pastoral wedding

Chapter 7 Liu's Thoughts
Lu's family's reputation is the most important thing, this is her Achilles' heel, and everyone in the family knows it.

Sure enough, after hearing the words, Mrs. Lu glanced at Mrs. Lu, "Since you also got the clothes, you can make clothes for Maid Mei yourself."

"Mother, what about mine?" Su Ran hurriedly asked in fear of losing hers.

Seeing her precious girl asking questions, Mrs. Lu immediately smiled and patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, mother will make you a set, and then let your elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law each make a set for you, and you will definitely dress up." Beautiful."

It is said that both the Liu family and the Xiao Lu family curled their lips, dare to say that only your old daughter is a daughter, not ours?
"Mother, it's not that the daughter-in-law didn't take out those two boxes of dim sum, but that they were almost eaten by several children. You also know that Shuo'er didn't eat much at noon. When he saw the dim sum, he ate a few extra pieces. His sisters also tasted it." Tasted it, it wasn’t much.”

Mrs. Liu held back her breath and told her the difference, "I originally planned to make a suit of clothes for each of the three maids with the three bolts of silk and satin material. Since my sister-in-law wants it, I can just give her a suit of clothes, but the fine cotton cloth, just now. He also said that he would cut out a small dress, or how about making a small dress for my sister-in-law? For the rest, I would make a suit for each of the three sisters?"

Liu's temper is hot, and no one in the Su family knows it. If Lu and Xiao Lu were so difficult in the past, she would have started arguing long ago, and everyone would definitely know that it would make it impossible for Lu to end it. But today she forcibly held back and discussed with Mrs. Lu in such a gentle tone.

Mrs. Lu was a little dumbfounded, but when she thought about it, maybe the daughter-in-law here knew how powerful she was, and she didn't dare to fight against her anymore. Once she was in a good mood, she didn't bother to argue with her so much, and waved her hands pretending to be impatient and said: " That's how it is, but you have to remember to make it for Ran girl years ago."

Back in her own room, Su Jin held her mother's arm suspiciously, and asked, "Mother, what's wrong with you today? You can't bear it anymore when grandma bullies us like this. What's wrong today..."

"Didn't you make a fuss?" Even Su Shuang, who was always cold, was a little curious, and came over to add a sentence, isn't this too unlike her mother's style?
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu pretended to be angry and slapped her two daughters lightly on the head, "Is this how troublesome I am in your eyes?"

Su Shuang retracted her head back, and Su Jin rubbed her head and hugged her arm with a laugh, "Mother wouldn't take the initiative to make trouble, it's all because of Second Aunt and the others."

Mrs. Liu was in a better mood, but she still refused to explain to her daughters. It happened that brother Shuo woke up at this moment, so she went to dress him and stopped talking about it.

After dinner at night, while the children were asleep, Su Wenshan asked his daughter-in-law about today's affairs. The whole family only had a yard the size of a palm. A few words.

"It's not your mother, take out all the things that our family has shared and send them to your second brother and younger sister." Liu's mouth curled up while helping him take off the outer cotton coat.

That's okay, Su Wenshan felt a 'thump' in his heart, turned his head to look at her face carefully, and saw that her face was calm as usual, he was a little surprised, it stands to reason that his mother-in-law would have quarreled with him long ago, today What's wrong with this?
"Daughter-in-law, you... don't be as knowledgeable as your mother. She is old, and sometimes she will be a little confused. Let's stay here for a few days, and we will go back to town after the fifteenth." By the way, he pulled her away. hands carefully comforting.

Wen Yan, Mrs. Liu gave him a blank look with a smile, sat down beside him, looked at the children who were all asleep, lowered her voice and said, "Boss Han is at our house today, if I start to make noise Don't let people see the joke, and lose our family." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and glanced at the sleeping eldest daughter, then lowered his voice a little bit, and said in the ear of his husband: "I still Pointing to our Tang'er being able to fall into the eyes of the Han family, she will marry the young master and become a young mistress in the future."

Hearing this, Su Wenshan, who had a smile on his face, immediately hid his smile, frowned and said: "I know you have always been high-minded, and the girls in our family are all born well. There is nothing wrong with them all marrying into wealthy families, but the Han family is probably not very appropriate, right?"

"Why?" Mrs. Liu raised her eyebrows, "The Han family owes our family such a big favor. Could it be that our old lady went to mention this family in person, and Mr. Han can ignore it?"

"That's not it." Su Wenshan pondered for a while, and then told the story of the second boss Han Guanshi's talk at noon today, and finally sighed: "Don't say that Mrs. Han is not going to tell the young master in the town Dear, that's what I mean, I reckon the second brother and his wife also have the same thoughts, I think we should stop getting involved, our Tang'er is good-looking and kind-hearted, and we can always find someone who treats her well. "

Hearing that Mrs. Liu is also silent, she is not afraid of Mrs. Lu, but if Mrs. Han really doesn't want to marry the young master in Qingshi Town, this matter will be troublesome.

