Chapter 5

“What do you mean the cucumbers are not delicious? You are such a bullshit guy.” Hu Xianglan looked at her daughter unhappily. No matter how bad the cucumbers she cooked were, she couldn’t make people cry, right?

Besides, how could she not know how to make mixed cucumbers?

Would you like to eat those slices of cucumber? It hurts my teeth to chew. Spit it out? Even worse, that would be tantamount to not giving people face in person.

Xu Ning hardened her heart and chewed it a few times before swallowing it whole. The resulting toothache caused her tears to fall in strings.

Oh my god, her teeth!

She is so miserable! Her father doesn’t love her, her mother doesn’t care about her, and she’s still a poor person, but she really doesn’t want to travel through the book~

She hasn’t even spent the more than 3,000 yuan she received from her part-time job last month! She would rather donate it than give it to the bank…

Ah~ So sad~

This isn’t the kind I want.

Physical tears mixed with tears of sadness in her heart, Xu Ning cried so miserably that she couldn’t even eat.

“Sister-in-law, what’s wrong with you?” He Wanjiao’s eyes also turned red. She was most afraid of people crying, and she would cry whenever she saw sad scenes on TV.

Even Hu Xianglan put down her chopsticks and stared at Xu Ning. Could it be that she was crying because she didn’t want to get married?

Xu Ning shook her head and covered one side of her face with her hand, “My teeth are sore.”

The tooth was clearly in her mouth, and it was as hard as usual, but she felt it was soft and couldn’t be touched at all.

“You must have eaten too much preserved fruit just now! My sister-in-law blames me for always letting you eat too much.” He Wanjiao ate with them, but she was so busy talking about her brother’s merits that she didn’t actually eat much.

She couldn’t remember how many times she had stuffed it into her sister-in-law’s hand. Anyway, whenever she saw that her sister-in-law had no more, she would immediately grab a handful…

This really can’t be blamed on He Wanjiao. The main reason was that Xu Ning herself didn’t refuse and even enjoyed the meal very much. She shook her head. “It’s not your fault. You didn’t put it in my mouth.”

Seeing that the little girl was about to cry, she reached out and patted her head, “It’s just a little uncomfortable, it will be fine after a while.”

Hu Xianglan secretly put her mind at ease, picked up her chopsticks and continued to eat, and also said: “Don’t eat for now if your teeth are sore, drink some porridge instead.”

“Okay.” Xu Ning held the porridge in the bowl and drank it slowly. The rice grains were soft and melted in the mouth. It was very fragrant and tasted like home.

When Xu Ning was a child, she would drink the porridge her mother cooked over a low fire when she came home from school. It has been so long that she has forgotten what it tasted like.

You say she is miserable? The original owner was even worse off than her.

She has such a hard life! He wore someone who was even worse off than himself.

Although her parents are divorced, she lives alone and at least she is self-reliant and no one bullies her.

But the original owner was more miserable. Her family looked down on her because she was a girl and would roll their eyes and get scolded if she ate a few more bites of food. After she finally grew up, her parents thought she was pretty and wanted to sell her for a good price.

Since the original owner was sixteen years old, the couple started to compare prices, hoping to find a family that could afford a high price. As for the actual conditions of those people, they didn’t care. What’s wrong with being an old bachelor? The old bachelor is caring.

This process of comparing three companies here and there dragged on for more than three years. Originally, they had their eyes on a widower in the town, who was willing to pay 110 yuan as a dowry. The old couple wanted more and insisted on 120 yuan, but they didn’t expect the widower to change his mind and marry a girl from the neighboring village for 80 yuan.

After discussing everything, they got nothing out of it and the old couple were heartbroken. This time they learned their lesson and didn’t bargain. When Qian Sanhong asked for one hundred yuan, they agreed immediately.

The money you get in your hands is real. No matter how much you say, it’s all false if you can’t get it.

He Beian, who came home from get off work, pushed open the kitchen door and lifted the curtain. Before he entered, he met three pairs of eyes looking at him from the kitchen.

Looking up at him was a completely subconscious action. After discovering that it was He Beian who came back, Xu Ning lowered her head in time and acted like a turtle. Anyway, she was already here and couldn’t leave, so she had to stay.

As for whether He Beian is willing? This will be left to Hu Xianglan to handle.

Anyway, Xu Ning’s goal is to survive until the 1980s, then get divorced and start a business. Who doesn’t have the dream of becoming a boss?

She is not an ungrateful person. Although she will not become a real couple with He Beian, she can promise not to cheat.

During his reign, he vowed to protect He Beian’s head to the death, and he would never be cuckolded.

“Mom, why did you keep her here?” He Beian didn’t go into the kitchen. He stood at the door with a gloomy face looking at the female comrade who lowered her head. He thought his mother didn’t let him into the house in the afternoon because the blind date didn’t go through, so why did she let him stay for dinner?

The rice in Hu Xianglan’s hand suddenly lost its flavor. She looked at her son’s dead look and realized that he didn’t know how to save face for his female comrade at all. Even if he wanted to ask, he would do it behind her back.

Ignoring He Beian, Hu Xianglan asked the two of them, “Have you two eaten enough?”

Xu Ning and He Wanjiao nodded at the same time, and they both understood each other tacitly and didn’t say anything.

