in2ebook Chapter 459 Nightmare
Chapter 459 Nightmare
Because she had nightmares every night, dreaming about how miserable her life was after she got married.
She didn't tell her family about this.
It's just a dream after all.
How can you take it seriously?
If she told them, she was afraid that her family would think she was crazy.
Today, she had another nightmare. After waking up, Chen Hongxia had a terrible headache and felt uncomfortable all over, as if she had fought with someone in her dream. No, she did fight.
To be precise, I was beaten by my in-laws in my dream.
Chen Hongxia always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
She also dreamed that her mother was standing beside the bed and staring at her.
But he didn't say a word.
So much so that when she woke up, she was covered in cold sweat.
You know, it’s winter!
After getting dressed, she washed up, had a quick breakfast, and then started to work.
In the morning, I dug winter bamboo shoots with my sister-in-law. In the afternoon, after feeding the pigs, we went to the mountain to chop firewood. The weather this year is particularly cold, and I'm afraid it will snow in a month at most.
She had to prepare firewood for the winter before getting married.
Otherwise my brother and sister-in-law will suffer.
After getting married, there is one less person to do the work at home.
My grandparents are getting old, and coincidentally, my sister-in-law just found out she was pregnant at the end of October.
The baby is due to be produced in June or July next year.
By then, I'm afraid the burden of the family will fall on my brother.
And if she wants to come back, it can only be during the holidays.
"Sister-in-law, you should go back to the house and rest. The fetus is not stable yet. Don't tire yourself out. I'll chop the firewood." After sending her sister-in-law back to the house, she took an axe and went to the backyard to chop firewood.
Chen Tianfeng was tending to cabbages in the field.
The small potatoes had been harvested long ago and sold to the Jiang family.
made a lot of money.
"Master, what dowry are you going to give Hongxia when she gets married?" Chen Tianfeng, who was working in the fields, asked Old Chen.
"Grandpa will give you a dowry in the same amount as you spent to marry Ru'er. I will not be partial to any of you three siblings." Old Chen held his waist and stood up straight and said.
"Or, give more. After all, my brother-in-law's family is richer than ours. If we give less, what if Hongxia is looked down upon? By the way, Grandpa, how much dowry are you going to ask for from the Zhang family?" Chen Tianfeng asked again.
"Just two taels, not more, but we can't refuse it either. If they get a wife for nothing, they won't cherish her. I'm going to let Hongxia take these two taels back. I hope she can live a good life in the future. Your grandmother and I will die with peace of mind."
The old couple are old.
The only one he couldn't let go of was the youngest, Chen Hongxia.
Among three children, she is the only one who is not married.
The eldest granddaughter, Hongju, has given birth to two children.
My granddaughter-in-law just got pregnant with her second child.
"Okay, just listen to me." Chen Tianfeng didn't ask any more questions.
The three returned home.
Chen Hongxia has already prepared the meal.
We simply ate some bamboo shoots fried with lard and some egg custard. After all, my sister-in-law was pregnant and needed to replenish her body.
Then just cook two servings of porridge.
Most of this year's new grain was sold, leaving a small bag of rice for our own consumption.
As for rice, I couldn’t bear to give it up. At most I would add some brown rice to make some porridge.
Even so, the six members of their family enjoyed the meal with relish, except for Mrs. Cui, who had few teeth.
Chen Hongxia cooked some rice porridge just for her grandmother. It was so soft and soupy that she could swallow it directly without chewing.
After dinner, the sky gradually darkened.
In winter, farmers only take a bath once a month.
So, Chen Hongxia just filled a basin with water, washed her face, soaked her feet in the water, and then went to bed.
"what--"
In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a nightmare.
She sat upright on the bed, beads of sweat sliding from her forehead onto the quilt.
Chen Hongxia was breathing heavily and looked towards the door.
Nothing at all.
The room was dark.
Just now, she had another nightmare. She dreamed that her dead parents opened her door with anxious looks on their faces, and then walked towards her, but could not get close to her body.
Nor could she touch her bed.
Not only that, she also saw her parents open their mouths and want to say something, but she could hear nothing.
After struggling for a few moments, she woke up in shock.
There was no sign of my parents in the room.
"Dad, Mom, what on earth do you want to tell me..." Chen Hongxia murmured to herself in the darkness.
After she recovered and relaxed for a while, she fell asleep again.
As a result, in the second half of the night, she had a dream within a dream again.
First, she dreamed about how miserable she was after getting married, and then she dreamed about her mother pointing at Zhang Jiabao and glaring at him.
After a bad night's sleep, Chen Hongxia had dark circles under her eyes when she woke up.
He looked very bad.
"Sister-in-law, I don't want to marry Zhang Jiabao." She suddenly came to her senses while washing her face.
Could it be that her parents wanted to tell her that Zhang Jiabao could not marry?
Chen Hongxia put down the washcloth, walked to the kitchen and said to Wang Ruer.
"What? The engagement is in two days. Why are you talking about this for no reason? What happened? What did Zhang Jiabao do?" Wang Ruru was holding a spatula in her hand. She frowned and looked at her sister-in-law.
His face was full of confusion.
"No, I just don't want to marry him." My sister-in-law is pregnant, and if I bring up my dead parents, it might offend her.
Chen Hongxia could only make up a reason.
"Hongxia, please don't make your grandparents worry, okay? Although Zhang Jiabao is a little ugly, short, and fat, he is a good person. Don't you get along well with him? Do you want to marry a man in the village and work hard for the rest of your life? There are some men of your age in the village. Who do you like?"
Wang Ruer thought her sister-in-law had someone in her heart.
So resist getting married.
"No, I don't like anyone. I just don't want to marry him." Chen Hongxia's voice was a little lower.
"Okay, stop talking. You're just thinking too much. Just wait patiently for the engagement." Wang Ruer thought she was throwing a tantrum, so she rubbed her face like she was coaxing a child and drove her out of the kitchen.
Chen Hongxia knows.
If she doesn't come up with a reason, the marriage will have to be settled.
She gritted her teeth and ran out of the house.
He planned to go to the town to find Zhang Jiabao and ask him to reject the engagement.
This way, grandparents won’t ask too many questions.
She just thought that Zhang Jiabao looked down on her.
The weather was cold, and she was jogging in the cloth shoes she had knitted herself.
The road was long, and she ran for a while and rested for a while. Finally, she arrived at the city gate at noon. After queuing for inspection, she entered the city.
As the matchmaker had said before, she came to Zao Nao Lane in Caishi Street.
The Zhang family lives here.
The alley was quite narrow, only accommodating two people at a time. When she arrived at the gate and was about to knock on the door, she heard a woman's voice coming from inside.
Chen Hongxia was stunned.
Because this voice is too charming.
But the matchmaker said that Zhang Jiabao had no brothers or sisters.
So who is this woman?
She leaned against the door and eavesdropped.
"Humph, you're going to marry someone else, and you won't let me make a scene? I don't care. If you don't buy me that gold bracelet, I'll starve your son to death."