Hou Dewang has four brothers and sisters, he is always the third, two sisters above, and one sister below, and he is the only son in the family.

According to the old customs in the countryside, after he and Tian Xiu got married, they had to live in their in-laws' house.

At that time, only the eldest daughter of the Hou family was married, and the other three daughters remained at home.

After Tian Xiu passed the door, there was an eldest sister, a younger sister-in-law, and a mother-in-law above her head. In the eyes of outsiders, she was offended.

There are many big sisters, many mothers-in-law, many sisters-in-law, and many right and wrong.

The local girl, according to this custom, plus Hou Dewang's appearance and unattractiveness, no one can marry him.

Tian Xiu is an outsider, and he is a bit of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers.

Not long after she knew Hou Dewang, she lived in Hou's house, and she also listened to Zhang Blind's arrangement, saying that Hou Dewang had a bloody disaster and must marry late as soon as possible.

Those rural girls who are good at biting their ears, after hearsay, there are stalks to add leaves, saying that it is Hou Dewang's father who gave Zhang Blind a double hexagram money, and Zhang Blind gave the answer that he must marry later as soon as possible.

After a sensational banquet in the village, Tian Xiu officially became the Hou family.

She began to take care of housework when she was a child, and it was easy to get up early to cook, brush pots and dishes, and other housework.

Fortunately, she has to go to work every day, after breakfast, go to Hou Dewang's bicycle, sit on the back shelf, and go home from work, the meal has been prepared, she is only responsible for brushing the dishes after the meal, easy and happy.

Between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, between sister-in-law and sister-in-law, they all get along very well because Tian Xiu is not picky.

One night when Tian Xiu and Hou Dewang got married for less than half a month, Hou Dewang said that he was hungry and wanted to drink. The two went to the free market after work and bought pork head, sausages, and hairtail at a high price.

Hou Dewang's mother and second sister cooked dinner and waited for Hou Dewang and his family to come back to eat.

When they saw Tian Xiu get off the back shelf of the bicycle and carry a lot of delicious food, her mother-in-law didn't ask about the situation, so she chattered and said: "It's not a New Year's holiday, what are you doing with this unjust money." ”

Hou Dewang and Tian Xiu smiled at each other, unable to explain.

If Hou Dewang told the truth, he was greedy and wanted to open meat, he would be suspected of excusing his wife. If this excuse falls on Tian Xiu, it may cause a lot of disgust in the family.

To put it bluntly, small-scale peasant consciousness is synonymous with narrow-mindedness. To go further, it is to live a hard life and develop the habit of living frugally on every penny.

At dinner that day, Hou Dewang's performance was the most prominent.

He took the initiative to accompany his father to drink, but before his father could drink two or two wines, he poured himself half drunk.

In front of the whole family, he actually kowtowed to Tian Xiu and said, "Thank you for marrying me." ”

Not to mention Tian Xiu's in-laws and sisters, even Tian Xiu was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

The husband and wife slept in a quilt, Tian Xiu was entangled by Hou Dewang, and the "chirping" was endless. It wasn't until dawn that Hou Dewang's wine woke up that he solved the mystery to Tian Xiu.

Yesterday, my brother-in-law told Hou Dewang that today he will receive a notice to officially leave the deep well roadway and return to the ground as a car driver.

That's a pretty job that most people can't even think of.

Tian Xiu was naturally very happy to hear this. In the family of coal miners, who does not want their family to be able to find an errand on the ground.

The next time the deep well is a little more dangerous, and if there is a slight accident, it may be separated from the family yin and yang.

The two of them had breakfast and went to work.

Along the way, they were still thinking about what kind of gift to give their brother-in-law in order to perfectly express their gratitude.

After Tian Xiu established a relationship with Hou Dewang, he was transferred to work in the mine restaurant by Dong Xing, the son-in-law of his eldest sister.

The so-called foreign restaurant is a large bungalow of nearly 200 square meters built at the gate of the coal mine.

Externally, it is called the Red House Hotel, which is open for business, and specially receives guests from all over the world who come to the coal mine to purchase raw coal.

Internally, guests from affiliated units can be used as much as they can do in a public place, and many things that are not easy to say or do in public places can be used as much as possible.

Dong Xing is the deputy mine manager in charge of logistics, and his power is second only to that of a mine manager.

Within the scope of his authority, he took care of his brother-in-law and brother-in-law's daughter-in-law, which seemed normal to outsiders.

It is a pro-tripartite phase, and it is a hot kang on fire.

