The soldier hesitated, but moved his body to Juanzi. Juanzi asked in a friendly and enthusiastic manner, "How big?" ”

The little soldier smiled shyly and said, "Sixteen." ”

Juanzi smiled and said, "Two miles younger than me, call me sister." ”

The little soldier was shy, but reluctantly called, "Sister."

So, Juanzi's eyebrows fluttered happily. It's the first time I've grown so big and I've been called my sister.

He hurriedly took out a handful of melon seeds from his coat pocket and put them into the hands of the little soldier. With a white and tender face, he smiled like a flower and said, "Who is the big man who came with Camp Chief Xu?" ”

Xiao Bing was a little flustered, reached out and pulled out the melon seed skin in his mouth, and said, "That's our company commander." ”

Juanzi looked at Xiao Bing suspiciously and said, "What is he doing at my house?" ”

The little soldier smiled mysteriously at her and said, "I'm here to propose." ”

Juanzi took two steps back in shock, and said in a lost voice: "Propose? To whom do you propose? ”

The sudden change in Juanzi's mood made Xiaobing panic and didn't know what to do. He hesitated for a moment, and muttered, "I heard that it was to propose marriage to the daughter of the shopkeeper Yao." ”

Hearing this, Juanzi's head "boomed", as if someone had hit her from the back of the head, she staggered two steps, and almost fainted in anger.

She calmed down for a moment, smiled sadly at the soldier, and turned back to the house weakly.

Shopkeeper Yao heard that Camp Commander Xu led the Han and came to propose marriage. I was so anxious that I jumped up from my chair all at once. The thin head, shaking like a rattle, said in a loud voice: "No! Not! Juanzi is still young. ”

Seeing this, Peaches twisted the waist of the water snake, came to the shopkeeper Yao, and said angrily: "Yo, Juanzi is not small, and it is eighteen years old." If you change people, you will get married a long time ago. ”

Shopkeeper Yao waved his hand at her in disgust and said, "Go!" Go! Go! Juanzi's matter, you don't participate in it. ”

Peaches was choked for a moment, and her face suddenly cooled. His nose snorted coldly, and he said in a sour voice, "What's the matter?" My aunt, can't I worry about my daughter's lifelong affairs? ”

Shopkeeper Yao had an iron face, waved at her irritably, and didn't bother to pay attention to her anymore.

Seeing this, Camp Chief Xu smiled hypocritically at Shopkeeper Yao and said, "Can everything be discussed, Shopkeeper Yao can't refuse his words." ”

Shopkeeper Yao, as if he had eaten gunpowder, stared at a pair of small eyes that were flaming, and shouted: "Everything can be discussed, just don't beat my daughter's idea!" ”

Camp Commander Xu patiently said: "When the girl is older, she has to get married, right?" Company Commander Wang, but he was a combat hero who saved my life. Don't look at him as a company commander now, when I am promoted to regiment commander, he will be the battalion commander. There is a battalion commander as a son-in-law, on the road, who doesn't give you a few thin noodles for Shopkeeper Yao? ”

Shopkeeper Yao rolled his eyes, and muttered with an ugly face: "Today, even if you say the sky, you won't be able to do it." If you want to beat Juanzi's idea, you should kill me first. ”

Battalion Commander Xu seemed to be on fire, and he adjusted his army hat irritably. With a gloomy face, he said, "Look at you! The more you talk, the more you don't get on the road! We are here to propose, not bandits.

Besides, it's not for you to ask for your girl for nothing. I have prepared a dowry of 1,000 yuan for you, and two wagons with leather wheels. If you give me a word, it will be delivered in the next two days. ”

When Shopkeeper Yao heard this, his little eyes rolled wildly. The barely bulging body gradually softened. Dry fingers, constantly twisting a few goatees. The bruised lips squirmed, but they didn't say anything, and the color on their faces faded.

At this time, he had been sitting there, silent, like a clay statue, speaking in a thick Shandong accent, and said: "Shopkeeper Yao, I am a rough person, I can't speak." If your family follows me, I will provide for her like a mother, and I will never make her suffer hardships. ”

Shopkeeper Yao, only then did he take a closer look at Dahan. Not only is the person five big and three thick, but the face is dark, and there is a scar on the left eyebrow bone, which is like a slitaway locust, biting there.

