I really don't want to give her money, we don't have anything to do with it, why waste those few dollars, what are we doing with that money? But Mom disagreed.

"Now like this, if you go, people are talking about Zheng Sisi, if you don't go, people will pay attention to you. We don't know how many years we have to stay in this village, and we can't ignore these things on the surface. ”

I nodded, and thought to myself, why don't I go back into the mountain again, and the last time I went down the mountain, I threw some millet into the clip, and if I could catch a pheasant, I would give her those pine nuts. Anyway, I just don't give money!

I made a decision, I went to bed on the kang early, and prepared to go to the mountains early tomorrow morning, and now the snow is also with the trend of civilization, and the mountain roads are much easier to walk, but the animals are not easy to catch.

Mom washed and washed in the outhouse, and she was ready to go to the kang. Just as we were about to finish our work, someone outside started slamming the door violently, startling us! The neighbors around us have all gone to visit the door, but there is no one, if Liu Zhijian or something comes in, it will be difficult to deal with.

I sat up and looked out the window.

Mom hurriedly walked out with a stove hook, stood in the yard and shouted, "Who is it?" ”

"It's me, auntie." It was Liao Qiang's voice.

I put on my padded jacket and walked out, wondering to myself, what are you going to do this night?

Mom hurriedly walked over and didn't open the door: "It's you, but what's the matter with you?" ”

The widow has a lot of right and wrong in front of the door, and she doesn't dare to be too close to people.

"Can I say a few words to Niko?" He seemed to be drunk, and his voice trembled again.

Mom said: "It's really not convenient, if you have anything to do, tell me directly, she fell asleep." ”

"Auntie, I really have something to say to her, you let me meet her. Please! ”

Mom said: "Liao Qiang, you are Nizi's savior, but you are a lonely man and widow in the middle of the night, why should I let you talk to her, you are the one who is going to get engaged tomorrow, and you don't have a reputation when you spread it..."

"No!" Liao Qiang interrupted my mother's words: "Auntie, I won't be engaged tomorrow." I'm just here to speak. ”

I was standing in the back room, but when I heard his words, I walked out: "What the hell is going on?" Why aren't you engaged? "This is completely different from my previous life!

Liao Qiang looked at me and said slowly: "I... I found that there were a lot of things I couldn't explain with her, and it was very unpleasant, so I decided that I would not be engaged to her, and I was going to work in the city. ”

My mom and I asked, "Why?" ”

"Her family wants too many things, talked about it several times, every time I told her father, he was going to increase a lot, and scolded me and my mother, I am not a person in their eyes, just a money-making machine, I discussed with my mother, or make money first, as for the object, wait for me to have money and slowly look for it."

I didn't speak, Zheng Shusheng didn't look down on Liao Qiang, if he didn't have a lot of money, he would never let his daughter marry him.

At this time, my mother and Liao Qiang had already started to chat, and it turned out that Zheng Sisi's engagement requirements were the most high-end: fifty yuan in cash, two sets of clothes for each of her parents, Zheng Sisi himself was two clothes for the four seasons, plus a Shanghai brand watch, a bicycle, and a sewing machine, these are the same requirements as in the previous life.

But the difference is that in his previous life, Liao Qiang borrowed a lot of money and bought all these things, but in this life, he turned out to be sober and refused her request.

Liao Qiang said a little weakly: "I said, either it's the same as the people in the village, plus a little bit, Du Sanzhuang is still from the city, and getting engaged to He Xiang is just two clothes and a watch, she is so open-mouthed, who can afford it?" My family is not very rich. Do you have to repay the money you borrowed? We can't just because we want to marry her, our family has to sell the house and land, and go out to raise money. My mother's health is not good, and I don't want her to worry about it. ”

Mom frowned and said, "And then?" Won't she say yes? ”

"Hehe, not only did he not agree, but he also went to my house to make trouble, my mother came to say good things and persuaded her, but she was pushed to the ground by Zheng Sisi, and now her waist still hurts! This daughter-in-law has not passed the door to make such a fuss, if she really marries home, I guess my mother will be bullied to death, how did she suddenly become like this! ”

I said in my heart, Zheng Sisi was like this. Because there is no shield for her without me, her true colors are easier to debunk. Liao Qiang is also a filial person, I am afraid that it will not be tolerated.

He smiled bitterly: "After this incident, I also figured it out, I don't have money to marry any daughter-in-law." ”

Mom sighed: "I think you are just two of you." Let's talk about it, maybe it will be fine. ”

"Don't talk about it, I'll go to the city tomorrow to work, people like me are not qualified to start a family now, let's work first."

