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Chapter 26
As soon as these words fell, the scene suddenly became quiet.
Jiang Meishu's face was still a little confused, "Mom, what did you say?"
She always believed that Wang Limei loved her, even though she had many children and only a fraction of her love was given to her.
She also firmly believed that Wang Limei loved her.
Because in the past countless days and nights, when she was sick, it was her mother who took care of her all night long. When she was on the verge of life and death and had to be hospitalized, it was her mother who went door to door to borrow money.
Finally, she was saved.
Let her grow up.
Jiang Meishu didn't understand why Wang Limei, who once loved her so much, would say something like "Your dowry is just two enamel basins".
What are two enamel basins?
It's probably a foot basin and a wash basin.
This is the only dowry for a girl who is about to get married.
Isn't it ridiculous to say this out loud?
"Mom, are you lying to me?" Jiang Meishu was not sure, so she asked Wang Limei again. When she asked this question, she stared at her without blinking, for fear of missing any expression on her face.
Facing the confused, sad and disappointed look of my little daughter.
Wang Limei didn't dare meet her daughter's gaze. She could only lower her head and sigh, "Meishu, these are just two enamel basins. Mom was originally planning to get you a sewing machine."
This is the most popular dowry for girls getting married nowadays. If a girl gets a sewing machine as a dowry when she gets married, she will be famous in the surrounding area.
"What now?"
Jiang Meishu asked her, she wanted to hear an answer.
Wang Limei was silent for a moment, then looked up at her eldest daughter-in-law, Lin Qiaoling, before slowly saying, "Your father was hospitalized for at least three months, which means our family has been without income for at least three months."
"So, Meishu, I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry for you."
She originally thought that when her daughter got married, she would give her more in the dowry because she was in poor health, so as to avoid being criticized when she went to her husband's house.
With a sewing machine, you can stand up straighter.
But now my wife's hand is broken, which will not be cured in a short time, and it is very likely that she will not be able to do the job of slaughtering pigs in the future.
This means that the strong labor force in the family is gone all of a sudden.
She had to plan for the future.
Moreover, the eldest daughter-in-law is here listening, and no matter whether it is true or false, she will say nice things.
At least it's nice words that benefit this family.
Wang Limei whispered, "Your younger brother is not yet in school. He will get married in the future, and your father may be transferred to another position."
"Meishu, don't blame me. I have too many people to consider."
"So..." Jiang Meishu felt ridiculous, her eyes red, "My sister and I are the victims, right?"
"Mom, Dad's hospitalization is reimbursed by the factory. My younger brother wants to study, but it will take at least ten years before he gets married."
"Mom, now it's my sister and I who need to get a dowry, and it's urgent for both of us."
"Yet you told me that you have no dowry because of that illusory future."
"Mom, did my sister and I pop out from between the rocks?"
"Or, you raised your daughter for twenty-two years, and only after twenty-two years did you find out that marrying off a daughter requires a dowry."
"No, now you say there is no dowry and no money? Where have you been?" Her voice was a little sharp and a little angry.
Wang Limei was a little embarrassed by this question. "Our family is so poor, we barely have enough to eat. No matter how you blame me, I believe I have raised you and Meilan for so many years and have never wronged you. I have a clear conscience."
"The biggest mistake I made was raising you too well. Now you know how to contradict your mother."
Jiang Meishu was a little overwhelmed, her face pale, "Mom, could you have told me earlier that there was no dowry?"
"What the hell are you doing? You're accusing me and my sister of asking for a dowry. Then let me ask you, why are you willing to give money to your elder brother and younger brother to save for their wives?"
"Can they be the same?"
Wang Limei said subconsciously.
"Why is it different?" Jiang Meishu looked at her, tears welling in her eyes. "I don't understand. Why is it different? My sister and I are not your children? Or are my sister and I not your children? At worst, we don't have the surname Jiang?"
This question left Wang Limei speechless.
"Meishu, don't compare yourself to your elder and younger brothers like this. They are boys, and they will be the ones to establish the Jiang family and continue the family line in the future."
"You and Meilan are girls. You will get married and become members of other families. The children you have in the future will not have the Jiang family's surname."
At this moment, Jiang Meishu was more lucid than ever before. She raised her hand to wipe away her tears and said, "Mom, what you said is nothing more than revealing one point."
