Furthermore, what if the woman surnamed Han hadn't cheated on you before marrying my brother, as you mentioned? Would my brother really have to marry her and wait for her to cheat on him?
Who's being cuckolded?
Song Qingbin glanced at Song Qinghui, feeling extremely choked up.
Green hat?
Marrying Han Bailan, would he be cuckolded? Absolutely not! He'd rather remain a bachelor than marry her!
"Lanlan, your second brother has a point. We can't just wait for that girl from the Han family to cheat on your eldest brother and for her to break off the engagement with our family!"
Li Jumei was in a real bind. She never expected that the marriage that the villagers had envied would now turn into a hot potato that she couldn't get rid of. If she reluctantly accepted it, wouldn't her eldest son become a cuckold?
No!
Her eldest son is good-looking and has a government job; he could marry any kind of woman he wanted. Why did he have to marry a girl from the Han family?
"Mom, actually..."
Song Lan decided to tell a little lie. Well, it wasn't exactly a lie, since in the story she knew, Han Bailan did indeed cheat on Song Qingbin and even made him raise another man's child. However, she deduced that the other man had an affair with the child's father before marriage, which is why she said what she did before.
"Actually, I once happened to see Comrade Han walking with a man in town. They seemed to have a special relationship. Maybe I was overthinking it, but Comrade Han and that man were chatting and laughing together..."
They even whispered to each other, "If I hadn't run into Comrade Han again at the town's middle school gate and been told by my older brother that she's my future sister-in-law, I wouldn't have mentioned what just happened in front of you."
But it was precisely because I learned that Comrade Han was my future sister-in-law that I became suspicious of the earlier encounter where I saw her walking and chatting with a man. And now my older brother wants to break off the engagement with her.
I felt I couldn't hide what I'd seen. After all, it's better to be safe than sorry, lest my older brother be caught off guard by Comrade Han's situation someday!
Li Jumei was pondering what Song Lan had said when Song Qinghui spoke up: "Brother, how about I keep an eye on that guy surnamed Han in town for you? Anyway, I don't have much to do at home, maybe I can catch him red-handed on a date with another man!"
"I support my second brother!"
Song Guoqing offered his opinion, and then added: "My parents can't leave home, my eldest brother has to work, I have to go to school, and my sister lives in the factory's residential area and also has to work on weekdays. Only my second brother is free; he can go to town and secretly keep an eye on that person. In my opinion, this is perfectly feasible!"
"Why are you worrying about such trivial matters, kid!"
Li Jumei threw a remark at her youngest son.
“Auntie, if my sister-in-law’s guess is true, I agree with my brother Guoqing and support Qinghui going to town to keep an eye on that woman.”
As Qin Yaxin spoke, she glanced at Song Lan and continued, "I believe my sister-in-law wouldn't make random guesses; she must have her reasons."
At the same time, in the town.
The Han family.
"Qingbin hasn't come to our house for a while. Didn't you have a proper talk with him at the grain station?"
Han's mother and father were sitting cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), one sewing shoe soles and the other listening to the radio. Suddenly, they heard Han's mother's voice. Han's father looked up at her and said, "I'd like to, but the other child always avoids me, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Am I supposed to shamelessly go up to her and say something irrelevant?"
"What do you mean by talking nonsense?"
Han's mother glanced at her father with annoyance and said, "It's not good for the two children to stay at odds. If you want our Lanlan to be dumped and ruined by us for the rest of her life, then don't try to ease the tension between her and Qingbin."
Han's father didn't answer, but instead asked, "Where is Lanlan?"
"I left home after breakfast, saying I had arranged to go sightseeing in the county town with a friend."
Han's mother responded.
"Aren't you worried that she'll cause you trouble outside if you let her run around like this?"
Upon hearing Mr. Han's words, Mrs. Han stopped what she was doing and stared at him with a look of confusion in her eyes: "Explain yourself clearly! You old fool, do you think your daughter would do something like that outside?"
“Lanlan’s wedding is just before the New Year. We’ve protected her too well. You know how naive she is. If someone tries to deceive her, she might fall for it.”
Mr. Han turned off the radio and sighed deeply: "I genuinely thought Qingbin was a good person, which is why I wanted to introduce Lanlan to him and tried my best to make the marriage happen. But what has happened between the two children in the last two weeks..."
And considering Qingbin's changed attitude towards me, and even towards our family, I reckon... he's probably very disappointed in Lanlan, and might even be discussing breaking off the engagement with us with his family!
Upon hearing this, Han's mother looked solemn and remained silent for a long time.
"You should be able to tell yourself that Lanlan has never really cared about Qingbin from the beginning. For the past two weeks, she's barely mentioned his name at home. You might think she's heartless, but she's also declared that she'd rather die than accept annulment..."
I've been really stressed lately, especially when I walk into the grain station and see that Qingbin isn't as warm towards me as before, and even avoids me, it makes me feel so suffocated!
A good man will never have trouble finding a wife, and a good woman will never have trouble finding a husband!
The prospective son-in-law, Song Qingbin, is good-looking and of good character. Now that he has been promoted to a permanent employee, he is definitely a good young man. On the other hand, his good-for-nothing daughter is not only outspoken but also spoiled and naive, not very bright. It's not that he's criticizing his own child, but he's afraid of comparisons.
For example, compared to the children of the Song family, apart from the fact that the whole family has urban household registration, his silly daughter was able to marry the other party, which in his opinion was a great honor!
However, the silly girl in the family is never satisfied. For the past half month, she has been causing one strange thing after another, as if she has been possessed by some evil spirit.
If the Song family were to actually propose annulment, to be honest, Mr. Han wouldn't know what to do.
If he accepts it, what will happen to his daughter in the future?
While she might not be unable to get married, whether she can find someone better than Qingbin, or someone with comparable qualities in all aspects, is uncertain.
I don't accept it... Given his daughter's repeated offenses to her in-laws, how can he have the audacity to keep harping on the marriage between the two families?
"I'll personally go to your grain station tomorrow and invite Qingbin to our house for a meal."
Han's mother didn't want to lose a good son-in-law.
"Once a person is determined to do something, it's very difficult for others to pull them back."
Han's father sighed again, shook his head, and said, "If all else fails, we should agree to the Song family's request to annul the engagement, so as not to end up making enemies instead of getting married."
"..."
Han's mother frowned and remained silent for a long time.
"Don't blame me for backing out now, it's just that our Lanlan is so disappointing."
Han's father was visibly downcast: "If we keep clinging to this marriage, and Lanlan does something outrageous one day, our family will only have a harder time dealing with it!"
"What if the Song family doesn't come to propose annulment?"
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