Do you have a perpetual calendar at home?
Zhao Honghui didn't answer his mother directly, but turned to ask his father instead.
"Yes, I'll go there."
After receiving the perpetual calendar, Zhao Honghui started flipping through the pages from today. When he saw the words "suitable for marriage," he pointed to the large number and said, "Get married on this day."
When Mr. and Mrs. Zhao looked, it was five days later.
"This is too hasty. Let me ask someone else for an auspicious date." Yang Chunhua strongly disagreed.
Getting married is a major life event; you can't just set a date like that.
Zhao Honghui insisted, "No need, this day is fine."
“But we haven’t prepared anything, and now it’s harvest time,” Zhao Laoda disagreed.
"I'll buy whatever you need in the next couple of days. Yao Yao and I don't care about lavish banquets; just let anyone who's free come." Zhao Honghui's attitude was assertive.
"Honghui, are you afraid Yaoyao will run away?" Yang Chunhua asked tentatively.
Seeing her son remain silent, she continued matter-of-factly, "She's completely devoted to you now, don't worry, she won't run away! Look, even though she broke off the engagement back then, she's back now, isn't she?"
"Annulment of the engagement?" It was as if a bomb had suddenly exploded in Zhao Honghui's ears. "What annulment of the engagement?"
"You didn't know? Didn't she tell you?" Yang Chunhua glanced at Zhao Laoda and was stunned for a moment.
"Please explain yourself clearly, why did Yao Yao break off the engagement?" Zhao Honghui grabbed his mother's hand anxiously.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, let go! I'll talk, I'll talk, okay?" Yang Chunhua grabbed her eldest son's hand, not knowing what he was so anxious about, since the person was right in front of her.
Thinking this in his heart, he also asked aloud, "She didn't want us to interfere in her life, so she broke off the engagement first. Now she's back, so you just need to choose a good day to get married. Don't hold it against her, haha!"
Zhao Honghui looked at Zhao Laoda, his eyes filled with a storm of emotions, "Dad, tell me, what exactly happened?"
Seeing his father shake his head and sigh, he pressed further, "Do I really have to ask Yao Yao or someone else?"
"My parents wanted her to join the family as soon as possible, so they wanted her to get married on schedule."
"I haven't even come back yet, how can she get married?" Zhao Honghui pressed.
Yang Chunhua dared not look directly into her son's piercing gaze. Jealousy rose in her heart again. Her son had escaped death, yet instead of thinking about how worried his family was, he went to Beijing to find Yao Yao. After seeing her, he didn't even hurry back to his hometown. He really had forgotten his mother now that he had a wife.
"Tell me! What did you do to Yao Yao?"
"It's a rooster, a wedding ceremony with a rooster." Yang Chunhua finished speaking and began to complain, "I did it all for you. Who told you to stay so long? We were afraid something might happen to you again, so we wanted to marry Yaoyao as soon as possible. You don't even appreciate it, and why are you making such a fuss..."
Zhao Honghui felt a severe blockage in his chest, a sudden surge of a metallic sweetness in his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of dark red blood.
Before losing consciousness, Zhao Honghui thought: So, I was the one who hurt Yao Yao...
"Honghui, Honghui!"
"Quickly, quickly, please invite Old Sun over!"
"And Yao Yao!"
......
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At the Qingshantun Youth Home, Xie Yuyao was sorting through the things she had brought back from Beijing.
Since the two had already agreed to get their marriage certificate in Qingshantun, they bought wedding supplies such as wedding dresses and red silk in Beijing and brought them back.
After all, Beijing is the capital city, and it has the most complete range of high-quality supplies.
She took out the red wedding dress from the trunk and spread it on the kang (a heated brick bed). At that moment, she fell in love with this qipao-style wedding dress at first sight. She thought that when she wore it in a few days, she would definitely be the most beautiful bride.
Just as a smile spread across her lips, she heard urgent cries from outside, "Sister Yao Yao, something terrible has happened! My older brother has collapsed!"
Xie Yuyao was startled and rushed out like the wind.
From afar, she saw Zhao Hongqin running towards her and called out, "Hongqin, what happened to your brother? What's wrong?"
“I don’t know either. My dad just rushed into the clinic looking for Old Sun and told me to come find you.”
Xie Yuyao pursed her lips and arrived at the Zhao family's house as quickly as possible.
Inside Zhao Honghui's room, the Zhao family members were gathered in a circle, staring intently at Old Sun, who was taking Zhao Honghui's pulse, and Zhao Honghui, who was lying unconscious on the kang (a heated brick bed).
Xie Yuyao pushed through the crowd and saw Zhao Honghui, whose lips still bore traces of blood. She was filled with grief.
She had finally managed to get Zhao Honghui back to normal, so why did he turn out like this as soon as she came back?
After taking Honghui's pulse, Old Master Sun saw Xie Yuyao and said, "Yaoyao, you go and take care of Honghui."
Xie Yuyao stepped forward, grabbed Zhao Honghui's hand, and immediately knew from checking his pulse that he was angry.
Old Sun also told the Zhao family, "Honghui's body is severely depleted. He looks like a normal person, but he's just a show-off. He's actually very weak inside. Right now, his blood and qi are in disarray, his energy is stagnant, and he's suffering from a sudden attack of internal heat, which caused him to vomit blood and faint."
I'll prescribe some traditional Chinese medicine for him; you can decoct it for him to drink after each of his three daily meals. However, the medicine can only provide temporary relief; the most important thing is to keep him relaxed and at ease, and to take things slowly.
"Can his health be restored?" Yang Chunhua was so regretful that she wished she could turn back time. Only now did she realize that her son must have suffered a great deal before, which was why his body was so weak.
If she had known this would happen, she would never have spoken so recklessly.
After seeing Old Sun off, Old Zhao asked Xie Yuyao, who was sitting motionless by the bed, "Yaoyao, what kind of injuries did Honghui suffer before?"
Xie Yuyao's cold voice recounted Zhao Honghui's fall into the glacier and his emaciated appearance when she first met him, word by word.
"So, what exactly did you say to him that made him so angry!" Xie Yuyao's eyes were bloodshot, and the anger in her pupils was palpable.
"It's all because you wanted to break off the engagement. If you had agreed to marry into my family back then, you and Honghui would be husband and wife now, and none of this would have happened!" Yang Chunhua couldn't accept her own regret, so she shifted the blame to Xie Yuyao, as if having someone to share the blame would make her feel better.
Xie Yuyao nodded repeatedly with a wry smile, exasperated: "Yes, it's my fault, it's my fault!"
She should have explained the reason for breaking off the engagement to Zhao Honghui earlier, instead of delaying it because of his obsession and health.
Originally, the best scenario she imagined was that she and the Zhao family would let bygones be bygones and never mention the matter again, which wasn't exactly something to be proud of.
The two agreed that after returning to Qingshan Village, they would find the nearest date to get married from the perpetual calendar.
She never imagined that her behavior would make Yang Chunhua look down on her and become arrogant.
She insisted on breaking off the engagement against everyone's advice, and now she's searching for him across the country and rushing to get married. Her eldest son is really something else; he has her completely under his thumb. Let's see what kind of trouble she can cause in the future.
Who would have thought that her eldest son was just a figurehead, and that he had even vomited blood and fainted from anger? Now the situation has reversed, and it seems that she had misjudged the situation, or that her eldest son had invested more emotion in the relationship. This is something Yang Chunhua finds hard to accept.
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