Chen Dazhui, who was far away, watched Cheng Qiao running out of the yard with a red face, and Li Huan chasing after her. He couldn't help but recall the reaction he had after hugging Xu Laidi.
Oh my god, I can’t think about it anymore. Chen Dazhu shook his loose pants to cover his disobedient little brother who wanted to stand up, then raised his legs and walked towards home.
"Dad, I want to get married."
"Men should get married when they are old enough, and women should get married when they are old enough. It's time to get married. Who do you like?"
Chen Dazhu's father, Chen Shuigen, had a pipe hanging from his mouth. He glanced at Chen Dazhu with his slanted eyes and asked casually.
"Which family in the village would be willing to marry their daughter to me? It would be that Xu Zhiqing from last time. I hugged her in a desperate situation, so of course she would marry me."
"Whether you hugged me on purpose or in a desperate situation, you know it in your heart. I don't care about these nonsense. You can get married, but my family doesn't have the money to give you a dowry."
"At least you should give me a room in the house. I don't think I can sleep in the living room with my wife after I get married."
Chen Dazhui's house is also very tight. There is a yard as soon as you enter the door. The kitchen and woodshed are on the right side of the yard. There is a chicken coop on the left side, with two laying hens in the coop.
Across the yard is a mud house with a living room in the middle and two rooms on each side. Originally, Chen Dazhui and his eldest brother lived in one room, and his two sisters lived in another room.
Chen Shuigen and his wife lived in one room, and there was another room left for storing miscellaneous items. But after Chen Shuigen's first wife died, Chen Shuigen married a widow named Pan Di from the village.
Moreover, Pan Di also has a daughter, Da Niu, and has two sons with Chen Shuigen. The eldest brother also got married and had children last year. As a result, housing conditions have obviously become tight.
There were four rooms. The two younger brothers shared one room, the eldest brother, his wife and his little nephew shared one room, the two younger sisters and his stepsister shared one room, and his father and stepmother shared one room. Chen Dazhu could only sleep in the living room with his bedding roll.
Moreover, the living room is where the whole family eats and gathers. Chen Dazhui must wait until everyone returns to their rooms before he can go to bed. He has to roll up his bedding early in the morning to make room.
"Why don't you build a house in the backyard? Your sister isn't married yet, and your brother is still young, so how can they spare a house for you?"
Chen Shuigen sneered in his heart. There were only two houses left. After the money-losing girls got married, the two houses would be given to the two younger sons, one for each. There would be no chance for Chen Dazhu to have one.
"Dad, if that's the case, let's split up. After that, I'll go ask the village chief for a piece of land, and then we can build a nest."
Chen Dazhu knew very well what his father was thinking. Ever since his mother passed away, his father married a coquettish widow in the village and treated his stepdaughter much better than his own daughter.
When the widow first came into the family, she wanted to establish herself as a stepmother and a kind mother, but under the pressure of being "poor", all her image was gone, and what was left was the face of a true stepmother.
"Divide the family, parents are still alive, this is the rule of our Chen family, you want to be an unfilial son."
Chen Shuigen couldn't even smoke anymore. This evil son actually wanted to divide the family. He could do the work of two people alone. If the family was divided, the younger son would starve.
"If you don't want to split up the family, give me a room. If you don't have a room, split up the family. It's up to you."
After Chen Dazhui finished speaking, he slammed the door and walked out. When Pan Di saw Chen Dazhui leave, he quickly ran out of the room and comforted Chen Shuigen, who was so angry that his eyes were about to fall out.
This stepson has grown up, and she can no longer control him. If she uses the excuse of marriage to separate him and Tiezhu (Dazhu's older brother), and waits for her two stepdaughters to get married, this home will be her real home.
Chen Shuigen's heart slowly calmed down as Pan Di spoke softly. He felt that his wife was right. None of the four children born to his ex-wife was close to him.
Chen Dazhui came to the village chief's house. When Cuihua saw Chen Dazhui, she knew why he came. It seemed that Aunt Wang was right. After the autumn harvest, two couples in the village would get married.
"Aunt Cuihua, is the village chief here?"
"He is in the threshing ground. Go find him."
"Hey, I'm going right away. I'm going to separate from my father, and I want the village chief to grant me a piece of land, preferably far away from my father."
"Okay, go ahead."
Chen Dazhui quickly came to the threshing ground and stared at the village chief. The village chief looked at this honest man with a headache. What happened to him recently? The naive Cheng Qiao has become a different person, and this honest man seems to have changed too.
"What on earth are you going to do?"
"I want to divide the family, I want to divide the land."
"Did your father agree to split up the family?"
"If you don't agree, you have to give me a house. If you don't give me a house, you have to split up. My father will definitely choose to split up the family."
The village chief thought it made sense, nodded and continued to ask
"Where do you want the land?"
"Just go with the second-rate guy."
"No, it's too dangerous there."
"If a second-rate person can live here, so can I."
"The second-rate guy has a homemade gun and the ability to fight to the death. Do you have that?"
That year, Erliuzi killed two wild boars by himself with a homemade rifle and rescued his mother and sister from the wild boars' mouths. This scene laid the foundation for Erliuzi to dominate the entire Xiangyang Village.
Moreover, the two wild boars allowed the villagers to eat the pork they had longed for. Although everyone still disliked the second-rate guy, they always felt inferior to him when they saw him.
"I... then I'll find a place closer to the village entrance."
"How about this grove? I'll give you an acre of land, but you have to open up the wasteland yourself. I don't need to charge you for the land."
"Okay, please come to my house tonight, Uncle Village Chief."
"Okay, you've fallen for Xu Laidi from the Youth League Center, right? I'm warning you, he's not a good guy. Don't marry for a woman, or you'll end up hurting yourself."
"I understand, but I accidentally hugged her, so I have to take responsibility."
The village chief sneered, it was just that the second-rate guy had set a good example, but this kind of thing must be controlled in the future, otherwise anyone could hug a woman and that woman would have to get married, and what kind of place would Xiangyang Village become.
Chen Dazhui had separated his family. The news spread throughout the Xiangyang Village in just one night. Xu Laidie felt nervous, for she knew that Chen Dazhui would come to find her after he separated his family.
The most urgent thing was to find a man to stand in front of her, but who else could she find? At the educated youth point, except Chai Jianmin, with whom she could talk, the other three men ignored her.
"Chai Jianmin, I want to ask you a favor."
"What's up."
"Can you pretend to be with me?"
"You are afraid that Chen Dazhu will marry you. I can be your partner, but it must be sincere and not fake."
"Well, okay, let's look around first."
In any case, Chai Jianmin looks more decent than Chen Dazhu. No, he looks much more decent. He is an educated youth from Sichuan Province. His situation is at least several times better than that of Xiangyang Village.