"What do you mean by that?"
After being surprised, Zhao Shufen couldn't help but ask.
What do you mean Lu Chen can't possibly marry Meng Zhiqing? Could it be that he likes someone else, or he is already engaged, or there are other reasons.
Seeing that the Wang family members were attracted by what Lu Xiujuan said, Lu Xiujuan was actually a little nervous.
After all, this was the first time she had received so much attention in the Wang family except on her wedding day. This made her nervous, but at the same time, she couldn't help but feel a little surprised and satisfied.
Taking a deep breath, under the curious gaze of the Wang family, Lu Xiujuan said: "Because Lu Chen... his family conditions are not particularly good, and there are also some things when he was born, so he will not marry anyone."
Not to mention that she is a girl like Meng Yinyin, who is obviously not someone that an ordinary family can afford to support.
Of course, the most important thing is that Lu Xiujuan knows that her parents, as Lu Chen's only elders now, will never let Lu Chen get married casually.
After all, if Lu Chen wants to get married, they will help with money and effort, otherwise they will lose face and be ridiculed and blamed by other relatives.
In order to save money, her parents would definitely try to dissuade Lu Chen from getting married.
Although Lu Xiujuan occasionally felt that her parents' behavior was not good, she thought about the fact that Lu Chen had lived alone for so many years, and several lives had been lost when he was born.
Perhaps it is best for him not to get married. At least it won’t affect the person next to him.
After listening to Lu Xiujuan's explanation, Zhao Shufen felt a little unconvinced.
After all, she is an educated person and knows that the so-called "disaster star" and "fate" are not necessarily true. In addition, since Meng Yinyin is willing to be with Lu Chen, she must be aware of his family situation.
So these two reasons would not make them believe that Lu Chen would reject Meng Yinyin.
After all, just looking at Meng Yinyin's face, there are probably not many men who can refuse her.
However, Lu Xiujuan is Lu Chen's cousin after all, and the two families live so close, she should not lie.
For a moment, the Wang family hesitated and looked at each other.
In the end, Zhao Shufen couldn't help herself and asked her again: "Is what you said true?"
"Lu Chen and Meng Zhiqing, is it really impossible?"
Lu Xiujuan was actually a little nervous, because she and Lu Chen did grow up together, but the relationship between them was at most a little more familiar than strangers.
Especially after her grandmother passed away, Lu Chen was driven to the next door by her parents, and she dared not talk to Lu Chen anymore.
Therefore, she was not sure what her cousin, who was now in his twenties, was thinking.
It's just that he really didn't want to contact other people before, because he was worried that he would be implicated, or that the bad rumors about him would affect other people.
Now that he has grown up, he should be accustomed to living and existing alone, so it is even more impossible for him to change his living habits just because of a strange educated youth he has just met.
And even if Lu Chen was really attracted to Meng Yinyin and was willing to change his lifestyle of the past twenty years to be with Meng Yinyin, she had a way to make Lu Chen give up.
After all, she knew very well what Lu Chen had been asking for from her parents.
At worst, she could persuade her parents to return some of her uncle and aunt's things to Lu Chen, so as to dispel Lu Chen's thoughts about Meng Yinyin!
She knew that Lu Chen would never refuse the relics of his parents!
Finally she nodded, her tone more firm than ever before: "Well, they can't get married."
Zhao Shufen's expression changed several times, from surprise to suspicion, and finally to eagerness.
Since Meng Zhiqing and Lu Chen are unlikely to be together, why not...
But just when she was about to ask her son to try again, she saw her second son Wang Chengwu staring at Lu Xiujuan with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
"Sister-in-law, I remember that you and Lu Chen don't seem to be familiar with each other."
The implication is that how could she be so sure that Lu Chen would not be with Meng Yinyin
Especially yesterday when he and his eldest brother went to Lu Dashan's house, he saw clearly that almost everyone in their family had a bad relationship with Lu Chen, and her cousin also seemed to be avoiding Lu Chen. Why was she so confident today, as if they had a deep sisterly love, that Lu Chen and Meng Yinyin were impossible
Lu Xiujuan didn't expect Wang Chengwu's intuition to be so sharp. She panicked and lowered her eyes to avoid his exploration. She pretended to be calm and explained: "In fact, he and I had a good relationship before, but later when I grew up, I..."
