Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 223 Good Man and Bad Man

Lin Xiuli complained in her heart, but still helped Li Muyang move the things in.

It doesn't look like there's much stuff, but it's quite heavy to carry.

The meat and some other things had to be carried to the kitchen, so the two of them went together.

"How much did it cost you to bring so many things? Isn't it just to celebrate your birthday? Just bring less things to show off your feelings."

Although Li Muyang brought a lot of things, which gave Lin Xiuli a lot of face, she was still worried that all the money he had worked so hard to earn was sent here.

"No, it's okay. Celebrating my mother's birthday is not a small matter. It must be more grand and lively. Otherwise, everyone else will bring a lot of things, but I will bring less. Wouldn't it make you lose face? You have no face. , then I lose face, don’t we both lose face?”

"Pfft," Lin Xiuli couldn't help laughing.

"Why do you think so much? We don't live to save face. If people have money, bring more. If you don't have money, bring less. This is my intention. My parents understand it."

"Understanding is understanding, and thoughts are thoughts. Just tell her whether she is happy or not today?"

"Of course I'm happy. Why are you unhappy? Look at my mother smiling so hard that she can't even close her mouth."

"That's it. It proves that I have achieved the effect. Don't worry. After we get married, every year on my aunt's birthday, we will give her something to make sure she is always happy."

"Really?"

Lin Xiuli couldn't believe it, mainly because of the customs here.

Generally, after a daughter gets married, she and her natal family become two families, and every little bit of money must be accounted for clearly.

"Of course, I will do everything I say to you. You have a lifetime to supervise me. If you fail to do it every time, you will punish me severely."

"Actually, it's not necessary to do this, as long as it's almost the same. If you do it well, it won't be difficult for others to do it. Besides, there are also my sister-in-law, eldest brother, and the others."

Li Muyang instantly understood what Lin Xiuli meant. The family didn't have much money. If anyone performed too well, he would be ostracized by others. It would appear that others had no contribution, which would be bad.

The custom here is that if the elderly need to do something, the children will discuss it in advance. If they want to give or buy something, they will calculate the money needed and share it equally with everyone.

Of course, it is mainly divided equally between the sons. The daughter basically does the work and rarely needs to contribute money.

If it’s not something very expensive, everyone should pay about the same amount.

It does not mean that whoever has money should pay more. If everyone shares it fairly, everyone will be more comfortable. If someone has money and pays more, it will make others uncomfortable.

"Okay, then I will discuss everything with you in the future. If you have any ideas, just tell me. If it doesn't work, how about we all follow your ideas?"

Lin Xiuli glanced at the man beside her.

Why is this man so kind and gentle to me?
It was as if no matter what he said, he would definitely agree.

He was completely different from any other man he had ever seen, as gentle as a man coming out of a book.

No, maybe even the perfect male protagonists in many novels can't do this.

Is this really fate? She couldn't tell.

Their first meeting in the supply and marketing cooperative was just like the scene in those romance novels.

Simple and unexpected.

"Just put it here. You can go to the room over there."

"how about you?"

"Don't I want to cook? After a while, my uncle's family, my aunt's family, and some people from the clan will come over. So I need to prepare more food."

"Then how can you stay busy if you do it alone?"

"I……"

"Oh, this is how I have learned to care about my wife. I haven't even married yet, so I care about her so much."

While the two were talking, sister-in-law Zuo Meiling came in.

"Sister-in-law~"

"Brother-in-law, you'd better go back to the main room. It's not appropriate to stay in the kitchen now. Just leave the kitchen to us women."

"That... okay, I'll go there first."

Li Muyang actually wanted to stay with Lin Xiuli for a while, but his sister-in-law had obviously kicked out the guests, and he couldn't just stay in the kitchen with shame.

After all, they were right, they were not married yet, just engaged.

Engagement is just a simple contract. If both parties feel dissatisfied, they can end the relationship at any time.

He had no choice but to sneak out of the kitchen in despair.

He came to the yard, rubbed his face, put on a harmless smile, and entered the main room.

Since it is my mother-in-law's birthday, I must make her happy.

