Wang San didn't have this idea in mind from the beginning.
What he said before was all true. His family was in financial difficulty and his mother was partial to him, so he was forced to marry into the family. Who would be willing to be a son-in-law?
The man who marries into another family has his own sufferings: not only does he have to go to another family like a woman or a boy, and work like an ox or a horse, he also has to endure the contempt and ridicule of other people - women and boys will not laugh at women and boys who marry into other families, because in their opinion this is natural; but men will ridicule, exclude and even bully the man who marries into another family, and no longer regard them as the same kind, and feel unlucky if they have any contact with them.
Even some women and boys would look at the son-in-law with strange eyes. This made Wang San feel particularly painful: he was obviously a good man, he shouldn't be like this! And his mother also knew that the life of a son-in-law was not easy, but she still abandoned him.
But he did not dare to resist his mother. His experiences from childhood to adulthood made him accustomed to being submissive. Old Lady Wang forced him to come, so he had to come. He told Miao that he did not think Shen Qing was bad, which was a lie: when he saw Shen Qing for the first time, he was already depressed and felt even more desperate and painful!
What's the difference between living with a guy like this and living with a man?
But when this boy started to talk and scold Old Lady Wang, Wang San actually felt very happy and relieved, and Shen Qing's image in his eyes was also very different: although this boy was not good-looking, he liked him more and more, and there was a unique spirit that he admired.
And to some extent, Shen Qing influenced Wang San: Even a fellow brother dared to resist and speak like that, so why shouldn't he dare?
So he confided his true feelings to his mother, and protested: Why did he have to marry into the family? Why didn't other brothers marry into the family and exchange money for his wife? Why did such an unfair thing have to happen to him? !
Although what he got in return was still beatings and scolding from Wang Laoniang.
While Wang San was being beaten, he actually felt that it was not so difficult for him to accept marrying into the family: in the countryside, generally speaking, the family cannot be divided until the elderly die. If he married a wife, or remained single, before Wang's mother died, he would have to endure being the one who did the most work and was the least valued in the family. He was always the one who suffered injustice when there were conflicts in the family, and he was also the one who was sacrificed when there were difficulties in the family.
However, marrying into the wife's family would allow him to immediately leave the family that exploited him and leave this biased mother.
Wang San started to make a plan in his mind.
Shen Qing was actually a very good candidate. Although he didn't look good, living in the countryside, especially in a poor place like their Xiaoji Village, which was not as wealthy as Lantang Village, it was not easy to marry a wife. Could her appearance be eaten or drunk? Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Wang San thought Shen Qing's famous tough character was very good. He had the unique spirit that he admired, and he was also strong and looked capable of working.
Miao seemed to be a gentle, reasonable, and good-tempered person—much better than his mother. More importantly, Miao had no husband, so there would be no other husband in the family to suppress her—when a woman married a man, there would be conflicts between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, but when a man married into the family, the most feared conflict was between the father-in-law and the son-in-law.
If I marry into the family, maybe I can be the head of the household, how great that would be!
Looking at the expanded yard and the sausages and bacon hanging in the yard, Wang San felt his heart burning.
He didn't even plan to ask for a betrothal gift! Now Wang San already hated his biased mother and those brothers who didn't have to marry into the family but were waiting to spend their betrothal gifts. Why should they get away with it? If he married into the family, Shen Qing's money would naturally be his, and of course he would keep all the money in his own family!
So Wang San put on a show: I heard that women and men are easily soft-hearted. He lowered his head and slumped his shoulders, hoping to gain sympathy from Shen Qing and Miao, so that they would accept him.
However, Shen Qing saw through him easily.
Wang San was very disappointed: "Why? Don't you think I'm okay?"
"Hmm..." What did he say? Shen Qing thought, he was just being polite at the time: "Even if you are okay, even if you are very good, I can still not be with you."
Wang San doesn't understand. If you don't choose the very good ones, what else do you want to choose?
Shen Qing felt that he seemed to have figured out something vaguely. Not long ago, on the night when he first came back from the apocalypse, he was in his room, counting the treasures he brought back by moonlight, and fantasizing that as long as he had money, the men who came to his house would not be dissatisfied with his appearance. He also planned to find a man with good character, who cared about the family and was willing to support his mother with him. If he met Wang San at that time, Shen Qing thought, he might really accept him.
Because at that time he felt that marriage was about two people living together, supporting each other, helping each other, and then having children. In this way, as long as the other party had good character and good conditions, it would be enough - it didn't even need to be a specific person, as long as these conditions were met, anyone would be fine.
But now Shen Qing felt that this was not the case, and it shouldn't be like this. He suddenly didn't want to make do with this and spend his life with just anyone - this was a matter of a lifetime!
