Chapter 7 Chapter VII

Liao Laoqi clapped the cigarette pot and stared at Huaibao, who was squatting there with his head in his hands. The wrinkles on his face kept gathering and fluctuating, but then slowly stretched out, ending at a complete standstill.Just now, after his son finished what mayor Dai said, he was also a little surprised: a person needs the consent of his superiors to marry a wife?However, he quickly weighed the two matters of marrying a concubine as his daughter-in-law and letting his son be the deputy mayor, and decided which to choose.He said slowly: Bao'er, since Mayor Dai said that you can only choose one of these two good things, then you should choose ruthlessly, and I believe you will choose the right one.Dad just wants to remind you that some things will never be found again after being lost, and some things will be found again tomorrow if they are lost today.

Huai Baoniang hurriedly interjected at that moment: "Of course I want to marry a concubine. If I lose this girl, I won't marry. If someone finds a husband's family, where will you go to find another concubine?" fart!Liao Lao Qi gave his wife a hard look.Without Pei Ying, wouldn't you marry Liu Ying and Zhang Ying? That's different, that's not a person!Huai Baoniang dared to speak up to her husband. Isn't it all a woman?Liao Laoqi's face turned pale with anger, isn't it the same when he took off his pants? Don't you blush when you say that!Huai Baoniang's face turned red to the point of hatred.

OK OK!Huaibao angrily interrupted the dispute between the two elders at this moment, stood up and went into his original sleeping room. Huaibao lay in the bedroom with his head covered for a whole day, and only came out at dusk.Liao Laoqi, who had been guarding outside anxiously, was careful at that moment and said: Let your mother cook you something to eat? !Calling you at noon that you shouldn’t, I’ve been hungry all day—— Dad, go ahead and talk!Huaibao ignored his father's words, but looked at the corner of the room, and suddenly said this. Liao Laoqi was taken aback for a moment, but he understood in a flash, so he asked: Are you looking for a concubine——?

Say it without breaking her heart. I understand!It's just that when I go, I have to have a clear mind. Tell me the truth, have you and her ever done that—? Huai Bao blushed and coughed as an answer, and then hurried out to the town government. After dark that day, Liao Laoqi carried a basket of eggs covered with two pieces of floral cloth, and walked towards Pei's courtyard. Seeing Liao Lao Qi enter the room, she panicked and let the old man sit down and serve tea. She already regarded the old man as her father-in-law in her heart. She guessed that the old man came to discuss the engagement banquet with her mother, so she became popular. She turned her face and said: My mother is not in good health, she has already fallen asleep, I will call her——

no, I'm fine.Liao Laoqi hurriedly waved his hands.I'm here to tell you something.In the past two days, I was busy setting up an engagement banquet for you and Huaibao, but I only got the news later today that the government will not allow our two families to get married, saying that if we do, Huaibao will be in the wrong position, and we can no longer be together The town government did it!To be punished!Huaibao's intention, of course, is that he would rather not be that official, but also have a family with you. If he says no, he will go to flee famine with you and beg for food.He asked me to ask you how you think about it.I agree with his idea. Anyway, our ancestors have survived without being an official. What's so important about not being an official? What if people have a good future?Isn't it dead in the end?Now I'm worried that you and Huaibao are really going to flee famine and beg for food. My mother Bao and I just say we can make do for a few days, but how can your mother live alone?How do you arrange this in your heart?

Seeing her father-in-law full of joy, she was stunned by these words and froze there. She never thought that her future father-in-law would bring such news.After a long pause, she was able to let herself speak. Although her voice was trembling, it was clear: Uncle, I will write down Huaibao and your thoughts, but I cannot ruin Huaibao's future. It's not easy for a man to have a good future. If my future is ruined because of my pregnancy, I will live in trouble for the rest of my life. Tell him to let him forget me... A burst of satisfaction and joy flashed across the corner of Liao Laoqi's mouth, but it was just a flash, and then he said many words of comfort with a sad face and heartache.When he finally walked out of the concubine's room, he heard the crying that was suppressed in the throat finally let out, but it was very low, and he reckoned that she was crying on the quilt.He stopped for a while, shook his head, raised his face to the sky and murmured: There is no other way, our Liao family has had this opportunity to be an official for several generations, we can't lose it! ...