Notes on Leisurely Living in the Farm

Chapter 76

Mu Ran's actions were quick, and the collection and mining period, golden pigs and silver coins were placed in Shen's courtyard, and Mr. Tie also calculated the most auspicious date for welcoming the bride.

When the winter snow covers the entire courtyard, Yongpingfang, which is located next to the city gate, is also dyed in overwhelming red.The snow reflects the morning sun in winter and is reflected on the red ribbon. The red, as dazzling as a flame, soars into the sky, competing with the morning glow.

Yiyou couldn't remember when she fell asleep last night, she only knew that she opened her eyes just after dawn.

Mrs. Li got up earlier than her, and when she entered the door, she was holding a red, yellow and green tricolor chicken porcelain bowl.It is a custom in Yunzhou to fill a bowl of dumplings with chicken, which means big "auspicious" in homonym.

"Mother, go and pour some vinegar for you?"

Yiyou shook her head: "If it's too sour, I'm afraid I'll have to drink water later, and I'll have to go to the latrine later."

Mrs. Li hurriedly grabbed the dumpling and tasted it, it wasn't very salty, so she felt relieved.

"Hurry up and finish eating, and you'll have to show your face later. Do you remember what mother said to you?"

"I know."

Yiyou sticks out her tongue, seeing Li Shi feeling sad again.A few months ago, she was worried that her daughter would not be able to get married because she was too aggressive, but now that she was about to get married, she began to worry day and night whether she would suffer any grievances.

Put away the bowl and look at the bright sky outside.It's time for some mothers to arrive, I hope today will go smoothly.

As the morning glow dissipated, Yiyou sat in front of the bronze mirror, watching the oldest mother in Yun County take out the fine hemp rope.

Thinking of the excruciating pain when she tried to pull out one yesterday, she couldn't stand up from the stool.Mrs. Li supported her, and her mother took out the thin thread, strangled one on her face, and held the other in her hand.

"Miss, don't just think about your face, relax your mind, it will be over in a while."

Yiyou looked out the window, at this moment Qiaojie just came in.The Mu family was extremely dissatisfied with this marriage, and wanted to intervene, but I don't know what method Mu Ran used to invite the county magistrate to dispatch.Because of this pile, the bridal chamber did not return to Yunling Village, and all the manpower came from the county seat.

"Hurry up and catch up slowly, but I have caught up with you."

Sister Qiao wore a red dress, and another four months had passed. Not only was the reputation of the Jiang family bad, but all their land in Yun County had been classified as public land. Even Sister Qiao was angry.Although she has her head round now, she still behaves like a girl.

With Yingying's smiling eyes and the dimples on her cheeks when she's not smiling, it's easy for people to ignore her jumping off, and just feel that this move is festive and painful.

"Have sister Qiao ever had breakfast? There are freshly baked steamed buns in the west kitchen. I'll ask Bitao to pick some up for you."

Sister Qiao agreed, and when Bi Tao brought it, she wanted to use a bamboo stick to insert some pieces for her to eat.

The familiar movements made Yiyou happy: "No, I ate a bowl of dumplings in the morning, and the ones filled with pure meat probably won't be hungry again for a day."

Sister Qiao was a little embarrassed, she should use some Japanese when she got married, but she was sleepy, and she only ate two at random before it was time to open her face.

With her making jokes, Yiyou finally relaxes.

The open-faced mother let out a long sigh of relief. This was personally instructed by the magistrate and miss, if she messed up, she would not want to eat this meal again.

Pushing and pulling her hands non-stop, she murmured, "Talk about the first-line birth to a noble son, the right-hand side to give birth to a charming boy, and the third-line play steadily on one side, and the young lady will give birth to a unicorn. The eyebrows are drawn to play Yueyang, and the number one pick is Tanhualang. Our congratulations today You, congratulations, Hexi, on being a bride."

Sister Qiao put down the bowl, and the dimples on her cheeks deepened: "Your brother Mu, you will never be the number one scholar in this life."

