Lucky husband

As soon as the results of the county and government examinations came out, May passed quickly.

In June, Li's family has an important event to happen - Li Mingchun gets married.

Li Mingchun got engaged to Bai Chen when she was 12 years old. She is 16 years old this year. Mrs. Li felt that she was ready to get married, so she asked Li Chengli to find Bai Chen and asked Bai Chen to tell his family about the preparations.

Bai Chen plucked up the courage to fight with his family back then, and won for himself the opportunity to be an apprentice to a carpenter. After four years, he has finally become a teacher and can work on his own, but he doesn't want to go back to his oppressive home. He also followed his master, and "quietly" gave Li Mingchun the money he earned every time he went home.

Two years ago, when Bai Chen's parents learned that Bai Chen gave money to Li Mingchun every time he came back, they ran to Li's house to make a fuss, but the old lady Li suppressed them forcibly. The children usually come and go through Minglu.

In principle, it is best not to meet in private between a man and a woman who have engaged in marriage, as it is easy to attract people to gossip, but like Li Mingchun and Bai Chen who have been engaged for many years, it is a bit like the kind of baby kiss, and it is easier for everyone to accept, After knowing it, no one said anything.

In fact, the main reason is that the Li family is not normal now, Mrs. Li's sons are all promising, and everyone wants to ask the Li family for help, so naturally they won't offend others by gossiping behind their backs.

With most people in the village helping Li's family, Bai Chen's parents couldn't make any trouble no matter how much they quarreled, so they stopped making trouble, and comforted themselves by saying that they didn't care about Bai Chen's few pennies. .

But they were still unhappy, so they found a reason to pile up the sundries in Bai Chen's room, saying that Bai Chen would never sleep at home anyway, leaving an empty room wasted.

To the two sons, Bai Chen's parents have always had different attitudes, and Bai Chen has been heartbroken by them for a long time. Anyway, every time he goes home, he just goes through the motions, as long as he has a place to sleep, parents He doesn't care what he does, and doesn't care about it.

But now that Li Mingchun and Li Mingchun are about to get married, Bai Chen has some concerns in her heart, thinking about how to let Li Mingchun marry in without being wronged.

Bai Chen's parents never cared about the marriage between Bai Chen and Li Mingchun. After the two families got engaged, they didn't care about it. Anyway, the daughter-in-law would not run away.

As for Bai Wu, Bai Chen's father and mother began to show him his wife when he was 15 years old. They were dissatisfied with the one on the left, and disliked that the girl was not good-looking enough. They were still dissatisfied with the one on the right. Too bad it's a drag.

After the Li family let go and agreed to Bai Chen to marry Li Mingchun, Bai Wu did not know where he fell in love with a girl from the next village, and asked his parents to settle him down. His parents had no choice but to take Then the dowry they had prepared for the youngest son went to the woman's house to finalize the marriage.

Bai Chen's parents only prepared the money for Bai Wu's marriage, and they didn't care about Bai Chen's intentions at all. According to their wishes, they just vacated the small room where Bai Chen lived and let Li Mingchun come in, no need to make any preparations .

After Mrs. Li found out about Bai Chen's parents' plans through side-tracking, she choked on her chest and almost fell ill with anger, so she dragged Li Chengli to the main room and spoke harshly.

Li Mingchun is a diligent girl. Although she and Li Mingxia can no longer do rough and heavy work because they learn embroidery from Jiang Zhiyun, she and her sister will help Granny Li with everything she can. The girl's feelings are also a little more, and she really loves them.

Moreover, the two girls don't have mothers to look after them, so Mrs. Li is more concerned about their marriage. If it wasn't for that boy Bai Chen who was kind to Li Mingchun, she would definitely make Li Chengli regret the marriage. It is impossible to wrong her obedient and sensible granddaughter if she can find a good person.

Li Chengli is a man, and sometimes he can't pay attention to these things. After hearing what Mrs. Li said, he went directly to Bai Chen and asked Bai Chen what his plan was.

Bai Chen smiled wryly: "Second Uncle Li, you all know the attitude of my parents towards me, they would definitely not be happy to ask them to give me money to marry Mingchun and me, even if I take the money back and let them do it , they would find it bothersome, so instead of making everyone unhappy with a good wedding, I think it's better to just hold the wedding banquet at Li's house."

