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Chapter 2 My Daughter-in-law

"Little kid! The meal is good!" his wife Zhao Xia was calling.

Since I went to school, I was the youngest baby in the same grade, so among my childhood companions, Jing Jian has this title.

The couple is in the same village and can't be said to be childhood sweethearts. They are young, but they have also been classmates from elementary school to high school. Before marriage, Jing Jian had a bad impression of Zhao Xia. No one would have a good impression of female classmates whose grades were inferior to her. But Jing Jian had to admit that this girl's learning is really good. She is a top student!

It was completely dark. Although the kerosene lamp was lit, the room was still dark.

In addition to the bowls and chopsticks, there was a pot of shredded potatoes, a pot of cabbage vermicelli, and a plate of pickles and bacon, and half a bowl of dried chili stir-fried pork head meat. The meat dishes were actually half. What was even more surprising was that Zhao Xia also took out half of the bottle of Xifeng wine with a twist.

Jing Jian has a good memory, especially what is about to happen tonight. He cut a wound in his previous life that he could never heal. But it is impossible to remember every detail and every dish. He was just a young man back then, and he could not understand the background of this table of wine and food.

However, now, Jing Jian can see through it at a glance. Although the Chinese New Year is not long, each family has some hard vegetables left. But when the old man escaped and retired from the army, he didn't prepare much and was in the mood. Therefore, most of the things on the table were brought back by Zhao Xia from her parents' home.

Jing Jian sat down with a smile. He watched Zhao Xia pour wine for him diligently and picked up a few chopsticks into his bowl. He quietly waited for Zhao Xia's opening speech, and even had a kind of encouragement in his eyes.

The wife's hesitant and struggling expression was very cute. In my memory, Zhao Xia seemed to be a pool of stagnant water, cold like a piece of ice that never melted. How could she look like now? She is lively and youthful, with rich expressions and tenderness without any secrets. Jing Jian sighed in his heart, this should be the original one!

"Little kid! Dad said, Dad said..."

Jing Jian thought, it’s true!

Zhao Xia pinched the corner of her clothes and finally plucked up the courage, "My father has picked up wheat in my house, so he wants to discuss it, it's..."

Zhao Xia was so embarrassed that she was already blushing to the point of her neck. After marrying Jing Jian, she should be from the Jing family. However, now she is turning her elbows out, which is really hard to say.

This shy look of the little woman almost made Jing Jian laugh. He quickly pretended to drink, covered up his expression, and interrupted Zhao Xia, and agreed without hesitation: "What's the point? The uncle and aunt and brother-in-law are working hard. All the production is their home this year. They will be returned to the ground after the autumn harvest."

In the rural areas, what Jing Jian and Zhao Xia said was a huge thing.

Because the contracting of households was not long after, Jing Jian was still in the army when the land was divided. The land was definitely not abandoned, so he entrusted it to his father-in-law Zhao family.

The Zhao family has four children. Zhao Xia has two brothers and a young brother, who is the only girl. This family is very petty and likes to take advantage of it. Let’s start with Zhao Xia’s marriage!

Originally, every family in the countryside was poor, and the Zhao family was no exception. Moreover, although there were many sons, they were under great pressure to marry a wife. The three boys in his family were already at the age of getting married and could not get a bride price at all, so they focused on their own girls.

Zhao Xia was forced to finish high school and was very proud to be admitted to Huaqing. You must understand that this was the top scorer in the science college entrance examination in the entire region back then! However, what was the choice of the Zhao family? They were unwilling to invest in the money-lossing goods. They actually forced Zhao Xia to get married and give up going to college.

Jing Jian remembered it very clearly that Zhao Xia cried so loudly, shocking the whole village’s young and old. It was the teacher from the school who came to persuade him that the old couple of Zhao’s family still refused to let go. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Jing Baisheng, who was helping the suffering, took action decisively.

This is actually a problem of information gap. As a regional cadre, Jing Baisheng knew very well how bright the future of college students would be after the resumption of the college entrance examination. Especially famous schools like Huaqing, most of them have the opportunity to study abroad, and those left are also snatched by major ministries and commissions. In a word, the worst students in famous schools are basically staying in the central government of the capital to work. That is the real central leader!

What’s ridiculous is that when he is in a closed rural area in the mainland, the Zhao family has no idea about this. Jing Baisheng paid a double 500 yuan bride price and promised to give the Zhao family another 200 yuan a year in the name of sponsoring Zhao Xia to study in college until Zhao Xia worked. So this marriage became a reality.

From the bottom of my heart, I gave Jing Baisheng a hundred praises! The Jing family was very satisfied. The wife had a bright future. Zhao Xia had a good appearance and figure. She was always in charge of housework and was able to take advantage of everything inside and outside. The Zhao family was even more satisfied. The in-laws were a major regional cadre, and in the rural areas in the early 1980s, the money was not a small amount at all. The bride price and expenses for marrying a wife were 3,400 yuan. It fundamentally solved the major problem of Zhao family inheriting the family line.

As for Jing Jian? What kind of marriage, family responsibilities and love are required by Jing Jian? This is too difficult. It can only be said to be hazy. Besides, it is not the same in the countryside? A 16- or 7-year-old young man finds a matchmaker to make a promise, and both parents agree, and then they get married. A young couple in their 20s runs around the ground with more children.

Zhao Xia is even more fine. If she can solve the problem of going to college, she will have already survived and cannot ask for too much. Moreover, she also lives in the countryside and has never opened her eyes at all. She doesn't hate Jing Jian, so she accepts her fate.

So the two families stepped up their arrangements, and the newly married couple had sex for more than a month. Afterwards, Zhao Xia happily went to Beijing to go to college, and Jing Jian also passed the physical examination and went to the army.

If the timeline is delayed by more than ten years, a soldier's peasant family will marry a top student from a top university? Such a thing is simply a miracle. Even if it is not the difficulty of hell, it can be said to be an epic task. It is particularly valuable. The popularity of the ten villages and eight miles is still very good. Most of them praised Jing Baisheng's kindness and commented on the Zhao family's high praise. The people of this era are really simple!

However, the feng shui changed. With the accident of Jing Baisheng and Jing Jian's retirement, the Zhao family's rise to a big joke. Future funding was gone, and only Jing Jian's private land was left in the hands of the Zhao family. So this time, Zhao Xia returned to her hometown during the winter vacation, and her parents-in-law were instigated to discuss with Jing Jian whether the land could still be handed over to the Zhao family to cultivate? The harvest would be all over their homes. At least it would be time to harvest the winter wheat.
Chapter completed!
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