Lotus Village is a quiet village under Hui County, Yizhou Prefecture, in recent years, this village is probably lucky, the people in the village have become rich one after another, many of them have a place to live in the town, and even give up the fields and villages to go to the town, many of them also go out to the world, and the money earned is not lower than farming at home all year round.

When there are fewer people, the earth is more vacant.

Lotus village land than the area of the pond is less, in the early years the lotus village is not rich, guarding a natural wild lotus pond only for ornamental use, dare not touch the "lotus god", more than ten or twenty years ago, the daughter of the Li family married into the lotus village Guan family, persuaded her husband to dig a pond and open a canal, plant lotus root and raise fish at the same time, began to break the lotus village self-contained, take gold as sand status quo, the pattern of the lotus village began to change.

Many years have passed, and the strong laborers of Lotus Village are not willing to be lonely, and they are jealous of the success of the business of the Guan family, and they follow the example of the Guan family to go to the wider world outside, stay in the Lotus Village to serve the land, and there are fewer and fewer young people guarding the lotus pond.

To paraphrase the words of Sun Hongyan, who is already the senior village chief of Lotus Village: "These young people, they can't endure hardships or get tired, they only have endless enthusiasm, it's a pity, it's a pity that ......."

However, Sun Hongyan always concludes with such a sentence: "Fortunately, in these later generations, there is still a Qian Xuekang who guards the foundation left by his father, and this is a man." ”

Qian Xuekang is well-known in Lotus Village, and his fame is a combination of many complex aspects, of course, this all started after his biological mother married into the Guan family. His stepfather and biological mother Youhui County's largest pig farm, major restaurants will order pork from his home every day, and large families will always place orders for his family when they have banquets. Like him, his cousin, who is not of the Guan family's bloodline but is also a member of the Guan family, was admitted to the imperial hospital doctor through the imperial examination and officially entered the official career. His aunt's sister is the princess of the county, and there are five officials in front of the prime minister, and his relationship is not too far away, and it is also a very close relationship when it comes to accountability.

Although these factors are always zero, there are actually a lot of details. But what really made him known to everyone in the entire Lotus Village was because of his highly controversial marriage.

Of course, that was a few years ago......

It is said that back then, Qian Xuekang was twenty years old, and his mother was anxious about his marriage. Several times before he was married, Qian Xuekang impatiently avoided it.

When he was young, he was not in good health, but later he got better and also studied. He is smart and smart, but he is unwilling to work hard, so he has always been so-so in the assessment. After reading the words, I started to write articles and make strategic arguments. He really felt maladapted, so he simply made it clear to his parents that he didn't want to go to school anymore. It's better to learn some skills while you're young. If you have the craft, you are not afraid of starvation in the future.

He has a good environment at home, how can he starve? Although his mother regretted that he could not take the same fame as his biological father, she also felt that the family would not let him be hungry and cold anyway, and the family was thick, and the child could do whatever he wanted, so he also fulfilled his wish.

Qian Xuekang's stepfather praised his choice. I cultivated him very much, took him to inspect the pig farm, taught him some skills and methods of growing grain, and communicated with him seriously.

In a few years, Qian Xuekang also learned some agricultural things, and he was not proficient in talking about it, but he was not unfamiliar with those old farmers at all.

At the same time, rumors about him and Sun Jiayunjing were also rampant.

These two children are playmates who have known each other since childhood, and Sun Yunjing is several years younger than Qian Xuekang, but this does not prevent them from getting close. Qian Xuekang stopped studying, had more time to walk in the village, and had more frequent contacts with Sun Yunjing.

Of course, these two people didn't say anything, they have only been in the relationship of close friends, and they don't know if they don't know when outsiders point their fingers, or they know but turn a blind eye.

Sun Yunjing is a beauty, with a delicate appearance and a charm of charm. Others say that she inherited ten percent of her biological parents' appearance.

The rumors spread tightly and loosely, Sun Yunjing ignored it, Qian Xuekang was a little arrogant, and he didn't pay attention to it, until he was twenty years old, his mother was anxious, and asked him what he wanted, saying that when the village said that he and Sun Yunjing gossip, Qian Xuekang really began to formalize this question.

Before he could think of a reason, Sun Yunjing's mother-in-law, Sun, came to the door in a hurry.

It is said that the Sun family was also a beauty when she was young, and the Sun family felt that she brought good luck to the family, and she hurt her like a jewel, but it also made her develop a brutal and willful temperament. The intermediate process of getting married and having children after growing up is not to be described in detail, just saying that she is now a tiger-backed bear, with a big waist and a round murderous appearance, is enough to make people prohibitive.

