Fragrant spring

Section [-] Matchmaking

When Shaowang's mother came back from work, she mixed the rice bran and went to the chicken coop to feed the chickens. She knocked on the wooden basin "dong dong dong dong" to attract the chickens back.The chickens rushed back, and the old hen ran the fastest, like a heroic warrior.Shaowang's mother likes this old hen the most. This old hen likes to lay eggs and loves to cuddle, and all the hatched chickens are full of energy.Shaowang's mother was happy while watching, and she approached the chicken coop to count the eggs.Finding that the nest was empty, I panicked all of a sudden.Howled loudly towards the back room: "Father Wang, it's terrible, a weasel has come to the house, come quickly."

Shaowang's father came out of the back room hunchbacked with a long cigarette pole on his back, and said with an unhappy face, "What's the matter, what's the fuss?" It's too high.Years of hard work and the burden of life weighed him down.

Shaowang's mother came over in three steps and took two steps to pull Shaowang's father to the chicken coop, and she was about to cry and said, "The weasel stole the eggs. You see, all the eggs I have saved for half a month have been eaten up." , there is not even a single piece of shell left, whoops, whoops..." She slapped her thighs with her hands as she spoke, looking like she was going bankrupt.

Shaowang's father squatted down and took a closer look at the chicken coop. The straw in the chicken coop was not messy, so he knew it wasn't stolen by the weasel.I have only heard of weasels stealing chickens, but how can weasels steal eggs.Although Shaowang's father is hunchbacked, he is a well-known hunter. He can see any changes in the mang grass on the other side of the mountain from one side of the mountain, and he can tell if there are bamboo rats eating mang roots.He was able to find the pangolin's tracks in the grass, and then followed several hills to find its cave.He stood up and scolded: "What are you shouting about? It was stolen by a thief."

When she heard that she was a thief, Shaowang's mother panicked even more.She cried and cried: "My money, the money I have saved for several years!" She wanted to enter the room to check while shouting.She has saved more than 200 yuan of private money over the years, wrapped it in a handkerchief and stuffed it under the pillow, and has been reluctant to use it.If it was stolen, she would not want to live.

Shaowang's father grabbed her and said, "What are you looking for? You don't need to look. Will the money thief want your eggs? The egg thief won't take your money either."

She broke free from Shaowang's father's hand, she doesn't believe that thieves don't steal money, she has to see it with her own eyes to be at ease.When I came to the room, I opened the pillow, and the handkerchief was still lying obediently there.Shaowang's mother opened the handkerchief with trembling hands, and there were quite a lot of pennies in the folded Datuan.Her hanging heart finally let go, thinking of those dozen or so eggs, she became sad again.She walked to the gate of the courtyard, sat on the ground and scolded the street with snot and tears: "Oh my god, the world has changed, and some people steal the eggs for hatching chickens..."

The scolding soon attracted the villagers to watch, and everyone talked about who was so starved to death and stole eggs to eat.It's not just who said: "Is it the monkey three from the village who did it? He just does this kind of stealthy things with nothing to do." Someone replied: "I think it's him, otherwise who would be so bold?" I came to a conclusion: this matter is most likely done by Monkey Three.Soon the story spread throughout the village.

When Shaowang came home from work, he saw people crowded in front of his house.I hurriedly squeezed in, only to see my mother sitting on the ground kicking her legs and splashing.Hearing the discussion of the people next to him, he understood what was going on.He hurriedly pulled his mother back home, he felt that his mother was so embarrassing.

In the evening, Shaowang invited his elder brother Shaoqiang and his sister-in-law Guiqin to have dinner at home.Brother and sister-in-law separated from them, and brother Shaoqiang was ten years older than Shaowang. In those days, it was a woman's responsibility to have children, and there were rewards for having more children.It is said that the child is too much for the mother, and the reward for giving birth to a child is ten catties of soybeans.Shaowang's mother gave birth to five in one go, but in the end only Shaoqiang and Shaowang grew up.

His mother stewed a bamboo rat that his father had pretended to be, and a large pot was bubbling.

She was eating too much, and Shaowang's mother told the truth, she said to Guiqin: "Wang's sister-in-law, look, Wang is in her early twenties, and she hasn't gotten that girl to come around yet, do you think it's okay?" Can you tell me one?"

