On April 12, at about 11 o'clock in the morning, Yan Qing took the address that Tingting gave her when she left.

Tingting's hometown is in the countryside of Jiangyuan, which is quite far from the city, and Yan Qing changed a few times and sat for nearly three hours to get here.

The countryside is different from the city, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and each household is far apart, so Yan Qing got off the bus 100 meters away from his house. Although Tingting has not come out yet, with the firecrackers that have just been set off on the ground and the boiling voices, Yan Qing concluded that the house in front of her is Tingting's hometown.

It looks pretty good on the outside, a small two-story building, although it looks very old. From top to bottom, Yan Qing felt strange, it stands to reason that marrying a daughter in the countryside should be the most lively and festive day, and the most important day, why is there not even a big red 'happy' word on this door.

"Speak clearly." Tingting came out of the wall and saw her at a glance.

Yan Qing greeted him with a smile and said congratulations in his mouth.

"Come in, I didn't expect you to arrive so early for lunch?" As the two walked towards the house, Tingting asked with concern.

"Didn't eat."

"Okay, you put your things upstairs first, and then have dinner with my other two friends."

When I walked into the room, I saw some busy figures, but these people did not have happy smiles on their faces, and a table of people played cards in the hall, and they just turned a blind eye to her arrival.

followed Tingting upstairs, the stairwell was very small and narrow, and Yan Qing looked carefully at his feet. When she got upstairs and saw her other two friends, Yan Qing hurriedly swept around, there were three rooms upstairs, one of which was locked, and the other room was stacked with some miscellaneous items, except for her two friends, there was no one else in the room. Yan Qing's mouth opened wide, it didn't look like a happy event in this room at all.

Walking into Tingting's room, the two girls raised their heads and glanced at her, greeted them politely, they nodded, and then lowered their heads and played with their mobile phones.

"I'll have something to do later, you can stay upstairs with them when you're done eating." Tingting arranged.

Yan Qing turned her head to look around, her room had nothing but a bed, a cabinet and a table, and even the few things she had looked very old. There is no so-called big red quilt and big red pillow on the bed, Yan Qing is full of joy, seeing this situation, her mood is a little low, but she doesn't want to ask anything.

One girl sits on the bed, and the other sits on the only bench.

The smile on Tingting's face when she first saw her had long since disappeared, and she said with some embarrassment: "Let's go down to eat with me first, and then move the bench up when we come up later." ”

Yan Qing put down his package and went downstairs with Tingting, the other two girls had already eaten.

In the stairwell, Yan Qing asked, "Why didn't I see your parents, I'll go and say hello to them." ”

Tingting glanced back at her, stopped and said, "My family's situation is more complicated......" She opened her mouth, and just as Yanqing was about to listen carefully, she suddenly turned her head and strode downstairs.

Yanqing sat at the table, Tingting was busy, she didn't know any of the people at the table, although she could hear the dialect they spoke clearly, but she still hurriedly ate a few bites of food and went upstairs.

The two girls looked about the same age as Tingting, and they were dressed quite plainly, one was playing a game, and the other was watching a video. There was no place to sit, and just after eating, Yan Qing stood by the window for a while.

Tingting came up and saw Yan Qing standing, so she remembered that there was no place to sit in the room, so she hurriedly moved a chair and asked Yan Qing to sit.

"Tomorrow morning, you and the two of them will go to see off their relatives, I have something to do now, go out for a while." Tingting said.

"Okay." Yan Qing replied absent-mindedly.

The three of them sat here and no one cared, and the other two girls were playing games with relish, but Yan Qing felt uncomfortable, where is this marriage, I knew that it was such a scene, Yan Qing felt that she shouldn't come to this trip, she just wanted to leave now, just wanted to leave, and quickly leave this place where there was no warmth and no temperature, which made her feel cold and terrifying. But just now I promised Tingting to send the bride to the man's house tomorrow, how will I spend the time between now and tomorrow morning?

At this time, the two girls were playing games, and Yan Qing felt bored, so she took off her clothes and climbed into bed to sleep until night. But when I turned over in bed, I couldn't sleep, and I was affected by today's bad atmosphere, and some bad things and some strange thoughts always popped up in my head. For example, what if Ruo Ling was really deceived by Du Yu? Is Taufei really good, does the scar forget the pain? I didn't write an IOU at the beginning, what if she didn't pay it back? Could it be true that Takato would no longer love others because of the spirit? My grandmother has not been in good health recently, and my mother is even more anxious, how can I quickly earn the first pot of gold and pay back to my uncle after graduation?

