Chapter 50
Chapter 50
Liu Yueyue giggled and said, "No matter how good your luck is, it can't be compared to your fate. That was given by the heavens. You just wait to slowly enjoy your happiness. I just want to persist in my dream. I want him to read me poems that I like and write my own poems. When I'm free, I'll look at the small bridge and the flowing water. When night comes, I'll give him incense."
Liu Qian said, "Yueyue, in fact, love is sweet. Life is realistic. I have the same dream as you. Unfortunately, the heavens have arranged Zhang Xiaolong for me. I can only choose my village wife's life. Different people have different ways of living. I hope that we will have our own happy life."
Liu Yueyue said, "Sister, I also believe that we will be happy.
However, elder sister, have you really decided? I still want to ask you one last time. Have you really decided to marry an illiterate farmer in such a hurry?
Decades later, when you look back, won't you regret today's decision? "
When Liu Qian heard this, she tugged at Liu Yueyue and said, "Yueyue, there are some things that cannot be decided by reason. Even though there are millions of people who will continue to move forward, perhaps today's decision will lead to a different life for me. Perhaps in a few decades, I will regret today's decision. However, right now, I do not regret it. When you are afraid of the slightest thing and do not know when to advance or retreat, you have lost the right to choose. Life is the combination of many choices. Different choices are different lives. If you and I both make the same choice, then wouldn't there be no joy in life?
Although Xiaolong is a farmer, he is not illiterate. He is not a rotten wood that can't be carved. I think that our lives are a process of mutual influence and change. He may not write poems for me, but I can read for him and teach him how to write. We don't have a small bridge and flowing water. Maybe we can have a man ploughing and a woman weaving. Although I can't give him incense, how can the bedroom be just drawing eyebrows?
I can let him grind ink for me.
In short, we will gradually change and make our lives happier. "
Liu Yueyue also smiled and said, "Elder sister, your homework was better than mine when you were young, and you read more books than me when you grew up. I can't win against you, but I always feel that you will suffer a lot if you marry into the Zhang family. Why do you want to make yourself uncomfortable?"
However, Liu Qian said, "Yue Yue, you are still a little stubborn. The word 'happiness' is the same for everyone. The happiness of the poor is no different from the happiness of the rich. It doesn't mean that your happiness is better than others' just because you are rich. So, when I choose to be poor or rich, I am choosing happiness.
There was happiness in suffering, and there was happiness in enjoying. As long as one felt happy, why would one be afraid of suffering?
Even if it is pain in the eyes of others, how can you know the sweetness in it?
As the saying goes, if you are not a fish, how can you know the happiness of the fish?
There is only so much happiness in this world. The more happiness you have, the less happiness others will have. If you feel unhappy every day, then others will have more happiness every day. Instead of sharing your happiness with others, why don't you live happily every day? "
Liu Yueyue listened and frowned. She understood something in her heart, but she immediately let go and said, "Elder sister, I am here to persuade you, but what you said made me think differently.
However, even if you are right, I do not have the slightest interest in that Zhang Xiaohu. "
Liu Qian said, "You little girl, I am just telling you my own thoughts. I am not prepared to be a matchmaker."
Not to mention the two sisters quarreling in the room, the two prospective in-laws in the hall had already discussed the specific details. At this time, it was already late. If they rushed back to Guo Zhuang, they would have to travel at night. Naturally, Mister Liu would not let them leave like this. Dinner was eaten at Mister Liu's house. After the engagement, they were now considered a family. This meal was naturally eaten to their heart's content, and both the host and the guest were happy.
Early the next morning, when the sky was still hazy, Zhang Cai and Guo Sufei said goodbye to Mr. Liu and hurried back to the Guozhuang House. There were only a few days until the end of the month. They still had to hurry back to prepare for the wedding. The task was very difficult.
When the two elders rushed back to the Guozhuang House and told Zhang Xiaohu the good news, Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohua, who were waiting at the side, were so happy that they almost jumped up. Their impression of this future sister-in-law was really good. They did not expect that they would be able to see this sister-in-law in a few days. It was really unexpected. When grandma heard Liu Qian set the date a few days later, she kept nagging, "Good child, good daughter-in-law."
If there was a memorial tablet, she would have burned a few sticks of incense to thank the ancestors for finding such a good granddaughter-in-law.
Zhang Cai and Guo Sufei's family had a very good reputation in the Guozhuang House. Moreover, there had never been any big events in the family. This time, for their eldest son to marry a daughter-in-law, the villagers naturally did their best to help. Many people had also seen Liu Qian. Although the Zhang family did not admit the relationship between Liu Qian and the Zhang family before, everyone had a lot of gossip behind their backs. This time, they could marry Liu Qian legitimately, which was also something that everyone expected. However, they did not expect that the time would be so short. Some people even thought in the wrong direction. But when the people with good intentions mentioned grandma, they immediately understood and could not help but give Liu Qian a thumbs up.
