Fang Yuan excused herself for internal urgency, sent Fang Fang to accompany Zhou's mother to the backyard, and sneaked back by herself, hiding behind the hall, leaning against the wall to eavesdrop on the conversation between Tian and Fang Fei.

In the front hall, Tian Shi was shy, smiling, looking at Fang Fei anxiously, and said, "Big girl, you played a package ticket last time, but you can't talk and don't talk about it." ”

"Erniang, this matter is not urgent." Fang Fei carried the lid of the cup and scraped the rim of the cup carelessly, "I said that I would help inquire, but if I didn't say it, it will definitely be done, not to mention, now is not the time to talk about this matter." ”

She's not in a hurry, but Fang Yuan can't afford to wait!

A girl in the countryside, if she hasn't married by fifteen or sixteen, she is an old girl! Not to mention marrying in the town, even if you marry a young man with a little bit of conditions in the village, people don't have to, you can only marry those poor families who are too poor to marry a daughter-in-law.

"What do you mean it's not time?" Tian stood up awkwardly, stared at a pair of mung bean eyes, and accused: "Your sister is not too young, I believed that you would help, so I refused the matchmaker who came to the door to say goodbye, and kept her, big girl, it's not good for you to shirk it like this!" ”

Fang Yuan's temperament, everyone in the village knows that she is lazy to eat, she doesn't have the strength to do farm work, and she is incompetent in taking care of housework, so can someone come to the door to say goodbye? Unless it's a door that gets your head pinched.

"Erniang, don't be impatient." Fang Fei knew it but didn't break it, stared at the teacup in his hand with his eyes, and said methodically: "Now is really not the time, the Zhao family has big rules, and this time it is their own grandfather who has passed away, it stands to reason that the younger generations in the family must keep filial piety for at least three years, and they can't talk about marriage during this period." ”

Three years!

Tian's mind exploded, it went blank, and he sat back in his chair.

Three years later, Fang Yuan will be twenty. O old girl through and through! If she can't marry the Zhao family, I'm afraid that the poor families in the village won't look down on her, so they can only marry those old bachelors who can't marry their daughters-in-law!

Fang Fei glanced at her, feeling that she couldn't let her die and beat other people's ideas again, especially Fang Pei! He threw another hope to the Tian family, "But the ancestor said." The children of the first generation of the word 'Rong' in the family are not young. The Zhao family is no longer as brilliant as it used to be, and it only needs to be filial piety for half a year. ”

Half a year, that's pretty much it!

Tian is happy. Countless hopes instantly ignited in his heart, and he smiled and said: "Then, I will stay with Dani for another half a year, no matter who comes to kiss." It's all back, and the big girl has to use dim sum in the past six months. It is best to settle the marriage as soon as the filial piety period has passed. ”

Fang Yuan, who was separated by a wall, was confused, Tian had never told her about it at all, but. From the conversation between the two, I heard that they were talking about their marriage, it seems that it is still the Zhao family, the Zhao family, the top family in the town! There was a sudden burst of ecstasy in my heart.

She knew it. I was born to be a young grandmother, those mud legs in the village. How can you be worthy of yourself!

The more Fang Yuan thought about it, the happier she became, and pressed her head closer to the wooden wall in order to hear more clearly.

There was a muffled sound from behind the partition wall, Fang Fei's almond-like eyes rolled, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "I will naturally do what I need to do." However, there is still a sentence that I have to tell Sù Erniang in advance, although I am in charge of the chores of the Zhao family, but I really can't interfere in the marriage of my grandchildren, and even Rongzhao's mother, Grandma Song, can't speak, and it is the ancestors and the eldest master who really call the shots. ”

If you heard it right, what she said just now was, Rong Zhao? Fang Yuan's heart was ecstatic, and he couldn't help but scratch the door, "Stick his head tighter, and the sound of rustling sounded in the back hall.

"The most I can do is beat the side drum in front of my ancestors, and it won't make much difference. If there is a good family who comes to the door to propose, Erniang should not refuse, you may wish to consider it. ”

Fang Fei kindly said, first give a piece of sugar, and then pour a scoop of cold water, so as to save others from fluttering, with the mentality of eating you, then it will be difficult to clean up.

"That's natural, I used to point to you for help, so I rejected a lot of good people, and then there are people with good conditions who come to say goodbye, I will consider it." Tian smiled, and put gold on his daughter's face one by one.

Fang Yuan kept slandering behind the door, when did someone come to the door to propose? How did she not know! Besides, how can those vulgar men in the village with their backs to the loess and facing the sky compare with the eldest son of the Zhao family, not to mention that no one comes to propose, even if there is, she will beat people out with a broom!

"Erniang has always had an opinion, so good." Fang Fei smiled perfunctorily, praised the Tian family, and got up after speaking, "By the way, I have something to go to the patriarch's house, and I'll come back later, so I'll leave first." ”

"Yo, I just ordered someone to cook, let's go after eating." Tian got up to stay as a guest, and by the way, he wanted to inquire more about the situation of the Zhao family.

Fang Fei politely declined as he walked outside, and added: "Mother Zhou will stay here to teach Dani Erni embroidery, I'll come when I go." ”

Seeing that he couldn't keep it, Tian no longer wasted his efforts, sent the person to the door, turned around and ordered the person to cook one less person's meal.

