Chapter 9: Yu Huan
The next day, Zhang Zhaohua got up early, went to the cellar according to Wang's instructions, and dragged out the jar of vinegar, this thing is specially made, and a small hole was drilled on the side of the low bottom of the jar. There are three jars in the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info, which are put together with the jar of pickles in the cellar, and when they are taken out, there is a smell of pickles, and Zhang Zhaohua's clothes are also stained a little, she pinched her nose and hurriedly went into the house to change a set of clothes.
Today, everyone has work to do, Zhang Qi and Zhang Chang went to the field, Wang was going to visit Fan Matchmaker's house, Zhang Zhaohua packed up the big characters for seven or eight days to go to the grain chief's house, and Zhang Sheng was also assigned the task to pick wild fruits on the slope mountain at the back of the village.
On the sunny side of the slope mountain, there is a shrub forest that is not big or small, there are thorny plants, Zhang Zhaohua saw the fruits of these short petiole trees to know that these are sea buckthorn, and the fruits are called sea buckthorn fruits, and the vitamin content is particularly high.
Sea buckthorn fruit is now ripe, Wang will also make sea buckthorn fruit vinegar, the principle is the same as apple vinegar, apple is the name of apples in this era, and at this time apple is not as crisp and sweet as the apples grafted in later societies, one by one is small and sour and thick.
Letting Zhang Sheng pick sea buckthorn fruit is his strength, I don't know what method he uses to make the small fruits intact, Zhang Zhaohua also tried to pick them, and his hands were always full of juice.
Zhang Zhaohua went to the grain chief's house with her big characters after breakfast, and when she got closer, she found that there were two carriages parked in front of the grain chief's house, and there were people carrying things.
"Uncle Geng-" Zhang Zhaohua's eyes lit up, "You're back!"
The middle-aged man who was called Uncle Geng turned his head and saw Zhang Zhaohua, walked over with a smile and picked her up twice, and said: "Hua Nan, it's still so light, it doesn't grow a few taels of meat, it looks like it's not very delicious in the countryside, you go to the city with me for a few months, it must not be like this." ”
Before Zhang Zhaohua could answer, he heard the grain chief standing on the steps and scolding: "What's wrong with coarse tea and low rice, you have meat to eat now, and you have forgotten about coarse tea and low rice?"
As soon as he heard the grain chief's angry scolding, Zhang Geng immediately straightened his neck and stood up straight, Zhang Zhaohua knew as soon as he saw his reaction that she had heard how Zhang Geng was asked to read when he was a child, it was said that he ate vegetables all day long, and he only ate meat when he read books to the same height as him.
As the youngest son of the grain chief, although the grain chief's requirements for him are lower than those of the eldest son, they are also very strict. The eldest son of the grain chief has already gone to the Guozijian, and now only one younger son is left to serve under his knees, Zhang Zhaohua naturally does not want the father and son in front of him to have any estrangement, especially because of his own reasons.
"The chaimen is open and closed by the wind, and the thatched hut is idle all day long. Zhang Zhaohua suddenly said: "Yimei and bamboo, three poles of the red sun." When the children came, the master said yes, and Mei asked for a new poem and bamboo to say hello. There is nothing to do, only coarse tea and light rice, and there is all the joy. ”
The grain chief was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "Can you still graft like this!"
Zhang Geng also smiled: "It's so ingenious, it's more seamless than the original word-"
This poem is mixed and matched, not only escort but also in line with the artistic conception, but also the result of Zhang Zhaohua's urgency, seeing that the effect is good, she breathed a sigh of relief, struggled down from Zhang Geng's arms, and walked to the grain chief's side.
The grain chief tugged at her pigtails and said, "You go to the house to find your grandma, Brother Duan'er is also here, and you play with him." ”
Zhang Zhaohua was originally very happy, but when she heard Brother Duan'er's name, she was immediately depressed, but she still nodded obediently and went to the back room.
Before he could enter the house, he heard a burst of laughter, one of whom had a particularly clever tongue, and was telling a joke: "The two sons ate together, and asked the father what he used to eat, and the father said, 'The ancients looked at the plum to quench their thirst, so you can take a look at the dried salted fish hanging on the wall, and eat it, so that you can eat.'" And the sons did as they were told. ”
When Zhang Zhaohua lifted the curtain and went in, the joke was just finished: "Suddenly the youngest son shouted: 'Brother took a second look. Daddy replied, 'Salty him.' ’”
Zhang Zhaohua raised her eyes and saw that the woman who told the joke was lying on the desk and laughing very loudly, she had two children around her knees, and she looked at her and laughed inexplicably; an old servant woman next to her laughed with her; and the wife of the grain chief sat on the other side of the table, and when she saw her coming, she beckoned her to come over.
