Chapter 17: Please the Mother-in-Law
He Qingshan had never had this feeling before.
He used to hate girls. He always felt that the girls in the village were pretentious, slow in doing things, and affected his work.
Seeing those young men in the village rushing to get married and have children, he didn't approve in his heart. Life was hard these days, and most people couldn't get enough food at home. They had to eat coarse grains all year round. They would borrow money from everywhere to marry a wife, have a baby, and the whole family would continue to eat coarse grains together.
What's the point of that?
What he wanted was to improve his life, and then think about getting married and having children, so that he would be comfortable and his wife and children would live well. Otherwise, what's the point of getting the whole family together to eat sorghum steamed bread?
So he started working with his father when he was sixteen, getting up early and working late, and never afraid of hardship. His father was just a worker in a coal mine factory at the beginning. At that time, the coal mine factory belonged to someone else and was very small, with only four people working in it. On the first day, He Qingshan thought, we are all human beings, why can some people be bosses while others can only work?
He urged his father, and the father and son worked together to save money. Later, they borrowed some money and discussed the investment issue with the original owner of the coal mine factory. Later, He Qingshan and his father invested more and more money and manpower, accounting for almost ninety-nine percent. The scale of the coal mine factory also expanded to more than 20 people. The original owner completely became a background board, taking the commission with peace of mind, and the coal mine factory basically became the He family's industry.
The He family's living standard continued to improve. They could eat noodles and meat every day, and they could ride bicycles and drive tractors instead of pushing a cart. They became a well-known wealthy family in the neighborhood.
Countless people rushed to marry into the He family, but were scared away by He Qingshan, and some even sacrificed their reputations to reject those boring women he didn't like.
But for some reason, when he first saw Su Ningning selling fish soup noodles at the town bus station, he thought this girl was very cute, beautiful, smart and capable.
The most important thing is that Su Ningning is not only beautiful, but her eyes also reveal a stubbornness that shows that she is unwilling to eat steamed bread all her life in the barren land of Sujiatun.
She was obviously a delicate girl who couldn't carry anything on her shoulders or lift anything with her hands. As long as she nodded, any young man from a relatively well-off family nearby would be willing to marry her. However, she chose to make money by doing small business in her own town.
Moreover, He Qingshan found out that she had borrowed books from the junior high school in town, and seemed to be planning to get a junior high school diploma.
He Qingshan found it interesting to think about someone who wanted to make money and study at the same time. Not only did he not have such a woman around him, he didn't even have such a man.
He liked her, an affection he had never concealed, and was even willing to help her strive to realize her dream as soon as possible. If she wanted to sell fish noodle soup, he would pick her up and drop her off every day. If she wanted to study, he would help her find teaching materials and even provide tuition.
But before he could even open his mouth, she was already impatient to cut off ties with him.
She doesn't want to get married?
He Qingshan took the grass out of his mouth and chuckled into the void. He had plenty of ways to make her want to get married!
*
In the mornings in the countryside, the first people to get up are the elderly. They are afraid of wasting lamp oil, so they go to bed as soon as it gets dark. They don't sleep much and wake up after only a few hours, so they get up quickly to work at daybreak.
Su Ningning's parents are like this. As soon as the sun rises, they rush to the back mountain to dig mud and prepare to transport it home to renovate the pigpen. The Su family's current pigpen is also made of mud, but it is almost collapsed by the two pigs.
But digging mud is relatively easy, as long as you dig the mud down, but transporting it home is a difficult task. You have to use the homemade wooden cart to pull it one cart at a time. After two trips, Su Ningning's father Su Wanli was sweating all over. Wang Yumei was responsible for pushing the cart at the back, and she was also exhausted and out of breath.
But the pigsty had to be repaired, so the first and second wives divided the work. The first wife took advantage of her free time to repair the roof during the past few days, while the second wife and her husband were responsible for repairing the pigsty.
Wang Yumei wiped the sweat off her forehead and said, "It would be great if we had a tractor! With just a cart, I think we'd have to load a cartload of dirt to get there, and we're also using it to pull straw. This cart is too small!"
Su Wanqi was so tired that he could hardly lift his waist: "Is this cart too small? A cart of mud is enough. My shoulders are already bruised!"
Wang Yumei had a sad face. She was really tired. As a country girl, who wouldn't be tired? We all went through this.
Sometimes when people are very tired, they always fantasize, and then calm down and continue to work.
Just as Wang Yumei was fantasizing, she suddenly heard a series of tractor rumbling sounds. She looked behind her in surprise, and saw in the thin morning sun, a tall and spirited young man driving a tractor rumbling towards them!
Su Wanqi and Wang Yumei couldn't help but look over. They saw the tractor stopped in front of them. The young man jumped off and said with a smile, "Uncles and aunts, are you digging soil? Do you want a cart to pull it? I happen to be working nearby. How about I help you pull it? Anyway, I have nothing to do."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
