farmer's little girl

Chapter 99 Simple

Mei's character has always been that you respect me one point, and I let you take two steps. Since he has made up his mind to marry Gui Ya, his daughter-in-law, he will do everything properly
Although Liu Cuilan didn't mention the betrothal gift, but the girl whom she hired to the Pei family for her eldest son all paid [-]% of the betrothal money to the Chen family.If she really pretended to be ignorant, she wouldn't be able to get over this hurdle in her heart without the Chen family's criticism.

So when she went home and told her family about the finalized marriage, she started busy going to the Chen family to make a decision.

Lu Guangyi got what he wanted, and he was always smiling for several days. When people asked him what he was laughing at, he didn't say anything, but he couldn't help but secretly laugh.Zhou Jin is not at home now, and Lu Jiaoyue has nothing to do all day long, so she helps her mother prepare the dowry for the Chen family.

Mrs. Mei planned to give the dowry money according to the amount last time, and also gave it ninety-two-nine, meaning it would last for a long time.As for the dowry gifts, they all follow the rules of the village, only more than what was given to the Pei family at the beginning, not less than that.As for the furniture, the house is a new house just built, and the furniture in each house is newly made, so there is no need to redo it.

After preparing everything and choosing an auspicious day, the second bedroom couple brought the betrothal gift to Chen's house to be engaged.

Only then did the people in the village know that the Chen family was going to marry the second wife of the Lu family.

There are many envious people. You must know that Lu Guangyi is a favorite in the eyes of people in the village who have daughters to marry. Before that, many people passed messages to Mrs. Mei through acquaintances. Otherwise, Mrs. Mei would not Knowing that he wants to marry his son a daughter-in-law.

For many days, when Chen Tiegen was walking in the village, someone would always come up to talk to him. They were envious inside and out, saying that Chen Tiegen would not have to worry about life in the future, relying on his in-laws, he would just set up a small stall outside in the future , you can take care of the family without worrying about food and drink.

Chen Tiegen has lived for so many years, and he has never been in the limelight before. He is always smiling all day long.

This behavior made the widow very angry. The family was not well-off, so it would be necessary to do a dowry for Guiya, and in the future Zhuzi would get married or her son would be born.

The point is that she can't stop it at all. She is always a person who likes to do things in a roundabout way. Naturally, she is embarrassed to tell Chen Tiegen how many things he will prepare for Zhuzi in the future so that he can marry him. She can only talk about the unborn son. .But she said it too many times, Chen Tiegen had long since become numb, and when the widow said it, he would reply her, this is not born yet, we will talk about it when it is born.

The widow spurted out a mouthful of old blood again, and her face was gloomy for many days.

Regarding Chen Tiegen's plan to buy a dowry for his daughter, Liu Cuilan is happy to see it happen. Gui Ya is also his kind. The daughter did a lot of work for the Chen family, and these dowries should be purchased.

The country people make dowry for their daughters, which are just bedding, quilts, washbasins and other things. If the family is rich, they will buy some furniture.But firstly, the Chen family had no money, and secondly, the wedding date was set on the eighteenth day of the first month of next year, which was less than two months away. The time was very tight, so the furniture was naturally saved.However, it cost Chen Tiegen nearly two or three taels of silver to get everything in order.

Not many, but compared to other families in the countryside marrying daughters, it is already quite a lot.

Now that Liu Cuilan's mind has changed, she naturally feels that the dowry is a bit thin, so she speaks out her plan as it should be.Liu Cuilan said that she would give all the betrothal gifts from Lu's family to Gui Ya to accompany her. Chen Tiegen's face was a little bad at the time, but Liu Cuilan insisted, and said that Lu's family made a face for her, and they shouldn't be too shameful.Helpless, Chen Tiegen could only agree.

There's nothing she can do about it, Liu Cuilan is very tough now, especially Chen Tiegen has been praised by some people in the village recently. Everyone says that he has climbed up Lu's second family, and now he is going to show the whole village, he Chen Tiegen It is also very generous, which family will accompany the bride price given by the man's family when marrying a daughter?Not all stay at home to marry their sons.

Speaking of his son, Chen Tiegen couldn't help but feel bad. After bragging to the villagers about how generous he was, he turned around and went to find a widow to have a son.He wanted to find Liu Cuilan, but it was a pity that Liu Cuilan would not let him touch her now.

Seeing this, Tao Ya couldn't help discussing with her sister in private: "Sister, you still have a way."