That night, Mrs. Liu didn't sleep well. She lay on the bed and tossed and turned, thinking, since Mrs. Han had such thoughts, why did the young master give Tang'er such a crabapple hairpin in private?Doesn't that mean that he is interested in Tang'er?
Thinking of this, I still jumped a little in my heart, but then I thought again, what if the hairpin was really an accident?After all, the young master didn't hand it over to his daughter himself, did he?
Well, it's better to put this matter aside for now. Tang'er is only fourteen this year, and she won't reach Ji next year. It won't be too late to talk about it after Ji, but the young master heard that he will be sixteen this year, Madam Han should also be anxious Yes, and wait and see.

He turned over and thought again, although Qingshi Town is not as small as those big towns, it is not too small. Apart from the Han family, there are also a few wealthy households.

The Han family moved here from the capital. It is said that Mrs. Han was dismissed for some crime. Although Mrs. Han was born in the Lihou Mansion in the capital, she is only a concubine, not a real big family. It's just that she thought about having these connections with her own family, so she thought about it first, and forgot about other families for a while.

As far as the rich households in Qingshi Town are concerned, the four families of Qi, Yang, Han, and Zhu are doing their part. The first one, the Qi family, fell into ruin a few years ago. It is said that they offended the nobles in Beijing, committed a major event, and ended up beheading all their families. , now there are no successors, and the family is withered; the Han family does not need to go into details, but the Yang family and the Zhu family are really rich and powerful families. Although they are just merchants, they also have connections in Beijing. Qingshi Town is second to none.

That's right, Mrs. Liu suddenly turned over and sat up. Both the Yang family and the Zhu family have a lot of heirs, and both have young masters of the right age.

"Mother, what do you do if you don't sleep in the middle of the night?" Su Jin was woken up by her mother, sat up too, rubbed her sleepy eyes and mumbled a question.

"It's nothing, mother, go to sleep now, you go to sleep too, we have to go to your uncle's house tomorrow." After thinking it over, Liu's heart relaxed for a while, and she felt a little sleepy, comforting her. After the little daughter fell asleep, she fell asleep quickly.

In the early morning of the next day, Mrs. Liu was going back to her mother’s house to give a New Year’s gift. In fact, her parents are gone, so it’s okay if she doesn’t go, but she misses her two elder brothers whom she hasn’t seen for a long time. Go back and have a look.

Mrs. Lu didn't give her any good looks, and she refused to give her anything. Mrs. Liu didn't bother to argue with her. Anyway, even if she gave it, it wouldn't be a good thing. Fortunately, she was already in the town. I bought it.

Liu's natal family is in Baili Village, which is adjacent to Liushu Village. It is a big village, more than twice the size of Liushu Village. There is a river between the two villages, and a bridge is built on it, because the two villages are connected by such a bridge. It was solidly built, Su Wenshan drove his own ox cart across the bridge creakingly, and a little further on was Liu's elder brother's house.

I thought it would be very clean early in the morning, but before I reached the door of the house, I heard noises coming from inside. Many people in the village gathered around the door and outside the courtyard wall to watch the excitement. The daughter-in-law Liu knew well when she was not out of the pavilion saw her and hurriedly greeted her: "Qing Cui, go in and have a look, your second sister-in-law is rolling around in the yard."

What?rolling?The Su family were all taken aback, what's going on?Su Jin suppressed a very unkind smile, and it seemed that the scene was lively again.

This second aunt has a generous temper, the second uncle is honest and honest, there is nothing he can do about her, and the two cousins ​​are also good, I don't know why there is such a strange thing in this family, who is better than the one at home. The difficult second aunt was even more difficult to deal with.

Mrs. Liu hurriedly squeezed people away and walked into her eldest brother's yard, only to see her second sister-in-law, Mrs. Qin, rolling on the ground, her hair was disheveled, her clothes were stained with dirt, her throat was dry, but there was no tear on her face. The elder sister-in-law Jiang looked aggrieved, standing there not knowing what to do, Liu Shugang, the second child of the Liu family, was also squatting in the yard, covering her head and sighing.

"What's the matter? It's the New Year's Eve. This is because we think our Liu family is not shameful enough!" Liu Qingcui's temperament has always been aggressive. When she was in her mother's house, she also said what she said. Her brother and sister-in-law didn't dare to provoke her very much. Seeing it now, she naturally lost her temper, and pulled Qin Shi up, "What is the second sister-in-law doing? Both nephews are so old, and you still make such a fuss, who will dare to fight in the future?" Bring your daughter into the family!"

Just this sentence hit Qin's weakness.

Qin curled her lips aggrievedly, and wiped her face with her sleeves indiscriminately, "It's not my sister-in-law, her big cow gave birth to two calves, and I'm thinking that they will be needed in the field in the spring of next year. Your second brother can relax a little bit about this cow, so he wanted to ask for one, but the sister-in-law refused to give it to you. Tell me, this brother’s is just a calf, so he’s so stingy..."

The people who heard this were speechless and angry. It turned out that Qin's thoughts were like this. Why should they give her things for no reason? Even if they are brothers, they have already separated, and they can't do it for nothing. It's not good to take people's things, let alone a calf. You must know that in the village, this cow is a rare item. If it is brought to the town to sell, it may sell for tens of taels of silver.

Liu Shu just felt that this shame was really embarrassing, so he reprimanded: "Why are you making trouble for no reason? Although we have a good relationship with the eldest brother's family, we have already separated. You don't think it's embarrassing for you to do this!"

(End of this chapter)