Chapter 83: Be Serious When Dating
"Seventh Brother, do you think Lu Dongping is unworthy of me because he's uneducated or because he's ugly? These days, all the educated people are sent down to the countryside, so being educated isn't that great!"
Xu Qingming:——
"You've known him for such a long time, you should know a little about his family situation. Do you think you can stay there forever in a family like that?"
Wen Wan thought about this question seriously: "A lifetime is a bit long. I can't think of it now. I just think that everyone in their family is very nice, and I am very happy to be with them." People should live in the present. Why think so far ahead? Who knows what will happen in the future? Isn't it stupid to worry about things that haven't happened yet?
Xu Qingming couldn't help it any longer and reached out to knock her on the head. "Anbao, are you stupid? Huh? Are you? Lu Dongping wants to kidnap you to be his wife, how could he not treat you well? How could his family not treat you well? He's broke, what else could possibly move you besides treating you well?"
Wen Wan nodded: "That's right! But I don't care about anything else. I have enough money to spend, so whether he is poor or not doesn't affect me much!"
Xu Qingming felt a little breathless. He would die young if he talked to this little thing. He forgot that he was only a little older than Wen Wan.
"Comrade Wen Wan, I'm talking to you seriously about a very serious matter. Marriage is a major event in a person's life. Could you please be serious too? You can't stay here forever!"
Wen Wan stopped talking, pursed her lips and lowered her head, rubbing her toes on the ground again and again.
Xu Qingming felt a little guilty and began to reflect on himself. Was he too loud? Was his tone too harsh? Was he a little too much? It was rare that An Bao liked him—no, what kind of dangerous idea was this? Put the brakes on!
At this time, Wen Wan finally spoke: "I know I can't stay here forever, but I have to stay here now. Brother Qi, do you know why I secretly signed up to respond to the call to go to the countryside? Because I want to leave there, because that home is no longer my home."
Xu Qingming was slightly stunned, and opened his mouth to shout: "An Bao! Is that woman treating you badly?"
Wen Wan shook her head gently: "No, she's very good, she wouldn't dare treat me badly. It's just that feeling, Seventh Brother, can you understand what I mean? That feeling of home is gone."
"Anbao, if you didn't like him, why did you agree to let them get the marriage certificate? If you didn't want to, grandpa would never allow him to find another woman."
Wen Wan chuckled: "Your grandfather, I call him grandpa, he is just Old Wen's father-in-law, not his biological father. Even if he is his biological father, he can't forcibly interfere with his son to get married or not, right? Besides, I can't be so selfish. Mom has passed away for three years, and I'm not a child anymore. He must be lonely alone, there's nothing wrong in finding someone to accompany him." But, it shouldn't be like that. The appearance of that woman reminded her all the time that the love and affection between her parents in her eyes was fake, and Old Wen was a liar who deceived her mother's short life.
"Seventh Brother, I want a home, a home of my own. I haven't thought about what the future will be like. As long as I'm happy now, that's all I need. You have to believe that with my personality, I'll be able to live well no matter where I am, and I won't let myself be wronged."
Xu Qingming sighed and couldn't say a word for a long time. He originally wanted to convince Wen Wan, but now he felt like he was about to be convinced by Wen Wan.
Before Wenwan's cotton-padded jacket was completely dried, the team members started to work in the fields. Except for the young ones who could not walk properly and the old ones who could not go up the mountain, all the members went to the fields. The few female educated youth no longer made a fuss about unfairness. Spring planting and summer harvest had truly begun.
Spring corn planting has begun. The process is similar to that of potatoes. There are three or four seeds in a nest, and we are afraid that some of them will not sprout. Wen Wan has a bamboo basket tied around her waist, which is filled with seeds. It is relatively easy.
She walked slowly, but was very efficient in doing the work. She still carried two hoes and followed the stubble to the other side.
This is the easiest job. Deng Hongjuan and the others no longer have so many complaints and are doing a very good job.
The atmosphere at work is unusually harmonious.
Zhu Feng and Zhou Lanhua held their wedding party during this gap.
Wen Wannian had seen Zhu Feng once when he was holding a wedding banquet here, and this was the second time. She and Zhu Feng had an average relationship, but they were educated youth who came here together, so she gave him a gift of two cents and truly experienced a rural banquet.
Even eating is something you have to fight for! If it weren't for Zhang Hongying, Wen Wan would have gone back hungry because she couldn't save face.
The feast at Zhou Mingqing's house wasn't as good as Lu Minghai's, but it was still a bit better than what they usually ate at home. It was the lean season, and the family had slaughtered a pig before the New Year, so they had bacon. The centerpiece was a large pot of bacon cooked with potatoes and broccoli, each containing a few slices of meat. Wen Wan's eyes blurred, and the pot was empty.
