NOVEL NEXT Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Everything is ready
After Zhang Lanmei left, Zhang Qianxiu rubbed his wet eyes and counted the money, which was 36 yuan and 5 cents.
Zhang Qianxiu collected the money and decided to ask his uncle to borrow a bicycle for two days tomorrow, and then go to the market to collect rice.
In the evening, when Hu Jine saw that his son hadn’t come out to eat, he specially reserved a bowl for his son and brought it in: “Xiaoxiu, you didn’t have dinner here. Mom left a bit for you.”
Zhang Qianxiu was actually not hungry. Liu Zhijian invited wontons at noon. Two rice **** stayed. On the way back, Zhang Qianxiu ate the rice balls: “Mom, I’m not hungry!”
“How can you not be hungry? You have eaten this morning and you have never had a home.” Hu Jin’e stuffed the bowl into his son’s hand and stuffed his chopsticks over.
Zhang Qianxiu held the bowls and chopsticks and said, “Mom, you also persuade Dad not to let my sister marry Han Changsheng, and give back the bride price early, and don’t make any trouble.”
Hu Jin’e is also a woman, and she loves her daughter too, but she also thinks that “the words of the matchmaker ordered by parents” are right: “Xiaoxiu, don’t worry about your sister’s affairs. In fact, the Han family is not bad. Even if you are rich, you can still eat a good bite no matter how bad the marriage is? Our family will not get a little bit of meat and fish all year round.”
Zhang Qianxiu didn’t know why his mother had such thoughts, and he couldn’t help but feel a little anxious: “Mom, marrying is a lifelong matter. That is the happiness of my sister’s life. What happiness can I have with Han Changsheng?”
Hu Jin’e sighed and said, “What is happy or unhappy, you will know when you reach your mother’s age, that your children live well, and men are all the same? They are all found by parents.”
Zhang Qianxiu said nothing. Zhang Qianxiu couldn’t understand his mother’s view of marriage.
Zhang Qianxiu bowed his head to eat.
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The next day, Zhang Qianxiu left early in the morning, and he was going to his uncle’s house.
Zhang Qianxiu’s uncle was in Jiuniu’ao, ten miles away from Zhangjiaping, and it happened to be here today.
Zhang Qianxiu can go to the collection and harvest rice by borrowing a bicycle. When he passed the market, he spent two yuan on the way to buy some fruits and snacks, so he could not go empty-handed.
As soon as Zhang Qianxiu arrived at the door, his cousin Hu Shanshan yelled and ran up: “Mom, my cousin is here.”
Hu Shanshan was only eleven years old. Seeing what Zhang Qianxiu was eating, she reached out and grabbed it: “Cousin, why are you here today?”
Zhang Qianxiu gave the snacks to his cousin and said, “Come and borrow your bicycle for two days.”
“Oh!” Hu Shanshan didn’t care: “I heard that my cousin is getting married? When?”
Speaking of this matter, Zhang Qianxiu felt a little annoyed. The gift money had already been received. When the Han family came, they would either agree or pay the money, or else it would be unreasonable for the Zhang family to talk about it.
Zhang Qianxiu reluctantly smiled: “It’s not settled yet, maybe it won’t be settled.”
Hu Shanshan said “Oh”, and the children’s family didn’t have that much thought.
Aunt and uncle also ran out at this time.
Uncle Hu Jinsong still likes Zhang Qianxiu very much, because this nephew knows how to be polite and learns well: “Xiaoxiu, why are you here alone?”
“Uncle, aunt, I want to borrow your bicycle for two days.” Zhang Qianxiu said as he handed the fruit to his uncle.
Hu Jinsong took the fruit: “Okay, you can use it. I heard that your sister is getting married?”
Aunt also looked at Zhang Qianxiu, obviously more concerned about this matter.
Zhang Qianxiu was silent for a while and said, “My dad received a gift, because there have been no good days in the past two days. When there are good days, he will come to propose marriage, but I don’t agree with the marriage of my sister.”
Aunt Cao Chunyan felt that Zhang Qianxiu was a little ignorant: “Xiao Xiu, this is all decided by your parents and your sister. You are still young, so don’t worry about it.”
Zhang Qianxiu smiled secretly, he is sixteen years old now.
Although in rural areas, many people have already dropped out of school when they were teenagers and started to help with family farming, and a small number of them go out to work, but in the eyes of the elders, after all, they are still a child. When marriage is such a big matter, he should not be a child. And make trouble.
Zhang Qianxiu knew very well in his heart that his own theory of free love and independent marriage was totally unreasonable to the older generation. He could only wait for the trend of the times to slowly wash out and change their concepts.
After entering the door, Zhang Qianxiu went to see his grandfather.
Grandpa fought a battle and was a transporter on the battlefield, specially sending artillery shells and bullets to the front line.
Grandpa’s leg was injured by bomb fragments and was lame, but he was very energetic and liked to go out on crutches.
When my grandfather saw Zhang Qianxiu, he also smiled and asked, “Xiao Xiu, I’m still talking about these two days, let your uncle go to your house. I heard that Lan Mei’s child is getting married?”
Zhang Qianxiu could barely squeeze a smile. The family members were all happy about the marriage of her sister. In everyone’s eyes, marriage was originally a happy thing, but Zhang Qianxiu couldn’t be happy.
There was nothing wrong with borrowing the car. By the way, I took two big bags and a rope at my uncle’s house.
Riding on the twenty-eight bars, Zhang Qianxiu hurried to the market.