"Axiao, you are not kidding, are you?" asked Xie's mother.
"Why am I kidding?" Xie Qingxiao frowned: "I'm serious, the sooner the better."
Mother Xie and Father Xie, who came back carrying a hoe, looked at each other.
"Where is that girl from? What's her name?" Xie's father asked in a deep voice.
"Her family lives in the county, her name is Lin Xiangyi, and she is my high school classmate," Xie Qingxiao explained. Fearing that his parents would disagree, he confessed, "I like her very much, and I will marry her in this life."
"Hey, kid, how can you say that?" Xie's mother said anxiously.
"Don't worry, she is a good girl. She will definitely not let you down as your daughter-in-law! Don't worry about my vision," said Xie Qingxiao.
It’s because of your vision that we don’t believe it!
Thank you, father and mother, I thought to myself.
Xie Qingxiao is their son. They protect him in front of outsiders, but they know very well that Xie Qingxiao has been spoiled by his grandmother.
Do things as you please, very capriciously, and never consider the consequences.
How could they trust his judgment?
But it's a good thing that he wants to get married.
"But isn't it too hasty to propose tomorrow?" Xie's mother still felt that it was too sudden. She had never heard of it before. Suddenly they said they wanted to get married, and the proposal was so rushed without any time to prepare.
"I am a little anxious," Xie Qingxiao said, "but if I don't hurry up, I'm afraid that girl will be snatched away by someone else."
"Why is that girl so popular?" Xie's mother's attention was immediately diverted.
"Yes," Xie Qingxiao said frankly, "I waited for her for a long time before she agreed to my request!"
When Xie's mother heard this, she became anxious: "But we haven't prepared anything for the marriage proposal yet."
"What do you need to prepare?" Xie Qingxiao said hurriedly: "I'll prepare it! I guarantee it will be well prepared!"
Xie's mother choked. She finally realized that her son was not lying. He was really anxious, as if he was afraid that if it was too late the girl would not marry him.
"You can't go to propose marriage empty-handed. You have to bring some pork, fruit, biscuits, etc., and you also have to prepare gifts, right?"
"That's easy! Her family lives in the county town. We can buy pork biscuits and other things there. As for the betrothal gift, I have it here!"
"You have money?" Xie's mother was surprised. It had been two years since Xie Qingxiao graduated from school and he hadn't found a proper job. He just hung out with his friends every day.
Of course, he didn't ask his family for money, and he wouldn't accept it even if they gave it to him.
They didn't know what he was doing outside. Every time they asked him, he just gave a perfunctory answer. If they asked too many questions, he would become impatient.
She and Xie's father were very tired, and were afraid that if they cared too much about him, he would become alienated from them. Seeing that he had not done anything wrong to deserve a grudge, they simply left it alone.
So he still had money? Could it be that when the old lady passed away, she hid some private money for him?
"How much money do you have?" asked Xie's mother.
"One thousand," Xie Qingxiao went straight into the house to get the money.
Mother Xie and Father Xie looked at each other in bewilderment. One thousand? So much?
"Where did you get so much money?" Xie's mother hurriedly chased after him and asked. Even if the old lady doted on him, she couldn't hide so much money, right?
Xie Qingxiao took out a thousand yuan from under his pillow, stuffed it into his mother's hand, and answered irrelevantly: "This money is the betrothal money for me to marry my wife. If it's not enough, I will borrow more!"
Before Xie's mother could ask him where he got so much money, she asked in surprise, "Why is the betrothal gift so high?"
Although land has been distributed to households in most places now, living conditions have improved a lot compared to before, and it is no longer necessary to marry a wife with a load of rice, but in most cases it is only two or three hundred coins.
The highest dowry given in their village was 500 yuan when the village chief's family married their daughter-in-law last year.
This is because the girl is pretty, has a good family background, and has a job in the county town, so they gave her so much.
For their family... one thousand dollars is too much.
"Not much," Xie Qingxiao said, "I still think it's too little, it's just that I don't have that much money right now, otherwise I would give more, my wife is worth more than this little money!"
Mother Xie almost fainted, what a prodigal son!
Other people say that girls should not be kept when they grow up, but in her family, it is better that boys should not be kept when they grow up!
She wanted to say something, but when she saw Xie Qingxiao's happy expression, she swallowed her words back.
After leaving Xie Qingxiao's room, Xie's mother and father looked at each other. Xie's mother sighed and said, "This is too sudden. Why are they getting married all of a sudden? We haven't even met the girl yet, and we don't know if she's reliable."
"What else can you do if he's unreliable? Ah Xiao looks like he has already decided on that girl. Didn't you hear him? He will not marry anyone but that girl!" Father Xie complained, "It's all because of the old lady who spoiled him!"
"How dare you talk about the old lady? After all, she raised a son for you. Otherwise, why didn't you raise him yourself?" Mother Xie glared at Father Xie.
She and Xie's father had five children, one of whom died young, leaving two sons and two daughters.
Xie Qingxiao is the youngest, and the age difference between him and his brothers and sisters is at least five years.
She was already quite old when she gave birth to Xie Qingxiao, and it was a period of communal dining. She had to earn work points every day. After work, she had to take care of the baby Xie Qingxiao and serve the whole family. She really did not have the energy to keep up.
When her mother-in-law found out, she took Xie Qingxiao away to raise him.
At that time, they had already separated from the old lady. Although they lived not far away, they did not live under the same roof. When they were busy, they often did not visit Xie Qingxiao for several days.
The old lady doted on Xie Qingxiao very much. Although this spoiled his lawless character, she still managed to bring Xie Qingxiao up.
For this, Xie's mother was very grateful to the old lady.
"Okay, okay, it's all our fault," Xie's father sighed, "Go cook. We'll see what the girl is like tomorrow."
Xie's mother thought so too and went to the kitchen to cook.
But Xie's father and mother never expected that Xie Qingxiao would be so enthusiastic. He woke them up early the next morning and looked visibly happy.
Xie's father and mother couldn't help but get nervous. They put on what they thought were the best clothes and caught the two fattest chickens in the house.
Ride a bicycle to the county town.
Longjing Village is not far from the county town, and it only takes half an hour to get there by bicycle.
When they arrived in the county town, they first went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things.
He bought five kilograms of bulk biscuits and candies, two boxes of rice cakes, two two-kilogram bags of red dates, a few cakes of tea, and two packs of Zhonghua cigarettes. Before leaving, Xie Qingxiao saw that there was Maotai on the counter, so he bought two more bottles of Maotai.
They carried large and small bags to the Lin family.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
