take a wife to support the family

Chapter 100

As the new year approaches, the weather is getting colder. Lily puts on a new soft and warm quilt, puts double-layer window paper on the windows, and puts a brazier in the house. Although it is a thatched hut, it doesn't feel cold at all.

These days, she has bought a lot of New Year's goods one after another. Meat, vegetables, candies, pastries, and drinks are all available, but Song Haonian is still out and doesn't know when he will come back. Every time she thinks about this, she is very worried no.

Li Caifeng was used to her husband not being at home, so she never thought that this winter would be extraordinarily cold, and she had never seen such a heavy snow, so she couldn't help but feel worried.

When the two women met every day, they always worried about their husband's food, clothing, housing and transportation. After worrying, they comforted each other: "They are used to walking outside, and everything is well prepared before leaving, so don't worry."

"Yeah, let's take care of our family, and we can rest assured when they come back."

Having said that, the two of them still became anxious, and they would go to Dalukou every day to look at it for a while, hoping that the tourists would return soon.

On this day, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it was also a one-day market. Taking advantage of the clear weather and no snow, Lily pushed the stove for roasting sweet potatoes to the market. While selling sweet potatoes, she kept looking at the road.

Who would have thought that she would really be told to wait, near noon, the sky was slowly snowing again, and a group of people were pushing carts and carrying burdens on the main road, Lily's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't care less stall, hurried over.

When she got closer, she couldn't help but smile: "Come back!"

This group of people is none other than Liu Yi and Song Haonian brothers who went out to sell goods earlier.

Although they were all wearing thick black padded jackets, their faces were red and chapped from the cold, and their lips were black and blue.As soon as they arrived in the town, everyone relaxed and laughed when they saw Lily: "We talked on the way, whose family is the first one we meet today."

Lily blushed slightly: "I'm selling things at the fair, why don't you just watch it?"

She hurriedly fetched warm roasted sweet potatoes, stuffing one for each: "Warm your hands first."

The roasted sweet potatoes are fragrant and hot, warming from the hands to the heart, everyone thanked Lily, Liu Yi said: "Finally come back before the year, the brothers have worked hard all the way, let's go home soon .”

The brothers pushed their carts and walked along the road, and when they went to someone's house, they would send the people and the New Year's goods on the cart, and greeted the family members, full of joy.

Before Song Haonian had time to say a few words to Baihe, seeing his wife pushing a cart, he hurried over to take over: "You rest, I'll come."

Lily just squinted her eyes and smiled, feeling extremely happy in her heart.

Their home is at the west end of the town, and the young couple arrived home last. Lamei had already prepared lunch for the two of them. She didn't expect her brother-in-law to come back so soon, so she panicked: "I'll make some more food."

Lily called her to stop, "There are still sweet potatoes that are not sold out today, and these will be enough."

Song Haonian is not picky about food, he will eat whatever Lily gives him, peel a roasted sweet potato and taste it, it is sweet and warm, what is there to be dissatisfied with?
She nodded and said, "Listen to your sister, these are enough."

Lamei set the meal and put the bowls and chopsticks, Lily hurriedly poured warm water to send Song Haonian to wash, the jacket on his body was clearly not the one he brought before going out, and he didn't know where it came from, it was thick and big, so heavy that she could barely hold it move.

The room was very warm, Song Haonian felt hot after washing his face, opened his clothes, it turned out that he was wearing an old cotton jacket inside, Lily burst out laughing: "I thought you had gained weight."

It turns out that the person is not fat, but the clothes are too thick, and he looks as strong as a bear.Thanks to his height, he doesn't look too ugly.

Song Haonian said: "It's very cold this year, thanks to this dress, I don't suffer from frostbite."

Lily smiled and said: "So, this clothes is still a hero, so I have to take good care of it."

I joked and sat at the table to eat. The lunch was Lamei's handwriting, mixed rice, steamed sausage, and fried cabbage.The mixed rice is only enough for two people. Lily peels the sweet potatoes while they are hot, stirs them into the mixed rice and crushes them, and mixes them into a pot of sweet potato mixed rice, which is enough for three people.

Song Haonian didn't eat such a hot meal for several days, and he didn't have time to talk, just planing the rice.Lily watched it both funny and heartbroken, and said from time to time: "Eat slowly."

After eating a full meal and drinking a bowl of soup, he warmed up from inside to outside. The big cotton jacket couldn't be worn, so he took it off and hung it on the wall, and only wore a thin cotton jacket inside to move about in the room.

The things he brought back this time had been piled up in the house to form a hill, and when Lily finished cleaning the house, he took his wife to show her everything.

This time the leather goods they sold were of good quality, and it was cold in winter, so the income was very good.On the way back, of course, there are big bags and small bags to buy all kinds of food, fabrics, jewelry and other things that are rare in the town. Lily saw that there is even rouge and gouache in the bag, the smell is fragrant, and the color is also very good.

He smiled and said, "Why do you even buy this?"

