But they were not here to take He Qinglian home, but to discuss the marriage between He Qinglian and Zhuo Jian with Zhuo Jian's mother.
It turned out that after He Qinglian contacted her parents, they were naturally surprised and happy to learn what happened to her. However, He Qinglian immediately said that Zhuo Jian spent 30,000 yuan to redeem her from others, and then asked her family. Can you come up with so much money to pay Zhuo Jian back?
In the 1990s, for an ordinary family in a mountainous area, 30,000 yuan was undoubtedly an astronomical figure.
My parents' mood immediately changed from overjoyed to extremely sad.
But He Qinglian continued calmly on the phone, I also know that our family won't be able to come up with so much money for a while, so you don't have to come here in a hurry, otherwise you will come here with empty hands to pick up people, Brother Zhuo just It will be assumed that we have no intention of repaying the money, and we will not be able to explain it when the time comes.
We might as well live in Brother Zhuo's house first, so that he won't worry about us defaulting on our debts. Besides, Brother Zhuo is rarely at home. There are only old people and children at home, and there are not even any young people working. I will help him with the work, and I will get along well with him. Then I will find a chance to talk to him. See Can our family pay it back slowly, a little bit every year, until it is all repaid?
The parents believed it, and after thinking about it carefully, they could only do what their daughter said.
Over the next period of time, her parents slowly figured out that something was wrong. He Qinglian said on the phone that she wanted to stay and work at the home of the person named Zhuo. Her tone was full of joy, as if she wanted to do this. In addition, even if a teacher has no worries about food, clothing and life, it should not be so easy to have 30,000 yuan readily available. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a "poor teacher."
As a result, the parents vaguely guessed their daughter's little thoughts: If she was not admitted to the female university, she was afraid that she fell in love with the teacher named Zhuo, so they deliberately made up the story "Brother Zhuo spent 30,000 yuan to get her out of the university." This section not only allows her parents to know her whereabouts and avoids worries, but also "persuades" her parents to allow her to continue to stay in the home of Zhuo.
Although the parents' guesses were pretty close, they were not sure that this was the truth. Besides, what does it mean if she, a girl, stays in the house of a bachelor man for a long time?
They wanted to know the truth of the matter, but they knew that asking He Qinglian directly would not work. They knew very well what kind of temper their daughter was. Since she had lied to deceive them, they would definitely refuse to admit it until death.
At the same time, they wanted to know what the character of the man surnamed Zhuo was, and whether his daughter would "suffer a disadvantage" if she lived in his house. If he had a good character, and He Qinglian had already fallen in love with him, then they would just go with the flow and let it go. This is Nizi's "wish".
But how can we figure out the ins and outs of the matter and find out the character of Zhuo?
The parents quickly thought of the phone call He Qinglian made to them. He Qinglian made the call from a public phone in a canteen in Niaoshan Village.
So, my parents went to the supply and marketing cooperative in their village, looked up the caller number, and then called back and learned the whole story from the canteen owner's mouth.
The owner of the canteen confirmed that Zhuo Jian indeed spent money to redeem He Qinglian from a group of people. Many people saw it with their own eyes at the time, but he only spent a few thousand yuan. He also praised Zhuo Jian's character and said that he spent a lot of money. He paid for money to rescue He Qinglian, but never did anything wrong to He Qinglian. As long as He Qinglian contacted her family and asked them to take her back. XiuShu.com
He Qinglian's parents suddenly lost their worries, but began to worry again: their daughter obviously fell in love with Zhuo Jian, who had an excellent reputation. But Zhuo Jian is a teacher and a "literary person". Will he like his daughter? Besides, even if the daughter stays in the Zhuo family willingly, they have no name and no status, so it won't be a problem if they continue like this.
He Qinglian only graduated from junior high school. When she was 18 or 19 years old, she went out to work. However, she was deceived by a trafficker at the station in the name of recruiting workers. In the end, she was sold to a man with meningitis. Fortunately, He Qinglian was bold, careful, and quite resourceful. , actually found the opportunity and ran out successfully.
After much sleeplessness, He Qinglian's parents decided to contact Zhuo Jian's mother directly. Their daughter said that Zhuo Jian still had a mother who was still alive. As the so-called "knowing son" is better than his mother, Zhuo Jian's mother must have known about her son.
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Furthermore, the daughter also said that she lives with Zhuo's mother most of the time. If she contacts Zhuo's mother directly, she may not only know Zhuo Jian's attitude towards her daughter from her, but also listen to Zhuo's mother's views on her daughter and find out. Does Zhuo's mother have any thoughts about this between Zhuo Jian and her daughter?
So, He Qinglian's parents called the canteen in Niaoshan Village and spoke directly to Zhuo Jian's mother through the canteen owner.
The parents on both sides hit it off as soon as they spoke on the phone.
Zhuo Jian's mother patted her chest and said that her son must have thoughts about Qinglian, but her son was a thin-faced man. He clearly had thoughts about Qinglian, but he didn't dare to say it out. Even she, a mother, looked anxious. . If he, a man, doesn't speak out about this kind of thing and doesn't pierce the layer of paper, is it possible for a little girl to take the initiative to stick it on him?
