Raising a family through the 1970s

Yao Xiujuan, "Meiling,

do you have something to do with me

?" Li Meiling looked left and right, "Xiuli and Xinxin are they not there

?" Yao Xiujuan smiled and said, "It should be in the backyard, right

?" Li Meiling hugged her son and sat down, "It's nothing, didn't I see the wolfberries on the wild wolfberry trees near the west canal yesterday, and many of them are red one after another?" I made an appointment with Lifang to pick it together, and I wanted to ask Xiuli if she wanted to pick it too..."

Yao Xiujuan blinked, recalled where she said, remembered that there seemed to be a piece of wild wolfberry, and said, "Okay, then I'll go around too."

Li Meiling put her son on the ground and said with a smile, "That piece of wild wolfberry is growing very well this year, they are all big and big, let's pick them back and dry them, and every time we soak in water, a few are sweet..."

said to go, and when Chu Lifang came, Yao Xiujuan and Yao Xiuli took their two children and asked Zhang Ping to go to the west canal ····· together

Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Lifang carrying Huanhuan behind her back, thought for a while and proposed, "Lifang, you put Huanhuan on the grass over there, and let Siya and Xinxin watch it, right?" Chu Lifang

nodded, took out a piece of cloth from the basket she was carrying and spread it on the ground, and then untied the strip of cloth tied to her body, put the child on the cloth sheet and lay down, looked at the children who came with her, and looked at her eldest brother's youngest daughter with a smile and said.

"Aixing, you are the biggest in this, you have to

take care of your younger brothers and sisters, do you know?" Chu Aixing, who is only two years older than Xinxin and is less than eight years old this year, nodded obediently, "Sister-in-law, I will take good care of my younger brothers and sisters."

Chu Lifang touched her head, "Well, when you go to school, my sister-in-law will make you a beautiful schoolbag."

Chu Aixing's eyes lit up, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

Yao Xiuli circled around the wolfberry, and finally chose the most red ditch to pick, because it was by the canal, and the most red place was in the high place, so Yao Xiujuan stood carefully by the canal with her feet, trembling and reaching out to pick the red wolfberry in the high place.

Chu Min's daughter-in-law looked at Yao Xiuli not far away, and asked Yao

Xiujuan with a smile, "Xiujuan, isn't your sister married yet?" Yao Xiujuan also glanced at her little sister, shook her head and said, "No, she has her own ideas, and she doesn't want my father and mother to give her a blind date."

Chu Wei's daughter-in-law smiled and said, "What's the hurry? Isn't she only eighteen this year?" "

The current girl is not as early as in previous years, and it is okay to play for two more years..."

Li Meiling smiled, "I agree with what Chu Wei's sister-in-law said.

Yao Xiujuan said with a smile, "I also persuaded my father and mother to do the same, but my father and mother still think that the girl's family should be married early, and I can't help it..."

Chu Lifang blinked when she heard this, glanced at Yao Xiuli, who was picking wolfberries seriously, thought about it, approached Yao Xiujuan and a few people and whispered, "Little tenth sister-in-law, my younger brother of Jianjun has not yet decided to marry, you see..."

Yao Xiujuan was surprised, "Brother Jianjun, is it Jianguo?"

Chu Lifang nodded, "Well, Jianguo is twenty years older than Xiuli this year, and he is just the right age..."

Zhang Ping asked in surprise, "But, Lifang, didn't I remember that Jianguo was engaged? Moreover, some time ago, my family Chu Min heard your eldest brother say that Jianguo is not going to marry

the girl of the old Wang family in the next brigade after the autumn harvest?" Yao Xiujuan was also surprised, "Is it? The girl from the old Wang family? Is it the old one? What is that called? Is it called the one who came to see? I heard that she is the most beautiful girl of the old Wang family!"

Zhang Ping bowed, "It's that, his family's famous five golden flowers, one is better than the other, but it's a pity that no matter how good-looking he is, it's not as important as the handle, so after giving birth to five daughters in a row, he gave birth to the sixth treasure, and the pet doesn't look like a look..."

"I'm seventeen or eighteen this year, and I've never been on the ground, just like the hooligans in previous years, I know how to go around every day!"

"By the way, I also heard that the four daughters in front of the old Wang family are good-looking, and the two of them want to save money for their sons, and they all choose whoever gives the highest dowry..."

Yao Xiujuan's mouth grew in shock, "My God, why did Jianguo look for a girl from such a family·····

". Zhang Ping shook her head, "I don't know..."

Chu Wei's daughter-in-law didn't know who it was, so she just listened with her eyes open and confused.

After being silent for a moment, Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Lifang with wide eyes, "Lifang, he is married, why are you..."

Chu Lifang listened to what they said, "Hi", waved her hand and said, "Don't mention that family, they have already withdrawn, you don't know that they are about to make my in-laws angry."

Yao Xiujuan was a little confused, "What's wrong?"

"Originally, my in-laws were not satisfied with his family, but I couldn't stop my brother-in-law from liking other people's daughters, so I begged my in-laws to propose marriage last year, and people were willing to marry my daughters to my family, but they just opened their mouths and asked for a dowry of 500 yuan! I also wanted a bicycle!"

Yao Xiujuan exclaimed, "Why do they want so much? Your in-laws agreed?".

Yao Xiujuan said in her heart, looking at her younger brother in this way, the future father-in-law actually doesn't want much, at least the parents don't say it, the girls are still educated and have jobs...

And people's parents have said that they are not selling their daughters, and the things they want are also for their younger couple to use in the future, and they will also give them a dowry, so, to put it mildly, in fact, the last one is for the younger brother and the two of them.

Chu Lifang shook her head, "I definitely don't agree, my in-laws are not happy on the spot when they hear it, now that the girls in our brigade are married, who has to live so much? Even the family in front of our brigade, the daughter-in-law who married is a teacher who teaches in Lianli Primary School, and the family is still a cultural person, so they asked for a dowry of fifty and a bicycle." "

And the girl of the old Wang family doesn't know a single word, except for a good-looking face, there is nothing... And if you ask for these, you won't marry them, which is equivalent to my in-laws giving them six or seven hundred yuan for nothing.

Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Lifang in shock, and paused for a while before asking again, "What about the end? The second sister-in-law said that she was married just now, is it really decided?"

Chu Lifang stopped what she was doing and nodded, "It's decided, in the end, my in-laws couldn't stand the pleas of the founding of the country, so they discussed it with their old Wang family, and then said that they would give a hundred yuan and a bicycle..."

Zhang Ping shook her head and said in disbelief, "It's a lot, but why did you get married and then quit?"

Chu Lifang sighed, "That family repented again and asked for a dowry of two hundred yuan and a bicycle, plus a watch."

Yao Xiujuan looked at each other in shock, "This is all a good family matter, how can you say that it will change??"