Novel 2 of the Rural Marriage and Family Series in the Big Tree in the Rain

? Wife shortage

The phenomenon of wife shortage in rural areas implies a crisis and should attract the attention of relevant parties! ——Author's inscription

The morning sun rises from the sky, the morning star disappears, and the smoke from the kitchen curls up into the morning sky. My sister-in-law had already cooked her breakfast. She took off her apron and walked quickly to the main room. He shouted: "Xing, Yue, Hong, get up quickly, wash your face, brush your teeth, eat breakfast, and go to school after that. I'm going to the fields." The girl from the second family is ten years old, and Hong is the second little girl, eight years old. The elder sister-in-law, Li Jinhua, is a left-behind woman. Her husband and her second son went to work in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The family's farm is managed by the elder sister-in-law. Li Jinhua also takes care of the laundry and cooking for the two children. For a strong, hard-working and simple rural woman in her early thirties, all this is considered commonplace and she has long been accustomed to it. The husband has four brothers and sisters, his father-in-law and mother-in-law died young, and the eldest sister married out of town. The eldest and second eldest children also started their own families and built farmhouses next to each other. The two brothers are physically strong and tall. They have inherited their father's carpentry skills, and they are both capable of contracting carpentry work on their own. Only the third child, who is as tall and powerful as his two elder brothers, suffered from a serious illness before he was ten years old, and due to delayed treatment, he became half-idiot. A handsome young man in his twenties, his intelligence is still in the state of a child. The eldest son and the second son did not dare to take him to work in the city, so he had to stay at home to help his sister-in-law and do some farm work. He was also happy to run around behind his sister-in-law's buttocks and laugh silly sometimes. My sister-in-law treats this stupid brother like a child.

In the summer weather in early May, a storm suddenly came. Li Jinhua, uncle and sister-in-law, who were weeding in the cotton field, were caught off guard and were instantly drenched into two drowned chickens. The rain made the white shirt stick tightly to the sister-in-law's plump breasts, making her almost naked in nature.

Suddenly, Silly Brother laughed almost crazily. In the blink of an eye, two thick arms hugged the sister-in-law, shouting repeatedly: "I want a woman!"

At this moment, Li Jinhua was completely confused. Her pretty face turned the color of pig liver, and various expressions of surprise, anger, fear, and shyness gathered on the young peasant woman's face. She tried to struggle, but the fool was extremely powerful, and her efforts were in vain. The tears flowed out, intertwined with the rain, salty and astringent, and it seemed that a disaster was about to come.

The scene lasted for about 60 seconds. The silly brother suddenly let go of his arms, started to cry loudly, raised his hands, shot left and right, and slapped his face.

After a while, the rough black skin turned red and swollen into a pig-headed face.

At this moment, the sister-in-law came back to her senses and said angrily: "Go home."

June in the countryside is the season for double-gun farming. The boss returned to the village as scheduled. Li Jinhua told the man that his third brother had recovered from his stupid illness and that he should arrange a marriage for him and start a family of his own. As for what happened in the field on a rainy day, God knew that her uncle and sister-in-law knew about it, so she stopped complaining in front of her husband. (The big tree in the rain sighed: Sure enough, a good wife and a good husband will bring few troubles. If the wife has a long-tongued wife, I don’t know how much trouble this family will cause! The big tree in the rain can’t understand why the third child, who has been stupid for many years, suddenly recovered from his illness. What? ) When the day's work was done and the couple turned off the lights and went to bed at night, Li Jinhua snuggled into her husband's arms and said, "When my third brother gets married, let's help with a room first." Her husband readily agreed.

One month later, Lao San’s new house was built, and news of his recovery spread throughout the Songshi Lake area.

Li Jinhua lost almost ten kilograms by finding a wife for his third son. Sure enough, hard work paid off, and a woman who was three years older than the old man was finally found in Zhangjiatai Village in the neighboring county.

The sister-in-law begged an intermediary to bring the third child to meet the woman. Unexpectedly, the man and woman fell in love at first sight, as if their marriage had been tied by a red thread in their previous lives. The conversation was completed in less than an hour. The man bought the bride price the next day, and three days later he got the certificate. Ten days later is the auspicious day, and the wedding will be held as scheduled.

In Wangjiawan Village, located on the north shore of Songshi Lake, all the men, women, and children in the village happily gathered at Li Jinhua's house to eat Wang Laosan's wedding wine.

Dashu in the rain was honored to attend this wedding banquet.

When the two newlyweds toasted to the big tree in the rain, the tree's eyes lit up in the rain. The groom was tall and handsome, and the new daughter-in-law was so cute. They were such a well-matched couple, which made people envious.

A chatty middle-aged peasant woman quietly told the big tree in the rain: "Do you know that the bride is a widow who killed three men? Look at those peach blossom eyes!"

Sister-in-law Li Jinhua also whispered to the big tree in the rain: "There are twenty-eight bachelors who are more than ten years older than the third child in the village who can't find a wife. Our old Wang family has smoke rising from the ancestral graves!"

< p> Two key words flashed through the big tree's mind in the rain: bachelor's village, wife shortage.