Chapter 459 Nightmare

Because she had nightmares every night about how miserable her life was after she got married.

She didn't tell her family about this.

It's just a dream after all.

How can I take it seriously?

If she told it out loud, she was afraid that everyone at home would think she was crazy.

Today, she had another nightmare. After waking up, Chen Hongxia had a terrible headache. She felt uncomfortable all over, as if she had fought with someone in her dream. No, she did fight.

To be precise, I was beaten by my in-laws in my dream.

Chen Hongxia always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

She also dreamed that her mother was standing beside the bed, staring at her.

But he said nothing.

When she woke up, she was covered in cold sweat.

You know, it’s winter!

After getting dressed, she washed up, had a quick breakfast, and started to work.

I dug winter bamboo shoots with my sister-in-law in the morning. After feeding the pigs in the afternoon, we went to the mountain to chop firewood. The weather this year is particularly cold, and I'm afraid it will snow in a month at most.

She had to prepare the firewood for the winter before getting married.

Otherwise my brother and sister-in-law will suffer.

After getting married, there is one less person to do the work in the house.

My grandparents are getting older, and coincidentally, my sister-in-law just found out she was pregnant at the end of October.

It is expected to be produced in June or July next year.

By then, I'm afraid the burden of the family will all fall on my brother.

As for her, the only time she can come back is during the holidays.

"Sister-in-law, you should go back to the house and have a rest. The baby is not stable yet. Don't tire yourself out. I'll chop the firewood." After rushing the sister-in-law back to the house, she took an axe and went to the backyard to chop firewood.

Chen Tianfeng was tending to cabbages in the field.

The small potatoes had been harvested long ago and sold to the Jiang family.

Made a lot of money.

"Grandpa, what dowry are you going to give Hongxia when she gets married?" Chen Tianfeng, who was working in the field, asked Old Chentou.

"Grandpa will give you a dowry in the same amount as you spent on marrying Ru'er. I will not be partial to any of you three siblings." Old Chen held his waist, stood up straight and said.

"Or, give more. After all, my brother-in-law's family is richer than ours. If we give too little, what if Hongxia is looked down upon? By the way, Grandpa, how much dowry are you going to ask for from the Zhang family?" Chen Tianfeng asked again.

"Just two taels, not more, but not too little. It would be a waste for his family to get a daughter-in-law, but they won't cherish her. I'm going to let Hongxia take these two taels back with me. I hope she can live a good life in the future. Your grandmother and I will die with peace of mind."

The old couple are old.

The only one he couldn't let go of was the youngest, Chen Hongxia.

Of the three children, she is the only one who is not married.

The eldest granddaughter, Hongju, has given birth to two children.

My granddaughter-in-law is also pregnant with her second baby.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Chen Tianfeng didn't ask any more questions.

The three returned home.

Chen Hongxia has already prepared the meal.

Just eat some bamboo shoots fried with pork fat and some egg custard. After all, my sister-in-law is pregnant and needs to replenish her body.

Then just cook some porridge.

Most of the new grain this year was sold, leaving a small bag of rice for our own consumption.

As for rice, I can’t bear to give it up. At most I mix it with some brown rice to make some porridge.

Even so, the six members of their family ate very well, except for Mrs. Cui, who had few teeth.

Chen Hongxia cooked some rice porridge just for her grandmother. It was so soft and runny that she could swallow it directly without chewing.

After dinner, the sky gradually darkened.

In winter, farmers only take a bath once a month.

So, Chen Hongxia just filled a basin with water, washed her face, soaked her feet in the water, and then went to bed.

"ah--"

In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a nightmare.

She sat upright on the bed, beads of sweat sliding from her forehead onto the quilt.

Chen Hongxia was breathing heavily and looked towards the door.

Nothing.

The room was dark.

Just now, she had another nightmare. She dreamed that her dead parents opened her door with anxious faces, and then walked towards her, but could not get close to her body.

Nor could she touch her bed.

Not only that, she also saw her parents open their mouths and want to say something, but she could hear nothing.

After struggling for a few moments, she woke up.

There was no sign of my parents in the house.

"Dad, Mom, what on earth do you want to tell me..." Chen Hongxia murmured to herself in the darkness.

After she recovered and calmed down for a while, she fell asleep again.

As a result, she had another dream within a dream in the second half of the night.

First, she dreamed about how miserable her marriage would be. Then, she dreamed about her mother pointing at Zhang Jiabao and glaring at him.

After a bad night's sleep, when she woke up, there was darkness under Chen Hongxia's eyes.

Looks very bad.

"Sister-in-law, I don't want to marry Zhang Jiabao." While washing her face, she suddenly came to her senses.

Could it be that her parents wanted to tell her that Zhang Jiabao could not marry?

Chen Hongxia put down the washcloth, walked to the kitchen and said to Wang Ruer.

"What? The engagement is in two days. Why are you saying this for no reason? What happened? What did Zhang Jiabao do?" Wang Ruer was holding a spatula in her hand. She frowned and looked at her sister-in-law.

His face was full of confusion.

"No, I just don't want to marry him." My sister-in-law is pregnant, and if I bring up her dead parents, it might be offensive to her.

Chen Hongxia could only make up a reason.

"Hongxia, please don't let your grandpa and grandma worry, okay? Although Zhang Jiabao is a little ugly, short, and fat, he is a good person. Don't you get along well with each other? Do you want to marry a man in the village? And then work hard for the rest of your life? There are some men of your age in the village. Who do you like?"

Wang Ruer thought her sister-in-law had someone in her heart.

So I resist getting married.

"No, I don't like anyone. I just don't want to marry him." Chen Hongxia's voice became a little lower.

"Okay, stop talking. You're just thinking too much. Just wait patiently for your engagement." Wang Ruer thought she was throwing a tantrum, so she rubbed her face like she was coaxing a child and kicked her out of the kitchen.

Chen Hongxia knows.

If she doesn't come up with a reason, the marriage will be settled.

She gritted her teeth and ran out of the house.

Prepare to go to the town to find Zhang Jiabao and ask him to come forward and reject the engagement.

This way grandpa and grandma won’t ask any more questions.

She just thought that Zhang Jiabao looked down on her.

The weather was cold, and she was jogging in the cloth shoes she had knitted herself.

The road was long, and she ran for a while and rested for a while. She finally arrived at the city gate at noon. After queuing for inspection, she entered the city.

As the matchmaker had said before, she came to the busy lane in Caishi Street.

The Zhang family lives here.

The alley was narrow, only wide enough for two people to pass through at the same time. When she arrived at the front door and was about to knock, she heard a woman's voice talking inside.

Chen Hongxia was stunned.

Because this voice is too charming.

But the matchmaker said that Zhang Jiabao had no brothers or sisters.

So who is this woman?

She leaned against the door and eavesdropped.

"Humph, you're about to marry someone else, and you won't let me make a scene? I don't care. If you don't buy me that gold bracelet, I'll starve your son to death."