Guiya just smiled and said nothing.

In fact, this cannot be called whether there is a way, but human nature is hard to change.Her father has been manipulated by her grandma all her life, and bullied by her second uncle for half her life. She has a low self-esteem and a cowardly personality.After marrying a widow, his heart began to swell slowly under the widow's deliberate flattery.

Gui Ya saw the clues of all this not long after returning home, so she secretly taught Liu Cuilan how to deal with Chen Tiegen, the widow, and Mrs. Chen.Of course, this will not be said explicitly, it is just side effects and subtle effects, and now it seems that the effect is good.

As for what happened this time, it was just that Liu Cuilan loved her daughter and put on a strong attitude. When Guiya asked Taoya to go out to play with her friends, she accidentally leaked out how much dowry the Lu family gave.There are quite a few people in the village who are jealous of the second bedroom of Lu's family, and they are even more jealous and envious when they hear that so many dowry gifts have been given, so naturally some people speak harsh words in front of her father.

Inevitably, someone would scold her father. Wouldn't her father become a duck who was pushed into the air?

After this incident, Gui Ya is now full of confidence. Maybe there are indeed many troubles in her family, but everything is not insoluble.

Pressing the button and not mentioning it, Zhou Jin went out for more than ten days and finally came back.

After running this trip, he would not go out again a year ago, and it just happened to be snowing heavily again. Looking at the momentum, most of the weather will be the same in the following days.

The private school in Niujiao Village also stopped, the snowy road was slippery, and the adults at home were not at ease when the kids went out to school.Especially the private school is inconvenient for heating, and the country people are not rich. It is impossible to get a separate charcoal fire to keep the children warm for their children to go to school. Therefore, when the weather really starts to get cold, the private school will give the students a holiday, and wait for the next spring to warm up. We will go again after reconciliation.

That's why Wulang and Liulang all came back, but Lu Guangzhi didn't come back, and Qin Xiucai gave him a small stove alone.

For such a cold weather, her son has to go to private school, not only does Mei not feel distressed, but she feels honored.Now everyone in the Erfang family knows that Qin Xiucai is very optimistic about Lu Guangzhi. Qin Xiucai has taught a few children, but there is not one scholar. Lu Minghai is not less concerned about the two sons in the school. It's very high, if you study hard for two years, it won't be a problem to be a scholar at the end of the test.

Of course, it's not that the Mei family doesn't feel bad, but it's very honorable to have a scholar in a countryman's family.Being able to be favored by a scholar and say that he has a bright future in the future, even if she feels distressed, she just hides it in her heart.She is usually not soft-spoken, and she keeps talking about letting her son study hard, don't be afraid of hardship, and turn around every day to make delicious food for his son.

When Zhou Jin came back earlier, heavy snow fell on his back feet, and the sky did not see sunshine for many days. The young couple had nothing to do all day long, so they could only sleep on the kang. Of course, they did not do less. Also matter.

The outside is covered in silver, and the dripping water turns into ice, but the house is warm and warm.

The kang was burning day in and day out, and there was a charcoal basin in the corner of the room. Although it was not as warm as spring, it was considered extremely warm at this time.

Zhou Jin knew that Lu Jiaoyue was afraid of the cold, so he bought a carload of charcoal when he came back this time, and sent some to the old man's family, and kept the rest at home for burning.

On the kang, two people were intertwined on the bright red silk mattress, one black and one white, one stout and the other slender, just like the Tai Chi diagram that has been handed down for a long time.

Lu Jiaoyue was not so daring, it was Zhou Jin who tossed and heated up in the bed, so he took off the quilt.She couldn't stop it from below, so she could only reach out and try to reach for the quilt, trying to cover it again.

"Okay, I'll see you later, it's too hot..." Zhou Jin was sweating profusely.

In fact, Lu Jiaoyue was also very hot, she seemed to realize that she had no way to pull the quilt over, so she could only reach out and twist his waist.Zhou Jin let out a muffled groan, and in a moment, his whole body collapsed.

Lu Jiaoyue pushed him: "Heavy, get up quickly."

He stayed there for a while before turning over and lying down on the side.

Needless to say, I took a shower and wiped my body afterwards.

Lu Jiaoyue was wearing a duck-egg blue tunic, because the front of the skirt was not pulled in, a corner of the moon-white apron was slightly exposed.Wearing soft-soled embroidered shoes, she came to the kang and gave Zhou Jin a push.

"Get up soon, it will be late for lunch later."

