Chapter 38 - I can rely on you, you can rely on me...(1)
Bai Zhengqian and Tang Liren spent a lot of time trying to persuade Zhou Chunni to get rid of the idea of marrying Jiang Hongzhi.
But no matter how persuaded, Zhou Chunni is stubborn.
——She insisted on marrying Jiang Hongzhi.
Bai Zheng had no choice but to ask Tang Liren to give out 11 yuan to the village chief, and let the village chief ride a bicycle with Zhou Chunni to the town’s post and telecommunications office, and call her brother, who is studying in a university in Kyoto.
He also explained that if Zhou Chunsheng also agreed with his sister and Jiang Hongzhi to marry, then let the village chief take the money left after the phone call and put some dowry for Zhou Chunni in the town.
The uncle of the village head took Zhou Chunni to the town. After making the call, he went to the supply and marketing agency to buy Zhou Chunni a new suit, a pair of leather shoes, a box of vanishing cream, a pair of pillow towels, two towels and a piece of soap printed with Double Happiness. …the dowry is ready.
Back in the village, the village chief avoided people and said to Bai Zhenggan—
“I can’t help it! When I got to the post and telecommunications office, I made a phone call to 7 to 8, and then I asked someone to send a letter to Chunsheng, and then we waited there for two hours before Chunsheng called!”
“Chun Ni cried as soon as she answered the phone, saying she had to marry Jiang Hongzhi, but Chun Sheng disagreed on the other end of the phone, saying that he would come back immediately to take her to Kyoto, anyway, she was not allowed to marry Jiang Hongzhi, the brother and sister were arguing on the phone Very fierce, and later Chunni said that if she was not allowed to marry, she would die…”
“Afterwards, Chunsheng asked me to answer the phone… He was crying on the phone too, saying there was really no way, if she wanted to marry, let her marry, and he asked me to send you a message, asking you to borrow 20 yuan, Ten yuan for Chunni’s dowry, ten yuan for a few wedding tables in the village… I’ll pay you back when Chunsheng comes back!”
Bai Zhengqian sighed.
On the other side, Zhou Chunni was in high spirits.
She immediately went to Bailili to dry her new clothes, leather shoes, vanishing cream, and the pair of pillows embroidered with Double Happiness…
Bai Lili was expressionless the whole time.
Xing Xing couldn’t help it and asked, “Sister Chunni, Jiang Hongzhi is from the city, right? How did I hear that there are three major things for the city people to get married?”
“What are the three big things?” Zhou Chunni had been to the town as far as possible, not even the county seat, so she didn’t know what the three big things were.
Xing Xing, “It’s just bicycles, watches and radios! Oh, by the way, if you’re a little more careful, you’ll even add a sewing machine!”
Zhou Chunni’s face sank.
Xing Xing asked fearlessly, “Sister Chunni, what did Jiang Hongzhi give you?”
Zhou Chunni was so angry that she slammed the door and left.
Xing Xing chased after her and shouted with her hands on her hips, “My house offended you? Don’t come to my house when you have the skills! Slam the door in someone else’s house! It’s really yours…”
Bai Lili called to her, “Xing Xing, don’t know her in the same way, go find your fourth sister! It’s almost time to go to dinner, why haven’t you come back! You went to the blacksmith shop to see, Song Zhige didn’t come back, maybe They are together…”
Xing Xing responded and went out to look for someone.
As a result, Xing Xing found her silly peach sister squatting in the grass when she was less than 200 steps away from the blacksmith shop? Still staring at the direction of the blacksmith shop with a pair of bright eyes open?
“Fourth sister, what are you doing?” Xing Xing asked.
Tao Tao gasped in shock and complained, “Why are you walking without a sound?”
Xing Xing lowered her voice and asked, “What are you doing?”
Tao Tao also lowered her voice, “I’m waiting to see, when will Yan Naqian be kicked out!”
The voice just fell-
“roll!”
Song Zhi’s roar came from the blacksmith shop.
Then he threw something out of the blacksmith for some unknown reason, knocked it to the ground with a bang, and the contents inside were scattered on the floor.
Yan Naqian’s angry voice rang out, “Song zhi! What do you mean, are you still a man?”
