Chapter 3 third quarter

The second aunt said that meeting the man for the first time is called back seeing. Only then did Fourth Sister understand the current engagement procedure in Guanzhong villages.Back view is to let the man and woman look at each other and talk about it. If both parties are basically satisfied with each other's appearance and agree to get married, then a formal meeting ceremony will be held.Because the actual purpose of meeting for the first time is just to make both parties intuitive, it is more of a tentative nature, and there is little certainty of success.Therefore, when we meet, keep quiet, do not wait for relatives and friends, do not allow people from the neighbors to join in the fun, and do not care about meals and entertainment. Just a cup of green tea and a pack of cigarettes, come quietly, and go quietly. The time is usually chosen at night, so as not to When you can't agree, it will cause ups and downs, which is not pleasant to both men and women.

Seeing that although it is silent, it is the most critical step. Once both the man and the woman say "yes" to the introducer, the major events in life are settled in this way, and the subsequent engagement and wedding ceremonies, although lively, will eventually It's just a formality or formality.The fourth sister felt nervous, depressed, and even inexplicably flustered. What kind of person would come to meet her? The second aunt's family also showed a tense and mysterious atmosphere.When it was getting dark, the second aunt settled down for the whole family to have dinner early, washed the dishes, cleaned the pot, wiped the oil and vinegar bottles on the chopping board until they were bright and bright, filled the two thermos bottles with boiling water, and started to clean the house. The back room and the front yard were swept.From the front yard to the back yard, from the ground to the chopping board, everything is clean and refreshed, sweeping away the sloppy scene of firewood and chicken droppings on the ground.

The lame uncle took a piece of ticket from the second aunt, bought a box of Big Wild Goose Pagoda cigarettes from the consignment store in the village in the dark, and handed it to the second aunt together with the remaining zero tickets, and sat on the wooden bench to smoke. The aunt put the change in her pocket, and said to the uncle, "Do you want to take a look too?" The tone was repulsive, obviously, the second aunt didn't want the crippled uncle to stumble on such an occasion.The crippled uncle didn't care, smiled honestly, and told the second aunt, "I can see anything! As long as the fourth sister is willing, I can see anything! Although marriage is a matter of freedom, young people have no experience, you should give your baby a good grasp. Don’t make it so that you will take regret medicine in the future and let the township party laugh at it, just like that, I went to the breeding farm.” The second aunt also realized the weight of the matter, and nodded sincerely to the crippled uncle, who held the cigarette bag and raised his foot He walked into the yard with one foot, and when he went out the street, he coughed twice calmly.

The aunt was also unwilling to be excluded from this important matter, and her cloudy eyes flashed with tenderness and love, and she exhorted the fourth sister, as if she were her own granddaughter: "Baby family, this is your life. I will choose my son-in-law, not those greasy-headed bums, but only those honest and reliable juniors, who will keep up with this kind of juniors for a lifetime, be safe and secure, and not cause evil things. Look! Honest people And slippery fish, you can tell it at a glance..." The fourth sister smiled shyly, lowered her head, and felt even more panicked, how could one tell the honest person or the slippery ghost at a glance?

"Mom!" Second Aunt shouted kindly, and obviously showed a funny tone, "You have such good eyesight, okay! Please show me tonight, whether you are an honest person or a slippery fish... " "Just look at it, pretend I can't see it!" The aunt exposed her wrinkled lips, but turned around and called her grandson and granddaughter, "Tie Daner, Huaer, sleep with my mother-in-law! It's none of your business, don't come here Jumping around and disturbing people! Let strangers meet and say that our doll has no rules..." Tie Dan and Hua'er were having fun, and refused to listen to the aunt's words. The second aunt slapped each buttocks twice, and sternly reprimanded: "Get out! Go to sleep with your mother-in-law! What are you talking about! Just now!" The cleaned floor is dirty again! The desktop that was just cleaned up is messed up again..."

The aunt led the grandson and granddaughter to the fire kang in the back room. The second aunt sat down and looked at the face of the fourth sister, as if she didn't know her niece, staring blankly.The fourth sister could see that the second aunt had an unusually heavy, even worried look in her eyes.Fourth Sister rarely noticed this kind of look.In the nearly two months since she came to the second aunt's house, she can clearly see that the second aunt is shrewd and capable, and has long been familiar with all the customs and habits of the Guanzhong countryside. Even her accent has changed, mixing the mixed words of Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi. She is completely dominant in this family.The money is in the hands of the second aunt, and the family's clothing, food and daily expenses are all arranged by the second aunt.The crippled uncle came home to eat at three o'clock a day, and then went back to the farm after eating, where he also rested at night.My aunt leads her two grandchildren every day, like a hen leading and guarding her chicks, walking around the village, doing all the housework and foreign affairs, and the second aunt decides and socializes.The second aunt has become a shrewd and capable housewife, many things are straightforward, and she rarely looks indecisive.