Zhuo's mother also liked Qinglian very much and praised her profusely. She said that Qinglian was not only down-to-earth and hard-working, but also smart. If she could marry that stupid son of her family, she would be a member of the Zhuo family. Smoke billows from the ancestral graves.
He Qinglian's parents were very happy.
In this way, behind He Qinglian and Zhuo Jian's back, they decided on their marriage after a few phone calls. As for the more specific details of the marriage, they decided to meet in person to discuss it in detail.
The arrival of He Qinglian's parents eliminated the barrier between her and Zhuo Jian. Their two hearts were tightly attached to each other, and the marriage was quickly completed.
At that time, He Qinglian was 19 years old, 15 years younger than Zhuo Jian, and 9 years older than Zhuo Yu.
After the two got married, Zhuo's mother always hoped that her new daughter-in-law would give her a real grandson.
He had been looking forward to this for three or four years, but there was still no movement in He Qinglian's belly.
Zhuo Jian and his ex-wife gave birth to twins, so it was most likely that He Qinglian had a fertility problem.
Although Zhuo's mother complained a lot, He Qinglian was kind, filial, hard-working, and kept the house in order. She and Zhuo Jian were always in love with each other, and Zhuo Jian always stood by He Qinglian, telling Zhuo's mother that the Zhuo family was good anyway. I already have one child, and boys and girls are the same, so it doesn’t matter whether I have more children or not.
Zhuo's mother had nothing to say.
When Zhuo Yu was 14 years old. One Saturday afternoon, He Qinglian and her child's grandmother prepared a sweet and delicious meal as usual, boiled the wine, and set up the wine glasses to wait for Zhuo Jian to come home to spend a happy weekend. At dusk, the path stretching into the distance in front of the house gradually became blurry, but Zhuo Jian was still nowhere to be seen.
Waiting until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the two of them finally received bad news amidst intense uneasiness: Zhuo Jian died due to the collapse of a dilapidated school building and would never come back. XiuShu.com
He Qinglian fainted and fell to the ground.
After finishing Zhuo Jian's funeral, Zhuo Jian's mother looked at He Qinglian, who was busy and haggard, and couldn't help but said: "Qinglian, you are still young, and you and Zhuo Jian don't have children..."
He Qinglian turned her gaze to Zhuo Yu. After being lost in thought for a while, she turned back to look at Zhuo's mother: "Mom, Zhuo Jian is no longer here, are you going to drive me away?"
Zhuo Yu, who was only 14 years old at the time, gradually grew eyebrows and eyes. Not only did he have thin skin and tender flesh, but he was also handsome. He also spoke softly and was quite shy in dealing with others. He was very similar to Zhuo Jian.
He Qinglian saw Zhuo Jian's figure in Zhuo Yu. After all, she still couldn't let go of Zhuo Jian, nor could she let go of her child.
Zhuo's mother suddenly felt sad when she thought about this. Her emotions filled with words finally turned into a long sigh.
Zhuo Yu, who lost his biological parents, is very sensible and filial to his stepmother and grandmother. He Qinglian pinned all her feelings for her husband on Zhuo Yu, caring for her and caring even more.
After Zhuo Yu failed the college entrance examination, when she was eighteen or nineteen years old, a girl of the same age from a neighboring village fell in love with her. This girl was named Xue Qingyun.
As mentioned before, Zhuo Yu's mother has always raised Zhuo Yu as a boy, and she has also declared this to the outside world. Not only the villagers believe it, but even He Qinglian believed it when she first arrived at Zhuo's house.
After He Qinglian and Zhuo Jian got married, Zhuo Jian once asked her to go into the bathroom to rub Zhuo Yu's back while he was taking a bath, saying that this would enhance the relationship between her and her children, but He Qinglian did not.
Although this method is good, it is not very appropriate to say that as children grow older and develop the concept of male and female.
After Zhuo Jian was stunned for a long time, he suddenly smiled and said that Zhuo Yu was born as a girl and the child's grandma would have raised her as a boy. Otherwise, she wouldn't have urged us to have a baby quickly. The old lady wanted to have a grandson.
Only then did He Qinglian realize that Zhuo Yu was born as a girl.
Because she was not up to par, He Qinglian could only turn a blind eye to the actions of her child's grandmother.
Even He Qinglian got Zhuo Yu's gender wrong, let alone Xue Qingyun from the neighboring village.
Perhaps it was the masculine education given to Zhuo Yu by her grandma from childhood, which gave her a misplaced gender consciousness. Zhuo Yu actually accepted Xue Qingyun's pursuit and then started a "love" relationship with her.
But Zhuo Yu was a smart person and never disclosed her relationship with Xue Qingyun in front of her stepmother and grandmother. She only said that Xue Qingyun and her were good best friends.
Therefore, in the eyes of the villagers, Zhuo Yu and Xue Qingyun were dating, but in the eyes of the stepmother and grandmother, the two were just normal best friends.
As time passed, He Qinglian, who was also a clever girl, gradually realized that something was wrong:
Ever since Zhuo Yu started dating Xue Qingyun, he seemed to have focused all his energy on this best friend who suddenly appeared, paying no attention to the family affairs; Xue Qingyun also often ran to Zhuo Yu's house, and these two The tone and demeanor when talking between them made it seem like they were "flirting and talking about love."
