pastoral wedding

Chapter 6 Uneven Distribution
On the second day, everyone in the Su family got up very early, even the eight-year-old Su Shuo and Su Qing were pulled out of bed.

Today is a very important day for the Su family, because this time of the year is the time when the Han family comes to give new year gifts, and the people in the house with their own thoughts naturally have to get up early and wait.

When it was almost noon, there was a carriage grunting outside the door, and everyone knew that it was the people from the Han family.

Everyone in the courtyard greeted them, and Su Wenshan and Su Wenhai greeted the butler of the Han family familiarly.The butler came here often, so he was no stranger to the people of the Su family. He also hugged the two of them, talked and laughed a few words, and then called the driver to unload the things, and he took out the stuff from his arms. Shan Zi came and said, "Our master has gone on a business trip and hasn't come back yet. I'm afraid we might miss the New Year's gift, so I specially asked the young master to prepare it."

Then read what was written on the list again, what was written in each room was clearly written, unlike previous years, they were all piled up together and distributed by the Lu family.

Seeing this, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu were a little dissatisfied, "The elder and younger masters are really careful. It was not like this in previous years. You don't have to be busy, just leave it to my aunt as in previous years. "Xiao Lu looked at the good things distributed to Dafang and said greedily.

"This is not possible." The person in charge is honest, "Before I came, our young master specifically explained that we should divide according to the list. If you have any objections, you can exchange them yourself."

As soon as he said this, Su Wenshan blushed immediately. It was a bit embarrassing for his family to pick and choose these things instead of being grateful for them, so he stopped Xiao Lu, "Sister and sister, what is this?" What do you mean, the eldest young master of the Han family must have intentions for doing this, and if you look at something later, you can pick and choose." After saying that, he turned to look at Liu Shi, "baby mother, go and get me from the town yesterday. Take out the bottled wine, and cook a few side dishes, and my second brother and I will have a drink with Manager Han."

Although Mrs. Liu didn't like Su Wenshan's drinking, she also knew that Su Wenshan was the eldest in the family and should be with him. Moreover, because it was Chinese New Year, she didn't stop her anymore, she agreed with a smile, and took her three daughters to cook.

This manager Han has been in the Han family for many years. Although he is not the top leader, he has been with Mr. Han for many years. He also manages a lot of chores in the Han family. This person has a hobby, which is drinking. Every year he comes, the Su family is indispensable. I bought a few jars of wine, but these jars of wine are incomparable to the gifts from the Han family, so although Mrs. Lu didn't want to, she never said anything about dropping the price.

Besides, after Guanshi Han had a few glasses of wine, the chatterbox opened up, and he patted his chest and said that there was nothing he didn't know about the Han family, big or small.

Su Wenhai got what his mother-in-law said, so he asked cautiously: "Is the young master of the house fifteen or sixteen? Although I haven't seen him this year, he came last year. He has a look that we ordinary people don't have." Fabulous."

Hearing this, Manager Han laughed, with a smile on his reddish face, "That's right, our young master is a dragon and a phoenix among people, and he is already a scholar at a young age. Well, I'm not boasting, there is no one in Qingshi Town who can compare."

"That is, that is." Su Wenhai smiled all over his face, and then said with some doubts: "Young master is so nice, why haven't you got married yet? If the Han family speaks out, I'm afraid the whole Qingshi Those who have daughters in the town rushed to go."

Manager Han shook his head with a smile, raised his head and drank the wine in his glass, "You don't know about this brother, our wife is from an official family, and she is a girl from the Hou's family in the capital. Naturally, the rules and etiquette are not bad at all. So there are few girls in our Qingshi Town who she can look up to."

Su Wenhai asked anxiously when he heard the words, "Then the young master has been procrastinating?"

Manager Han naturally doesn't know about this matter, he is just a manager, how can he manage the affairs of the wife and the young master, he shook his head, thought for a while and said: "However, I heard that the one in our family who married to the capital The elder aunt passed word, saying that there is someone suitable to introduce to the eldest young master. According to Madam's trust in the elder aunt, the elder aunt has the final say on this matter."

Hearing this, Su Wenhai became a little sluggish, and felt resentful. He knew it would be like this. What kind of family is the Han family? How could they fall in love with his worthless eldest daughter Su Mei? Let's find out, no, it's still no use.

Thinking about it, Su Wenshan looked a little unhappy, and looked at his younger brother in surprise, afraid that Guanshi Han would also see what was going on in his heart, so he busy himself with another topic and persuaded him to drink more wine.

Here the three men were drinking, while the women over there were busy packing their belongings.

Mrs. Liu got three bolts of silk and satin, and two bolts of fine cotton cloth, both of which are fresh and tender in color, and one can tell at a glance that they are for some daughters; in addition, there are several jars of good wine, which are different from the wine made by her father. , it looks good at first glance; the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are for Su Shuo; the rest are two snack boxes, which contain some exquisite pastries.

Mrs. Liu fiddled with the several bolts of silk and satin, one pink and purple, one snow green, and the other lilac, and muttered, "It happens to be three bolts of silk and satin, and my mother will be generous once, so I might as well make one for each of your sisters. The lilac ones are for the eldest girl, the snow-green ones are for the second girl, and the pink and purple ones are for the third girl, now your father can no longer say that your mother is partial."

"Mother, I want to make a small coat from that fine cotton cloth. The material is soft and soft, so it must be comfortable to wear." Su Jin took the rose cake in one hand, and pointed to the two pieces of fine cotton cloth and asked.

