Chapter 340 Huang Dazhi Got Married
The closer it got to the wedding date, the busier Huang Dazhi became. His colleagues in the bureau were understanding and assigned him as little work as possible so that he had time to do other things.
After buying the new house, he still had to decorate it and buy furniture. This could have been done slowly, but Deng Wanwan's sudden departure forced Huang Dazhi to arrange for his fiancée Luo Li to move in in advance, so when Luo Li moved in, he hurriedly bought the necessary furniture and kitchen utensils.
After finishing the affairs in the county, I have to take time to go back to the countryside to see if the house has been repaired.
He paid for this and his parents hired someone to repair it so that it wouldn't look too shabby during the wedding banquet.
The house at home is old and in disrepair, and many of the tiles on the beams are damaged. In the past, when it rained heavily, it would drizzle inside the house. Even when repairing it, we didn’t spend money to buy new tiles, but covered them with some thatch. If the holes were really too big, we would just buy some new tiles to cover them.
But this is not a long-term solution, so this time, Huang Dazhi asked his father to replace all the tiles. If the replaced tiles are still good, they will be used to cover the pigpen.
As for the interior of the house, I also bought some lime and planned to paint the walls with it. This way, it would appear whiter, unlike before, when it looked dark inside from the outside.
Since it has been overhauled, you might as well run the electrical wires and buy a few light bulbs. This will make lighting at night much more convenient.
When Huang Dazhi returned home on his bicycle, the tiles in the house had been replaced, the interior had been painted with lime, and even a broken window had been repaired.
The whole house feels brand new.
He walked around the room, inside and out, and then expressed his satisfaction.
But his father was a little worried that he didn't have enough money.
Huang Dazhi said, "Don't worry, Mingcheng and I have a good relationship. I can pay him back slowly in the future. Dad, the wedding day is in three days, you have to buy the wine and food in advance."
His father straightened his back and said with a smile, "I asked Gao Mingcheng's father, Gao Yuanjian, to be the chef. He was originally a chef nearby, so if we need to hire someone, we have to ask him. But he doesn't have any wine, so we have to buy it ourselves."
"As for the dishes, he also wrote a menu and asked us to buy them a day in advance. Tomorrow is our market day, and I plan to buy some lard tomorrow to make it, and the lard residue can be used for cooking. As for the tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, I have already made arrangements with the neighbors nearby, and I will borrow them from them when the time comes."
Huang Dazhi was very satisfied listening to his father's well-organized words.
His father used to be a stingy man. Due to poverty and illness, he had a gloomy personality and often said unpleasant things. But since Huang Dazhi broke away from his parents' control, went to work in the county, and made money, the family's situation has improved greatly.
Last year, he took his family to the hospital in the provincial capital for treatment. His parents' conditions improved greatly, and his younger brother was able to walk on his own after the operation.
After removing the plaster, Huang Xiaoan slowly did some rehabilitation at home. Now, he can walk normally, but he still has a lopsided gait, which is different from normal people.
But such progress is enough to make his family happy for him.
Huang Xiaoan has also changed his previous gloomy and inferior personality and become cheerful. Now he often goes to the fields to help with work. He cannot lift a hoe to dig the ground, but he can sow seeds and cover the soil in the back.
He couldn't carry heavy loads, but he could pick fruits and vegetables. In short, his life was getting better little by little.
Huang Dazhi was relieved to see that everything was arranged at home. Then he went to Luo Li's parents' home to check how the preparations were going.
When they marry off their daughter, if her family is well off, they also have to hold a wedding party. This wedding party is scheduled in the morning, and then the groom comes to pick her up in the morning, and then at noon, the formal wedding party is held at the groom's place.
Of course, if the family is not well off, you can skip the wedding banquet and just go directly to the groom's place for the formal wedding banquet.
On the day the marriage was agreed upon, Huang Dazhi bought a sewing machine, a bicycle, cloth and other items in advance, because Luo Li planned to sew new clothes for her family herself, which would save a lot of money.
But before the clothes were completely sewn, Luo Li was taken to the county by him in advance.
So he had to go on behalf of Luo Li to see how the Luo family was preparing.
"Brother-in-law." Before entering the village, he saw Luo Li's youngest brother playing at the entrance of the village. When he saw him coming, he immediately left his friends and ran towards Huang Dazhi, calling him "brother-in-law" affectionately.
"Luo Wu, what are you doing? Aren't you supposed to study today?" Huang Dazhi was a little surprised when he saw Luo Wu. He thought he was skipping classes and didn't go to school.
Luo Wu heard this and smiled foolishly. He walked beside him and said, "I don't study anymore."