Tao Tao stretched her neck and looked.
Xing Xing also stretched her neck–
I saw Yan Naqian turned her back to sisters Tao Xing and was forced out of the forge step by step.
She faced inward and said to Song Zhi, “You are too unmannered! How can you treat ladies like you! Have you never heard of ladies first…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Sister Tao Xing saw Song Zhi, who was naked on the upper body, come out with a hammer.
“If you haven’t learned to speak properly in the future, I’ll just–” He raised his hammer high and glared at Yan Naqian.
There was also a trace of scorching smoke from the hammer.
Yan Naqian was so frightened that she screamed and fled away—
“Song Zhi, you will regret it!”
Song Zhi roared, “Take away the junk you brought! If you dare to dump garbage on me in the future… Then don’t blame me for throwing the **** from the blacksmith shop in your dormitory!”
Yan Naqian was so angry that she burst into tears, “That’s a gift I gave you! You, you actually said it was garbage?”
“Pick up the rubbish, get out!” Song Zhi said annoyed.
Yan Naqian squatted on the ground in humiliation, picked up the stainless steel lunch box she brought, and picked up the carved sweet potato pieces she made by herself, and was about to leave with tears in her eyes…
Suddenly he heard Song Zhi shouting in a low voice, “Peach come here!”
Yan Naqian was stunned, thinking that Bai Taotao was also there? Suddenly, I was shocked – how did Song Zhi’s voice become so gentle?
On sister Tao Xing’s side, Xing Xing has always been a little afraid of Song zhi. Seeing the whereabouts leaked, she quickly said to Tao Tao: “Third sister, please go home and eat quickly! I’ll go back to wash the dishes first! You two hurry up. a little!”
After speaking, Xing Xing ran away.
Taotao also ran-
“Peach?” There was a hint of unhappiness in someone’s voice.
Taotao had no choice but to turn around, walk towards the blacksmith shop, and greet Yan Naqian who was squatting on the ground picking up sweet potatoes, saying hello in a serious manner, “Sister Naqian, what a coincidence!”
Yan Naqian: …
At this time, Song Zhi had already reached out to Tao Tao.
Taotao couldn’t refuse his touch (spirit) head (gas) at all, so he obediently went over, lowered his head, let him touch his head, and then showed an expression of enjoyment.
“Why are you hiding there?” Song Zhi asked.
Tao Tao, who was comforted by the spiritual energy, didn’t notice for a while, and said the truth, “I’ll see what you two are doing…” As soon as she finished speaking, she was shocked and quickly covered her mouth with her hands and quickly changed. He said, “No, no! There is a beautiful bug in the haystack over there hahahaha…”
Song Zhi, “You can’t sneak a peek at me in the future, just watch it openly… Also, if you see this woman in the future, you should avoid it immediately, because she’s full of bad water, you know?”
Taotao tilted her head to look at Yan Naqian and nodded seriously.
Yan Naqian: …
– Enough for you two! when i don’t exist? Am I being embarrassed? The old lady is not arrogant, you two still…
She was about to have a seizure, when she looked up, she suddenly saw Tao Tao’s innocent, curious, beautiful and clear eyes.
Yan Naqian’s body suddenly stiffened, and even her eyeballs followed Bai Taotao tightly, she couldn’t turn at all: I’m dead! How can there be such a beautiful little beauty! Did the original book say this little idiot? It seems to say something? My God, how can there be such a beautiful beauty in the world, did she come out of the painting?
Tao Tao looked at Yan Naqian and saw her staring at her dumbfounded, wondering what the **** she was doing.
Song Zhi slipped Taotao into the blacksmith shop.
With the hammer in one hand, he hugged Taotao by the waist with the other, lifted her up, made her sit on the small cabinet, and then started to work again with the hammer.
Taotao kicked both legs in the air, then twisted them together, “It’s time to eat!”
Song Zhi, “Sing your newly learned ditty three times, and I’ll call it a day.”
“Three times.”
Song Zhi was taken aback and smiled.
“Hungry?” he asked with a smile.
Taotao, “It’s getting dark, the light in your blacksmith shop is not good, it hurts your eyes.”
