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To talk about Cheng Linghui's home. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info is also a very passable family in Chengjiazhuang. The fly in the ointment is that there are five sisters, and there is no boy who is a top household.
Cheng Linghui's grandmother died when her father was very young. Cheng Linghui's grandfather pulled a son and a daughter. I can take care of the inside of the house, but I can't take care of the outside. Life has been a mess. Someone matched the widow Xing from the neighboring village. is Cheng Linghui's current grandmother.
Xing's family is a famous Shanyou in ten miles and eight towns, that is, a goddess. Both parents died when he was young, and within two years of marrying a husband, his husband also died. I don't have any children. Her in-laws thought her life was bad and kicked her out. She herself lives in the grandmother's temple.
After marrying Cheng Linghui's grandfather, he treated Cheng Linghui's father and aunt better than his own children. She often said that those who do their job compete with ghosts and gods to eat, and make five disadvantages and three shortcomings. Either blind or lame, or you will die alone. So wash your hands early and don't dry them. But her Xing Xiangu's reputation is outside, and people still come to the door from time to time to look for her.
But if you do good deeds, grandma is also willing to help.
When his father was fifteen years old, he was conscripted by the imperial court. Grandma was afraid that Lao Cheng's family would cut off the incense. hurriedly married his father. is Cheng Linghui's mother.
Soon after my father got married, he went to war and left. The year after he left, his mother gave birth to the eldest sister.
My father has been gone for eight or nine years, and I don't know whether he is alive or dead, and I haven't heard from him. Grandma kowtowed and burned incense every day to pray to the gods and Buddhas to bless her father's safety. I begged all the gods with horns. My father came back with a half-crippled body.
At that time, half of my father's body was trampled by a horse, and he was not aware at all. Grandma went around asking for medical advice. As long as I heard that there was a prescription for testing, and there were people who could see my father's injuries and illnesses, no matter if they were thirty miles or fifty miles, no matter how high the mountains and roads were, no matter how cold or hot they were; Grandma twisted those little feet and carried a bag and went. The baggage contained nothing more than two nests of dried chaff.
Grandpa resigned himself to his fate, and grandma didn't give up. She said that when she entered Lao Cheng's house, she had never done anything hurtful. God wants retribution, he shouldn't look for the children of the old Cheng family. So she didn't admit it.
After asking for a prescription, she got up early and dug up herbs in the dark. It was smoked and washed, rubbed and compressed for his father. Not to mention, my father's health really improved a year later. This is the birth of the second sister. The next year, Cheng Linghui was born.
Soon after Cheng Linghui was born, his father's body miraculously recovered. Although she was not a boy, the whole family was a little disappointed. But Grandma still favored her the most of all the sisters. always said that she was the reincarnation of the stars in the sky and mistakenly voted for a female fetus.
Cheng Linghui has asked her grandmother more than once what star she is. Grandma was asked in a hurry, so she perfunctorily said that she was a pimple star. For this reason, Cheng Linghui was very proud for a period of time when she was young.
After my father recovered, life at home was significantly better than before. followed by the fourth sister and the fifth sister were born one after another.
In the old society, it was very despised that a woman could not give birth to a boy. Although no one in the family made things difficult for her mother, her mother felt inferior. The presence at home is low. Cheng Linghui never saw her eat at the table. She also did not allow her daughters to eat at the table.
But there were two people she couldn't control. One is Cheng Linghui, and the other is the eldest sister.
Cheng Linghui is because she grew up with her grandmother, and her grandmother spoils her more. Accustomed to lawlessness at home. Her mother didn't dare to care about her. And the eldest sister didn't look down on her mother's actions at all, and didn't listen to her at all.
The eldest sister is nineteen years old, and she is already an old girl in the era of common early marriage. If it weren't for the pinching of the tip and the strength, the children would have been two. Now it's hard to have a family affair, and it's still a good family like the Chang family on the bridge. The whole family was overjoyed.
