Chapter Ninety-Six: Visiting Relatives
Early in the morning, before dawn, about four or five o'clock in the morning, the godmother told Pei Yao to get up and set off.
My father and mother felt sorry for her and were afraid that she would get up early and be sleepy, so they put the ox cart in place, and everything was neatly loaded, so she was left alone to get up.
Pei Yao was pulled up by the godmother in a daze and waited for her to dress and wash, she still remembered touching the hidden pocket sewn by herself in the cotton clothes, and the silver and the gift for Sister Vanilla were not there. After confirming that it was correct, she got out of the cave, climbed onto the ox cart in the bright moonlight, sat down next to her godfather, and wrapped herself with a rabbit fur cloak with the quilt prepared for her by her godmother, like a big round dumpling.
Ignoring her godfather, who was laughing at her, fell into her father's arms and slept in the middle of the ox cart.
There is a godfather blocking the wind, and an ox cart shaking her like a rocking cart, and when she is full of sleep and opens her eyes, the sky is bright, she struggles to sit up, loosens the quilt with stirrups on her body, and Pei Yao looks around.
It was a rugged mountain road, just wide enough for an ox cart to pass through, and the slopes on both sides were densely wooded, and it looked rather gloomy.
It hadn't snowed for almost a week, but it didn't look like the snow in the woods was melting at all, which showed how dense the trees were.
Pei Yao asked her godfather, "Dad, why did you marry Sister Vanilla so far?" ”
The godfather sighed and said: "At that time, the family's money was all for your eldest brother's treatment, and there were foreign debts, and the nearby people who knew the situation were afraid that the girl would subsidize the family after she got married, and after she got married, her mother's family did not help her father-in-law, so they refused to come to the door to propose." Seeing that your sister vanilla is 17 years old, and if you don't marry, you're afraid that you will become an old girl, I originally wanted to delay it for a year, save some money for her as a dowry, and then find a nearby family. Later, a matchmaker brought a posterior of the same age as Vanilla to the door, saying that this offspring was a knowledgeable person and was preparing to take the children's exam. But because the family is far away, it is still in the ravine, and because the entrance examination is also expensive, the family is not rich.
Our old couple disagreed, but they couldn't stand the girl's liking, and in the end, they borrowed money to buy a dowry, so that Vanilla happily married, but except for returning to the door, they never came back. “
Pei Yao blinked when she heard this, why didn't she have a good premonition, she always felt that this visit to relatives was not pleasant, and she hoped it was her own delusion.
Pei Yao comforted her father and said: "Dad, don't worry, Sister Vanilla has such a good personality, her husband must feel sorry for her, or maybe she was pregnant and inconvenient to come out, so she didn't come to see you." ”
Who knew that when her father heard this, instead of being happy, his mood was lowered, and he said to Pei Yao: "If you really love her, then if you are pregnant, she must not come to inform the Yue family, his father-in-law is still studying in the county school, and he often passes by the official road at home, and he has never been to see us once." The godfather sighed again and said: "If the water spilled by the married daughter, if we weren't afraid that we would annoy the in-laws by visiting our daughter-in-law, but it would be bad for her, we would have gone to see her a long time ago." ”
It seems that the godfather and godmother have dragged on for two years, and they really miss their daughter, and they want to visit by persuading them by themselves. In this era, I don't even dare to visit a girl, and I blame my father for being too honest and kind.
If you see that Sister Vanilla is not doing well, it will be strange if you don't turn that bullshit scholar's house upside down!
Bumpy all the way, finally came to a village in the middle of a continuous mountain range, the village houses are not too many about dozens of households, the area of the fields behind is not small, some of the gentle slopes are all fields, because there are no trees to shade, so the snow in the fields is almost melted.
Most of the villages are mud and stone houses with thatched roofs, similar to Godfather's house, but there are a few wooden houses, and I don't know how to survive in winter.
Because my father and mother came on the day of marriage, although in the past two years, there has still been no big change here, and even Vanilla's in-laws are the same.
The ox cart pulls a few people all the way to the herb mother's house, although it is almost noon meal time, but the village generally has two meals in winter, and when there is nothing to do, it is a stroll around the door, and when you see a strange visitor from outside the mountain, everyone looks curiously, and sees that it is the chai widow's house in the west of the village, and everyone knows that this is the father and mother of the daughter-in-law, and they can't help but talk loudly.
Pei Yao listened intently, and heard a vague voice coming: pitiful, ruthless, grinding and the like, her heart couldn't help but tighten, it seems that the situation is not good, Bacheng This vanilla sister is not living a good life. The poor mountains and bad waters came out of the people, and Pei Yao touched the dagger in the back belt to give herself courage.
But it's not good to see my father's look, I think he heard it too.
When I got to the outside of the stone courtyard wall, I saw a black-faced short, fat woman in the courtyard, who was stuffing something into her mouth to eat, and the skin on her face didn't know what to use to smear it oily, and I felt that it was enough to stir-fry the vegetables with a scrape, and I vomited...
The godmother frowned, stopped the ox cart, and shouted to the courtyard: "Vanilla! My mother has come to see you. ”
The short and fat woman in the courtyard is really Chai's mother-in-law of vanilla, she was a little panicked when she heard the sound and walked out of the courtyard gate, but then she didn't know how to calm down again, and her eyes lit up when she saw a bag of things in the car, and she said in a loud voice: "Wu's family is here, come here, and bring something, come and I'll help you bring it into the house." ”
This is the case! This cheeky!
The godmother said with a cold face: "No need, let's just come to see the vanilla, and we'll go back after seeing her take care of her." After speaking, he turned around and picked up his godfather to get out of the car, and at the same time made his eyes look and asked Pei Yao not to move in the car first, optimistic about the burden.
Seeing his in-laws on crutches, Chai's face immediately changed, and he said in a sharp voice: "What are you doing?" I want to fight the autumn breeze! ”
Seeing that the father and mother were so angry that they couldn't speak, the Chai family thought that he had said it! The voice is even louder, and I can't wait for the whole village to hear it, what is this shameless person doing when he comes to the door: "Your girl married into the Chai family, and she didn't even lay an egg, you two old things, you are lame and want to take advantage of it!" ”
Hearing Granny Vanilla say this, I thought with my toes that I knew what kind of life Vanilla was living!
Suddenly, a weak surprise voice came from behind: "Daddy, why are you here?" ”
It turned out that a kind neighbor ran to inform Vanilla, who was washing clothes by the river, that her father and mother had come. Surprised, she twisted her clothes and put them in a basin and brought them back, she didn't dare to put them by the river, if she lost them, her mother-in-law could kill her!
Seeing her father and mother standing at the gate of the courtyard, Vanilla couldn't help but burst into tears, and when she saw her father turning around on crutches, Vanilla chuckled in her heart, threw the basin, and pounced on her father: "Dad! What's wrong with you, what's wrong with your legs! ”
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