Shen Weimin's face turned red when he was asked, and he nodded hesitantly.
"My grandfather said... he could get Hu Zhiqing to marry me, and I... I..."
Seeing his son wanting to speak but being too shy, Shen Chunshu felt inexplicably angry.
He wanted to yell at Shen Weimin, but was afraid that others would hear him, so he could only lower his voice and scold, “Don’t you even look at yourself?”
"What is Hu Zhiqing's family background? What is our family background? Besides, it's obvious that he has read a lot of books, but how many words do you know? Are you worthy of him?"
"A toad wants to eat swan flesh, but why doesn't he take a piss and look in the mirror to see what kind of person he is?"
"You are not good at work, you are not good at thinking, and you don't even know how to speak to please others. Look at yourself, what is so good about you that makes you worthy of others?"
Shen Chunshu's barrage of contempt and abuse left Shen Weimin stunned on the spot.
Has he never thought that he is so terrible in his father's eyes?
If Shen Weimin blushed at first because he was embarrassed, then his red face now was due to shame and anger.
Seeing his son's unconvinced look, Shen Chunshu raised his hand and hit him on the head.
"What's that look in your eyes? Are you going to fight me? I'm your father, you ungrateful thing."
"With a family like ours, wouldn't it be good to marry a down-to-earth country girl? Even if your grandfather wants to marry Hu Zhiqing for you now, I want to ask you, can you afford to support her?"
"Look at what she eats every day? And then look at what you eat? Do you think she can live with you?"
Shen Weimin stood there without moving. Although he admitted that what his father said was true, how could those rural girls compare to Hu Lili?
He was still a little unwilling: "My grandfather said he has a way to let Lili stay in the Shen family..."
Chen Chunshu interrupted him with a sullen look on his face: "I'm telling you, I don't agree, and your grandfather's words won't work."
"You'd better give up this idea as soon as possible. If you really force yourself on her, she will definitely sue you for hooliganism."
"Do you know what the consequences of hooliganism are? You will be shot, don't you know?"
Shen Chunshu was so disappointed that he pointed his finger at Shen Weimin's forehead, poking him backwards step by step.
"If something really happens, can your grandfather die for you? Or can your mother die for you?"
"You don't have any opinions on your own affairs. You just follow whatever they say. Are you a fool?"
Shen Chunshu threatened and scolded Shen Weimin, and he almost backed off.
He looked at Shen Chunshu timidly: "Then...what should I do? What should I say to my grandfather?"
Shen Chunshu: "Just say you've changed your mind. You think you can't raise Hu Zhiqing well, and you can't afford to support her. After thinking it over, you still want to marry someone from the countryside."
After Shen Chunshu finished speaking, he saw that his eldest son lowered his head and did not answer, so he angrily said to him: "Did you hear that? Are you mute?"
Shen Weimin, who was urged, said angrily: "I heard it, I heard it."
Chen Chunshu urged him again: "Go home now and tell your grandfather. He will ask you why you changed your mind. Don't say that I told you. Just say that it was your own idea. Do you hear me?"
Shen Weimin returned home with Shen Chunshu chasing after him.
Old man Shen is waiting for his eldest grandson to come back and tell him about the things between men and women!
Seeing Shen Weimin enter the house, Old Man Shen waved at him immediately: "Dawei, come here quickly, I have something to tell you in private."
Shen Weimin pouted and sat on the edge of the kang in a sullen manner, lowering his head and mumbling, "Master, I don't want to marry Hu Zhiqing anymore."
"What?" Old Man Shen thought there was something wrong with his ears due to his old age.
Shen Weimin repeated in a louder voice: "I said I don't want to marry Hu Zhiqing anymore."
Old Man Shen: ...
When I asked my eldest grandson before, he looked shy. Why did he change his mind after going out?
Old man Shen asked anxiously, "What happened? Aren't you very proud of her? We had already agreed on it before, why did you suddenly say you don't want to marry her?"
Shen Weimin himself actually didn’t want to say it in his heart, but when he thought of what his father said, he couldn’t help but feel a little discouraged.
"She's from a big city, and her conditions are much better than ours. My family can barely afford to eat, how can I support her?"
"With nothing to eat or drink, even if you marry me, you'll have to run away afterwards, right?"
Old Man Shen didn't expect that his eldest grandson would think about these things, so he comforted him and said, "These problems will not be a problem as long as you marry her!"
"I asked around, and I heard that the educated youth had government-provided food rations for six months. If I marry her, won't the food rations belong to our family?"
"Besides, if you marry her, you won't have to pay back the 5 yuan. There will be no famine in our family, and the work points we earn can be exchanged for food, so we won't be short of food, right?"
"As for whether she will run away or not, as long as you get her pregnant quickly, as long as she has a baby, she won't run away even if you chase her away. You can rest assured about this."
"Besides, the state has assigned her to our village now. Where can she go? You are just worrying for nothing."
Old man Shen's words made Shen Weimin, who was somewhat lifeless, come alive again.
He asked worriedly, "What if she reports it to the police?"
Old Man Shen rolled his eyes at him in anger: "You are such a big guy, and you can't control a little girl like her?"
"As long as you sleep with her and she doesn't have to work in the fields, our family can just keep an eye on her and not let her leave the yard. How can she go to report to the police?"
"By the time she goes to work in the fields, she might be pregnant. If you say something nice to her, she will have no choice but to accept it."
Shen Weimin was still a little hesitant, and he couldn't help but betray Shen Chunshu: "But...but my father said...that I am not worthy of him..."
"What? What did you say???" Old man Shen immediately widened his eyes in anger.
No wonder his eldest grandson agreed before, but disagreed after coming back from a trip. It turned out that the eldest son was interfering!
Old man Shen was furious.
He held the pipe and kept knocking on the kang mat: "What a bastard, what on earth is he thinking? His own son is not as good as an outsider?"
"Dawei, don't listen to your father's nonsense. His brain is covered with shit and he is bewitched by evil spirits. I am your grandfather and I have the final say in our family. Just listen to me."
Seeing that Old Man Shen was so confident in what he said, Shen Weimin's mind became active again.
He looked at Old Man Shen and started laughing foolishly.
Just as Old Man Shen was about to teach Shen Weimin about matters between men and women, Hu Lili's voice was heard in the yard.
At the same time, I could vaguely hear other people talking.
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