"Go back and wash the dishes if you have nothing else to do. You talk too much nonsense."

Wang Dabao scolded his wife.

As a member of the same clan, he knew very well what Wang Tianxiao's family situation was like. Hearing his wife say this, Wang Tianxiao immediately felt embarrassed and knew what had happened. He immediately scolded his wife.

She Saifen was not satisfied. She immediately picked up the short-handled broom used for sweeping the kang (a heated brick bed) and whipped Wang Dabao in the waist. "If you curse me again, I'll give you face, won't I?"

"Say 'I'll tell you' again, I want to hear it!"

"I'm the boss, I'm the boss, I'm the boss," She Saifen deliberately shouted "I'm the boss" several times at Wang Dabao, and said smugly, "So what if I call you 'I'? What can you do to me?"

Wang Tianxiao looked at the two of them with a wry smile.

Due to differences in local dialects, people have different understandings of the word "Laozi".

In northern China, "Laozi" generally refers specifically to one's father, so try not to refer to yourself as "Laozi" in front of northerners. Doing so is tantamount to insulting someone's mother, and if you encounter someone with a bad temper, they might immediately turn hostile.

However, in the Sichuan and Hubei areas, Laozi is a common phrase in many places, roughly meaning "I," so people basically use Laozi all the time.

Therefore, if a northerner and a person from Sichuan or Hubei were to talk together, they would often find it difficult to get along unless they knew each other very well, and it would be good enough if they didn't fight.

Right now, Wang Dabao and She Saifen are operating at this pace.

Despite his sharp tongue, Wang Dabao lost interest in arguing with his wife after she slapped him twice. He snatched the broom and tossed it aside, saying, "Stop messing around, the second brother is talking about serious matters."

"Oh." She Saifen suddenly realized, and said with a slightly embarrassed smile, "Second brother, I just remembered, did you and your wife move to the mountains?"

"Well, because I was transferred back to my job and have to patrol the mountains. Lili is in confinement after giving birth, and it's not convenient to leave her on the heated floor in the courtyard... Da Bao and his wife know about everything that's going on in our family. Anyway, it's all a mess and so annoying."

“Sigh,” She Saifen sighed, “You’re all brothers, why did things have to get so tense? I think it’s because your aunt didn’t treat you all equally that you brothers have disagreements…”

"Hey, you silly woman, why do you say all sorts of things?"

Wang Dabao quickly stopped his wife.

I thought to myself, this is their family matter, what right do you, an outsider, have to chime in and say anything?

No matter what a mother is like, if she talks about her mother in front of her child, how can the child be happy?

This time, She Saifen realized she had said too much and didn't argue with her husband, but she still glared at him fiercely.

Wang Tianxiao watched the couple bickering, but there was no resentment in his eyes, so he just smiled along.

These are basically common ways couples interact here.

Since none of us are very educated, and there's no need to pretend to be reasonable people, we basically rely on the most basic human morality to maintain our principles of conduct.

"Second brother, you said it's the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Yes, it's the day after tomorrow."

"So how are you planning to celebrate? A major celebration or a minor one? If it's a major celebration, your pit-yard house won't be big enough to accommodate everyone, and besides, a major celebration might cost more. Are you sure about that?"

Wang Tianxiao then explained his thoughts.

After listening, Wang Dabao nodded, "It's fine to put it in the alfalfa field. Anyway, the field is bare right now. But your alfalfa field has no shelter around it, so it will probably be very cold with the wind blowing in from all sides."

"Well, so I'm thinking of renting some tarpaulins to make a tent. That way, whether we're having soup or a banquet, we can do it all inside the tent."

"That's a good idea, but it's quite expensive. I remember that fifty meters of tarpaulin costs about three hundred yuan a day. If you want to build a tent that can accommodate two or three hundred people, you'll need at least two or three sheets of tarpaulin, which is also quite costly."

“It’s alright, I still have some savings,” Wang Tianxiao smiled, and then said, “Brother Dabao, you’ve always been the manager for everyone in the team, so you should know the people who rent tarpaulins, right? You can take me with you to rent them.”

“That’s no problem,” Wang Dabao nodded, took a cigarette holder from the railing, then pulled half a cigarette from under the bed sheet, put it in the holder, lit it with a match, and took a nice puff. “So, how much of a treat are you going to offer? I remember your wife is from Lijia Village…”

"What happened to Lijia Village?" She Saifen asked.

"You forgot?" Wang Dabao said irritably.

"What... Oh, I remember now." She Saifen exclaimed exaggeratedly, then looked at Wang Tianxiao with pity, "You've had it tough too, no wonder your auntie..."

"Go wash the dishes. It's a man talking. What are you doing meddling here?"

"Fine, fine, you think you can do that!"

She Saifen got off the kang (a heated brick bed) and patted the edge of the kang, saying to Wang Tianxiao, "Second brother, come on, take off your shoes and sit on the kang, it's warm."

"No trouble at all, sister-in-law."

She Saifen, with her plump body swaying, carried the food tray out.

Without the woman, the two men felt much more comfortable.

Wang Dabao sighed, "You were indeed a bit hasty in choosing this wife, without considering your family's circumstances. But now that things have come to this, you can't let the woman you married suffer, right?"

"That's true."

“Normally it’s fine, but with something this big, the people from the two villages definitely won’t be able to get along…” Wang Dabao thought for a moment, paused, and said worriedly, “Of course, the others are fine, but the more important thing is what to do with my aunt. She has a lot of prejudice against the people from Lijia Village.”

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