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Chapter 37
Chapter 37 Little Cold Beauty

At the same time when Li Maixiang gave birth to the girl, the Hu family head home, a nearly ninety-year-old old man with a childish face, grabbed a cat under his feet, looked at his eyes, pinched his fingers, looked at the mountains full of azaleas, and sighed. Tone:

"It's a good girl, but it's a pity! The azaleas are blooming, and the cuckoos weep blood. This is a sign of injustice to her! I'm afraid that the marriage will be unhappy!"

Sister-in-law Hu Hai's worry is obviously unnecessary, the whole family is immersed in joy, no one mentions what she has said, and she is the most stupid and will not bring up this topic by herself!

Hu Hai and Li Maixiang didn't care about whether they were male or female at all. They were still young, and as long as they could have children, they were afraid that they would not be able to have a boy!
Looking at the little girl who was born not long ago, there was no crying, and the small black eyes looked around, which made the whole family amazed, especially Hu Hai, who was a new father, hugged in his arms, and his love was beyond words.

Hu Hai reluctantly put down the baby in his hand, picked up a basket of gifts, used a bamboo pole to pick up a hanging firecracker, and went to his father-in-law's house to announce the good news.

The custom here is that when the wife has a child, the son-in-law usually asks the son-in-law to come to the father-in-law's house to announce the good news, and set off firecrackers outside the house, and then offer gifts.At the same time, I have to bring my mother-in-law to the house to serve my wife in confinement.

Fortunately, most of the marriages here are about knowing the bottom line. Few daughters marry far away. They are all married in the nearby Shiliba Village, which is very close to the father-in-law's house, and it is convenient to come and go.

Here the wife gave birth to a child, especially a boy, there are several different options to celebrate the "day", in fact, this is based on the distance of Yue's family.

The sons-in-law who are close to the father-in-law's house usually do "three dynasties", that is, on the third day of the child's birth, the parents-in-law, as well as relatives and friends will be brought over to have a banquet to celebrate.

People from the father-in-law's family took several days to arrive, so it was called "Ten Dynasty", which was to celebrate the tenth day after the child was born.

There are also those who do "full moon", which is quite far from the father-in-law's home. The child is only a month after the birth of the wine to celebrate, and some even put it together with the child's "catch week".

Rich people can do everything, just spend money on banquets.For ordinary people, just choose one.

Children are not welcome here to celebrate their birthdays, and the celebration after birth is more important.

Although the place is barren and stagnant, the folk customs are pure and nurturing. You may not ask for excellent gifts, but you pay special attention to etiquette. If you don’t pay attention to etiquette, you will be stabbed in the spine!
At the banquet, the custom here is that the seats are arranged at all banquets, and the seat of the honorable person is the upper seat.

Most of the houses here face the south and the north, and are used to facing the south and the east as the seats, so the seats here are also called "East Corner".

When a child is born, whether it is a boy or a girl, whether it is the "Three Dynasties" or the "Ten Dynasties", when the banquet is set, the family is the honored guest, so the family must sit in the east corner.

As for who will sit in the east corner of the family, it is up to the people from the family to choose by themselves, some are ranked according to age, some are ranked according to their status.

Even if someone in the family has an opinion on the arrangement of the "East Corner", they will not raise any objection, nor will it affect the banquet, which will end happily.

But if the son-in-law's family doesn't know the etiquette and the in-law's family sits in the "East Corner", it will rise to the level where the in-law's family looks down on the maiden's family and the maiden's family loses face.Most of the banquets will break up unhappily.It also happens occasionally that the family members leave the table en masse.

Hu Hai hurriedly came to his father-in-law's house ten miles away. As soon as he entered the floor, he lit firecrackers with a scythe. The crackling sound caused the whole village to come out of the house to watch.

His parents-in-law came out to greet him with smiles all over their faces, and Hu Hai entered the house and sat down.

