Chapter 1457: Honest Woman 40

Chapter 1457: Honest Woman 40

Chapter 1457: Honest Woman 40

In the early days of economic opening up, there was money to be made on the streets. As long as you were willing to lose face and show up in public, and willing to sell your job, setting up a street stall was like picking up money.

Although her mother's family was not very kind to the original owner because they favored boys over girls, they did not force her to death. Yuanchun still hoped that the Shi family could make money.

Of course, it is not possible to continue asking her to make blood-sucking buns for her family.

Her advantage will not be taken by her family.

If my mother's family wants to make money, they have to rely on their own abilities.

On the day of Shi Xiangdong's wedding, Yuanchun brought her half-year-old baby daughter to Shi's house for the wedding banquet. The wedding banquet was held in a canteen in the coal mine factory area. The dishes were bought by the Shi family and cooked by a chef hired from the canteen.

Yuanchun gave a ten-yuan gift and sat down at a random table.

Soon, she saw her sister-in-law. She was an average-looking girl with decent facial features, but she had freckles on her face and a black mole the size of a mung bean under her chin. She was not tall, only about 1.6 meters, which is relatively short in the Northeast. Shi Xiangdong was over 1.8 meters tall, and her sister-in-law, standing next to him, was only up to his shoulders.

First, the leader of the coal mine said a few words, then the bride and groom stood in front, holding the little red book and took an oath. After that, the ceremony was over and the wedding banquet began.

Shi's father and mother are people of honor, and this is the first time they marry a daughter-in-law, so the dishes for the wedding banquet are quite good, with three meat dishes and three vegetable dishes, a total of six dishes.

In this era, it is a pretty good banquet.

Yuanchun took a steamed bun and asked her daughter to hold it in her hands and chew it slowly. Occasionally, she would feed her a piece of egg, tofu or fish, but she didn't eat much herself.

I only ate half full and there was not much food left on the table.

Yuanchun used the excuse that her daughter was sleepy and went to say goodbye to Shi's father and mother.

Shi's mother said with a dark face, "You are your eldest brother's only sister. The other relatives will leave after eating, but you can't leave. When you go home later, your eldest sister-in-law will have to recognize you as a relative."

In the Northeast, when a bride recognizes her relatives, the elders need to give red envelopes, but she is not an elder, so what is the point of staying here?

Yuanchun said, "It will be fine if you and my father are here for my sister-in-law to recognize her. There is still a long way to go. I will wait for the next time."

Then, the person slipped away.

Shi's mother was furious, but she couldn't lose her temper because her in-laws and factory leaders were present. She could only watch her daughter leave the cafeteria with gritted teeth.

On the fifth day after the marriage, Shi Xiangdong came to Yuanchun to borrow money.

Yuanchun said, "You want to borrow money from me? I'm raising a child alone and I don't have a job. Where can I get the money to lend you?"

Shi Xiangdong said dejectedly, "I know you have no money, I just came here to try my luck."

He told Yuanchun, "I didn't expect that your sister-in-law would sell her job on the day she returned home, and the money from the sale was taken away by my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law said that she was the one who paid for the job, and now that the job has been sold, she wants the money back."

"Mom said that this must have been discussed by your sister-in-law's family before she got married. Otherwise, it wouldn't be such a coincidence that someone would buy a job on the day she got married."

"Originally, I was thinking of using the money your sister-in-law earned from her job to buy some clothes from the provincial capital and sell them on the street in our county. But now... your sister-in-law doesn't have a penny."

Only then did Shi Xiangdong understand how helpless it was to marry a girl whose family favored boys over girls.

His wife asked for a dowry of 120 yuan from his family, as well as an 80-yuan lady's watch, a radio, and a bicycle as a betrothal gift. But when she got married, apart from the new clothes she was wearing, she only brought a small bag containing the two sets of clothes she wore every day.