(Chapter 218)

Zang Ye said: "The love story of the past When I was a child, after winter dinner, my mother sat on the sole of the kang head, I lay next to me to write homework, the dim soybean oil light cast the mother's figure on the wall, the shadow is full, in this peaceful time, my mother likes to tell me those past events, every time my mother tells it, it is like revisiting it." Is it nostalgia or reluctance to cherish those unforgettable past events? I remember most vividly about my aunt's marriage.

My mother has many brothers and sisters, three aunts and three uncles. In that special era, under the influence of the theory of family composition, not to mention the uncles, even the aunts have reached the age of marriage, and no one has come to the door to propose marriage, and the girls are older one by one, and the grandfather is in a hurry, and he asks people everywhere. The first to Zhang Luo is the second aunt, the second aunt is not tall, big eyes, handsome and handsome, stocky, and a good worker. I heard that the boy on the blind date is as big as the second aunt, honest and upright. The matchmaker just spoke, and the grandfather promised again and again, okay, okay, okay. Grandma was unhappy and retorted, my daughter doesn't lack arms or legs, I'm afraid I won't be able to get married, what's wrong?

Just in case, I asked my mother to accompany her to the "mother-in-law's house".

As the matchmaker said, the boy was loyal and honest, his mother and second aunt were relieved, and then they exchanged relatives, the second aunt wrapped a pair of insoles, and the boy stuffed a red envelope for the second aunt, which was considered a dowry, and the family affair was settled.

After the mother and aunt had eaten, they laughed all the way home, and when they were far away, they heard someone shouting, and when they turned around, they saw the boy running after him, his face flushed and sweating. didn't say a word, came up and rummaged through the second aunt's pocket, took out the red envelope, opened it, counted it carefully, folded it, and stuffed it back into the second aunt's pocket, and then said sarcastically, the money is right. The second aunt was stunned for a moment, quit, wow cried, took out the red envelope and threw it at the boy's face, covered her face and ran away.

My mother told me that in fact, my uncle's family was also very sad at that time, so she borrowed 20 yuan from a neighbor to give her son a daughter-in-law. Because the money was borrowed, the boy calculated in his heart, it was more than 20 yuan, right? Compared with other families, there are also 15 yuan. So this question has been bothering this boy who later became my uncle's husband, and after a while, he wrapped twenty yuan, no, thinking about it, he took out a five-yuan ......, and his mother and second aunt hurriedly picked it up when they entered the door. When the mother was sent away after the busy work, the five-yuan one was missing, and the uncle-in-law panicked, which led to the previous scene. When my brother-in-law returned home, he found the money in his pocket again.

The second aunt finally married the boy, and the second aunt's reason is very simple, that baby is a good person to live. Sure enough, until now, the second aunt's family is living happily and well.

On this day, it rained a lot, and the supervisor did not come, and at lunchtime, the two of them found a secluded place to eat and chat, and the words went to the hot place, and suddenly, grandpa's friend blushed, took grandpa's hand, looked at grandpa, and whispered: Uncle, give our three women to our baby? Grandpa was stunned, his eyes widened, his mouth full of nests was blocked there, grandpa straightened his neck and continued, what do you say! You repeat! My friend was frightened, waved his hand again and again, even if I didn't say it, even if I didn't say it, he got up and was about to leave. Grandpa snatched his friend's hand, clenched it tightly, and cried with a whimper. When he had cried enough, his grandfather pulled his legs and ran home, and his grandfather said: Li Chunxiang, you remember, August 18 is a good day......

My aunt was born in the 60s, and when she reached the age of marriage, it was fashionable in society to fall in love freely, and my aunt was also in love.

Unexpectedly, my aunt's love affair was unprecedentedly opposed by my grandfather, and my grandfather even used strict family laws to hinder my aunt's love process, and my aunt also inherited my grandfather's fiery temperament, and she did not give in at all, so she strived accordingly. When I grew up, I knew that my aunt and uncle were not in the right household, and my aunt's ancestor was a foreigner who fled the famine and settled here in the early years. Such a marriage, grandpa felt that it was a humiliation. It seems that the re-education received by my grandfather is not profound, and he is too deeply poisoned by feudal and decadent ideas.

Grandpa is noisy and noisy, my aunt's love is still quietly and secretly, the whole family is hiding from my grandpa, my grandma even encouraged grandpa, go out to explore what distant relatives, the road is far away, it is inconvenient to travel, and when grandpa steps into the house again, the red happy words on the lintel are still red and dazzling, and my aunt has been married for several days.

In fact, now it seems that grandpa is still stained with the light of his aunt and enjoys the blessings of his aunt. My aunt's house is in the same village, the old man is old, and all the big and small things in the family fall on the shoulders of my little uncle, my grandfather is really strong, I didn't see him talking to my little uncle, I know that he is stubborn, and in his heart he has actually forgiven and accepted this little son-in-law. Because I once heard my grandfather say that this baby is as down-to-earth and capable as his father. When I was in my junior year, my grandfather passed away, and I heard people say that my little uncle cried the most when I mourned, because I was grateful to my grandfather for finally accepting him, or because I wanted to cry for his grievances for so many years.

In the countryside, there are a lot of jokes about marriage among the people, in fact, most of them are tragedies, the mother said that there is a girl in her distant relative's house, polio, lame, and there is only one girl in the family, she is too doting, and the boudoir girl can't even make a fire to cook.

At that time, it was too feudal to practice men and women to meet, and the man's family who came to inquire watched from afar and asked, which one is it? The matchmaker pointed and said: Lame. In the distance, two girls dressed in the same color were grinding beside him, and one was limping beside him; The other neatly swept the wheat in his hand, looking good-looking, and the man's family returned satisfied. On the day of the wedding, a limping girl walked out of the wedding sedan chair, and the boy was dumbfounded. Questioning, the matchmaker argued, I said it was lame, how could you listen to the one who was dusting wheat, who to blame? The matchmaker's words are afraid.

As for the marriage between my father and my mother, I heard that it was a change of relatives, my mother was 20 years old when she got married, and she was considered an older young man in the countryside, and my father was two years older than my mother, and he worked in the field, so he could only go home to visit relatives once a year and a half, and when my father went home again, my grandmother was already planning about the marriage of this little son. I heard that it was through my aunt marrying a distant relative of my grandfather's family, in exchange for my mother. Although my father and mother have never met and have been exchanged for kissing, my original marriage has no feelings at all, but the reality is that my father and mother have lived together through ups and downs for decades, and have never quarreled or blushed, as if they were married to heaven.

Last year, my father was seriously ill, and my mother worked day and night to take care of my father. Once, my father looked at my tired mother and said that it was nothing for him to walk alone, and the only one who couldn't let go was his mother. I heard my mother tell me this, I immediately burst into tears, yes, their life is so simple, their love is so plain, no love, no romance, stick to their life, and what they are reluctant to give up with each other is their eternal concern and interpretation of love.