Chapter 1792 The ugly daughter-in-law meets her parents-
in-law. The main room of Grandma Li's house also has an ancestor shrine. There is a long desk in front of the shrine. There are some benches and bamboo chairs in the main room, a kotatsu table, and a basket with sweet potatoes and radishes in one corner. basket and a wooden ladder to the second floor.
The side rooms on both sides of the Li family's house are also divided into two rooms. There are doors leading to each room from the hall door.
Because there is often a fire in the kitchen in winter, there is no brazier in the main room.
Brother Zhou followed the masters into the main room, handed the basket he was carrying to Granny Li, and sat down again.
Li Xiaoyan carried the bag into the house, ran to wash her hands, and poured a cup of sweet tea made with brown sugar for Uncle Zhou, grandma and mother.
The host and the guest drink sweet tea and ask each other whether they are healthy or not.
After drinking the sweet tea, it was time to go to the kitchen to warm up the fire.
Brother Zhou went to charge the electric tricycle first. The car was fully charged last night. Because of the steep climb on the road and the power consumption, he was afraid that the electric tricycle would break down halfway when he returned.
Sister Meng helped find a charging socket connected to the fixed socket in the main room, and then placed the socket under the eaves. Brother Zhou connected the charging cable of the electric tricycle to the socket and the car.
The young man from the Zhou family was charging the car, and Granny Li took the opportunity to look at the gifts the man had brought, and she knew that if nothing went wrong, good things would come of it. The number of
things the man brought was determined according to customs, including eggs that symbolized perfection, and The glutinous rice, which represents the emotional bond between husband and wife, contains fish, meat, and wine, which symbolizes perfection.
The red envelope contains three thousand six hundred and sixty-six.
Seeing that the man's family favored Xiaomeng, Granny Li felt relieved. She put her things aside until the young man had fixed a charging socket for the car, and invited the young man named Zhou into the kitchen to warm up by the fire.
The Li family's kitchen is relatively wide. There is a door leading to the front room of the main room of the adobe house. There are wooden shelves in the kitchen for placing basins, baskets and other items, and a stove with kitchen cabinets is also built. There is a large water tank next to the stove.
There was a firepit dug in the middle of the kitchen, with firewood stacked in one corner. There was a small table next to the wall and a 17-inch old-style color TV set.
The wall was covered in dust from smoke and fire all year round.
Thick wood was burning in the firepit, and a duck pot for boiling water was placed on the pot holder.
After sitting down, Granny Li brought melon seeds for the young man to eat.
After talking for a long time, Granny Li said she was going to pick vegetables and asked the young man to help.
Sister-in-law Meng also knew that her mother-in-law had something to say to Brother Zhou, so she and the girl did not go along to join in the fun.
Brother Zhou followed Granny Li around several houses and went to a vegetable garden.
Grandma Li actually went to the garden to pick some vegetables, and then took the young man to wash the vegetables. Along the way, she asked some trivial questions to understand the attitude of the adults in the groom's family.
Granny Li and Li Xiaoyan still don't know that Brother Zhou is the uncle of Miss Le's younger brother in Jiudaomei Village. They only know that he is from a village near Jiudaoxiang Street with the surname Zhou.
Since she didn't know who the man was, Granny Li asked more carefully.
She asked questions carefully, and Brother Zhou also answered them carefully, which reassured the old man.
Granny Li is very satisfied with the young people of the Zhou family. The Zhou family does not mind that Xiao Meng has a daughter, and is willing to help send the child to school. She is not opposed to continuing to raise her after Xiao Meng remarries. This shows that the Zhou family is a kind family.
There was nothing dissatisfied with the young man. Grandma Li was very happy. When she got home, she took Xiaomeng to the back of the house and whispered a few words.
Sister-in-law Meng knew that her mother-in-law was very satisfied with Brother Zhou, and she felt a little nervous. She was also looking forward to meeting the husband's elders. She also told her mother-in-law that Zhou Xialong was not staying at Li's house, and that she wanted to take her mother-in-law and Xiaoyan to Jiudao to eat with the Zhou family in the afternoon. meal.
