Chapter 1792 The ugly daughter-in-law meets her parents-in-law

There is also an ancestral shrine in the main room of Grandma Li’s house. 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 Carrying baskets and baskets filled with sweet potatoes and radishes, 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 then sat down.

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 ask each other whether they are healthy while drinking sweet tea.

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 the road was climbing and the power was consumed, he was afraid that it would break down halfway when he returned.

Mrs. 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 gift the man had brought, and she knew that if nothing went wrong, good things could happen

What the man had brought The number of things is determined according to customs. There are eggs that symbolize perfection, glutinous rice that represents the emotional bond between husband and wife, fish, meat, and wine, which symbolize perfection.

The red envelope contains three thousand six hundred and sixty-six.

Seeing that the man's family liked Xiaomeng, Granny Li felt relieved. She put her things aside until the young man 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 there is also a built-in There is a stove with kitchen cabinets and a large water tank next to the stove.

There is a fire pit dug in the middle of the kitchen, with firewood stacked in one corner. There is 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.

A thick piece of wood was burning in the fire pit, 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.

Mrs. Meng also knew that her mother-in-law had something to say to Brother Zhou.He and the girl didn't follow him to join in the fun.

Brother Zhou followed Granny Li around several houses and went to a vegetable garden.

Granny 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 one by one seriously, 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 Xiaomeng has a daughter, and is willing to help send the child to school. She is not opposed to continuing to raise her after Xiaomeng remarries. This shows that the Zhou family is kind. people.

There was nothing dissatisfying 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.

Mrs. 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 she wanted to pick up her mother-in-law and the child in the afternoon. Yan went to Jiudao to have a meal with the Zhou family.

Granny Li had no objection and agreed immediately.

Because Xiao Meng might have to remarry, she and her only granddaughter would also count on Xiao Meng and her partner 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 Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhou could really live together, the fields at home 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 shared her family background. She is just worried that the husband’s family will be afraid that the Li family’s descendants will become a drag. Her mother-in-law wants the husband to think that she is an old man. If you are sincere, you will not hinder her and Xiaoyan in the future.

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 in the distance. where.

After Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhou went out, Granny Li took some meat and fruit and went to a neighbor’s house not far away. She told the neighbor that her family was going to Jiudao in the afternoon and might not arrive until tomorrow. Come back and ask your neighbors to help feed the chickens, ducks and pigs at night.

Granny Li raised a pig and bought piglets in May. She actually wanted to raise cattle. Raising cattle does not cost food, but she is old and cannot 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, I asked my neighbors to help feed the livestock at night. Grandma Li went home and cooked another pot.Pig food is also packed with rice for chickens and ducks and placed in the kitchen. When neighbors help feed the livestock, they can be found 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 for a walk, and also climbed the mountain to see an economic forest of the Li family. In that economic forest, his father sold the trees to save Li Xiaoyan, and later planted them. The saplings also grew more than one meter high.

Every household in the 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 the roads are far away and transportation is poor, the price of trees is generally one-third to two-fifths lower than in villages with good transportation. Therefore, villagers cannot make a fortune selling trees.

Granny Li’s house also has a pine forest, which is a bit far away. Sister Meng didn’t take Brother Zhou to step on the boundary line, so she only 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 and 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. She cooked a braised fish, stir-fried three vegetables with meat, and stewed pig's feet, a total of six meals. A dish.

Brother Zhou was talking to Granny Li, while Mrs. Meng prepared the meal and had hot pot in the kitchen.

It was a pleasant meal.

After dinner, after sitting for more than an hour, Mrs. Meng put away the things that should be packed, put the meat that should be frozen in the refrigerator, and helped her mother-in-law bring a change of clothes and bring them with her Things go 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.

Three women were riding in a tricycle, and Brother Zhou was driving.

Most of the way home was downhill, which 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 Meizijing Village and saw Meizijing written on the wall beside it and arrows with directions, she reacted belatedly and almost blurted out: "Mom, Uncle Zhou belongs to 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?"The mother-in-law was illiterate and did not recognize 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 the northern province of E produced an Olympic champion and donated hundreds of millions to Jiudao School. She also knew Meizijing Village and Meizi. The Le family in Jingcun.

Many people say that the Lejia girl in Meizijing Village doesn’t even call her by name, and they always say that she is a golden phoenix.