“Then you sing a paragraph, I’ll have more energy, we’ll leave after finishing this…” Song Zhi said, “I could have finished work on time, but the woman ran over and said a lot of inexplicable words, which delayed my work. alive…”
At this time, Taotao was already humming a little song, Song Zhi stopped talking, and listened to Taotao’s song with a smile, while holding the hammer in his hand, he lifted the weight high and fell, and began to work.
Yan Naqian squatted outside picking up sweet potatoes, both surprised by Tao Tao’s beauty and shocked by Tao Tao’s sweet and melodious singing – what kind of fairy beauty is this? With such a good-looking appearance and such a charming voice, Song Zhi still cherishes her so much?
Yan Naqian was a little broken.
——There is such a beautiful and lovely girl next to Song zhi, and she does not hide her love for Bai Taotao, so how can she correct the original plot and marry Song zhi?
Taotao sings a small river flowing.
This was originally a lingering love song, but it was sung by Taotao into a lively and lovely children’s song with a particularly lively rhythm.
The most important thing is that Yan Naqian is a big living person, and she is treated as a non-existent air by these two?
Yan Naqian was full of powerlessness, packed her things, stood up and left.
In the end, he was a little unwilling, so he stood still, turned his head in the direction of the blacksmith shop, and snorted coldly, “When Guan Haishan comes over, we will see what you will do!”
Song Zhi frowned.
After speaking, Yan Naqian left triumphantly.
Tao Tao hates someone interrupting her singing the most, she pouted, “This time doesn’t count, do it again!”
Song Zhi chuckled softly, “…Okay.”
Taotao sang the little river running water three times over and over again.
Song Zhi really finished the work, sorted out the blacksmith shop, closed the shop door, and then walked halfway up the mountain with Taotao.
The setting sun was sinking, and the sunlight turned into a warm orange color, reflecting on them, making them feel warm.
Yan Naqian did not go far.
She didn’t even know why, she just wanted to take a look again—
I saw Taotao jumping in front, very lively, pulling the grass for a while, and the leaves on the bushes on the roadside for a while… Suddenly stepped on the air? !
Song Zhi quickly grabbed her with his eyes and hands!
Tao Tao’s whole body was lifted up by him, and her toes were hanging in the air.
The little girl was so excited that she shouted, “One more time! One more time!”
Song zhi really lifted her up and threw her away—
Tao Tao let out an excited scream!
At this time, Tang Liren stood at the door of her house halfway up the mountain and shouted something to the bottom…
Song Zhi put Tao Tao on the ground, and the two quickened their pace and walked towards the mountain.
Seeing a pair of beautiful people drifting apart, Yan Naqian’s mood is complicated.
During dinner at night, Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren discussed how to do a happy event for Zhou Chunni and Jiang Hongzhi.
Taotao was very unhappy, “Mom, why are you helping Zhou Chunni, she treats my third sister like that!”
“Which?”
Tang Liren has been so busy these days that she doesn’t know that Zhou Chunni came to Lili to question and show off.
Lili remained silent.
Aunt and sister-in-law can learn from you and me.
After listening to the words of the daughters-in-law and daughters, Tang Liren frowned, “This girl Chunni… I used to think that she might have a temperament like a cannonball. So she deliberately targeted my pear?”
After speaking, he snorted again, “Since this is the case, do you still expect me to help her manage the marriage? She can do it herself!”
Bai Zhenggan sighed, “You’re done talking about your anger, for Chunsheng’s sake, you should help! After all, we’re all children we’ve watched grow up… Besides, Jiang Hongzhi’s order has already come down, he I have to leave immediately, I will talk to him tomorrow and see what he plans to do… Ruyi Chunni insists on going with him, and it is estimated that she will have to leave in two or three days, why should we have to deal with a little girl!”
“So quickly?” Song Zhi was a little surprised.
Bai Zhengqian said, “It’s already autumn! It’s about to freeze the city in the frontier, so why don’t you let people go? Besides, how many educated youths are willing to go there? You don’t know, we Murakami After applying for such a place, the whole Song County has made a sensation! Hey, next year, our village will be able to evaluate Wenming Village again!”
Tang Liren asked Bai Zhenggan, “Head of the family, do you think that Jiang Hongzhi is brave and has a back-to-back fight? Or does he not know how powerful the frontier is at all?”