Song Haonian said: "I thought you would like it, so I asked others to help me choose it."

That being the case, Lily can rest assured that Song Haonian is not such a lustful person, he has no second thoughts about her now, and he will not find a sister for her outside, and learn to buy these things to please women.

Song Haonian mysteriously took out a small cloth bag from his arms, "Daughter-in-law, look what it is."

The small cloth bag was slender and long, not like a wallet. Lily couldn't guess it, so she took it and opened it, and suddenly a yellow and golden hairpin came into view.

Lily couldn't believe her eyes. After looking again and again, she was finally convinced that she was holding a hairpin with a butterfly pattern, "How expensive is this!"

"This is gilt copper, not gold." Seeing Lily's terrified expression, Song Haonian quickly explained.

Gilt is a layer of gold plated on the copper surface. Women in the countryside who cannot afford gold jewelry often wear gold jewelry. Jewelry, but Lily can't afford it. Up to now, she still wears mahogany hairpins and Jingchai sarongs on her head.

There was a wave of warmth in Lily's eyes, she didn't know what to say, hugged Song Haonian's waist, buried her face in his arms, and said sullenly: "Da Nian, you have treated me too well. "

In her two lifetimes, she never expected that someone would treat her so well.

Song Haonian blushed and patted Lily on the back: "What is this? In the future, I will make you really wear gold and silver."

Lily laughed: "Okay, I'll wait for that day."

Song Haonian found out that there was an extra mirror in the room early on, so he pulled Lily to sit in front of the mirror, "Sit down, and I'll put a hairpin in for you."

Lily has been raised for more than a year, and the withered yellow hair has long disappeared. Now the hair is black and black, thick and smooth. Song Haonian pulled out the mahogany hairpin and loosened his hair. For a while, he was reluctant to comb it. to touch.

He restrained his hand strength, and felt that Lily was quite comfortable, so Lily didn't say much, just enjoying it with half-closed eyes.Unexpectedly, after a while, Lamei came over and said, "Sister——"

The second half of Lamei's words were cut off in her throat. She didn't know that her brother-in-law and eldest sister were doing such intimate things in broad daylight, and she didn't know whether to continue talking or go away.

Lily blushed and stood up quickly: "What's wrong?"

Lamei forgot what she was going to say in a daze, and said after a long time: "I should deliver the stove today, I'll go and buy some maltose." She had told Lily about this early in the morning, but when Lily saw Song Haonian came back, she bought it. The matter of Tang was forgotten, and Lamei had no choice but to go by herself.

Lily turned around and gave two coins to Lamei: "Buy more, and you can taste it yourself."

"Hey." Lamei always felt that the elder sister still treated her like a baby.

As soon as Lamei left, Baihe and Song Haonian stared at each other for a while, and then both laughed.After finally laughing enough, Lily sat back in front of the mirror and took a wooden comb to slowly smooth her hair. Song Haonian didn't know how to watch, so he pestered Lily to get the comb to comb her hair.

Lily glanced at him with a smile: "Can you still comb your hair?"

"Although I can't, I can learn." Song Haonian thought to himself, this time he went out to see the world again, and asked people how to treat his wife well. The uncle told him that there was a man named Zhang Chang who loved her. Thrush eyebrows for his daughter-in-law, and his daughter-in-law loves him very much.

Song Haonian quickly draws inferences, and decides not only to draw eyebrows and eyes for his daughter-in-law, but also to comb her hair, so that she must feel that he is good to her!
His hands were a bit heavy, and from time to time, Lily's scalp ached when he pulled it. Lily gritted her teeth and couldn't help it. She took a deep breath, and Song Haonian hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Did I hurt you?"

Lily rubbed her scalp: "This is my scalp, not the ground. Don't use your strength to plow the ground. Take it easy."

Song Haonian blushed, and repeatedly promised: "I will never hurt you again!"

"Okay, you can continue to comb." Lily still has this little love between husband and wife, and she won't get angry at him and stop telling him to comb his hair just because he can't do it for a while.

After that, he moved lightly and carefully, and did not hurt Lily again.After combing her hair, she tied her hair in a bun. Men like to comb their hair. He doesn't know how to do other hairstyles. He can do the simplest bun.

After combing her hair and inserting the butterfly-patterned hairpin, the little daughter-in-law in the mirror had flushed cheeks and watery eyes. She was so beautiful that his heart ached. He just wanted to put her in his arms and put her on his chest. Not separated.

On her black hair, the lifelike butterfly wings fluttered slightly, Lily couldn't help but touch the butterfly with her hand, and Song Haonian caught it halfway, held it in her palm and kneaded it carefully.

Song Haonian lowered his head and hugged Lily: "Daughter-in-law, I miss you."

Lily hugged him back and whispered, "I miss you too."

The sky was dark, the wind and snow were blowing outside the house, leaving people to return home, the black tiger outside the fence barked excitedly and didn't know what he heard.

Lily's restless heart settled down, she thought to herself, this is called happiness.

(End of this chapter)