The next day, the weather was still fine.

Chen Xu got up early in the morning, first went to the jujube grove below the river beach to take a look at the beehive, and found that the bees in the beehive had settled down and did not fly away, and it turned out that the bees flying in and out of the hole in the jujube tree were very rare, so he completely put his mind at ease, broke a small piece of the hive that was still dripping with red and bright honey from the tree hole and stuffed it into his mouth, and hummed a song while eating to the place where the mud bricks were extended.

Niu Dashi was already stepping on the mud in the mud pit with his uncle Tian Bao and cousin Tian Erzhuang in shorts, while Yu Wuya kept holding some dried corn grass and hemp grass and throwing them into the mud pit, and from time to time he also touched a few spicy soybeans from his pocket and threw them into his mouth to chew.

"Xiao Xu, I heard Dashi say that you want to make a warm kang that you can lie down and sleep in winter, can you help our family make two when the time comes!" Tian Bao is in his forties, about the same age as Ma Erbo, but he looks much older, and he is also relatively dark, and he smiled very carefully after seeing Chen Xu, revealing a mouth full of yellow-black teeth.

"Okay, why not!" Chen Xu took off his shoes and went down to the pit to step on the mud with the three of them, and said with a smile, "Your house is relatively high, it shouldn't be difficult to renovate, I'll help you see how to make it the easiest and most convenient later!" ”

"Good!" Tian Bao and Tian Erzhuang immediately nodded excitedly, and their strength in stepping on the mud was much greater.

Chen Xu became a lidian, and the villagers felt honored at first, every time they saw him, they were very excited to talk and laugh with him, and even made some common vulgar jokes, but later as Chen Xu's prestige in Qinghe Town became higher and higher, the chief of the pavilion had to salute respectfully when he saw him, even if the county order talked to him with a pleasant face, I heard that he was invited to the county government office again and again, so slowly many villagers felt a little scared when they saw him, and the relationship was a little distant, and they did not speak as casually and easy-going as before. It always makes people feel that they are separated by a layer, and they have to salute when they meet before, and they were changed after Chen Xu said it a few times, so after Chen Xu came back this time, he tried hard to make these villagers as easy to get along with him as before, but this effort didn't seem to have much effect, but a few people chatted while working, and this cold relationship became lively again.

"Brother Erzhuang, I heard that you are going to take the bride?" Chen Xu asked with a smile.

"Yes, the girl surnamed Jiang from Eagle's Beak Cliff Village next door, fourteen years old, is said to be related to your mother, and your mother also knows about it!" Tian Bao hurriedly explained.

"Surname Jiang? Are you related to my mother? Chen Xu stayed for a long time.

To tell the truth, after traveling to Daqin for so long, Chen Xu only knew that his mother's surname was Jiang, and he never knew that she was from Eagle's Beak Cliff Village not far from the next door, and Chen Jiang himself had never said anything about it, and he had never returned to his parents' home, just like he had never been to his mother's house, so when Tian Bao said it, Chen Xu felt like he was arched by a wild boar, and his mind was full of clouds.

"You don't know yet?" Tian Bao was also very strange for a while before suddenly realized: "I forgot that you broke your head, I can't remember many things, your father turned out to be a very famous hunter in Qinghe Town, and he is also very bold and chivalrous, people in several nearby villages know him, one year a large group of monkeys came to Eagle Beak Cliff Village, tossed for a few months, the village of Eagle Beak Cliff Village entrusted the pavilion chief to find some helpers to help them drive away those monkeys, your father also went that time, and shot the Monkey King by himself, so the monkeys all scattered and fled, Your father met your mother during that hunt, and then secretly got along in the middle of the night......"

Chen Xu: ......

"Brother Xu, our village basically knows about this matter!" Niu Dashi also explained.

"Why...... Why haven't I heard anyone talk about it? Chen Xu felt that his three views had collapsed a little, and his father could sleep his mother back when he went hunting, which was a bit of a hooligan.

"This incident was still making trouble at that time, and our village almost met with the soldiers of Eagle's Beak Cliff Village, because your mother had already promised to marry someone else at that time......"

"Huh~?" Chen Xu was even more dumbfounded, this explanation was even more fierce, Dad actually slept with someone else's bride, Mom...... What did his mother think at the time...... Chen Xu's mind was full of paste.

"Your family's affairs are very complicated, your mother heard that Xu was married to a descendant, lame and dumb, I heard that the person's father also has a fifth-class military lord, and even the town's tour has to salute when he sees him, it is because of this incident that the other party is very angry, and tied up your father to be sent to the county government to see the official, but at that time your grandfather was still the village leader of our village, so he took our village old and young to rob your father back halfway, at that time this matter was very big, I heard that it also alarmed the county order and the county lieutenant, and then I don't know how to say it, Your mother married into our village, and she never went back, more than ten years later, and now your father is ...... Alas~" Tian Bao said this, sighed and stopped talking.

