The snow this year came suddenly and left quickly.
As soon as the sun came out, all the remaining snow melted away. Although the temperature rose, it was still a bit chilly in the mornings and evenings.
As the saying goes, "A day's plan begins in the morning; a year's plan begins in spring." The New Year is over and farmers are starting to get busy.
The day passed quickly and it was the day when Tian Xiuzhu and Zhang Hongwei got married. Early in the morning, the villagers started setting off firecrackers.
Yang Liu was already heavy, and she was also impatient to join in the fun, so she asked her mother to send the money for the gift, and that was the end of it.
Just today, after getting off work early, Yang Liu saw several aunts from the village sitting under a big tree to rest with their hoes on their shoulders. She was walking around with nothing to do, so she ran over to listen.
Li Dazui was telling the story vividly. When he saw her coming, he hurriedly asked her to pass. He was afraid that she would miss the previous part, so he took the trouble to start from the beginning.
From her, Yang Liu roughly learned that except Chu Yue, all the people from the educated youth site had gone, including Qin Meixia from the next village. They all went there for lunch, and it was heard that they pooled money to buy a pair of thermos bottles for the newlyweds.
From this perspective, it does conform to basic human interactions.
Aunt Dazhu asked from the side: "Dazui, I heard that you went to her house for a banquet the other day. How was the banquet?"
She didn't go at first, so she let the old man go. It was mainly because of this kind of matter, and their relationship was not very strong. If the whole family was shameless enough to go, then afterwards, Zhang Guilan would definitely mock them in a sarcastic way and say that they were extorting money.
After listening to the old man, I heard that their family’s banquet was quite rich, even better than what we ate at home during the Chinese New Year.
When she heard this, she felt a little regretful. She wished she had known better and gone there with a thick face.
Having some oil and water in your stomach is better than anything else.
You don’t have to worry about face for now.
Li Dazui was there at the time, and she had the most say on the matter because no one present went except her.
"The lunch meal included braised pork and chicken, and the dinner was even more sumptuous. Besides these, there was also fish, and eight large bowls of food were added. There were also many small dishes. Anyway, there was still a lot left at the end."
Generally speaking, in matters like this, the villagers have no relatives or friends with the host family. They just interact with each other purely because they are from the same village. They usually just have a meal and then go back.
But Li Dazui is not an ordinary person. She stayed there and ate two meals.
After eating two bowls of rice at noon, her stomach was bloated. She was afraid that she could not digest it and would not be able to eat at night, so she put down her chopsticks and picked up a hoe to weed in her own vegetable garden. She worked for several hours and sweated a lot. She used up the food in her stomach, and then went to the secretary's house to wait for dinner.
Aunt Dagen looked at Li Dazui and joked, "I was wondering, you look so rosy lately. I guess you got a lot of rubbish from that visit that day."
We are all from the same village, and everyone knows that although Li Dazui usually talks nonsense, she is actually very frugal. She is always reluctant to use oil when cooking. Most of the vegetables in her family are boiled in water. She says this saves oil and makes the rice more delicious.
Li Dazui was annoyed when he talked about this. He waved his hands and said, "Oh, don't mention it. The delicious food I ate that day was all pooped out before it even lasted overnight. Why should I dip it in oil?"
Without waiting for anyone to ask, she added that she had diarrhea at night and went to the toilet several times, and all the greasy food she had eaten during the day was excreted.
The others covered their mouths and laughed when they heard this. "Big Mouth, it seems you are not destined to eat delicious food. You are only suitable for eating those bland things."
Yang Liu also laughed along. It turned out that some advantages should not be taken lightly, otherwise you will be the one who suffers in the end.
When it got completely warm, the villagers started to get busy.
The wheat fields need to be weeded and fertilized, and another important task is to put the canals built last year into use.
But this matter still needs long-term consideration.
The reason why Zhang Hongwei agreed to Zhang Guilan's proposal was that what she said moved him the most was that Tian Xiuzhu's father was the secretary, and he wanted to take advantage of this favorable situation to avoid some detours.
From the time he went to the countryside until now, he has come to deeply understand that the opportunities outside with and without connections are completely different. Now that he finally has a chance to take advantage of it, he certainly will not miss it in vain.
After marriage, in order to make his father-in-law and mother-in-law have a better impression of him, he rushed to work in the fields as soon as he got home from school every day, and took the initiative to go to the fields to help them with work on weekends.
He is considered to be the best worker among so many educated youth.
So Zhang Guilan is now quite satisfied with her son-in-law. She talks about him all day long and doesn't care about him as much as she does her own son.
In the evening, after dinner, when everyone had left, Tian Shouyi called Zhang Hongwei into his room and told him, "There's usually only one place in a village for the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers University. You have good qualifications and good performance, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'll do my best to get you in."
Zhang Guilan was listening nearby. Seeing that he was being vague, she started to yell, "Old man, why are you trying so hard? That spot must go to Hongwei. No one else in the village is as capable as him."
Those who can work cannot read, and those who can read cannot work.
He is the only one who can do both, and he does it well. The key is that he is recognized by everyone as a good person.
"Do you think I'm the boss of the commune? Besides, this kind of thing requires the support of the people. You should stay out of trouble lately. We're about to start irrigating the fields, and we'll definitely need to send someone to discuss opening the sluice gates with the neighboring village. Hongwei, try to show up as much as possible. If you can get this done, everyone in the village will remember you well."
After Tian Shouyi said this, Zhang Hongwei understood.
The farmers don't care at all about who gets the quota for workers, peasants and soldiers. They only care about whether the crops in the fields can have a good harvest this year. As long as he helps to get this thing done this time, it will definitely be a merit in everyone's mind.
With his father-in-law's help, the position as a worker, peasant and soldier was definitely his.
After figuring this out, Zhang Hongwei felt full of energy. He treated his family members, especially his mother-in-law, with even more care and concern, and coaxed her around. He had long seen through and understood the power of pillow talk, so if he wanted to make things happen, he had to worship his mother-in-law.
And to be honest, Zhang Guilan really had nothing to say about her son-in-law. When they got married, she knew it was not easy for him to be alone here, so she didn't ask for any dowry. She also gave her daughter a lot of dowry regardless of the past. After the marriage, the whole family lived together. I heard that the families of his two brothers gave living expenses, but considering that they were newlyweds, they let it go for the time being.
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