Chapter 1 Dream Back 1988
"Dong dong dong."

"Lu Yang, open the door, what are you doing in there?"

A series of rapid knocks on the door, accompanied by the sound of someone talking outside the door, woke up Lu Yang, who had fallen asleep in the bridal chamber after drinking at noon.

After waking up, he turned over subconsciously and ended up touching a woman.

and many more.

Wasn’t I visiting my master’s grave last night and was drunk? Where did this woman come from?
Lu Yang felt cold and sober. He tried to open his eyes and look at the woman beside him. However, it seemed like she was from another world. Tears flowed down his eyes unconsciously.

The girl in front of me was dressed very old-fashionedly. She stared at myself with big eyes, staring at me when I woke up from my sleep. Her smile was very attractive because of the innocence in it. Even after decades, it was still so fresh in my memory.

"Is that you, little sister?"

Lu Yang called out softly.

After finally dreaming of returning to the past, he couldn't bear to break the illusion before his eyes.

But the constant knocking on the door outside, and the woman's voice which was also fresh in his memory, kept reminding him that if he didn't open the door quickly, the door leaf would collapse.

No, how would I know that the door in this room would collapse next?
Lu Yang tried hard to calm himself down.

I couldn't help but reach out and pinch the face of the woman opposite me. It was soft, moist, and a little warm. She was a living person who still knew how to be shy.

God!

It wasn't a dream. Could it be that my confession in front of my master's grave took effect and allowed me to return to the past?
Lu Yang tried hard to open his eyes wide and looked around, and found that all the furnishings in the house were just like those in the countryside decades ago, simple and clean. Wooden cabinets, wooden dressing tables, wooden windows, everything was pasted with wedding characters, and the bedding was bright red, including the big-eyed girl on the bed.

Just like back then.

This happened on July 1988, in the summer of 7, and it was something that I will regret for the rest of my life.

At noon, because he was happy that he was going to get married the next day, he drank a few more glasses with his master's wife. As a result, when he woke up from his nap, he found that the person lying next to him was not his childhood sweetheart and fiancée Yin Mingzhu, but Yin Mingzhu's sister and his future sister-in-law Yin Mingyue.

It was at this time that the door outside the house was knocked "bang bang bang".

His fiancée Yin Mingzhu and his master's wife and future mother-in-law Ma Xiulan rushed in, and unlike his usual good expressions, they wrongly accused him of defiling sister Mingyue. No matter how he explained, they insisted that either the bride would be replaced tomorrow, or they would report to the police and have them take him to target practice.

Although it's mostly for scares.

But I was completely confused at that time.

It was only later that I realized that this was probably a strategy of using someone else's power to replace someone else.

My fiancée Yin Mingzhu is a good student with excellent character and academic performance. She has been determined to change her destiny with knowledge since she was a child. Now she has been admitted to Capital University as she wished.

I was just a carpenter apprentice who dropped out of junior high school. When I was 13, my father, a gambler, drank alcohol and drowned in a pond in the middle of the night. My mother couldn't stand the hardship anymore, so she took my one-year-old sister and moved away. I became a lost teenager without a father or a mother. If it weren't for the old carpenter Master Yin from the same village who took pity on me, he would have reluctantly accepted me as his apprentice, paid for me to finish the remaining two years of junior high school, and taught me the ancestral carpentry skills.

I really didn't know how I should survive at that time.

But Master Yin is a very traditional person. He has no sons, only two daughters. His purpose of taking me in as his apprentice is simple and plain. He wants me to carry on his family line.

所以，自打自己成为了木匠学徒的那一天起，就已被默认成了殷家的上门郎婿，成年后将会娶殷家的女儿，连村里人也都是这么认为。小妹殷明月则又是另一个可怜姑娘，打娘胎里就因为营养不良，后天声带又发育不全，除了长相与姐姐殷明珠一样漂亮以外，说话她会口齿不清，一个字还行，超过两个字，能把她着急到“啊呀啊呀”半天，自己自打成为了老殷家的儿徒弟，木匠学徒以后，也没少因为此替小妹出头，揍的村子里同辈敢嘲笑她的顽皮孩子们哇哇乱叫。

The person with whom he had an arranged marriage was Yin Mingzhu.

From the first day he ate at Old Yin's house, Master Yin always reminded himself that the person he would marry in the future was Yin Mingzhu, and he must treat her well with all his heart and must not fool around outside. If he dared to do so, he would break his legs.

However, the reality was that Yin Mingzhu was admitted to Capital University, and he was no longer worthy of her. She also didn't want to marry a country boy like him, so he wanted to take back the water that had been poured out.

It's hard.

Because they are already engaged.

In places like the countryside in the south, if someone is engaged and then wants to cancel the engagement, they will definitely be criticized behind their back.

But it's not impossible.

Master's wife Ma Xiu Lan came up with a self-righteous plan and asked her younger sister Yin Mingyue to replace her elder sister Yin Mingzhu to get married.

Anyway, it's the Yin family who's marrying off their daughter and recruiting a son-in-law. As long as this wedding can be done tomorrow, no one among the neighbors can say "no".

The only person who might need to be appeased in advance is Lu Yang.

Since he couldn't marry the academically gifted sister, he had to settle for a stuttering sister. Even though the old couple in the Yin family thought they had done Lu Yang a favor, they were still a little unsure.

It was Master's Wife Ma Xiulan again, who came up with another brilliant idea in the blink of an eye: "We can force the cow to eat grass!"

So this scene of catching an adulterer happened.

The Yin family is the first family with an annual income of over 10,000 yuan in the village after the reform and opening up, only because their master, Old Man Yin, has inherited the carpentry skills from his ancestors. After the reform and opening up, the first collective wood factory was set up in the village, and they were full of confidence in supplying wood to the furniture factories in the county. However, due to poor management and lack of channels, the wood could not be sold at all.

After the bankruptcy.

It was taken over by Old Man Yin and a few of his apprentices, who turned it into a small furniture workshop. With their exquisite craftsmanship, they specialized in making tables, chairs, benches, doors and windows, which they supplied to the surrounding areas, and occasionally delivered to towns and counties. Instead, the business became more and more prosperous, and Old Yin's family became a well-known millionaire.

Being able to marry the daughter of the old Yin family should be a very enviable thing.

But the bad thing is that this is a "marriage into the family".

In Luyang's hometown, there is an old saying: "It is better to marry a beggar girl than a live-in man."

This has also created a custom that anyone who degrades himself by becoming someone else's son-in-law will easily be gossiped about, pointed out behind his back, and his character will be looked down upon.

The same goes for Lu Yang.

Even the ancients knew that if you marry into the wife's family, you have to run away and not bring shame to your hometown.

But Lu Yang had no choice.

He had been alone since he was 13 years old, and had no parents to take care of. There were not many people gossiping about him behind his back, and even if there were, they would not do so in front of him, Lu Yang. It was not until the reform and opening up in recent years that the old carpenter's family became rich and became the first ten thousand yuan household in the village. More and more people were jealous of him, and his reputation as a "marry-in-law" gradually spread in the surrounding area.

(End of this chapter)