Chapter 6: The Reconciliation of the Two Families

The Zhao family counted up, and Zhao Xiaoliu only knew her father. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info her grandparents. The name of her great-grandfather and great-grandmother.

Zhao Xiaoliu's great-grandfather is named Zhao Chao'an, he is an old talent, and Zhao Xiaoliu doesn't know where he marries his wife, and I heard that it is a very far place. Great-grandmother's name is also very good, called Gaman. Zhao Xiaoliu is very suspicious that this name is fake, is there such a surname?

Later, her grandfather talked about her great-grandfather and great-grandmother, and Zhao Xiaoliu knew that the surname Jia was the real surname. Because this surname is really rare, her great-grandmother heard that it is an ethnic group that went west. Great-grandmother's ethnicity is not as well-known as the Hmong. The people of the tribe call themselves the descendants of the Ghai. The Ghai people live in the 100,000 mountains in the southwest, and do not intermarry with the outside world. The world has probably never heard of such a people. She didn't know how her great-grandmother met her great-grandfather, and later came to Zhaojia Village in the Central Plains with her great-grandfather, and she never returned to the 100,000 mountains until she died. The only thing I heard is that the Zhao family in Zhaojia Village rarely gets sick, except for natural and man-made disasters.

Although Zhaojia Village and Shangzhao Village are the same ancestor, the children of the Zhao family in Zhaojia Village rarely get sick, and occasionally there are some minor problems. Most of the people like Zhao Xiaoliu have never seen it, and the fever will automatically disappear in a day at most. The Zhao family has their own set of local methods to get sick, and if it doesn't work, they have to ask a doctor. She overheard her grandfather tell her grandmother that it might be that Zhao Xiaoliu's life and his mother's blood source was weak, and since then, Zhao Xiaoliu was not only curious about what kind of character her crossing ancestor and her great-grandmother was. Later, for this reason, Zhao Xiaoliu understood what it meant to kill a cat with curiosity.

There are too many mysteries of the Zhao family, and she is very curious. She also didn't know why there were many people in their Zhao family who knew how to read, and there were few people who were famous. Her great-grandfather was admitted to Xiucai and there was no movement. Her sixth grandfather was also admitted to Xiucai and returned to the village. Now there is also her second uncle who is also a showman, as if there can only be one showman in the same generation, anyway, the most famous Zhao family is three of the three generations.

Her great-grandfather had six sons and two daughters. The most amazing thing is that they are all fed, and now they are all old men and old ladies. In fact, Zhao Xiaoliu didn't find that every family of the six brothers in her grandfather's generation had many children, and none of the children died of illness since childhood. It can be said that the ancients were proud of their children and grandchildren. How can the ultra-high survival rate be explained?

Zhao Xiaoliu's grandfather is the eldest of the children of that generation, but her father is considered to be below average age among his peers, I heard that because Xiaoliu's grandfather went to serve in the military at that time, the men in Jinguo were over fifteen years old, and each family under forty had to produce one person. Zhao Xiaoliu's great-grandfather will not exempt your whole family from military service just because he is Xiucai, but only Xiucai himself. At that time, Zhao Xiaoliu's grandfather was the eldest in the family, almost eighteen, twenty-six, and fifteen. Several children in the family can talk about marriage, because this military service is disrupted. Jinguo's military service is once every five years, and the last time was that the juniors in Zhao Chao'an's family were not old enough and had just been exempted once. This time, three of the six children have grown up, and there will be one person in the family. Finally, Zhao Xiaoliu's grandfather Zhao Qide went to report the name.

At that time, there were more than 20 families in the same village, and eight people went at once. There are children who have just turned fifteen, and there are people who are about to become grandparents when they are forty. If only one member of the family is to serve in the military, it can be waived for a small fee. Most of the peasants are out of the picture. For those who are old enough in the family, one must be released. You can't spend money.

Zhao Qide arrived in the army, he was smart and flexible, and a year later he was assigned to the scouts. There are also several categories in the army scouts. Zhao Qide's appearance is the kind of face that looks very comfortable, but you can't remember his appearance not long after seeing it. If he hides in the surrounding cities, he will look like the local people. Later, the scouts who were divided into four levels often dressed up as local civilians to reconnoiter some of the local enemy forces. Although this soldier is changed every five years, Zhao Xiaoliu's grandfather was discharged from the army after ten years.

After Zhao Qide returned home, only his younger brothers were five and sixth. Both younger sisters are also married. At that time, if it wasn't for his grandfather sending a letter home every year, his family might have thought he was gone. Those ten years were several years of fighting, and her great-grandmother and great-grandfather were worried about death. It was their first child, and they loved it even more than the others. At that time, I couldn't watch my eldest son, who had become a big guy, leave home.

