When Xu Sui went home to deliver water to her family, she heard a few middle-aged women talking about this.
"The little girl nowadays is incredible. She can even say such things. They are her biological father, mother and brother."
"I don't think that Mr. Zhao would want her. No wonder he refused to admit it that day."
"Anyone who marries a girl like this would be unlucky."
If Jiang Pan'er had accepted her parents' arrangement without saying a word, they would definitely feel pity and sympathy for her, but now that she had resisted, they would stand on her parents' side.
When they looked at Xu Sui, she looked completely different.
"Sui Sui brought water to your brother?"
"Our Su Sui is really pretty, filial, and good at studying. I wonder who will be lucky enough to marry her in the future."
Xu Sui raised her lips, "Then I have to thank the Jiang family for not being born, otherwise, I would have picked up the knife too."
She had no good feelings towards Jiang Pan'er at all, but she also didn't think it was right to criticize her like that.
After she left, everyone looked at each other with a unhappy expression.
Someone curled his lips and said, "The captain's daughter has become stupid from studying so much. She doesn't understand anything."
No one agreed with her, but some people agreed with her in their hearts.
On the third day after Xu Sui made the call, the Xu family finally received a telegram.
The telegram was sent directly to Xu Changgen by the postman. He was talking to a team leader at the time and opened it right after receiving the telegram.
It said "Number 1, 21 times".
This is for Xu Sui to take the 21st bus on the 1st of next month.
In fact, I am not in such a hurry. I only make phone calls and send telegrams when there is an emergency.
But Xu Changgen and Zhang Yunxiu had discussed it the night Xu Sui said she wanted to go to the army to visit Xu Mian.
No matter how good the army is, it is better than the countryside. Zhang Yunxiu thinks that her daughter is good in everything. For people in this area, it is good enough for her to have a high school education. If she wants to go to the county, the conditions for finding someone will have to be lower. It always seems a bit wrong.
Zhang Yunxiu hoped that her daughter would also find a soldier, so that when her husband's family could no longer make ends meet, she could go to the army and live with him and his wife. That would be the real head of the family.
She told Xu Changgen these words, and Xu Changgen naturally took it into consideration.
Another aspect he considered was that the current situation was not very stable. The past few years had been even more chaotic. The army was the most stable, so who knows when chaos would break out.
As a captain, he can get by in the countryside, but he can't do much to help his children. It's better for him to wait for more opportunities.
But marriage is not a joke, and there may not be a suitable person in the army. It is better to go there early. If there is no suitable one, come back before the brigade teacher selection. At least there will be a way out.
Besides, it was also his wish to go and see how his eldest daughter was doing.
He and Zhang Yunxiu had the same idea that no matter how good the letter sounded, seeing it with one's own eyes was the real thing.
After receiving the telegram, Xu Changgen opened the letter, hurried to the commune to get it stamped, borrowed a bicycle, and took Xu Sui to queue up to buy a ticket.
Although it is necessary to have good faith when traveling nowadays, the country has a large population and relatively few railway lines. If you don't buy tickets in advance, you will have to stand or not be able to get on the train at all.
However, the Xu family usually wouldn't tell anyone about this, so when she bought the ticket and came back, the entire team didn't know that Xu Sui was going out, except that Xu Changgen had received a telegram.
Jiang Paner only found out about this when she went to the pond to wash clothes.
The ladies who were washing clothes rolled their eyes at her and walked away with their basins.
Jiang Pan'er, however, had already started thinking about it.
Normally, telegrams are not sent unless there is an emergency. The Xu family received a telegram at this time, but something happened to the eldest daughter of the Xu family.
She knew that the eldest daughter of the Xu family would die in more than a year, but now the news came that she was seriously ill.
Jiang Pan'er hung up the clothes in a hurry and went to the educated youth center to find Zhao Bin.
Zhao Bin saw that she was already impatient, "What's the matter?"
Jiang Pan'er wanted to achieve her goal, so she didn't care about his attitude. She just focused on her own business and said, "I want you to do something for me."
"Who do you think I am! Jiang Pan'er, I was cheated by you, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to you in everything!" Zhao Bin roared in a low voice.
If the other educated youth had not been looking at him when Jiang Pan'er came over to call him, he would not have wanted to come out at all.
"Don't you want revenge?" Jiang Pan'er stared into his eyes. "You know, I didn't have the strength to knock you out. Don't you think what happened that day was weird?"
Zhao Bin said nothing.
Jiang Paner continued, "You shouldn't hate me. I was just trying to protect myself. If Lin Jianguo hadn't spoken up that day, we wouldn't have taken this step, and neither would Xu Sui."
"It's all because of them. I want revenge."
She finally said, "I married you for self-protection. You know what my family is like. If I continue to stay in that home, it will be eaten up sooner or later. Marrying you is just an excuse to move out of the house. I won't get married with you. If you have the chance to return to the city in the future, you will still be the same as before."
After a long silence, Zhao Bin asked, "What do you want to do?"
If you were to say who Zhao Bin hated the most right now, it would definitely be Jiang Pan'er. No matter how innocent she said, it was a fact that in the eyes of others, he was tied to her.
But Jiang Pan'er is really strong, and he has no way to retaliate now, and he also hates Lin Jianguo, so it is better to join forces to deal with him first.
As for Xu Sui, if this stupid woman had accepted his invitation that day, he wouldn't have had to wait so long until he fainted.
Zhao Bin started to hate him.
Since both of them have a common enemy, the atmosphere will be much more harmonious.
A day later, Jiang Paner announced to the Jiang family that she was getting married.
Although Zhao Bin's family hasn't received the letter he wrote, it doesn't matter. She doesn't care too much. She is just following the procedure to move out of the house.
Jiang Fugui and Wang Zhaodi really wanted to send this plague god away, but they still asked, "What about the betrothal gift?"
Wang Zhaodi was a little anxious. "He's a city boy. Even if he doesn't understand these rules, his family must understand them, right? How can you marry a daughter-in-law without giving her a penny?"
Even if it's not as much as what people in the mountains give, it's still more than ordinary people in the countryside.
"What does it have to do with you?" Jiang Pan'er already knew that her parents were softies who looked tough and would only bully the weak and fear the strong, so she spoke bluntly, "If you can marry me off, everything will be fine for us. I'm glad I didn't ask you for a dowry."
"If you want to argue with me about this, I will marry Jiang Jizu together with you."
Jiang Jizu shuddered when he heard this, and said quickly: "Dad, Mom, just let Fourth Sister get married directly."