The next day, when Zheng Xiuzhen saw Li Jigang, she was angry: 'What are you making up nonsense, you are making up that to your uncle and aunt, you are harming me by making it up like that, do you know it!'

Li Jigang saw that things were mature, and he told the truth:

'Sister Xiuzhen, don't be angry, I'll be honest with you, I don't want to see other boys with you.

"When you were sick, the two men who were the best to you in the factory, and who often went to see you, sent them away from you. There were others, and I sent them away.

I saw that the landlord was really going to introduce you to someone, and I was so anxious that I had no other way to make up those words. Sister Xiuzhen, I want to be with you. ’

When Zheng Xiuzhen heard this, she was even more annoyed: 'How old are you? You are thinking nonsense like this? You are pretending! You are fine!'

Li Jigang listened to Zheng Xiuzhen's ugly words, he was not cowardly, he was not discouraged, and said:

'I'm not thinking nonsense, I'm not pretentious, I'm not pretentious! I just want to be with you! If you quarrel with anyone who is older and who is younger, anyway, the news of my engagement to you will spread, and my heart will not change anyway!

If you think I'm a cook, I'll stop cooking right away." I'm educated, I can find a better job in another unit! I'll find a way to match you!'

Zheng Xiuzhen has no tricks to do now, she can't hate it, she can't be annoyed, she can't tell the direction in her heart and says: Oh! This is really no way! Then you can only follow the nature of fate!

The following year was the year 1960, when there was a natural disaster and there was not enough to eat.

Li Jigang and Zheng Xiuzhen shared weal and woe together, and helped each other through a year of hunger. In the second year, although the starvation dilemma did not change, Zheng Xiuzhen's age changed, and she was one year older!

Zheng Xiuzhen thought to herself: According to the old Chinese tradition, some people become grandmothers in their thirties, and at their age, their marriage really can't be postponed!

That year, 27-year-old Zheng Xiuzhen and 19-year-old Li Jigang got married.

After the two got married, they were the same as before marriage, their families were surrounded by walls, they were destitute, and they couldn't take care of food and clothing. However, apart from the crying of the children, the neighbors never heard the sound of their adults arguing.

In the years that followed, Li Jigang and Zheng Xiuzhen, the husband and wife, the two of them had one thing in common, they were both timid and soft-hearted, they had never participated in beating, smashing, robbing, and never connected in tandem.

The great capital of Beijing is a place that everyone yearns for, and how many people want to see the grandeur of Tiananmen Square? But they love Beijing, but they dare not connect with each other, so they do not go there.

Li Jigang, who is a talent in his twenties, has never looked forward to the blue eyes of the girls around him since he had a wife, let alone looking for an extramarital affair.

During this period, some couples because of their different factions, every time they came home from work, they would argue so much that they would blush and have thick necks, and they would sit down and not cook. When they are hungry, they will go to clean up the stove and cook.

They are angry and hungry, so why don't they buy food in the restaurants on the street? That's because they don't have a hammer in their pockets!

The couple Li Jigang and Zheng Xiuzhen are different from those couples who debate, get angry, and don't cook. These two people are busy going to work, reciting Chairman Mao's poems, and learning Chairman Mao's quotations. The rest of the time, I mainly tutor the children in their studies and take the children to the park to play.

If Zheng Xiuzhen stays at home on factory holidays, then she is doing housework and weaving clothes.

In the days to come, as long as she mentions threaded clothes, Zheng Xiuzhen will recall that era, when female workers knitted threaded clothes and removed gloves.

At that time, the workers were very frugal, and their families did not have much money, and they were reluctant to buy wool and sweaters. They dismantled the saved labor protection supplies: white thread gloves and knitted them into sweaters.

Zheng Xiuzhen is also skillful, she saved the use of the white gloves issued to her by the factory, and dismantled some of the knitting clothes and pants for her family.

She weaves a variety of styles and patterns. Then it was taken to the place of printing and dyeing, and dyed into a variety of bright and beautiful colors of red and willow green.

Once, when she went to work to change her work clothes, female colleagues saw her colorful line clothes and said happily and rarely:

'Xiuzhen is dressed the same as us, all gray and blue. Look at what she wears inside, it's really beautiful, it's really beautiful! Our thread clothes, woven into white, are worn in white, this is not good, we also have to dye it into a beautiful color of red and willow green!"