Yiyou gave her a push: "It's just a talk, besides, the champion of martial arts is also the champion."

"Look at you, protecting you like this now. I'm afraid I will move back."

Yiyou didn't bother with her, and picked up the emerald hair set from the dressing table with a smile: "I will use this for dressing up later, and add gold ornaments that my mother gave me on both sides."

Mom hurriedly shouted: "The house is full of gold and jade, a good sign."

When Mrs. Li was happy, she added half a dime to the red envelope. Mother watched from the corner of her eye, the smile on her face was even more genuine, and auspicious words poured out like flowing water.

After tossing about for an hour, my mother put away the silk thread: "I have opened my face for so many years, and I have never seen such a delicate skin of a young lady, which looks like that water tofu. No wonder you are so close to the county magistrate's lady, so I just In this regard, you are really like direct sisters."

Sister Qiao hurriedly moved her head over and asked Mrs. Li: "Auntie, do we look alike?"

"Like, they all look good."

After opening her face, she changed her clothes. Originally, as Yiyou, she only wore a fine cotton wedding dress.It's not that Yiyou cares about money, but that they have no way to get the high-quality silk that can withstand embroidery.But at this time, because Chen Xiancheng had turned the corner, Mrs. Zhang also did her best, and directly opened a warehouse to Qiaojie's whole batch of tribute satin for her dowry.

Although this tribute satin was not the fabric used by the sages and empresses in the Yue capital palace, it was also made by the imperial merchants.With such good materials, Mrs. Li was not stingy with the money, she personally entrusted Master Chang's caravan to bring some bundles of silk embroidery threads from the silk shop.

Mulberry silk is not as rough as cotton thread, but Li Shi was born with a pair of skillful hands.It took two months of flying needles and threads, and she was considered to have completed this wedding dress.There are two colorful birds on the left and right guarded by big gorgeous flowers, which look rich and gorgeous.

As soon as Yiyou got up, the room was full of praise.In consideration of her daughter's face, Mrs. Li asked her to follow along while embroidering the wedding dress, threading needles and passing scissors.Speaking of it at this time, she also said that the wedding dress was embroidered by the mother and daughter together.

"Lord Mu is really lucky."

"Miss is handsome and skillful."

Everyone in the room was beaming, Yiyou let someone tighten her belt, and instantly felt that the bowl of dumplings that she ate in the morning was all stuffed into her throat.The mother who came to make up on the other side also ordered it to be tighter, muttering something in her mouth, why the waist looks better when the waist is tightened, and the buttocks stick out to make people look good and so on.

Sister Qiao laughed out loud regardless of the occasion, and Yiyou gave her the look of an autumn queen.The former suddenly remembered that she would have to marry again in the future no matter what, but the retribution would not come back.

She hurriedly smoothed things over: "I think this is fine enough, if you strangle someone, it will be broken in half."

Only then did my mother notice that the waist at her hand could almost be held with both hands, which looked a bit ugly.She relaxed a bit, Yiyou felt a burst of relief, and the stuffing in her throat slowly slid down the esophagus.

"Miss, this waist is really thin enough, such clothes are actually a bit empty."

Mrs. Li was worried: "It's not a loss to her to have a lot of fish and meat on weekdays. I don't know why this girl doesn't grow a lot of meat."

Yiyou didn't dare to refute, but secretly rejoiced.She remembered that Yin's face was like a silver plate in the first few months after giving birth. Although everyone praised him for his good fortune, Yin's only ate vegetables and drank plain water every day like crazy.If possible, she would never want to do that in her life.

"Mother, it's still early and the mothers are tired, why don't you let them have some lunch first."

After thinking about it, Li thinks it makes sense, the bride's bun is the most cumbersome, and it is easy to mess up, so it will save you worry if you put it up later.

Everyone went out to eat, only Yiyou and Qiaojie were left in the room.Holding an apple in her hand, she and Sister Qiao talked about these private things about their daughter's family.

