(64) A blessing in disguise
It happened to be my turn to rest on Sunday. Because the weather was stuffy and it was hard to fall asleep, I stayed up late at night to read novels and didn't get up in the morning. When I took the basin to the pool to wash, it was almost noon. I came to the ginkgo tree and saw Yin Hong with her toes up, laying clothes on the corridor on the second floor, and her jade-like calves were exposed under her skirt.
"Brother Wu Ping, are you going to have a rest today?" Yin Hong saw me downstairs, and there was a smile in her clear eyes.
"Brother Peng, why didn't you come today?" I asked with a little curious look on my face.
"He, I'm going back and ready." Yin Hong put down her toes, held the railing, and leaned over to look at me.
"Is he going back to the army?" I was a little surprised for a moment.
"No, it's... I'm going back to get married." The long red eyelashes trembled slightly, and the white and flawless cheeks showed a faint pink.
"Marry? You...you really want to get married!" I fooled myself. I had only known each other for a few days and was about to get married. Everything happened suddenly and unexpectedly.
"Oh... their family is urging me tightly, and there is a reason for that." Yin Hong's eyes turned into the distance, biting her thin lips, and sighed, "This time he went home to visit relatives, and he was going to get married. He had originally agreed that his fiancée was a private teacher in the primary school in their hometown. The two families had already drunk engagement wine and had the bride price, but something happened before he came back."
"What happened? What happened?" Looking at Yin Hong's entangled expression, my heart started to jump.
"It turns out that the hometown where his fiancée teaches has changed a new secretary. He is a newly liberated old cadre. He was criticized in the turmoil. His wife died in unlucky times. Once, the new secretary went to elementary school to check in and happened to meet your brother Peng's fiancée. It was a coincidence that he fell in love with someone at first sight."
"Where... what happened?" I asked urgently.
"Later... the secretary later asked someone to go to the matchmaker, promising that as long as the woman agreed to marry him, she would immediately help with the formal procedures and make her a public teacher who was in the office."
"This... how old is this secretary? I'm looking for a little girl..." Yin Hong's words surprised me. In the people's environment at that time, such "old and young" things were rare.
"I heard that I am nearly 20 years old, and the secretary's son is a student on the woman's side. How could the secretary happen to know her?" Yin Hong also had a little resentment in her tone when she said this.
I should be able to guess the story of the future. Platoon Leader Peng's fiancée was a little hesitant at first, but under the strong offensive of the secretary, facing the opportunity to change his destiny, under the temptation of real interests, he finally regretted the marriage of the Peng family and became a man with power as a 20-year-old man.
"Can the Peng family bear this tone? I heard from Brother Peng that his uncle is Director Zhao of our county health bureau?" I said the questions in my mind.
"That's right, your elder brother Peng's marriage letter was issued and the marriage leave was also requested. Their family was so angry that they wanted to sue the secretary for destroying the military marriage. However, the other party said that you were not married yet. Besides, the woman firmly regretted the marriage, and the secretary was powerful and powerful. It is said that he would be promoted to deputy county magistrate soon, so they had no choice in the end. The secretary was quite conscientious. He found his cousin Director Zhao, and returned all the bride gifts they gave to the woman, and gave some small gifts. Director Zhao also had to consider all aspects of the relationship in the county and did not dare to offend the secretary who was about to be promoted, so in the end he said forget it and swallowed his breath."
Yin Hong gently stroked a strand of hair scattered in front of her face and gently stroked her ears, revealing her fair and plump forehead, and a hint of gloom appeared between her eyebrows. Yin Hong's narration really shocked me. I really didn't know that this dark and short platoon leader Peng had such a sad marriage.
"Later, then... they found you?" I asked with a whisper.
"Yes..." Yin Hong raised her long neck, her eyes were full of reluctance. "Just when the Peng family felt embarrassed and were helpless, one of his distant relatives, the chief squad leader of our former spun yarn, introduced me to him. It was originally a meeting, but who would have thought that your elder brother Peng would fall in love with me at first glance."
"He is so lucky." I felt depressed and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.
