Chapter 247: Parents Want to Learn Mandarin
"This bride price is not high at all, and our family still pays for these dowries."
Yun Changda said, after all, he and his children are frugal, except for the construction of this house, there is no big expense, and they are all saved for his son to marry his daughter-in-law.
"What does Jing Ting mean at home, when will you and Jing Ting get engaged?" Wang Xue asked.
"Jing Ting's family means that the two families are far away, and this engagement wine is still done separately, and their family's engagement wine is placed on October 2 this year, after all, there are more civil servants in their family, and they are usually busy." Yun Tao said.
"October 2nd, it will only take two months, it seems that we are going to prepare the engagement things now, as for the time for our family to do the engagement wine, tomorrow I will go to the town to ask the fortune teller, help us look at the day, choose a good day to give you and Jing Ting's marriage, then your father and I will rest assured, you are in your thirties, if you don't give this marriage again, your father and I can't sleep well at night."
Wang Mei said, after all, her sons are in their thirties, the boys of this age in the village are all married, and there are not a few children who are already in elementary school, but her baby son doesn't even have a girlfriend, can the two elders not worry.
After all, in the countryside, if a man is not married until he reaches thirty, he will be considered to have something wrong with the man, and the girls in the village will not like boys over the age of thirty, and if the boys in the village are twenty-eight or nine, their parents will die in a hurry.
"Mom, tomorrow I'm going to go to the county seat with my uncle to get a contract. Probably came back late. When you go to town tomorrow. I bought some vegetables, and in the evening I invited someone from the village committee to come to my house for dinner. Yuntao said to his mother.
"Did they all come to our house for dinner?" Wang Mei asked.
"Except for the college student village official, everyone else has come back to our house for dinner, Mom, you can also buy a few bottles of Jinliufu Bar by the way." Yun Tao said.
"Do you cook?"
Yun Changda asked, after all, Yun Changda had eaten the dishes made by his son last time, and he still remembered the delicious taste, and always wanted to eat it again. Fortunately, his son came back so soon, how Yun Changda also wanted his son to cook dishes for himself, his son's cooking skills were much better than his mother-in-law's cooking skills.
"Well, I'll make that meal tomorrow night." Yun Tao said.
"Then what kind of food are you going to buy?"
Wang Mei asked, after all, she didn't know what her son was going to cook, and it was not easy to buy vegetables.
"I'll tell you this tomorrow morning, and now that I've said it, it's easy for you to forget." Yun Tao said.
"Okay, Ergou, how do you feel about going to Beijing this time. Isn't the capital beautiful? ”
Wang Mei asked, Wang Mei is the same as Yun Changda. I don't know a few big characters, and I haven't been to any big cities, so I'm very curious about what this capital city is like, whether it's as beautiful as what I see on TV.
After all, for Wang Mei and Yun Changda, the appearance of the big city that can only be seen can only be seen on TV, not to mention that although Yuntao's parents don't understand the dialogue in the TV series, they are still very energetic, and they like to discuss the scenes in the TV while facing the TV, as if they really understand.
In the past, when Yuntao was young, he often said that his parents couldn't understand it, so don't talk nonsense, what he played on TV was completely different from what they said, but when he grew up, now Yuntao no longer says that what his parents said is wrong, after all, this is also a kind of fun for them, as long as they are happy, what does it matter if the plots on TV are right or wrong.
"It's okay, I didn't go anywhere, I don't know the specifics, it's just that the air in Beijing is not very good, which makes people uncomfortable, and in two months, our family will go to Beijing, and we'll have a good visit to Beijing." Yun Tao said.
"Let's go to Beijing too?" Wang Mei asked in some surprise.
"Of course, when we get engaged on October 2nd, our whole family will go to Jing Ting's house, and Jing Ting's engagement wine between me and Jing Ting is held in Beijing City, and our family will definitely go." Yun Tao said.
"The woman's family has an engagement wine, and the man's parents are not good."
Yun Changda said that after all, when the man got engaged in the countryside of Minzhou, the man went to the woman's house to attend the engagement banquet, and the man's parents did not go, and they were usually accompanied by matchmakers.
"It's okay, their engagement customs in Beijing are different from ours, there are not so many rules, not to mention that Tingting's grandfather specifically told me that he wants you to go to Beijing to participate in this engagement ceremony." Yun Tao said.
"Jing Ting's grandfather invited us to go?"
Yun Changda asked, in fact, Yun Changda really wants to go to Beijing, that is the capital of the country, a real big city, as long as he goes to the capital, he will definitely be a man of the year when he comes back, and he can also show off like other people who have been to big cities.
"Yes, Jing Ting's family wants you to go, after all, everyone will be in-laws in the future, so why don't you have to meet each other."
