Chapter 8 Red Roots

"When are you going to get married?" Li Mei asked in a low voice. Although everyone has reached www.biquge.info the age of talking about marriage, after all, they are still unmarried girls, and it is not good to ask this loudly in front of the old and young masters of the whole village, so Li Mei's voice is very low when she asks, and only the two of them can hear it.

"The date has been set, and it is the last day of the month." Wang Mingxiang also asked in a low voice. Wang Mingxiang is two years younger than Li Mei, but Wang Mingxiang was engaged when he was sixteen years old. She has been engaged to the man for two years, and the man has been urging marriage, but their family has been reluctant, and recently they have finally relented.

"If you haven't married yet, you must come to see off your relatives." Wang Mingxiang was not shy when she talked about her marriage, and invited Li Mei to send her relatives.

The so-called send-off means that on the day of the wedding, the man comes to pick up the woman, and the woman's relatives and friends want to give the marriage. It's a custom that is common in many places, but it's a little different here.

Relatives in other places are basically the woman's own brothers and sisters. But they are not in this place, as long as they are relatives and friends of their own family, or they come to add incense (add makeup), then the woman's owner will invite these people to send their relatives. In this way, the number of people who send relatives is relatively large, and the number of people who send relatives goes more, and sometimes the man's side will have opinions.

However, the custom is so. But everyone understands in their hearts that everyone's life is not well-off, and each family only sends a representative at most to mean it, but there are also those who are thick-skinned and will go out with the whole family. However, such people are in the minority, and not everyone will encounter such a superlative.

And Li Mei and Wang Mingxiang are not relatives and friends, but her good friends, and when the time comes, Li Mei will go to see off her relatives as a young man (bridesmaid).

In the last life, Li Mei married earlier than Wang Mingxiang, so naturally she had no chance to send her relatives. This time, because of some generational changes, she should be able to send her relatives.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Mingxiang mentioned this, Li Mei happily agreed.

Wang Mingxiang's husband who is going to marry will be regarded as a celebrity here in the future. Li Mei thinks that Wang Mingxiang is married very well, and she has not suffered much in the past. My husband doesn't say anything to her, and my husband is also very capable. It should be said that he is very smart, after the reform and opening up, he was the first to go to the coastal city to work, and when the young people in the village also went out to work in the mountains, he had already started a small business.

Although he did not become the big boss of a large company, he also ran to a well-off life early. Anyway, it's stronger than her and Yang Qingguo's two lifelong lands. Anyway, she was quite envious of Wang Mingxiang at that time, and if she did it all over again, she would still be a little envious of her.

However, envy is envy, but Li Mei is not jealous, she believes that as long as she works hard, she can also live a good life.

"Meimei, rest for a while." Wang Mingxiang pulled Li Mei to rest. Li Mei looked back and saw that the red vine had been cut out a lot, and she couldn't dig it up for a while, so she listened to her and went to the side to rest.

After resting like this for a while and working for a while, Li Mei felt that she was really not tired. But the next day, I had back pain and couldn't get out of bed. She hadn't done anything like yesterday in nearly twenty years, and she was really unaccustomed to it for a while.

However, in addition to being a little uncomfortable on the first day, I gradually got used to it.

After all the members of the club had dug up all the red roots, Lin Chunhua took the two sisters, Li Qing and Li Qian, to pick up the red roots. It is to pick up those red lotus that have not been cleaned up, and if you pick up a large or good red lotus, you can also keep it for your own food. Those small ones can also be boiled to feed the chickens and save food for the family.

But Li Mei stayed and cooked red lotus with Huang Guihua. This dried red weed is not boiled and eaten at home, but used for banquets.

In order to save money, Huang Guihua plans to use dried red lotus instead of melon seed candy. Anyway, I also planted some red lotus in my own land, and it is not expensive to make dried red roots.

Before the frost, the yellow osmanthus was dug back. Today, just wash the red vetch and make it dry.

"I don't know if Xiao Zhao has arrived in the army?" Huang Guihua, who was washing the red lotus, suddenly asked.

"It must have arrived a long time ago." He's been gone for almost ten days, how can he not have arrived yet.

"It's not good to marry a soldier, and the husband and wife will have to live apart for a long time in the future." Huang Guihua was a little dissatisfied with this. Just like this time, if the army wants you to go back immediately, then you have to go back immediately, and there will be no discussion at all.

"And you're going to let me marry him?" Huang Guihua suddenly said this, which surprised Li Mei. She thought she was very satisfied with this marriage, but she didn't expect that there was something that made her dissatisfied.

"These are two different things." Huang Guihua glanced at Li Mei, "Let's not talk about Xiao Zhao's personality first, let's just talk about his monthly allowance, you go to the neighborhood to inquire, whose salary is higher than his." ”

In Huang Guihua's view, Zhao Yuanchao is the one who eats imperial grain and serves an iron rice bowl. Li Mei married in the past, and then she followed to enjoy happiness. Not only does Huang Guihua think so, but I'm afraid everyone is like this.

"Meimei, let me tell you, I have agreed with your father about this marriage, don't think about it. Didn't Xiao Zhao leave you an address, if you have time to think about this, it is better to ponder and write a letter to Xiao Zhao. ”

Writing a letter to Zhao Yuanchao, Li Mei really didn't think about it. However, Li Mei thinks this method is very good. In order to forget that he was her brother-in-law, she had to understand what kind of man he was as a woman......

"By the way, when I write a letter, I also ask him if he likes the dried red lettuce, if he likes it, let's send him some." Huang Guihua reminded, "Although it's not a good thing, I'm afraid he hasn't eaten it for many years since he left home, so it's not bad for him to taste the taste of his hometown." ”

"yes, I see." Li Mei also thinks this proposal is quite good.

Since the marriage was set, Huang Guihua, the mother-in-law, has been thinking about Zhao Yuanchao's son-in-law all the time, just like now, I can't forget to send him some red hair at home.

After the red lotus was washed, the two mothers and daughters used a knife to remove the red lotus skin. Then throw it into a pot and cook over high heat. After cooking, when the red lotus is no longer hot, use a knife to cut the cooked red lotus into strips. Once it's cut, it's ready to dry in the sun.

If it rains for several days in a row, the red will grow mold, and if you are unlucky, the red will basically be broken and you can't want it.

Therefore, you have to choose a sunny day to do red roots. Today they are very lucky, the sun has been very strong, this good red lettuce dried for such a day, even if it rains tomorrow, it will not grow mold and spoil.