Chapter 1554 Lost an opportunity (2 updates

At the end of the first lunar month, Grandma Zhou was taken to live with the Le family again. She didn’t have to look at her daughter-in-law’s face or worry about her granddaughter’s marriage. She was in a very good mood and ate She smells so good and is in great health.

She has always remembered what her third aunt said about returning to Meicun to visit the tombs during the Qingming Festival. She was afraid that the Song family would come back and make excuses to go to Le's house when she saw her. The family took the opportunity to marry, causing trouble for the son-in-law and the girl, so that they could go back to their home three days before the Qingming Festival.

Sister-in-law Zhou signed an agreement for Zhou Chunmei to marry at the Liu family, and she was in a good mood , secretly waiting for the girl to become an old lady after she got married, and fearing that Zhou Xialong would regret it, she did not run to her parents' house, but stayed at Zhou's house, keeping an eye on Zhou Xialong's actions.

The head mother-in-law left the Le family. When she came back to live, she felt even more nervous. She was afraid that her mother-in-law would instigate Zhou Xialong to break the agreement and ask Zhou Chunmei to return to the Zhou family to get married. She was always on guard. There was no other improvement, and her reconnaissance ability was improving day by day.

Grandma Zhou came home We had just stayed for two days. On the day before Qingming Festival, the Song family came again.

There are four people in the Song family, Zhou Shirley, Song Pengcheng and his wife brought their two sons. The grandchildren wanted to study, but they didn’t bring them with them. Back to Jiudao, the four of them went back to Meicun to sweep the graves.

It was already afternoon when the Song family arrived at Brother Zhou’s house. Brother Zhou was not at home, but Grandma Zhou and Aunt Zhou were at home. Aunt Zhou saw that the Song family was a little confused. I can’t remember who it was at all.

When Zhou Xueli saw Zhou Xialong’s wife, she enthusiastically took the hands of her nephews’ daughter-in-law, one on the left and the other on the right, and they called her sweet.
< br />Grandma Zhou said in a calm tone: "Xiao Liu, they are the third sister and third brother-in-law of Xia Long's father. They came back once on the fourth day of the first lunar month this year. It is not convenient to go up the mountain in the first month of the year. They come back to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival. They have a lot of housework, so they will go tomorrow You will be in a hurry to go back when you get to the mountain. You don’t need to clean up the guest room. Just let them stay in Chunmei Tianming for one night.”

“Oh, it’s the third aunt and the third uncle. You guys go to the main room and sit down first." My mother-in-law explained who the guests were. Sister-in-law Zhou greeted them and invited the four people into the main room to be entertained by my mother-in-law. She went to find some melon seed candies that could entertain the guests.

On the Qingming Festival in April, the spring cold had not gone, and the main room was a bit cold. Grandma Zhou did not want to wrong herself, so she took her third aunt and her family to sit in the kitchen. The Song family came back the day before the Qingming Festival and made up their mind to stay one night. She took it as a Leave ordinary friends to stay at home, treat them indifferently without enthusiasm or cold face.

Sister-in-law Zhou took candies for relatives to eat, and followed her mother-in-law's instructions to go down to the second floor to clean up Chunmei and Tianming's room, both rooms are fully equipped with everything, just a little tidying up.

The face of the sister-in-law is not as cold as the first month of the year. Zhou Shirley is secretly happy, and is not in a hurry to ask for gossip, focusing on Qingming. Things like visiting graves or feeling like the village has changed a lot.Talk about trivial things about life that are not important.

Grandma Zhou didn’t give any relatives a cold look, and the atmosphere was quite good.

After sitting and chatting for a long time, the Zhou family’s daughter-in-law was going to the garden to look for vegetables. Zhou Xueli looked at the opportunity and followed her for a walk in the garden. When she got to the vegetable garden, she first praised the neatness of the vegetables and the people who grew them. He was a good hand, and he pretended to be casual and asked: "My nephew-in-law, dawn is far away and I can't visit the grave. Why hasn't our grand-niece Chunmei come back yet?"

"You mean Chunmei? , Chunmei has to go to work, and is busy preparing for her wedding. She probably won’t have time to come back during the Qingming Festival this year.” The child’s third aunt’s grandma cared about Chunmei, and Sister-in-law Zhou was very happy, and told the good news that her girl was getting married as if to show off.

