Chapter 14 Going to the Father-in-law's House

Saying goodbye to the shopkeeper Wan, Zhang Xu, and Li Yun, and agreeing on the delivery date, Zhao Yuan picked up the empty basket, held Zhao Luo with one hand, and left the restaurant with Meng Ying.

With money in his hand, he didn't panic, and the basket contained more than 5,000 copper coins covered with a sack, which was heavy and made Meng Ying nervous.

"Uncle, are we rich?" Coming to the street, the little girl asked expectantly.

"Yes, with money, what does Luoluo want to buy?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

The wheat and rabbits sold today, plus vegetables and bracken nettle roots, were sold for a total of nearly 300 copper coins, as well as 270 wen and 5 guan advance payments for mushrooms, a total of 5,560 copper coins, which were exchanged for iron coins of more than 22,000 wen, which can buy more than 700 catties of wheat for buying wheat, which is basically enough for a family of three to have a year's rations.

"I don't know." The little girl bit her finger and said.

"Luoluo, don't bite your fingers, forget what Uncle told you." Zhao Yuan looked at the little girl who didn't know what to buy and said.

"Well, I won't bite my fingers, auntie, what do you want to buy?" The little girl asked Meng Ying again.

"I don't know, Brother Yuan, let's go see if there are any chickens for sale, buy a few and feed them back." Meng Ying held the basket in front of her and said.

"Don't buy the chicken cubs today, buy them next time, let's go buy something, and go to my father-in-law's house later." Zhao Yuan said that if you have money, you still have to bring something decent when you come to the door for the first time after marriage.

Zhao Yuan took Meng Ying and Zhao Luo to a cloth shop, spent the usual copper money to buy a black and gray linen cloth and six-foot cotton cloth, the six-foot cotton cloth was cut into two parts, one was ready to be given to Meng Ying's eldest brother's house, and went to the grocery store to buy some honey money and melon seeds and other things, when passing by the butcher shop, he bought five catties of pork, put it in the basket, and walked towards Songjiazhuang.

Linen cloth and meat are given to the mother-in-law's family as door-to-door gifts, and honey money melon seeds are used to coax the mother-in-law's mother-in-law and relatives' children, Songjiazhuang is closer to the market in Gray Yuan Town, in the middle of Zhaojiazhuang and the market, and is located by the dam downstream of the river.

"You are Meng Ying, I heard that there was an epidemic in Zhaojiazhuang, are you okay now, are you going back to your parents' house?" Zhao Yuan and the three of them walked on a small road to Meng Ying's mother's house, and met Song Caili, a middle-aged man in Songjiazhuang.

"Lieber, you have rushed back, the plague on our side has passed." Meng Ying replied.

"Lieber." Zhao Yuan also shouted.

"You're Zhao Yuan, you still have a lot of things to go to your father-in-law's house, I heard that you are also sick, and you didn't even go back to the door, and now it's okay?" Song Caili said when he saw the things in the basket that Zhao Yuan was carrying.

"Okay, isn't this going to be made up today?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

The Meng family was somewhat excluded in Songjiazhuang, and the people were not very prosperous, Meng's father's family was in the westernmost part of Songjiazhuang, and Song Caili's family was in the big courtyard in the east.

"Zhao Yuan, come to the yard to play in a while." After Song Caili arrived home, he said to Zhao Yuan.

"Okay, Lieber, let's go back." Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying said.

Passing by the courtyard of the Song family, along the way, Zhao Yuan followed Meng Ying and shouted hello, and walked a short distance before arriving at his father-in-law's house.

"Daddy, Daddy, the second sister and the second brother-in-law are here." When he walked under the big cedar tree in the corner of the house, a tiger-headed boy ran into the house and shouted loudly, this is Meng Ying's younger brother Meng Xiaobao.

"Xiaobao, you run slowly." Meng Ying greeted.

Meng Ying is the second in the family, and there is an older brother named Meng Xun, who is married, and his brother's family just gave birth to a boy last year, and he can't walk yet. Younger brother Meng Xiaobao is eight years old this year.

"Ying'er is back." When Meng Mu heard Meng Xiaobao's shout, she walked out of the kitchen with a spatula in one hand and a girdle, she should be cooking pig food, and when she saw Meng Ying, her eyes began to cry.

"Mother." Meng Ying shouted, but her eyes were red.

"Mother-in-law." Zhao Yuan put down the basket and shouted.

As soon as Meng Ying married into the Zhao family, she encountered an epidemic in Zhaojiazhuang, and Zhao Dazhu was still dead, Meng's mother had been worried about her daughter and wanted to go to Zhaojiazhuang to have a look, but the villagers stopped her from going, and she was afraid of bringing the epidemic to Songjiazhuang.

"Atom, are you cured?" Meng Mu asked.

"Okay, mother-in-law, let you worry, come. Luoluo, this is grandma. Zhao Yuan pulled Zhao Luo, who was hiding behind him, and said.

"It's Luoluo, come inside." Meng Mu greeted.

Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying took Luoluo into the house and put the basket in the house, and Meng Ying put the basket and basket together. Zhao Luo was a little scared, so he didn't call anyone, and didn't call Meng's mother until he sat down with Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying.

"Mother, where's Daddy?" Meng Ying asked.

"He's gone to the field, Xiaobao, you go and call your father, saying that your brother-in-law is here." Meng Mu said to Meng Xiaobao who was standing on the side.

"Okay, mother." With that, Meng Xiaobao ran out.

"Xiaobao, slow down." Meng Ying shouted.

"Got it, second sister."

Mother Meng was cooking pig food, and she should have been adding bran to the pig food just now. The Meng family fed two large, two small and four pigs, and the pig food needed every day had to be boiled in two large pots, and Meng Ying could still help when she was at home, and now Meng's mother and Meng Ying's sister-in-law took care of it.

"Mother, the eldest brother also went to work in the fields?" Meng Ying asked.

"Yes, I went too, but your sister-in-law is taking your nephew in the house." Meng Mu said.

"I'll take a look." After Meng Ying finished speaking, she walked towards Brother Xitou's room.

Meng Ying's sister-in-law is also from a nearby village, named Wei Qiumei, who was coaxing her son at this time, saw Meng Ying come in, and said with a smile: "Xiaoying, you are back, but you are worried about the death of your father and mother and us." ”

"Sister-in-law, it's okay, is the baby asleep?" Meng Ying asked.

"I just fell asleep, I don't know what's going on lately, and I'm always crying at night." Wei Qiumei said.

"Oh, did you ask Wen Langzhong?" Meng Ying asked, Wen Langzhong is the doctor of Jimintang in the town, because it is close to Songjiazhuang, it is very famous in this area, and generally people in the village go to him when they are sick.

"Dad went to ask, and took the baby to the town to see it, Wen Langzhong said it's okay, by the way, is Zhao Yuan good to you?" Wei Qiumei asked.

"It's good for me." Meng Ying said.

"That's good, I'm sorry for you, I encountered this kind of thing as soon as I got married, but now it's okay, it's all over."

"yes, it's all gone." Meng Ying thought about all the things she had been with Zhao Yuan in the past few days, and she also felt a burst of sweetness in her heart.

"Qiumei, Ying'er, your father and Daxun are back." In the kitchen, Meng's mother chatted with Zhao Yuan, asking about the situation at Zhao Yuan's house, and after a while, Meng's father and they came back.

"Here we are." Meng Ying and Wei Qiumei walked out of the room in a whisper.

"Daddy, big brother." Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying shouted.

"I'm back, I'm going to go to Zhaojiazhuang with Daddy to see you."