Chapter 018: Must Be Married
I don't know what is added to the mush, it's bitter and sour, not to mention the color, it's very strange, but no one in the Shen family complained, they ate quickly, and Shen Mofei even saw Shen Aiguo's kid holding the bowl and licking it little by little, so he didn't have to wash the dishes anymore!
Her brows furrowed even tighter, even if she had never eaten such a strange thing in her previous life when she was in the slums, but in the morning, she was very hungry at this time, so she still couldn't bear to pour the slimy paste directly into her mouth, as for licking the bowl, she couldn't do it.
"Xiao Cui'er, can I help you lick the bowl?"
Seeing that she didn't mean to lick the bowl, Shen Xiaoyan immediately said something, and even she just informed her that she was afraid that a few brothers would grab it from her, so she directly snatched the bowl and licked it.
Shen Mofei looked at her licking the bowl vigorously, and Shen Aiguo's annoyed appearance that she didn't have time to lick it, and she was really convinced.
Such an unpalatable thing can still rush to lick the bowl, it seems that the conditions here are more difficult than she imagined, she has to find a way to improve her life, to tell the truth, Wang Zhaodi really doesn't like to eat pigs in this slimy! All the food is wasted!
Even if she didn't pay attention to appetite before, she couldn't stand this strange smell, and this family has been able to eat without changing their face for many years, and she really admires it.
A lunch meal passed like that.
Wang Zhaodi took Shen Xiaoyan to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, but Shen Mofei was stopped by Shen Lao Wu.
Shen Laowu's original name was Shen Qingyue, but no one has called him by his real name since their family fled to this place, and Shen Mofei was stopped at this time, also for her family affairs.
"Xiaocui, you also know that in our countryside at the age of sixteen or seventeen, you started talking about family affairs, the rules set by your grandfather before, the girls of our Shen family can only marry when they are eighteen years old, and now that you are also old, my father wants to ask you what you think, what is going on in the old Qi family?"
Shen Lao Wu smoked a dry cigarette with a serious expression.
He may not be a good father, but he is not as patriarchal as Wang Zhaodi, in this remote mountainous area where the life of his parents still retains the words of the matchmaker, it is good for him to be able to ask Shen Mofei his opinion.
But it also shows another meaning from the side.
Shen Mofei is eighteen this year, although he can work, but he can't keep it at home like this all the time, the female dolls of the same age are all married and have children, and he naturally doesn't want to keep people as old girls.
Compared with Wang Zhaodi, who has no maternal love for her daughter, Shen Lao Wu actually cares a lot about the girls in the family, otherwise Shen Xiaoling, who has been married in the past three years, will definitely not be so easy to go back to her parents' house to play the autumn breeze, and at this time, in the face of his daughter's future, he naturally has the same worries as ordinary fathers.
Otherwise, Wang Zhaodi wouldn't have beaten her up because she wanted to tell her daughter to an old lame man.
"Must be married?" Shen Mofei frowned and asked.
"You have to get married." Even if Shen Lao Wu has a little love for his daughter, he can't compete with the poverty of his family now.
He hurts his daughter, but he values his son more.
Shen Aiwen and Shen Aiwu, twin brothers, are both twenty years old this year, and no one has come to kiss each other, isn't it because his family is poor?
Although more than a dozen catties of grain can marry back a daughter-in-law, Shen Lao Wu is a person who would rather lack than abuse in his heart, and he also hopes to find a daughter from a good family with a good temper and virtuous ingredients to enter the door.
After the famine year, such a girl does not worry about marrying in the countryside, as long as the grain of which family produces more, the family will definitely choose which. Most of the more than a dozen catties of grain can be exchanged for some girls with bad ingredients or defective self-inflicted reputations, and Shen Lao Wu has not lacked the heart to marry such a girl as a daughter-in-law.
Back then, Shen Xiaoling's bride price was used to marry a daughter-in-law for her eldest son, and now the money for the second and third sons to marry a daughter-in-law naturally fell to Shen Mofei, but it is a pity that no good family was willing to marry Shen Xiaocui because of Shen Xiaocui's violent temper before, otherwise Wang Zhaodi would not want to marry her to the old lame.
Shen Mofei nodded, "I understand, I'll tell you the answer when I think about it." ”
She is not the real Shen Xiaocui, since she has no intention of supporting her parents, she naturally will not leave here in vain, let the Shen family support her, but stand on her own......
Shen Mofei remembered the discrimination and prejudice against women in this era, in the remote mountainous area of Lihuagou, there are no women who stand on their own at all, because their hukou stays at home when they are not married, and after they get married, they follow their husband's family, and there is no such thing as self-reliance.
Even a widow who has lost her husband either stays in her mother-in-law's house or finds someone else to remarry. Even with the slogan of 'women holding up half the sky' all day long, this society is still full of malice towards women.
Now that she has fallen so far, and her strength has not recovered, Shen Lao Wu and his family will never allow her to continue to stay at home, and they are still waiting to sell their daughter to their son to marry a daughter-in-law!
Shen Lao Wu can ask her what she thinks, instead of directly naming her old cripple as her husband, it is already his last bit of mercy to his daughter.
"Get back to me as soon as possible." Shen Lao Wu sighed lightly, not daring to look at his daughter's expression.
This is also a helpless thing, if you don't marry a daughter-in-law for your two sons, you will slowly recover in the future, and you will need more food if you want to marry a daughter-in-law and come back......
Shen Mofei returned to his room expressionlessly, thinking about what he should do in the future.
At this time, the old Qi family received bad news, Qi Jinhui, who was a soldier in the army, was almost hit by artillery fire when he went to the battlefield, although he was not in danger of life, but he was seriously injured because of shrapnel penetrating into the flesh.
The news sent back by the army was to let the old Qi family have a preparation, Qi Jinhui wanted to go back to his hometown to recuperate, and then report back to the army after his injuries were healed.
The people of the old Qi family almost didn't collapse after receiving this news, completely ignoring the words behind the troops, thinking that Qi Jinghui was going to be crippled! Otherwise, why would the troops, who usually find it difficult to ask for leave, actually release people back to recuperate from their injuries.
Qi's mother was about to cry blind because of this bad news, but her eldest daughter-in-law's brain turned quickly and discussed it with everyone.
"Milk, this second child is so seriously injured, won't we have to let us raise him when he comes back from being crippled in the future? I don't even think I can marry my daughter-in-law, what can I do! ”
Dong Yu pretended to be worried, but there was a sense of disgust in and out of his words, Qi Jinhui would be a cripple in the future.
The old Qi family hasn't been separated yet, and everyone is not happy to come back with a cripple to eat and drink for nothing.
Mother Qi cried again when she heard this, shouting that her youngest son was suffering and was disliked by his family, but she was really worried that her son would not be able to marry a daughter-in-law if he was crippled.