After a few days, my mother still didn't give up, and found Sister-in-law Yu in the east of the village.

Because she just heard that Sister-in-law Yu has a distant cousin, because she has just recently quit her family, Sister-in-law Yu is thinking about introducing her cousin to Niugang Village, and in the future, she will also have a confidant in the village to talk to and cheer for home.

Listening to Niu Tiangou's mother, sister-in-law Yu immediately agreed to let her cousin come to meet Niu Tiangou the next day.

The next night, Niu Tiangou was led by his mother to Sister-in-law Yu's house to meet with the girl.

The girl's name is Qian Xiaohua, 19 years old, although she has no culture, she has only studied in primary school for one year, and she is almost illiterate, but her appearance is also Zhouzheng, her body is thin and slender, slightly taller than Niu Tiangou, about 1.6 meters, and her skin is white.

The only drawback is that the face is covered with freckles, especially around the nose, as if it has been sprayed with brown sauce spots, like a piece of glass jadeite jade, completely eaten by black moss, which looks a little weird.

Nima, I really met a "freckled face" girl.

After meeting, Niu Tiangou felt that the freckle girl was generally stronger than the girl with a long face, with height, figure, face is not long, lips are not thick, kissing the mouth should not have the feeling of fear with the hippopotamus, although the face is covered with "soy sauce pockmarks", looking at the heart of some pimples, a little unhappy, but really want to wear, at night, when the lights are turned off, the eyes are pitch black, what freckles are not all the same?

Besides, can it be their turn if their faces are like white jade? His own conditions are only like this, does a 1.57-meter short guy still expect to find a fairy?

After the freckled girl saw Niu Tiangou, she was a little reluctant, naturally because she was too short.

Of course, Sister-in-law Yu understood in her heart, so she talked about Niu Tiangou's advantages.

For example, Niu Tiangou has a level of education and is a private teacher with the highest teaching level in the village, and he is very likely to become a public teacher in the future and eat imperial grain; For example, Niu Tiangou's family has built a new house, and he doesn't have to worry about the house when he gets married; For example, Niu Tiangou has three brothers, and he will not be bullied in the village in the future; For example, the teacher's children are tutored in reading, and they will be better than other people's children in the future, and so on. The words also moved my cousin's heart.

After seeing it, although her mother felt that Qian Xiaohua's body was too thin and thin, and it would inevitably be difficult to do farm work in the future, as long as Niu Tiangou didn't say anything, she would never dare to make a noise again.

Then, Sister-in-law Yu and Niu Tiangou's mother hurriedly discussed going to "propose".

According to the old custom of the local countryside, after the man and woman meet with their liking or not objecting, the matchmaker will go to the woman's home to say yes and seek the consent of the woman's family.

Sister-in-law Yu came back soon after going to her cousin's house, saying that the woman's family asked to "visit people's homes", and Niu Tiangou's mother hurriedly agreed.

Visiting the man's house means that after the family members of both the man and the woman agree, the woman's family (mostly the girl's mother, the girl and the girl's sister-in-law) go to the man's house with the matchmaker, mainly to see the house and the family background.

On the day of "Visiting People's Homes", Qian Xiaohua, Qian Xiaohua's mother, and Sister-in-law Yu and Sister-in-law Yu's mother were eating, drinking, playing cards and laughing at Niu Tiangou's house. Niu Tiangou's father and mother have been busy and greet each other with a smile, as if they were serving their ancestors, lest they be inadequately entertained.

The whole day was busy with laughter, and it was finally enough to send these Bodhisattvas away.

After "visiting people's homes", Niu Tiangou's mother and sister-in-law Yu hurriedly discussed "marriage".

Marriage, that is, after visiting the family, after the parents of both parties agree to this family, the man will also bring gifts such as meat, wine, candy, and cloth to the woman's home with the matchmaker.

On this day, Niu Tiangou went to Qian Xiaohua's house with his sister-in-law Yu with gifts, and saw that people were either smoking or sugar, and gave Qian Xiaohua 200 yuan, asking her to pull her favorite fabrics and sell her favorite clothes.

This is all explained by my mother at home.

After returning from the marriage, Niu Tiangou also heard from Yu's sister-in-law and mother that the next step was to "ask for marriage" (the man asked the matchmaker to go to the woman's house to inform the man of the request for marriage and set a date), "marry" (the man and the woman prepare for their own marriage, and the man gives the woman a bride price, including fabrics, clothes, sewing machines, bicycles, watches and cash), and finally the "worship hall" (the man welcomes the bride home and holds a marriage ceremony).

Niu Tiangou was very depressed after hearing this: Alas, it is really troublesome to get married in this world, meet-propose-visit-set marriage-court-marry-worship, seven processes, is there any end?

cao his grandmother's, who made his ma's broken rules?

What era is it, and it still follows the ancients' set of "Nacai" (the matchmaker goes to the woman's house to propose marriage) - "ask the name" (the woman agrees, and the matchmaker asks the woman's name and birthday) - "Naji" (the man divins the auspicious omen of the birth according to the name provided by the matchmaker, and informs the woman) - "Na Zheng" (the man gives the dowry and the bride) - "Ask for the period" (agree on the marriage date) - "Qin Ying" (the groom marries the bride through the door) cumbersome etiquette steps, Zhen Nima tossed the dead.

It's like the parents of 2,000 or hundreds of years ago, who "lived together" as soon as they met next to the Bilian Pond, saving countless troubles.

……

Two days later, Sister-in-law Yu had already probed Qian Xiaohua's mother's tone, saying that the bride price for marrying should be at least 2,000 yuan, otherwise don't go to ask for marriage.

2000 yuan? Niu Tiangou's parents opened their mouths wide after hearing this, which is undoubtedly a huge amount for their family.

After Niu Tiangou heard this, he was very angry: he gave 200 yuan last time he was married, and now he wants 2,000 yuan, and her Qian Xiaohua weighs no more than 100 catties, so if you calculate it, every catty of meat on Qian Xiaohua's body is worth 22 yuan?

Nima, the current fat pork is only seven or eight cents a pound, and marrying a daughter-in-law is equivalent to buying nearly 3,000 pounds of fat pork.

Qian Xiaohua's mother is going to sell Qian Xiaohua to herself at a high price!

Grandma's, this marriage and love in this world is not about love, but about money.

No wonder Qian Xiaohua's surname is "money".

This is not a glamorous love, just a plain love, because Qian Xiaohua is indeed not a beauty.

After Niu Tiangou's parents listened to Sister-in-law Yu's words, although they were anxious about Niu Tiangou's marriage, they had to postpone the matter of "courtship" and "marriage" until the end of the year, because the house was just built last year, and the family was already shy in their pockets, and they really couldn't get the bride price.

And sister-in-law Yu reminded that her cousin Qian Xiaohua listened to the instigation of others, and had already withdrawn several times, so she should ask for marriage as soon as possible, marry Qian Xiaohua, and cook raw rice to mature rice, so as to feel at ease, so as not to have a long night and many dreams, and make some trouble in the future.

Niu Tiangou's parents don't want to, but as soon as they ask for marriage, they will marry, and as soon as they marry, they will ask for bride price, where will they borrow the 2,000 yuan?

Alas, let's postpone until the end of the year.