Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 147 A Good Man Who Loves His Wife
Lu Cheng told Yan Jing what the Xu family wanted, Yan Jing almost jumped up happily, and immediately went home to discuss with his parents about asking a matchmaker to propose marriage, and the matchmaker came to the gate of Xu's family the next day.

Then there are some etiquette matters, don't worry about Ningxiang, she just waits for her natal family to tell her the date of engagement.

Three days passed by in a hurry, and at the end of April, the cherries were ripe.

It was still dark this morning, Lu Chengcheng lifted the quilt, Ning Xiang was startled by him, and wanted to get up.

"Lie down a little longer, I'll feed the donkey first." Lu Cheng held her down and said, picking cherries only after dawn, and it's useless for her to get up too early.

"I'm going to heat up the meal. Second Aunt and the others will come over in a while and pad their stomachs first before picking them." Everyone was awake, thinking about the big event of picking cherries, how could Ning Xiang lie down with peace of mind, and insisted on getting dressed and going to the field with Lu Cheng .

After a brief tidying up, the couple split up, Lu Cheng went to feed the donkey and moved the basket, Ning Xiang spread the vegetable box stuffed with cabbage that he specially made last night on the side of the pot to heat up, and the stove was filled with a few fires. There is a smell of rice.It was a little brighter at this time, Ning Xiang picked up five and put them on the table to eat with Lu Cheng.

The kitchen was quiet, the two sat facing each other, eating and chatting under the dim light, the atmosphere was particularly harmonious.

Ning Xiang ate slowly, one box was almost finished, Lu Cheng had already eaten two and a half, and there was one left in the big bowl.

Seeing that Lu Cheng glanced at Dong Guo, Ning Xiang smiled, put the remaining one into Lu Cheng's bowl with chopsticks, and said softly: "These four are for you, I'll eat some with you first." , I have to accompany the children to eat in the morning."

She knew Lu Cheng's appetite.

Lu Cheng smiled, stared at her and said, "It's nice to have a wife, and she even specially accompanied me to have a meal."

He was slick, and Ningxiang shot him a glance. Hearing that there was a movement in the Pan family over there, Lu Ding and Zhou Yuniang from the Lu family next door also got up. Let Lu Cheng eat first, and she put out eight more bowls. One box was left to dry first, and the rest were put in a basin.Lu Cheng was chewing on the box, and Tao Huayan followed his wife all the time. When Ning Xiang sat down, he passed the bowl over, "Give me another one."

Seeing his wife busy around him, he has a good appetite.

Her husband could eat it, Ning Xiang was inexplicably happy, pretending to choose something, and picked one for him, "This is the biggest."

"You think I'm Anan?" Lu Cheng said with a smile, they were all similar.

Ning Xiang pursed her lips and smiled, finished her own food, and thoughtfully scooped up water for Lu Cheng to drink, choking on the box alone.

When the relatives came over, they all praised Ningxiang's dishes and chopsticks.

Lu Cheng and You Rongyan asked them to eat first, and he picked them first.

After dinner, the sky was already bright enough to see whether the cherries were completely red or not, but in the faint morning light, the bright red cherry fruits hung all over the fruit trees, like a small red lantern, which was really gratifying.Everyone got busy with vigor, exactly ten trees, one for each person, and the man went to help others after he picked it up first.

"Cousin, did Second Cousin write back?" Zhou Yu asked Ning Xiang, chatting while picking it.She is spoiled and spoiled, so she can't easily do housework, but picking cherries is fun, and she came here with her mother yesterday, even if she is not skilled, she can help a little bit.

"No, he is probably still on the boat now, and he can only write letters when he goes ashore." Ning Xiang guessed, unable to hold it in her hand, and gently put a handful of cherries into a basket covered with two layers of coarse cloth, so as not to let the cherries It was damaged by a hard branch.

"I haven't reached Jiangnan yet, it's so far away." Zhou Yu muttered in a low voice.

Lu's reprimanded from the side: "Pick it quickly, your eldest cousin is in a hurry to start, the cherries will wilt when the sun is late, don't always divide your cousin's heart, look at your second cousin You picked more than you when you were two years younger."

Zhou Yu didn't believe it, so he took a few steps back and looked to the side. There were indeed more cherries in Lu Rong's basket than hers.Zhou Yu was not willing to admit defeat. He was afraid of losing to his cousin, so he stopped chatting immediately and concentrated on picking cherries.

