"It's no use even if she is willing. After all, the boy from the Chen family is young, and there are many young men with good looks. You also know Songhua's appearance. If he were an ordinary boy, people might think that he just needs to be able to make a living. How could the Chen family be willing to find such a guy with such conditions?" In fact, the old woman of the Chen family agreed. Wang Songhua's strong physique showed that he was a capable worker. He had a thick waist and a big butt. Maybe he could even give birth to a son!
But the most important thing about marrying a daughter-in-law is that the son likes her, so the two families just went with it.
"Then, then it wouldn't be a good idea to turn around and meet Qu Ting, right?" Qu Ting's mother rubbed her hands, feeling a little embarrassed.
She is a kind-hearted person and always felt that this would offend Hu Xiaohong, and it would not be nice for the two families to meet at that time.
Li Guangxia glanced at her and shook her head. "Everyone is vying for that good son-in-law. If you don't meet such a good one next time, don't say I didn't introduce you to one!"
She just doesn't have a daughter, otherwise how could she leave such a good boy to someone else's family?
The two changed the topic and talked about the new wife Wang Songbai married after the autumn harvest last year. Qu Ting heard that the following topics had nothing to do with her, so she tiptoed to Tian Cai.
It has started to thaw outside recently, and it is muddy everywhere. Tian Cai went to Qingshan Village yesterday. Wan Xiuli, who is also pregnant, went to take a look. Knowing that the road would be difficult, she specially wore a yellow cotton trousers. The top was okay, but her feet were covered with mud all the way, and she didn't know how many times she rubbed them against the stones along the way.
She took a bamboo stick and scraped off the dried mud on both sides, then knocked it hard on the ground, and it looked much cleaner.
With a "bang", Qu Ting pushed the door open and came in, scaring Tian Cai and herself.
Qu Ting patted her chest and wiped the mud off her feet at the door before entering the yard. She sighed, "Yours is still the cleanest! This year I'm going to ask my dad to pave the entire yard with stones!"
Most of Qu Ting's yard is compacted earth, and only the places where people often walk are paved with stones. There are also families in the village who have paved their entire yards like Tian Cai's, but they are families with more men.
It is said that this kind of stone floor is particularly difficult to dig, and you need to try to choose stones with large flat surfaces. However, the other surfaces of the stones are irregular, and the digging depth needs to be adjusted one by one. The operation is time-consuming and laborious. This is why most villagers choose to only pave a few places that they often walk on.
"Uncle Tian probably doesn't have much time lately. Spring plowing is coming soon, so we'll have to wait until then."
Qu Ting pulled a stool and sat down next to Tian Cai, whispering, "Do you remember how Wang Songbai's mother used to brag about finding a good family for her daughter? It was a man named Chen from Fengshan Brigade?"
Tian Cai nodded, "What's wrong? Are you getting married?"
"Get married?" Qu Ting curled her lips. "Today, Aunt Guangxia actually came to my mother and said she wanted to marry that kid from the Chen family to me, but my mother turned her down!"
Tian Cai's eyes widened immediately. "What does this mean? Who doesn't like who?"
"I don't know about that. The husband says he's right, the wife says she's right. They both have different opinions. They both say they don't like each other. I don't know who to believe, but my mother said," Qu Ting leaned close to Tian Cai and whispered, "that someone introduced Wang Songhua to a second marriage with better conditions, and gave her a betrothal gift..."
"Oh, Qu Ting is here too!" The woman who came in from the door said with a smile when she saw the two of them, and pulled the slightly shy girl behind her in.
"Aunt, Songhua." Tian Cai and Qu Ting stood up quickly, smiling a little awkwardly. What did it mean to not talk about people behind their backs? They were just saying that when they arrived.
Hu Xiaohong enthusiastically asked them if they had eaten and whether they were cold outside in this weather. Tian Cai and Qu Ting answered one by one because they felt guilty.
"Mom, let's go back." Wang Songhua pulled Hu Xiaohong's sleeve and said in a low voice.
Tian Cai was a little puzzled. Could it be that he was sick and needed to see a doctor? She considered whether she should ask Qu Ting to leave.
She glanced at Qu Ting, who understood immediately and was about to leave, but Hu Xiaohong pushed Wang Songhua's hand away and said, "Why are you leaving? I haven't finished talking yet. Where are you going? There's nothing to be embarrassed about."
"Aunt, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Xiao Tian," Hu Xiaohong said, in order to express her closeness to Tian Cai, she had always refused to follow the villagers' way of addressing her. She felt that her family had exchanged pills with Tian Cai's mother before, and the two families were old acquaintances. How could she call her the same way as the villagers? That would not show any closeness at all. "Auntie, I want to borrow some clothes from you."
Tian Cai put the shoe brush aside and asked, "Which one is it?"
At this time, she was still thinking that she didn't seem to have many clothes. Most of them were made by Dong Zi Niang, Huaihua and Luo Xiuyan. They were similar to the styles of the villagers. Some of them had patches on them. There was nothing worth borrowing. The only good-looking thing was the small round-necked shirt given by Luo Fuying, but that clothes was not suitable for wearing in this season.
"Songhua is going to meet someone tomorrow. Xuelin's father introduced him to her. The young man will come to our house tomorrow morning to visit. I want Songhua to dress smartly, but after looking around, I found that she is too extravagant and doesn't have any nice clothes. I think the white shirt you wore before, Xiaotian, looks pretty good, so I came to ask you."
Wang Songhua listened to her mother pour out all the details about the blind date. She felt a little embarrassed facing two girls of her age, not to mention that both of them lived better than her. It was not that her family conditions were that bad, but they were both girls. Qu Ting was treated better than her brother at home, but her mother always put her brother first in everything. Not to mention Doctor Tian, there were few girls in the village who did not envy her. She had a job and earned as much work points as a man, and most importantly, she was very beautiful.
"Aunt, that dress is quite thin and not suitable to wear now. Besides, Songhua and I have a different body shape, so she may not be able to wear that dress." Tian Cai said in embarrassment.
Nowadays, supplies are scarce and everyone has only a few pieces of clothes, let alone those that are not patched. When going on important occasions such as blind dates or visiting friends, people often borrow decent clothes from relatives and neighbors. Wan Xiuli borrowed her wedding clothes before, so Tian Cai had to get used to it even if she couldn't.
People who are more particular will wash your clothes and return them to you after you borrow them, and they will also give you a thank-you gift. But people who are not particular will return your clothes to you in a dirty state.
If you lend money to a family like this, you will feel uncomfortable about it. If you don't lend it to her, she will go out and tell everyone that you are stingy.
Hu Xiaohong's family conditions were pretty good, so Tian Cai was quite surprised that she didn't just ask her daughter-in-law to borrow money. After all, the daughter-in-law she married was a beauty in the Fangshan Brigade. Judging from the way she loved to dress up, it was impossible for her not to have some nice clothes.
The most important thing is that the dress was made by Luo Fuying according to her body shape. Although it is loose, it is not suitable for Wang Songhua's body shape.
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