This old lady had a hard life and was a very kind person. Li Muyang not only respected her because she was his mother-in-law, but also treated her as a filial mother.

Here, watching Li Muyang go out, Lin Xiuli and Zuo Meiling started washing vegetables.

Just seemed a little absent-minded.

"Lili, give me that basket~"

"Ah."

Lin Xiuli handed it over casually, but Zuo Meiling did not pick it up.

"Look what you gave me?"

"what……"

Lin Xiuli looked down and realized that the water filter basket her sister-in-law asked for was a basin.

Blushing, he turned around and handed the basket over again.

"Give~"

Zuo Meiling took the basket and filtered the water while looking at her sister-in-law's blushing face. She couldn't help but sigh: "You, it's nothing, but you are so fascinated by others?"

"What are you talking about, sister-in-law?"

"What are you talking about? I didn't see how good that Li Muyang is. There are many men better than him. Look at you. Every time you see someone, you can't raise your head. You seem to care a lot. .

Let me tell you, this man, you can't always be nice to him and let him go, otherwise they will think you deserve it and they won't care about you very much.

My sister-in-law is not going to tell you this. You have a gentle nature and have never suffered any harm. But I heard that Lijia Village is a bandit village and the people in it are evil.

Don't look at it now, who knows what it would be like to actually trick you home. "

After Lin Xiuli heard this, she laughed.

"Sister-in-law, who did you learn these things from in a day? What kind of messy ideas are there? There are so many bad men and good men. The quality of a person has nothing to do with male or female.

Oh, we women all say that men are bad, and men say that we women have problems. We all hurt each other. In the end, if the relationship between men and women is not becoming more and more tense, what's the point?

As a human being, there must be shortcomings and advantages. There is no such thing as a perfect good person.Since you have found this person, do you have to think about tolerating the other person's shortcomings? Besides, you are my sister-in-law, so you must look at the problem from my perspective and think that I have no shortcomings.

But in fact, I am not Confucius. How can I be good at everything and not have all kinds of problems?

To put it bluntly, we are all ordinary people. We should try our best to be ourselves and don’t always think about asking others. "

"You, you, what do you want me to say? You really don't listen to the old man, and you will suffer the consequences."

The eldest sister-in-law still looks like she hates the iron.

"If you want to think this way, then just think about it. If you suffer a loss in the future, don't blame your sister-in-law for not reminding you."

"No, you can live your own life by yourself. Good or bad are your own choices. You can't blame others.

Sister-in-law, let me tell you, you also need to change your temper. Look at you and my brother messing around and making trouble all day long. What is the result? There is no result.

My eldest brother has an honest temper. If you continue like this, I think he will become more and more dull in the future. Doesn't that mean that you will have to take the lead in everything he does outside? "

"Don't talk about your elder brother, I'll be angry if you say that. Look at him, he's like a lump of elm wood. He can't beat him with three fists. I don't know how I was so blind that I found such a person."

"Pfft~"

Lin Xiuli smiled again.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at you. It's all your own fault. My eldest brother was not like this before. You were always in charge of others. Well, now he has become an honest person in your heart. Do you dislike him again?"

"I...I didn't want him to be like this."

"Sister-in-law, you can't take up everything," Lin Xiuli pulled over the bench and sat on it to peel potatoes.

"...If you want him to be honest, he will be honest outside. If you want him to be lively outside, he will not be at your mercy at home. To put it bluntly, it depends on your choice."

Zuo Meiling was slightly stunned.

He said impatiently: "I was talking about you, why did you start talking about me in the blink of an eye? What do I have to say? Life has gone to this point.

Besides, with your brother’s temperament, he doesn’t have any big abilities, but he won’t make big mistakes either…”

"Let's not talk about this anymore. I have already decided that I want to get married. Why do you always say that people are not good at it?

I didn’t say I was happy after hearing this, but the key point was how bad it was for others to hear it.People enthusiastically give gifts to my mother for her birthday, but we sit back and talk about others? . "

"Look, look, you haven't even gotten married yet and you're already protecting someone, okay. If you think my sister-in-law talks too much, then I won't say anything. Anyway, it's your own business to live your life. You should be more careful in the future. It's already September, there are still a month or two left. It's about to pass. I won't say anything if you want me to say it by then."