Zhao Qide was almost twenty-eight years old when he arrived home, which was a bit too old, and later married the eldest girl of the Li family in Xiaoli Village, more than 20 miles away from Zhaojia Village.

There are many children in the Li family, and she is still the eldest. When she brought up a few younger brothers and sisters, she was also twenty years old, and she was also older when the girl's family was sixteen at that time. The eldest brother in the family has also reached the age of marriage. The Li family is poor and about to sell their children.

The Li family originally wanted to exchange this big girl for a parent. But many people think she's old. If you don't pick her age, the family is also poor, otherwise your children will have some physical problems. At that time, Li Daya's mother was still alive, and she was reluctant to exchange her good daughter with such a family. Later, I heard that the eldest son of the Zhao family was almost thirty years old because he was a soldier, and her mother moved her mind. The children are good, or the Zhao family that the surrounding girls want to marry. That own daughter can't suffer a loss when she marries in the past, except for being older. You can do it in every way. It is indeed a good hand to live. The eldest son of the Zhao family heard that there was nothing wrong with him except that he was too old.

The Zhao family is also in a hurry, this eldest just wanted to settle on someone before leaving, and he was about to leave before he was decided. It is impossible for the girl who was to be decided before to wait for so many years. When their eldest son came back, he found that there was no one to marry, either too young or some widow. Even the old girl couldn't be found. The two adults of the Zhao family are in a hurry! The two, three, and four children are all running around, and the eldest son is still naked. I asked around about other people's girls, but the eldest son didn't want to look for someone too young. His parents wanted to beat him, and you even picked it, so it's good to be able to talk about your daughter-in-law.

Later, when someone unintentionally spoke, I heard that there was an old girl in Xiaoli Village, and the Zhao family went to the relatives' house in Xiaoli Village to inquire, as if this girl had prepared for his eldest son, and all aspects were suitable. When I came back and told my eldest son, there was an old girl around, and if you didn't like it, you would have to marry a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. After his son nodded, he asked the matchmaker to go to Li's house to explain the matter, and the two families were scheduled to meet at the Zhao family's relatives' house in Xiaoli Village. Look at the two children to see if they are on the same page. Let's talk about the two families.

This look, Zhao Xiaoliu's grandfather fell in love with Li Daya, this girl looks good, is down-to-earth and generous, and she is also round and round. This character and temper also taste him. The adults sitting here are all human spirits, and they know what to say next after two glances, and these two people have taken a fancy to each other, and both of them are not young. This family affair should be set up as early as possible to get married early. Who knew that at this juncture, the grandmother of the Li family sat on the ground and asked for a bride price of five taels, and the people sitting in the room stopped talking. It's not a lion opening his mouth, it's a sky-high asking price. Li Daya's parents were stunned, five taels? They haven't had a couple of them until now. I haven't even seen silver. The people of the Zhao family were also stunned, and the three daughters-in-law married to his family did not add up to more than two taels of silver.

Is the Li family's grandmother poor and crazy? She really dared to think that the bride price of a girl who married a girl should be about one or two, which would be considered high. Normally, it's about 500 Wen. Five taels are enough to build a house with three large and two small blue bricks and gray tiles, even if you buy a good paddy field, it is enough to buy two and a half acres, Zhao Qide has been a soldier for ten years, and he only has fifty yuan a month. Food, shelter and clothing are all in the army. This is not counting what he usually spends, plus if he wins the battle, he will take away the things that the enemy army left behind that can be used, and some useful things and valuable things on the dead will not be let go. As long as it's worth it, who cares if it's something that's not dead. However, there are few valuable things to see, first, everyone knows that this war does not know whether there is a life, and second, they are all children of poor families, and a little money is to be taken home. Even the horses killed on both sides would be pulled to the camp to make jerky and add vegetables to the soldiers. That's how I saved five taels.

The two middlemen don't know what to say, five taels? Even the two of them combined don't have five taels of silver. Most of the peasant families have never seen silver in their lives. At most, copper coins and many things are self-produced and sold, that is, many people around them are bartering, and the gifts are all meant to be some cloth, noodles, rice oil and eggs. Even the money is very small. Even if the Li family sells girls, it won't be so much, in the famine years, a boy and a girl can sell for more than one or two, and if they are sold to that kind of place, they can sell it for three taels, who can really be willing to sell their children to that kind of place. Most of them are looking for a way to send their children to large families and sign a ten-year or eight-year living deed. Then the child will be able to come back. After the master's house is done, there will still be something to eat.