In addition to this dish, there was also stir-fried potato shreds with kimchi and a plate of fried eggs with garlic chives on the table. These things were gone as soon as they were served. Zhang Hongying quickly picked up a piece of food for her with chopsticks, but she didn't get to eat it herself. Wen Wan looked at her apologetically and gave her half of it and tasted it herself.
The people around her irritated Zhang Hongying: "You are so lucky. Dongping is such a cunning guy. He found such a handsome partner who is also good-looking and filial."
Zhang Hongying was not modest: "That's right, Wen Wan is like this, not only in this area, but also in the whole Ganling, it's hard to find another one. I love her like my own daughter. No, I love her even more than my own daughter."
The women at the table laughed. This is what everyone would say before a daughter-in-law gets married. Everyone says to treat the daughter-in-law as their own daughter. But after the daughter-in-law gets married, what should she do? How can a foreigner be compared with the one born in your own belly?
As for Lu Mingjiang's family, it was in the past two years that Lu Dongping somehow managed to get a job as an officer in the armed forces department. A few years ago, who would have looked up to him? That bastard Lu Dongping is not a good person at all.
The intellectuals from this city aren't very smart, they are attracted by such a thing.
Wen Wan looked at this one and then that one curiously, and always felt that their smiles were weird.
After a few words, the main course came up. They were corn tortillas, each one the size of a palm. There were not many, and they were served according to the number of people. One per person was not allowed to grab one no matter how fast you were. If you took one more, someone on the table would have nothing to eat, which would be too unreasonable.
Wen Wan held the tortilla and ate it with shredded potatoes from the bowl.
Zhang Hongying whispered to her, "When we get home later, we'll make scrambled eggs. We won't use garlic sprouts, but wild onions; they'll be more fragrant."
"Hey, what are you two whispering about? Let's hear it out loud so we can have fun together on this beautiful day."
Wen Wan replied with a smile: "I've already told you it's a secret, how can I tell it to everyone?" She just ate while talking with rice in her mouth, and the rice sprayed far away. Even if it was just shredded potatoes, she didn't pick up a second piece with her chopsticks.
While eating, she watched Zhu Feng, dressed in a shirt, come over with Zhou Lanhua to greet everyone. She took a look and thought, this wedding doesn't seem much different from any other wedding. The clothes they were wearing weren't new, the dark red color making them look slightly aged. The only difference was that Zhou Lanhua was wearing two braids tied together with a red hairband, and a red silk scarf around her neck, tied like a red scarf.
Wen Wan stood up and greeted the two people, then looked at Zhu Feng and said, "Congratulations!"
Zhu Feng agreed with a smile and wanted to make a joke about her and Lu Dongping, but thinking that Wen Wan didn't care about her face at all, he thought about it and gave up.
There is no shortage of wild onions in this season. There are several clumps of them on the edge of Lu Dongping's private plot. Zhang Hongying said she would go back and fry eggs, so she cut them directly when she left after the meal.
Wen Wan didn't remember the incident. When Lu Chun'e got home from school, the two of them gathered together and whispered. Wen Wan expressed her opinion on today's banquet: "It's a far cry from the banquet your uncle had before the New Year."
Lu Chun'e asked, "Isn't the food very bad?"
Wen Wan nodded: "I'm not full." Lu Minghai's family had a celebration the previous year, and Wen Wan didn't sit at the table, but Gao Xiulan cooked them some fried egg and sliced noodles, which was better than what the people who came to the banquet had.
Lu Chun'e was shocked. She was well aware of Wen Wan's appetite, which was like cat food. With such an appetite, she was rushed to the banquet and said she was not full?
"I never expected Zhou Mingqing's family to be so stingy!"
"It's not that I'm stingy, the key is that I'm too slow and can't grab the food from others?" Wen Wan told the truth: "And the people sitting at the same table with us have their mouths full of food, and they keep talking, and their saliva flies into the bowl." She couldn't pick up her chopsticks anymore.
After that, she added: "I feel that Zhou Lanhua's marriage is very ordinary."
Lu Chun'e didn't understand this and looked at her in confusion.
"Getting married, what's the difference between two braids and one? Zhu Feng is too stingy, he can't even afford to buy me a nice hairband?" What's the point of having a partner like this! He's so reluctant to give up everything. After marriage, Zhou Lanhua has to give him her house to live in, her bed to sleep in, and she has to cook a bowl for him when she cooks, and wash an extra bowl of his dishes when she washes dishes. It's too uneconomical.
Lu Chun'e wrote it down carefully, then turned back to find Lu Dongping: "Brother, have you ever given anything to Sister Wen Wan?"
Lu Dongping didn't know why she suddenly asked this and looked confused.
Lu Chun'e looked at him seriously: "You should be more serious when dating Sister Wen Wan. Find out what she likes and wants, and give it to her, otherwise she won't like you."
Lu Dongping nodded, "I see." These two were both incredible. Lu Donglin was like this, Lu Chun'e was like this too, and they were both better than him? Did he need to be taught how to date someone?
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