Chapter 10: The Four Pillars
The three men entered the courtyard.
"Mom." Meng Yao shouted.
"Auntie." The loaches also shouted.
"Hey, hey." She responded, rubbing the back of her hand against her cloudy eyes.
"This is the object of Dream Yao." Loach generously introduced.
"Hello auntie."
Erxi didn't know the customs here, what to call it decently, so he called "aunt", but after he spoke, because of the age difference, he also felt awkward. But Mengyao's mother is very generous, and she is not picky about strange titles.
They went into the East House together.
"It's time to get engaged, don't you call Mom?" Loaches coaxed aside.
The second joy was when he heard it, and the old face was flushed.
"Hurry up and call Mom." Loaches urge.
"Look at you, don't make a fuss." Mengyao's mother gave the second joy round.
"Mom."
Erxi suddenly shouted stupidly, and after shouting, the awkwardness caused a vacuum in the brain and completely fragmented.
"Huh? Hey, haha, look, this, come into the house. ”
Mengyao's mother is actually awkward, after all, it is too sudden. And this future uncle, who is the same age as himself, is more like a brother.
Seeing Mengyao's father, who was sick in bed all the year round, Erxi was very surprised, and he had never heard Loach and Mengyao mention it. It turned out that she also had a father who was sick in bed.
"I got a bad cold, and then I couldn't afford to get sick, I always shouted that I had a headache, and I couldn't work, but fortunately there were many boys in the family, so I didn't delay anything, otherwise, at the end of the year, I couldn't finish the farm work in the field alone." Mengyao's mother, for fear of being picked on by Tianjin Weilai's prospective aunt, hurriedly explained.
"We haven't eaten yet, so why don't we get something to eat?" The loache took the initiative to ask.
In fact, the loach has his own thoughts, he wants to be at the dinner table, so he will quickly finalize this matter, and if he takes the money, it will be safe.
Mengyao and his mother burned firewood in the outhouse. In less than half an hour, the flatbread was baked, and a plate of eggs and green onions was scrambled. After the meal, Loach took the 6,000 yuan that the prospective aunt had just given, and took advantage of the empty space outside the courtyard to go to Erxi, and handed it to Mengyao's mother.
Mengyao's mother, with a heavy amount of money, thought that she was suspected of selling her daughter to fulfill her son, she couldn't help but feel conflicted, mixed tastes, fierce ambition, and couldn't bear it after hesitation.
Hey, turn your head again.
glanced at the husband who was lying on the kang all the year round, describing the withered husband, and two sons of that age appeared, and there was fire under the lamp...... Somehow, my teary eyes began to blur. ruthless, she decisively collected the money, greeted her with a smile, and tried to greet Erxi.
Simply cut the flatbread into a lot of triangles, and finally, Mengyao gave them another scrambled egg and leek, and also stewed a large plate of cabbage vermicelli, because he was happy, he also put a few more large petals in the pot.
After the meal, in order not to disturb the rest of the father on the kang, the loach took away Erxi and withdrew in advance. Erxi went to Loach's house to rest, preparing to take Mengyao to the police station tomorrow to move her household registration, and then take her to buy four major wedding items.
After buying four large items, I also want to renovate the old house.
There are too many major events in the past six months, and he is a little caught off guard, this thing, if the fate of men and women arrives, it is natural to say that when the groom is the groom, he will be the groom. Ha! Erxi's mood is extremely complicated, he is in his forties, and the good things he has been looking forward to for so many years have finally come to pass, but he is actually restless and at a loss.
I don't know if this is a happy trouble?
In the middle of the night, the lights were blown out, Mengyao lay beside her mother, the mother talked by the moonlight, and the mother comforted her daughter and fell asleep unconsciously.
Early the next morning, before he could eat, Mengyao came knocking on the door.
She was still carrying the beige cloth bag, which contained the household registration book and the clam oil she had brought with her. Together with them, Loach rode a bulky bicycle and went straight to the household registration office of the township police station. After holding the brigade certification letter and explaining the situation, it was done in less than five minutes.
A few of them came out.
Erxi breathed a long sigh of relief, seeing that it was almost noon, and several people were hungry.
"I'll have a light meal." The second happiness is generous.
In the small restaurant, I hurriedly ate a cabbage risotto, plus a big bowl of tomato soup.
After the meal, Loach led them to Mengyao's house again, and the whole family had dinner together. Tomorrow Mengyao will go to Tianjin with Erxi, so tonight, my daughter will stay alone with her mother for a while.
The loach received the second joy early and returned to his home.
The next morning, Mengyao said goodbye to his mother and told his younger brothers to be obedient, so he simply backpacked to find the loach, followed the loach and Erxi, and got on the bus to Beijing.
Marriage was not meant to be delayed.
The four major marriages that Loach advised, Erxi had to go to Xidan, Beijing to buy them, so that he could be worthy of Mengyao, who was so many years younger than him, and so dignified and beautiful. Due to the large difference in age, Erxi will have a sense of indebtedness.
Bicycles, watches, sewing machines, and tweed coats must be good. But if these things are bought in Xidan, then the time-honored store of Tianjin Quanyechang Department Store will not buy anything? Isn't that a pity?
Let's just go to Tianjin Quanye Field to buy it.
The loach went to the construction site to continue working, Erxi led Mengyao, and after saying a word to Daxi, he took the long distance to Tianjin Quanye Field. It started at five o'clock in the morning and lasted until noon.
Here, the streets are full of old streets.
Big shopping malls, small alleys, Binjiang Road, flowers and greenery abound. In particular, the industry and department stores, like Wangfujing in Xidan, Beijing, are full of expensive good things. But if you buy the four major wedding items, you will definitely not go to the riverside road like a rural market.