"It's still a month or two away."

Lin Xiuli suddenly realized that her time at her parents' home was short.Although I have always wanted to find a good man like Li Muyang to marry, build a new family of my own, and live a stable life, but when I thought about leaving my parents' home because of this, I suddenly couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"Sister-in-law, after you married into our family, did you miss your mother?"

"what?"

Zuo Meiling was stunned for a moment. She was suddenly asked this question and didn't know how to answer it for a while.

After thinking for a while, he smiled bitterly and said: "I think about it, I thought about it every day when I first came here. But as time goes by, it just becomes that way. People are just like this, they have to go through this step.

When you have your own child in a few years, you will definitely focus entirely on your child.I can take care of it if I can, but there's nothing I can do if I can't. I have my own life to live, right?

This is how people are from generation to generation. Our parents raised us, and when we left, we raised our children, and they will also leave us in the future. "

"Ah."

Lin Xiuli nodded, thinking about what Li Muyang told him just now.

Let's hope he can fulfill his promise.

In the future, I can maintain a good relationship with my mother forever. I can come back to see my mother often, and I will not let my mother work hard to raise a child and suddenly it is gone.

While they were talking in the kitchen, birthday-wishers gradually came outside.

Some of them are from the village, or from the clan. They only come to give gifts, talk, and kowtow before leaving.

Some of them are uncle's or aunt's nephews, etc., and they will stay here.

Li Muyang was currently in the main room, politely accepting rounds of questions.

Mainly because under normal circumstances, a prospective son-in-law like him would not wish his mother-in-law a birthday, so there were originally people here who were familiar with each other.

But when everyone comes over and finds that he is here, they will be a little curious. Besides being curious, they definitely want to know more about him.

That person came to ask, and gradually he asked the same question. He didn't know how many times he said the same thing, and his mouth was a little dry when he said it.

Fortunately, if the problem is not particularly complicated, his mother-in-law will help him explain it.

Interestingly, whenever a woman comes over, the mother-in-law will definitely take the opportunity to tell others about the tea he brought.

In fact, he brought a lot of things today, and tea was only the cheapest among them, but maybe it was because his mother-in-law needed it, and she liked it very much.

Just do what you like.

Slowly, more and more people sat in the main room.

Some people began to care about Li Muyang's family situation.

"Shepherd, what do you do at home?"

The son of Aunt Lin Xiuli's family is a motorcycle repairman and has opened a motorcycle repair shop.

This kind of profession was a very high-level profession in this era, completely different from that of later generations.

Because there are few motorcycles in this era, there are few people who can ride motorcycles, and there are very few people who can repair motorcycles.

It is also very profitable.

I heard that this person can earn 2 to [-] yuan a year. Li Muyang had heard Lin Xiuli say this before.

Although he is a junior, because his family is rich and the things he got to celebrate his aunt's birthday this time are relatively good, he actually sits in a more important position.

Moreover, his legs were spread wide apart, and he was on an even footing, as if he was an elder himself.Others didn't have any objections, and some elders even smiled when he spoke.

This man was getting married at the time, and he organized a motorcycle team to welcome his bride, which was very popular.

To this day, many people mention the pomp and ceremony of marriage, and it has basically become a ritual ceiling for weddings among relatives.

Maybe he had been praised a lot by everyone, so he was a little bit arrogant at this time.

When talking to Li Muyang, although he was not particularly domineering, there was still a sense of scrutiny in his words.

"I, old farmer, have nothing worth saying."

"That's right," the man smiled, looking very friendly, but then said, "Auntie, you are so willing, Lili will also have to endure hardships in the future."

"Our family is also a farmer. Anyone who endures hardship is a person who comes from hardship. Only by enduring more hardship can we live a peaceful life."

The mother-in-law didn't mean to help Li Muyang. This was her sincere words and the principle of life she always adhered to.

(End of this chapter)