Read Novel Full Chapter 159
Chapter 159 : Country Wife
“Mom, what are you doing with this? Save the eggs at home for my younger brothers and sisters to nourish their bodies. You can eat the pears. You must be tired after sitting in the car for such a long time.”
Zhao Jingui touched her hair and said, “Eat your food, there’s more at home. Once you go out, you won’t be as comfortable as you are at home. You have to be careful about everything, and you can’t be as willful as you are at home…”
Zhao Jingui’s voice choked up as she spoke, and she turned away, “Eat quickly, Lizi, you eat too, and you two sisters should have a good talk.”
“Mom, what are you doing? Don’t cry!” Li Chunlan hugged Zhao Jingui and leaned her face against her shoulder. “I’m married in the county, not far away. I can be back in a short time by car. If you miss me, I will come back immediately.”
Zhao Jingui poked her head in frustration and said, “What are you talking about? I’m telling you, don’t come back home if you don’t have anything to do, or you might upset your parents-in-law.”
Li Chunlan was not happy. “If I can’t go home whenever I want, then I won’t get married and stay at home with you for the rest of my life!”
“Nonsense! You bad girl have been staying at home for so many years, I’ve been fed up with you for a long time, go away!” Zhao Jingui said this, but the look she gave Li Chunlan was full of love, and there was a smile on her face.
“I’ve seen Huaimin, he’s a good kid. He’s lively, innocent, and good to you. I’m relieved.”
“Mom…why don’t you tell me that I’m good-looking, smart, and virtuous. It’s a blessing for him to marry me.”
“Yes, yes, you are both blessed.”
“Jingui, come and take a look, is this dish okay to cook like this?”
The aunt outside was calling for help, and Zhao Jingui responded, “You guys eat, I’ll go out and take a look.”
After hearing what Aunt Jingui said, the atmosphere became a little depressing. Li Chunlan stared at her mother’s busy figure in the yard and finally couldn’t hold back her tears.
Jiang Li wiped them for her, “You are such a grown-up and still have your pimples falling out. Aren’t you ashamed?”
Under Jiang Li’s deliberate jokes, Li Chunlan adjusted her mentality and continued talking.
“What was I talking about? Yes, it was the gossip in the village that made my parents sick,” Li Chunlan felt angry when she thought about it.
“At that time, that idiot’s mother asked the matchmaker in front of her, ‘Did I jump into the water to save someone? Did I expose my body to others?'”
“He was just standing there with a gloomy face. He was usually cheerful and carefree, but that day he just turned around and left.
After a while, he came back, took out a passbook from his pocket, and stuffed it into my hand.”
…
“Comrade Li Chunlan, take this.”
“This is?”
“This is the money I saved from working for so many years, it’s not much. If you are willing to agree, part of it will be used as a betrothal gift, and the other part will be kept by you. I have an older brother and a younger sister. My brother got married and moved out, and my younger sister is in junior high school…”
“Wait a minute? Who said I was going to marry you?”
Li Chunlan threw the passbook back into Tang Huaimin’s arms, her pretty face darkening, “You listened to the nonsense said by those stupid people in the village, and you want to be responsible for me, right?”
“I tell you, I saved you for my heart. I can’t watch a living person drown in front of me. I’m not seeking anything, and you don’t have to sacrifice your marriage for this!”
“I am not…”
Tang Huaimin was so anxious that his face turned red. Seeing Li Chunlan turn around and leave, he hurriedly ran over to stop her.
“Chunlan, wait a minute, I’m not taking responsibility. That…”
Tang Huaimin’s tongue was tied. The more critical the moment, the harder it was to speak. “I like you! I want you to be my wife.”
The sound was so loud that it echoed throughout the reed marsh and startled several wild ducks. Several girls came out from the reed marsh and looked at Tang Huaimin and Li Chunlan with smiles on their faces.
“Chunlan, just agree to him!”
“Yes, look at him rushing to our Bailutang again and again. The soles of his shoes are almost worn out. Don’t you believe what he said?”
The people who were talking were all childhood friends of Li Chunlan. The girls were talking to each other, making Tang Huaimin blush.
Li Chunlan turned around and ran, and even her basket fell by the river. It wasn’t until someone brought it back to her.
She covered her pounding heart, her face was red for half the afternoon, and she couldn’t sleep at night. The words kept repeating in her mind, “I want you to be my wife.”
She didn’t know what this feeling was, but it was different from when she first liked Chang Jinguang.
At that time, she looked at Chang Jinguang as if she was looking at the sun in the sky. She didn’t dare to get close to him, and she felt a little uneasy in her heart.
But when facing that silly Tang Huaimin, she felt a little happy, a little proud, and even deliberately got a little angry at him.
Seeing how anxious he was, she felt at ease and relieved, as if she had a sense of security that someone was holding her in his heart and cherishing her.
It was as if she knew that he was hers and no one could take him away from her.
…
Amid the crackling sound of firecrackers and the joyous atmosphere, Tang Huaimin rushed into the new house.
As soon as he came in, he saw Li Chunlan dressed like a fairy, and his face was full of pride and joy. His wife was so beautiful.
The crowd was crowded, and the relatives of the Tang family were clamoring to see the bride, and they crowded into the bridal chamber in waves. Tang Huaimin approached Li Chunlan and whispered, “Wife, you look so beautiful today! You smell so good…”
Li Chunlan looked really good today, with willow-shaped eyebrows and a beautiful face. Her hair was piled up high, leaving some lively curly bangs and sideburns in the front.
On the earlobes, the teardrop-shaped beaded earrings sparkled, reflecting the luster of the bright red lipstick.
The wedding dress was brought back from Haicheng by Jiang Li specially. It was a red suit with a knee-length pleated skirt. A brown oval leather belt was used in the middle to show off the slender waist. On her feet were a pair of red Mary Jane leather shoes.
“Oh my god, girls change a lot when they grow up. How come Xiaolan has become so beautiful?”
The older sister who was eating sunflower seeds nearby said, “Look at her socks, they are transparent and have patterns on them, so pretty!”
“That’s right. I heard that Jiang Jiali brought it back from Haicheng. People outside are really particular. They can even make socks so beautiful.”
“Look at those patent leather shoes. They can be used as a mirror!”
“This Jiang Li has really become a big boss. The Li family is so wealthy just by doing anything.”
Many people had this idea, but Jiang Li didn’t know it. She was following the wedding procession to the county. As a relative of the bride, she had to have a meal at the groom’s home before leaving.
Tang Huaimin came from a well-off family. His father was a bus driver, and his mother worked as a clerk in a hospital. The family lived in the staff dormitory of the county hospital, a two-bedroom, one-living-room house. This time, their wedding banquet was held in a state-owned hotel.
Jiang Li and Qi Shaoqiang first followed the wedding procession into the family area to deliver the dowry, and many onlookers were chatting on the side.
“Didn’t they say that the second young master of the Tang family married a country girl?”
“Yes, that’s right, I heard it’s not far from here.
The woman has no job, but just because she saved Huaimin once, she started to blame him and cried and made a scene, asking the Tang family to be responsible.”