Chapter 46: Comparing Hearts to Hearts
After my father and Aunt Feng got married, Aunt Ai Qiu often came to my house as Uncle Xiaolong's girlfriend.
She is the character of an authentic northern girl, who loves to laugh and make trouble, and drinks a lot of alcohol.
Dad poured her wine at the dinner table, and she didn't shirk it, and followed Dad and Aunt Feng to dry it with a left and a right drink.
In the end, he was stunned and drank Aunt Feng and Dad all under the table with his own strength.
Maybe in other places, they will think that something is unorthodox and unseemly.
But in the eyes of Aunt Feng and Dad, wine is a symbol of character.
Aunt Ai Qiu drank the wine and was heroic, she didn't need a cup or a cup to come up, she dared to blow with a bowl, she didn't lose her temper and didn't brag in the end, this is her temperament, Aunt Feng and Dad admired it directly.
Of course, I don't have any thoughts on who can drink or not.
It feels like whether a person drinks too much and sleeps too much depends entirely on how much he drinks.
I'm so drunk, I can't make trouble if I want to, and I'm purely watching it from my point of view.
The important thing is that I noticed that Aunt Ai Qiu had stars in her eyes when she looked at Uncle Xiaolong.
As long as they smile at each other, the eyes of both parties will burst into light, revealing a hint of sweetness.
I stayed around like I was eating candy.
I thought it wouldn't be long before I could eat the real candy.
never thought that their marriage would be delayed again and again because of the bride price.
At that time, the bride price standard in villages and towns was 30,000 or 50,000.
Rich people will also have three golds.
These are all things that Aunt Feng is talking about at home.
As the eldest daughter of the Qin family, she is very concerned about her younger brother's marriage.
The bride price issue was all discussed by her grandmother Qin, who knew that she would be angry when she came back.
She said that the elders of Aunt Ai Qiu's family were unreasonable, and opened their mouths to ask for 80,000 bride price in cash, and other hardware covered.
At the same time, Uncle Xiaolong was also required to buy a wedding house in the town in full, which must be a building, plus a car, at least a Xia Li.
The Chen family can contribute part of the decoration money of the new house, and the house should have the name of Aunt Ai Qiu.
However, in those two years, Grandpa Qin's health was not good, and he did several rescue surgeries alone.
As soon as the economy was tight, Uncle Xiaolong couldn't make up a bride price of 80,000 yuan after buying the wedding house, let alone buying a car and hardware.
Grandma Qin wanted to carry the money, so she borrowed usury in the village, so that Uncle Xiaolong could get married as soon as possible.
Because Grandpa Qin's physical condition waits for no one.
The family was afraid that Grandpa Qin would leave with regret when he didn't see Uncle Xiaolong getting married.
When Uncle Xiaolong heard this, he disagreed, "Mom, if it's to raise money for my father's treatment, then I don't have a word, let me sell my waist, and borrow high profits to buy a car and bride price, I'm afraid I'm not crazy?" Marrying a daughter-in-law is to live, not to find yourself unhappy, what is the point of getting married in a famine!"
"Besides, in order to buy a house, I have borrowed 30,000 yuan from my brother-in-law, Chen Aiqiu don't say add a name, she can write her name in the house book, I don't care about this, but now the requirements of the old Chen family are too difficult, and the garage is in place and it costs 80,000, why don't his family want 99.81 million, I see that it is more difficult to marry a girl from his family than to learn from the scriptures, take me as a Tang monk, this marriage can be concluded, and if it is not knotted, it will be pulled down!"
"What are you talking about!"
Grandma Qin was also angry, "If you don't tie it up, don't you really want to be willing to Xiaoqiu?" Do you dare to say that you don't regret it? Mom also has a daughter, Mom is not only an old woman, but also a mother-in-law, the fundamental purpose of the bride price is to make the in-laws pay attention to our daughter, the Chen family's bride price is a little higher, but people are Xiaoqiu an only daughter, no matter what the requirements are, they don't make any mistakes, and they have to be heart-to-heart!"
