The days of the Yun family, like Hsinchu after the rain, are rising, and the family conditions are gradually improving.

Cao'er's eldest aunt Yun Ling, eldest uncle Yun Gang, and third uncle Yun Jin have all reached the age of talking about marriage. The children's lifelong events are also the biggest concern of Cao'er's grandmother.

Especially the eldest aunt Yun Ling is twenty-nine, and almost all the girls in the village of the same age as her have in-laws, only she is still stubbornly staying in her mother's house, and she is not in a hurry to get married. Grandma Cao'er was very anxious, and asked people everywhere to talk to the matchmaker.

The matchmaker finally said that a young man from the village next door, three years younger than Yun Ling, looks calm and honest, can also bear hardships and stand hard work, after coming to the Yun family to see the eldest aunt, she also likes her, and she is very generous, as soon as she makes a move, she will give the two old people of the Yun family a big red envelope of 200 yuan each, give Yun Ling's brothers and the little sister Yun Xiu 100 yuan each, and Cao'er also has a red envelope of 100 yuan, which is collected by her grandmother for herself. At that time, 10,000 households were still a rare county, and this future Cao'er uncle could be regarded as a generous person among the generous.

Although the eldest aunt Yun Ling didn't like him very much at first, everyone in the family persuaded her that it was almost enough, and people looked honest and treated her well, so on, Yun Ling began to date him.

When the big girl and the young man fall in love, the most common thing to do is to ride a bicycle and go shopping. The woman sits behind the man, and what she does when she goes shopping is generally what clothes and shoes the woman likes, and the man buys them, and then the two go down to the restaurant to eat together and go to the photo studio to take two photos.

If the man is very generous to the woman in this process, that is, the man has a good attitude towards the woman and is willing to spend money, whether the woman is willing or not, as long as she accepts it, it is almost the same, if the woman is unwilling, her elders and brothers and sisters will definitely persuade her to accept. If it doesn't work out in the end, the woman's family will logically return the man's expenses in the blind date process to the man.

In Yunjia Village, this kind of matchmaker has always been followed. A matchmaker is a woman in her forties and fifties who specializes in matchmaking in the village. They usually collect information on single men and women from nearby villages. When people in the neighborhood come to their homes to ask for their children's relatives, they will look through the information of the children's family in hand, and they will also inquire about suitable candidates everywhere. As soon as they feel that it is appropriate, they visit the parents of both parties and explain the situation of the other party. If both parents agree, they arrange for the man to come to the woman's home for a meeting.

During the meeting, the elders of the woman's family or someone who can talk at home will be at home and accompany the woman to meet the man. In this way, both men and women are involved in the whole process from the time they are about to meet until they get married.

Even, to determine whether the two parties can organize a family, at a large level, the first thing is not the man and woman themselves, but the consideration of the elders of the family on both sides and the strength of the matchmaker.

Back then, Yunxin and Ming and Qing were also introduced to each other, but the introducer was not a professional matchmaker, but a middleman who both knew each other, and it happened to be love at first sight, so they naturally and smoothly came together. It's just that this situation is really rare in Yunjia Village at that time.

Many people come together to form a family, and there are some unavoidable reasons. For example, Grandma Cao'er was introduced to Lao Yuntou by the matchmaker and combined, because at that time, Grandma Cao'er was abused as a child daughter-in-law in someone else's house and was desperate, and it happened that Lao Yuntou could give food to redeem herself from the family, so she followed him.

Yun Ling really felt dissatisfied with the young man in front of her, the family was poor, and the people seemed to be wooden.

Probably the girls who could survive until twenty-nine in the village at that time and did not marry were all picky and individual. But after all, twenty-nine, for a rural girl in the eighties, is an older age, and if she doesn't get married, it will be even more difficult to find her in-law's family, and if she can't find her in-law's family, then Yun Ling's life will be over. Gossip aside, just talk about how to live in the future? Besides, it is Yun Ling herself, although she is picky, she has never thought of saying that she will not marry or have children, she just wants to find someone she likes.

Therefore, after the persuasion of the parents in the family, the elder brother Yunxin and the younger brother Yungang Yunjin also persuaded many times. Yun Ling also took into account that her age really couldn't be delayed, and the young man didn't dislike that he was three years older than him, and said that the female junior was holding the gold brick, and Yun Ling slowly accepted him.

In less than half a year, under the urging and operation of the parents of both parties, Cao'er's eldest aunt Yunling got married.

