The groom was kidnapped on the wedding day? Fine! I'll marry someone else.

Brother Xu didn't have time to retract his fingers, and they hit Jiang Yi's hand directly.

Xu Yu deliberately dragged out his tone and said to him in a accusing tone: "Ah, my... Second brother, you are so ungrateful that you dared to hit Brother Yi."

Second Brother Xu: “…”

Xu Yu looked at his second brother, who was speechless. He smiled, patted his arm twice, and said, "Don't worry. With my medicine and Brother Yi's skills, catching a strong wild boar is not a problem at all. I guarantee that your pig farming business will not be delayed."

Second Brother Xu's mood had improved a lot due to his sister's antics. He also felt that with Jiang Yi around and his sister's drug that could knock out a group of people, it would be easy to catch a wild boar.

But he still deliberately asked: "What if we can't catch it?"

Xu Yu: "If we can't catch them, the worst that can happen is we can just buy a bunch more piglets."

"No money."

"I'll lend it to you. When the time comes, I'll lend you a hundred dollars, and you only need to pay me back ten dollars more."

"..."

Brother Xu held it in for a long time, but couldn't hold it in any longer. He said to Jiang Yi with an angry look on his face, "Jiang Yi, you should control your wife. She even cheated on her own brother. Is that acceptable?"

Jiang Yi glanced at the smug expression on his wife's face, then looked at his second brother Xu who looked upset, and chose to remain silent.

Second Brother Xu: “…”

……

It was already the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month, and Xu Jianjun and Zhao Cui'e, who were supposed to return on the 15th, only returned that evening.

Zhao Cui'e followed Xu Jianjun directly back to Xu's house. As soon as she came back, she called Xu Kui and Zhang Hongmei to their house to talk.

Xu Yu and Xu Jianping were both curious, so they quietly followed over and eavesdropped.

Then they heard their hot-tempered sister-in-law say to their parents, "Jianjun has already told me about my family's increased betrothal gift. I don't agree to give them the extra two hundred yuan. If they dare to accept it, I will never go back again, and don't even think about asking Jianjun and me to be filial to them!"

Zhao Cui'e became increasingly agitated as she spoke. "If it weren't for you all these years, I wouldn't even have been able to finish high school. It was you, Mom and Dad, who taught me how to behave and make sense that has led to me being where I am today. And yet, they think I've graduated from college and have a job, so they're giving you a hard time about the betrothal gift. What right do they have to do that?"

Zhang Hongmei said, "You're going to have a wedding banquet soon. If they make a scene, it will be bad for everyone."

"Let them make a scene if they want. Everything I'm wearing and everything I eat at school are given to me by you and Jianjun. If they really want to make a scene, we can just not have the wedding banquet. Jianjun and I have already obtained our marriage certificate in the city, so I'll just live here with Jianjun and won't go back."

When Xu Yu and Xu Jianping heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

At the same time, I felt relieved.

As long as their eldest sister-in-law is sensible, they will not be afraid that the Zhao family will dare to manipulate their parents and eldest brother again.

The two came quietly and left quietly.

When they returned to the main hall, Xu Yu sat next to Jiang Yi. Jiang Yi immediately felt her joy and turned his head to look at her.

Xu Yu blinked at him and smiled at him again.

Jiang Yi looked at her expression and guessed something.

Sure enough, the four people who went out came in soon. Zhao Cui'e, who was wearing a large flowered cotton jacket and had a scholarly air and gave people a sense of neatness and simplicity, gave them the food she had bought specially for Xu Yu and the others.

After several people came down, Zhao Cui'e and Xu Jianjun sat together. She first glanced at Jiang Yi. Although she was intimidated by his aura and the scar on his face at first sight, she did not show any fear. Instead, she said to him sincerely:

"Brother-in-law, nice to meet you. I've heard everything about you and Xiaoyu from Jianjun. Thank you for standing up and helping Xiaoyu when she was in such a difficult situation."

Jiang Yi nodded at her but didn't say anything.

Xu Yu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, Brother Yi is just a quiet person, don't mind it."

Zhao Cui'e also laughed: "It's okay, anyway, your elder brother has always been a saw-mouthed gourd, I'm used to it."

After saying that, they both couldn't help but laugh at the same time.

……

Every time Zhao Cui'e came back, she would stay at Xu's house for one night first, and everyone else was used to it.

People from other families knew she was back and came over to chat with her.

The others didn't know that the Zhao family wanted to increase the bride price at the last minute, and they were all talking about the couple's wedding.

