Chapter 444 Ceremony

Xiayazi Village, a few dozen miles away.

The red sun had just set from the top of the mountain, but a little afterglow was still lingering on the other side of the mountain, giving the towering green hills a circle of deep yellow edge.

Most of the people in the mountains have already eaten.

Wu Chunmei, the old lady of the Qin family, was sitting on a hard bed made of bamboo.

She was holding a little girl with pigtails in her arms, and was listening to her elder sister Wu Chunliu's endless lecture on the truth:

"Qin Yue is an honest kid. He can't control a powerful woman at all."

"In my opinion, he shouldn't look for someone from the city. He should look for someone from our village who knows him well. Only then can the two of them get along well."

Wu Chunmei held the little girl in her arms and couldn't help but retort:

"Xia Tang is not from the city either. She grew up in our village. Haven't you seen her?"

"You think so, but people don't say so, right?"

Wu Chunliu laughed.

"How long ago was that? Who knows, maybe he has long thought that he is a phoenix that has flown out of a chicken coop - he is shaking! When the time comes, he will ride on your neck and poop and pee, and then you will know how uncomfortable it is!"

Wu Chunmei felt uncomfortable hearing this.

She was originally a soft-tempered person.

My mother-in-law was a good person before, but after all, I am someone else's daughter-in-law, and I know the ins and outs of some things myself.

What if I find a daughter-in-law and then torture her?

She was feeling depressed, and it showed on her face.

Wu Chunliu also saw it clearly.

Wu Chunliu just wanted to make her worry, and seeing that she looked unhappy, he added:

"Actually, marriage is like matching the pot with the lid. We are from the countryside, so even if we have changed our identities, we can't forget our roots, right?"

"If you ask me, Qin Yue might as well look for our Hu Fang instead of Xia Tang."

"Look, our Hu Fang is pretty good, honest and dutiful. When she enters the city in the future, she will be able to help Qin Yue."

Before Wu Chunmei could say anything, the door opened and Qin Lian led Shui Gen'er in.

She also had her hair in pigtails like the little girl, and looked much more lively than when she was in the city. Seeing Wu Chunliu at home again, her delicate brows couldn't help but frown.

On the other side, Wu Chunliu was still persuading:

"Qin Lian said that Qin Yue is going to get married, but how can children make the decision on their own about such an important matter in life?"

"If you ask me, you should send a letter to Qin Yue and tell him not to let him marry Xia Tang."

After these words were spoken, even Shuigen was unhappy. He looked at Wu Chunliu, stiffened his neck and said:

"My sister-in-law is a good person, why can't I marry her?"

"What? What did you call her?"

Wu Chunliu pointed the long pipe at Shuigen'er and looked at Wu Chunmei in surprise.

"Look at you, look at you, you can even pour the magic potion from such a far distance. You will really suffer after you get married!"

Wu Chunmei quickly told Shuigener not to say any more.

Wu Chunliu carefully took back the pipe and stood up slowly:

"Chunmei, I'm doing this for your own good. Think about it for yourself!"

After Wu Chunliu left, Wu Chunmei was still a little distracted. She looked at Qin Lian, and the worry on her face was obvious:

"Lian'er, what should we do if Xia Tang is difficult to get along with?"

Qin Lian had thought about this worry before she met Xia Tang.

But now, she no longer thinks about it.

She looked at Wu Chunmei, even a little helpless:

"Mom, don't think too much. What kind of person is Sister Xia Tang? Why don't you just meet her when the time comes?"

"Let's take a step back and say that even if she doesn't agree with us, I don't think she can be worse than Sister Hu Fang. Don't worry about it, okay?"

Hu Fang is Wu Chunliu's third daughter.

I got engaged two years ago, but later broke up with my fiancé and remained single until the end.

Others didn't know why, but Qin Lian knew that Hu Fang looked generous and cheerful on the surface, but in fact she said one thing in front of others and another behind their backs. She was also selfish and calculating, and never thought about others.

For a person with such a narrow mind, nothing that happens to him is surprising.

After Qin Lian finished speaking, she took the little girl from Wu Chunmei, untied her two pigtails, unfolded her hair and prepared to go to bed.

They used to sleep on heavy cotton quilts.

The cotton had tangled and absorbed moisture, making it feel heavy and damp all day long. No matter how long I slept, I didn't feel warm.

In the past few years, Qin Yue has been in the army, and he has sent them money on time every month. Sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less, but at least there is income, and life has stabilized.

After he came back from the army this year, he bought them two new quilts, and also bought two new sets of clothes for his mother and her, which were so fitting.

When they were having a hard time, Wu Chunliu and Hu Fang never even looked at them.

Now that life is better, he is trying to stick to me again.

Wu Chunmei was a good-tempered person who didn't care about anything, but Qin Lian saw it all.

Not to mention, Qin Yue and Hu Fang are actually close cousins.

She had studied biology and knew that such a close blood relationship would make marriage impossible.

I don't know what that family is thinking...

Qin Lian lowered her head, spread out the quilt, and tucked the corners of the quilt in, making it into a long tube.

