farmer's little girl

Chapter 33 Is Right or Wrong
"It seems that you are really worried."

Lu Jiaoyue nodded unconsciously.

Hearing a chuckle suddenly, he heard Han Jin say: "Well, before your little uncle went out, he had already started to make a fuss. It's just that I don't know about it, but someone knows."

"Who?" Lu Jiaoyue suddenly raised her head.

"It's a friend of your little uncle's. I also know him. The reason why your little uncle was tempted to start this business was because he led the way."

"Then Uncle Jin, can you help me find out?"

"Inquiring about what?"

Lu Jiaoyue racked her brains to think about what to say, "I just want to inquire about the specific regulations of this business..."

What she thinks is actually very simple. If you want to avoid disasters, you must take precautions before they happen. After the matter is "inquired" clearly, she can take the opportunity to mention the disadvantages and dangers to her uncle, and maybe she can dissuade him from doing so. The heart of this business.

And the reason why she wanted to know the details inside was because she hoped that she could understand more, so that what she said could win the trust of her little uncle, and not be too superficial.After all, the little uncle's decision to start this business must have been carefully considered. There is no reason to convince him, and she is really not sure that she can convince him.

"That's it, it's just that the other party is not at home now, and went out with your little uncle."

"Ah?" Lu Jiaoyue was first stunned, then frustrated.

How could it be such an unfortunate coincidence?Does that mean that she still has to wait for her little uncle to come back?But if the little uncle couldn't help throwing money in without her knowing, how would she stop him?I'm afraid my little uncle won't be able to listen to what she says at that time.

"but--"

"But what?"

Han Jin's eyes flashed, and the corner of his mouth curled into a smile: "But that man's younger brother is at home, he knows something, if not, I'll ask him for you?" He looked very caring.

Lu Jiaoyue was hung up and down by Han Jin, and now she didn't care to cover herself, and hurriedly said: "Then I will trouble Uncle Zi."

"No trouble."

It's not troublesome at all, otherwise, why would he make up a younger brother? It's just why she cares about this matter so much, is she really worried that Mei Zhuangyi will lose money in business?
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be something she should worry about, and she can't worry about it.

It's just that Han Jin didn't bother to care about these things at this time, and all his attention was focused on the matter of 'finally found an excuse to ask her out to meet alone in the future'.

As the evening approached, classes at Baihe Academy had ended.

Du Lian packed his book bag and prepared to go home.

Many of his classmates have already known about the fact that he and his husband asked for leave to go home to get married, and the big furniture congratulated him with a smile on his face.Du Lian was happy in his heart, so he couldn't help but greeted his classmates with a smile. A classmate surnamed Li who was acquainted with him joked, "Seeing Brother Du Xian's happy face, it can be seen that the other party is also a beautiful girl."

Du Lian just smiled and said nothing, thinking of Lu Jiaoyue in his heart, he couldn't help adding a bit of joy to his face.

He and Lu Jiajiaoyue have known each other since childhood, although they seldom speak, they understand each other's temperament.She is beautiful in appearance, gentle and virtuous, she can go to the hall and go to the kitchen, she is really a beauty like a flower.Although his status was a bit inferior, Du Lian was never a person with high self-esteem, and he himself was only from a farming family, so naturally he had nothing to dislike him.

Especially Lu Jiajiaoyue is one of the most beautiful girls in ten miles and eight villages. Du Lian has been studying since he was a child, so he naturally understands the truth that there is Yan Ruyu in the book, he doesn't need to look for it in the book, he has it by his side.Because of this, when his mother mentioned to him about marrying the second wife of the Lu family, Du Lian agreed without any hesitation.

Even the Lu family asked him to wait another year, and his mother advised him to choose another good match, but he didn't agree.He must get married in the past two years. His mother has worked so hard. He must marry a virtuous daughter-in-law to share his mother's worries.In addition, in the past two years, he probably won't make any further gains in the imperial examinations. As he is only a scholar, he doesn't have to think about marrying a high-class girl. Therefore, Lu Jiajiaoyue is currently the most suitable and most suitable for him. candidates.

Du Lian never doubted that he would not be a scholar. If his mother hadn't been ill last year and he had to stay at home, he would have been a scholar by now.

