pastoral wedding

Chapter 73
On the night of the New Year's Eve, the maid specially asked the maid to add a few more dishes. There was a hot pot in the middle, and there were plates of exquisite home-cooked dishes around. A large table was full, not only the Su family, but also several The two maids also sat around the table and ate together.At first the maids refused, but Su Jin forced them to go. It’s fine if they don’t usually eat together, but Chinese New Year is a day of reunion, and these maids have no home. Since they come to their own house, they are a family. , How can we not have a reunion dinner together, even the two rough envoys are no exception.So this meal was extraordinarily sweet for everyone.

It is always more lively in the town than in the village, and there are firecrackers on the [-]th night.The whole family sits around the fire talking and watching the new year. The first one to sleep is Xiao Qiaoer, who fell asleep after teasing and laughing, and brother Shuo, a child who is only nine years old, naturally it is impossible stay up all night.Su Jin didn't hold back either, she yawned one after another, and was driven back to sleep by her mother.

A year is not over until fifteen years have passed, but no one can rest for such a long time.After the eighth day of the lunar new year, Su Ji opened for business. I thought the business would be worse than usual, but it turned out to be unexpectedly good. Who told them to open earlier than other restaurants. At this time, there are still many People are willing to find such a place to drink and talk.

At the end of the first lunar month, a villager from Liushu Village came to Su Ji to sell the wild game he had hunted. By the way, he sent word to Mrs. Lu that Su Ran's wedding date was set on the [-]th day, so that Su Wenshan and his wife could go back early. .When Su Wenshan went back at night, he discussed with Liu Shi how much money he should take.Mrs. Liu didn't want to take too much, but Su Wenshan was thinking about what his mother had told him before. He was afraid that if his mother didn't want to take too little, there would be trouble again, so he discussed with Mrs. Liu, "Qing Cui, look, our family is also doing it now. It's not that I can't get the money out, why bother to make my mother fight over this matter."

Mrs. Liu was unwilling, "Why do I want to take more? I have already said that I will take as much as Qing'er's mother takes. They are all ordinary sisters-in-law. I can't take more just because I live well. Let's Although you earn more money now, it is not caused by strong winds. You go out early and return late all day long, and your daughters are busy with this and that. After a good life, they stretched out their hands to ask for it. It won’t be cheap for them, I still say the same thing, I get a lot of what I should get, and don’t try to take out a copper coin that shouldn’t be taken from me.”

"Qingcui..." Su Wenshan wanted to persuade her again, but Liu stood up and left.He sighed helplessly, this daughter-in-law and mother just didn't deal with each other, and he was really stuck in the middle.

Mrs. Liu went to the Nuan Pavilion to sit and watch Xiao Qiao'er sleep, and at the same time said to the third daughter who was lying next to Xiao Qiao'er and sleeping with her eyes closed: "Your father is a real person, you said it is easy for our family to make money, he Just give flowers to others like that.”

"Mother, it's not someone else, it's my grandmother and sister-in-law." Su Jin closed her eyes and said, "Grandmother has told father to give him more money. If you don't take the money now, you are embarrassing my father. Just look at it." Promise him for the sake of his usual hard work, anyway, at most one or two hundred taels, our family is also poor, why bother to be my father."

"One, two hundred taels?" Liu's voice suddenly rose, and Xiaoqiao'er was quarreled by her, and hummed twice, she quickly reached out and patted, and said in a low voice, "I don't have that much money, you Do you know that this 200 taels of silver was earned in several months when we opened the steamed stuffed bun shop, but now that life is better, can we be so extravagant?" After he paused, he thought for a while before saying, "At most 200 taels of silver. Two, not one point more."

"80 taels is 80 taels, thank you, Qing Cui." Su Wenshan came in from the door with a silly smile, sat down beside his daughter, saw her eyes closed and pretended to be asleep, stretched out his hand to pinch her cheek, and said to Liu Shi with a smile, " Look at Jin'er's face, there is no meat at all, you have to eat more, otherwise you won't grow tall."

Su Jin was sleepy, stretched out her hand to push her father's hand away, and muttered, "I'm not a child anymore, and my father just thinks of me as the same age as Brother Shuo."

"No matter how old you are, you are still a child in the eyes of your parents." Su Wenshan laughed.

Su Jin's heart warmed when she heard this, and she suddenly realized that no matter how good her parents treated her before, she still blamed God for bringing her to this inexplicable era, but she felt that now she Has been completely relieved.People must be content to feel happy. She feels that the current life is very good and happy, and she dare not ask for too much. As long as the family has food and clothing together, it is enough.

