Looking through the weeping flower gate in the front yard to the left-hand side, you can see a vigorous jujube tree, and looking at the red jujube on the branches, people are hungry.

Sister Liu, who has worked in the match workshop for more than two years and is also an old man, has actually been thinking about the old jujube tree in the yard for a long time. This year, she is going to start first, and when she goes to work, all she thinks about is how to find excuses to deliberately get off work late, and when the workers are gone, she secretly beats a pound of dates and takes them home to share with her two daughters.

When Sister Liu went out to go to the public toilet in the alley, she just crossed the threshold with one foot and looked at the two children standing under the jujube tree in amazement. A handsome little boy is holding a long bamboo pole about the thickness of his forearm to beat dates, and a handsome little girl is jumping around picking up jujubes that have fallen from a tree.

The familiar background is familiar with the two children who stole dates last year, Li Tong and Li Ailian.

When the eldest brother entered the match workshop office to find Manager Han to help arrange work for his two comrades-in-arms, Li Ailian, who was also worried about the jujube trees in the match workshop two months in advance, began to pry Li Tong to go with her to hunt jujube trees.

The reason why Li Ailian went out so actively today was because according to the day, it was speculated that the jujube on the jujube tree should be ripe, and only bare leaves would be left in a few days at night.

"Stinky boy, you stole our jujube last year, and you dare to come this year, I have to give you a melon today!" Sister Liu jumped out of the house angrily and ran to Li Tong and them.

Li Tong didn't want to be stripped naked in front of the public to see Xiao Dingding, so he casually dropped the long bamboo pole and pulled the panicked second sister and said while running: "Run, let's go find Aunt Xu to treat her!" ”

Li Ailian immediately came to her senses when she heard this, clutched the small cloth bag full of jujubes, and followed Li Tong and ran outside the courtyard. When Sister Liu ran to the door, Li Tong and the others were already standing beside Xu Meiying, especially Li Ailian, who took out a handful of red dates from her pocket and stuffed them into Xu Meiying's jacket pocket, as if she wanted to pull the other party into the water.

"What are you doing, kid?" Li Wang stared at Li Ailian with a straight face.

"I invited Aunt Xu to eat jujubes, crisp and sweet jujubes, which my brother and I just knocked down from the jujube tree in the yard." Li Ailian grimaced at her mother, and then explained to Xu Meiying, who looked down at her with a smile.

Xu Meiying stretched out her hand and pinched Li Ailian's little face and said, "Your child's temperament really doesn't look like a girl, go back quickly, if someone asks who allowed you to do this, you tell her that I agree." If she has any questions, you can tell her to come and talk to me at any time! ”

Li Ailian's face blossomed happily, put the two dates that were not stuffed into her pocket in Xu Meiying's hands, grabbed the cuffs of Li Tong's coat and walked to the courtyard, looking at Sister Liu, who was standing cramped in the aisle after exiting the doorway, and shouted: "Brother, follow my sister to continue to beat dates, and today I promise to let you eat dates until you can eat them!" ”

Seeing the swaggering appearance of the two children, Li Wang hurriedly shouted at them: "You two hurry up and come back for me, you can't make trouble for your Aunt Xu, do you hear!" ”

Li Ailian pulled Li Tong to walk to the front yard with her chest up, her toes were high, and her steps did not stop for a moment, ignoring her mother's dissuasion, Li Ailian now just wanted to go back and beat all the dates on the tree quickly.

Xu Meiying moved her steps to block Li Wang's family, who wanted to chase the child, and persuaded: "It's just a trivial matter of a few dates, see what kind of rush you have become?" Manager Han and I here are also old acquaintances, and this little face can still be given to me, so let's let the children play. Come, how about tasting this date, this can also be regarded as the first time your daughter takes something to honor you, you must not taste it. ”

Li Wang took a step back, looked at the red and clear dates in Xu Meiying's hand, thought about it and took it, and randomly took out a handkerchief and wiped it twice.

After putting the dates in his mouth, he took a bite and was crisp and juicy, and the taste and texture were very good.

