Last night, Lushan Village, at the captain’s house.
Wei Meihua came over with a basket filled with five oval eggs. She showed them to the captain's wife with a smile on her face, "Guihua, I came to see Xiulan. I brought some eggs to nourish her."
The captain's wife didn't show any displeasure. Nothing was more important than her grandchildren right now. She said, "They're in the house. Go and have a look yourself."
"Yeah, I'm going." Wei Meihua smiled and walked to the left.
When she pushed the door open, she saw her eldest daughter Xiulan lying on the kang, eating sweet soup with an egg in it. She seemed to be living a very comfortable life.
"Mom, why are you here?" Song Xiulan asked. Because she was taking care of her pregnancy, she had neither gone out nor returned to her parents' home during this period.
Wei Meihua put a basket of eggs on the table and said, "Why, can't I come and see my daughter?"
Seeing the eggs, Song Xiulan felt a little touched, but not much. "Thank you, Mom, for coming to see me."
After chatting for a while, Wei Meihua looked outside the door and saw no one, so she leaned over to her eldest daughter's ear and told her the main purpose of today.
Song Xiulan, who had overheard this, was shocked. "Mom, whose precious little girl is that? She actually asked for a twenty-yuan betrothal gift and thirty-six legs? And you and Dad actually agreed to it?"
Song Xiulan, who couldn't figure it out, stared at Wei Meihua. Her mother was not a confused person, so what happened today?
Wei Meihua's face flushed as she was stared at. "Xiu Lan, I can't help it. This is all your eldest brother's fault."
"Chengjiu? What's wrong with him? Aren't you guys checking him out?"
"Don't mention it. I looked for him in the surrounding villages, but this guy didn't like those who were good at housework. Instead, he fell in love with the second daughter of the old Zheng family at the head of our village."
"What? That kid Chengjiu dared to mess with his daughter?"
There are several strange things about the Zheng family at the head of Lushan Village. One of them is that Zheng's wife has been giving birth to daughters, but now there are five daughters in the Zheng family.
The second is that the five golden flowers of the Zheng family are very powerful. How powerful are they? The eldest daughter, who has been married for two years, not only talks about the eldest son-in-law dividing the family, but also turns the eldest son-in-law into the eldest son of the Zheng family. She is more filial than those who have sons in the village.
Thirdly, Lao Zheng and his wife were particularly good at taking advantage of others and throwing tantrums, but these were just the ordinary things. The most shameless thing they did was to stare at a certain house in the village for three days, even at night, just to get a piece of meat from that family.
Fourthly…
The Zheng family, big and small, is regarded as a dog-skin plaster by the villagers. Once it is on, it cannot be taken off.
Song Xiulan quickly said, "Hurry up and tell my second brother to stop it!"
Wei Meihua had a sad face. "It's impossible to break it off. Chengjiu has already gotten the Zheng family's second daughter pregnant. If we can't come up with the betrothal gift, the Zheng family will report Chengjiu to the police. In the worst case, Chengjiu will be shot, or sent to a farm for reform. How can we do that? Your brother's life can't be ruined..."
As he spoke, the pain truly came from his heart.
Wei Meihua had no intention of competing with Zhao Qiuqin. Could it be that her son became a criminal and was sent to a farm for reform, while Zhao Qiuqin's son was attending university in the city? How could they compare?
She is now determined to settle this matter.
Song Xiulan responded helplessly: "Mom, how much money do you think I can come up with? How much money can the Sun family have? Last time Chang Lei went into the mountains and injured his leg, my mother-in-law and father-in-law kept an eye on him every day."
"Can't you think of another way? He's your own brother." Wei Meihua's tone was tearful.
"He's my biological brother, sure, but I'm pregnant now, with a baby in my belly. What am I supposed to do?" Song Xiulan also cried, but she quickly grasped the point: "Mom, where are grandpa and grandma? They still have money, and with the money they gave us when we split the family property, and what we've saved, it's more than enough."
"Don't mention your grandparents. Those two old guys got all their food taken away by the second son's family. I asked them, and they told me directly that they didn't have any. As for your father... he said he wouldn't give any. Anyway, he still has a son, so it doesn't matter if he dies and no one breaks the pot." Wei Meihua's eyes were filled with accumulated disgust and dissatisfaction when she talked about the two old people.
Song Xiulan: ...
Being pregnant can make her family so tired.
Wait, it seems like this didn’t happen in her previous life!
She tried hard to recall the memories of her previous life. Apart from her life in the county town and her life with the domestic violence man, her memories of other people in her family were like a cloud of fog, completely unclear.
Song Xiulan shuddered, her heart clenched in her stomach: Could it be that this was all fake? This was all a dream?
No! She could still feel the pain of death!
Don’t scare yourself!
Song Xiulan quickly comforted herself. Thinking of her cousin, she asked, "Mom, why don't you borrow money from my second uncle's family?"
"How could the second brother's family have any money?" Wei Meihua shook her head. Tianshun went to Beilin City. Although he received a government subsidy, he still had to spend money on textbooks, round-trip train tickets, and paper and pens for study. The second brother's family had given all their money to Tianshun, so how could they borrow from him?
"Mom, my second uncle's family doesn't have it, but Jiayu does. Didn't she say last time she came back that Jiang Baizhou was already a second-level electrician? After all, we are a family, and Chengjiu is her brother. How can I not help my brother when he is in trouble?"
"Hey, you do make sense. Tomorrow Jiayu will come home, and you can bring Changlei back with you. It's just right that our two families can have this Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner together, so borrowing money will be easier."
Wei Meihua had an idea from her daughter and left immediately, taking two of the five eggs.
Song Xiulan, who stayed in the house, was in a good mood. She knew she was right and that she had made the right choice in choosing Sun Changlei. God had given her this opportunity so that she could live a better life.
**
When Song Jiayu and her husband arrived at Old Song's house and entered their own home, they learned about this from their mother. "This is all your father's fault. His mouth is like a gourd. He can't say a word. The two families are separated, and he still said we would have a reunion dinner together for Mid-Autumn Festival. I can tell that it's not a good thing."
Song Demin was sitting on the bench, and the honest man retorted: "It's just a meal, it's nothing, and they also gave us a chicken, so we're not at a disadvantage."
Zhao Qiuqin was furious. She reached out to find a spot on Old Song's body that was easy to pinch, cursing, "What do you mean you won't suffer any loss just because of a chicken? Haven't you suffered enough loss before?"
This time, Song's father shut up completely.
"Mom, don't talk about Dad. Now that things have come to this, let's go have a meal and see what uncle and his family are trying to do!" Song Jiayu persuaded.
To be honest, Song's father and Song's mother are about the same, but one is taciturn and the other is eloquent, which makes people feel that Song's mother is more powerful.
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