On the way, He Huanyu thought about it for a while, and asked He Qichang to stop the car when he passed by the fruit supermarket. After all, it's the first time we meet, and it's always bad to come to the door empty-handed, and the meaning of buying a bag of fruit is also good.

When passing by the convenience store, He Huanyu went down to buy a few lollipops - for little Lori, there is nothing better than lollipops.

Xu was due to the delay in moving things before, and by the time the father and son arrived at the place, the time was already half past twelve.

Since yesterday I learned that He Huanyu was going to come to eat, Liu Yue didn't rest well all night.

She also couldn't say what kind of mentality it was.

After all, from a moral point of view, knowing three things is not something that can be accepted by social order and good customs.

But she, Liu Yue, also has her own "bitterness".

As a girl who grew up in the mountains of Handong Province, her early life was not without misery. In the early 21st century, in Handong Province, especially in the poor and weak villages, the idea of preference for sons over women was particularly serious.

For them, childhood is probably not there.

Some only have endless chores.

At the age of only eight or nine years old, he has to bear the life of his family on his thin shoulders.

Take care of three meals a day at home, take care of younger siblings, feed chickens and dogs, and clean up.

Even to go to school, you have to get up early to cut two handfuls of pigweed and feed the pigs.

After all, whether a big family can eat a bite of meat during the Chinese New Year depends on it.

Don't look at the "family planning" was still the basic national policy at that time, but in the countryside far away from the emperor, these are the same as the slogans painted on the wall of the village entrance: "Late marriage and late childbearing, fewer children and better children" and "To get rich, build roads first, have fewer children and more trees", no one has ever taken it seriously.

The big and small trees around the village have long been cut down, and they are either dragged out to sell for money, or they are dragged to the house to make fires.

Even the mountain behind the village did not let go, but fortunately, the mountain is high and the road is steep, the vegetation is dense, and there will be no scene of "cow mountain irrigation" for at least one or two decades.

If there are no trees in the village, the environment will not be better.

The dusty path on weekdays turns into a swamp when it rains, and if you accidentally fall into it, you can't pull it out for half a day.

As for having fewer children, that's even less to think about.

Maybe it's because of the old concept of "passing incense", or for some other reason, anyway, every family with less than three children seems to be embarrassed to greet people.

While paying the sky-high fines for them, they have been hugging them for three years but begging for a son.

What? You say that the wall reads, "Boys and girls are the same, and daughters are also heirlooms"?

I'm sorry, old man, I can't read.

A lot of things that seem incomprehensible now became entangled and became a vicious circle at that time.

The poorer you are, the poorer you are.

The earlier you get married, the more children you have.

If his son is angry, he may still grit his teeth and fight with the desire of Jackie Chan, smashing the pot and selling iron for college.

As for the girl? If you can finish high school, even if you have accumulated a little virtue in your previous life, you will be a good family.

There are many girls who have graduated from junior high school at the age of fourteen or fifteen, or even dropped out of school to work.

What's more, some little girls were sent to their "in-laws' homes" by their parents at the age of fifteen or sixteen in exchange for a "bride price" to subsidize the family.

Yes, there is no other choice but to work or get married.

Their low age and low educational background often mean that they are the best targets to be squeezed, and most of their lives are no different - they have become wives at the age of seventeen or eighteen when they can't get a license, and some are already mothers of two children earlier.

Compared with his peers in other townsmen, Liu Yue's life may be slightly better.

At least her dad sent her to high school.

Probably because her father Liu Erzhu has a flexible brain, contracted a fish pond in the village, and is also diligent, life is quite passable.

Not only did he build a house with green bricks, but he also became a famous 10,000-yuan household in the village, although the 10,000-yuan household in the mid-90s was not as good as in the early 80s.

But compared to the fact that other people in the village can't dig a few big children in the soil all year round, it is already considered a good life.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.

Even if you avoid natural disasters, you may not be able to avoid man-made disasters.

One night, Liu Erzhu's fish pond was poisoned, and tens of thousands of fish turned their bellies overnight.

The sudden huge loss and some onlookers sneered at the party, Liu Erzhu was directly hit by the stroke, but fortunately the rescue was timely, so he did not pass away directly.

But the rescue is the rescue, and there are still sequelae.

Hemiplegia, numbness, and the fact that the brain is not clear from time to time make it impossible to be taken care of by others.

Liu Erzhu, who was originally the main source of income for the family, suddenly collapsed.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Liu Erzhu's wife, who originally worked in a ceramic factory in the township, was also laid off at this time because of the poor efficiency of the unit.

The family's economy suddenly lost its source, coupled with the high cost of medicine, and the originally rich life suddenly returned to extreme poverty.

So Liu Erzhu's wife started the idea of Liu Yue, a daughter who was in high school in the county.

In her opinion, girls are all money-losers, and sooner or later they will get married, and there is little difference between reading and not reading (it is strange to say, the patriarchal preference is basically mostly women, and I don't know why, why do women bother women).