Now in these years, every family can't eat well, but they can eat a full stomach. Who sells children! Selling children now is a crime, not to mention that people in one village look down on it, that is, several surrounding villages look down on it. Unless you sell your child, you won't live here. However, there are really such wolf-hearted parents, and there have been no such parents in the surrounding villages.

Li Daya's mother was anxious when she got home, and asked her mother-in-law why such a high bride price for such a good relative, this is not an obvious indication that you don't want to be in-laws with the Zhao family. The grandmother of the Li family looked at the face of her son and daughter-in-law and said: "I'm not here for this family, the kid in this family is getting older day by day, what do you take to marry a daughter-in-law, four boys?" This girl will be someone else's in the future, why can't she ask for more? It just so happens that the money of this bride price is given to a few boys in the family to find a daughter-in-law! Daddy Li couldn't help but speak: "Mother! Do you know how much five taels is? What are you talking nonsense? I didn't say anything about this big girl's change of relatives, don't you want people to think about Huang clearly? What the hell are you thinking? "Lady Li's father also wants the bride price to be higher, he just wants 800 Wen. But his mother spoke, and he knew that his mother must have something to say yet.

"My mother's Wang Mazi's family asked people to make peace the day before yesterday, if our family agrees, let people come to propose marriage, and give two taels! If you marry within a month, add one or two. I think you'll say yes to such a good thing. Besides, after the eldest girl enters his house, she will be able to be the master of the house after a hundred years for her mother-in-law. Grandma Li said.

Aunt Li was anxious, "A good thing? Who doesn't know that Wang Mazi's family has been buying daughters-in-law everywhere in the past two years, and whose family can send them to Wang Mazi's house for their daughter? Let's not talk about the evil mother-in-law of her family, let's just say that the daughter-in-law in front of his youngest son was tortured to death by their family! What can his youngest son do after Wang Mazi and his wife die? That's a person who can't work! And the youngest son is disabled in the placental belt, so he can use it with one hand and one foot, what about the children who are passing it on to future generations? That's still a weird-tempered person, and he loves to beat his mother-in-law when he has nothing to do. He also loves to steal chickens and touch dogs. Can such a big girl get married? That's the fire pit. ”

Aunt Li's father also disagreed with Wang Mazi's family business, although he hurt his son a little harder, but he didn't think about pushing his daughter into the fire pit.

Li Daya hid in the house and cried secretly, she was not married in her twenties for this family, and she also thought that she would either marry a widower or change relatives in the end of her life. A woman who changes her relationship can be compared to a woman who is married home. Unless the family is too poor, the son in the family has a problem and cannot marry a daughter-in-law. Otherwise, no one will be willing to exchange their children for relatives. She has not had a good birth in her life, and now that she is going to get married, she can't marry a better person, I don't know if her family wants to marry her to Wang Mazi's family. Li Daya thought about it, and tears flowed down again. She thought of being freed by death.

The next day, after the Li family discussed, they said that the Zhao family was yellow, and the words were not finished. Li Daya's heart is cold, she is really going to marry the Wang family. As a result, I heard the second family say that the Wang family and their Li family would not marry the girl in the past, and they still found a similar family to change relatives for the eldest child.

originally thought that the Zhao family and the Li family would not intersect after they were gone, but it turned out! Zhao Qide really saw it in his eyes and put it in his heart, just her! Five taels is five taels. He asked his father and mother to find the middleman at that time and run to the Li family to say that he would go in person, but the Li family couldn't believe it. The intermediary said that the Zhao family had conditions, and if it was five taels of silver, Li Daya would have nothing to do with the Li family in the future. If you want to marry a daughter. The bride price Zhao family can bid up to one or two. This is the bottom line of the Zhao family. Let the Li family think about it carefully, and go to her house in the afternoon to answer her. The middleman said peace in the middle, but the Zhao family would have married and had children if they hadn't been a soldier for so many years. Now there are many people lining up to be the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, and people don't think that this son-in-law is old. There are also people who don't ask for so many bride prices. The middleman saw that his words reached the hearts of the Li family and went home.

On the way, I was still thinking that the eldest girl of the Li family was really lucky, and she could still find such a good family when she was old. The little girl from her own relative's family doesn't have to think about it.

Zhao Qide got married, and spent one or two to build this grass house and pull a big yard. The family also looks like they want to live a good life, and everything is placed. I don't have any money left. Later, his mother gave him the tael of silver, saying that the marriage at home was his own money. But he hasn't taken the money given by his parents to marry and build a house. The brothers in the family didn't have anything to say, because they got married and built a house with a tael of silver from their parents. Li Daya brought two sets of clothes and married like this. Later, when she wanted to go to the Zhao family tree, Zhao Qide gave her the name Li Yuelan.