happy old days

Chapter 11

Three days later, the Yang family sent a matchmaker. This matter had already been settled, so it was a matter of course. However, the Yang family proposed to get married at the end of the year, which caught the Chen family by surprise.

According to the Chen family's intention, after Jinniang and Yan get married, it will only take two years. Jinniang is still young, and the marriage was decided suddenly, so her parents are reluctant to part with her. The Chen family wants to keep her for a while longer.But the Yang family is in a bit of a hurry. One is Yang Zhenhai's younger brother who will take part in the provincial examination next year. The marriage was originally planned to be married at the end of the year, but because the elder brother suddenly came back, it is difficult to get over it. Before the township examination, I thought it would be March when there was no plowing, and it would be impossible to push it any further.The other is that Yang Zhenhai saw that Jinniang was in a hurry about getting married, and always wanted to marry home one day earlier, for fear that something would go wrong, but he also said that he would wait until he got married before consummating the house.Don't just glance at him that day, but Jinniang's appearance can be seen clearly, she still hasn't grown up, and he is not a reckless person, he must grow up to be good, but he has been thinking about it since he came home. , Come here early to rest assured.

The Chen family discussed it for two days, and Manniang also came over after her confinement. She always felt that there was really no way to delay this matter. She was married later than her two younger brothers. On the contrary, he was the last one to get through the door, so it's hard to say in the future, and these days they are spreading the news of selection everywhere, it is estimated that this year will be enough, but it may not be so in the next year or the next.If you marry early, you will feel at ease.

Mrs. Wang is not at all unhappy about this marriage. She always feels that it is a pity that her own daughter is given to Yang Zhenhai. Besides, she married so quickly. Except for some housework, Mrs. Wang has not taught other things about the house. She is not at ease. The girl is so young, the daughters-in-law of the Yang family are nineteen and seventeen, and even the four younger siblings who have not been married are all fifteen. It is true that the sister-in-law is the youngest in the family.If there's something wrong with this, their girls shouldn't be bullied.For a while, Wang became worried again.

But no matter how worried, this day is still fixed, the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month.That's three months left.

After combining the horoscope and making a small decision, Jinniang got a gold ring, which means she is engaged.

The big appointment was delivered at the end of December. Before that, Jinniang was very busy. She had to embroider the wedding dress, head pillow, quilt and other things by herself. Even Mrs. Wang didn't have time to teach her kitchen work. Mrs. Wang sighed from time to time, feeling more and more anxious to prepare for the marriage.

Jinniang prepared the wedding dress at home. Although she only wore it once, it was only once in her life. Jinniang did it seriously.The Wang family prepared ten taels for Jinniang's dowry, which included more than four taels of silver that Jinniang earned from embroidering purses in the past two or three years.Wang also wanted to prepare more, but the family used a lot for their son's marriage, which was almost all of the family's savings.The two elder brothers each gave one tael, and Manniang gave four taels. These days, Mrs. Wang often said that she got married too early, thinking that in two years' time, the dowry would be even bigger.

In the end, before Mrs. Wang prepared the dowry, Manniang brought her son-in-law Zhang Xi over. Manniang hugged their eldest son, and Zhang Yaozu, who had just turned one month, entered the house with a smile.Manniang gave birth to the eldest son and grandson of the Zhang family, and her already stable position was even higher. The mother-in-law simply handed over all the rights of housekeeper to her, and now she is living a happy life.

"Why are you still here at this time. Oh, Yaozu, let grandma take a look. This child looks different every day, look how handsome the eyes are opened." Wang hugged Yaozu, smiling all over his face.

"Tell me, what are you two doing here?" Mrs. Wang asked Yaozu as she carried Yaozu onto the kang.

"Good thing, our family Jinniang is blessed." Manniang asked Wang, "Where is Jinniang?"

"At her second sister-in-law's place, she has been bored in the room embroidering wedding clothes for the past two days. I asked her to go out for a walk. I just saw her go out and enter her second sister-in-law's room."

At this moment, Old Man Chen walked in from the outside, "You two are here, why did you bring the child here, it's almost night, the child can't walk at night."

"Well, isn't there something wrong? We won't go back today and stay at home overnight."

"Okay, what's the matter?"

"Look." Manniang said as she took out a purse from her sleeve pocket, opened it and took out a bank note.

Father Chen saw that it was 100 taels, and looked at Manniang suspiciously, "Where did this come from? Why did you get so much money?"

