According to custom, no matter how the village marries a daughter-in-law, they have to entertain a banquet of wine and food, but at such a time, who has surplus grain to make a banquet. Besides, those who come to congratulate can't get gift money, and the villagers are real, and those who care about their face will not sit down and eat a banquet for nothing if they don't take the gift money. Therefore, in the past few years of the catastrophe, the few weddings in Sanjiatun have not held banquets, and relatives and neighbors have come to congratulate them, drink a bowl of water, and hold a revolutionary wedding ceremony, which is considered a ceremony.

Early in the morning, the first relative to come was Mrs. Zhou's maiden brother, Zhao Baogen. Mrs. Zhou's maiden name is Zhao Mantable, she is the fourth daughter of the Zhao family, and the first three sisters are called Zhaodi, Lingdi, and Changzi, and when Mrs. Zhou is here, the fourth daughter, can sit at a full table, it is called a full table, and there is a younger sister under her, called Pan'er.

Zhou Wanwan has always felt that Mrs. Zhou has contempt for all women except her two daughters, and the root cause is here. The Zhao family's hope for their son is too strong, which leads to subconscious contempt for their daughter, which Mrs. Zhou has been exposed to since she was a child, making her feel that it is natural for women to be inferior, so she bullied all the women in the family; At the same time, she can best understand the pain of women being discriminated against, so she redoubles her love for her daughter and does her best not to let her daughter be bullied and discriminated against.

Zhao Baogen was fifty years old, and he took the dried sweet potato given by the fourth sister and gnawed it like no one was around, completely ignoring the saliva of a few children under the age of ten who came to see the excitement. Mrs. Zhou didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and when she asked about the other sisters, she knew that she couldn't come either because of the long distance or because of the busy farming, so she just pouted and didn't pay attention to it at all. If you come, you come empty-handed, and you have to entertain a meal, so it's better not to come.

The maiden family of the three daughters-in-law of the Zhou family did not come, Wang Fengying's maiden family was so poor that the whole family did not have a single piece of clothing to see people, although the blacksmith furnace was not far from Sanjiatun, but it didn't care about the food when it came, and it was really not cost-effective to come and go again and again hungry, so I didn't come. Li Guizhi's maiden home is far away, in Dongfeng Township, which is still 30 miles away from Yangshugou Township, and it is said that he is also very poor, let alone unable to come. The third daughter-in-law Li Xiuhua's maiden home is not far away, in Songtun, which is less than five miles away from Sanjiatun, but Li Xiuhua is gone, and Li Xiuhua's mother's family also came to Zhou's house to make a fuss, which made the relationship very stiff, and has not come to see the four children left by Li Xiuhua once. This time, Zhou Chunlai got married, and Mrs. Zhou was in charge, and if she didn't send them a letter, she would be treated as no such relative.

When the sun was outcropping, one of Old Man Zhou's brothers, Song Shishi, came with his son and brought half a catty of liquor as a gift. That's a great gift! At such a time, who can afford to buy wine, and there is no way to buy it. The supply and marketing cooperatives in the village have long been out of stock, and the supply and marketing cooperatives in the township must have a good relationship with the salesman to buy it, and the bulk liquor costs six cents a catty, which is nearly four catties of good white noodles! If it weren't for Song Shishi's son working in the city and eating food, how could he afford it! For a while, Song Shishi became a big man in the eyes of the villagers, and he was even more looked down upon than the old captain who came to preside over the wedding.

Song Shishi and his son were treated at the VIP level and were allowed to sit with the old captain at the head of the East House. Old man Zhou fled from the Guannei to the Northeast when he was a child, and he didn't remember his hometown and family, and he was alone to carry a long life for the landlord.

Before a few people came, Zhou Wanwan was carried out by Zhou Chen to take a look around and then returned to the West House. Then Zhou Chen and Zhou Yang were assigned to go to the neighbor's house to borrow tables and stools, and Zhou Wanwan was put on the kang by the second brother in the West House. Yes, she was bolted again.

Since that unlucky big horse, the two brothers have always been skeptical about Zhou Wanwan's ability to walk, and after witnessing another terrifying incident in which she got off the ground from the kang and fell again with her short legs out of reach, her range of movement was completely limited under the noses of the two. As long as the two of them are at home, they must leave one to watch their sister, but they don't know that when they go to work, Zhou Wanwan has already explored the entire Zhou family, not to mention going to the ground herself, she can even help Zhou Hongying do some small tasks such as getting shoes and handing things.

But I don't mind being tied up at all tonight. Just went out for a walk, her little face was pinched red, now there are so many people outside, going out is looking for abuse, it's better to be obedient and hide in the house.

Seeing that the sun was rising red, Zhou Chunlai, surrounded by a few young men who were doing well in the village, pushed a small wheelbarrow out to welcome the bride. A few years ago, the village people married their daughters-in-law and were still able to borrow two animals from the team to pull the cart to pick up their relatives, but in the past two years, the animals have starved to death and died of illness, and the remaining few are shaking when they walk, how can they pull the cart. So I had to push a wheelbarrow to pick up the bride - I can't let the bride come by herself.

