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The next day, Liu Xia and the others got up early again. They had finished their breakfast before six o'clock. The family finished all the work that should be done, and sat down with the uncles and aunts who came to help from the head of the Liu family. Waiting in the yard for the welcoming team to come back.

Unexpectedly, when it was almost nine o'clock, they were the brothers Chu Fenghe and Chu Xiaohe who were shirtless and sweating profusely.

Chu Xiaohe almost half-lyed and half-lyed there and drank a teapot of water. He was so exhausted that he didn't say a word for a long time.

Chu Fenghe is better than him, at least he can greet people politely and thoughtfully, and he can sit up straight.

After summer, the weather in the Central Plains Province was dry, and it hadn’t rained for almost a month. The two brothers looked back at Ning to water the fields and weed the grass. The work had already been done the day before yesterday. Yu Suili.

The two set off at four o'clock and wanted to arrive early while it was cool, but they couldn't move as they walked, and they rested for half an hour on the top of the kiln slope before continuing to walk.

Liujialing didn’t have the habit of presenting cash gifts before, but the ceremony table still had to be set up, and the gift list was still a must. Although the gifts received were basically a few eggs or a dried rabbit or pheasant, or even half a bowl of sorghum or wheat, that was also the case. Reciprocity.

But today the Chu Fenghe brothers made an exception, and they wanted ten yuan.

Liu Changqing closed the red book: "Baby, I know the situation of both of you, the gift is a wish, and it's all right if you do your best, and you can't squeeze yourself out."

Chu Fenghe was a little anxious: "Uncle, I didn't. Now I can earn tens of dollars a month, and sometimes I can earn more than a hundred yuan when I get better. I didn't slap my face swollen to pretend to be fat."

Liu Ling said to Chu Fenghe: "Fenghe, let me tell you, if you pay two yuan, you will win. No matter how much more, my uncle will definitely not accept it. That's it, two yuan."

Chu Fenghe and Chu Xiaohe didn't do anything, and the fight with Liu Ling and Liu Hai looked like a fight to outsiders, and they finally paid five yuan before giving up.

Xiumei served noodles for the two brothers, and the two chatted with them while eating the noodles. Chu Fenghe said, "Liu Ling, you don't know, those letters you wrote to me made me look good. My son saw it, and said, I can't see it, Fenghe, I heard that you used to be poor and couldn't fit your pants, but you still have friends in Kyoto.

He saw how beautiful your handwriting was, so he asked me how my handwriting was.

My writing is definitely not as good as yours, but I will be able to read it soon. Now I will notify me when there is work at my head, and ask me to manage the accounts for him. I just send and receive materials every day. Family members are like friends, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.

My boss just thinks that if I can be friends with a high-achieving military academy student like you, I must be similar, otherwise people won't let me take care of it. "

Liu Ling said: "How can you be so good, you still have to strive for it yourself. I heard my third brother said that no matter where you are working, you can spare no effort. Show the scene to others, and always keep everything in order. You In this way, people will not worry about being used wherever they go.”

Liu Xia asked about Chu Xiaohe's situation at school, and Chu Xiaohe said, "My school is definitely not as good as yours, but I think it's not bad.

Liu Xia, have you heard that all college graduates this year are called the grassroots. I have contact with some fellow villagers in our school. Seven of them graduated this year. Write to me in the past few days. All five of them have been assigned to the village, but the school has not yet been decided, and they are afraid that they will be assigned to the village;

There are also two family members who are looking for connections and want to keep them in the county. They didn't go to get the assignment letter and spent a lot of time at home. They all said that they were not at ease. I can't go anymore.

Although my school can’t compare with yours, it’s still a junior college, and most of them could be assigned to the county town before. Zhang Changxi graduated from Rongze Normal School last year and was assigned to Gudukou Township, but my school has to be assigned to the village. What is going on this year? "

Liu Xia shook his head, he didn't know either, but he thought of what Qiao Yanfang assigned, and thought it should be related to that event, but he didn't say it: such a huge patriotic movement, the three college students in his family didn't Participating, he felt very ashamed.

Chu Fenghe said: "It's okay, Xiaohe, if you are assigned to the village, you will be assigned to the village. As long as you are paid, you don't have to work in the fields every day to win."

