Chapter 175: Family Affairs
However, this is just an idea conceived in Ye Xiaoyu's own mind, because Lu Yishou has been busy expanding the land to grow vegetables recently, and she has not found time to tell him his own idea. However, due to the novelty of this method and the use of paddy fields, Ye Xiaoyu planned to "study" it carefully and then discuss it with Lu Yishou. After all, the matter of the last Yinpan land can be regarded as a lesson from the past, although it was later confirmed that it was not Ye Xiaoyu's fault.
In Ye Xiaoyu's impression, there was almost no rain in autumn last year, but this year, from autumn to now, it has been raining non-stop every day. There are no waterproof boots and raincoats here, although there is no need to stay in the field all day because of the less work of hired workers in the rainy field, and the meal has changed from two meals to one at night, Ye Xiaoyu is still wet when she comes back from a trip in an ox cart.
This morning, Liu Meier didn't come to work for the first time, because it was raining heavily, Ye Xiaoyu thought that it might be a delay such as a bad mud road or a late sleep, so she didn't think about it, anyway, according to Liu Meier's speed, this month's handkerchief work was almost completed.
But until Ye Xiaoyu came back from delivering dinner from the field, she still didn't see Liu Mei'er, asked Hong'er, and said that she hadn't come.
Now Ye Xiaoyu is a little worried, Liu Mei'er's uncle's house is not far from Lujiazhuang, even if it is far away, it is all in a village, if there is something, it is not difficult to ask someone to come over and say something, but it disappears all day like this, it is neither like Liu Meier's character, nor has there been any news, how can Ye Xiaoyu not worry.
Just as Ye Xiaoyu was holding an umbrella and wanted to go around the village to learn about the situation, Liu Meier broke in wet all over. almost hit the umbrella Ye Xiaoyu was holding.
"Xiaoyu, I may be missing two days of work."
As soon as Liu Mei'er saw Ye Xiaoyu, this sentence came out. The rain on her hair ran down her cheeks, and her clothes were also wet with rain, and they were thin and sticky to her body, but her face was red.
However, Liu Meier did meet a good thing.
Liu Meier is sixteen years old this year, this age. If it was in Ye Xiaoyu's previous life. It's just a little girl who should be in high school, but here, she is already an older late-married young woman.
She is not bad-looking, and she looks quite good. The character is good, too. The hard-working and hard-working village is also well-known. Coupled with the ability to embroider a craft, it stands to reason that it should not be difficult to find an ordinary person. But Liu Meier has a hard injury, that is, her parents both died early. She was raised by her father's brother, now her uncle's family. If that's all there is to it, it's nothing, and in this era, the medical conditions are poor, and there are frequent famines, and it is normal for both parents to die. But Liu Meier's problem is that I don't know when it started, people in the village began to spread that she was destined to have a bad spirit, and she specialized in restraining her death.
Originally, in the countryside, it was not a big deal to spread some numerology rumors, but the strange thing is that in the third year that Liu Meier lived in her uncle's house, the youngest daughter of her uncle's family had tuberculosis very strictly, and kept coughing up blood.
Although her uncle's family didn't say much, it was just a sad accident, but Liu Meier knew that from that time on, no matter how low-key and hard-working she was, she would be pointed at in the village. Until she grew up, her skills got better and better, and after she earned some money to subsidize her family, such rumors still existed, but they would be much better than before.
However, her marriage is still a problem.
Seeing her grow up year by year, her uncle's family began to be a little anxious, although Liu Meier is a good hand at subsidizing the family, but staying at home to be an "old aunt" is not a good word, so there are also people to help them ask if there is a suitable one, but everyone knows the roots, and the other party politely refused when they heard that it was Liu Meier.
It dragged on and on, and two or three years passed in the blink of an eye. Originally, Liu Mei'er had already accepted her fate, she was already sixteen years old this year, needless to say that in the town, that is, in Quanxiu Village, there are a lot of young and beautiful girls to be married, even if there are no rumors, she can't compare to those people, not to mention that she is still burdened with the numerology of Keqin. So when she found a job at the Lu family, she didn't ask for anything, she just wanted to work hard and save more money for the elderly.
But when she went home yesterday, her aunt mysteriously pulled her aside alone, and told her very happily that someone had come to Liu's house to propose to her. After hearing this, Liu Meier couldn't believe it at all, she confirmed it several times, and pinched her arm fiercely before she affirmed that she was not daydreaming.
Liu Mei'er was in a hurry here, but the other party's family seemed to be more anxious than hers, and she came to Liu Mei'er's uncle's house early the next morning, and dragged her to Qingkou Town to make clothes and go to see jewelry, as if she was a prospective daughter-in-law who had not passed the door. It is precisely because of this that Liu Meier can't find time to come to Lujiazhuang to talk to Ye Xiaoyu.
"Wow, it turns out that sister, you are a good thing, that's okay, two days is enough, do you want to rest for a few more days to prepare?"
