Author: Moran (Yuzhong, Gansu)
Qianchuan Village halfway up the mountain, there is a family with the surname Wang, and their parents only have two daughters and no son.
It was in the 1970s. Constrained by traditional ideas, rural household registration with daughters but not children was to recruit sons-in-law and establish a household in the front door.
This Wang family is the best household in the village. Their two daughters are beautiful and their eldest daughter is one of the best in the township. After graduating from high school, they are also the highest among the girls in the village. The girl's name is Cui'er. After graduating from high school, she happened to catch up with to resume the college entrance examination. Her studies are outstanding in the class, so there is no problem with the exam. My mother was afraid that she would pass the exam and leave, so no one took care of them and was unwilling to let the exam take.
Cui'er looks well-behaved and is famous for her around the radius. When she was in high school, there were many people chasing her, and she was young and unmarried teachers and classmates. After graduating from high school, more people chased her, and they were rushing to get married every few days and nights.
Cui'er's father is cautious, his mother is determined to the visitor, Cui'er can't figure it out, and her mother doesn't know what she is thinking? Sometimes, Cui'er's mother said to the person who came to talk to the media: "My Cui'er wants to recruit a son-in-law, don't come to the door." In fact, Cui'er's mother knew it long ago. She discussed with the old man that this son-in-law was to work in the village for two years and live in her family. She also discussed with the old man and invited the third sister-in-law who worked in the city to be a matchmaker. She specifically asked the young man Ga in the mountains. The young man Ga was happy and Cui'er was happy.
Cui'er has a partner, and those young men who want to chase and parents who ask for matchmakers all stopped.
Although Cui'er was happy with the young man Ga, she felt very conflicted. She thought that the young man Ga was a simple and honest person. She learned in one sentence that he was an ambitious person. He saw through the suffering of his fathers in helping him to plant crops. Although he was a little scholar, he made the oath of "relying on studying to change his destiny." Second, she thought that Young Man Ga was average and was a little ugly in her eyes. She was not compatible with her and said little. She thought that if she came to be a son-in-law and made the villagers look down on her, life would be difficult. She was on two boats, and if she had a good boss, she would give up Young Man Ga.
Young man Ga couldn't say a word I love you in front of Cui'er. After leaving her house, he just sent her the books he had read three or five rooms, and wrote a few more letters to send them together, hoping that she could read more and read more, and have the chance to get out of the farming family.
Young man Ga went to a place to make a living. From the rumors of some people, he heard a few more young men chasing Cui'er. Cui'er seemed to have fallen in love with a village teacher. Young man Ga didn't care about these things, but just read his books and still sent books to Cui'er as usual.
Just as the year when Ga and Cui'er were legally married, a letter was sent from Cui'er who did not write to Ga'er. Ga took the letter from the postman. Her heart was warm without breaking it. She had a light smile on her face. The smile was like sunshine, bringing brightness to the dark heart; the smile was like rain and dew, nourishing the dry heart; the smile was like breeze, also bringing a freshness to the noisy crowd; the smile was like flowers, bringing fragrance to the complex world, and making him feel the warmth of the world. Several colleagues from
each wanted to snatch the letter from the young man Ga and read the secret inside. The young man Ga insisted on taking it back from them and refused to let him see it.
Back in the room, the young man Ga carefully opened it and saw that the letter was only two lines and four words. It doesn’t matter how much the letter was written. What’s important is that Cui'er wrote a heartless letter, and the content is as follows: If we both fail, don’t come to our house again, it will never happen, it will be useless to come. Young man Ga can figure out anything, but what he can't figure out is that he sent so many books to Cui'er and wrote so many letters to encourage her to study. Could it be that he ended a marriage with two lines and four words? She was her parents and asked for a matchmaker.
In that poor era, when facing a young man who had reached the age of marriage, he had to be a bachelor. The young man Ga who read a lot is still reading his books. On the third night, when it was late at night, he sat in front of the desk wearing clothes, unfolding the paper and writing a letter to Cui'er, which was 24 pages at a time. From beginning to end, between the lines, there was no letter that hurt Cui'er.At the end of the letter, the young man Ga wrote: The marriage is destined by God. God did not give us marriage, but it is still a friend. I wish Cui'er a happy marriage and a happy life. I will continue to send you books, hoping that you can see some small achievements after I read. I also wish you to take good care of your parents and yourself.
(To be continued)
Edited by: Ruoer Editor: Bai Zhonghui