"It's your son, his last name is Jiang. You'll marry him off even if you have to sell everything you have."
"Your daughters are surnamed Jiang. You must marry them off even if you don't have to pay a penny."
"To be frank, Mom, you are biased towards boys."
She looked up at Wang Limei and said, "I wish you hadn't been so nice to me."
Then she wouldn't be so sad that her heart would ache.
Jiang Meishu realized one thing more clearly than ever before.
Her mother doesn't love her.
Maybe there is love, but this love does not harm the interests of the Jiang family or her son.
Only then would I let some of it slip through my fingers to her.
However, once the fundamental interests are harmed.
Her mother would immediately turn hostile.
Like the house at home, the bed at home, or the savings in her hand.
Wang Limei never gives her daughter a cent.
However, she was willing to endure the hardship and walk ten miles with her child on her back to see a doctor.
It will keep Jiang Meishu's fingers green and smooth.
Without regard to interests and money, she really loves Jiang Meishu.
When Jiang Meishu saw this clearly, tears began to fall from her eyes. "You might as well not love me, never love me."
In this way, she won't be so sad after seeing the reality clearly.
"Meishu."
Wang Limei always felt like she was about to lose her little girl, and she subconsciously reached out to support her.
But Jiang Meishu dodged it and said in a sharp voice, "Don't touch me."
Wang Limei's hand was suspended in the air, neither putting it down nor stretching it out.
"Meishu, you are too willful."
Lin Qiaoling frowned, her face full of accusation and disapproval. "Go out and ask, which girl is as spoiled as you? Where do you think she got this pampering? Isn't it just your mother's pampering? Without your mother doing all the work for you and raising you for all these years, ask yourself, can you live such a good life?"
Jiang Meishu is the most comfortable one in the family.
She has been married for eight years and she is the one who washes most of the dishes. Jiang Meishu has never touched them.
The meals were either prepared by her mother-in-law or Jiang Meilan, and Jiang Meishu had never touched them.
Even if she went out to work as a temporary worker, it was Jiang Meilan who went, and Jiang Meishu stayed at home.
When her heart was not good, she couldn't even make matchboxes.
"You said mom doesn't love you. If mom doesn't love you, how could you raise such a white skin?"
Lin Qiaoling raised her hand and grabbed Jiang Meishu's hand for comparison.
The gentle Jiang Meishu bit her lip and sneered for the first time, "Yes, my mother loves me, loves me to death, I am getting married, and I want to give me a pair of enamel basins as a dowry."
"How about this? I don't want this enamel basin anymore. I'll give it to my sister-in-law so you can use it to smash basins in the future!"
What is pot-smashing?
That will only be useful after a person dies.
Lin Qiaoling was so angry that she fell backwards on the spot, "How can you talk like that?"
How can someone curse a living person to death?
Jiang Meishu wiped her tears, her face cold, "You said my mother loves me, I will give you my mother's love, do you want it?"
She had never been like this before, like a hedgehog, pricking people all over.
Lin Qiaoling is.
So is Wang Limei.
"Meishu, why are you doing this?"
"Mom knows you feel wronged, and I know you're sad, but every girl has passed through here before. Forget it."
"You are also my daughter. I will try to add an extra fifty dollars to your dowry."
As soon as these words fell, Lin Qiaoling looked over subconsciously, "Mom!" This was almost two months' salary for the family.
This money will be distributed to the eldest wife in the future.
"Don't forget who you will rely on for your retirement."
She is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jiang family. No matter whether it is Wang Limei or Jiang Chenliang, according to the old rules, she will have to follow them in the future.
Wang Limei knew this would happen. If she gave a dowry to her younger daughter, her eldest daughter-in-law would object.
She said, "This money comes from my private savings and has nothing to do with the public."
"Don't threaten me with retirement."
Lin Qiaoling wanted to say something, but considering that Wang Limei was still the head of the family, she didn't want to offend Wang Limei.
Moreover, my sister-in-law Jiang Meishu married Director Liang of the meat processing plant.
Who knows, maybe their family will need each other's care in the future.
So, even though Lin Qiaoling was unwilling in her heart, she could only swallow it back. She said to Jiang Meishu sourly, "No female comrade in our entire compound has ever gotten married with such a high dowry. Are you satisfied now?"
Are you satisfied?
