Male marriage, female marriage, this is an inevitable step in the life of young men and women, and it is also the premise for human beings to reproduce and pass on incense, but there is a strange phenomenon of marrying but not marrying in Daqinzhuang, which is incredible.

In the past few years, the girls of marriageable age in Daqinzhuang have married one after another, but there is only a large number of older young men who have not been found. Could it be that these people are celibates, unwilling to talk to someone, unwilling to get married? Not! Since Chen Yuye, the object of Qin Lian'er, went to Lian'er's house to look at the door, and Qin Lian'er's family slapped their swollen faces and filled fat people to hide from the world and use bran instead of grain to reveal their stuffing, the girls in other villages shook their heads as soon as they heard the word "Da Qinzhuang", and no one was willing to marry Da Qinzhuang, which caused this situation, resulting in more and more older young people, and they almost became a "strengthening class". Naturally, there are posturing optimists among the members of these bachelors who believe that they can be free and free without getting married, but most people do not think so. Seeing that the partner who is about the same age as himself is married, he is intimate with his lover, talking and laughing, and his wife cares about her husband in every way, considerate, raising her eyebrows together, and hearing the babbling child shouting one by one, thinking that she is still alone, and the cold quilt in winter has to be cooked by herself, and there is no companion to talk to at night, melancholy, loneliness, and desolation naturally breed, but no one wants to say it. "Alas!" Sometimes their long sigh of affection is also very revealing. Sweet and sour, bitter and salty, only they know what they feel in their hearts.

The story begins here.

"Treasure Chain! Get up and eat. Chen Sujuan called her son to get up and eat.

"Eat." Qin Bao didn't open his eyes, said a word to his mother, turned his face and continued to sleep in.

"It's not summer now, I've eaten it with your dad and Yulian, and the remaining two bowls will cool faster in the pot." Chen Sujuan walked to the bed and pulled her son's quilt corner and said, "Come up, let's eat together, after eating, I will scrub and wash, I should work." The tone was full of love and concern.

"I'm not hungry! Eat yourselves. Work, work, what work! Can't earn three cents or two cents a day? I'm sleepy, I need to sleep! Bao Lian said impatiently to his mother, pulling the quilt and covering his head.

"This kid, you're sleepy! Since I slept last night until now, I don't do any work in the morning, it turns out that the work is worthless! You earn three cents and two cents a day, who can earn more? Who doesn't add up three cents and two cents? Can there be more without less? Chen Sujuan muttered and left. looked at her husband Qin Changgeng, meaning to say: Your son, you can go!

"Don't eat it, let's eat! Pour the leftover pig pot, and you can't eat it when you want to! Qin Changgeng said angrily and walked out of the back hall where his son slept.

I don't know if I heard it, and I didn't answer a word.

Qin Changgeng and his wife stood in the courtyard angrily.

"Brother! You also realize that the two old men come back from a morning of work and call you to eat, do you treat them like this? Yulian looked at her parents and got angry, and counted her brother down.

Bao Lian still pretended to be deaf and dumb, and did not say a word.

Qin Changgeng didn't eat this meal for a few bites, and went to work again with hunger.

Bao Lian is actually not completely asleep, he has heard everything that anyone said, why doesn't he know the Tao and doesn't understand the mood of his parents? "My parents are also nearly 60 people, and they work three times a day, and even young people feel tired, and they can't rest; The reason why they do this is that they want to share a little more work and food, earn a little more work and money, and make life easier for their families. For their own marriage, their parents are concerned about it, and they have introduced a few to themselves to relatives and friends. But everyone knows that Daqinzhuang is notoriously poor, and they don't agree, what is the best way to call Daddy? Parents can't repay their kindness to childbirth and upbringing, and they can't say that they are daughters-in-law, but they should also work hard and honor their parents. Thinking so, Bao Bolt quickly got up, and it was time to work again.

Qin Changgeng was angry with his son, and he also understood his son's mood, and knew that his son was depressed. Seeing that my son got up, worked, and ate again at noon, the anger in my heart disappeared early, and the family returned to normal life.

When she came back from work one afternoon, Chen Sujuan and her daughter washed their hands and were busy cooking dinner from one pot to the other. Qin Changgeng just lit a bag of cigarettes and smoked it, and Li Ergui, who often told people about matchmaking in Xili Jiazhuang, walked straight into the house and said, "Brother Chang Geng, I don't know if anyone has given you a family treasure to mention family affairs during this period of time?" ”

This Li Ergui and Qin Changgeng have been brothers for some time. mentioned above that Qin Changgeng is almost sixty years old, but how did Li Ergui become a year-old friend when he is less than forty? Li Ergui two brothers, a sixty or seventy-year-old lady borrowed from the east and west to borrow a daughter-in-law for Dagui, when it was Ergui's turn to get married, how could not borrow money, the marriage period was delayed again and again, after the most Li Ergui asked Qin Changgeng for help, Lao Qin borrowed money from relatives and friends everywhere in his own name, and sold his own grain and fed two pigs to help Ergui solve the immediate difficulties and marry his daughter-in-law. It wasn't until Er Gui added a second child that he returned the money to Qin Changgeng. Since then, you have come and gone, regardless of each other, and have become a good friend of you and me.

