Walking on this loess road and entering the village, Lin Xiaoman recalled the location of his home, and at the same time, he had already sorted out the relevant network of relatives.
Li Yanying's husband who died young was named Shen Fuqiang. He was the third child in the family. He had an older brother and older sister, and a younger brother and younger sister.
There is also an old man Shen in the family, who lives with the eldest Shen Fuguo, while the fourth eldest Shen Fumin moved to the town.
Li Yanying only meets people during the Chinese New Year, and her married sister-in-law has not been seen for several years, but she does have their WeChat messages on her mobile phone.
Shen Fuqiang has only these close relatives, but there are too many cousins.
Li Yanying has two brothers and a sister. Her parents passed away a few years ago, and there is little contact between the brothers and sisters.
This is generally the case with relatives.
When they sorted out this relationship, the two of them had returned to the door of their old house, a red diamond tile house, three rooms, surrounded by a small wall of more than one meter, forming a small courtyard.
There are many fresh vegetables grown in the yard and on the vegetable plots next to the yard.
This was planted by Mr. Shen. Mr. Shen has a strong body and likes to grow vegetables. It would be a waste to leave this land uncultivated, so he just grows vegetables.
From time to time, Mr. Shen would help clean the house to make it lively and not look too shabby.
"Ah, my sister-in-law and Xinyi are back!"
The two of them were standing in front of the courtyard gate and were about to go in. A few meters away, on the second floor balcony of a small two-story building, a woman shouted.
Looking back, Lin Xiaoman replied, "Hey, sister-in-law."
Shen Xinyi politely called, "Auntie."
In the countryside, the houses of several brothers are all connected together. The two-story small building is Shen Fuguo's. The speaker is Shen Guofu's daughter-in-law, Meng Jianfen.
"Hey, you guys go home first, I'll be right over." Meng Jianfen shouted loudly and left the balcony in a hurry.
The courtyard door was not locked. Lin Xiaoman and Shen Xinyi entered. The large bungalow was divided into three rooms. The smallest one on the right was the kitchen, the middle was the lobby room, and finally the bedroom. The bedroom was divided into a large room and a small room.
The bungalow is quite old, but it was considered a good house more than ten years ago, because it was only for a week during the Chinese New Year, and Li Yanying, who planned to settle in Wu City, was not prepared to spend money to build a small building.
After putting things away, Meng Jianfen came in while still in the tidying room, "Yan Ying, have you just arrived?"
"Yes." Lin Xiaoman nodded and gave Shen Xinyi a look. Shen Xinyi took out the prepared gift and handed it over respectfully, "Auntie, this is for you and uncle."
"Oh, why are you so embarrassed? Xinyi is so polite." After saying a few polite words, Meng Jianfen quickly collected the things.
"Sister-in-law, is dad at home?"
"I'm not here. If I were at home, I would have come here early. It's not a coincidence. We just had lunch. Dad thought you didn't arrive so early, so he went out to visit. But he should be back soon. Well, you guys have lunch.
No?"
"Not yet. I bought some noodles when I came back. Let's make do with it."
"Then go to my house. You don't have firewood or gas at home."
"Okay, sister-in-law, then I won't be polite to you anymore."
They pulled two vegetables directly from the yard, and the three of them went to the next door. Lin Xiaoman went into the kitchen to cook noodles, and Shen Xinyi was pulled by Meng Jianfen, the eldest aunt, to ask questions.
Meng Jianfen asked the most about Zhou Yang's situation. Although Zhou Yang came once, the relationship between the two was not settled at that time, so it was difficult for her to ask too many questions.
Now that I have received my marriage certificate, I naturally want to ask clearly.
After thoroughly understanding the situation of Zhou Yang's family, Meng Jianfen was very happy and praised Shen Xinyi for being well-behaved and finding a good family.
As soon as Lin Xiaoman took out the noodles from the kitchen, a woman came to visit, "I didn't see you in the next room, so I knew you were here. Oh, I haven't eaten yet."
"Sister Dahua, it's been a long time no see." Lin Xiaoman greeted her familiarly.
"Yes, it's been a long time. No, as soon as I heard you guys were back, I came to take a look. Oh, don't worry about us. You eat first, eat first." As he said this, this man pulled Meng Jianfen in a familiar manner. Talked.
Lin Xiaoman greeted Shen Xinyi, and the two of them ate noodles first. It was almost 1 o'clock, and they were really hungry.
During the ten minutes of eating noodles, one after another, seven aunts and eight aunts from the village came to visit...
Zhang Laidi was obviously a loudspeaker. It was obvious that she shouted a few times, and all the female comrades in the village who had nothing to do at home came over. The room became lively, just like a tea party. Meng Jianfen I moved out all the old stools that I didn’t use on weekdays.
Three women perform a play, and a group of women chatter.
Every word you say to me is very lively.
Everyone unanimously said a few polite words at first, "Xinyi is so beautiful", "Xinyi is really promising, she will become a big city person in the future", "Oh, I am so envious"...
After praising Shen Xinyi and Lin Xiaoman's good fortune, the topic naturally turned to Lin Xiaoman's son-in-law.
No need for the two of them to say anything, Meng Jianfen rushed to show off and revealed everything about the Zhou family.
The man is 1.8 meters tall and energetic. He is a local!
The family lives in a villa!
The man is a formal employee of a public institution and can earn RMB 10,000 per month. His future is limitless!
The man's parents, one of whom is a teacher and the other of whom works in a public institution, are both guaranteed rice bowls, and their pensions will be high in the future! There is no need for the young couple to support them in old age, but they can be subsidized.
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As soon as Zhou Yang's condition was laid out, all the women happily talked about it and praised it.
It has to be said that Zhou Yang's family background, in the eyes of people in their village, is a standard good family.
Especially Meng Jianfen said that the Zhou family's villa has a market value of tens of millions.
The best location in the city here has a house price of less than 5,000 yuan. As a rural person in a rural area under the jurisdiction of an economically underdeveloped area, when I hear about villas worth tens of millions, I am all amazed. 'Wow! Mansion!!'
Those with assets worth tens of millions are definitely at the level of big bosses here.
Meng Jianfen showed off like this, and everyone was absolutely sure that Shen Xinyi had found a rich family.
After a while of compliments and boasts, the question came up, "So how much gift will the groom's family give? It must be a lot."
Shen Xinyi knew that the emphasis on betrothal gifts in her hometown was that they would mostly keep their daughters’ betrothal gifts as gifts for their sons to marry. Although Shen Xinyi felt that this was a bad habit of favoring sons over daughters, she would not do it. He was so stupid that he shouted loudly: I confiscated the bride price.