Because there were only the two of them in the house, and it was cold, so Mei specially ordered the two of them not to start a fire, and that they should go to the second room when eating.Zhou Jin knew that what his mother-in-law said was not polite, and he never regarded himself as an outsider, so he agreed, but the food, meat and vegetables were often taken to the second room.So now the young couple ate at the second room, they went late once yesterday, Lu Jiaoyue didn't want to go late today too.

Zhou Jin turned over on the kang, sat up, first pulled Lu Jiaoyue over and kissed her, and then went shirtless into the small room under her reproachful eyes.

Not long after she came out, Lu Jiaoyue complained: "The charcoal basin of feelings is convenient for you to use without clothes, and you won't be afraid of catching cold."

"Don't you use it too?" Zhou Jin said with a smile.

Lu Jiaoyue blushed immediately, as to why she blushed, she could only comprehend it but not explain it in words.

When the young couple goes to the second room, the meal is already set, just wait for the two of them.

Lu Jiaoyue was very embarrassed, but it was hard for her to explain why she came late, but Mei, who came here, was smiling, and while calling the two of them to sit down for dinner, her eyes rolled directly on Lu Jiaoyue's stomach.

But looking at Lu Jiaoyue, she wished she could hide behind Zhou Jin.

When the country people eat, they don't care about what they eat and don't talk when they sleep, and the Erfang family doesn't have this rule. Whenever it's time to eat, the table is very lively.

Talk about east and west, and occasionally gossip about the village.After talking about it, everyone chatted very happily, and the meal was finished.

As we talked today, Mrs. Mei brought up the matter of finding someone for Lu Jiaoxing.

At the beginning, the Mei family entrusted her elder brother Mei Dahu with this matter, but there was no movement from Mei Dahu, but it was Mei Zhuangyi and Zhou Jin who found one.

The man's family is a mountain dweller, and this mountain is a real mountain. It is said that the small village where the man lives is in a small col with no shops in front of the village or behind.For a trip into the mountains, you start walking at dark, and you can’t get there until it’s dark. This is still a fast pace. If the pace is not fast, you still need to walk for a day and a night.

The mountain people do not have land, they live by hunting, relying on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water.Because hunting can be exchanged for money, the family is not poor, but because the place where they live is too remote, they cannot marry a wife.There are only dozens of families in their village, and there are seven or eight families who are bachelors without wives.Every household is short of a daughter-in-law, and the fundamental reason that motivates them to hunt hard for silver is that they can exchange for a daughter-in-law when they have money.

A few taels of silver is enough for rural people in flat land to marry a daughter-in-law.But if the people there want to marry a daughter-in-law back, they can't afford it without dozens of taels of silver.Even so, very few people are willing to marry their daughters to that kind of place.

Without him, it is too remote and too bitter.

Mei Zhuangyi and Zhou Jin knew the Orion when they collected the skins, and they didn't travel that far to collect the skins, but they had explained to the Orions they had dealt with before that trip, so that they had The leathers are all sent over, and they will collect them regularly, and that person was also introduced by someone they know well.

Zhou Jin holds grudges, and he still remembers that Lu Jiaoxing cheated on his wife before.It just so happened that Mrs. Qiao entrusted her to come here. Wouldn't she be sorry for Mrs. Qiao's entrustment if she was not sent to such a good place.

Hearing that marrying a daughter-in-law does not require money, Orion was so happy that his elder brother called Mei Zhuangyi and Zhou Jin shortly. He didn't care that the woman was not a big girl.But Zhou Jin still remembered that Sanfang's family was relatives, so he specially chose a good one for Lu Jiaoxing. The young man was tall, not ugly, had no father or mother, and had a craft that he could rely on for a living.

After returning, Zhou Jin told Mrs. Mei about it, and Mrs. Mei turned around and told Mrs. Qiao again.

Qiao asked about the man's situation in detail, although she felt sorry for her daughter marrying to such a remote place, she was afraid that she would suffer hardship in the future.But now people who are willing to marry Lu Jiaoxing can only be found in places where they can't marry a wife. It's better than marrying an old widower who is still a poor family. At least it is not a problem to have enough food and clothing.

Mrs. Qiao thanked Mrs. Mei and finalized the matter.

And what Mei said to the family at this time was that Lu Jiaoxing was making trouble at home again because of her marriage.

When Lu Jiaoxing knew that her family was going to marry her to the mountain people, she started to make a fuss.

