In the following days, Qian Duogui was busy making guns, while Li Qinglin was busy preparing for marriage.

Wei Sanya is a child bride. In local customs, the child bride's family must be completed as a girl gets married. If Wei Sanya wants to return to her parents' home, she must stay at home for one night, and then be carried to Li Wanxiang's house by the sedan chair the next day to get married. The days have been settled, and Li Qinglin was sent to Wei Sanya's house to contact her about her marriage.

When she arrived at Wei Sanya's house, Li Qinglin realized that Wei Sanya could not live at home because there were only walls left in her house and there was no roof.

Wei Sanya's father couldn't make much money in farming, and there was no mistress at home to take care of him. Wei Sanya's sister had already married, and there was another one at home. It can be said that both of them were counting on Wei Sanya's father alone. Wei Sanya's father was in poor health in recent years and was already a barren house, but now it's even worse. This spring, there was not enough food, so the family had already eaten wild vegetables.

The rafters on the roof should have been replaced a few years ago, but Wei Sanya's family even had a problem with eating and had no money to replace them. After a heavy snow at the end of last year, the roof was finally crushed. Now the Wei family lives in a shack built in the yard.

Knowing that Li Qinglin was about to become Wei Sanya's husband, the Wei family was very happy. Li Qinglin looked at Wei Sanya's sick father and his second sister with a pale face and thin face. Li Qinglin sighed, left a few oceans in his pocket, and went home.

Li Qinglin didn't walk far away, Wei Sanya's father chased after him. He handed Li Qinglin a vine bracelet in tears and said to Li Qinglin: "Qinglin, I'm sorry to Sanya, as a father, since I was a child. I have sold her to others as a child bride since I was a child. Now she is about to get married, and I can't give it to her. This vine bracelet is worthless and left by Sanya Niang. I asked her sister to take away that one, and this one is for her to think about. Sanya has been well-behaved since she was a child. Your family is a good family. I beg you to treat her well in the future. Even if I die, I will be in peace!"

Li Qinglin carefully put away the vine bracelet and solemnly assured Wei Sanya's father: "Uncle, don't worry, if I have a bite of it in the future, I will definitely share her with half of it."

When Wei Sanya's father heard Li Qinglin's promise, he squatted on the ground and cried loudly: "Sanya is blessed! Sanya is blessed!"

"A penny stumps the hero." After parting with Wei Sanya's father, Li Qinglin walked heavily and felt very uncomfortable.

On the way home, Li Qinglin heard someone shouting from afar from behind: "Li Qinglin, wait!"

Li Qinglin didn't know this person, probably an acquaintance of the original owner of the body. Li Qinglin didn't dare to talk nonsense, turned around and smiled to face the person.

The man who came was a middle-aged man. He was of medium height, had a separate hair and a long blue gown. Although he was not strong, he looked very energetic and looked like a white and gentle teacher.

Li Qinglin didn't know the name of the visitor, so he had to bow to him and said vaguely: "Hello sir!" The visitor handed over a piece of paper to Li Qinglin and said: "Li Qinglin, the school has a notice that you will go to take the exam in a few days."

Li Qinglin has never been to school since the Chinese New Year, so why do you still have to take the exam now?

The notice was printed in ink and printed on a very rough white paper. The content of the notice was: "Daqi: I respect the provisions of the county government's "Notice on the Graduation Examination of Primary Schools in Wan'an County". This semester is scheduled to hold the primary school graduation examination at our school headquarters on June 6, and it is fortunate to notify Li Qinglin to participate in it in time. The county-level Confucian Temple Primary School in Wan'an County, Henan Province. x-month-x-year, 34th year of the Republic of China."

While Li Qinglin was looking down at the notice, a farmer came next to him. He greeted the middle-aged man enthusiastically: "Mr. Liu, why are you free to go to the countryside to have fun today?"