Before getting married, the man gave Yun Ling a Phoenix brand women's bicycle, and Yun Ling left it to her little sister Yun Xiu.

Yun Ling, as the eldest aunt, also sent an inflatable plastic elk to her eldest niece Cao'er before she got married. But Yun Ling said it was a horse before she told her niece, and after Cao'er got it, she said it was a pink deer, and her aunt also said it was a horse, and this confusion was not resolved until Cao'er became an adult, but in any case, it was Cao'er's first big toy that needed to be held except for balloons, grass roots and small puppets.

On the day of the wedding, the Yun family set up a banquet in the village hall next to their living room. The relatives of the family, the neighbors, are all here. Those who come to the wedding will give red envelopes according to their own situation.

At noon, it was a table of fried rice noodles with cabbage, eggs, shredded meat, and a large basin.

In the evening, it is a sumptuous feast, with Cao'er's favorite fish head, duck head, chicken head, chicken wing tips, chicken and duck paws - these dietary hobbies were originally Cao'er's grandmother's, and without exception passed on to Cao'er's inseparable granddaughter.

However, what made Cao'er most curious was that the eldest aunt Yun Ling had been wearing a red headscarf since lunch, standing quietly in a large dustpan made of bamboo strips, in the open space under the steps of the village hall, away from the noisy guests. In the open space on both sides outside the big dustpan, a child, a man and a woman, each holding a small round dustpan.

Originally, the little girl with a small round dustpan wanted to be Cao'er, but Cao'er's life was hard, the eight characters were not very good, and her mother went early, and her grandmother was reluctant to let her granddaughter stand at that stop to greet her relatives, worried that she was too young to stand it, so she changed to a child from someone else's family who didn't know Cao'er. Although Cao'er was curious, she just watched from a distance in the hall, and didn't dare to go over and ask what was going on.

The wedding party also came after noon, and the groom took the groomsmen. The young people on the Yun family's side made a fuss, and the groom took the young man who greeted him and scattered some small red envelopes and coins through a few gates, and then entered the door of the main house of the Yun family's living room, and the groom gave gifts and gifts, and they all stayed for lunch.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, a blue greeting truck with big red words came to Tuhuang Road behind the backyard of the Yun family. The groom met the elders of the Yun family and the brothers and sisters of Yun Ling's aunt and uncle's family again, and then gave Yun Ling's parents two old people red envelopes, and released the kissing gift, so Yun Xin carried the eldest sister Yun Ling on his back and got into the car to pick up the relatives. The younger brothers Yun Gang, Yun Jin, Yun Yi and the younger sister Yun Xiu all followed the car to get married.

Cao'er also wanted to go, but her grandmother didn't go, and she didn't let her granddaughter go, saying that there was no one to take care of her, but in fact, she was not at ease when she wasn't with her granddaughter, so Cao'er stayed at home honestly and didn't go.

At this time, Cao'er was not worried that her aunt would not know the way home if she married far away. She had already heard her grandmother and the adults in the family discussing the matter of returning to the door with her aunt Yunling after the wedding, and she knew that in two days, she would see the eldest aunt who brought her uncle back to the door again, and there would be a lot of delicious food.

Sure enough, when she returned to the door, Cao'er secretly ran to find her eldest aunt Yun Ling, saying that she wanted to go to her aunt's new home to see, and Yun Ling told her mother that she wanted to take her eldest niece and little sister Yunxiu back to live for a few more days. Although Grandma Cao'er was not very willing, looking at Cao'er's longing eyes, coupled with Yun Ling's strong emphasis on letting Yunxiu and Cao'er sleep with her after arriving, she would definitely take good care of Cao'er, so she agreed.

In the eldest aunt's house, Cao'er was most impressed by the fact that the aunt's family did not eat in a fine porcelain bowl with red flowers and green leaves on a white background, but in a stoneware round bowl with black and brown stripes on an earthy yellow background to serve vegetables, especially daylily, which was the first fresh dish that Cao'er ate, although it was not much better than the chili eggplant cabbage made by her grandmother at home, but because of the freshness, she also ate two more spoons of rice, which made the two aunts and the eldest uncle laugh.

Back at home, Cao'er has always been obsessed with the aunt's quaint stoneware plate and stoneware bowl with brown patterns and the daylily that looks integrated in the stoneware bowl - it turns out that the bowls, chopsticks, and meals of different families are also different. This small difference is a big surprise for the little grass.