Zhao Cui'e showed everyone the marriage certificate she and Xu Jianjun had obtained in the city, and then said to everyone with a smile: "From now on, I will be a real member of the Xu family. Uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, please take good care of me."

Zhao Cui'e loved to go to the Xu family since she was very young. Later, she always said that she wanted to marry Xu Jianjun, so everyone always treated her as Xu Jianjun's wife, and a group of young people had no burden to joke with her.

After hearing other sisters bragging about how they looked whiter and more radiant after applying Xu Yu's 'mask', Zhao Cui'e grabbed Xu Yu's hand and said, "Sister, please try applying your 'mask' on me too. I want to look beautiful on my wedding day too."

Xu Yu had prepared a 'facial mask' for her when she came over, and took her to apply it directly. He also told her how to take care of herself in the next few days.

Zhao Cui'e came out with a herbal "mask" on her face and sat with Xu Jianjun.

The others had seen Xu Yu and a group of girls applying facial masks and were already used to it, but Xu Jianjun rarely saw it and couldn't help but look at Zhao Cui'e a few more times.

Zhao Cui'e glanced at him and said, "Jianjun, wait until I finish applying the mask and I'll charm you."

Xu Jianjun immediately frowned and said to her with his eyes: You have no shame!

Zhao Cui'e said to Xu Yu, "Your elder brother must be shy."

Xu Yu nodded in agreement: "When big brother has a tense face, it means he is either shy or doesn't know what to say."

Everyone else couldn't help but burst into laughter.

After Zhao Cui'e finished applying the facial mask, everyone chatted for a while before going back to rest.

Zhao Cui'e always slept with Xu Yu when she came here before.

This time, no one needed to tell her anything, she just followed Xu Jianjun to their new house.

Xu Jianjun said to her with a straight face: "How about you sleep with your sister, and I sleep with my brother-in-law."

Zhao Cui'e said to him: "As soon as I came back, you asked my sister and brother-in-law to sleep in separate rooms. People who don't know would think I don't like them. Stop slandering me."

Xu Jianjun: “…”

Xu Jianjun: "We haven't had the wedding banquet yet, so it's not good for us to live together."

Zhao Cui'e: "We've already got the certificate, so what difference does it make whether we have a wedding banquet or not? Xu Jianjun, you still don't want to marry me, do you? I'm telling you, I'm yours in life and death. Don't you dare reject me?"

Behind him came the loud laughter led by Xu Yu.

Xu Jianjun's face turned red, and he pulled Zhao Cui'e and walked quickly towards their house.

Their new house is not far from here, about ten meters away.

After watching the two people enter the house, the other members of the Xu family went to wash up.

Xu Yu said with a smile: "With my eldest brother's old-fashioned personality, only my eldest sister-in-law can handle him."

Xu Jianping is also old-fashioned, but he thinks he's much better than his older brother: "He and his sister-in-law are already married, but he still wants to sleep in separate rooms. Only his sister-in-law isn't angry."

Even Xu Jianhua said: "It's because my sister-in-law likes my brother, otherwise she would definitely be angry."

Zhao Cui'e has never concealed the fact that she likes Xu Jianjun. Sometimes when she is angry with Xu Jianjun, she will comfort herself: Who told me to like him?

So sometimes people will bring this up when they are joking.

But everyone really likes Zhao Cui'e's personality.

After Xu Yu and Jiang Yi fell asleep, they talked about their eldest sister-in-law. "Everyone in the village knows that my eldest sister-in-law has loved my eldest brother since she was a child. She has many brothers and sisters, and often they don't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes. She ran to our house and told my parents that if they gave her a little bit of food now, she would definitely be filial to them in the future and be a good wife to my eldest brother."

"My sister-in-law was older than me at the time, but we were about the same height. My mother couldn't stand seeing her wearing torn, tattered, and small clothes, so she gave her some of mine. She didn't want new clothes, saying she only wanted my old ones that I didn't wear."

"She was the second child in the Zhao family, and she was basically responsible for all the farm work at home. Sometimes she couldn't bear it anymore, so she ran to my mother. My mother gave her some moral lectures and told her to study hard. She said that if she studied hard, she wouldn't have to do so much farm work and could make a name for herself. So she studied hard."

"Later on, she became more and more independent-minded. She was completely devoted to my eldest brother and listened to my parents. She actually never cried in front of us. The only time she cried really hard was when my eldest brother came back after two years of military service and told her not to wait for him anymore. She cried so hard at that time that I helped her hit my eldest brother a few times."