Hey, when Huang Eryuan heard Chen Zhaodi ask him if he could do it, he patted his chest and assured her, "Of course I can! What's so difficult about bringing people? Back then, I was the one who rode my bike back to our house to bring back the sewing machine."
Of course! A man can't say no!
Hearing him say that, Chen Zhaodi felt relieved and carefully straddled him.
Once Chen Zhaodi was settled, Huang Eryuan prepared to leave. Huang Qinqin and the others finished shopping and only managed to catch a glimpse of their departing figures on their bicycles.
Huang Qinqin: ......
Even if the bicycle can only carry one person, you should at least bring your belongings along. It would be heavy to carry so much stuff back.
Chen Zhaodi was a little scared at first, but she became less nervous after Huang Eryuan started riding the bike.
He even joked, "If it were a girl, her feet probably wouldn't even touch the ground after she sat on it."
"I don't know who she took after, but she's the shortest in the family."
Huang Eryuan was not happy if anyone said anything bad about her daughter, even if that person was Chen Zhaodi.
"My daughter isn't short at all; her legs are just a little short!"
Huang Qinqin: Are you being polite...?
Chen Zhaodi, sitting in the back, was laughing hysterically: "Hahaha!"
"You might as well just say she's short. What kind of nice person wants to hear someone say they have short legs? Besides, your daughter's legs aren't short at all."
"If she finds out you said she has short legs, see if she'll make a scene."
Hearing her say that, Huang Eryuan felt a little guilty, but he still tried to remain calm and said, "Our daughter isn't here. If you don't tell and I don't tell, how would she know?"
It wasn't until they got home that Huang Eryuan and the others remembered that their three children were still at the supply and marketing cooperative.
Chen Zhaodi and Huang Eryuan looked at each other and then pretended nothing had happened.
The children are all grown up now; if they can't wait for them, they'll come back on their own.
......
Early the next morning
They packed up the things they were going to take back, divided them into several bags, and hung them on the handlebars. There was still a little bit left, which Huang Qinqin could carry when they arrived.
Seeing that everyone had finished breakfast, Huang Eryuan said to the Huang brothers, "You two walk by yourselves; bicycles can't carry that many people."
Huang Jianguo and Huang Jianjun didn't mind. Before their family bought bicycles, they always walked back to their grandparents' house.
Moreover, they used to have to carry large and small bags with them, but now they bring everything back by bicycle, which makes things much easier for them when they are empty-handed.
Huang Qinqin sat sideways on the crossbar of the bicycle, while Chen Zhaodi sat behind her, holding the rest of the things.
Fortunately, Huang Eryuan was strong enough, otherwise he might not have been able to ride it.
From a distance, it looks just like a moving mountain.
Huang Jianguo and Huang Jianjun followed behind, walking slowly.
"Brother, why did my little sister get married so soon? If she could find a job, wouldn't she have been spared from getting married so early?"
Huang Jianjun had always felt unhappy. His younger sister was only eighteen years old this year. Although many people get married at sixteen, he was still not happy.
I always felt that if my younger sister had a job, she wouldn't be in such a hurry to get married.
Huang Jianguo knew what he was thinking, but he didn't think so.
"It's none of your business. Even if my little sister doesn't give us her job, I reckon she'll sell it anyway."
“Think about it yourself, can your younger sister really endure the high-intensity work in the workshop? Even Mom is exhausted after every day’s work. The reason she can persevere is because Mom grew up enduring hardship.”
"But can my little sister do it?"
"As for marriage, even if my younger sister has a job now and doesn't need to go to the countryside anymore, she should get married by the time she's twenty at the latest, even if she doesn't get married this year."
"This world is always more demanding on women. Even if a man is in his mid-twenties, he can still find many potential partners, but when a woman gets older, most of her can only marry a divorced man. It becomes very difficult for her to find a good partner."
Huang Jianjun knew that his younger sister couldn't possibly work in the workshop, but he didn't quite understand what his older brother meant when he said that it's harder for women to find good partners when they get older.
"I don't understand. Isn't it said that there are only men who can't find wives, not women who can't get married?"
Seeing that he really didn't understand, Huang Jianguo had no choice but to continue explaining to him: "It's true that there are no women who can't get married, even those who have been married several times, they won't have trouble finding a husband. But have you ever noticed what kind of people they marry?"
"Haven't you noticed? Even divorced men prefer to marry women who have never been married before. Often, many men in their thirties can marry women in their early twenties, as long as their conditions are acceptable."
"But once a woman is over twenty, everyone seems to assume that she can no longer find someone with good conditions. Even if her family wants to find someone, the matchmakers will basically introduce her to older men, men with disabilities, or men who have been married before."
"In Grandpa's village, there was a woman named Huang Chunhua, do you remember her?"
Huang Jianjun thought about it and realized that there seemed to be such a person, and he remembered that she had married a blind only son.
"Remember."
When Huang Jianguo heard him say he remembered, he continued, "Do you know why she ended up marrying a half-blind man?"
Huang Jianjun shook his head.
"Because her family originally planned for her to find someone with better conditions so that she could help her family in the future. Because she was beautiful, many people came to propose marriage to her."
"But at the time, none of them were interested in her. Huang Chunhua, relying on her good looks, declared that she would either give them two hundred yuan as a bride price or marry only a worker."
"In the end, from the age of sixteen to twenty-one, she couldn't find someone who suited them. As she got older, the dowries offered by suitors became less and less."
"When she turned twenty-three, no one came to propose marriage anymore. In the end, her family accepted a dowry of fifty yuan and married her off."
Huang Jianjun found it unbelievable: "Only fifty yuan for a bride price? I seem to remember my grandmother saying that someone from the next production team said they were willing to offer eighty yuan for a bride price."
"Yes, but at the time they thought she was too young and didn't want to marry her. Later, when they wanted to find someone else, that person already had a child."
"So it's inevitable that my younger sister will get married. Since she has to get married, she should find a good one, and it won't make a difference if she gets married in a couple of years. Besides, look at Xu Junhui, I can tell that he really likes my younger sister."
"And to be honest, although we think my sister is great in every way, many men get married hoping that someone will take care of them after they get married."
“I think Xu Junhui is very good. I asked my younger sister, and she told me how she does housework at home. Xu Junhui doesn’t mind. He also said that everyone in his family does housework.”
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