No wonder my mom got along with my dad!

After listening to this, Chen Xu roughly understood the reason.

Mom's parents betrothed her to a lame and dumb man, she naturally didn't like it, and just when the brave dad appeared, she was moved by Daddy's handsome and bravery, and then desperately talked to Daddy, and then ...... There is no then, there are only two endings for this kind of thing, either soak the pig cage, or make mature rice on this raw rice, fortunately, the old Chen family is not a soft persimmon, Chen Xu's grandfather is still a village, and he directly opened the group attack mode for the happiness of his son, so the final result is that the father finally succeeded in bringing back a wife and completed this Jedi counter-killing, but this incident must also be a stain on the mother's life, and the relationship with the family must have fallen out. If you are not married, you are not a human being, so it is reasonable to be abandoned and have no family to return to.

Thinking that his father would never come back, and that his grandfather and grandmother had both passed away, leaving only Chen Jiang alone with himself and Xing'er to live in that desperate environment of loneliness and helplessness, Chen Xu instantly felt that his eyes were a little hot, and he sniffed slightly.

"Because of your father and your mother, we have not had contact with Xiaohe Village and Yingzui Cliff Village for more than ten years, and only in the past two years have there been exchanges again, and last month a matchmaker came to talk to me about it, because Erzhuang is also sixteen this year, and when he is old enough to marry, there is no suitable woman in the village, so I agreed!" Tian Bao continued to explain.

Chen Xu nodded and said, "This is a good thing, Brother Erzhuang, have you seen the bride?" Like it or not? ”

"I've seen it, I like it!" Tian Erzhuang blushed and lowered his head and stepped on the mud.

"That's good, marry her and treat her well, and tell me if you have any difficulties! What's missing at home? ”

"There is no shortage, there is no shortage for the time being, this year the medicine was sold for more than 200 yuan, the pottery pots and bowls were added with new ones, and the linen cloth was also bought two to make new clothes...... Tian Erzhuang resigned.

Erzhuang wanted to marry his daughter-in-law, Chen Xu only knew about it when he heard Xing'er talk about it two days ago, but although his mother heard it next to him at that time, she didn't say anything, so Chen Xu only knew about it, and as for the details, Xing'er didn't know, and he didn't know it.

But after the mother's father and mother married their daughter to the Chen family, they have not been in contact with each other for more than ten years, and only Chen Jiang's own can experience this pain, maybe he can take this opportunity to take his mother back to meet his father, if the two elders are still there. After all, in the era of Daqin, marrying non-Ming media will be criticized, and it makes sense to think about all this.

The origin of matchmakers is very early, and there is a verse in the "Book of Songs" that "how to marry a wife, the matchmaker is not allowed", indicating that as early as the Zhou Dynasty, the matchmaker has become an essential element of marriage. In the etiquette system and laws of later generations, it is clearly stipulated that marriage must have "matchmakers", such as the "Tang Law" stipulating: "For the law of marriage, there must be matchmakers." "According to the ancient etiquette system, the standard marriage has to go through six links - six rites, that is, Nacai, Najib, Najib, Nazheng, invitation, welcome, etc., basically each link requires a matchmaker to thread the needle.

And this set is actually in accordance with the Zhou rites, today's Daqin, there is no matchmaker to say yes, marriage is illegal, and in the era of Daqin so much attention to population development, all women, once they reach the age of marriage, even if there is no matchmaker to introduce, the three elders in the town have to take action, they have the responsibility of preaching education, counseling and urging the people to get married and have children is their education task, and this task, in the final analysis, is still Chen Xu's task in the classics, but he has never bothered, and he is a descendant, I believe in the freedom of marriage, and I am very disgusted with this feudal dross, otherwise I wouldn't sympathize with my mother's experience.

The lame and dumb guy still has to forcibly use his power to marry a young girl, if this kind of person is met by Chen Xu, he has to be beaten to death.

Fortunately, my mother has been determined to resist for the freedom of marriage since she was a child, and finally got the love she wanted, although the process and ending are a little tragic, but this is also the price of freedom, and others can't put their beaks.

"My sister-in-law is really a heroine among women, and I admire it endlessly!" Yu Wuya, who was standing on the edge of the pit, sighed with emotion after hearing this.

"Feel a fart, come down and help step on it together!" Chen Xu rolled his eyes, and Yu Wuya had to obediently take off his shoes and step on the mud.

"Brother Erzhuang, make more mud bricks this time, help you take a good rest in the house, not only the hot kang, when the time comes, I will get a few big horses from the town, marry our village, and marry the bride back, let the old and young of Yingzui Cliff Village see, the men of our Xiaohe Village are not only brave, but also rich!" Chen Xu gritted his teeth and said.

Tian Bao and Tian Erzhuang immediately smiled on their faces.