Not long after, the door opened at an extremely slow speed, with their backs facing each other, if it wasn't for the cold wind blowing on their earlobes, she really wouldn't be able to feel it.

"Who."

"elder sister."

"Second sister."

The same two crisp sounds came out, except for Mu Yu and Chang Sheng.The two children ran over after closing the door, and saw the elder sister sitting cross-legged on the kang, dressed in red, her face was tenderer than the peeled apple she held in her hand, her black hair hung down like a waterfall, making her face even paler.

Changsheng has always known that his sister is beautiful, more beautiful than all the women in Yunlin Village and even County Cheng.Out of his love for beauty, he has been very obedient since he was a child.After being able to open his eyes, he loves to play with his sister the most, and gradually grows up to the point where "my sister abused me thousands of times, and I treat my sister like first love" and "my sister comes when you call me, and my sister goes away when you wave". realm.

But at this moment, he felt that wings of light had grown from behind his sister, and her beauty had reached a whole new level.Involuntarily stretching out his hand to grab it forward, holding the wings in his palm, he raised his hand and saw that it turned out to be a strand of hair blown by the wind.

"It's so interesting, why don't I have a younger brother. Changsheng, Mu Yu, come and eat apples. Your sister peeled them herself."

They were divided into plates piece by piece, and Sister Qiao personally carried the two of them onto the kang.The gentle face dispelled the invisible grievances between the three of them at once.The two children were originally afraid of this elder sister who was born in an official family, but the lack of meeting each other added to the sense of mystery.Now that vague impression was completely pierced, and the three playful people quickly became one.

"Someone should come later, Mu Yu, can you take Changsheng out and share candy with other children?"

Mu Yu was worried that he couldn't escape, he just ran over consciously because he saw his brother sighed and sighed since last night.Now that I've seen it, it's time to go back and talk about it.But he was very suspicious. After his elder brother heard it, he might stare at the sundial in the courtyard and couldn't eat.

"Okay, I'll go right away. Sister Erya said it's not good for children to eat too much candy, so two yuan per person?"

Changsheng nodded, and kicked left and right with his small hands: "This is just right, put one piece on the left and one piece on the right."

He was dragged out of the room by Mu Yu who turned his head three times a step at a time, but when he reached the door, he pressed tightly against the door frame.Looking at the older sister in the back, he deeply felt that he had been fooled, so why did he agree to Brother Mu and let his older sister be taken care of by her.

Such a beautiful sister, he can take care of himself when he grows up.

Mu Yu rolled his eyes. He had expected this to happen a long time ago, and whispered in his ear: "My brother is getting married today. There are many big knives used by yamen servants in the courtyard. I will show you to see them."

"Really?"

"When have I lied to you, but I can't let other people touch it. Let's share the sugar first."

Chang Sheng, who was fully absorbed by the big knife, quickly got rid of his sorrow, grabbed the candy and wished he could finish it now.

When the second uncle grandma and Mrs. Wang came in a bullock cart, they saw such a scene.Changsheng and Mu Yu stood on the graphite under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, holding a basket in each hand, and yelled: "Everyone is lined up, and each person gets two yuan. If anyone gets more, the rest of his family will not have one."

It was Mr. Chang who was sitting on the table at the entrance and discussing various matters. When he offered to help, Mrs. Li had bluntly refused.Unexpectedly, the reason given by Master Chang was irresistible: Since the opening of Wuguzhai, Mrs. Li was the first customer who expressed support for his idea.

"We don't know each other well, thanks to the fact that people in Yun County are not xenophobic. Now that your daughter is getting married, I have to help you no matter what. Don't forget to take it to heart, just treat me as knowing a few more people."

Mrs. Li had no choice but to agree, and after hearing this, Yiyou looked at her face that was getting more and more youthful.Mother is only over thirty now, and she is going to marry a daughter-in-law after her birthday. She is really lonely by herself.Master Chang was giving fine noodles, and at the same time he took the initiative to leave Wuguzhai to help, so the meaning of being so gracious could not be more clear.Even if he has the first person in his heart, this is not a serious problem, the dead will never jump out of the grave to compete with the living.