When the villagers came to congratulate them, they would receive them in the big shed. The new house needed to be prepared. For the time being, they would use the house where the three brothers lived. Zhang Xiaohu was forced to squeeze together with Zhang Xiaohua on the kang bed. The house in the small courtyard also needed to be slightly repaired. Fortunately, the firewood was good. With the help of the villagers, everything was completed within the scheduled time. On the day of the wedding, the entire small courtyard of the Zhang family was filled with a jubilant atmosphere.
Before dawn, the small courtyard of the Zhang family was filled with a hubbub of voices. Many people came and busied themselves with their own things. Some of the women in the village came to help tidy up the tables and chairs, and helped to clean up the vegetables. The chef also started a fire and began to prepare the meal. Zhang Xiaolong was also woken up early. After tidying up, he prepared to ride a big horse, bring the bridal sedan chair and the band to Bali Gully to marry Liu Qian.
The route of the wedding was naturally not the small path that they usually took. It took longer than usual. Moreover, they had to rush back before noon. Of course, they had to set off through the stars and the moon.
When everyone was ready to set off, Guo Sufei found that the best man, Zhang Xiaohua, was missing. She hurriedly asked Zhang Xiaohu. He also felt very strange. In the middle of the night, he heard someone in the courtyard and got up early to help. When he got up, he also called Zhang Xiaohua. It seemed that he did not get up?
Zhang Xiaohu hurriedly went back to the room to take a look. Sure enough, Zhang Xiaohua was still sleeping soundly on the kang. No matter how Zhang Xiaohu called, he did not wake up. In the end, Zhang Xiaohu ruthlessly poured water on him. He even turned over and went back to sleep, leaving everyone at a loss. However, the matter of the best man had been handed over to him yesterday. They could not find anyone else temporarily. Fortunately, there was a sedan chair. Moreover, Grandmother also knew that Zhang Xiaohua slept until the sun came out. Everyone carried Zhang Xiaohua into the sedan chair and let him sleep. Now, her sister-in-law had not even sat in the sedan chair, but her brother slept first.
In this way, the wedding procession carried Zhang Xiaohua sleeping in the sedan chair to Ba Li Gou in the dark. When the procession had traveled more than half the distance, the sky was like a fish belly. When the sun peeked out from the horizon, that ray of sunlight swept over the sedan chair. Only then did Zhang Xiaohua open his eyes. Rubbing his eyes, he found that he was sleeping in an unfamiliar environment. Surprised, he lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. Only then did he realize that he was sleeping in an unfamiliar environment. He stopped the sedan chair and Zhang Xiaohua came down from the sedan chair. He ran in front of Zhang Xiaolong's horse and hurriedly apologized to his elder brother. Zhang Xiaolong pulled him to ride on the horse and hugged him, saying, "Xiaohua, it's okay. You were sleeping to grow. You didn't delay anything, so why are you apologizing?
However, this time I really opened my eyes. How come I didn't know that you could sleep so much that you couldn't even wake up with water? "
Zhang Xiaohua blushed and said embarrassedly, "I don't know. Maybe I used to sleep like this before, but I never got up so early."
Zhang Xiaolong thought about it and felt that it was true. He and his younger brother had always slept together. In the past, he didn't find anything unusual. Moreover, he never got up so early. Maybe Xiaohua had always been sleeping like this. Anyway, there was nothing wrong with him. He didn't need to get up so early in the future, so he didn't ask anymore.
The rest of the journey was not far. With the two brothers chatting and Zhang Xiaolong's excited mood, they quickly finished the journey.
The village entrance of Ba Li Gou could be seen from afar. Only then did Zhang Xiaolong stop the horse and let the wedding procession rest for a while. Then a special master arranged for people to set off the firecrackers and let the band play music. Zhang Xiaohua also quickly and obediently jumped down from the horse. She took the horse's reins from her elder brother's hand and walked to the front. She led the horse forward slowly.
The people of the Liu family were naturally waiting at the village entrance early. When they saw the wedding procession, someone hurried back to report to Mr. Liu. The wedding band also broke the silence of the early morning. The villagers of Ba Li Gou were all awakened by this festive sound early in the morning. Before the wedding procession entered the village, many children and villagers stopped them and asked for candy and other things. The Zhang family was naturally prepared. Someone took out the prepared things and scattered them to the crowd. Everyone picked up the candy and dispersed in a hubbub. They let the wedding procession move forward. In the short distance from the village entrance to the Liu family, the wedding procession was stopped several times. However, everyone was very happy and didn't get angry because of this. It was the custom of the countryside. When a family had a happy occasion, everyone wanted to share the joy. The more joy they shared, the bigger the family's happy occasion. The wedding procession couldn't wait to be stopped as much as possible.
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