"Alas, now that I think about it, it's very pitiful for the eldest sister to sell herself, but it just so happens that she has learned a great skill, but she can't tell whether this is a hardship or a blessing after all."

Guo Mianmian was silent, paraphrasing an old saying in the world: "Fortune depends on misfortune, and misfortune depends on blessing!" Occasional blessings are not necessarily blessings, but will bring calamity; Trouble is not necessarily a curse, but it will bring merit. Take me as an example, when a disaster happened in our family, I decided to sell myself, but I met a good master's family and learned skills that I could not have imagined, which is a blessing from a disaster. ”

Before Guo Mianmian could speak, Mu Shi became nervous: "You dead girl, what are you doing to insult yourself!" ”

Guo Zhi looked aggrieved: "I followed the words of the eldest sister, you know how to scold me!" ”

Mu wanted to say something, but Guo Mianmian quickly stopped the person: "Mother, Zhi'er just said it casually, don't take it to heart." Our family is good at life, everything is low-key and does not show its head, usually the more good deeds are done, and the merit will not be relied upon. ”

Mu was also frightened by Guo Mianmian's "blessing and misfortune", and was very worried that one day his family would usher in disaster. Now that Guo Mianmian was so explained, her heart was half relieved: "You're right, it's my mother who wants to go wrong, our family is all insiders, if we don't do anything special, disasters will definitely not find us." ”

Guo Mianmian smiled and nodded, and quietly warned herself not to talk nonsense in the future, she herself is nothing, but she has caused her family to be uneasy.

The Guo family has added a large amount of money, and buying land and building a house is almost a certainty. In the following days, the Guo family invited a person who knew feng shui to take a look at the open space behind the house. After the man saw it, he bluntly said that Feng Shui is good, and he can start the earth to build a house.

So the next day, Guo Laoshi's father and son came to Village Chief Li with a large piece of pork and asked to buy the open land.

Buying a land foundation is more complicated than buying wasteland, and the land price is much more expensive. This amount of silver is very small for the Guo family, and with the help of Village Chief Li, they quickly took down the piece of land, and only planned to build a house after the autumn harvest.

Before the official construction of the house, the very nervous thing was to prepare for the marriage of Guo Mianmian and Zheng Rin.

Now, Guo Mianmian's dowry has already been purchased by the Mu family, and the only remaining piece of yellow wood for Guo Mianmian's furniture has been laid, and the last resin has been applied to a complete set of furniture.

Coating resin is a meticulous job, and if it is not painted very well, it will not only make the inside of the furniture untidy, but even the light will be different, and it looks like it has dropped a few levels.

Huang Mutou was cautious, and wanted to give his aunt a good dowry, so he personally painted a complete set of furniture with resin, and every crevice was carefully painted, I am afraid that where the coating is not very good will affect the overall result.

He coated the resin in twelve layers, so that the layers of coating can not only prevent the furniture from being damp and mildew, but also prevent insects. This set of finely crafted furniture, not beaten hard, will not be broken for decades. If it is usually carefully guarded, it is no problem to apply a layer of resin every few years and pass it on to future generations.

In addition to a complete set of furniture and more than a dozen sets of bedding, on the reverse side, Mu placed eighteen pieces of cloth with different patterns for Guo Mianmian, including sixteen fine cotton and two satin, all of which are very modern patterns.

There were also two pairs of gold ornaments, hairpins, earrings, and bracelets, all of which were of silver, and not light, and cost a full fifteen taels of silver, which was better than the estimate that had been negotiated before.

When Guo Mianmian knew, the things were all taken back, and they would not be returned, so they could only be put in the gold jewelry box, and on the day of the wedding, one set would be worn, and the other set would be pressed at the bottom of the box, and one set would be carried to the Zheng family.

The Guo family's house is not wide, in addition to the furniture placed in the workshop, the dozen sets of cotton quilts were also moved to the workshop on a dark night, and when Guo Mianmian went out, he would take everything back. The remaining small items that don't take up space are left at home.

Regarding the dowry or something, Guo Mianmian is not very concerned. It wasn't until one day that Mu returned from the town, stuffed a large piece of red cloth into her hand, and urged her to hurry up and make the wedding dress, that she realized that she was about to get married......

Guo Mianmian and Zheng Rin's wedding date has not yet been officially set, but the two families have tacitly planned their marriage.

Like the Guo family, Guo Mianmian's dowry purchase was uniform, and only Guo Mianmian's own wedding dress was not made; On the Zheng family's side, Zheng Rin asked someone to paint his house inside and out, and moved all the old things inside to other places, leaving only a big bed.

On the first day of the wedding, the Zheng family moved the furniture of the Guo family to marry, and the bed had to be moved elsewhere. If you want to have a detailed wedding date, it will be set before the autumn harvest, and after the autumn harvest, it will be the big gift.

Matters such as the wedding date, the elders of the two families discuss, and Guo Mianmian does not need to bother. Ever since Mu stuffed her with a large piece of red material, she was worried about how to make the wedding dress.

Guo Mianmian's female celebrity is far less good than cooking, there is no problem with making the clothes she usually wears, marrying is a very nervous day in a woman's life, so she has no way to do it casually, and always thinks that she has to make a wedding dress that should look like she is freehand.

The main thing is that seeing that she is about to get married, she herself is floating, she doesn't know how to speak, and confesses to Zheng Rin the secrets she has "processed", so that in the past few days, Zheng Rin came to find her, she was worried about what he would see, and she hurriedly said two words under the guise of making a wedding dress, and hid back in the room and waited for someone to leave before daring to come out.