Seeing the joy on Du Lian's face, his classmates all laughed when they didn't understand anything.

Someone jokingly said: "It seems that Brother Du's future wife must be a beautiful lady, and I don't know what kind of beautiful lady it is that makes Brother Du, who has always been self-controlled, look so happy."

Someone at the side interjected: "Since Chen Xiandi is curious, let's go have a cup of wedding wine when the time comes, maybe we will see you."

"I want it, I want it!"

Everyone agreed and decided that when Du Lian got married, they would go to Du Lian's house for a wedding.Naturally, Du Lian had no reluctance. It would be a shame for him to have so many classmates going to drink his wedding wine, so he agreed.

After exchanging pleasantries with these people, Du Lian walked out of the academy.

When he returned home by ox cart, it was already dusk.

Widow Du has already prepared a meal and is waiting for him.

When Du Lian returned home, he washed his hands and face first, then changed his clothes before coming to the dinner table.

Picking up the bowl and eating, Widow Du kept putting all the good dishes into Du Lian's bowl, ignoring her daughter Du Juan'er's behavior of overturning her.

"Mother, on the day I get married, my classmates will come to have a wedding banquet, and then you have to prepare another table for them." After eating, Du Lian put down the bowl and said to Widow Du.

Widow Du showed a look of embarrassment, but finally agreed.

Du Lian nodded to his mother, and then went back to the house. Every day before going to bed, he read a book for a while before falling asleep.

After Du Lian entered the east room, Widow Du and her daughter cleaned up the table.

Du Juan'er whispered: "Mother, I think if you don't tell elder brother about this, I'm afraid it won't work. From my look, elder brother seems to value that Lu family Jiaoyue quite a lot."

Widow Du hurriedly made a silent gesture, and cursed in a low voice: "Are you afraid that your brother won't be able to hear you? If you keep your voice down, you will die?"

Du Juan rolled his eyes and said aggrievedly, "My voice is already low enough."

Widow Du glared at her, and warned: "Anyway, you are not allowed to tell me that you have slipped your tongue, otherwise I will marry you to Han Laoshi."

Du Juan snorted, turned around and went out with the dishes in hand.He will threaten her with this!
How could Widow Du not know that her son liked Jiaoyue from the Lu family, but her elder sister came to tell her that she had already gotten into trouble with the second room of the Lu family, and it was good that the second room didn't hate her to death.Mrs. Hu naturally came to express her merits and complain, but Widow Du didn't take it to heart at all.If she was more serious, even if she took it to heart, she couldn't help it.The matter is a foregone conclusion, it is impossible for Erfang to marry her daughter, and she is also reluctant to part with the dowry of the five acres of land for the sick child of the Lu family.

But after testing her son several times, all she learned was that it was Lu's Jiaoyue who would not marry.Because of this, Widow Du was moved to that kind of thought as a last resort.

She could almost predict her son's reaction at that time, but she had no choice but to hope that she would complain and cry a little, so as to cover up the matter.

Isn't she just a woman, it's the same when the lights are turned off, I hope my son can understand this truth.

Widow Du looked at Dongwu with a heavy heart, and sighed.He said in his heart: My son, my mother has broken her heart because of you, she doesn't even want to lose her face, you have to be more aggressive, and there will be no such woman at that time.

Cui finally decided to give Lu Guili some dowry.

Not to mention other things, some clothes are always needed for bedding, otherwise, what will the daughter use after she gets married to the Du family, she will not be able to wear old clothes as a newlywed.Every ten miles and eight villages have the custom of making new clothes for dowry. If she doesn't make new clothes for her daughter, outsiders will laugh at her.

It's a pity that the old couple don't have any money in their hands. It doesn't cost much to do these things, and a few taels of silver is also necessary.Helpless, Cui could only find a way with his sons and daughters-in-law.

That day Mrs. Hu came to the second room and said that the old couple asked the second room and the second room to come over. In fact, it was to talk about buying a dowry for Lu Guili.

Because Erfang had that incident ahead, it was normal not to show up, and the old couple couldn't say anything except sighing.But if Sanfang didn't show up, it would be unreasonable.But Mrs. Qiao could do it, and when he heard that he was going to ask his family to pay the money, he gave it back on the spot.