This makes sense. Even siblings will have estrangement as they age, let alone cousins.
The only thought in Zhao Shufen's mind now was that Meng Yinyin and Lu Chen could not be together, and she didn't want to consider anything else.
However, her son's worry was not unreasonable, so the next second, Zhao Shufen turned and looked at Lu Xiujuan.
"Xiujuan, this matter concerns Chengwu's marriage, so it's better to be cautious. How about this, you take some time to go home in a couple of days and ask your cousin what he thinks?"
This was the first thing her in-laws asked her to do. Lu Xiujuan was very excited and agreed immediately.
"Mom, don't worry, I will definitely find out the truth about this matter. I will definitely not let my second brother down!"
As long as she does this job well and lets Wang Chengwu and Meng Yinyin get married, she will have a status in her husband's family!
Wang Chengwu did not say anything else, but he still had many doubts in his mind.
Ever since he came back from the Lu family yesterday, he always felt that something was not right with Lu Xiujuan's family. Moreover, at this moment, given her timid personality, it was even more impossible for her to take the initiative to take on this matter. Moreover, her expression was so firm, as if Lu Chen would refuse no matter what.
It was true that he admired Meng Yinyin's face, but after all, they had only met once and hadn't even spoken to each other, so it was absolutely impossible for him to say that he had to be with her.
But at this moment he did not interrupt his mother's proposal, because he also wanted to know what kind of secrets Lu Xiujuan and the Lu family were hiding.
It would be fine if this secret would not implicate the Wang family, but if the opposite were true... then he would definitely not let his family be implicated!
…
Meng Yinyin and Lu Chen had no idea about this. After returning to the team, it was lunch time, and after lunch, Meng Yinyin and Lu Chen went back to work.
However, their situation was still the same as before, Lu Chen was working in the fields, and Meng Yinyin was trying her best to slack off on the shore.
What made her happy was that maybe Song Yue saw that both of them were not there in the morning, so he did not come over in the afternoon. Meng Yinyin successfully caught fish in the afternoon and got two work points from Lu Chen again.
Song Yue couldn't come over to stare at her, and couldn't find any evidence to prove that Meng Yinyin had done nothing. He could only smile and write down two work points behind Meng Yinyin's name.
But Meng Yinyin noticed that when he smiled, his eyes were cold.
This damn pervert!
Meng Yinyin cursed Song Yue angrily in her heart while quickening her pace towards the educated youth point.
She is no longer the same person she was before. She now has a very important mission, and her mission is, of course, to make clothes for Lu Chen!
Although she had never done it before, after careful observation this afternoon, she felt that she already knew how the coat on Lu Chen was made.
So after returning to the educated youth point, Meng Yinyin borrowed the position from Yu Xiaoyu, sat by the window and began to work seriously.
Half an hour later, looking at the two pieces of cloth she had cut into one large and one small, Meng Yinyin put down the scissors guiltily.
Well, even though one corner of the clothes is longer than the other when put together, it shouldn't be a big problem as long as Lu Chen doesn't button up the clothes.
Moreover, this is her first time making clothes, so it’s good enough if she can make it 80% similar. What’s most important is the thought behind it!
So just like that, Meng Yinyin finally picked up the needle and thread and started sewing clothes. When Yu Xiaoyu entered the room, she saw her holding two pieces of black cloth with a crooked thread sewn in the middle.
Yu Xiaoyu was silent for a while, and finally asked cautiously: "Yinyin, are you sewing a cloth bag?"
She actually wanted to ask if she was sewing diapers...
But you can imagine, they don't have any children, so there's no way Meng Yinyin could sew this thing.
But I have to say, this thing really looks like a diaper.
