The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 2

Peeling hazelnuts is not an easy task for Yingniang.She first cracked the hazelnuts with a hammer and then peeled them with her fingers.It’s okay to peel more than a dozen or twenty, but the nails hurt if you peel more, and the pads of the index finger and thumb also hurt.

Ying Niang spread out her two palms to see, what a pair of working people's hands!Not to mention the calluses on the hands, the skin of the hands is also very rough.How much work did this Yingniang have to do before to ruin her hands like this?It doesn't look like the hand of a 15-year-old girl, it looks like the hand of an old lady.

Hands are so ugly, what about her face?She traveled here, and she hasn't seen what she looks like yet.On the table is the small bronze mirror that my father bought just now.She got up nervously, took the mirror over, and took a look at her face.

Damn!This hairstyle!It's nothing to braid two thick braids, but the hair is rough and dry, almost like a pile of weeds!Because she was rescued from the river in the morning, her hair was already messed up, and then she lay on the bed for a whole day, and now she is a chicken coop.

The hair is still secondary, the key is the skin color!The face is not like a red apple, but like a frosted purple eggplant.The forehead, nose, and chin are waxy yellow.So how can she be a bride tomorrow?
Looking at the facial features, the eyebrows are curved with willow leaves. The eyes are a bit like almond eyes, but the corners of the eyes are slightly upturned, and they are a bit like Danfeng eyes. She didn't study the shape of the eyes, but she thinks they are pretty good-looking anyway.At least the nose is not collapsed, and the lips are not bad.Obviously she is a fairly good-looking girl, but she has been ruined into this appearance. One can tell that she has been exposed to the wind and sun for many years.

She is a beauty lover, looking at her miserable appearance in the mirror, she feels a little anxious.If it is well maintained, I don't know if it can restore the true beauty of beauty.There must be no such conditions in my mother's family. I don't know what will happen when I get to my husband's house. I don't think I have to do farm work every day, right?
No, she couldn't bear to live in such an image.In other words, in her previous life, she almost belonged to the kind of person whose head could be broken, but her hairstyle should not be messed up; blood could bleed, but her leather shoes must be oiled.

Li Xinghua saw Yingniang holding the mirror with a sad expression on her face, and she understood what she was thinking, "What's there to take a picture of, hurry up and peel the hazelnuts. Look at your mess, boil water and take a bath before going to bed at night, and come back tomorrow." Let Xi Po come and tidy up for you."

Yingniang put down the mirror and came to knock on the hazelnut. She was so concerned with this terrible face that she used all the strength, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" accidentally smashed the hazelnut into pieces.

Li Xinghua was washing the pot on the stove, and when she heard the noise and looked over, she suddenly became unhappy, "What's the matter with you, girl? You're getting worse and worse at working! It's all broken into scum, how can you smash it?" Potato stew?"

It's just a broken hazelnut, so what's the point of yelling?Yingniang really wanted to contradict these words.Looking at her mother's natural expression, it seems that she is used to teaching her daughter a lesson, and she doesn't take it seriously at all.

Forget it, anyway, I'm going to get married tomorrow.These unconvinced words should be swallowed alive.

At dinner, Li Xinghua really did what she said, and she really only let her two sons eat white noodles, and the three of them ate steamed buns.

Yingniang ate a steamed bun, drank a bowl of porridge cooked with cornmeal that couldn't be thinner, and ate two green vegetables, and her stomach was full.After all, these were all natural and pesticide-free meals, and it was the first meal she ate here, so it was quite comfortable to eat.

There is no nightlife here. After dinner, everyone washes up and prepares to go to bed.

After Yingniang boiled water and took a bath, she climbed onto the kang.She didn't have the habit of going to bed so early, sleeping on this creaky kang, and looking at the dark roof, felt sad for a while.