Granny Li had no objection and agreed immediately.
Because Xiao Meng might have to remarry, she and her only granddaughter also relied on Xiao Meng and her husband to take care of her in the future. Before it was too early, Granny Li asked Xiao Meng to take Xiao Zhou to see the fields and land at home.
If Xiaomeng and Xiaozhou could really live together, the family's fields would naturally be managed by young people, and she wouldn't have to worry about it.
Sister-in-law Meng understands her mother-in-law's thoughts. Her mother-in-law has only met Zhou Xialong once and she hastily disclosed her family background. She is simply worried that the man's family will be a drag on the Li family's descendants. Her mother-in-law wants the man to feel that she is sincere and will not drag him down in the future. Her and Xiaoyan's hind legs.
In order to understand, I felt even more sad, and I didn't go against my will. I asked Zhou Xialong to go to the terraces behind the house to see the fields and land of the Li family, and by the way, I had a look at the mountains and forests of the Li family from a distance.
After Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhou went out, Granny Li took some meat and fruit and went to the neighbor's house not far away. She told the neighbor that her family was going to Jiudao in the afternoon and might not come back until tomorrow. She asked the neighbor to help feed the chickens in the evening. Duck and pig.
Grandma Li raised a pig and bought piglets in May. She actually wanted to raise cattle, which cost no food, but she was old and could not bear the hard work of herding cattle every day.
Raise a pig, grow sweet potatoes and radishes, mix in some corn, and raise it for half a year. If you kill the pig during the Chinese New Year, you can sell half of it and save money for your granddaughter to study.
In advance, she asked her neighbors to help feed the livestock at night. Grandma Li went home and cooked another pot of pig food. She also packed rice grains for chickens and ducks and put them in the kitchen. When her neighbors helped feed the livestock, she could find them in the kitchen.
When it was past ten o'clock, the grandfather and grandson were cooking and chopped a pig's trotters into a pot to stew.
Brother Zhou followed Mrs. Meng to the back of the house and walked around. He also climbed up the mountain to see an economic forest of the Li family. In that economic forest, his father sold the trees to save Li Xiaoyan. The saplings were planted later and the saplings also grew to a certain size. How tall.
Every household in a small village has one or two economic forests, where they plant fir, pine or tea trees. If the trees are valuable, they can earn an income of more than 100,000 yuan by selling them.
Because of the long distance and poor transportation, the price of trees is generally one-third to two-fifths lower than in villages with good transportation. Therefore, villagers cannot make a fortune by selling trees.
Grandma Li's house also had a pine forest, which was a bit far away. Sister Meng didn't take Brother Zhou to step on the boundary line, so she just looked at the approximate location from a distance.
The two went for a run outside and returned to the village after eleven o'clock.
Some villagers in the small village saw Mrs. Meng walking around with a man and thought she wanted to sell trees or land. When they met, they inquired about it but did not think about anything else.
Mrs. Meng returned home and took over the cooking chores. She chopped up the chicken her mother-in-law had killed in the morning and made chicken soup, braised fish, stir-fried three vegetables with meat, and stewed pig's feet, a total of six dishes.
Brother Zhou chatted with Granny Li, while Mrs. Meng prepared the meal and ate hot pot in the kitchen.
A very enjoyable meal.
After the meal, after sitting for more than an hour, Mrs. Meng put away the things that needed to be packed away, put the meat that needed to be frozen in the refrigerator, and helped her mother-in-law bring a change of clothes and other things to Jiudao.
Li Xiaoyan was carrying her schoolbag and a change of clothes. Granny Li gave the return gift to Xiao Zhou and brought a gift herself.
The three women were riding in a tricycle, and Brother Zhou was driving.
The way home was mostly downhill, so it was much smoother. It only took more than an hour to reach Jiudaoxiang Street.
Granny Li bought fruits and candies on the rural street before getting in the car again.
Li Xiaoyan only knew that the person her mother was talking to was introduced by Principal Yin, who said he lived not far from Xiang Street. She also didn't know that Uncle Zhou was from Meicun.
