take a wife to support the family

Chapter 101

Next to the stove in Song Haonian's house, there is a statue of the Stove King Bodhisattva, with a small couplet on it: God says good things, and the next generation will be safe.

According to folklore, the Stove King Bodhisattva can supervise the big and small affairs of a family, check people's merits and sins, and go to heaven for settlement at the end of the year.Therefore, it is a local custom not to throw bowls and pots, let alone throw and fold chopsticks. Chopsticks are the crutches of the Stove King Bodhisattva.

Lamei rushed back to buy caramel before the gathering, and first helped Lily pack up the new year's goods brought back by Song Haonian. Many things couldn't fit in Lily's room, and they had to be piled up in her room.

While tidying up, she thought to herself: Big brother-in-law treats big sister really well, I don't know what kind of things I will meet in the future...

Naturally, she also saw the golden hairpin on Lily's temple, she was happy and envious, she was happy that her elder brother-in-law was considerate to her elder sister, but envious was wondering if her lover would treat her like this in the future.

Lily was a little uncomfortable, and touched her head: "Does it look a little weird?" She never wears accessories on her body, and it was the first time she wore a hairpin, and she was not used to it.

Lamei shook her head, said with a smile, "Your skin is white, you look good in this!"

Lily pursed her lips and smiled, Song Haonian only knew how to praise her for her good looks, but couldn't tell where she was good looking, as expected, girls had more discernment.

In the evening, I eat oil and vinegar noodles, served with sautéed bacon with kimchi, and it was dark soon after eating. Lily made a list of things for the stove: a pair of candles inserted on the steamed buns, placed in front of the portrait of the Stove King Bodhisattva, as well as drinks and some side dishes .

In some places, "men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the stove", but Qingliu Town is not so particular. Women can participate in moon worship and stove sacrifices.After all, the housewife is responsible for the food and clothing expenses of the family. If the woman is not responsible, the family will not be able to live well.

Song Haonian lit a candle with a fire pocket, lit three incense sticks with the candle, bowed three times, put it in the small incense burner, and prayed in a low voice.Lily was next to him, and when she heard some words praying for the safety of the house, she also silently said in her heart: "May the coming year be safe and safe, and everything goes well."

Song Haonian poured another glass of wine in front of the portrait, and then stuck caramel on the mouth of the Stove King Bodhisattva to prevent him from speaking ill in heaven, then took off the portrait and stuffed it into the stove to burn it.

A wisp of green smoke curled up, which means that the Stove King Bodhisattva has gone to heaven. Song Haonian looked at the pumpkin seeds, apples, pears and other things on the plate, and grabbed some for wintersweet as well, "This thing brings good luck, try it all .”

Lamei carried the pumpkin seeds back to her room, Lily put the food on the table, went to the kitchen with two buckets of hot water, and sent Song Haonian to take a bath.

Only then did she realize that Song Haonian had lost a lot of weight when she went out this time, and the ribs on her thin body protruded one after another, like reliefs.She was horrified and distressed at the same time: "Why are you so thin!"

Song Haonian hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I'm fine, I just didn't eat well on the way." I'm used to my wife's cooking, the more I eat and sleep outside, the more I miss home.

Lily forced a smile: "Since that's the case, I'll take good care of it when I get back." As she spoke, her voice trembled, and a line of tears fell down.

This time Song Haonian was terrified, he stood up from the water and wanted to hug Lily, but seeing that he was dripping wet and didn't have to stain her clothes, he rubbed his hands anxiously: "Don't cry, don't cry what."

He is a big man, he has always been careless, even if he asks his parents and brothers to drive him out of the house, it is just a cold heart.As soon as Lily cried, he felt as if his heart was grasped by hands, dipped it in the sour juice, and then wrung it dry.

Sore and sore, very sad.

Seeing that he was in such a hurry, Lily was obviously sad, tasted a little sweetness from the sadness, and scolded him: "Sit back quickly! It's cold, what do you look like!"

Song Haonian sat back in the bathtub and laughed: "Daughter-in-law, I won't make you angry, so don't be sad."

Lily sighed: "Where is it that you provoke me, don't I feel sorry for you?"

My family is not a wealthy family, and I don't have the conditions to have a good life. If I want to live a good life, I must work hard.It's one thing to understand the truth, but her love for Song Haonian will not be any less, and she is full of thoughts of trying to make up for him during the Chinese New Year.

"I know you love me." Song Haonian looked at Lily, and the more he looked at her, the more he loved her. He couldn't help holding her hand and probing down, "Then you love this place first..."

Lily's hands were scalded, and her whole body was on fire. She pretended to give him a fierce look: "What are you doing?"

But Song Haonian loves her fierce appearance the most, like a cat with a milky voice, not scary at all, but makes his heart itch.

Song Haonian jumped up from the water, pulled off the handkerchief and wiped his body dry, then hugged Lily with his iron-like arms: "Give birth to a baby!"

