Marriage of the Republic of China

Chapter 31

As the saying goes, good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.

Chen Xiaomo's father sent a letter, reprimanding his son.It is said that he heard rumors, that he went out to meet the market, not only his heart became wild, but also his behavior began to cross the line.The old man was probably out of temper, and threatened him in the letter that if he dared to flirt with others, he would not even think about going to university, and would come to Peiping himself to bring him back to get married.

The reason for this was probably the scene where the fellow who had brought local products to Chen Xiaomo met Zheng Hongsheng and Qin Xuehui to give them extra lessons.I think Qin Xuehui's body language should be blamed for being too rich, and he always likes to pat Chen Xiaomo on the shoulder for nothing, so that those who care about him can see it in his eyes, and go back to add fuel to his reputation to ruin Chen Xiaomo's reputation.

After reading the letter that made Chen Xiaomo depressed to the extreme, Zhou Yunfei lost his temper, and crackled like peas in a bamboo tube: "Didn't you say that your folk customs are simple? I think there are troublemakers out of poor mountains and rivers. Can I see you a little bit?" Okay? Who are these people! Invite them to eat and drink, buy them things, and even speak ill of you when you go back! Xiaomo, let me tell you, with relatives like this, don’t give them good looks in the future!”

"Yunfei, keep your voice down." Fu Wenge often felt that walking on campus with Zhou Yunfei was particularly eye-catching—it was so loud.

Patting Chen Xiaomo's arm to comfort him, he said to Zhou Yunfei, "The smaller the place, the easier it is for people to chew their tongues. Xiaomo feels uncomfortable, so don't put more pressure on him."

Zhou Yunfei raised his chin: "Xiaomo, don't be wronged, I will write back a letter to your old man later to prove your innocence."

"No, the more you draw, the darker it gets." Chen Xiaomo even tossed up the letter paper and envelope, and threw them into the sack used by the janitor to hold fallen leaves, and walked silently with her head bowed.

His family is not in a poor mountain valley, but is a well-known local grain-producing town.As long as there is no catastrophe, the life of every household can be considered passable.The folks were full and had nothing to do, so they made a bunch of cigarettes in the yard, and those gossips became an important part of interpersonal communication.The unpleasant words reached his father's ears, and they might be distorted in some way.

Walking to the school gate, Chen Xiaomo suddenly heard the teacher on duty in the reception room calling his name——

"Chen Xiaomo, this gentleman has been looking for you and has been waiting for you all morning."

Chen Xiaomo stopped, and looked down at the man squatting at the door of the reception room smoking a pipe.The man was about 24 or [-] years old, his hair was blown a little messy, his face looked like it hadn't been washed in three days, and his beard was unshaven.He was wearing a long black gown with a belt tied around his waist, the lower half of which was tied around his waist. His shoes were full of dirt, giving him a dusty look.

Hearing what the teacher said, the man stood up.He knocked the copper mouth of the cigarette pipe on the sole of his shoe, and pinned the pipe back into his lower back. He straightened his body as much as possible, and asked in a slightly cautious tone, "Is it... Xiaomo?"

"You are?" Chen Xiaomo didn't remember having such a relative in her family.Most of the people in the town are of the same clan, and they don't see each other when they look down. Even if they haven't spoken to each other, they can be familiar with each other.

Besides, this person couldn't tell when he was squatting, but when he stood up, he was half a head stronger than Chen Xiaomo.He was broad-shouldered, thick-chested, and looked like a blacksmith.

"I'm Li Chunming."

Li Chunming laughed, his skin was dark, his teeth looked extremely white, and his accent was much heavier than Chen Xiaomo's.He said "I" and pronounced "hungry", and Zhou Yunfei rolled his eyes at Fu Wenge after listening to it.

When Chen Xiaomo heard the words "Li Chunming", she immediately took a step back, almost stepping on Zhou Yunfei's foot.Ignoring the little man complaining behind his back, he asked Li Chunming in an almost reproachful tone: "Why are you here?!"

This Li Chunming is his husband who has not met but has completed the paperwork and is recognized by the law.

"What! I just came to see you." Li Chunming's expression immediately became tense, and the tall man was at a loss for what to do, for fear that Chen Xiaomo would chase him away at the next sentence.He turned around and picked up the bag by the wall, took out two exquisite silverware from inside, and held them in front of Chen Xiaomo. He smiled and said flatteringly, "I did it, and I will send it to you..."

Chen Xiaomo frowned, and after a while, he helplessly raised his hands and rubbed his face.

"Come here, let's go home and have a meal."

In Chen Xiaomo's hometown, what is more famous than food is the gold mine less than twenty miles away from the town, and it is accompanied by copper and silver mines.According to the elders, the mine has been dug since the reign of Qianlong, and it has not been completely dug up to now.

Where there are mines, there will naturally be industries spawned by mine veins.The ancestors of the Li family were ingenious and expert in making gold and silver wares, and it has been passed down to Li Chunming's generation for the fifth generation.The bracelets made by Li Chunming are famous all over the world, because he has studied ink and wash painting for a while, and the patterns of dragon and phoenix showing auspiciousness on the bracelets are so lifelike that anyone who gets married must come here to order a pair.

It stands to reason that it is not difficult to talk about the marriage of the owner who has a lot of silver and shiny gold every day.But in fact, the social status of a craftsman is not high, and the big family will never be able to climb up to it. The matchmaker said that they are all small families.

However, there are very few small families who are willing to send their daughters and half-fathers to school, and Li Chunming is a person with a little ink in his stomach, and he doesn't want to spend his life with an uneducated person who can't even write his own surname.So I kept procrastinating until one day, when my father said that the matchmaker had matched him with a high school graduate, he was immediately moved.