Jiang Meishu was not satisfied.
At this moment, she suddenly understood her sister's previous twists and turns.
Given voluntarily.
What she wants is two different concepts from what she wants by throwing a tantrum.
Jiang Meishu hugged the quilt that her sister had covered her with, closed her eyes, and opened them again. Her eyes were cold, "Whether you are satisfied or not, it's up to me to decide."
"What kind of truth does it hold when someone named Lin says this?"
His surname is Lin.
This is not even called sister-in-law.
Lin Qiaoling was so angry that she fell backwards.
Wang Limei was about to speak, "You are just a sister-in-law, how can you talk to your elder sister-in-law like that?" But when she looked up and noticed her daughter's pale face, she swallowed her words back.
"There's no such thing as overnight hatred among family members. Meishu, I will definitely give you the dowry I promised you, so stop making a fuss."
"Go to bed early."
Jiang Meishu raised her eyes, her face expressionless, "Yes."
She wasn't making a fuss.
She just felt uncomfortable.
She is not feeling well. Why should her daughter be treated like this?
Aren’t daughters also family members?
She doesn't understand.
She had received too much love in her previous life. Her parents' love for her was unconditional, and it was easy for her to get it.
To the point that she almost thought that all parents in the world loved their children.
but--
She came here, met Wang Limei, and met many people of this era.
She found out that it wasn't.
Not every parent loves their children.
It is lucky to be able to get it, but what if you can’t?
She knew that her mother loved her, a love that was selfless.
This love is conditional.
In the eyes of others, she has gotten enough, and asking for more is being unsatisfied.
However, only Jiang Meishu knew that it was not the case, she had seen perfect love.
I have also seen people who claim to love you but are actually stingy.
Jiang Meishu only knew that after she left the house, she felt like there was a fire burning in her heart, and that fire wanted to burn her.
What's wrong with girls?
Aren’t girls human beings?
Don’t girls deserve all the love from their parents?
If your daughter doesn't ask for a dowry, she should be grateful.
The son is determined to get married even if it means selling everything he has.
How ridiculous.
Jiang Meishu didn't cry. She didn't cry all the way from the Jiang family to the door of the Shen family.
She stood outside the door for a long time.
After adjusting his mindset, he knocked on the door of the shack.
Knock knock knock.
Three sounds were enough for the people in the house to hear.
Jiang Meilan was sewing clothes for Shen Zhanlie. His clothes were almost all torn, with many stitches on the shoulders.
As soon as she bit the thread, she heard a knock on the door.
"Would you like to go and take a look?"
Shen Zhanlie opened the door without saying a word, but when he saw Jiang Meishu at the door, he was stunned, "Sister?"
After saying this, he shouted into the house, "Meishu, your sister is here to see you."
When Jiang Meilan heard that her sister was coming at this time, she immediately knocked over the sewing basket in her hand and almost staggered out.
Before I saw the person, the voice came out.
"Why are you out at this hour?" he asked, his face thick with worry. "Did something happen at home?"
Jiang Meishu shook her head. The moment she saw Jiang Meilan, she smiled brightly and handed the quilt to her, "Your quilt."
She had just cried and her eyes were still a little red.
But that smile was particularly big. She wanted to hide something, but some things were destined to be unable to be hidden.
For example, she had red eyes from crying.
For example, the eyes were once filled with tears.
Seeing her sister like this, Jiang Meilan felt very sad. Her nose felt sore, "Why did you have to fall out with them?"
She didn't even fall out.
Is this child stupid?
This is the elder sister. She can guess everything just by one action, one expression or one word from her younger sister.
Jiang Meishu pressed the tip of her tongue against the back of her teeth, forcing herself to hold back her tears. She grinned, "We didn't have a falling out. I just took your quilt back."
"for you."
"This is yours, I should return it to you."
Seeing her like this, Jiang Meilan couldn't hold back any longer and raised her hands to hug her tightly in her arms.
Only then did she realize that her sister was cold all over. She rubbed her shoulders to warm her up and kept apologizing.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
"I failed to protect you."
"It's my fault."
It’s my sister’s fault.
Her Meishu will eventually see the worst side of her relatives.
And her Meishu was so sad, but she was not by her side.
Not only did he let her fight alone, he also snatched her quilt and gave it to her.
Can't think.
I dare not think about it.
