pastoral wedding

Chapter 1 Laba
The first year of Daxingguo

It snowed heavily the night before Laba, and the next morning the snow continued, and the streets and alleys of Qingshi Town were filled with disturbance.

The people who got up early swept the snow in the yard and the door, and then started busy preparing breakfast. Today is Laba, so of course they have to prepare for the festival.

Naturally, only Laba porridge is not enough for this festival, and the business of the Su's steamed stuffed bun shop on Ping'an Street is much better than before. Many people stand outside the shop and wait in line to buy steamed stuffed buns.

A little girl about 11 years old with two buns, wearing a light pink jacket, cotton trousers of the same color underneath, and a half-worn rose-red trousers on the outside, was busy behind a simple and honest man.

While watching the man neatly packed the buns with oiled paper, he greeted everyone with a smile, "Aunts and aunts, today's buns from my house are delicious. The fillings are full. Look, the skins are so delicious. It’s thin and big, and it’s perfect to eat with Laba porridge when you buy it back.”

Most of the people who came to buy steamed stuffed buns were neighbors. They all laughed when they heard the words, and praised her for her eloquence. If they were familiar with her, they joked a few words. Lively and warm a bit.

After a while, everyone went back to have breakfast, and fewer people came to buy buns.

The simple and honest man, Su Wenshan, the shopkeeper of the Su Family Baozi Shop, put the steamer still on the nearby stove to heat up, and was about to ask his daughter to go back to the backyard for a rest, when his wife Liu opened the back door and came in.

This Mrs. Liu is only 28 or [-] years old, she is extremely beautiful, and her figure is also in good shape. From a distance, she looks like a [-]-year-old girl, and she can't tell that she is a woman who has given birth to four children.

Mrs. Liu is a well-known Baozi Xishi in this Qingshi Town. Many men came here to buy buns after hearing her name, but this Liu's temper is fierce, and she can't rub any sand in her eyes. Once she gets annoyed , but will chase and chop people with a kitchen knife.

This happened once a year ago, the man was so frightened that his legs trembled, he repeatedly begged for mercy, and in the end he was kicked twice by the honest and honest Su Wenshan.

This time she was wearing a willow-yellow long jacket with six deep purple skirts sprinkled with flowers. Although there were only a few winter jasmine flowers embroidered on the skirts and skirts, she looked even more delicate and generous; Wearing a woman's bun with a silver hairpin on it, the whole person is so beautiful and beautiful, as if she walked out of a painting.

Su Wenshan looked at it and smiled.

Seeing him staring at her all the time, Liu blushed a little, and pushed him covertly, "Hurry up and go back to eat, I got up to cook Laba porridge in the middle of the night last night, and it's almost done now." " After speaking, he touched his third daughter Su Jin's frozen red face, "I have meat buns to eat this morning, hurry up and wake Brother Shuo to get up for dinner."

Su Wenshan agreed, and took his daughter back to the small courtyard behind through the back door.

It is said to be a small courtyard, but it is actually not too small. Facing the back door of the bun shop are three main rooms, two wing rooms on the left and right, and a kitchen and grocery room.The Su couple lived with their youngest sons in the main rooms on the left and right, and the middle one was used as the living room. The three daughters had grown up, so each of them got a side room.In addition, the most important kitchen of the Su family is as big as two rooms, and it is just to the left of the back door. In addition to the large pot and small stove, there are also tables and chairs, which can also be used as a dining room.

At this moment, Su Tang, the 14-year-old eldest daughter of the Su family, and Su Shuang, the 13-year-old second daughter, are busy in the kitchen. There are meals on the table, and the bowls are filled with red dates, lotus seeds, chestnuts, gingko, red beans, The sticky eight-treasure porridge made of red beans, peanuts and glutinous rice smells like sweet rice. Another small dustpan is covered with clean cloth towels, and steaming buns are placed on it. There are two side dishes, one is pickled cucumbers, and the other is a plate of capers.

The eldest sister, Su Tang, was standing on the stove cooking. Su Jin sniffed hard and smelled it, um, it was the smell of scrambled eggs with chopped green onions.

The two sisters were busy, seeing Su Wenshan and Su Jin coming back, Su Tang hurriedly greeted him: "Father, it's time for dinner, Jin'er, go and wake Brother Shuo up."

Su Jin nodded with a smile, turned around and went into the main room. Su Shuo lived in the room on the right, and woke up when she heard someone push the door. Seeing that it was her third sister, she asked with a smile: "Sir, is there a room today?" Delicious? I can smell the aroma."

Su Shuo also woke up early at this time on weekdays. Although there is nothing at home that needs his help when he is only eight years old, he needs to go to school. The reason why he is so leisurely today is because the Laba School has a day off.

"Since you know there are delicious foods, don't hesitate to get up. I saw that the second sister cooked egg custard for you. If you don't get up again, the third sister will not be able to control the glutton in her stomach."

Su Jin teased him with a smile, her younger brother looked like her father was carved out of a mold, but the three sisters looked like their mother Liu's.

