Chapter 78 once again became a topic of conversation after dinner

“Was it your maternal aunt who introduced her, or your eldest aunt?” Hearing the listless voice, He Wanqing felt heartache but dared not turn around to look at her. She was afraid that her teary eyes would frighten her, and even more afraid that she would ask why she was crying, but wouldn’t speak. “It was my eldest aunt.” As if she had used all her strength, she finished speaking without a trace of energy left. “Who is it? Do you know what they do?” “I heard it’s someone from the army.” “Then why didn’t she introduce him to your cousin?”

He Wanqing was curious. This person was only interested in her own benefit, and only did things that were beneficial to her. She would actually introduce such a good marriage to Shen Ping. She knew that people nowadays were very proud to marry a soldier, but this self-interested person didn’t want it. It was strange no matter how you thought about it. Moreover, her uncle’s family had a cousin, it wouldn’t make sense for it to fall on the daughter of someone who wasn’t favored. “I heard that her cousins all have boyfriends now, so she introduced him to me!” She forced a wry smile. Even her cousin understood, why couldn’t her mother understand?

 Was she, her daughter, less important than her eldest aunt’s daughters? What about having boyfriends, was she trying to fool her? A few days ago, those people were still looking for people to introduce them, how come they all had boyfriends in a few days? Was she trying to make a fool of her? “Having boyfriends, didn’t they not have them a few days ago?” Hearing this, He Wanqing, who already felt something was wrong, sat up abruptly and looked at her.

At this moment, she realized that her tears were no less than hers. She reached out to wipe her tears away: “Crying won’t solve anything, tell me everything, don’t hold back, I’ll figure something out.” Looking at the person who was hugging her and crying, her thoughts flew back to her previous life. She was getting married around this time in her previous life, so she didn’t remember if this happened. She only knew that shortly after her marriage, Fifth Uncle and Fifth Aunt’s family cut off ties, and even drove Fifth Aunt back to her parents’ home.

At that time, she was secretly undermined by Zhu Sanni, and although she went back to her parents’ home every day, she never inquired about this matter. She only heard her mother say a sentence about “harming others and harming oneself” before ending the topic.

 Later, because she was the first to get married and it didn’t go well, the rest of them didn’t have a good time either, and she had less contact with them. And the person Shen Ping married at that time wasn’t introduced by her eldest aunt, so she didn’t know this person. But someone who could make Fifth Uncle make such a decision must be a bad person, maybe everything he said now was fake. “I heard that this family does have someone serving in the army, but it’s not the person the eldest aunt said, this person is very old, seven years older than that person.” “A fake marriage?” This was the first thing that came to her mind. Then she thought again, there were many such things happening in this era, and she instantly understood her eldest aunt’s intentions.

“It should be.” Shen Ping, who had always listened to her grandma talk about gossip, also knew this. But it wasn’t called a fake marriage, it was a substitute blind date, and there were many such things happening in the past two years. “No matter what, you leave it all to Fifth Uncle, he won’t let you go on a blind date with a substitute, even if he has any thoughts, Grandma won’t agree.” Her grandma didn’t take action now, she probably wanted to see what other tricks her mother-in-law’s family had up their sleeve, so she could solve it once and for all, to avoid trouble again and again. “But I’m worried…” She was worried that her mother would deliberately trick her into going, after all, her mother couldn’t tell east from west when it came to her family.

 “Don’t worry, don’t go home to live for now, stay at my house, it just so happens that Big Sister will be lonely after I get married, you can stay here and keep her company.” They didn’t know if it was because they were too loud or if He Mu couldn’t sleep either, but she got up and heard her niece crying, so she immediately pushed open the door and came in to see. “What’s wrong?” Looking at the two sisters hugging each other, He Mu was puzzled. She had just heard crying outside, but when she came in, she only saw her daughter hugging her niece and talking. “Mom, why aren’t you asleep yet?” He Wanqing patted Shen Ping’s back, motioning for her to lie down, then got up to get off the kang. “Don’t get down, tell me, what happened? Was it you, Little Ping, who was crying just now? Did your sister bully you? Tell me, Big Aunt will avenge you.”

 Looking at her niece’s tear-stained face, Shen Yu Niang’s heart trembled. What happened, she was crying like this, her eyes were almost swollen shut. “Mom, do you know about Little Ping’s eldest aunt matchmaking for her?” Feeling Shen Ping lightly scratching her hand, He Wanqing patted her hand, looked up at her mother. “I know, what’s wrong, are you crying over this?” She sat on the edge of the kang, took over her daughter’s hand, and patted Shen Ping’s back.

“Mom, why didn’t you tell me about it?” Looking at her mother’s nonchalant expression, she was very distressed. “What to tell, it’s not real, why should I tell you.” She rolled her eyes at her, then hugged her niece and started to coax her. Half an hour later, watching her mother leave and close the door, the two of them “puffed” out a laugh, looking at each other. “Sister, it’s my fault for making you worry and cry with me.” “It’s okay, since it’s not going to happen, and Grandma and Fifth Uncle have plans, don’t worry about it, just think of it as your mom having a temporary breakdown.” After all, she was the one who would suffer in the end, she didn’t know what she was trying to do. For so many years, she hadn’t learned a lesson.

“Yeah, I don’t care anymore, if my mom wants to cause trouble, let her suffer.” She said with a happy smile, then lay down and pulled the thin blanket over herself. “Right, go to sleep, it’s very late, we have a lot to do tomorrow.” “Okay.” Shen Ping, who had unburdened herself, quickly fell asleep and smiled sweetly, as if she had dreamed of something happy.

He Wanqing, however, couldn’t sleep. She leaned against the wall, looked at the moon outside the window, and her thoughts drifted. Finally, she didn’t know what she thought of, and she fell asleep sitting up. The next day. The whole family was busy from the moment they got up. Except for those who went to work, everyone else was busy.

 It was the He family’s busyness, the brand new house, and the endless stream of things that were sent in by oxcarts. Only then did the villagers realize that what the He family had said yesterday about He Wanqing going to get her marriage certificate wasn’t a lie. He Wanqing, who stayed at home and didn’t go out, watched her sisters-in-law and aunts busy, she wanted to go to the mountain for a walk, but she couldn’t, her grandma was watching her closely.

Because of the things the He family was preparing for the wedding, all of a sudden, the Xu family and He Daniu’s family, who had been hit one after another the day before, were compared again. Especially He Daniu’s family, they were also getting their granddaughter married, He Erniu, with his sons, worked hard to tidy up the new house, and their family was also preparing the food for the wedding banquet the next day.

They also prepared a lot of dowry for He Wanqing, and they took back all the gifts Jiang Zhiqing had given, and even added a lot more. On the other hand, He Daniu’s family didn’t prepare anything, and they even let their daughter-in-law replace the dowry that He Cao had prepared for her with crushed stones. All of a sudden, the comparison between the two families getting their daughters married became the talk of the town.