Tao Tao was a little curious, “Is the frontier bad?”
Song Zhi explained: “There is a lot of wind and sand, a semi-desert area, and lack of water… In fact, except for the yellow sand, everything is lacking. It is cold to the freezing city in winter, and hot to melt in summer… It is the most difficult place in our country. “
Taotao made an “oh” and said, “There are many kinds of trees! With trees, you can retain water and slowly change the harsh ecological environment.”
Song Zhi, “It’s just because it’s a desert and lacks water, so I can’t grow a living tree… I heard that it takes twenty or thirty saplings to cultivate a single tree. As a result, the saplings all died when the wind and sand came.”
Tao Tao fell into contemplation.
Bai Zhenggan said to Tang Liren: “I guess Jiang Hongzhi also means breaking the jar! Of course, he may also be young, and he doesn’t know how powerful he is, so he just relies on the anger in his heart… That’s why I’m worried about Chunni! You! Think about it, she followed Jiang Hongzhi to the place where birds don’t poop, what if Jiang Hongzhi was not happy and beat her like Yan Naqian?”
“In that unfamiliar frontier, there is no maiden’s family to call Chun Ni’er… She is not a diligent person, Jiang Hongzhi sees her pleasing to the eye? Well, whether she lives or dies depends entirely on Jiang Hongzhi. Hongzhi has the final say! Do you think she is stupid!”
The more Bai Zhenggan talked, the more angry he became.
The whole family was silent and ate in silence.
Xing Xing couldn’t help but asked again, “Dad, Mom! And that Yan Naqian! Are we going to eat this loss? She is so bad, she was the third sister of our family! Being fooled, she is the only Zhou Chunni who counts!”
Hearing this, Bai Lili held the bowl, flattened her mouth, and whimpered in grievance.
——For this reason, Tang Liren shut Bai Lili in the house and did not allow her to go out.
Lili has not been out for three days. She especially misses the full-grown ears of grain in the fields, the green woods and the shallow creek in the village…
Bai Zhenggan looked at Lili’s aggrieved appearance, and felt a little distressed, but when he thought that this little girl dared to go to the cornfield to date a man… and got angry again, “Who told her to be so courageous! The other party handed her a When the small note came over, she didn’t even know whether the other party was a human or a ghost, and she dared to run away…”
Lili lowered her head, holding the bowl and crying.
Tang Liren took a deep breath—
“Okay, okay! Don’t say this when you eat!”
After a pause, Tang Liren taught her daughters again, “That Yan Naqian is not a thing! You guys… First, don’t play with her, and don’t talk to her; second, don’t you go out. Order! Until the end of this year, your father submitted the work report of our village, and when spring starts next year, just…”
“You are so talkative!” Bai Zhenggan interrupted his wife’s words.
Tang Liren realized that there are some things that can’t be said.
So she coughed twice, “Okay, don’t talk about that, eat!”
However, everyone has heard the meaning of the parents’ words.
——When Bai Zhenggan submitted his work report, he would also report about Yan Naqian. In the spring of next year, there will be a unified personnel transfer arrangement, and Yan Naqian may be transferred out at that time.
The aunts and sisters exchanged glances that “can only be understood, but cannot be described in words”, happily holding bowls to eat.
Lili held the bowl and said humbly, “Mom, then tomorrow… can I go to work?”
Tang Liren didn’t say a word for a long time, so she took a chopstick and stuffed it into her mouth to chew slowly.
Lili’s tears rolled back and forth in her eyes.
No one dared to say a word.
“Just go!” Tang Liren said.
Pear stayed for a while.
Tang Liren said with a stern face: “Don’t leave my sight even for a minute! Also, don’t communicate with Yan Naqian! You can’t even talk! If you don’t listen, I’ll lock you in the house, not even in the yard. Come out!”
“I promise to ignore Yan Naqian!” Li Li said with tears.
Bai Zhengqian, “Don’t interact with Jiang Hongzhi again…he is about to get married!”
“I promise to ignore Jiang Hongzhi!” Li Li couldn’t help crying, “It’s great, I can finally go out woo woo…”
Everyone laughed.
