Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 117

In the early morning of the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the sky had not yet fully dawned. When she heard movement from the east courtyard, Ning Xiang woke up immediately, and got out of bed without hesitation.

"Sister, I'm up too!"

Amu was thinking about his cousin marrying a daughter-in-law, so he slept lightly. When his sister was with him, he opened his eyes and knelt on the kang and said excitedly.

It was already getting cold at this time, Ning Xiang hurriedly handed over her younger brother's clothes, "Put on the clothes first!"

Amu immediately ran outside the bed and skillfully put on his pants.Ning Xiang looked at her cousin who was still wanting to sleep in under the quilt, smiled and lifted the quilt, and said amidst Xu Qiuer's dissatisfied muttering: "Sister-in-law is coming in, no one is allowed to sleep in today."

"It's not even dawn yet!" Xu Qiu'er grumbled, but she sat up obediently, put on her own clothes, and helped Amu fasten his coat by the way.

"The hot water is ready, come here to scoop up water." Hearing the three siblings' play, Li yelled in the kitchen of the east courtyard.

Ningxiang and Xu Qiuer each held a washbasin, and Amu happily followed.

"Where's my elder brother, isn't he still up?" After entering the kitchen, Xu Qiu'er said to the door of the West House.

Mrs. Li grinned from ear to ear, glanced over there and said, "I got up early, I'm probably looking at myself in the mirror, and the door is closed and I won't be allowed in."

"Brother, open the door!" Amu ran to the door, wanting to see his cousin in groom's official clothes.

Inside the house, when his younger brother and sister came over, Xu Huai was indeed holding a mirror in his hand to look at everything. When he heard his mother teasing him, he quickly put it down and opened the door with a blushing face.In the dim morning light, he was wearing a bright red wedding gown, slender and tall, with an uncontrollable smile on his handsome face, and a pair of bright starry eyes.

The son was tall and good-looking, and Li's eyes showed pride.

Amu hugged his cousin, and kept touching his clothes with his small hands. Ningxiang praised him, Xu Qiuer snorted, and said deliberately: "I usually look like an ordinary person, and I am going to marry a wife today. When I am happy, I seem to be happy." So handsome."

Xu Huai just laughed and said nothing, just joking with them.

The family ate breakfast. After the meal, Ningxiang and Xu Qiuer were busy tidying up the new house. The Li couple had more things to do in the yard.Not long after, people from Xipu came carrying the sedan chair. Hearing her mother's urging, Xu Qiu'er quickly grabbed the big red cloth flower and ran out, smiling to put it on for her elder brother.

"Mother, let's go first." Dressed up, Xu Huai led the horse along the way.

Mrs. Li sighed, and together with her husband told them to walk slowly on the road.

Xu Huai nodded, stepped on the stirrups and turned up. He could ride a donkey, but now riding a horse feels no different, and the horse brought by Xipu is extremely docile, just to avoid accidents that will cause problems for customers, and cause lawsuits if the wages are not paid.

The bridegroom went to pick up the bride, both houses of the Xu family were cleaned up, and the guests started to visit, the first one being Lu Cheng.

At that time, Ning Xiang was serving bowls and chopsticks on the wooden tables neatly arranged in the courtyards of the two families. She was still a little close to the door, when she heard someone coughing, she looked over suspiciously, and bumped into Lu Cheng unprepared. In those seductive peach blossom eyes.Ningxiang's heart beat faster, because she couldn't leave because she hadn't finished her work, so she bit the bullet and asked the man who came over directly, "Why are you here so early?"

"I miss you." Lu Cheng said in a low voice.

Ning Xiang blushed, ignored him, and bent down to take the washed dishes and chopsticks from the basket yesterday to the table, each table seated eight people.

"I had a dream last night. I dreamed that the two of us were getting married." Lu Cheng bent over to hold the bowl, whispering to her without knowing whether it was true or not. When he got up and walked to the next table, he passed her. He tilted his head slightly and said quietly: "I dreamed of us The bridal chamber is just like the real thing..."

Before she finished speaking, Ning Xiang turned her head and left, heading straight to the west courtyard.

Lu Cheng stared at her viciously, and then put away his desire and dissatisfaction before the Li family came out with the basket, and said warmly: "Auntie, I'm fine at home, I'll come early to help you get ready."

"Why did you come by yourself? Didn't you say that the second child and the others came?" Li Shi was unhappy, and asked after putting down the basket.

"Xiang'er and I are not married yet, so it's inappropriate for them to come. When we get married next year, and my aunt's grandson is over the full moon, I will definitely bring them here." Lu Cheng said with a smile, the words were festive, but also full of deep feelings. With a sour taste, Taohuayan stared at Mrs. Li with a look of "it's all your fault, Xu Huai got married before me".

He was unreasonable like a child, and Li Shi laughed so hard that he almost lost his temper. He slapped Lu Cheng hard, and coaxed him not very sincerely: "Don't worry, you may not have a baby before you get married, it's only five months away." , maybe the two of you are more competitive, besides, you already have Anan, so why worry?"

Lu Cheng stared at the west courtyard without saying a word.

As the sun rose higher and higher, the number of guests also increased, and the wedding party finally came back.

The two sisters Ningxiang went outside arm in arm to watch the fun. At this time, even if she knew that Lu Chengcheng was watching her from a distance, Ningxiang didn't care about it and was happy for her cousin wholeheartedly.Amu also went to pick up the bride, now happily standing beside the sedan chair, looking at the sedan chair with big eyes expectantly.

Amidst the bridesmaid's loud shouts, Xu Huai grinned and kicked the sedan door. It was very noon and the sun was shining brightly, which made his appearance even more outstanding.In the crowd, Liu Zhi next door to Xu's family couldn't help but look at her husband, her eyes shifted from Xu Huai to Lu Cheng who was standing alone in a corner, feeling a little unwillingness suddenly in her heart.