But when the eldest sister heard this, she was suspicious. Do you think, who is the Chang family? Ordinary landlords and old fortunes can't find the threshold for people to lift shoes. That Chang Sanshao is three years younger than himself. It's only seventeen years later. If there is nothing wrong with it, you can look at an ordinary girl like yourself?
She was not a mother, and she didn't dare to say anything at home. However, after all, she is a big girl, and she is embarrassed to ask her father. I went to find my grandmother.
Cheng Linghui followed her grandmother when she was a child. The eldest sister came to find her grandmother, and she was naturally beside her. Hearing the eldest sister's question, I immediately remembered the big bag around Chang Sanshao's neck. Without waiting for grandma to speak, she accosted: "There is something wrong with him." ”
The eldest sister stopped doing it when she heard this, and sat on the bench and cried.
Grandma asked Cheng Linghui: "Is he missing arms or short legs?" ”
Cheng Linghui shook her head: "Neither." "I told my grandmother that Chang Sanshao had a pimple on his neck. While talking, he also learned to speak in the voice of Chang Sanshao. It's enough to make grandma happy. Pointing at the eldest sister, he scolded: "You have a quick temper that burns your ass, what do Sanhui children know." I dropped the melon seeds before I figured it out. ”
Cheng Linghui was anxious, and hugged her grandmother's neck for a while: "I didn't bluff people, I really saw it." ”
"Oops, Sanhui. You're going to shake grandma apart. Grandma pulled Sanhui off her back and hugged her in her arms, but she still couldn't help laughing. said: "Boys will have a pimple on their necks when they grow up. When you get a pimple, your voice will become hoarse. It's not a fault. ”
"Really?" Cheng Linghui was skeptical. Slipped out of my grandmother's arms, jumped off the kang and walked out.
Grandma asked, "Where are you going on such a cold day?" ”
"Go find my grandfather." Before the voice fell, Cheng Linghui had already disappeared.
Grandpa is chopping wood in the yard. Cheng Linghui ran over and stretched her neck to look at her grandfather's neck. Grandpa really had a pimple on his neck. She ran to her father again and found that he also had a lump on his neck. That's when I believed my grandmother's words.
I went back to my grandmother and lived in the room. Grandma laughed at her. Cheng Linghui was a little embarrassed, hugging her grandmother and twisting candy like a coquette: "People don't know." ”
The eldest sister said in the future: "Sanhui, tell my sister." Is that tall or tall man? ”
Cheng Linghui thought for a while and said, "It's so high." ”
Grandma couldn't help but laugh again, and said to the eldest sister: "You ask her what she does, and she can't learn how to speak." ”
The eldest sister still doesn't leave in the grandmother's house. Then he asked, "What do you look like?" Ugly or not? ”
Cheng Linghui said: "It's not ugly. The face is as if it has been smeared with white face, and the mouth as if it has been smeared with lipstick. The nose is like garlic, and the eyes are ......" Cheng Linghui couldn't think of any words to describe it.
When the eldest sister heard this, she pouted and cried again: "I'll just say, you can have this good thing for me." Listen, is it still a person who looks like that? You're going to kill me......"
Grandma's heart is also up and down. But he scolded: "Cry, cry, you know crying." Crying can make things happen, and I will cry with you. "Grandma is the same at home. The eldest sister was immediately frightened and didn't dare to squeak, but she still choked and shed tears.
Grandma said, "Don't worry about it. I'll give you a way to live, so that you can meet those three boys. If you're not happy, I'll call the shots. ”
The eldest sister wiped her tears and went back to the house.
Cheng Linghui asked her grandmother, "What can you do?" ”
Grandma said, "Don't worry about it. ”
However, the next day, Cheng Linghui knew grandma's method.
Master Chang's seventh sister married in Chengjiazhuang. and Cheng Linghui's neighbors in front of and behind the house. According to seniority, Cheng Linghui should call her the fifth aunt. Although this Chang Qimei was raised by her aunt, she is also Chang Sanshao's aunt.