The next day, Bai Zhenggan asked Jiang Hongzhi to talk.
Zhou Chunni followed step by step
Jiang Hongzhi’s intention is to set up a few tables of wedding wine in the village tomorrow, and he will leave the day after tomorrow. Then he said to Zhou Chunni with a sullen face, “The environment there is not good, don’t follow…”
Zhou Chunni screamed, “No! I want to follow you!”
Jiang Hongzhi, “Whatever you want, you just need to remember that all this is your own choice. We should have persuaded you, and we have persuaded all of them.”
“You are my man, where are you and where are I!” Zhou Chunni said stubbornly.
Jiang Hongzhi was even more annoyed. He took out twenty dollars from his jacket pocket and put it on the table, “Uncle, these twenty dollars… Please ask the village to help you buy some tables tomorrow!”
Zhou Chunni grabbed the twenty dollars and said, “I’ll do it!”
Jiang Hongzhi’s face was even more ugly. He stood up and said to Bai Zhenggan, “Uncle, then I’ll go first. Over the past few years…Thank you for your care. I know that you have always been very tolerant of me.”
Bai Zhengqian was also a little sad.
——Jiang Hongzhi is indeed very utilitarian, but during the three years he stayed in Ruyi Village, his production work has been outstanding. Therefore, Bai Zhengqian also relied on him very much. Now that Jiang Hongzhi is gone, Bai Zhenggan also has a headache, and he doesn’t know who to promote to be the team leader.
At the moment, the two discussed it for a while before Jiang Hongzhi resigned.
Zhou Chunni also took the twenty dollars excitedly and followed Jiang Hongzhi away. However, as soon as she left Bai’s house, Zhou Chunni asked Jiang Hongzhi, “Hongzhi, I heard that when you get married in the city, there are three things you need? Bicycles, watches and radios?”
Jiang Hongzhi gave her a cold look and left without looking back.
Zhou Chunni understood the look of “You are also worthy?” from his eyes, and felt that the boss was not interesting. But as soon as she saw the twenty dollars in her hands, she was happy again, and ran to the field to find Baili Li who was working.
“Hey, look! Jiang Hongzhi gave it to me!” Zhou Chunni showed off the twenty dollars and floated it in her hand, “He said, tomorrow we will have a wedding in the village, and we will use this money to do it. liquor!”
Bai Lili was wearing a veiled bamboo hat, Zhou Chunni couldn’t see her expression, she only heard her say–
“Twenty dollars? Do you know how to settle accounts? Do you know how much pork is a pound? Do you know how many people you want to invite to dinner? How many tables do you want? How many dishes are there? What kind of wine do you have? Do you have a lot of rice? Not to mention anything else, where do you get so many tables, chairs, tableware, and pans? Who helps? Who cooks? Who cooks? Where is the banquet? Who do you want to invite…”
Zhou Chunni was stunned.
Bai Lili, “You still have the time to show off your twenty dollars? Hurry up and worry about your banquet!”
Zhou Chunni only cared about showing off, she didn’t think that there would be so many things to do at the wedding banquet…
Startled, she turned and ran. As I ran, I thought: Who can I turn to for help? After thinking about it, it seems that only Tang Liren can do this? However, just now Jiang Hongzhi asked Bai Zhenggan, and she also said that she would do it herself.
now–
Humph, good horses don’t eat grass!
Zhou Chunni ran around the village and begged a lot of aunts and sisters-in-law. Everyone shied away, and everyone thought it was strange, “Why don’t you go to your aunt?”
Of course, Zhou Chunni couldn’t hold back her face and looked back to find Tang Liren, she thought, anyway, with twenty dollars in hand, why not go to town and buy ready-made ones?
As a result, she couldn’t even borrow an ox cart!
Seeing that it was already dark, and tomorrow’s wedding banquet had not yet arrived, Zhou Chunni was restless, and ran to Jiang Hongzhi, wanting to discuss with him what to do with the wedding banquet.
Jiang Hongzhi said coldly: “This is your hometown, you can set the wine how you want, or you can not set the drink, anyway, I have already taken the money to prepare the banquet, whether you can set the drink, it is you own choice.”
Zhou Chunni embarrassedly left the educated youth station.
