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Since his daughter married into the Deng family, Zhang Zhenfa's status in the village has unconsciously improved several levels.

In the past, due to his poor family, Zhang Zhenfa himself did not have much ability and had almost no say in the village. The only thing that could make people take a high look was that he had four sons.

In rural areas, a family with more sons is better than a family with fewer sons.

After all, there is strength in numbers!

Although people in this era generally started with five or six children, many families who gave birth to six or seven children did not necessarily have four sons. Zhang Zhenfa only gave birth to five children, but four of them were sons. This alone is already compared to Many people in the village became strong.

But then again, although there are not many families with four or five sons in the village, there are about ten families, among which Zhang Zhenfa is not conspicuous.

It wasn't until his daughter got married that Zhang Zhenfa finally gained a certain prestige in the village by leveraging his family's influence. The most obvious change was that more people took the initiative to show his favor to him. Every now and then, someone would bring two handfuls of vegetables or something to his house. .

This change made Zhang Zhenfa and his wife, who had never had much presence in the village, couldn't help but be happy.

Although Zhang Zhenfa and his wife have little education, decades of life experience have made them understand that all this is because their daughter married well. If their daughter had not married into the Deng family with excellent conditions, then the couple would have wanted to have what they have now in the village. status, that is impossible.

Today, their daughter is bringing her new uncle home, and Zhang Zhenfa and his wife are extremely happy.

Zhang Zhenfa had prepared a lot of good things early, and was ready to entertain this son-in-law, who although he had not met yet, had already earned him enough face.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhang's mother had cut the gray-water zhinal, the big zhinal, and the hairy zhinal, and the boiling water was already boiling. She just waited for her daughter and son-in-law to arrive, so she could make tea and fry the zhinal as soon as possible.

Zhang Zhenfa, on the other hand, was sitting at the door holding a hookah, staring in the direction of the village entrance, and burning a pipe from time to time.

As for Sister-in-law Zhang and Second Sister-in-law Zhang, they also wiped the table clean and put some candies, biscuits, melon seeds and the like on the table with lids.

The four brothers of the Zhang family had nothing to do, so they sat at the door of their home, craning their necks with their father to look towards the entrance of the village.

Around ten thirty in the morning.

The sharp-eyed Zhang Shoujun saw two bicycles riding towards the village entrance from a distance. The bicycles were none other than his sister and brother-in-law. He immediately shouted: "Look, sister and brother-in-law are here!"

Zhang Zhenfa and his three other sons immediately looked toward the entrance of the village after hearing the words. Zhang's mother and two daughters-in-law also heard the shouting and quickly walked out of the house.

Soon, Zhang Xiuping and Deng Yuntai arrived.

Say hello to each other and skip the words.

The Zhang family had seen the bicycle that Deng Yuntai rode. After all, Deng Shirong rode this bicycle to their house several times, but the brand-new bicycle that Zhang Xiuping rode had never been seen by the Zhang family. Seeing it was like With the Phoenix-like national standard, even people who have never seen a Phoenix brand bicycle can guess what brand of bicycle it is.

After saying hello, Zhang’s mother couldn’t help but ask: “Xiuping, is this a Phoenix brand bicycle?”

Zhang Xiuping nodded and smiled: "Well, this is the Phoenix brand bicycle my father-in-law bought years ago."

Sister-in-law Zhang next to her said with envy on her face: "Phoenix bicycles are so beautiful."

Sister-in-law Zhang’s eyes lit up when she saw it: “Yes, this bicycle is really beautiful!”

After Zhang Zhenfa said hello, he began to look at his son-in-law. He was indeed quite ordinary in appearance, but he had a very good spirit and an ideal height. Coupled with his own abilities and family background, he was quite satisfied with such a son-in-law.

After some polite exchanges, Zhang's mother and Zhang's sister-in-law, Zhang's second sister-in-law, went up to help untie the glutinous rice balls. When they saw the two glutinous rice balls filled with various gifts, the Zhang family naturally exclaimed.

Zhang's mother couldn't help but ask: "Xiuping, what's in this bag?"

Zhang Xiuping smiled and said: "Those wrapped are all candies, biscuits, dried fruit preserves, melon seed cakes and the like. The bottom is meat. Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you go get baskets and put them in. If you get two more baskets, I will give them to you." Send a copy to Fourth Uncle’s family and Uncle Man’s family.”

Sister-in-law Zhang and Second Sister-in-law Zhang responded and hurried back to the kitchen to get the basket.

When the basket came, Zhang Xiuping started to get things for her fourth uncle's house and uncle Man's house. Her father-in-law prepared two fans for her to bring back, one of which was not cut, and the other one was cut in half. One portion for Uncle Man’s family.

Huishui Zhi and Da Zhi also took a little each.

Then there is the haired jackal, which is divided into jackal heads and jackal cubs. The jackal cubs are about the size of duck eggs, but the jackal head is at least as big as an adult's fist.

Generally, when a married daughter returns to her parents' home, she will bring a jackal head with her. Therefore, whenever the Hakka family in Bobai gives birth to a daughter, they will say that they will have jackal heads to eat in the future.

Zhang Xiuping brought a jackal head and eight jackal cubs to her fourth uncle's family and uncle Man's family, and finally packaged one piece each of candy biscuits, dried fruit preserves, and melon seed cakes.

Of course, garlic is also indispensable. I also took two pieces and put them on the basket.

After dividing them up, Zhang Xiuping asked her husband to carry them to her fourth uncle's house and Man Shu's house.

Seeing that the niece and nephew-in-law brought so many gifts, the fourth uncle, fourth aunt and uncle and aunt Man were naturally very happy and rushed to set a time to treat them.

According to the rules of the Bobai Hakka family, when the woman brings her new uncle back home, as long as the uncle receives a gift, she must take turns entertaining them for dinner.

After delivering the gifts, Zhang's mother had already boiled the tea and was frying the ashes.

Zhang Zhenfa asked his daughter and son-in-law to sit down. Zhang Shouguo and Zhang Shoumin, the eldest and second brothers, also came to accompany them. Sister-in-law Zhang and Sister-in-law Zhang helped pour tea, and the other took apart some of the pastries brought back by the sister-in-law and placed them on clean lids.

Zhang Xiuping asked: "Big brother and second brother, have your shops been opened?"

Zhang Shouguo shook his head and said, "Not yet!"

Zhang Xiuping asked: "Did you encounter any problems?"

Zhang Shouguo said: "The main reason is that the family's opinions are not unified yet. I have taken a fancy to a small house in a good location and want to spend money to buy it as a store. But my father thinks the price is too high, but I can't lower the price." .

There is also the matter of buying a bicycle, and Dad is still hesitating. "

Zhang Xiuping looked at her father and said, "Dad, what do you think?"

Zhang Zhenfa took a sip of tea and said: "The main reason is that I don't know whether I can make money by opening this store. I have to invest so much money at once. I really don't know what to do. You also know that this money was originally reserved. What will you do if you lose money by investing in a wife for Xiaojun and Xiaoshan? "

Zhang Xiuping said: "Dad, don't worry. My father-in-law said that the probability of losing money in this business is very low. As long as you run it carefully, there is still a high possibility of making money. It is said in the book that if you are poor, you will want to change. Our family's conditions are not good. , If you still don’t dare to give it a try, how can there be a way out?”