What on earth had her Meishu experienced before?
It would have been fine if Jiang Meilan didn't hug her, but as soon as she did, Jiang Meishu couldn't hold it in any longer and started crying big tears silently.
"Mom doesn't love me."
"They don't love me."
Her whole body was shaking, and she was shaking in Jiang Meilan's arms.
That breaks the past cognition.
It's like the emperor's new clothes.
Reshaped my three views.
That was the result Jiang Meishu obtained after repeated verification.
Her mother doesn't love her.
In every verification in the past, she was covered in blood.
Her crying made Jiang Meilan feel sad, upset, and even grief-stricken and pity.
She held Jiang Meishu's face and told her over and over again, "It's okay, it's okay."
"Mom doesn't love you, but I love you."
"Meishu." She called softly, "Sister loves you."
"It's okay."
She will accompany her.
She will protect her too.
Her sister will live well for the rest of her life.
Jiang Meishu didn't say anything, but just kept crying, as if she wanted to shed all the tears in two lifetimes.
She lost her parents who loved her.
Got a parent who didn't love her.
But she also gained a sister who loved her.
Jiang Meishu even laughed at herself, "Not a loss at all."
Shen Zhanlie, who was standing next to them, looked at the sisters crying and felt a little helpless. "Do you want to come in?"
It's too cold outside.
At night it was only seven or eight degrees.
There is also a cold wind blowing.
The tears on Jiang Meishu's face had long been blown dry, and her face was sore and dry from being scratched. Then she heard Shen Zhanlie calling her.
But she shook her head, "No, you guys should rest, I'm just here to deliver the quilt."
"Give me a blanket and I'll be back."
She crawled out of Jiang Meilan's arms.
"I won't bother you anymore."
She is leaving.
Jiang Meilan didn't allow it, "You stay at my place tonight, you sleep with me, and Shen Zhanlie goes inside to sleep on the floor."
Jiang Meishu shook her head, "Really, no need."
"If I hadn't gone back, I would have had a complete falling out with Mom."
"I'm not that stupid. I want to go back. Mom said she would give me a fifty-yuan dowry. I won't be willing to go back until I get it."
"We deserve this."
At this moment, Jiang Meilan couldn't tell whether her sister was telling the truth or lying.
"Then I'll take you back."
She wouldn't feel at ease until she saw her sister come back home.
"I'll go see you off." Shen Zhanlie took a thin coat and put it on. "It's too cold at night, and you just caught a cold. You can't be exposed to the cold wind."
"I promise to send my sister home and come back after seeing her walk in."
That's what I said.
Jiang Meilan was still a little hesitant, but Jiang Meishu said, "Listen to Chen Zhanlie, he sent me back, so that you don't have to send me back. I'm worried that it will be too dark, what should I do when you come back?"
Jiang Meilan was still worried.
She gritted her teeth and covered herself with the blanket her sister had given her. "I'll take you back."
"Forget it, don't go back, sleep with me tonight."
Jiang Meishu shook her head. She didn't want to disturb her sister and Shen Zhanlie. They were newlyweds, and the bed in the shack was less than one meter and three meters high.
She didn't want to be crowded here either.
Of course, she didn't want to make her sister worry.
"Okay, you guys take me there." She pretended to be relaxed.
On the way back.
All three were silent.
When they were almost at the gate of the compound, Jiang Meilan finally took Jiang Meishu's hand and said, "You're fine."
She looked at her with concern in her eyes, "You must be okay?"
"No matter how hard it is, just get through these few days and everything will be fine once you get married."
Jiang Meishu hummed softly, "I know, you should take care of yourself too."
"When I get the dowry, I'll give you half of it."
Jiang Meilan didn't care about these things. She just held Jiang Meishu's hand tightly and said, "It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. Our future will be good anyway."
"Don't be so stubborn. You can just treat this Jiang family as an inn."
"Do you know?"
Jiang Meishu smiled bitterly and said nothing.
This is the difference between her and Jiang Meilan.
She is a person who will never treat her home as an inn in her life. In her eyes, everything is either black or white.
Her mother was no longer the best person for her.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Jiang Meilan knew that she didn't listen.
She just sighed, "It will be fine soon."
"real."
What Meishu experienced was something she had experienced very early in her previous life, so Jiang Meilan was very open-minded about it because of what kind of person her mother was.
