The big day was finalized, and the two began to discuss the details. Problems came one after another, Mrs. Zhou and Aunt Shen pointed to Mai Mang, they didn't let each other go, you came and went, and almost broke Zhao Simao's legs. In the end, the two families couldn't produce a pound of flour each, so they appeased Zhao Simi, who almost didn't pick a child.

First of all, the new clothes that the Zhou family promised became an old jacket for Zhou Juan and an old pair of pants for Zhou Ping, although there were no patches, but they were all so old that they were a little faded, and the pants were still a little thin, and the Shen family said that they would not agree to anything. Mrs. Zhou sat on the kang and turned out the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Shen family and scolded her, and finally came to the conclusion that love is not knotted, if you want clothes, these two old clothes, don't leave your daughter at home and starve to death!

In fact, this matter is really not that the Zhou family deliberately wants to take advantage of the Shen family, the Zhou family really can't come up with a new set of clothes. Although cloth tickets are issued every year, the village supply and marketing cooperatives have not bought cloth for two years, and the township supply and marketing cooperatives have not either. First, the wedding date is approaching, and it is impossible to wait, and secondly, even if there is fabric, the Zhou family can't afford it, a foot of the cheapest flower cloth costs two cents and eight cents, a blouse costs seven feet of cloth, pants are five feet, and a set of clothes costs more than three yuan. The Zhou family doesn't talk about more than three yuan now, even Sanmao can't take it out. The production team has not paid money for three years, and in the past, you could sell an egg to save a few cents to buy some salt, matches and other daily necessities, but the chickens have been eaten up in the past two years, and the whole family has not seen a penny of cash for a year, so what can you do to buy new clothes for the new daughter-in-law?

The two sides were at a stalemate again, seeing that the wedding was approaching, Zhou Chunlai's mouth was full of bubbles, the whole person exuded a strong smell of smoke, his hair was unkempt and greasy, his eyes were blood-red and distracted, and he looked at it and made people's spines numb, for fear that he would not be able to control it for a while and do something.

After Mrs. Zhou scolded again, Zhou Chunlai picked up the two old clothes that were returned by the Shen family and went out without saying a word. When he came back, he was followed by Zhao Simi, who was full of spring breeze, and the Shen family accepted the clothes, and the wedding date remained the same.

Later, the Zhou family learned that it was Zhou Chun who came to find Shen Yufen, and then Shen Yufen took the decision to accept the clothes, and Aunt Shen cried a lot at home with her thighs, and finally was persuaded by the eldest daughter who didn't know how to persuade her, and continued to fight with Mrs. Zhou.

The next step is to discuss the new house. The Zhou family originally planned to let Zhou Chunlai and his wife live in the north kang outside the east house. This was a very common thing in the rural areas of Northeast China at that time, and there were even some people with narrow houses, and their sons got married and lived in a kang with their parents.

But Aunt Shen disagreed, why did the first three of the four sons have a room, and when they reach the fourth, they have to squeeze a room with the two old ones, no! I have to fight for a room for my daughter!

Aunt Shen's attitude was extremely resolute, and Zhou Chunlai had no choice but to beg her three elder brothers. Zhou Chunfa can't count on it, he has a lot of children, and they are all older, and it seems crowded when he lives in the north kang, and Wang Fengying is used to pinching everything and will not back down.

Zhou Chunlai turned his pleading gaze to Zhou Chunxi and Zhou Chunliang. Zhou Chunliang smoked a dry cigarette and didn't look up no matter how his younger brother looked at it, Zhou Chunliang was honest and thin-skinned, and finally couldn't bear Zhou Chunlai's gaze, ignoring Li Guizhi and Zhou Ping's red eyes, nodded and agreed to his younger brother.

Once the new house is agreed, the next step is to get into the little details. Who is the boy who presses the sedan chair, how much money is given, the number of relatives to be sent, the boy and girl who sit on the bed, report to relatives, and so on.

When the Zhou family was busy preparing for Zhou Chunlai's wedding, the spring equinox was also ushered in on the solar terms. The crows crows chirped, the ground dried up on the vernal equinox, the heavy snow stored in a winter had melted away, and the snow water silently moistened the land that had dried up for three years, giving birth to the farmers' expectations for a year.

After a few days of dry spring breeze, the fields that had been untenable a few days ago were already ready to be cultivated. The sun rises earlier and earlier, and the time of spring and summer is short, urging the people who have worked on this land for generations to seize the agricultural time. The production team has officially started work, the old captain stood in the large courtyard of the production team, wearing his old cotton jacket and roaring at the waist, there is only one thing in the center, the people's commune relies on the people, and everyone has the opportunity to cheer up and do a great job!

About a week before the spring equinox, Zhou Wanwan will already be gone. This can really walk on its own, without leaning against the wall, not to walk a few steps and sit on a fart with weak legs, but to always use your little legs to walk freely in the house wherever you want.

She excitedly shared her joy with her brothers as soon as they returned from work, but because the brake system was not yet very mature, she tripped over a shoe on the ground......

This big horse that made her want to scratch the wall when she thought about it in the rest of her life directly led to her brothers' distrust of her walking by herself, until she went to school, and tried to carry or hold her wherever she went, which was enough to see how tragic and embarrassing her fall was at that time......