As she undressed the little girl, she was thinking:

I don’t know when Xia Tang and Qin Yue will come back?

*

The weather is getting colder, and people are wearing thicker clothes.

The Dacron shirts that were once seen on the streets were gradually replaced by work jackets and tweed coats, and the colors people wore also gradually changed from bright and vibrant saturated colors to darker ones.

Autumn seems to be such a season.

What fades away is the vibrant youthfulness, and what remains is a rich harvest.

It was another cool autumn day.

Xia Tang, wrapped in a tweed coat, hurriedly walked towards the snack bar. The bright color on her body successfully attracted the attention of passers-by.

She was originally beautiful, the kind of beauty that could not be concealed even by plain clothes.

Today, a touch of bright color makes her face look brighter, and a light lipstick is applied on her lips, making her lips look redder and her teeth look whiter. Her almond-shaped eyes are full of brilliance, just like a unique spring flower blooming in autumn.

When she arrived at the snack bar, a regular customer saw her orange wool coat and joked with a smile:

"Boss Xia, you are wearing something so fresh today, you must be a bride!"

They were just joking, but Xia Tang smiled and answered seriously:

"Yes, let's go get the certificate today."

Get a certificate?

The diners all smiled but didn't take it seriously.

In their minds, Boss Xia is Boss Xia, so why bother getting a certificate?

However, what they didn't know was that Xia Tang did go there to get the marriage certificate.

Today was a good day. She and Qin Yue had made an appointment to get their marriage certificate.

Actually, it was Chen Minzhi who asked a fortune teller to predict the date.

Chen Minzhi has always been a superstitious person with a sophisticated egoism. Whenever she needs something, she is used to asking gods for help.

This time, she also looked at Qin Yue and Xia Tang and said that today was an auspicious day and they were just right for getting their marriage certificate.

She said yes.

Xia Tang is not picky, and Qin Yue listens to her, so it's a good sign.

Xia Tang didn't like those extravagant and wasteful things, so Qin Yue followed her. After they got their marriage certificate, they agreed not to have a wedding banquet, and planned to relax for a few days and go back to Xiayazi Village.

However, perhaps to make up for the lack of a wedding banquet, Qin Yue still added a lot of things to Xia Tang: a red woolen coat, a silk quilt, and even drinking cups and thermoses, all in bright red with the word "happiness" on them.

Add to that the watch I brought back from Guangzhou, and it looks pretty good.

Xia Tang really didn't care about these things, but that didn't stop her from feeling warm in her heart.

But after marriage, these are no longer necessary.

Because after getting married, all the money she spent was her own.

She was getting married today and was in high spirits. Even if the task was difficult, she would do it quickly and carefully, humming a tuneless song.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Yue came to pick her up.

Like Xia Tang who was wearing a tweed coat, Xia Tang today also wore a dark windbreaker. He did not look like a small repairman in the machine room. With his broad shoulders, long body and long legs, he looked more like a spy villain on the big screen.

Although his temperament is distorted, he does look very heroic.

The two took the marriage report to get the marriage certificate.

A thin piece of paper with a red seal on it was handed over, and two red notebooks were received in return.

The two newlyweds stood head to head, both with happy smiles on their faces.

It looks festive and happy.

Qin Yue couldn't let go and stroked Xia Tang's face on the notebook with his fingertips.

After the time for getting the marriage certificate was set, he felt dazed for several days as if he was drunk.

I was so eagerly looking forward to that day that even my days became a blur.

It wasn't until I actually got the notebook in my hands that I felt a sense of happiness that the dust had settled.

He and Xia Tang...are really married!

It was not an unrealistic fantasy like when I was in the army. The girl in my dream really appeared in the same red book as her.

From then on, the lives of these two people were truly tied together.

Thinking of this, Qin Yue's heart suddenly seemed to surge with thousands of waves.

Nothing is as turbulent as this.

Unlike Qin Yue, when Xia Tang finally received the little red notebook, he felt unusually calm.

It seemed as if everything was the best arrangement that went according to plan, but today, all the past events were solidified and written down in the little notebook in my hand.

From then on, no matter the highs or the lows, no matter the poverty or the wealth, they went through it together.

She felt her eye sockets getting wet and hot, but she felt like the happiness in her heart was about to overflow.

Seeing that Qin Yue had been holding the little notebook in his hand and hadn't said anything for a long time, he came over and asked:

"What are you thinking about?"

Then he stretched out his hand and asked confidently:

"Here, I'll keep the books together. They won't get lost."

But unexpectedly, after he stretched out his hand, Qin Yue took a long time to hand over the little red book.

Xia Tang raised her eyebrows. After a long time, she saw him hesitantly handing the little red book to Xia Tang. When handing it over, she couldn't help but instruct:

"This thing is hard to replace, so don't lose it."

"Okay, got it."

Xia Tang placed the two small notebooks side by side, and then carefully put them in the inner pocket of his tweed coat. Then, he unexpectedly leaned over to Qin Yue's face and gently kissed his sesame-sized mole. His voice was so soft that it was almost frivolous:

"The ceremony is over."