Although she was already 70% confident that her plan would succeed, Su Qingluan did not reveal it to Zhaodi or Chen Zhi.
Although Chen Zhi has a smooth and steady side to his character, he is still a young man under 20 years old after all, and has not yet reached the point of "keeping everything in his heart and not showing it"; as for Zhaodi, she shows "everything on her face" clearly and unambiguously.
If I had told these two people about this matter in advance, even if they could barely control themselves from telling anyone, their happy and expectant expressions would have completely betrayed them.
Chen Zhi's situation was fine; his brother and sister-in-law treated him like a half-son and loved him dearly. But Zhaodi's situation was different. If this slight oversight caused Zhaodi's parents to become suspicious and the entire plan fell through, Su Qingluan's long plan would have been in vain.
So even though she was very confident, the closer she got to the "success of the plan", the more nervous Su Qingluan felt.
Su Qingluan could not tell her parents about this tension. After all, Yang and Su Guangfu would never allow Su Qingluan to interfere in other people's marriages - even if she had good intentions.
This is not to say that Yang and Su Guangfu are heartless or stand on the side of Zhaodi's parents. On the contrary, they also know the immoral things that Zhaodi's parents have done and they scolded them harshly.
However, this does not prevent Su Guangfu and Yang from being just ordinary parents. Compared to whether other daughters are pitiful or whether they will jump into the fire pit, they are just more worried about their biological daughter Su Qingluan.
In this era, "marriage" is a top-tier life event and a signal of "alliance" between two families. It is not the kind of thing that happened in Su Qingluan's previous life, where "two people get married if they are happy and divorce if they are unhappy."
Therefore, there are very strict regulations for every link, including where unmarried girls can participate, where married women with harmonious families and children and grandchildren must participate, and even under what circumstances pregnant women are not allowed to participate. The more backward the place, the more they "respect" these "ancestral rules", and this is no exception in Huaxi Village.
Precisely because of this, there is another legend that if these rules are broken, it will bring bad luck or even disaster to the person who breaks the rules.
Su Qingluan knew very well that what she was doing was "interfering in other people's marriages", which was a taboo for everyone, so her parents would definitely oppose her doing so because they were afraid that "ancestors and ghosts" would bring disaster upon her.
She couldn't tell Liu Yunniang about her stress and nervousness, nor could she even show any sign of it.
Although Liu Yunniang was considered her "accomplice", that was because Liu Yunniang herself had a carefree personality and did not care about these strange rumors. She was also a chivalrous woman who was willing to stand up for justice. Seeing a poor girl being pushed into the fire pit by her parents, she naturally couldn't bear it and wanted to save her.
But Su Qingluan understood that she was the "obedient" after all, and she was the one who was in charge of the whole thing. Liu Yunniang was sometimes afraid that something would go wrong and that she would do something bad with good intentions.
So if she, the person in charge, panicked, not only would it make Liu Yunniang feel uneasy, but it would also make Huang Ergou, who was originally doing his job honestly, notice it and cause trouble.
So in the days leading up to the end of April, Su Qingluan always ran to Mu Xingzhi's house - of course, she used the excuse of finishing her book and looking for two more, but in fact, she went to "vent stress."
Su Qingluan's way of relieving stress is also very strange, which is cooking - cooking something specific, very troublesome and time-consuming, but very ornamental and not very practical.
In short, it is the presentation of food.
These things can be eaten if you really want to, but in order to keep the plating bright and firm in color, raw carrots, cucumbers, radishes, watermelon rinds, etc. are usually used.
The cucumber is a different story, but the other ingredients are just so-so in taste.
However, these vegetables are relatively large in size, so the presentation on the platter is indeed very beautiful.
Song Bo placed the pitiful pot of stir-fried bamboo shoots and pickled meat on a plate decorated with an exaggerated "Phoenix Swimming" shape, shook his head and smiled at Mu Xingzhi, "If you didn't know, you'd think it was some kind of dragon liver and phoenix marrow."
Mu Xingzhi smiled and said, "It looks pleasing to the eye anyway, doesn't it?" Then he picked up the bowl and picked up a piece of green bamboo shoots with chopsticks.
Song Bo sighed, "Recently, that girl Qingluan has been bringing radishes and other things here all the time. Some villagers have started asking about it..."
"What do you want to know?" Mu Xingzhi raised his eyes and glanced at Song Bo, as if he knew what he was going to say.
Song Bo then realized that he had almost said what he was going to complain about. He quickly shook his head, continued to serve food to Mu Xingzhi, and then slipped away.
…Actually, radish is good for digestion, and Mu Xingzhi is usually seen in a wheelchair, so villagers often worry about whether Mr. Mu has bloating or indigestion or something…
Su Qingluan didn't know that her little habit of venting stress had unconsciously damaged Mu Xingzhi's reputation. After venting her stress, she felt much better.
On the other hand, the first day of May finally arrived. In order to avoid any mistakes, Su Qingluan made an excuse to stay at the Liu family the day before.
Su Qingluan and Liu Yunniang are good friends. Occasionally, when Su Qingluan works overtime late or needs to get up early for something urgent, she will stay overnight at the Liu family. The Liu family even specially reserved a guest room for Su Qingluan.
So when Su Qingluan said this, Su Guangfu and Yang had no doubts at all and nodded in agreement.
So early that morning, Su Qingluan and Liu Yunniang secretly observed what was happening at Huang Ergou's place. Sure enough, Zhaodi's parents were already waiting there before "Huang Banxian" opened. Apparently, the curfew had just begun, allowing pedestrians to pass through the streets, and these two people had come here to queue up just to "grab a spot."
When Huang Ergou saw Zhaodi's parents, he said in a roundabout way as usual: "My two good believers, there is no need to get up so early and wait for me. If we are destined, we will meet again." This was because he disliked them for coming too early.
However, in the eyes of Zhaodi's parents, this cold rejection further confirmed that the "iron-mouthed" Huang Banxian in front of them was the real deal, and was not comparable to those swindlers who cheated people out of their money.
Zhaodi's father, Liu Baogen, then smiled ingratiatingly: "Isn't there a saying that goes 'Man...man can conquer nature'? We must at least try our best for our son!"
"Never mind," Huang Ergou sighed pretentiously. "Since you're sincere enough, I'll give you a proper fortune telling. What do you want?"
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