Mr. Liu smiled bitterly and said, "I have no intention of playing! This year, the province stipulates that all counties and provinces that meet the national education standards will have to pay a lot of rewards, so the county stipulates that the number of graduates in the following schools must meet the standards. Isn't I in a hurry to go to each company to deliver the examination notice to the students?"

Li Qinglin couldn't help but smile when he heard this. Even during the Republic of China, there were also face-saving projects and key projects. He had not been to school for such a long time because he registered his academic status in the county. In order to meet the standards, the school still notified him to take the graduation exam.

The subjects for the graduation examination of the Confucius Temple Primary School are Chinese, mathematics and society. When Li Qinglin had time, he was not only practicing martial arts, but also picked up the books and stationery of his ex-master to read and write. Li Qinglin was naturally not a problem with the primary school Chinese at this time, but he knew nothing about the social subject. He asked Mr. Liu a little hesitantly: "I haven't been to school for so long, can I pass the exam?"

Mr. Liu patted his chest and said, "You just need to go, I will allow you to pass the graduation exam."

If the teacher dares to say that he will pass the exam, he will definitely pass it. At this time, the primary school graduation exam cannot be conducted in a concentrated manner. The guarantee the teacher said is nothing more than leaking the questions or providing answers, or making an article on correcting the scores of the test paper. How could Li Qinglin have the truth that he could not pass it? So Li Qinglin said: "Then I'll go to the exam."

Although Li Qinglin had already said with certainty that he would take the exam, Mr. Liu was still a little worried. Before leaving, he repeatedly reminded: "Qinglin, if there are fewer students in our school graduates, the county will lay off employees for the school. You must take the exam at that time!"

The graduation exam date is still far away. With Mr. Liu's guarantee, Li Qinglin didn't need to prepare anything. Li Wanxiang and the others were busy going to the fields to cultivate spring, so Liu Xiuzhen assigned Li Qinglin to prepare for the wedding.

Li Qinglin handed the vine bracelet to Wei Sanya. Wei Sanya held her mother's belongings and felt that she had held her mother's hand. Wei Sanya cried silently for a long time to see the vine bracelet. In fact, Wei Sanya can no longer remember her mother's true appearance. Wei Sanya, who has been a child bride at Li Wanxiang's house since she was a child, has longed for maternal love. She has had countless dreams at night. In the dream, there is always a woman kissing and loving herself, while that woman's face is always hard to see. Every time she wakes up, Wei Sanya is full of tears.

The family that Wei Sanya lived on the night before her marriage had already been decided, that was the Zhou Dezhong family. Zhou Dezhong's wife Wei was Wei Sanya's distant aunt. In local customs, there were many girls who lost their relatives when they were young, and their uncle's family was married as their parents' family. When Li Wanxiang proposed this wish to Zhou Dezhong, Zhou Dezhong and his wife immediately agreed.

Zhou Dezhong's wife was just Wei Sanya's distant aunt, but she was kind-hearted. Seeing that Wei Sanya had no dowry, she bought her a shoulder pole, two red painted wooden basins and a red painted toilet.

These three things are essential items in the dowry of local girls, and each one has a saying. The wooden basin and toilet are called "destiny basin, descendant bucket". When carried to the husband's house, they also have to put red-colored cooked eggs, red dates, etc., which means that the bride will have children. This shoulder pole is given to the husband by the father-in-law, which means that the father-in-law will hand over the right to discipline to the son-in-law. When a girl marrys her husband's house, she should be governed by the husband's family. If she is not filial to her parents-in-law, is lazy and abuses her children, the husband can teach her a lesson with the shoulder pole; if a woman is not obedient to her wife's manners and elopes, the husband even has the right to use a shoulder pole to beat the woman to death without paying her life.

Li Qinglin used his money to buy Wei Sanya two large red painted wooden boxes and two quilts as dowry. Other things like renting sedan chairs, asking for suona, buying rice, flour, meat and vegetables, etc. Li Qinglin did it one by one. It can be said that everything is ready, just waiting for the day of the house to be completed.

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