Cui was very angry, but fortunately there was still a big house.

Mrs. Hu did not embarrass Mrs. Cui, and readily took out two taels of silver. Although two taels of silver is not much, it is enough if it is done compactly.

Don't ask why the people in the second room know such details, it is also due to Qiao's behavior of always coming to talk to Mei when he has nothing to do.Since the separation of the family, Qiao's has been warm to Mei's.Mrs. Mei is quite speechless to this sister-in-law now.If you put on a cold face, she will pretend she can't see it, and if she does it again, Mrs. Mei can't do it herself, so she can only accept Mrs. Qiao's behavior of visiting the second room from time to time, and occasionally listening to gossip from the upper room. It's just for fun.

As a result, some details of Lu Guili's marriage entered the ears of the second roomer through Qiao's mouth.

It was heard that when the Du family came to hire him that day, there was no money in the red envelope.The reason why he can do such a good posture is just for outsiders to see.

In fact, it is conceivable how the Du family could have the money to give Lu Guili money as a dowry.

It is also said that the Hu family paid for all the things that the Du family brought when they came to hire.

Mrs. Qiao only found out about it when she accidentally heard Mrs. Hu and Widow Du arguing in private.Qiao was very surprised. She knew that the Du family's family was in a bad situation, but she didn't expect it to be so bad. No wonder she married her sister-in-law because of the five acres of land.

After knowing the secret, Mrs. Qiao came to tell Mrs. Mei immediately.

"Second sister-in-law, it's a good thing you weren't fooled by her back then. If Yue'er was married to the Du family, it wouldn't be a harm to the child." That she naturally refers to the Hu family.

Mei's complexion is very ugly, she is not a fool, this happened one after another, she really had to think about it, whether Hu's daughter's marriage was deliberately designed by Hu in the first place, just to make her daughter Go fill that hole in Du's house.

After all, if her daughter went out to be an embroiderer, it would not be a problem to support the family.

And my daughter seldom goes out, and because I don't want her to do needlework, few people know that my daughter can do a good needlework, and only her natal family and her husband's family know.Because her daughter is filial, she always likes to make clothes for her family when she has nothing to do, and she made several clothes for Hu's eldest aunt.

The more Mei thought about it, the more she became conspiratorial. She never expected that she would prevent her daughter from touching needles and threads, but she still couldn't escape the schemes of others. The person who schemed was the child's eldest aunt.

Mei Shi was in no mood to talk to Qiao Shi, so she found an excuse to send her away.

Mrs. Qiao was also sensible, so she didn't stay too long.

Lu Minghai is not at home right now, and Mei has no one to discuss with, so she can only be patient and think about things at home by herself, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that it is exactly what she thinks.

Of course Lu Jiaoyue didn't know all this.

Now she will do embroidery for a while at a fixed time, not for a long time, half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon.In this way, her mother will not say anything when she sees it.Of course, she would sometimes do it secretly. Fortunately, she and her eldest brother changed houses. Now that she lives here alone, she is not afraid of her mother breaking in suddenly.

On the other side, Mrs. Qiao went back to the front. Before she reached the door of the house, she saw her daughter Lu Jiaoxing coming out of the house and going to the other side of the room.

During this time, Lu Jiaoxing went to the room very frequently.

She was doing it under the guise of helping Lu Guili make the dowry. The bedding and clothes for the dowry had to be made fresh. Lu Guili was in poor health, and Lu Jiaoxing was proactive enough, so Cui handed over the matter to her.Because of this, she seldom appears in front of Qiao's eyes recently.

Qiao raised her eyebrows and called Lu Jiaoxing to stop.

Seeing her mother calling her to stop, Lu Jiaoxing couldn't help froze.

"Follow me into the house!" Joe said.

Lu Jiaoxing reluctantly followed her mother into the third-bedroom house.

"Mother, what's the matter, I still need to make a bedding for my little girl."

Qiao sneered, looking her up and down as if she didn't know her daughter.Lu Jiaoxing felt terrified when Qiao Shi saw her, and couldn't help but flinch.

"You can do it now, use the upper room to threaten your mother!"

