On the Shen family’s side, Shen Jianjun was completely stunned by the bombshell his wife suddenly dropped on him.
He felt dizzy and disoriented.
“Wife, is what you said true? Our son really wants to marry Song Zhiqing?”
On his way back from the private plot, Shen Jianjun had already heard people talking about Song Zhiqing and Educated Youth Liang breaking off their engagement.
But he never expected that his own son would be involved in this matter.
As a father, how could he not understand his son’s temperament?
If he didn’t truly like someone, let alone being drugged even if a knife were held to his throat, his son wouldn’t be willing to touch anyone.
Before, he had already noticed that his son’s attitude toward that Song Zhiqing was a bit unusual.
Now that he thought about it, so that was the reason!
Seeing how shocked her husband looked, Xu Guilan felt a strange sense of balance in her heart.
He had no idea what she had just gone through when facing their son earlier.
Now it was Shen Jianjun’s turn to be shocked.
“You think I’d joke about something like this? I’ve already agreed with our son. After we finish eating, the two of us will go find Sister-in-law Niu.
Tomorrow afternoon, we’ll go to Song Zhiqing’s place to propose marriage, and we’ll ask Sister-in-law Niu to act as the matchmaker. That way, no one will dare gossip.
As for the bride price, we’ll give 100 yuan openly, and privately add another 100!”
Shen Jianjun didn’t have much objection to what she said earlier.
For the marriages of their three sons, he had never interfered much as long as they were willing, they could marry whoever they wanted.
But Song Zhiqing was different from the village girls and young wives!
She was an educated youth from a big city, well-known in the production team as a “golden girl” good family background, good personality, and generous as well.
To them, 200 yuan as a bride price was quite a lot, but would her side agree?
His third son was already twenty-three. Looking at the whole production team, people his age already had children running around.
If the marriage fell through because of the bride price, Shen Jianjun certainly wouldn’t want that.
Thinking this, he voiced his concern.
Hearing her husband’s words, Xu Guilan blinked.
“You don’t need to worry about that. We’ll do what we can within our means. As for Song Zhiqing’s side, there’s our third son!
He’ll discuss it with her. Besides, you know our third son has his own little savings.
Let him cover any extra himself. We’ll just pretend we don’t know otherwise, what would the eldest and second sons think?”
Hearing this, Shen Jianjun thought of his other two daughters-in-law and sighed.
“Alright, we’ll do as you say. But after the third one gets married, we should divide the household. Otherwise, living together will only bring trouble.”
Xu Guilan didn’t object. After worrying for twenty or thirty years, she also wanted some peace and quiet.
As the saying goes, children and grandchildren will have their own blessings she couldn’t follow them forever.
Whether their future would be good or bad would depend on their own abilities.
“I already mentioned this to the third one before. Once he marries Song Zhiqing, we’ll split the family!”
“Mm.”
Shen Jianjun nodded. When the two of them finished discussing and came out of the room, the meal was already set in the main hall.
After dinner, the old couple headed together toward the team leader’s house.
At the dinner table, seeing Shen Zhiyan’s confident expression, Song Yunlan felt a bit less uneasy, and even began to feel some anticipation for their life after marriage.
However, while there were no major issues on the Shen family’s side, the Song family still didn’t know about Song Yunlan breaking off her engagement with Liang Bo
let alone her plan to marry Shen Zhiyan!
Normally, before getting married, Shen Zhiyan, as the future son-in-law, should first visit the Song family.
But under the current circumstances, the production team was thousands of miles away from the capital, so it was impossible to go there immediately.
Yet their marriage was urgent.
After all, it was true that Song Yunlan had lost her chastity. Who knew whether Liang Bo and Bai Ruolian might do something extreme later to frame her?
Besides what if Song Yunlan really got pregnant?!
So getting married was naturally the safest option they could think of for now.
After discussing matters on the Shen family’s side, Shen Zhiyan took the initiative to bring up the Song family.
Hearing this, Song Yunlan froze for a moment.
Everything had happened so suddenly. She never expected to be reborn on the very day she and Shen Zhiyan were drugged.
Right from the start, she had been dragged into a situation where the scumbag brought people to catch them “in the act.” She could only do her best to protect her reputation.
Of course, breaking off the engagement with Liang Bo was inevitable.
Given a second chance, she refused to have anything to do with that scumbag again.
She only hated that she couldn’t immediately skin the two culprits alive.
As for marrying Shen Zhiyan, she was somewhat surprised, but she didn’t resist it nor did she dislike the idea.
There was even a faint hint of happiness in her heart.
Still, something as important as marriage had to be reported to her family.
And regarding the Liang family although her parents hadn’t said anything, she knew that her family had given them quite a lot for the marriage arrangement.
Now that she had cut ties with Liang Bo, she couldn’t let her family continue to suffer losses.
Thinking of her parents and two older brothers, Song Yunlan’s eyes reddened.
“I’ll inform my parents,” she said after a pause. “Tomorrow morning, I’ll ask the team leader for leave, and stop by the commune to buy some things.”
Since the Shen parents would come with a matchmaker to propose, it was only proper for her side to prepare a meal.
There was nothing at home right now to entertain guests, so she needed to buy supplies.
Hearing that she was going to the commune, Shen Zhiyan looked at her expectantly.
“I happen to be free tomorrow. How about I come pick you up in the morning, and we go together?”
Seeing the bright look in his eyes, Song Yunlan couldn’t bring herself to refuse.
After all, they were about to get married going together was fine.
“Alright. Come early. Before things are made official, we should still be a bit careful.”
Seeing her agree, Shen Zhiyan immediately beamed with joy.
“Okay, don’t worry! I’ll definitely be careful. I’ll come pick you up at 7 a.m. tomorrow!”
“Mm.”
After dinner, Shen Zhiyan cleaned up the stove, washed the dishes, and even boiled water for Song Yunlan to wash her feet before finally being urged to leave.
In truth, he had wanted to wash her feet for her before going!
But his wife-to-be was too shy, so he could only leave reluctantly, turning back every few steps.
Seeing him dawdling like that, Song Yunlan unceremoniously shut the door, completely blocking his view.
Looking at the tightly closed door, Shen Zhiyan pouted.
“What a heartless woman~ Not even a little reluctant to see me go!”
With a sigh, he finally walked away quickly, disappearing into the night.