Reborn to Strive

The woman in front of me who came to Guan Baiyu's place to buy stewed tofu and wanted to introduce someone to Shi Zhen was also from Guan's family.

She is the wife of Guan Xingguo, Guan Jianguo's elder brother, and her name is Chen Juanjuan.

Guan Jianguo's brother is six years older than Guan Jianguo, and he is almost forty now. He married a woman older than himself... The woman in front of him is in her early forties, and she has done a lot of farm work. old.

Chen Juanjuan is illiterate, so she has no job, but she gets along well in the village and is very popular.

This has a lot to do with the fact that she was the eldest daughter before she got married, and her father died young. She is very capable after pulling out her older brothers and sisters. People in the village will look for her when they have funerals and weddings. .

She usually takes good care of the vegetable field at home, and sells some vegetables in the town from time to time, and can earn a few dollars to subsidize the family.

Occasionally, she also works part-time as a matchmaker, accepting matchmaking gifts.

Now she came to tell Guan Baiyu this because someone in the village asked her about Shi Zhen.

"Is your cousin not interested?" Chen Juanjuan asked again.

Guan Baiyu knew that Shi Zhen didn't have a date, and if Shi Zhen had a date, it was impossible not to tell him.

But he didn't want to tell Chen Juanjuan.

After Chen Juanjuan said that she would introduce someone to Shi Zhen... He felt panic from the bottom of his heart.

Now his brother likes him very much, but what if his brother gets married and has children?

Will his brother still treat him so well by then?

He was in the countryside, and he had seen a lot of conflicts between brothers. Some older brothers were kind to their younger brothers at first, but after they got married, they began to dislike their younger brothers.

In fact, Chen Juanjuan's husband, Guan Xingguo, and Guan Jianguo, brothers, don't have a good relationship.

At that time, everyone in the Guan family was poor. Guan Xingguo's parents tried their best to get the money and let Guan Xingguo get married.

But even so, Guan Xingguo couldn't marry a young and beautiful one, so he could only marry an old girl, Chen Juanjuan.

When Guan Xingguo got married, Guan Jianguo was only in his teens, and the Guan family didn't have a separate family. It stands to reason that their family should save money together to marry Guan Jianguo.

But Guan Xingguo was not happy, not long after they got married, they made a fuss about breaking up the family.

Although Guan Baiyu's second grandmother is stingy and stingy, she has a clear mind and knows that the eldest son has already thought about it. If the old couple insists on not dividing the family, the family will probably be in chaos... She gritted her teeth and separated Guan Xingguo. Of course, he also said that Guan Xingguo will provide for the elderly in the future.

After Guan Xingguo was separated, the second grandmother began to worry about her youngest son's marriage, but she couldn't find a suitable one because she had no money.

Even though Guan Jianguo had a quick mind and found jobs to make money when he was young, he still didn't get married until he was 28 years old.

But he was lucky. The wife he married was not only young and beautiful, but also literate and working.

With this old incident... the relationship between Guan Jianguo and Guan Xingguo is naturally not much better.

My brothers are far away, I and Shi Zhen are just cousins, we didn't grow up together...

Guan Baiyu's breathing was messed up.

Seeing that Chen Juanjuan refused to leave without an answer, Guan Baiyu said, "Auntie, my brother is only eighteen this year."

Chen Juanjuan was a little surprised: "Is he still so young?"

Shi Zhen is tall, and has a strong sense of purpose in doing things. They all thought that he should be in his early twenties before he could get married, but he was only eighteen?

"Well, my brother is still young." Guan Baiyu said.

A man must be at least 22 years old to get married. Now it is recommended to marry at 24 years old. Guan Baiyu feels that Chen Juanjuan knows that Shi Zhen is only eighteen, so it is time to give up the year of marriage, but he does not want Chen Juanjuan to shine: "Xiao Yu, aunt asked What about you... How is your brother's family? Does he have any brothers? Does he plan to take root here? Hey! Is he willing to marry? Your Lanlan sister is as old as you, and now she doesn't want to study, she has already gone to the factory I went to work here, and I wanted her to find me a son-in-law."

Chen Juanjuan and Guan Xingguo have two daughters. The eldest daughter, Guan Lanlan, was born in [-], the same year as Guan Baiyu, but a few months older than Guan Baiyu.

Guan Lanlan is also in the third year of junior high school, but her original grades were not bad.

But she didn't want to go to school anymore, she took the slow shift without telling her parents, that's fine, she also found a factory to work with her little sister, so she didn't go to school anymore.

Chen Juanjuan was very helpless about this, and she had nothing to do with her daughter. After much deliberation, she decided to find a partner for her daughter earlier, lest her daughter talk about it on her own and end up with an inappropriate one.

As soon as Shi Zhen came, she thought he was a good guy, but he seemed a bit older. Later, seeing that Shi Zhen was so powerful, she gave up the idea of ​​recruiting Shi Zhen as her son-in-law, fearing that Shi Zhen would not want to.

But now knowing that Shi Zhen only had... She changed her mind again.

It doesn't matter if you ask.

"Hey, if your brother is willing, we will give him a bride price, and even buy them a bicycle TV! Our house is also well built, and we have some belongings... Xiaoyu, when your brother comes back, help me Ask him."

Guan Baiyu was dumbfounded.