Li Chengli was surprised by what he said, and suddenly turned his head to look at Bai Chen: "Bai Chen, have you thought about the consequences of doing this?"

The man and the woman are both from the same village. The wedding banquet is not held by the man but by the woman. Not only is it slapping the face of the man’s elders, but it will also make the groom’s official unable to hold his head up in the village. Eat soft rice.

"Second Uncle Li, I've made up my mind. If I don't hold a banquet for Mingchun, it will be too wronged for her. It doesn't matter if I am a big man, as long as Mingchun lives a good life after marrying me, it's fine. What's more, the money I gave Mingchun these years may not be enough for this banquet, I, I..." Bai Chen's face was very tanned since he was a child, it was difficult to detect his emotions from his face, but from his His hesitation can be seen in his hesitant tone.

Li Chengli had no objection to Bai Chen's words, and interrupted him: "The money you gave Chun girl is her private house, and I will pay for the wedding banquet money for you two. This time, I will only pay because Mingchun is still a girl of my Li family. With this money, after she gets married, what kind of life she can live depends on your hard work, and I won't care about it anymore. "

Li Chengli's family was richer than ordinary landlords, and ten taels of silver was enough to invite the whole village to eat and hold a particularly decent wedding banquet in the countryside.

So he has no problem with the money, but he can't develop the habit of his daughter and son-in-law relying on his mother's family. This is what his mother has told him many times before.

Bai Chen was a little embarrassed to hear this. The money he gave Li Mingchun on and off over the years should be only three or four taels. This money is probably enough to marry an ordinary peasant girl, but the daughter of the Li family is still far behind, but he Everyone knows the situation at home, let people eat soft rice if they say it is soft.

After making an agreement with Bai Chen, Li Chengli went to Bai Chen's parents to discuss the time of their two children's marriage. It was said to be a discussion, but in fact, it should be called an announcement when the women are strong and the men are weak.

Before going to Bai's house, Li Chengli calculated the time it would take him to prepare the rest of the dowry and arrange other things. It would take almost two months. .

Bai Chen's parents didn't say anything when they knew the date, they just took half a day to clean out the room full of debris, and then there was nothing else.

Li Chengli didn't do anything at first, he found a carpenter privately, and according to the size of Bai Chen's small house, he ordered a brand new set of furniture. After the furniture was ready, almost two months passed.

It wasn't until June [-]th that Li Chengli approached Village Chief Shangbai and told him that he wanted to borrow tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans and pans from various households, and that he would hold a wedding banquet for his daughter at Li's house.

The process of marrying a wife in the country is not complicated. The groom's official will go to the bride's house to welcome the bride to his own home.

As for the wedding banquet, it is even more simple. There are tables to put vegetables on, and stools for everyone to sit and eat.

Village head Bai knew that Bai Chen and Li Mingchun were going to get married in June this year, but he hadn't heard any news of the Bai family or the Li family setting up wine, and he didn't know what the two of them were going to do.

At this moment, I finally understood that the Li family was planning to support their daughter blatantly, and they were also directly slapping Bai Chen's parents in the face. A wedding banquet was only planned to be held at the woman's house, and the man was asked to behave in the village in the future.

Bai Chen's father and mother are from the same clan as Village Chief Bai. If someone else beat the Bai people in the face like this, Village Chief Bai might try to persuade him, but when facing the Li family, Village Chief Bai had no choice but to agree. .

After asking Village Chief Bai to borrow the things for the wedding banquet, Li Chengli turned and went home, and invited the carpenter who came to deliver the furniture to help move the new furniture to Bai Chen's house.

After politely asking Bai Chen's parents to open Bai Chen's room, everyone moved out the only piece of furniture inside - a rotten and broken bed that couldn't be called a bed.

The room without things was empty and even smaller. Fortunately, when the furniture was made, the dimensions were calculated before making it. After the room was cleaned again, the new furniture moved in just right.

Not only did he move the new furniture, Li Chengli also asked the carpenter to help refinish the windows and the door of the room, at least standing inside will not make people feel that the room is particularly dilapidated.

