The thirteenth year of Jiayuan is definitely an unforgettable year for Shanshui Dushi.

The reward of the great contribution of rice field fish farming for the benefit of the country and the people finally came to this small tribe in the mountains on a snowy winter day.

The emperor's decree led to the long north-south Grand Canal all the way to the Shanshui Temple, and the joyful master of Maodong became famous again, directly from the famous Baiding monk to the status of the joyful marquis.

There is nothing to do with the Du family in the holy decree, but the father-in-law who issued the decree sent the emperor's edict, for the sake of the Du family's dedication to the work of Master Xile, the Du family has been exempted from tax and forced labor for ten years.

Decade!

What is the concept of ten years, a kid running around with a bare ass can marry a daughter-in-law!

Ten years later, the Du family is well-off!

The Du clan is going crazy! While the surrounding villages were envious and jealous, they also began to secretly check which family had young boys and girls of the right age, and it was best to look at each other with their sons and daughters, so that the two families could become relatives.

As the most critical link in this matter, the Du family naturally received the greatest attention.

Du Xiaoxi, a well-known flower, is not remembered, but the above few brothers have been chased and intercepted by matchmakers and self-cooked girls, and they are embarrassed to go to other villages to kill pigs, and even Du Xiaoyun, a little doll, has someone who wants to have a doll. Among the several people, Du Si, who is just the right age, is naturally the focus of all matchmakers.

Du Zhizhong is eighteen years old, looks Zhouzheng, is tall and strong, and knows some carpentry work, and suddenly became the first choice for a good son-in-law in Shili Eight Villages.

Grandma Du and Du Niang were extremely happy about the scene of their own 'family having children and a hundred families begging', and they were dazzled by the little lady that the matchmaker said.

After more than ten days of picking and choosing, Grandma Du and Du Niang finally preliminarily settled on a few little ladies, according to Du Zhizhong's requirements, "the appearance is going to pass, the temperament is good, the work is good, not the county." ’

In many villages in Shanshui County, the first choice for choosing a daughter-in-law will not be the little lady in the county, of course, except for the rich woman in the woman's family, not that the little lady in the county is not good, but that it is not suitable.

Many people in the county town think that the village is full of mud legs, and they don't want their daughters to suffer every day with their backs to the loess, but they don't know that the ladies in the village look down on them. In the eyes of the villagers, the field is the foundation, and those in the county town who work for others and have a large family nested in a small yard may be hungry at any time, where is there a daughter-in-law who catches a grandson in the field at home.

The big businessmen and the people are open, especially in Shanshui County, where half of the floating population comes and goes, and women can be seen everywhere when they go out to do business. It is also common for the two families to look at each other before they get married, and eighty percent of those who insist on saying the rules are ugly for the children in the family.

"Fourth brother! Hurry up! How bad it is to get a meal to someone's house! ”

Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao sat on the oxcart wrapped in a big quilt and stretched out their fingers to poke Du Zhizhong, and they had already arrived at the woman's house when they had this time.

Today, Du Niang took Fourth Brother Du to the next village for a blind date, in order to be afraid that her son would be too embarrassed, Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao were arrested and used as mascots, but Fourth Brother Du was not ready, and he was grinding along the way, Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao were tired and hungry, and they couldn't help but start urging.

Du Niang knew that her son was embarrassed, but she was afraid that the woman's family would think that they didn't pay attention to Qiao, so she also urged: "Shiro hurry up, let's see two families and have a meal." ”

Fourth Brother Du didn't reply, coughed twice and shook the ox and two whips. Du Xiaoxi laughed twice, she guessed that the ears under the fourth brother's big hat must have exploded.

The economic level of the villages around the county is obviously much better than those villages with inconvenient transportation in the mountains, and whoever marries in the village also considers the surrounding villages first.

Zhaojiakou and Dujia Village are separated by a few hills, and Fourth Brother Du still arrived at Zhaojiakou even if he wanted to go around again.