Fang Yuan ran out of the back hall, grabbed Tian's arm affectionately, and asked happily, "Mother, what were you talking about with your eldest sister just now?" ”

usually calls Fang Fei's name directly, but now he calls the eldest sister.

Tian glanced at her, poked her head leaning on his arm with his hand, and said with a smile: "You ghost spirit, didn't you hear it just now?" Also asked! ”

"Mother~~! Fang Yuan shouted coquettishly, and the mother and daughter went to the kitchen.

When he went out, Fang Fei took two maids and carried the gifts prepared in advance to the patriarch's house.

Fangjia Town's surname 'Fang' accounts for seventy percent, and each patriarch and village chief is held by the same person, and it is generally the respected Lao Su in the village.

The people in the village are simple, most of them know Fang Fei, and along the way, acquaintances constantly come forward to say hello.

Fang Fei is easy-going, usually helpful, who has an urgent matter at home and lacks money to find her, she will never refuse, although everyone knows about her in the Zhao family, but when they meet, they all greet her kindly, and feel sorry for this sensible girl behind her back.

Turn right out of Fang's house, walk on a stick of incense, and arrive at the patriarch's house.

In a small courtyard with blue tiles, the door of the courtyard is open, and an old man over half a hundred years old is lying in a bamboo chair, smoking a dry cigarette. In the courtyard, a middle-aged woman with white hair was holding a gourd scoop full of grain, grabbing the grain from the scoop and spilling it on the ground, while a flock of chickens and ducks clucked around her.

"Uncle Fu, Aunt Fu, you are all at home." Fang Fei walked to the door and shouted towards the courtyard.

There are too many people with the same surname in the village, and when they call their elders, they are the last word of their names, plus the seniority, otherwise they can't tell who is shouting.

The person who was called 'Uncle Fu' was the village chief and patriarch, Fang Changfu.

Hearing someone shouting to himself, he immediately bounced up from the chair and saw that the person was Fang Fei, so he happily stepped forward and greeted: "Yo, it's Ah Fei who is back, come in the house and sit down, old woman, go make tea." ”

Aunt Fu looked out the door, put down the scoop in her hand, greeted her with a smile on her face, and said with a smile: "I've eaten, I've eaten, come and sit in the house, have you eaten?" If you haven't eaten, Aunt Fu will go cook it for you. ”

"Eat, Aunt Fu doesn't have to bother." Fang Fei followed the old couple to the house, took the gift held by the maid, and handed it over with his own hands, "Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu, please accept it with a little caution." ”

"People just come and sit down, what kind of etiquette do you bring, so you can see too outside!" Aunt Fu said that she was outside, but she smiled and took the gift box from Fang Fei's hand.

The people in the village are simple, and if the guests send gifts to the door, if they refuse to accept them, they will look down on people and will only symbolically reject them.

"It's not a valuable thing, don't dislike Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu." Fang Fei replied in a kind manner, and followed the two into the hall.

"It's all grown in our own fields, so try it."

After beckoning the guests to sit down, Aunt Fu made tea, and took a plate filled with walnuts and other home-grown souvenirs to greet the guests. ”

As he spoke, he went to the corner of the house and got a bamboo basket, and was about to go outside the house with it.

The people in the village are sincere, Fang Fei usually takes care of the neighbors, everyone sees it in their eyes, remembers it in their hearts, and when they see her, they can't wait to put all the food and drink in front of her.

"Aunt Fu, don't bother!" Fang Fei hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the person down, "I'm coming over this time, first, to visit the two of you, and secondly, if you have something to discuss with Uncle Fu, just sit and leave, you really don't have to bother." ”

"Then you discuss it with the old man, and I'll come when I go." Aunt Fu was a real person, pushed Fang Fei back and sat in the chair, carried the basket and went out.

Uncle Fu knocked on the cigarette pouch and said with a smile: "Your aunt has such a temper, don't worry about her." ”

Fang Fei smiled helplessly, and after saying a few polite words, he said the idea of wanting to run a school in the village.

"The village has been blind for generations, and that's a good idea." Uncle Fu took two puffs with a cigarette stick in his mouth, and said sadly: "But the cost of going to school is expensive, our village depends on the land to eat, and every family has to work in the field, and no one cooks and delivers food to the babies, I'm afraid that few families are willing to send the babies to study." ”

After speaking, he glanced at Fang Fei carefully, and said embarrassedly: "Moreover, please Mr. also get a lot of silver every month, this poor and remote country, the gentlemen in the town may not be willing to come......"

People in the village are living by farming, and they can't save a few dollars a year, if there is another three diseases and two disasters in the family, it would be good to be able not to owe debts, where can there be spare money to send the baby to school, please teach Mr.

Fang Fei was also clear about the situation in the village, and immediately assured: "You don't have to worry about the silver. The tables, chairs, benches, pens, inkstones, books, and cursive paper needed to run the school, including the invitation of Mr. are all borne by me, in addition, I also take care of lunch, and I will invite someone to cook it when the time comes, and if you want to go to the school to study, you only need someone to arrive. ”

Tuition and fees are free, and lunch is included, which is too good to be better! (To be continued)