Chapter 145 Ancient Farmer (2) (1/2)
Thanks to the help of the matchmaker who was afraid that the marriage would go wrong, the news that Li Lanlan was going to marry a scholar from the Lin family spread throughout the village the next day.
To say that the news spread quickly, a large part of it was because the Lin family and the Li family were not in good condition.
Although Lin Shiheng is a scholar, he has no ability to tie a chicken, and he has never been seen on the ground. It was okay to have two brothers to take care of him before, but now the family has been divided, and he still brings two old people with him. Marrying one is not living a happy life. , that is to serve the family as coolies.
Not to mention Li Lanlan, she is good-looking, hard-working and capable, and she can't help but have a stupid father.
People in the village are suffering these days, and they only think about saving money. It would be better for Li's father to use it to do good deeds whenever he has money. If he marries Li Lanlan, such an in-law will definitely not be able to help. Maybe She will also rely on her husband’s family.
These two people are not in good condition, but they both have a good appearance, which makes the villagers who have children of school age at home extremely vigilant. On weekdays, they are repeatedly told not to get close to Lin Shiheng and Li Lanlan at home, lest the young people will not come close to them. Sensible, coaxed away by superficial appearance.
No one expected that the two people who were secretly disliked by the villagers would actually become a couple.
The elders in the village think this is good. If they are together, their children will no longer get together, but many of the younger generation are unhappy.
The worries of the elders are not unreasonable. Most of the younger generations are not as far-sighted as their elders, and have not experienced the burden of family. They think more idealistically. Li Lanlan is not bad. Although she is good-looking, good at work, and has a cheerful temperament , but that dad really tried to persuade me to quit.
Lin Shiheng was very different. He had a good life, and he looked like a fair scholar on weekdays. Even when he walked, he had a certain demeanor. He was completely different from those who did farm work in the village. He was still a scholar.
Although he didn't pass the examination, isn't he only twenty-two years old? What is there to be afraid of when things get tough now? If he passes the exam, will he still have to worry about money?
There are quite a few girls who have this idea, but unfortunately they are suppressed by their family members. They are naive, but their elders are not naive. So is it a joke to support two sixty-year-old men? Maybe Lin Shiheng has no money to study at all. For a girl's family, getting married is a lifelong matter, and you can't change it no matter how regretful it is. Instead of placing their hopes on the illusory wife who will be elected, the elders prefer the one with more land at home. people.
There are many girls in the village who are favored, but most of them are no more favored than the men in the family. They dare not resist their elders. Even if they like Lin Shiheng very much, they only dare to shyly hide aside and watch when he comes out. .
Now that they knew he was engaged, the girls in the village who liked Lin Shiheng were all confused.
If you have a good temper and are easy-going, you can just wipe away a few tears. But for some people with a bad temper, your mentality is not very straight.
The Li family has no mistress, and Li's father is unable to carry a lot of clothes. Of course, no one in the family prepares clothes for Li Lanlan, a girl who is about to get married. Although no matter how poor the family in the village is, every daughter must buy new clothes when she gets married.
Since the death of Li's mother, Li Lanlan has been the housekeeper of the Li family, so she also knows that the family can't afford to make new clothes for herself. In addition, Li's father doesn't know where he went to do good things. After eating enough, according to common sense, Li Lanlan, who was engaged and wanted to take care of her skin at home, could only go out to work.
As soon as she went out, she happened to meet a girl in the village who had always liked Lin Shiheng.
This girl's name is Zhou Daya. It's a very common name, but she is quite pretty. Because there are many brothers in the family, she and her sisters are lucky enough not to have to work in the fields, so they are relatively fair and tender. They have always been I feel that I am different from a girl like Li Lanlan who wants to go to the ground, and she is more noble.
In the end, the noble woman couldn't marry Lin Shiheng, but it was good for Li Lanlan to get this one.
