lin family to come and take his daughter away.
When their daughter gets married, the father of the family has to say a few words for his daughter, or pull his son-in-law and ask him to treat his daughter well. Only Father Lin is very unusual. He took his daughter and told Li Lanlan to let her go. In order to take good care of the Lin family, the rest, did not mention a word.
Li Lanlan had been chilled by her father's attitude for a long time, and she was not disappointed. She didn't wear new clothes, she had a red hijab on her head, and she just thought that she was wearing a wedding dress.
Even if it was a wedding, neither of the two families could handle it, so it was only the man who came over and took the woman away, and then the woman's family went to the man for a meal, which was not even a simple sentence.
Here, Li Lanlan was sitting in the room with her hijab covered, and Lin Shiheng was led by the matchmaker.
He dressed very energetically today, with his good looks, he walked all the way to see the eyes of many little girls, but unfortunately Li Lanlan couldn't see it with a hijab, waiting for the matchmaker to call, the groom could pull the red flower, she was I knew that it was my future husband who came in.
A safflower made of coarse red cloth was stuffed into her hand by the matchmaker, and the other end was held in Lin Shiheng's hand. The matchmaker thought about the matchmaking gift that was about to arrive, and smiled as jubilantly as it was sharp. The voice shouted, obviously there were only a few scattered villagers watching the fun, but she just shouted out like a large group of people outside: "The bridegroom and the bride go home—"
According to the tradition in the village, when a girl gets married, the male of the family should carry it from the door to the big tree at the entrance of the village before returning home with her husband.
A couple of newlyweds walked to the door. Father Li was watching with a smile. He was about to come forward to carry his daughter, when suddenly a child squeezed out from the crowd watching the excitement and shouted anxiously: "Uncle Li, I Grandma fell down, could you please take my grandma to see a doctor in town."
A group of spectators suddenly burst into an uproar.
On the day of great joy, people came over to find the bride's father to do other things, how could this child be so ignorant.
"What?! Fall down? I'll go!"
The happy look on Li's father's face disappeared in an instant, and he turned to leave. Li Lanlan, who was already uneasy because he was about to get married, stopped in his steps, his face turned pale under the red hijab.
"father!!"
She stopped her father, "I'm getting married today. Even if you want to go, why should you carry me under the tree?"
Father Li hesitantly looked back at his daughter and said hesitantly, "Lan Lan, this is a life-saving event..."
Li Lanlan's face turned even paler under the hijab.
When a woman gets married without a man carrying her under the tree, that is something that only a family can have. If Father Li left today, she, a woman who did not go under the tree, would be unknown in the eyes of many villagers.
This is a major event that can affect her life!
She was in despair when she suddenly heard Lin Shiheng, who had been quiet by the side, speak, "Father-in-law, anyone can take this child's grandmother to see a doctor, but Lanlan has only your father."
There are villagers who are watching the lively people with good hearts, thinking about taking someone to the town to see a doctor, but it is not far away, so he simply said: "Yeah, the Li family is having a wedding, this is not the right time to go, just as I am idle, I will bring go."
"no!!"
The child's expression changed immediately. Others will definitely not help to pay for the medical bills. He looked at Li's father persistently and began to play emotional cards: "My grandmother is ill and confused, who will fight whom, Uncle Li. She is a good person, she believes in Uncle Li, Uncle Li, please help us, my mother is crying at home."
Father Li immediately thought of the child's mother. She was a young widow, what a pitiful woman. She lost her husband early to support her mother-in-law by herself, and had to take a child with her. Now she must be very helpless when something happens.
He didn't hesitate anymore, and hurriedly said to his daughter, "Dad go to save people first, and I'll talk about other things later."
Then, he followed the child and left his daughter's wedding scene.
Li Lanlan was shaking all over, not knowing whether she was angry or sad.
There was only one man in the family, Father Li, and no one carried her to the tree, so she was the bride who could not be blessed. If something happened to her husband's family in the future, they would definitely blame her.
Her biological father, so easily, ruined her daughter's life.
Once is not enough, do it again.
Li Lanlan could hear someone talking outside. It was a familiar voice from Zhou Daya. Although it was concealed, the gloating in it was still very obvious.
"How can I do this! No one will go out with Li Lanlan's back, so how can she marry! Eh! If she just marries Lin Xiucai like this, she won't bring disaster to the Lin family in the future!"
Zhou Daya knew that there was someone nearby and she should restrain herself, but she couldn't help it. Seeing Lin Shiheng who was dressed better and better today, the anger in her heart couldn't help but go out.
If it weren't for Li Lanlan, such a beautiful and talented husband would be hers.
But it doesn't matter, Li Lanlan's own father did such an amazing job, and it wouldn't look good in any family. Lin Xiucai looked like a person with a good face, and he might not marry in a fit of anger.
Zhou Daya became happier the more she thought about it.
In the next second, the happiness on her face froze.
Lin Shiheng, who was standing at the door of Li's house, actually walked up to Li Lanlan and squatted down with his back to her.
"Come up, I'll carry you."
Li Lanlan was in a trance when she heard this sentence.
She reacted for a second before she realized it, knowing that this was her only chance, Li Lanlan didn't care about anything else, bit her lip, and groped to the back of her future husband.
Lin Shiheng stepped out and started to walk forward. The matchmaker, who had been embarrassed because of Father Li's exit, became happy, and hurried to the front and started to liven up the atmosphere.
"Come on! The bride is going out! The first step is to give birth to a precious son, and the second step..."
Li Lanlan could no longer hear what the matchmaker was saying. She lay on Lin Shiheng's back and felt the muscles moving as he walked forward.
She was thinking about:
He was not as thin and thin as he imagined. On the contrary, he was quite strong and strong, and he didn't shake much when he was carrying her.
His voice is also very nice, not quite the same as that of the villagers, with a gentleness of a scholar.
He seemed to be different from what others said. Although he didn't see him, she could feel that he didn't mean to look down on her.
Li Lanlan was a little nervous, and then she carefully hugged her future husband with both hands, a little happy and a little nervous thinking, maybe, her future life will not be as bad as she thought before.
Following the matchmaker's diligent shouting of joy, the scholar of the Lin family carried people all the way to the tree at the entrance of the village, and then led his little daughter-in-law back home.
In the future, Li Lanlan will be Lin's wife.