The second aunt said that the first time she met the man, it was called a back meeting.

Only then did the four sisters understand the procedures for determining marriage that are currently in use in the countryside of Guanzhong. The back meeting is to let the man and woman look at each other, talk, and if both parties are basically satisfied with each other's appearance, agree to marry, and then hold a formal meeting ceremony. Because the actual purpose of the first meeting is only to enable both parties to be intuitive, it has a more tentative nature, and the certainty of success is not great. Therefore, when you see each other, you don't make a noise, you don't receive relatives and friends, you don't allow people from the neighborhood to join in the fun, and you don't care about the meal, just a cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, come quietly, go quietly, and the time is generally chosen at night, so as not to cause ups and downs when you can't talk, which is not good for both men and women.

Although the back is silent, it is a crucial step, when both men and women say "yes" to the introducer, the lifelong event is decided, and the subsequent engagement and marriage ceremony, although lively, is only a form or formality after all. The fourth sister felt nervous, depressed, and even inexplicably panicked, what kind of person would she be when she came to meet?

The second aunt's family also showed a tense and mysterious atmosphere. When it was dark, the second aunt settled the family early for a big snack and dinner, washed the dishes, brushed the pots, wiped the oil and vinegar bottles on the board bright and bright, filled the two hot water bottles with boiling water, and began to sweep the back room and the front yard. From the front yard to the backyard, from the ground to the board, everything is clean and refreshing, sweeping away the sloppy scene of firewood and on weekdays.

The lame brother-in-law took a ticket from the second aunt, went to the village consignment store in the dark to buy a box of Big Wild Goose Pagoda brand cigarettes, and handed it to the second aunt along with the remaining zero tickets, and sat on a wooden bench to smoke dry tobacco. The second aunt put the change in her pocket and said to her brother-in-law, "Do you want to take a look at it too?" The lame brother-in-law didn't care, smiled honestly, and told the second aunt: "What do I see! As long as the fourth sister is willing, I will see what! Although the marriage is free, and the young man is inexperienced, you can grasp it for the baby, and you will make regret medicine in the future, and let the township party laugh." With that, I went to the farm. The second aunt also realized the weight of the matter, and nodded sincerely to the lame brother-in-law, who took the cigarette pouch and walked into the yard with one foot low and one foot high, and coughed twice calmly when he went out of the street.

The aunt was not willing to be excluded from this important matter, her cloudy eyes flashed with gentle and loving light, and she told the fourth sister, as if she was her own granddaughter: "Baby, this is a major event in your life, don't dare to be sloppy." will pick sons-in-law, not those second-rate people with oily heads and powdery faces, and pick those honest and reliable offspring, and live a lifetime with this posterity, be steady, and don't cause evil. Honest people and slippery fish, you can see it at a glance......" The fourth sister smiled shyly, lowered her head, and became even more panicked in her heart, how could you tell the honest person or the slippery ghost at a glance?

"Mom!" the second aunt shouted affectionately, and obviously showed a funny tone, "You have such good eyes, okay! Please show me tonight, whether you are a sincere person or a slippery fish......

"Just look at it, when I can't see it!" the aunt pouted her wrinkled lips, but turned around and called her grandson and granddaughter, "Tie Dan'er, Hua'er, sleep with your mother-in-law! It's none of your business, you are jumping around and stumbling and disturbing people!" Let people see it, saying that our doll has no rules......"

Tie Dan and Hua'er were jumping happily, not listening to their aunt's words, the second aunt slapped each butt twice, and scolded fiercely: "Get out! Sleep with your mother-in-law! What nonsense! The ground that has just been swept is dirty again! The table top that has just been cleaned up is messed up again, and it is mess......y again."

The aunt led her grandson and granddaughter to the fire in the back room.

The second aunt sat down and looked at the faces of the fourth sister, as if she didn't know her niece, and looked at her in a daze. The fourth sister saw that there was an unusually heavy and even worried look in the eyes of the second aunt. This kind of look, the four sisters have rarely found it. In the nearly two months since she arrived at her second aunt's house, she can clearly see that her second aunt is shrewd and capable, and she has long been familiar with all the customs and habits of the countryside in Guanzhong, and even her accent has changed, mixed with the mixed words of Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi, and she is completely in a dominant position in this family. The money is in the hands of the second aunt, and the family's clothing, meals and daily expenses are all arranged by the second aunt. The lame brother-in-law came home for dinner three nights a day, and after eating, he went back to the breeding farm, and rested there at night. My aunt took her two grandchildren one day, like a hen leading her chickens, going around the village, and doing all the housework and foreign affairs were decided and entertained by the second aunt. The second aunt has become a shrewd and capable housewife, and many things are done simply and crisply, and she rarely looks indecisive.

