Chapter 9: The Arrival of a New Marriage
After the wife left, the family cried and cried, and after the funeral, they fell into despair.
I miss my beloved wife, I am fascinated, the tea and rice are tasteless, I am getting thinner and thinner, I am often awakened by nightmares, and my wife's voice and smile are always circling in my mind, lingering. It made me lose faith in life.
One day at noon, director Li Fenglong, who was working in the commune, came to my house to learn about the work situation, and when he saw that I was in a state of malaise, he made a joke on me and asked me if I missed my wife.
The listener is unintentional, but the speaker is intentional. After talking about work for a while, Director Li went home, but I didn't pay attention because it was a joke.
Three days later, at noon, Li Fenglong suddenly came to my house with a girl who was as beautiful as a flower.
The girl was in her 20s, of medium stature, with a peach blossom face, virtuous and generous, although she was not decorated with luxurious clothes, she also looked natural and charming. It gives people the feeling of seeing each other and hating each other. After sitting down, because it was the head of the film, he served tea, and thought the beautiful woman brought by the director was a new staff member, and he didn't take it to heart.
The three of them chatted, so happy, when it came to happiness, by the way, they also made a few jokes, and the occasion was happy.
Lunch was approaching, Li Fenglong and the others had no intention of leaving, so they had no choice but to let their mother cook a few side dishes, open a bottle of Lao Bai dry wine, and hastily end the meal. But I found that when the beauty was leaving, she reluctantly looked back, and only left my house under the urging of Director Li.
The next morning, Li Fenglong came to my house again and asked me how the girl was yesterday? He asked again, "Ruyi?" The monk I was asked about by the second brother... Scratching your head. replied: What is unsatisfactory, what are you kidding?
Seeing that I didn't understand the meaning, the director smiled and told me what happened, which made me wake up like a dream and suddenly realized.
It turned out that the beautiful woman brought by the director yesterday was not a staff member, but a blind date at my house.
The beauty's surname is Li, Fang's name is Lianhua, she is 23 years old, graduated from primary school, her family is poor, and she is from the same village as the director. Her father died when she was a child, and her mother worked hard to raise her. After graduating from primary school, he worked as a farmer at home because he had no money to go to secondary school. Mother and daughter depend on each other, she is: a sorghum in eighteen acres of land - a single seedling.
The girl was born with a thin life, and at the age of eighteen she was engaged to the royal family, and when she was twenty years old, she got married.
After the two got married, they were still in love, and their families were relatively peaceful.
However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck. One morning, a few months later, the husband took his mother to his grandmother's house, and was attacked by a mad dog on the way, both mother and son were injured.
After seeing off her mother-in-law and husband, Lotus had to go home to be with her mother. During this period, there were also matchmakers who patronized, but because the girl was a widow and was suspected of being a widow, she was dismissed.
More than two years have passed, and the mother can't sleep at night because of her daughter's marriage, and she doesn't think about tea and dinner, so she asks someone to choose her daughter's marriage everywhere.
Coincidentally, Li Fenglong was transferred to my village to work not long ago, and when he saw that I was alone, after understanding the situation, he decided to talk to his cousin about the matchmaker, but his aunt's wish.
After the director went home, after explaining my situation to his aunt, his aunt thought that one had no husband and the other had no wife, and they were of the same age. After the discussion of the mother and daughter, there was a good show of the film director taking a beautiful woman on a blind date.
Later, after Li Fenglong's introduction, I went to his hometown Lilou Village, and the girl's mother was full of joy when she saw it, and after discussing with her daughter, she decided on this family business.
Under the management of his parents, the dowry was given on the eighth day of April, and the matchmaker was invited to a banquet, and the marriage was seen on the ninth day of November.
The sun and the moon are like a shuttle, time is like an arrow, and in November, when the wedding date is approaching, marriage has become a piece of my heart. In the society at that time, widows could not remarry in a big way, and they could only be married by taking the widow into their homes before dawn. The purpose was to fear that the widow's death would be disadvantageous to the man and bring calamity.
After repeated discussions with his parents, he decided to abide by the old rules and act according to the old customs, so as not to be manipulated by others, ridiculed by others, and break the customs.
On the morning of the ninth day of November, the family got up early, called their neighbors to help, brought gifts, rode bicycles, and hurried to the woman's house in Lilou Village, ten miles away.
When I arrived at Lotus Flower's house, it was not yet dawn, I put down the gifts, worshiped my mother-in-law, and brought Lotus home on a bicycle.
However, my new marriage began......