Uncle Xiaolong's eyelids drooped and stopped squeaking.
Speaking of which, Aunt Ai Qiu is the most uncomfortable in the middle.
Her family runs a freight station in the town, and the economic conditions are very good, so she herself doesn't care about this.
At first, she also thought that the two families were going through the motions, and the first time they ate, Qin Chen and the two elders sat together happily.
Until the Chen family members put forward the marriage requirements one by one, their attitude was still hidden in the needle, and they could not be ignored.
Let's not talk about the reaction of the Qin family, Aunt Ai Qiu was the first to be stunned.
She said at the dinner table that there was no need, Uncle Xiaolong's father's physical condition was there.
At this time, raising the bride price is not equivalent to fighting with the seriously ill number with a bayonet, taking advantage of people's illness to kill people.
When the elders of the Chen family saw that their daughter's elbow was about to turn outward, they paid attention to it directly, and the household registration book was hidden.
If you like to drink medicine, you can drink medicine, hang yourself if you want to hang yourself, and you want to play and get married.
In the final analysis, everyone in the family is for your own good.
Aunt Ai Qiu was forced to have no tricks, so she went to Uncle Xiaolong to cry.
The two of them were quite bitter at first.
After a long time, it is inevitable to quarrel.
One thinks that the other party's parents are in the eyes of money.
The other scolded Uncle Xiaolong for being unproductive and unable to earn money before he was looked down upon by her mother's family.
As soon as the spearhead came out, both of them were stabbed very painfully.
Physically and mentally exhausted.
And Grandma Qin also felt that it was not worth raising the money.
Pit yourself.
She thought of a roundabout idea.
Discuss whether the Chen family can pass the 30,000 bride price first.
The remaining 50,000 is an IOU.
After the ceremony, all the gifts received will be sent to the Chen family, and it will be made up in the future if it is not enough.
The Chen family was even more annoyed when they heard it, who are you painting a pie with?
No matter how Grandma Qin and Aunt Feng came to talk, the Chen family did not let go at all.
I was about to enter junior high school at the time, and I was confused by the involvement of two families.
For the first time, I knew that marriage was so difficult.
It turns out that this is not just a matter of two people, but also depends on whether the two families want to get married.
In the stalemate, Grandpa Qin passed away.
The contradictions between Uncle Xiaolong and Aunt Ai Qiu then piled up to the top.
During the quarrel, Aunt Ai Qiu also smashed Uncle Xiaolong's newly opened hairdresser.
The two broke up.
Chen's father told the truth at this time, he just didn't want his daughter to marry into the Qin family.
Because he didn't fancy Qin Xiaolong in his heart, he felt that he was a speculator who was full of running trains.
Aunt Feng didn't refute it for the first time, and in private she also told her father that Father Chen's summary was quite correct.
At the end, Aunt Feng sighed, "If Xiaoqiu's family doesn't agree, the two of them will love each other in vain, this is fate, whoever enters whom's house has a number, and you can't force it."
I came back to my senses.
Once Aunt Ai Qiu smiled at Uncle Xiaolong, the appearance of a flower is still in my mind.
Now she and Uncle Xiaolong have long been passers-by.
It's been three years.
I heard that she later went to help in a relative's factory in the south, but she never came back.
At that moment, she chatted with me with emotion in her eyes, praised me for being beautiful, and said that I was taller than her.
Some didn't talk about a bunch of them.
is the only one who is very taboo about Uncle Xiaolong's name.
It's like I'm afraid that I'll mention Uncle Xiaolong, and then poke at an unspeakable pain in her heart.
"Aunt Ai Qiu, did you come back this time to visit your grandfather?"
"Yes, I received a call from home saying that my grandfather was not in good health, so I wanted to come back to take care of it, I just put my luggage at home and I went to the hospital, I didn't expect to open the door and see you......" Aunt Ai Qiu shook her head and smiled, "This is because we are acquaintances, aunt doesn't blame you, otherwise aunt really has to talk to you well."
I scratched my head embarrassedly, this stubble is really hard to explain.