# c12: marriage The moment she saw the rabbit, Wang Ying's mind was filled with thoughts of meat. She approached the rabbit gently and looked around, trying to find a stick she could use, preferably a thin one. This wild rabbit looks round and plump. But Wang Ying didn't dare to be careless at all. Because life was not easy, and the people in the group often went up the mountain. If this rabbit could feed itself to become so fat, it can be imagined that it must not run slowly. The rabbit was indeed alert. Wang Ying only moved the grass slightly, and the rabbit was already running quickly towards the rabbit hole not far away. Soon enough, Wang Ying quickly inserted the branch in her hand directly. Almost at the same time, the rabbit was hit by two branches. One branch directly penetrated the rabbit's neck, and the other directly penetrated the rabbit's neck. It is inserted into the rabbit's leg. Wang Ying sighed. The one she threw was the one stuck in the rabbit's leg, and its accuracy was a little off. If it hadn't been for the throw from the other side, the rabbit would probably have gotten into the hole. So this rabbit should be considered caught by the person opposite her. Wang Ying reluctantly glanced at the dead rabbit and decided to shamelessly trade rabbit legs with the person hiding behind the tree. She couldn't prepare cook anyways, so she might as well give the other party the black fungus to make a dish. As soon as the person behind the tree appeared, Wang Ying was puzzled. Why is it this person again? In just a few days, this was actually the third time the two have met. Xu Shuang and Wang Ying were dressed similarly. Both of them were carrying backpacks. The difference was that Xu Shuang's backpack looked fuller than Wang Ying's from a distance. Wang Ying was unambiguous and got straight to the point when she opened her mouth: "Then what...brother-in-law? Can I trade a rabbit leg with you?" Although I feel in my heart that the other person can't get along well with my cousin Wang Lingling, but in this situation, it's always right to have a friendly relationship. Wang Ying showed the basket on her back to Xu Shuang: "How about I exchange the fungus for you?" There was no expression on Xu Shuang's face. Wang Ying sighed, thinking that this person was good-looking, but his temper was too cold. No wonder Wang Lingling was reluctant. "Okay, if you don't want to, forget it." If she walked further in, maybe she could find another one? "Don't go inside, there are wolves at this time of year." As she said that, Wang Ying felt her basket suddenly drop, as if something heavy had fallen into it. Looking back, I only saw Xu Shuang's back. Looking at the intact rabbit in the basket, Wang Ying was filled with excitement. She is narrow-minded! This handsome guy looks good and has a kind heart! With this rabbit in her account, Wang Ying became less interested in looking for things. She picked up several common herbs in the mountains, then went down the mountain happily. It's just that Wang Ying went down in the wrong place. She wandered around the mountain for a long time, and when she finally found a path, it was no longer the same way she went up the mountain. So, Wang Ying appeared on the other side of the brigade with a basket on her back, and had to walk through the entire brigade to go home. Wang Ying: ...Misstep! Wang Ying hurriedly stuffed the rabbit under the backpack. With her limited knowledge, she knew that the back mountain belonged to the collective. It was okay for you to go up the mountain to get some wild vegetables. Strictly speaking, hunting wild animals should be regarded as the common property of the brigade. Wang Ying had hidden the rabbit and put a layer of herbs on it, which looked like ordinary weeds. Because of what happened a few days ago, the entire brigade now has a good impression of Wang Ying. When Wang Ying passed by, many people even talked to Wang Ying. Wang Ying wiped her sweat in her heart. Fortunately, the original owner didn't go out much. When everyone saw her restraint, they just felt pity for her being treated harshly by her uncle's family. "Sanya, is there any happy event at your aunt's house today? I saw that Erya just exchanged half a chicken." News in the brigade spread quickly, and there were no secrets. Not to mention whose family had eaten meat and whose clothes had been ripped off, even if it was a family's background, everyone would know about it. The person who asked this question was Aunt Guihua. She had always been at odds with Li Chunjuan in the brigade, and the reason for this was a long time ago. Both of them were married from other brigades, and they were neighbors at first! It's just that the two sides live close to each other, but their relationship is not that good. The Wu Guihua family looks down upon the fact that the Li Chunjuan family has three grown men, but they always instruct their daughters-in-law to work in the fields. Li Chunjuan's family looked down upon Wu Guihua's family for having no sons. The bridges at both ends got bigger and bigger, and in the end it became extremely ugly. So even though Wu Guihua and Li Chunjuan now have children, they still dislike each other. Wu Guihua asked while taking the lead: "I just saw you, Li Chunjuan, taking a girl to