Chapter 2 Color Televisions
It's Saturday again, and it's about to be summer vacation, and that morning I just asked the leader for leave, and I was going to leave work early in the afternoon to go to Ye'er's house, but when I was about to get off work at noon, Ye'er actually came to my school. I was very excited, and of course I was surprised, how could Ye'er's mother agree to Ye'er coming to my house? Isn't she worried that Ye'er will come to my house often and will be a little bad for her daughter's reputation?。。。。。 What's going on? I asked Ye'er anxiously, did you encounter something?
After a false alarm, Ye'er said to me that her mother said that since we are going to get married on National Day, it will be up to Ye'er in the future, and you can come to my house to live permanently, but you must go home a week before the wedding. We hugged each other with joy and celebrated that this beautiful day had suddenly come so quickly.
Maybe it's really fate, Ye'er's parents gave birth to four children, three girls and one boy; My parents also had four children, but on the contrary, three boys and one girl. It is conceivable that in that long era, it was not easy for parents to have four children, but fortunately, we have grown up healthy without arms or legs.
In the evening, Ye Er and I discussed for a long time about our marriage, and finally, thank Ye Er for that! Ye'er said that she doesn't want anything, as long as I am good to her in my life, I will feel content.
You are my wife, you are the most important person in my life, of course I want to be good to you without regrets. I was overjoyed that I had met such a sensible girl. Unlike Ye'er's second sister and second brother-in-law, when they got married, they had a lot of trouble over the purchase of wedding items, and the two almost parted ways.
When I went to Ye'er's house for the second time, Ye'er's mother said a lot of bad things to Ye'er's second brother-in-law, and I was 10,000 dissatisfied and disgusted in my heart. At that time, I also wondered, why did Ye'er's mother say these things to me? Later, I thought about it, is Ye'er's mother reminding me in another way, telling me not to be that kind of person.
Ye'er's mother said that Ye'er's second brother-in-law is a rare lazy person in the world, and he is very selfish, even his parents don't want to take a penny from him, as long as it's money, he doesn't want to take it out again when he gets there. Once, because there was a person who bought his fish, he gave him five dimes less, not really giving him less five dimes, but because the person who bought the fish had just run out of money at that time, and there was no penny on him, Ye'er's second brother-in-law actually stopped the fishing work in his hand and walked more than ten miles directly to the house of the man who bought the fish, and asked for five dimes back, so he returned home with peace of mind, which is really wonderful!
When Ye'er's second sister and him got married, Ye'er's second brother-in-law insisted that the woman marry a color TV, but Ye'er's mother resolutely disagreed, and the marriage was almost pornological.
Regarding our marriage, when I went to Ye'er's house a few times ago, I also met this second brother-in-law, and once, he mysteriously pulled me to the hillside behind and said to me, you must let her family marry a color TV, otherwise, you will not agree. Her family should have some savings after so many years.
Yes, I later heard from them that Ye'er's two sisters got married, and Ye'er's mother didn't have a penny to marry; When Ye'er's brother got married, Ye'er's mother also bought Ye'er's brother's wedding according to the lowest standard, and finally made Ye'er's brother get married, and before the newlywed full moon, he found a house outside and moved out, and now it has been several years, Ye'er's brother still hasn't reconciled with his mother, no wonder, every time I go to Ye'er's house, I always can't see Ye'er's brother.
When I hear about life, nine times out of ten I am sad. How can you understand other people's lives? I was very unimpressed by the words of this second brother-in-law.
However, now that I think about it, I really just don't understand why color TVs in the early nineties of the last century were so expensive?! At that time, my monthly salary was about 300 yuan, but at that time, a color TV set cost at least about 3,000 yuan, that is to say, at that time, I didn't eat or drink, and I had to pay at least ten months of salary to be able to exchange for a color TV, which is equivalent to the current ten monthly wages of at least 100,000 yuan to buy a color TV.
Life was really difficult back then, but why were the prices of these household appliances so bizarrely expensive? To this day, I don't understand. Anyway, I know, we got married at that time, and the color TV was the highest equipment we had when we got married.
In the end, Ye'er's second brother-in-law said to me, if her family doesn't want to pay the full amount, then the two of you will each pay half, and you must also buy back the color TV. I know, maybe Ye'er's second brother-in-law wants to fulfill his own once lost wish in us.
However, since Ye'er's mother does not agree to marry, even if the two families buy a color TV in partnership, Ye'er's mother is not willing to pay a penny, and I can only rely on myself.
I didn't want to borrow money for a wedding, and I didn't want to borrow money to buy a beautiful color TV to decorate myself. I've had two or three classmates get married, and they all buy color televisions, but almost all of them borrow money to buy them, and they always get a little unpleasant from time to time after the marriage, and I don't want to do that.
When I got married, I insisted on not wanting a color TV, not because I didn't want it, but because my parents and I really didn't have any money, and Ye'er also agreed with me. I said to Ye'er, it's okay, what others have now, or in a few years, we will definitely have it, and we will have more and stronger things than them in the future!
When my mother saw that our wedding was going to be so simple, she said to me with tears in her eyes, I am really sorry for your two children, especially Ye'er, because my parents have raised our four children, and we have worked hard to earn money all year round, and if we can make ends meet, it will be a great joy, because most of the years are almost overspending, and at the end of the year, almost all of them borrow money for the New Year.
Yes, everyone had a hard time at that time. If it weren't for the meager salary I earned in the past few years of work to my parents to save up, I estimate that when I married Ye'er, my parents might not be able to take out a penny, and at that time, I would really have to borrow money to get married and repay the debts after marriage like some people.