So before the two of the Shen family entered the door, they were startled.Although Master Chang is almost forty years old, he has a fair face and no beard, and there is a sense of elegance in his gestures.But for ordinary people, it is rare to stand in front of him without feeling ashamed.

Seeing the two people dressed up, Master Chang thought about it a little bit: "It must be someone from the Shen family, Madam told me to wait early in the morning."

Even when he said polite words, there was no servility in his expression.Standing behind her second aunt, Wang rarely remembered the sentence that she read to her scholar father when she was young: A modest gentleman is as gentle as jade.

The second sister and the fourth younger siblings really took great fortune. The people they have known since leaving the Shen family are either high-ranking officials or dignitaries, or they have such a good demeanor.

In this way, she was even more polite: "The road is a bit muddy, so we will be late."

After she finished speaking, she handed over a red envelope, Master Chang took it over, weighed it, and took a pen to write on the red paper: The Shen family sent two pieces of happy money.

At this moment, Mrs. Li also came out of the house when she heard the movement.Just now, she hastily stuffed two mouthfuls of rice, but now her lips are stained with grease. This undignified posture made Master Chang stunned, and a drop of ink fell on the table.Putting down the brush without any trace, he handed over the Xiqian sealed in red paper.

"Second Aunt, Sister-in-law, it's just for you to come and support yourself. This year, the Shen family added [-] mu of land. Seeing that the Spring Festival is over and spring is coming, nothing will cost you money. Get the money back soon."

Although comity is a rule, but unlike ordinary people, Li Shi comes from the heart.She has always had a clear distinction between grievances and grievances. If she can cheat an old lady for 200 taels without blinking an eyelid, she will insist on not paying a penny to those who want to be close to her.

"Although the Shen family is a farmer's family, they can't break the etiquette. Don't worry, Yunniang, our Shen family does not lack these two pieces of money. It is a rule to make an even number, and it is also auspicious."

Li accepted it with a smile, and hurriedly ordered Bitao to bring out two boxes of wedding cakes.

Ever since Sister Qiao got married, anyone in the county who got married and didn't lack the money would come to Shen's house to order some wedding cakes.Yiyou will not keep money out, but she will not cut off the livelihood of other wedding cake makers either.So she made a rule that each family will give up to 66 boxes.

Even though Baishi's secret has been made public, her wedding cakes are still very popular because of their unique taste.Now that she is getting married, naturally there is no such rule of 66 boxes, all the wedding cakes are made by her own hands, and after they are made, they are stored in the cellar of Mu's family, and they are just taken out for fresh use today.

The second uncle's grandma is far away in Yunlin Village, and she has also heard of the name of this wedding cake.Now that she has received the wooden box, she is even more happy. It seems that Erya is really close to the Shen family.

"Everything in the city is beautiful."

Just as Mrs. Li was about to reply, a sharp voice came from the slanted field: "It's true that no one asks you if you are poor in the street, but you have distant relatives in the mountains when you are rich. No one knows us orphans and widows about such a big matter as marriage. What's the point of being alive?"

The crowd separated automatically, and it was none other than Cheng Shi and Chunsheng who came out behind.The two were dressed in plain clothes, with mournful faces, and looked at this side full of sarcasm.

"Second brother and sister."

Mrs. Li put the happy money into the box and stepped forward to block the door.She knows Mrs. Cheng very well, and today is the happy day of Erya's marriage, no matter what, she can't let this mother and son who don't know the so-called ruin it.

"Chunsheng, you two are here."

Standing in front of her, Cheng's hair, which was half white before, is now jet black.But the new whiteness from her heart can't be hidden from everyone.

"The fourth sibling didn't even say to invite someone in for a glass of water. Does that mean we are not welcome?"