Meng Yinyin looked up at Yu Xiaoyu in her busy schedule, and then seriously corrected her: "Wrong, I was sewing clothes, but do you think I have the talent to sew bags? Then how about I sew a bag for you!"
Speaking of the latter part, Meng Yinyin's eyes lit up because of Yu Xiaoyu's "affirmation" of her craftsmanship.
Yu Xiaoyu: “…”
I was very touched, but I refused.
"No, no, I have a bag. Besides, you bought new cloth with great difficulty, so you should save it."
After saying that, Yu Xiaoyu felt strange again.
"Why did you buy such a piece of black cloth? Don't you like pink?"
Meng Yinyin's hands trembled and she almost stabbed herself. She quickly found an excuse and said vaguely.
"Well, change the color occasionally to change your mood, and black is very resistant to dirt."
Yu Xiaoyu thought so too, so she didn't ask any more questions. She just looked at Meng Yinyin's acupuncture skills, which were so unbearable to look at, before turning around and leaving.
Meng Yinyin was completely unaware of this and was still concentrating on the excitement of making a love-made cloth coat that contained countless efforts and sweat from her.
In the next two days, Meng Yinyin continued to work in the dormitory whenever she found the chance. She had a lot of time during the day, but she didn't dare to do it in front of Lu Chen, so she could only continue sewing clothes when she returned to the dormitory.
However, as the clothes were becoming more and more presentable and would soon be finished, her work points had not made any progress for two consecutive days.
Meng Yinyin was extremely anxious. It was because the team leader was too busy these two days that he had no time to check the work points. Otherwise, she felt that she would have been called aside by him for a lecture.
Tomorrow, tomorrow she must make the clothes and give them to Lu Chen, and express her feelings at the same time!
Otherwise, if it was delayed any further, she would really be finished.
That night, Meng Yinyin didn't even have dinner. She worked hard and finally finished making the clothes.
Although the final product looked really unpresentable, Meng Yinyin still comforted herself that it would be enough as long as Lu Chen knew how much effort she had put in.
The gift may be insignificant, but the sentiment is profound. She gave him the first piece of clothing she made by herself in her life. He would definitely be so happy that he would cry!
Perhaps because Meng Yinyin was looking forward to tomorrow too much, the night passed quickly.
Early the next morning, Meng Yinyin packed herself up, carefully put the thing that could barely be seen as a cloth jacket into her small bag, and carried it to work.
At the same time, Lu Xiujuan also rode her bicycle towards her mother's home, the Nanjiao Brigade.
She was shouldering the important task of preventing Lu Chen and Meng Yinyin from being together, so when she returned home she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to pick up some things.
Her mother-in-law Zhao Shufen specifically told her to bring these things when she was leaving the house in the morning. Zhao Shufen's original words were that although she asked Lu Xiujuan to go back and find out about Lu Chen's attitude, she couldn't let her go back empty-handed, so she should also bring some things back to visit her in-laws and say hello to Lu Dashan and his family on behalf of her family.
After all, if Lu Xiujuan went home empty-handed, people might ask her what she was doing there. At least if she took something, she could explain that she was simply going home to see her parents.
It was the first time that Lu Xiujuan received so much money, and it was also the first time that she bought so many things by herself.
She was riding her bicycle on the road leading to the Nanjiao Brigade. Hanging on the handlebars were two packages of gifts for her, a married girl, to bring back to her parents' home. People passing by couldn't help but take a few more glances at her.
Looking at the gazes of the others, Lu Xiujuan tried hard not to let the smile on her face be so bright.
Even before she joined the team, she seemed to have noticed that the other people in the team were looking at her with admiration.
Especially her parents!
Seeing how many things she brought back and how successful she is, I will never again call her a "useless thing" or a "freeloader"!
Not only is she useful, but as long as Lu Chen's matter is successfully resolved and Meng Yinyin and her brother-in-law are married, her status in her husband's family will be even higher in the future. By then, she will see if her parents dare to look down on her and think that she is not as promising as her younger brother!