Chapter 21: Mid-Autumn Festival (3)
Han Shifeng led his wife and daughter out to welcome the guests, but the person who came was a cousin in the branch of the Tongzhou family, named Han Mingde, this Han Mingde has a wife Liu, gave birth to three sons and two daughters, but today he came to the house to receive the youngest son Han Youqing, two daughters Han Huiniang and Han Zhenniang.
When the two families met, they all smiled and stepped forward to salute, the four sisters Han Qi and Han Huiniang have also known each other since childhood, and they were intimate at the moment, holding hands and going to the back boudoir.
Han Youqing is six years old this year, and the fifth Han Man is about the same, and the young children are not restricted to men and women, so they put the two of them together, and the two mothers-in-law watched them, looking for their own children's play.
Five sisters of similar size smiled and squeezed into a room, because the room was small and there was no extra space, several people sat on the embroidered couch casually, and Han Zhenniang took off her embroidered shoes and climbed into bed.
Han Huiniang saw that Han Zhenniang didn't understand the rules so much, so she sank her face and reprimanded her,
"Jane, how can you become more and more unruly!"
Han Xiu smiled when he saw it,
"You don't want to train her, Zhen Niang has always been good friends with the second child of our family, and they are all sisters of our own family, so you don't have to be too particular!"
Han Huiniang naturally knows that her sister has no positive temperament if she pretends to be twice, but people don't mind being polite, if she doesn't scold, she really doesn't understand the rules!
Han Xiu told Luo Ying to make tea, and at the same time took Han Huiniang's hand and sat down with a smile,
"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is rare for sisters to get together, and those of us who are big sisters don't have to train people with a straight face, and we don't have to let the little ones get bored!"
Han Zhenniang, who was playing with Han Jun on the side and took the time to talk to Han Qi, immediately answered when she heard it,
"What Sister Qi said is exactly, Cheng Ri's family trainer, I'm annoyed if you don't bother me!"
Han Huiniang was so angry by her sister's words that she stared at her,
"You annoy me, wait for two months and you will ask me to take care of you, and I won't be too rare to take care of you!"
Han Huiniang is a few months older than Han Qi, and her family affairs are also earlier, and she will get married in October this year!
Han Zhenniang didn't raise her head when she heard this, and waved her hand at her,
"Even if you are going to get married, you will study hard with Sister Qi, this calm and leisurely kung fu, so as not to worry me, in the future, if you marry your in-laws, you will stare at your waist all day long, but how can you get it!"
Han Huiniang rolled her eyes by her own sister-in-law, but Han Xiu couldn't laugh and took her hand.
"Leave her alone, let them make trouble, Sister Huiniang got married earlier than me, and everything is ready?"
Speaking of these, Han Huiniang added a little sadness between her eyebrows,
"Oops! I don't say that you know, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I don't have much dowry when I get married, my mother said that I made up four ......"
Although Han Mingde is from the Han family, he is not as good as Han Shifeng's son from this side branch, although he is also in the capital, but he is only a non-mainstream official in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and there are three sons in the family, the eldest son Han Youmao is nearly eighteen years old, and the second son Han Yougong, who is sixteen years old, has never married a wife.
Han Youqing is still young, but the marriage of the first two sons and two daughters has become the heart disease of Han Mingde and his wife, Han Mingde is a small official who does not enter the stream, and there are not many people, but this time the newly appointed Shangguan is burning the three fires, putting on an iron-faced selfless, honest and honest appearance, and is investigating all kinds of lawlessness in the yamen. I couldn't get much money for a dowry.
Han Xiu sighed when he heard this,
"Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, even if the father and mother have difficulties, and the daughter must be considerate, I have some prepared at home, you can come and see if it is useful, take some from me!"
Han Huiniang's face turned red when she heard this, and she was ashamed and ashamed,
"I ...... I'm just complaining to you, and I don't mean to fight the autumn wind! ”
Han Xiu listened to it and said,
"What do you say? What do we sisters say about the autumn breeze, the left and right are home-embroidered, but it takes some fabric needlework, you marry in the front, I am in the back, it doesn't hurt to use you first, if you really feel sorry not to go, after marrying, you will send me some good fabrics! ”
Talking and laughing,
"You don't know it, your mother-in-law's family has several shops in Beijing, and your future husband is the only seedling in the family.
Han Huiniang's face turned even redder when she said it, and she said angrily,
"You can laugh at me, it's just a merchant, there are two shops under his name, how can it become a cornucopia!"
For Han Huiniang to choose this marriage, in fact, Han Mingde and his wife are also helpless, after all, it is the official who marries a merchant but has a sense of getting married, only Han Chaode, a small official who is not in the stream, is willing to marry his daughter highly, but he has no choice, and the second daughter from the family is mediocre, and he really has no ability to be the wife of the official family, it is better to marry a wealthy businessman, and finally he can find a worry-free life!
