Zhang Taiping was also a little embarrassed: "Let's apply for a marriage certificate, I don't know if we can do it now?" ”

The woman looked at the two mothers and daughters hiding behind Zhang Taiping and asked suspiciously, "Is this child your two?" ”

"Ahem, yes."

Seeing Zhang Taiping's reaction, the woman showed an expression of sudden realization, and then said with a smile.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. They are all from rural areas, and men get married at the age of 20, and they can't get a marriage certificate until they reach the age. Besides, most people in the mountains don't have marriage certificates, and you are already advanced elements if you can do it. ”

This woman is good, and her attitude is not bad, but she is a little talkative, and Zhang Taiping doesn't know how to say it.

"Did you bring your household registration book and ID card?"

"Brought." Zhang Taiping handed over the documents of the two people.

The woman who was doing the work took it, looked at it, checked it again, and then asked, "Are you two married voluntarily?" ”

Zhang Taiping and the two nodded.

Then he asked, "Do you have any medical history or something?" ”

Cai Yazhi didn't know how to answer, and looked at Zhang Taiping. Zhang Taiping replied: "There is no other medical history. But she couldn't speak, but I didn't dislike it, and I was willing to marry her. ”

In fact, before getting married, you have to go to the hospital for a physical examination, and when you apply for a marriage certificate, you have to present the physical examination form to the staff. But there are not so many rules in the town, just verbally to make a confirmation, and those who do not have a hard surname must have a physical examination form.

Seeing Zhang Taiping's answer, the women stopped asking more questions on this issue. He put down his ID and said, "Do you have to ask for three two-inch color photos per person?" ”

Zhang Taiping shook his head. He only brought his ID with him, and he didn't think to ask for a photo at all. Even if you think about it, there is no place to take pictures in the small mountain village.

The woman looked at Zhang Taiping's expression and knew that there was no photo, so she returned the document to Zhang Taiping and said: "There is a photo studio in the town, you go to take pictures first, and then come back after taking pictures." You can come before 12 o'clock in the morning, and after 2 o'clock in the afternoon. ”

Zhang Taiping took the household registration book and ID card, thanked him, and the three of them left the Civil Affairs Bureau again. Look for a place to take pictures.

Speaking of photography, Zhang Taiping hadn't taken much of it before due to physical reasons, and he had reluctantly taken photos a few times when he needed photos for things like school files. Cai Yazhi and Yaya have never touched the camera, which only exists in legends.

Cai Yazhi is reserved and can still control her joy, while Yaya's child's surname does not have many scruples, she is completely ecstatic, and her little face is completely happy like a flower.

Zhang Taiping muttered in his heart, it seems that the camera must be bought and I found a photo studio, and the background inside is all landscape paintings, which are a little distorted, but the conditions are like this, and I can't ask for anything.

First, two adults took a two-inch color bust photo. This kind of photo will appear on various documents in the future, which is more formal, requires a more serious expression, and the effect is not bad. Zhang Taiping directly asked each person to wash out ten photos, this kind of photo may be used in the future, and it is always okay to be prepared.

Zhang Taiping only took a half-length photo and then stopped in the camera, so he really didn't take much pictures. After that, it's time for the two mothers and daughters to take pictures.

Free full-body photos to pose or something, Cai Yazhi was still a little restrained in the first photo, but after taking two photos, she gradually let go. Yaya is purely a child's surname, posing in various cute gestures, and taking a lot of photos.

In the end, the whole family took another group photo, Cai Yazhi stood beside her, and Yaya rode on Zhang Taiping's neck, this is a truly happy family of three.

Zhang Taiping asked for snapshots to be taken, and the photos came out on the spot after the photos were taken. A stack of more than 20 photos, a total of 130 pieces. Cai Yazhi only felt distressed when she paid the money, looking at her expression, she probably thought in her heart, if she had known that it was so expensive, she wouldn't have taken it so much.

After leaving the photo studio, I came to the Civil Affairs Bureau.

There were already too many people at this time, so I had to wait in line. When they arrived at Zhang Taiping and the others, the woman who did the work still remembered them, saved other formalities and processes, took the photo and pasted it with a steel seal. Saves time for both parties.

"Here, you are now a legal couple recognized and protected by the state. I hope that a hundred years will be together, and we will grow old together. The woman handed the red book to Zhang Taiping and said.

"Thank you for your good words." Zhang Taiping thanked him with a smile.

Looking at the red book in his hand, his heart was hot, and the shackles and knots in his heart were finally untied.