Ning Xiang is prettier than her, she lost clearly, but Guan Ping's appearance is not outstanding, at most he has a fairer complexion, why does he marry a man who is better than her?

No matter how she muttered in her heart, Guan Ping was married, she was dressed in red, wearing a red hijab, and slowly leaned out of the sedan chair, holding a red hydrangea in one hand, smiling foolishly with a big red flower on her chest The bridegroom officer led him in, stepped over the brazier, and slowly entered the gate of Xu's house.

Ningxiang led her younger brother to follow her. On the day of great joy, the little girl wore a plum red shirt. She was usually gentle and soft, beautiful but unobtrusive. Now she was dressed like this, as if the pink peach blossoms on the branches had suddenly become She picked up a big red peony, bright and compelling, and quickly attracted the men who wanted to see the bride but couldn't see her to her side.

Under the Xu family's persimmon tree, Lu Cheng stood alone, watching his delicate fiancée follow the bride into the house to pray to heaven and earth, his chest was burning with anger.

He is not reconciled, he is not reconciled, he also wants to marry a wife today!
But he had to endure the fire that could almost set the whole persimmon tree on fire for a long time. When Xu Huai made a toast to this side during the banquet, Lu Cheng had two bowls with him mercilessly.At the women's table, some daughters-in-law who watched the excitement made a fuss, "My brother-in-law married a wife first, isn't Lu Cheng jealous?"

Lu Cheng put down his wine bowl, hugged Xu Huai's shoulders and smiled, "Why are you jealous? He's a brother-in-law. I can't ask him for gift money if I'm not married. Now it's all right. I'll marry Xiang'er next year. Let's see how much they give!"

He was generous, and he said the jokes that the country people love to hear, which immediately made everyone in the courtyard burst into laughter.

His voice was so loud that all the female relatives in the house who accompanied the new wife for dinner heard it.The bride, Guan Ping, had rouge on her face, it was red, and Ning Xiang, who didn't put on rouge, was even redder than her. She shyly turned her face away, and scolded her thick-skinned man thousands of times amidst the jokes of the elders .

The female relatives ate fast, and after eating, except for those who stayed to help the Xu family, the other wives and daughters returned home in twos and threes.The men drank and ate slowly. Some tables had no rice yet, and they yelled loudly to eat together.Lu Cheng sat at the same table with the male guest of Li's natal family, and accompanied the groom. He wanted to drink Xu Huai wine, but Xu Qiuer's cousin and uncle secretly favored him, and seemed to coax him to drink Xu Huai. As soon as Lu Cheng's bowl was empty, they immediately filled it up.

"Who said I can't drink?"

"Uncle, you have to have another drink, come all the way..."

Ning Xiang was sitting in the room, and from time to time she could hear Lu Cheng trying to force himself to drink or pouring alcohol on others, until Mrs. Li quietly called her out, "All the irrelevant people have left, and now we are the only ones left at home. Big brother and the others are sleeping in the east room, your uncle helped Lu Cheng go to your place, and he is feeling uncomfortable after drinking too much, you go and have a look, the food is reserved for them, if you want to bring it over, you know where it is."

Ning Xiang had been worried about Lu Cheng for a long time, and she didn't care about being shy when she heard the words, she hurried around from the backyard, stepped into the kitchen door, and heard Lu Cheng talking nonsense to Amu in the West Room, "Your elder brother is not good-looking, brother-in-law is the groom The official is good-looking, when the time comes, marry your sister, and also marry Amu to live with us..."

Hiccupping while talking, Amu said he was drunk, but he still refused to admit it.

Ningxiang listened to a few words outside, shook her head, opened the curtain and walked in, and saw Lu Cheng sitting cross-legged on the kang, Amu was forcibly hugged by him in his arms, seeing her sister, the boy begged for help pitifully, "Sister, Brother-in-law speaks so badly!"

Lu Cheng talked about his brother-in-law, and Amu was also led astray by him.

Ning Xiang glared at Lu Cheng, pulled her younger brother away from him, picked up the shoes and helped him put them on, lowered her head and said, "Amu, go to the east room to sleep first, there will be fun at night."

Amu was smoked by his brother-in-law-to-be for a long time, and he was sleepy if not sleepy, so he went to the east room after getting off the ground.

Ning Xiang looked at Lu Cheng who was staring at her blankly, and was going to fetch a basin of water to help him wash his face.

"Xiang'er..." Lu Cheng rushed over suddenly, pushed the door panel with his big hand, grabbed her from one side, and begged her, "Don't go, I have a headache..."

"I'll get you some water, it stinks to death." Ning Xiang lowered her head and reprimanded, not saying something serious, lest he will play tricks on you.

Lu Cheng was not so drunk that he didn't know anything about human affairs. Amu thought he smelled bad, and he did the act of deliberately blowing on the boy. The wife wanted to kiss him. He didn't dare to make her despise him, so he obediently relaxed immediately. hands, stared at her obsessively, and murmured, "Then come back quickly."

Ning Xiang nodded and went out.

Lu Cheng sat upright, with the back of his head against the wall, blinked blankly, then suddenly raised his hand, and blew into his palm.It was full of wine smell, which seemed a bit unpleasant, so Ning Xiang came in with a slop bucket, Lu Cheng took the gourd ladle in her hand very cooperatively, lowered his head to drink water, rinsed his mouth several times and spit it into the slop bucket, After lying down again, Tao Hua stared at Ning Xiang, a little curious about what she was going to do next.

Ning Xiang carried the swill bucket out, and when she came in again, she was holding a wet towel in her hand. Knowing that he was dizzy, she stood in front of the kang and offered to wipe his face.

(End of this chapter)