Chapter 19: My cousin is here
"It's not that the lad is ugly. The next morning, everyone found her, she hid in the man's firewood, she didn't want to come out, and persuaded her for a long time before going to breakfast. After returning to the village, everyone asked her why she was hiding in the pyre, and she said everywhere that the young man of the Jiang family wanted to eat people! The more Liu Sanniang talked, the happier she became.
"Huh? Can eat people? The eldest sister is really stupid, how can anyone eat people? "Su Qiqi is not gossiping about this Su eldest sister's behavior, but I feel that it is inexplicable.
Liu Sanniang chuckled: "Actually, it was said that this young man of the Jiang family was taught by adults, this night, he heard that others wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, so he wanted to kiss his daughter-in-law, so as soon as he entered the house, he pulled the eldest sister to kiss his mouth, and as soon as he kissed it, he was so scared that the eldest sister pushed him away and ran away!" ”
"Gurgle... Mother, isn't this Brother-in-law Jiang too bad? This is not married, how can I kiss her! Suddenly, Su Qiqi laughed happily.
Liu Sanniang took Su Qiqi's little hand with a loving hand and said, "This custom is like this!" The man fell in love with the heroine, and left a lot of the woman's relatives to live, which cost a lot! The man's elders will instruct the young man to do this, if the girl really follows, this family affair will be ten out of ten! ”
Su Qiqi asked puzzledly: "Mother, what if this girl is really unwilling?" So what to do? ”
What to do?
The daughter's innocence was heard in Liu Sanniang's ears, and she sighed and said: "The marriage of children must be read according to the orders of their parents and the words of the matchmaker. Novel ybdu married, how can there be anything that is willing or unwilling? The man is okay, if he doesn't want to bring it up after looking at the girl, but the woman can't! This is all in the wedding field, and everyone in the village knows about it, how can you say whether you are willing or not? ”
Su Qiqi said unevenly: "Mother, this is too unfair!" ”
Arranged marriage, do you know how many pairs of crazy men and women will be generated?
Liu Sanniang chuckled and said: "What a child, it has been like this since ancient times, what's fair or unfair?" However, Qiqi, you don't have to be afraid, your parents won't force you, we will let you choose by yourself. As long as you are willing, your father and mother will let the matchmaker come to the door! ”
Listening to Liu Sanniang's words, Su Qiqi immediately became aggrieved: she was upset and not for herself! She's only seven years old! For Mao, someone has always talked about her family affairs in the past two days? Isn't this urging her to be precocious? Could it be that she just has a face that I want to marry early?
No, will my father and mother worry that she will not live long and decide her family affairs early? She doesn't want to marry blindly in this countryside, she has to fall in love once in two lives, right?
For a moment, she forgot that she was still a tomboy.
The autumn grain is in the warehouse, the rape is in the field, and tomorrow Su Ercheng and Ji Wenchen are ready to do short-term work. In the first half of the year, as long as I went tomorrow, I would have something to do. That night, Liu Sanniang deliberately went to cut a pound of meat and came back, and the family of four was very happy.
"Ouch, second sister-in-law, there is a smell of meat wafting in your kitchen, is there something delicious tonight?" As soon as Zhu Taohua arrived at the gate of the courtyard, she smelled the aroma, and her little daughter stepped up a lot.
As soon as Su Qiqi heard the voice of the fourth aunt coming from the courtyard, he immediately stuffed a piece of meat into Liu Sanniang's mouth, and then pressed a piece of Su Ercheng's meat under the meal.
Looking at Su Qiqi's hands, Ji Wenchen smiled "poof": "Qiqi, you are guarding against robbers." ”
Su Qiqi grimaced: "The fourth aunt is more robber than a robber!" ”
Su Ercheng looked at her dotingly and said, "Don't be afraid, anyway, our family's meat is not stolen." ”
Zhu Taohua looked at the three bowls of vegetables on the table, but she didn't see a piece of meat, so she asked puzzledly: "Second sister-in-law, I see that your cooking skills are getting higher and higher, and a few bowls of vegetables have also given you a meat flavor." ”
Liu Sanniang smiled wryly: "Wen Chen, this kid has been helping for more than ten days, and he eats this oil-free dish every day, and there is no meat in his body, this is still when he is growing up." No, I have to go with Brother Cheng tomorrow to find a job, I really don't want to go, when I go to the village in the afternoon, Master Wang still has a little miscellaneous oil, I bought it back and boiled some meat and fried a chili. ”
Zhu Taohua carefully traced the bowls of several people, and when she saw that there was indeed no meat, she said, "Mother said to let the whole family come over for a while." ”
Liu Sanniang hurriedly asked, "Did my mother say anything?" ”
Zhu Taohua was very unhappy when she didn't eat the meat, so she said with a smile: "Mother asked you to come over, there must be something good." Second brother and second sister-in-law, you should order it as soon as possible. Originally, I asked Meizi to call you, but I just happened to consume food, so I came on her behalf. ”
Looking at Zhu Taohua's expression of leaving, Liu Sanniang asked puzzledly: "Brother Cheng, what does my mother tell us to do at this time?" Didn't the food of filial piety be sent? Is it a matter of respecting the money of the elderly? ”
Su Ercheng didn't understand either, he said while picking up rice: "Aren't all the money for respecting the elderly given in the Chinese New Year's Eve?" It's impossible for my mother to come to us at this time, right? After paying taxes on these grains, I hung a hundred catties for my father and mother, and our family is basically only enough for a family to eat, and now we have no money to ask for it. ”
Su Qiqi felt that there must be nothing good for this unscrupulous grandmother to find her father, so she said to the two couples: "Father, mother, after a while, if grandma wants to say something that makes you unhappy, I will take you home." ”
Liu Sanniang smiled and said, "That's not good, otherwise your grandma will be powerful." ”
In the ancestral house, there lived Su Dacheng's family, the two elders of the Su family and Su Sicheng's family. At this time, the main hall was brightly lit, and Su Qiqi rarely saw Aunt Su so generous, and said in his heart, what is the big thing that can't be done today?
When they entered, there were people sitting in a room against the walls on the left and right, and only Daddy Su and his wife sat at the table with a woman in their thirties.
Seeing them, Aunt Su immediately beckoned: "The second family, you two sit here." ”
Su Ercheng hugged Qiqi and sat down with Liu Sanniang below.
After they sat down, Aunt Su spoke: "Ercheng, this is your cousin's cousin Meihua, you should still remember, right?" When I was a child, she used to come to our house to play, and she loved to play with you. ”
As soon as Aunt Su's voice fell, Zhu Taohua answered with a smile on her face: "Cousin Meihua, this is related to the second brother." ”
Cousin? Hearing the word "cousin" in ancient times, Su Qiqi's mind saw countless cousin images. Could it be that my father is also a cousin today?
Su Qiqi quietly looked at the grandparents above, and suddenly became alert.
Su Ercheng saw his mother staring at her and deliberately said this cousin, he didn't understand what it meant. He didn't know, so he had to nod and deal with it: "Remember, Meihua girl hasn't been home for a long time, and life is okay." ”
The one who called Meihua didn't speak, but the shyness on the horse's face made Su Qiqi almost vomit: This can also be called a flower? The flowers in this world look like this, so there are still people who plant flowers? No, this kind of expression is definitely the kind of look that wants to have adultery!