Liu Laozhu has been back to the merchant for most of the time.

Since he came back, he hasn't greeted anyone, and he doesn't pay attention to others when they greet him. He sat in the hall all the time, and said not a word; The originally swarthy face is now as black as the bottom of a pot.

When others looked at him like this, no one dared to speak. Zhao Shishi has the most eyes, when Liu Laozhu kicked a leper dog in the way at the entrance of the alley, he immediately said that he wanted to buy some food and clothing for the daughter of the mountain baby on the street, and went out with the girl in his arms. The mother-in-law of the mountain baby also saw that something was not quite right, and hid in the stove room as soon as she was gone. The mountain baby walked back and forth between the courtyard gate and the stove room several times, and finally did not go anywhere, squatting on the side of the firewood and grass pile built up against the stove room. He held his head on his shoulders with one hand, paddled the grass roots on the ground with the other, and rested his chin on his arm, watching the ants move alone.

Although Yue'er had already guessed what happened to her father in the Huo family, this result was so unexpected that she couldn't accept it at all for a while, and she stood at the door of the stove room like a fool, twisting the corners of her clothes and staring at her big eyes. After a long time, she screamed softly and remembered that she should pour a bowl of water for her father.

Her soft cry also reminded Shang Cheng, who was sitting in the hall. He immediately stood up, poured a bowl of tea soup filled with the rich smell of green onion and ginger with a clean bowl, and then respectfully held it to Liu Laozhu with both hands.

Although Liu Laozhu's heart was still full of shame, anger and anger towards Huo Qiqi, and this resentment was like a hole in his ribs, churning and stirring in his chest, making him almost breathless, but he didn't forget the etiquette of the countryside after all, stretched out his right hand to take the tea soup, and was about to put it on the table...... Fortunately, Yue'er caught a glimpse of her father's actions in the crack of the door, and coughed vigorously, and Liu Laozhu reacted one by one, if he really put this bowl of tea and soup on the table, then he would lose the due courtesy of the guest. He paused with the bowl in his right hand, raised his left hand on the edge of the bowl, brought the tea to his mouth, and took a long sip......

As he opened his mouth, the breath that had been holding in his chest immediately found a place to vent, rushed out of his throat, and collided with the tea soup that had just been sucked into his mouth, and he immediately coughed violently, and the yellow-green tea soup sprayed all over his front pants, and the remaining tea soup in the bowl was also spilled all over the ground.

Shang Cheng hurriedly took the bowl and put it on the table, and beat Liu Laozhu's back to help him smooth his breath; Yue'er was worried about her father, and hurried over to help. After tossing for a while, Liu Laozhu finally stopped coughing, and the look on his face gradually calmed down.

At this time, Shang Cheng opened his mouth and asked, "Uncle, what are you...... What's wrong? ”

From the moment he saw Liu Laozhu's nose not his nose and eyes not his eyes slamming the door in, he knew that most of this family business had twists and turns; And after Liu Laozhu sat down, he didn't even glance at him, but just said nothing with a black face. He thought, it seems that Uncle Zhu not only didn't talk about his family, but most of them were angry at Uncle Seventeen's house......

He couldn't figure it out, family affairs and disagreement were just two or three sentences, why was Uncle Zhu so popular?

"Alas......" Liu Laozhu didn't say a word, he sighed first, and then there was a long silence. After a while, he let out a long sigh again, and then he told what happened to him in the Huo family.

This time, Yue'er didn't act as a translator for Shang Cheng. Every time her father said two or three sentences, she would interject and ask two questions. The conversations between the two of them are all local slang with muddy tones and vague words, Shang Cheng hated to break every word they said and crumpled it into his stomach, but let him frown and frown and sweat, and in the end he could only understand four or five percent, and it was clear that this family affair was not only rejected by the Huo family, but the seventeenth aunt also lost the face of Uncle Zhuzi; But Aunt Seventeen should not be this kind of relative as if there was a reason for it, and she was ready to marry one of her relatives to herself...... That seems to be how it happened.

It was easy to wait for Liu Laozhu to finish telling a simple story, Yue'er was already so angry that her little face was red, and she made a big call to her father.

Shang Cheng couldn't hear what she was saying, and he wasn't interested in listening to what Yue'er was saying right now. He now knows that his relationship with the eldest girl is in vain. But he thinks that this thing is very common, there is really no need to make a fuss about this kind of thing as a matchmaker, there are successes, and naturally there are failures, success and failure are normal, and it is not worth making a fuss.

At this time, the two of them and Zhao Shishi, who had just entered the street, were standing at the door of the hall, and they all heard the words of Liu Laozhu's father and daughter clearly. Zhao Shishi, who is usually a little arrogant, pursed his lips, and he didn't know what he was thinking. The two of them looked angry, and they were obviously on Liu Laozhu's side.