Grandma went to find her. And so it goes. Chang Qimei returned to her parents' house on the same day. When I came back, I came to tell my grandmother that Ming'er's own nephew had come to deliver something to her. Although Cheng Linghui is young, she also understands that this is to create an opportunity for the eldest sister to be a son-in-law.
On the third day, the eldest sister dressed up early in the morning and walked around the gate. The cold weather still has to pull Cheng Linghui. For this reason, Cheng Linghui's boss was unhappy. The eldest sister promised her a sugar gourd, and she reluctantly waited at the door with her.
From early in the morning until three poles in the morning, I saw an ox cart passing slowly in front of the door. It was the teenager Chang San who was driving the car. He obviously didn't know that someone was watching him from behind the door, so he drove over with a natural expression.
Cheng Linghui saw that the eldest sister's eyes were straight. Staring at the empty street in a daze. couldn't help but worry: "Sister, what's wrong with you?" ”
The eldest sister came back to her senses, and her face turned red all of a sudden. slapped Cheng Linghui, and couldn't hide the smile on his face: "This is what you said is ugly?" ”
Cheng Linghui wondered: "When did I say he was ugly?" ”
"Didn't you say that the face looks like a white face? A nose like garlic? ”
"Ahh Cheng Linghui said: "I'm not wrong." ”
The eldest sister blushed and glanced at her: "That's white noodles?" What does garlic look like that? After speaking, Cheng Linghui left Cheng Linghui alone in the courtyard to drink the wind, turned his head and went to the upper room.
Cheng Linghui felt that the eldest sister was so strange, but she couldn't say anything strange. I was frozen in the yard for a long time, and my hands and feet were numb. I hurriedly entered the house.
The eldest sister's family affair was finalized like this. Grandma said that no matchmaker is not hire. I found Chang Qimei as a matchmaker. Find a good day in October and spend a little post. It is a popular name in Shaxi County. It is the exchange of Geng posts between men and women. It's a marriage. The bride price should be given only when the book is changed. The so-called big book is a formal employment document. The names of the parents of both parties, the birthdays of the two people, and the bride price should be clearly written on it. And the woman will give the man a reply. Just write some kind words and a few dowries on it. Because when the marriage is approaching, if the dowry is too much, there will be a separate dowry list to be sent over when the man pulls the dowry. Of course, most ordinary people don't need this list to get married.
Wait for the agreed date of marriage. The man will send another post, which is called a 'wedding post'. When getting married, there are 'sedan chair ceremony', 'sedan chair ceremony', 'door curtain ceremony', and 'opening ceremony', which are cumbersome.
The eldest sister will be twenty years old after the New Year. The Chang family also took this into account, and the wedding date was set after the wheat harvest in May next year. When the time comes, people will be idle, and the family will be abundant. People didn't say it, but my father also knew that they were sympathetic to the Cheng family's family background. I am very grateful for Master Chang's benevolence.
The eldest sister also laughed all day long, only seeing her teeth and missing her eyes. Adults are in a better mood, and children are less scolded. Of course, Cheng Linghui and a few small ones are also happy.
As soon as Cheng Linghui was happy, she decided to take out the box of lotus seed candy given by Su Tong and share it with a few sisters. Then the eldest sister looked at the box with sharp eyes. I have to go. For this reason, Cheng Linghui is not happy. I cried to my grandmother for a while. But her grandmother, who had always doted on her, decided to give it to her eldest sister after seeing the box. The reason is that there are words on the box. It is not suitable to put it in the Cheng family, where the whole family is illiterate. The eldest sister should be brought to the Chang family as a dowry. Because Chang Sanshao used to study in the city and was a learned person.
Actually, this reason is ridiculous. But the young Cheng Linghui was powerless to refute. I could only watch the eldest sister receive the box into the box.
The box is so beautiful. Cheng Linghui was unhappy about this for several days. Suddenly, I thought of 'Gusu Academy'.