Dagaotun is five miles away from Sanjiatun, and a few young men can walk there in half an hour, so they come back quickly. The wheelbarrow pushed Shen Yufen, followed by several daughters-in-law and young girls from Da Gaotun's mother's family as a send-off. There were no firecrackers, no suona to welcome relatives, and even a red word at the gate, and the wedding began.

Shen Yufen was wearing a set of half-worn clothes that didn't fit well from the Zhou family, combing two yellow braids, the new society was new, and she didn't have a red hijab, and she stood with Zhou Chunlai with her head down when the ceremony was held. There was a little boy standing next to Shen Yufen, her youngest brother, thirteen years old, thin and short, looking no taller than Zhou Chen, gobbling up a black-faced steamed bun, which was the gift money given by the Zhou family to the boy who pressed the sedan chair.

First of all, the old captain made a speech, which probably meant that a pair of newcomers should come together under the common revolutionary goal, and in the future, they should work hard, actively devote themselves to the revolutionary construction of the people's commune, strive to be exemplary, be advanced, and be good young people of socialism. Then bow to the chairman like three times, and the salute is completed.

The newlyweds were gifted, the relatives, friends and people in the village who came to congratulate him left one after another, and the mother's family who sent off the relatives in Dagaotun also left. I still have to go to work in the afternoon, and a delay in the morning is a delay of four or five minutes, but I can't delay it any longer in the afternoon.

Shen Yufen was taken into the new house and sat on the kang covered with a quilt, called Zafu. Originally, there was to be a boy and a virgin to sit with them, but the people watching the ceremony were gone, and there were no children pressing the bed, so the Zhou family had to let Zhou Ling and Zhou Chen sit on the kang in the new house for a while, which was considered a full ceremony.

Shen Yufen became the fourth daughter-in-law of the Zhou family in this way, and she started to cook early the next morning, and followed her two sisters-in-law to work after breakfast.

The life of the Zhou family has not changed much because of the addition of a daughter-in-law. It is estimated that the most uncomfortable thing is Wang Fengying, she can no longer push all the housework to Li Guizhi, since Shen Yufen got married, Mrs. Zhou announced that she wanted her three daughters-in-law to take turns cooking and doing housework, and Wang Fengying's good life has come to an end.

In fact, Li Guizhi's life is not easy, moving to the East House, every day under the nose of Mrs. Zhou, trembling all the time, it is really a huge torture for their mother and daughter. Especially at night, Zhou Lan was so hungry that she cried, crying so much that Zhou Hongying couldn't sleep and lost her temper, so scared that she almost covered her daughter's mouth.

The spring ploughing was completed, and the wheat was sown. Sanjiatun ushered in the first spring rain of this spring. The fine and dense spring rain moistened the hope of the whole village, the drought that lasted for three years finally passed, after the spring sowing this rain at least guaranteed half of this year's wheat harvest, many old people stood in the rain and wept, God is gracious......

After the spring rains, the earth should be full of life. At this time, the willow tree should have pulled out the buds, and the leaves of the poplar tree should have grown into half the size of a child's palm overnight, and the field should be the tender green of grass from a distance.

But this year's spring is different. It's hard to see patches of green in Sanjiatun this early spring. All the trees in the village were stripped of their bark during the three-year drought, and none survived this spring. It is said that for the same reason, there are very few big trees alive this spring, except for the pine trees that cannot be eaten, in Xiaohan Mountain, which is ten miles away from the village. Even the grass on the ground, after three years of carpet-like digging grass roots and grass seeds, almost no pieces of grass grow.

The air is moist water vapor and the fresh smell of the earth, as far as the eye can see, the entire Sanjiatun and the fields outside the tun, a bright black soil, but there is no willow in the past spring, verdant and dripping......

Even so, the arrival of spring brought about a change in the diet of the farmers.

The land is full of life, but the food stock at home is dwindling little by little, and even if all signs indicate that this year will be a good year, no one can relax until the food is in their hands. Moreover, the reality does not allow people to relax, the little relief food sent a year ago has long been stretched, and it is easy to rejuvenate, people rush to every piece of visible green, all non-toxic plants have become edible that can be eaten, and while there is food now, you have to eat it quickly into your mouth.

The most common thing the Zhou family eats these days is grass leaf mush, and Zhou Wanwan was fortunate enough to taste it for the first time since he was reborn.

Zhou Wanwan is more than a year old, so it stands to reason that she should have been able to eat a long time ago. But no one in the Zhou family cares about what she eats except for her two brothers, and it is estimated that no one pays attention to her not being on the dinner table for so long and not eating anything in front of others. And Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen are just two little boys, they don't know that there is such a thing as adding complementary food to children, they think that it is enough for their sister to drink malt milk essence every day, and what is better than wheat milk essence. Therefore, Zhou Wanwan's daily meal is actually eaten in the space, and then the three meals of malt milk essence fed by the second brother are eaten as snacks.