"Hey, Chunmei is getting married. This is a big event. When will she get married? The wedding has to be a big event. Should we do it in the village or go to a hotel to have a banquet? Where is Chunmei's partner from? He is a promising person."

Zhou Xueli was stunned. They really had not found out that Zhou Chunmei was planning to get married. When did this happen and if it was agreed upon recently.

"Chunmei's partner is from a neighboring county. The husband's family is a mining boss and his family is quite good. The two have been dating for a long time. They are scheduled to get married on May Day next month. The husband doesn't care how soon. For a small amount of money, we will have a banquet at the hotel..."

His daughter has found a rich family. Sister-in-law Zhou is so proud that she wants to let the whole village know how good the girl is. Naturally, Taking the opportunity to brag, he almost praised the man's family and the girl to the heavens.

Zhou Shirley was stunned for a while. She remembered that her son once said that Zhou Chunmei was similar to most rural girls. She had a family spirit and didn’t look like she was blessed. According to her niece’s words, Zhou Chunmei was Marrying high, could it be that the ancestors of the old Zhou family opened their eyes and blessed the girl from the Zhou family to have great luck and be attracted by a wealthy family?

She was surprised in her heart, but she didn't show anything on the surface. She praised her again, saying, "What is it that is blessed, what is smart and generous," rich people have good taste, they fell in love with a girl from the Zhou family, and so on. He did not hesitate to talk and praised his grandniece as a flower.

That meal of ecstasy soup also made Mrs. Zhou dizzy, unable to tell the difference between east, west and north. She naturally asked and answered questions, and the relationship between the two instantly became closer, like a close aunt and nephew.

Zhou Chunmei’s wedding is a good opportunity to get closer. Zhou Shirley was naturally very interested and asked a lot of questions, focusing on the specific date of Zhou Chunmei’s wedding, the formal banquet on that day, and the hotel where There, she and her sons also came back to have a wedding drink and some happiness.

When asked where the hotel where Zhou Chunmei’s wedding reception was held was, Sister-in-law Zhou blurted out: “The groom’s family is from the neighboring county of Zhu County, and the hotel is also set in Zhu County.”

Zhou Shirley paused:"It's normal for the husband's family to book a hotel in their county. It's impossible for the Zhou family's hotel to be booked there. There's no reason for the Zhou family's family to go to a neighboring county to have a drink."

"Chunmei is getting married at my grandma's house, so the hotel will naturally be located in Zhuxian County." Sister-in-law Zhou didn't think so much, so she answered casually.

"What?" Zhou Shirley suspected that her ears were prematurely deaf, and her voice raised an octave: "Chunmei got married at her grandmother's house? Where does this come from? Zhou Chunmei's surname is Zhou, and Chunmei's grandmother and father live together. You have to be good, there is no reason to marry in grandma's house, what does the man mean? What does grandma's house mean? Maybe he thought that the Zhou family was dead and no one could speak, so he did such a shameless thing. "

Grandma's voice was sharp, and Sister-in-law Zhou's mind, which was dizzy with excitement, suddenly became clear, and the skin on her back was tense. She explained sarcastically: "Third aunt, grandma's house is close to the husband's house. It’s convenient to pick up the bride, and your nephew Xia Long also agreed to Chunmei’s marriage at my grandma’s house.”

Zhou Shirley looked at his nephew’s wife suspiciously for several times, intuitively there was a story in it, so he didn’t ask any more, and she just picked it up. After picking up the vegetables, we returned to Zhou’s house. Xia Long’s wife went to wash the vegetables. She returned to the kitchen and said a few words about how good the vegetables in the garden were. She seemed to have asked casually: “Daughter-in-law, my nephew, I heard that Chunmei is ready.” We are getting married, when will we post to inform our relatives and friends?"

"That's what happened," my aunt deliberately asked the topic, and Grandma Zhou did not avoid it: "Xia Long's wife and The family decided to let Chunmei get married at her grandma's house, but Chunmei actually got married at her grandma's house. Hosting the banquet and sending out invitations were all the business of her grandma's house, and the Zhou family didn't take that kind of care."