Zhou Daya didn't cry like some girls who really like Lin Shiheng. She was more angry. Angry that her family had no foresight. Just because the Lin family's situation was not good now, they stopped her from marrying her. She was also angry that Lin Shiheng didn't have the foresight to marry her. When she took the initiative to propose marriage, the biggest annoyance was that the position she had been asking for was taken by Li Lanlan, an old woman who had no mother and had a miserable life, but whom she had secretly and condescendingly commented on many times.
Because Li Lanlan is good-looking, Zhou Daya, who thinks she is a beauty, has never liked her very much. Seeing that Li Lanlan is not married yet at the age of eighteen, she feels very happy. After talking behind her back so many times, she actually gets married. Lin Xiucai, who has never been able to marry as she wished.
She was so angry that she didn't sleep well all night. When she woke up the next morning and saw Li Lanlan going to do farm work, she immediately felt that there was nothing wrong with her.
Zhou Daya herself was not happy, and she didn't want Li Lanlan who had taken her place to feel happy, so she turned her back to Li Lanlan without any hesitation, pretending that she didn't see her coming, and pulled her little sister and started laughing loudly.
"Have you heard that the Lin family is going to marry Li Lanlan? She is really unlucky. Last night, my mother was still saying at the dinner table that the two elders of the Lin family can't work and are still ill. Lin Xiucai is a scholar, let alone If you marry, you will be a ready-made mother to serve the family. "
The little sister was immersed in her work and didn't see Li Lanlan. When she heard Zhou Daya mention this topic, she took advantage of the situation and followed with interest while doing her work: "No, my mother also said that the Lin family is just a superficial person. This requires a scholar. , and they have to support a patient and their parents, no matter how big their family is, they can lose it, let alone they don’t have any. "
With her being so cooperative, Zhou Daya became even more enthusiastic: "Also, Lin Xiucai basically doesn't walk around the village. When he was in glory, his mother said that Lin Xiucai wanted to marry a city man. Tell me, now at home, It’s difficult, he married Li Lanlan, can he like her?”
Li Lanlan wasn't too sad after hearing what they said. She had already thought about this very thoroughly after she knew that Li's father had promised her to the Lin family. According to her own ideas, the Lin family was definitely not a good place to go, but her thoughts didn't matter. Yes, her parents had ordered her to be a matchmaker, and her biological father had promised her out. If she didn't agree, it would be unfilial. If this reputation spread, she might never be able to get married in this life.
Anyway, she had already thought about it. After getting married, if the people there were willing to give her a bite of food, she would take care of them. If her life was not good and she married someone wrong, she would go to the river and jump in.
Anyway, my mother is dead, and my father doesn’t care about her. It’s better to die early than to be bullied for the rest of my life.
Because she had already prepared, Li Lanlan didn't even bother to get angry. She glanced at Zhou Daya and passed by the two of them carrying farm tools on her back.
Her appearance made Zhou Daya, who wanted to see Li Lanlan collapse and cry, angry again. He stood up and looked at Li Lanlan's back bitterly, "Why are you so proud? I really thought that marrying Lin Xiucai would lead to a happy life in the future."
Zhou Daya's little sister looked a little embarrassed when she saw Li Lanlan passing by. After all, she was talking behind her back. Now seeing the indignant look on her sister's face, she couldn't help but tug on Zhou Daya's sleeve: "Daya, please stop talking. Nothing happened to her."
"It's not bad yet. You haven't seen her looking down on others. Just wait and see. Lin Xiucai is different from the men in our village. He has high eyesight. Li Lanlan is a country girl. Lin Xiucai will definitely look down on her. I fell in love with her and married her just to do farm work.”
"Hey! Stop talking. You're just saying this even before you're married. You're not afraid of people scolding you for being shameless."
Zhou Daya was really a little scared. She was at the age where she was planning to get married. It would definitely not be good if people saw her as an unmarried girl making irresponsible remarks.
So no matter how unwilling she was in her heart, she could only sit down and work with hatred. She just refused to give up and lowered her banknotes and muttered: "Li Lanlan will definitely not have a good life when she marries him. Maybe she will be married to her at some time." Hugh went home."
Zhou Daya recited it persistently all morning, as if cursing Li Lanlan like this would make her rich.
