Chapter 78 The Five Beauties Were Pierced Like a Sieve
At this time, Xie Shen asked, "Sister Wu Mei, when he went to your house, he only brought things for Uncle Xu and Xu Cheng. Didn't he bring anything for you?"
Xu Wumei smiled and said, "No."
Xie Shen curled his lips and said, "If someone wants to marry my sister in the future, but comes to my house and only brings things for my mother and me, I will definitely not agree to him becoming my brother-in-law."
Xu Wumei asked him, "Why?"
"Because he doesn't have my sister in his heart. He sends gifts to my mother and me just for the sake of face."
Wang Qingli smiled and said, "Then he might be trying to please your sister by trying to please Aunt Zhang and you. If he treats you well, your sister will be happy."
"But he's not nice to my sister. My mom and I won't be happy. He doesn't bring anything for my sister, which means he doesn't value my sister. He should bring ordinary things to me and my mom, and bring my sister something she likes."
Wang Qingli laughed and said, "Look, they're not as clear-headed as Xiao Mumu."
Xie Yun patted his brother's head and said with a smile, "Talk about your Fifth Sister, don't talk about me. I don't want to get married.
Look at the Zheng family. Before you even married into the family, they were already playing tricks on you by asking your fifth sister to wash diapers. It's freezing cold, and are diapers that easy to wash? Why don't they just wash them themselves?
The two daughters-in-law are in confinement after childbirth, but don't they still have their husbands? At the very least, there's the old lady and sister-in-law! They didn't even bother to wash, but instead asked the third daughter-in-law, who hadn't married yet, to wash. They clearly don't treat the third daughter-in-law as a human being! And this is still a recognized 'good family'. They don't even care about their dignity.
Xie Shen said with a smile, "Yes, sister, don't get married. It's so good to be in our house. If you don't want to wash your clothes, I'll wash them for you. If you want to wash them yourself, I'll boil water for you. By the way, sister Wu Mei, do you use hot water or cold water to wash diapers at Zheng's house?"
Xie Yun looked at her brother and stabbed Xu Wumei with a smile, and she could hardly hold back the smile on her face.
Wang Qinghong smiled and said, "I don't think the Zheng family would be so kind as to boil water for Wu Mei."
Wang Qingli added, "Maybe they'd think it was a waste of firewood if Wu Mei cooked it herself."
Xu Wumei: "..."
After two seconds of silence, she also laughed, "That's enough, you two, one knife each, you're almost stabbing me through."
Wang Qingli asked, "Is it like a sieve?"
Xu Wumei: "...almost."
After a while, she smiled again and said, "After he delivered the gifts yesterday, he told my family that he would accompany me to the county department store to buy clothes today. My mom and the others were very happy. They felt that even though he didn't bring me anything, his thoughtfulness was still there."
Xie Yun smiled and said, "You just said that this person doesn't talk much, but he always hits the point. Isn't he quite a good person?
I say nice things in front of your family, but I don’t do something as embarrassing as today in front of your family.
If he had the guts, he could have brought Zheng Lanping to your house and told you in front of your family that he was leaving with his sister and asked you to chase him on foot. Why didn't he tell you?
That's not right. We agreed to go to the department store together, so why didn't he pick you up at your house, but you went to find him?"
Wang Qingli also said, "That's right. Why did he ask you to go find him instead of him picking you up?"
Xu Wumei thought about what happened yesterday and said, "He just said yesterday, 'Come to my house early tomorrow morning and let's go together, okay?' I didn't think about it at the time. As soon as he asked me, I agreed.
It doesn't matter who's looking for whom, I didn't take it seriously at all. I didn't expect something like this to happen this morning."
Wang Qinghong said, "Maybe he planned it yesterday. He's going with his sister today, and they're going by bike, so he'll let you walk. It's not good for your family to know about this, so he asked you to go find him."
Xu Wumei smiled and said, "That should be the case."
Xie Shen comforted her: "Sister Wu Mei, don't be sad."
Xu Wumei smiled and said, "I'm not sad. At first, I was a little angry and unhappy, but I met you guys, and we chatted all the way, which was much better than me and him walking all the way dryly.
Moreover, ever since he did this this morning, I had the idea of breaking off the engagement.
To be honest, I am actually hoping that they will cause more trouble in the county, so that I can be more right and cancel the engagement more legitimately.
I had just met him once. No, before he went to the army, I met him occasionally in the village, but we didn't know each other at that time and didn't even say hello.
The only time we actually met was yesterday.
What kind of feelings could there be between him and me? None at all.
I have expectations for my future husband, but my future husband can be him or someone else. I haven't developed any feelings for him yet, but I'm starting to feel disgusted with him.
So, I'm no longer angry, much less sad. I'll just go into the city and wait for them to make trouble."
Xie Yun gave her a thumbs up and said, "Wu Mei, you think very clearly. The sisters don't have to worry about you. If you can think like this, your life will be fine no matter what happens in the future."
Wang Qingli also laughed and said, "That's right. When I heard you talk about this just now, I was so angry that I was furious. If I had a bad temper, I would probably fight him on the spot and destroy his house. I was worried that you wouldn't understand and insist on marrying him and suffering. Now that you have figured it out, it's okay."
Xu Wumei chuckled, "I'm not stupid."
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We talked and laughed all the way and didn't walk fast. It was already eleven o'clock when we arrived at the county town.
Qushui County is a small town, with its prosperity and bustle concentrated along Wenmiao Street. The state-owned Qushui Department Store, the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, state-owned restaurants, banks, post offices, Xinhua Bookstore, and Qushui County Hospital are all nearby.
Xie Yun and his friends arrived at the entrance of the department store first, but did not see any trace of Zheng Guoqiang and Zheng Lanping.
Wang Qingli asked Xu Wumei, "Have you arranged a specific meeting place with them?"
Xu Wumei smiled and said, "I have an appointment. It's right in front of the department store."
Wang Qinghong said, "Let's wait with you for a while."
Xu Wumei said, "No need. You guys go and have your own shopping. I'll wait here. I want to see what happens today. I'll tell you later. Come on, go and have your own shopping."
It's rare for sisters to come to the city, so don't waste time here with her.
As for herself, it concerns her lifelong happiness after all, so it doesn't matter if she wastes one day.
Wang Qingli said, "Then let's go in and take a look. You wait here and don't wander around alone. Wait for him to meet you. Don't get lost."
Xie Yun pointed to the state-owned restaurant across the street and said, "I'm taking Mumu out to eat something, and then we'll go to the department store. Wumei, do you want to come with us to eat something?"
Wang Qingli advised, "Yeah, why don't you and Binbin go get something to eat first. My sister and I brought some food, so we'll go shopping for a while before eating. I don't think you brought any food today, right?"
Xu Wumei smiled and said, “I guessed wrong, I really brought it.
My mother told me that I should save as much as I can, because other people’s money doesn’t come from the wind.
She also told me that a woman’s greatest strength is thriftiness and that she wanted him to know that I was not someone who would spend money recklessly.
So I not only brought my own dry food, but also brought some for him. And my mom was generous today, she brought me some white flour buns with some minced meat and pickled vegetables in them.”
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