In the blink of an eye, Zhao Fugui's woman Liu Lanying has been dead for a few months, and the landlord's wife, who is often coquettish at the door of the Sanlitun store, will never be seen again.

Although Liu Lanying had a bad reputation when she was young, and she scratched her head and posed to provoke the energetic young people in Tunzi on weekdays, she has an interesting personality, never argues with others, and will not look down on anyone because of the money in her family.

Now that the people who watch the store in Sanlitun have been replaced by the old Zhao Fuxi, everyone always feels that something is missing in their hearts, like a landscape in Sanlitun is gone.

When Liu Lanying was alive, she made all the meals at home, and as soon as she left, the housework fell on Zhao Fugui.

Zhao Fugui was born a small landlord like Zhao Dahai, he has been used to eating and being lazy for many years, and when his family was good, he invited a few servants at home, and there were people who ate and drank and scattered, even if he went to the toilet, someone followed him with paper behind his buttocks, although his family had a lot of land, but Zhao Fugui had never worked in the field, let alone needed some technical cooking skills.

So in a few months, Zhao Dahai has lost a lot of weight, he was originally a pair of tricky ears, and he looks like a monkey after losing weight.

Zhao Dahai often complains in front of us that Zhao Fugui's stir-fry is unpalatable, either too salty or less salty, sometimes a meal to drink three or five bowls of water, Zhao Dahai's grandfather Zhao Fuxi has also been a lifelong landlord, since the death of his wife has been idle at home to recuperate, let him boil a soup OK, cooking work can not be done.

In this way, the three men in Zhao Fugui's family became three monks who had no water to drink, all of them were so hungry that their faces were yellow and thin, and they had nowhere to spend their money, so Zhao Fuxi urged Zhao Fugui to marry another daughter-in-law.

Zhao Fugui also hesitated in his heart, although the dead Liu Lanying misbehaved and was disloyal to him, but Liu Lanying listened to him for everything on weekdays, and he fell in love with Liu Lanying when he went to the kiln for the first time when he was a teenager, and finally married her, Liu Lanying has not embarrassed him for so many years, other people's daughters-in-law have long been yellow and thin at this age, and only his daughter-in-law charm still exists.

Now that Liu Lanying has only been dead for a few months, he will marry again, firstly, because he feels sorry for Liu Lanying, secondly, because he is afraid that the people in the village will gossip, and if he wants to marry, he must marry a young woman who can cook and take care of people, and his appearance is at least not worse than Liu Lanying.

Therefore, when his mother came to talk to the matchmaker, Zhao Fugui was calm on the surface but still very excited in his heart, especially when he said that Shen A-Niang was good-looking, good-natured and able to endure hardships, Zhao Fugui was overjoyed and smiled from ear to ear, and Zhao Dahai on the side heard that his mother and Zhao Fugui were talking about Shen A-Niang, and he was full of praise, and praised Shen A-Niang as a fairy.

The child speaks most sincerely, Zhao Fugui heard his son say this, and his heart was happy, so he decided to meet Shen A-Niang, and asked his mother to bring Shen A-Niang to the house as a guest to get to know him, if it is really as his mother said, this family matter can be decided.

However, Zhao Fuxi didn't agree with this family affair when he heard about it, he opposed Zhao Fugui marrying Liu Lanying because Liu Lanying was a dusty woman and lost her façade, and finally Zhao Fugui couldn't let Liu Lanying pass the door, Liu Lanying's reputation is not good, she is a person with a mother's family, in case he runs away with the family's money, he also has a place to chase, and knows who to settle accounts with. And Shen Aniang is a woman who fled from Henan, her brain was not bright before, not to mention whether there were any sequelae or anything, just say that she had a quarrel with Zhao Fugui in the future, and left with her luggage in a fit of anger, so where would his family find someone?

Zhao Fugui is a person who doesn't have much opinion, he can't help but hesitate when he hears Zhao Fuxi say this, these days are not good, it is not uncommon for daughters-in-law to run away, Shen A-Niang is a woman without a mother's family, if he runs away, he will be embarrassed.