Zhang Zhaohua went up to greet the grain chief's wife, and saluted the woman again, catching a glimpse of the woman wearing silk clothes, but she still looked bloated, and had an epiphany in her heart.
This woman is the little daughter-in-law of the grain chief, that is, Zhang Geng's mother-in-law, it is said that her mother's family is also a big squire, but because she lives in Yongcheng County, she claims to be from the city, so she has to be different from the countrymen.
And see that she is wearing a silk jacket skirt, this dress is light and thin, and it should not look bulging, it is nothing more than that she still has a cotton undershirt in it, so she can hold it up - this is also the rule of the dynasty, at this time, men and women are not allowed to use gold embroidered brocade silk silk, stop using silk and silk yarn, jewelry, bracelets are not allowed to use gold and jade, pearls and emeralds, stop using silver, and folk women's dresses can only use purple, not gold embroidery, robes and robes are not allowed to use purple, green, peach and light colors, not red, crow green, yellow.
So this Zhang Yue's wore a peach-colored jacket skirt, a finger-thick silver hairpin on his head, and two silver earrings on his ears.
"Yo, Ah Hua has grown so big," Zhang Yueshi raised his eyes and looked at her, and said, "Look at my memory, Ah Hua is a few years older than our brother Duan'er, I'm afraid it's only a few years before I say goodbye!"
Zhang Zhaohua raised her head from the chest of Mrs. Grain Chief, she saw that a trace of anger did flash in Mrs. Grain's eyes, but she still didn't speak.
Zhang Zhaohua sighed in his heart.
Mrs. Grain Chief is from a family, has a harmonious personality and holds her own identity, does not care about her daughter-in-law, and her dough-like temperament has been touched by Zhang Yue's family.
When she first came in, she heard the joke of the father and son eating with salted fish, and when she heard it, she knew that it meant something else. The three of them looked at it and didn't eat it, but they just said that the grain chief did not allow the two sons to participate in the imperial examination; the elder brother took a second look, which was nothing more than a means that the eldest son of the grain grew up and went to the Guozijian to make a living, and the last sentence "salted him to death" was Zhang Yue's finishing touch, which was satirizing the eldest brother and the grain chief, which was obviously a mentality of not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality.
This daughter-in-law is at ease when she is doing well! But this is someone's housework, Zhang Zhaohua just can't get used to it, and there is no reason to get involved-
Before she could make up her mind, she heard Zhang Yueshi smile and said, "I still have a joke here, and it's even more interesting to tell it." ”
Saying that, she said to herself: "It is said that there is a family that has just given birth to a son, and a matchmaker has come to the door to be a matchmaker, and when I asked, it was for a two-year-old girl." When the man heard this, he was furious and said: 'My son is one year old, and his daughter is two years old, and if my son is ten years old, then his daughter will not be twenty years old!'
Zhang Zhaohua looked down, as early as she entered the house, Duan Ge'er, who was looking at her shyly, saw her gaze, and suddenly shrank his neck and hid behind the old servant.
This Duan Ge'er is the only son of Zhang Geng and Yue's family, and he came late, he is five years old this year, and he is loved by the husband and wife as eyeballs.
Since the grain chief accepted Zhang Zhaohua to teach at home, Yue's family was always suspicious, thinking that the grain chief wanted to match her to Duange'er as a daughter-in-law, so he raised her since childhood - in this era, especially in rural areas, there are many such child daughters-in-law, and it is understandable for Zhang Yue's to think so. In the joke she told, the girl was one year older than the boy, and Zhang Zhaohua was one year older than Brother Duan. Who is the insinuation, Zhang Zhaohua naturally knows it.
Zhang Zhaohua looked at the silent grain chief's wife and the chattering Zhang Yue's family, and became depressed in his heart, the contrast between this pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is too great, why didn't Zhang Yue's learn a little bit of her mother-in-law's temperament?
She also has an epiphany now, she has no intention of Duange'er, so she naturally looks at Zhang Yue's face as hateful - but in the future, she will also marry, maybe the family she marries to, her mother-in-law and Zhang Yue's family are more difficult to do, what should she do at that time?
Don't care about it so far - Zhang Zhaohua puffed out his cheeks, and he had to beat Zhang Yue's arrogance first.