It is precisely because of poverty that the young women in the mountains are trying their best to marry outside, but the men inside are more difficult to marry than one another. The fact that a man can marry a local woman of the right age at the right age is definitely a matter of pride for him and his family, and even an honor for the village, which can be praised by the surrounding neighbors for several years.

As for a woman from other places marrying in, it is impossible at all, it is equivalent to going to the moon to find a giant panda.

It is difficult for local school-age men to marry local school-age women, which naturally means that local marriages are difficult to decide, there are many dolls, there are many regrets, and the burden of bride price is heavy.

The contradiction between the Tang family and the Deng family, who lived together in Tangjiazhuang, arose in this context.

Tang is a big surname in Tangjiazhuang, and more than half of the farmers are surnamed Tang. Tang Shiping is the owner of an ordinary peasant family in Zhuangzi, his family lives in the center of Zhuangzi, and has four sons: the eldest son is 27 years old and has already married and lived separately. The second son is 25 years old, the third son is 23 years old, the third son is 21 years old, and the fourth son is 19 years old. They are all tall and powerful, but they are all masters who eat half a catty of rice without panting and unwilling to look up.

Deng Liyu also lives in Tangjiazhuang. The Deng family has very few surnames in this village, and his family is relatively foreign, living halfway up the mountain next to the village. He and his wife, together with a pair of children and an old lady, a total of five people, waited for a fish pond and more than an acre of paddy fields between the two mountains to live.

Deng Liyu and Tang Shiping didn't have much intersection before, at most, when the two happened to face each other while walking, the two said hello, shouted Lao Tang or Lao Deng, at most they saluted each other with a cigarette, and then they were busy with their own work.

However, when the children of the two families grew up, their intersection came. The reason is very simple: the daughter of the Deng family will find her in-law when she grows up, and the son of the Tang family will marry a daughter-in-law when she grows up.

This is not the idea reason, the idea reason is:

A few years ago, Deng carp sprained his waist while cleaning the silt at the bottom of the fish pond and can no longer do heavy work, which is equivalent to a waste person in the countryside. And his wife is already frail and sickly, at most she washes and cooks at home and feeds the pigs. His son and daughter attend school. His wife, who was in her 70s, had been suffering from lung disease and needed to be fed by others...... In a word, the Deng family urgently needs a strong labor force to help them survive in order to survive.

The Tang family has three sons who are singles, and they urgently need women to marry in.

As a result, Deng Liyu and Tang Shiping hit it off: the Deng family married their seventeen-year-old daughter to the youngest son of the Tang family as a wife, and the Tang family arranged for the son who married the daughter of the Deng family to work in the Deng family during the busy farming period or the critical period of fishing.

Because the Deng family had a heavy burden and a lot of farm work at home, they couldn't cope with it with the temporary help of only one son of the Tang family, so they let his own son drop out of school and do farm work at home.

Originally, this arrangement was not bad, at least the Deng family was no longer anxious about their own fish ponds and rice fields, and the Tang family had also completed 50% of the important task of marrying a daughter-in-law (the eldest son had already married a family).

However, the son of the Deng family was reluctant to drop out of school and go home to work because his grades in school were good. Moreover, he was thin and weak, and it was very difficult for him to cope with farm work, and his horizons were broadened after studying, and he knew that if he was in the countryside, not only would he have no future, but it was also likely that he would not even find a wife, so he could only play a single stick.

So, he was clever enough to ask his homeroom teacher to come to his door again and again to do his father's work as a carp.

The homeroom teacher was indeed reluctant to let his smart students drop out of school and farm, and immediately ran to Deng's house to say that Deng Yuanfang was the smartest and hardest working child among the children he taught, and if he was allowed to take the college entrance examination, he would definitely be able to be admitted to the university, and he would definitely be able to glorify his ancestors in the future, and he would definitely be much more productive than in the countryside.

But if he is allowed to do farm work at home, that is, he can barely fill the stomachs of his family, just based on the situation of the Deng family and the child's embryo, there will definitely be no woman willing to marry into his family in the future, and he will have to be a bachelor for the rest of his life. The Deng family is at the end of the line.

Deng Liyu looked at his short, thin son, and felt extremely conflicted. After thinking for many days, and finally under the persuasion of his wife, he forced his sick body to the Tang family, and was willing to marry his daughter to the second son of the Tang family on the condition that he invited the second son of the Tang family to live in his house, and did farm work in his family from beginning to end for a year, but he did not need to get rich, as long as his son Deng Yuanfang graduated from high school (if he could not be admitted to college) or graduated from college and had a job, his daughter would follow the second son of the Tang family back to the Tang family, and the Deng family's farm work would not need the help of the son of the Tang family.

The Tang family hesitated for a while before agreeing.

For the Tang family, it is of course a good thing for the daughter of the Deng family to marry their second child. The habit in the countryside is to give the big one a marriage and then to the small one, if the fourth child marries the daughter of the Deng family according to the past, it is equivalent to hanging up the second and third children, and it will be more difficult to marry a wife in the future. If the daughter of the Deng family marries despite being eight years younger, then the third and fourth children will have much less resistance to marrying wives in the future.