Yun Tao said that Yun Tao wanted to take advantage of this engagement to accompany his parents to visit Beijing and go to those places of interest.
"Wife, look?" Yun Changda asked his wife.
"Since Jing Ting's family invited us to go, let's go too, how can we say that everyone will be in-laws in the future, and we will meet anyway, besides, what is the process of engagement, our son doesn't understand it at all, how can we rest assured if we don't follow."
Wang Mei said, after all, this engagement process is very particular, so as not to let her son understand anything and let the woman have opinions.
"But we don't speak Mandarin! How to communicate with the woman's parents? Yun Changda said with some concern.
"If you don't speak Mandarin, I can speak a little."
Wang Mei glanced at Yun Changda and said, Wang Mei often talks to those rural daughters-in-law in the village who marry back from other places, but she has learned a lot of Mandarin, although she doesn't speak well, but those foreign daughters-in-law in the countryside still understand.
As for whether those people in Beijing can understand, Yun Tao estimates that Jing Ting's family can understand about five or sixty percent at most, and the rest has to rely on their own guessing, after all, when Zeng Quan and Jing Ting came last time, Zeng Quan and Jing Ting were half understanding and half understanding, and Yun Tao helped translate part of it on the side.
"Whoever says I don't understand, I can understand some and talk a little."
Yun Changda said unconvinced, after all, there are many people from other places working in the countryside of Minzhou City, and when Yun Changda goes to do such physical work, he will also meet these outsiders to work together, and he has learned some Mandarin, but he knows less.
"Dad, Mom, this time our whole family will go, and when the time comes, my sister and brother-in-law's family will also go, and they will all speak Mandarin, so it will be much easier for everyone to communicate." Yun Tao said.
"It's great that your sister and brother-in-law are going too."
Wang Mei said happily that if her daughter and son-in-law also go together, you don't have to worry about language communication problems, her daughter and son-in-law are both literate people, but they don't know a few words like herself.
"There will be no problem for so many of us to go to Jing Ting's house."
Yun Changda said worriedly, after all, in the women's engagement wine in Minzhou, the men and elders will not go to the woman's house to drink, so as not to make some noise to come.
"No, Mom and Dad, don't worry, Jing Ting's family is fine." Yun Tao said.
"Child's father, we have to learn Mandarin from others in the past two months, so as not to be embarrassed when we go to Beijing." Wang Mei said to Yun Changda.
"I have to work during the day, and whoever I learn from at night has to be taught."
Yun Changda said, after all, people in the countryside are so idle, they go to their homes every night to teach Mandarin, and besides, they are so old, they don't know if they can learn it.
"Dad, Mom, you can rest assured about this matter, I asked Wang Xue to come to our house every day and teach you Mandarin." Yun Tao said.
"Of course let Wang Xue teach us, how are you doing with Wang Xue now?"
Wang Mei asked with concern, after all, this Wang Xue is also the ideal daughter-in-law in Wang Mei's heart, and now she is so aggrieved to be a "little wife" for her son, Wang Xue is also very unhappy.
"It's good." Yun Tao said.
"Ergou, you're going to get engaged to Jing Ting, what are you going to do with Wang Xue's matter, after all, it's not a matter to drag it out like this, if you should break up, you should break up."
Yun Changda said, Yun Changda feels that his son is a little unkind now, he is about to get engaged to Jing Ting, and he is still entangled with Wang Xue, which is not only sorry for Jing Ting, but also sorry for Wang Xue, if others know that Wang Xue really has an unclear relationship with his son, how will the little girl Wang Xue marry in the future.
"Dad, Wang Xue and I won't break up, Wang Xue doesn't mind following me like this, Jing Ting doesn't mind Wang Xue's existence, and now the relationship between the two of them is like sisters."
Yun Tao said that if he wants to break up with Wang Xue, Yun Tao will never be able to do it, and besides, Yun Tao is not only Wang Xue a "little wife" now, counting Zeng Quan and Liu Yiyi, Yun Tao already has three little wives, and Yun Tao doesn't want to give up.
"But you can't hold the fire with paper like this, if you let Wang Xue's family know the truth, they will find you desperately."
Yun Changda said worriedly, in fact, who doesn't want to have an extra daughter-in-law to be filial to himself, but this is really a bit of that, whose unmarried beautiful daughter, to be a small one for others, no one is happy.
"They dare! This is what they said themselves, as long as Ergou can marry the daughter of a beautiful official eunuch in the city, let them be the daughter of our baby, this is said in front of many villagers, he dares to repent, our Yun family is not easy to bully. ”
Wang Mei said, after all, the last time I went to Wang Xue's house for a blind date, Wang Xue's father Wang Wu said that in front of many people, his side is reasonable, and there is no need to be afraid of them making trouble, in the countryside, "reason" is more important than the law. (To be continued......)