Lianniang immediately got busy.

She went to the stove first, turned on the air outlet of the coal-burning stove, and picked up the water-filled clay pot latte that had been burning at the stove in the morning and poked the fire path. The dark flames immediately burst up with a few sparkling sparks, and her face flushed. She was still a little worried, afraid that the fire would be extinguished long ago when she went out for a day, and if she boiled water now, she was afraid that it would delay a lot of work; Now, the wall of the jar in my hand is already a little hot, and it seems that the water will soon be able to boil and be used to make tea. She set the jug again, uncovered the wooden lid on the water tank in the corner, crushed a thin layer of ice on the water surface with a gourd scoop, scooped a few gourds of water into the cauldron on the stove, covered the lid and turned it to the stove, grabbed a dry wheat stalk and lit it on the stove and stuffed it into the fire hole, and filled a few handfuls of dry grass and branches into it one after another, and the red light flashed in the stove immediately, and a puff of white smoke rose from the stove. After a while, she saw that the fire was already burning, so she added two handfuls of firewood, and went into the back room, and carefully took out a red-lacquered plate from the large cabinet by the wall; On the plate rests a white teapot and five white teabowls, almost a whole set of porcelain. This set of tea sets is brought by her from her mother's house, and it is also her favorite and most beloved thing, usually she doesn't even let men touch a finger, only when there are rare or distinguished guests at home, she is willing to take it out to entertain guests. She remembered that the man had laughed at her about it, saying that she had never seen the world......

When she washed the teapot and bowl with boiling water, her mind involuntarily appeared with the appearance of men laughing at her at that time.

"What is the rarity of a set of broken porcelain? Objects that haven't even been burned out of a single color, and you treat them as treasures? I'll take a look at it again. ”

Now, when she wiped the water stains on the tea bowl with a clean white cloth in her hand, her body shrank a little, as if trying to avoid the big hand of the man who reached out to take the tea bowl in her memory.

Broken porcelain? Hum! What does he know! This is the Changnan Town porcelain that her grandfather brought back from the south when he was young, and it is a precious thing that money can't buy! He didn't even look at it, apart from his own home, which other family around here had such a rare thing? Even at my uncle's house, I use a black pottery bowl to drink water......

After packing up the tea set, she went to look at the stove again. A thin layer of mist was already swirling on the surface of the water in the cauldron on the stove, and several strings of bubbles were rising from the bottom of the pot. She added some firewood to the stove, picked up the boiling jug and began to make tea.

When she returned to the hall with the tea tray, there were already three large sacks of linen stacked in the corner of the hall. She *** gasped for breath on the sidelines; His head was steaming white, his face was red from the hard work, and he was wiping the sweat from his face and neck by tugging at the corners of his clothes.

She immediately put down the plate in her hand, ran to the eaves and pulled a dry towel, and helped the man wipe his sweat distressedly: "...... I'll go get you some hot water to wash. ”

Shang Cheng shook his head tiredly and stopped her: "Don't be busy washing." There are two more things out there. I'm going to have to carry them back. He said that he was going to move things, but he didn't move the place under his feet, gasped twice, and asked, "Is there meat at home?" Lianniang nodded and said, "Yes." Two days ago, the mountain baby came to the market to sell mountain goods, and sent a mountain pig's leg, as well as two pheasants......"

"You didn't give him a salute, did you?"

Lianniang glanced at the man in surprise and said, "I want to pay it back, he has to give it back, he left without even drinking saliva." ”

"That's good." Shang Cheng Dao. He knocked his foot on a large pocket next to him and said, "This is his thing, two stones of grain." Another day, he had to hire pack horses to send him into the mountains. The dead thing barely weighed me down, and he sent two pheasants...... I'll bring two more when I send him back. ”

"What's wrong with you? Where did these things come from? It was only then that Lian Niang remembered to ask this question. This hemp wraps two stones of millet, and the two sacks next to it are also millet? Let's go to four stones! Where did the men get so much food?

"Liu Ji Warehouse gave it."

Regarding Liu Ji Warehouse's extermination of the bandit Zhang in Quzhou, the court's commendation finally came down: it was not a reward for money and silk, nor a reward for officials and titles, but on behalf of the imperial court, the two prefectures of Quzhou and Duanzhou sent a plaque of "Equal Emphasis on Righteousness and Bravery" to Liu Ji Warehouse. It is said that the government has just spread the news, and the shopkeepers and the clerks are all stupid, and the old owner of the warehouse is crying and laughing, and he is crying and laughing, and he also sends several groups of people to find out whether the news is true or false......