"Then let's talk about the marriage of the National Day, you also know that I have a niece, she is the same age as the National Day, she looks quite good, and she is a good housekeeper. Just because of a little problem in her eyes, she was completely delayed, and now the matchmaker is not coming, you say that you are not worried. Xu Meiying sighed and complained to Li Wang.

But Li Wangshi didn't answer her words, and the whole person didn't react at all like a wooden man.

However, Xu Meiying knew that Li Wang's family was going to come to the match workshop today to receive the materials for work, because she would not rest at home on Sundays, and ran to the door of the match workshop to blow the cold wind, which was specially for Li Wang's family.

"Sister of the Wang family, I will tell you a heart-wrenching word today. I fell in love with this child on National Day, I want to match National Day and my niece as husband and wife, I don't know what you think? ”

Li remained silent.

In fact, this is not the first time Xu Meiying has mentioned to Li Wang's family to match her niece with her eldest son, but in the past, it was a little vague in the words, but today is different, Xu Meiying is equivalent to talking to Li Wang's about this matter in front of the gong.

Folk custom, if you don't get married, you will become enemies!

Li Wangshi felt that she could not afford to offend her fellow villagers, who was the director of the neighborhood committee who was currently in charge, and I heard that she would be promoted to the neighborhood office as a section chief next year. She is an ordinary housewife who has no job yet, who does she dare to offend?

But when she thought of the niece in Xu Meiying's mouth, Li Wang's family was straight at the flowers.

This child's name is Wang Xiufen, is the only daughter of Xu Meiying's eldest brother, her family is not in the capital city, lives in Miyun County, a suburb of the capital, when he used to go to the city to visit relatives, Li Wang saw this girl, and looked at a very honest child.

In Li Wang's impression, Wang Xiufen seems to be two years older than the old age, and she should be 27 years old this year, and she has indeed become an old girl before she gets married at this age.

The blame can only be blamed on the child's bad life, the natural vitreous eye in the right eye. Don't talk about the broken face, according to the old reason, she is a woman with this kind of face!

It's not that there is no matchmaker who comes to the door to tell the matchmaker, but the introduction is either mentally handicapped or disabled, there is such a girl in the family, how can she agree to this kind of marriage before the pain is too late, and she prevaricates with words.

But the Xu family always sent the matchmakers who came to the door to say goodbye, and gradually the matchmakers understood that the Xu family was high-spirited and wanted to find a good relationship with the girl.

But which family would be willing to marry his girl, just like that, year after year passed, and in the end, the marriage did not come to fruition, and there was no matchmaker willing to go to the door of the Xu family anymore.

When the Xu family found out that something was wrong and then spent money to ask the matchmaker to find someone, whether it was a deception or a trick, in short, the Xu family spent a lot of money and met a few, but no one wanted to marry this family with his family.

Not only was her daughter exhausted and crying all night after being hit by a series of failed blind dates, but Xu Meiying's eldest brother was directly admitted to the hospital last month by a matchmaker.

The big problem of marrying her niece Zhang Luo naturally fell on Xu Meiying's head.

Thinking that there were bandits and famine in Shanxi back then, Xu Meiying's parents took their brother and sister to flee to the Central Plains, but who knew that the Central Plains was also starving all over the country at that time, and finally both parents died in Luoyang.

At that time, little Xu Meiying was only five years old, and her eldest brother was not yet eight years old, and the brother and sister survived by digging ant nests and eating loaches. In order to survive, the eldest brother sold himself to a local wealthy family surnamed Wang, and led Xiao Xu Meiying to have a hut that could shelter from the wind and rain.

Later, when the eldest brother grew up, he became the son-in-law of the Wang family, and after a few years, their brother and sister moved to Miyun County, a suburb of the capital, with the Wang family.

And Xu Meiying also met her current husband Wei Kang by chance, and after the two got married, Xu Meiying naturally moved from the Wang family to live in the city, and now she has become the director of the neighborhood committee under the street of the capital and eats commercial grain.

After so many years, Xu Meiying's heart still remembers and is grateful to the eldest brother who was stabbed twice in the face for stealing a piece of bread.

The crimson dough tasted fishy and bitter.