The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 16

If it wasn't for fear of a bad scene, Yingniang really wanted to go home with Bo Ming, and she didn't want to stay at her mother's house for this lunch at all.

Li Xinghua was still yelling for her to light the fire, frying three dishes in total, as if it was too much work.When lunch was ready, Father Lin came back with a hoe on his shoulder.

Father Lin didn't have a cold face towards Boming, but he wasn't very enthusiastic either. After a few polite words with Boming, his expression was indifferent.When a daughter gets married, it is like splashing a basin of water, let alone a son-in-law.What's more, Bo Ming used to be a monk, and Father Lin didn't like him either. After all, he didn't embarrass Bi Ming too much.

This lunch was really awkward, Father Lin ate without saying a word, and Li Xinghua just asked Bo Ming to pick up vegetables in a fake polite way.Zhuzi and Genzi had already filled their stomachs with so much food before, but now they are still eating like a grab.

Bo Ming hadn't eaten much because of his restraint, and the dishes on the table were all empty, and he only ate one corn bread.Yingniang was unhappy and was not full.

Putting down the bowls and chopsticks, Ying Niang winked at Bo Ming.Bo Ming understood Yingniang's meaning very well, "Father, mother, Yingniang and I will go back now."

Li Xinghua didn't keep them either, "Okay, you can go home early, your father and I have to weed later, so we don't have time to accompany you."

As she spoke, she emptied the basket that Birming had brought, leaving only a catty of sugar as a gift in return.Bo Ming took the basket, walked out the door with Ying Niang, and was stopped by two aunts, who also gave a catty of sugar as a gift in return.

On the way home, Yingniang felt a little stuck because of her mother's stall, so she took out the longan in her sleeve pocket, "Come on, Bo Ming, you can eat a few too."

Boming also saw that Yingniang was not loved by her parents, and she must have suffered a lot since she was a child. He could understand why she was unhappy, so he stepped forward to comfort her: "I heard that there are many families who don't want to raise their daughters. When they were six or seven years old, they were sent to other people's homes as child brides, and they were beaten and scolded a lot in the man's house. Parents only have a daughter like you, and raising you by their side is much better than those child brides. Don't feel bad about it either."

Yingniang was amused by Birming's contrasting comforting method, "You're right, at least my parents didn't send me to be a child bride when I was young. Tell me how we will get along with our mother's family in the future. For the festival, it is unavoidable to go back to my mother’s house.”

"Let's do our part well and just have a clear conscience." Bo Ming had cultivated a state of indifference and forbearance early on due to years of Buddhist practice, and he didn't take the Lin family's harsh attitude towards him at all.

"Well, I'll listen to you." Yingniang admired Birming for being so lenient.If it was an ordinary man, he would probably have to make a fuss about the Lin family along the way.

When they passed the town, Yingniang stopped suddenly, "Bo Ming, you must not have had enough just now."

Birming nodded honestly. His stomach groaned twice during the walk.

"You take out the two pennies, I'll go and buy two meat buns." Yingniang thought to herself, at least the two pennies were not taken by her mother, so she won't eat for nothing.

Hearing that she wanted to buy two meat buns, Boming shook his head quickly, "I'm not very hungry, in fact, I've almost eaten just now, just buy one."

"You coax me, I heard your stomach rumbling just now." Yingniang took the money and ran away quickly.

The peddler saw that she was reluctant to buy even one in the morning, but now suddenly bought two, and felt strange, and really couldn't figure out what was going on.

Bo Ming and Ying Niang walked on the road with a big meat bun and ate them. For those who worked in the fields on the side of the road, it was a beautiful scenery, and they felt that the young couple were quite willing to spend money.

Yingniang didn't bother to pay attention to other people's eyes, and asked Bo Ming with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

"Well, it's delicious. I remember that it was ten years ago that I ate meat buns last time, but I have eaten vegetarian buns all these years." Birming may be hungry, so it tastes particularly delicious.

While walking, Yingniang suddenly found empty shells on the side of the road, which seemed to be scallop shells in the sea.She was startled, could it be that this place is very close to the sea?

"Birming, how many miles are we from the sea?" Yingniang suppressed her excitement.In her previous life, the city where her family was located was near the sea, and eating seafood was commonplace.

"The sea is to the east of Jiazhen, about 100 miles away from our Yongzhen. It took a day and a night to walk there. I went there once with my father when I was young, and brought back more than 20 catties of fish. When I brought it home, it stinks more than half, where do you want to play?"

Yingniang heard that there is really a sea, and it’s only more than 100 miles away. She was a little excited and nodded, "Well, let's go and play when we have time?"