Guiqin giggled and said, "Okay, there's nothing wrong with that, who called me his sister-in-law." After speaking, she turned to Shaowang: "Wang, have you taken a fancy to that girl?"

Shaowang faltered and blushed, and it took him a long time to say a few words: "Ask, ask...Mom, she knows." It turned out that Shaowang had told his mother a long time ago that he liked Qiaoying, a girl in the village, and his mother It was then that Guiqin was called to help matchmaking.

Shaowang's mother saw that he was ugly and Yinmao, she took his words away and said, "It's Qiaofen's sister Qiaoying."

Guiqin said bluntly: "Qiaoying, that girl is so handsome, I don't know if she has taken a fancy to you." Shaowang is less than 1.6 meters, while Qiaoying is 1.7 meters two.Guiqin thought to herself that this was really not a good match, so Shaowang could just think about it and let me go as a matchmaker.I really don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, but he is his brother-in-law, so he has no choice but to say so.

"You can help and ask." Shaowang blurted out impatiently.

Shaowang's mother also said: "Yes, this girl's family is poor, maybe she can agree?" Qiaoying's family is the poorest family in the village, and Shaowang's family is not rich, but they can live a decent life.

Hearing what she said, Guiqin seemed to have some truth in her mind.Didn't I also marry the short Shaoqiang back then, and his family didn't have much money.So she said: "Okay, my sister-in-law will tell you, you have to work hard yourself."

Shaowang was full of joy, Guiqin was almost full, and he tried his best to put vegetables in her bowl, making his father beside him feel uncomfortable.Raising him so old has never brought food for himself, and now he is just asking this sister-in-law to help matchmaking, and she is so attentive without even saying a word.Shaoqiang didn't care about so much, he didn't say a few words all night, as if his brother's matter had nothing to do with him.He just wanted to go to Housan's house to play money as soon as he was full, and win all over that Housan who stole his mother's eggs.He is lucky these days, he has this confidence.Another more important reason is that he wants to avoid his wife Guiqin.Guiqin's mother-in-law is now as if she has taken a madman's drug, and she will drag him into the room to do that when it gets dark.It was like this every day, making him miserable, and he could only hide from her, and only sneaked back when she fell asleep.

That evening, Guiqin came to Qiaoying's house with a smile on her back carrying a pig. Two children were playing with mud in the courtyard.They are the two sons of Qiaoying's sister Qiaofen. Seeing Guiqin approaching with such a big pig's foot, they stared helplessly and swallowed their saliva.

Guiqin asked the two children: "Have your parents come back yet?"

The older child replied: "I haven't come back from work yet. My aunt is at home." He never took his eyes off the pig's foot as he spoke. Served on the table.

The younger child innocently asked, "Auntie, is this pig's foot for us?"

Gui Qin touched his head with a smile, and said, "Yes, let's stew it tonight."

The child snatched the pig's foot and said happily: "Then I will help you in!"

Guiqin laughed loudly and walked into the room.In the room, Qiaoying was chopping pig vegetables. She heard voices outside just now, and knew that Guiqin was here to match her.In the house of her good sister Liping, who lives next door to her house, someone will bring a pig's foot to the matchmaker every now and then. It is a custom in the countryside in this area that the matchmaker must bring a pig's foot to the woman's house for the first time.It means to explore the way with feet first, to see what the woman means.If the woman disagrees, she will give the matchmaker a bamboo with several green vegetables hanging on it after a few days, which means that we have already eaten the vegetables brought by your family, but the hearts between the two men and women are like Bamboo is just as unreasonable, so this matter is considered yellow.If you agree, you will give the matchmaker a handful of vegetable or bean seeds.Its meaning is that the parents basically agree to let the two young people get along with each other, hoping that they will reap what they sow.

When Qiaoying saw Guiqin, her little face immediately turned red.He lowered his head, not daring to say hello.Guiqin knew that Qiaoying was shy, so she took the stool and sat down to chat with her.She asked, "Qiaoying, are you turning [-] this year?"

Qiaoying replied softly: "Well, I just turned twenty."

Guiqin: "There's nowhere to find someone, right?"