Su Xiaohui said: "Teacher Wang also said that he would like to ask the Education Bureau for more than ten people this year. There are more and more students in my school, the class has been expanding, and the teachers have never been enough. According to Xiaohe, my school may not be able to ask for more students this year." Got it!"

Liu Xia asked Su Xiaohui: "Sister-in-law, I brought those things to Mr. Wang, does he think it's useful?"

When Liu Xia came back from the winter vacation last year, he brought back part of Che Jie’s senior year review materials and various mock test papers. Rongze High School was about to face the final exam at that time. handed over.

Su Xiaohui said: "Oh——, I forgot to tell you, when I came back this year, Mr. Wang didn't take care of it. During the winter vacation, he thought it was very good. He asked me to tell you, if it is convenient, let you read it this year Find some first and second grade jelly and bring it to him."

During the winter vacation, Liu Xia brought all the high school materials that Che Jie and Gu Xiaoting found for him. At that time, he felt that the first and second grades were of little use, so he didn't bring them.

A large group of folks came up to talk, carrying all kinds of things ready to be used as gifts.

Xiumei, Su Xiaohui, Yunzhi, Yuzhi and their helping aunts and sisters-in-law were busy serving noodles; Liu Changqing and Liu Changchun went to talk to the men.

Sun Chang'e sat in the shade of the tree and shelled the ancient dragons Liu Yun, Liu Lei, and Liu Nana. The three little people were sitting on the small bench upright, waiting to be fed like birds.

Liu Chengbin sat at the reception table today and was in charge of registering cash gifts and gifts.

Liu Xia and the others gave up Chu Fenghe and Chu Xiaohe to the cave dwelling in the main room. The country people are not so particular. They wanted the tired brothers to rest for a while on Liu Changchun's kang.

Liu Changqing suddenly stopped Liu Xia: "Yao'er, don't do anything today, if you look at the cat, you will win, he is old Taoli, don't tell him to play tricks."

Liu Xia tapped Mao'er's head with his fingers: "Did you hear that, you are well-known. Grandpa knows that you are old Taoli. If you dare to play tricks secretly, uncle will be angry."

The cat thief is bold, always holding the firecracker's buttocks when setting off individual small firecrackers, and letting the firecrackers explode from his fingertips, making Sun Chang'e, Xiumei and the others fearful every time.

Liu Xia and the others also did this when they were young, and he didn't think it was too dangerous, but now seeing Mao'er doing this, Liu Xia was terrified, so he didn't allow Mao'er to leave his side today.

Otherwise, Chang Shuai and Junhao are only about half a year apart from Mao'er, and they are both ruthless. A few half-children who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth gather together, and they don't know what outrageous things they did.

Liu Wei's task today is to keep an eye on Liu Xin and Liu Rui. Liu Rui has a delicate stomach, and if he eats too much, it may cause problems. He is also very greedy, and he just wants to steal something good.

The cat grabbed Liu Xia's arm and bounced around a few times: "Zhongzhongzhong, I don't play, don't be afraid, uncle, then you can't do anything today, just play with me."

After talking with Chu Xiaohe and the others in the cave for a while, Liu Xia felt that the cat must be hungry, and came out to serve him a bowl of noodles. The situation in the yard shocked him a lot:

The people standing and sitting in the yard were all people eating with bowls. Men, women, old and young, almost all of Liu Xia’s acquaintances were dispatched by the whole family. Dot the bottom of the pot.

Xiumei, Yunzhi, Yuzhi, and the other two sister-in-laws of the Liu family had already set up their stalls and started rolling out noodles. The 40 catties of dried noodles that Liu Chuan bought and the [-] catties of dried noodles that the family had kept at home seemed not enough to eat.

Liu Xia just filled a bowl for the cat first, then pretended to be talking to Cheng Bin, and went over to look at the gifts he received.

In addition to the five yuan from the Chu Fenghe brothers, there are a few others with the money: the third grandfather, Zhang Guanglu, Liu Fulai, and Niu Duner all contributed two yuan, Liu Changxing and Guan Erping received five yuan, and the rest were eggs and grain. .