The second aunt lowered her voice and said to her niece: "Fourth sister, your big event is determined by the darkness today, and my aunt's heart is fluttering, and it is always unstable." You see, your mother is far away in the mountains, and she sent you to my aunt, and my aunt couldn't discuss it with anyone she wanted. If this matter is decided, what should I do if I am blind in the future? Okay, everyone, how can I explain to your mother if I am blind......

"Aunt!" the fourth sister immediately said, "When I come, I will say everything to my eldest mother, and I will not complain about you." I'm not a three-year-old five-year-old snot doll either...... You can rest assured......"

"Fourth sister!" the second aunt said more emotionally, "Speaking of which, my aunt is relieved." After a while, people came, and you talked to him generously, so that people looked down on our mountain people. I haven't seen that baby either, you look at my aunt, if you want to be aunty, you are willing, if you don't want aunt, you won't force you......"

"Second aunt, I know ......" The fourth sister was a little uncomfortable, as if she was facing a life and death choice, and she was completely unsure, in order not to make the second aunt feel uncomfortable, she said, "I know ......"

"Good. The second aunt said, "Go, comb your hair, put on that new shirt, and let people say that we people in the mountains are so poor that we wear patch shirts when we meet......

The fourth sister was a little embarrassed and hesitated.

"Go, wash your face, put on some cream. The second aunt urged her, "I'm afraid it's time to come." ”

The fourth sister walked into the second aunt's house, washed her hands and face, dug out a little alabaster from a small bottle, rubbed it on her face, and felt a fever in her face. She took out the chemical comb, and the thorns were covered with black black grease, and she wiped it off, and the chemical comb turned green again. A layer of dust fell on the mirror and was wiped off. She sat under the electric light, looked at the little round mirror, looked at the girl reflected in the lens, and smiled with a trembling smile on the corner of her mouth.

It was the first time she had found herself so good-looking, with big eyes, double eyelids, which were not so obvious, but they were indeed double eyelids, and the bridge of her nose was delicate, not concave or high, just right. It's just that the cheeks are too thin, if you get a little fatter...... She smiled embarrassedly, and combed her hair at once, her hair was a little yellow, but it was loose and loose on both sides of her cheeks, and she said to the person in the mirror who was smiling shyly, Ahh......h

There was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard, and then I heard the voice of the second aunt greeting and talking, then I heard Uncle Liu's Gaba simply talking, and finally the voice of a strange woman. The footsteps sounded in the upper room, and the hearts of the four sisters jumped in their chests, put down the comb, pushed away the mirror, and covered their cheeks with their hands, not knowing what to do.

She poured herself a glass of water and drank it, trying to calm her heart. In the upper room, the second aunt and the strange woman were unusually politely talking, and their hearts bounced in a panic. In the unbearable waiting, the fourth sister heard the voice of the second aunt calling her.

The fourth sister walked out of the house, paused for a while, walked towards the upper room, stepped into the threshold, and saw four or five people sitting under the electric light, she stared straight at the introducer and said, "Uncle Liu, you are here!"

Liu Hongyan laughed, immediately stood up, pointed to a young man sitting on a stool and said, "This is Lu Jianfeng, nicknamed Sanwazi." The young man smiled shyly and bowed his head. The fourth sister pounced in her heart, but she didn't dare to look at him at all. Liu Hongyan pointed to a middle-aged woman and said, "This is the eldest sister-in-law of the third child, if you two talk about it tonight, it will be your eldest sister-in-law......" The fourth sister was so ashamed that her face was full of fire, and she was busy sitting on the stool on the side, uncomfortable, and she didn't dare to look at anyone, in fact, she knew in her heart that she was the target of others, and that Lu Jianfeng followed his sister-in-law to see her.

"Once born, second ripe, three times I don't want my old Liu!" Liu Hongyan sat in the middle of the table, facing Lu Jianfeng and his eldest sister-in-law over there, and then turned his head to the fourth sister and her second aunt over here, and said words connecting the two sides, "It's not complicated." In the new society, we talk about freedom and voluntariness, and none of us want to arrange it, so that the four sisters and the three children can talk openly. Four sisters, three children, you two go to the front house to talk, so that we don't have to get in the way, and we talk in the upper room......"

As the host, the second aunt led the guest and the fourth sister back to the house, politely asked the guest to sit down on a chair, poured a cup of tea, handed a cigarette, and the guest took it and put it down, saying that he couldn't smoke. The second aunt took one look at her niece and walked out.

The fourth sister sat on the edge of the kang, looked at her toes, and raised her head embarrassedly. The guest sitting in the chair, judging by the suppressed voice, was also very nervous and cramped.

The four sisters waited for each other to speak.

The other party was probably waiting for her to speak.

The small house was quiet, and the wind blew the window paper hiss.

The fourth sister raised her head slightly, glanced at the guests on the chairs next to the table, and was startled, and quickly lowered her head, is that kind of person! She suddenly thought of a piece of iron, a bluish piece of iron that had just been forged from an anvil. She thought that this man must have a very hard temper, very stubborn, very ......