Guan Baiyu looked stupid, Chen Juanjuan just thought it was the first time he encountered this kind of thing when he was young, she couldn't react, and said earnestly: "Xiao Yu, in fact, if you don't study anymore, you have to think about your own affairs." .Your parents will definitely not marry you a wife. You will probably go to someone else's house in the future...you can find someone with better family conditions now."

In their rural areas, it costs a lot of money to marry a wife.

Guan Guangguo would definitely not pay Guan Baiyu to marry a wife. It would be very difficult for Guan Baiyu to get married on his own.

Among other things, now that they are getting married here, they must have at least a two-story house, how can Guan Baiyu have one?

Guan Baiyu has no elders to help, and the village has only a little land allocated to others, how can it be enough to support his family?

The best way out for him is to find a rich family without a son and become his son-in-law.

In this way, there are houses, fields and so on.

Many men in their local area can't afford to marry wives, so they do this all the time. In the past, some families had many sons, and in the end they left two at home, and let the rest become son-in-laws everywhere.

For those poor families, the brothers will compete to go out to be the door-to-door son-in-law. After all, they are destined to live a poor life at home, but if they go to a rich family, they can lie down and live a good life, drinking and eating meat.

Probably because in the early years here, most of the work of raising silkworms, reeling silk, weaving and spinning, etc. was done by women, and women could also earn money, even more than men who farmed. It's so low, it's common to recruit.

When Chen Juanjuan mentioned this, she thought of Guan Guang's country, and there was a Guan Jinjin.

Guan Guangguo didn't care about Guan Baiyu as an adopted son, he was all focused on his daughter, and he definitely wanted to find a wife for her. Shi Zhencai, who was only five years younger than Guan Jinjin, was barely suitable...she had to start early.

Guan Baiyu was dumbfounded, but Chen Juanjuan told him for a long time to ask Shi Zhen what he thought.

After speaking, Chen Juanjuan left.

Guan Baiyu looked at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

There are only some trivial tasks left on his hands. Usually at this time, he will take out the radio and learn English along with the radio.

But he is really not in the mood today.

If his brother gets married and goes to someone else's house, then...then...

Qian Qi often used the radio to listen to the radio, but Guan Baiyu never listened to it when he used it alone, and used it to learn English.

But right now his mind was too disturbed to learn, so he found a channel with a clear voice to listen to the radio.

However...he listened for a long time, but he didn't know what he heard.

Back and forth in my heart, there was just one thought - what would he do if his brother got married and had children?

Shi Zhen didn't come home until ten o'clock in the evening as usual.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Guan Baiyu opened the door and smiled at him: "Brother, you are back."

Shi Zhen wanted to say a few words to him - he had always disapproved of Guan Baiyu not sleeping until he came back.

But Guan Baiyu was very stubborn, and it was useless to say it.

Shi Zhen sighed secretly, he didn't say anything after all, he just quickened his movements.

He quickly finished what he was doing and went to bed so that Guan Baiyu could follow suit.

After Shi Zhen came back, he would simply eat something.

He hardly eats anything when he sells fried skewers

Well, ride a tricycle back home with a bunch of things, tired and hungry, and eat something warm to warm your stomach before you can fall asleep.

Guan Baiyu was waiting for him at home, and would prepare something for him every day. Today, Guan Baiyu prepared a bowl of steamed eggs for him.

The egg had been ready for a while, but it was not completely cooled, Shi Zhen took a few spoonfuls to eat it, only to find that there was even minced meat underneath.

It tastes really good!

Shi Zhen finished eating quickly, Guan Baiyu had prepared warm water for him, he went outside to rinse himself off as usual, and then went into Guan Baiyu's room, avoiding Guan Baiyu to change clothes alone.

There was no one outside at night, in fact, he specially wore underwear to take a shower, because he didn't want Guan Baiyu to see anything.

After all, he likes men, so avoid suspicion.

Shi Zhen went to bed after taking a bath, and after he left, Guan Baiyu's face showed worry again.

He didn't want to listen to his aunt and tell his brother about finding a partner.

So... just pretend you don't know about it!

In the blink of an eye, a new day came, and Guan Baiyu's performance was as usual.

Usually, after Shi Zhen and the others leave the stall at six o'clock in the morning, Guan Baiyu will sleep at home until after eight o'clock, and then go to town.

The same is true today.

After arriving in town, he first went to see Shi Zhen.

Someone brought him a bowl of boiled broad beans this morning, and he thought of serving it as a snack for Shi Zhen.

As a result, as soon as he arrived at the booth, Guan Baiyu heard a middle-aged woman talking to Shi Zhen, and what she said was similar to what Chen Juanjuan said: "Young man, do you have a date?"

Shi Zhen is very popular in the town.

When he usually sets up a stall, he sees people around who need help, and he is willing to help. There are a few lonely old people in the town who are not doing well. They will pick up vegetables and leaves in the vegetable market in the morning. After difficulties, they will also give them rice balls from time to time.

He is happy to help others within his ability.

The town is not big, there are quite a lot of people who know what he does, and many people like him, but Shi Zhen really didn't expect that someone would want to introduce him to someone.

After all, in his previous life, he was not very likable because he was an outsider.

By the way, he has been using the local dialect all his life, and the people in the town don't know that he is a foreigner...

"Sister, I'm only eighteen, and I don't want to find a partner yet." Shi Zhen talked to the man with a smile.

"It's only eighteen, it's really a bit small," the middle-aged woman smiled, "My son is only two years younger than you, and you still call me sister!"

"Sister, you look young!" Shi Zhen said.

The woman was very happy to hear that, covered her mouth and smiled.