Chapter 136: Homecoming

The family has already peeled off a layer of skin. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The men are just themselves, they have been getting up early and greedy for the night for many months, and they have survived these last days completely by one breath.

After the gate was closed, it took a few days of rest to ease up.

Although the ladies don't have to go to the fields, they are also busy ordering black beans and mung beans on the ridges, and the melons and vegetables in the vegetable garden at home are also in need of a lot of water and fertilizer. In addition, you have to dry the sauce to make koji, cut the hemp line, and a large mess of housework has to be done immediately, and the push board will not be completed for a day.

Opening your eyes is a one-headed job, but these three summer months are busy without a moment of idle work.

In the summer, even if the wormwood is burned inside and outside the house, it is impossible to sleep without a mosquito net at night.

So I don't know when it began, Lianxi has the custom of marrying the girl in the Xia Bu tent.

At this point, if anyone's family does not have an account to accompany them, it is definitely different, and there is absolutely no good life when they arrive at their in-laws' house.

No matter how poor a family is, they will say that they have to get a top account for their daughter to marry.

The Qin family is no exception, starting from dill, every time a granddaughter is added to the family, Qin Lao Niang transplants a ramie to the house, which is to prepare for the dowry in the future.

Last year, the ramie that grew on the hillside and grew more and more tillers at home was dead at that time, and Qin Lao Niang originally thought that the spring must be replanted, but she didn't know that ramie was a deep-rooted plant, and its regeneration ability was particularly strong.

At the beginning of spring this year, the rain was moistened, and then the sun came out and the weather was warm, and the ramie hidden deep in the ground soon sprouted.

Before the end of spring, it grew to a person's height, and the ladies of the family immediately harvested a stubble, and cut off the ramie early in the morning while the dew was not harvested, peeled off the hemp skin and scraped out the hemp silk, and then dried and twisted into twine and accumulated.

Only the harvest of ramie is really meager, and the children of the family work hard for three crops a year, and they can't harvest two catties of hemp silk, but a summer cloth tent can only be woven with seven or eight catties of hemp silk, and it can be hard for many years.

Fortunately, the summer cloth tent of dill's marriage has been woven and stored at the bottom of the box two years ago, otherwise in another four months, October 18, dill will be married, and I am afraid that it will be too late.

At the end of February, the Shu family inquired that the Qin family had been busy for a while, so they hurriedly bought a few colors of tea and new tea, and invited the Shu family's aunt and uncle to come over to ask for the date.

I picked several auspicious days, all of which were in October.

In the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the autumn harvest has passed just when the farming is slack, and the weather is fine, which is the auspicious month for the folk marriage of Lianxi.

The Qin family didn't take Qiao, and asked the Shu family to ask for the deadline again and again, and immediately chose a good day on October 18.

The wedding date was set, and Dill no longer stepped out of the courtyard door, and single-mindedly hid in the house to make some dowry.

Mrs. Qin even gave red dates, lotus root powder, and longan to nourish the dill in turn, and the ladies in the family did not fall behind.

There was not much sun exposure all summer, and the delicate skin of the dill soon turned white. It's the age of a flower again, not to mention such nourishment, as long as the tea and rice are smooth, the good complexion will naturally come out from the inside out.

After eating Liqiu dumplings, cloves reluctantly threaded needles with fennel, peppercorns and bay leaves. The new brother-in-law personally sent a small basket of Qiaoguo, as well as a small bouquet of two white orchids that were worn side by side, and a small paper box.

The pepper was about to pin the white orchid to the dill on the placket of his chest, and the next morning he rolled out of bed and dragged the fennel to the dill room to see the happy spider.

The cobwebs are sparse, and the peppercorns can't stop laughing.

Lilac didn't like these needles in her heart, so she wrapped fennel around to catch fish like bone candy, and bluffed fennel shook her head.

She knew that Lilac was talking about catching fish, but she wasn't catching fish in the lotus stream at the door.

Sitting on the little girls, they can control the size of the direction at will, and the wooden basin catches fish and touches the water chestnut in the lotus stream, and the pepper is very envious, and the cloves are already tired of playing.

When she said that she was catching fish, she was going to Lotus Dang, three or four miles to the east, to catch fish.

The lotus swing is actually a small blister, the area is not very large, the water depth is only a little more than three feet, but it is connected with the lotus stream, the bottom of the water is flat, the reeds by the lake are abundant, the grass on the shore is green, there are many fish, shrimp and snail clams in the water, and a piece of water can scoop up half of the fish.

It's the place where the little boy and the lilac in the family are all in their hearts.

Seeing that Fennel would not take her, Lilac muttered and discussed with the little boys, and when they looked at the Pavilion in July, they went to the lotus swing to catch fish.

The little boys originally said they were going to go on the summer solstice, but they were so busy in the field at that time that they naturally had to give up.

This will be agreed, and I will start making fish hooks and weaving ground cages early.

But it scared Qin Lao Niang a lot.

What day is it in July, how dare you run out, let alone go to the lake.

He refused to say anything, and detained Lilac and this string of little boys by his side, and asked them: "You are brothers and sisters, and the house made for Jiaojiao and bay leaves can be built, so don't you fool them." ”

Of course, Lilac and the little boys knew that Qin Lao Niang was coaxing them with this, but they couldn't know it, so they had to hang their heads and look for pepper and bay leaves, only looking at the wood parts in that stall, all of them were one head and two big, except for the sixth brother who had the patience to coax pepper bay leaves to play, one by one they quietly retreated, and went to the east garden to arrest the elder brother.

The garden in the east was completed as early as late February, and the perimeter of the wall, which was nearly a mile long, had become the symbol of the Qin family. In addition to the busy days of farming, whether it is the neighbors of Zhoujiawan or the villagers of Funnel Bay, as soon as they have an overnight meal, they like to come over to sit or squat under the wall to enjoy the cool gossip.

The twenty acres of land in the garden were completed earlier than the wall, and after the whole field was loosened and fertilized, except for the seven or eight acres of celery planted, the rest of the land was still spread there to dry the ridges.

Taking advantage of the fact that every household was squeezing oil a while ago, Father Qin bought several carts of rapeseed cakes from the oil pressing room and buried them in the ground.

Except for weeding and taking care of the cress from time to time, there is no other work.

Although the gate of the garden was closed, when the wall was built, a small door was specially left in the front yard of the house, and a few little boys got into it and followed the cry to catch the elder brother.

Sichuan pepper bay leaves, look at me, I look at you, I was walking on my legs to chase over, Zhou Hongxing and Zhou Hongchang of the cousin's family ran over, and greeted the little boys as soon as they entered the door: "Your uncle is back!" ”

He ran out again to see: "Huh? Why is it that the big car is not as fast as our feet? (To be continued.) )