Li Jigang often praised his wife for her ingenuity. Others say, 'The wife is the good of others, and the children are good of themselves.' Li Jigang always said that this was only half right. The wife is what he sees, in this life, if you don't talk about the love of your parents, then, the one who loves you the most is your wife, and your wife is also your own good!

Before Zheng Xiuzhen went to Wuzhou, she was very close to Zheng Xiaowen's mother. At that time, the Zheng family's left and right three courtyards, front and back, left and right had a total of nine courtyards, all of which were interconnected.

The big Zheng family, on the front street of Guangde Road, has three main gates. Each main entrance leads to the backstreet private school alley, and there are three courtyards and three back doors.

The courtyard of Zheng Xiaowen's house is the third courtyard on Guangde Road in Front Street, where the main entrance leads to the private school alley in the back street.

The east courtyard of Zheng Xiaowen's house is the third courtyard of the house in the east. When the family was separated, the current west house and east courtyard were divided to Zheng Xiaowen's grandfather. The house and the back gatehouse in the east courtyard were too dilapidated and had been demolished a long time ago, so Zheng Xiaowen's grandfather planted flowers and trees there and turned them into gardens.

The three courtyards on the west side of Zheng Xiaowen's house, as well as the four courtyards in the middle, east, and front streets, are where Zheng Xiaowen's uncles and uncles live.

The Zheng family is a family of traditional Chinese medicine, and the last few generations are all famous Confucian doctors in the Huayuan area, and they have a high social status at that time, and they can sit on an equal footing with high-ranking officials in the prefecture and county, and they are also deeply admired and loved by the people in the market.

Guangde Road is facing Zheng Xiaowen's house, and the house on the front street is the house where the ancestor of the Zheng family sat for a consultation. There is a lattice partition in the room, which looks very quaint and beautiful.

Entering from this street facing house, walking south through the hall of the house, and coming out of the hall door, it is the first time that the middle slipper enters the courtyard.

This two-compartment house that first entered the courtyard is very long, and the yard is also very large. It was for the guys of the Zheng family to live with male guests from outside.

The upper room of the first courtyard is a very high, very large house with a front porch and carved beams. This big flower house, about one meter and two meters high, is made of blue bricks. There are no walls in the above places, and they are all lattice wooden window lattices.

The people of the Zheng family all call this big flower house: the front living room.

Back then, in this front living room, there were many prominent people.

Enter the front living room, go around the screen, walk through the hall and come out from the back, and you will arrive at the second courtyard. ”

In fact, the 'hall' in the street room and the 'hall' in the front living room play the same role, both of which are 'aisles'.

The upper room of the second courtyard, and the upper room of Zheng Xiaowen's house, the third courtyard, are located back to back, and they are all five dark buildings. The dark building is a very thick high-grade timber shed, on which things can be placed and people can also live.

The first time I entered the yard, it was probably because there was a welcoming big flower house, which was called the front living room. The two courtyards in the back belong to the family members, and they all call it the backyard.

The old people often say 'the front living room, the back yard', which refers to the architectural form of this kind of house.

Back then, the Zheng family did not go to the front and back yards when they went in and out of the middle. In the place where the gable of the house on the west side of the courtyard is three, there is an open space several meters wide from south to north, and this open space that leads to the front and back is the walkway from the front street to the back street of the Zheng family.

Back then, every time the Zheng family entered the courtyard, Zheng Xiuzhen could go to the third courtyard in the middle several times a day to play with her sister-in-law: Zheng Xiaowen's mother.

After Zheng Xiuzhen went to Wuzhou, every time she returned to Huayuan, she also had to come to the South Courtyard to see her cousin-in-law. After getting married, she took her husband Li Jigang back to her parents' house for the first time, and she told her sister-in-law about her love and marriage history: Zheng Xiaowen's mother.

Now, Zheng Xiuzhen and Li Jigang live happily, they have two sons and a daughter, the eldest son graduated from college and has worked, married and had children. The old couple who are not old are holding their grandson, beautiful all day long with a smile on their faces and happy in their hearts.

Oh, it seems that people in this world have true love for their wives and husbands, and in their lives, the lover in front of them will always be beautiful and brilliant, and they will not be able to see anything else.

It's like not being able to see the sky behind the rainbow, and it's like a person who is drunk with the fragrance of plum and admires the beauty of the plum in the snow, and this person doesn't care that there is a dead leaf on the plum branch. With the fascination of watching, the dead leaf had already fallen to the blind spot of this person.