Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 152: Slip away and get away
Sigu Hu didn't even need to go to the next village to ask people. She herself had seen this young widow fooling around .
One is the production team leader of the next village.
One was a peddler who often came to their area to sell things.
This young widow is quite capable. She has bewitched the production team leader to death. If the team leader's wife was not a pushover, the team leader would have divorced her and married this young widow by now.
Sigu Hu suspected that the production team leader was unwilling to let go of the young widow and wanted to cover up his tracks, so he wanted the young widow to find a man to marry first, and then they could find a chance to continue their affair after they were married... She told this secretly to her son, but her son was like a possessed person, and insisted that the young widow was forced.
He also acted as if he wanted to save the young widow, marry her and give her a warm home.
Pooh!!!
When Hu Sigu thought of her youngest son's perverted look of willingly wearing a cuckold, she became so angry that smoke came out of her nostrils.
If her youngest son and Hu Qiongfang were not cousins, Fourth Aunt Hu really wanted to introduce Hu Qiongfang to her second soldier.
The age difference doesn't matter, they are both widows. Hu Sigu would rather her son marry Hu Qiongfang, a "high-quality widow", than let her son be a living cuckold!
Seeing that her son had fallen in love with the fickle young widow, Hu Sigu was anxious and angry and couldn't sleep all night.
However, there is an opportunity right now. Although I cannot stop my son from marrying that young widow, I can at least separate the two of them first.
Hu Sigu's husband has a distant relative who is a truck driver. He travels to the new province all year round and often doesn't come back for more than half a month. Hu Sigu wants this relative to take his youngest son as an apprentice and teach him how to drive. When he becomes a master in the future, being able to drive is a good skill.
But their family couldn't afford the gift, and this relative was not closely related to her husband by blood. After inquiring for a while, Hu Sigu came up with this good idea.
Although this relative was not short of money, his wife died early, leaving only a daughter in his hometown. Hu Sigu asked around and found out that this relative had actually met Hu Qiongfang and had eaten at Hu Qiongfang's restaurant. He had a good impression of this beautiful and cheerful proprietress.
Hearing that Hu Qiongfang was also a widower, the relative Hu Sigu became interested and asked her to help her arrange the marriage.
He also promised Hu Sigu that as long as she could find Hu Qiongfang to be his wife, he would not only accept Hu Erbing as his apprentice, but also give Hu Sigu an extra 50 yuan as a matchmaker's gift.
Sigu Hu didn't come here for the money, but she could help her son find a job and earn fifty yuan at the same time. Who would refuse such a good thing?
Hu Qiongfang didn't know that someone was trying to . She brought her two children to Hejiaaozi, and as soon as she entered the door, she was warmly received by Mr. He and his wife.
Old Mrs. He hugged Jiang Tian tightly and refused to let go. She asked her if she was tired of running the store, how many days she could stay at home during the New Year, and whether she had time to come and stay with them for a few days.
Jiang Tian said with a smile that she was not tired, and said that she would go to the He family to have the New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve, and then go back to her grandfather’s house after the meal. After the fifth day of the New Year, she would go to the He family again to wish the two elders a happy new year.
"This year is the first year since my father passed away... Grandpa said that you two are old and these taboos cannot be violated. He told me to have a New Year's Eve dinner and then go back, and come back to wish you and grandma a happy new year after the fifth day of the new year." Jiang Tian explained vaguely.
Mr. He understood immediately.
Two people in the Jiang family died this year. Although Jiang Tian changed her surname and was considered the granddaughter of the He family, the blood relationship could not be severed. In the first year after her father's death, according to the rules of the older generation, the three of them, mother and son, could not visit relatives during the New Year, and guests would not come to their house to cause trouble.
There are not as many rules as before. In the first year of mourning, you can still exchange gifts with relatives. However, if there are elderly people in the other party’s family, you have to be careful. You can give gifts, but you cannot stay overnight.
Grandpa He didn't force it. The old couple knew Jiang Tian would come, so they prepared all kinds of delicious food and drinks early on, and also gave Jiang Tian and Jiang Cheng a big red envelope.
When I returned from He's house, it was already the evening of the 29th day of the lunar year.
In preparation for tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner, smoke was coming out of the chimneys of every household in the village that evening, and all kinds of pickled meats were stewing in big pots.
Salted duck, salted goose, air-dried chicken, and bacon all need to be cooked first, then taken out, cut into pieces, and served on a plate. When eating, just heat them in the rice pot.
You also need to heat up another pan with oil to fry meatballs, tofu cakes, fried Sanzi hemp leaves, peanuts, etc.
At this time, you can tell which man is reliable and which man is unreliable.
A reliable man will definitely sit obediently under the stove on the 29th night of the lunar year. His wife will fry tofu while he lights the fire, and the couple will talk and laugh.
An unreliable man will rush out after dinner as if he will be beheaded if he stays at home, and will call up some bad friends to play cards, mahjong, or Pai Gow, leaving his wife at home to curse at him.
Every time this happened, the two aunts of the Hu family would be particularly grateful to their parents-in-law.
Because their parents-in-law educated them well, the brothers Hu Jianguo and Hu Jianjun stay home obediently during the Chinese New Year every year and help their parents, who have already separated from their parents, to sweep the house and put up Spring Festival couplets.
After finishing my work, I went home to help my wife prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner.
This year, because Hu Qiongfang is spending the New Year with her children at her parents' home, the two families discussed it and decided to have the New Year's Eve dinner at Hu's new house. There would be no preparation at home. They would visit their grandparents' graves next morning, light firecrackers, and then return to the provincial road to celebrate the New Year.
Fortunately, they ran so fast that Fourth Aunt Hu couldn't even wait until the first day of the New Year. On the night of New Year's Eve, after eating the New Year's Eve dinner, she shamelessly ran to Grandpa Hu's house with the children from the village who came out to pay New Year's greetings.
When we got there, we saw only a cold "Iron General" guarding the door.
Where are the people?
"Are you asking about Jianguo's family? They all went back to Shuangfeng Town to celebrate the New Year!"
"Oh, what's so strange about this? If I had a big tiled house with eight rooms in front and back in town, I would also be happy to celebrate the New Year in town. The town is so lively. I heard that we can even watch movies during the New Year. What is there in the village?" The neighbor was eating melon seeds and gossiping with Aunt Hu.
Sigu Hu felt lost, as if someone had poured a large basin of cold water over her head, and she sobered up instantly.
Before, she didn't think that they had become estranged from Grandma Hu's family just because they made money. No matter how rich Grandma Hu was, she was still her cousin and they were all family. Why should there be any distinction between them?
But now, Sigu Hu suddenly realized that they and Grandma Hu's family seemed to be from two different worlds.
She wanted to rely on her kinship to come to the village and pester Grandma Hu to act as a matchmaker.
But Grandma Hu didn't have to pay any attention to her at all. She turned around and took her whole family to their new house in town to celebrate the New Year.
"What are you so proud of? Isn't it just building a big house in the town? When my second soldier learns the skill and drives a truck, maybe he can go to the provincial capital to eat the public grain." Si Gu Hu thought angrily.