As soon as the voice fell to the wrinkled and emotional side, people generally sympathize with the weak, and now Cheng's mother and son are sympathized with.

Mrs. Li gritted her silver teeth. The mother and son are now hob meat, and she can't give up a good fruit.

"Yes, I really do not welcome you."

Cheng was startled, she had misread earlier, but Li Yunniang, who seemed soft, had a sharp mouth.Seeing her being so impolite, she started howling directly: "The ancestors of the Shen family..."

The second uncle's grandmother hurriedly stepped forward to pull her, and Wang looked into the yard again, and there was no sign of the two children on the stone mill.

A cold light flashed in front of his eyes, the gleaming big knife rested on Chunsheng's neck, and Chang Sheng embraced the big knife that was almost as long as him with both hands: "You are bullying my mother and sister again, let me go through this test first."

The knives used by the yamen servants were all sharpened. Chunsheng's legs softened and he felt a sharp pain on his neck.

Looking at Changsheng's resolute eyes, he has no doubt that if he does something wrong today, Changsheng will definitely kill him.

"Leng... Liang save me." The voice trembled.

Li Shi looked at his promising son, and seeing the distressed appearance of the mother and daughter, he felt refreshed in his heart, liver, spleen and lungs.

"Fourth brother and sister, you let him murder siblings like this?"

Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows: "Mother Chunsheng, we made it clear that day, besides, our family has an identity document issued by the government, and the names of the three members of the family are in this courtyard, they are a family of their own, and there is no such thing as brothers.

My second uncle and sister-in-law are usually kind people, so I would like to associate with them, but Chunsheng is hard to say.You can see the wrinkled white skin on Changsheng's wrist. It was scalded by Chunsheng with hot tea when he was three years old. The frightened Chunsheng was overwhelmed.

If you can't remember this, you should remember the little crescent on his forehead.Isn't this the fault of Chunsheng leading people to push him down from Yunquan Mountain in spring.

Having siblings like this is like having a colorful tiger hiding by the side, our family can't afford it.I will not explain all the other major illnesses and minor disasters one by one. Taking advantage of today's happy day, let's make it clear: in the future, our family will not welcome you in this courtyard house.If I dare to come here again, I will tell the master of the official school all the things about Chunsheng in those years.

Let me put my words here, the surname Cheng, you see if I dare! "

After she finished speaking, she grabbed the big knife in Changsheng's hand, neatly wrapped it around, and stood outside the door with her head held high.The eyes of Chang Ye, who was helping behind, lit up. If his first wife had this kind of bearing, instead of blindly following the three obediences and four virtues of Miss Hanlin's background, and the two of them fought side by side, would his two children have survived?

Sure can!
At this moment, the first wife's impression in her heart was a bit blurred, and the image of Li Shi's heroic figure got in, becoming more and more solid.

The yamen servant who was assigned by Mu Ran to help asked for his sword back, and stood behind Li with a firm grip.The second uncle's grandmother just wanted to be a lobbyist, but Chunsheng couldn't help it.

"Mother, I told you not to come here long ago, you have to find yourself bored. It's really frustrating to have a bad nose now."

With a knowing blow, Cheng's body staggered for a while.In the past, Chunsheng just closed the door and disliked her, but now he is clearly not saving any face for her.

Everyone was so shocked that they couldn't speak, the son didn't think the mother was ugly, the mother and son looked pitiful, but they had to admit that there was something hateful about them.

"Go quickly, when will you be ashamed to stand here?"

Dodging the sword, Chunsheng pulled Cheng Shi back, but clenched his fists tightly.He knows better than his mother, now that the tiger is in Pingyang, they will naturally be bullied.

Changsheng, one day, I will put a knife across your neck.

Yiyou stood by the window and had a panoramic view of the farce.

"Little housekeeper, now you can safely run to your big brother Mu's arms."