"You ask your son-in-law to tell you that someone entrusted him with the money."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xi explained with a smile, "Yang Zhenhai gave it this morning, and asked me to pass it on to my parents, saying it was for Jinniang's dowry."

When he said this, Father Chen and Mrs. Wang were stunned, "How did you say that? How could he pay for the dowry? Besides, where did he get so much money?"

"Hehe, you can accept the money from Dad. This is also Zhenhai's wish. The source of the money is not clearly stated, but I vaguely know that Zhenhai has been away for six years. He is not a soldier. Look at these few days People come back one after another year after year, and that one like him may have some opportunities. And since he took it out, I’m afraid he still has a lot of it.” Zhang Xi and Yang Zhenhai are naked dolls who have been playing with since childhood. I used to live in Yangcun, and I moved to the place where I live now three years ago. In fact, Zhang Xi married Manniang for some reason. When he was very young, he followed Yang Zhenhai and met Manniang. Although he was young at that time, he didn’t understand. What kind of love, love, I can see that I fell in love with Manniang twice without knowing what happened. At that time, he was young, and Father Yang never said anything to him. He understood the relationship between Yang Chen's family. Listening to Father Yang Unintentionally talked about Yang Zhenhai's marriage once, and he and Yang Zhenhai are good brothers, so I didn't even think about it.It wasn't until later that Yang Zhenhai was arrested as a young man, and a few years later when he heard that someone was a matchmaker for Manniang, he begged his mother to propose a marriage, and there was a result.

Before hearing that Yang Zhenhai was back, he still felt sorry for his brother, and he was a little embarrassed to see him. He didn't go to Yang's house until the matter between Jinniang and Zhenhai was settled, and the two sat together for a drink. After drinking and talking, he realized that Yang Zhenhai didn't care about his relationship with Manniang at all, and he kept blessing him. Before Yang Zhenhai left home, he had never met Manniang a few times, just those I don’t have a particularly good impression. I always think he is a powerful one. He is a bully himself. Now he looks good. In fact, he was a little fearless when he was a child. He was also a bully in the village. Not necessarily so now.

From the bottom of his heart, he likes the petite, gentle and sweet one. Man Niang is not his dish at all, but Jin Niang is like a gift from God to him, there is no such sweet one.He kept thinking that perhaps this was fate, the two had drawn a red thread at Yuelao.Co-authoring Jinniang should be his.

When Zhang Xi understood, and the grievances in his heart were gone, he and Yang Zhenhai kissed again. Afterwards, the two of them had multiple relationships, brother-in-law, but they became closer.

Yang Zhenhai naturally took advantage of this relationship and asked him to send the money.

Father Chen looked at the banknote and knocked on the table, and after a while he said, "Okay, just keep it, but the dowry shouldn't be too much, and it's not good if it's too ostentatious, the rest of the money will be collected by Niang Jin." So, with money in hand, she also has confidence in her heart."

Zhang Xi went on to say, "And father, on the one hand, he gave this money to give Jin Niang a good face, and on the other hand, it may also mean compensation. His two younger siblings came in first, and the betrothal money was only ten taels, and the betrothal gift was about the same. In the coming year, the fourth child will get married in the same way as the second and third child, so even if Jinniang's dowry gift is more, it will not exceed too much, otherwise the fourth child in their family will be ugly. He feels that he has lost Jinniang, and in addition You can buy a few less pieces of furniture in the dowry, the wedding is in a hurry, the wedding room is in the west room of the main house, and the east and west rooms with the old man, there is no time to build a new house. If you buy too much, there is no place to put it.”

Father Chen nodded. He knew about this a long time ago, and the Yang family didn't have time to build a house.

"Their family probably will separate when the fourth child gets married. Zhenhai should have made arrangements, so he won't live in the current house." Zhang Xi added.

Father Chen nodded, "Well, I know about this matter, so I just follow the rules and it's fine. The two daughter-in-laws in their family didn't build a new house after getting married, so it's okay."

Mrs. Wang didn't say anything, and with 100 taels of banknotes, a new house could be built.The best brick and tile house in their village was built with only 20 taels.So you don't have to worry about the house.

With these 100 taels, Wang's heart is more confident, and she has a lot more money to buy the dowry.

After Jinniang found out, she felt a little warm in her heart, not because of money, but because of his heart. Being able to think so much about her, Jinniang also had expectations for marriage.

(End of this chapter)