your house. Are you planning to hire a matchmaker?" Wu Guihua didn't think about anything else. Her first reaction was that Wang Lingling was old, and everyone in the village knew that Li Chunjuan had hooked up with the Xu family early and planned to wed Wang Lingling to Xu Shuang. Thinking of this, Wu Guihua still felt a little sour. "Is your sister's marriage about to take place?" Wang Ying smiled shyly: "No, today is my sister's birthday." Wu Guihua was visibly happy, but she was still confused: "Then who was that person who came to your house just now? He didn't look like he was from our brigade." Wang Ying didn't know either. She exchanged a few pleasantries with others and hurried home. She wasn't curious about who that person was, but she was thinking about the half chicken. Wang Ying walked to the door of her house, and as soon as she entered the house and put down her basket on her back, she saw an old lady with sullen eyebrows and thin lips standing at the door looking at her unscrupulously. Just when Wang Ying was confused, Li Chunjuan appeared out of nowhere and greeted Wang Ying with a smile: "Sanya is back, the chicken has been stewed, you can eat it later." With that said, she dragged the old lady back into the house. The sullen old lady was extremely reluctant. Before she reached the back room, she pushed away Li Chunjuan and shouted, "Let me see what's wrong? Didn't you agree..." Li Chunjuan was worried and forcefully dragged the person into her house. She didn't feel confident even after closing the door tightly, so she secretly looked out the window, fearing that Wang Ying would hear something. The old lady snorted coldly: "Is that necessary? When you grow up, you will start a family. Our youngest son is very competitive. He is more than enough to be a match for this poor girl. How can she not want to? Oh, it's all because you pulled away too fast just now. I don't even know if that girl looks capable of giving birth to a boy or not, I have to go out and take a peek!” Li Chunjuan hurriedly hissed: "I guarantee that she'll have lots of sons!" The old lady felt at ease now. She sat down on the chair and then, as if remembering something, she said, "But it doesn't matter if she can birth a boy or not. Anyway, my youngest son already has two children, both of whom are very young. Look at the whole commune, who has such good conditions as mine? Not to mention the job, my youngest is the platoon leader!" "If your family hadn't graduated from high school, I wouldn't have come to see you! Speaking of which, she has no money and no parents. Who knows if it will be a challenge. Let me tell you, you are such a bad person today. You have to give me her birthday and horoscope, and I'll go find someone to figure it out. Don't make my son marry a loser and ruin my his future..." Li Chunjuan listened patiently and said: "That's easy to say, my niece has a hard life. Her uncle and I both want to find a good family for her, and after looking around, we settled on your Zhao family. It's because you're family has a good background that I'm talking to you now." This kind of flattery was obviously not what Li Chunjuan was good at. She calmly finished what Wang Yongshun had taught her, and she felt a lot more at ease when she saw the smile on the old lady's face. "We don't have any other requirements. We are not from a wealthy family. We can handle the betrothal gifts as normal..." Li Chunjuan took advantage of the good atmosphere and quickly put forward her own idea: "Our family graduated from high school. Although she is a little thin, she is good at working in the fields and taking care of the family. If we do this, the bride price will be eighty eight, as a lucky number, we will be giving a new quilt to the dowry..." Li Chunjuan's heart was bleeding. She has such a good new quilt. She had been saving the cotton inside for a long time, and the quilt is a complete set. It is not like other quilts, which are made up of several different pieces or stuffed with a pile of rags. Such a good quilt, now she has to use it to accompany Wang Ying? It hurt her so much! The old lady looked shocked: "Eighty-eight? Why don't you just go and rob someone? Do you think anyone can ask for such a high price? Don't think that I don't know, I also have a son and a daughter, I'll give you twenty! Don’t be ungrateful, he's a platoon leader! I’m telling you, our third son is worthy of any girl in the city! Besides, the girls in the city can even have three big gifts in their dowry!” Li Chunjuan cursed in her heart, then your family should go find a girl from the city! After all, he is still a divorced soldier! As long as the family is in a better situation, who would want a girl to come in and become a stepmother? But Li Chunjuan didn't say this. She had been severely beaten by Wang Yongshun. The top priority now was to marry Wang Ying instead of worrying about these things. But Li Chunjuan still couldn't swallow this breath. In the old days, people could sell themselves for tens of dollars, but Wang Ying was only worth twenty yuan? What a money pit! Old Mrs. Zhao on the other end was still chattering: "With the conditions of your girl, if you can find someone like my third son, it will be because [incense was burned on the ancestral