On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, I don’t know what method Shui Hua used. In the end, Old Man Li took out his old savings and prepared to build a small courtyard with two rooms.
There has always been a tradition in Yongquan Village. Whenever the villagers build a new house, everyone will gather together, and everyone will bring a one-yuan coin with them. This coin will eventually be thrown into the foundation of the new house, which means that the four directions
Make money.
On this day, the villagers of Jintan Village came to the homestead of Old Han Li's family one after another. Shuihua greeted the guests enthusiastically while serving tea and water to the guests. When she met a child, she would grab it from her pocket.
Hand a handful of candies to the children.
Originally, the head of the family, Old Man Li, should be in charge of entertaining guests, but who made him lose his temper? With a drooped face, he looked like everyone owed him two thousand yuan. In this state,
Old Man Li is certainly not qualified for reception work.
However, the custom of building a house cannot be changed.
There was no other way, Shui Hua had no choice but to push forward.
Since the New Year has just ended, many villagers who came to celebrate the New Year have not returned yet, so there are so many people coming to the scene today. From a distance, they can see a sea of people, all covered with human heads.
Shui Hua was so busy that her feet were not stained with dust, and she didn't even have time to take a sip of water. Even in the middle of winter, when the temperature was very low, there were faint sweat stains on her forehead.
Ma Defu on the side felt very distressed when he saw the busy Shui Hua. He wanted to go out and help Shui Hua, but whenever he was about to reach out to help, Shui Hua shook his head towards him with a little tenderness on his face.
, and with a little firmness.
Shui Hua is a very traditional person. In her eyes, even though she and Ma Defu are engaged, they are still two families if they haven't been married for a day.
Since there are two families, there is no reason for Ma Defu to come forward. After all, it is their family who is building the house today.
If the two were already married at this time, that would be a different matter.
Because of Shui Hua's persistence, Ma Defu had to stay aside and worry.
On the other side, Li Jie saw the desolation on Ma Defu's face, walked to him in a few steps, and patted his shoulder.
"What's wrong, you're downcast?"
Ma Defu turned his head and glanced at his father, his expression a little downcast, and he was breathing heavily.
"Nothing."
"Nothing yet?" Li Jie chuckled and said in a joking tone: "Look at your face, it's just like the stones in the pit, smelly and hard."
Ma Defu forced out a smile and said unexpectedly.
"Dad? Is it really that obvious?"
"What do you think?"
"..."
Ma Defu was silent for a while, then slowly lowered his head and sighed softly.
"Dad, um, I just think Shui Hua is too tired to be alone."
Looking at his low-spirited son, Li Jie couldn't help but smile. Recently, Ma Defu always looked at a loss. Sometimes he was happy and sometimes he was unhappy. Just like the weather in July, it could change at any time.
Change.
If you remove his personal label and just look at his recent performance, no one can tell that this is Ma Defu.
Perhaps, this is love, which can always make people wise.
Even those veterans with rich emotional experience, once they use their sincerity, it is still difficult to escape the "aura of wisdom" brought by love. Those veterans will fall into this trap, let alone Ma Defu, a love novice.
It is precisely because you care too much that you worry about gains and losses.
After coming back to his senses, Li Jie said to Ma Defu.
"It's coming, it's coming. In one month, you two will be a family, and by then you won't be able to tell each other apart."
"Um."
Ma Defu nodded silently, and then turned his gaze to the water splashing among the crowd, making up his mind secretly.
'From now on, I must let Shui Hua live happily.'
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All the villagers in Jintan Village know that Shuihua and Ma Defu will get married next month. In everyone's eyes, it is a certainty that Shuihua will become a member of the Ma family. The only difference is whether it will be sooner or later.
Now that they have become members of the Ma family, the villagers' attitude towards Shuihua is naturally different from the past, because the villagers all know that the success of Jintan Village depends on Li Jie taking the lead in the charge.
Therefore, Li Jie's prestige in Jintan Village can be said to be comparable to that of Japan. From the elderly in their 70s and 80s to the children in their teens, they all respect him from the bottom of their hearts.
Shui Hua, as the 'prospective daughter-in-law' of the Ma family, is building a new house for her family, and it is also a new house for her wedding. Everyone involved in building the house is not careless.
Everyone gathered firewood and the flames were high. The Shuihua family's new house was built at a speed visible to the naked eye, almost one day at a time. The new house that originally required forty to fifty days of construction only took twenty-eight days because of everyone's concerted efforts.
God built the house.
As time goes by, seeing the new house gradually taking shape, the 'grievance' in Old Man Li's heart has almost dissipated.
No matter what, the two new houses are in his name, and he will be the one who lives in them in the future.
Although the current situation is different from what Old Man Li had expected, his daughter has promised him that the money to build a house will be "repaid" to him in the next few years.
In this way, it means that he still hasn't spent any money on this house, but the recovery of the money will be slower.
It's better to go slower than to never come back.
On the eve of the completion of the new house, Old Man Li took a tour of the inside and outside of the new house. Just when the inspection was about to be completed, Old Man Li suddenly said.
"Shui Hua, what do you think would be a better time for us to do the wine-making ceremony (after the new house is built, we will set up a banquet to invite relatives, friends, neighbors, and villagers to have a meal to celebrate the housewarming)?"
Shuihua Bingxue was smart and instantly understood the subtext of her father's words.
Old Man Li was just a drunkard who didn't care about the wine. What he valued was the 'favor' he received when he hosted the winery.
When you go to the winery, you will receive one share, and when you get married, you will receive another share. This means that Old Man Li can receive double "favors" in the near future.
Although according to the rules of 'Yongquan Village', there is no big problem in doing this, but Shui Hua has more on his mind.
Who are the people who have migrated to Jintan Village today?
Everyone has the same identity - poor.
At other times, accepting two favors in a short period of time might not cause any problems, but now when everyone is spending money, it would inevitably be a bit inappropriate to hold two banquets in succession.
In addition, plus the one at Ma Defu's house, it was equivalent to three banquets and three favors in a row. It was indeed a kind of pressure for many villagers who could not even build houses.
"Dad, why don't we wait for a while before we go to the winery?"
Shui Hua knew her father's character very well, so she said 'suspend' instead of not doing anything.
Old man Li seemed very dissatisfied with his daughter's proposal and immediately choked.