After everything was tidied up, Li Chengli took out a new lock and locked the room with new furniture, leaving no key for Bai Chen's parents.

Everything Li Chengli did was discussed with Bai Chen, the size of the furniture was provided by Bai Chen, Bai Chen thought that he was unable to give Li Mingchun a better life, so he couldn't stop the Yue family from being nice to Li Mingchun , What would his parents think about him?

Baichen's parents didn't know that Li Chengli had already planned to hold a wedding banquet for the two children at Li's house. Seeing Li Chengli bring new furniture to decorate Baichen's room, they were secretly happy to save money.

It wasn't until the next day that everyone came to Baichen's house to ask about the wedding banquet that they realized what the Li family had done, and their faces changed when they were so angry.

Bai Chen's family not only has a son, Bai Chen, but also their sweetheart, Bai Wu. If Bai Chen's Yue family slaps them in the face like this, if Bai Wu's Yue family finds out, will there be any problems with Bai Wu's marriage? ?

The older generation of the Bai people were also very angry when they heard the news. They were not outraged by Li Chengli's actions, but outraged that Bai Chen's parents were confused, couldn't tell the priorities, and blindly favored Bai Wu who knew nothing. A trash who only has one face to see.

Bai Chen is 19 years old this year, and his younger brother Bai Wu is [-] years old this year. Although the two are brothers, there is almost no similarity when they stand together because the difference in skin color is too great.

Having grown up so big, Bai Wu hardly ever went to the field. At most, he would help deliver a meal during the busy farming season. If he thought the sun was too hot and he was unwilling to go out, Bai Chennai would let him stay at home and rest, and she would go out to feed her son. , Daughter-in-law delivered meals.

In the eyes of the older generation of farmers, although Bai Chen's black and thin appearance is not very pleasing to the eye, and they didn't agree with Bai Chen's arguing to go out to be a carpenter's apprentice, but at least Bai Chen has a craft now, so he won't Starve yourself.

On the other hand, the pampered Bai Wu is indeed lovable and tender, but he can't do anything, he is worse than those scholars who look at people with their nostrils, he is just a trash.

Things at Baichen's house are a mess. Li's house has already invited the master cook, and all the things for the wedding banquet have been prepared. There is only one wedding banquet left. At this time, it is hard for everyone to say anything. After carrying the gift and having a drink, then close the door and scold Father Bai Chen for being such a fool.

When Bai Chen's parents found out about the Li family's plan, they were furious. They didn't dare to scold the Li family. They planned to wait until Bai Chen came back to be a punching bag. The couple had already thought about how to scold Bai Chen and punish him for how long to kneel. However, who knew that Bai Chen, who was the groom's official, would not come home for a long time.

Until the night of June [-]th, Bai Chen still didn't come home, and the anger in Bai Chen's parents' hearts became even more intense. Does this dead child think that he is a member of the Bai family?

It's funny to say that Bai Chen's parents don't take care of Bai Chen as their own children, but ask Bai Chen to respect and love them. The relationship between parents and children has never been balanced.

Bai Chen had already laid down by his master's side at this time, and he planned to set off from his master's house before dawn tomorrow, carrying the wedding clothes on his back, and when he arrived in Shanghe Village, he would find a remote place to change into and go directly to When he arrived at Li's house, he treated himself as a door-to-door son-in-law.

However, when he was in bed early, Bai Chen couldn't sleep well. His mind was very excited, and he couldn't help but recall the scene when he was pointed and scolded by his parents and grandma when he was a child at home.

Some details that had been forgotten became very clear at this moment. He clearly remembered every word they scolded him. At the beginning, he would be sad, sad, and doubt himself because of those words. Then because of their attitude fluctuations.

After a while, Bai Chen thought of every time he and Li Mingchun met each time after they got engaged, every expression and every word of Li Mingchun seemed to be vivid in his memory.

Over the past few years, Liming Spring has bloomed, and the longer it grows, the more beautiful it is, which makes Bai Chen more happy, thankful for the accident that tied the two of them together.

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That night, not only Bai Chen and his parents didn't sleep well, but Li Mingjin, who was far away in Changping County, didn't sleep well either. He had a dream that something happened to his second sister's wedding banquet.

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