Chapter VIII
That night, Liu Momo took Chen Youqing to Du Qiyue's house, briefly talked about the rape harvest, and then turned the conversation to the Qian family.
The Dafeng Dynasty must have four processes: Nacai, asking for names, Najib, and Nazheng. First of all, the gentleman's family invites a matchmaker to bring a gift to the girl's or brother's house to propose marriage, which is called Nacai. If the girl or the elders of the brother's family agree to this proposal, they will accept the gift and then ask the elders in the clan to write the girl's or brother's Shenggeng eight characters on red paper and fold it and hand it to the matchmaker, and then the matchmaker will take the Shenggeng eight characters of the proposed master to the wizard's house to Bu Ji, and ask if the two are suitable for marriage, which is called asking the name. If the divination results in the two people being suitable for marriage, then the matchmaker will take two Geng Ti and exchange them with each other's homes on the fifteenth day of each month, and then the two families will hold a ceremony to put the Geng Ti on their ancestral case in the ancestral hall of the clan, which is Najib. In the end, the family will take the matchmaker and the dowry to the girl's or brother's house on a good day, and wait until the girl's or brother's family receives the dowry, and the entire marriage ceremony will be completed.
Du Qiyue wanted to find evidence, but finally thought of the two Geng posts, if the Qian family is married, they must hand over Qian Yin's Geng post to the matchmaker, before Najib, the Geng post will always be in the matchmaker's hands. And Najib will hold a small ceremony that day, and the movement will be very loud, and it will not be hidden from others. Now everyone doesn't know about the Qian family, which proves that they don't have Najib yet, that is to say, the Qian family either hasn't asked for the name yet, or after asking the name, the Geng post is still in the hands of the matchmaker.
No matter what, as long as Du Qiyue got the Geng post of Qian Yin in the matchmaker's hand, he could use it as evidence to find the door of the Qian family confidently. At the beginning, Du Qiyue and the Qian family's marriage ceremony was completed, and now there is also a Geng post of the little brother of the Qian family in the Du family ancestral hall. And generally the person in a clan who is responsible for writing Geng posts is a fixed person, and he can't fake it, so as long as the two Geng posts are compared, it can naturally prove that the little brother of the Qian family hooked up with others after marrying him.
If you want to get Geng Ti, you must know who the matchmaker is. Du Qiyue asked Liu Momo to go to the grocery store in the town a few days ago, pretending to inadvertently inquire about the little brother of the Qian family with that guy, and then asked the name of the matchmaker invited by the merchant from the guy.
The guy really didn't have a door at all, but he didn't know which matchmaker the merchant had invited, because the merchant said that he would not come to propose marriage until the Qian family's farm was over, so Du Qiyue had been waiting for the matchmaker to come to the door of the Qian family in the past few days.
Liu Momo's daughter Chen Xingzi married the Wu family in Xiapo Village, and less than half a year after she entered the door, the youngest daughter of the Wu family, Wu Caocao, married into the Li family in Liushutun Village, and the Li family and the Qian family happened to be neighbors. Wu Caocao married this Li family is very good, her father-in-law used to be a merchant, earned a little family foundation, and bought eight acres of good land, the Li family only has one son of Wu Caocao's husband, so every time the eight acres of land is busy, they have to plant it with four people in the family, which is naturally too late. The second elder of the Wu family cherishes his daughter, and every time he is busy with things in his field, he will go over to help, and Xingzi, as a daughter-in-law, will also pass, so naturally this year is also the same.
Liu Momo knew about this, and two days ago she asked Xingzi to pay attention to the affairs of the Qian family when she went to the Li family, to see if there was a person who looked like a matchmaker to go to the Qian family, and if so, she must inquire about the name of that person. At noon today, Apricot came to find Liu Mome, saying that it was almost dark yesterday evening, when she and the Wu family had made the Li family's field and planned to go back to Xiapo Village, when passing by the Qian family, she saw a woman sneakily coming out of their house, and Apricot let the family stop the man and asked her if she was a thief.
"I heard about the matchmaker that week, and she usually has a good reputation for protecting the media, and I don't know how she will take the Qian family's job this time. In this way, tomorrow I will go to the town with you and Uncle Qing and get Geng Ti back from Mrs. Zhou's hand. Liu Mo said.
This birthday can't be shown to others casually, so after the Geng post is in the hands of the matchmaker, the matchmaker will never show it to others except for the divination wizard, let alone give the Geng post to others. Du Qiyue felt that Liu Mo and the two of them would definitely not be able to get it, and he had to go out in person and use some means, so he said: "Didn't Mo Mo say that he would help me harvest rape, if Mo Mo and Uncle Chen go out early tomorrow morning, others will definitely suspect it, anyway, I'm fine, let me go." If I can't do it, it's not too late to go with Uncle Chen, and the horizontal and vertical divination of the bad luck also has to set the time, and it won't work for a few days. ”
Liu Momo thought about it, he just said in front of so many people in the field that he would help Du Qiyue clean up the field early tomorrow morning, if he went to the town for no reason, others would definitely say that he was unwilling to help and be a good person. However, he was still not at ease in his heart, so he said: "If you don't let Brother Huzi go with you tomorrow, the matchmaker is used to messing around, and you can't deal with her with your arms and legs." ”
Du Qiyue didn't want people to accompany him, because tomorrow he wanted to go to the matchmaker's house to play the scoundrel, and if he was seen by others, the original owner would have no image. But he also knows that he is not the big man of 1.85 meters and a body of pimple meat before, he is now weak in bones, like a white chicken, he is not familiar with the situation in the town, and he may suffer a loss if he goes alone. It's good to have Huzi with you, at least that guy is strong and looks safe.
