"You little bitch, hurry up and get up! The sun is already shining on your butt! Why did I give birth to such a lazy person like you?"
"Eat, eat, eat, eat so much! It's killing me! Your brother hasn't even eaten yet! What good can a liar like you have?!"
"Hurry up and send your brother to school, then go home and cut grass for the pigs."
My name is He Hongmei.
When I was young, I felt that my life was miserable!
You don’t have your own share for food, but you have to do all the work yourself.
But sometimes mom and dad will hug me and say soft words to me, maybe mom and dad don’t love me that much.
"Girl, if you want to blame someone, blame your parents for not being able to raise you so tenderly!"
"Don't worry, Mom and Dad will work hard and take good care of you!"
"You are the elder sister, the most obedient elder sister, right?"
"When the time comes, Mom and Dad can't be with you forever. Your brother is your mother's family and the basis for you to get married! Mom is also doing this for your own good. She usually lets you take care of your brother and give in to him. She also wants your brother to treat you better in the future and support you!"
"Girl, can you understand mom and dad?"
She didn't know when it started, but she no longer felt miserable.
Because the better she treats her younger brother, the more her parents smile at her.
It's like an addiction.
The better I treat my younger brother and my parents, the more fulfilled I feel.
When she reached the age to get married, her parents still hadn't found a boyfriend for her, and she became a little anxious.
"Hongmei, I'm getting married!" Wang Dafang from next door said shyly to He Hongmei.
He Hongmei was so envious. She was about the same age as Wang Dafang. To be specific, she was a few months older than Wang Dafang.
Wang Dafang's family had been looking for a partner for her a long time ago, but there was no movement from their family.
"Congratulations! I'm going home first!"
When she got home, her younger brother, who was still in junior high school, was not at home, and her parents were not at home either. While chopping grass for the pigs, she thought about Wang Dafang's shy expression just now. She also wanted to experience that feeling.
"Mom and Dad, Dafang next door is engaged. When can I meet someone?"
She seemed to see her parents' faces change suddenly, and she must have seen it wrong.
Because she saw her mother smiling and touching her hair: "Silly girl, your parents can't bear to leave you! We want you to stay home with us for a few more years. When you get married, where can you be as comfortable as at home?"
"Yes, your mother said a lot. We are not a family that sells daughters for betrothal gifts. What kind of family is that that Dafang next door told her about? We are extremely poor. Mom and Dad will find a rich family for you in the future so that you won't have to suffer!"
"Yes, Mom and Dad are helping you look for one now!"
He Hongmei is happy!
She said that her parents loved her the most.
It seems that three years have passed since then, and the right candidate has still not been selected.
Although my parents have been comforting me in recent years, telling me not to be impatient and to take my time choosing a good man, otherwise marrying the wrong person will be a woman's lifelong tragic fate.
On the one hand, she was happy that her parents protected her, but on the other hand, she was a little anxious.
Wang Dafang next door has had two children in the past three years. She is always happy when she goes back to her parents' home and doesn't feel like she is living a hard life at all.
Maybe you don't have to look for rich people, ordinary people can do the same.
She is already twenty-five years old and has become a famous old lady in the village.
"Hey, look, that's the old girl from the He family. She's already 25 years old this year, and she's still not married!"
"Of course not! Her parents are very picky! They've introduced many candidates to her before, but they all turned down her offer! I don't know what kind of rich son-in-law she's looking for!"
"They're not looking for a rich husband! They just want to keep her at home to work because she's capable. Those two people from the He family are so sinister! They're deliberately not letting her get married!"
"I think so too. A few years ago, the boy from the He family was still young. Just wait and see, the girl from the He family will be married soon!"
"Why?"
"You're stupid! Her brother already has a girlfriend. If we don't marry that old girl off, how will we get the money to marry his son?"
He Hongmei listened to what these people said. Although she didn't believe that her parents would be like this, she didn't dare to step forward to confront them.
Mom and Dad love you!
My parents wanted to find a good family for me so that I wouldn’t have to suffer.
When she got home, she saw a man sitting in their yard. His noble look made her stunned.
Who is this?
Really beautiful!
There is no one in the village who is more handsome than him.
"Silly girl, are you dumbfounded?"
"Don't look at it anymore. There'll be plenty of time to look at it later! Everyone's gone!"
He Hongmei's face suddenly turned red, and she was about to explode. She was so embarrassed!
"Mom, what does this mean?"
There is a faint expectation in my heart.
Sure enough, her mother said happily, "This man is excellent! He's the one your parents carefully selected for you. What do you think?"
"The family is rich, he's handsome, and there are no elders in the family. If you marry him, you can be the head of the family and you won't have to suffer from the mother-in-law's annoyance."
He Hongmei nodded shyly, "Do I really want to marry her?"
"Of course, this is carefully selected by your parents! If you miss it, there will be no such high-quality gay men!"
"What about the betrothal gift?" He Hongmei couldn't help but ask when she thought of what those people had heard before.
"Silly child, our He family doesn't favor boys over girls. We will give you all the betrothal gifts when the time comes. We don't want a penny. But as you can see from our family's financial situation, we can only do our best to prepare this dowry. I hope you don't mind!"
He Hongmei smiled and nodded, and she said that her parents were not that kind of people!
Unexpectedly, this man gave her a betrothal gift of one hundred yuan!
He must have taken a fancy to me as a person. He Hongmei is just that outstanding!
Although the dowry given by my parents on the wedding day was not very good, they gave all the 100 yuan betrothal gift to themselves and did not keep a penny.
I hugged my parents and shed tears of emotion.
She married Bai Zhiyuan with great joy.
But she didn't understand why when she mentioned that her mother's family treated her well, Bai Zhiyuan's expression changed slightly, and he looked at her with a strange look.
"Really! My parents are really good to me! My brother is also very good to me!"
He didn't believe it, and I wanted to prove it to him.
"Although my parents didn't prepare much dowry for me, my parents didn't take a penny of the 100 yuan betrothal gift you gave me. They gave it all to me!"
"I haven't gotten married for so many years, not because I can't get married, but because my parents can't bear to let me go and want to keep me for a while longer."
Just as he finished speaking, he heard a crack appear on Bai Zhiyuan's noble face.
"How much do you think the betrothal gift is?"
"One hundred yuan!" He Hongmei immediately became alert. "This money is a betrothal gift. Once you give it to me, it's mine. You can't take it back!"
Since her family was in such a difficult situation, she gave half to her family and kept the remaining half as her own money.
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