Chapter 855

After buying these things, Wang An drove the four-wheeled vehicle home.

Because he was pulling a vehicle full of glass, Wang An's driving speed wasn't fast.

After all, although the outer packaging of the glass was sealed with pine wood, which could be said to be quite good, no matter how well glass is handled, it is still a bit worrying.

Subconsciously, it felt like it would break at any moment.

Just like that, swaying slowly all the way, when Wang An arrived home, it was already past 5 in the afternoon.

After unloading his own 15 sets of glass, Wang An drove the four-wheeled vehicle and delivered the glass for Wang Li's family and Mu Xueli's family separately.

Because they learned the lesson from Wang An's family building a house, Wang Li's family didn't find so many hired workers to build their house.

Aside from these people from the old Wang family, there were only 20-plus people with other surnames.

A total of thirty-plus people building a house, to tell the truth, was truly enough.

The main thing was that the food and vegetables were relatively easier to solve; if a group of people came swarming in like Wang An's family building a house, then someone without ability would be worried to death just by the eating.

On this point, just refer to Wang An.

After delivering the glass to Wang Li's family, Wang An drove the four-wheeled vehicle without stopping to Sujiatun, which was the home of his brother-in-law Mu Xueli.

Wang Li's family had so many people building a house, and Mu Xueli's family was the same; even because there were no relatives in Sujiatun, the people helping Mu Xueli's family were even fewer, totaling only 20-plus people.

With twenty-plus people working, the progress was somewhat slow, but it was enough.

It's just that when delivering glass to Mu Xueli, Wang An also left the four-wheeled vehicle at Mu Xueli's house.

The main thing was that Wang An's family's walking tractor was at Wang Li's house, and Mu Xueli's family's walking tractor was being used to power the circular saw.

This led to Mu Xueli's family only being able to use a horse cart to haul stones and sand when building the house, but a horse cart was truly a bit too slow.

Besides, as long as Wang An's family's house was finished with glass, everything would be done, and the four-wheeled vehicle wouldn't be used for a short time, so it was better to just lend it to Mu Xueli to use.

Although Wang Li's family and Mu Xueli's family were both building new houses, the old houses of these two families hadn't been torn down, but were preserved just like Wang An's family's old house.

And the reason all three families were like this was that Heilongjiang is a place with vast land and sparse population, and every household's yard is quite large.

Yards of three or four mu, or even seven or eight mu, or even ten mu, were not very rare.

So locally, there were very few cases of house renovation; basically, it was direct new construction, and besides, keeping the old house could be used as a granary or warehouse.

Of course, it was also a very good place to keep chickens, ducks, and geese when it got dark.

Just when Wang An finished teasing his sister-in-law and intended to stroll home, Mu Xueli suddenly said to Wang An:

"Brother-in-law, my partner said that her younger sister was finally persuaded by her and intends to meet Old Five to see each other."

Hearing this, Wang An was stunned and subconsciously asked:

"What? She doesn't think she's too young?"

The reason Wang An said this was that before Mu Xueli said he wanted to introduce his sister-in-law Li Xiuyu to Wang Li, Mu Xueli had asked his partner Li Xiuhong to help ask.

Alas, Li Xiuyu said she was still young and didn't want to find a partner for the time being, wanting to wait a year or two.

I remember when Mu Xueli said this before, Wang Li was somewhat sad.

After all, in matters of blind dates, saying you want to wait a year or two is, in the eyes of most people, nothing more than an excuse—an excuse not to go on a blind date.

The main thing was that in this era, getting engaged at seventeen or eighteen is actually a very normal thing.

Of course, getting engaged in your twenties is also very common; this thing actually depends on whether you want to or not, and it's nothing.

But according to Li Xiuhong, she had told Wang Li's situation completely; it was mainly after Wang Li's disfigurement was mentioned that Li Xiuyu said she wanted to wait a year or two, so the change now was a bit suspicious.

After all, whether it was on Mu Xueli's face or Wang Li's face, although the big scars had been eliminated, the newly grown skin was definitely different from the original skin.

So looking at them now, the whole face truly had a feeling of being a bit different from normal people.

Simply put, it was truly not very aesthetically pleasing.

But this problem, actually, with the passage of time—using medical terms, after the skin's pigmentation settles—the whole face can recover as it was.

Sure enough, as soon as Wang An's question was asked, he heard Mu Xueli say:

"Yeah, it's because her family had some trouble before and owed quite a lot of debt with interest, so her parents thought about finding her a husband early and paying off the debt."

Upon hearing this, Wang An immediately understood what was going on.

The main thing was that Li Xiuyu's situation was so similar to Mu Xueqing's back then!

It's just that Wang An and Mu Xueqing had feelings before, and Wang An was also willing to help Mu Xueqing take money to pay off the debt.

While Wang Li and this Li Xiuyu were just classmates before and had no emotional foundation.

So Wang Li liking her was just a one-sided crush, and she might not even have any impression of him.

Subconsciously, Wang An asked:

"Then how much of a bride price does her family intend to ask for?"

Only seeing Mu Xueli scratch his head and say:

"They said 500 would do, and they don't want anything else."

It could be seen that Mu Xueli, as a middleman, was also somewhat embarrassed; the main thing was that a 500-yuan bride price, if they still wanted other things, would be truly shameless.

Although 500 yuan really wasn't much for Wang Li's family, in this era, it was absolutely not a small amount of money.

500 yuan in this era might take an ordinary peasant family several years, or even more than ten years, to save; even for a formal employee, it would take more than a year of not eating or drinking to earn 500 yuan.

So this amount of bride price could be said to be quite high.

Wang An frowned and nodded:

"That's fine, I know. When I go back later, I'll ask Old Five what he thinks."

Wang An would absolutely not intervene in this kind of question, and he would absolutely not express any opinion.

The main thing was that even Wang An himself spent so much money to marry a wife, so what qualifications did he have to point fingers at other people's marriage bride prices?

Seeing Wang An not expressing an opinion, Mu Xueli opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn't say anything else.

Marriage is a matter that, aside from the parties involved, anything others say is actually superfluous.

After a while, Wang An said:

"Alright, you work hard at home, and I'll go back. When you and Old Five finish the house, we'll go into the mountains to dig ginseng."

(End of chapter)