Quick Travel: Farm Treasure Notes

Chapter 24 The Matchmaker Comes to the Door
It's early in the morning and it's still dark.

Su Xiaosi was still dozing off in the tree.

The hares huddled beside the firewood and slept soundly, their hind legs twitching occasionally.

Shen Biyu picked up the pole behind the door, picked up the bucket, and went out in a hurry.

Drink well water when you first get up, so that you will be smooth all year round.

She rushed to be the first to pick up water from the well to avoid being crowded with other families.

When I came back, my family hadn't gotten up yet.

She first drank a ladle of sweet well water, then started cooking porridge, fishing for pickles, and cutting salted fish.

Prepare everything and go get your husband and children to get up and drink water from the well.

Su Changhuai had already woken up and wiped Su Suisui's pancake, washed his butt, and changed his diaper.

After drinking well water and eating breakfast, the whole family tidied up, carried incense, candles, money and papers and went to visit the grave.

Shen Biyu had a hatchet in her waist. The grave was in the mountain. If it was not removed for a while, thorns would grow on the road, so she had to use a hatchet to clear it out.

Throughout the year, the Su family only has enough people to go out on the first day of the Lunar New Year and the Qingming Festival.

Pedestrians on the village road looked at the Su family one after another.

Mr. Su's jade face looks like a peach blossom, and his two daughters are as fresh as green onions in the ground. Even the little one in his arms is made of pink and jade, white and cute, with big deer-like eyes that turn curiously. .

Shen Biyu, who is tall and round-waisted, is a bit out of place.

Shen Biyu looked at ease, feeling quite proud of her husband and daughters.

Everyone kept this strange feeling in mind and greeted enthusiastically: "Hey, you are going to visit the grave so early!"

"It's early for you too!" Shen Biyu smiled back.

The grave they wanted to visit was the same as that of the second bedroom. If they didn't go there earlier, they might bump into the second bedroom and cause unnecessary trouble.

The mountain birds are chirping, and the spring is infinitely beautiful.

Su Changhuai and Shen Biyu cleaned the weeds on the grave, while Su Jiaojiao placed incense, candles, money and paper.

Su Xusui hugged Su Suisui and said softly: "Sister, this is grandpa."

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Su Suisui discovered that there was another grave next to her grandfather's grave. On the monument was engraved the year when Hu Suling was born, and the time when she died was empty.

This is an empty tomb.

After lighting incense and burning paper money, pack your things and go back through the other route.

Su Suisui noticed that his father stood in front of the empty tomb for a long time.

The village was poor, and many old people managed to survive the winter, but died in the spring.

This winter, Su Changbai was responsible for the villagers' winter rations. Fewer old people got sick, but Mrs. Su got sick.

Instead of Changbai going to the town to ask for a doctor, Chen Cuiping was called to go to the mountains every day to dig up some herbs and boil water for her to drink. The trouble made Chen Cuiping sick for a while.

Shen Biyu walked with the children, picking wild vegetables along the way.

A fat rabbit died in front of them, so they had to pick it up in the basket.

Another pheasant flew into the basket carelessly, so I had to break its neck.

There are even birds lining up to commit suicide!

They were stunned and accepted the gifts of nature one by one.

Go home and divide the work among the whole family to deal with the hares, pheasants, and wild birds.

The hare was saved for tomorrow, and the birds were roasted in the evening by the fire.The pheasant and the picked mushrooms were stewed together until they were rotten.

Su Changhuai set up a temporary stove in the yard, put the chicken soup on the stove, brought out the small dining table, and piled a basket full of washed wild vegetables.

The family sat around the makeshift stove and cooked whatever wild vegetables they liked with chicken soup.

This way of eating was invented by the couple when they were wandering around. In the past, they used to boil wild vegetables in clear water, and the more they rinsed, the greener they became. This time, it was chicken soup, and the more they rinsed, the more fragrant it became.Su Suisui snuggled in her father's arms, watching the crisp wild vegetables rinsed in the boiling chicken soup and wrapped in seasonings, still crispy in the mouth.

She could hear the chewing sound of "click, click, click", so greedy!
But she only had one tooth and could not eat. She could only eat a little steamed egg custard.

The courtyard door opened, and Su Changbai's butt was the first to come in. "Look, mother-in-law, this is my eldest brother's house!"

Chen Cuiping affectionately helped an old woman through the door.

