As soon as it got dark, Uncle Lin’s family started serving dinner.
As usual, the women would eat in the kitchen with their children, while the men would drink in the main room.
Lin Yongnian picked up the freshly filled glass of wine and drank it in one gulp.
After learning about Zhou Chuanzong's situation, he became even more confused.
Why did Taohua leave him, a healthy man with a regular job in the city, and choose a man who was barely making a living and wasn't even considered a man?
Could it be that Lin Yongnian is not even as good as that kind of man?
Lin Yongsheng poured Lin Yongnian another glass of wine and said, "Brother, don't be sad. There are many beautiful women in the world. Why do you have to be so obsessed with just one?"
"With your conditions, are you still worried about not finding a wife?"
Second Uncle Lin also nodded and said, "That's right, Second Uncle will ask the village head's wife to find a good woman for you in Shili Township tomorrow."
Given his nephew's conditions, although it is not possible for him to marry a virgin girl, he can still marry a widow whose husband has died.
Lin Yongnian shook his head and sighed, "I just can't figure out what's wrong with me? Taohua chose that rootless man instead of waiting for me."
Lin Yongsheng analyzed, "That Zhou Chuanzong is the uncle of her son-in-law Zhou Xinglong. He's a down-to-earth and hardworking man. Sister Taohua only has one daughter, and she probably wanted to be closer to her daughter by marrying her son-in-law's uncle."
"She's already married, so don't think about her anymore. Just like my dad said, let the village chief's wife find you a better one."
The village chief's wife is a famous matchmaker in Shili Village. She is the matchmaker for many people in their village.
Lin Yongnian shook his head. Apart from Taohua, he looked down on other women in the countryside.
Compared with other women in the village, Taohua is still quite pretty. She is gentle, considerate and clean, and she is not snobbish, greedy or petty.
Lin Yongnian drank a lot of wine and the food he had eaten had gone cold. He had a stomach full of urine, so he got up and went to the toilet to urinate.
In the outhouse yard of Uncle Lin's house, Lin Yongnian, who was drunk, walked out of the yard, stood by the roadside, unzipped his pants and urinated into a peach tree.
As he urinated, he thought of the peach blossoms and couldn't help feeling sad. Because he had drunk too much, the sadness was magnified. After he finished urinating, he hugged the peach tree in front of him and cried.
"Wuwu Taohua, why? We missed each other for so many years and finally got together, why did you marry someone else?"
"Why can't you wait for me, wuwuwu..."
Lin Yongnian was hugging the peach tree and crying. Suddenly, he felt a chill on the tip of his nose. When he looked up, he found that it was snowing.
Lin Yongnian felt that God was sympathetic to him, so it snowed at this moment. He felt even more desolate and cried even harder.
"Peach Blossom woo woo woo..."
Snow fluttered, the north wind howled, and Lin Yongnian, who was standing by the peach tree, hugged the trunk and cried loudly...
Zhoujiagou
After the banquet was over, Zhou Chuanzong and Taohua entered the bridal chamber.
Taohua, wearing a red floral cotton jacket, sat on the warm kang, looking at Zhou Chuanzong who came in burping, pinching the hem of her clothes nervously.
Although this is not her first marriage, she is still a little nervous.
Zhou Chuanzong closed the door, unbuttoned two buttons of his cotton jacket, and walked to the newly built wardrobe in his home.
He took out a wooden box from the depths of the closet, walked to Taohua with the box, and handed it to her.
"What is this?" Taohua raised her head and whispered.
Zhou Chuanzong sat next to her, opened the wooden box inside and said, "This is the money I've saved over the years, a total of 135 yuan. I'm giving it all to you now."
"So many?" Taohua widened her eyes in shock.
In this village, if anyone has a cash deposit of 500 yuan at home, it is considered extraordinary.
Taohua never expected that Zhou Chuanzong, a bachelor, could save so much money.
Moreover, for this wedding, Zhou Chuanzong bought her a full set of new clothes and shoes, set up a banquet, and even gave red envelopes to her nephews and nieces from her mother's side. This was a better show than many people's first weddings.
If he hadn't spent a lot on the wedding, he might have had only a thousand yuan originally.
Zhou Chuanzong said, "I've always dreamed of getting married. I thought if I had money, someone might be willing to marry me, so I worked hard and tried to save money."
"I've saved up so much."
"Taohua, I know that the reason I asked you to marry me was not glorious, but I really like you. As long as you are willing to live a good life with me, I will never let you suffer in the future."
"All our family's money is now in your hands. I will obey your orders from now on."
Taohua was moved by what Zhou Chuanzong said. He was willing to give her so much money for safekeeping, which showed that he was sincere to her.
In all her life, this is the first time that Taohua has been cherished so much by a man.
"This, this amount of money is too much, you should keep it yourself." She had never managed so much money before, and she didn't dare to do so.
When she was with Gao Li's father, she never managed more than two dollars.
"I didn't have a wife before, so I always managed the money myself, but now I have a wife, so of course the money should be handed over to her."
"Taohua, this money is in your hands. You can spend it freely and buy whatever you want. Don't save it for me."
Zhou Chuanzong stuffed the money box into the peach blossom bed.
Taohua held a heavy box, which contained not only money but also Zhou Chuanzong's trust in her.
"Okay, I'll help you manage it. I'm sure I won't spend it recklessly."
Since Zhou Chuanzong trusts her, she will not let him down.
Besides, they are already a formal couple. As a traditional rural woman, Taohua adheres to the traditional idea of marrying a chicken, following the chicken; marrying a dog, following the dog.
Since she has married Zhou Chuanzong and become his wife, she will live a good life with him.
Taohua closed the box and wanted to put it back in the closet.
However, Zhou Chuanzong held her hand, took the box from her hand in her inquiring eyes, put it on the cabinet beside the bed, and pushed her onto the bed.
Uncle Lin's home
Lin Yongsheng's son, Lin Dafu, finally pulled Lin Yongnian, who was hugging the peach tree and crying out for peach blossoms, back into the house and put him on his grandson's bed.
“Peach blossoms… peach blossoms…”
Lin Yongnian, who was asleep, was still hugging the quilt and calling Taohua.
Lin Dafu looked at his uncle on the bed and said to his father, "It seems that my uncle really likes my Aunt Taohua. He is so sad that my Aunt Taohua got married."
Lin Yongsheng smiled and said, "If he really liked her so much, he wouldn't have abandoned your Aunt Taohua and married someone else in the city."
"Your uncle is like this now, it's simply because your aunt no longer loves him, so he remembered the kindness of your Aunt Taohua and wants to go back to her."
"But I didn't get to eat the grass I wanted to return to, so I'm just not happy..."
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