The other people in the village were similar to her. Although they had no grudge against Li Lanlan, most of them were not optimistic about the marriage. The specific reasons were similar to what Zhou Daya said.
Lin Xiucai doesn't go out often, but as soon as he does, anyone with long eyes can see that he is completely different from the people in the village. Moreover, before the Lin family was separated, Mother Lin had never concealed that her son wanted to be admitted to the Juren Examination. Marrying a girl from the city. Now that the Lin family is seeing a hard time, he may want to marry Li Lanlan just to do farm work.
There is only one scholar in Lijia Village, but there are many people in the village who are related to other villages, and they probably all know some gossip.
For example, there was also a scholar in Wangjiacun. That was twenty years ago. Wang Xiucai was the same as Lin Shiheng. He failed the exams many times. He spent money studying and was not good at housework. Gradually, Wang Xiucai's family showed signs of decline. .
So he married a woman back. This woman thought she was going to be a scholar, but she ended up marrying to serve a family. Wang Xiucai knew nothing but studying. Wang Xiucai had no father, and his mother was a disgrace. Those who have sex with their daughter-in-law often tease her. Now twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. The lady is as old as an old woman. It is said that she has to complain every time she goes back to her parents' home. It is not to mention how miserable her life is.
In the eyes of the villagers, Lin Xiucai is the second best Wang Xiucai.
He is still worse than Wang Xiucai. At any rate, Wang Xiucai's family does not have a father who cannot do farm work and is very sick and needs medicine to support him.
Li Lanlan, with the disapproval of the villagers, waited silently until the day they agreed to get married.
Father Li, who does good deeds everywhere, did not go out to do good deeds on this day. He stayed at home peacefully, waiting for the Lin family to come and take away his daughter.
When a daughter gets married, the father in the family has to say a few words about his plans for his daughter, or pull his son-in-law to tell him to treat his daughter well. Father Lin was the only one who was very unusual. He pulled his daughter and told Li Lanlan to let her go. In order to take good care of the Lin family, he didn't say a word about the rest.
Li Lanlan had long been chilled by her father's attitude, but she wasn't disappointed at all. She didn't wear any new clothes, but covered her head with a red hijab, just as if she was wearing wedding clothes.
Even though it was a wedding, neither family could afford it, so it was just the man coming to take the woman away, and then the woman's family went to the man's house for a meal, which couldn't even be called simple.
Here, Li Lanlan was sitting in the room with her head covered, waiting. Lin Shiheng was led over by the matchmaker.
He was dressed very smartly today, and with his good looks, he attracted the attention of many little girls along the way. Unfortunately, Li Lanlan couldn't see it with her hijab. She was waiting for the matchmaker to call out that the groom could pull the red flowers. She knew that the person who came in was her future husband.
A red flower made of rough red cloth was stuffed into her hand by the matchmaker, and the other end was held in Lin Shiheng's hand. The matchmaker thought about the gift of thanks to the matchmaker that was about to arrive in her hand, and she smiled as festively as she could, with a sharp smile. She shouted loudly, but there were only a few scattered villagers watching the excitement, but she shouted out like a large crowd outside: "The groom is bringing the bride home -"
According to the tradition in the village, when a girl gets married, she should be carried by a male member of the family from the door to the big tree at the entrance of the village, and then she can go home with her husband.
The newlyweds walked to the door, and Father Li was watching with a smile. Just as he was about to go forward to carry his daughter, a child suddenly squeezed out from the crowd of onlookers and shouted anxiously: "Uncle Li, my grandma fell down, can you trouble me to take my grandma to the town to see a doctor?"
The crowd of onlookers suddenly got into an uproar.
On the day of the wedding, the child came to find the father of the bride to do something else. How could this child be so ignorant?
"What?! Fell down? I'll go right away!"
The joy on Father Li's face disappeared in an instant, and he turned around and was about to leave. Li Lanlan, who was already uneasy about getting married, stopped in her tracks, and her face turned pale under the red veil.
"Dad!!"
She called her father, "Today is my wedding day. Even if you want to go, you have to carry me under the tree, right?"