The second aunt lowered her voice and said to her niece, "Fourth sister, your big business will be decided in the dark today. My aunt's heart is fluttering, and she will always be unstable. You see, your mother and father are far away in the mountains. They sent you to my aunt. Here, I can’t discuss it with anyone I want to discuss with. If this matter is settled, what should I do if I’m blind in the future? Well, everyone, how can I explain to your mother when I’m blind..." "Gu!" The fourth sister said immediately, "When I came here, I told my elder mother everything, and I won't blame you. I'm not a three-year-old or five-year-old snot baby...don't worry..."

"Fourth Sister!" Second Aunt said even more emotionally, "I'm at ease when I've said this. After a while, when someone comes, you can talk to him openly, so don't let him look down on our mountain people. I haven't seen that baby either." However, if you look at it, you can also look at it, if you want it, I will do it, and if you don’t want it, I won’t force you..." "Second Aunt, I know..." Fourth Sister felt a little uncomfortable, as if facing a life-or-death decision, but she was completely unsure. In order not to make Second Aunt feel uncomfortable, she said, "I know..."

"Okay." Second Aunt said, "Go! Comb your hair and put on that new shirt. Don't let people say that we mountain people are so poor that we wear patched shirts when we meet..." The fourth sister was a little embarrassed and coy. "Go! Wash your face and put on some cream." The second aunt urged her, "I'm afraid it's time to come." Fourth Sister walked into Second Aunt's hut, washed her hands and face, dug out a little cream from a small bottle, put it on her face, and felt her face was hot.She took out the chemical comb, and the thorns were covered with black grease, and she wiped it off, and the chemical comb turned green again.There was a layer of dust on the mirror, which was also wiped off. She sat under the electric light, facing the small round mirror, and looked at the girl reflected in the mirror, with a trembling smile on her lips.

It was the first time she discovered that she was so good-looking. Her eyes were big, and her double eyelids were not so obvious, but they were indeed double eyelids; Get a little fatter... She smiled shyly and combed her hair. The hair was a little yellow but loose, fluttering on both sides of her cheeks; she said to the shy smiling person in the mirror, ah!Today I will give you a son-in-law!I don't know if it's bald or pockmarked... There was a sound of footsteps in the yard, and then I heard the voice of the second aunt calling, then I heard the voice of Uncle Liu's gaba, and finally the voice of a strange woman. I jumped up in my chest, put down the comb, pushed away the mirror, and covered my cheeks with my hands, not knowing what to do.

