Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Who said I arranged a marriage?
Qingmei's pupils trembled. How come she ended up eating the melon on herself?
Qingmei felt all the hot gazes suddenly fall on her. She really wanted to rush up and shake Zhao Wuhe's shoulders to ask her if she really took the wrong medicine!
Zhao Wuhe ordered the people in the betrothal gift team to put down the boxes and rushed forward to give Qingmei a hug in front of everyone!
"Child, I'm sorry for making you suffer!" Zhao Wuhe's eyes filled with tears. When she regained her healthy body, the first person she thought of was not others, but Qingmei, who had taken care of her at her bedside for more than half a year without asking for anything in return.
In this life, she doesn't seek kindness and filial piety from her childhood sweetheart, she wants to repay her!
She knew that Qingmei was much better than Chen Qiaoxiang in nature. They both became widows in the end. One had a poisonous heart, while the other was kind and loving.
When she died, her soul had not yet left the house. She was so happy to hear with her own ears that Qingmei agreed to be her daughter-in-law.
She waited for Qingmei to bury her. After an unknown amount of time, she saw Qingmei being bullied by a group of scoundrels. Her anger was beyond words!
Later, she didn't know what happened, but when she woke up, she was already in the Red Star Guesthouse in the county. She rushed back immediately, just to bring Qingmei to the Gu family in a grand manner!
She held on to Qingmei, who had been lost and found again, as if she were holding the treasure of her life. Qingmei had no choice but to rest her chin on her shoulder.
After what happened just now, the villagers looked at Zhao Wuhe's attitude towards Qingmei and found that they were really as different as heaven and earth.
The Gu family, a well-known family in the area, chose to marry a widow instead of Chen Qiaoxiang, a first-time bride. This was big news, and it was a source of gossip and entertainment for at least half a year.
Especially those whose daughters were looked down upon by Chen Qiaoxiang, it was a great relief. Occasionally, there were a few who had flattered Chen Qiaoxiang and fawned over her, gnashing their teeth as they pondered how to get the gifts they had given back.
"Chen Qiaoxiang fainted!" Someone shouted without thinking of making trouble.
Chen's parents had already driven everyone out, but there were inevitably some shameless people who dragged Chen Qiaoxiang, who had fainted from anger, into the house. That was not enough, and they even stood on the threshold and stuck their heads in to look inside.
Chen Qiaoxiang's mother chased the group of people with a broom. Everyone laughed and said, "She really thought she could become an officer's wife. She always puts on airs when meeting everyone. Now she has lost all her face. Let's see how she will hold her head up to face people in the village from now on!"
"Stop talking, stop talking!" Chen Qiaoxiang's mother was about to cry. She chased the people away and finally got them to leave. The cooks who had packed up their things asked her for their wages.
Chen Qiaoxiang's mother said anxiously, "You didn't even cook, why should I give it to you?!"
The chef who led the cooks said, "Whether you work or not, you have to be paid if you spend time here!"
"No, I don't have money!"
"Not giving it to me?! Look everyone, the Chen family is going to act like a rogue now that their engagement is unsuccessful!"
The cook pulled out a kitchen knife and was about to yell at the crowd who were leaving when Chen Qiaoxiang's mother stomped her feet in anger and went into the house to get the money.
After she gave him the money, the cook said, "You only gave me and my two apprentices two yuan? Are you stupid, or do you think we are stupid?"
Chen Qiaoxiang's mother cried and said, "You can see how messed up our family is. Don't take advantage of the situation. We still have to buy meat and vegetables on credit. We can't make ends meet anymore."
"You're crying poor, huh?" the cook said, "Okay, apprentices, take all the meat from her house. Let's ask the neighbors if they can have a feast!"
Chen Qiaoxiang couldn't stop her, so she sat down on the ground, slapped her thigh and started crying.
Qingmei only felt that a short while had passed before a thatched shed for cooking was erected in the courtyard. Before the cook's apprentice could even ask, Zhao Wuhe said, "Send all the good meat, good dishes, and good wine to my daughter-in-law's house!"
Qingmei felt her scalp tingle and a chill run down her spine. The pain of being struck by lightning was still fresh in her mind, and she subconsciously looked up at the sky.
My goodness, dark clouds are pressing down and thunder is rolling.
But Zhao Wuhe seemed not to see or hear anything, and enthusiastically invited everyone to sit down and have a drink.
Qingmei hurried back to the house, but was caught by other female comrades, who congratulated her with a smile.