So he asked someone to tell Liu Yue about the matchmaker, and the object was an old bachelor in the next township who was nearly forty years old.

This old bachelor didn't look down on him at all, but his life was good, just in time for their township to "withdraw from the township and set up a town", and coincidentally requisitioned several acres of land and his house from his family because of the town government planning.

Land requisition compensation plus demolition compensation and take-out resettlement fees, a compensation of tens of thousands of dollars.

More than 100,000 in '96 is not a small number in the countryside.

That's definitely at the level of a "rich man".

So the old bachelor suddenly became a fragrant dumpling in the nearby ten miles and eight towns, and the matchmaker who came to the matchmaker stepped through the threshold of the temporary resettlement house.

Maybe it's also Liu Yue who looks "competitive", stacks of photos came to the old bachelor's hands, but the old bachelor fell in love with Liu Yue, who was still in high school in the county and didn't know anything about it.

Under the matchmaker's peace, the old bachelor and Liu Erzhu's wife also set up a marriage.

First, the old bachelor agreed to take out 18,000 as a bride price.

Second, with no house and land, only cash left, he plans to live with Liu Erzhu and their family.

This is of course good in the eyes of Liu Erzhu's wife, and her daughter does not have to marry far away. It is equivalent to an extra son-in-law - this is an extra strong laborer; Even this "door-to-door son-in-law" paid a "sky-high" bride price - this is to solve the urgent need for capital turnover in the family.

In addition, people are also notoriously honest.

Except for being a little older, nothing else is really picky.

What's wrong with being old, only when you're old is you steady, you know how to hurt people.

Liu Erzhu's wife thought so, so she casually found an excuse to call back Liu Yue, who was going to school in the county seat.

Liu Yue, who returned home from the county, was immediately stupid when he heard the news.

The family has changed dramatically, and his father is seriously ill and has been promised.

None of these three "bombshells" could be withstood by sixteen-year-old Liu Yue.

Especially marrying an old bachelor who is almost twenty years older than herself, which is not acceptable to a person who has attended high school in the county.

In her vision, a beautiful college life and sweet love on campus are the life she yearns for.

How could he marry an old bachelor who was almost forty years old at the age of sixteen.

couldn't think about it for a while, so she went to the fish pond contracted by her father Liu Erzhu, planning to commit suicide by throwing herself into the water.

Probably this is fate, it just so happened that He Qichang, who came to the mountains to relax, passed by, picked up Liu Yue, who had sunk half, and sent her home.

It is no coincidence that there is no book, at this time Liu Erzhu, who is always ignorant and confused, suddenly regained his consciousness, he felt sorry for his daughter, he scolded his wife for not doing anything and forcing him to die, but his wife cried with her head and argued that she had no money at home, and she had no choice.

He Qichang, who had watched the drama for a long time, proposed to use the name of "borrowing" for Liu Yue to finish high school, and as for college, he would wait until he was admitted to college.

So this seemingly farce-like "engagement turmoil" also ended with "divorce".

Liu Yue returned to the county seat to continue studying, Liu Erzhu's wife returned the bride price, and Liu Erzhu, who was sometimes confused and sometimes sober, had a bad temperament day by day.

Liu Erzhu's wife, who was ashamed of the "engagement incident", endured it again and again, and finally one day couldn't bear it anymore, leaving Liu Erzhu and his youngest son and running away with others.

And He Qichang, who participated in a small part of it, did not stay long, and continued his "suffering" after sending Liu Yue back to the county seat by the way.

Life is a piece of chicken feathers, and no one is much better than the other.

He Qichang in 98 was still a small section member in the system, and with the help of his father He Zhengdong, he had to be promoted to deputy section when he spoke.

It's a nice thing to do.

In addition, his wife recently found out that she was two months pregnant.

Well, double happiness is coming.

But unfortunately, this is ninety-eight years, and he He Qichang also has a six-year-old son - He Huanyu.

Second child, do you want it?

It's all your own flesh and blood, how can you not want it.

However, family planning is in full swing nowadays, and as a figure in the system, it is even more necessary to set an example.

A twenty-six-year-old deputy major, the future is still bright.

But He Qichang is not happy, perhaps because of his personality, he may not be suitable for the mixed system.

At the very least, he is a person who does not smoke or drink, and he seems out of place among those smokers and drunkards in the system.

Moreover, if it were not for the work within the system, there would be no need to dwell on the question of whether to do it or not.

It's just a little social support fee, He Qichang's father He Zhengdong's family has a big business, and it is natural to pay some fines.

But the situation is different now, because He Qichang, the deputy department that is about to arrive, He Zhengdong will not say that he will help pay the fine, and he will be the first to ask for an abortion.

After struggling for a long time, He Qichang, who had no courage to resist his father, could only persuade his wife to induce labor. It's easy to say it, it wore out the skin of the mouth, and finally moved out of He Huanyu as an excuse, which made the abortion agreed.

And with the death of this unborn baby, there is also the sweet relationship that they have been glued for seven years of marriage.