Huang Dazhi's face changed instantly after hearing this, and he said seriously: "You are so young, what can you do if you don't study? The country has proposed nine years of compulsory education, how can you not go to school?"
Huang Dazhi himself did not receive much education, so he regretted it very much. But at that time his family was really poor, and he had no other choice. It was not until he met Gao Mingcheng that he was able to study again and got a decent job.
Until now, Huang Dazhi insists on reading newspapers, practicing calligraphy and painting every day, and dares not slack off for a moment.
Luo Wu noticed that his brother-in-law was angry, so he immediately lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Last year, the weather was dry and there was little grain in the fields. We didn't make much money from selling it, and our family really didn't have the money to support my brother and me in school."
When the weather was good, the family could still support the two youngest brothers to go to school. But when the grain production was poor, there was nothing they could do.
Huang Dazhi was very angry at first, but later he thought it through and secretly blamed himself for having focused all his attention on Luo Li and not caring much about her family.
So he walked towards Luo's house in deep thought, but Luo Wu told him that his father and sisters were working in the fields.
So the two of them went back to the field.
Luo Daxing was working with his daughters, and his eldest son Luo Wen was digging vole holes in the woods nearby. He seemed to have a talent for catching voles and often caught some.
Voles are edible, and after catching the voles in the fields, the crops in the fields will be less affected. Otherwise, voles will eat the seeds spilled on the ground and eat corn cobs, causing heavy losses.
"Ah, I caught it!" A surprised voice rang out.
Luo Wu, who was following Huang Dazhi, could no longer bear it and ran towards the place where the sound came from. Although he was thin, he ran quite fast.
"Dazhi, why are you here?" When Luo Daxing saw Huang Dazhi coming, he immediately stopped what he was doing.
Huang Dazhi looked at his honest, dark and thin father-in-law and said solemnly, "Studying is a big deal. Luo Wen and Luo Wu must go to school. Didn't I give them 680 yuan as a gift? Why didn't you use it to enroll the two children in school?"
Luo Daxing didn't expect Huang Dazhi to say such a thing. He rubbed his hands nervously and said hesitantly, "We agreed not to ask for a betrothal gift at the beginning."
In fact, Luo Li also privately said that she wanted to use the gift money to send her two younger brothers to school, but Luo Daxing refused, and neither did her two younger brothers. They were afraid of angering their brother-in-law. They had finally found a generous brother-in-law, and if they angered him, it would be a waste of time.
Seeing that the eldest sister, who had worked hard for many years, was finally going to get married and live a good life, the two younger brothers didn't want to hold her back.
Huang Dazhi felt a little helpless after hearing what his father-in-law said, but soon, he said firmly: "Studying is a big deal. If you don't study, you will definitely regret it in the future! You should take the two children to school to register for study, and the registration fee will be paid from the gift money!"
When other families marry off their daughters, they would like to receive more gifts instead of giving a dowry. The Luo family is too honest!
But Huang Dazhi was still somewhat moved by this attitude of keeping his word.
Although he was moved, Huang Dazhi urged his father-in-law to take the child to register for school. So Luo Wen was taken to the school to register with a vole in his hand.
After finishing this matter, Huang Dazhi asked Luo Li's older sister Luo Fang whether the new clothes for the family were ready.
After Luo Li left, the task of sewing clothes was handed over to Luo Fang.
Luo Fang said: "When the time comes, our whole family will wear new clothes and go out for a drink."
Huang Dazhi nodded and said, "As long as everything is ready, everything will be fine."
In the blink of an eye, it was the wedding day.
On the night before her wedding, Luo Li returned to her home from the county, and she also brought the wedding dress she was going to wear at the wedding.
When she came back, the Luo family members excitedly surrounded her and began to ask her questions, mostly about how the county was going and how her new job was going.
When they saw the wedding dress that Luo Li brought back, the two younger brothers were fine and didn't feel anything, but the younger sisters were shocked.
They had never seen such beautiful clothes!
Luo Li smiled and told some of her experiences. Compared with her past, her speech and behavior have become more graceful and the petty-mindedness in her is gradually disappearing.
Gao Shufang is keen on reading and studying, so when the store is not busy, she not only reads herself, but also takes Luo Li to read. Unfortunately, Luo Li has never attended elementary school and can't read at all.
But her luck was really good. Xuanyuemei and Gao Shufang were both very easy to get along with. Knowing that she couldn't read, they went out of their way to teach her how to read. She learned a few words a day, and after that, she was able to recognize some words. When she encountered simple words, Luo Li could also recognize them.
She already knew that Huang Dazhi asked his family to use the betrothal money to enroll his two younger brothers in school.