Qian Xuekang dislikes her very much, and there is only one reason - she treats Sun Yunjing quite badly.

Because she only has one daughter, Sun Yunjing, she thinks that it was Sun Yunjing's birth that restrained her future children, she thinks that Sun Yunjing is a hard-nosed person, since her younger brothers and sisters can't be born, then maybe she will be restrained in the future.

Sun stood at the door with his waist crossed and yelled loudly: "You little rabbit cub, don't beat my family's idea!" The old lady is about to marry her to a rich old man in the state capital! She will eat and drink spicy food in the future, is she going to go down to the river with you poor boy to fish? How far do you give the old lady and how far do you roll! ”

The rich old man in Sun's mouth is said to be fifty years old, and he likes young and beautiful girls, and there are many aunts in the family, but he always feels that he is missing one, just like a woman always feels that she will never have one piece of clothing in her box. Sun thinks that Sun Yunjing is very good-looking, and she is a hard-hearted person, if she kills the bad old man and his family after marrying, then won't all the wealth of the rich old man fall into the pockets of his daughter?

Sun made a big fuss in front of Qian Xuekang, and then walked away triumphantly.

Qian Xuekang's mother, who was listening on the side, was very angry, and gave Qian Xuekang an ultimatum: "If you have that heart, your mother won't say anything else, Yun Jing's girl has watched her grow up since she was a child, but she doesn't hate her, you have the ability to marry her." If you don't have that heart, you'd better break off with the girl of the Sun family, don't tell her unclear and let the family talk about it, and save your father and me from working hard for your family. It's not that you don't know that Yun Jing's mother has such a relationship with your father. ”

Yes, yes, Sun Yunjing's mother used to be the wife of Qian Xuekang's stepfather, and she went out of the wall to conceive Sun Yunjing with Sun Yunjing's father. was swept out of the house by Qian Xuekang's stepfather when she was pregnant with a child, and later she married Sun Yunjing's father.

Qian Xuekang thought hard for a night, and early the next morning, he went to the forest where Sun Yunjing was rescued at that time, followed by Erhei and Erhuang, who had been by his side all these years.

Coincidentally. Sun Yunjing is also there.

The two looked at each other silently for a long time, and Sun Yunjing took the lead in speaking: "I know that my mother went to your house yesterday to make trouble. ”

Before Qian Xuekang could answer, Sun Yunjing said again: "I apologize to you for her behavior." ”

"I ......"

"My mother said she was going to sell me to that rich man." Sun Yunjing looked at him with burning eyes, and his eyes forced him not to dodge at all: "I'm not happy." ”

Long. Qian Xuekang squeezed out a sentence: "You stupid girl, don't you want her to force you?" Your father's words don't work, doesn't he still have his fists? ”

Sun Yunjing shook her head: "Grandpa, they are all old, and my mother's body is so strong, they can't resist her." Dad is bedridden these days. How to discipline a mother? ”

Qian Xuekang was silent again.

Sun Yunjing was silent for a long time, and said leisurely: "You are twenty years old, and ordinary boys have reached your age. Some of them have children. It's normal for uncles and aunts to want to tell you about kissing. ”

Qian Xuekang let out a "hmm" sound.

Sun Yunjing said: "I have also reached the age of getting married. Others say that I have a fox face, and I can't hide from being a concubine in the future, but I don't want to. ”

Qian Xuekang let out another "um" sound.

Sun Yunjing took two steps forward, stood half a step away from Qian Xuekang, poked her head out slightly, looked up at him, and said, "Since you want to marry a wife, I want to marry." If you can't hide from it, you might as well marry me. ”

Qian Xuekang was suddenly startled, and couldn't say a word: "You, what did you just say?" ”

Sun Yunjing repeated: "You marry me." ”

"Are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy."

"I've always treated you as a friend!"

"I've always been your friend." Sun Yunjing said calmly: "You don't have a favorite girl, I don't have a favorite boy, we are married by friends, what's wrong?" ”

"Of course...... Of course not! Qian Xuekang turned back and forth twice in the same place: "Do you know what husband and wife are?" ”

"Yes." Sun Yunjing said: "My mother showed me all the paintings of the Spring Palace. ”

"What...... What! Qian Xuekang suddenly blushed: "Why is your mother ......?"