Father Li looked back at his daughter hesitantly and said, "Lanlan, this is a matter of saving your life..."
Li Lanlan's face turned even paler under the veil.
If a woman gets married without a man carrying her under a tree, that is something that only the family will be extinct. If Father Li left today, she, a woman who did not go under the tree, would be considered ominous in the eyes of many villagers.
This is a major event that will affect her life!
She was in despair when she suddenly heard Lin Shiheng, who had been quiet, speak up, "Father-in-law, anyone can take this child's grandmother to see a doctor, but Lanlan only has you as her father."
Some villagers who were watching the excitement were kind-hearted and thought that they could take the child to the town for treatment. It was not far away, so they simply spoke up: "Yes, the Li family is having a wedding, it is not appropriate to go at this time, I just happen to be free, I will take the child there."
"No!!"
The child's face changed immediately. If someone else took the child to see a doctor, they would definitely not help pay for the medical expenses. He looked at Father Li persistently and began to play the emotional card: "My grandmother is delirious and anyone who comes will beat her. Uncle Li is a good man, so she believes in Uncle Li. Uncle Li, please help us. My mother is crying anxiously at home."
Father Li immediately thought of the child's mother, a young widow. What a poor woman, she lost her husband early and had to support her mother-in-law alone, and had to take care of a child. Now she must be very helpless when she encounters something.
He stopped hesitating and hurriedly said to his daughter: "Dad will go save people first, and we will talk about other things when we come back." Then, he followed the child and left his daughter's wedding scene. Li Lanlan trembled all over, not knowing whether she was angry or sad. There was only one man in the family, Li's father. No one carried her to the tree. She was a bride who could not get blessings. If something happened to her husband's family in the future, they would definitely blame her. Her own father ruined his daughter's life so easily. Once was not enough, and it happened again. Li Lanlan could hear someone talking outside. It was Zhou Daya's familiar voice. Although it was concealed, the gloating in it was still very obvious. "What can I do! No one carries Li Lanlan out, how can she get married! Oh! If she marries Lin Xiucai like this, she will not bring disaster to the Lin family in the future!" Zhou Daya knew that there were people nearby and she should restrain herself, but she couldn't help it. Seeing Lin Shiheng, who was dressed brightly and looked better today, she couldn't help but burst out with anger in her heart. If it weren't for Li Lanlan, such a handsome scholar husband would be hers.
But it doesn't matter. Li Lanlan's father did such a ruthless thing. No matter which family he was in, he would not be happy. Lin Xiucai is a face-saving person. Maybe he would not marry her in a fit of anger.
Zhou Daya was happier and happier as she thought about it.
But the next second, the happiness on her face froze.
Lin Shiheng, who was standing at the door of Li's house, actually walked in front of Li Lanlan and half-knelt down with his back to her.
"Come on, I'll carry you."
Li Lanlan was in a trance when she heard this.
It took her a second to react. Knowing that this was her only chance, Li Lanlan didn't care about anything else. She bit her lip and groped her way to the back of her future husband.
Lin Shiheng stepped out of the door and started to walk forward. The matchmaker who had been embarrassed by Li's father's exit was happy and hurried to the front to liven up the atmosphere.
"Come on! The bride is going out! One step for a son, two steps..."
Li Lanlan could no longer hear what the matchmaker was saying. She lay on Lin Shiheng's back, feeling the muscles moving as he walked forward.
She was thinking about all sorts of things:
He was not as thin as she had imagined. On the contrary, he was quite strong and powerful. He didn't shake much when he carried her on his back.
His voice was also very nice. It was different from the way the villagers spoke. He had a scholarly manner.
He seemed to speak differently from the others. Although she didn't see him, she could feel that he didn't look down on her.
Li Lanlan was a little nervous, and she hugged her future husband with both hands carefully. She was a little happy, and a little nervous, thinking that maybe her future life would not be as bad as she had thought before.
As the matchmaker shouted hard, the scholar of the Lin family carried the man all the way to the tree at the entrance of the village, and then took his young wife home.
In the future, Li Lanlan was a wife of the Lin family.