"What? What did you say?" Yin Hong lowered her head, and her face was puzzled, "You said he...he is lucky?"
"I said... Brother Peng is really lucky. I don't know how many lifetimes of virtue my ancestors have accumulated, and they can be blessed in disguise and marry you, Sister Hong." I suppressed my emotions for a few days, and suddenly burst out. I raised my face, looked at my dark red eyes, and said loudly indignantly.
"Brother Wu Ping, you... what are you talking about?" Yin Hong looked at me with a shy look on her face, and she was stunned for a moment.
"That's right, it was Peng Dazhuang who was able to marry you, who had accumulated virtue in his previous life!" I looked at her stubbornly, and almost blurted out, "I want to marry you too, you can marry me."
Her fair and bright red face turned red to her ears. She twisted her body and leaned on the railing. Her long eyelashes drooped. After a while, she said softly: "Thank you, Brother Wu Ping."
The sunlight passed through the dense branches and leaves of the ginkgo trees, shining mottledly on the water platform beside me. In the woods outside the yard, the cicadas were shouting loudly that it was so hot, but my heart seemed to sink into an ice cellar. At this hot noon, it was trembling with coldness.
I later learned that when the private teacher regretted the marriage and insisted on marrying the widowed old secretary and the Peng family was at a loss, someone introduced Yin Hong to them. When the beauty who bullied Shuang and Xue appeared, she immediately surprised the Peng family. Platoon Leader Peng was even more overjoyed and immediately felt like he was out of his body. He immediately launched the final strategic general attack with the firmness and tenacity of the soldiers, which made Yin Hong seem "unable to resist". After half-close and half-lose, he completely surrendered and surrendered.
That day I met a bunch of Mao Xiaoli in the workshop. When he saw me, he shouted loudly: "Xiao Wu, do you know Yin Hong is going to get married?"
Although the machines roared and the noises were noisy in the workshop, his voice still caused great response. The people around him gathered up and started shouting in a verbal manner.
"What did you say? Yin Hong is going to get married?"
"Didn't she brag about Lu Yu? They don't want her anymore."
"Why are you going to get married again? Who are you going to go with? Did Lu Yu change his mind?"
"Wu Ping, tell me quickly, your master goes back on his word, what's wrong?"
I was surrounded by everyone. Facing this group of gossip-loving women, I was a little at a loss and was so angry that I pointed at Xiao Li and said angrily: "Don't listen to a bunch of nonsense. Apart from being slutty, can he have a serious word?"
"Wu Ping, what are you talking about? When did I talk nonsense? Yin Hong went to the factory to start a marriage certificate today, which was stamped by my uncle. I heard that the other party was a soldier, and it seemed to be the cousin of Director Zhao of the Health Bureau." Xiao Li stubbornly held his neck, and his donkey face turned red, and he shouted at me dissatisfiedly.
"Is this true?"
"Oh——This Yin Hong is really capable. She can lose one and find another."
"It's still a relative of Director Zhao. The Zhao family is powerful and powerful, and Yin Hong's life is good."
"It's because of her handsome appearance that the man is not fascinated by her."
While people surrounded Xiao Li, I quickly got out and walked out. The messy sound made me upset and just wanted to escape quickly.
Deputy Platoon Leader Peng went there for three or four days. Because of the trivial political review and other trivial links that were still needed at that time, he quickly completed all the procedures with the help of his fellow soldiers in the army. In order to prevent the long and long nights of dreams, Deputy Platoon Leader Peng stubbornly wanted to get married immediately before returning to the army. Fortunately, everything was ready, but he just changed a bride. The beauty of the lost horse made Peng Dazhuang and his family proud, and wiped out the bad luck and shadows of being broken up.
Yin Hong went to the factory to issue a certificate, applied for a marriage leave, and lived in the guesthouse legitimately. After Platoon Leader Peng came back, he watched him happily and face Yin Hong with joy. The strong sense of loss was like a huge wheel, crushing his chest repeatedly every day, which made me feel an unspeakable pain.
Chapter completed!