Qin Changgeng finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, and said while knocking the cigarette ash on the ground: "Bao Lian his second uncle, you can feel the situation of my team clearly without me saying it, since the incident at Brother Changhuai's house (referring to the substitution of chaff for grain), my team has become notorious outside, whose daughter can agree to come here?" Don't say that your sister-in-law and I are worried about the matter of the treasure chain, which family has such a big child who can't get married, and the father and mother can't eat or sleep! In the last two or three years, if you don't have a clue, once you pass 30, it will be even more difficult to start a family! He spoke with sadness. As a father, who doesn't want their children to be good? The reality is here, the ugliness cannot be concealed, the poor cannot be concealed, all appointments! ”

"Hey!" Qin Changgeng sighed, feeling sad.

"I want to open some, Brother Chang Geng. Don't worry about the matter of the treasure chain, you can't eat, you can't sleep, how can there be a flaming mountain that you can't get? It's not that I don't care about my nephew, but I haven't chosen a girl who is suitable for your family yet! Bao Lian is not ugly, my sister-in-law is so virtuous and wise, and when your eldest mother was alive, she really worked hard, who doesn't know what to do in our two villages? The same noodles can make several kinds of rice, and the tricks make the eldest lady satisfied and delicious; You are so capable, what are you not doing to cultivate Lazar? One acre of land is set at eighteen catties, and it is not allowed to exceed the disparity of two taels; In the future, you arrange to feed two pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese in exchange for change and gather the total money. It's just that the food is a little less, and it's not practical to develop it big. "Li Ergui persuaded Qin Changgeng." I try my best to think about your family and say a daughter-in-law for my nephew, so that you and your sister-in-law can marry your daughter-in-law as soon as possible and hold your grandson one day earlier! ”

"Well, I'm counting on you, big brother!" Qin Changgeng expressed his gratitude.

Qin Changgeng's mood improved slightly, and he was about to ask Li Ergui about the specific situation, but was interrupted by his wife's shout, "Bao Lian Dad, the vegetables are fried, you brothers should drink two cups." ”

"I know it!" Qin Changgeng agreed, and hurriedly cleaned up the table and prepared the wine utensils.

Li Ergui stood up and said, "No trouble!" If I have been out for so long and don't go back, your brother and daughter-in-law should be worried again. ”

"No! Your sister-in-law has already done it, and she can't leave if she eats deliciously. Don't you feel out of sight in doing so? Qin Changgeng took Li Ergui's hand and said, "Is it necessary for us brothers to be so polite?" ”

Chen Sujuan heard that Li Ergui was leaving, and also came over and said: "Your sister-in-law's cooking is not delicious, only your brother-in-law cooks it to your taste, isn't it?" ”

"Well, it's better to be respectful than to obey. For the sake of your sister-in-law, eat some of it, and go home and punish your younger siblings! ”

"Kneeling on the washboard! His aunt can't leave you for a while, punish you for sleeping! Chen Sujuan joked.

Qin Changgeng and his wife were busy serving wine and food.

"Bao Lian hasn't come back yet, let's eat it later." Li Ergui said.

"Leave him alone! As soon as I finished work every day, I went to play with stones, and I don't know when I will come back! Qin Changgeng poured two glasses of wine.

"Still killing chickens, is it necessary to spend money like this?" Li Ergui looked at a pot of fried chicken in the middle of the vegetarian dish and said to Chen Sujuan.

Qin Changgeng and Li Ergui raised their wine glasses together, "deep feelings, one sip is stuffy", drank them all, and let the vegetables be served.

"What's the cost of killing a chicken? Homegrown. You can bother to run errands and say that the family affairs of the treasure chain are done, let alone one, even ten or eight, I am willing to kill you to eat! Chen Sujuan said, "It's just that you don't put it in the back of your mind." ”

"No, don't worry!" Li Ergui said to Chen Sujuan, "I can't say nothing to my nephew's girl, you have to give me time to run more!" It's not like picking up dirt in the ground, reaching out and touching it. ”

"Come on! Let's eat ours, let's drink ours, don't listen to her nagging! Qin Changgeng waited for Li Ergui to pick up with a cup.

Li Ergui also raised his glass, and the two of them ate together.

"What you do to me, I know very well in my heart, I will treat me like my own son, and I will not let him beat a bachelor." Li Ergui said emotionally. Pour a full wine cup and raise it in front of Qin Changgeng, and say, "Brother, do it!" ”

Qin Changgeng put down the dried wine glass and poured it again, got up and arched his hands, and said to Li Ergui: "Brother, you often run outside, everyone knows the situation of anyone's family, and the marriage of Baohuan, brother will ask you!" ”

"Whoever says this, sit down." Li Ergui waved his hand to let Qin Changgeng, who was standing, sit down and speak, "Wine ······ I'm ······ I don't drink it, I eat the food, I will go back tomorrow to take a look at the villages, once there is a suitable one, I ······ I'll tell you right away. He said that he stood up and wanted to leave.

"Haven't eaten yet? How do you ······" Chen Sujuan said while stopping Li Ergui.

"Don't eat, keep it for me······ Wait until next time you come to eat without drinking! Li Ergui walked outside the door and said.

"Slow down!" Qin Changgeng sent Li Ergui to the gate.

"It's fine. Can you get drunk with this little wine? Li Ergui broke free of Qin Changgeng's hand and said, "Go back, sister-in-law is waiting for you!" ”

Qin Changgeng sent Li Ergui away, and he couldn't get up when he fell on the bed.