She remembered that she just went out to go to work at 07:30 in the morning as usual, but unexpectedly walked out of the unit door and was hit on the head by something falling from upstairs.After thinking about it carefully, she suddenly understood that there was a house on the seventh floor that was being renovated, and the bricks on the window sill must have fallen, hitting her impartially, and sending her to this ancient farmhouse.

What was supposed to be an ordinary day turned out to be such a weird day.Ordinary people, no matter how bad they are, going bankrupt or whatever, they will only return to the pre-liberation overnight.It's good for her, she went back hundreds of years in an instant as soon as she went out!

Thinking that she would never see her parents again, she cried sadly covering the quilt.It may be that she couldn't control it, and her crying became louder and louder, and the quilt couldn't cover her voice, so she was heard by her parents in the next room.

"Yingniang, why are you crying in the middle of the night? You are definitely better off marrying into Xue's family than living in your own family. Why are you such a dead-headed girl!" Father Lin sighed over there.

Li Xinghua got annoyed by Yingniang's crying, "Why are you crying, wait until tomorrow when you go to Xue's house and cry!"

Yingniang had no choice but to tightly cover her mouth with her hands, holding her breath and crying softly.At some point, she was tired from crying and thinking, so she fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning, she was woken up by her mother before she got enough sleep.She opened her eyes and saw that the light in the room was still dim, and it seemed that it was still dawn.She has always stayed in bed since she was a child, and she felt dizzy when she was woken up so early.

"Get up quickly, cook the porridge first, then wipe the tables and chairs at home, and sweep the floor. There are so many people coming at noon today, don't let people think that our house is sloppy and we don't like it. tidy."

After Li Xinghua finished speaking, she went out with a basket of clothes.Normally, Yingniang would wash her clothes after finishing breakfast, after all, today is Yingniang's coming out of the court, and Li Xinghua knew to take care of it, so she washed it herself.

Yingniang stretched her waist, she is going to be a bride today, and she still has to work, what is this?No way, she got up obediently.

Fortunately, she grew up with her grandma in the countryside when she was a child, and she was not taken to the city by her parents until she was ten years old, so cooking porridge with this earthen stove is not difficult for her, but she hasn't done it for many years, and she is a little rusty.

After getting up, Father Lin first went to the field to see how the wheat was growing, and then came back busy borrowing dishes, tables and chairs from various households. Those dishes, tables and chairs at home cannot be used for banquets.

Zhuzi went to herd cattle, Genzi carried a basket to cut pigweed, everyone had work to do.

They didn't come back to eat breakfast until the sun was high, and then the family began to prepare for the noon banquet.In fact, it is to choose and wash the load of vegetables, and then take out a dozen potatoes from the cellar, and cut up the four catties of bought meat.

Father Lin and Li Xinghua had discussed it before, and they planned to fry six pots of vegetables, and then divide each pot of vegetables into four plates.It means that only six dishes are served on each table, and there is also a plate of jujube cakes and a jug of wine.The so-called wedding banquet is very simple to do.

Yingniang can already imagine that there are pillars and roots guarding the stove, and it is estimated that half of the meat will be eaten.

In the middle of the morning, Xi Po came.Li Xinghua found out the wedding dress that Xue's family had sent a few days ago, as well as the wedding shoes prepared by her family, and asked Xi Po to make them for Yingniang.She and Papa Lin went to the kitchen to start cooking.

Every village has a Xipo.Xipo not only twists the face and puts on makeup for the married woman, but also teaches her how to abide by the rules and etiquette when she goes to her husband's house.People with a little money will pay Xipo [-] Wen for marrying their daughters, and poor families will give Xipo a few catties of noodles or a few eggs.Li Xinghua has prepared two catties of cornmeal and two eggs, and will give them to Xi Po when she is about to leave.

Yingniang put on her red wedding dress and wedding shoes.The so-called wedding dress is actually a gown and wide-leg trousers made of bright red coarse silk.The wedding shoes are red cloth embroidered shoes with a pair of mandarin ducks embroidered on them.