He cried and made noises, hanged himself and made a fuss once, and suffered a lot of beatings, but it was still a fuss.Mrs. Qiao had a terrible headache, no, she went to Erfang's house early in the morning to find Mrs. Mei to vomit her bitterness.

However, Mrs. Qiao is quite determined, and if she vomits bitterness, she will marry her daughter.

"It's really embarrassing your third aunt. I didn't think that girl Xing'er was so disobedient before. The girls here are really the debt of their parents!" Mei sighed.

The children who slipped down below did not speak, but looked at each other.

Lu Minghai laughed and said, "Why are you lamenting, our family doesn't have such rowdy children."

Mrs. Mei looked at the man, then at her son, daughter and son-in-law, and then realized what she said.She couldn't help but blushed, and glared at the man, "I didn't mention the children, I just sighed, okay?"

"Okay, why not, you can say anything."

The children of the Erfang family have long been accustomed to this kind of quarrel-like show of affection between their parents. They should eat and play, but Zhou Jin is still a little unaccustomed to it, and Lu Jiaoyue pinches under the table. After giving him a hand on his leg, he hastened to cover it up by pretending to pick up some vegetables.

As for the third room, the air pressure in the room was low.

Mrs. Qiao was sitting in the main room with a gloomy face, and in the west room, Lu Jiaoxing was lying on the kang like a dead body, while Lu Jiao'e was sitting huddled in the corner of the kang, twitching from time to time.

"Let me tell you, you have to marry if you don't want to marry. If you miss, you can hang yourself directly. You don't have to play such little tricks in front of my old lady. E'er, come out for me, don't look at her, let her go Die!" Through a wall, Qiao cursed at Xijian.

Lu Jiao'e was so frightened that she jumped off the kang, she stood still and hesitated for a while, and then said with a sobbing face, "Sister, don't be stubborn with your mother."

Seeing that the person on the kang ignored her, she hesitated for a while, but still walked to the door.

Mrs. Qiao was still cursing: "Why did I give birth to such a shameless thing like you, who said everything good and bad, but just didn't listen. Why can't you recognize yourself, don't marry the mountain people, what do you think you can marry?" What kind of family? A little clever, don't need to be on the right way, think you are smart, but in fact, a stupid person is just like you, the key is that you don't think you are stupid... What kind of family is the Du family, it is a wolf den, I didn't see you What kind of trouble has my little girl been made into? Do you think you can escape the vulgarity if you go... You don't have to think about the Du family, don't say that the old lady stops you from letting you jump into the fire pit, if you can make the Du family agree to marry you Enter the door, I will send you there without saying a word..."

Joe was also furious.Lu Mingshan is a man, so naturally he is not good at disciplining his daughter, and he doesn't know how to discipline, he will only beat him when he gets angry.These few days Lu Jiaoxing was making trouble at home every day, Lu Mingshan was really annoyed, so she went out to play cards with fellow villagers.

But Mrs. Qiao couldn't hide, Lu Jiaoxing was making trouble at home every day, and she wouldn't listen to begging or scolding, otherwise she wouldn't be so hysterical.

In the room, Lu Jiaoxing lay on the kang and touched her neck, there was a bruise there.

Her mother was not wrong, she was indeed playing tricks.

Without him, just because I don't want to marry such a person.

Who are those mountain people?She eats chaff and swallowed vegetables, lives in the deep mountains, and lives next to wild beasts. She may be eaten by wild beasts in the mountains at any time, and she will become a widow.To go out of the mountains, you have to go over mountains and ridges. There is no oil, no salt, and nothing.

In fact, things have developed so far, Lu Jiaoxing no longer has any hope of marrying Du Lian.What her mother said was correct, if her little girl is alive, it is impossible for Du Lian to marry her, even if she is dead, it is still unknown whether he will marry her.

It can only be said that she was dizzy before.

But now it's too late to wake up, she is in a broken body, and the family can only marry her as far away as possible, and as far as possible for the sake of reputation.Even though her parents love her dearly, and her grandma is doing bad things behind her, her grandma came to the door every day in the past few days just to urge her to get married as soon as possible.

Everyone wants her to die!

But she just didn't die, why didn't they die? !

Lu Jiaoxing now hates everyone, even her younger sister Lu Jiao'e.

Lu Jiao'e was still worried about her sister, and when she saw that her mother didn't tell her to go out, she turned back again.She was about to persuade her sister not to fight with the family again, but before she could say anything, she gave her sister a resentful look.

