Accidentally entered a high gate

Ma Lifeng bent down and scratched Xiao Wanwan's armpits as he said, "Comrade Ma Yanlin, are you looking down on your uncle? Your uncle isn't that petty."

"Hahahaha... Uncle Zhao, help!"

"Alright!" Zhao Yonghong said with a laugh, rolling up his sleeves. "Where did this big bad guy come from? Let go of our bowls right now, or you'll be sorry!"

……

The three of them joked around for quite a while.

On the other hand, Wen Nianjun and his lover Ji Xiaoya were not in a very good mood.

As Ji Xiaoya followed Wen Nianjun toward the ticket booth, she muttered a complaint: "Your sister is so willful. Your parents even asked us to find her a partner in the army, but what did she do? Not only did she find a peasant, but she also cursed your parents."

Wen Nianjun also felt that his sister was too willful. However, he said, "If you don't like my sister, go back to the army. Also, if I hear dangerous words like 'mud-legged' and 'curse' from your mouth again, I will divorce you. I don't want a wife who is both ignorant and backward."

Ji Xiaoya: "..." Your sister isn't ignorant, your sister isn't backward, so why didn't you happily attend your sister's wedding? "I was wrong, I'll be more careful next time. What about your sister?"

"Let's talk about it when we get home."

The couple rushed back home after buying their tickets.

Wen Nianhe's father was named Wen Qiyuan, and her mother was named Su Wanqiu.

When Su Wanqiu came home from get off work and saw her eldest son and daughter-in-law at home, she was stunned for a moment. "Weren't you going to see Nianhe? Did you get a mission?"

Ji Xiaoya didn't say anything.

Wen Nianjun rubbed his temples. "I haven't received any missions. My dad should be back soon, right?"

"Soon. Did your dad send you back?"

"No. I'll wait for my dad to get back..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wen Qiyuan walked in through the door.

Wen Qiyuan was also a little surprised to see his eldest son and daughter-in-law. "Why are you two back? Did you receive a mission?"

Wen Nianjun rubbed his temples again. "No. Did Nianhe have a conflict with you when she went to the countryside?"

Wen Qiyuan had a bad feeling. "It wasn't exactly a fight, was it? I wanted her to become an apprentice at the factory, but your mother wanted her to find someone to marry. In the end, she went directly to the educated youth office and signed up to go to the countryside."

Wen Nianjun: "..." His younger sister is such a worry. "Why doesn't she want to be an apprentice? Doesn't she want to get married?"

Su Wanqiu: "She said that since your father is the factory manager, he should set an example. She said that if she were to become an apprentice in the factory, those who want to remove your father from his position as factory manager would definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble."

"As for marriage? She said it's impossible to find a good partner these days. Even if she manages to find one, the other person and their family will feel like they're doing her a favor, like they're saving her life. She said she's not going to go out of her way to be mistreated."

Wen Nianjun: "..." How was his little sister willful? His little sister wasn't willful at all. "Nianhe's consideration is correct."

Ji Xiaoya also felt that her sister-in-law wasn't so bad. "That's what people in society think; people in the military generally don't think that way."

Su Wanqiu knew this too. However, "Nianhe said she wasn't strong enough, and that if she married a soldier, she would probably hold him back."

Wen Nianjun: "..." Is his little sister's awareness high or low?

Ji Xiaoya: "..." Although her sister-in-law wasn't very strong, she was very self-aware. And... she was quite cute.

Wen Qiyuan: "You came back because of Nianhe? What happened to Nianhe?"

Wen Nianjun recounted what happened on the train.

"Phew..." Wen Qiyuan let out a long sigh of relief. "You scared me to death! I thought your sister couldn't take the hardship and ran away."

Su Wanqiu also breathed a sigh of relief. "If what that young man said is true, then that family and that young man are alright."

Wen Nianjun and Ji Xiaoya were both surprised to hear this. "Dad, Mom, you don't object?"

They did want to object. However,

Wen Qiyuan: "Your younger sister went directly to the educated youth office to sign up to go to the countryside, which shows that once she made up her mind, not even ten oxen could pull her back."

Su Wanqiu: "I asked you to find her a partner in the army because I wanted to see if she would change her mind after seeing the other person's photo and communicating with him."

