Chapter 112: Love is also a matter of two families
Love is a matter of two people, marriage is a matter of two families, this is said to be a city person. Cities are populous, easily accessible, and more open-minded, and men and women who have been in love for a few years, perhaps the family has not yet met their future son-in-law or daughter-in-law.
The people in the mountains are different, the population in the mountains is small, the economy is underdeveloped, and the transportation is not convenient, not only marriage but also love is a matter of two families. That's right, it's really the family, not the family. In the mountains, a single family must be attached to the family, otherwise in the event of weddings, funerals, red and white ceremonies, without the help of family members, to put it mildly, the main family will not even be able to lift the deputy coffin on the mountain!
In the mountains, freedom of love and marital autonomy is a, especially for girls' marriage and love. According to the rules of the mountain, when the father does not agree, not to mention that marriage is blind date and love. If you meet a domineering father who feels that the man he likes is morally corrupt and unsuccessful, he can beat his daughter up and lock him up, and even quickly ask someone to say that the matchmaker will marry his daughter, breaking the thoughts of the two young couples, and ensuring that no one will gossip.
Don't think that this is a fantasy, people in the mountains admit death, parents have worked hard for more than ten or twenty years, can it be that parents still can't be the masters of marriage? Tiger poison does not eat children, can parents still harm their own daughters? Parents are in charge, that is equivalent to the father being in charge, in the mountains, how can women have any part to speak?
Far away, Da Mao Ling and Li Xiaolan are in love, Li Chuanmeng is very disdainful of Da Mao Ling, who is not amazing in appearance and likes to play with money, but he is hot, but he can't be as domineering as his relatives and friends, because his wife is also a member of the Wang family, and she is also Da Mao's aunt who has not come out of five suits.
It is not easy for Wang Hongying, who has just passed her 40th birthday, to marry 25-year-old Li Chuanmeng at the age of seventeen, to be both a daughter-in-law and a mother, to help Li Chuanmeng, who is an orphan and widow, to pull the two eldest brothers, and even to make two small mud houses to help them marry. Therefore, Li Xiaolan's marriage and love, Li Chuanmeng, who has a bad temper, is no longer happy, as long as his wife, who has suffered for more than 20 years, is willing, he can only throw his hands back to the county to do business, out of sight and out of mind.
For more than a year, Li Chuanmeng saw with his own eyes that Da Mao Ling treated his daughter obediently, and he heard his most trusted nephew say that that guy likes to play but plays in a measured way, and finally settled a matter of his heart, and his wife went to Zhang Luo.
The next thing is that the mountains are no different from the city, the two sides talk about the conditions, the people in the city talk about the house, work, income, and the people in the mountains talk about the bride price, in fact, the core is one money!
Since it was about money, Wang Hongying and Wang Shimei, the two sisters and concubines, could not come forward, so they had to invite a matchmaker to come forward for an interview, and the conditions proposed by Li Chuanmeng did not match the customs and habits in the mountains, so he had to let his new brother and sister Zhang Xiangfeng, who felt that he was shrewd and capable, go to talk. Of course, this also has the meaning of showing up, there are many benefits for women to manage the house and money, don't you see the prosperity of the Li family?
Zhang Xiangfeng, who revolves around his two daughters every day, was stunned for a long time when he heard the decision of the lobby brother, and came back to his senses.
However, Zhang Xiangfeng was able to resolutely chase the potential Li Chuanlin at the beginning, and naturally she was not an uninformed mountain woman, so she took over this seemingly troublesome matter after a little hesitation. Da Mao, who has been worried about marriage, accompanied the smiling face to see off the future father-in-law and uncles, and came to the former Feng Mei and the current aunt with gifts that night.
"Auntie, as long as this thing is done, I will give you a gold necklace, which is guaranteed to be heavier than your Aunt Xie Jinhua's before!"
The opposite of reactive and unrelenting is that you have to thank you for helping a lot, which is something that everyone recognizes, but Zhang Xiangfeng, who has lived with Li Jiaming, a genius stepson, for more than half a year, and has already learned how to behave in the world, said with a smile: "Roll on, as if I am rare." Media, I'll help you out, but you Yeyem's mother and the seven aunts and eight aunts have to be handled by yourself. After it is done, I don't want your gold necklace, and give our sister a silver bracelet. ”
A pair of silver bracelets is only a few dollars? Da Mao Yan hurriedly said: "Either or not, if this legend goes, how will I behave with Lan Mei?"
If it were replaced by the previous Zhang Xiangfeng, even if Da Mao Ling did not take the initiative, she would ask for something in return. But now it's different, and there is no shortage of thousands of dollars at home, so why bother to get heavy gifts?
Last time, I just reminded my uncle that the reduction of public food was not only because the two nephews could study, and they gave a favor, but more importantly, Jiaming also made a great effort, and the uncle who was extremely unbearable in the mouth of Sister Jinhua immediately asked Jiaming to go to the countryside with a heavy gift to thank the head of the township. Hey, the old saying is true, make a fortune and build a product, and if you make a fortune, you must build a character, don't let others look down on you.
At the beginning, his husband and wife gave Sister Jinhua a gold necklace, because her husband made a lot of money, and he really wanted to thank her. These two don't even have a house, and they don't want to make a big effort, if they accept other people's gold necklaces, maybe what will the concubines think of themselves?