Qingmei was helpless and looked for an umbrella everywhere, hoping to hide under it. She finally found a broken umbrella, and hey, she took apart the iron ribs and sold them with the money to buy donkey-skin plasters for her grandmother.
Her good days have just begun. Obviously, the heavens don't care about ordinary things, but why do they want to destroy the heroine's marriage?
The Heavenly Dao would definitely not be able to accept such a twist, and it was determined to chop her into pieces with all its might!
Qingmei rushed to Zhao Wuhe and almost knelt down in front of her. She pointed at the betrothal gifts on the ground and pleaded tremblingly, "Auntie Gu, please, let's not be impulsive, okay?"
Zhao Wuhe put her finger on Qingmei's forehead and said, "Is this all you have to offer?"
Qingmei felt the wind rising from all directions, and the swirling dust under her feet flew into the air. The sky was almost noon and was filled with gloomy mist.
Qingmei rubbed the top of her head that had been hit by the sword. It hurt, it really hurt.
She hugged Zhao Wuhe and said, "I don't care why you insist on having me as your daughter-in-law. Really, we must not be impulsive again today. Otherwise, we will both die here."
Zhao Wuhe could vaguely sense the changes in the sky. If it were in the past, she would not have cared. But after she was reborn from the dead, she had to believe it.
She hesitated and said, "It's not that you don't want to, but you are forced to do so. You actually want to be my daughter-in-law, right?"
Qingmei just wanted to coax this ancestor away, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I really have no choice."
Now Zhao Wuhe can think better.
Zhao Wuhe was indeed satisfied: "That's more or less the same. We were too rushed today. Let's take a long-term view. I will definitely not let you down."
As he was speaking, the sky and the earth changed color, and the cook who was preparing the big pot of rice shouted, "Oh, boss, this meal can't be cooked!"
"If it doesn't work today, we'll do it another day! Take the things and go!" Zhao Wuhe quickly took out his wallet and paid the chef and the others.
This made the three of them, the master and his apprentices, very happy. They did nothing but earned two sums of money.
When Zhao Wuhe saw that the people in the courtyard were blown all over the place by the wind, he began to call on the betrothal team to carry the betrothal gifts back.
Qingmei's grandmother was feeling a little unwell today. When she heard the commotion outside, she thought it was a commotion next door. As soon as she stepped out, Qingmei hurriedly helped her back inside, fearing that the wind would get her sick.
When Zhao Wuhe said that they wanted to carry the betrothal gifts back, everyone noticed that the wind that was blowing so hard on their faces had died down a little.
But the sky was still dark. At the end of the sky, rolling thunder and lightning resounded through the world again and again.
Zhao Wuhe lowered her voice and said to Qingmei, "I know your feelings. From now on, we will be like mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. I will take care of my son, and you just wait for my good news at home."
Qingmei said eagerly, "Okay, let's go back quickly."
Zhao Wuhe waved her hand, urging the betrothal team to carry their gifts. This made the onlookers even more puzzled. Why did this family's negotiations also fall through?
Zhao Wuhe was determined to make Qingmei her daughter-in-law, and before leaving, she took off the jade bracelet and put it on Qingmei's wrist.
The familiar touch made Qingmei feel mixed emotions. She guessed that Zhao Wuhe also knew something, and maybe she was reborn from a previous life like her.
Zhao Wuhe gave Qingmei the ancestral jade bracelet and breathed a sigh of relief.
The Gu family has a long history of being a family of scholars. During the turbulent times, some of them gave up writing and took up arms, and the whole family is full of loyal heroes.
When it came to Gu Qingzhou's father, he had few children. This jade bracelet was given to her by her mother-in-law when she was a daughter-in-law, and it was to be passed down from generation to generation to the eldest daughter-in-law of the clan.
She now has an older daughter-in-law who spends all day revolving around her eldest son and can't care about anything else. She is a typical loser.
Since the eldest daughter-in-law could never be relied upon, Zhao Wuhe put all her attention on Qingmei.
The worst-case scenario is that Qingmei is unwilling to marry into her family. She would rather treat Qingmei as her own daughter and never let her suffer any injustice.
But Qingmei said in person that she agreed to marry, and also said that she had to leave today. That was even better. She would deal with her rebellious son and let her daughter marry in style!
Qingmei ignored other people's comments and even came to ask questions shamelessly. If someone came to ask for gossip without any contact with her, Qingmei would not be happy to give them a good face.