However, Su Shuo laughed unhurriedly, and buried her head under the quilt again, her voice muffled, "Sister San, you are not willing to grab my egg custard." After a while, she poked her head out again , rubbing her sleepy eyes and looking at Su Jin, "I'll get up when the third sister goes out."

The child was so shy at this age, Su Jin sneered, "Okay, the third sister is going out, then you can get up quickly, otherwise if your second sister comes later, you won't be as talkative as me gone."

The second girl, Su Shuang, lived up to her name. She was cold-tempered, quick-witted, and the most impatient of procrastinating. She disliked her younger brother's crooked appearance the most, so she did not hesitate to fix him.Su Shuo is also most afraid of her, because once the second sister gets angry and wants to beat him, even her parents can't stop her.

By the time Su Jin helped his younger brother wash his face, tidy up and go to eat, Su Wenshan had already hurriedly finished his meal and went to take care of Mrs. Liu. As soon as the siblings sat down and picked up the bowl, Mrs. Liu came back, sighing. Sitting down at the table, looking at the three sisters, he said, "Guess who I saw in front of you just now?"

The three sisters didn't make a sound. Mother is about to start her long speech again. Whoever speaks out is in trouble. Naturally, no one dared to answer, so Su Shuo answered stupidly: "Who did mother see?"

Mrs. Liu pampered her youngest son's head, and said, "It's not the Li family who sells meat on our street. Last year, his daughter married to the Zhang family on the street ahead. That Zhang family is Driving such a big cloth shop, tsk tsk, you didn't see, the daughter of the Zhang family came in a sedan chair, followed by two maids, look at them, even the maids are used, mother dreamed I want to buy two servant girls for your sisters, but where can I get the spare money." He sighed enviously as he spoke.

"Mother, the three of us sisters can do the housework, there is no need to buy a maid."

Su Tang said softly, the soft hair stuck to her face due to the busyness just now, Liu stretched out her hand to help her daughter smooth it behind her ears, looking at the flowery face of the eldest daughter, she couldn't think much of it. I am proud, these three daughters all look like her, they are all like flowers, and they will definitely marry into a good family in the future.

Here, before Mrs. Liu opened her mouth to ask the three of them to try to find a rich man to marry, the second daughter said without raising her head: "The Zhang family is just working for the owner, and the cloth village is Han's." The property of the family; the daughter of the Zhang family came in a sedan chair because she is pregnant, and besides, she married a semi-old man as the second wife." After finishing speaking, he continued to eat.

Mrs. Liu was choked, "Then no matter what, the food and lodging of others is better than ours, isn't that maid always true? Don't care if she is pregnant or not, when Mother gave birth to your third sister, there were still two or three days left before her. It's about to give birth, there's so much snow in the world, your father is not at home, someone came and ordered a hundred buns, and it's not because I stepped on the snow with my stomach to deliver them, and I slipped on the road, I was bleeding Liu not only fainted, if I had married a rich man back then and had that sedan chair, how could I have suffered that! Your third sister didn't have to give birth prematurely for several days, and her health has never recovered."

It's not just that it won't get better, Su Jin thought in her heart, and rolled her eyes, if you hadn't fallen, how could I have come to you from my own time, although I didn't have any relatives in my previous life, but I still have A career that can be relied on, and a good life. On the day when I was born, I wanted to build a snowman on a whim. Who would have thought that when I just went out, I fell hard and hit my head. It must have fallen at the same time as Liu's. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? As soon as she opened her eyes and saw her little hands and feet, she would be so scared that she would die again.

"Mother, you have said this matter eighty times if not a hundred times. If you really disliked father so much, why did you marry him in the first place? Isn't it for the good of father and son, honest and honest, if you really love him so much Money, you really can’t find a rich man to marry?”

Su Jin shook her head and put a caper bean into her bowl.

Mrs. Liu was not annoyed, she reached out and took a meat bun and stuffed it into her hand, she took a vegetarian stuffed bun with her backhand, took a bite and sighed: "Your father is naturally good, but our family is too poor, Mother hopes that you can all live a good life, and don't suffer and suffer all day long like mother."

The three younger sisters stopped talking and ate with a dull head. Seeing this, Mrs. Liu did not continue, knowing that this matter could not be explained immediately, so she simply changed the subject, "Today is Laba, The Chinese New Year is less than a month away, taking advantage of the sluggish business today, I will take you guys out to go shopping later, and grab a few bolts of cloth to make New Year's clothes."

The siblings were naturally happy, but Su Shuang remained expressionless, "I'll help dad look after the shop at home."

"With your father here, do you need to watch the store? Go shopping with your mother, you don't go out very much throughout the year." Liu advised softly.

Su Shuang didn't give any face, "I don't like to go, you go." After saying that, he put down the bowl, got up and left.Liu Shi was so angry that she trembled, "This damn girl, she just doesn't deal with me, and I don't know where I owe her."

Seeing this, the three siblings tried to persuade her, saying that Su Shuang had always been cold, that's what she was like, and told Liu Shi not to get angry with her. , but in the end there is a complaint in my heart, and I despise the two
The girl is not as likable as the other three children.

(End of this chapter)