"Get out, I don't want you to be pitiful! I know you all want me to die, including you, only if I die can this matter be covered up, so that you won't be delayed in the future!" Lu Jiaoxing sneered.

As if struck by lightning, Lu Jiao'e looked at Lu Jiaoxing in disbelief, "Sister, how can you think so?"

"Get out, get out!"

Lu Jiaoxing picked up a pillow on the kang and threw it over. Over in the main room, Mrs. Qiao heard the movement inside and called Lu Jiao'e again.

Lu Jiao'e walked out with a blank face.

Why does her sister think so? She really doesn't think about her that much?But thinking about how her mother asked her to look at her elder sister, and she repeatedly rejected her elder sister's request to pass on a message to Du Lian, she was not so sure.

Maybe she also thought so in her heart, thinking that the eldest sister was a trouble.

In the yard, Mrs. Hu stood in front of her house, listening to the movement from Sanfang, and smiled gloatingly.

Qiao Shi scolded and still couldn't understand her hatred. She wanted to find someone to vent her anger on, but seeing her youngest daughter's pale face, her heart softened again.

She couldn't help venting her anger on Lu Mingshan, got off the kang and said, "I'll go find your father, watch your sister, don't let her go out." After finishing speaking, Mrs. Qiao slammed the door and went out.

She didn't notice that there was something wrong with Lu Jiao'e's expression, and Lu Jiao'e didn't notice this at all, and she even noticed that Mrs. Qiao had gone out, and she walked out of the house as if she lost her soul.

Hu Shi, who had been looking at this side all the time, saw that Qiao Shi and Lu Jiao'e had gone out, and his eyes lit up.Pulling the jacket on his body, he opened the door of Sanfang's house and walked in.

In the room, Lu Jiaoxing was crying with self-pity.

Crying that his life is bad is also crying that God does not open his eyes, and even more crying why Du Lian is so ruthless.

At this time, a voice suddenly sounded in my ear, "Xing'er, why are you crying, looking at the little face and crying."

Lu Jiaoxing stared blankly at Hu Shi, unable to respond to the smile on her face.

"Don't cry, you helped my aunt last time, this time my aunt is here to help you, don't you just want to marry my nephew, it's easy."

"Simple?"

Hu's face was full of smiles, and she nodded to Lu Jiaoxing, "Simple!"

The days passed day by day, and it was the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye.

From this day on, the whole Daxi Village began to get busy. Although it was covered in snow outside and it was very cold, at this moment there was a bit of enthusiasm.

Every year, the few days before Chinese New Year are the busiest time in the countryside.Everyone walked out of the house one after another without fear of the cold winter, and began to buy everything for the New Year.It is not easy for rural people to live a life. They work hard all year round, and when it comes to Chinese New Year, they will naturally have a good year.

23 is the small year, and every household must sacrifice to the Kitchen God.To worship the Kitchen God, kitchen candy was made, and the mouth of the Kitchen God was sealed with the kitchen candy. After the Kitchen God went to heaven, he would only speak good things about the family.In this way, the coming year will be more prosperous.

The Zhou family built a new house this year, and it was natural that they would worship the Kitchen God.

As the saying goes, men don't worship the moon, and women don't worship the stove. Naturally, only Zhou Jin can do this in the family. Lu Jiaoyue can't do anything else. It is possible to do some food and stove candy to worship the stove.

The stove candy was made together with Erfang's family, which is the country way of making caramel, but Mei's and Lu Jiaoyue also added some crushed peanuts and sesame seeds, so that it tastes more crispy and delicious.

After the sugar is ready and it is not hot to touch, start to rub the sugar, knead it into long strips, then slice it, or pull it into balls.

It doesn't matter what shape it is, as long as it fits in your mouth.

The life of the country people is not rich, and things like sugar are extremely expensive, so they use their own little wisdom to make this simple version of sugar.It can be used to worship the stove, and when the stove is finished, it will be the food for the children.Even if you don't sacrifice the stove, if the children in the family are greedy, you will make some sweet mouths for them.

Zhou Jin burned the kitchen god statue and the straw horse tied in advance, and the whole stove sacrifice was over.

Lu Jiaoyue stood outside and poked her probe in, and asked, "Are you ready?"

"All right."

Zhou Jin came out and stuffed something into Lu Jiaoyue's mouth.

She was taken aback for a moment, and after she tasted the sweetness, she realized it was stove candy.

(End of this chapter)