Chapter XVIII: After Marriage

If you don't consider the kind of accidental situation where you are born a couple and a good couple. There are two main types of marriages in the world.

One is that the love before marriage is vigorous, and the two people break through the resistance from all sides, and finally have a happy result and hold hands together.

This is the most popular romantic plot for young men and women who often appear in it.

But the reality is often the opposite of what people expect, and the possibility of this kind of love "living together happily forever" is actually not very high.

It is precisely because they were too romantic before, and they have given a lot to each other, and while both parties cherish it, they often have particularly high expectations for this relationship.

But after getting married, life will take off its romantic coat and gradually reveal its uncarved nature, a little ugly, a little vulgar.

Not only will the existing problems between the two sides not disappear all at once, but the problems of daily firewood, rice, oil, salt, supporting the elderly, and raising children will become extremely realistic.

So the two people will find that marriage is actually like riding a bicycle or wearing shoes on their feet every day, even the most beautiful appearance will gradually be ignored, covered by the wind and rain and mud, and the important thing is practicality.

And once this huge gap is not handled well, it will make love deteriorate, and in the end, only complaints and dissatisfaction with real marriage can be left.

There is another kind, that is, the love before marriage is not vigorous, and it is even a bit compromised. Either the woman is compatible, or the man is improvised. Or maybe both of them are backing down.

In short, it is the result of man's compromise with objective reality. It is also one of the most common situations in our reality.

This choice seems to be inherently hidden dangers and problems. But for two people to come together, they must have thought it out and prepared for the difficulties they will face.

What's more, most people in this era are still relatively traditional and serious about the concept of marriage, and there is no idea of riding a donkey to find a horse, and there is no room for divorce at all.

Then, since they have become two couples, they will do their best to fulfill their obligations as husband or wife in order to maintain the stability of the family.

In this way, the expectation is not high, and it is more inclusive. Then often the worst result is nothing more than that life is still calm after marriage.

And if the material conditions are superior, then one party deliberately accommodates the other party's emotions. There are also parents and relatives on both sides who have played some positive roles.

So although such a married life is not happy and complete, it can also be talked about as high-quality and ideal. There is a real possibility of giving birth to true love or deepening the relationship.

Like Yang Weifan and Zhou Manna belong to the latter.

Before and after marriage, Zhou Manna should be said to be the initiative. She pursued Yang Weifan, and after marriage, she worked hard to change Yang Weifan's lukewarm attitude towards her. So he tried his best to restrain his eldest lady's temper and especially accommodate him.

Not only to learn how to take care of Yang Weifan's life. And because of the sense of security brought by the "legal license", she is no longer as difficult to keep an eye on him and suspect him as before. It's really getting more and more like a good wife and mother.

This made Yang Weifan feel both relaxed and moved. Similar to the return, he will also try his best to satisfy some of Zhou Manna's joys of life.

For example, bring sunglasses and accompany her to the movies, swimming, visiting the park, or going to the store to buy clothes. It's also quite like a good husband who spoils his wife.

As for Zhou Manna's parents, they attach great importance to Yang Weifan, a son-in-law, and every time they entertain him, they are like seeing distinguished guests. also deliberately transferred his daughter's work to the "Military Daily", the purpose is to let her daughter have a more leisurely time and focus on her family.

As for Moody's, it will also provide convenience for the young couple. not only watched the contact between the actress and Yang Weifan in the troupe. Even Yang Weifan will go to the next place with the troupe to perform performance tasks, and he will arrange for Zhou Manna to go with him.

In this way, the two of them took a trip to the mountains and rivers and participated in the banquet together, which was like a honeymoon trip, and they were really envious of others.

Even Yang Weifan's friends have a harmonious relationship with Zhou Manna.

Take Su Xiaoming as an example, after all, there are still many common topics among women. What's more, Su Xiaoming also has his own love life, and the more contact he has to, Zhou Manna understands. She's still a little reluctant to get away with her previous attitude.

And Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, no matter who Yang Weifan marries, they all hope that he can live comfortably. Not to mention the marriage help, the part also contributed 2,000 yuan.

This generous gift really surprised Zhou Manna. In order to repay this favor, she specially held a banquet in the house of "Haiphong" and personally cooked to entertain Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan once. not only fulfilled Yang Weifan's face, but also greatly improved Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan's perception of her.

