Someone in the crowd asked, "Aunt Zhao, what's the happy event in your family?"
"Isn't it that the date for your orchids to bloom has been set?"
Zhao Chunmiao waved his hand at the person who asked the question. He was about to say something, but after thinking about it, he swallowed it back and just smiled.
Zhao Chunmiao ignored those people and ran straight to Qin Hanshu, looking at her with burning eyes.
"Godmother..." Qin Hanshu was a little shy. She knew that Zhao Chunmiao must have read the letter.
As expected, Zhao Chunmiao grabbed her hand and said angrily, "You should change the way you call me godmother in the future!"
"Let's go! Come home with me first, I have something to ask you!" Zhao Chunmiao looked excited and pulled Qin Hanshu away.
As soon as they entered the Zhou family's house, Zhou Ruilan rushed up, hugged Qin Hanshu, stomped her feet and screamed.
"You are my sister-in-law! You really are my sister-in-law!!!"
Zhou Changan stood behind Zhou Ruilan, with his hands behind his back, smiling and nodding.
Zhao Chunmiao pulled Zhou Ruilan away from Qin Hanshu, "You're crazy, be careful not to scare your third sister-in-law."
Qin Hanshu blushed and corrected: "We haven't gotten married yet..."
Zhao Chunmiao said cheerfully: "Wei Guang said in the letter that the marriage report will be approved soon. When the time comes, you can go and get the marriage certificate once you have completed the formalities here!"
Zhou Changan walked over and said gently, "He said you guys have already discussed it. Go over there and do it. We can talk about the banquet at home later?"
Qin Hanshu nodded and said, "Yes, he said that the wedding leave is not long, and it will be too tight to come back for the wedding banquet... Let your two elders and Lanhua come with me, and have some fun in Jiangcheng."
Zhou Ruilan clapped her hands happily, "I want to go! I've never been far away from home in my life!"
Zhao Chunmiao glared at her, "Are you willing to give up Xiao Yang?"
Zhou Ruilan's expression froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal, and she said, "It's not like you're not coming back, so why are you reluctant?"
Zhou Changan said, "When I come back from Jiangcheng, I will also take care of your relationship with Yang Guangyu. I will try to get you to spend the New Year at the Yang family this year."
Zhao Chunmiao's nose felt sore when she heard this. Her children had grown up and each of them would have to leave home and start their own family.
"Let's talk about this later." Zhao Chunmiao said, "For now, let's take care of Wei Guang and Xiao Shu's affairs first."
"Yes!" Zhou Ruilan turned to Qin Hanshu and asked, "Sister-in-law, you have to tell me exactly when you and my third brother were together? When he came home to visit his relatives during the Chinese New Year, he didn't notice anything wrong between you two!"
Zhao Chunmiao was also very curious about this, so he pulled Qin Hanshu into the house and sat on the kang. He brewed a pot of Gao Mo tea and placed it on the kang table. Together with Zhou Ruilan, they looked at her with the same pair of big eyes.
Qin Hanshu paused and said slowly: "In fact, at that time it was already..."
***
In the evening, Zhao Chunmiao went to the place where the women gathered to cool off for the first time.
When they were drying clothes in the drying yard, Zhao Chunmiao's abnormality was discussed for a while. When they saw her appear, some people started asking questions again.
"Secretary's family, what are you laughing at today?"
"You took the young educated youth Qin and ran away. I called you several times from behind but you didn't respond!"
Zhao Chunmiao sat in the middle seat vacated by everyone, with a smug smile on his face.
"Nothing much, it's just that my family Wei Guang's marriage is settled."
One stone can cause a thousand ripples.
Although Zhou Weiguang is not from the village, he has always been a top figure in the blind date market.
When he came back many years later, many people came to Zhao Chunmiao, wanting to introduce him to someone, but Zhao Chunmiao did not agree on his own because Zhou Weiguang was not convinced.
How...how long has it been? How come it has suddenly been decided?
"Sister Chunmiao, your third son is going to get married? Whose family is he marrying?"
"Haha, whose else could it be? It must be from our village." Zhao Chunmiao said casually.
"Our village? Can you be interested in a girl of similar age from our village?"
The girls waiting to be married in Haowan Village were all uneducated and not particularly outstanding. With Zhao Chunmiao's vision, could he be interested in them?
Zhao Chunmiao reminded: "The educated youth are also from our village."
"Educated youth?" Everyone exchanged glances, then said in disbelief, "Are you talking about the educated youth Xiao Qin?"
Looking at Zhao Chunmiao's expression, you can tell that she is very proud of her daughter-in-law.
There were only a few female educated youth, and except for the two who were married, the remaining two, Da Zhang and Xiao Zhang, one was dull and the other tough, neither of them seemed attractive to Zhao Chunmiao.
That leaves the young educated youth Qin, who is good-looking, dignified and polite, and looks like someone Zhao Chunmiao would like.
"My dear, isn't little Qin the educated youth your daughter-in-law? How come she has become your daughter-in-law in the blink of an eye?"
Zhao Chunmiao was unhappy and said, "A foster daughter is not a biological daughter, so why can't she be my daughter-in-law? My son likes her, and Xiao Shu is willing too!"
"That's right... You're lucky. Both of your daughters-in-law are rich people in the city."
"Yes, when the young educated youth Qin first joined the production team, he built a cave house for himself, bought a bicycle, and dressed very nicely. It was obvious that his family was rich."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the Zhou family really knows how to choose a daughter-in-law."
Everyone looked at Zhao Chunmiao with naked envy.
Zhao Chunmiao did come to show off, but she didn't expect that everyone envied her daughter-in-law because she was rich! She clearly wanted to hear others praise her daughter-in-law for being beautiful!
In this area, which family can find such a beautiful daughter-in-law? !
Forget it, she said she couldn't get along with this group of people. Zhao Chunmiao was quite disappointed, so he responded with a few words and then found an excuse to leave.
The news that Qin Hanshu was going to marry into the Zhou family spread like wildfire.
At Niu Quangen's house, Zhao Ru stopped serving rice when she heard Niu Quangen talking about this.
"I really didn't expect that Xiao Qin would be the second female educated youth to marry a member of the commune." Niu Quangen sighed.
Zhao Ru sneered, "What member? Zhou Weiguang is a military cadre!"
Niu Quangen had his usual silly smile on his face. "Yes, you are right. Although Zhou Weiguang and I were born in the same village, we are now from two different worlds. We cannot be compared."
Zhao Ru wanted to have an attack, but she couldn't, and her chest felt stuffy and painful.
Isn't it the same for her and Qin Hanshu? They were both sent-down youths, but now...the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger.
When Zhao Ru realized that she was feeling jealous of Qin Hanshu again, she forced herself to suppress it.
Placing hatred on people you can't reach will only make you feel worse...
Zhao Ru took a few deep breaths and calmed down a little.
The next day, after Niu Quangen went out, she went to Chenjialiang.