Shopkeeper Yao squinted his eyes for a while, and said coldly, "How old are you?" ”

Dahan hurriedly said: "Twenty-eight. ”

Shopkeeper Yao pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "Have you ever made a family?" ”

Dahan hurriedly said, "No, no. ran around fighting all day long, but he didn't get married. ”

Shopkeeper Yao squinted at the big man, snorted and said, "Then don't you run around now?" ”

Without waiting for the big man to speak, Battalion Commander Xu immediately said: "Now, although Ma Zhongying is blocked in southern Xinjiang, the situation in northern Xinjiang is not optimistic. In order to maintain the security and stability of Dihua, our team is likely to be stationed here for a long time. ”

Shopkeeper Yao stood up tremblingly. With a hand on his back, he walked slowly back and forth on the ground. He was still muttering words that he couldn't even hear himself.

Suddenly, Shopkeeper Yao stopped. Little eyes looked at Camp Commander Xu shiningly, and asked, "Do you have two trailer carts with horses?" ”

Battalion Commander Xu glanced at him contemptuously and said, "Don't worry, it's all matched." ”

Shopkeeper Yao, as if he had suddenly come to his senses, sat back in his chair, and said, "This family affair is not negotiable. But there is an ugly saying, which must be said earlier. ”

Camp Commander Xu waved his hand happily and said, "Say it." ”

Shopkeeper Yao flashed his small eyes, looked very shrewd, and said: "At the end of the year, if the troops are pulled, I will return the dowry, you leave, and we will clear the two; If the troops do not leave at the end of the year, you will carry a sedan chair and marry someone. ”

Camp Commander Xu hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, slapped the table, and said, "Okay!" That's it! The bride price will be delivered three days later. ”

sent away Camp Chief Xu and his entourage, and Yao was in charge, but he scratched his ears and cheeks rarely

。 Neither standing, nor sitting.

He knows his baby girl too well, and when he grows so big, he hasn't been her master a few times. If she doesn't agree, she'll have to sit on wax.

In fact, Shopkeeper Yao knew in his heart that if he didn't let go. According to the battalion commander's bad temperament, he may want to make his personal wealth empty.

But teaching his daughter to marry a soldier who lives today and doesn't know if he can meet tomorrow really makes him unwilling in his heart.

At the moment, there is nothing else to do, just ask the troops, hurry up and go to war. It's better to let the shells kill even the people with the surname Xu and never come back.

Shopkeeper Yao was sighing and rubbing his hands around, and the door squeaked open. Juanzi darkened her face and said in a muffled voice, "Come to my house." ”

After that, there was no one. Shopkeeper Yao knew that Juanzi might have smelled the smell, and this was to ask him about his sin.

There was no way, this pot of water was going to be boiled sooner or later, so I had to bite the bullet and enter the Juanzi House.

Shopkeeper Yao, with his head drooping, just stepped into the house. Juanzi couldn't wait to close the door, blocked his father's thin body at the door, and said angrily: "What is the surname Xu doing with that person?" ”

Shopkeeper Yao looked embarrassed, the muscles on his face twitched a few times, and his thin lips squirmed, but he didn't make a sound. Juanzi stepped forward, almost stuck to her father's face, and asked, "Are they here to propose?" ”

Shopkeeper Yao nodded lightly with a weak heart. Juanzi then asked, "You promise?" ”

Shopkeeper Yao glanced at her timidly and hung his head in frustration.

Juanzi's body, as if bitten by a snake, suddenly picked up and stomped her foot, and roared hoarsely: "Why are you so confused! A person surnamed Xu, tossing you too much, and getting another soldier, I won't marry if I die! ”

As she spoke, Juanzi turned around in despair, rushed to the kang in the inner room, and cried "woo".

Shopkeeper Yao leaned to the edge of the kang with a look of pity, and said: "The girl's family will marry sooner or later, I look at the young man, although he looks old." But it can be seen that he is a sincere person.

