When Liang Guifen mentioned marriage, Yan Chu would naturally not object.

After receiving a positive answer from his son, Liang Guifen was happy and sad.

Happy that the son was finally getting married. Sad that after the son got married, the person closest to him would become his wife and future child, but on the whole, joy was more than sorrow.

The older lady was a sensible person. She was at this age and would stay with her son for another 20 or 30 years. The daughter-in-law was the one who would accompany her son for the rest of his life. She would not learn from those who were mothers-in-law to win over their son and stirred up the relationship between their son and daughter-in-law. There was no need to stir up the hearts of the whole family. What good was it to hate the daughter-in-law? In the beginning, we should not actively look upon our son. This matter was not something that could be done by incompetent people.

Liang Guifen firmly believed that sincerity was exchanged for sincerity, knowing that the child looked cute and caring. As long as she treated the child as her daughter, the other side would treat her as well. Both of their hearts were on Yan Chu alone, and they would live a prosperous life.

“Our house’s a bit old. Since you’re planning to get married, we have to buy another one.”

Although it was a 180th line small county, the housing prices here had grown so fast in the past few years as if they were firework rockets. Some of the newly opened real estates had reached 7,000 or 8,000 per m2, which was ridiculously high for the small counties with a per capita income of 2,000.

Fortunately, the Yan family had other things besides a fixed salary income. Over the past few decades, they had also saved 600,000 Yuan. It was still possible to buy a house with an average of 180 m2. As a teacher, Yan Chu had a provident fund, so he paid some down payment himself, and the young couple did not need to repay the loan themselves.

“Mom went to see the new houses a few days ago, and the layouts are all good. If you think that the house with 100 m2 is small, there is one with more than 140 m2 of elevator room, four-bedroom, hard-covered house. You don’t have to worry about it, only need to add some furniture and electrical appliances. If you don’t mind, Mom will live with you, help you with your laundry and cooking, and when you have children, Mom can help. If you don’t want to live with the elderly, I’ll live in our old house, sell the other one and raise money to buy you a big one.”

Liang Guifen had a good plan. In the future, her daughter-in-law would come back from a big city, and she might not be willing to live with her. She was also unwilling to be obnoxious. She lived farther, maybe even closer.

Of course, the old lady had been living with her son all her life. When the time came to live apart, she would positively feel bad.

“Mom, what are you talking about? Wasn’t the purpose of marrying a wife for filial piety to you with one more person? How can I be married but left you out? Don’t say that again. I don’t want to hear it.”

Yan Chu was a dutiful man. Listening to his mother’s intention to live apart from him after marriage, he refuted Liang Guifen’s proposal without even thinking about it.

“We don’t need to buy a house either. Our old house’s in a good location, but the community’s a little older. If I want to get married, you can open up the house next door and renovate it. This will add up to nearly 200 m2, and we can have more children.”

When Liang Guifen bought the houses, she specially bought two suites on the same floor, separated by a wall. Now one set was self-occupied, and another rented out. The previous tenant was a foreigner. This year he planned to go back to his hometown and rented it until the end of September. It would be more than a month before she could get through the two suites and installed them again, which was more than two months.

Liang Guifen was pleased to hear that her son was filial to her. All the people who became mothers have a mentality. She was generally reasonable. She was also happy to hear that her son was more inclined to her, this mother.

“Don’t say this in front of Zhizhi.” She touched her son’s head briefly to make him grow a heart in front of the future wife and not let a good girl run away.

“Mom, Zhizhi also agreed. When I was on a blind date, I said that living with you is the basic premise. I think Zhizhi is also filial and agreed without any objection. So you can rest assured. Don’t say anything about living separately.” Yan Chu comforted the old lady.

“Really?” She was indeed a good girl. Liang Guifen was a little moved, so she stopped talking about living apart.

“But this house, we honestly don’t buy a new one?”

Now young people who were married and lived in a new house could not be worse than others because their children did not have a father. When they got married in the old house, the old lady always felt a little bit weak.

“You don’t need to buy a new house. Isn’t our house quite good? The neighbors are all acquaintances, and the kindergarten is just a few steps out of the community. It’s also close to my school. It’s convenient for everything.”

Yan Chu did not want to waste the pinhole cameras he had installed all morning. Besides, Liang Zhizhi’s scheme was so smoothly successful in the previous life, and it was also inseparable from the fact that the neighbors did not move around very much after moving. What Liang Zhizhi said, everyone listened to what they believed, so they did not give Yan Chu a chance to refute.

But it was different here, and Yan Chu moved here with Liang Guifen when he was four years old. More than 20 years have passed after a blink of an eye. The old neighbors were very familiar with him, saying that Yan Chu was the one they grew up watching. It was not an exaggeration. In this situation, between what Liang Zhizhi said and what he said, others would unmistakably listen to him more.

A better public opinion environment was vital to his later plans, so Yan Chu had no intention of selling his house and buying a new one from the beginning.

“If you don’t want to buy a new house, you have to communicate with Zhizhi’s family. But what you just said is right. It’s much better to get through the two houses and redecorate them then than to buy any new houses. Besides, our community is old, and there’s no place to talk about the location. There are all kinds of shops and vegetable farms nearby. If you change to another property, you won’t find such a good house.”

Liang Guifen’s vision was still good. The two suites she bought at the beginning were now in the center of the small county. Although it was an old community, the price was higher than the unit price per m2 of some newly opened buildings.

