"This letter was sent by the second son," said the eldest aunt as her first words after reading the letter.
"Second Brother?"
"My second son got married and wrote to tell me." My aunt's expression was quite calm.
"Second brother got married?" Sangshen asked in surprise.
"Yes, I got married."
Sangshen wanted to ask more, but Buling nudged him, gesturing for him to look at his aunt's expression.
"Aunt, are you unhappy?" Sangshen asked belatedly.
Auntie said blankly, "No."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to his room, leaving Sangshen and Buling standing there looking at each other.
“My aunt is unhappy.” Sangshen said firmly, “But why?”
"Could it be that my second brother is getting married?" Bu Ling boldly speculated.
“How could that be? My aunt is so looking forward to their marriage, how could she be unhappy because of it?” Sangshen rejected the hypothesis.
Bling wanted to say something more, but her eldest daughter wouldn't have it and started crying loudly.
“I’m going to see the little stars,” she said immediately.
After walking over to her daughter and checking her over, she said, "She's probably hungry. I'll take her back and breastfeed her."
Mulberry followed suit on its own.
He went back inside, closed the door, exposed the granary, wiped it clean twice, and then fed his eldest daughter.
Sangshen glanced at her eldest daughter, who was happily eating, and then at the mother, who was grimacing. "Lingling, how about weaning Xiaoxing?"
"Let's wait until she's a week old." Bu Ling felt an overwhelming surge of maternal love at that moment: "We'll gradually wean her off it after she's a week old."
"Then let your daughter sleep with your aunt at night after weaning, okay?" Sangshen said with a grin.
Bling gave him a speechless look: "You've got your abacus beads flying right into my face."
"Is it okay?" the muscular man pleaded.
"You just need to persuade your aunt," Bu Ling finally said.
Upon hearing this, Sang Shen beamed with joy: "It's a deal!"
"Virtue~"
After her daughter finished eating, Buling grabbed some toilet paper, wiped the granary, and put down her clothes. "Should we go check on Auntie? Is she alright on her own?"
Sangshen patted her eldest daughter's back to help her burp, saying, "I'll go, you comfort the baby."
"OK."
...
I don't know what Sangs told her aunt, but at lunchtime, her aunt had a smile on her face.
"I have something to announce before we eat," Auntie said.
Upon hearing this, everyone put down their chopsticks and sat up straight, looking at their aunt.
"The second son got married."
The question left the person speechless for a long time: "So sudden?"
"I just found out myself," the aunt explained, and began to state her concerns: "Even though we just found out, we can't neglect this woman."
"Auntie is right."
"Next, Xiao Si, you're in charge of notifying the family. Xiao Qi, Dong Zi, Ling Ling, you guys give me all the tickets you have. We need to buy some things and send them over to show how much our family values it."
"no problem."
"Also, I need to write back to the second son and ask for his wife's size. I need to buy her two sets of clothes."
"I'll listen to my aunt."
After saying that, Auntie thought for a moment and said, "Okay, that's all for now. Let's eat."
Because of the sudden marriage of the second brother of the Sang family, the whole family sprang into action.
Preparing wedding gifts for his newlywed sister-in-law, getting all the necessities for daily life, sending letters, wire money, and drafts to his second brother Sang—he was so busy he barely had time to breathe.
Basically, it was just another round of the same process that Sangshen and Buling went through for their wedding: preparing betrothal gifts, furniture, betrothal gifts, clothes, and so on.
However, unlike with the mulberry, the person in question was not present, and the aunt took care of everything.
Since she didn't know what her daughter-in-law liked, she converted everything into money and tickets, then wired the money to her second brother Sang, and wrote a letter explaining the purpose of each sum of money.
Sangshen and Sangzi also sent separate packages and letters containing their gifts, including greeting gifts and wedding gifts.
The main point is that even though the person is not there, the procedures cannot be omitted.
In the midst of their busy schedule, January 1974 passed. Following Sang Erge's wedding, their family welcomed another joyous occasion.
That is, mulberries got a raise.
He was promoted from administrative level 27 to level 26, and his salary increased from 31.5 yuan to 35 yuan.
Although it only increased by three and a half yuan, it's still a qualitative leap, isn't it?
To celebrate this joyous occasion, everyone gathered together for a feast and offered their congratulations to the mulberries.
Afterwards, the protagonist, Sangshen, said that this was not a celebration for him at all, but clearly an excuse to have a meal.
The protagonist's wife, Buling, said that it's all the same and there's no need to worry about those minor details.
As a result, Bling spent three days trying to coax Sangs with those words, leaving her utterly exhausted, both physically and mentally.
Since arriving in 1974, one happy event after another has occurred.
One leisurely afternoon, Little Star was learning to walk, stumbling along, with Jiang Wanying reaching out to protect her from behind.
"Ah~ Ah~ Ah~"
"Come here, little star, come to Grandma!"
"Ah~ Ah~ Milk~"
"Ah~ Ah~ Ah~"
"Milk~"
Aunt looked up in surprise, "Did Little Star call me Grandma?"
"Good boy, say it again, say it and Grandma will hug you."
The little star was wearing a red floral cotton-padded jacket and had a pigtail tied high on her head. She was so angry that she kept stomping her feet.
"Ah~ Ah~ Ah~ Milk~"
"So good!" Auntie's eyes welled up with tears at the baby's sweet cry.
She took two steps, hugged her precious baby, and kissed her twice: "Our little star is so amazing."
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