Two generations of military wives compete for time

When I entered the room, I saw Qian's mother lying on the earthen bed, hugging a long pillow made of bran and humming a lullaby. When she saw Qian Yizhen coming in, Qian's mother immediately sat up and kept saying, "Beautiful baby, where have you been? Mommy can't find you." Qian Yizhen knelt on the earthen bed, hugged Qian's mother and whispered, "Beautiful baby, you miss mommy every day." The bedding on the earthen bed smelled musty.

Qian Yiyun prepared dinner and invited everyone to eat, including sweet potato flour steamed bread, corn porridge, pickled radish, green onions and garlic.

After dinner, Qian Yizhen, Qian Yiyun, and Qian Zuhua sat on the kang and chatted around Qian's mother. Qian Yiyun always looked at her sister with admiration. Knowing that Qian's brother and sister's academic performance has always been among the best, Qian Yizhen was very pleased and encouraged her brother and sister to study hard and not worry about tuition fees. Her sister will earn money to support them to go to college.

Brother Qian and younger brother Qian slept on the big earthen kang in Grandpa Qian and Grandma Qian's room, while Qian Yizhen and Qian Yiyun slept on the big earthen kang in Dad Qian and Mom Qian's room. The storage room where Qian Yizhen and Qian Yiyun lived before had been repainted white and furnished with new furniture, so it became the wedding room prepared for Brother Qian.

Qian Yizhen calmly listened to Qian's father's narration about his engagement with Li Dazhuang and the wedding. Qian's father believed that his daughter marrying the son of the village party secretary would only benefit the Qian family.

Qian Yizheng secretly ridiculed Qian's father, calling him a blockhead.

The next morning, Qian Yizhen got up early and called his younger brother and younger sister to start cleaning. He first helped Qian's mother clean up, cut her hair, washed her hair, bathed her, cut her nails, changed her into clean clothes, washed and dried all the bedding and dirty clothes on the earthen kang, including the bedding and dirty clothes in Grandpa Qian and Grandma Qian's room. He tidied the courtyard, chopped firewood and fed the pigs, sheep and rabbits. But Brother Qian lazily slept until the sun was shining on his buttocks, and he didn't want to get up.

At this time, the voice of matchmaker Li Wang came from outside the door: "Madam Qian, is he home?" Behind him, Li Dazhuang and his mother followed. Madam Qian tiptoed and tremblingly greeted him: "Madam Li, I'm home, come in and sit down." After arranging the three people to sit down, the two old ladies with bound feet muttered for a long time.

Grandma Qian called Qian Yizhen to her side, and the matchmaker, Li Wang, looked at Qian Yizhen with a fake smile and said, "Three days later, the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month is a good day to get married. Come here today to discuss some details, steps and taboos of the wedding day." Qian Yizhen remained silent.

Li Dazhuang looked at the pretty girl in front of him with lustful eyes, and suddenly smiled, showing his big buck teeth, and said with a chuckle: "Miss Qian, you are so damn beautiful." He reached out to pull Qian Yizheng, who stepped back slightly and replied politely: "Thank you for the compliment." Then he turned around and went to chop wood and feed the pigs and sheep.

At this time, Qian Zuhui climbed down from the earthen kang in the inner room, put his arms around Li Dazhuang's neck and said, "Brother Dazhuang, my sister is a one in a hundred beauty in the area, you can't bully my sister." Li Dazhuang's mouth widened and he laughed.

Qian Yizheng looked at everything in front of her with disgust, but had to face it all. If it weren't for her mother, sister, and brother, she would never return to this home.

On the third day, Qian Yizhen, Qian Yiyun and Qian Zuhua carried baskets on their backs to the town market to buy New Year's goods. On the way back, the most eye-catching thing was the 20 kilograms of fat pork in the basket. Passersby saw it and frequently cast envious eyes. As Qian Yizhen walked, he thought that it was a very proud thing to let the whole family have a meat-eating New Year this year.

Rich families would slaughter pigs and sheep during the Spring Festival to satisfy their craving for meat. They could only smell the aroma of meat but never eat it since they were young. This was because the pigs, sheep, rabbits, chickens, and eggs raised by the Qian family throughout the year were all sold by the overbearing grandmother Qian, who kept the money tightly in her hands, saying that she was saving money for her grandson to marry a wife.

After returning home, the three of them worked together to chop the fat pork into small pieces, put it into a large iron pot, light a fire and burn wood to slowly boil lard. After a busy period, the Qian family finally had a meal with meat and oil.

Mr. Qian's face was full of wrinkles and tears were streaming down his face. He gave Qian Yizheng a thumbs up.

Qian Nai chewed the delicious pork stewed with potatoes, with a blank expression on her face, but she ate very hard. It was probably because Qian Nai was nearly 80 years old and had lost all her teeth.

Dad Qian and Brother Qian couldn't wait to wolf down the food, because they had never eaten a meat-filled meal so happily before.

Mother Qian danced while eating, her mouth and face shiny with oil.

Brother Qian remained calm and ate very seriously.

Qian Yiyun ate while glancing at Qian Yizheng out of the corner of her eye, tears welling up in her eyes.

In the afternoon, Li Dazhuang came to Qian Yizhen's house and invited Qian Yizhen to his house to familiarize herself with the environment and see if she was satisfied with the layout of the new house. Qian Yizhen was extremely disgusted, but she remained calm and followed Li Dazhuang to Li's house.

After greeting Li Dazhuang's grandfather, father and mother, Qian Yizhen followed Li Dazhuang to the new house. She stood beside the bed in the new room and observed it for a while. It was red everywhere, very dazzling, and she was about to turn around and leave.

Li Dazhuang grabbed Qian Yizheng's hand and said, "You will be my bride tomorrow," and then he forced a kiss on her.

Qian Yizhen quickly pulled back her hand that was held by Li Dazhuang, but unexpectedly, Li Dazhuang grabbed her hair and she fell onto the marital bed. Qian Yizhen did a quick carp roll, jumped under the bed, made a boxing gesture towards Li Dazhuang, stepped out of the house quickly, and said to Li Dazhuang: "Don't worry, don't worry, goodbye, goodbye." She left in a hurry and ran back home quickly.