At first, Liang Guifen just thought that the woman’s family might mind if she did not have a new house. Now, after listening to her son’s analysis, she felt that the old community also had the advantages of the old district.

The mother and son discussed the details of the marriage, and under the arrangement of the matchmaker Aunt Yan, the two families sat together and discussed the matter of the young couple Yan Chu and Liang Zhizhi.

“Brother-in-law Yan.”

Yan Chu met Liang Zhizhi’s parents, but it was the first time he met Liang Zhizhi’s younger brother, Liang Qiuzhi.

Liang Qiuzhi was 13 years younger than Liang Zhizhi. Mother Liang was wearing an intrauterine device at the beginning, but the seed survived, and she was accidentally pregnant with him. Because of this ring, she never thought that she was pregnant when she did not have a period. When she noticed something wrong and went to the hospital, she was already pregnant for almost five months.

After inspection, Mother Liang’s physical condition was not suitable for miscarriage at that time. If she had to abort, it might be harmful to the mother’s body. Therefore, even if the husband and wife were both public servants, the second child was born legally, their job was not lost, and fined a large sum of money.

The couple was excited to have an extra son, and they gave him the best in almost everything. Now Liang Qiuzhi was in a private high school in the city. He did not go home without holidays. Therefore, Yan Chu went to Liang’s house several times, but he never saw this future brother-in-law.

Looking at the expression of my brother-in-law now, it seemed that he did not like his future brother-in-law very much.

Liang Qiuzhi certainly did not like the unsightly and even rustic brother-in-law in front of him. In his opinion, his older sister looked good and had a good job. If it had not for his father’s illness, he would not be looking for this brother-in-law.

Truthfully, he did not understand why his elder sister was satisfied with the man in front of him. Even in this small county, there were many outstanding young people. An ordinary and repressed primary school teacher, in the future, how could he introduce him as his brother-in-law?

Liang Qiuzhi, who had a strong chuunibyou trait, put his hands in his trouser pockets. He ignored Yan Chu’s affection and wanted to express his position.

“This kid’s rude.”

Mother Liang patted her son to make him feel at ease. The older generation did not ask for a son-in-law. The appearance of Yan Chu looked bad to Liang Zhizhi and Liang Qiuzhi. But in the eyes of the older generation, such a pragmatic look, it was not easy to entangle outside, because you should find a steadfast son-in-law like this.

Besides, they had also inquired about the Yan family’s mother and son. They all said that they were kind in their daily life, and they hardly saw anyone blushing with them. Their daughter knew that even though she looked quiet and well-behaved on the outside, she was surprisingly eccentric and had a big temper. Finding a man who was honest and tolerant of her was the highest requirement of the couple.

Anyway, this meeting ended successfully in the enthusiasm of the elders, Liang Zhizhi and Yan Chu’s falsehood, and Liang Qiuzhi’s low heart.

On the 15th day of the blind date, Yan Chu and Liang Zhizhi went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a certificate, and only the wedding was left.

Such a speed could be regarded as fast in relatively backward small counties. After all, free love had emphasized now. Even if with a blind date, it would take at least two or three months. However, Yan Chu and Liang Zhizhi seemed not to have to fight each other. They skipped that stage and went straight to the marriage.

Now that he received the certificate, some of Liang Zhizhi’s things had also begun to move to Yan’s house.

The other party seemed to be in a hurry. Even if the Yan family did not buy a new house, they still planned to live with Liang Guifen. Liang Zhizhi had no problem. She suppressed some of her parents’ objections and directly nodded, agreed. It was not that she did not want to live in the new house, but that the child in her belly could not drag on. Now she could only live with Yan Chu and not changed her plan.

The wedding of the two people was scheduled for Sunday, two weeks later. Both parties had already started to inform their relatives and friends. On that day, Liang Guifen cooked a large table of dishes because her daughter-in-law planned to move in before the wedding and began to adapt to the future life ahead of time.

“From now on, we’ll be a family. We should work together to make our life prosperous.”

Liang Guifen sat in the main seat, looking at her son and daughter-in-law sitting on her left and right sides, and was very happy.

“Mom, don’t worry. Yan Chu and I will be filial to you and have a fat grandson as soon as possible.” Liang Zhizhi smiled, poured the bottle of red wine she had brought to all three of them, coaxing Liang Guifen and Yan Chu to drink the glass of wine in one go.

“Mom isn’t the kind of old lady who’s patriarchal. If you give her a granddaughter to her, Mom’s also happy.” Liang Guifen’s drinking capacity was average. After drinking two or three times the red wine, she had a lisp.

Liang Zhizhi gave the old lady a fierce look in her heart. What granddaughter, she was going to give birth to a son. If she died, she would not talk. And if she gave birth to a daughter this time, witness how she would deal with her.

Liang Zhizhi kept trying to persuade Yan Chu to drink, but he drank very little. Liang Guifen fell first, and Yan Chu helped the old lady back to her room, and then she started to persuade Yan Chu to drink.

Yan Chu drank all the bottles of red wine she had brought, and the other party also drank the two bottles of wine that were used as decorations in the wine cabinet at home, but his face was not red, and his heart did not jump. It was just like nothing happened.

Liang Zhizhi’s heart was on fire. Even if the wine not strong, the drug should have come.

Yan Chu teased her for more than an hour. Seeing that her anxious face was already blue, and then he made a dizzy appearance and laid on the table.