Seeing that his son was finally willing to get married, Mr. Li was too happy, so he immediately agreed to the gift of 500 yuan from his in-laws.You can't make a lot of money by making gold and silver wares. Forging a ring costs about the same as working as a coolie, just enough to eat and drink.What can be saved is the leftover material that has been enriched after filling the mold.Accumulated over time, equal parts are enough to get together and make gold and silver bars.

For his son's marriage, Mr. Li exchanged the two gold bars he had saved for most of his life for oceans, and entrusted a matchmaker to send them to his in-laws.Then he sat at the door of the shop every day, happily smoking pipes and waiting for his daughter-in-law to pass by.

In the end, within two months, I heard that Chen Xiaomo was going to study in Peking after being admitted to university.Seeing that the three thousand five hundred oceans were in vain, and the dream of holding a grandson was also shattered, Mr. Li was so anxious that he almost passed by at that time.He ran to the Chen family's father to make a fuss and asked him to pay back the money.But the Chen family just used the gift money to marry their two sons, and managed to scrape together more than 300 yuan, not even a fraction.

After Li Chunming heard about it, he said that he could wait.To be able to marry a college student into the family is something that smokes from the ancestral grave.Mr. Li is a master who has seen the world. He is worried that Chen Xiaomo will go out and open his eyes and refuse to come back. The Chen family will regret the marriage and lose money.

He invited the patriarch of the Chen family, and gonged and drummed face to face with the old man of the Chen family in the Chen family's ancestral hall. Under the witness of the ancestors of the Chen family, he signed the marriage contract between Chen Xiaomo and Li Chunming.With this document in hand, Mr. Li put his heart back in his stomach.

If the Chen family regrets their marriage in the future, they will have to lose money.If you dare to renege on your debt, the saliva of the clan members can drown them!

Chen Xiaomo led him back to the small courtyard, and told Aunt Fang to fetch a basin of water to wash Li Chunming's face.While Li Chunming was washing his face, Zhou Yunfei pulled Chen Xiaomo aside and asked him which Bodhisattva this person was, which shocked him even a step back.

Hearing that it was "that guy" from Chen Xiaomo's family who came to him, Fu Wenge was quite helpless for him.Compared to the situation where he and Bai Hanchen only had a false name in their marriage contract, Chen Xiaomo's situation was even more embarrassing.After completing the paperwork, it was confirmed, even if Li Chunming touched Chen Xiaomo's bed at night, it would not break the law.

Zhou Yunfei didn't beat around the bush, and directly told Chen Xiaomo Fu Wenge's worries.

"He dares!" Chen Xiaomo shot a ruthless look in his eyes, "I am sleeping with Germany in my arms! At worst, I will be imprisoned and beheaded!"

Fu Wenge quickly persuaded him: "Don't think about things as bad, then Li Chunming is not a scoundrel, um... I see it this way, you go to Yunfei's room to sleep tonight, it really killed people, and you The family can't explain it either."

Chen Xiaomo bit the inside of her lips tightly, clenched her hands into fists, her shoulders and chest slowly rose and fell, her face full of unwillingness.

Not long after, Li Chunming's cautious voice came from behind: "Xiaomo, return your soap..."

The eyes of the three turned to him in unison.I was so disgraced just now that I can't see any better, but now I'll wash it off, and I feel that I still look good.A pair of thick eyebrows flew into the temples, exuding the tough air of a man from the Northwest.

He handed back the box containing the soap to Chen Xiaomo, and being stared at by six eyes, he was too nervous to speak for a moment.After hearing those rumors in his hometown, he couldn't wait any longer. He had to see Chen Xiaomo with his own eyes to confirm that the rumors were all nonsense before he could feel at ease.However, this is not in compliance with the rules. Even if the paperwork is done, according to the old rules, they are not allowed to meet before the hall.

When they met for the first time, he threw out two pieces of silverware as a gift.One was a pocket watch case with a hollowed-out unicorn pattern, and he thought about going back to Wangfujing to match it with a watch.

The other one is a balm box, but he regretted it as soon as he took it out - the balm in the balm box can not only be used to wipe the face, but the box full of smooth ointment is often placed by the bedside, the purpose is self-evident, afraid Teach Chen Xiaomo to misunderstand that he has ulterior motives.

"It's time to eat."

Aunt Fang's voice saved the day.

"My God, Xiaomo, are you guys so good at eating?"

Having seen Li Chunming's appetite, Zhou Yunfei was greatly surprised.He hadn't finished his bowl of rice yet, but Li Chunming's four bowls went down.After hearing this, Fu Wenge kicked Zhou Yunfei's foot under the table, signaling him not to be so direct.

Chen Xiaomo disagrees: "The ones who do farm work eat more than him."

Li Chunming originally wanted to serve the fifth bowl of rice, but Zhou Yunfei felt embarrassed when he said that.He put the bowl down, squatted under the wall and smoked a pipe.

Fu Wenge looked at the rustic Li Chunming, then at Chen Xiaomo who was wearing a student uniform, and heaved a silent sigh in his heart.No wonder Chen Xiaomo likes Zheng Hongsheng's type. Putting Li Chunming next to him seems out of place.

It's not that they are worthy or not, but that the two people exude completely different temperaments, and they are not the same at first glance.Of course, this has nothing to do with dressing, it is also wearing a robe, Bai Hanchen is a handsome young man, but Li Chunming likes to tuck his hem into the waist of his trousers, like driving a car.

——Wait, why should I compare Bai Hanchen with him?

Fu Wenge frowned, trying to squeeze Bai Hanchen's appearance out of his mind.

TBC

The author has something to say: soap is soap, I should not have made a typo

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It is said that Zhou Yunfei's mouth should have been passed on to Director He from another generation...