"Liu Ji Warehouse is beautiful this time." Hearing Shang Cheng talk about the grand occasion on the day when the government sent the plaque, Lianniang was also a little excited and excited. But she soon said angrily, "Liu Ji Warehouse will send us some food?" But the pomp and circumstance we earned for them, bleeding and working hard in exchange for some Chen Guzi, Liu Ji is not afraid of others poking their backbones in the back? The official is also right, if you do this, you are not afraid of anything in the future, and no one is willing to die? "She read some books with her father when she was a child, and she didn't know much about it, but her vision was still a little higher than that of a normal banker, so she could say such things right away.

"The imperial court also exempted those who participated in the suppression of bandits from money and food for five years. Also rewarded the money and Shu brocade. Shang Cheng hurriedly added. He immediately realized that the things were still outside and hadn't been moved back, so he told Lianniang, "I'll go and bring the leftovers back, and you go and cook the meat on the ......" Everyone walked out of the hall and admonished, "Don't cook all the meat and vegetables again!" Do as I teach you, and do it separately......"

The rest of the things are small things, two pieces of money and two Shu brocades, and Shang Cheng and Shan Wazi have half of them; A bag of tribute noodles and a few rare southern medicinal materials were specially purchased by Shang Cheng from the county store to honor Lianniang's mother; A piece of Nanbu, Shang Cheng asked Lianniang to keep half of it for her own family and then give half of it to her brother and sister-in-law; There are also some red, green, and green candies, no need to ask, this is for guests during the New Year's Festival.

Lianniang happily moved these small objects into the back room and put them in the same place, and then remembered to ask Shang Cheng, who was standing under the eaves to wash his face and wipe his arms: "What about the junior of the Gao family?" Didn't you say invite him to dinner? ”

"He went to the front street to run errands, and said he would come when he was done. One by one, he is definitely coming, maybe he has to go home and talk to his mother-in-law. ”

“…… Do you want to invite Uncle Zhu too? ”

Shang Cheng thought for a while and said, "Forget it." Looking at the meaning of Xiao San, it seems that he has something to say to me, and he is afraid that he will not be able to speak if Uncle Zhu is here. Seeing Lianniang holding clogs in the pyre against the wall, she said, "Don't go buy wine." I just saw the guy at the front street wine shop at the entrance of the alley, and I have taught him to bring two jars of good wine. I also ordered three catties of beef and haggis soup, if there are good noodles at home, you can make a few scallion pancakes......"

He washed his face, walked around the hall, and saw that Lianniang had already packed up all the things, so he stood by the door of the stove with a bowl of tea and soup and watched his wife busy in the stove.

When he agreed to marry Lianniang, he had an indispensable attitude in his heart. He thinks so, since he has to become a family, then the woman in the picture of Uncle Zhuzi and Aunt Seventeen must be stronger than the marriage pointed out by the official media; And among the objects introduced by others, the women who have never met are definitely not as good as the ones he has met, at least he has an intuitive impression of the female baby who may become his wife. As for whether Lian Niang is better or the eldest girl, to be honest, he can't tell the difference between high and low, but he feels that these two girls don't seem to be bad. Of course, if he has to say one, two, three, he must like the big girl more, after all, the two have been in contact for a longer time, and he has only seen two sides of the lotus girl, the first time is under a dim oil lamp, the second time is a hurried two sentences, the slight impression has long been a little blurred, the only thing that can be remembered is that the girl is taller than the big girl......

But it's impossible for him and the big girl.

The reason is obvious. The marriage of this era is the most important thing to pay attention to is "the right family", Huo Shiqi and Liu Laozhu are familiar with each other, and the eldest girl has a deep affection for him, and the two people because of the difference in identity also determine that they cannot come together - one by one He is an inferior farmer who does not even have his own land, and the father of the eldest girl is a Xiucai who is exempt from all miscellaneous labor and taxes. In this era, such a gap is tantamount to a world of difference, because there are countless people like him, and there are only more than 30 people in the entire Yi County who are talented......