It is reasonable for the deputy mine manager to arrange good jobs for his relatives, otherwise, who will be the leader and do anything.

This is the root cause of unhealthy tendencies, or corruption, and the key lies in the enslavement of the common people.

Tian Xiu is the accountant of the hotel, not only responsible for the current accounts of the hotel, but also in charge of selling tickets.

When the restaurant opened, she sat in a small cabin near the door, with a menu and price list hanging outside.

After a guest came, ordered a good dish and staple food, and after paying the money, Tian Xiu tore out the corresponding amount of money from a few stacks of meal tickets, five cents, one cent, three cents, five cents, and the maximum face value, and asked the guests to take the meal tickets and go to the front desk to receive the meal.

This is the normal business process of state-run hotels at the beginning of the last century: guests order, pay, and pick up their own food.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the hotel officially opened.

Tian Xiu sat in the cabin, thinking that Hou Dewang might have risen to the ground and reported to the team, or he simply didn't go down the well and went directly to the team.

To say that Dong Xing, the son-in-law of the eldest sister-in-law, is worthy of being the deputy mine manager, and being a man is shrewd. He obviously took care of his daughter-in-law's face and took care of the work of Tian Xiu's husband and wife, but said that all this was for Tian Xiu's face.

Tian Xiu has been working for a few years and has always been engaged in logistics work related to underground coal mining.

It was Dong Xing who gave her special care, first transferred her to work in the Red Mansion Hotel, and then a matchmaker proposed marriage, which fulfilled her marriage to Hou Dewang.

Not only Tian Xiu thinks so, but the people around her are talking about it in private, this is Dong Xing's deliberate arrangement. Arrange a job for Tian Xiu first, and then ask someone to propose marriage, so that Tian Xiu can't refuse.

Now both of them have an enviable job, and then they will have another man and half woman.

After the distribution of staff housing in the mine, they will move to the building to live, not to mention how beautiful the small life will be in the future.

She was dreaming when the team captain ran in and said to Tian Xiu, "Xiao Tian, something happened to Dewang." ”

People who work in coal mines are most afraid of encountering mining disasters when they go down to work.

Hou Dewang worked in the underground for four or five years in fear, and soon after he got married, he was transferred to the surface by his brother-in-law and arranged for him to be a car driver.

A car driver in a coal mine is not something that ordinary people can be.

People with Hou Dewang's background have to stay underground for a few years, and if they change someone else, they may not even dare to think about it.

Hou Dewang came to the mine, and without waiting for the supervisor to announce his job change, he went directly to the team to report.

The team captain announced to him the normal workflow.

He needs to spend three days in the team and receive pre-job safety training. Then go to the city driver training course for three months of professional training.

After graduation, you will pass the driver's license test and return to the team to work as a co-driver for one year, which is the so-called internship period.

"You see what odd jobs there are in the team, if you want to do it, you can do it, and if you don't want to do it, you can stay." The captain of the team gave Dong Xing enough face and let Hou Dewang master the three days by himself.

Hou Dewang is a newcomer and wants to make a good impression on everyone.

He took a broom and wanted to clean the convoy. Without paying attention, the broom knocked over the door lever and smashed it on his head.

He just "buzzed" his head and didn't have any other bad feelings.

The door bar is a wooden stick less than 10 centimeters in diameter and about two meters in length. The garage door is closed before the end of the day, and people stick bars into the door to prevent the door from being opened from the outside.

Usually, the door bar stands next to the gate, and occasionally it is knocked down by someone, and there are no accidents.

Hou Dewang was smashed by the door bar, he picked up the door bar and stood up, and continued to clean.

No one expected that after about ten minutes, someone found that Hou Dewang was bleeding from both nostrils, followed by bleeding from his ears and eyes.

The captain of the team personally accompanied Hou Dewang to the mine clinic, and the two did not go far before Hou Dewang fell to the ground and fell unconscious.

They had the convenience of a car and urgently sent Hou Dewang to the city hospital for medical treatment.

From the time Hou Dewang was smashed to the time he was sent to the emergency room of the municipal hospital, it took less than 40 minutes. Doctors announced that Hou Dewang had suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died.

This incident verified Zhang Blind's sentence: Hou Dewang has a bloody disaster.

He also got married as soon as possible, thinking that he could use the joy of his newlyweds to dispel this disaster, but it turned out that he could not escape fate.

Hou Dewang's greatest contribution was to make a living advertisement for Blind Zhang, so that believers worshiped Blind Zhang even more.

