Chapter 73 No Hope

With the sound of firecrackers, today's groom was surrounded by people outside and walked into the room with a smile on his face to pick up today's bride.

"Wow, the bride is so beautiful today, you are so lucky"

"This dress is so pretty" "It's really pretty" "It's really beautiful"

Everyone around praised Hu Xiaofang for her beauty today. They happily surrounded the bride and groom, shouting for them to hand out the wedding candies quickly, laughing and having a great time.

Hu Xiaofang's mother brought a winnowing basket filled with roasted peanuts, melon seeds and some sugar. Then everyone scattered and rushed to grab the sugar.

Hu Xiaofang was carried out on her brother's back. The groom came in a ox cart. After bidding farewell to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, he took the bride and dowry home.

As the sister of the bride, Hu Xiaoyu took Li Meng with her to the groom's house, and Hu Jia drove the ox cart behind the groom's ox cart.

We soon arrived at the groom's house. The two families were not in the same village, but were very close. When we arrived at the door, we heard another burst of firecrackers.

"The bride is coming, the bride is coming," the quicker children saw the ox cart and quickly ran into the room, shouting for the adults to come out.

The bride and groom were handing out wedding candies to the children around them with red faces amid the cheers from the people around them. When everyone else was moving their dowries into the room, the pillowcase given by Li Meng caused another sensation, and the aunties and grandmas all gathered around to watch.

"This is so beautiful, so golden." An old lady liked it and reached out to touch it, but was stopped by Hu Xiaoyu who was quick-eyed and quick-handed.

"Auntie, please just look at it and don't stretch out your hands, okay?"

"You girl, what's wrong with me touching it? It's just a pillowcase. Will it break if you touch it?" The aunt who stretched out her hand looked disdainful.

"Wait until today's wedding banquet is over, then come and take a look, okay? The dowry has just been moved in, and my sister-in-law's family hasn't seen it yet. What if it gets damaged by touching it?" Hu Xiaoyu refused to give in. She couldn't make this offer. Otherwise, even if she wanted to touch it, how could she use it if it got dirty?

"Tsk, who cares?" The aunt rolled her eyes and walked away.

This little episode was soon forgotten, and people began to happily surround the bride and ask her all kinds of questions. The most common questions were about who dressed her up, why she looked so beautiful, how her hands were so skillful, what she put on her body and why she smelled so good, what she put on her lips, and so on.

Hu Xiaofang didn't know what question to answer first and could only look at Li Meng for help.

Li Meng blinked at her, then walked up to the crowd and said with a smile: "Hello everyone, my name is Li Meng, I am an educated youth from Huanglong Village. I dressed her up as the bride today. The perfume and lipstick I put on her lips, I brought them all from the big city. If you are interested, just come to Huanglong Village to find me."

"This pillowcase embroidered with koi is also a wedding gift from me to the bride. I got it from a big city. If you need it, just let Xiaoyu contact me." After saying that, she took out a handful of perfume samples from the small bag she carried on her back at all times and gave them to these young girls and wives.

Everyone was extremely excited, even happier than during the Chinese New Year, and they couldn't put down the perfume samples in their hands.

Soon the wedding banquet outside began and everyone went out to eat, leaving only Hu Xiaoyu, Li Meng and the bride Hu Xiaofang in the room.

"Thank you so much today. This is for you." Hu Xiaofang took out a red envelope and stuffed it into Li Meng's hand.

"Sister Xiaofang, what are you doing? We are friends, so don't be polite to me. Besides, didn't I just promote myself? Hehe. Please take it back." Li Meng forced the red envelope back.

"Sister, since Mengmeng doesn't want it, why don't you introduce more clients to her in the future, right? Mengmeng?" Hu Xiaoyu said quickly when she saw the two people arguing.

"Xiao Yu is right, Sister Xiao Fang, if you treat me as a friend, just take me back," Li Meng said, pretending to be angry.

Seeing this situation, Hu Xiaofang had no choice but to take it back and kept saying thank you.

"Sister, why didn't I see your mother-in-law come in?" Hu Xiaoyu changed the subject.

"I think he's helping in the kitchen and doesn't have time to come over. I'll probably come later and introduce you to him," Hu Xiaoyu explained.

As they were talking, Hu Xiaoyu's mother-in-law and an aunt came in.

"Xiaofang, you must be hungry. Come and have a meal." Hu Xiaofang's mother-in-law was not tall and thin. She wrapped her head with a dark blue cloth and wore a blue cotton jacket that had turned a little pale from washing.

"Okay, thanks, Mom," Hu Xiaofang said shyly. She was not used to calling others mom.

The aunt who came with her touched Xiaofang's mother-in-law with her arm. Her mother-in-law hesitated a little and said, "Xiaofang, you eat first. I have something to discuss with you later."

Hu Xiaofang looked at her mother-in-law with some confusion. She had just married into the family, so what could her mother-in-law discuss with her?

"This is your sister, right? You two should go out and eat quickly. Don't get hungry. Come on, I'll take you there," said Grandma Hu Xiaofang with a smile.

It was obvious that he wanted to get them away, didn't want them to know, and wanted to talk in private.

"Sister, let's go eat first. If you have anything to say, just shout and I'll hear you." After saying that, Hu Xiaoyu pulled Li Meng out and winked at Hu Xiaofang when she left.

As soon as Sister Xiaofang's mother-in-law came in, Li Meng saw that the aunt following behind her was the person who was blocked by Hu Xiaoyu from touching the pillowcase before.

Now she didn’t know what this person wanted to do. She saw this aunt secretly touching Grandma Hu Xiaofang with her arm.

Hu Jia, who was sitting in the yard, waved his hand and asked them to come and sit together. He had not spoken to Li Meng alone today as he was busy catching the bus.

"You must be hungry. This is for you." Hu Jia took out an egg and handed it to Li Meng. Li Meng felt a little nauseous when she thought about the egg being rubbed countless times by Hu Jia's hands while it was in his pocket.

I quickly waved my hands and said, "No, I'm not hungry at all. Before, at Sister Xiaofang's house, the lady gave me some quick peach cakes. I'm not hungry, you can eat them yourself."

When Hu Jia heard Li Meng say this, he could only retract his hand and scratch his head embarrassedly.

He became nervous as soon as he saw Li Meng. He didn't know what to say or how to start. He knew that the man named Pei Yu from last time had gone back, and he wondered if he might have a chance.

In the end, she was rejected before she even tried. She refused anything I gave her. There was definitely no hope. I couldn't help but feel depressed when I thought about it.

"Mengmeng, what do you think my sister's mother-in-law wants to say to her? I'm really curious?" Hu Xiaoyu approached Li Meng and asked in a low voice.