"Okay, it's cool to go to the beach in summer to blow air. If you bring a pot, you can set it up on the beach and cook seafood."

Yingniang likes this one. In the past, she and her parents often took the grill to the beach to enjoy it.Suddenly, she thought about the issue of making money again, "Then can we also send sea goods to Yongzhen for sale?"

Boming was quite surprised when he heard that, he didn't expect that Yingniang's mind was always thinking about making money.However, he still shook his head at Yingniang, "This method won't work. Every year, people from Jiazhen bring seafood to us to sell, but when they arrive, they stink a lot. Because of the long distance, It takes a lot of energy, and they are sold at a high price. Usually, few people can afford it, and only people from better families occasionally buy it a few times."

"How about drying it into dry goods and then selling it?"

"In autumn and winter, there are people in Jiazhen who come to sell dry goods, but they are also expensive. During the Chinese New Year, some people will buy a little to entertain guests, but they buy very little. Anyway, I have seen dealers who come to sell seafood. I will never come back once, and my parents also said that I rarely meet a dealer who comes to sell it for the second time."

Ying Niang nodded thoughtfully, she can think about earning money slowly, but in the future, as long as she has free time, she can go to the beach to play, which is enough to make her excited.

"When you were at your mother's house, did you never see a dealer who came to sell seafood?" Bo Ming asked when he saw that she didn't seem to know anything about it.

Yingniang was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Linjiacun is a small village, every household is poor, and the location is remote, the hawkers probably walk around Linjiacun, usually there are very few people who are willing to come to Linjiacun to sell things."

Bo Ming responded with a smile: "Actually, there are very few peddlers who come to Xuejia Village to sell things..." Before he could finish his sentence, he saw a group of people running from the opposite side, most of them were elders leading sixteen or seventeen year old men. Got to sweat profusely.

Bo Ming and Ying Niang looked at them very strangely, wondering what these people were going to do in such a hurry.

There was a young man in this group who recognized Bi Ming, and he ran over excitedly, "Bi Ming, there are a group of people who fled from the mountains in Gujia Village, and there are many girls. I heard that only two hundred Wen If you don’t need money, people are willing to give the girl to someone. They don’t want any gifts, and they don’t need to hold weddings. As long as they come, they can have a full meal..."

The boy's father immediately came over and took him away, preventing him from revealing this to Birming.

Boming and Yingniang were stunned when they heard this, and then they heard the young man's father reproach him in a low voice: "Stinky boy, what are you telling Boming? He has three younger brothers. If they all come along, we You can’t pick a good one.”

Then someone in the group said urgently: "Don't talk about whether you can pick a good girl, just wait for us, those girls have already been picked, why don't you hurry up and run!"

I saw this group of people running away crazily, while Yingniang and Bo Ming were still dumbfounded.Yingniang suddenly became excited and urged Boming, "Let's go home and tell our parents, prepare money and go pick a girl for Zhongping!"

Bo Ming was still hesitating, "The family seems to have no more than two hundred Wen."

"Regardless of whether we have enough money or not, let's go home and tell our parents the news. If we find out about this and don't tell our parents, then our parents will blame us." Now Bo Ming also came to his senses, and Ying Ying Mother ran home quickly.

Fortunately, they were not far from Xuejia Village just now, and they arrived home in a while.Bo Ming went to look for his parents in the cornfield again. Not long after, Father Xue and Sanniang Yang hurried home.

They were afraid that two hundred Wen would not be enough, so they took all the 280 Wen they had at home and ran all the way to Gujia Village.It seems that the remaining money in the family is more than Birming imagined.

Because Zhongping was still working in Landlord Ge, it was too late to find him.Usually girls from ordinary families don't know what kind of man they promise to marry.Now that this is the case, I am afraid that I will not care about the appearance of the other party.It is enough for Father Xue and Yang Sanniang to go.

Seeing her in-laws running to pick a girl for Zhongping, Yingniang suddenly felt a little uneasy.I was bought by my husband's family with four hundred catties of food and one hundred Wen for the wedding ceremony. If I really spent two hundred Wen to pick someone who is more beautiful and capable than her, would my parents-in-law think that we should marry her into the family? Is it a big loss?
Yingniang quickly found out the hoe, "Berming, it's still early, let's go weeding in the corn field."

Bo Ming looked up at the sun, "It's not too early, I'll go if I want to go, so don't go."

"No, I'm going too. It's a little bit more to hoe." Yingniang felt bitter at this moment, so she had to act diligently at this time, so that her parents-in-law might feel more balanced.

(End of this chapter)