Chapter 3 Door-to-door

No matter how awkward Li Mei is in her heart, all she has to do now is to obey her parents' arrangements. www.biquge.info If she really smashed the marriage of the Zhao family, not only her, but even the Li family would not have a good reputation.

Originally, Li Mei was famous for her beautiful vision, don't think this is something nice. These were not good words at the time. The marriage of the Zhao family is undoubtedly pie in the sky for them, if the marriage between the two families is not successful, it will not be a loss to the Zhao family, and if they can't marry the daughter of the Li family, they can marry someone else's daughter. But if Li Mei wants to find a better partner than Zhao Yuanchao, I'm afraid she won't be able to find it with a lantern.

Today is the day when the Zhao family comes to the Li family. In rural areas, when a man and a woman get married, they have to go through a door-to-door visit. The door-to-door here is almost like an engagement.

After being introduced by the matchmaker, the man and woman will see the right eye if both parties are satisfied. Both the man and the woman's family should invite each other's family and relatives and friends to their home for a meal. After the two parties have eaten, the man and woman are unmarried.

If both parties are of age, they can choose a date to get married. If you feel that both parties are too young to get married so early, then the two families will first move around as relatives and friends. Of course, there will be another situation during this walk, such as not being satisfied with the other party, and withdrawing from the other party.

And like Li Mei and Zhao Yuanchao, both parties are of age, and when they get out of the door, they have a clear posture and run directly in the direction of marriage.

Li Mei got up and tied two braids for herself, which she hadn't tied for almost forty years. Looking at it from the eyes of her passers-by, tying her hair like this is actually quite earthy, and she feels very much like a village girl.

But now it's different, this braided is popular and a fashion. And it's not like she can tie two braids like this, and you can't tie them if you want to. It's a sign of being unmarried. If you are not married and only tie one braid, you will be scolded by the old man. Or if you get married and still tie two braids, you will also be said to be improper.

These three words are not serious, but they seem to be very simple three words. But if that woman is labeled with these three words, it is still a serious accusation. Therefore, no matter whether it looks good or not, Li Mei still decided to follow the trend of the times and not be the first bird.

Huang Guihua saw that Li Mei got up honestly, so she didn't care about her anymore. I went out and went on my own.

The Zhao family has already said that there will be a total of six people today plus the matchmaker. Nowadays, the living conditions of everyone are very tight, and there are basically rules for the number of people who come to the door. Generally four six, no more than eight. If there are more than eight people, others will think that you are here to eat a big family, and it will make people unhappy. There are six people like the Zhao family, no more, no less, just right.

As soon as Li Mei cleaned herself up, the people of the Zhao family came. As soon as she heard that the Zhao family was coming, Li Mei became more and more awkward, and there was a little nervousness in the awkwardness.

In her previous life, she and Yang Qingguo were childhood sweethearts, and the two families were from the same village. They all know exactly what their family is like, and in order to save money, the two of them did not go through the door-to-door procedure, and directly did the wedding wine. Therefore, today she is still a big girl on a sedan chair - the first time.

"What are you doing here, why don't you go out with me to greet me?" Huang Guihua saw Li Meisilly standing there, and dragged her out without saying a word.

She knew all the Zhao family, but they were much younger than she remembered. In the previous life, Li Mei and Zhao Yuanchao divorced, and the Zhao and Li families were feuded. Although everyone is not very far away, and sometimes they will meet, every time the Zhao family sees them, they look like they want to eat people. The Li family is a little weak-hearted, so they are like strangers when they meet in the last few decades.

"Here, come in and sit." Huang Guihua took the two catties of sugar sent by the Zhao family and warmly beckoned the Zhao family to come into the house to sit, but Li Mei lowered her head and pretended to be shy.

However, although she kept her head down, she still sensitively noticed that there was a gaze that stayed on her. Li Mei couldn't help but raise her head, not wanting to meet Zhao Yuanchao's eyes. All of a sudden, Li Mei's face turned red, even if she didn't look in the mirror, she knew that her face was as red as a monkey's butt now, and she felt that her face had been hot, as if she was burning.

"Meimei, Xiao Zhao, what are you still doing standing outside, come into the house." Sister-in-law Lin Chunhua couldn't help but be happy when she saw the awkward and shy appearance of the young couple.

Hearing this, Li Mei became more and more embarrassed. Regardless of Zhao Yuanchao, he went directly into his room, and secretly scolded him for being old and improper, how could he still look like a little girl at such an old age. Just now, she saw Zhao Yuanchao's face seemed to be red, she really didn't expect him to blush. Thinking that Zhao Yuanchao would also blush, Li Mei couldn't help but secretly enjoy in her heart.

The Zhao family entered the house and sat down, and Li Qianghua and Huang Guihua accompanied them in the hall. And Lin Chunhua took the two sisters Li Qing and Li Qian to the stove room to cook rice balls. Generous people will add an egg to each bowl, and the more generous ones will directly boil all the eggs. These are determined by the conditions in your own home.

When Li Mei felt that her face was not so red, she also went into the stove room to help.

In order to entertain the Zhao family, the Li family pushed out the glutinous rice with a stone mill early yesterday, and the water was drained after a night.

"Meimei, don't make trouble here, just have us in the stove room." Lin Chunhua directly refused her help. "Wait a minute, you can help bring it out."

Today, not only will you have to cook rice balls, but you will also have eggs. You can't let Li Mei spoil it.

This made Li Mei speechless. Knowing that her sister-in-law didn't believe her, she could only stand aside and watch. At this time, water had been put in the pot, and the sister-in-law also cut a large piece of brown sugar and threw it into the pot. If this brown sugar is put late, it is possible that the glutinous rice balls have been cooked and have not yet melted, so this brown sugar must be put into the pot as soon as possible.

Li Qian lit the fire, and the sister-in-law and Li Qing first kneaded the rice balls into a clean basket and placed them in a clean basket, and when the water boiled, they could quickly and directly make the rice balls and throw them into the pot to cook.

"Qianqian, the fire is smaller, I want to crack the eggs into it." Lin Chunhua asked Li Qian to burn the fire a little smaller, so that after the eggs were put into the pot, the fire would be too big and the eggs would be boiled.

After beating the eight eggs into the pot, the sister-in-law and Li Qing made the long strips of glutinous rice into small rice balls and threw them into the pot.

If you eat it at home, it won't be so troublesome, just make it into a small one and cook it in a small pot. And now because it is for guests to eat, each small rice ball is rounded, which is more beautiful.

When all the rice balls in the pot float on the water, the rice balls are cooked. There are only eight eggs, in addition to one for the Zhao family and the matchmaker, the Li family only has Huang Guihua and Li Qianghua, and there is another protagonist Li Mei.

As for the rest of the Li family, if there are leftover rice balls, you can still eat some rice balls, if you are unlucky and there are no leftovers, then you can only drink some sugar water.