Chen Qing collected rent with Liang Zijun last year, and this time there was Wei Liang by his side to coordinate, but there was nothing wrong, but it was not a good year, and the grain was not harvested, and most of the people did not have much surplus grain after leaving rations.

The grain output cannot be increased, and the quality is not good, and most of the families pay grain to pay rent, and few money is collected. How could the Liang family not know that the silver is real money, and the grain is valued according to the quality and market conditions of the year.

Liang Zijun was responsible for the most villages, so Chen Qing had to hire three ox carts to transport grain. It took 13 days to collect the rent, and according to the instructions of the eldest brother, half of the money was sent to the county seat for sale, and most of the income was an empty house in the courtyard.

Liang Zijun's courtyard is occasionally used as a granary in disaster years, and Liang Bo is not surprised to help unload the grain and yard it into the empty room that has been cleaned a long time ago.

Chen Qingyuan still wondered why so many rooms were vacant, and there was not even a table, chair and bench in it, but now that he learned the truth, he couldn't help but smile.

The Liang family is thoughtful, to catch up with the disaster year, if the landlord's family has a large amount of grain, if the security is not even, someone will come to the door to fight the autumn wind, and the family has to benefit the family to follow suit, if in the end can not get the grain, will the farmers think that they are unwilling to borrow and resent?

If you are poor, you will think about change, and if you can't borrow food, the whole family will starve to death, and if you really come to the juncture of endangering your life, who cares about any friendship and kindness? If you don't borrow food, you will make trouble, and even if you don't hurt people's lives, the Liang family will not have a peaceful life to live.

After Chen Qing finished his work, he couldn't help but be tired and slept at home for a day to relieve fatigue. After that, he helped the eldest brother to put a small part of the grain they transported back into the warehouse.

When the accounts were checked, Chen Qingfang knew that the Liang family would lose at least 100 taels of silver in this move, and if the saved grain could be used next year, it would be fine, if it could not be used, it would be sold again in the second year, not only the price of the old grain was low, but the quality was at least 600 taels of silver.

Chen Qing sighed, this good person is not easy to do, and his family has to bear losses and risks, and no one can understand it. At least I didn't know that the Liang family would make so many preparations in advance for the arrival of the disaster year, but I only remembered that I was still secretly calculating the amount of money I had to repay when I got the grain back, and I wondered if the Liang landlord's family had raised the price of the grain.

Ashamed in his heart, Chen Qing worked harder and harder to help work, and the Liang family made great preparations for disaster prevention in the past year, if it really caught up with the disaster year, it would be even more busy.

Liang Zixian took the time to call Chen Qing aside and explained, "Don't feel guilty and work hard, you will be your own family in the future, and some things will be explained to you first, so as not to make you think wildly"

Chen Qing's expression of shame could be seen by anyone with long eyes, although it was interesting to see his posture of working with a tight face, he was really tired, and he was busy explaining the intention of this move.

After hearing this, Chen Qing nodded in agreement, the Liang family did not do this as much as he thought, of course, most of them were to help the tenants, and a small part of the reason was to avoid being unable to cultivate the next year after the poor harvest, resulting in vacant fertile land.

It is said that when the uncle was young, he also caught up with the disaster riots and ransacked the Liang family's warehouse. The children are dying of hunger, and the Liang family is such a big piece of fat, if they can't borrow it, they will rob it, anyway, there are many people, and the government has nothing to do with them. When the government asks for the crime in the next year, it can save the lives of the family, and it is worth punishing a few years of forced labor.

Chen Qing pursed the corners of his lips, and then thought about the intention of piling up most of the grain in the city, and couldn't help but rejoice that the Liang family was thoughtful, the security of the county town was much better than that of the village, even if it caught up with the riots of the victims, no one dared to go to the county seat to grab grain. And this can also prevent a large amount of grain from being seen by people with intentions, which is the only way for the Liang family to save their lives.

These measures of the Liang family are all methods accumulated over the years, and the small landlords' families will not store grain, most of them are only richer than the tenants, and they only have enough food to eat in the disaster year.

