Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 16 Dowry
Since the time when the grandfather married the aunt, the Ning family returned all the betrothal gifts from the man, and even took as much money as the dowry money to make the bottom of the box for the aunt. Became a home in one year.

When we arrived in Ning Xian, the parents were the same, they were afraid that they would leave their daughter as a dowry gift to her in-laws' house to be angry, and according to the rules of grandpa marrying an aunt, they added the same amount as the dowry gift, and made jewelry and made clothes. got married.Ning Xian's in-law's family naturally looked up to her daughter-in-law, and the gifts Ning Xian brought from her natal family during the Chinese New Year were all high-quality.

Now in Ningqing, the Ning family will naturally not compete for the amount of dowry, but care more about their daughter marrying a good family.

So Ning Liang shook his head and smiled: "Our family only wants our daughter to marry well and live a good life in her husband's house. As for the dowry, it's up to you. In the future, I will add some money to Qing'er."

Since Ning Wan heard the word dowry, she has been looking at Ning Qing, seeing that she blushed first, lowered her head in silence, but now she raised her head, and said with a shy smile: "Our family has always given the dowry, and then I will give you a betrothal gift. I doubled the money and put it back in the box, that’s how my father married my aunt, and my father also married my sister.”

Shopkeeper Liu said with a smile: "Grandpa is really kind to my aunt, and uncle and aunt are so kind to my daughter!" He added: "Many people in our town are like this. I thought Sanjia Village couldn't do it." Qing glanced at it, and Ning Qing glanced back before lowering his head again.

At this time, Ning Wan was sure that these words were calculated by Ning Qing and Shopkeeper Liu.Before, she still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that Ning Qing said it casually, but the shopkeeper Liu got distracted because of this, and later he offered 32 yuan of employment, which forced her family into a very embarrassing situation.

The betrothal gift in this area of ​​Sanjia Village is usually eight guan coins, and there are also people from good families who are not more than ten guan, twelve guan, and at most no more than sixteen guan.Merchant Liu's family background is good, but he has many brothers in his family. I heard that when his elder brother marries a wife, he can only offer a bride price of 32 guan.

Just because the parents are weak-tempered and honest, they were too embarrassed to refute directly when Shopkeeper Liu and Ning Qing said this, even if they agreed vaguely, so they didn't know what to do when they received the dowry gift of 32 yuan.If you don't dowry for 32 years, I'm afraid that Ning Qing will have a hard time in the future. If you dowry, the family really can't afford the money.

Mrs. Yu sold a few buckets of rice to Ning's family, and she was ridiculed and despised by many people except for a dowry with no money, so she always valued her daughter's dowry the most, and always felt that only by having a lot of dowry can she stand up in her in-law's family Waist, so as not to follow in his own footsteps.And the father loves his daughter very much, and is also afraid that his daughter will be wronged after she gets married.

But after all, it is 32, not eight, not ten, not sixteen, it is very difficult to put together.And Ning Qing said that she would not marry, fearing that the Liu family would make people laugh, so her parents had to sell six acres of land, and tried every means to get 32 ​​yuan to marry Ning Qing.

Parents will never believe that Ning Qing negotiated with the shopkeeper Liu to set up a trick for her family. Ning Wan couldn't believe it before, but now she understands that this is the truth. Ning Qing has always been so selfish and cold-blooded.

But now that she knows, how can Ning Qing succeed? Seeing her father and mother responding casually in embarrassment, she smiled and said: "Father, mother, if someone gives me a dowry gift of five hundred guan in the future, will you Give me five hundred guan, too? But it’s not enough for our family to sell all the land, so what should we do?”

Ning Qing didn't want Ning Wan to say such a thing anymore, and immediately sneered: "Are you dreaming? Who can give you a five hundred guan dowry gift?"

In fact, when Ning Wan left her natal family, she left 500 taels of dowry for her family. One tael of silver can be exchanged for [-], [-] or [-] taels, which is much more than [-] taels. Ning Qing really underestimated her.

Of course, at that time Ning Wan wanted 500 taels of silver for her father's retirement, which was tantamount to selling herself.

However, it is much better than Ning Qing finding a way to get money from his parents.

So Ning Wan was not angry at all, "That's not necessarily true, maybe someone is willing." She is 13 years old this year, although she is not young, she is not too old. , and solved the current situation again.

Yu Shi also smiled and said to her, "That's not enough to break your father's and your mother's bones and sell them."

Ning Liang said what he couldn't say before, "The dowry is naturally given by the daughter's family according to their own situation. Our family has never kept the man's dowry, but how much to accompany depends on how much money the family has. Accompany, less accompany less. If you have a few more daughters, it should be about the same."

Ning Qing was speechless again, but Merchant Liu saw the opportunity quickly, and immediately smiled and said: "Uncle and Aunt are right, how can we spend all the wealth of our children and grandchildren for our daughter's dowry."

