CHAPTER XXI
On the second day of the first lunar month, the daughters who usually get married have to go back to their parents' homes, Chen Wenyue picked their sisters and prepared to go to their grandmother's house, but Honglin was a little worried, I don't know if their grandmother will embarrass their mother today.
As soon as they arrived at the hillside of their grandmother, they saw Chen Wenke and them standing there waiting, and when they saw them, they immediately ran over, and he took the basket from Chen Wenyue's shoulder.
"How did you guys get out?" Chen Wenyue asked.
"Daddy told us to come and see." Chen Wenke said.
"I don't want to be at home and watch my big brother point his fingers." Chen Wenfei said with a frown.
Listening to her words, Chen Wenyue was silent, but Honglin's heart was chuckled, uncle won't be a demon again.
When they returned to their grandmother's house, this time grandma's face was very normal, and the grandfather was killing a chicken, and when he saw them coming, he was very happy, "Honglin, wait for you to eat chicken legs." ”
"Thank you, grandpa." Honglin went home obediently.
Chen Wenxiang came over and hugged Hongmei, Honglin took a look, the aunt was wearing an old dress, but the uncle was wearing a brand-new suit, not doing anything, and still holding a handful of sunflower seeds in his hand, sometimes nagging a few words on the side.
Grandma won't call the eldest uncle when she has something, she will only command the second uncle and the aunt, and the second uncle will only do it seriously, no one will say why not to ask the eldest brother to do it, it seems that they are used to it.
After eating, grandma called Chen Wenyue aside, and Honglin secretly followed, she wanted to hear what grandma had to say.
"Mom, what's the matter?" Chen Wenyue asked.
"Before the Chinese New Year, your aunt Ju said that there is a man in their village, and they happen to have a younger sister in their family, so you can consider changing relatives, that man is the same age as your brother, and his sister is about the same as you, I heard that you were married and had two children, and they were still unwilling, but then I heard that you opened a small shop in the district before agreeing to see each other, what do you think?" Grandma said.
Chen Wenyue listened, didn't speak for a long time, Honglin saw her hand clenched into a fist tightly, and only raised her head after a while, "I've told you many times, I won't marry, at least now I won't marry." ”
"You dead girl, do you want to be widowed for a lifetime if you don't get married? You can support those two girls yourself? When my grandmother heard this, she became angry.
"Mom, am I your own child? Have you ever thought about me? You are thinking about your eldest brother, I have been stupid for him once, and I will not marry for him again. Chen Wenyue said with red eyes.
"He is your eldest brother, you are raised by me, and I will marry you if I tell you to marry." Grandma's unreasonable way.
"You asked me to marry me, I am already married, now I am no longer from the Chen family, I am from the Su family, I will never listen to you if I want to marry now." Chen Wenyue was very sad and stood up with her grandmother.
"Your wings are stiff, if you dare not listen to me, I will kill you." Grandma was about to hit her, but Honglin hurriedly ran over and pulled her grandfather over.
"What are you doing again, old woman?" As soon as my grandfather walked to the door, he saw that his grandmother was going to beat someone, and scolded angrily.
"What do I do, what can I do, it's not for your son, I'll tell you Chen Wenyue, I'll bring them over to see each other in a few days, and you have to agree if you don't agree." Grandma put down her hand and said angrily.
"Okay, don't marry your son if he can't marry a cousin, let my sister help him like this." Grandpa was furious, and he pulled his mother aside and said.
"Dad, how can you say that, if I can't marry a cousin, you won't have a grandson." The uncle peeled the melon seeds, leaned against the door frame of the gate and said unhurriedly, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
"You can't marry, I still have two sons, and it's better to have no grandchildren than for you to always harm my daughter, I warn you, and the old woman, if I hear you talk about changing relatives again, I'll kick you out." Grandpa said angrily.
Grandpa has never been so angry, in the past, grandma generally had the final say in family affairs, but I didn't expect him to be so angry today, grandma didn't dare to make a noise.
Chen Wenyue silently packed up her things and prepared to go home, she couldn't stay here at all, her grandmother looked at her like an enemy, Chen Wenxiao looked at her like she owed him a debt, Chen Wenke and they had been surrounding her mother, but they also knew that they couldn't help much.
"Dad, I'm leaving, you can come to the district when you have time." Chen Wenyue only said hello to her grandfather and was ready to leave.
"Hey, you're here to deliver this?" When my grandmother saw that she was about to leave, she said hurriedly.
Chen Wenyue carried a few catties of meat, a bottle of wine, and two packets of orange cakes, this gift is already very heavy in this era, but I didn't expect my grandmother to be dissatisfied.
"I won't be back on your birthday, these twenty yuan will be your birthday gift." Mom took out two big unity sheets, showed them to Chen Wenfei and motioned him to his grandmother, and after speaking, she didn't look at her grandmother again and was ready to leave.
"Eldest sister, I'll send you." Chen Wenke hurriedly picked up the basket and walked outside.
Grandma wanted to say something, but when she saw that her grandfather glared at her, she had to take the twenty yuan and turn around and go in.
"Eldest sister, do you think my mother will really bring that person over, I heard that the man's legs are a little abnormal." Chen Wenke's face was worried.
When Honglin heard this, he was even more angry, he didn't expect that his grandmother would become more and more excessive, and she would regret it in the future.
"Don't worry, I'm not married, and she can't do anything to me, you can take your little brother out in a few days, and go to his school to go through the formalities by the way." Chen Wenyue said in a thick nasal voice.
"Well, if my mother still forces you, I'll give her the money, and four hundred yuan should be able to marry a daughter-in-law." Chen Wenke said.