"What do you know?"
Zhang Xiangfeng, who was coaxing the child to sleep, stopped patting his hand, brushed the hair scattered on his face behind his ears, and said sincerely: "Da Mao, you and Xiaolan shouted Auntie, in fact, we are still brothers and sisters who used to work together. Although Chuanlin has a high salary, he is so much older than me, and it was introduced by Sister Jinhua, so he should thank Sister Jinhua again.
You are different, I just do a personal favor along the water, and I don't deserve your gratitude. Besides, you don't even have a house, so it's better to save it for a house if you have that spare money. ”
After speaking, Zhang Xiangfeng sighed again, and said quietly: "Hey, Wanmei's two maternal uncles are not angry, and they didn't even give her a silver bracelet, do you think I feel better? The people in the mother's house are unreliable, if I don't have good relations with your former friends, what will happen in the future, who will I ask for?"
It's not easy to say this, but no matter how rough Li Xiaolan, who is also a woman, she heard a bit of strange words, and hesitated: "Sister Feng, you?"
Li Xiaolan really misunderstood, if Zhang Xiangfeng gave birth to a son, maybe she had a little strange thoughts, but she gave birth to a daughter. According to the current family planning policy, even if Zhang Xiangfeng belongs to the rural household registration and can have two children, but she is married to Li Chuanlin, who already has a son and a daughter, and can only have one child regardless of gender. If someone else has no cubs, they can secretly give birth and hide in other places to give birth, but Chuan Lin can still do this when he runs a factory? Since he can only give birth to one child, and he gives birth to a daughter, do he still expect his daughter and son-in-law to provide for his old age and send him to the end of his life?
Zhang Xiangfeng, who was coaxing the child to sleep, smiled and quipped: "You are the sister of other people, and you don't have confidence in your brother?" I mean, Jiaming, Wenwen, and Wanwan will all go to college and work in big cities in the future.
Chuanlin is more than ten years older than me, and when he gets old, I will definitely serve him, but if there is a sudden illness or something, why don't you come close to help?"
It turned out to be this matter, Li Xiaolan, who was worried about the discord between her cousin and her aunt just now, breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly agreed: "What is this? Uncle Lin is my own uncle, isn't his business our business?"
Da Mao, who had more eyes, also breathed a sigh of relief, and joked: "Auntie, if you want to talk about it like this, my son-in-law really suffers." You see, from Jiaren Jiayi to Manmei, I estimate that the brothers and sisters who will live in this house in the future will finally be Xiaolan. I'll ask for a wife, except for Uncle Chuantian and you, I will have to take care of eleven old people in the future!"
Li Xiaolan's eyes widened, and she said gloomily: "You don't want to?"
"How dare I?"
"Still don't want to?"
The subject's temper, the stout big hairy man was loving and fearful, and hurriedly said: "I'm not stupid, the brothers and sisters in my wife's house are promising, and I can't get rid of it!"
"That's pretty much the same", Li Xiaolan, who was used to being rough and savage, gave up and ordered: "What Auntie said, did you hear clearly?
It's really difficult to say this, which suddenly made Da Mao Ling frown. In the mountains, there are women in charge of the house, but how can a daughter-in-law be in charge of money? What does it mean that a daughter-in-law has been a mother-in-law for many years? It means that she is a mother-in-law's housekeeper and money, but a daughter-in-law cannot manage it!
Unless it's a separation!
What are you kidding? There are three older sisters, four cousins, two aunts, and two aunts, and each one is more spicy than the other. Financial power is the most important power in the family, and if they know that the new daughter-in-law will divide the family and take charge of the family as soon as she enters the door, won't that be a hornet's nest? If there is a trouble, let alone say that they are married, they will not be able to get engaged!
Li Xiaolan didn't know the bottom of this matter, even if her future mother-in-law agreed, she still had to be aunts and aunts to talk. Falling in love is a matter of two people, marriage is really a matter of two families, and the temper of those three sisters-in-law was taught by her when she was a child. If it weren't for the scruples of not entering the door, because of Da Mao's money, they would have torn their faces and started beating them.
Li Xiaolan really doesn't understand, the married girl spills out the water, the married sister-in-law, the aunt who is not a family, and she still points fingers at the things in the mother's house and sisters' house! Last time she was at Da Mao Ling's house, she promised to help Mao Ling start a family and start a business in the future, and the two aunts and one aunt who were guests were still yin and yang, and even the future mother-in-law didn't care about herself.
But if she is allowed to ignore Da Mao's financial power, she will have no bottom in her heart. She still doesn't know what kind of virtue she has and what kind of temper her future mother-in-law will have? This is a master who can spend as much money as she has, and her mother-in-law is a hot-tempered and soft-eared master. If the money is in the hands of her mother-in-law, Da Mao Ling will have fun, and no matter how much money she makes, she will lose everything at the poker table!
For the troubles of these two people, Zhang Xiangfeng, who had just put the child to sleep, had a way but didn't want to say it, she wouldn't come out if she offended people, and pointed upstairs with her white fingers, and whispered: "I couldn't help him get back the land of Heyou before, and called their brothers and sisters to come with me, but they didn't want to, do you know what I should do?"
"What should I do?"
The distressed big hairy girl glanced at the floor, slapped his own unspeakably wide head, took the subject's hand and went upstairs.