When the tricycle entered the road of Meizijing Village and saw the words Meizijing and arrows with directions written on the wall beside it, she reacted belatedly and almost blurted out: "Mom, Uncle Zhou is from the Zhou family in Meizijing Village." ?"
"Yes." Mrs. Meng nodded.
Li Xiaoyan: "..."
"Xiao Zhou is from the same village as the Golden Phoenix in our province?" Grandma Li was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the wall. She was extremely surprised when her granddaughter mentioned Meizijing Village.
The name of a person is the shadow of a tree. Fang County in Ebei Province produced an Olympic champion and donated hundreds of millions to Jiudao School. She also knew Meizijing Village and the Le family in Meizijing Village.
Many people don't even call the Lejia girl in Meizijing Village by name, they always say she is a golden phoenix.
Grandma Li remembered that the stepmother of the golden phoenix who flew out from Jiudao seemed to be named Zhou?
"Yes." Mrs. Meng responded calmly again.
Granny Li Li Xiaoyan: "..." Don't tell them that they are from the same clan as the girl from the Le family, the Zhou family!
Brother Zhou drove to the ground in front of the village office building and saw that the door of his uncle's house was closed, so he didn't go to find his aunt. He turned onto the main road of the village and arrived outside Uncle Man's house. He saw that the door of Uncle Man's house was also closed. Yes, I guessed that my cousins might have gone to his house, so I went straight to my house.
He drove to the door of his house and heard the voices of uncles and aunts in the small hall. He called out: "Mom, I'm back." Village leader Zhou, grandma Zhou and his aunt had already known each other
. Knowing what day Zhou Xialong would go to his partner's house and what day he would bring him to Meicun, they would go to his cousin's house after lunch on that day.
His nephew wanted to bring his partner back to meet him. Zhou Papi went to the construction site in the morning and moved bricks for a long time. He didn't go in the afternoon and went to his nephew's house to help.
Several people slaughtered the chickens and ducks, fried the fish, neatly packed the pig's trotters, pork liver and other dishes, and cooked the glutinous rice liqueur early.
Several elders who were waiting for someone to return lit a brazier in the main room and set the table.
Hearing Zhou Xialong's shout, several neatly dressed elderly people stood up and responded while trotting out of the alley to greet him outside.
A few people ran to the gate and saw a young girl and a middle-aged woman standing next to the tricycle. They knew that they were Zhou Xialong's partner and her daughter.
The middle-aged woman did not appear to be a mean-spirited person. The elder of the Zhou family quickly glanced at her and had a good first impression of the middle-aged woman.
"Xiaomeng, Xiao Li, you're here."
"Xia Long, where's the eldest sister of the Li family? Didn't we come together as promised?" "
Hey, eldest sister, please give me a trip. Thank you for your hard work."
Zhou Several men and women at home hurriedly crossed the threshold while talking, and then they saw a middle-aged woman helping an old woman come out of the carport, and they immediately started laughing.
Aunt Pa ran quickly, ran down the steps, and helped the Li family's mother-in-law: "I heard from my nephew that you are two months younger than my family. I also asked you to call you big sister. Big sister, come on. It’s good if you get it, what else can you take, it’s so out of sight.”
When Granny Li handed a basket to her master to collect, Aunt Pa took it in her hand, gave it to her nephew Zhou Xialong, and helped Granny Li go to her cousin-in-law's house.
As he walked, he introduced: "This is my sister-in-law, the biological mother of my nephew Zhou Xialong. The one next to my sister-in-law is my brother Man's sister-in-law. The one wearing a dark red down jacket is my brother Man. The one wearing a black jacket is my brother. That hole."
Grandma Li was supported by her husband's aunt, who was so flattered that she greeted several elders of her husband's family one by one.
Aunt Pa went to help Granny Li, and Grandma Zhou and Grandma Zhou Man took Aunt Meng and the girl from the Li family and walked home affectionately. Of course the men were behind to get things.
