Chapter 24 Ma Qijun's Excuse for Missing
When Ye Xiaomei came back, smoke was rising from the houses. Li Dazui from next door was eating porridge mixed with salted vegetables:
"Minzhi, your Xiaolin has found a date, right? I heard that the family conditions are good and they live in the county."
Wang Minzhi held the steamed bun, which was stuffed with dried radish, and ate it crunchily: "Hey, who told you that? Do you know which boy this is?"
Li Dazui slapped his thigh and said in an exaggerated manner: "From the tone of your voice, you don't know that your Xiaolin is really capable. I saw him in the county a few days ago. The guy was riding a newly bought bicycle and took your Xiaolin for a ride."
Wang Minzhi rolled her eyes. The family that could afford the motorcycle was indeed quite well-off. "This damn girl is still hiding this from me. I'll ask her later."
My heart was filled with joy.
As Ye Xiaomei arrived at the door, Li Dazui pointed at her and said, "Xiaomei must know about this, doesn't she go there often? She must have encountered this before."
Ye Xiaomei pretended not to hear. She usually didn't like to talk, but that didn't mean she didn't understand anything.
Aunt Li is not a bad person, she just has a very loud mouth. She is just like the legendary loudspeaker and gossipmonger. However, most of the things we get out of her mouth are exaggerated. The best way to deal with such a person is to keep your mouth shut.
"Xiao Mei, where have you been so early in the morning? Your pants are covered in mud." Wang Minzhi followed into the yard and saw Ye Xiaomei sneaking into the alley to feed the rabbits:
"Why don't you say anything? Xiaomei, let me ask you, do you know about the person your sister Xiaolin is dating?"
The door to the east room was suddenly opened from the inside. Ye Xiaolin interrupted anxiously while combing her hair. She didn't want Ye Xiaomei to reveal any secrets about her:
"Mom, I talked."
Wang Minzhi was delighted when she heard this. She smiled till her ears were full of laughter. She quickly pushed Ye Xiaolin into the house and said in a pretended angry tone:
"Girl, you've found a date and you didn't even tell me, your mother. Tell me, who is this boy from?"
But she heard that the conditions were very good.
Ye Xiaolin looked through the window at Ye Xiaomei who was busy feeding the rabbits in the corner and deliberately raised her voice:
"His name is Zhang Changjiang. His family conditions are more than good. Although his mother married down, his parents don't get along very well and they live separately now. His mother's family is not simple at all."
Wang Minzhi became happier and happier as she listened to the whole story, especially since her eldest uncle was the police station chief, her younger uncle was the director of the county hospital, and her future mother-in-law was a big accountant:
"Xiao Lin, if we become a family in the future, your future mother-in-law will be in charge of the factory's wealth. If you work in a textile factory, you will at least be an official."
Ye Xiaolin raised her chin and smiled: "That's right." Then she'll see how Ye Xiaomei will continue to make fun of her for not being able to work in a textile factory after graduating from junior high school.
Wang Minzhi slapped her thigh and said, "That's great. It seems that I was right to ignore Ma Qijun. By the way, Xiaolin, you should quickly choose a date to invite the young man to our house to get acquainted with us. Then you can find an opportunity to visit him. If you do this, the wedding will be around the corner."
When this matter was mentioned, Ye Xiaolin's smug look faded a bit, and he nodded with a little embarrassment:
"Okay, I'll go talk to him about this."
When he was about to leave, Wang Minzhi followed him a few steps closer: "It's already past eight o'clock, hurry up and borrow a bicycle from Ma Juan."
"I know, Mom."
After Ye Xiaolin left, Wang Minzhi couldn't suppress her secret joy and hurried to the village grocery store to tell her mother-in-law who beat the "black monkey" about it.
"Yakou!" Li Cuihua threw down a rectangular card with a red dent in the middle and quickly took money out of her pocket:
"Once you decide when to come, go buy some food for us and tell Zhao Mei to cook. I'm busy right now."
Wang Minzhi was so happy to get the fifty yuan. After all, her mother-in-law was partial to their family and gave them fifty yuan at once.
