"Grandma! Mom! Uncle is back, uncle is back with aunt! A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old rushed into the house and excitedly reported the good news to his grandmother and mother. Then he turned back to pick up Wen Yuanfang and his wife, who had arrived at the entrance of the village.

"Fang is finally back? My dream for the past two days is that he has come home with his little daughter-in-law! Lou Xiangfu's cloudy eyes were full of tears.

"Uncle's letter said that he had arrived home in the past two days, and sure enough, he arrived." Zhou Jiahong said overjoyed.

"Let's get everything out of the way!" The old lady commanded the eldest daughter-in-law in a trembling voice.

When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy Zhang Luo, Wen Yuanfang's voice had already entered the house: "Mom! Sister-in-law! We're back! ”

Lou Xiangfu looked at the two dreamers who walked into the door in a daze, and muttered, "Really back?" I'm not dreaming, am I? ”

"Xiangfu Mama, you are not dreaming, Uncle Yuan Fang, they are really home." Hearing the news, the neighbors and some close relatives in the village told the old lady with a smile.

"Mom, did you run out of the cough medicine I sent you last time? This time I brought you a new medicine that you have to try. Come! Let's take a look at your little daughter-in-law first! Yuliang, call 'Mom'! Wen Yuanfang pushed Zhu Yuliang in front of his mother.

Zhu Yuliang blushed in front of everyone, lowered his head and shouted sweetly, "Mom! ”

The old lady said excitedly, "My old woman has never seen such a neat person in her seventies!" Where did my family get such a great blessing? Come, let Mom take a closer look at my little girl! The old lady took the little daughter-in-law's hand and refused to let go.

"Mom, don't talk patronizingly, let the uncle and aunt eat a bowl of sugar and eggs first!" Zhou Jiahong reminded her mother-in-law softly.

"Oh, my little girl came to see your sister-in-law! Your sister-in-law is a hard-working person! If she hadn't been holding on to this family, my old life would have been returned to the West a long time ago. And where is Wuwei? Have you ever come to see 'Auntie'? The old lady Lou Xiangfu pulled Zhou Jiahong over to sit down, and turned her head to find her grandson Wuwei.

Zhu Yuliang shouted "sister-in-law" and wanted to get up to greet her, Zhou Jiahong immediately pressed her down with his old roots-like hands, and turned his head to tell his mother-in-law: "Wu Wei has set off to inform the relatives and relatives according to the list and date we have set." ”

Zhu Yuliang secretly looked at Zhou Jiahong's ravine-horizontal face and secretly said in surprise: "A person in his early forties looks like he is sixty years old!" It can be seen from the well-defined facial features that she was also very beautiful back then. Alas......"

"Xiao Nan ate the eggs while they were hot!" Lou Xiangfu reminded Zhu Yuliang, who was in a trance, and announced loudly: "The day after tomorrow is the big day of my youngest son and daughter-in-law, I want to hold ten tables of banquets and invite four relatives and eight relatives to come to my house to drink happy wine!" With that, she laughed happily, then coughed violently.

Wen Yuanfang said that they had already held a new-style wedding in the army, and they didn't plan to drink when they went home this time, but only distributed candy and cigarettes, because there are many places to spend money now.

The old lady said that the big event of life can not be casual, this banquet must be held, and said that the money for the wine is not for their young husband and wife, this money is saved from the money that her younger son usually sends her, and it was originally prepared for the younger son's marriage.

The old lady also said that she would not keep any of the favors she received from the wedding wine, and would give all of them to the little daughter-in-law to subsidize the family.

Wen Yuanfang knew that his mother had always been the same, so he had to follow her wishes, and let his mother and sister-in-law go to the banquet.

After lunch, Wen Yuanfang took Zhu Yuliang to the mountain to burn incense for his ancestral Wen. The villagers they met on the way greeted them warmly and asked them questions. Anyone who has seen Zhu Yuliang said: The reason why Yuan Fang was able to marry such a stunning bride was because his family's ancestral tomb was smoking.

After paying homage to the ancestral grave, Wen Yuanfang felt tired after returning home because of the two-wheeled bicycle he had pulled for a morning and the physical exertion of two consecutive nights, so he wanted to take a nap in the bed he slept in before joining the army to eliminate fatigue; And Zhu Yuliang said that he was going to help his sister-in-law work, and he couldn't do nothing, which made people mistakenly think that she was a lazy woman. Wen Yuanfang said, "Go ahead!" Behave well and your husband will reward you at night! Zhu Yuliang said "bah" at him and walked downstairs.

The dwellings in Wu and Yue are completely different. For example, the villagers of Xiaoyizhuang live in a one-family bungalow, and the distance between neighbors is very large; The old-style houses in Zhuji are almost all large and small courtyards, Tongxin Pavilion is a small courtyard, and Wen Yuanfang's family lives in a large courtyard house that can accommodate seven or eight families.