Thinking about it, Yan Qing only felt annoyed, and wanted to stop and fall asleep immediately, but he couldn't sleep at all, and many people and many things would always pop up unnaturally in his mind.

She got up with a grunt, and since she couldn't sleep, she didn't want to sleep.

"Are you Tingting's classmates?" Yan Qing asked the two little girls.

The two looked at each other, and one of them smiled and said, "We grew up playing with her." She pointed to the fatter little girl.

"Then your family lives around here, too." Yan Qing asked further.

"My family used to live on the ridge in front of me, and then I went to work with my parents, and she lived in the next village."

Finally someone can speak, and I'm so happy to say it. "You should be about the same age as Tingting, only 16 or 7 years old, right?"

"The two of us are a year older than her, and she's the youngest."

"But she was the first to get married." The taller and fatter girl spoke.

"What about you? Are you studying or working? ”

"I've been working for a few years, and she's been working for a year."

"Why did you all come out to work at such a young age? So what do you all do? ”

"I've been in the factory."

Yan Qing looked at the little girl in front of him, and felt a little sad, at such an age like a flower, but he put his youth on the assembly line, what about the future? With no skills and no knowledge, she was not destined to be on the assembly line, she wanted to ask another girl what she did, but she thought to herself, forget it, what can she do? At most, it's just a better place than a factory, right? There are so many people in China, who can she sympathize with, and her own situation is now, in addition to reading more books, seeing more people and the world, the future is unknown.

The topic returned to Tingting, and Yan Qing asked, "Do you know Tingting's parents?" I didn't even see it when I went down just now, and I wanted to say hello to them. ”

The two looked at each other, and the thin girl said, "I think you'd better not go." ”

"How?"

"His parents have long since divorced, don't you know?"

"Divorce? It's normal to divorce now, why don't I see that there seems to be no happy event in her family. Yan Qing swept the room and said, "I don't even have the word 'happy'." ”

The fat girl looked at the door and lowered her voice and said: "Her parents divorced when she was very young, she grew up with her father, and later his father found her a stepmother, and the stepmother gave birth to a son, and the stepmother treated her badly, everything in the family is the final word of the stepmother, and her father only listens to her stepmother." ”

Yan Qing was stunned for a moment, and said: "No matter what, if you are divorced, you are also your own daughter, how can you bear to watch her marry like this." ”

"Her father didn't agree to this family affair in the first place, but Tingting was pregnant, so she had no choice but to agree."

"Since you agreed, you can do it for her, you don't look like a married family at all."

"Tingting got married so early, how could her stepmother be happy, in the past two years, Tingting's part-time work money was handed over to the family except for 500 yuan for her own meal, and in the end, it was not all taken by her stepmother, they wanted Tingting to work for a few more years and get more money for her son. If it weren't for seeing Tingting pregnant, she would never have agreed. ”

In this way, Tingting's life at home is not easy, maybe getting married so early is also a way to get rid of the family, she no longer feels that Tingting's choice is right or wrong, but suddenly feels that everyone's choice has her purpose or reason......

"What about her own mother?" Yan Qing asked again.

"My mother has remarried a long time ago, and her mother was kind to her at that time, let her go with her mother, but she didn't go by herself, she had to follow his father."

"Then her stepmother treated her badly later, why didn't she go to her own mother?"

"My mother married far away, and later gave birth to a child, how can I still have the energy to care about her."

Yan Qing sighed: "If she followed her mother, maybe it would be different." ”

The chubby girl said: "This is fate, a person's life, girls always have to get married, Tingting is also a good thing that she married early and left this family early." ”

"Have you seen the bridegroom? What about the groom's conditions? ”

"It's okay, it's a lot older than Tingting, the conditions are average, and it's also rural."

"The man

How much bride price was given, and how much dowry did her family give? Her father's marriage to his daughter is too simple. ”

"It seems that I heard that the man came with 50,000 yuan, and his father returned 30,000 yuan."

"Including the man's 50,000?"

"Not included. Her stepmother asked the man's family for a 100,000 bride price, but she didn't agree. ”

"I've heard it's 120,000." The chubby girl corrected.

Suddenly firecrackers were set off outside, a puff of smoke billowed out, and the sound of explosions interrupted their conversation, Yan Qing covered his ears tightly, still a little frightened by the strong air current.

The firecrackers were set off for a while, and then there was a commotion downstairs below, and the three of them hurriedly stood on the window and watched the movement below.

A woman in a purple coat with small curly hair was crying, and several people were holding her.

"It's her own mother here." The skinny girl pointed to the woman.

(End of chapter)