The old woman was wearing silk. She had her eyebrows drawn and powder applied on her face. The powder floated on her face, making her look like she was wearing a mask, which was very scary.

Every step he took was filled with scrutiny and disgust, and he looked over the yard.

"What kind of wind has brought Auntie Chen here? Come and sit down." Shen Biyu put down the bowl, pulled out the bench under her butt, and warmly greeted Auntie Chen to sit down.

Aunt Chen Yao is the matchmaker of Xiaoji Village. She is a good matchmaker and a big shot who is famous all over the country.

Aunt Chen was the matchmaker for Shen Biyu's previous marriage. I heard that all the big roosters from the husband's family were stewed, and as a result, Shen Biyu and Su Changhuai became a couple.

The man came to her house and took away the big, fragrant rooster with the pot in hand. Aunt Chen held up her chopsticks and chased after the pot.

This was her first failure in her matchmaking career, and she suffered a lot of ridicule.

Shen Biyu thought that Aunt Chen had a grudge against her because of this, but she didn't expect that her daughter would later be given to her second brother, and they would become a family.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Chen came to the door in person on the first day of the new year.

Aunt Chen sat down unceremoniously and took a critical look at the pots and pans on the dining table. They were all green.

Disgusted: "Is this what we eat during the Chinese New Year?"

At this time, Su Jiaojiao took a large spoon to fill the soup and took away a large chicken leg.

Aunt Chen:
I asked why the shabu-shabu became more and more yellow as it was shabu-shabu, and the oil ring was still shaking. It turned out that there was a chicken hidden in it.

But it’s okay to eat a chicken on the first day of the Lunar New Year. For poor people like them, this is the only chicken they can eat all year round.

"It's good if you can eat it!" Shen Biyu forced a smile.

Aunt Chen ignored her, stood up and turned around, then looked up and down at Su Changhuai several times, and said to Su Changhuai: "Sister Xu is so handsome. I fell in love with her as soon as I saw it. That's not true." When something good happens, I first think of my sister."

"Isn't there a father-in-law who served the late emperor in Xiaohu Village? He built a big house and needed to recruit people. Didn't Sister Xu work in the Yuanwai Mansion? She has more experience than a country girl."

"If my father-in-law likes Sister Xu and recruits her into the house, my father-in-law will give her this number!"

Aunt Chen stretched out her five fingers and waved them in front of everyone.

Su Suisui only saw her fat, stubby fingers that were red, like carrots pulled out of the ground.

"Fifty taels of silver a month is enough for your family to enjoy food and drink. There will still be some left over after a year."

Su Suisui didn't quite understand the currency system of this world. She was brainwashed by the male and female protagonists in costume dramas who spent a lot of money. She felt that five taels of silver was too little, that father-in-law was really stingy, and the senior eunuch who had served the emperor was too stingy. No, Will he be the eunuch who shovels shit for the emperor?
Su Jingyi looked at her father and mother with a look of horror on her face.

Aunt Chen looked at Su Jiaojiao, who was eating fiercely, and Su Suisui, who was sipping her fingers, and sighed: "Tsk, tsk, you are so pitiful. Boss, please think about these two little ones. Everything costs money for clothing, food and accommodation. I will have to prepare two dowries for my children when I get married in the future."

Then he looked at Shen Biyu, "Xiao Shen is still young. If he doesn't guarantee that he will give birth to a child in the future, he will have to ask for a wife!"

Su Changhuai put down his bowl and chopsticks with a sullen face.

Su Changbai quickly advised: "Brother, please think about it. I am doing this for your own good. Besides, as an uncle, can I harm my niece?"

Su Xueying lowered her face and tears flowed into the bowl.

Aunt Chen sat down leisurely, confident that Boss Su would definitely agree. She had seen a lot of poor people, and selling sons and daughters was considered normal.

"Get lost." Su Changhuai said this word calmly.

The education he received in the past prevented him from speaking out, but today they have reached his bottom line.

He didn't know what kind of family would be willing to give their daughter to a eunuch to waste, but he was definitely not that kind of family.

"Get out!" Shen Biyu pulled out a large piece of wood with sparks from the kitchen and threw it over.

He wanted to harm her ten years ago and now he wants to harm her daughter. How shameless!
"Mom!" Chen Cuiping pulled Aunt Chen away.

Aunt Chen looked into the kitchen, which was full of bacon, and there were big question marks in her little eyes: Is this what you and the second child said about poverty?
More meat than I have in my house!

(End of this chapter)