Wen Qiyuan: "Tell us more about that family and that young man."

"Okay," Wen Nianjun said again.

Wen Qiyuan thought his youngest daughter had good taste. "That young man probably wasn't lying. As long as his father-in-law's family and his brother-in-law weren't as he described, he wouldn't bring up the topic of going to the countryside. Although Wen isn't a very common surname, it's not one of those surnames with only a few thousand people nationwide either."

"Go buy the tickets this afternoon. When you get there, ask your sister for me and your mother why she wanted to marry someone from the countryside."

Wen Nianjun was about to say "okay".

Su Wanqiu said, "What else could it be? To be able to do whatever you want in your husband's family."

Wen Qiyuan, Wen Nianjun, and Ji Xiaoya: "..." No way?

Su Wanqiu rolled her eyes at their wide-eyed stares. "Why are you all so surprised? Nianhe isn't a brainless girl. Nianhe must have ulterior motives for wanting to marry that young man."

Wen Qiyuan, Wen Nianjun, and Ji Xiaoya: "..." That's true. What else can you expect from marrying into a rural family? The only thing you can do is be bossed around in your husband's family.

Su Wanqiu stood up once she saw that their eyes had returned to normal. "You guys go to the cafeteria to buy food, I'll go prepare her dowry." She couldn't act arrogantly in her husband's family without a dowry.

Ji Xiaoya also stood up. "I'll go buy it. You chat with Mom and Dad a little longer."

She does have her merits, otherwise Wen Nianjun wouldn't have married her or stayed with her for so long.

Wen Nianjun really wanted to talk to his parents alone. "Okay. Be careful not to burn yourself on the way back."

Ji Xiaoya said "Okay" and left with her lunchbox.

After she left, Wen Nianjun looked at Wen Qiyuan and said, "Since you and Mom don't mind Nianhe marrying into the countryside, let's spread the word."

"Yes. As long as we, father and son, are still alive, your little sister can live comfortably even if she marries into a family in the countryside."

……

The next day, Wen Qiyuan and Su Wanqiu went to see Wen Nianjun and Ji Xiaoya off in a grand manner.

Wen Nianjun carried a bag in his left hand and a bag in his right hand, with two quilts on his back.

Ji Xiaoya carried a pair of washbasins in her left hand and a pair of thermos flasks in her right. Both the thermos flasks and the washbasins had the character for "double happiness" on them, clearly indicating that they were for weddings.

The people in the family compound would naturally ask them questions when they saw them like this.

Before the Wen family even left the compound, everyone there knew that Wen Nianhe was going to marry into a family in the countryside; they all knew that Wen Qiyuan and Su Wanqiu not only didn't object, but had also prepared a considerable dowry for Wen Nianhe; they all knew that Wen Nianjun and Ji Xiaoya had happily gone to see Wen Nianhe off...

Some people in the family compound thought the Wen family was highly conscious; some thought the Wen family was just putting on an act; some thought Wen Qiyuan only showed affection for Wen Nianhe superficially; and some thought it would be even more difficult to bring down Wen Qiyuan...

Holding Xiao Wanwan, Ma Lifeng led Zhao Yonghong out of the train station and headed towards a nearby guesthouse. "We'll stay in the county for the night."

Little Bowl Bowl wanted to go back to the riverside brigade. "Why? It's not too late yet."

"Let's go to the train station tomorrow and see if we can run into the Wen family. If we can, we'll go back with them. If we can't, we'll go back on our own."

Why should we wait for the Wen family?

Ma Lifeng pinched Xiao Wanwan's little nose. "Because your dad wants to know as soon as possible whether your uncle and your future aunt will get a beating?"

Little Bowl: "..." Her dad is so childish. "Okay, okay."

Ma Lifeng requested two rooms: one for himself and Xiaowanwan, and one for Zhao Yonghong.

That evening, just as Xiao Wanwan finished washing up and was about to go to sleep, Ma Lifeng pinched her chubby cheeks and asked, "Do you know why Dad told the Wen family that Wen Nianhe was going to marry your eldest uncle?"

Little Bowl Bowl wanted to say that even if you didn't tell them, they would find out when they got to the riverside brigade. But then she thought that if it were that simple, her father wouldn't have specifically asked her. "Are you trying to test how petty I, Da Jiu, am?"