Han Xiu said with a smile,
"I heard that your future husband, he is a down-to-earth and motivated person, you are also literate and hyphenated, and you have to marry in the past, the husband and wife are one outside the main and one inside, as long as they work together, they can always live a good life, I can't say that you are a person with silver in your hands in our sisters in the future!"
Han Xiu married Xu Zhimao, although the background is not bad, but after all, he is attached to his parents, and secondly, there are several brothers in the family, Han Xiu is only afraid of the life of the young husband and wife when he enters the Xu family, and he will not be too rich, compared to Han Huiniang, although the name is better, but I am afraid that the benefits will be less!
Han Huiniang laughed when she heard this,
"Sister embroidery's mouth is used to comforting people, if that's the case, it would be good, but I want to accept your good words!"
The two smiled and went to look through Han Xiu's cage, but Han Zhenniang was asking Han Qi,
"Isn't it fun for you to go to that Chengsheng Academy?"
Han Qi replied with a smile,
"There are many classmates in the academy, but it is lively!"
Han Zhenniang listened to the yearning on her face,
"I've heard of the name of Chengsheng Academy, but it's a pity that I don't have the luck to go in and see what kind of famous holy place it is!"
Han Jun pouted when he heard this,
"You listen to the third child coaxing you, she is a wooden person, she can stay well anywhere, if you go there, you will definitely run out and call for help in three days!"
Han Zhenniang listened to the strange words,
"How...... Is the gentleman in the academy very powerful? ”
Hearing this, Han Jun immediately straightened his sitting posture, stroked his chin with his hand, pretended to have a serious face, first glared at him, then pinched his throat and coughed, and shouted in a deep voice,
"What a system! What a system! You are so foolish, you are simply blasphemous to the teachings of the saints, you are really angry old man, angry old man......"
Saying that, he pointed at Han Zhenniang and said,
"You...... It's you...... Why can't I recite the book again, so I stretched out my hand......"
She learned the old master's angry beard and glaring vividly, which made everyone in the room laugh, Han Zhenniang laughed on Han Qi's body, pulled her and asked,
"You've been slapped in the palm of your hand like this?"
Han Qi smiled and didn't answer, but Han Jun answered,
"You go and ask her what she does, she is a first-class person in the next monthly exam, how can she understand the pain in the palm of her hand!"
Han Zhenniang's eyes widened immediately when she heard this, and she was extremely admired,
"Sister Qi is so powerful, she even got the first class when she came back!"
Han Jun pouted disdainfully when he heard this,
"She's a nerd!"
Han Zhenniang hugged Han Qi's arm tightly,
"How can Sister Qi be so powerful? Do you read this book well? ”
Han Qi smiled shyly,
"It's not very particular, it's just a lot of hard work!"
She really doesn't have much way to study, only has more tempering in the previous life, and she is more calm and patient than a group of classmates who are out of luck!
The sisters talked and laughed in this house, went to see Han Xiu's dowry together, and helped Han Huiniang pick out some missing objects, but they were happy.
After mixing together until dark, and the two families sat together for dinner, Han Mingde's family said goodbye and left.
Han Shifeng and Wang led their daughters and sent their family away in front of the gate, the family turned back to the backyard, and the husband and wife waited for the daughters to settle before returning to the main house, Han Shifeng undressed and washed, Wang sat in front of the dressing table and took off the hair ornament on his head, but sighed softly, Han Shifeng put the handkerchief into the basin, and when the mother-in-law brought the water, he turned around and asked her,
"How can you sigh when you're so dignified?"
Wang Shi replied,
"Liu entrusted me with something......"
Han Shifeng said with a smile,
"Liu's entrusted you to do something, if it's easy to do, you can do it, if it's not good, you will return to her, how can you still make you frown and sigh?"
Wang scattered his hair and combed his hair with a comb, and replied,
"This matter is easy to do, and it is not easy to do, but it is a family affair for their family to find a good door!"
Han Shifeng laughed again when he heard it,
"Isn't it the favorite thing for you women to do?"
Wang listened to him and said,
"This is what others like, I don't have that idle mind, Hugh wants to bring me in, this thing...... I'm reluctant! ”
Han Shifeng Qidao,
"How? I think that child is a good one, and it must be very easy to say that it must be very easy, isn't this a ready-made matchmaker shoe for you to wear, why do you have to reluctantly get up? ”
When Wang heard this, he secretly rolled his eyes and said,
"Youmao's kid is really good, but Liu's side has a lot of ......."
Liu's begging is sincere, but there are many requirements for the selection of this daughter-in-law, what is the best lady of the official eunuch family, who is in the fourteenth and fifteenth years old, at most not over sixteen, because the eldest daughter-in-law is to be gentle and elegant, knowledgeable, able to manage the director, and not bad looking......
Wang listened to it in his ears, with a smile on his face, but he pouted in his heart,
"Speaking of their family, it is not easy to marry a young lady with the same background, and although you Mao is generous and polite, after all, after reading so many years, he has never been famous...... There are not many entries from Han Mingde and his wife......"