Standing on the hillside for a long time and hesitating for a long time, Zhou Chunni was torn between “take out twenty dollars to ask Tang Liren for help in a low voice” and “don’t drink the twenty dollars at all, wouldn’t it taste good in your hand”…
In the end, after thinking about it, I felt that a woman would get married once in her life, so…let’s go to Tang Liren!
But when I got to Bai’s house, I only knew when I called the door that Tang Liren took Bai Lili back to her parents’ house in the afternoon?
Zhou Chunni was extremely disappointed and said, “Could it be that my aunt went back to her parents’ house on purpose to avoid me?”
Xing Xing glanced at Zhou Chunni, “How old are you?”
Zhou Chunni bit her lip, her eyes were red, and she was about to cry.
Her stubbornness also came up, thinking that since Tang Liren went out, she would wait outside Bai’s yard, and she had to wait until Tang Liren came back!
In the yard, sisters Tao and Xing were chatting and laughing, red beans and soybeans were shouting loudly, Tan Fenghui’s gentle exhortations, Bai Zhengqian and Song Zhi whispered a few words from time to time…
Zhou Chunni was stunned.
——The atmosphere of the Bai family is so warm and harmonious!
It wasn’t until nine o’clock at night that Bai Zhenggan felt a little uneasy, and told Song rank, “Song rank, turn on the flashlight and go to the intersection to see why your aunt hasn’t come back yet!”
Song Zhi responded and was about to go—
Tang Liren, who smelled of alcohol, came back with Bai Lili.
Before she entered the house, Tang Liren laughed, “The head of the house! You know… my eldest sister-in-law is still mysterious and told me that I must go back to drink, and she insisted that I bring pears… At that time, I just I know, they must have found a suitable descendant and wanted to call Lizi to meet each other! As soon as I arrived, I saw that there was really a strong and handsome descendant!”
“But when I see it, that’s not Lizi’s former junior high school classmate! It’s… Xiaofeng! Cao Xiaofeng! You say, is this fate! Hahahaha…”
Bai Lili was ashamed and embarrassed, “Mom! I agreed not to talk about this…”
Tang Liren was still overjoyed, “Head of the family, you have no idea how interesting Xiaofeng’s child is! When he saw our pear, his face turned red, and he shivered when he spoke, then took my hand and said, ‘Auntie, I saved three Hundred dollars, is it enough to marry Lili? Or I can come to the door’…”
Tang Liren laughed loudly, “Why is this offspring so interesting, he doesn’t even look at his mother, his face is black with anger!”
Bai Lili was so angry that she stomped her feet, “Mom, I hate you to death!” Then she ran away with a gust of wind.
Zhou Chunni squatted in the darkness outside the yard when she heard “three hundred yuan”, then bit her lower lip and clenched the twenty yuan in her hand.
I also vaguely seem to hear Tao Tao and Xing Xing calling—
“Mom, you can’t just marry my third sister! I’m going to shut it down!”
“Yes! It depends on the man’s character! The family is not good! And there’s more! If he is not good to our third sister, then it is not good!”
Lili went mad, “Shut up all of you! I hate you!”
The crowd laughed hilariously.
Zhou Chunni finally calmed down from the ecstasy of “marrying a male **** as she wished”, and her heart filled with unspeakable bitterness.
——What she tried so hard to get, is it really what she wants?
Look at Bai Lili, her marriage is controlled by her parents, and her sisters help to see each other and come up with ideas…
What about her?
Her brother Zhou Chunshan did not agree with her and Jiang Hongzhi’s marriage, and neither did her sister. When the whole village mentioned this matter, they all sighed, and no one approved or blessed.
she……
Is there a way out?
Zhou Chunni bit her lower lip fiercely.
– What retreat do you want! Staying in such a remote mountain village, she still wears the name of the landlord’s little brat. If she misses Jiang Hongzhi, she will never find a better marriage partner than him.
Zhou Chunni closed her eyes, opened them again, with a determined look in her eyes, stood up and patted the door, “Auntie! Auntie open the door, I’m Chunni!”
…
After listening to Zhou Chunni’s words, Tang Liren felt a little embarrassed, “A wedding banquet tomorrow? You two are leaving the day after tomorrow?”