Binjiang Road belongs to small merchants and hawkers, and the stalls that buy things do not prolong the year, and they are destined to be on the table. Marriage is once in a lifetime, and you must not make do with it. Make do, not only sorry for Mengyao, but also sorry for yourself.
The two of them went straight to the persuasion field.
First to the first floor, the first floor is full of watches, carefully selected, and finally eliminated the jewel flower, decided to buy the seagull, this watch cost more than a hundred.
Carrying a heavy kraft paper pocket, he walked upstairs, and the floor was full of women's clothes, and Mengyao immediately fell in love with a lychee-red tweed coat. This color is very jumpy, very generous, and the color is also very positive, it really looks like a ripe lychee fruit, so natural and bright and majestic.
Mengyao immediately fell in love with this candy color, and he couldn't move his feet, even if the price was 380 yuan.
When Erxi took out the money, he was really dizzy and his ears were buzzing, and he wondered in his heart, Ma Dan, this piece of clothing, just the money of the 3 pigs in the family?
No matter how much he thinks about it, he can't figure it out, but what can he do? Whether in the city or in the countryside, marrying a daughter-in-law has to go through this process, who makes it so old that it is easy to marry?
If a man does not marry a daughter-in-law and a woman does not marry, then this life is equivalent to being reincarnated as an adult, and it is incomplete no matter how you say it. Hey, so no matter the sword mountain and the sea of fire, just this pile, let's rush forward against the wind and rain.
Pulling out the money, crackling and falling off the flesh, the heart is gurgling and dripping blood, and after a while, the blood will flow like an infusion.
But Mengyao is very happy, such as entering the Crystal Palace, there are treasures in all directions.
As he passed the stairs, Yumehara saw a white beret. Such a hat is only available in the Star Pictorial, and she plays with it in the slender and pink jade hand, like a treasure.
The salesman held the hat in both hands, helped her put it diagonally on top of her head, lined her duck egg round cheeks, and helped to comb the half of the hair that leaked out of the side. Finally, hold up a mirror and look left and right......
Ah, not to mention how beautiful it is, and it is the sense of foreignness of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
can't resist Mengyao's expectant pure eyes, I really can't bear to sweep away the interest of the beauty, let alone my own wife. So, Erxi still paid 15 yuan to buy the beret woven with wool.
Hey, who made her love it?
Two of the four major items have been bought, as well as bicycles and sewing machines. These two items cost almost 700 yuan, and in the end, they had the ticket money left, and they said countless good things to persuade the salespeople of the business to reluctantly find a car for them to pull the goods and send them to the vicinity of the Central Garden Long-distance Bus Station.
After a few more tickets, I begged the bus driver to help carry them up. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon, the road was bumpy, the money was empty, Erxi was exhausted, and more importantly, the money was gone, and he was distressed and convulsed.
He kept making equal comparisons in his heart, here is Mengyao, the four major pieces, and there is the silver of white flowers, thinking about it, the balance in his heart weighs the weight, and the accumulation is superimposed, and he feels that it is worth it for a while, and he feels a loss for a while.
After 40 years of frugality, today's bloodletting is so bigged that it seems that the pain in the intestines has not been over, and he was stabbed in the heart by a round of sharp knives, gurgling and bleeding.
He and Mengyao begged the driver again, and they were tired to drive to the door. The driver saw that he was so old, and it was not easy to get a young wife, not to mention that this girl was trembling, so he readily agreed to the slightly unreasonable request.
At the door of the house, Erxi motioned to Mengyao to open the door, the fence door was easily opened, and they carried these newlywed items into the yard.
"Mom, Mom, I'm back!"
Listening to the shouting outside, the old mother had just turned off the light, so she fumbled and lit the kerosene lamp again. I thought I was dreaming, why did my son come back in the middle of the night? And just after the incense and prayer, how can it be so effective?
"Mind my mother, you have to call your mother too." He was a little worried, so he instructed in advance.
Mengyao flashed his big eyes and nodded obediently.
It took five or six minutes for the door of the outhouse to open, and a thin old woman was removed from inside.
This?
Meng Yao was stunned, how could this be the same age as his grandmother? The clothes, the dry face carved like wood grain.
"Mom." No matter what, Meng Yao still shouted crisply, regardless of how he sighed in his heart. Then he blushed and said nothing.
"This is the daughter-in-law." Erxi and the old woman explained.
"Huh?" When the old woman heard this, her eyes were shining and shining, staring at Meng Yao up and down, and she turned around three times left and three times to take a closer look.
Finally, he nodded repeatedly.
"It's good, it's like giving birth to a lot of sons. The legs are thick, the chest is fat, and there will be enough to eat in the future, and the baby will not be hungry at all, hehe, rest assured. ”
Erxi blushed when he heard this, "Mom, what are you talking nonsense?" Why are you so rogue? Then he turned his face and explained: "You just don't hear anything, my mother is old, and she always likes to talk nonsense." ”
Erxi was cautious, and he didn't pay for anything, for fear that Mengyao would be stimulated and his heart would have a knot.
The old woman didn't care about this, quickly turned around and went back to the house, and quickly took out a shabby checkered handkerchief, shook it off, and took out 20 yuan.
"Let's just give a greeting gift."
Meng Yao took the money, and he also smiled and said a few polite words.
This was to thank the Bodhisattva and God for their gifts, so the old woman twisted her half-big foot again and did not say hello, but added an extra stick of incense behind the door, and knelt on the ground, allowing the rubber band to be loosened and her gray hair scattered.
She folded her hands and prayed sincerely: "Great mercy and great compassion Guanyin Bodhisattva, God, bless the family with more imports, prosperous people, and dozens of more male babies, I promise to come here every day, and pray for you every minute and every second for peace and auspiciousness." ”