When Niu Tiangou was 2 years old, his parents ordered a "baby kiss" with him, which was a common phenomenon in the rural areas of Jiangbei at that time.

Rural people talk about clan heads and gangs. The size of the clan head mainly comes from the number of males born to the fathers; Gangs and factions mainly rely on "marrying".

Although Aunt Zhang's husband in the west of Niugang Village has three brothers, her husband's two brothers and daughters-in-law gave birth to a "women's army", and when it was her turn, she finally gave birth to a son with a "handle".

Aunt Zhang felt that her family would be weak in the village in the future, so when her niece was just one year old, she found Niu Tiangou's parents and matched this "baby family", in order to strengthen the family's power in the village.

Niu Tiangou has two younger brothers below, and in the future, there will be three families, giving up a niece, and bringing the closeness and harmony of the three families together, it is worth it!

Therefore, Aunt Zhang is extremely enthusiastic about this "doll parent" and spares no effort.

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At the end of last year, Niu Tiangou was 18 years old.

According to the customs of the local countryside, when the young man reaches this age, he should go to the girl's house to "walk around", commonly known as the new son-in-law to "pay New Year's greetings" to the "mother-in-law" (mother-in-law).

said that it was a New Year's greeting to the mother-in-law, but in fact, it was a young man to meet the girl.

Aunt Zhang hurriedly came to Niu Tiangou's house, and repeatedly urged Niu Tiangou's parents to go to the girl's house to "pay New Year's greetings", otherwise, this "baby parent" may be "yellow".

Because at the end of the year before last, Aunt Zhang came to urge once, Niu Tiangou didn't know whether he was shy or inferior because of his short stature, but he didn't go, which made his niece's family very unhappy, because according to rural marriage and love customs, the young man did not give his mother-in-law a New Year's greeting during the New Year, which means that the dissatisfaction and denial of this "baby parent", the girl's family will take the initiative to withdraw from the family.

If I don't go this time, my mother-in-law's family will really turn around and quit my family.

So, under Aunt Zhang's solemn reminder and serious warning, after some nervous arrangements and anxious urging from his parents, on the third day of the first lunar month, Niu Tiangou carried a large bag and a small bag, and followed Aunt Zhang's son to his mother-in-law's house to meet with the girl.

The girl's name is He Muying, about the same height as him, also about 1.57 meters, illiterate, with a long face and thick lips.

Niu Tiangou gasped after seeing the girl's face.

He didn't care about the girl's height, nor did he care about the girl's culture, he just hated that long horse face, especially that thick fat lips.

As soon as he thought that he would have to face that horse every day in the future, and to that thick fat lip, he had a fear like that of a hippopotamus, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and felt only the coldness of his heart.

He could even imagine her grinning two fat lips when she smiled, and the disgusting look that made her scalp tingle and goosebumps all over her body.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shudder in his heart.

His mother's big legs, which one of the gou mothers raised said that the opposite sex must attract? What he felt now was the repulsion of the opposite sex.

He felt that with her, life would be unbearable and uninteresting.

Nima, in this lonely and boring countryside, if there is no girl you like to accompany you, what the hell is the strength of that person to live? What else is the meaning of life!

He suddenly thought of Niu Yu'e in the village, the girl with a round face, big eyes, and a small waist. Every time Niu Tiangou saw her, his heart was warm, and there was an indescribable sense of intimacy, as if there was an invisible charm in her.

That's the real opposites attract, that's what makes people full of dreams and desires for life, that's "Ninety-nine sunny days, eighteen-year-old brother sitting by the river".

He thought that the daughter-in-law he was looking for should be like her, with a magnet-like attraction, a sweet and soft "femininity", and a panicked feeling that people don't want to leave after seeing it, and want to "stick" like kraft candy.

But when I saw this girl with a long face, how could I feel so wooden, except for indifference and alienation, there was no warmth and cordialness?

Ni Ma, who is also a girl, how can she feel so different?

He is even a little strange, there are so many demonic little daughters-in-law in the village, and there are so many tender and charming big girls on the street, why would he "stall" such a "You Wu" alone?

He knows that he is short and in poor condition, and now he doesn't dare to expect the other party to be as attractive as Niu Yu'e, let alone the other party's beauty and charm, his requirements are not high, he just wants to find a girl who is about the same height and appearance as himself, and allows him to have even a little feeling, just don't grieve himself, why can't he get his wish?

Are short men born to be only worthy of ugly women? Can it only be paired with hippos or dinosaurs?

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On the way back from the girl's house, Niu Tiangou was dumbfounded, and he didn't say a word to Aunt Zhang's son except for two coping "um" and "ah" sounds.

Back at home, Niu Tiangou collapsed on the bed sullenly.

When my mother saw this, she hurriedly followed him and asked him tentatively, how is the girl? Passionate about you? Niu Tiangou didn't dare to answer, for fear that his mother would be angry.

He didn't dare to mention quitting his family, because the matchmaker Aunt Zhang's husband was the secretary of the Niugang Village branch, and the girl was the secretary's niece, and to withdraw from the family was to slap the secretary in the face, so his private teacher in the village primary school wouldn't want to do it.

If he doesn't work as a private teacher, he can only go home and do farm work to repair the earth.

Although the land in the production team is now contracted to various farmers, and farmers are relatively free and can go out to work, what can he do without a diploma and no skills? Isn't it some heavy physical work to carry bags and bricks for others?

Doing physical work is the capital, and strength is the king.

Does he have the height and strength?

He still remembers the experience of working in the production team in the past.

I remember that after graduating from junior high school, he was not "recommended" to go to high school, and at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he returned to the production team to do farm work.

The young men of the same age are half a head or even a head taller than him, tall and powerful, able to pick and carry, plow and rake all kinds of power, but Niu Tiangou, who is short and weak, is tired and panting even to carry a rake, and the pain on his shoulders is like a fire, and he has to rest a few breaths on the way.

In the production team, the ox "devil" and the ox barbarian of the same age as him can carry the plow on his left shoulder and the rake on his right shoulder, and carry two farm tools from the village to the field in one breath.

Can he be a cow? The last thing to see in the countryside is a weak and short man like him.

Because of his short stature and weak strength, he was almost ridiculed by the whole team, although his parents hated iron and steel, but his son was born with this uncompetitive "embarrassment" appearance, and he could only sigh secretly for him.