Tian Laofu received a telegram on the same day, his son-in-law died, and he came quickly.

His legs were weak.

When he arrived at his daughter's house, a mourning shed had been set up in the yard, and a drummer had been hired, and the drumming could be heard from afar.

"My daughter's life, why is it so bitter." Tian Lao Wei hugged Tian Xiu, who had already cried into tears, and he was full of tears.

Zhang Blind, as a guest of honor, was invited by the Hou family, and he recited the words, the king of Hades let you die in the third watch, who dares to keep you until the fifth watch.

That being said, the truth is really incredible. Just such a wooden pole, even if someone picks it round and hits someone's head, it may not be able to cause a life.

Tian Xiu has his own explanation for this.

Hou Dewang was rarely excited last night, he drank excessively, and he took the trouble to "chirp" with Tian Xiu for a night, and the excessive excitement led to cerebral hemorrhage, making the plug post a scapegoat.

She didn't dare say that to anyone.

With Dong Xing's position there, the coal mine quickly introduced a compensation plan for Hou Dewang.

According to the upper limit of the latest pension amount, Tian Xiu will be compensated 60,000 yuan. Let Hou Dewang's little sister take his place and become a regular employee of the coal mine.

At the same time, he also promised that if the Hou family had any difficulties in their future life, the mine could try its best to help them solve them.

Tian Xiu married the Hou family less than a month ago, and such a thing happened. Her in-laws, who are very sensible in the eyes of outsiders, openly turned against Tian Xiu for the 60,000 yuan pension.

They asked Tian Xiu that the three of them divide the money equally, each of them get 20,000 yuan, but in fact, they only gave Tian Xiu 20,000 yuan.

Tian Laofu was anxious when he heard it.

Your old Hou family still has no humanity, my daughter became a widow less than a month after marrying into your family, and you are still planning to invest in this money.

What the Hou family's parents said was even more straightforward.

Tian Xiu is still young, and he will definitely remarry in the future, they can't exchange their son's life for money, and cheapen people with foreign surnames.

The stalemate between the two sides was not small, and they almost made a move.

In the end, Dong Xing presided over justice.

He proposed a plan, Hou Dewang's parents only took 20,000 yuan, and the remaining 40,000 yuan belonged to Tian Xiu.

Tian Xiu was unwilling, and he couldn't bear Dong Xing's sharp teeth.

Although the law at that time did not explicitly stipulate that Hou Dewang's parents had the right to enjoy this pension, Tian Xiu and Hou Dewang had not been married long after all, and they had not yet passed the honeymoon period. If Tian Xiu was pregnant with a child at this time, it would be a different matter.

Tian Xiu ran out of ideas, and she handed over the decision to Tian Laofu.

Tian Laofu didn't go through this kind of thing, he was bent on leaving all the money to his daughter.

How could Dong Xing be the deputy mine manager, in charge of his daughter's future destiny, Tian Laofu couldn't openly save Dong Xing's face.

"Let me figure it out." Tian Laofu didn't express his attitude immediately, he said that he wanted to go to his brother's house to discuss Tian Mei's marriage, so he hurriedly left the Hou family and rushed to his eldest brother's house three miles away.

Tian Laofu knew the strength of the eldest brother in this area, and wanted to find a good opinion from the eldest brother.

The eldest brother told him that there are often family members of mining disasters in the vicinity, and in order to receive blood funds, the family makes the family jump.

Under normal circumstances, if there are elderly people, they have to give a part of the pension to the elderly according to a certain proportion. Basically, widows and children take the big heads, and the old people take the small heads.

It's a pity that Tian Xiu just got married and has no children. In this sense, Dong Xing's distribution plan is quite reasonable.

Tian Laofu listened to his eldest brother's opinion, he didn't dare to slack off, for fear that the night would be long and dreamy, and the Hou family would have another accident.

At this time, it was already getting dark, he said goodbye to his eldest brother and sister-in-law, and hurried back to his daughter's house to make a final separation with the Hou family.

He walked in a hurry all the way, thinking about what tricks the Hou family might play again.

As he walked, a voice came from behind him: "Dad." ”

Tian Laofu jumped up in fright, and when he looked back, Xiao Hei was carrying a schoolbag and laughing at him.

"Why are you here?" Tian Laofu grabbed Xiao Hei, and before Xiao Hei could answer, he waved his hand and slapped Xiao Hei in the mouth and said, "Your brother-in-law died, is it your ghost." ”