She had already recognized it.
Only Meishu is straightforward and cannot tolerate any ingratitude.
Because of this, Jiang Meilan became even more worried. "Meishu, can you sleep with me tonight?"
Even though she was delivered to the Jiang family's doorstep, she still couldn't help but ask again.
This was the third time she asked.
"I don't."
Jiang Meishu deliberately said angrily, "That's my home. Why shouldn't I go back? If I don't go back, others will want to move the bed away right now."
"I'm going to go back, even if it means I can piss her off to death. I'm going to go back."
This time, he seemed a bit more childish, which made Jiang Meilan breathe a sigh of relief. "Don't be angry. There's nothing to be angry about with such a person. We all have our own lives in the future."
In her previous life, she married Liang Qiurun. Although they had no children, their family was well off. However, she never raised the three children of her eldest brother.
Not one.
She would rather give all her money to Meishu's children as New Year's money.
He also never gave any New Year's money to the nephews and nieces of the Jiang family.
Seeing her sister like this, she was both worried and concerned.
"Okay, I'm going back. How can I suffer any loss if I go back to my own home? I'd be a fool if I did."
Jiang Meishu was about to go into the house, but she turned around and pushed Jiang Meilan out, "You've caught a cold, go back early."
Jiang Meilan hummed, a little worried. She stood at the gate with a concerned look in her eyes. "I saw you go in, I'm walking back."
Jiang Meishu had no choice but to use the key to push the door. She thought that the door of her house should be closed from the inside at this late hour, but she didn't expect it wasn't. As soon as she pushed the door, it creaked open.
Jiang Meishu was stunned for a moment. She stood at the door, feeling uneasy. She didn't want to go in, but her sister was still looking at her from behind.
Thinking of this, Jiang Meishu had no choice but to go in. As soon as she entered the door, Jiang Meilan made sure her sister went in. Then she and Shen Zhanlie left in the cold wind.
The room was dark.
It's not early anymore, it's already around eleven or twelve o'clock at night, and everyone in the family is asleep.
Jiang Meishu was halfway there and wanted to leave, but her hand was held back. "Where else do you want to go?"
Mother Wang Limei leaned on a chair in the main room, wearing a thin coat, and stayed there all night.
Jiang Meishu didn't expect that her mother Wang Limei was still here and holding her hand. She was shocked and almost screamed.
"come out."
Wang Limei's tone was a little angry.
Jiang Meishu bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and finally followed.
From the darkness inside the room, outside, the bright moon hung in the sky, covering the ground with a layer of silver.
Wang Limei walked in front, and Jiang Meishu followed behind, all the way to the aisle at the entrance of the slum. Wang Limei then stopped, looked her up and down, and saw that she was fine.
Wang Limei breathed a sigh of relief. "You've even imitated your sister and run away from home. You've made some progress."
Jiang Meishu lowered her head and said nothing.
The soft hair is now draped messily over the shoulders, as if showing the owner's mood.
Ups and downs.
She doesn't want to come back.
I don't want to see my mother either.
But she had nowhere to go.
I can’t bother my sister, and it’s not easy to look for the person I just had a successful blind date with today.
She had originally planned to wait for her sister to leave and then stay outside for the night with her clothes on, but she never expected that her mother would be sitting in the main room waiting for her and call her out.
Seeing that his daughter was silent, like when she was a child, she lowered her head and picked at her hands, looking helpless and bewildered.
Wang Limei finally softened her heart and asked, "Are you cold?" She raised her hand to touch her daughter's hand, but Jiang Meishu avoided her.
Wang Limei paused, put the thin clothes she was wearing on Jiang Meishu's shoulders, and carefully closed the edges a little.
"No matter how angry you are, you can't ignore your body."
Jiang Meishu looked up, her eyes filled with tears, "Don't you care about me? Don't you love me?"
"Why are you putting clothes on me?"
She doesn't understand.
Her mother in her previous life loved her, both in behavior and money.
Her mother in this life loved her, but only showed her love through actions.
Is this love?
Jiang Meishu didn't understand.
Wang Limei felt bad when she saw her little girl crying like this, "If I didn't love you, I would have ignored you when you were born like a cat."
The baby, only three pounds in weight and no bigger than a kitten, slept like that under her armpit, all night long.
