Chapter 135: Jia Family's Marriage Line by Chance
"You mean my grandma went to the temple, and probably made a lot of prayers, but the only thing the bracelet could answer her for was marriage?"
[It is possible. You can go home and ask yourself whether the people in your family have all had all kinds of strange and unexpected encounters in marriage.]
"All kinds of weird things..."
Jia Wenyan repeated the other person's words in her mind.
She recalled carefully that there seemed to be some mysterious coincidences among the people in her family in this regard.
The reason her grandmother met her grandfather was that when she got married, her great-grandmother wanted to make a set of jewelry for her grandmother as a dowry.
Unexpectedly, when my great-grandfather and great-grandmother were preparing to go to the jewelry store with the gold, silver and jade jewelry they had prepared to help my grandmother buy her dowry.
The couple happened to be in a jewelry store and ran into the "future son-in-law" who was choosing jewelry in the store with his "girlfriend".
Although my great-grandfather and great-grandmother had experienced the era of having three wives and four concubines, it was after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the entire social environment prohibited having three wives and four concubines.
Even if we go back a few decades, only the so-called wealthy businessmen and warlords during the Republic of China period secretly took in so-called "concubines".
But these were no longer normal phenomena that were "reasonable" at the time. Even the so-called prospective son-in-law was a "high-quality young man" who the matchmaker had guaranteed had no problems in that area.
My great-grandfather and great-grandmother had never imagined that the other had been having an affair with a person of the opposite sex for a long time, and that the person was even pregnant.
Besides, the family of my grandmother has always been well-off. There is absolutely no need for them to let their daughter Jia Wenyan's grandmother suffer this.
In this case, if the other party took the initiative to come and explain that his marriage was arranged by his parents, and took the initiative to explain the reasonableness of canceling the engagement, then my great-grandfather and great-grandmother would not be so stubborn as to refuse to give in.
But what no one expected was that the other party was actually planning to marry grandma and then keep a so-called "extramarital affair" outside.
Jia Wenyan still remembers the atmosphere when her grandmother mentioned this matter.
My grandmother’s family was a merchant family in Shanghai.
Although their family is not considered to be one of the richest, they did contribute during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Although my great-grandfather and great-grandmother did not actually participate in the front line, their family's noodle factory was an important processing plant that provided dry food to the Red Army.
Even my grandmother's brother died on the way while helping the Red Army transport food.
The material supplier, the family of the martyrs, and the last child that the parents conceived and raised at an advanced age after losing their son.
To put it bluntly, Jia Wenyan's grandmother was really a "golden sign" that was wiped out by her entire family.
In this situation, although my great-grandfather did not ask my grandmother to marry a son-in-law, he was still very selective and wanted to find a partner for my grandmother with whom she could spend the rest of her life in peace.
However, I didn't expect that after introducing so many people, I ended up introducing a scumbag.
The blind date at that time was the son of a leader who was in charge of connecting food with the noodle factory when my grandmother's brother was still alive.
At that time, my great-grandfather thought that it would be safer to marry my grandmother into a military family.
It is also said that when the chief came to my great-grandfather to discuss marriage, it was only a few years later that he had suffered a relapse of an old injury sustained during the war.
Even his wife died during childbirth that year.
He was born a soldier, and never remarried after his wife died during childbirth. He was still an old friend of his son. He was even the benefactor who helped transport his son's body back from the scene where there were corpses everywhere.
This relative was considered to be a very good match at the time.
But I don’t know if it was because my father was busy with work and my mother died of complications during childbirth.
It can be said that the son of that leader was full of bad habits common to the children of officials of that era.
My great-grandfather began to trust this person quite a bit, but he never thought that the other party was actually relying on the relationship with my grandmother's family to stack up buffs and go a step further.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, they risked their lives to supply food, and because of this, the families of the martyrs lost their sons in middle age.
In the end, this network of relationships will basically all benefit grandma.
After this incident, my great-grandfather finally understood the principles, so after selling the factory to the state, he brought his wife and daughter back to his hometown of Suzhou and Hangzhou from the Magic City where he had worked for many years.
Then, it was on this journey that they met the owner of the jewelry store and the store manager's wife, who secretly called their great-grandfather and took them to hide in the dark and eavesdropped on the entire process of the adultery.
According to the store manager's wife, the reason why she told her great-grandparents that there were new goods that day was because they had seen some "dirty things" about the "future son-in-law" during the store opening process.
As for why they chose to take the risk and tell the truth, it was because when the Jia family first came to Shanghai to do business, they received help from grandma's family.
It is said that when my great-grandmother's water broke and she was about to give birth at the dock, my great-grandfather's family passed by and drove her to the hospital.
This was the beginning of the connection between the two families. It was the critical moment when Jia's grandmother was almost schemed to lose everything. As for Jia Wenyan's parents, it could be said that it was fate's arrangement.