Ignoring Sister Qiao's full of jokes, she nodded resolutely.No matter how close the two families are, getting married is no better than staying at home.Now that Changsheng is gradually becoming a tool, and Li Shi is stronger than before, she can finally rest assured of these two people.

"It's almost time, mothers come in quickly. Miss Huamao of the county magistrate's family, please wipe the scum on your lips, lady."

Sister Qiao wiped the handkerchief casually, and when the dressing mother came in, the two of them were already sitting in front of the bronze mirror, gesturing with each piece of jewelry.

The mothers once again left the impression that Miss Chen County Cheng's family is a lady of everyone, and that the Jiang family's son who married Wang's cousin is really not very good.These old mothers in charge of marriage are all talkative people, and as they walk around the streets to prepare for the marriage of the young ladies of various families, the Jiang family's reputation has become even worse.

Of course, this is something to come. At this moment, the mothers combed her satin-like black hair carefully, and praised her for being easy to comb.

Seeing them take out a box of hair oil, Yiyou felt a headache, and hurriedly refused: "My hair is already oily, so I can comb it like this, and it doesn't need mother's hair oil."

Seeing that Mrs. Li agreed, there is no need to refund the money anyway, and the dressing mother is happy to save a box of gas money.

Yiyou's hair is very good, although it has something to do with her careful maintenance, but most of it is also natural.The mothers sang auspicious jingles, and little by little they twisted their hair into a towering bun of ingots.Put on the forehead, embellish it with gold hollowed-out small plum blossoms made by Mrs. Li, and finally put on the emerald head face given by sister Qiao. The beauty in the mirror is amazing again.

The makeup mother no longer cared about flattering Qiaojie: "The old lady has been doing makeup for many years, and she has never seen such a beautiful girl's house."

"It's really beautiful. More than ten years ago, when the late emperor stayed in Yunzhou, the old lady was lucky enough to meet the precious concubine. She was a real fairy concubine. But once the girl dressed up, she was no worse than that precious concubine."

This was a bit too much, Mrs. Li hurriedly hissed, looked around and saw no one, and hurriedly apologized in the direction of Yuejing.

But Chang Sheng, who was abandoned by Mu Yu and came back alone, regretted it again.But this time, Mrs. Li didn't give him a chance, so he kept him behind and strictly ordered him not to mess with his sister's hairstyle.

Changsheng Gulu looked at it with his eyes, his sister was so beautiful in beautiful clothes.Mother said that being a high-ranking official would allow her to wear better-looking clothes every day, so he had to study and practice martial arts, and being a high-ranking official made his sister wear better-looking clothes.

Unconsciously saying these words, Yiyou laughed directly: "It's good to have this kind of heart in Changsheng."

Changsheng stood up straight: "Sister, I will definitely do it."

Yiyou nodded, not taking it seriously.She never thought that ten or twenty years later, her younger brother would really fulfill today's promise.

Of course, this is something to say later, as the sunlight is no longer so poisonous, it's time to welcome the relatives.

Mu Ran sat on the county magistrate's love horse. Because the two families were too close to each other, he couldn't get away from the county government. He had to go around the whole square, and then entered the courtyard through another door at the end of the square.

Touching his cheeks, there is no beard.Feeling hungry, he thought of Yiyou who Mu Yu had just said:
"Brother, really, Sister Erya is several times more beautiful than usual, and Changsheng and I are stunned."

Holding the rein and walking slowly, until he saw the door, his heart was still full of ups and downs.Why wasn't he the first to see such a beautiful makeup.

The people waiting in the distance blocked the door when they saw the welcoming procession.There are not many people from the Shen family in Yunlin Village, but Yiyou can't rely on Yiyou's popularity as a businessman.Butcher Zhou's family, shopkeeper Wu's family, the folks from Wuguzhai, and the fat blacksmith from Jishang, almost everyone they knew came to join in the fun.

The blacksmith was standing in front of him, and he seemed to be in charge of the gate, and he seemed to be the only one in charge. This made Mu Ran, who was in a daze, sit upright.

(End of this chapter)