Chapter 63 She did that because I taught her
Fearing that the two of them would not be used to sleeping, Guo Yumei specially gave up her room, put thick straw under the mat, and took a clean quilt. Fearing mosquitoes, she fumigated the bed with Artemisia leaves twice before going to bed.
But that night, Xia Qingli and Lu Jingzhen did not sleep well.
I don't know if it was because of the change of place or because they were both worried about something.
Because they had to catch the bus back to the city once a day, Xia Qingli and Lu Jingzhen got up early, but after getting up, they found that everyone in the family was up and Guo Yumei had even prepared breakfast for them.
After finishing cleaning, Xia Qingling walked out of the house. When she passed the main room, she saw a basket of loquats on the table. From the heads, she knew they were picked from the tree crowns.
She was about to go to the kitchen when she suddenly heard a strange woman's voice coming from the kitchen:
"Sister Yumei, I went to talk to you about your Qingshu's marriage yesterday. Hey, guess what, haha... the woman agreed again."
"Ah? Really?" Guo Yumei's voice was full of joy. After a moment, she asked doubtfully:
"Didn't you say it was not going to work out yesterday?"
"Originally, it was not possible. You also know the situation of your Qingshu, but I told them that your daughter has a future in the city. When
I came back yesterday, I bought rice and noodles. I even gave handfuls of candy to others. I will definitely be able to help my parents in the future. , their girls were married, but it was a good life. After thinking about it, they thought it was not bad, so they agreed. "
This woman was the matchmaker yesterday. She told Xia Qingshu about a girl who had smallpox when she was a child, and her face was pockmarked.
I thought that the girl was not even 1.5 meters tall and was not good-looking, so she would not dislike Xia Qingshu, who had bad legs but was elegant and handsome. However, after telling her, people still disliked him for being a cripple.
After all, in this era of living by work points, it was difficult for a cripple to support himself, let alone support his wife and children.
She had originally come to visit Xia's family yesterday, but unexpectedly met Xia Qingxi who had returned to her parents' home. Seeing that Xia Qingxi was well-dressed and generous, and seeing that the man who came back with Xia Qingxi bought all kinds of food and daily necessities for the Xia family, she became interested.
So she asked around and found out about their family situation, then went to the woman's home again, and finally made the woman give in with her eloquent tongue.
When Guo Yumei heard what she said, the smile on her face froze for a moment. She originally wanted to explain clearly that it was impossible for her family to ask her daughter to help, and her daughter had no obligation to help. However, thinking that there was finally room for change in the marriage, she probably couldn't do it if she said this.
Qingshu has long passed the age of marriage. In his situation, if he doesn't marry and have children, he will be old and unable to move, and there won't even be anyone to take care of him. Thinking of this, she did not deny it.
I thought that when a girl gets married, I should treat them well and do more of the dirty work so that the other person won't be wronged.
Seeing that she did not deny it, the matchmaker next to her smiled and said,
"Since the girl has agreed, you should also show your sincerity. As the saying goes, a man marries a man for food and clothing. You should not be too stingy when marrying a wife. If you are too stingy, the wife will be gone."
Guo Yumei naturally understood what she meant and hurriedly said,
"Okay, okay, let's do as we agreed before. Buy a bicycle and give 120 yuan as milk money."
Although the Xia family had no foreign debts, they had no head of the family in recent years and could only rely on work points earned by orphans and widows. Their economy was really tight. These were all the assets they could afford.
"Oh, sister Yumei, didn't I just tell you? You can't be stingy when marrying a wife. It's okay to buy a bicycle, but as for the milk money, you have to add more to it." The matchmaker held Guo Yumei's hand and said with her shrewd little eyes blinking.
Guo Yumei knew that this marriage was not easy to come by. If it didn't work out this time, Qingshu didn't know how long he would have to wait before he could get married. So she tried hard to force a smile and asked:
"Then how much do you think is appropriate?"
The matchmaker raised her hand, put it in front of Guo Yumei, then spread out five fingers, smiled and said:
"This number will do."
Guo Yumei looked at her five spread out fingers, thinking that she wanted to add another fifty yuan. She gritted her teeth in her heart and thought fifty would be fifty. Then she nodded: "Okay, then add another fifty yuan." "
What do you mean add another fifty yuan? It means a total of five hundred." Seeing that she had misunderstood, the matchmaker immediately raised her voice to correct her.
Guo Yumei suspected that she had misheard. In their village, the highest betrothal gift was only two or three hundred yuan. She had never heard of a family asking for five hundred yuan for a baby's money. She asked in confusion:
"Sister, please don't joke with me. Look at our family. It's impossible to come up with five hundred yuan. Even if I sell my old bones, it won't work. Aren't you forcing me?"
"Oh, if you don't have anything, think of a way. Can a living person die from holding his urine?" said the matchmaker.
"What can I do? Even if our whole family sells blood, we can't get five hundred yuan!" Guo Yumei said dejectedly.
"What blood are you selling? Look at how thin your family is. You can't even get two ounces of oil out of the pot..." The old woman said, her eyes suddenly turned, and the word "shrewd" was almost written on her face. She lowered her voice and whispered:
"Those things your son-in-law bought for you yesterday are worth quite a lot of money, right? You think five hundred yuan is costing you your life, but to rich people like them, it's nothing. Rich people value face the most. As long as you ask him for it, he will definitely give it to you."
Hearing this, Xia Qingqing hesitated for a moment, turned back to the room, took the five hundred yuan that Lu Jingqi gave her yesterday from the bedside, put it together with the four hundred yuan of her original body, and prepared to give them to Guo Yumei together.
The money was supposed to be given to her yesterday, but after talking to Xia Qingcao that night, she felt a little mixed up and forgot about it.
Xia Qinggui didn't know Xia Qingshu's current relationship situation. She only knew from her original memory that her brother Xia Qingshu did have a childhood sweetheart who loved him. She thought that if the money could help him marry his beloved girl, it would be a good thing.
But when she took the money and went to the kitchen again, she found that Guo Yumei and the matchmaker were gone. She looked around but didn't see anyone. Just as she was wondering, she heard Guo Yumei's hesitant voice from the back of the yard:
"Jingchen, there is something, Mom, Mom wants to tell you..."
She was not going to ask Lu Jingchen for money, didn't she know that if she did this, not only her daughter, but also the entire Xia family, would be looked down upon.
Xia Qingling's emotions were very complicated, and the fortress of family affection that she had just built seemed to be about to collapse.
Maybe it's true that Guo Yumei loves the original body, but compared to her son's marriage, the concubine is really not that important.
Xia Qingxi frowned unconsciously and walked over quickly.
She walked to the door leading to the backyard and was about to speak out to stop them, but suddenly she stopped talking because she heard Guo Yumei say to Lu Jingxie in a very humble voice:
"I know what Qingxi did, and you have always felt uncomfortable in your heart, but it's really not her fault..." She paused here, and suddenly continued:
"I taught her to do that."