Qiaoying's face turned even redder: "No."

Guiqin: "Hehe, then there should be one, you are already a big girl."

Qiaoying was so ashamed that she didn't know how to answer, jumping around like a lost deer in her heart.I don't know which family Guiqin told her about, whether he is tall or not, and what the family's conditions are like.Life in Qiaoying's family has always been poor, and his father raised his two sisters alone.After finally recruiting a husband from another village (visiting son-in-law) for my sister Qiaofen, my father suffered another stroke and was paralyzed in bed.Fortunately, my brother-in-law is honest and honest, and took over the burden of my father to support the family.Fearful of hard times, Qiaoying secretly vowed at the age of fifteen or sixteen that she would marry a rich man in the future.

Seeing that Qiaoying didn't speak, Guiqin asked again, "May I introduce one to you?"

Qiaoying squeezed out a voice like a mosquito: "My sister is in charge, and you can ask her when she comes back."

As soon as Qiaoying's words came out, Guiqin guessed the girl's psychology of both longing and fear.She secretly felt that there was some hope for Shaowang.

At this time, Qiaofen and her husband Chen Ming came back from work carrying firewood.People in the mountains are diligent, no matter how far they go to work or how tired they are.When I come back, I always have to carry a piece of firewood by the way, and when I get home, the firewood also gets home.

Guiqin hurried up to say hello: "Fen, what are you doing?"

Qiaofen's face was flushed from the sun, she threw down the firewood, raised her sleeves and wiped the hot sweat from her face.Said softly: "Tricking grass, it's not every day pulling grass this season."

The two chatted for a while, and Qiaofen and Chen Ming gradually understood Guiqin's reason for coming.Chen Ming hurriedly went to burn and scrape the pig's feet, and the two children followed Chen Ming to watch.To be precise, they followed the pig's feet, because without pig's feet, they would rather play in the mud than watch their father work.Children are children, and before the pig's feet are put into the pot, they decide where you eat and where I eat.Chen Ming's hands and feet were nimble, and he cleaned up the pig's feet in a short time, chopped them up and stewed them in the pot.

During the meal, Qiaoying lowered her head, as if waiting for the verdict, waiting for Guiqin to tell her who she was introducing.But Guiqin seems to have forgotten the purpose of coming tonight, and has been chatting with Qiaofen and Chen Ming.Until the wine and food were full, everyone moved to the yard to enjoy the cool.Qiaoying was washing the dishes in the kitchen.Gui Qincai said unhurriedly to Chen Ming and his wife outside, "My uncle Shaowang thinks your Qiaoying family is nice."

When Qiaoying heard that it was Shaowang inside, she felt cold in her heart.When I think of Shaowang, he is less than 1.6 meters tall and thin.The most disgusting thing is that he has a mole on his chin. It doesn't matter if he has a mole, there are still a few long hairs left on the mole.Qiaoying wanted to spit out the pig's feet she ate just now, and her hands were shaking while washing the dishes.

At this time, Qiaofen outside said politely: "Oh, it's your family, Wang, why does he like a poor family like us?"

Qiaoying didn't want to listen anymore, she really wanted to rush out to drive Guiqin away, but out of politeness, she endured it.I don't know how long it took, but the voice of talking outside disappeared.Qiaoying guessed that Guiqin had left, so she walked out angrily.She took Qiaofen's hand and said: "Sister, you chop a piece of bamboo and throw it to Si Guiqin tomorrow. I don't want to have sex with that Shaowang. It makes me sick to see it."

Qiaofen smiled gently: "Why, don't you look down on others? People don't look at appearances."

Qiaoying stomped her feet in a hurry, and she said angrily: "Oh sister, don't talk about the appearance, just look at the man's heart, the whole village counts his brothers as the most mean, stingy, rascal, most, and most not a man." She used all the worst words imaginable.

Qiaofen was amused by Qiaoying's words, and she also felt that Shaowang and Qiaoying were really not a good match.So he smiled and comforted his sister: "Okay, okay, I'll chop bamboo and give it to Guiqin to take back. But it will take a few days, I have to give others a little face, I can't cut it tomorrow as you said."

Although Qiaofen agreed to chop bamboo for Guiqin, Qiaoying ran back to the room angrily.