She sent the onlookers away with a cold face. Everyone saw that she was wearing the ancestral jade bracelet that Zhao Wuhe had worn for most of her life on her wrist, and they knew what was going on. They were afraid that today was not a good day and the weather was not good, so the two families discussed coming back another day.
Who doesn’t want sunny skies on their wedding day? It’s understandable.
There were also those who were used to bullying the young widow. When they saw her sending guests away with a cold face, they dared not say anything to her face, but said behind her back that she was becoming arrogant.
Childhood sweethearts don’t care, they are all passers-by.
She returned to the house and sighed as she looked at her grandmother sitting on the bed.
Qingmei's parents-in-law didn't go to Chen Qiaoxiang's house today for some reason. When they heard the news that the Gu family wanted to marry Qingmei, they didn't know what to do.
Qingmei boiled some hot water for her and asked her to take some medicine, and the mother and daughter planned to have a good talk.
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Zhao Wuhe came home, and now she is still the head of the family.
In the ancestral courtyard, which has three entrances and three exits, more than twenty jars of hand-brewed soy sauce line the walls. This is a craft passed down from the eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu family. Only the stream upstream of Donghe Village can produce the naturally fermented soy sauce, which is as reddish-brown and lustrous as late autumn maple leaves.
Gu Qingzhou's father loved this dish so much that when he led his troops to war and couldn't eat at home, he would bring two kettles of water with him in aluminum kettles. He would use it as a side dish when there were vegetables, and mix it with rice when there were no vegetables.
After Gu Haiyang and Gu Qingzhou were born, their two sons followed suit, taking home three or four jars every year. Not only was the smell of soy sauce ubiquitous in the kitchen, but even the homes of the leaders in the Beijing compound had small jars of her soy sauce.
Zhao Wuhe glanced over and snorted.
She planned to seal all the soy sauce jars and not give any to those two bastards, but leave them all to her future daughter-in-law!
Before entering the main hall, the dying red plum branches in the center of the yard were blooming with dazzling flowers.
When Zhao Wuhe arrived home, the dark clouds in the sky had retreated and the strong wind had stopped.
Zhao Wuhe pointed at the clear sky and cursed a curse word that he had never said in his life: "Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Who are you messing with?"
......
There was no movement on the horizon.
Instead, the eldest daughter-in-law who came to look for Zhao Wuhe was so frightened that she threw the bowl to the ground: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Why are you cursing for no reason?"
Zhao Wuhe was upset because she failed to get married. She turned her head and glared at her.
In Zhao Wuhe's eyes, her eldest daughter-in-law, Sun Zhihui, was big-headed and stupid, a sour and idiotic idiot.
In her previous life, Chen Qiaoxiang had promised to take good care of her mother-in-law, and Sun Zhihui had actually believed her. Whenever they called, and Zhao Wuhe, who was seriously ill, couldn't answer the phone, Chen Qiaoxiang would relay the message to Sun Zhihui, saying her mother-in-law was in great health, ate everything with relish, and hadn't had a single headache or fever. She had taken care of her wholeheartedly.
Sun Zhihui not only believed it, but also taught it to his eldest son Gu Haiyang.
Gu Haiyang didn't know that Chen Qiaoxiang could be so bad. After all, when his brother was still alive, he was a well-behaved and obedient person, so he didn't think too much about it.
In addition, he was busy with a confidential mission at the time and it was not convenient for him to have frequent contact with his sister-in-law, which gave Chen Qiaoxiang an opportunity to take advantage of him.
"Yes, I'm scolding you. Go somewhere cool. I'm annoyed when I see you." After saying this, Zhao Wuhe turned around and was about to leave.
Sun Zhihui said weakly, "Where else is cooler? Otherwise, I'll take off my military coat."
Zhao Wuhe became even angrier.
She suspected that she had angered him and made him seriously ill in his previous life.
Arriving at the brigade headquarters, she told Captain Jin her purpose. When he heard that she wanted to call the troops, Captain Jin quickly handed her the phone.
Zhao Wuhe turned around with the microphone in her hand and saw several staff members secretly looking at her.
They all knew that Zhao Wuhe was going to marry his childhood sweetheart, and while they were curious, they also wanted to know if Captain Gu could accept it.
Captain Jin stood aside and said hesitantly, "We should talk to Captain Gu. After all, this is a serious matter, and we can't really arrange it, right?"
"No!" Zhao Wuhe said confidently, "Who said he didn't agree? Didn't I just call him to ask for his consent?!"
Captain Jin: “…”
That’s fine too.
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