Chapter 2005 Expectations

When classmate Le went to the hospital to shine, Grandma Zhou and Grandma Zhou Man were not idle either. They prepared everything necessary for the banquet and made the appointment on the third day of the lunar new year. Going to Grandma Cao's house to have a decent meal also arranged the wedding ceremony and the day-off on one day.

Brother Zhou and Ms. Li still worked in the morning, went home for lunch at noon, and continued working in the afternoon.

The Zhou and Cao families performed a wedding ceremony for Zhou Xialong and Li Chunxiu. Only then did the Cao family members receive the news. Everyone was confused. Li Chunxiu was actually going to marry Zhou Xialong?

They used to be very dissatisfied with the daughter that Granny Cao picked up. They basically believed that the girl just wanted a place to live, and she would abandon Granny Cao when Granny Cao handed over the family property to her.

As a result, the day they thought had not arrived yet, instead, Li Chunxiu was going to marry the uncle of the Lejia girl’s brother?

People surnamed Cao, who had not thought highly of Li Chunxiu, mother and daughter, were more shocked than being struck by lightning.

The Cao family, who had been struck by thunder on a sunny day, digested the shocking news. No matter whether they were suspicious or jealous, it was no longer important. What was important was their attitude.

Li Chunxiu is nominally the daughter of Grandma Cao, and she is married to the Zhou family of Meicun. This means that the Cao and Zhou families are close to Qin and Jin. Therefore, the Cao family is Li Chunxiu’s natal family, and Li Chunxiu should be given the dignity Must give.

To this end, the Cao family held an emergency family meeting to formulate an agenda for the wedding.

The Cao family is also a native surname in Jiudao. There are people with the surname Cao in several villages in the entire township. Generally speaking, they are two branches with different ancestors.

Granny Cao’s Cao family is not bad in Jiudao. There are more than 600 people with the surname Cao who have compiled family trees together, and those who are related to Granny Cao’s husband are in Jiudao. There are more than a hundred family members within.

Granny Cao and the Zhou family agreed that it would be a small event, that is, the family members would set up a few tables for fun, and the Cao family would not invite outsiders, but the Cao family members who share the same surname still had to be notified.

Once the notice is announced, okay, everyone with the surname Cao who shares the same genealogy has said that they will do something about it. It is estimated that the Cao family will have more than 30 tables.

Of the 30 family members sitting at the same table, about four to six people at the same table will send the married girl to the groom’s house. Those who send the bride are basically the prominent elders or young people in the family, and they also need to Give a big red envelope to a married woman.

The Cao family wanted to set up a banquet, and Granny Cao had to discuss it with the Zhou family. Village chief Zhou agreed and promised that the Zhou family would send a gift the day before the wedding.

True to his word, Village Chief Zhou went to the village to reserve two pigs. He also notified the Zhou family and Zhou Xialong’s buddies and arranged work for them.

CaoThe elders of the family were busy because Li Chunxiu was getting married on the seventh day of the lunar month. The groom's family set up the banquet on the seventh day of the lunar month, while the bride's family formally set up the banquet on the night of the first day, which was the evening of the sixth lunar month.

Early in the morning on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, the Cao family rushed to the streets from all directions and delivered the dowry of the married girl to Granny Cao’s house. They then put happy words on it and packed baskets while the men prepared breakfast.

Mrs. Cao’s family had people coming and going, and happy words were posted on the door and wall. The neighbors went to inquire about the reason and found out that Granny Cao’s girl was getting married. They were extremely surprised and asked who the son-in-law was. , hurriedly went to the street to buy gifts to add makeup to the woman.

The Zhou family was not ambiguous. Village chief Zhou personally took charge of the arrangements. At around four o'clock in the morning on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he took the younger generation to kill the pigs and tidied them up. At dawn, he led the gift-giving team. Pick up meat, rice, wine, and wedding clothes for the bride to wear when she gets married tomorrow and send them to Cao's house.

Brother Zhou also went. He went to Cao’s house to pick up Li Chunxiu and went to the county town to get a marriage certificate.

The bride-to-be and groom go to apply for the certificate. The Cao family entertains the Zhou family who gave the gift to breakfast. They then return a gift and send it back to the Zhou family. The Cao family prepares the main course for the evening banquet.