But there was no need to tell Wang San about these complicated thoughts. Shen Qing still laid out the realistic conditions and told Wang San: "I have told your mother before that although you are a good person, who would want to become a relative with someone like your mother? You have four brothers, and we, an orphan and a widow, would suffer if we were to face them! Even if you don't want the betrothal gift, we don't want to be associated with a family like yours."
Wang San opened and closed his mouth, but he couldn't say anything to explain or refute. He knew his mother too well! If he really married into Shen Qing's family, it would be easy for him to say that he didn't want a betrothal gift. Wouldn't his mother go to Shen Qing's house to make trouble?
There is a saying that even an honest official cannot judge family affairs. Once relatives are involved, even the village chief cannot intervene! Will her mother not bring her brothers to take advantage of her and blame her? Not to mention anything else, more than half of the meat in this yard will be eaten up!
Wang San's spine slumped in frustration. He suddenly understood that it was not only Shen Qing who didn't want to be associated with a mother like his. Anyone who had other options would not want to be associated with her: "Does that mean I have to be single for the rest of my life? Even marrying into the family won't work?"
Shen Qing shrugged: "But this is not caused by me, right?"
Wang San finally left dejectedly under the persuasion of Wei the matchmaker. Before leaving, he looked back at Shen Qing: "If one day I can get rid of my mother and completely break off with my family, will you be willing to keep me?"
Shen Qing didn't know how to answer him and just remained silent.
Miao looked at Wang San's increasingly hunched back and felt a little sympathy in her heart: It must be said that Wang San's methods were quite effective on most of the girls and boys living in the village.
"This is a poor man, having such a mother." Miao sighed deeply. She had lost two children, including the one she had not given birth to. She couldn't stand other people's harsh treatment of their children, which was also a pain in her heart. If her child could survive, she didn't know how painful it would be! Therefore, she felt a little empathy when looking at Wang San: "Is there any way we can help him?"
She thought about what Qing Ge'er had said before about buying a servant. Since it was not possible to do so in a short period of time, could she hire Wang San as a temporary worker if there was anything going on at home?
Shen Qing interrupted her immediately and said sternly, "Mom, please don't think like that. There are so many pitiful people in this world."
Let's not talk about the distant past, let's just talk about the man with a broken leg who was in the same ward with Qu Weiwei that day. Isn't he more pitiful than Wang San? He is almost dead!
But Shen Qing would never abuse his kindness just because he saw their pity, because that would bring him into endless trouble: "You saw him talking back to his mother just now, it seemed like that. But then his mother beat him, and he dared to hide? He wanted to marry into the family, probably to escape from his mother and use the power of another family to fight against his mother."
This is also the reason why he suddenly developed a liking for Shen Qing, because Shen Qing is obviously stronger than his mother and can help him out of the sea of suffering. Maybe Wang San himself didn't figure this out, he just followed his feelings and instincts. But, "Why should I transfer the conflict between them to myself? It's not just me, it's the same for other families who want to marry into the family! As long as he can't make up his mind and completely break up with his mother, it will be difficult for him to succeed in marrying into the family. With his mother around, I don't dare to accept him even if he comes to work in our house, for fear that she will get involved!"
Also, "I am a bachelor, and he is a bachelor, both of us are of marriageable age, so why let him come to work in our house? I am afraid that even if we don't want to hire him, it will be difficult to get rid of him!" To be fair, Wang San's personal conditions are not bad, but Shen Qing doesn't like people like him. It's not the kind of dislike between spouses, but as a villager, Shen Qing doesn't want to get along with him.
Wang San has a lot of little thoughts and is not sincere. His situation in his family may be pitiful, but it is not caused by Shen Qing. Why should Shen Qing let him settle the score? If you keep such a person around, who knows if he will settle the score with you one day?
As soon as these words came out, Miao suddenly came to her senses. What was she thinking? If Wang San was really allowed to help, would Qing Ge'er's reputation still be there? Alas, although she didn't have much of a reputation to begin with, after what happened today, if Old Lady Wang and Matchmaker Wei went out and made a few more noises, it would be even worse. Maybe that's why she didn't think much about the issue of reputation.
But thinking of this, Miao was also a little curious: "Qing'er, what do you think about your marriage?" In theory, marriage is decided by parents and matchmakers. Miao can decide who Shen Qing wants to marry and who she wants to marry. Even the little boy should blush and hide in the house when he hears this topic.
But his family's situation was different from others, so Miao still wanted to find out: "We just sold a few wild boars, and this happened. We don't know how we're going to live in the future. Tell me the truth, and I'll just tell that matchmaker Wei directly. If you don't meet the conditions, don't ask for it."
Shen Qing was stunned for a long while before he said slowly, "Mom, do you think this man must get married?"
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