In the middle of this large courtyard is a large patio paved with cobblestones, and there is also a common hall in the corridor house, and the villagers' ceremonies are basically held in the hall and patio, because the ancestral hall in the village has fallen into disrepair and has long been reduced to a warehouse for stacking sundries.

The courtyard houses in Tangfeng Village basically have a history of three or four hundred years. A courtyard house is often built by a joint venture between several brothers, which means that the people who live in the courtyard are their own families; But as the years go by, the people who live in the yard are not necessarily related by blood.

Zhu Yuliang's footsteps walking down the stairs may have been too soft, but it didn't alarm Zhou Jiahong, who was busy. At this time, she was in the living room looking at the colorful wedding photos of Wen Yuanfang and his wife. She turned her back to Zhu Yuliang, so that Zhu Yuliang couldn't see her expression at this time, but heard her say to herself: "My family is just good-looking!" She praised her brother-in-law as pure as a mother praising her son, without the slightest twist.

Zhu Yuliang pondered: From the time she entered the door in the morning to the present, Zhou Jiahong was only polite and courteous to her, and did not show any love and welcome to the newcomer, let alone any praise. She originally thought that some people were born stupid like her, and they couldn't praise people or welcome people, but now it seems that Zhou Jiahong does not belong to this category. Because from what she just said to herself, she knows what it means to be good-looking, and she also has the ability and need to praise the person she loves.

Some good people can cause you a lot of damage as long as they don't praise you, don't praise you, and don't agree with you. Zhou Jiahong has such energy! Thinking of this, Zhu Yuliang quietly went upstairs again.

Wen Yuanfang saw that she had returned so quickly, so he asked her if her sister-in-law wouldn't let her interfere in her work. Zhu Yuliang was silent for a while and said, "I think your sister-in-law is a little pitiful. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Look at the lunch at lunch, no matter how you persuade her, she refuses to eat at the table, so I am embarrassed to sit on the table to eat."

"Oh, that's her habit. When guests come in, she never comes to the table to eat. ”

"But we're not guests, we're family! If she does that, will I be like her in the future, and I won't be able to serve guests when they come? ”

"She did that because the poison of the Chinese feudal etiquette is too deep, you can go with her! But don't speak ill of your sister-in-law in front of your mother in the future! In that case, my mother will be unhappy. ”

"I'm just telling you! Aren't you happy too? ”

"How could I not be happy? If my Yuliang is not happy, I will be unhappy! ”

"Just your mouth will coax people!" Zhu Yuliang lay down beside her husband and took a good spring nap.

On the third day after Wen Yuanfang and his wife returned to Tangfeng Village, Lou Xiangfu held a decent and lively wedding for his youngest son and daughter-in-law according to the old rules of Yuedi. Wen Yuanfang's two elder sisters, who had already married and were about to become grandmothers, brought their respective families, and their nieces, who had just married, were Wu Wei's sister's family, as well as many relatives who were not close to each other...... On the night of the cave house, the people who came to see the bride were not only from this village, but also from the neighboring villages, and there were so many people that the door of the Wen family was almost squeezed......

"I like the bride's teeth the most, white and neat, like pearls!"

"Look at her braids are long and thick!"

"Her skin can be plucked out of the water!"

"In fact, her eyes are the most charming, and I don't think any man can escape her eyes. Hee-hee! ”

"If there is really Xi Shi, it is estimated that she is not as beautiful as her!"

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Those big girls, sisters-in-law, and posteriors who are lively and not afraid of people come up with all kinds of tricks to make trouble, tossing the couple to their heart's content, making Wen Yuanfang and his wife dumbfounded, crying and laughing...... It wasn't until three or four o'clock in the morning that the people in the cave house dispersed one after another.

After a night of baptism of Yue folk culture, Zhu Yuliang felt that he was about to become half of a Yue person. Early in the morning, she pounded her sore waist to relieve herself, and by the way, she wanted to check the time of her watch. When she opened the first drawer of her bedside desk to get her watch, she found that there was an extra tin box in the empty drawer. Curious, she took out the iron box and opened her, and found that it was full of all kinds of black and white photos, of course, the most were photos of Wen Yuanfang in various periods of the army, some with shaved heads, some wearing melon skin military hats, and some with military merit medals...... Zhu Yuliang had seen some photos, but most of them had not been seen before.

Suddenly, a bust of a young woman wearing glasses jumped into Zhu Yuliang's eyes. In terms of beauty index, this woman's is not lower than Zhu Yuliang; In terms of temperament and charm, this woman has a mature intellectual beauty, because she looks like an intellectual...... Zhu Yuliang pressed the heartbeat of "Tutu", flipped over the back of the photo, and saw a line of beautiful pen fonts in his eyes:

"Fang: She put on glasses for you!"