It didn't need to be such a hassle. Although others do not see anything, there is no moral condemnation. But Zhang Taiping said that he is also a person who has gone to college and received legal education, but he can't pass his own level, and if he doesn't get a marriage certificate and doesn't give himself an explanation, he always feels that he is taking advantage of others' danger and is shameful. There is a feeling of being watched by the heavens all the time.

In fact, people also live with a clear conscience, whether they do bad things or good things, as long as they can find reasons for themselves to convince themselves to have a clear conscience, they can do it for granted. That's why some people always condemn themselves with their conscience all the time after doing bad things, but some people can be at ease after doing bad things as if nothing happened.

Only if you convince yourself and give yourself a reasonable explanation, no matter whether the matter itself is good or bad, and whether this explanation is far-fetched or not, as long as you can make yourself feel a clear conscience, you will not leave sequelae in your heart.

Zhang Taiping is this kind of person, and getting the marriage certificate is an explanation to himself, and he is also responsible for Cai Yazhi. The knot in my heart is untied, so I am very happy to open my mouth and smile.

Cai Yazhi didn't understand why Zhang Taiping was so happy, and she didn't understand the specific meaning of the red book, but the words "legal husband and wife recognized and protected by the state" said by the women in the office were understood, so her face was also full of joy.

went out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and then rushed to the police station non-stop. You don't need much to open an account for Yaya, you only need to fill in another piece of information in the household registration book and hand over 500 yuan. It is the first child, she is still a girl, there are no multiple births or overbirths, and the household registration in the countryside is still very easy to handle.

This is the traditional status quo, although it has always emphasized that women are equal, and boys and girls are the same, but in the countryside, the preference for sons over daughters is still integrated into the bones, and even in some of the country's poverty alleviation policies. For example, two-woman households and single-child households have a certain subsidy every year.

In the concept of rural people, one man and one woman is the best result, and the children are happy. However, it is not up to people to decide whether to have a boy or a girl, and there are no longer a few people who give birth to two boys, and the family burden of two boys is heavy, whether it is a marriage or a house in the future, parents have to prepare two copies. When these people go to register their children, they don't feel the policy, and they will be fined.

In general, people have a sympathy that comes from the bones of families that are all girls (this is an idea that has been developed for thousands of years). Because in the tradition of rural people, it is very important to have someone to send them to the end when they are old, and when a girl grows up, she will marry a foreign surname. When scolding, scolding him for being old and no one will send him to the end, don't look at it as a common sentence, it is a kind of scolding method to expose scars.

After all the business was done, there were more people on the street. Shopping is lively, some people are lively, and there are lively people to go shopping. If the open street allows you to go to the deserted street alone, even if you are presented with all the things in the world, you probably have no interest in wandering.

At this time, the big market has just come up, and the people doing business have already set up their stalls, and the people from afar are rushing back and forth, and the street is not crowded.

In a large rural market like this, there are generally not too many people in the first half of the year. After autumn, as the weather gradually cools down, there are more people in each episode than the other, and in the last few episodes of the year that is close to the end of the year, it can really reach the point of rubbing shoulders and sweating into rain, and shopping is crowded.

That's when business is at its best, and often a small percentage of the year's income comes from those episodes. Local businessmen would block the roads from cars, and the whole street would become a shopping mecca, and it was also the time and place where thieves were most active.

It's still just autumn, and it's still early before the end of the year, and the people on the street won't be too exaggerated even when it's noon.

The two of them walked down the street, looking around and curious.

Seeing that there were marshmallows selling on the street, the little girl didn't say yes, just stood in front of her and swallowed her saliva. I've never gone shopping when I'm so old, and I don't know how to ask my parents for things. It was already a blessing to see Zhang Dashuai not running before, how could there be any reason to step forward and be coquettish?

Zhang Taiping couldn't help but feel pity, other people's children are coquettish in their parents' arms at this age, and they will always pester their parents on the street to ask for this and that. And Yaya seems to have lost this skill, and she is very sensible just to look at it, but she doesn't ask for it.

"If you want anything, tell Daddy, and Daddy will buy it for you." Zhang Taiping put the girl around his neck and came to the car selling cotton candy.

"How much is a ball?" Zhang Taiping asked the owner of the car who sold it.

"How many dollars do you want for a dollar?"

"Let's have three."

The middle-aged man selling marshmallows shook the machine neatly, and in a moment, he shook out three balls of snow-white and fluffy cotton-like marshmallows. Fortunately, this middle-aged man didn't make it in advance and hang it on the wire on the car, so that when the wind blows, it is not clean and easy to melt. Live production is a bit of a hassle, but it's more reassuring.

Zhang Taiping took three balls of marshmallows and gave them one piece. Children seem to have a talent for this kind of thing, and they can eat it without being taught to eat it with relish.