But seeing that the three generations of his grandparents and grandchildren were hungry, he felt itchy in his heart, especially since he hadn't tasted femininity for a few months, listening to Zhao Fuxi chattering beside him, his heart was irritable, so he said to his mother: "Sister-in-law, you should bring her to show me." ”

Zhao Fugui agreed, and her mother contacted Shen A-Niang to let her prepare to meet, Shen A-Niang heard that her mother introduced her to the landlord, for fear that the other party would not be willing, or afraid that the landlord would be beaten if she married her, so she asked carefully, and Shen A-Niang was worried after learning the details, after all, she was a remarried woman, and it was too good to be unsuitable for finding conditions, but because of the matchmaker that her mother said, she could only agree to agree to meet.

A few days later, Shen A-Niang came to the house as promised, and her mother still had some rouge gouache that Liu Lanying had given her before, and helped Shen A-Niang simply wipe some on her face, and helped Shen A-Niang straighten out her hair that was blown by the wind in the future, and then went to the village to call Zhao Fugui.

Zhao Fugui heard her mother say that Shen A-Niang was coming, so she asked her why she didn't come to the house.

The mother said: "You don't want to think about whether a woman who goes to your house without passing your door wants to attract gossip, which is unreasonable." ”

Zhao Fugui thought about it, so he simply packed up and went to my house with his mother.

After her mother led Zhao Fugui home, Shen A-Niang heard the movement in the hall and hurriedly got up, and the two greeted each other after meeting, and their mother invited them to sit down. Although Zhao Dahai is a landlord, he often contacts people outside on weekdays, but he is like a jerky teenager in terms of feelings.

Mother can see that Zhao Fugui is very satisfied with Shen A-Niang, not to mention Shen A-Niang, first of all, Zhao Fugui is a landlord, and secondly, Zhao Fugui is not very old at all, I am afraid that he is two years younger than her, he looks white and fat, and he can't find fault with it at all.

At that time, almost all men were wearing tattered clothes, dirty, and there were few men who could eat enough, but Zhao Fugui was white and chubby, wearing unexpectedly good clothes, and her face didn't look sloppy, how could she still be half picky?

Seeing this, the mother helped the two sides to find some topics, so she let them talk alone in the house, and she went to the yard to wash the clothes.

After a while, his mother saw Zhao Fugui get up to say goodbye, so she led Zhao Fugui to the door, he wiped his wet hands and asked, "How is it, are you satisfied?" ”

Zhao Fugui nodded happily and said: "Satisfied, very satisfied, I really thank my sister-in-law for thinking about my good, sister-in-law, what do you think I should do next, do you propose marriage directly?" ”

Mother smiled and said: "You see that you are in a hurry, this man and woman are not in a hurry to get married, you also have to let me understand what is going on over there, I can see that she likes you, I am arranging for you to meet these days, and when you are fine, you will also go to the textile factory to find her out to eat to enhance the relationship, anyway, I don't want you to do the work in the field." ”

Zhao Fugui didn't think about it, and said: "Okay, then I'll ride to find her in the past two days, I also know the owner of Dahua Textile Factory, and I can't make much money working over there, if she marries, she will naturally not be able to work in the factory anymore, and she doesn't need to work in the field, just cook for me, and I will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life." ”

The mother chuckled, chatted with Zhao Fugui for a while before returning to the courtyard, and conveyed the news to Shen A-Niang, which laid the foundation for Shen A-Niang and Zhao Fugui's love.

Zhao Fugui had a very good impression of Shen A-Niang, according to the method that his mother said, he went to the textile factory in the town to find Shen A-Niang once, and went to Shen A-Niang almost every day in the following days, Zhao Fugui is a rich man and is willing to spend money, every time he goes, he carries a lot of things, and even the cigarettes stuffed into the old man of the doorman are Hademen that ordinary people can't afford to smoke.

At that time, Hademen was five yuan a pack, which was equivalent to five cages of xiaolongbaozi, which was almost a week's salary for the old man of the doorman, so every time the old man of the doorman saw Zhao Fugui come to the factory, he was closer than he saw his father.