In this way, Yang Weifan and Zhou Manna's married life has reached a very beautiful balance. Good work, good family, good relatives, good communication, anyway, I can't find anything bad.

To be honest, this kind of day is like being shrouded in a layer of soft and warm sunshine, which is relatively close to Zhou Manna's perfect imagination, which makes her feel very happy.

And although Yang Weifan still has the shadow of another person in his heart, he also understands that reality is reality, and now it is Zhou Manna who is sleeping next to him, and she will be his child's mother in the future.

Therefore, I strictly pulled a cordon in my heart to remind myself that I must not violate morality.

In addition, he had to admit that the days after marriage were actually much more interesting and rich than he expected at first.

I saw the satisfied smiles of the people around me, especially the radiant faces of the parents. He couldn't help but think that if he could keep doing this, maybe it wouldn't be too bad......

For some reason, sometimes an individual's perception of life can be diametrically opposed to the social environment.

As time goes by, just when Yang Weifan and Zhou Manna's married life is becoming more and more peaceful and peaceful, the overall social environment is becoming more and more lively, restless and noisy.

Because since March, whether it is from the spiritual outlook of ordinary people, entertainment life, or national policy level, the phenomena that are enough to arouse the collective amazement of the society have been one after another. It's overwhelming, and I feel a kind of vibration that is difficult to take in stride.

On March 18, the second dragon raised its head in the second month of the lunar calendar, and it was also the second day of Yang Weifan and Zhou Manna's wedding. As the first shot in this year's policy, in the conference room of the West Building of Zhongnanhai, a big discussion affecting hundreds of millions of families began.

The central topic of the meeting was whether it is feasible for a couple to have a child in the face of an out-of-control population growth, what problems they will encounter, and how to solve them.

Since that day, the population forum has been held five times in succession, and after discussions among experts in various industries, several key problems such as "causing a decline in the quality of the population", "causing a shortage of labor", and preventing "421 families" have been eliminated, and the birth policy of advocating one child per couple has finally been established.

Since then, whether in the countryside or in towns, the slogan "one is not a lot, two is just right, and three is more" has been quietly replaced, and the slogan painted on the wall has become "Only one is good!".

In this regard, the backlash from the people was quite large, although it was firmly suppressed by the executors in various places. But people who really want to have more children will not give up. For example, the "general" who was far away in Bincheng called Hong Yanwu to ask for advice.

The "general" really has some regrets. Because when Hong Yanwu drank the child's full moon wine the year before last, he said in Bincheng that the national policy would change, reminding him that if he wanted to have the second child again, he had to hurry up. But who let him not take it seriously. So now when he talks about it, he's embarrassed.

"Xiao Wu, I regret not listening to you, a few years ago, I also advertised 'one is a lot, two is just right, and three is more', who knew it would become so fast. To tell you the truth, I've begged a lot of people for this. But no matter how many gifts are given, no one dares to open their mouths, saying that the country is real. Alas, thinking about this, I feel sorry for my son's next generation. It's really that group of children, aunts, uncles, aunts, uncles, but all of them are gone. What do you think I'm going to do? There's really no way to give birth......

The "general" was also guilty in his heart, he didn't expect that Hong Yanwu would casually get this matter to the letter. It really alleviated his worries.

"Brother, others are worried, what are you worried about? What are we afraid of 'family planning' for people like us? This is a policy, not a law. Don't sentence you, right? Don't shoot you, then if you want the child to want you, it's over, who can stop you?"

"It's just that you and Han Ying don't want to progress in the unit. You can't run backward typically. We have to pay a fine, and the child will be born as a black household in the future, and we will have to pay all the expenses ourselves. ”

"It's really nothing if you think about it. You are also anxious about the hukou matter, isn't it just like that, and it will be easier to do it after two years and wait for the policy to be relaxed. In short, we are willing to spend money. It's a good job, he can't stuff it back into his mother's womb......"

Not to mention, the pondering of "general" is really this reason. I immediately knew the bottom of my heart. laughed heartily, on the other end of the phone, and said bluntly that Hong Yanwu saw the problem to the point, and he had a bit of Zhuge Kongming's ability.

Hong Yanwu is also very modest, saying that Zhuge Liang will not give advice to women to have children. His level is relatively low-end, which is equivalent to a cobbler.