Granny 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 Zhou family of the Lejia girl's mother-in-law's 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 went outside Uncle Man’s house. The door to Uncle Mantang's house was also closed, so I guessed that my uncles might have gone to his house, so I went straight to my own house.

He drove outside his house and heard the voices of uncles and aunts talking in the small hall. He called out: "Mom, I'm back."

Aunt Zhou Man, the head of Zhou Village, had long known what day Zhou Xialong would go to his partner’s house and what day he would bring him to Meicun. On that day, they would go to his cousin’s house after lunch.

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 trotted out of the alley to greet him.

Several 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 look like a mean and sarcastic person. The elder of the Zhou family glanced at her quickly and had a good first impression of the middle-aged woman.

“Xiaomeng, Xiao Li, you are here.”

“Xia Long, the eldest sister of the Li family, didn’t we come together as a group?”
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"Hey, big sister, please excuse me for your hard work."

Several men and women from the Zhou family hurriedly crossed the threshold while talking, and then they saw the middle-aged man. The young woman helped an old woman out of the carport and immediately started laughing.

Aunt Pa ran quickly, ran down the steps, and went to help the Li familyMother-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, you are good when you come. What else can you take? You are so out of sight." ”

When Granny Li handed a basket to her to help the owner collect, Aunt Pa took it in her hand, gave it to her nephew Zhou Xialong, and helped Granny Li go to her cousin’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 Man Man. Brother, this person wearing a black jacket belongs to my family."

Granny Li was supported by her husband's cousin. She was so flattered that she greeted several elders of her husband's family one by one.

Aunt Pa went to help Granny Li, while 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 Meng’s wife is talking about is meeting the closest relatives of Zhou Xialong’s family for the first time. She is extremely nervous. Even though the Zhou family’s elders are always friendly, she is also very nervous. Can't let go of my hands and feet, very constrained.

The restrained Sister-in-law Meng always calls the male elders of the Zhou family uncle, and the female elders all call them aunt.

Li Xiaoyan was even more nervous and called people "Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou". She stood close to her mother and was passively pulled away by the two elderly people.

Brother Zhou took the things out of the car and carried them into the house with his uncles.

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 rice balls cooked with sweet rice wine, and then served a plate of fruits and dried fruits and melon seeds.

After eating fermented glutinous rice balls and nibbling melon seeds for a while, Mrs. Meng managed to get used to it and spoke more fluently.

Talking about 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, so she explained first: "Xia Long's sister came to talk in the morning, and Leshan also asked for help in the afternoon. After studying for two hours, she and Yueqing brought Leshan over for dinner in the evening."

"?" Li Xiaoyan's eyes widened suddenly as if she was struck by lightning. What did Grandma Zhou say? Leshan ...Yueqing? The Yueqing Grandma Zhou is talking about is the Yueqing she knows, right? !

"The surname is Le?" Granny Li was also shocked: "Sister-in-law, your uncle's surname is Le?"

There is only one family in Meizijing Village, or in the entire Fangxian County The surname is Le!

Now in Meizijing Village, the mother of the young man from the Zhou family said again 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 Zhou’s elders: “I only told my mother and Xiaoyan that Xiao Zhou was from Jiudao Township Street, but I didn’t say that she was a girl from Lejia in Meizijing Village. My younger brother’s biological uncle, in this way, if it doesn’t work, 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 said to Meng The sister-in-law's impression was even better. The woman knew that the man Zhou Xialong was the uncle of the Le family girl's brother, but she didn't take the opportunity to make a fuss, which shows that she was not that snobbish.

Accidents are like typhoons, they come too fast. Granny Li Li Xiaoyan still can't accept the jaw-dropping fact. The girl from Lejia is in the prime of her life. How many people are there in her brother's grandfather's house? The wife of the Zhou family divorced Zhou Xialong, a family that I could not even envy with envy. She must be out of her mind.

Li Xiaoyan found it incredible.

Granny Li’s worries are even more serious. Her family is already poor and can’t do much to help her. Xiaomeng’s family has no hope of help. Can she succeed if she doesn’t belong to the right family?

She was worried, but she was too embarrassed 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, and his income. It's not easy to ask how the Zhou family's grandson is doing with such household chores.

Aunt Pa was worried that the little girl from the Li family would be impatient to listen to the elders’ nagging, 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 if she had any homework, or read television.

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 Lejia 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 the world’s celebrity ball. According to time, the dance will be held this weekend.