“Jiaojiao, let your sister-in-law sleep with you tonight. You two should go back to your room first.” Seeing that they were full, Hu Xianglan started to chase them away.

He Wanjiao stood up and pulled her sister-in-law out. When they reached the kitchen door, she said cautiously but loudly, “Brother, please move aside. Let’s go out.”

He Beian glanced down at them, then took a step back and left the kitchen door.

After the two of them left, he walked into the kitchen, closed the door, and stood inside the door and said, “Mom, let her go home tomorrow. I said I won’t get married.”

The 1.80-meter-tall man stood at the door, blocking the kitchen door behind him. He was not ugly, but he always had a sullen face. The key point was that his face was dark. It’s okay if the panel is black, but he also likes to wear all black. He was dressed in black and stood there with a stern face. He didn’t look like a good person at all.

Hu Xianglan sat at the dinner table, looking at He Beian who was standing. The thing she regretted most in her life was letting him join the army. If he hadn’t joined the army, he wouldn’t have been injured.

He looks fierce, is deaf in his left ear, has an unpleasant personality, and has a bad reputation. It is very difficult to find a wife for him.

“Beian, I dreamed about your father the day before yesterday, and he asked me to go downstairs to accompany him.” Hu Xianglan’s voice was gentle, as if she was chatting casually, “I told him to wait for me, and I would go find him after I found you a wife. He thought I was too slow, and said that if I kept dragging my feet, he would not wait for me.”

He Beian was silent. He knew that his mother could not let go of his father after his death. His mother had deep feelings for his father, which neither he nor Jiaojiao could compare to.

Hu Xiangyu continued slowly, “Your father has passed away for five years. I was really afraid that when he came to pick me up one day, he would blame me for your condition. Just think of it as a way for me to face him and put up with it for a while, okay?”

By the end of her speech, her voice was trembling a little. She was really afraid that her son would still not be willing.

After a long silence, He Beian finally spoke: “Mom, if I marry a wife in this situation, I will harm her. Why bother?”

It’s not that he didn’t want to fulfill his mother’s wish, but he had seen the female comrades he went on blind dates avoid him like the plague, as if marrying him would ruin their lives. One person thought so, two people thought so, and now he felt the same way.

“How can it be considered as harming others? Bei’an, you are my son. I know how outstanding you are better than anyone else.” The two of them had discussed this matter countless times, but she could not change his mind every time. So Hu Xianglan simply did not take it seriously this time. “The girl just now was called Xu Ning. She came from the countryside. She had never had enough to eat or wear since she was a child. Her parents wanted to marry her to an old bachelor in his forties or fifties. Her life was very hard. Marrying her to you would not harm her, would it?”

She exaggerated a lot about Xu Ning’s situation. If she didn’t make her sound more pitiful, Hu Xianglan would be afraid that He Beian would be stubborn and unwilling to learn. She didn’t understand. He was just deaf in one ear, not completely deaf. How come her once so outstanding son became someone looked down upon by everyone?

If someone had told Hu Xianglan in the past that her future daughter-in-law would be a country girl, she would have chased that person and scolded him, but now as long as He Beian was willing to marry her, she would be secretly happy.

Having said that, how could He Beian not see that his mother was determined to make him get married? Indeed, marrying him would not harm Xu Ning.

At least he is a little better than the old bachelor and is not that old.

“I see.”

If Xu Ning was willing, he would treat her as an extra person in the family and take care of her food, clothing and other expenses.

Hu Xianglan suddenly pinched the corner of the table with her hands and breathed a sigh of relief. It’s done!

“I’ve made an agreement with Xu Ning. You should take her to get the marriage certificate tomorrow. After getting the certificate, take her to buy some clothes. She didn’t bring anything when she came. Don’t always have a sullen face in front of her. Smile more.”

Girls all like to see men who can coax people. Even if they can’t coax people, they can’t have a sullen face every day.

Since he had agreed, He Beian would not procrastinate. After thinking about it and thinking that there was nothing important to do tomorrow, he agreed: “Well, I’ll go to the factory tomorrow morning, and come back to get the certificate.”

“Okay!” Hu Xianglan stood up happily. “Please clean up the dishes, or ask Jiaojiao to wash them. I’ll go talk to your dad and tell him the good news.”

After saying that, he walked out in a hurry.

He Beian remembered that He Wanjiao was staying in the same room with him tonight, so he gave up the idea of ​​asking her to wash the dishes. He walked to the table and bent down to clean the dishes.

Here, Hu Xianglan came out of the kitchen and went straight to the south room opposite the gate.

The south room is not lived in. It has two small rooms, one for storing miscellaneous items and the other for memorial tablets.

She walked quickly into the room where the tablet was placed, locked the door after entering, and stood in front of the table where the tablet was placed.

There was not only a tablet on the table, but also a black-and-white photo. The photo showed He Chengjun when he was young. He left no photos when he died. This photo was found by Hu Xianglan when she was rummaging through the drawers at home.

Looking at her husband’s youthful smile in the photo, Hu Xianglan also smiled and said, “Did you hear what I said to our son just now? I’m telling you, don’t take it seriously, it’s all nonsense. Just wait for me peacefully, I can’t come to you until I have my grandson in my arms!”

That’s right! You have to bless them to have a happy relationship and hope that they will have a big fat boy or girl soon. I won’t be picky, you can give them whatever you want. ”