In the dream, the Ning family didn't sell their children and grandchildren's property—that is, the land that the family depended on to make enough money for you!Then Merchant Liu took Ning Qing to separate the family from the Liu family, and the two used the money to open a small shop selling mountain goods, and their days became more and more prosperous.

This time, Ning Wan is waiting to see how much the Liu family will offer!
After all, Merchant Liu was good at dealing with people, so he didn't see any displeasure, but Ning Qing lowered his face and gave Ning Wan a hard look.Ning Wan pretended not to understand, but asked her with a smile: "Second Sister, why are you staring at me?"

"Who stared at you?" Ning Qing was furious, but she couldn't speak directly, so she scolded her sister, "I mean, you didn't eat properly and spilled all the vegetable soup!"

Where is the vegetable soup on the table in front of Ning Wan?Mrs. Yu glanced at her second daughter and then at her youngest daughter, but she didn't want Ning Qing to embarrass herself in front of Shopkeeper Liu, so she blamed Ning Wan, "Wan'er, be careful when you eat."

If it was the real Ning Wan, how could she bear such anger, but now she fully understands her mother's intentions, so she drank all the soup in her bowl without saying a word, and then put down the bowl and chopsticks.In fact, she had already eaten, but because she was waiting to explain Ning Qing's dowry, she left the table and went back to the house.

Not long after, Yu asked Ning Wan to come out, "Your brother Liu is leaving, go and see her off."

Ning Wan came out, said goodbye to Merchant Liu with a smile, watched him walk away carrying the burden, and called out from behind, "Brother Liu, go slowly!" Feeling the gaze of Merchant Liu carefully scanning her face, Once, but she just smiled heartlessly, as if she hadn't taken what just happened to her heart at all.

After Merchant Liu left, Ning Qing and Ning Wan confronted each other, and they quarreled several times a day. Of course, none of them were because of the dowry. She also knew that such words could not be said, but the two sisters lived together It's not easy to pick some small problems and find a small excuse to quarrel?

Ning Wan ignored her, no matter what she said, she would just sit beside her mother and embroider the uppers of her own shoes. This year she will also make her own shoes.

After listening to it a few times, Mrs. Yu said to Ning Qing, "You are several years older than Wan'er, you should have let her go, but now you always quarrel with her over trivial matters, I think it's all your fault!"

Seeing that Ning Qing was not convinced, she said in a more emphatic tone: "It's okay for you sisters to quarrel at your mother's house, but when you get to your in-law's house, who else can tolerate you like this? Your in-law's family has many brothers. In the future, whether it is mother-in-law or sister-in-law Even if it’s wrong to say you, you just have to listen, and only then will you know how good a family is.”

Ning Qing couldn't get rid of her anger, so she argued forcefully: "I only trained Wan'er for her own good."

Mrs. Yu was very angry, "Aren't you hurrying to do needlework now? There are a total of more than [-] pairs of clothes, and eight sets of clothes for you, and two sets for Mr. Liu, ten sets, and socks and underwear. Yes, it's not too little, how long will it take? There will be a lot of work in the field in a few days, so there is no time!"

Ning Liang also said: "Wan'er is still young, and your mother and I will teach her in two years. You should make your dowry first, and your mother will not be able to help you with too much when she is a month later." .”

Seeing that her parents were not happy anymore, Ning Qing didn't dare to make trouble anymore, so she lowered her head and started to work.Her dowry is already quite a lot, just talking about the more than 20 pairs of shoes is a lot of work.Especially the most difficult soles.

Although Mrs. Yu was angry with her second daughter, she did not spare any effort in making shoes.She first cut the dried 袼褙 according to the shape of a shoe, stacked two layers together, wrapped it with a white cloth edge, then stacked four wrapped 袼褙 on a sole, and used an awl specially designed to hold the sole to penetrate hard. Then take a big needle that has been threaded through the twine and lead it through, and then use an awl to pierce a hole, and then lead the twine through it.

Although an awl passed through the sole first, it took some effort to draw the hemp thread through with a large needle, and the hemp money made a dull rustling sound when it passed through the hemp thread, and because the sole of a shoe should only be used as much as possible. A piece of hemp money is ready, so at the beginning, a lot of hemp money is always threaded from one side of the sole to the other, so the rustling sound in the room keeps ringing.

The hemp money is home-grown hemp thread, twisted out during the twelfth lunar month at leisure. It is long and strong, and coiled into balls of hemp thread. Now these balls are gradually getting smaller, and the soles of Yu Shina’s shoes are getting bigger and bigger. more and more.

The densely packed stitches on the soles of each pair of shoes follow the shape of the soles around and around, no matter who picks it up and takes a look, they will sincerely praise "what a meticulous work!"

Therefore, Ning Qing's mood gradually improved. Although she didn't care about Ning Wan, she was no longer angry with her father and mother, and started making shoe uppers with her heart. She actually did the work quickly and well. Yes, but she is only willing to do it for herself.

(End of this chapter)