"No, then she will think that your money will come easily, and the big brother will definitely instruct her to always ask you for it." Chen Wenyue disagreed, "Don't worry about me, if I don't want to, she can't force me, and my household registration book is no longer at home, she has no choice." ”
"You go back, you don't have to send it." She saw that she had come far away, so she said.
"It's okay, I don't want to go back so early, the twenty yuan you gave to my mother just now must have been in the hands of my eldest brother now, and I don't know what he thinks, he obviously knows how to do carpentry work, and he doesn't go to work, he stays at home every day, or he just runs here and there with those people." Chen Wenke said complainingly.
Chen Wenyue didn't speak this time, she was already used to it, but her grandmother's partiality still hurt her.
After returning from her grandmother's house, Chen Wenyue didn't go to other relatives' houses, and only took Honglin and them to her aunt's house once, the aunt's house is still like in her previous life, her uncle is an honest, loyal and hard-working man, and her aunt is still higher than him, but the conditions at home are okay, and several cousins are also very friendly to Honglin, and when they see them coming, they give them all their sugar to eat.
"How's your business? I heard Haiqiang talk about your sister-in-law, you can ignore them and live your own life. The aunt hugged Hongmei and whispered to Chen Wenyue.
"Well, anyway, our house has also collapsed, and Tian only has one point that I have already given to Haiqiang, so if I can't go back, I won't go back." Chen Wenyue was obviously not in a very good mood and said.
I think I have a sister-in-law back at home, and my mother and eldest brother are so virtuous, I didn't have a good New Year at all, no one thought about her at all, a woman with two children, how difficult it is in such an era, as a relative, I don't help to say, but I am bullied again and again, and no one can stand it.
"Wen Yue, if you can, you better find a man, find an honest and reliable person to live a good life." The aunt said with red eyes.
"Eldest sister, I'm really scared, you said that such a big person, because of such a trivial matter, he chose such a point of no return, I can't figure it out now." Chen Wenyue covered her face and said.
Hearing her words, the aunt also burst into tears and couldn't bear to say any more.
Honglin originally wanted to find a chance to see if he could find his stepfather in his previous life, but now it seems that it will be a few days before he can do it, and his mother has obviously not come out of the shadow of his father's death.
Coming back from her aunt's house, Chen Wenyue was busy with the business in the store, probably to see that her business was good, and she also opened one not far from them, she was a little anxious, and when Chen Wenke came over, she said to him, "When you go to the county seat this time, see if there are any novel products with good quality and reasonable prices, you see that the things on the other side are similar to us, I don't know if it will have an impact." “
Chen Wenke listened to it, listened to her words, and brought a lot of fresh things back when he came back from the county seat, a small diary for a few cents, and some cheap clothes, although they were cheap, the style and quality were actually good.
At this time, there were no clothing stores in the district, and there were only those that were opened by the tailors themselves, and some people bought cloth from the supply and marketing cooperatives and put it there to make it.
There are also some shoes, not the kind of liberation shoes, most of them only have liberation shoes and a kind of white cloth shoes, but Chen Wenke came back, but they are a bit like sneakers, especially the children's colors are quite a lot, and the price is not bad and expensive.
"The goods purchased this time are good, and I want to sell them well." Chen Wenyue said with great satisfaction, and took out a pale red peach blossom doll dress and gave it to Honglin.
Honglin saw it, I didn't think it was very good-looking, anyway, it looked better than many clothes on the street outside, she cherished it and put it away, in her previous life, she didn't remember what clothes she had eaten at all, she only knew that they were all old.
Sure enough, as Chen Wenyue said, the new arrivals are selling very well, especially those clothes and shoes, the children are about to start school, and generally those who are allowed at home will buy one or two.
"Sister-in-law, this batch of goods is very easy to sell, liberal arts is really business material, he can get these." Su Haiqiang had to come back a day earlier than usual.
"Well, it's easy to sell, tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, you remember to come over later." Chen Wenyue admonished.
Su Haiqiang nodded: "Aren't you going back tomorrow?" He asked cautiously.
"No, wait until you take Honglin in and let her go to the master's house for the Lantern Festival." Chen Wenyue shook her head, she didn't want to go back and listen to those gossip.
Su Honglin was riding his uncle's bicycle and was about to return to Yun Village, but on the way, he saw a flower drum playing, "Uncle, stop, I want to see it." ”
Playing the flower drum is one of the most lively programs in the first month of the year, that is, those boys and girls who can sing the flower drum play, and a few people who play the drum form a team, from one family to another, usually from the beginning of the first month, until the fifteenth, in her previous life, she remembered that in order to see this, she chased from this village to another village.
Su Haiqiang had no choice but to stop the car and put Honglin on his shoulder, so that Honglin could see more clearly, the two protagonists had already begun to sing and dance, and many people were watching, especially children, Honglin didn't dance well when he looked at the person, and he didn't sing well, but it brought them too much joy in that era when there was no entertainment.
"Alright." When those people finished singing, and the host sent the red envelope and was about to go to another house, Su Haiqiang asked.
"Alright, let's go." Honglin nodded, as she has watched all TV and movies, this is really nothing, but that kind of atmosphere is very contagious, happy and satisfied.
"Honglin, you're here, just now your master was still saying that he was going to pick you up." Shi Niang opened the door and saw that it was Honglin, and she was very happy.
This time, only the master and the master were left in the house, and it was very quiet, "Master, where is the senior brother?" ”
"They've gone back to the county seat and they're already at work." Honglin listened and nodded.