Have a good night.

The next day on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, it is customary to sweep the dust. Lily got up early in the morning and covered the bed, stove, chest of drawers and other items, put on old clothes, scarves and handkerchiefs, and Song Haonian and Lamei also dressed in the same way.

The dust that has accumulated for a year should be swept out on this day, so as to welcome the New Year cleanly.Lily is diligent on weekdays, tidying up the inside and outside of the house, so the work of sweeping the dust is easier.

Tie a long bamboo pole to the back of the broom to reach the cobwebs and soot from high places. Tables and cabinets are also moved away, and the dusty corners must be cleaned.

The changed sheets and dirty clothes are soaked in water, and the clothes have to be washed after the dust is swept.

The dust was choking, Lily turned out the mask and put it on, only her eyes were exposed.The job of cleaning the high places was handed over to Song Haonian, and she just fetched water and scrubbed the furniture, until the inside and outside of the house were all shiny, and there was no trace of dust in sight, then it was over.

After changing the dirty clothes and soaking them in the water, the clothes and quilts to be washed were piled high in the basin, and the hands of lily and wintersweet were soaked in the water, like carrots.

Song Haonian loves his daughter-in-law very much, and when he is no longer stingy with firewood, he keeps boiling hot water and pouring it into the basin. He still wants to wash his clothes, but Lily refuses to let him. He has worked so hard outside this trip, and she is reluctant to go home Make him do too much work.

After washing the clothes and hanging them on the fence, everyone washed their hair and wiped their bodies, and it was dusk when they finished their work.Everywhere in the house is bright and clean, and people are neatly tidied up. The beds are neatly spread out with freshly made quilts that have been dried in the sun.

When these quilts were put in the box, in order to prevent mold and insects, Lily picked some camphor leaves and dried them in the box instead of mothballs.The bedding is naturally stained with the smell of camphor and the sun, which makes people feel warm and joyful in their hearts.

After dinner this day, the young couple went back to Dunlun, Song Haonian was very satisfied, he put his arms around Lily and told her what he saw on the road: "When it snowed heavily, we were all fine and just wanted to find a foot quickly. Stay in the store. Who would want to faintly hear someone calling for help, none of them heard it, but I have good ears and heard it."

"Then you guys went to save people?" Lily asked in vain. Her husband had been a rascal for several years when he was young, and he had never done anything bad since he married Liu Yi and others. On a snowy day, I met someone calling for help on the road, and there was no one who refused to help.

Song Haonian said: "That's right. We went over and saw a big carriage overturned on the ground - in the future I will earn enough money to buy you a carriage like that. It is spacious and comfortable."

He thought about it for a while, and then told the story, "That place was originally a pit. After the snow covered it, the coachman just regarded it as a flat ground. He drove the cart so fast, but then it fell over? The driver and the owner inside were injured by the fall. If we hadn't heard, I'm afraid we would freeze to death in the snow."

Don't look at the good weather these days, it's not fun to get injured in the wild in heavy snow. In what year can a few people freeze to death?It's just that he can't die from the cold. If someone takes a fancy to the money on his body and kills him for money, and his body is buried in the heavy snow, no one will find it until the beginning of next spring.

According to him, the person in the car was a businessman who was doing business in the capital. He was in a hurry to go home for the New Year, and he didn't want to overturn the car on the road. If he hadn't met Liu Yi and the others, the consequences would have been disastrous.

Rescuing people is the end, Liu Yi and the others wound up the businessman and the coachman for the time being, put a splint on their legs, and sent them to the nearest town.

The businessman asked someone to deliver letters to his family, thanked them a thousand times, paid them for big padded jackets, and sent them many things.

It was only then that Lily realized that the things Song Haonian brought back were gifts from the businessman.

Song Haonian said with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, that Uncle Wang is just like you, he likes to look at my face."

Lily was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "I'm your wife, who is Uncle Wang! It's probably because you look good and want to take you in as a son-in-law."

Song Haonian scratched his head: "He asked me if I was married, and I told him I was married, and my wife is very nice!"

The room was dimly lit, and Lily smiled slightly.

"The rouge, gouache, and hairpins I brought back this time were chosen by Uncle Wang for me. Do you look okay?"

Lily said: "Very good, if you hadn't gone through this experience, I wouldn't need such a good thing."

Song Haonian said happily: "A good person like you should use the best things."

He always felt that his daughter-in-law was capable and smart, and it was a hardship to follow him. Fortunately, Lily never complained, lived with him wholeheartedly, cared for him, and cared for him. He wished he could give her his heart so that she would never suffer I feel a little wronged.

Lily thought, the businessman named Wang Jin might have taken a fancy to Song Haonian for his good looks and good heart from the very beginning, so he really wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law.

Unexpectedly, this idiot never had second thoughts about her, so Uncle Wang had no choice but to put his flag down and just treat her as a righteous man as a friend.

It was her greatest luck to meet this man.

(End of this chapter)