The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 242 Talking Outside the House (Full Order)

"Your fiancée is generous..."

"Now that we are giving so many precious gifts, we can't be weak in Nazheng. She is a lady from an official family... I will discuss this matter with the patriarch. After all, we have not made a big deal about marrying our mother-in-law in Bailu Village. scene……"

Bai Youde said.

Looking at the dazzling array of gifts, he felt happy in his heart and his face was bright. He told the villagers about this matter after dinner, and it could also be used as a topic of conversation.

Ten miles of red makeup is a matter of embarrassment for both the man and the woman's family.

"The one who accepts the levy is the one who recruits money. The levy is successful. First accept the betrothal gift and then get married."——Kong Yingda's commentary "Book of Rites · Shihunli".

"Okay, don't worry about this matter first, it's not bad for a few days."

Bai Gui agreed.

Marrying Bai Xiuzhu is indeed a private matter of their Bai family.

But Bai Jiaxuan is the patriarch, it is not an exaggeration to tell the patriarch Bai Jiaxuan and the clan about this matter, and let the clan discuss it. This decision is extremely appropriate.

Weddings and funerals cannot be without the help of members of the same clan.

In addition, Yanjing and Luyao Qinxing have been waiting for their wedding for several years, and it's not too short of time.

"Let's make an agreement, then... I'll prepare some chickens, ducks, live poultry and gift snacks tomorrow, and we will go to the patriarch's house to talk about this matter together in the evening."

Bai Youde took a puff of the dry cigarette, and said, "Smack it, hit it."

The father and son were speechless.

Moment of silence.

Although Bai Gui is a good talker, facing his father Bai Youde, he really can't think of anything to say. He searched his brains for a long time and was silent. He often found something to talk about, but just after he said a few words, Bai Youde said something. "That's right, um, it's ok" this kind of "perfunctory" vocabulary was disrupted, and when he opened his mouth again, only silence remained.

"Do you smoke?"

Bai Youde took out the dry tobacco rolls, grown in his own field, brown tobacco leaves, strong taste.Roll this brown tobacco leaf with paper and fold it a little, and it is considered as a finished dry tobacco.

"Dad, my brother doesn't have the habit of smoking, he doesn't smoke."

Liu Baoer couldn't help but interjected.

In her opinion, smoking is a bad habit, and she must not let Bai Gui get into it.During the few days she spent with Bai Gui, she did see that Bai Gui had no habit of smoking.

Life style is better.

"Don't smoke here... Brother Gui, I made the bed for you in the morning. Go warm up now. There is a kang, which is much warmer than the living room..."

When Aunt Wang saw the scene of the father and son, she was a weather-beaten widow in her early years, and she was a smart person after a long time in the world, so at this moment, she played the game to make the relationship between the two not too stiff and awkward.

One has just returned from studying abroad, and the other has been nestled in the village all day, with no common topics.

It takes a while to run in.

Bai Gui nodded, understanding Bai Wang's thoughts, he got up from the teacher's chair, and prepared to go to the bedroom to rest first.

This journey is not very tiring.

But the entertainment is down.

I also want to rest for a while.

He walked to the threshold, opened the door curtain, paused, and looked back.

Bai Youde has already finished smoking a tobacco roll at this moment. This tobacco roll is about the thickness of a finger, much thicker than a cigarette, and the length is almost the same. The cold wind blew, the cigarette butts became bright again, and sparks shot out at random.

In a moment, disappear.

The cigarette butt was thrown under his feet by Bai Youde and trampled to death.

"When I go to the provincial capital, I will buy you some Laodao brand cigarettes. You smoke them. Dry tobacco is more harmful to your body than cigarettes. You should smoke less and pay attention to your body..."

Bai Gui stepped over the threshold, walked out, and put his top hat on his head.

On a very cold day, you must wear a hat, otherwise it will be warm and cold from time to time, and you will easily catch wind and cold.

Laodao brand cigarettes were very famous at this time, and they were sold on the Shanghai stock market in Guangxu 17 years ago. This is a foreign cigarette produced by the English Wells Company.The origin of the name of Laodao brand cigarettes is that a sailor is printed on the cigarette box. The sailor has his left hand on his hips and a knife in his right hand. Many people do not know the English trademark of "Pirate Cigarette" (pirate cigarettes), plus the "holding a knife" on the cigarette label logo, so it is called Laodao brand cigarettes.

Hardman cigarettes, Daqianmen cigarettes, and Xiannv brand cigarettes, which are comparable to Laodao brand cigarettes in later generations, were either small in scale and not well-known at this time, or the brand had not yet been established...

Therefore, Laodao brand cigarettes are the best of genuine and guaranteed cigarettes that can be bought in the market now.

Smoking is hard to quit, Bai Gui is well aware of this, he is unlikely to succeed in persuading Bai Youde to quit smoking, so it is still feasible to replace dry tobacco with cigarettes, which are less harmful.

……

Just got home for the first day.

night.

It didn't take long for Bai Gui to regret going home.

He heard the sound of his father Bai Youde fighting with his stepmother Aunt Wang, the battle was so fierce that it was impossible to tell who was stronger and who was weaker.But most of the time it was Aunt Wang who was yelling and cursing, while his father, Bai Youde, was just muffled like an old cow...

hard working.

He was so noisy that he couldn't rest quietly.