Song Pengcheng originally heard from his wife that Zhou Chunmei was getting married, and secretly thought that this was an opportunity to get closer to the Zhou family. He was thinking about how many gifts he would prepare to earn face for his family. But when his sister-in-law said that Zhou Chunmei was getting married at her grandmother's house, the whole situation Everyone was confused. What, Zhou Chunmei got married at her grandmother’s house?

To be honest, if his girl had proposed to return to her grandmother's house to get married while he and his close relatives from the Song family were still alive, he would have kicked her out immediately, as if he had never given birth to such an unfilial daughter.

He couldn’t afford to be embarrassed if the girl got married to her grandmother’s house.

However, now the girl from the Zhou family is going to marry at her grandmother's house. It seems that the Zhou family has agreed to it, as is his wife's sister-in-law's sister-in-law?

Song Pengcheng asked in disbelief: "His aunt, a girl from the Zhou family is getting married at her grandmother's house. Isn't this inappropriate? It's not in line with etiquette, and someone will poke her in the back."

“It’s not up to the father to let the children grow up, and it’s not up to the girls to stay in the family. Zhou Chunmei and her mother think it’s better to marry into her grandma’s house, so let them do it. A married woman will throw away the water. When a girl gets married, she will have to leave it to her. Once you have a family, the quality of your life has little to do with your natal family, so Chunmei can get married wherever she wants."

Grandma Zhou is very calm. The girl from the Zhou family got married at her grandma’s house. She and Xia Long will not be the ones who get poked in the back in the future. If others want to scold the Liu family, they will scold the Liu family for not knowing etiquette. She doesn’t have to worry about it, let alone get angry because of it. Idle spirit.

The sister-in-law of her natal family made a pun, and Song Pengcheng also understood. The sister-in-law does not care where Zhou Chunmei gets married, because the married girl throws water on her. The married girl is the daughter-in-law of another family, and honor and disgrace are related to each other. The husband's family is one and has little to do with the natal family.

Similarly, Zhou Shirley is also a girl from the Zhou family, and like water thrown away, whether her life is good or bad after marrying into the Song family has nothing to do with the Zhou family.

It has to be said that the older the sister-in-law is, the more powerful she becomes. Song Pengcheng thought of a word, "Three days apart, you should look at each other with admiration." Nowadays, the sister-in-law of the mother's family should not be underestimated, and she can no longer be treated like her. She was treated like the ignorant country woman she was before.

Zhou Shirley also heard some clues and started to care. It seemed that her nephew’s daughter-in-law was not liked by her sister-in-law. Zhou Chunmei also refused to recruit her grandma and her father because she was getting married at her grandma’s house. They like her, so their family doesn't have to work hard on Zhou Chunmei and Xia Long's wife, and there is no need to prepare any big gifts for Zhou Chunmei's wedding.

Song Deyang and Song Dexu were not stupid either. He figured out some clues from his aunt's tone and knew how to deal with it. He never mentioned Zhou Chunmei's marriage.

Sister-in-law Zhou was washing vegetables when she heard Third Aunt running to tell her mother-in-law about Chunmei getting married at her grandmother's house. She was very nervous at first, fearing that Third Aunt would instigate her mother-in-law to cause trouble, and the mother-in-law would become the leader. She felt relieved that she didn't care, and she also made a note of her third aunt in her heart. What does an aunt who is married to a foreigner do to take care of her mother's family affairs?

Especially since the third aunt has been married for so many years and is separated from her by two generations, how can she have the nerve to instigate her mother-in-law to control where her granddaughter gets married? She was meddling in other people's business,

She thought the third aunt was too nosy, and Sister-in-law Zhou didn't really like the Song family, so naturally she couldn't show any enthusiasm, and her attitude was much colder.

The old lady of the Zhou family didn't talk about Zhou Chunmei's marriage, and the Song family was smart enough to pretend that they didn't know about it. No one mentioned it, they only talked about insignificant things, and the chat became more and more speculative.

Someone was building a house in a village across Jiudao Street. Brother Zhou and several buddies in the village went to work. He and his companions went out early and came back late, and did not finish work until evening.

