Is Her Life Hard? Was My Mother's Easy?

On July 16th, the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, Li Ye and Wen Leyu got engaged.

According to the customs of Dongshan, a couple had to get engaged before they could marry.

At the engagement, the bride price and dowry had to be exchanged. More importantly, both sets of parents had to give the children red envelopes, so they could change how they addressed them.

Later, some people found all those rules too troublesome and simply merged the engagement and wedding into one.

In any case, after the engagement, Li Ye could no longer call Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng "auntie" and "uncle." He had to call them dad and mom.

Teacher Ke took out a red envelope and handed it to Li Ye, saying with a smile, "Take the red envelope. Don't think it's too little!"

Li Ye accepted it with both hands and replied with a grin, "It doesn't matter whether there's a lot or a little. As long as it's from Mom, that's enough."

"Hey, look at this child, he really knows how to talk. Take mine too."

"Thank you, Dad!"

Wen Qingsheng also smiled as he gave Li Ye a red envelope for changing his form of address, his face full of delight as he accepted Li Ye's new greeting.

With a child like Li Ye, it was not merely a case of a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law and finding him more pleasing the longer she looked. The father-in-law was very satisfied too!

Seeing Li Ye change his form of address, Li Kaijian could no longer sit still. He hurriedly took the money for Wen Leyu's new greeting from his pocket.

Han Chunmei, sitting beside him, was even more nervous. The red envelope she had prepared long ago was nearly soaked through with