Besides, the Deng family said that as long as his son graduated from high school and at most graduated from college, his son would get rid of the Deng family's farm work, and live in the Deng family from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, which is just a few years of hardship, it doesn't matter, anyway, he has many sons, and he can be busy with farm work.

So, Tang Liqiu, the second eldest of the Tang family, worked at the Deng family, ate at the Deng family, and only went home to sleep at night.

The Deng family's paddy fields and fish ponds are basically Tang Liqiu working alone. When the farm was busy, one person was too busy, so he called his two brothers and his parents to help.

The second child of the Tang family is a bit of a muna (this is also the reason why the Tang family promised the Deng family), but he is a good hand at farm work, and he is also good at raising livestock, and he is also hard-working, so with his help, the Deng family not only has the farmland to be served beautifully, the fish pond has also become fish fat and grass green, and the family also has chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows like dragons and tigers.

It can be said that with Tang Liqiu, the Deng family, which could only live a hard life, became prosperous, and Deng Liyu, who used to only smoke dry tobacco, could sometimes go to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes for a few cents to smoke, and after the addiction of smoking filter cigarettes, he ate meat and drank wine during the New Year, and his face began to blush.

Not only did Deng Yuanfang continue to go to school and go to high school, but his sister, Tang Liqiu's fiancée, Deng Jinxiu, also continued to study in high school after graduating from junior high school, because her grades in school were also good, although she was late.

The hard work of the second child of the Tang family did not win the sympathy of the villagers, and many young men still envied him because he had a smart, beautiful and young fiancée. Many people wish they could replace him, and some even want to be the son-in-law of the Deng family. Especially when I watched Deng Jinxiu grow more and more beautiful, and grow more and more smart, I was stunned by countless young guys.

In fact, Tang Liqiu and the Tang family are worried about whether this girl will eventually become the daughter-in-law of the Tang family, once she is admitted to college after finishing high school, she will definitely not want Tang Liqiu.

Rural people are simple and know their own weight very well, Tang Liqiu's mother reminded Tang Liqiu from time to time not to let Deng Jinxiu study, if she really wanted her to take the university entrance examination and fly away, the Tang family could only beat chickens and eggs.

However, the honest Tang Liqiu was embarrassed to speak, although he was nearly ten years older than Deng Jinxiu, he still couldn't let go in front of her, and he didn't dare to say anything, let alone stop her from studying.

However, Deng Jinxiu's mother saw the Tang family's intentions, and promised Tang Liqiu's mother again and again that her daughter Deng Jinxiu would become the daughter-in-law of the Tang family, and if Deng Jinxiu changed her mind in the future, she would force her to marry Tang Liqiu even if she didn't want to.

Just when the Tang family was half-convinced, a disaster happened to the Deng family: one night during the Spring Festival this year, Deng Liyu went to the neighbor's house, and when it was time to eat, he was left by the enthusiastic neighbor to eat and drink. Because people flatter him that he has a smart son, he will definitely be able to pass the college entrance examination this year, and he has a caring son-in-law, and he doesn't have to worry about life at all. Seeing that it was getting late, Deng Liyu refused the neighbor's offer to let him rest for a while before going home, and insisted on leaving immediately.

He walked home on one foot and one foot shallow, but when he reached the door, he fell into the ditch and broke one of his legs, although he did not drown.

When his wife heard the noise, she went to save him, but she got wet and caught a cold, and she fell ill from her already frailty.

Deng Liyu's mother, Deng Jinxiu's grandmother, died in a hurry, and Deng Liyu's wife was paralyzed in bed and could not move......

No matter how prosperous the life of the Deng family is, it is only with the help of Tang Liqiu that they have solved the problem of food and clothing, and even the tuition fees for the two children are a little difficult, how can they have money to treat Deng Liyu's injuries? How can they have spare money to treat Deng Liyu's wife? Even the funeral of Deng Liyu's mother can only be hastily handled, and the men in the Zhuangzi are invited to eat a meal, and they bury her with a pair of shabby longevity materials.

This time, the Deng family suffered a catastrophe, and it saw that a family was about to disperse.

At this time, the Tang family came forward, and his family borrowed money to send Deng Liyu to the county hospital for treatment, and at the same time, Tang Liqiu's mother also left her own family affairs to take care of Deng Liyu's wife, who was paralyzed in bed......

The Deng family, with the full support of the Tang family, finally got through the difficulties.

It can be said that for the sake of the Deng family, the Tang family went all out and did their best, which is of course Tang Jiale's kindness, but more importantly, because of Tang Liqiu's goal of marrying a young and beautiful Deng Jinxiu.

If some people envied Tang Liqiu for marrying Deng Jinxiu in the past, but after the accident of the Deng family, many people in turn admired the kindness of the Tang family and envied the good life of the Deng family. Some people even openly said that the Tang family was a fool and almost bankrupted their family for a woman.