Chapter 287: Take a step back
The next day, the matchmaker came to the door again.
The old lady couldn't see whether she was happy or unhappy on her face, but she didn't smile at all with a straight face.
Can't you laugh, Li Dubao was still not at ease the night before, and talked to the old lady after going home, which meant that he wanted to agree to the request of the Zhou family, he didn't want to drag out the marriage, after all, they adults could wait, but the child in his belly couldn't wait.
As for the old lady saying that she had no money, Li Dubao also thought of a way to deal with it, he had already borrowed a hundred yuan from his colleagues, and when he came back, he wanted to discuss with the old lady and let the old lady go to the uncle's house to see if she could borrow some more money, so that she could marry someone first.
He has a job, and the famine of Ra will be over.
Which mother-in-law heard her son say that she could be happy because she wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, not to mention that she didn't like this daughter-in-law.
"Old sister, let me tell you, your daughter-in-law has a heart...... "Mrs. Wang didn't see the old lady's stinky face, but still smiled and said what the Zhou family explained.
It means that the Zhou family has calculated the money Li Dubao has earned over the years, which is enough to pay the bride price and buy a bicycle, and the old lady, as Li Dubao's mother, should think about her son, and wait for her daughter-in-law to give birth to a big fat grandson when she enters the door, no happier than an old lady holding a few hundred yuan.
The old lady didn't feel so happy, after the events of the past few days, she didn't like Zhou Yaping, the daughter-in-law, even more, and the old lady really didn't know whether she was rare or not when she gave birth to a child in the future.
After all, the Zhou family asked for a lot of bride price, and they also wanted a bicycle, which was not a small amount, so the matchmaker ran several times between the two families, and finally finalized the specific bride price a week later.
The Zhou family and the Li family each took a step back, and the original 200 yuan bride price and bicycle became a 100 yuan bride price plus a bicycle, and the three sets of clothes for the new daughter-in-law were reduced to one set, and the 20 yuan for the spare money was gone.
The old lady felt that she was giving too much, but there was a son next to her who turned his elbow outward, she simply closed her eyes and ignored it, anyway, the money he earned to marry his daughter-in-law was earned by himself, and she, the old lady, was out of sight.
The Zhou family felt that the Li family gave less, and the bride price was cut in half, if it weren't for the fact that the girl was afraid that she would get married with a big belly, they would have to continue to grind.
Because the new daughter-in-law already has a cub in her belly, the wedding date should be as far as possible, and finally it was simply set on February 2.
Although the old lady was angry, she didn't leave behind what she should do, and when there was a big gathering in the first month, she led her daughter to buy a lot of things for the wedding.
There are also a lot of things to pack up at home. After setting the time, the old lady asked her two nephews to help, and prepared to clean up Li Dubao's current house, after all, she was going to get married, and she couldn't be dark in the house, which made people look indecent.
The old lady handed over all the kitchen work to the little girl, and made the bedding with her sister-in-law.
It stands to reason that these bedding are brought by the woman from her mother-in-law's house, but the custom here is that the family who feels sorry for their son will also make a set of bedding for the young couple to use, just like the woman's family.
Of course, the bedding on the bed on the wedding day must have been made by the woman.
The old lady was originally very angry and didn't want to do it for her son, but she was persuaded by Chen Fengzhen, and she took out the big head, why bother with these three melons and two dates, and let her son's dissatisfied daughter-in-law chew her tongue, the gains outweigh the losses.
The old lady also listened to the persuasion of others, and after thinking about it, she had already taken out nearly four hundred inside and out, and a set of bedding added up to ten or twenty yuan.
However, the marriage decision is urgent, and it is definitely impossible to buy cotton or anything now, so she can only see who has stock in the village first, she will borrow it, and then return it after buying it. There is also the cloth used for the quilt, and the old lady can't take out so much at once, so she has no choice but to take out two pieces of cloth that her daughter honors her with bright colors.
As a result, the Li family didn't see the Zhou family send the futon over until the day before the wedding. You must know that before getting married, the woman should send the bedding prepared in advance to the man's house, and spread it on the wedding bed on the wedding day.
"What is the Zhou family going to do, when is this, if you don't send the futon, will the marriage be concluded?"
Thanks to the fact that she hurried to make a new set in the past two days, or the new house must not be bare on the wedding day, the people who come to the wedding will laugh at the mother's family for not caring for the girl, but in private they must not laugh at her Zuo Daya to find such a superb in-law.
Li Dubao didn't know what was going on, "Why don't I go to the county and ask in a while?"
"Where to go, at this time, the old Zhou family is still so unconcerned, what do we care about so much, when we bring people back, we will sleep directly on the bed board, I will see who is ashamed." In the negotiation of the pre-marital bride price, the old lady had no good impression of the Zhou family at all.
If she didn't have to get married, she would definitely flip the table and shout to get out of the marriage.
Besides, when is this, when I go to the county at this time, I can't get home until the middle of the night, so I don't have to come back, just wait there for the dawn to pick up the bride directly.
Li Dubao heard the old lady say such things, and was embarrassed for a while, on one side is the daughter-in-law, on the other side is the old lady, his sandwich biscuit is not easy to make.
The next day was the second day of February, the day when the dragon raised its head, and it was also the day of marriage, Li Dubao got up early in the morning and changed into the new Zhongshan suit given by the old lady, which was really a bit tall and handsome.
"Mother, I'm going to pick up someone at Zhou's house?" Li Dubao said hello to the old lady happily, and prepared to go to Zhou's house in the county to pick up his daughter-in-law on foot.
It had been discussed, Li Dubao walked to the county, and then rode back to Lijia Village with Zhou Yaping.
"Well, go ahead, go early and come back early. The old lady didn't want to pull her face on a happy day, so she calmly said to her son, seeing that people were gone, she still went to her own house to think about it, and went to replace the old one with the futon she had made and hugged her son.
"Mother, didn't you say it didn't matter, why did you put it on again. "Yuan Si also got up early today, after all, the family has to do a happy event, her sister-in-law has to get up at this time no matter how lazy she is, and there will definitely be people from the village to say hello in a while, if you see her still lying on the bed, you don't know what to pass her onto.
Yuan Si didn't care about herself, what was not famous, could she eat it as a meal? But the old lady valued it, so she called her daughter up early in the morning.
"Hmph, that's what I said, if people come, go to your brother's new house to see that it's a bare bed, on the surface, you have to laugh at the Zhou family, but in private, you don't have to laugh at our family. Forget it, once in a lifetime, I will be indebted to them. When the old lady had laid out the futon, she went to the hall and looked at the sweets on the table, which were used for hospitality in a moment.
"Hey, you, it's a knife mouth tofu heart, you are like this, you will not be eaten to death by my brother's daughter-in-law in the future!" Yuan Si shook her head and sighed, what she said was what Xiao Fuwen said, and now she feels that it is very correct.
"You girl, what are you talking nonsense, your wife, am I such a useless person, I can't deal with a girl, I have lived in vain in this life. The old lady didn't believe in this evil, "Okay, don't be poor with me here, your brother and they will come back at noon, hurry up and tidy up the kitchen, prepare more rice, flour, grain and oil, don't pick and search when the time is not enough, shame." ”