People say that an ugly daughter-in-law meets her parents-in-law. The person she was talking about was meeting the closest relatives of Zhou Xialong's family for the first time. She was extremely nervous. Even though the elders of Zhou's parents were always friendly, she couldn't let go and was very restrained.
The restrained Sister-in-law Meng always calls the male elders of the Zhou family uncle and the female elders aunt.
Li Xiaoyan was even more nervous. She called people "Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou" and stood close to her mother, passively being dragged away by the two elderly people.
Brother Zhou took the things out of the car and carried them into the house with his cousins.
When we got to the main room and sat down in the brazier, Aunt Pa asked her aunt to talk to the guests while she went to buy fermented meatballs cooked with sweet rice wine, and then served a plate of fruits and dried fruits and melon seeds.
After eating fermented rice balls and nibbling melon seeds for a while, Mrs. Meng managed to get used to it and spoke more fluently.
The family chat often mentioned the relatives of the Zhou family. Grandma Zhou was afraid that the Li family would think that her son-in-law did not come back and did not pay attention to them. She explained first: "Xia Long's sister came to talk in the morning, and Leshan also had to study two clocks in the afternoon. She and Yueqing I just brought Leshan over for dinner in the evening."
"?" Li Xiaoyan's eyes suddenly widened as if struck by lightning, what did Grandma Zhou say, Le... Yueqing? The Yueqing Grandma Zhou is talking about is the Yueqing she knows, right? !
"Le?" Grandma Li was also shocked: "Sister-in-law, your uncle's surname is Le?" The only family in
Meizijing Village, or the entire Fang County and the entire province, has the surname Le!
Now in Meizijing Village, the mother of the young man from the Zhou family said that the surname was Le. Who else could it be besides the Le family?
Granny Li thought maybe her ears were not good and she heard wrongly.
"Yes, my uncle's surname is Le." Grandma Zhou looked at her son. It seemed that Grandma Li didn't know which Zhou family his family belonged to.
Granny Li and Li Xiaoyanlu opened their mouths in shock.
Mrs. Meng smiled sheepishly at the Zhou elders: "I only told my mother and Xiaoyan that Xiao Zhou was from Jiudao Township Street, but I didn't say that he was the biological uncle of the younger brother of the Lejia girl from Meizijing Village. In this way, everything would be wrong. If it fails, the two parties involved, Zhou Xialong and I, will know who the other party is, and no bad words will be spread."
Village Chief Zhou and others had a better impression of Meng's wife, because the woman knew that the man, Zhou Xialong, was the younger brother of the girl from the Le family. His uncle did not take advantage of the opportunity to build momentum, which shows that he is not that snobbish.
The accident was like a typhoon, it came so fast. Mother-in-law Li Xiaoyan still couldn't accept the jaw-dropping fact. The girl from the Le family was at the height of her power, and her brother's maternal grandfather's family was the envy of many people. The Zhou family's daughter-in-law divorced Zhou Xialong, she must be out of her mind.
Li Xiaoyan found it incredible.
Granny Li's worries became even more serious. Her family was already poor and couldn't do much to help. Xiaomeng's parents had no hope of help. How could they succeed if they didn't belong to the right family?
She was worried in her heart, but she didn't have the nerve to say it out loud. It took a lot of effort to calm down. Now, she was no longer embarrassed to ask her husband what kind of work he did to support the family, his family's land, his income, and other household matters. It’s hard to ask how the Zhou family’s grandson is doing.
Aunt Pa was worried that the little girl from the Li family was impatient to listen to the nagging of the elderly, so she took her to see the living room of the lower house and the guest room on the third floor, and asked her to do her homework or watch TV if she had any homework.
Li Xiaoyan also really didn't get along with the old people, so she went to the living room of the lower house and wasted some data on the news, looking for news about the girl from Jiudao Lejia in Fang County.
School teachers always use Jiudao Le's girl as a role model to encourage students to work hard. A few days ago, the school's provincial and county media unanimously reported the news that Miss Le was invited to a ball of celebrities from all over the world. In terms of time, what kind of ball would it be? Held this weekend.
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