I didn't speak, Liao Qiang's character I know, doing things is a tendon, and I will never regret what I have set, what I say is what I say, and persuasion is useless.

Mom said, "Then you and Zheng Sisi's family have made it clear?" ”

Liao Qiang shook his head and said, "I only told her, but she felt that it was a threat to me." He also said that if I didn't send things over early tomorrow morning, he would want me to look good. ”

"This won't work, what if it gets big? You've got to inform them, right? ”

"I told my sister-in-law Osmanthus and asked them to pass on a message from each family, and they don't use it."

A few black lines crossed my face, who is not good, you go to her! This matter will be uproared, and there will never be any possibility of reconciliation with you Zheng Sisi.

Liao Qiang said: "Nizi, I came to say goodbye to you, it was your words that day that woke me up." As an outsider, you can care about me and worry about the danger of me entering the mountain, but she is my target, what else is she doing besides spending money and forcing me to earn money? ”

As soon as I heard it, I cursed in my heart, what does this mean? If this spreads, I must think that I instigated the two of you, and I can't afford this crime!

Mom has already spoken: "My girl has absolutely no other meaning, she just hopes that the two of you are well, because you are the object of Zheng Sisi, who doesn't want friends to live well?" What you say makes people hear, and you will only misunderstand our girl. ”

"Don't worry, auntie, I just said a word from the bottom of my heart, and I didn't say it to outsiders, and she kept urging me to go into the mountains to chop wood and send my salary back to her, and I didn't let me send it to my mother for a penny, I'm so disappointed!"

I said, "Anyway, I didn't meet you tonight, and I don't know what you said. ”

Liao Qiang nodded: "I understand what you say, I'm gone, take care." Oh, there's something at the door, it's a New Year's gift from me, just as a thank you gift for making clothes, don't refuse me. Take it again when I'm gone, I'll go back. He didn't wait for me to say anything to my mother, and hurried away.

Mom waited until he was far away before she opened the door, and took out a bag from the door, and she came in with it.

"It's heavy, what's it?"

I took it and took it to the house and opened it to see, it was a lunch box of stewed pheasant, and another small cloth bag of pine nuts and pecans, with a note on the bag, I picked it up and looked at it, it was Liao Qiang's clumsy handwriting: Nizi, thank you for your concern, I got these things from the mountains, don't dislike it, it's my New Year's gift to you.

Mom saw these things and sighed: "Why did he send you this?" ”

"I think it's probably because I'm disappointed in Zheng Sisi."

Mom plugged the door shut, and I got on the kang before saying, "This matter must not be known by Zheng Sisi." Otherwise, we won't be able to explain it clearly. ”

"Hmm. I know. "I put the note in the furnace and burned it, and prepared to go back to bed, since she was not engaged, and I didn't have to worry about sending her money. Zheng Sisi has always been a proud princess, but now that she is about to get engaged, her fiancé has run away, and she doesn't know what it will become. Thinking of this, I vaguely have some worries in my heart, you must know that Zheng Shusheng has never suffered a loss, and for the sake of his daughter's reputation, I don't know what he will do.

As for the pine nuts and pecans, I want to sell them for some money, and the stewed meat will be left frozen outside.

I tossed and turned until it was almost dawn, and I was woken up by the sound of a person talking from behind.

Several women discussed as they walked: "Where did Liao Qiang go?" ”

"Who knows, this table is ready, and the chicken is stewed in the pot, but people can't come, so they went to Liao Qiang's house, and his mother told him that Liao Qiang was not at home at all, and he didn't know where to go. Isn't this just a joke? ”

"Hey, Zheng Sisi can't cry to death, she is the only daughter of the village chief, not to mention how much she loves, she actually encountered such a thing!"

She was already making a fuss in the room when we left, and thought she might as well go. Otherwise, if her father thinks that we are deliberately watching jokes, it will be time to find deliberate faults in the future, and we will not have a good time in the future. ”

They walked away with a lot of talking.

I couldn't sleep anymore, I got dressed, I went to wash my face, and my heart was still at a loss, how could this be different from my previous life? How did Liao Qiang change his mind? He likes Zheng Sisi so much, could it be that his mother forced him to die, or did he just come back after a few days of anger?

Mom came in with a smile at this time, hugged a bundle of firewood and said, "I warmed up the chicken I sent last night, and two corn tortillas." You don't have to cook any food, do you? ”

"Okay."

Mom put the small table on the table and put a plate of chili pickles and a bowl of fried sauce on it.

I went over there to wash my hands, and my mother came over and said, "Nizi, Mi said Liao Qiang... Is he ...... Like you? ”

I looked up at my mother, "What are you talking about, why do you think he will like me?" ”