She poured herself a glass of water and drank it, trying to calm her heart. When the second aunt and the strange woman were very polite talking in the upper room, her heart jumped again in a panic.During the unbearable waiting, the fourth sister heard the voice of the second aunt calling her. The fourth sister walked out of the building, paused for a while, then walked to the upper room, stepped into the threshold, and saw four or five people sitting under the electric light at a glance. She stared straight at the introducer and said, "Uncle Liu, come here." Lie!" Liu Hongyan laughed, stood up immediately, pointed to a young man sitting on a bench and said, "This is Lu Jianfeng, nicknamed Sanwazi." The young man also smiled shyly, and hurriedly lowered his head.Fourth Sister felt a throbbing in her heart, but she didn't dare to look at him at all.Liu Hongyan pointed to a middle-aged woman and said, "This is Sanwazi's sister-in-law. If you two have a good talk tonight, she will be your sister-in-law..." The fourth sister was so ashamed that she sat down and sat down. Sitting on the stool on one side, she felt uncomfortable and didn't dare to look at anyone. In fact, she knew in her heart that she was the target of other people's attention. That Lu Jianfeng followed his sister-in-law to visit her. "Once born, second time acquaintance, and third time I don't want my old Liu!" Liu Hongyan sat in the middle of the table, facing Lu Jianfeng and his sister-in-law over there, and turned to face the fourth sister here. And her second aunt, talking about connecting the two sides, "Things are not complicated. In the new society, we talk about freedom and voluntariness, and none of us wants to do it all. Let the fourth sister and the third child talk freely. Let's do it! Fourth sister, third My son, you two go to the front building to talk, so that we don't get in the way, we talk in the upper room..." The second aunt, as the host, led the guest and the fourth sister back to the mansion, politely asked the guest to sit on a chair, poured a cup of tea, and handed him a cigarette. The guest took it and put it down, saying that he didn't know how to smoke.The second aunt glanced at her niece and went out. The fourth sister sat on the edge of the kang, looked at her toes, and raised her head in embarrassment.The guest sitting on the chair, judging from the suppressed breathing, was also very nervous and cramped. The fourth sister waited for the other party to speak. The other party was probably waiting for her to speak. The small mansion was quiet, the wind hissed the window paper. The fourth sister raised her head slightly, glanced at the guests on the chairs by the table, was startled, and quickly lowered her head, it was such a person!With a black red face, two very dark and thick eyebrows, a pair of black eyes are staring at her face.Suddenly she thought of a piece of iron, a piece of bluish iron that had just been wrought from the anvil.She thought that this person must have a tough temper, very stubborn, very... "My house has a large population, the family is big, and the ingredients are not very good..." The fourth sister finally heard what the other party said. It was true. She only talked about the shortcomings of his family. The large population and the large family were the flaws of the woman when choosing a partner. Everyone wanted a small family to eat a small pot. Rice, high composition is a major obstacle.But Fourth Sister knew about these questions a long time ago, and they have already passed them.She didn't say a word, waiting for the other party to speak, the first sentence gave her an impression: this person is quite... After a word, the guest was silent again.The fourth sister's mind turned, could it be because she didn't talk to him, and she didn't express her attitude towards what he said, so she suddenly became suspicious?Do you want to confess quickly? "I don't have a problem with you..." The fourth sister immediately dispelled the idea of ​​confessing her love.She wanted to laugh, but almost couldn't help it, so she covered her mouth with one hand so as not to laugh out loud and embarrass the guests.Just said one sentence, the second sentence means "no comment", is it too hasty?Or is it too honest?Ridiculously honest.Oh!Suddenly, a cloud of dark clouds flew into Simeizi's mind: This kid is probably a fool, right? The second aunt once told him a real joke a few days ago.A girl from the Yang family went to meet with a boy from a nearby village, and no one was ashamed to speak. After sitting there for a pack of cigarettes, the guy couldn't bear it anymore and was about to speak. He wanted to tell the most interesting thing in his life. Girl, let me show my knowledge. After much deliberation, I remembered that his uncle led him to see a tiger at the Xi'an Zoo.He thought, the girl must have never seen a tiger, so he used a tiger to suppress her, and said: "I have seen a tiger! It is taller and bigger than a calf! Have you ever seen it?" The girl was stunned, and the two talked about marriage. What about tiger shit?The young man was proud, and said: "As soon as we get married, ask my uncle to take us to the zoo and watch the tiger again..." The girl looked at the smug and dumbfounded look, and her heart became suspicious.When the girl was wondering and complaining, the boy suddenly stood up, raised his nose, sniffed from left to right, and then laughed smirking in relief: "Strange thing! I said why is there a scent in this dark room? It turned out to be Your body smells good..." When the girl heard this, she jumped out of the house in fright, leaving the matchmaker and the old aunt who accompanied her, and ran back to Yang's house in one breath. The fourth sister laughed so hard that her stomach ached when she heard Er Gu's joke.Now, she seemed to have an ominous omen, the young man in front of her was exactly that fool who used tigers to scare people.She glanced at him, and he looked down at his hands without opening his mouth.If he continues to talk, she can further observe his appearance. What if he just sits down like this?The fourth sister made up her mind to tease him to talk. "How old are you?" "twenty two." "Where did you study?" "After just one year in junior high school, classes were suspended to cause a revolution." "and after?" "Later, I went back to Lujiabao. I was young, and the team was not allowed to go to work, so I mowed the grass to earn work points. When I was older, I worked with the members of the commune." She stopped asking, and he stopped talking.It seems that she is not an idiot, the doubts of the fourth sister have dissipated.Is he shy?Or that boring gourd who doesn't like to talk?At this moment, she hoped that he could ask her something, but he still didn't speak. "You haven't said...do you have any opinion on me?" He only cares about this sentence.Fourth Sister wanted to laugh again, so she decided not to answer him directly, but to tease this burly and strong man to see what he would do?She said, "I don't even know your name so far, what can I say?" "Oh! My name is Lu Jianfeng." He blushed and explained, "I mean... would you like to..." "You are so impatient!" Fourth Sister said. The guest blushed and became even more embarrassed. Liu Hongyan appeared at the door and called her and him back to the upper room.Liu Hong blinked her eyelids twice: "Long story short, night short, tomorrow you have to work. Now, you two have met and met, talked and talked, three to six, just say one sentence..." The room was silent. "I have no objection." Lu Jianfeng said first. The fourth sister immediately felt that everyone's eyes were on her, and the important event of her life was settled like this!Once it is settled, let alone divorce after marriage, it would be disgraceful to dissolve the engagement after engagement!She had nothing to say to him now, no flaws or strengths, nothing that would prompt her to be united with him, nothing that would prompt her to say "I have no problem."She finally didn't say anything, just nodded. "Okay! It's going well, everyone is happy." Liu Hongyan clapped her hands, jumped off the stool, stood in the middle of the room, and announced, "Zhabu, engagement!" Having obtained the most satisfactory result, Liu Hongyan led Lu Jianfeng and his sister-in-law out of the yard and disappeared into the dim moonlight at the entrance of the village. The aunt was also very satisfied, and patted Simeizi on the back with great interest, and sighed: "How wonderful the new society is! We meet first, then we talk, and then we get married. I feel at ease. I would... oh! I just got into it. People’s mansions, when the hijab is removed, the treasure will be revealed..." Fourth Sister felt that after all, she was much better than her aunt at that time.