When Brother Zhou returned home and saw the Song family, he was not surprised or surprised. He treated them as ordinary guests. When chatting with the cousins ​​of the third aunt's family, he never took the initiative to talk about the affairs of his brother-in-law's family.

The Song brothers whispered for a while while sleeping and exchanged opinions. They had the same view. They felt that their cousin and aunt did not value Zhou Chunmei. Zhou Chunmei did not have much say in the Zhou family. There was no need for them to be in the Zhou family. Zhou Chunmei put a lot of thought into it, so there was no need to drink wedding wine or anything like that.

Zhou Chunmei is not getting married in the Zhou family, and the Zhou family does not hold wedding banquets. They do not have to come back to have a wedding banquet, and they also lose an opportunity to get close to the Zhou family. So, now that everyone knows that Zhou Chunmei is getting married, do you want to give her a wedding banquet? Red envelope?

The two brothers thought about it over and over, and finally reached an agreement that they should skip the red envelopes. The old cousin was not willing to marry them in the first place, so if they gave red envelopes, it would not be for grandma and her parents. Face, my old cousin may think they have no eyesight, and I don’t like them even more.

The next day is Qingming Festival, the day to sweep tombs and worship ancestors.

Brother Zhou and his companions also had three days off to visit their ancestors' graves or manage the crops at home. Therefore, he did not go to work that day and went up the mountain to sweep the tombs with his Zhou family members.

The four members of the Song family came back to sweep the tomb, and they also brought the papyrus used for sweeping the tomb, and brought back the meat cut on the street. They had dinner on the morning of Qingming Festival, and cooked the meat with the Zhou family’s mother and son. I took small pots, bowls, cups and other supplies and put them in my backpack.

On Qingming Festival, God was lucky, it didn’t rain and it was a cloudy day.

At around eight o'clock in the morning, Village Chief Zhou Bapi and others packed up, set off, and went to Zhou Xialong's house to call Grandma Zhou and her family to accompany them.

This time, Brother Zhou agreed with his sister and brother-in-law in advance that sweeping the grave would not be feasible, so as not to let the Song family take advantage of the situation. Therefore, Brother Zhou waited until his cousins ​​​​arrived and set off immediately.

A team of dozens of people from the Zhou family headed towards the mountains. Song Pengcheng wondered why Zhou Qiufeng and the Le family were not traveling together?

The Song brothers were also puzzled. The information they found out was that the Le family and the Zhou family usually went together to visit graves in the past. Why didn't they go together this year?

They wanted to find out the reason, but were afraid of being noticed by others, so they refrained from asking and walked all the way to the foot of the mountain and climbed the mountain.

Le’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, waited until the Zhou family had set off for about half an hour before setting off with incense and paper for ancestor worship, Leshan and the wolf dog, and Mr. Hua also accompanied him.

The youngest of the ants, he naturally abided by the "family customs" and avoided it the day before Qingming Festival. He stayed in the south building of Lejia to eat cold food, and naturally did not show up on Qingming Festival.

The old man just didn’t wander around, and didn’t avoid Huayan and Leshan. He still supervised Leshan’s reading and walking, and he didn’t relax his teachings to his little disciple.

Le’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, took Leshan to the mountain, accompanied by Mr. Hua’s heavyweight bodyguard, to visit the graves of the first two generations of the Le family, and then to visit the ancestors of the Chen family. After sweeping the grave, I went to pay homage to my kind-hearted grandfather, and then went down the mountain to go home.

They didn’t know when the Zhou family would return home, and they didn’t want to meet the Song family who were in the Zhou family. They didn’t make any other delays on the way to sweep the tomb. They didn’t dig bamboo shoots or wild vegetables. They just left after sweeping the tomb and returned home.It’s not yet noon home.

Brother Zhou and others paid tribute to the ancestors of the Zhou family and did not return home until mid-afternoon. It was quite late after dinner, so the Song family naturally stayed and stayed overnight.

The next day, because the Song brothers had their own affairs, they naturally had to go back to Changshi. Song Pengcheng and Zhou Shirley wanted to stay a few more days, but the Zhou family's mother and son did not accept guests, so they had no choice but to go home with their sons.