Just finished the work of collecting rent, before they could rest, everyone began to gather the items needed for Liang Meng's wedding, and there were 7 days to Liang Meng's marriage, and the dowry had already been prepared, so he only needed to eat the food prepared for the wedding on that day.

Chen Qing prepared for Chen Bi's marriage, so he helped with the errands, the red tablecloth was used for Liang Zijun's wedding, and the family also saved a lot of eggs, and the rest were sent by tenants.

Chen Qing slaughtered the two fat pigs ruthlessly, and replaced them with two small piglets, and the butcher patted the pig's butt and boasted, "The pig of the owner is well raised, and it can be so fat before it enters the winter, but it has eaten a lot of good food."

The wedding feast used two pigs, two sheep, 60 chickens, 30 geese, 30 ducks, and some rabbits and game. Meat is ready, and it is a variety of pastries, sweets, drinks, and other things that should be treated.

Chen Qing ran away to lie down in the county seat, bought back the spices and salt needed for the wedding banquet, and took over the work of chopping firewood. Li San pushed the cart to unload the firewood, snatched the work in Chen Qing's hands, and asked him to help paste the happy word.

No matter what era it is to get married, it is a great joy, Chen Qing can't help but smack his tongue when he helps to place the dowry, this big family pays a lot of attention, although Liang Meng is only the daughter of the landlord's family, but this dowry is prepared according to the young lady of the big family in the city.

Even the dowry was packed in camphor wood boxes, and not only jewelry was prepared, but also some items that symbolized good omens. Scissors (representing the □□ of butterflies, the meaning of never separating), descendant ruler (engraved with hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, also indicating the fertile field), spittoon (meaning the bucket of descendants), vase (indicating the wealth of flowers), together with the old age (copper basin and shoes, mandarin duck quilt, a pair of sheets and pillows, two pairs of chopsticks and bowls tied with red rope), abundant food and clothing (36 sets of clothes, accompanied by lotus seeds, longan and lai see).

The official eunuch will prepare seventy-two sets of clothes for her marriage, and the small family of the Liang family will also prepare half of the faces. Chen Qing closed the wooden box, faintly heard sobs coming from the house, and couldn't help but step out of the yard, feeling a faint pain in his heart.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is the last festival that Liang Meng spent in his mother's house, because the marriage was imminent, no one had the heart to do it, so he made a reunion dinner with just the meaning, and ate a few moon cakes and ended hastily.

Before getting married, the bride is "opened her face" by her elders, which is considered a kind of coming-of-age ceremony for women. A woman opens her face once in her life, and then she remarries and does not open her face again. Liu Hongmei took the fine twine from her mother-in-law's hand and personally blessed her daughter, and the twine was twisted on her face to remove hair and make her cheeks smoother, in addition, her eyebrows and sideburns also needed to be trimmed.

In the evening, the cook who helped make the zuò wine banquet led the men into Liang's house, and Liang Zitong and Liang Miao also came back to congratulate them, and rested in Liang Baida's courtyard that night.

Liang Miao doesn't like this little father who is as big as himself, but he likes his younger brother in his belly very much, and he prepared a bunch of small clothes and shoes before he was born, and he is showing it with his aunt and grandma with a smile at the moment.

Brother Yang moved his body a little uncomfortably, Liang Zixian handed him a piece of pastry, pinched his round face and urged, "Are you hungry?

Brother Yang shook his head and showed a sweet smile, if it weren't for Liang Miao's presence, he would have been shouting that he was hungry, and now that he had something to eat, he hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth and chewed. Liang Zixian was distressed, got up and asked if there was any leftover food in A-Niang's stove room.

Zhou slapped his thigh, and hurriedly shouted and got up, "Oh~ Look at my memory, I patronized and talked to Miao'er, but I forgot about Pingyang"

"A-Niang, just stutter as much as you want, you've been busy all day, and I can't help much," Brother Yang said shyly.

"Then what is it? Hungry my eldest grandson, your father has to be anxious with me, wait" Zhou glanced at his round belly happily, and was busy getting tonics on the stove.

