"What's wrong? Did your village chief come out to call the police?"
"It's not that bad. Zhang Deping just couldn't stand it. He said that they wanted Duan Xiaoxi to get married because they wanted grain. It just so happened that Duan Xiaoxi had just met a man from a neighboring village, and he was very satisfied with him. So he asked Aunt Juhua to inquire whether they could get married as soon as possible. But when she mentioned 500 catties of grain, the man kicked Aunt Juhua out."
He said something that really angered Aunt Chrysanthemum.
"What did you say?"
"They said it was more cost-effective for them to buy a cow than to marry a wife. A refugee was only worth twenty catties of grain, five hundred catties. She thought she was a fairy. She said Aunt Chrysanthemum was a marriage fraud."
Yun Shudai sighed: "That's right, those parents are greedy enough. Five hundred catties of grain, do they think their daughter is so great? To put it bluntly, even if they wanted to exchange their daughter for grain, they should at least raise her to be plump and healthy, so she could bear children for them. They want the horse to run but don't want it to eat grass."
"Yes, that's the point. In the end, when things were at a stalemate, Zhang Deping stepped forward and offered to marry Duan Xiaoxi. He was willing to give her the 500 jin of grain, but an agreement had to be signed."
"My God, Zhang, the educated youth in your educated youth settlement, is a good person."
"Yes, but they were also quite clever. They knew what kind of people this family was, so they made them write a separation agreement. But the parents still went too far and demanded 600 jin of grain. In the end, Li Weidong and I came over, and Aunt Juhua couldn't stand it anymore and started arguing with them. The village chief and the Party Secretary also came."
Seeing that we outnumbered them, they didn't dare to act unreasonably and ultimately settled for 500 jin.
"Does Zhang Deping have 500 jin of grain?"
“He didn’t have any. In the end, I stepped forward first and said that I had thirty jin, and let him take it first. Then Wang Xiaorong and the other two each gave Zhang Deping ten jin. Zhang Deping had twenty jin himself, and then twenty yuan was used to offset thirty jin of grain. The rest was borrowed from the village.”
"That's a lot of grain, how long will it take him to pay it back?"
"There's no other way. Originally, I wanted to help Duan Xiaoxi. I was thinking that if anyone took a liking to her and her family came looking for grain, I would secretly give them 500 jin."
Now, I can't secretly give Zhang Deping food in the middle of the night; after all, in the educated youth settlement, everyone knows how much food each person has.
"He can pay it back slowly later. In any case, it's not bad to have gained a wife. He's so reckless, do you think his family will agree to it?"
"I don't know, but this afternoon, the parents put their fingerprints on the severance agreement under the supervision of the Party Secretary and the Village Chief, and then carried the grain away without even glancing at Duan Xiaoxi. Anyway, Duan Xiaoxi's eyes were swollen from crying all day."
"You're better off without parents like that."
"That's right. I talked to her for a long time today, and she finally understood. She pulled Zhang Deping aside and said she wanted to marry him."
Zhang Deping acted on impulse. He thought he had saved the person and was just helping out; he never intended to actually marry her.
The grain debt owed to the team can be repaid by tightening our belts for the next two years.
But Aunt Juhua said that if Duan Xiaoxi didn't get married, her household registration couldn't be transferred here, and she wouldn't have any relatives here, so she couldn't be assigned a job or earn work points. Besides, 500 jin of grain is worth several hundred yuan, and a wife is quite expensive. He's not young anymore, so isn't this a perfect match?
"Have him send a telegram home tomorrow to tell us about this."
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