Xi Po looked around her, nodded and said: "Well, Ying Niang, your figure is really good, where it should be concave, it should be convex, and where it should be convex."

Yingniang smiled lightly, she really didn't notice this.

Xi Po wrung her face first, very skillfully.Yingniang felt the pain on her face as if being pinched by a small ant, which was still bearable.

Seeing that her complexion was too ugly, Xi Po put white powder on her face.Yingniang suspected that it was flour, it was frighteningly white.

Xi Po then applied a thick layer of low-quality red rouge on her face, and even on her lips, the powder scum fell into her mouth, choking her to tears.Based on Yingniang's memory, didn't the ancient women on TV always sip the red paper made of unknown material when they got married?It seems that this place is so poor that there is no such red paper.

In the end, Xi Po painted her eyebrows thick and black, like two big black bugs crawling.

Yingniang looked in the mirror, oh my god, this is not a bride, she is a female ghost!
The so-called bridal hairstyle is actually to put the hair into a bun, and then insert a wooden hairpin dyed red, but it is not messy, it looks clean and tidy, but it seems to be older than braiding how old.

Xipo covered her with the red hijab, sat opposite her, and began to tell her how to step over the brazier and how to pay homage when she went to her in-law's house. Auspicious, there is a possibility that she will be divorced and returned to her natal family in the future.After going to bed, everything is initiated by the man, she just needs to cooperate, otherwise she will be considered lewd by the husband.

Yingniang thought to herself, for a strange man, or a young monk who returned from vulgarity, she shouldn't...won't take the initiative to throw herself into his arms, right?
Xi Po said something about honoring her parents-in-law and obeying her husband-in-law, and then went out to use the toilet.Yingniang took advantage of this to quickly remove the red hijab, and seeing that the basin of water on the table hadn't been poured out, she quickly washed her face, washing off the female ghost's makeup, and took out a handkerchief to wipe off the water on her face. clean.She would rather marry with this plain face than scare people with the face of a female ghost.

At this moment, two girls came to the house, they should be good sisters that Yingniang played with since she was a child.Because the red hijab cannot be lifted off, and Yingniang can't see what the two sisters look like.Just sit there and listen to them talk.They laughed and said that Yingniang was the first to marry this year, and the two of them will marry successively at the end of the year, and they don't know who will have the best life in the future.

Yingniang just responded humbly, not daring to say more.The two little sisters only thought that Yingniang was too shy to speak because she was getting married.After Xi Po came in, the two of them said some blessings and left.

At noon, four tables were set up in the yard, and the villagers came very actively.Because Linjia Village is a very small village, there are only about forty households, and a family can only come to one, and four tables are just right.There are usually four tables for wedding banquets for married women, and eight tables for male weddings.

As soon as the firecrackers rang, everyone ate and scrambled bustlingly, muttering in their hearts, why are there only six dishes?And the portion of meat and jujube cake is so small?It's not enough to eat at all!I don't know if I have eaten the two gifts I gave.

At this moment, there was a sound of suona at the entrance of the village, and everyone cheered, "The groom is here, the groom is here!"

Yingniang felt a little nervous when she heard the movement outside the room.I don't know what the groom is like. I heard that he is a young monk returning to vulgarity, so he is still bald, right?It's been more than half a year since I returned to secular life, and my hair should have grown back.

Will he like himself?Will I fall in love with him?

She was sitting in the room thinking about these small thoughts, but there was a noise outside.She heard her mother say indignantly: "There is no greeting ceremony when you come to welcome the bride? This is the first time I have heard of it! My family is marrying a big girl, not a pot of water."

There was a male elder in the welcoming team, and his tone was not polite at all, "You have given so much food as a betrothal gift, why do you need a wedding gift? Your family is marrying a daughter, not selling a daughter!"

Li Xinghua was so angry that she put her hands on her hips, and said sarcastically, "The bride price is a bride price, and the wedding gift is a welcome gift. If you don't bring the wedding gift, my daughter won't get married!"

(End of this chapter)