Several card-playing friends praised Li Cuihua for her good fortune. She didn't have to work in the fields or at home. She just waited all day to eat and go out for a walk. The money earned by her two sons was given to her to manage, and her daughter-in-law was also under her control. What a wonderful life it was.
"Sister-in-law, the second son's daughter has decided to hold her wedding on August 8th, but you didn't even bother to give her any approval. How will she live her life after marrying a cripple?"
"It's cold." Li Cuihua said decisively.
Ye family.
Zhao Mei counted the insoles she had recently made, packed them up, and went out to the county to hand them in.
Ye Xiaomei prepared lunch herself. The mountain road was long, so Ye Xiaoya would bring a steamed bun with some salted vegetables in the morning and eat it at school at noon.
At the dinner table, Li Cuilan asked, "Have you agreed? When will you come to our house?"
Ye Xiaolin raised her head and glanced at Ye Xiaomei, then raised her chin and said, "Tomorrow at noon."
Wang Minzhi was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling: "Okay, Mom, I'll go buy some meat tomorrow morning."
Li Cuilan nodded. The family had eaten meat three times recently and the family savings were almost gone. Thinking that it was for the marriage of the two girls, she gritted her teeth and agreed.
Thinking of this, Li Cuilan cleared her throat: "Xiao Mei, these big meals cost a lot of money. When you get married, you must give me the betrothal gift. If Wang Lan is unreasonable, you just come back." Let's see if she dares to resist.
Ye Xiaomei neither nodded nor shook her head, pretending not to hear and shoveled rice into her mouth. Sometimes she found that apart from the strange disease, she actually wanted to escape from this home in her heart many times. Only by leaving this home would she have the opportunity to earn money with her hard work.
By then, she will be able to support her mother and meet all of Xiaoya's needs for schooling.
As for the one thousand yuan, Ye Xiaoya would rather keep it in her husband's house than let it fall into her grandmother's hands.
"Hey, this girl..." Wang Minzhi couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't speak when she should, and pretended to be deaf and dumb when she was asked to speak: "Didn't you hear your grandma asking you a question?"
"Ding ding!" Two car horn sounds were heard.
Ye Xiaomei looked out the door through the yard. Ma Qijun?
Sure enough, Heizi got out of the car, moved the wheelchair out of the trunk, and helped Ma Qijun down.
Wang Minzhi stamped her feet in anger, but could only hold back her anger for the time being. She raised her head and put on a smiling face: "Didn't the matchmaker say that we can't meet? Look how much this future grandson-in-law likes Xiaomei, come in and sit down."
Ye Xiaomei was no longer calm. Why did he come here suddenly?
He quickly put down his bowl and chopsticks, wiped his mouth, stood in the yard and asked, "Brother Ma, what's the matter?"
Ma Qijun saw that she was five or six steps away from him and did not approach him. He thought that she was afraid that her words would get out and people would gossip about her.
"I've finished drinking that very bitter grass, can you give me some more?"
When he said this, Ma Qijun felt that it was too perfect, but it was also an excuse he had thought of for a long time.
So that's how it is. Ye Xiaomei nodded: "Then I'll find it tomorrow and send it to you the day after tomorrow."
"Tsk!" Ye Xiaolin, sitting at the dining table in the main hall, glanced at Ma Qijun in the yard, her eyes falling on his legs:
"You really treat me like a treasure. You even come home to visit me even now." Are you afraid that you won't be able to find a wife?
"Keep your voice down." Li Cuilan glared at Ye Xiaolin and said, "Just take care of your own marriage. Why are you making so much trouble?"
Wang Minzhi rolled her eyes and said while serving tea to Ma Qijun:
"Why the day after tomorrow? Xiao Ma, Xiao Lin has found a partner. She will come to our house for the first time tomorrow at noon. You can come too. After all, it's not like a man and a woman are meeting alone, and we will be a family from now on."
I thought to myself: Let you see for yourself that only a guy from such a good family is worthy of my Xiaolin.
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