The cherry tree in Lu's house is almost as tall as two Ningxiangs. Ningxiang picked all the ripe cherries she could reach, and was going to step on the bench to pick high ones like Pan's, but just as the bench was set up, Lu Cheng suddenly ran away He came over, pointed to the tree he had just picked, and said, "I just picked off the top of the tree, you go and pick the bottom, I'll come here."

Then she scolded her in a voice that no one else could hear: "I'm about to become a mother, and I don't pay attention to myself. What if I drop my daughter?"

When his wife told him that he might be pregnant, he didn't really believe it, but his wife's menstruation did not come day by day, and Lu Cheng's heart became more and more inclined to have it. At night, he hugged his wife and secretly guessed whether the baby was a boy or not. female.Because of having Anan and taking care of his son, Lu Cheng wanted his wife to give him a daughter first, a soft little padded jacket.

He felt sorry for his daughter and not her, so Ning Xiang gently pinched her husband, and went to his side with a blushing face.

Zhou Yu didn't know the little secrets of his cousin and sister-in-law. Seeing that the second uncle, second aunt, and two cousins ​​were picked from the bottom up, he couldn't help but tease Lu Chengdao: "The big cousin is really eccentric, and I'm also afraid of stepping on it." The bench fell, why don't you replace me?"

Standing on the bench, Lu Cheng hooked a cherry branch to his side and smiled back at her: "I want to change you, but I haven't finished picking the ones below you, so I can only change your cousin."

Zhou Yu looked at the basket not far away, blushed, and snorted: "You don't need to argue, you just love my cousin, and if you have a cousin, you won't care about our younger sisters, cousin, don't you think so?" said deliberately loudly Tell my cousin.

Lu Fu and Lu Rong agreed one after another.

Ning Xiang heard it, she was too ashamed to turn her head back.

Mrs. Pan was far away and didn't understand what the younger generations were laughing at. Mrs. Lu was beside her, her eyes turned around her nephew and nephew's wife twice, and a thought suddenly came to her mind.

Everyone worked together and picked more than half of the cherries without using it for half an hour. The rest were not yet fully red and had to grow.

Looking at the baskets of cherries filled with donkey carts, Pan turned to his nephew and asked, "These weigh more than 200 catties, right?"

In order to facilitate the delivery of cherries to wealthy families, Lu Cheng prepared small baskets, each of which was nine-tenths full, which was about ten catties.Now there are more than 20 donkey carts, and Lu Cheng replied happily: "Almost, this year is estimated to be about a hundred catties more than last year."

Like people, fruit trees are also divided into young, middle-aged and old. My cherry tree is still a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, and it will bear more and more fruit in the future.

All that comes out is money.

Looking at his daughter-in-law happily, Lu Cheng covered the basket with a coarse cloth to keep it on the road to protect it from the sun, and then set off with the donkey cart.

There is still half an hour before returning to the cage to get a good night's sleep. After Ningxiang sends Pan and others out, she closes the north door, washes her hands and prepares to go back to the house.

"Xiang'er." Lu suddenly came over from the old courtyard and called her in a low voice.

"Aunt." Ning Xiang placed the wooden basin under the eaves, looking at the elder unexpectedly, "Is there something wrong, Aunt?"

Mrs. Lu smiled, glanced at her stomach, and asked, "Is it true, that's why the boss dare not let you step on the bench?"

The elder was so careful, Ning Xiang couldn't hide it, she lowered her head embarrassedly, and said in a low voice, "The menstrual event is a few days late, we two are guessing first, and we want to tell you when we have a certain letter."

"How many days late?" Lu asked nervously.

Ning Xiang bit her lip and said softly: "Not counting today, seven days..."

Lu's was overjoyed, "Then it's probably there, does Xiang'er feel like throwing up?"

Ning Xiang shook her head, raised her eyes and persuaded: "Auntie, don't get hopeful, lest..."

"All right, all right, I won't say anything." Mrs. Lu hurriedly interrupted the unspeakable words of her nephew and daughter-in-law, patted her hand and said, "I've been busy all morning, go back to sleep, I'll make breakfast, don't worry stand up."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Ningxiang to refuse, she turned her head and left.

The elder was kind to her, Ningxiang looked down at her stomach, and entered the room with a smile.

On the kang in the east room, Amu Anan was lying on his side, sleeping soundly, unaware that the elders were already busy.Thinking of the excitement of the two little guys last night who promised to pick cherries with everyone this morning, Ning Xiang laughed silently, kissed each other, took off her clothes and got under the covers.

Probably because she had just finished her work, Ning Xiang didn't feel sleepy, she lay on her back, staring out the window in a daze.

