"Family emergency?"
Xu Yin carefully recalled the plot. In the original text, nothing happened to the old Xu family this year.
If something really happened, it probably had something to do with Xu Cui.
Could it be that Xu Cui got married for the second time? Let yourself go back for a wedding banquet?
No return!
Xu Yin shook her head. There is still a lot to be done in this year's wasteland reclamation task! There is no time to go back and have a wedding banquet.
So, she replied with the same brief telegram: Married, will return at the end of the year!
"!!!"
After receiving the telegram, Xu's mother was about to burst into tears.
The dead girl is married?
Still in the wasteland!
It's almost close to Siberia, what kind of good in-laws can I find? Isn't he a bachelor who is so poor that he can't find a wife at his age?
Xu's mother was so angry that she was about to have a heart attack.
"Ouch! When did this damn girl have such big ideas? Not only did she follow the reclamation team to such a far place, she also quietly found someone to marry in another place! This is going to piss me off!"
Old man Xu knocked on his pipe and sighed: "She doesn't want to go home. She would rather find a stranger to get married."
These days, there are only two types of people who seek marriage from outsiders: first, those whose family conditions are extremely poor and local girls are unwilling to marry; second, those who have some problem with themselves, such as being silly, crazy, or severely disabled.
It is really difficult to find partners for these two types of people locally.
The woman is slightly better than the man. At least the first point is not required, but the second point is also very troublesome, unless no bride price is required.
"I don't want to ask for anything if I really want to be silly, but our family is in good order and our people are hardworking and capable. As long as we don't make too much of the betrothal gifts, I'm afraid the strong young men rushing to come to propose marriage will not be able to do it. The line goes from the beginning of the village to the end of the village.”
This is why Xu's mother settled on the man so smoothly.
When it comes to her Xu Yin, which young man in the village wouldn't be tempted?
But this damn girl got herself married without saying a word.
I don’t know how much gift the man gave me.
Don't you want to pay back a penny?
The more Xu's mother thought about it, the more frustrated she became.
In order to make the marriage smooth, she spontaneously lowered the bride price to the normal level. Otherwise, with Xu Yin's conditions, if she adds ten yuan, she won't be able to get married.
It turned out that it was a good thing that the dead girl got married in the impoverished Beidahuang without much betrothal gift.
What to do now?
The family has already arranged a marriage for her, and all the bride price has been given to the groom's family.
"Old man, what do you think we should do?"
Old man Xu didn't know what to do.
He smoked a dry cigarette and said for a long time: "If it doesn't work out, let Tweety come back. She is still young. Find someone willing to accept three children..."
"If she is willing to come back, do I need to worry?" Xu's mother interrupted, "Forget it, I will go to the city again tomorrow and ask her."
How could Xu Cui be willing to return to the countryside?
At her employer's house, she has food, shelter, and a salary, and she doesn't have to worry about three children. Her life is much easier than at her parents' house.
More importantly, she felt that the male owner's care and concern for her seemed to go beyond the normal relationship between an employer and a nanny, which made her heart pound.
Although the mistress treated her well, but if...if...
"Tui'er? Tweet'er? Why are you so stunned?" Xu's mother interrupted Xu Cui's heartbeat, "What do you think of your father's proposal?"
"Not so good! Doesn't it cost money to raise a child? I will go home to take care of the child, so what will we, the four of us, eat and wear from now on? Mom, you and my father have to work harder, help take care of them! Every month from now on, I will It’s a subsidy for the family.”
"Mainly... this is not about subsidies!" Xu's mother muttered, "It's not like you don't know your sister-in-law's character."
"Then let the little sister come back! Didn't you send her a telegram? She still refuses to come back?"
Mentioning her youngest daughter, Xu's mother became angry: "Don't mention it, she got married in the land reclamation area. She said she wouldn't come back until the Chinese New Year!"
"What!!!" Xu Cui's voice suddenly rose an octave, "She didn't even discuss it with her family, so why did she get married in a place like that?"
"Hey, you two sisters, each one has bigger ideas than the other. Your father and I can't control you anymore!" Xu's mother waved her hands, "Tui'er, you can either go home as soon as possible. If you really don't want to go back, your father and I can't control you!" After some discussion, we plan to ask the in-laws and if they still refuse to take the grandson over, we will put him up for adoption."
"..."
When a mother gives her biological child away for adoption, she feels somewhat uncomfortable.
Xu Cui opened her mouth and was about to say something when the male owner's steady voice like a subwoofer came from the room: "Xiao Cui? The tea hasn't been brewed yet?"
"Hey, here we come!"
Xu Cui turned around and responded, lowering her voice and saying to Xu's mother: "Mom, you and dad can figure it out! I'm very busy here and don't have the time to worry about this."
"..."
Xu's mother returned home exhausted, and waved her hand to the old man: "Don't ask, it's still the same! The girls are not staying in college, one or two, and their hearts are not at home. According to me, it is really possible to put her up for adoption. "
But looking back at the three sleeping children lying side by side, the old couple couldn't bear to let go.
Xu's mother scolded her little daughter who was far away in Beiguan again: "Damn girl! If she hadn't made her own decisions, how could there have been so many things!"
"Ah sneeze!"
Xu Yin sneezed unexpectedly, scaring away the pheasant that was about to step into the trap.
"Ouch!"
She slapped her forehead in frustration.
"What's wrong?"
Cheng Shaojin came over carrying a hare.
Today is his day off, so he came to the reclamation point early in the morning to see Xu Yin.
Xu Yin felt bad when she saw that every time he came to help her clean the room, wash and dry her room, or accompany her to open up wasteland, she simply asked for a day off this time to take him around the mountains.
This forest was where she saved him.
Returning to my old place feels indescribably cordial.
Cheng Shaojin suggested having a picnic here instead of hunting rabbits. Xu Yin dug a temporary trap and cleaned it to catch a pheasant.
Unexpectedly, a sneeze scared the pheasant away.
"It's okay, the rabbit is quite fat, enough for both of us to eat."
Cheng Shaojin neatly processed the rabbit meat, put it on a sharpened wild fruit tree branch and grilled it over the fire.
Xu Yin asked him to make a few cuts on the rabbit meat with a dagger, then took out the accompanying spices, sprinkled them and roasted them, flipping them and roasting them for a while. Then he took out a small bottle of wild honey and brushed the rabbit meat with clean leaves.
Cheng Shaojin watched her tinkering with a smile.
Xu Yin raised her head and glanced at him: "Why are you laughing!"
"You quite understand."
"Of course, food is the most important thing for the people!"
"Don't take it out and use it when there are outsiders in the future."
Xu Yin was stunned for a moment, and then realized that she was too bourgeois.
"I got it. Isn't this a reward for you coming to accompany me regardless of the weather every time I have a vacation, and you are still busy like a snail girl?"
"Snail man." Cheng Shaojin corrected him seriously.
Xu Yin didn't react for a moment: "Huh? What?"
"I'm a man, how can I be a snail girl?"
"Pfft..."
Xu Yin was amused by him and stuffed a handful of wild raspberries picked on the road into his mouth:
"Yes, yes, my snail man!"
(End of chapter)