The third sister-in-law Zhao E's mother's house is in Zhaojiakou, and the third sister-in-law who returned to her parents' house yesterday was already waiting at the entrance of the village early, and when she saw that people arrived, she hurriedly led the four people into the house.

The third sister-in-law, Zhao Mengshi, warmly praised Du Niang for a few words to Fourth Brother Du, and then took people to the woman's house with understanding.

"Our family is far away from Zhao Xiuqi's family, and he is familiar in the village, and the people who look at his family from a distance are not bad. The girl came back and said that I talked to the sister who had a good relationship with his family, his second girl is a steady one, usually not much to say, Zhao Xiuqi took her mother-in-law and son to set up a stall in the county, since her eldest sister got married, the work of the family is done by the second girl. ”

Meng Shi talked about the Zhao family's few acres of land along the way, whether the family's temperament is good, how many male babies and how many female babies are in his family, and most of the people in the village think of the second girl of the Zhao family, but he doesn't make any evaluation of this person at all.

Whether the second girl of the Zhao family is good or not is not Zhao Meng's decision, Meng doesn't want to praise the girl for a few words, Du Niang took it seriously, and really married the girl back, but it turned out that it was not like that at all, and it was not his own daughter who was guilty of turning back, so looking at this matter, Meng Shi only took the lead and did not express his position from beginning to end.

The two families are in the center of the village and the other is at the edge of the village.

The door of Zhao Xiuqi's house was open, and Meng Shi shouted and took Du Niang into the door.

"Oops! Here it comes! Sit down! Sit down! ”

Zhao Xiuqi's mother-in-law Lu Shi smiled and beckoned a few people to sit down, turned her head and picked up the plate on the table and asked Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao to eat candy, Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao smiled and took a palm-sized candy and thanked them with a smile, and was praised for being a polite good boy.

Du Niang and Lu Meng's Taoism are commonplace, chatting about children and chattering about the big talk before talking about the topic.

Lu Shi patted his head and smiled: "Look at my broken memory, a few days ago, the old man's birthday girl sent a batch of materials from the north to ask for a few taels of silver, I didn't see anything good at all, I heard that your kid opened a grocery store, and the guests who came and went from the south to the north have seen a lot of knowledge, and it happened that I came today to help me see that the girl was coaxed." ”

Du Niang walked towards the inner room very cooperatively, and said modestly: "What do you say about being knowledgeable, he just has seen more people on the side of the canal for a few years." ”

Du Xiaoxi stuck out his tongue and whispered to Liu Yao to bite his ears: "My second brother has great knowledge, but it's not my mother who has great knowledge!" ”

Liu Yao thought so.

The curtain was lifted, and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old lady with a flushed face stood up awkwardly, quickly glanced at Lu Shi and Du Niang, smiled and lowered her head slightly.

Du Niang also smiled when she saw the delicate appearance of the girl, after all, there are really few men in this world who are good at five or three thick.

Seeing that the appearance had passed, Lu Shi smiled and took the little lady's hand and said, "This is your sister Zhao E's mother-in-law, and the second girl is called Uncle Niang." ”

"Hello uncle." Zhao Baozhu blushed and saluted Du Niang and Meng Shi, her voice was gentle but it didn't make people feel weak and bullied.

"What a good boy with good manners." Du Niang took Zhao Baozhu's hand, felt the calluses on the girl's hand in front of her, knew that this girl was not lazy, and asked with a smile: "What does Zhu Yatou usually do at home?" Do you have any favorite food? "It's a test of daily life and cooking.

"On weekdays, I help my mother do housework, and my favorite is of course wontons, my wontons are the best!" Seeing Du Niang's gentle attitude, Zhao Baozhu quickly regained her former cheerfulness.

"That's true, every time I smell the smell of your wontons at the city gate, the cows at home can't move, so we have to eat a bowl every time."

Du Xiaoxi nodded vigorously while looking at the ancient blind date model.

Zhao Xiuqi's family has been selling wontons at the gate of the city for several lifetimes, and even Du Xiaoxi, a foodie from the Great Heaven and the Dynasty, must be praised for that craft, which is really an ancestral craft and a worthy name.