I couldn't calm down after thinking about it like this, and naturally I didn't have the heart to cut the wedding dress, Guo Mianmian didn't cut the big red cloth for several days.

These days, the Mu family has nothing to do, so he stares at his eldest daughter making a wedding dress. Seeing that the eldest daughter didn't even move the hinge scissors, she was anxious to think of a way: "If you really can't do it, my mother will take it to the city for you, spend more silver to ask someone to do it in a good embroidery workshop, and when it is done, you can add two stitches at will." ”

It's a good idea to ask the embroidery girl in the embroidery workshop to do it, some girls who are not good at female workers are not good at making wedding dresses, Guo Mianmian didn't want to think about it, and refused: "No, I must do it myself, and I wear it on my body to make it what others do." ”

Mu Shi really wanted to kneel down for his daughter, and said bitterly: "Then you do it, you don't know how to cut clothes, and when the clothes are cut, you sew them according to the edges, and then embroider two flowers if you feel unpleasant, this will always be difficult for you, right?" ”

Guo Mianmian just wanted to say that it was not an embroidery question, but he thought it was not easy to answer, so he was forced to nod in the eyes of his mother's relatives.

Mu Shi thought that her daughter was unreliable, she sighed silently, personally put the red cloth on the bed, and stuffed the hinge scissors into the eldest daughter's hand: "You cut, my mother will watch you cut." ”

After that, she didn't think it was enough, and looked at her daughter and reminded very seriously: "When this wedding dress is ready, don't forget that you have to make a new set of clothes, shoes and socks for Rin's father and mother. ”

When Guo Mianmian heard this, he fell on the bed with a wail, and covered his face with a big red cloth: "How can you be so troubled by marrying someone, it's impossible not to marry!" Then she didn't have to worry about how to be honest about her secrets.

"You are a dead girl, you still say this kind of thing at this time, you want to be angry with the old lady, don't you?" Mu Shi was really going crazy by his daughter, and he twisted her ears angrily: "Hurry up and make clothes, don't think about going out if you don't do it well." ”

Mu's strength is not light, in order to save his ears, Guo Mianmian had to sit up from the bed and beg Mu for mercy: "Mother, you let go, you let go, I'll do it, can't I do it!" ”

"Hmph, I've been so obedient for a long time, why is the old lady bothering to do this!" Mu finally let go of his hand and stuffed the ruler, ink block, hinge scissors and other objects into Guo Mianmian's hand.

Looking at the mother-in-law who was eyeing her, the expression on Guo Mianmian's face was a little indescribable. It's just that the hot ears that were twisted made her not have the courage to continue to work with her mother, so she had to honestly take the ruler, ink block and other things, and began to measure and draw the place that needs to be cut with the ink block.

With Mu staring, Guo Mianmian didn't have time to think about it, but he cut the shape very smoothly, and he could stitch it with a little channeling. When the stitching is complete, embroider the embroidered pattern on the placket, neckline, and cuffs.

It is easy to cut and sew, but the embroidery pattern is a fine work, which requires a lot of effort, and there is no month to do not be very good.

Mu stared at Guo Mianmian for a few days, and saw that she was finally willing to make a wedding dress honestly, and then she didn't stare at it anymore, but she would check the progress at night, and she could see at a glance whether she was lazy or not.

Guo Mianmian knew that the wedding dress could only be made by herself, and she couldn't rely on other people's heads, so she didn't think about it anymore, that is, her embroidery work was really not good, and the embroidered patterns were also very average.

After embroidering for several days, Guo Mianmian's eyes were a little unbearable, and Mu felt sorry for her daughter, so she asked her to rest for two days to make the clothes, shoes and socks of the second elder of the Zheng family. As for the size, the Mu family had already gotten it from Zheng Rin.

Guo Mianmian did it happily, and it took five days to just prepare Meng's clothes, shoes and socks to be the old man Zheng, and the three members of the Zheng family came to the door with Ya Po, and there was a pair of fat live geese in a bunch of gifts.

Seeing Ya Po and Live Goose, what else is unclear about Mu and Guo Laoshi? The two warmly welcomed people to the hall and sat down, greeted with good tea and water, and the two families talked about the wedding date tacitly.

The Zheng family had been optimistic about a few auspicious days before they came, and there were only a few days left in July, and there were no auspicious days. There are good days in early and mid-August, but it is the time of the autumn harvest, and the auspicious day is chosen in late August, which is August 22 and August 28.

Usually the man's family chooses an alternate auspicious day, and the woman's family chooses one of these auspicious days, which is also to take care of the woman's unhappy days a month, and deliberately pick a few more days, which is to facilitate the woman's escape from this, so as not to offend the unlucky, and not to round the house.

Knowing that the auspicious day was in the two days of late August, Mu thought that he was in a hurry, so he said in a deliberative tone: "There are only a few days before August, and the center will be busy for another month. ”

The Zheng family has read the calendar, and the Guo family has read it, there are indeed a few good days in late September, Zheng Rin has not waited enough to marry his wife and children, but he is worried that the Guo family will choose the marriage date in September, he has not thought about the auspicious day of September at all, and has never thought about or failed to escape.

Meng Shi glanced at his son vaguely, and saw that his son's brows were slightly frowned, so he knew his thoughts, and then smiled with Mu's family: "Sister, the two days that Shicai said are not in a hurry, I heard Ah Rin say before, my sister's family has bought a homestead and is ready to build a new house, if you start building it in September, you can move to a new house for the New Year before the year, if you push the good news to September, isn't this the matter of building a new house on hold?" ”

I don't want the Zheng family to think about building a new house