Besides, people don't ask for people in vain, and they pay a thousand yuan of ocean and two trailer cars. ”

When Juanzi heard this, she rolled over. With an angry face, he shouted, "Money! Money! Money! All you have in your heart is money. For this little bride price, I will sell my daughter! ”

When Shopkeeper Yao heard this, he also seemed to have a temperament. He shook his shallot-like goatee, stared at Juanzi with round eyes, and shouted, "You doll! When the words come into your mouth, why do they become ranciful? What can't you sell or not, you can't be raised for nothing, right?

Besides, shouldn't you let those guys target you? What spell do I have? ”

After a pause, he continued: "People are proposing marriages according to reason, if they come hard, what will you let me do?" It's not good, not to mention the emptiness of personal wealth, and the grudge, how can the days to come? ”

Juanzi couldn't say anything, and even cried and shouted: "I won't marry anything!" Unless I die! ”

Shopkeeper Yao was angry for a while, and the roots of his teeth were clucking. glanced at Juanzi helplessly, and then walked out of the house weakly.

Before going out, he cried and said in a mournful voice: "Don't die, let me die." ”

According to the usual experience, every time my father said something, as long as Juanzi was unwilling. Although her father said that he was tough, he couldn't resist her after all. The matter is also silent.

But this time, the situation seems to be a little bad - my father actually accepted the bride price.

At this time, I had to make Juanzi, who had always been domineering and domineering in front of her father, panicked so much that she had no master. After the giver left, Juanzi was furious and dragged her father into her house.

Before he could open his mouth, tears rolled down like two strings of broken jade beads. The kneecap, which has always been stubborn, knocked softly on the ground, choked and said sadly: "Dad, I really don't want to marry." ”

Juanzi has grown so big, and it is the first time that she has begged her father in this way.

Shopkeeper Yao's heart at this moment was also uncomfortable as if it had been torn apart by a wolf.

A sense of guilt-like guilt spread through his body and mind like a tidal wave. The thin body seems to be unable to withstand the impact of this wave for a while. After shaking it a few times, he sat crookedly beside Juanzi like a leaky sack.

Juanzi was still nervous for a while, sobbing slowly, telling her father about her displeasure and grievances.

The poignant voice seemed to say that if my mother was alive, I would not have suffered this experience.

At this moment, Shopkeeper Yao's heart is also churning with a similar resonance to Juanzi.

Since Juan Ziniang left, Shopkeeper Yao has loved and cared for his beloved daughter in every possible way. But whatever she wants, what she wants to do, he will do his best to meet it. What she didn't want to do, she never forced her to accept.

Not this time! This family affair involves the lives of their father and daughter, and it can't be caused by her temperament.

Shopkeeper Yao sat on the ground and coughed heartbreakingly for a while before slowly relieving himself.

With his dry hands, he gently stroked the braid that hung on Juanzi's shoulder. His voice trembled a little and said, "Baby, it's not that your father is ruthless and pushes you into the fire pit for a few dollars." I'm really right, we can't afford to mess with those guys. ”

Juanzi listened and wiped the tears from her face. His voice choked and said, "Then I'll simply marry someone and see who he marries." ”

Shopkeeper Yao's eyes lit up, and he asked suspiciously, "Who can you marry?" ”

Juanzi said as if confident: "I want to marry Xiangzi!" ”

Shopkeeper Yao listened, and the hand on Juanzi's body pulled back as if it had been stung by a wasp.

He shook his body backwards, and shouted anxiously and dissatisfiedly: "Nonsense! Xiangzi has no home and no mouth, what can he give us. Besides, the bride price is all collected, how can you explain it to others? Really, it's a shame for you. ”

Juanzi, her eyes looked at her father coldly, and a feeling of despair for family affection gradually overflowed her heart. She slowly stood up and silently entered the back room.

Since seeing that the Yao family received the bride price, Xiangzi's heart was like a lump of cold mud, and he couldn't breathe.

Although he can't be sure, Juanzi likes himself. But after all, I have been silently waiting for her for seven or eight years.

From the bottom of his heart, he is looking forward to Juanzi being able to marry a good family he likes and live a happy life.

But she is really going to get married, but Xiangzi is as uncomfortable as if she has been hollowed out by a wolf, and her strength is so weak that she seems to have drained her blood.