Once Zhao Fugui bought a lot of things and gave them to Shen A-Niang, Shen A-Niang couldn't carry Zhao Fugui alone, so he carried things with Shen A-Niang to the women's dormitory, in that era, men were absolutely not allowed to enter the women's dormitory, and they had to be dealt with as hooliganism at every turn, but when Zhao Fugui went in, Shen A-Niang's roommates were warmly welcomed. Zhao Fugui gave things to Shen A-Niang's roommate one by one, and people took Zhao Fugui's benefits, so they naturally only picked up good words, and the relationship between the two was as sweet as honey for a while.

Shen A-Niang has been pursued like this, when she was in her hometown in Henan, the village was poor, and she couldn't eat enough and didn't have enough clothes all day long, and she had to suffer from the number of her husband's family, and her mother-in-law also said that she was looking for someone to tell her fortune, saying that her life was too hard to be kefu, and she didn't want to see her.

One of Shen A-Niang's roommates said that it would take several lifetimes of cultivation to meet such a good man, and Shen A-Niang also sighed in a low voice: "Yes, it takes a few lifetimes of blessings to meet such a good man as Zhao Fugui." ”

The matter of Zhao Fugui and Shen A-Niang quickly spread all over Sanlitun, and the old and young masters of Sanlitun all exploded, if it was in the past, a person whose wife had just died would definitely be scolded for having no conscience, but Shen A-Niang was different, her reputation was too good, and for her arrival, no one in Sanlitun showed xenophobia.

But there has never been a wall in the world that does not leak, and there is no secret that can be kept forever, just after Shen Fugui set a good day to marry Shen A-Niang, there was a rumor in the village that Shen A-Niang had been raped under the big stone bridge.

I don't know how the news came out, everyone said that Shen A-Niang was defiled, but no one said who it was, and no one admitted it, some people said it was a group of teenagers from Sanlitun, and some people said it was a group of laborers from other villages, in short, all kinds of rumors pointed to Shen A-Niang.

Zhao Fugui is also a figure with a head and a face in Qiantang Town, he is very face-saving, he doesn't like it when he hears these gossips, and he wants to ask Shen A-Niang a few times if he has really been like that but he didn't ask, and in those days, Shen A-Niang obviously felt Zhao Fugui's coldness, and her heart was extremely sad, so she could only tell her mother, crying so much that her eyes were red.

At that time, Shen A-Niang had resigned from the factory, she never thought that she was still immersed in sweetness one moment ago, and the next moment she would be pushed to the forefront and be accused and abused.

I don't know if Shen A-Niang still remembers what happened under the big stone bridge that night, except for Zhao Zhuang's group, this secret is only known to me, and the spreader of the rumor is Zhao Zhuang's group.

During that time, Shen A-Niang rented a dilapidated house in the town and lived in it temporarily, the factory could not go back, and Zhao Fugui also ignored her.

When people have a good reputation, everything is good, but once there is a little bit of no, it will be infinitely amplified by people, and the old accounts will be turned out, Shen A-Niang has been infamous for many days, and she doesn't dare to go to Sanlitun again, but fortunately, although Zhao Fugui wants to save face, he is also a soft-hearted person after all, and secretly went to the town to see Shen A-Niang once behind Zhao Fuxi's back.

And the marriage date of Zhao Fugui and Shen A-Niang was not mentioned again.

In those days, the children of Sanlitun went to bed early and got up early to go to school every day, and after school in the afternoon, they went to fish in groups in the shallow ditches around Sanlitun.

Once Jiang Sheng and Xiao Wu ran back not long after going out with a basin, both of them were soaked with water, Xiao Wu took off his clothes naked, not afraid of others at all, he said that there is a river on the north slope of Tunzi, the river is very shallow, I don't know which bastard dug a deep pit in the river, and there is a rope in the pit to entangle his feet, if Jiang Sheng didn't pull him out, he was afraid that he would be drowned.

Everyone thought that Xiao Wu was frightened and said crazy things, but what happened a few days later couldn't help but make Xiao Wu and Jiang Sheng frightened, and the more they thought about it, the more scared they became.