Lu Cheng went to sell cherries.

The first time Lu Cheng kissed her last year was when he sold cherries. She still remembered the sweet and sour taste of cherries in his mouth.

In a blink of an eye, she was married to him, and she might have his baby in her belly.

Happiness is like a dream.

When Lu Cheng drove the donkey cart into the city, the bustling day in Tai'an City had already begun.

The sun had just risen to the roof, so it wasn't too hot, and Lu matured to deliver cherries in a familiar way.Twenty-odd baskets of cherries, bright red and watery, just looking at it makes people appetite. After seeing Lu Cheng, the stewards went to report to the master first, and asked the master if he wanted to buy it. If he got it, he would definitely take the money out, at least he would. Ask for a basket.

Cherries are smaller than sand fruits, and the price is higher, thirty yuan a catty. Lu Cheng's basket is full, even if it exceeds ten catties, it will be counted as ten catties. The stewards like him for his sincerity, and they don't bargain for it. The money is very happy to give.Coincidentally, there was a young master of a family who celebrated the full moon today, and the wife saw that the cherries brought by the steward were bright and beautiful, so she specially ordered someone to reward Lu Cheng with a tael of silver.

After going around for a while, the cherries were all sold out, and Lu Cheng made more than eight taels.

The rest of the family can be sold for five or six taels.

Having made so much money all at once, Lu Cheng parked the donkey cart at his third aunt's house, and went to the jewelry store by himself.

The clerk saw that he was dressed in commoner clothes, so he couldn't help looking down upon him, so he led him directly to the counter on the left, and brought up a few flat and wide boxes. Inside, earrings, hairpins, hairpins, bracelets, etc. were arranged in a mess. valuable.

Lu Cheng glanced at him indifferently, went to the counter on the right by himself, and said to another clerk, "Bring me some jewelry in twos and threes."

Now that the family doesn't have much money left, he can't spend too much money. If he really spends all the money he earns, Ning Xiang will be the first to scold him and give her a whole sum to go back, which can somewhat stop her mouth.

The guy was very knowledgeable and picked out a few for him.

Lu Cheng took a fancy to a pair of red agate earrings. The red and round agates are like cherries on a tree. With just one glance, Lu Cheng fell in love with them, and even thought about how to deliver them to his wife to please her. happy.

"How do you sell this?" Feeling happy, Lu Cheng asked calmly, and when he spoke, his eyes fell on a peach hairpin, and he picked it up and looked at it carefully.

The clerk couldn't see which one he liked, and the peach hairpin was more than a tael cheaper than the agate earrings, fearing that the price said too high would frighten the man into buying the cheap one, so he apologized and said with a smile: "Three taels, five dollars, what do you think, my lord? "

Lu Cheng frowned, "It's too expensive, I only have three taels of silver in total, and I have to go to the silk shop over there later, how can I sell this hairpin?"

He acted so realistically, the buddy believed it eight points, thought it over, and decided to earn more money from hairpins, so he reported [-] yuan.

Of course, Lu Cheng continued to think it was expensive, so he picked up the cheap ones and asked a few questions, but his eyes flicked to the pair of agate earrings from time to time.

The man understood, this man really likes agate earrings, but he is nervous about money.

"My lord, if you really like this pair of earrings, I'll give you a cheaper price, three, two or four, nothing less."

Lu Cheng shook his head again and again, "It's too expensive, I can't afford it, can it be less?"

"Then how much can you pay?" the man asked him in turn.

Lu Cheng honestly took out a few taels of silver from his cuff, and then took two taels back, plausibly saying: "Keep this to buy a good handkerchief for my wife."

The guy almost vomited blood. The minimum selling price that the shopkeeper ordered for this pair of earrings was two taels and seven dollars. He originally thought that he could earn three dollars at least, but who would have thought that they would take away two more dollars?
"Forget it, seeing that you really want to buy it, let's hurry up, I'll sell you for two or two, and you don't have to buy handkerchiefs anymore. Your wife is happier seeing this pair of earrings than any handkerchief." He suggested very heartily.

Lu Cheng didn't know how much the earrings cost, but he could tell that the price was really low, so he nodded, and put back the two coins he had just taken away, without fussing over it again.If you can save money when buying things, don't let people slaughter you stupidly, but he is a big man, and bargaining like a little daughter-in-law is out of the question.

Putting away the earrings close to her body, Lu Cheng stepped out of the jewelry shop contentedly.

(End of this chapter)