Mother Li frowned and said aggrievedly while wiping her tears: "If it weren't for your pleading, I would have caused a stir and broke off the engagement with Lao Yang's family. Whose girl do you want to marry?"

OK, I have to marry someone from the old Yang family!"

"That Xiuxiu is thin and unattractive, with freckles on her face. Wherever she stands, she's not as juicy as Dan'er, nor as pretty as Qiao'er."

"That dry and flat figure will make it difficult to give birth to a baby. It's not dignified at all when walking outside, like a half-grown child!"

Li Wei frowned, took his hand back from Mother Li's knees, stood up and stood aside.

"Mom, please don't say this. It's not the first time you've met Xiuxiu."

"It's been two or three years since I got engaged to her. You already know what she looks like, so why bother using her appearance to make matters worse?"

Li's mother looked at Li Wei in surprise, "What's going on with you? Are you contradicting your mother for your wife? I don't think she's not good-looking. What I mean is that as a woman, she doesn't look impressive. What I'm telling you is the truth.

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Seeing that his mother was still arguing with him plausibly, Li Wei turned around impatiently.

"Mother, no matter how Xiuxiu looks, I married her for what purpose. If others don't know, don't you also know?"

Li Wei's words immediately stopped Li's mother.

Others may not know it, but as Li Wei's mother, she must know it.

If you marry Xiuxiu, your son will not have to be so tired in the future.

Especially since Li Yi, the mainstay of the family, is in jail, it will be even more difficult for his son to get married if he and Xiu Xiu break up.

"Hey, what a sin!" Mother Li sighed.

Li Wei knew that his mother's attitude had softened, so he also softened his tone and squatted back in front of Li's mother.

"Mom, tell me, why do you want to show off your face in public today?"

Li's mother did not hide anything, and told Li Wei truthfully: "My daughter-in-law's family is strong and her waist is strong. I was polite to her before, but that was before I got married."

"Now that I'm officially married, I can no longer treat her as a guest as I used to."

"You have to control what needs to be done, and establish power when it's time to establish authority. No matter how she was in her parents' home before, when she comes to her husband's home, her mother-in-law is her mother-in-law, and her daughter-in-law is her daughter-in-law. The rules cannot be messed up, and the duties cannot be lost, otherwise the whole village will suffer.

People are laughing at our family!"

Li Wei nodded, "Okay, what mom said makes sense, but some things should be done in moderation and don't overdo it."

"If you go too far, I'm afraid I won't be able to handle your son, and everyone will look ugly."

Mother Li looked at the son in front of her who was obviously tall and mighty, but very weak at heart, and sighed helplessly again.

After appeasing Li's mother, Li Wei went out to entertain the guests.

Although the old Yang family is marrying a girl, and the Li family is marrying a daughter-in-law, according to conventional thinking, this grand and large-scale banquet should be held at the groom's house.

However, in the morning, there were nearly a dozen tables of guests in the old Yang family, and at this noon banquet, the Li family only had less than three tables!

And among the three tables of people, two of them were the 'Send Uncle Lang' team from the old Yang family!

The Li family's own relatives and friends were so exhausted that a table of people came over!

Later, when there was nothing he could do, Li Jia arranged for all three of his sons and grandsons to have dinner at the table, and then he could barely make up four tables, making up an even number.

The table where the bride was sitting was the women's table, but not even one of the tables could be occupied.

Xiu Xiu looked around and felt something was wrong.

Are the other guests arranged in the yard of the neighbor's house next door?

She was wondering and guessing in her heart when she saw Li Jia, carrying a wine pot tied with red silk, leading Li Wei next to Shun'er to toast and greet the guests at the table.

Xiuxiu's eyes followed Li Jia and Li Wei, and found that they only walked around among the four tables in their yard. After drinking together, they found a table and sat down, and started

It’s time for a banquet.

I have no intention of getting up and going to the yard next door to have a drink with you!

What does this mean?

No matter how stupid Xiu Xiu is, no matter how ignorant he is of the world, he can probably guess something at this moment!

That is, the Li family has probably cut off contact with relatives and friends.

I probably also broke off diplomatic relations with the people in the village.

Otherwise, in such a large village, the population is not lower than that of Changping Village. If only 40% to 50% of the people came to congratulate me, it would be more than just a four-table banquet!

Xiuxiu's full enthusiasm suddenly felt like a ladle of cold water was poured on her.

She didn't pay much attention to the dishes on the dinner table. Anyway, no matter what she ate, it had no taste.

Because these dishes cannot be compared with the banquet at home.

Not to mention anything else, at our morning banquet, there was a whole stewed wild tortoise on every table, head and tail.

But Li Wei's dish, the tortoise, was chopped into small pieces and served on the table. It looked like bits and pieces, and after twiddling with it a few times with chopsticks, it was gone.

Xiuxiu estimates that if you put these four tables together, there will be at most two, and no more.

Then there were frogs.

Xiu Xiu remembers that at the banquet in the morning at home, there were also a lot of frogs. It was paired with green and red peppers. It was eye-catching, a bite, and a meal.

Especially the frogs, which are whole and very tasty.

But what about the frog at the Li family banquet?

The shallow plate was almost filled with chili, ginger and garlic, and the frog was also chopped into pieces.

Xiu Xiu finally put a piece of meat similar to a frog leg into the bowl, but when he took a bite, he realized that it was a whole head of white garlic with the skin peeled off!

What a fake!

Xiuxiu quietly spit out the garlic in her mouth, and her mood suddenly became worse.

This banquet is really... Hey, doesn't Li Wei's family have any money to host a banquet?

Since I have brought so much dowry, wouldn't it be nice for them to advance a little in advance and make the banquet more practical and decent so that everyone in the family can have face both inside and outside?

After the banquet was over, the uncles from Lao Yang's family also sent off a firecracker and left Lijia Village.

There were not many guests coming, and no villagers came to watch the fun and make noise in the bridal chamber.

The wedding room and the empty room next to the wedding room were all filled with embroidered dowries.

Li Wei seemed drunk and lay on the bed undressed to take a nap.

Mother Li was in the kitchen cleaning up the leftover food and drinks from the banquet, while her sister Li Qiaoer was busy tidying up the main room, washing tea bowls and sweeping the floor.

Xiuxiu is sitting alone in the wedding room.

No one talked to her.

There is only a deserted feeling left after half a day of hustle and bustle, a strange deserted feeling.

She looked at the setting sun shining in from the window and shining on the red painted cabinet. The festive red characters on it made her feel more and more deserted.

She pushed Li Wei beside her and said, "Xiaowei, don't sleep. Get up and talk to me."

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