The eggs ranged from six to thirty, and the grain ranged from one bowl to five catties. Most of them were a bowl of sorghum or corn. It was a family of young and old who came to eat together.

Guan Shuping just gave birth to a daughter, and Yang Shuhuan is pregnant. Women with these two conditions are not happy to go to other people's weddings.

Liu Xia saw Niu Sannier and Liu Mudan among a large group of old women talking, laughing and eating vigorously on the edge of the slope.

Liu Xia went back to the cave dwelling and sat there worrying: "Five Brothers and Six Brothers, if I eat like this, I probably won't be able to keep our family's vat of noodles."

Liu Ling opened the curtain and took a look: "My uncle mainly wants to make people more happy, so that our uncle's family will be happy, no matter how you eat, it's just this meal.

There is no way, we are poor here, such a meal of shredded pork noodles, but the family can't eat it once a year, and we must not let it go if we have the opportunity. "

The cat looked at the bowl in his hand a little hesitantly: "Uncle, how about I don't eat it, I'm actually not hungry."

Liu Ling slapped him on the back of the head: "Eat you, our big family, how can we be short of your bowl of rice?"

Today, Liu Ling and Xiumei have to take charge of cooking together, and they are in charge of cooking a table of dishes for Sun Yufang's natal family. After ten o'clock, Xiumei came to call him, and brought Liu Yun, Liu Lei and Liu Nana in by the way: "Xiao Hai, you Look at Nana, Yaoer, take a look at these two Lords of Hell, there are so many people today, they are so crazy that our mother almost fainted."

Three or four days after returning home, Liu Nana was already very familiar with the family members, and she would not resist anyone who hugged her. However, Liu Xia never thought of taking care of her, so she naturally extended her little hand to Liu Hai. Hai put her on the edge of the Kang, and she sat obediently, and even called for Liu Yun and Liu Lei to sit on it too.

Both Liu Yun and Liu Lei only hung a small belly wrap, and their bodies were covered in dirt, and they picked it up on the kang together.

Liu Xia and Liu Hai watched, but they didn't reach out to hug them, and they didn't cry. They looked at each other with blinking eyes, and suddenly turned around and rushed towards Liu Xia at the same time.

Liu Xia didn't guard against the two little Hades, Mao'er knew them both very well, he stopped the two little bandits very simply, grabbed their ears and said, "I want to hug my uncle and rub his legs for him. Soil? Huh, miss Limei, stand still for me."

The two little guys were pulled by their ears, and they dared not move. They turned their eyes to look at Liu Xia, wondering what bad idea they were planning.

Liu Xia turned around trying to find something to wipe the two of them, but before he could find it, the curtain on the door was lifted, and Liu Mao came in with a big wooden basin. Without looking at anyone, he put the wooden basin on the ground and said, "Here Let's wash up, or else we won't be able to recruit."

He straightened up and said to Liu Nana: "Stay here and listen to uncle. Dad is busy today, so don't run around."

Nana nodded, Liu Mao turned around and left.

Mao'er had never been so close to Liu Mao before, and when he went out, Mao'er seemed to react, looking at Liu Xia a little helplessly.

Liu Xia carried Liu Yun and Liu Lei into the wooden basin as if nothing had happened, and said to the cat: "Come on, help my uncle fix them, if you dare to splash the water on purpose, don't even want to eat a single black old dragon today." gone."

Mao'er seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, squatting beside Liu Xia and splashing water on Liu Yun and Liu Lei, Liu Xia rubbed his head.

Mao'er turned around, rubbed her little face in his palm, looked at Liu Xia with sparkling eyes, revealing a special joy and complacency, then happily began to bathe Liu Yun and Liu Lei.

Although the two little Hades themselves can't speak yet, they can fully understand what other people say. Not allowing the old dragon to eat is a very serious punishment for them. The two of them basically let them wash it honestly, and then sat on the kang Play with Nana their very own toe counting game.

Chu Fenghe and Chu Xiaohe didn't speak again after Liu Mao came in, they only exchanged a look with Liu Hai, and then they kept looking at the cat, and found that the cat was almost completely unaffected by Liu Mao, both Chu Fenghe and Chu Xiaohe was surprised.

The timing of the welcoming team's return was beyond the expectation of the Liu family. Just after eleven o'clock, three cannons were heard on the east road.