In addition, in March, the advertising industry in Beijing has once again developed significantly.

Since March 10, China Television has been broadcasting 15 seconds of Japanese "Citizen" watch advertisements every day.

This was the first advertisement for a foreign merchandise to be broadcast on the national television of the Republic for a long time, and the Japanese businessmen paid 800,000 yuan for this year-long advertising contract. But for a while, "Citizen technology is famous all over the world" has also become a well-known advertising slogan.

As for outdoor advertising, it continues to develop in depth.

An advertisement for a woolen sweater was erected on a tall building near Sanyuan Bridge, which may have been the first billboard on the roof of a building in Beijing. Inspired by this, since then, building advertisements have appeared in the capital one after another.

The commercial districts in the downtown area have also changed dramatically. In addition to the reappearance of time-honored plaque advertisements on the streets, attractive goods and pictures began to appear in the windows.

For example, the "National Photo Studio" located at the south entrance of Wangfujing Street has not had window advertisements for many years. It has always been a "red book", but now it has been replaced by a glamorous photo of a model. The billboard in the "Dongan Market" has also been changed into an advertising window to display the special products in the mall.

But the biggest improvement has to be said to be the emergence of lightbox ads.

Despite the high cost of construction and maintenance, only a few large shopping malls and restaurants can afford it. But after all, it adds a bit of brightness to the dark night of the capital, so that the city no longer becomes stiff and cold as soon as it enters the night, but has a little vitality and happiness.

The "Silian Barber Shop" at the northwest entrance of Goldfish Hutong can be said to be the pioneer of the first use of lightbox advertising.

While they took pictures of some modern hairstyles and hung them in the store, they found the rotating light boxes they had brought from the "Ten Mile Field" and had been abandoned for many years from the warehouse.

The black, white and blue rotation of this thing is very impactful, especially at night, like a spiraling and rising magic bottle. As soon as it was put out, it caused a lot of shock, attracting pedestrians to stop and watch. The reporter of the "Beijing Evening News" also came to make a special report on this.

This has made the "Quadruple" a pioneer of fashion. Not only did he impress his peers, but he also sat on the first place in the barber industry. It also made their already hot business even more overcrowded.

Most of the time, customers who want to come here for a haircut have to wait a few hours for their turn.

In April, when the people of the capital completely took off their cotton clothes and cotton pants. Those college students and cultural people with glasses and pens also began to revel in Beidao's "Answer" and Shu Ting's "To the Oak Tree". This is a sign that hazy poetry has begun to be widely recognized and recognized by all walks of life.

But at the same time, the people of the capital were even more surprised to find that the entire city was actually ruled by Liu Lanfang at noon. Since the beginning of this month, for one hundred and seventeen consecutive days, many families in the capital have spent their lunch time in this way.

At twelve o'clock at noon, the radio was turned on on time, and the family quietly listened to Liu Lanfang tell the story of Yue Fei's life and death while eating.

And during this period, there was no shortage of people stopping under the eaves of other people's houses and shops on the road, and they would never go on the road without listening to the storytelling.

It's not a joke to say that it's a 10,000-strong alley on time. Even the police admit that by this time, the crime rate has plummeted. Therefore, not only did the police suggest that Liu Lanfang should be given a certificate. Some people even jokingly called this storyteller "Jingjie Tai Sui".

But in fact, Liu Lanfang should be most grateful to semiconductor radio manufacturers and department stores. Because this year, the backlog of semiconductor radios in many state-run stores was also snapped up. It is the last glory of the radio industry before the television era is completely ushered in.

For Hong Yanwu, of course, it is inevitable to listen to the book reviews with Chen Liquan and the old and young masters in "Tianxingju". But he was far less emotional and enthusiastic than everyone else.

The reason for this is that the storyline of this review no longer has any special attraction for the well-informed him. The surname of the mother's family is also one of the reasons, he can't always scold "Wanyan" with everyone, right?

On the contrary, two other pieces of news that month, which had not been noticed by the broad masses of the people at all, attracted all his attention.

One is that the National Bank announced that the foreign exchange vouchers were officially put into circulation on 1 April 1980.

The other is that the great man gave a speech, and the individual townspeople could buy a house in installments.