Shang Cheng felt that he should also make a statement, at least to show that he and Liu Laozhu were wearing the same pair of pants. But the conscience of heaven and earth, he really doesn't think that Aunt Seventeen has done anything wrong. He was even a little grateful to Aunt Seventeen. After hearing that the seventeenth aunt did not agree to marry the eldest girl to him, he had a faint feeling of relief in his heart, and he was unwilling to do the best! If Aunt Seventeen really promised to give the eldest girl to himself, he didn't know whether to treat the eldest girl as a sister or as an aunt. He even greedily thought how good it would be if Aunt Seventeen didn't match him with another family......

He thought about it for a long time, and finally said: "Uncle, don't be angry, things are already like this, and it's not worth it to make some mistakes with your body because of this." …… I think the family affairs mentioned by the seventeenth aunt are also forgotten. Actually, I don't care if I get married or not, anyway, I'm still young, and I can always find someone to live with. …… As you can see, I can't get married in my current situation, and I'm still pulling a famine of more than a dozen dollars. I have calculated, relying on odd jobs to find money, and then removing my own food and clothing, it will be difficult to pay back all the money in three or five years, where can I have the money to ask for a daughter-in-law? Whose daughter is willing to live this muddy life with me? ”

As soon as he spoke, several people stared at him, the more he said, the more complicated the expressions on everyone's faces, listening to him say "I'm still young", Zhao Shishan was a strange look with eyebrows and eyes, and then said "whose daughter is willing to live with me", Shanwazi's daughter-in-law couldn't help but say: "Brother businessman, if you are really willing to marry, I will be a matchmaker for you My uncle's family also has two cousins, one fourteen and one sixteen, I will trespass this time, and I will be the master for my uncle, one or two sisters are up to you." Even if you marry both, it will be done! ”

Shang Cheng smiled bitterly: "Brother and sister also came to laugh with me?" ”

The daughter-in-law of the mountain baby said, "Who laughed with you? I'm telling the truth, the two younger sisters are as you choose, and the two of them can marry back together, and if my uncle is here, he can only say that I am good, and he will not blame me. The Huo family doesn't have long eyes and doesn't know people, but they still have better eyes than them, and one by one, with the ability of the eldest brother of the merchant to earn this courtyard in half a year, who can't rush to send the girl to you? ”

Shang Cheng felt that the daughter-in-law of the mountain baby didn't seem to be amusing her, but she couldn't talk to herself, so she had to laugh dryly.

Shan Wazi thought for a long time, and then said: "Brother Merchant, your first two sentences are right, Uncle Zhu really can't be angry for the Huo family, don't say that they are not relatives, the Huo family's mother-in-law dares to go to the hall to answer when the man is talking about things, and the Huo family's face has taught them to lose themselves!" Hey, I don't know how many people are laughing at them behind their backs! Let's see who will look at them in the future! He turned his face to Shang Cheng and said, "The Huo family's proximity can be ignored, but your affairs can't be delayed." In the past, if you had no place to settle down and could not become a family, the officials would not trouble you, but now that you have your own house, if you don't ask for a daughter-in-law, the yamen will treat you......"

Hearing what Shan Wazi said, Zhao Shishi was still nodding beside him, and Shang Cheng's eyes couldn't help but widen in shock. He had never heard of such a truth in the world, and if he was single, he would be rectified by the yamen? He didn't believe it, there are so many singles in the world, can the government govern it?

"The official Ya Po has been here a few times!" Yue'er also said. As she spoke, she raised her right hand, her middle ring finger and little finger stretched out. "Three times!"

Shang Cheng looked at Yue'er's hand suspiciously. Three times? Who's coming three times? Ya Po? What is Yapo? What for?

Although Zhao Shishi has not yet started a family, he seems to be very experienced in such strange things as "Ya Po", and he said very imposingly: "'Fifteen women do not marry, seventeen men do not marry, ten should not be married, and the official match'." Ya Po has come three times, that is......" he thought for a moment, and suddenly said hesitantly, "that is, that is...... And seven more? "Except when he is playing with money, he is usually very dull to numbers, and Shang Chengcheng has seen Zhao Shishi count many times with his fingers counting how many bowls of soup he drank and swallowed a few buns in a meal.

