She was vexed and anxious, but it was useless. She had once given up hope for her son's marriage, but when she heard that her son had a girl he liked in Hong Kong, she was overjoyed.
But how many years had it been since he had delayed it?
Otherwise, how could she have entrusted Fu Xia to find out what was going on?
Alright, it was over. She was happy from the bottom of her heart. She couldn't be so ambiguous anymore. Even if she was the one who forced her son to do it, even if the woman in front of her did it to piss her off, she would accept it!
She thought about the past. She thought about the days when her son had just returned from the army. As long as the girl wasn't an idiot, as long as she knew how to go home to collect her clothes when it rained, the Li family would accept her.
Compared to the past and the present, the woman in front of her was so much better. She had the looks, the figure, and she was especially virtuous. Most importantly, she could still bear children in the future.
The only thing lacking was that she had brought a child over.
Wasn't it just a woman bringing a child? The Li family could afford to raise a little girl, and it was just a little girl. After raising her for eight to ten years, she could just give her a dowry, she thought.
"I can only do this even if I don't understand." Li Qiuhong stood up and said to Li He, "Brother, I'll be leaving first."
Li He asked politely, "Aren't you going to stay for lunch?"
Li Qiuhong looked at the gift box on the door and smiled. "I won't hold you up. I still have to inform the other families."
Before she left, she pinched Li Lan's little face happily.
Old Madam He was worried that Li He would bring Li Lan to Zhao Yongqi's place alone. She hesitated and said, "You haven't brought him alone before, have you? Why don't I go with him?"
"Auntie, I'll have to trouble you then." Li He might not be able to tame his son by himself. After all, he lacked the experience of bringing up a son alone, and Li Lan wasn't too reliant on him.
Old Madam He wrapped Li Lan in a scarf until only his eyes were exposed. Then, she happily carried him in her arms. Li He carried a wine case in one hand and a bag of milk bottles in the other.
He opened the door to the passenger seat and let the old lady get into the car with the child. Then he turned around and locked the door.
It was very cold outside, and the cold wind kept pouring into the car through the window. Li Lan didn't dare to look out of the car.
Only then did Li He realize the importance of having a good car.
The car had just arrived at Zhao Yongqi's house when Ma Jincai came out to welcome them. She took the child from Old Madam He and said, "Little sweetheart, you must be freezing. Auntie, when we get off the car, hold onto the door frame and be careful, the floor is slippery. "
"Aiya, sorry to trouble you." Old Madam He got out of the car quickly. As a son-in-law, she didn't have many cars, but she was used to sitting in her daughter's car.
As soon as they entered the house and the heater was on, she peeled off the layers of clothes and scarves on Li Lan's body. This way, Li Lan could move freely.
"Uncle, smoke."
"Zhao Kuo has grown so big." Li He was stunned. The eldest son of the Zhao family had already handed him a cigarette. He smiled at Ma Jincai and said, "Sister-in-law, you can get married in two years."
"Sigh, he hasn't even graduated from university." Ma Jincai slapped her son angrily and complained, "Of all the things he could have learned at such a young age, he just had to learn to smoke. Old Zhao was so angry that he wanted to beat him up, but I stopped him a few times. If you say that your father is not righteous, how can your son not learn? Now, this child is doing it right in front of us. "
"Of course, of course." Li He didn't know if he should smoke or not. He glanced at Li Lan and decided that if his son dared to learn to smoke, he would beat him to death. No matter which son he was, he would not let him learn to smoke. "Smoking is bad for your health."
"It's okay to smoke a few cigarettes. Old Zhao has gone to buy groceries and will be back soon." Ma Jincai said to her son, "Light it for your uncle."
"I have it myself." Li He lit it for himself decisively and said, "Sister-in-law, you go ahead and do what you need to do."
"Then take a seat. Don't stand on ceremony. I still have meat stewing in the pot. I'll go for a while. " Ma Jincai had changed a lot in the past ten years. Her voice was smoother than Li He's, and there was no difference between her voice and that of a city dweller. If one didn't listen carefully, it would be impossible to tell that she was speaking with a northern Shaanxi accent.
Old Madam He saw that Li Lan was being coaxed by the youngest daughter of the Zhao family, so she naturally followed Ma Jincai to the kitchen to help.
When Zhao Yongqi came back, he saw his son smoking carelessly. He was about to stomp on him when his son ran back into the house and closed the door with a bang.
"The little bastard has been spoiled. A loving mother will spoil her son."
"That's good. He's diligent in his studies." Li He wasn't trying to flatter him. In terms of studies, the two children of the Zhao family were quite good. One was already in university, and the other was still in high school. Both of their results were among the best.
"Sigh, you don't understand." Zhao Yongqi put the vegetables on the floor, and his youngest daughter naturally brought them to the kitchen. He took off his coat and hung it on the clothes rack. He turned around and said to Li He, "In the past, we talked about enduring our days. How do we endure it? With tobacco leaves. I learned to smoke with my father when I was 16. There's really no way to quit. You see, I was unwilling to leave high school. I was prepared to endure until I died just to get a few credits. What hope could there be? But these kids now, even if these two children had stayed in the countryside, their mother and I couldn't bear to let them suffer. How did this damn child learn to smoke now? "
"Nonsense." Li He smiled. This was similar to saying that cigarettes were the only light in the dark night without electricity. How did he learn to smoke? In his previous life, he learned it from Zhao Yongqi. As soon as he entered the dormitory, he threw a red flag at Li He. Li He didn't pick it up at first. Later, he realized that most people smoked, so he learned it after a while.
As the saying went, "Smoke warms the room, farts warm the bed." In the cold winter, his classmates smoked together to keep warm. When they bragged, they would blow out a few smoke rings to increase their persuasiveness.
There was no toilet paper in the toilet, so he learned to use a cigarette box to solve it. Later, due to poor economic conditions, or because of someone's strong opposition, he quit.
Naturally, he continued to smoke in this life. When university started, he took the initiative to give Zhao Yongqi cigarettes. Now that his economic conditions were good, he had no reason to quit.
Zhao Yongqi refilled Li He's cup and continued, "What do you mean by nonsense? I'm telling the truth. Alright, let's talk about our generation. How many men don't smoke? "
"Very few." Li He casually thought about it. It seemed that there were very few people of his age who didn't smoke.
"Then think about it again. How many fifteen-year-olds smoke like us when we were fifteen or sixteen years old?"
Li He shook his head and said with a smile, "There are fifteen-year-olds who smoke now, but they're in the minority."
Zhao Yongqi said righteously, "Isn't that right? If we can fill our stomachs, who would have the time to smoke?"
What he said made so much sense that Li He couldn't refute him.
"When I smoked, no one told me that smoking was harmful to my health!"
The first report on smoking and health problems appeared in the sixties. In the eighties and nineties, there were not many tobacco companies in the world who were willing to publicly admit that smoking was harmful to one's health.
Smoking was harmful to one's health. Today, it seemed so simple, so correct, and so normal, but in his generation, it was a gap of knowledge, even though they had received systematic higher education.
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