Wait until she grows up.
Those were countless days and nights of coaxing him to sleep and crying in the middle of the night.
Moreover, during the countless days when she was sick, she looked forward to the dawn, hoping that he could give her ten or twenty more years of his life.
So that her children can grow up safely and healthily.
She had also loved Jiang Meishu deeply, but that was the way the world was.
This world is telling all women that your daughter is not part of your family.
When they grow up, they are destined to become wives, daughters-in-law, and mothers of other people's families.
This is the case with Wang Limei.
She could also say that this was true for every married lesbian in the entire compound.
After Jiang Meishu heard this, she refuted randomly, "No."
"I'm not."
"Even if I get married, I am still your daughter, and your blood flows in my veins."
"You raised me when I was little, and I will take care of you when you are old. Even after you are a hundred years old, I will burn paper for you and visit your grave."
This is Jiang Meishu’s concept, and it has been her concept since childhood.
She is the only daughter of her parents. She is not only a daughter, but also their only child, the head of the family.
In her previous life, her parents were included in her future plans. No matter whether she got married or had children, her parents would always be her parents.
She will take care of them in their old age and bury them.
This is the mission of being a child.
It doesn't matter whether you are a man or a woman.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Wang Limei simply thought her daughter was innocent and adorable. "Where in the world is there a daughter who takes care of her parents in their old age and visits their graves?"
This was something she had never heard of.
"Okay, let's not talk about these worldly concepts."
Jiang Meishu also knew that it would be difficult to change Wang Limei's ideas in a short period of time, so she lowered her head and remained silent.
Wang Limei sighed heavily and took out a stack of money from her pocket. These were whole banknotes that she had specially exchanged.
A total of twenty great unity photos.
She had prepared it long ago.
"Your and your sister's dowry."
"One hundred per person."
When these words fell, Jiang Meishu was a little surprised, with tears hanging on her eyelashes, "Isn't it true?"
She only has two enamel basins.
Her sister has nothing.
"I say you're stupid, and you really are?" Wang Limei wanted to open her daughter's head to see if there was flour and water inside. "You're going to ask me about your dowry in front of your sister-in-law."
"I would definitely say no."
She would say yes.
Life was truly unbearable. She had originally asked for an additional fifty yuan as a dowry, and her eldest daughter-in-law, Lin Qiaoling, was so anxious to threaten her with her old-age allowance.
If she asks for one hundred yuan per person.
Wang Limei was very sure that her eldest daughter-in-law and eldest son would not be able to live together.
That's what poor people are like.
They calculated on those few trivial things and fought over them till they were bloodied.
Jiang Meishu looked at the money without saying a word.
"Do you think I gave it to you after you quarreled?"
Wang Limei suddenly asked.
Jiang Meishu didn't say anything, but her expression looked like this.
"How could a smart woman like me, Wang Limei, give birth to a child as naive as you?"
She didn't want to talk to Jiang Meishu anymore, but she was afraid that the child had a knot in her heart.
I could only break it apart and tell her about it.
"Look at this money, it's all in round denominations. There are twenty Great Unity notes in total. When did our family get such large notes?"
We usually use small change at home.
There simply are no such large-denomination banknotes.
Jiang Meishu remained silent.
"Alright, mother and daughter don't hold grudges overnight." Seeing that she didn't want to take the money, Wang Limei stuffed the stack of big unity notes into her pocket. "This is a private matter. Don't tell anyone."
"You can't even tell your father and younger brother."
"I know you have a good relationship with your sister, so remember to give her your share of the money."
Jiang Meishu felt the money was a little hot when she held it.
She felt that she was unreasonable, and when the other party refused to give her a dowry, she felt sad and heartbroken and wanted to fight for it.
However, she still felt strange after her mother gave her the dowry.
"Okay, put it away and go in and get some rest early."
Wang Limei looked a little tired. "Meishu, I'm not just your mother, I'm also the head of the family. There are some things that are only suitable for us to say between mother and daughter. When there are outsiders around, I hope you will just be mute, understand?"
Jiang Meishu held the money in her hand and asked, "Mom, is the outsider you are talking about Lin Qiaoling?"
Wang Limei: "Yes."
Jiang Meishu lowered her eyes, "I understand."
Looking at her mother's back, she suddenly felt that the adult world was so strange.
