Dinner started early, and Meng Tao didn't drink, so she left the table after eating. Seeing that it was still light outside, she said she wanted to go for a walk to digest the food. Zhou Cuiling wanted to go with her, so Aunt Yang handed Zhou Cuiling a basket with some cooked pork, pork liver, blood sausage and other pig-killing dishes in it, and asked them to deliver it to Luo's house on the way.

The two of them walked on the stone road in the village with Xiao Wangcai. Meng Tao asked Zhou Cuiling: "Which Luo family do you want to send it to?"

Zhou Cuiling: "Luo Lihua's house is the one next to Tian's house."

"I didn't even know that your family and Luo Lihua's family are related?"

"It wasn't like that before, but it is now. Didn't I tell you? Luo Lihua is engaged to my uncle's cousin. She's going to be my cousin's wife."

"Really? That's great, you really didn't say that. Congratulations."

"Well, this is a long story. Did you notice that most of the people who came to my house to eat the pig-killing meal today were the elders from the village and the people from the team. None of my cousins ​​came?"

"It seems so. Even your uncle didn't come."

"My uncle and his family went to my aunt's family for a wedding banquet, so they didn't come. My parents invited those uncles and cousins, but they didn't come. They thought that this would be disrespectful to us and would make us feel uncomfortable. In fact, my parents have let it go, so they ignored them."

"Why does it seem like your family has always had a bad relationship with your cousins?"

"It's not a feeling, it's just like that."

Zhou Cuiling became a little angry as she spoke: "Especially after my dad entered the commune, they kept making demands, asking my dad to pull out his cousins ​​and arrange jobs for them all. Who can do that? My dad works in the commune, not as an emperor. This is simply asking too much.

When my dad refused, they said all kinds of weird things to him, saying that he looked down on people from the countryside after only being an official for a few days, and that they, the brothers, were out of our league. My parents were concerned at first and tried to explain things to them, but no matter how much they tried to please them, they just kept the same attitude, so they just gave up.

Do you still remember Zhou Cuilian? When she was the third party, she asked my dad to help her get a false certificate, but my dad didn't agree. Now Zhou Cuilian is living with Liang Tiezhu and is an illegal immigrant. She even gave birth to a child. Her parents don't blame their daughter for her misbehavior, but they hate my dad. A while ago, my uncle's cousin came to my house to deliver some things. Zhou Cuimei saw it and suddenly felt that my cousin was quite suitable for her. So she asked her mother to find my mother to be a matchmaker. My mother knew Zhou Cuimei's personality, so she told my cousin that my cousin actually knew Zhou Cuimei and said directly that the two were not suitable and didn't want to be together.

Not long after, my cousin met Luo Lihua from our village by chance. They fell in love with each other without a matchmaker, and then told their parents and got engaged. This had nothing to do with my mother, but Zhou Cuimei's family thought that my mother was behind it, didn't want their daughter to be well, and even slapped them in the face, which made them hate her again.

Also, during the autumn conscription, Zhou Cuimei's second brother and another cousin's son signed up, but they all failed the physical examination. When they learned that your foster brother Meng Zhehan came to pick up Wang Tiegen and Lin Jianhai, they asked my dad to ask Meng Zhehan for help. My dad refused because he knew the situation of his two nephews very well: one was not tall enough, and the other was missing a front tooth. They were obviously unqualified, so how could they ask for it? Just like that, they were very angry and made it clear that they didn't want to be relatives with our family anymore."

"Then just don't do it. You can't just go against your principles to please them. Even if your dad doesn't want to work anymore, he will still suffer in the end."

"Who said it wasn't? Fortunately, my parents are open-minded and don't care about it."

"Luo Lihua is a very nice person, gentle and kind. I haven't met your uncle and cousin either. How are they?"

"My cousin is also good, his temperament is similar to Taurus, they are a good match."

"Where is Zhou Cuimei now?"

"..." This result can only mean that impulse is the devil, and you have to walk the path you choose.

"Where is Yu Xiaomin from our village?"

"Yu Xiaomin went to her cousin's house. I heard from her sister-in-law that she got married in the county town over there and will not be coming back."

"Oh, that's good."

Meng Tao couldn't help but sigh secretly. The scene of the three women who followed the men into the mountains to carry wood in the autumn and winter of last year and were frightened and fled when they encountered wild boars seemed like it happened just yesterday. In just one year, all of them were married.

When they reached the gate of Luo's courtyard, Zhou Cuiling called out, and Luo Lihua and Luo's mother came out to greet them, and took them into the house to sit for a while. Meng Tao smiled and said that they would come to play again tomorrow, as they had eaten too much today and needed to walk more to digest the food.

Luo Ma took the basket Zhou Cuiling handed over and said repeatedly that your mother was too polite to give us so much meat. She smiled and said to Meng Tao and Zhou Cuiling: "Auntie will make something delicious tomorrow. I guarantee you will like it. You must come!"

After saying that, he took the basket into the house first.

Luo Lihua stood and talked to the two of them. Seeing Meng Tao looking towards the Tian family, she said softly, "There's no one in that courtyard anymore. They said they were going to sell it, but I don't know if anyone would buy it."

"Zhao Liulian and the others don't live inside?"

"Tian Xianglan went crazy and burned down the whole house. How could we live there? Tian Baoshan was burned to a cripple. Zhao Liulian ignored him and took the two girls back to her parents' home to remarry.

Wang Shuifeng was used to living in the city and didn’t want to go back to the village. She took Tian Baoshan away and wanted to sell the village yard, saying that the feng shui of the place was bad.

"It's not that the feng shui is bad. It's that they have bad hearts. They can't live peacefully anywhere."

"That's right. If you want to talk about bad feng shui, my house is so close to his, how can we be fine? When my mother saw Wang Shuifeng, she called her a jinx and told her to get as far away as possible and not to come into the village again, because it was unlucky!"

The three of them talked for a while. Luo Lihua was worried that it would be difficult to walk in the dark, so she wanted to take a flashlight to help them. The two of them hurriedly said no, said goodbye to Luo Lihua and walked back.

On the way, Zhou Cuiling said: "My mother originally said that she would not tell you these messed up things, but now that you have heard it, I might as well tell you everything: Tian Xianglan was really crazy, and Liang Tiezhu was called back to deal with her and her mother's life problems. She didn't recognize him face to face, so Liang Tiezhu sent Tian Xianglan to a mental hospital, and then took the four daughters to the neighboring county. Liang Tiezhu was quite capable. He lost his job in the sugar factory because of Tian Xianglan's trouble, and supported his family by doing odd jobs and repairing bicycles.

I heard that Tian Zhigao sold the Tian family's house in Xingyang County and ran away with the money. Tian Zhiyuan also disappeared, and his wife returned to her parents' home. Wang Shuifeng married a lonely old man in his seventies at the edge of the county town just to settle down in his yard. Someone saw Tian Laoliu and Tian Laoqi stealing at the county station. The two brothers were lame and looked like human beings. They were probably beaten for picking people's pockets. "

"You have evil intentions, you deserve it!"

(End of this chapter)