"She said that I want to learn how to please men from now on, so that I can charm that rich old man, and I can collect more of his family wealth in the future......" Sun Yunjing looked at Qian Xuekang silently: "Xuekang, is it so difficult to marry me?" ”

Qian Xuekang was silent.

After a long time, he said, "Do you know what your mother and my father used to be? ”

"Yes."

"Then do you know how ugly outsiders will say if we get married?"

"Yes."

"Then you know ......"

"I know it all." Sun Yunjing said calmly: "Don't treat me as a child, can I hear and see less when I was a child?" I know all of that. But so what? The mouth grows on other people's faces, what do people want to say, can we still control other people's mouths? If I care about the opinions of the world, then do I live for myself or for others? ”

Qian Xuekang bowed his head slightly, and Sun Yunjing said: "Xuekang, is it really that difficult to be a couple like friends?" ”

Qian Xuekang was silent, and he suddenly remembered that his cousin Wei Zhiyang had told him: "Some husbands and wives are united because of affection, some husbands and wives are united because of responsibility, some husbands and wives are united because of faith, and some husbands and wives are united because of interests...... Regardless of the purpose, the combination is a fact, and the key lies in the process of running in and getting along after the combination. This in itself is a step-by-step process, and if you put your mind to it, it won't be difficult. ”

Qian Xuekang agreed to Sun Yunjing's request, and went to Sun's house the next day to propose marriage.

Of course, the Sun family strongly objected, chasing Sun Yunjing to beat her. Sun Yunjing's father got up from the bed and pulled Sun's rolling pin and pulled it towards her back, causing Sun to scream, but he didn't dare to argue with Sun Yunjing's father.

Sun Yunjing's father agreed to their family affair. This incident spread in the lotus village on the same day.

Everyone waited to see the joke, and secretly said that the two little mandarin ducks were finally together. Some people also joked about the relationship between Sun and Qian Xuekang's stepfather, saying that when "brother" and "sister" are together at this time, it can be regarded as a complete merit, and maybe they will renew the old relationship instead of their respective fathers and mothers!

On the day of the wedding, the sedan chair carried the bride to a quarter, and the bottom of the sedan chair was broken, and the bride almost fell out of the hole. When the sedan chair reached one half, the sedan chair driver who was walking in front of him tripped over a stone on the road, and almost fell over with no one with the sedan chair. The sedan chair traveled to three-quarters of the way, and the bride had a situation again, and for a while she only felt abdominal pain like a twist, couldn't bear it, and her face was like gold paper, so she had to withdraw from the greeting team halfway to solve the physiological matter.

As a result, when the sedan chair was carried to the front of the house, the sedan chair was crumbling, the sedan chair husband was walking on thin ice, and the bride was nowhere to be seen.

Others pointed and said, "This time the Guan family welcomes relatives, compared to the last time the boss of the Guan family, Wei Zhiyang, married Sun Yu of the same village, it is much more smooth, from this point of view, the future life of these two people is still very bright.

Qian Xuekang led Sun Yunjing to get off the sedan chair, went through all the procedures before worshipping heaven and earth, and just waited for the bride to come.

Fortunately, there was no danger, the bride did not miss the auspicious time, and the time to arrive was just right, so Qian Xuekang was able to marry Sun Yunjing in the church.

Before the word "Licheng" was called out by the master of ceremonies, the door remembered Sun's mournful shout: "Chuang'er!" You little white-eyed wolf, unconscionable rabbit cub, come back! What's so good about this kid? It's not as good as his cousin, he can't even get a fame, and he spends a day farming and fishing and dealing with old sows, and you are willing to stay in this broken village where birds don't shit? Hurry up and go to the state capital with my mother......"

Sun Yunjing, who was under the hijab, didn't overdo it, and let someone help her to go to the new house, turning a deaf ear to Sun's roar.

She should have enough of the grace of nurturing.

So on this day, more people watched the Guan family's wedding banquet than the farce of the Sun family, and that wedding banquet was still talked about until later.

"Get along like friends", this is what Sun Yunjing said, and she has been fulfilling her promise like this all these years. Qian Xuekang is the same, people in Lotus Village can often see Sun Yunjing and Qian Xuekang talking and laughing in one place, talking and laughing as if no one is around, and the two of them are used to discussing with each other when they encounter something, and even walk hand in hand by the lotus pond every night. The old-fashioned people said that they were immoral, but the married and unmarried women and girls were envious.

Who says husbands and wives can't get along like friends?