Chu Fenghe and Chu Xiaohe jumped off the kang, Liu Hai dragged Liu Nana and hugged Liu Yun, Liu Xia ran out with the cat and Liu Lei in his arms, and they followed the spectators to the east road. I soon saw Liu Kui and the others.

The marriage parties near Liujialing are basically from a few nearby villages. When they get married, they can walk for at most one or two hours. Even in summer, there will be no major problems, so Liu Xia and the others have never seen each other. A bride and groom who are in a mess like Liu Yu and Sun Yufang.

Liu Yu's suit jacket was in his hand, and the white shirt on his body was not even a trace of dryness, as if he had just been fished out of the Fengxi River.

Sun Yufang was wearing a bright red blouse. The fabric of the clothes was relatively light and thin, and now it was completely stuck to her body. The light gray trousers on her lower body were also mostly soaked with sweat.

Liu Kui, Liu Chuan and others are similar to the two of them. Usually Liu Kui, Liu Chuan and the others can be shirtless at this temperature, but today they must be dressed neatly. , can not let the cold field.

As soon as Liu Chuan saw Liu Xia and the others, they laughed. He hugged Liu Lei and said to Liu Xia, "It's so hot today. You run back quickly and ask our sister-in-law to prepare for your fourth brother and sister-in-law." It’s better to change clothes, wearing this for a while will not be able to pray to heaven and earth.”

Liu Xia made a face at Liu Yu, pulled the cat and ran back.

Mao'er said to Liu Xia: "The more I see marriage, the less beautiful it is. Seeing my fourth uncle like that, I'm almost turning into a fool."

Liu Xia said: "Let's not learn from your fourth uncle, you idiot. When we got married, we stayed in spring and autumn. It's so beautiful."

Mao'er nodded, and suddenly felt something was wrong: "Uncle, you are not a celibate, don't you want to get married?"

Liu Xia thought for a moment: "That's right, then I won't get married, and I don't need to invite so many people to our house for dinner. Everything will be saved."

Cat very much agrees: "Me too, I won't marry a wife, saving our family money and noodles."

Liu Xia hadn't been to other people in the village to get married for eight or nine years, and his memory of the wedding scenes of their villagers was a little blurred. The wedding of Zeng Huaichen and Yang Dongyan was relatively new, and many traditional links were cancelled.

So when he saw Liu Yu and Sun Yufang kneeling on the mat to worship the heaven and the earth, an inexplicable thought surged in his heart: In the Wangning area, every couple gets married like this, and they make promises and swear to the heaven and earth so devoutly. Why are there so many two people who want to grow old forever, but they always quarrel and even turn against each other after they become husband and wife?

Liu Xia, who was thinking wildly, was suddenly interrupted, and the cat riding on his neck to watch the fun patted his head lightly: "Uncle, look..."

Liu Xia followed the cat's strength to look over, and saw Liu Mao standing in the shade of the opposite tree watching the wedding with a pale face, as if he was about to fall down at any moment.

Almost without any consideration, Liu Xia walked around the crowd towards Liu Mao. He had just walked a few steps when he saw Liu Kui and Liu Chuan running over at the same time, dragging Liu Mao into the cave.

Liu Xia put Mao'er down and hugged Mao'er. Seeing Liu Mao being helped into the cave, Mao'er began to concentrate on watching Liu Yu and Sun Yufang bow down to Liu Changchun again.

Liu Xia's heart was in a mess, he wiped the sweat off Mao'er's face, looked at him carefully again, looking for traces of Xu Xiaohong on his face: did the second brother think of the second sister-in-law?Did he remember how he and his second sister-in-law worshiped heaven and earth?

Does he still remember the second sister-in-law?Do you just remember, think about it by chance, or do you miss Qiao Yanfang all the time like Zhang Fusheng misses Qiao Yanfang?

Liu Xia's tactful sentimentality was rare, and when he saw Liu Mao sitting at the dinner table with a smile and laughing with the Sun family members who were seeing off his relatives, it dissipated in an instant. He even sneered in his heart, but he didn't know what he was doing. dissatisfied.