When Zhou Wanwan finally walked out of the door of Zhou's house with his little short legs, the half-dead old willow tree in the distance could already see a faint greenery, and the bag of leaf buds on the branches of the big poplar tree next to the back garden gate was also full of branches, and in a few days, there would be tender green and fresh young poplar leaves.

In the fields outside the village, all production teams have begun spring plowing and land preparation, and the front and back gardens of the house are also going to be turned over to prepare for planting vegetables. Zhou Xia and Zhou Ling took turns turning over the garden with a half-folded scrap shovel, Zhou Xia was wearing a small jacket that her sister wore when she was a child, Zhou Xia was still an old cotton jacket in winter, and one sleeve burned two holes when it was burned, revealing the cotton that was burned black.

Zhou Wanwan's brother and sister have changed into sweaters and pants, and Zhou Xia also has them, but it seems that her sweaters and pants were also given to Qian Yan by Mrs. Zhou. Since the last time Zhou Chen asked Zhou Xia to go back to live in the Westinghouse and was told by her, Zhou Yang, who is the most concerned about Zhou Xia among the three brothers and sisters, is not so enthusiastic, and several people live under the same roof, and there is basically no communication.

After Zhou Xia's new clothes were taken away during the Chinese New Year, Zhou Wanwan carefully observed Zhou Xia for a while. She also seemed to be sad, but it didn't delay her enthusiasm for Mrs. Zhou's mother and daughter at all, and it didn't arouse her admiration for her mother and affection for her siblings as Zhou Wanwan wished. Zhou Xia was still as cold as ever in the face of her two brothers, most of the time she glared at Zhou Wanwan's younger sister with hatred, occasionally passing by her side, she would push her easily, and Zhou Wanwan, who was still practicing walking, was pushed by her every time, but fortunately, it didn't hurt too much, and Zhou Wanwan didn't care about her.

Zhou Wanwan sometimes thinks that if Zhou Xia is just cold to the three of their brothers and sisters in this life, or occasionally pushes her, then she won't care about anything with her, and live her own life, for the eldest brother and second brother to be at ease, she can forget everything Zhou Xia did in her previous life and be a sister who is stranger to each other. But if Zhou Xia is still the same as in her previous life, then don't blame her for settling the old accounts together.

Although the weather is getting warmer and it's time for the change of seasons, many people still wear old padded jackets in winter. Zhou Wanwan remembers very clearly that until she went to college, some people in the village still wore two sets of clothes a year, one cotton clothes from winter to spring, and one single clothes from summer to autumn. But these people are either so poor that their families only have enough food to eat and can't afford to buy a foot of cloth for half a year, or they don't have a woman to do needlework, so they can only cope with it. But Zhou Fu and Zhou Jun's brothers did not change the season's clothes, which made Zhou Wanwan not understand.

In his previous life, Zhou Wanwan remembered that Zhou Jun had always been like this, wearing an old cotton jacket that had been worn for a winter in the spring, revealing cotton, and the placket and cuffs were stained with a black layer of slimy things, exuding an indescribable smell. Later, he abolished one hand, knowing that he would not be able to marry a daughter-in-law in his life, and became even more sloppy.

But now Zhou Jun is still a sixteen-year-old child, with a mother at home and a sister in her twenties, why is he still so sloppy? Even Zhou Fu is the same, a cotton jacket is worn bare and dirty like this, which makes him look more old than his peers because of his taciturnity, plus a leg that is not good for walking, no wonder he can't marry a daughter-in-law later, so he can only use Zhou Ping to exchange relatives.

Wang Fengying and Zhou Juan's mother and daughter dressed themselves neatly, although there were no new clothes, the smock outside the jacket was always cleanly washed, and the patches were patched so smoothly, Zhou Wanwan couldn't figure out how they could let the Zhou Fu brothers appear in front of people like this.

After the spring equinox, it was about to be the twenty-second day of the second lunar month, and Zhou Chunxi's family moved to the north kang outside the east house one evening. The outer room of the West House officially became Zhou Chunlai's new house.

It is said to be a new house, but in fact, there is nothing furnished. I only cleaned the room well, there was no furniture, it was too late to ask the carpenter to make furniture, and there was no food for the carpenter to eat at home, and there was no money to pay for the work. Zhou Chunlai could only nail a few wooden shelves on the wall, ready to put two people's clothes and odd things. Even a new bunk can't afford to make, and if two people's old bunks are put together, they will be married.

After looking at the newly decorated house, Mrs. Zhou scolded the Shen family again. Three daughters-in-law married in, and Li Guizhi, who married the least, still has a new bed covered with two wooden boxes. Shen Yufen's family didn't accompany her to anything, and she also took away a set of clothes with twenty catties of white noodles, which is really shameless to sell her daughter!

As for her own bride price, she didn't buy a new thing for the young couple, Mrs. Zhou would not have thought of it, in her world, for her sons and in-laws, only others are sorry for themselves, only others have contributed to themselves, and she never thought that there would be such a thing as two good things in one and one good, and gifts and exchanges.

No matter how many quarrels and dissatisfaction the two families had, Zhou Chunlai and Shen Yufen's wedding was still held as scheduled.

In the year of Renyin in the lunar calendar, February 22, March 27, 1962 in the Gregorian calendar, early in the morning, the whole Zhou family did not go to work, cleaned the house, boiled hot water, opened the door to welcome guests, and held a wedding.