Handing over a cotton towel to Liu Mei'er to wipe her face, Ye Xiaoyu asked with a smile.
It turned out to be a good thing, she was still cranky and worried about dying, and sure enough, after experiencing a lot of bad luck, people will become pessimistic.
"No need Xiaoyu, it's still talking, it's not so fast......"
Being asked by Ye Xiaoyu like this, Liu Meier was a little shy, and her face became even redder.
"Sister, are you going to get married?"
Hearing Liu Mei'er say this, Hong'er also poked her head out to join in the fun.
Liu Mei'er's face was flushed, and after listening to Hong'er's question, she was embarrassed to answer directly, just pursed her lips and nodded gently.
"Who is so lucky to marry such a good daughter-in-law as Liu Mei'er? No, sister, you have to sue me, I'm too curious......"
Ye Xiaoyu is very happy, there have been waves of bad things recently, and she hasn't been so happy for a long time.
"Actually, you all know each other, and they are also from the village, the youngest son of the Lao Lu family."
Because she knew her very well and knew that they were really happy for her, Liu Meier simply didn't hide it, and chatted directly with Ye Xiaoyu and them.
The old way?
Ye Xiaoyu suddenly had a slight premonition.
There are only two families surnamed Lu in Quanxiu Village, one is where Ye Xiaoyu is located, and the well-known Lu Yishou Lu family; The other family, that is, the Lu Tianfu family, which relied on the relationship between the relatives of Lujiazhuang and Lujiazhuang after eight lifetimes, is the Liu's mother's family, in order to distinguish it from Lujiazhuang, the village is called the old Lu family.
Ye Xiaoyu has always known that Liu's mother has a second son Lu Tiangui who is a partner in the town and has not yet married a wife, God, the person Liu Mei'er is going to marry will not be this legendary Lu Tiangui.
Because I haven't seen Lu Tiangui, and I don't know what others are like, but Ye Xiaoyu is very "familiar" with Liu Ma and Lu Tianfu, these two are not good stubble, especially Liu Ma, with Liu Meier's temperament, if she marries into the Lu family, she will be bullied to death by Liu Ma, the mother-in-law.
But after all, this is Liu Meier's own private matter, Ye Xiaoyu is worried, but she doesn't dare to say anything casually, and the family is so big that she finally has a family matter, Ye Xiaoyu can neither bear nor dare to talk more without authorization.
"Xiaoyu, then I won't be able to come to work tomorrow or two, and the handkerchief will trouble you......"
The rain outside gradually stopped, Liu Mei'er sat for a while, seeing that it was not early, and planned to go home. Because she has ordered the clothes for a day today, and the jewelry has not yet been seen, she will go to Mussel Town with Liu's mother again tomorrow.
"Eh, sister, have you seen the second son of the Lao Lu family?"
Liu Mei'er walked to the door, Ye Xiaoyu was still a little worried, so she blurted out.
"Hmm. I saw him when I went to town today, and I had a meal with him. ”
Looking at Liu Mei'er, who was full of happiness, Ye Xiaoyu wanted to ask a few more words, but in the end she didn't ask. Now that Liu Meier is like this, no matter what Ye Xiaoyu asks, what she gets will be a positive answer. But a person like Liu Meier, why is the other party Liu's mother's family? Ye Xiaoyu always believes that she deserves better.
But the wonderful thing about life is that whether you like it or not, whether you live well or not, the days are always moving forward silently, as if you are just a drifting bottle in the long river of life, and you can only go with the flow.
After Liu Meier took a leave of absence for two days, she came to Lu's house on time to work as usual; Ten days later, Ye Xiaoyu also received a letter from the shopkeeper Liu in the capital, the dozen or so clothes have all been sold, because the style is good-looking, and the price is much cheaper than the custom-made, even if the clothes are sold out, many people still place orders in the store, waiting for the arrival of a new batch of ready-to-wear clothes.
Even though this result was already in Ye Xiaoyu's expectation, she was still very happy when she learned it again from the letter. But happy to be happy, there is an obvious problem in front of Ye Xiaoyu.
Everything is about striking while the iron is hot, especially this kind of thing that is easy to be borrowed by others, and it didn't take long for many cloth shops in Yuejing to sell at the same time, just like the cartoon pattern last time. Therefore, Ye Xiaoyu has to take advantage of the opportunity that other merchants have not yet started, do more, make a lot of money first, and wait until other stores in Yuejing are also sold, and then innovate from the style and pattern, so that a virtuous circle, like the cartoon pattern on the handkerchief and purse last time, will play the brand out, and will not be afraid of those "knock-offs".
The demand for ready-to-wear has increased, even if Liu Meier's handwork is very fast, but her workload alone cannot meet the market demand in Yuejing. And now she is preparing to get married, and she is focused on "love", although she still works hard, Ye Xiaoyu can't bear to tie all her time to the Lu family.
Therefore, Ye Xiaoyu wanted to hire another person to help. (To be continued......)