The two met at the college entrance examination. It is said that Jia Wenyan's mother was always thinking about not forgetting to bring her admission ticket when she took the college entrance examination.
When I arrived at the examination room, I realized that although I had the admission ticket, I had forgotten to put the pencil I had sharpened in advance into my pencil bag.
The pencil-filled test paper for the college entrance examination is a form of examination that has only just begun to appear in the country in the past few years.
At that time, people generally used Zhonghua brand pencils as standard for exams.
It could be said that Jia's mother was extremely panicked at that time.
Grandpa and grandma hurried to find a nearby stationery store, while Aunt Jia also looked around for classmates who were taking the exam.
But at that time, few of my classmates carried more than three sharpened pencils at a time.
Even though the coloring cards at that time were only used for a small part of English.
But few people would lend their spare pencils to others at such a critical moment.
The card-painting pencils of that era were not as convenient as the card-painting machines of today.
Once the pen tip breaks accidentally, the subsequent card filling process will become extremely troublesome.
Therefore, since it is prohibited to bring pencil sharpeners or knives into the examination room, most candidates will take two pencils as essential standard equipment.
No one would put themselves at unnecessary risk at this time.
What's more, when Jia's mother discovered that there was no pencil in the pencil case, it was already the critical moment before entering the examination room.
Not to mention that the college entrance examination venues were scattered, which meant that she didn't have many particularly familiar friends around her.
So later on, Jia Wenyan's mother could only wait for her grandfather to come back and ask the unfamiliar candidates around her without any hope.
It was at this time that Jia Wenyan's parents met.
According to Jia Wenyan's mother, Jia's father actually only brought a spare marking pencil at that time.
But when asked about it, Jia's father did something that Jia Wenyan's mother would remember for the rest of her life.
He quickly asked his father for the small knife he used to sharpen pencils just in case.
He also sharpened his two 2/B pencils into two-sided tips.
Just when everyone had already started to enter the examination room, Dad Jia raced against time to sharpen his two pencils into double ends.
Even when his parents were indicating to him why he had to help this girl at this critical moment when he was about to enter the examination room, he said that Jia's mother was a classmate of theirs.
Even though it was their first meeting, at that moment Jia Wenyan's mother's favorability towards Jia's father soared to a level she had never imagined before.
Father Jia: "Cut off both ends to make you feel more at ease."
That year, at the entrance of the college entrance examination venue, Jia Wenyan's mother held that two-ended pencil in her hand and remembered these words for the rest of her life.
And she didn't know why, even though her parents prepared other sharpened pencils for her for the next few exams, they were not as useful as the one the boy sharpened for her at that time.
But because the situation was urgent, Jia Ma didn't even have time to ask the other person's name.
This was a regret for her at the time, so she took the pencil with her to the university campus after the college entrance examination.
Then, who would have thought that on the day of reporting, two people from Suzhou and Hangzhou who had only met once at the college entrance examination venue met at the gate of Ludong University.
At that time, Jia's father, who arrived at school a day earlier, was preparing to play football with several roommates.
The sunlight was very dazzling at that time, and Jia's father, who was in a hurry to run to the court, didn't notice Jia's mother who was following behind his parents dragging the luggage.
However, it was at a time when the university had just started and the school gate was full of students.
Jia Wenyan's mother Wen Xin recognized Jia Xincheng from the crowd, who was rushing to the basketball court with his roommates.
Of course, Jia's father must admit that the reason why he was so impressed with him at that time was largely because Jia's father's height of 180cm was really rare in the south at that time.
Wen Xin didn't know where she got the courage from at that time, but at that moment she really put down her luggage and ran over.
Later, when Jia Wenyan asked her father about this matter, he admitted that that day was indeed the first day of the most important exam in his entire university life.
On the second day of university registration, in an era when there were not many female college students and when all his roommates were still unfamiliar with each other, a campus beauty took the initiative to run over to him and say hello.
That scene was really a highlight that I could show off in front of my brothers for a long time.
Father Jia said that he actually didn't react at all at the time, and he didn't even recognize at first that the girl was the one he had helped before the college entrance examination.
But at that moment, his roommates were really sensible. They kicked Jia's father out of the football team that day as soon as possible.
"What are you standing there for? Go help your fellow villager move his luggage."
"I just arrived and I'm not familiar with the area around the school."
"Their parents are standing behind them, so be smart, okay?"
Dad Jia said that his roommates from Ludong really wanted to help him catch up on the so-called "social skills" in just a few seconds.
But what no one expected was that all his roommates were discussing along the way whether that idiot Jia's father could get along with girls.
Wen Xin, also known as Jia's mother, asked a question directly at the door of the girls' dormitory that directly affected Jia Xincheng's life.
Wen Xin: "Do you... have a girlfriend?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
