Chapter 32: The Farce of the Wang Family
The next night, Aunt Du had a dream.
She dreamed that a villain was sitting in her ear and chatting with her, saying that Zhang Xiaoying was a noble person in the family, and whether she could live a good life in the future would depend on Zhang Xiaoying.
also said that there was something buried under the eaves of the house, which was buried by her husband Zhang Hong. Let her quickly dig it out and give it to Zhang Xiaoqing for personal use.
Aunt Du woke up, sweating all over, thinking back to the dream she had last night, the more she thought about it, the more strange she felt.
She got up suspiciously, and called Zhang Xiaoqing up, "Go, dig treasure with me." ”
Zhang Xiaoqing wondered, "What treasure?" ”
Aunt Du said: "I don't know, it seems to be a silver dollar buried by your father." ”
She said, "I seemed to dream of your father last night. ”
"And what did my dad say?"
Aunt Du said what she heard last night, and then the two of them ran to the eaves to dig for treasures in disbelief.
As a result, a few shovels went down, and a box was really dug up, and ten silver dollars were neatly stacked inside.
Seeing the silver dollar, Aunt Du sat on the ground and began to cry, crying and shouting: "Old man, you who killed a thousand knives, you didn't give us the money earlier, so we suffered for so many years in vain." ”
Zhang Xiaoqing said: "Mother, don't cry, turn around and let people hear it." ”
Aunt Du stopped crying and took the ten silver dollars to the house and hid them.
When Zhang Xiaoying got up to go to school in the morning and had just put on her clothes, she saw Aunt Du come in with a bowl of poached eggs with sugar. She had a smile on her face, "Get up, come, and eat this bowl of poached eggs." ”
Zhang Xiaoying didn't know why her mother seemed to have changed her face, and asked, "Mother, what's wrong with you?" ”
Aunt Du said: "I dreamed of your father last night, and he blamed me for treating you badly." ”
She said and sighed: "Nizi, don't hate your mother, I was bad before, I shouldn't have ignored you, I won't be in the future, I will treat you well." She sighed deeply, "Otherwise, my mother will not have the face to see your father in the future." ”
Zhang Xiaoying didn't feel good in her heart, she thought that her mother suddenly realized that she was better, but she just couldn't explain it to her father.
She dug up the treasure, but her unscrupulous intentions were blind.
A good land father, she was actually regarded as her father by her mother.
She laughed so hard that she fell, and after her mother left, she said to the unscrupulous: "I originally wanted to be the landlord of the land and let people worship you, but I was blind." ”
Unscrupulous snorted, "So what? Anyway, I'll be your dad again. You can just call me dad in the future. ”
Zhang Xiaoying smacked him, "Phew, you're not my father." ”
Although he was her grandfather at his age, his grandfather didn't ask questions, but this image is really not respectable.
Unscrupulous muttered, "The ghost wants to be your father." ”
The family has money, and Aunt Du feels that her waist is much stronger when she walks, so she asked her brother Du Yonghe to sell ten silver dollars for one hundred and fifty yuan.
At the beginning, Zhang Xiaoying asked Xue Wei to sell ten silver dollars, and sold them for two hundred yuan, and later Xue Wei gave her ten more yuan, which was two hundred and ten yuan.
asked his uncle Du Yonghe to sell it, but it was fifty yuan less.
Zhang Xiaoying felt uncomfortable when she heard this, although she didn't know who her uncle sold to, it can be seen that the middle uncle made a profit.
Because it involved her uncle, she didn't have much to say, and seeing Aunt Du happily holding more than a dozen banknotes, she just gave up.
This is done, and the next step is to ask for marriage.
However, things are not as smooth as imagined, and Aunt Du has money, so she can't look down on Wang Cuilan of the Wang family.
She thought that she could marry a younger girl for a hundred yuan, so why did she have to marry an older leftover girl?
She thought in her heart that she wanted to find a young and beautiful girl for Zhang Xiaoqing, and asked people everywhere to find out which girl in the village was suitable.
However, Zhang Xiaoqing disagreed, he fell in love with Wang Cuilan's ability to bear hardships and stand hard work, and he was not interested in Aunt Du's desire to marry a young and beautiful woman.
He said: "Mother, we don't have much money in our family, we will have to live in the future, Cuilan is so capable, marrying her can give you a hand, the family can support it inside and out, what's the use of marrying that kind of beautiful face?" ”
Aunt Du couldn't resist him, so she had to let Mrs. Li go to the Wang family to propose marriage.
But the Wang family is also a little too shameless, originally said that it was one hundred and fifty yuan, but now that the Zhang family can come up with one hundred and fifty yuan, they immediately raised the price, and they had to pay two hundred yuan.
Aunt Du was so angry that she turned her face when she was in the Wang family, and scolded angrily: "You are simply not a person, even if you sell your daughter, you don't sell it like this, this is called shameless." ”
Aunt Wang was also angry, "My own daughter, I can sell it if I want to, it has nothing to do with you." ”
Both of them were angry and quarreled at home.