Liang Miao pursed her lips, she was not as happy as her little father when she was pregnant, and her mother-in-law could tell her to stew a soup on the stove, even if it was good, how could she take care of her as carefully as her grandmother?

Liang Zixian glared at his daughter secretly, he knew that his married daughter had many grievances, but her husband's family had never treated her harshly, how could she compare everything with the family?

Liang Zitong didn't look at her angrily, and got up to help cook. Liang Miao threw away the small clothes in her hand, and stomped her feet to help Grandma with her grandmother.

Liang Zixian apologetically hugged his daughter-in-law who was a little aggrieved and said, "This child has made me spoiled, her aunt went early, and she was spoiled before she got married, so she can't help but be a little hostile to you, don't pay attention to her"

Brother Yang nodded, touched his stomach and said, "I know."

On the second day, the lights were lit up in the courtyards of the Liang family, and the fragrance of braised pork wafted out after a while. This wedding banquet needs to be prepared before the son-in-law comes to the door, and when the sedan chair arrives, it is time to open the banquet.

The Liang family did not entertain the villagers when they got married this time, but only invited the elders of the same village and their own relatives, and they set up 10 tables in the courtyard to eat three leisurely.

As soon as Yin Shi arrived, there was a bustling sound of joy at the entrance of the village, and the matchmaker stepped into the house first and said a bunch of auspicious words before leading the groom to enter. The Liang family first blocked the mouths of the men in the ceremony team with pastries and wine, and then sent Li Sanwei Liang out to distribute candy and laisee.

Liu Hongmei combed Liang Meng's hair and inserted hair accessories, and then she covered her head with red circles and went out to pick up her son-in-law.

In the main hall of the Liang family, the groom bowed to his father-in-law and mother-in-law and presented a brief note to welcome his parents. Then the wedding banquet begins, the groom respects the elders of his parents-in-law, and then bids farewell to the elders and ancestors under the guidance of the matchmaker, and then enters the room and recites Liang Meng.

Before getting on the sedan chair, not only the bride cried for marriage, but the female relatives of the Liang family also cried with Liu Hongmei, and even the three men twisted around and secretly wiped their tears, only Liang Baida sent Liang Meng away with a smile.

With a sound of "get up the sedan chair!" and the cannon music took away the treasure that the Liang family had loved for fifteen years, Liu Hongmei hugged her mother-in-law and cried as a ball, Wei Liang sang loudly to marry, and with the end of each sentence, the two men in red clothes lifted the dowry on the bamboo pole and walked out of the Liang family's mansion.

The baby in the village chased the sedan chair to ask for profit, and the matchmaker generously spilled a handful of copper coins, and happily picked up the newcomer.

Chen Qing waited until the childish groom went away, and then turned back to Dazao to help. He didn't adapt to this atmosphere either, so he simply used his busyness to offset the sourness that had accumulated in his chest.

The wedding banquet was eaten until noon, and after the last wave of guests left the table drunk, Chen Qing sat in the middle of the crowd and felt all kinds of sorrow.

"Okay! Don't cry on the big day, where is the daughter-in-law who is not married?

Liang Zizhuang took his daughter-in-law and got up to go back to the room first, and the yard had its own guys who came to work to pick it up, and they were really in no mood to care about these trivial things at the moment.

Chen Qing silently withdrew from the hall and instructed the men to return the things to their places, and it was almost evening when the yard was ready to be cleaned. Back in the yard, lying on the bed, I couldn't help but miss Liang Zijun's days at home, if that person was at home, I am afraid that he would have laughed and begged and made everyone laugh.

The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, and Chen Qing couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning. Liang Zijun has been away from home for a whole month, which is the longest time since he got married.

Time is really not resistant, it has been a year and half a month since he married into the Liang family, and he has not even missed his wedding anniversary.

Thinking that the exam should be finished at this time, I don't know if I will send a letter to inform me of it? Bastard with no conscience! Chen Qing secretly scolded in his heart, and couldn't help but knock his eyelids and fall asleep.