Rebirth 09: Buying a house with a baby UP owner

Zhong Meihui returned home. In her memory, her parents had not seen her for six years. For her, the distance between them was even longer, almost a whole life.

"Meihui is back, come in quickly." Zhong Meihui's mother was quite enthusiastic after seeing her. After all, her pregnant daughter could be exchanged for a gift of 10 yuan, which greatly exceeded their expectations.

It's just that Zhong Meihui's father has always avoided seeing her. As soon as he saw her coming back, he hid in his house and kept criticizing Huai. He said, both internally and externally, that his daughter was getting married, so she should keep everything she earned before. At home, there is no reason to marry with a house.

Zhong Meihui knew that her father was complaining that she did not sell the house to bring back the money, and was afraid that it would be left to her husband's family in the future. Thinking of this, even the 10 yuan gift would be a loss for him.

If it were in her previous life, Zhong Meihui would definitely feel guilty when she saw her father so angry. But now that she has been reborn, she has long recognized the patriarchal nature of her parents and will not feel any sadness at all. Instead, she feels that she keeps the money in her own hands. The right choice is in your hands.

"The child finally came back. What are you talking about? Meihui understands the truth. Her husband is not as good as her brother in marriage. How could she not help her brother in the future, but instead send the money to the Chu family, which is cheaper? A wild girl who is not related by blood."

Zhong Meihui's mother stressed that Chu Shoucheng was an outsider and wanted to continue sucking Zhong Meihui's blood after she got married. She enthusiastically asked Zhong Meihui's brother to come out to carry the box. As soon as he put it on the bed, she couldn't wait to open it. I wanted to see what Zhong Meihui had prepared for them.

"Why didn't you buy anything for your family? You haven't been back for so many years and you don't know how to bring some gifts. Look at the young people in this village who don't bring whole boxes of good cigarettes and wine to their homes when they come back."

When Zhong Meihui's mother saw that there were only a few clothes in her box, her face suddenly darkened. She felt that Zhong Meihui was so ignorant that she didn't even prepare clothes for their engagement party.

"Mom, there is no girl in our village who can ask for a 10 yuan gift. You can't buy tobacco, alcohol, clothes, etc. with this much money." Zhong Meihui dismissed her mother with just one sentence, and she raised her head and looked Looking inside the room, I found that there was really no festive atmosphere here, as if nothing had been prepared.

"Mom, how are the preparations for our family's wedding banquet? How many tables are we going to invite? Have we chosen a restaurant? Where are we going to hold it? And why is there nothing red in this house? You don't want me to even say "happy" Just get engaged without posting it.”

Zhong Meihui knew that Chu Shou was ready in Chengdu, but she still had a glimmer of hope in her parents to see if they could help her prepare the engagement party for the sake of the 10 yuan gift.

"We have already agreed. Our family will invite four tables, the Chu family will invite one table, and the banquet will be held in the town. The Chu family has said that they will take care of the banquet. As for the decorations, they will naturally have to do it. Come on, let’s not use it here at our house. We are all going to town anyway, and no one will see whether the red decorations are hung in this house. If you don’t think it looks good, you can decorate it yourself tomorrow. You are back anyway.”

Zhong Meihui's mother took this stingy thing to the extreme. She actually agreed early on that Chu Shoucheng would pay for everything. If Zhong Meihui wanted anything else, she would have to pay for it herself, and they would not care. .

"You guys are really reluctant to post a single happy word to me."

Zhong Meihui knew she couldn't be angry at this time. She closed the door and called Chu Shoucheng and asked him to send the prepared things over tomorrow and arrange them.

"I know, I'll go there early tomorrow morning." Chu Shoucheng prepared a lot of things. The red silk, happy words, wedding candies and wedding cigarettes were all prepared in double portions, making the small courtyard of Zhong Meihui's house lively. , even the two big trees at the entrance are hung with red silk. As soon as you enter the village, you can see this large area of ​​​​red.

"Mei Hui, this Xiao Chu is quite good at doing things." Zhong Meihui's parents were very happy. They received so many betrothal gifts, but they didn't spend a penny on the wedding banquet and decoration. This kind of business that only goes out but doesn't come in, made them I think it's a very good deal.

On the morning of the 18th, firecrackers went off one after another at Zhong Meihui’s house. Everyone in the village knew that Zhong Meihui was getting engaged. Chu Shoucheng even hired two cars to pick up Zhong Meihui and her parents and brothers. When they arrived in the town, this kind of standard treatment was basically the same as getting engaged, making everyone in the village envious.

At first, everyone thought that Zhong Meihui married a second-married man, and they were still secretly laughing at her, but now they all changed their tune and thought that a second-married man would be more caring.

"Don't be envious. Zhong Meihui has studied and worked in the city. She is naturally very noble. How can she be like us who have never left the village."

Several married women were full of jealousy, but they could only watch the cars drive away.

Chu Shoucheng's wedding banquet was the best in the town. All kinds of chicken, duck, fish and meat were available, and even the drinks were all good wines. There were also many roses arranged at the engagement site. Although they were all artificial flowers, they were extremely festive.

When Zhong Meihui got off the car, someone had already taken the colorful ribbons and kept spraying them into the air.

"Old Zhong, your daughter's engagement banquet was really lively, the only one in the world."

"I have long heard that Lao Zhong loves his daughter. This pomp is comparable to his son marrying his wife."

The people who came to Zhong Meihui's family were all close relatives. After seeing such a scene, they all praised Zhong Meihui's parents. The two people responded with smiles, without mentioning that Chu Shoucheng had arranged these banquets.Fortunately, Chu Shoucheng's relatives didn't know the truth, and they all thought that the engagement party was so lively because of the Zhong Meihui family's emphasis on their daughter.

According to the custom in my hometown, the bride price is given after the engagement banquet, so the most important part of the engagement banquet is to recognize the relatives. There is no need for more than one person to come. The two newlyweds also have to give each person a red envelope. Generally, it is 200 yuan for adults and 50 yuan for children. [-] yuan, and everyone has a share.

This method of toasting is very expensive. For example, if Zhong Meihui's uncle's family comes to his house with a family of six, it will cost 200 yuan for each of the uncle and aunt, and 50 yuan for each of the four children, a total of 600 yuan.

In order to get more red envelopes, all the relatives came with their families, especially Zhong Meihui’s family, which had a lot of children. Basically, there were 12 or even 14 people at each table.

Zhong Meihui and Chu Shoucheng walked around the banquet tables and gave out all the red envelopes in their hands. In the end, they had to borrow some red paper from the front desk and took out the cash to give red envelopes to relatives' children on the spot. .

Zhong Meihui did some calculations in secret and found that after five banquets, including the red envelope money and the 10 yuan gift, all the 11 yuan was spent, with nothing left.