Zhou Chunni nodded.
Tang Liren, “It’s already past nine o’clock at night… You have a wedding banquet tomorrow? No pork, no wine, no rice! You don’t even know who to ask for help, you can invite anyone to eat it. I didn’t say it in advance… Then how do you know that others are free to come and eat your wedding wine?”
Bai Zhenggan was also stunned, “Chun Ni, didn’t you say you would do it yourself in the morning?”
Zhou Chunni was embarrassed and embarrassed, and said in a nonchalant manner, “I-I can’t do it… Uncle, aunt, please help me.”
Tang Liren thought for a while, “Then what specifications do you want?”
Zhou Chunni shook her head blankly, “I don’t know…”
Tang Liren, “Like when Chang Jun married his wife last year? Ten tables with flowing water? Or like Liu Wa, thirty tables?”
Zhou Chunni put the 20 yuan that had become a little wrinkled on the table after holding it all afternoon, “That’s all, auntie, see what you can do.”
Tang Liren’s eyes widened in shock, “Twenty dollars?”
Zhou Chunni’s face flushed instantly, “He, he only gave so much.”
Tang Liren said, “Chun Ni, you have never been a homeowner, so you should know a little common sense. Look at the hundreds of people in our village, which one is invited and which one is not, you don’t know? It’s a happy event. , at least half of the village’s people come here! If it’s less, how can there be two hundred people… I’ll talk about it after the money, you have to set up a table of banquets before you can make money, right?”
“You come out with 20 yuan, and you want to invite 200 people to drink wedding wine, and spread it evenly on each person’s head. It’s only a dime? Are you going to invite people to drink a bowl of mung bean syrup and a meat bun?”
Zhou Chunni stared at the twenty dollars on the table, and then thought about the three hundred dollars that Tang Liren joked about Bai Lili just now, she was so embarrassed that she wanted to cry.
In the end, Bai Zhenggan clapped the board, “Mom Lizi, let me take care of the two sisters when Chunsheng leaves… Chunni and Xiaoni are also grown up by us, so please help her, you can take the twenty dollars first. , let’s put the rest of the money first, and after we have finished the wedding and received some money, let Chunni return the money to us.”
Tang Liren sighed, “Chun Ni, too many things have happened recently, don’t blame my aunt for being ruthless, like this, why don’t you write an IOU first to prove that you will definitely pay back the money, and my aunt will help you tomorrow!”
Zhou Chunni, “I’m illiterate, auntie, write it down, and I’ll press my handprint.”
Tang Liren shook her head, calling Taotao to write an IOU, and said to Zhou Chunni, “In the future, you still have to read and learn culture! I’m fifty and I’m still studying every day, you can’t even recognize the words at a young age. , you don’t even know if you were betrayed! Besides, Xiao Jiang is an educated youth, you are his wife, and you have to study… don’t hold him back, you know?”
Zhou Chunni lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes.
Tao Tao quickly wrote the IOU and handed it to her mother.
Tang Liren glanced at it and instructed Xing Xing, “Xingzi went to get the red seal mud!”
Then he said to Zhou Chunni: “Chunni, you’re like this, tomorrow morning, you have to tell me before nine o’clock in the morning that everyone will come to eat your wedding wine, and then I can do things according to the number of people. do you know?”
Zhou Chunni nodded, and asked ignorantly, “Auntie, what else do I need to prepare?”
Tang Liren sighed, “Your uncle, your aunt, and your aunts…Are they coming?”
Zhou Chunni shook her head.
Tang Liren, “Then find some little sisters to accompany you!”
Zhou Chunni was silent for a while, and looked at Tao Tao, who was squeezing on the kang bed and was fighting with red beans and soybeans.
Tang Liren also followed Zhou Chunni’s gaze, looked at Tao Tao, and laughed, “Tao Tao can’t do it!”
Zhou Chunni, “I-I have no friends.”
“Tao Tao can’t be done,” Tang Liren said with a half-smile, “because you will be the bride tomorrow, and the sisters by your side, at least can’t stand out more than you.”
Zhou Chunni understood.
——Tomorrow is her only beautiful day, so she needs the company of sisters, but sisters can’t go past her.