Lu Jiaoxing lowered her head and said timidly: "How could it be, my daughter dare not."

Qiao Shi snorted again, and said, "You were born to me, and I still don't know what your plans are? Let me tell you, restrain yourself, and don't think that others haven't noticed your little tricks."

Lu Jiaoxing was startled immediately, and said stiffly: "Mom, why are you talking about my daughter like that, she didn't do anything."

"Didn't do anything? Didn't do anything. How did your sister-in-law know that the kid from the Du family and Yue'er were talking about getting married? Didn't do anything? How did your second uncle know that your sister-in-law intercepted it on purpose? Don't think that you You are a little smart, so you treat everyone as a fool. Your grandpa and grandma are not fools, but if you care about it, you will be confused, and you can't spare time to pursue this matter, and your second uncle and second aunt are not fools, they are just disgusted It’s here, I’m too lazy to get to the bottom of it.”

Hearing these words, Lu Jiao Xing suddenly became terrified and broke out in a cold sweat.

Did her mother know something?How did she know?She thought that what she did was pretty flawless.

As everyone knows, Lu Guili usually doesn't leave the gate, and the only person who is close to her is Lu Jiaoxing.From whom did Lu Guili learn that Du Lian and Lu Jiaoyue were discussing marriage, it goes without saying.

In addition, that day when Lu Jiaoxing went to the second bedroom quietly, she was seen by Mrs. Qiao, but Mrs. Qiao never paid much attention to this daughter, so she ignored her.But what happened next, Qiao Shi couldn't guess anything from it, and lived so many years in vain.

Because of these two incidents, Mrs. Qiao inevitably became interested in Lu Jiaoxing, and naturally discovered some abnormalities in her daughter.

"You stay with me in the third room recently, don't run to the upper room." Seeing what Lu Jiaoxing wanted to say, Qiao interrupted: "I don't want to investigate why you did these things, I also don't want to find out why you are so courteous to the upper room recently. In short, if you don't want to have your legs broken, you can just stay in the room. As for the upper room, I'll talk about it!"

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Qiao went out.After a while, I heard Cui's scolding faintly from the upper room, and Qiao's confrontation.

"... My own daughter, I can't order her to do things anymore? Mother, you treat your daughter like a baby bump, but I treat her like water thrown out. If you don't do some work for the family now, you will get married later. I'm not at a loss..."

"...I'm not you. I ruined the whole family for the sake of a daughter. Tell me about it. You can give five acres of land to a married daughter, and only three acres to your son. Thanks to you guys... "

In the third house, Lu Jiaoxing stood there in a daze, unable to regain her strength for a long time.

Compared with what her mother said before, what made her shudder even more was her mother's last words.

Does her mother really know what she's thinking?
There was a commotion in front again, it lasted half an afternoon, and finally subsided for a while, when Lu Mingshan came back from selling goods outside, the three-bedroom couple started a commotion again.

Mrs. Mei knew what was going on without guessing. It must be that Mrs. Cui had suffered in front of Mrs. Qiao, but when her son came back, she sued the third child.

Lu Mingshan was indeed a bit selfish. After all, he was the mother who gave birth to him. In order to vent his anger on his mother, he slapped Qiao twice.Mrs. Qiao has always been a master who is not to be outdone, so naturally she will not spare Lu Mingshan lightly, and the two of them started to quarrel.

It's just that she doesn't have the time to care about this matter now, after dinner, the younger ones all went back to their rooms to rest.Mei Shi sat on the kang, talking to her husband in a low voice.

She told Lu Minghai her guess. After hearing this, Lu Minghai was silent for a long time.

"Don't think too much, isn't the marriage with the Du family unsuccessful? Let's pay more attention in the future. As for the sister-in-law—" He paused, and said, "If you don't want to see her, then don't contact her. But with big brother around, don’t overdo it.”

Mei said: "In the past, you always said that I like to make a fuss. When this matter comes out, it depends on what you say."

Lu Minghai sighed, his eyes flickered, "It's all caused by poverty."

Mei Shi snorted, but didn't speak.

Feeling touched, Lu Minghai said: "In the future, when we choose someone for our daughter, we should pay more attention to it and inquire more. The most important thing is character. If the character is not good, we must absolutely not accept it."