When the parents-in-law learned that their daughter gave birth to a girl, their expressions changed.The mother-in-law is okay, but her face is not very natural. After pouring tea for Hu Hai, she packed up and prepared to go to her daughter's house to serve the confinement.

Hu Hai's father-in-law, Li Xiucai, was so unhappy at the time, he went back to the study by himself.

Hu Hai's father-in-law, Li Xiu, was the adopted son, and one of his cousins ​​had no son of his own.However, his father had four sons. He was the second son. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, it seemed that he was incompetent.

This incident hit him hard and developed his weird temperament.After the adoption, under the guidance of his scholarly adoptive father, he worked hard to study, and he was admitted to the scholar and became a leader in the family.

His biological parents were also proud of him, and even thought of recognizing their ancestors and returning to the clan, and then replacing the third son with the cousin, he was opposed by both him and his adoptive father, let alone the clan. Once it's over, just give up.

Li Xiucai himself can be said to be very beautiful, and his wife is also a well-informed lady. She has a big family and a good life.

But Li Xiu is the one who talks about face, and he is often depressed because his son is not up to his standard.

He is over fifty years old, and his wife has not had children for many years.There are three daughters and one son, each daughter is more beautiful and knowledgeable, and the worst son-in-law is Tong Sheng.

The only son was an embroidered pillow, handsome, intelligent and articulate.The boy's exam has been taken for more than ten years, and he has not yet entered school after the age of [-]. This has become a problem for him.

I heard that my daughter has given birth to a girl, and she has no interest in eating wedding wine and sitting on the "East Corner". She is afraid that she will be ridiculed by her in-laws and lose face, so she plans to let the unsatisfactory son run away.

The mother-in-law brought a maid to her son-in-law's house to serve her daughter's confinement. She brought a large bag of red dates and longan, ten live chickens, a hundred eggs, and a large basket of children's clothes.This "Three Dynasty Rites" is not light, although Hu Xiucai carried it hard, he also smiled happily.

The "Three Dynasties" wine setting was very lively, and it was not affected by the absence of the father-in-law.

Hu Hai's eldest brother was named Li Mengxi. His father-in-law took a lot of thought to name him. It not only expressed his "big joy", but also the meaning of being the eldest in the ranking. Naturally, he wanted to have another son.

But it backfired. With the quack of the youngest daughter Li Maixiang, his wife never gave birth again, and the idea of ​​a second son naturally fell through.

What is even more contrary to his will is that his son will make him angry when he grows up, which is completely contrary to the "big joy" he expects.

Li Mengxi looked slender and well-spoken, but he didn't look like a second-generation ancestor of a straw bag, and the banquet ended happily.

As soon as the "Three Dynasties" passed, Hu Xiucai shook his head, because when the child was born, the azaleas were blooming all over the mountains, and the house was full of flowers, so he named the child Zhengying.

It is not so troublesome for girls in the countryside to choose names. They do not need family tree rankings, nor do they need names from elders. It is just a matter of parents calling them casually. When encountering parents who prefer patriarchal or illiterate parents, the girl will be given a nickname, not at all. No name.

If you can marry a good son-in-law, the family tree of the family will also be recorded, and the status in the husband's family is that the mother is more expensive than the child.

As the saying goes: "There is no need to worry about the growth of seedlings, and the trees are naturally straight."

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Zhengying was just over two years old, and she looked very cute.

The rare little Zhengying is very smart and already knows a lot of words.Some of the poems that Hu Xiucai taught her casually, all of them can be learned in one lesson, and there are dozens of poems that can be memorized.

The only fly in the ointment is that Hu Zhengying doesn't seem to laugh.What a funny thing, she has a serious face when she sees it, she has never seen her smile before, and there is a calmness that is very different from her age.

Although she doesn't laugh, her serious look is more cute, and she often makes her relatives and friends laugh, and is dubbed as a little "cold beauty".

(End of this chapter)