Omg! Getting married is so troublesome? Are there so many twists and turns? Why doesn’t she have a mother or elder to take care of her?
“Then let Xiaoni accompany you!” Tang Liren said.
Zhou Chunni nodded silently.
Tang Li and Zhou Chunni discussed it very late.
Tao Tao couldn’t stand it, so she and her sisters went to bed first.
Early the next morning, Tang Liren started to get busy.
Of course, her daughter-in-law and daughters were all summoned by her.
Ask the villagers to borrow tables, chairs, plates, chopsticks, and cups, as well as pots, oil, and rice, and then register to make Xiu. Then I called a few capable women to help, and as soon as I got the number in Zhou Chunni’s newspaper… I immediately sent people to the town to buy pork and other things, and the others started preparatory work.
Fortunately, there are not many people Zhou Chunni can invite, and her family’s popularity in the village is not good. Only a dozen or so families who are usually close to her brother are willing to come, plus the people in the same group of the production team, there are about a dozen people at the table.
Just after noon, the women who went shopping in the town rushed back.
Tang Liren then directed everyone to get busy.
Zhou Chunni rarely attended a wedding banquet, but this time it was her turn to get married, but she didn’t understand anything.
All depends on Tang Liren’s arrangement.
When night fell, people in the village came one after another to drink wedding wine, and they were all arranged by Tang Liren to welcome them.
The groom Jiang Hongzhi was late.
But he wore normal clothes, didn’t talk, didn’t eat, didn’t drink, he didn’t want to communicate with Zhou Chunni at all, he didn’t even want to look at her, and he didn’t pay attention to the people who came for the wedding, like a wooden man, the whole process was dark. Black-faced.
Zhou Chunni felt so wronged that she wanted to cry.
The banquet started, Tang Liren came over and talked to Jiang Hongzhi several times, asking him and Zhou Chunni to toast. It can be seen that Jiang Hongzhi didn’t want to go, but out of respect for Tang Liren, he went to the table to toast with Zhou Chunni with gnashing teeth…
After the toast, Jiang Hongzhi went to the educated youth station without looking back, without saying a word to Zhou Chunni.
Zhou Chunni couldn’t hold back, she sat on the side and cried softly.
The guests felt even more boring, they didn’t want to drink the wine, it was boring to brag, and they left after hurriedly finishing the meal.
Zhou Chunni was lying on the table, crying.
Tang Liren took her family’s daughter-in-law to help clean up the scene, and distributed the unfinished meals to each family. The tables, chairs, tableware and chopsticks were also returned. Finally, the money was settled, and it was time to pay it back. , The account should be written off, and finally the remaining thirty-five yuan was handed over to Zhou Chunni.
“Chun Ni, you take the money!”
Zhou Chunni clenched the thin roll of paper money with tears in her eyes.
Tang Liren decided to ask her for the last time, “Chunni, you really thought about it, you want to follow Jiang Hongzhi to help Xinjiang?”
Zhou Chunni bit her lip.
——The two had already reported to the village committee that they were married, and she also shyly and timidly told him several times that he could live in her house… But he still insisted on living in the Datong shop in the educated youth station inside.
——Since he agreed to marry her, he never looked at her in the eye, said a word to her again, and never gave her a penny or other gifts.
——At the wedding banquet, he showed her face the whole time, and everything was uncooperative.
One can imagine how difficult it would be to follow him to other places in the future!
Zhou Chunni cried and nodded her head vigorously, “Auntie, I can’t help it! From now on, I can only rely on him… I just look forward to accompany him to endure hardships, and he will lead me to stand out in the future… It’s not in vain for me to suffer so much grievance!”
Tang Liren sighed, said goodbye to Zhou Chunni, and returned home with a bag of packed vegetables.
When she got home, Tang Liren still felt uncomfortable, so she talked about it.
Taotao was shocked, “What logic is this? She thinks that she accompanied Jiang Hongzhi to help Xinjiang because Jiang Hongzhi was wronged? So Jiang Hongzhi must take her to the top?”
The family sighed.
“Why doesn’t she rely on herself to get ahead?” Tao Tao couldn’t understand.
Tan Fenghui also said: “Zhou Chun