Speaking of which, Lianniang's grandfather is also a Xiucai, but her situation is different from that of the eldest girl. Mr. Fan's talent was not admitted, but because he had not been admitted for 40 consecutive years and followed the routine of "Enga", there was a gap between his identity and Huo Shiqi's genuine show; After the old gentleman had the identity of Xiucai, he passed away due to illness in less than two years, and Lianniang's father did not pass the exam, so the family background of Lianniang's family has not changed because of a Xiucai. In fact, it is precisely because the two generations of father and son have not achieved results in the exam for decades that Shengsheng has dragged down the family situation. By the time Lianniang's generation arrived, the Fan family no longer had the strength to let her brother study and take the exam, so Fan Xiang could only honestly farm at home. However, the Fan family still regards themselves as scholars, which can be seen from the dowry when Lianniang first got married—her dowry includes books such as "Book of Songs", "Zhou Yi" and "Zhou Li", which shows that the Fan family not only hopes that their children and grandchildren can have a good background, but also looks forward to a good future for their son-in-law's family.

Since the eldest girl is unrealistic, then marry Lianniang, not to mention that the matchmaker of this family affair is still Huo Shiqi and Liu Laozhu, he can't offend the people closest to him in this world.

But what he didn't expect was that after getting married, he actually fell in love with the girl Lianniang.

Lianniang read with her grandfather for a few days when she was a child, and she knew a lot of words and understood a lot of truths; Her father died early, her mother's eyes were not good, and her brother and sister-in-law were honest people, she was sensible early, and she was literate and hyphenated, so she was very good at getting some ideas at home, and people were also honed to do things inside and outside the door. In every way, she is a very good girl. And her plump body is very negotiable. The most important thing is that she fell in love with Shang Cheng at first sight, and took good care of him after getting married, and even when he was at home, she boiled the footwater for him early every night, and then helped him take off his shoes and socks, and carefully helped him wash and rub his ...... You must know that since Shang Cheng came to this world, he almost forgot about washing his feet, even when he lived in Liu's house, most of them just scooped cold water and drenched his feet, and then went to sleep on the kang......

When he found out that he was in love with this girl, of course he would reciprocate her fiery affection more passionately; The relationship between the two people soon got as good as honey, and no one could do without each other.

Just like now, when he stood leisurely by the stove with a tea bowl, his eyes never took off her for a moment.

Although it has been two or three months since she got married, her man stared at her like this, Lianniang was still a little unaccustomed to it, and two pieces of red glow quietly climbed up her cheeks.

She blushed and said in a heartbeat: "Your work in the Nanguan camp has ended?" ”

"The road is finished, and if it weren't for the snow and the road is not easy to walk, I will come back in the morning."

He hired a car to look for pack horses in the county town in the morning, and happened to bump into Gao Xiaosan, who happened to pull some goods to Huojiabao and take them home, so he piggybacked on him with people and things. Gao Xiaosan helped so much, he had to invite people to eat and drink to express his gratitude. Besides, he still owes Gao Xiaosan a lot of favors......

Gao Xiaosan and the guys in the wine store arrived before and after, and Gao Xiaosan also brought a jar of good wine from home.

The wine and food sent and the food made by Lianniang set up most of the tables, Shang Cheng accompanied the young steward of the inn to talk about gossip, and the two talked until the three jars of wine were at the bottom, and Gao Xiaosan said goodbye to the two of them with satisfaction, and staggered home humming a slang song.

Shang Cheng sent him to the door, watched his back disappear into the depths of the alley, and then covered the courtyard door and entered the house.

Lianniang had already prepared foot-washing water for him, let him sit on the edge of the kang, squatted to help him take off his shoes and socks, and asked him, "Didn't you say that Gao Xiaosan had something to say to you?" Why didn't you see him say what was the matter? ”

Shang Cheng was also wondering at first, until he was at dinner because Lianniang was not on the table, Gao Xiaosan deliberately said, "It's all a family, why should the sister-in-law see the outside world", he figured out the truth: Gao Xiaosan did this to show that the relationship between the two was not ordinary, and secondly, to thank himself for being able to go from a big guy to a big manager so quickly, and the affairs of Quzhou must have helped a lot. He smacked his lips and shook his head, and said to Lianniang:

"That's a clear man, he's said everything, but you haven't seen it......"