"Succeed, no matter how much you spend on you guys, I don't feel bad." Liu Shi said with a smile, and suddenly stopped, and then flipped out a slender sandalwood box from the cloth with his backhand, "Hey, What is this?" Then he opened it to look, but saw inside was a white jade hairpin with crabapple flowers, the petals were carved from white jade, and there were gold thread tassels on the bottom, shaking it, it was really beautiful.

"This..." Mrs. Liu was startled, and after thinking about it, she became overjoyed, "There is a word Tang in the girl's name, this is exactly the crabapple flower, let Tang'er wear it."

Su Shuang didn't like these flowers and pinks. Although Su Jin liked them, she knew in her heart that most of them were given by Brother Chen to her eldest sister, so she leaned on Su Tang happily, and took the begonia flower jade hairpin to her head. Up, "My eldest sister is beautiful, wearing that lilac-colored satin dress, and putting on this jade hairpin, she is like a fairy."

Su Tang blushed because of his younger sister's trouble, took off the jade hairpin from his head, looked at her mother and said, "Mother, let's return such a precious thing."

"Go back?" Liu said coldly, "You don't want to have something that someone wants?" Seeing that the eldest daughter's face was not very good-looking, she added, "Do you know who gave it to you? Who will you give it to?" ? This jade hairpin is precious to us, but the Han family may not take it seriously, my mother, you just keep it."

In fact, no one can guess that it was given by Han Chen. The steward just now can say that this year's annual ceremony was prepared by the young master, so naturally only he knows what it is.

The mothers were discussing, when they heard Su Mei's voice outside the door, "Ma'am, grandma asked you to go to her room." As he spoke, he opened the door and entered, just in time to see Su Jin snatching Su Tang's hand The jade hairpin in the house hid behind her back. Although she didn't see what it was, she knew it must be a good thing, otherwise what would she do if she hid it.A hint of calculation flashed in her eyes, and Su Mei smiled and said again, "Ma'am, grandma told you to come over."

Mrs. Liu frowned and got off the kang to put on her shoes, and said displeasedly as she put them on: "Just shout outside the door. I'm not deaf, so I have to come in."

In the face of complaints, Su Mei didn't care at all. She came here with her mother's order to see exactly what the Han family sent. Although Manager Han read the list before, there is no guarantee that there is something hidden. Hidden goodies are not.

Mrs. Liu also knew that Mrs. Lu and the others were calculating about the things in her room, but she didn't dare not to go, because she knew that if she didn't go, Mrs. Lu would definitely come over in person, and some things would be hard to hide by then. .

Brother Shuo was young, and spent the whole morning playing around with the children of the same age in the village. He was already tired and fell asleep lying on the kang.Mrs. Liu carefully tucked the quilt for the youngest son, and after telling the eldest and second daughters to watch over the door, Mrs. Liu took Su Jin to Mrs. Lu's house.

As soon as he entered, Mrs. Lu scolded at the beginning: "Although the eldest young master pointed out the things for you, you should know what filial piety is anyway, and you should bring it here for me to read before putting it away. I haven't seen you like this." If you are greedy, you won't be able to get on the stage. At the beginning, I said that the boss would not marry you, but he refused to listen. Look, this is the good wife she married, and she will hide things in her house."

Mrs. Liu rubbed her ears, and dragged Su Jin in to sit down on the chair below. She was not annoyed by being scolded like this, but she didn't want to stand up to Mrs. Lu. There were guests at home, and she couldn't afford to lose this people.

"Mother, please keep your voice down, not for the face of your two sons, but also for Brother Shuo, he just fell asleep, and he hasn't slept well yet."

As soon as she heard Brother Shuo, Mrs. Lu hurriedly restrained her tone, but still refused to let her go, lowered her tone and snorted coldly: "You don't need to fool my old lady, I heard that there are a few horses in your family's ceremony. For silk and satin material, you take out two pieces to make clothes for Ran Yatou, she has also reached the age of marriage, she should dress decently, unlike my old woman, who can wear anything; give the remaining one to your younger siblings In the past, it was time to make new clothes for Mei girl; you bring the two bolts of fine cotton cloth and I will store them for you, so you don’t have to let them break. The pens, inks, papers and inkstones are all for my grandson, so you keep them. Well, I don't want those jars of wine anymore, but you have to remember to allocate two jars for your second brother; the two boxes of snacks are also given out to the children, so it doesn't have to be called petty, even the two boxes of snacks are worthless. Own it yourself."

After listening to Mrs. Lu's words, Mrs. Liu and Su Guo were stunned. Now, what are they left with?Didn't it mean that each room gets its own, why is it allocated by the Lu family again, and it is only allocated to their eldest room.

"Grandmother, why do you only share the things in our room? Didn't the second aunt also get a lot of things in the room, I remember there were two boxes of dim sum, second aunt, you are not afraid of people saying that you are petty, and even want to bully two boxes of dim sum? "

Su Jin stared at her second aunt with a smile, "Also, I remember that there are a few pieces of material in the second aunt's house. Since we have to take out the materials in our room to make clothes for my sister-in-law and sister Mei, does the second aunt also Should I take out what I got and make clothes for the three of us sisters?"

"That can't be done!" Xiao Lu hurriedly refused, she coaxed the old lady to ask the big house to take out the cloth to make clothes for Meier because she couldn't bear to part with the cloth she got, how could she put it in backwards, " Look at the three of you sisters who are all dressed in beautiful clothes, what new clothes do you need, isn't this a waste?"

Su Jin giggled, "Why not? They are both daughters-in-law, so why should my mother's share be shared with everyone, and my second aunt's should be kept by herself? I'm afraid it's unreasonable? Grandma, if you let the outside People who know about it may not even know what to say about you.”

(End of this chapter)