The day came in a blink of an eye, at fifteen o'clock, the Su family was going back to Liushu Village, but the restaurant was too busy to make it, and they didn't get free until after dinner.It's just what can Xiao Qiao'er do, how can she do it without anyone taking care of her.The family was worried, Su Shuang said that she didn't want to stay and see the children, but Su Wenshan and Liu Shi didn't agree, if their siblings didn't go, Lu Shi would make irresponsible remarks again.It happened that Su Tang sent Xia Mo to come, Su Tang couldn't go, she was in her first three months now, she didn't dare to ride in a carriage easily, it was too bumpy.

Xia Mo smiled and said that he came to pick up Xiao Qiaoer under the order of the eldest girl.Mrs. Liu smiled and patted her leg, no, it was just right to put the child with Tang'er, so she asked Hong Xing and Wisteria to follow and take care of her, but she was not allowed to bother the eldest girl there.The other maids didn't bring them either, and they were only asked to watch the house at home.

It was already late at night when we got there, the courtyard of the Su family was brightly lit, many people came, not only their family, Su Cui's family also came, as well as people from Lu's family and Xiao Lu's natal family.They are all relatives, but there are not many people outside. It is probably because they are close to each other, so they all go home and sleep when it is late, and they will only come back when they get up early the next day.

There were too many people in the family and there was no place to sleep, so the adults gathered together to talk and make room for the children to sleep. Su Shuang and Su Jin felt that it was crowded, and they thought they were not children anymore, so they snuggled together Sit and watch the elders talk.

When the sky was about to turn white, Mrs. Lu came to call for someone, and everyone went out to work on their own. They had discussed earlier, who would be the bride and who would be the guest, and the meeting was orderly.

Su Jin took the second sister to the sister-in-law's room, and saw her dressing up, and several young sister-in-laws were busy around her.The two sisters withdrew, the sister-in-law had a bad temper and was in a hurry at the moment, it's better not to go to her.The two came out and passed Xiao Lu's house, and saw the door was open, and voices came from inside.The two sisters leaned forward and heard Liu's voice, and she said: "Mother, do you still think it's 80 taels? Don't my siblings pay a lot? Why don't you show it to me? As I said, it will definitely not be less than my siblings."

Lu's dissatisfied voice came out, "How can you compare with your second brother's family, their life is also very tight, and they can't give much."

"So we took 80 taels. I don't believe that the second brother's family took as much as this. If you still think it's too little, I still have 20 taels here. Is it enough to make up 100 taels? It's gone." Liu took out another 20 taels of silver from his sleeve, which showed that he had prepared it long ago.The two sisters, Su Shuang, looked at each other, thinking that Mother had planned it long ago.

At this moment, Mrs. Lu was speechless. Hearing the movement, he should have put away the money.At this moment, Su Cui came in from the outside, saw the two of them smiling and shaking their heads, put Xiao Di in Su Shuang's arms, and whispered, "Don't make trouble here, Brother Xu and Brother Shuo are outside Playing, and there are a few children in the village, you go and watch, the children are always playing around, which makes people worry."

The two sisters giggled and retreated. Xiao Di was more than eight months old and was heavy in his arms. Fortunately, Su Shuang was in good health from practicing martial arts.

When the sun rose, the Fang family came to pick up the bride, and adults and children crowded outside to watch the fun.The two sisters Su Shuang were afraid that the children would be crushed and fell, so they didn't take a few children there, but led them to the grocery store in the village to buy candies. When they came back, Su Ran had already left in a sedan chair.The people in the village hadn't left yet, they had to eat here at noon before leaving.Mrs. Liu and Su Cui were busy cooking, and some young daughters-in-law of the same family set up tables in the yard when they were ready. There were seven or eight tables, and they ate there.

Mrs. Liu came to make dinner and asked the children to go out for dinner. Su Mei had already taken Su Qing out. Su Shuang refused to go because she thought it was a mess, but Su Jin was hungry. She hugged Xiao Di and took Brother Shuo and Brother Xu So I went out to grab a seat for dinner.Seeing that Su Shuang refused to go, Mrs. Liu took the snacks she brought from home to feed her.

After dinner, everyone dispersed, relatives left in twos and threes, and the villagers also dispersed at home.Su Cui was worried that there was no one at home, so she asked Wang Jian to drive the ox cart back. Xiaodi was having fun with Su Shuang at the moment, crying and refused to go back, so Su Cui let her go. rest assured.

When she was free in the afternoon, Su Jin thought about visiting the back mountain last year. The melon seeds fried in the sunflower field on the back mountain were sold for a total of several hundred taels of silver, which is not a small amount. It might not be able to sell for that much money in the future, but Wouldn't that sunflower field be wasted if melon seeds were not sold?After thinking about it, Su Jin called Brother Shuo to call her father out of the grandmother's house, and discussed with him: "Father, can there be any free land in our village? I wonder if we can buy some land." A piece of land to grow sunflowers? Last year, the piece on the back hill was sold for hundreds of taels of silver."

(End of this chapter)