"Not only do you have character, but you also have to be rich!" Mei suddenly said.

If she has money, she won't touch her daughter's crooked ideas.In the past, when she and her husband chose a family for their daughter, they always wanted to value character. It didn't matter how the family conditions were, as long as the young couple had a heart, they could always live a good life.Now it seems that if you want to live a good life, you have to support it with money.

Lu Minghai didn't want his daughter-in-law to think more and more into a dead end, so he couldn't help persuading her: "Okay, this is just your guess, don't think too much, when we choose a family for our daughter in the future, just pay more attention. It doesn't matter sometimes. It's early, let's rest early."

On this day, Wu Lang came back from outside, sweating all over his body from playing, Lu Jiaoyue fetched water for him to wash his face.

While washing his face with cold water, he said with great interest: "I just saw a lot of people coming in front of me, and there are also people from the house of Grandpa and Grandpa Third."

The front naturally refers to the upper room, and the family of the eldest grandpa and the third grandpa refers to the family of the old man Lu and the third brother.

Old man Lu is the second in line, with an elder brother on top and a younger brother on bottom.Although several companies do not come and go frequently, if one of them holds a wedding event, the other two will come forward to help.

Rural people hold weddings in their own homes, not only at the man's house, but also at the woman's house.It also needs to be a big deal, if a rich family marries a daughter, everyone will be treated to a three-day running water feast, and in a small place like Daxi Village, most of them will be set up for one day, on the day of the wedding.

Naturally, the Lu family also has to do it, so they can't help but not do it.Speaking of which, the Lu family is considered a well-to-do family in Daxi Village, and people would say that they would marry their daughter if they didn't have a banquet.

So the Lu family could only get things done, and because of this, Hu's complexion was not very good for a few days.

It's no wonder if it works well, it costs a lot of money to set up a running water banquet, and the congratulatory gifts received are only some vegetables grown by the countrymen themselves, or eggs, rulers, etc., and there is no doubt that they will lose money.Especially a while ago, Widow Du came to Lu's house again, and stole a lot of money from the Hu family.

Thinking of Hu's hatred, she really owed this sister and sister-in-law in her previous life. In order to make up the marriage of the two families, she put in a lot of money back and forth. The money was saved by her hard work, isn't it? Float in the big river.

The key point is that she has to give it. Her sister said it was very rascal. Anyway, the family has no money, and they have to hire, give dowry gifts, and set up a running table. If there is no money, nothing can be done.

If the marriage cannot be done, Lu Guili naturally cannot marry to the Du family.In order to marry Lu Guili, the Hu family has exhausted all their organs, so how could it be ruined at this moment.

And the money that the Lu family wants to pay, the Hu family can't escape.

When the family was separated, the old couple followed the big house, and Lu Guili was naturally under the control of the big house.Secondly, as the younger sister's wife, can Lu Mingchuan, the eldest brother, not pay any money?The big house represents the face of the Lu family in the village, so not only do they get money, but they also have to behave decently.

Therefore, the money for the dowry, the money for running the running banquets of the two families, and the money for the employment of the Du family all have to be paid by the Hu family.

Hu took out her hand and chattered nonchalantly, the key point is that she can't complain, she has to take it out with a smile in order to show her generosity.

The Hu family, who is magnanimous on the surface but roaring in his heart, saw the money in his purse dwindle little by little, and he couldn't help but blame the second room.

They all blamed the second wife. If they hadn't suddenly asked the Du family to wait for a year, the marriage of the two families would not have been delayed.There is no matter of my sister-in-law getting married. Although the family still worships a great Buddha, after all, the three families made the offering together, and the family's private house will not be short of money, let alone many things that will happen later...

Now, the Hu family doesn't know whether it is right or wrong to plan on marrying off my sister-in-law.But regardless of right or wrong, she has to keep doing it, and there is no turning back.

But Mrs. Hu didn't intend to let the people in the second room relax. She was exhausted here, and she suffered for the money, but the people in the second room lived their lives as if they had nothing to do. There is no such good thing in the world!
Because of this, when the elder sister-in-law who always said one thing at home came back, Mrs. Hu immediately stepped forward to complain.

(End of this chapter)