So they're just living together as a couple, and when they can go back to the city in the future, they can just break up without having to go through the hassle of getting a divorce.

Being able to move out of the educated youth settlement, no longer having to squeeze in with everyone, being able to eat on his own, and having a woman to live with, without the constraints of marriage, was definitely a good thing for Zeng Xinghai. However, Liang Zhaodi's appearance was not the type he liked or wanted to find.

But that's fine too. If you don't like someone, you won't develop feelings for them, and you can just leave them in the future.

Zeng Xinghai nodded. "So when are we getting married? Will we have a wedding banquet?"

“We definitely need to hold a banquet so you can move into my house openly and legitimately,” Liang Zhaodi said. “Go talk to the brigade leader now, and we’ll have a banquet tomorrow. I’ll find someone to replace the dishes at the banquet, and I’ll also have the village aunties help with the cooking. You only need to pay half of the expenses.”

Although she had money, it was meant to support herself and her child, not to support a man. She was living with Zeng Xinghai, and the one who would benefit was Zeng Xinghai, while she wouldn't get any substantial advantages. However, with Zeng Xinghai around, hooligans and old widowers wouldn't dare to come to her door.

Zeng Xinghai went to the brigade leader to tell him that he wanted to marry Liang Zhaodi. Soon the news spread, and everyone was shocked. No one expected that the two of them would get together.

The unmarried girls in the team were extremely jealous. Why was Liang Zhaodi, who looked like a widow, able to marry the unmarried Zeng Xinghai, while they tried to get close to him but he ignored them completely?

This Liang Zhaodi is really like a vixen, seducing men everywhere. Several people who secretly love Zeng Xinghai hate Liang Zhaodi to death.

"Xiaoxi, Liang Zhaodi and Zeng Xinghai are getting married, are you going?" Tian Shengnan asked while eating a persimmon.

Wen Xi shook her head. "Of course I'm not going. I still remember how they treated me. If Yan Zheng hadn't arrived in time, the three of us would probably have been killed by those four. Why would I go to her wedding?"

There's a saying that's true: good people don't live long, but evil people live for a thousand years. I never thought that a scourge like Liang Zhaodi could live such a happy life. God is too unfair to everyone.

Everyone has their own destiny, and this is not something Wenxi can worry about. She just needs to worry more about herself.

"Xiaoxi, are you going back home for Chinese New Year this year?" Tian Shengnan asked.

Wen Xi shook her head again, "I'm not going back."

The main reason is that she can go home before the Chinese New Year next year and won't have to come here again, so she was too lazy to ask for leave this year.

Tian Shengnan smiled shyly, "I'm going home. Song Lan wants to come home with me to meet his parents."

Wenxi nodded. "That's right. We girls shouldn't get married without our parents' consent."

Many people go to the countryside, get married there, and don't tell their parents or ask for the treatment they deserve. They just get married without telling their parents. They are too bold and are not afraid of being taken advantage of.

Moreover, there are no proper procedures. He thinks it's too easy to get married. He can marry you without spending much effort, and he can marry someone else without spending much effort either. He will be ruthless when it comes to hurting you.

Moreover, since your mother-in-law sees that you are not valued by your family, she will naturally treat you however she wants.

When Tian Shengnan went back, Wenxi packed her a basket of hard persimmons and told her to put them in the rice jar. If there wasn't enough rice, she could bury them in wood ash to ripen them.

The next day, Liang Zhaodi and Zeng Xinghai got married. In those days, as long as you held a banquet, you were considered married. No one checked marriage certificates, so naturally no one asked them if they had one.

Liang Zhaodi asked several aunties living near her home to help her prepare a banquet, which included spicy snails and braised fish. Since these two dishes were free, she could catch the fish herself by simply putting the fish basket into the river bend.

Of course, Liang Zhaodi needed to take care of two children and didn't have time to go out and catch them. She asked her aunt and husband to help her catch them, and she gave them some money for their hard work.

The remaining dishes are the ones that every household has now: old pumpkin, winter melon, lentils, mushrooms, wild vegetables, and an egg drop soup.

Aside from snails and fish, the only real meat dish is probably egg drop soup.

However, the variety of dishes served at the banquet was extensive, so it couldn't be called stingy, since each dish was served in large portions. Everyone at the several tables was full, which was much better than many other families.

Previously, when Li Wei and Qian Chunxing's child was born, their full-month celebration banquet wasn't this grand. After all, Qian Chunxing's family was from a village and didn't have the money of these educated youths, so they naturally didn't have such a large-scale celebration.

Li Wei wasn't a generous person, so naturally he wasn't willing to spend money to invite the villagers over for a meal.

Unlike Wenxi and the others, the remaining people at the educated youth settlement didn't have major conflicts with Liang Zhaodi, so they all attended Liang Zhaodi and Zeng Xinghai's banquet. Yang Liling and Jiang Yang were naturally among them.

When Yang Liling saw Zeng Xinghai, she snorted coldly. She never expected that Zeng Xinghai, who had been circling around her, would turn around and throw himself into the arms of Liang Zhaodi, a woman with two children. She didn't know why he had such a heavy taste.

Did her choice of Jiang Yang break his heart, causing him to give up on himself and randomly choose someone else?

But was her choice of Jiang Yang merely a stopgap measure?

Can't he see it?

So, they came to Liang Zhaodi because of this one thing?

Jiang Yang was overjoyed that Zeng Xinghai had given up on Yang Liling.

Regardless of whether a man likes his partner or not, he will always have a possessive streak.

She would never allow anyone to covet her partner, much less allow anyone to lay a finger on them.

Some people even forbid their exes from seeing other men after breaking up, because they consider it an insult.

After having dinner at Liang Zhaodi's place, everyone left. Wang Xinru didn't go back to the educated youth settlement, but instead went to find Wenxi and complained to her about the food at the wedding banquet. "Wenxi, you have no idea how stingy Liang Zhaodi and Zeng Xinghai are. Apart from snails, fish, and egg soup, there wasn't a single meat dish."

Wenxi hadn't expected them to make such a mess of the banquet. She guessed everyone regretted giving money and eggs, but that was their business, and she didn't care. She'd just listen to it as gossip.

Wang Xinru chatted here for a while and then went back. She had just eaten and was feeling a bit sleepy, so she went back to rest.

After Liu Zhigang's wife came to her door, Yang Liling stopped going to the transport team to look for Liu Zhigang. After all, she had just denied it in front of his wife, and his wife said she would keep an eye on her. If she went to Liu Zhigang again, wouldn't that confirm her affair with Liu Zhigang?