The Cao and Zhou families were having a lively wedding, but Granny Li and her family had no idea about it.

Sister-in-law Meng knew that Supervisor Wu was the father of Xiaoyan’s best classmate in her freshman year of high school. She learned from Supervisor Wu that Xiaoyan had stolen things from the Wu family, so she felt ashamed to work on the construction site and took the initiative to pay her wages. .

When she returned home, she wanted to torture her daughter about how many classmates she had stolen. However, she saw that Xiaoyan was punished by the Le family for stealing Le Jiayu, which left a shadow. She was panic-stricken. How could she return? He was willing to blame her and make her daughter worse.

Unable to bear to scold her child harshly, Mrs. Meng asked her daughter to go to school on time during extra classes the next day, and she went to the county town to find work.

Her education is not high and she is old. She does not meet the requirements for a good job. There are no places recruiting ordinary workers, so it is not easy to find a job.

Mrs. Meng ran around during the day, looking for opportunities. In order to save money, she went to the station waiting hall or the hospital at night. After running for three days, she couldn't find a suitable job, so she had to stay in a store to wash clothes.

She has also tried visiting construction sites. There are several construction sites in Fang County. When building a private house, you either need help from your own people or have your own team to contract. Outsiders are not accepted, and larger construction sites do not require them either. Female workers.

After running around the county town for six consecutive days, her legs were almost broken running and the job was still unavailable. Mrs. Meng bit the bullet and went to the construction site of the No. 3 Middle School.

She felt that it would take some time for the primary school construction site to be completed, and it would take several months for people who knew her and Zhou Xialong from Jiudao to come to No. 3 Middle School. She would work for a while first and wait for Jiudao Elementary School. After the project is completed, if she leaves again, she should not come into contact with the people of Plum Village.

The construction company that contracted the construction project of No. 3 Middle School was the company where Director Wu worked. Director Wu exchanged information with the company and his colleagues in No. 3 Middle School. Several heads in charge of affairs in No. 3 Middle School also knew about the divorce between Mrs. Meng and Zhou Xialong. things and reasons for divorce.

When the supervisors and supervisors learned that Mrs. Meng had come to the construction site to sign up as a temporary worker again, they did not refuse to accept her. They only said that accommodation would not be included. If she wanted to be a temporary worker, she would have to solve the accommodation problem by herself.

Every extra day of delay meant one less day of earning. Mrs. Meng didn’t want to waste any more time, so she had no choice but to rent a house and rented a suite at a monthly rent of 300 yuan.

After renting a house and solving the accommodation problem, she officially went to work at the No. 3 Middle School construction site on the morning of the 13th.

Also because Mrs. Meng was busy looking for work in the county town and had no time to inquire about the rumors between Jiudao and Meicun, she naturally didn’t hear any news about Zhou Xialong’s blind date.

The school will officially make up classes on August 9th, and the prospective junior high school students and senior high school students will return to school on the 8th. Li Xiaoyan is afraid that the news of her mother’s divorce will spread and be known to the second middle school students, and she will be ridiculed when she returns to school. , extremely unwilling to make up lessons.

However, she has to go and make up lessons, and she may not be able to keep up with the progress. If her academic performance is not good, the teachers will give up on her, and she will lose the teacher's protection for good students. Other students will It's easier to bully her.

Even if she didn’t want to, Li Xiaoyan still returned to school. After returning to school for several days, she didn’t hear any rumors about her, and she was secretly relieved.

Brother Zhou got the news from his co-workers the day after Meng’s wife checked out. He didn’t care about Meng’s wife’s whereabouts, so naturally he wouldn’t inquire about her whereabouts.

The elders took care of the wedding banquet, but he was like an outsider. He just left early and came back late every day. On the seventh day of the lunar month, he followed his cousin to Cao’s mother-in-law’s house to pick up Li Chunxiu and go to the county town to get married. He was very happy along the way. Shy.

Ms. Li was also a little shy, so neither of them said anything.

The two of them failed to catch the early bus and chartered a privately operated van to go to the county seat. The van did not stop on the way and arrived at the county seat before eleven o'clock.