Seeing that the scolding became more and more powerful, Wang Cuilan suddenly stood up and said to Aunt Du: "Auntie, I don't want a penny, I don't want a penny of dowry, I'll go with you." ”
When Aunt Wang saw it, she was anxious, "You are talking nonsense, you are my daughter, I say what I tell you, just do it." ”
Wang Cuilan sneered, "Mother, you are wrong, now it is not the old society, parents can't arrange marriages, I say I want to marry, I don't want a bride price." ”
Aunt Wang was so angry that she pointed at her nose and couldn't say a word.
This time, Wang Cuilan is also iron-hearted, and she is really chilled to see her mother's attitude towards her during this time.
In her mother's eyes, she is just a working girl, and she doesn't treat herself as a girl at all. Otherwise, she wouldn't have to marry her to her brother's friend, the old man who was a bad gambler and beat his wife.
She is not a fool, she has long understood in her heart that if her marriage with Zhang Xiaoqing is yellow this time, it may not be what will happen in the future.
For her own sake, she would rather not follow Zhang Xiaoqing with a penny of dowry than sell two hundred yuan to the old man. What's more, if she sells it, she won't be able to get any of it.
Aunt Wang was a little dumbfounded when she saw that she was determined and was about to follow Aunt Du at that time.
If she was really told to leave like this, the Wang family's face would be lost.
Now that she doesn't let the arranged marriage happen, if she really forces Wang Cuilan to be anxious, she would rather die than marry, and she has no way at all.
Come on, one hundred and five dollars is one hundred and fifty dollars.
She gritted her teeth and hurriedly said good things to Aunt Du, "Old sister, I was just joking, so let's do it, one hundred and five is one hundred and five, and we will finalize it." ”
Aunt Du didn't want to pick up this stubble at all, and said in her heart, you say one hundred and five, one hundred and five? You weren't happy to give one hundred and fifteen just now, and I'm not happy now.
She smiled coldly, "Sister of the Wang family, that's not what you said, it was our sincerity to give the bride price, you are so picky and thin, it is inevitably too inhumane, your daughter is willing to marry without a bride price, what do you mean by one hundred and fifty yuan now?" ”
Aunt Wang's face was not good-looking, but she had to persuade with a smile: "I was confused just now, otherwise, how about we have one hundred and forty yuan?" ”
Aunt Du shook her head, "No." ”
Aunt Wang hated it in her heart, and said in her heart that the girls she raised had become white-eyed wolves, and now she was helping outsiders.
What can I do?
She thought for a moment, "Otherwise, one hundred and thirty yuan, this can't be less." ”
Aunt Du thought to herself, "Come on", and she can't force people too hard.
This bargaining is not good for Cuilan, if something happens, it will not be easy for the in-laws to do it in the future.
She nodded, "Okay, so be it, one hundred and thirty dowry." The children are not young, so let's have a happy event next month. ”
Wang Cuilan was also afraid of long nights and dreams, so she hurriedly said: "Okay, next month." ”
Aunt Wang has this hatred in her heart, this daughter is really raised for nothing, and she hates to marry so much, it doesn't look like it.
But things have come to this point, and it's a little out of her control.
She had no choice but to say: "Okay, the wedding date is easy to say, and the time will be over." ”
Aunt Du happily went home to prepare for the marriage, she was going to marry Qiao Chunhua, but the family was almost ready. This time it's just a different person, and the basics are pretty much the same.
Mrs. Li came forward and took back all the dowries she bought for Qiao Chunhua's wedding, which was basically worth thirty yuan.
They paid a bride price of eighty yuan, and finally took back thirty yuan, although they were not satisfied, but there was nothing they could do.
Most of them are quilts, quilts, pillows, and a few pieces of fabric, which can be used directly.
Later, Zhang Xiaoqing made the decision and gave all these things to Wang Cuilan in private, so that she could use them as a dowry. Especially those few pieces of fabric, which can be cut into clothes to wear, and her dowry is saved.
Wang Cuilan is very grateful to him, and her heart is also sweet, she feels that she has married the right person, and someone loves her in this life, and she must have a good life.
Under the control of everyone, the marriage went smoothly, and the two sides passed the ceremony, and then the banquet was set up.
On the right day, Zhang Xiaoqing deliberately found a donkey cart and tied a big red silk on the donkey's head, which was very festive.
Early in the morning, a firecracker was set off at the door, and the donkey cart was driven to pick up the bride.
The wedding was quite grand, and many people in the village were invited to eat, and the last time the half of the pig was returned, Aunt Du bought half of it. Pork stewed vermicelli, steamed white flour buns, one bowl per person, really full of oil.
Most of the people in the village are not wealthy, and they can generally eat dumplings two or three times a year, and this pork vermicelli can only be eaten during the New Year and marriage.
Because you can't eat, other people's families can't eat, and the big guys are poor, so they can't show anything.
Zhang Xiaoqing consciously married a good daughter-in-law, and her heart was as beautiful as anything, and she had a smile on her face all day long.
They ate meat at home, and Zhang Xiaoying also served a bowl to Wuliang and placed it on the incense table.
On today's happy day, I also lit two red candles next to the incense case, and also lit a few more incense sticks for him.
When Wuliang came back, he saw the two big red candles, and he really couldn't laugh or cry.