grave](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]. My third son will live up to his expectations, and he has a future in the army. Let's talk about it later. Maybe he can still be a company commander or an army commander!” "If my son's unlucky wife hadn't been so useless and died early, our family wouldn't have even looked at a girl like her with no male sons." Li Chunjuan gritted her teeth: "Thirty yuan! If you pay thirty yuan, we have no other conditions. Don't feel bad. Our family is in such a situation. If this girl gets married, she will definitely take care of your family wholeheartedly. With two little ones, we won’t call her back every two days. It’s not a loss at all for you to change your wife for thirty yuan!” Mrs. Zhao pouted her purse and was not very willing. But thinking about what my youngest son said, even though they were far away, he wrote a letter to me. In the letter, he explained that he wanted to find someone with a high degree of education, so that it would be good for the two children. Mrs. Zhao doesn’t understand. Aren’t those who study a lot nowadays just stinky old intellectuals? What's good with studying so much? Isn’t she just a little girl? But Mrs. Zhao also knows that her youngest son is someone who has seen the big world and must know more than she does. He said that those who read more can teach children, which is definitely true. "Let's do it, thirty is thirty!" Mrs. Zhao was thinking that her son would come back soon, and the daughter-in-laws at home were also making trouble. There were more and more grandchildren, and it was not a good thing for the two children to never have a mother. Let's just leave it like this, wait until his son comes back to do things, then quickly marry to take care of the two children. Suddenly, Mrs. Zhao seemed to have thought of something and said seriously: "There is something I have to tell you in advance. I have discussed it with my old man. Our family is a well-behaved family. Our third son's former daughter-in-law is already buried in the ancestral grave. Whoever comes in later will not be allowed to share the same grave with us." Mrs. Zhao emphasized: "If your girl also gives birth to a son, then we will leave a place next to the ancestral grave. If she can't give birth, then don't blame us." Li Chunjuan said indifferently: "Anything is fine." She felt that this old lady was really troublesome and even considered the ancestral graves of the next generation. ls she thinking about this because she's eaten till full and has nothing better to do? At that time, let alone her, even I might not be there. Since it's so far away in the future, let's talk about it then. Anyway, it's not possible for such a married woman to enter the ancestral graves of the Wang family. As for where to bury her, Li Chunjuan didn't want to think about it. Mrs. Zhao was very satisfied when Li Chunjuan agreed immediately. As for the ancestral graves, Mrs. Zhao actually didn't like her former daughter-in-law that much, it's just because of the children at home. Furthermore, she felt that Wang Ying's parents were gone, so it would be unlucky to bury her in her ancestor's grave, which would affect their family's feng shui. After finalizing the marriage, Mrs. Zhao warned again: "Then I will bring his two children here tomorrow to meet each other first. My youngest son will be back in the next few days. The sooner we decide, the sooner we will do it." Li Chunjuan nodded and agreed: "Okay!" After talking about the matter, Li Chunjuan was particularly attentive and sent the person out. And Wang Ying, who was separated by a wall, had a cold face. Although Li Chunjuan carefully closed the doors and windows, Wang Ying's hearing became sharper after a period of recuperation with the spiritual spring water, so through the wall, Wang Ying listened thoroughly to all of her aunt's plans. She was going to sell her for thirty yuan. So determined. Wang Ying kicked the bench irritably. It was really unlucky to meet such a family. In order to eat the ruins left by his brother's family, he simply pushed her into the fire pit. Wang Ying calculated the bargaining chips in her hand. She had a house, money, and the reputation of being the son of a martyr. As long as she didn't want to, the marriage would not happen. But…… Wang Ying thought of Wang Yongshun. This uncle was far more difficult to deal with than she imagined. If she refused this time, he would definitely arrange it again next time. Once or twice is fine, three or four times, and someone will inevitably gossip. After five or six times, I am afraid that everyone in the team will change their views and say that she is picky and has high vision. When that time comes, if she desires a reputation, she will have to accept whatever Wang Yongshun chooses for her. Wang Ying narrowed her eyes. At this time, the best thing is for her to change from passive to active. As long as she finds the right person to get married first, her uncle's family won't be able to make a fuss about the marriage. [^1]: Good luck from your ancestors blessings. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://rainyday.gitbook.io/mtls/novels/mac1960/c12-marriage.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. 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