Shang Cheng also guessed what "ten sues should not be, official matching" is talking about: the female baby is not married at the age of fifteen, and the male baby is not married at the age of seventeen, so the tooth wife has to come to the door to do the work; If Ya Po comes ten times and you don't marry a daughter-in-law, then the government will forcibly assign you a daughter-in-law. It seems that Ya Po is the official media in the yamen. But this law is not strictly enforced, at least the eldest girl is fifteen, and the seventeenth aunt Fan Lian'er who protects the media seems to be eighteen, and she is not married, and she has not seen the government send someone to urge; The stone is in his early twenties, and there is no tooth woman to look for him. It's strange, Shi is also an overage bachelor, why didn't he hear that Ya Po found him?

Zhao Shishi scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I have no land and no house, how can Ya Po look for me?" ”

Shang Cheng understood that the government introduced the person to the object, and the first thing to look at was the person's economic situation and living conditions, and only those who met the standards could be treated as a matchmaker by the official yamen.

He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you mean by being an official?" He thought that the women introduced by the government to bachelors would definitely not be the daughters of good families, but most of them would be outcasts, criminals, or official prostitutes and widows......

Facts have proved that his speculation is correct, and the women sent by the official media of Yapo are basically these kinds of people.

"How long is the 'Ten Notices' in general?"

No one can answer this question, but one thing is certain, that is, the time for Ya Po's ten visits to persuade him will not be less than 30 days, but it will not exceed 90 days, that is, if Shang Cheng does not officially marry a daughter-in-law within three months, then the government is likely to forcibly assign a woman to him as a daughter-in-law. From this point of view, what he just said, "I'm still young and not in a hurry" is completely wrong, he not only has to be very anxious, but also very active, if he can't marry a daughter-in-law this year, then the yamen will send him a very specific kind of woman. It is possible that this woman is better than his mother-in-law imagined, or it may be worse than his worst intentions, according to the stone: "Even if the first sow is given to you, you have to recognize her as your wife!" ”

This over-the-top metaphor is simply chilling.

“…… In fact, it's not a big deal for a woman to look like a sow, she has a big chest and a fat buttocks, and she can't see anything when it's dark anyway, so it's still ......"

Before Shang Cheng could make a move, Shan Wazi had already slapped the stone out several steps.

"Get out of here! Look at your, and don't look at the place, you dare to make noise? ”

The stone rubbed his head and smiled embarrassedly. He was so happy just now that he completely forgot that Shanwazi's daughter-in-law and Yue'er were also there. Shanwazi's daughter-in-law is better, but Yue'er is a daughter who hasn't said anything yet, and she has long been so ashamed that her face is covered with a red cloth......

Shang Cheng reluctantly accepted this fact: now it is not whether he wants to marry a daughter-in-law or not, but he must marry a daughter-in-law; Not only did he have to marry a daughter-in-law, but he also had to get his family done as quickly as possible.

Yue'er remembered something and asked Shang Chengdao: "My father said that he listened to the seventeenth aunt, you took the purse of the sister of the Fan family?" ”

"She gave it to me!" Shang Cheng immediately pointed out the fault in Yue'er's words, and insisted that the purse was not given to him by the little girl Lian'er, but he left it at Fan's house the night before. Then he had to tell the story of helping the Fan family feed the cattle with medicine. "When I met her on the way back the next day, she told me that I had forgotten the purse at her house, and then she gave it back to me, and I realized that it was not mine, and I thought she had taken it by mistake. Besides, the purse is a small object, so I don't care much about it......"

"That's Sister Lian'er's personal purse, can you take it wrong?" Yue'er glanced at him and asked, "Where's the purse?" If you don't want to be nice to Sister Lian'er, hurry up and return the things to others! ”

"What shall I give her back? When Quzhou fought bandits, the purse fell! ”

This time, even the two of the mountain babies who wanted to marry Shang Cheng the most couldn't help Shang Cheng speak. Although Yue'er hates Aunt Seventeen, she doesn't hate Lian'er of Aunt Seventeen's family, of course she will speak for her good friend. As for Liu Laozhu, although he is a wooden countryman, but he is also a courteous countryman, in his opinion, since Shang Cheng has received other people's personal purses, and there is no way to return them, then it is reasonable to marry others; Therefore, for the sake of the good reputation of other people's daughters and monks, he can pull down his old face and then go to the door of the Huo family for this matter......

Liu Laozhu went to Huo's house this time, Huo Shiqi personally welcomed him to the gate of the courtyard, poured tea and soup for him with his own hands, and called Brother Zhu affectionately, and also let his mother-in-law call over, taught him a cruel lesson in front of him, and asked her to apologize to him in person. In the end, it was Liu Laozhu who said good things for Aunt Seventeen, and Huo Shiqi spared his mother-in-law.

Early the next morning, Aunt Seventeen took the eldest girl to Lijiazhuang, and on the third day, she came back alone, happily telling Liu Laozhu that this family affair was completed......