"I have a large population, a large family, and the ingredients are not very good......

The four sisters finally heard each other's words, really, and talked about his family's shortcomings. The large population and large family are the flaws of the woman's choice of object, and everyone wants to eat a small pot of rice in a small family, and the high composition is a major obstacle. But these questions, the four sisters have known for a long time and have already passed. She didn't say anything, waiting for the other party to say more, and the first sentence gave her an impression: this person is very real......

After a sentence, the guest fell silent again. The fourth sister's heart turned, could it be that she was suspicious because she didn't talk to him and didn't express her attitude towards what he said?

"I ...... you No comments......"

The idea of the fourth sister wanting to confess was suddenly dispelled. She wanted to laugh, but she almost couldn't help it, so she covered her mouth with one hand so that she wouldn't laugh out loud and embarrass the guests. I just said one sentence, and the second sentence said "no opinion", is it too impatient? Or is it too honest? It's ridiculously honest. Ahh

The second aunt once told him a real joke a few days ago. Yang Jiaxian a girl and a guy from the neighboring village went to see back, no one was embarrassed to speak, sat down with a bag of cigarettes, the guy couldn't help it, he was about to speak, he wanted to pick the most interesting thing in his life to tell the girl, show his knowledge, think about it, think of his uncle led him to see a tiger in Xi'an Zoo. He thought that the girl must have never seen a tiger, and when he used the tiger town to take her to her, he said, "I have seen a tiger howling! taller and bigger than a calf!" Have you ever seen it?" The girl was stunned for a moment, and the two talked about marriage, but what about the tiger's fart? The young man was proud, and said, "As soon as we get married, ask my uncle to lead us to the zoo and see the ......tiger again." Just when the girl was wondering and complaining in her heart, the young man suddenly stood up, shrugged his nose, sniffed left and right, and then smirked with relief: "Strange thing! I said how can there be a fragrance in this house today? It turns out that it is the incense ...... on your body" When the girl heard this, she jumped out of the room in fright, left the matchmaker and the old woman who accompanied her, and ran back to Yang's house in one breath.

The fourth sister listened to the joke told by the second aunt and laughed so much that her stomach hurt. Now, she seems to have an ominous omen, the young man in front of her is the fool who scares people with tigers. She glanced at him, and he looked down at his hands, not speaking. If he continued to speak, she would be able to observe him further, and what if he just sat down like this?

"How old are you?"

"Twenty-two. ”

"Where did you study?"

"After just a year of junior high school, I stopped classes and made a revolution. ”

"And then?"

"Later, I went back to Lujiabao. When I was young, I was not allowed to go to work in the team, so I cut the grass to earn work, and when I was older, I worked with the members. ”

She didn't ask, and he didn't say anything. It seems that he is not a melon nerd, and the suspicion of the four sisters has dissipated. Was he shy? or was he the talkative gourd? she wished he had asked her something, but he wouldn't speak.

"You haven't said it yet...... To me...... Do you have any comments?"

That's about the only one sentence he cares about. The fourth sister wanted to laugh a little in her heart, and decided not to answer him head-on immediately, but to tease this burly and strong man, and see what would happen to him?

"Oh! My name is Lu Jianfeng. He blushed and explained, "I mean...... Would you like to ......?"

"You're so anxious!" said the fourth girl.

The guest's face turned red and became even more uneasy.

Liu Hongyan appeared at the door and called her and him back to the upper room. Liu Hongyan blinked his eyelids twice: "Long story is short, the night is short, and you have to work tomorrow." Now, the two of you have seen and talked, three against six, and only one word......"

The room was silent, holding its breath.

"I'm okay with that. Lu Jianfeng said first.

The fourth sister immediately felt that everyone's eyes were staring at her, and the major events of her life were decided! Once it was decided, it would be disgraceful for her to say that she would divorce after marriage, and that it would be dissolved after she was engaged! She could not say anything to him now, neither her shortcomings nor her advantages, nor anything could prompt her to urgently ask to be united with him, and there was even nothing that could prompt her to say "I have no opinion" eagerly. She finally didn't say anything, just nodded.

"Yes, everyone rejoices. Liu Hongyan clapped his hands, jumped down from the stool, stood in the middle of the room, and announced, "Rip the cloth, make a marriage!"

got the most satisfactory result, Liu Hongyan led Lu Jianfeng and his sister-in-law out of the courtyard and disappeared into the moonlight at the entrance of the village.

The aunt was also very satisfied, patted the back of the fourth sister with great interest, and sighed: "How good is the new society! I'm ...... Alas, it was until I entered someone's building, and when I took off my hijab, I was able to shine ...... treasure."

The fourth sister felt that after all, it was much better than her aunt's.