"Fighting, who doesn't have conflicts, it's normal to have spears and shields..."

"There are frictions and quarrels between husband and wife..."

"The head of the bed fights at the end of the bed."

He sighed, shook his head, and walked out of the bedroom.

Since he stayed abroad, the Bai family has expanded the Zhuangzi. Although it is not too big, it has two entrances. His bedroom is in the front yard. This has been planned long ago and has not changed, while the master bedroom has been moved to the back. .

As soon as the door was opened, the moonlight poured in.

Bai Gui looked up.

The persimmon tree in the yard was blown by the cold wind, and its branches danced wildly.The falling moonlight is a vast expanse of whiteness, and occasionally you can see a piece of dispirited persimmon hanging on the treetop after being eaten by the bird.

The rules of the older generation.

We cannot pick all the persimmons on the persimmon tree, we have to leave some for the birds to eat.

But sometimes the half-pulled persimmons that have been cut by birds taste really good and have a unique flavor.

"If there are persimmons, there should be persimmons."

Bai Guizhen walked to the window of a small house with his shoes on, and touched a dried persimmon on the window sill, about half the size of a palm, and when he ate it, it was quite sweet, and the glutinous persimmon pulp filled his mouth middle.

It is a persimmon that has not yet fully become a persimmon.

He ate two or three.

I saw a thin figure groping over.

"Boa?"

"You came out anyway, yes, you also heard the sound of fighting..."

Bai Gui suddenly understood and empathized.

When parents quarrel, it is the children who are in trouble.And this kind of quarrel, the children are still unable to speak, so they can only endure it silently.After all, most of the villagers at this time had no education and didn't know much about taboo.

Even educated scholars are not necessarily less open-minded than those of later generations.

This thing, look at people!

For example, "Spring and Autumn Fanlu · Seeking Rain" said: "The four o'clock are Gengzi's day, so that officials and people's couples are together. When praying for rain, the husband wants to hide, and the woman wants to be happy."

It means that on Gengzi Day, within this day, officials and people have to have sex...

Yin and Yang communicate with each other, which is a way of praying for rain in ancient times.

In the Tang Dynasty, because of the severe drought in Chang'an, Bai Juyi asked the palace to release a group of maids and marry them to the people. There are more and more..., Chen Fujian Taizong and Xuanzong have come, and every time there is a drought, there are many picks and releases..."

Another example is the Book of Songs, the Three Hundred Poems, and Confucius deleted a lot of profane words.Confucius said: "The three hundred poems can be summed up in one sentence, saying that thinking is innocent." Even so, this kind of description is still indispensable in the Book of Songs.

"Brother, I just said that I would rather stay in the girls' school than go home..."

Liu Baoer glanced at Bai Gui quietly, and said helplessly.

Before she came back, she had hinted that she didn't want to go back to her hometown, but she was too embarrassed to tell the truth, her elder brother was like a father, she didn't dare to refute, so she had no choice but to go back home with her.

Otherwise, she would rather stay in the provincial capital, and go home when the new year is over, if she can't hold on anymore.

"This is my fault."

Bai Gui smiled awkwardly.

He has a delicate mind, and he did see that Liu Baoer was unwilling to go home in the provincial capital, but he thought that Liu Baoer had a conflict with his family. As the eldest brother, he must try to resolve this conflict instead of ignoring it.

So I pretended not to see Liu Baoer's reluctance, and took it home.

"Forget it, they haven't had a son and a half these years, so they are probably impatient. Don't worry about it."

Bai Gui comforted.

The repentant husband's son-in-law seeks a title.

He is studying abroad, so it is impossible for him to be in Bailu Village all the time.The same is true for Liu Baoer, who spends most of her time in girls' schools. With his elder brother, she can be regarded as a well-established family, and the people who marry her husband and son-in-law in the future will not be too bad.

But his father Bai Youde and Aunt Wang are both old, and there is no one and a half daughter around them, so they are lonely, how can they not be anxious.

"I know this, how can I blame them."

Liu Baoer blushed and half-spit.

It's as long as you know and I know about this matter, no matter what you say, it's weird for a girl like her to answer or not.

"Here, these persimmons are good."

"Sweet."

Bai Gui changed the subject, casually took a few dried persimmons and handed them to Liu Baoer.

Seeing Liu Baoer blushing, he knew what he said was wrong.It's not that there is really anything wrong with it, it has to be faced.They are brothers and sisters... There are some things that should not be taken too seriously, let alone be bypassed.

"Thank you bro."

Liu Baoer took the dried persimmon and thanked her.

"Brother, tell me... who is sister-in-law, how did you decide to get engaged to her..."

While chatting, she inadvertently mentioned that after she finished speaking, she raised her eyes and took a cautious look at Bai Gui's face.There is nothing wrong with her saying this as a younger sister, but according to her original status, it is not good to say this, but she really wants to know something.

"She is quite fat..."

"The main reason is that she is more beautiful. I fell in love with her immediately. What can I say, it's better to be interested in her..."

Bai Gui took a bite of persimmon, leaned against the window, looked at the moonlight and recalled.

"Seeing the color?"

Liu Baoer looked strange.

His elder brother is a man of integrity, so how could he rashly enter into a marriage contract just because of sex, there must be another reason.

"Sister-in-law must be in love with you, big brother, and the piano is harmonious..."

"That's when the engagement was made."

She said, sure.

(End of this chapter)