"Nacheng, I'll wait for Brother Huzi at the entrance of the village early tomorrow morning."
After the matter was discussed, Liu Momo stood up and said, "It's getting late, so I will go back first if I have Uncle Qing with you." ”
"Okay, you and Uncle Youqing should go back and rest early." Du Qiyue then stood up and sent the two to the door, and when the door was closed, he said: "Well, I know that you won't charge me for wages, I just go to the town tomorrow to buy some meat, and I will take care of the food for the next few days, so don't shirk." ”
Liu Momo knew that if he didn't agree, it was estimated that Du Qiyue would not agree to let them help, so he nodded helplessly and said, "I know, I know, Xiaoyue, hurry up and go back to the room to sleep, don't be tired." ”
After they left, Du Qiyue inserted the door and entered the house, and was about to take off his clothes to sleep when he heard someone knocking on the door outside.
"Who?" Du Qiyue shouted as he got dressed and walked out.
Du Dashi stood at the door with a big basket on his back and responded: "Xiaoyue, it's me, Brother Dashi." ”
Du Qiyue crossed over these days the Du family and the Zhao family's relatives have not seen one, it is normal for the Zhao family not to come, Du Qiyue's uncle Zhao Tian used to be a partner in a merchant's house, and later because of the excitement of the people, he was promoted to a small steward, the merchant moved to another city seven or eight years ago, Zhao Tian took a large family to follow the past, the two old people died two years ago, and now the two families are rarely in contact. When Du Qiyue's father Ama died, Du Qiyue wrote a letter to the past, and his aunt once replied that his uncle followed the young master of the master's family to another county, and he couldn't come back in a few months, and once he replied that his uncle went to the master's other village, she couldn't get in touch, and she didn't have time to come, so she only sent a few taels of silver and some cloth things to come over twice to condole. Even the uncle's family is like this, the relationship between the Du family and the other relatives of the Zhao family is naturally not much better, Du Qiyue is just sick, and it is impossible for them to come to see him.
But the Du family is different, Du Fugui is the second son of the Du family, although his father has passed away, but he has an elder brother Du Fujin above, and a younger brother Du Fuyin below, both families live in the same village, knowing that Du Qiyue is seriously ill, even if the relationship was not good in the past, but for the sake of Du Qiyue is the only bloodline of their brother, it stands to reason that they should come to see it, but none of these two families has ever come to see Du Qiyue.
Now Du Dashi suddenly came over is really strange, Du Dashi is the eldest son of Du Qiyue's uncle Du Fuyin, three years older than Du Qiyue, and the relationship with Du Qiyue in the past was also very weak, he couldn't come to see Du Qiyue by himself, so Du Fuyin could only let him come over. But although the relationship between Du Fuyin's family and Du Qiyue's family is a little better than that between Du Fuyin's family and Du Qiyue's family, Du Fuyin's temperament is colder than Du Fujin's, and he doesn't look like someone who will take the initiative to let Du Dashi come over.
Although he was puzzled, Du Qiyue quickly got dressed and opened the door, welcoming Du Dashi in, "Brother Dashi, is there something wrong with coming here so late?" ”
Du Dashi has the same cold temperament as his father, he didn't mean to be perfunctory with Du Qiyue, he directly took off the basket on his back and went into the kitchen, and then poured a large basket of lotus root on the ground, and said: "Just now my father and I went to dig some lotus root in the pond at home, these are for you." ”
Although he has a good relationship with the Chen family, the Chen family is not his serious relatives in the end, and if something really happens, the Chen family still can't stand up for him, and he has to rely on relatives, so although Du Qiyue feels that his uncle and uncle's family are too cold, he will not make enemies with them for no reason. He looked at the large number of fresh lotus roots on the ground, turned his head and took out the beef tongue cake that he had planned to keep for him and Huzi tomorrow from the cupboard, wrapped it in sun-dried banana leaves and put it in Du Dashi's basket, and said, "Thank you Brother Dashi, go home and help me say hello to my uncle." ”
Du Dashi was not polite, and directly carried the bamboo basket on his back, then looked at Du Qiyue and said: "Xiaoyue, my father asked me to remind you, the uncle's family has been running to the homes of several elders in the clan for the past two days, as if he is beating the idea of your house and land, you should pay attention to yourself." ”