After finishing all the ceremonies, Liu Yu ran over to say hello to the Chu Fenghe brothers, and gave Liu Xia a hard punch: "I was dying of heat at that moment, and you made a fool of me."

Liu Xia laughed: "The fifth brother should take a photo of you like that, and leave you a souvenir, and let your child see it later. What kind of virtue did his father have when he got married? He was like a bandit who lost a battle. , embarrassed."

Liu Yu wiped off her sweat: "I won't stay in the summer when I get married in the next eight lifetimes. I really want to suffer. Xiaoling, Xiaohai, Yao'er, Fenghe, you can learn from me. Don't look at it yourself when you get married. It's a good way to coax yourself, let's ask the fortune teller to show you an approximate time, damn it, I'm so hot."

Chu Fenghe said: "My marriage may be comparable to yours. The three of them must have gotten married in the city. How could it be as miserable as yours?"

Liu Xia said: "Who said? No matter where my family lives, they will definitely come back to get married. If they don't come back to pay respects to my uncle and my mother, then what kind of marriage is it? Isn't it Fifth Brother?"

Liu Ling nodded: "En."

Chu Xiaohe didn't quite believe what they said, he said to Liu Ling and Liu Hai: "If you two find Li Nier from Jingdu in the future, ask him to go back to Liujialing to marry you? Who would be willing?"

Liu Hai said: "If you don't want to, just go to the ball and pull it down. I'll just find someone who is willing to come back with me. Why don't a man have a wife!"

Liu Ling also said: "For someone who can't even walk with you on a mountain road for dozens of miles, it may not be easy for her to accompany you for a lifetime. There are many things in life, but it is much more difficult than walking a mountain road, so this kind of person should not Whatever."

Liu Yu giggled and said, "Yufang is willing to walk such a long mountain road with me, and she didn't complain a word. Xiao Ling, tell me, will we be able to live a good life together in the future?"

Liu Ling said: "For sure, fourth brother, our family members can see that my fourth sister-in-law is a good person, just because she is my mother's niece, do you think you will rely on it?"

Liu Yu scratched her head: "As long as Yufang is half as good as my mother, my elder sister-in-law and third sister-in-law, I will be satisfied in my life."

Liu Xia and the others couldn't see how long other people's lifetimes were, but they could see clearly what was happening in front of them. They all thought that Sun Yufang would be a very good person.

Because in the afternoon, after the people from her natal family left, Sun Yufang rolled up her sleeves and washed the pots and pans with Xiumei, Yunzhi, Yuzhi and the others.

Moreover, several uncles, uncles, and elder brothers from Sun Yufang's family who came to see off their relatives insisted on leaving by themselves, saying that they would not let Liu Chuan see them off, saying that they had already discussed with the family when they came, and asked Liu Chuan to run back and forth in such a hot day Not suitable, the same old men, they are not so delicate, around six o'clock, the family will ride a bicycle to the north slope of Shangyao to pick them up.

Liu Xia and the others felt that with such a reasonable family, Sun Yufang would definitely not be too bad.

After dark, the last bed-pressing ceremony was completed amid the cheers of the Liu family and a large group of Liu Yu's friends. Liu Yu and Sun Yufang were left alone in the new house, wanting to listen to Jianbin and Liu Sen who were at the bottom of the wall. Several people were bitten all over by mosquitoes, and they ran away without holding on for half an hour.

So far, Liu Yu's marriage has come to a successful conclusion.

Liu Xia hugged the sleeping cat, and sat in the yard with his brothers to enjoy the cool air. Everyone felt very relaxed. Liu Hai suggested that Liu Xia perform a break dance to make everyone happy.

Liu Xia readily agreed, handed the cat to Liu Kui, and in the hazy moonlight, he showed off his good shows to his heart's content.

Liu Chuan clapped his hands and said, "Yaoer, your dance is getting more and more beautiful. Your fifth brother told me a few days ago that if he hadn't had to return to the team soon, he wanted to learn from you after your fourth brother finished his work." Mile!"

Liu Xia's originally very happy mood plummeted to the extreme after hearing Liu Chuan's words.

He was reluctant to leave Liu Ling, and he still had a lot to say to Fifth Brother. He felt that their reunion had just begun, so why did they have to face parting again?