In front of Lin Qiaoling, she was an outsider.
In front of her, Lin Qiaoling was an outsider.
Whether they are daughters or daughters-in-law, they will be treated as outsiders.
Only my son doesn’t.
*
It's half past twelve at night.
Liang Qiurun had just come back from overtime work. He first went to Liang Rui's room to take a look, and found that he had already fallen asleep.
Because of the wound on his back, he slept on his stomach.
Liang Qiurun washed his hands and took out the medicine to apply it to him.
Liang Rui woke up and opened his sleepy eyes, "Dad?"
Liang Qiurun hummed.
"Did you have a successful blind date?" This was the first thing he asked. Liang Rui originally planned to go home at noon to ask his father, but when he came back at noon, his father was not home at all.
Later he thought of asking her when he came back in the evening, but he waited from six o'clock to eleven o'clock and still didn't see her.
I fell asleep while waiting.
Liang Qiurun dipped a cotton swab in iodine and wiped all the wounds on Liang Rui's back. Then he replied, "The blind date was a success."
He was in a good mood, and the corners of his lips rose slightly when he answered this question.
Even if Liang Rui didn't see his father's face, he could tell it just by listening to the other person's voice.
Liang Rui waited for a moment before he slowly said, "That's good."
What's good?
He doesn't know either.
He always felt that he should say this.
Sure enough, after saying this
After that, Liang Qiurun didn't lecture him for the first time and said lightly, "You've grown up a lot."
"It's not as out of tune as before."
"I'll discuss the marriage with your grandmother. Go to school for the next few days. Go to the office after school as usual. After your back injury heals, go to the cafeteria to carry pigs."
"Oh, and there's also the matter of self-review."
After receiving a series of instructions, Liang Rui said with a somewhat depressed tone, "I understand."
It's too late today.
Liang Qiurun looked at the time and saw that the hands were pointing to one. It was too late, so he didn't go to talk to the other party.
Instead, he chose to go to the old house early the next morning after practicing a set of military boxing.
The so-called old house was actually only across the road from where they lived, less than three meters away.
When Liang Qiurun arrived, Liang's mother had just gotten up. She had been lazy all her life and never had the habit of getting up early.
Instead, she gave birth to a son who got up earlier than her.
Some people joked that she didn't give birth to a son, but a living father.
Calling the mother to get up every day.
Mother Liang yawned, thinking she had seen it wrongly, and then she saw her youngest son walking towards her, "Qiu Run, why are you here?"
Ever since his son adopted Liang Rui, he rarely comes here.
He would only come over if we called him in advance during festivals and holidays. We rarely saw him at other times.
Liang Qiurun said calmly, "Come and discuss my marriage with you."
Liang's mother, "???"
She thought she had heard wrongly.
"What did you say?"
Her son, who was so stubborn and unwilling to do anything, actually mentioned marriage to her so early in the morning?
This is shocking.
Liang's mother is no exception.
"Yes." Liang Qiurun said, "Let's see if it's you or Dad who comes to the house. Ask the Jiang family what to do next."
Although he has never been married, he has seen others get married.
Some people only get a marriage certificate when they get married. Although this is convenient, he feels that making it so simple would be too unfair to the woman.
He has a child with him and he can't touch the child.
It's almost like being a widow.
If I don’t make up for it in other aspects, I always feel sorry for my other half.
After hearing this, Liang's mother was stunned for a moment and asked, "The girl from the Jiang family?"
"Is that your previous blind date?"
"Done?"
Still a bit dazed.
"You agree?"
She had introduced so many blind dates to her son, but she really didn't expect this one to work out.
Liang Qiurun hummed.
"I just came over to say hello to you and see when you have time to come to the Jiang family to discuss the details of the marriage."
Mother Liang hesitated a little, "I'm afraid I'm not very good at talking."
"Well, so find someone to accompany you. Can you ask your second sister-in-law if she has time to accompany you to the Jiang family's door?"
Liang's mother said, "I'll ask Mingying."
Liang Qiurun hummed, "Sorry to bother mother and second sister-in-law."
As for his sister-in-law, she was never in his consideration.
Jiang family.
Taking advantage of Jiang Meishu's absence, Lin Qiaoling asked Wang Limei indirectly, probing, "Mom, how much do you plan to ask Director Liang for in betrothal gifts?"
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