Brother Zhou and Ms. Li arrived with their IDs, took photos and filled out the forms, and then took them to the ID application window.

There was also a pair of young people in front of them who were applying for a marriage certificate. After the people in front got their certificates and left, the two sat down at the window and handed in the documents.

The staff took a look and said, “Hey, the man, Jiudao Meizijing, is Zhou Xialong?”

That person has been divorced twice, less than half a month since the last divorce, and is getting married again? What speed is this?

The staff was... stunned and surprised. However, marriage is voluntary for both men and women. No one else can interfere, no matter what.Three or four marriages, as long as the person meets the conditions, the staff has no right to refuse or obstruct it.

The staff adhered to their job responsibilities and consulted the opinions of both men and women in a formalized manner according to regulations, reviewed and approved the opinions, and then sent them to the leader for stamping.

The leader took a look, what? Isn't this so and so? He just got divorced and got married?

Are you asking if this chapter will be stamped?

If the conditions are met, both parties are willing, and no stamp is given, isn’t it because you are living too leisurely and want to cause trouble for yourself and get someone to blame?

The leader followed the regulations, pressed down the big seal, and stamped the official seal on the information and red notebook.

The marriage procedure is simple. You only need to pay ninety-nine yuan in exchange for two red books.

After getting the marriage certificate and leaving, Brother Zhou held Li Chunxiu’s hand.

Being held by Brother Zhou, Ms. Li was too embarrassed to raise her head and walked out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, her face still red.

When they got outside, Brother Zhou was also afraid of being laughed at, so he let go of Li Chunxiu's hand, took out a sun umbrella, opened it and raised it over Li Chunxiu's head, and discussed with her what to eat.

Ms. Li didn’t have any objections to eating. Because she had to go home in a hurry, Brother Zhou didn’t put much thought into the food. The two of them went to a fast food restaurant for a simple lunch. Go to the station again.

On the way to the station, we passed through the main street and arrived at a gold store. Brother Zhou took Ms. Li in and picked out a gold ring for her as a wedding gift.

Ms. Li didn’t want to spend money and wanted to take Brother Zhou away, but Brother Zhou refused and insisted on buying it before going to the station.

The two of them arrived at the station and waited for half an hour before taking the 1:30 bus back to Jiudao.

Because Le Xiao’s classmate was busy saving lives and tending the wounded in the hospital, which consumed a lot of mental energy every day, he didn’t call home. He didn’t know that Uncle Zhou and Ms. Li received their certificates on Friday. If they knew the news, they would definitely Contact Uncle Zhou and give her a ride when she returns.

Little Loli didn’t know that Uncle Zhou and Ms. Li were on their way home after receiving their certificates. However, she knew that Mrs. Meng was at the No. 3 Middle School construction site because she smelled the air as soon as she got out of the helicopter. It’s the personal flavor that belongs to Mrs. Meng.

In fact, even if she hadn’t seen anyone yet, Mrs. Meng knew that Miss Lejia had come to No. 3 Middle School when she saw the helicopter appearing over No. 3 Middle School. Now in the entire E Province, the only people who travel by helicopter are Leyun of Meicun, the only one who can fly a helicopter to No. 3 Middle School.

The library of No. 3 Middle School was built with a donation from Miss Le. Sooner or later, Miss Lejia would come to No. 3 Middle School to inspect the quality. Mrs. Meng had already realized this, but when she knew that Miss Lejia had really arrived, Mrs. , I can't help but feel pantothenic.

More than ten days ago, she wasThe mother-in-law of the Le family's little boy's uncle is nominally the closest to the Le family. The villagers in Plum Village and the construction site will smile at each other when they see her.

But now, she has nothing to do with the Meicun Zhou family, and certainly has nothing to do with the Le family. She can't even stay at the construction site of Jiudao Elementary School and has to avoid acquaintances.

The contrast between before and after is so disappointing.

Also because the helicopter came to the No. 3 Middle School, the workers speculated with great interest whether the Lejia girl would come to the construction site. Meng's wife listened to everyone's enthusiastic discussions, and she only hoped that the Lejia girl would not come to the construction site. Will come to the place where I work.