Marriage of Children

Shortly after the Central People's Government promulgated the new marriage law. In Dongzaozhuang, a rural area after land reform, there was a young man and woman. The man was Wang Chungui and the woman was Li Xiulan. They are both model workers in the production mutual aid group and members of the New Democratic Youth League, and they are in love. Some old-minded people in the village couldn't stand Wang Guichun and Li Xiulan's free love, thinking that such a new thing was "immoral". Li Xiulan's father, Li Laochuan, is also an old-minded man. He opposes his daughter's free love and insists on betrothing his daughter to Zhao Laoman's nephew Zhao Dakui in Xizaozhuang. Li Laochuan and Zhao Laoman went to the village government in person to handle the marriage registration procedures on behalf of Li Xiulan and Zhao Dakui. Li Xiulan firmly opposed her father's arranged marriage, and she went to the village women's director to find a way. The women's director found Xiulan Niang and told Xiulan Niang about the tragedy of an arranged marriage that she had witnessed with her own eyes. It turned out that several years ago, a widow in her natal village believed in the words of a matchmaker and married her daughter Hongcai to a younger son-in-law. After Hongcai passed away, she was so angry with her husband's family that she finally committed suicide by jumping into a well. Xiulaniang understood the harm of arranged marriage and no longer opposed her daughter's free love. She asked Li Xiulan and Wang Guichun to go to the village government immediately to complete the procedures. Xiulan and Guichun met at the village government