For this, she was very grateful to Huang Dazhi. At this time, she said to her two younger brothers: "When you go home after class, teach your sisters to read, okay? If you don't know how to read, you can only farm in the countryside for the rest of your life, and you can't do any work in the city!"
"And you two, you have to study hard too. As long as you can keep studying, I will keep sending you to school! Now I have a job and a salary, and your brother-in-law also thinks that studying is a good thing and supports me in paying your tuition."
When Luo Li said this, it was powerful and she was very confident.
Marriage is a woman’s second life, and marriage can change a woman’s destiny!
Some women marry well, and not only do they live a good life, but their parents' family can also benefit from it. Some women marry poorly, and not only do they suffer hardships, but their parents' family also has to subsidize them.
Now Luo Li is a typical example of a good marriage.
Luo Fang and others all looked at their eldest sister with envy, and secretly thought in their hearts that they would be able to find a good man like their brother-in-law in the future.
Nothing happened that night, and the Luo family got up early the next morning.
Everyone wore new clothes and looked particularly decent. With the help of several sisters, Luo Li put on her wedding dress and put on some makeup. It was called makeup, but in fact it was just moisturizer and lipstick.
But people look more beautiful.
At around 8:30, a tractor drove towards the Luo family. A young man in a suit was sitting on the truck bed.
Everyone in the village knew that today was Luo Li's wedding day, so when they saw the person coming, they immediately knew that it was the groom coming to pick her up.
So some villagers followed the tractor all the way.
There was little entertainment in the village, but whenever there was a wedding, one had to go to join in the fun and add to the conversation. And there was even more to talk about with Luo Li's wedding.
The person driving the tractor was Gao Mingcheng. In order to pick up the bride, he cleaned the tractor a day in advance.
The tractor stopped in the Luo family's yard. Huang Dazhi jumped off the truck bed. Holding a bouquet of flowers, he walked towards the house.
There was no malicious attempt to stop them from entering, they gave them red envelopes, and they were not asked to find wedding shoes, etc. There were fewer things to deal with when getting married at this time. With the full cooperation of the Luo family, everything went smoothly along the way.
After meeting the bride, Huang Dazhi shyly handed the bouquet in his hand to the bride.
This was what Gao Mingcheng taught him. In early May, wild flowers could be seen everywhere. If you picked some suitable ones and made them into bouquets, they would be no worse than the roses of later generations.
But when the bride came out, the villagers' attention was no longer focused on Huang Dazhi, but shifted to Luo Li in her wedding dress.
The villagers immediately started talking at once. Some thought the strange clothes were really beautiful, some thought they were inappropriate, and some thought red clothes should be worn at weddings as it would be festive.
But no matter what others say, today is a happy day. Gao Mingcheng acted as the best man and began to distribute wedding candies to the villagers gathered here.
The Luo family moved a pair of new boxes over and placed them on the truck bed. These boxes were Luo Li's dowry.
The box also contained a new quilt, some new clothes and the remaining gift money as a dowry.
After the dowry was loaded into the car, Luo Daxing locked the door and got into the car with Luo Li and the others.
Gao Mingcheng's tractor is relatively new and has just been washed, so it is bright everywhere. Although there are many people, there is still room for them to sit.
"Make way! We're going to take the bride back to her husband's house!" Gao Mingcheng smiled and shouted to the villagers watching to make way, and everyone moved to both sides to make way.
The tractor drove away slowly, left the village road, and then got on the main road, heading towards Junling.
Behind him, the villagers began to talk about this marriage. Some said that the Luo family had taken away the sewing machine and bicycle given by the man.
But soon someone said that Luo Li had a job in the county and that the bicycle was the one she was riding.
But the sewing machine did stay in the Luo family.
So everyone felt that Luo Li was lucky to marry such a good husband.
At this time, someone in the crowd walked away sullenly, her brows furrowed, her face full of depression. Next to her was a middle-aged woman. When they walked to a place with fewer people, the middle-aged woman cursed in a low voice: "You are so arrogant. When the matchmaker came to ask, I said I could take a look first, but when you heard that the other party's family had a brother with polio, you refused!"
"You, you are so stupid! No matter what, he always has a decent job. No matter what, you have to check the person before rejecting him!"
"You are much prettier than Luo Li. If you agree, this good marriage will be yours! Ouch... you really missed it!"
The middle-aged woman was filled with emotion. She knew that Huang Dazhi took the initiative to use money to send his two brothers-in-law to school. Look, if he had such a son-in-law, would she still have to worry about her son's marriage and work?
After hearing this, the young girl felt even more upset. She had always thought that she was prettier than Luo Li, but when Luo Li wore her wedding dress and put on makeup, she actually found that Luo Li was not ugly.
(End of this chapter)
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