Zhang Xiuhua continued: "Let's ignore her, it's an ignorant thing." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Listening to these obviously derogatory words, she thought to herself, and she didn't know if Li Tianming would regret this family affair if she followed her on this trip?

"No, Huiya is very sensible and very good." Li Tianming said with a smile, and said to Zheng Lianqing: "Uncle Zheng, did you say?" ”

Zheng Lianqing nodded, "Sensible, sensible." Pushed Zhang Xiuhua again, "Didn't you ask you to find a hukou?" How to sit down, this heavy heart. ”

Zhang Xiuhua said with a gloomy face: "What's the hurry? Is there a father like you? This girl goes out, and she can't visit clearly? ”

She stared at Li Tianming for a while, and when she saw that the other party was silent, she asked, "Xiaoli, are you a soldier?" How old are you this year? ”

"27 years old." Li Tianming touched his nose, he was ten years older than Hui Ya.

"27, that's a bit big!" Zheng Lianqing muttered quietly.

Zhang Xiuhua frowned, "27? You're not the first of your second marriage, are you? Although Huiya was not born to me, we don't let people be stepmothers. ”

Several people in the room looked at her, and she snorted, "What are you looking at?" If I were a big girl, I wouldn't marry a second marriage. Then he said in a low voice: "It's hard to be a stepmother, I have suffered in my life, and I don't want my children to suffer too." Although she was not born to me, she was raised by me, so don't I feel distressed? ”

Zheng Lianqing rolled his eyes.

Zheng Huiya was speechless. She knew that her stepmother had a short marriage history before marrying her father, but the man had a thin life and died of illness after less than a year of marriage, while her stepmother had no children and married her father after two years.

Li Tianming was stunned, his face was somewhat embarrassed when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "No, no, I have never been married, don't worry, the second elder." I'm a soldier, and I can't fool you. ”

"That's good." Zhang Xiuhua continued: "You are ten years older than our second child, which is indeed a bit big. However, since Huiya and her aunt have agreed, it's hard for me to say anything as a stepmother. ”

Everyone didn't pick up to see what else she wanted to say.

"It's not easy for me to pull these children out, your uncle, I don't care about the work at home, although I usually treat the second child a little better, but it's also for her good. When the girl is older, she can't do anything, and her in-laws don't like it, right? After she finished speaking, she stared at Li Tianming, until he nodded stubbornly, and then she continued: "I know that you don't want any bride price in the city, but our countryside is different, I raised her so big, why can't you just take people away." ”

After she finished speaking, she stopped squeaking.

Li Tianming understood that this was asking for money. "Auntie, you say, how much is this bride price? I just made a piece of cotton for Huiya in the city, and I bought some wool, and I still have some money left, although it is not much, but I can still make up dozens of it. ”

Zheng Huiya didn't expect him to have such eyes, so she glanced at him, but saw him showing a mouthful of big white teeth, and she was dizzy.

Zhang Xiuhua's face sank, "Dozens? What can you do with a few dozen dollars? Laugh at it! A few days ago, someone in our village got married, and they gave 300 gifts. ”

Three hundred, I can build a pretty good big house.

Zhang Xiuhua also dared to ask for it.

Li Tianming smiled bitterly, "Auntie, it's not worth three hundred if you sell me all the time!" I only have a salary of more than 30 yuan a month, I still have to live, and I still have personal contacts, and my mother has to supplement me every month. He lied and winked at Zheng Huiya, "Don't say three hundred, it's one hundred, and I don't have it either!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Xiuhua was about to speak, he seemed to have made up his mind, "Otherwise, I'll borrow it, how can I borrow one hundred and eighty." Auntie, look, okay? ”

Zheng Huiya listened to him lie in front of her without blinking, and she didn't know what it was like.

But seeing that my father closed his eyes in the back and didn't say a word, and the stepmother bargained like selling her daughter, my heart was very sour.

"No, a hundred of my second child still want to be a man when he goes out. Two hundred, it can't be lower, the lowest in this village is two hundred. You go out to inquire, whose daughter can raise such a big girl for nothing? Zhang Xiuhua bit two hundred to death and refused to let go.

Li Tianming said with a sad face: "Auntie, it's not that I don't want to pay this money, if I had known that there was such a thing, then I wouldn't have bought cotton and wool, and I could save some money." But now, I really don't have it, and I can't borrow it. I am the eldest in our family, and there are several younger brothers and sisters below who are not married, and my mother's salary is tight just for eating, where is the money! He sighed and said, "Auntie, in the county, you have to buy food, unlike this rural land, which can save a lot of money." If it weren't for that, would I be so old and unmarried? ”

Zheng Huiya was dumbfounded.

He didn't get married at such an old age because he couldn't afford the bride price?

This shameless liar!

I don't like the stepmother lion to open her mouth, but he talks nonsense like this, just to get less money, which also makes her unhappy.

In her heart, taking more also represents the importance of the woman. Aren't the clothes and yarns from before that a representation of this? But now, he is like this, and his stepmother is there, as if he is buying vegetables in the vegetable market, bargaining with each other, making her feel like a worthless rotten vegetable leaf, which makes her feel panicked!

She went to the outhouse without saying a word, took a small wooden bench, and sat in front of the kang in a daze.

Zheng Guoqing boiled the water, made tea, brought it into the house, poured a teapot for Li Tianming and his father, and then came out and took a big bowl and poured a bowl for Zheng Huiya, "Sister, you drink tea." Seeing that she was listless, she couldn't help but say, "Sister, when I grow up and make money, I'll give you a lot of money." "He has money, and his mother can't care about the two brothers-in-law asking for money.

Li Tianming saw Zheng Huiya go out without saying a word, she was a little nervous, she didn't speak, but he could feel that she was obviously unhappy.

He regretted it a little, he shouldn't have bargained like this, I'm afraid it would hurt her heart. But it is impossible for him to come up with two hundred dollars. Now, he has a full hand of two hundred yuan.

This money is basically put to good use.

I also blamed him, thinking that it would be okay to buy those things according to local customs, but I didn't expect that there was also a bride price in her family.

can only embezzle the money for the second child's marriage first. Anyway, what he promised was to give him 100 yuan when his second brother got married.

Thinking of this, he said in a very sincere tone: "Uncle, aunt, I really want to marry Huiya, as for the bride price, whether it is three hundred or two hundred, I can't take it out." If the second elder agrees, the money in my hand, plus borrowing a part, will be able to make up one hundred and fifty yuan. If the second elder thinks it's appropriate, he will accept it, if it's too little, then I can't help it! ”