Time is coming, and half a month has passed, Helan's daily routine is to sit in the yard and embroider the embroidered wedding dress that was received at that time, Wu Qingzhu also returned to the days when he got up before dawn to read and endorse, copied and wrote during the day, and occasionally helped his grandfather to teach in the school.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter day by day, and Helan went to the stone table in the courtyard to do needlework from the time she got up.

Mother Wu heard that Helan had received a big business order, so she happily contracted all the housework, two taels of silver is really a lot, and she may not be able to earn so much for the cloth she weaves for half a year.

If you calculate carefully, it will take about a month for a piece of cloth, and the ordinary cotton cloth woven from it can be sold for five hundred yuan to those cloth merchants, and one tael of silver is a thousand yuan.

That is, you can only earn one or two silver in two months. It can be seen from this that the two of them were reluctant to spend money on fabrics last time.

A peasant woman like Wu's mother has a lot of things to do on weekdays, and if she doesn't spend time doing farm work on weekdays, she can't say that she can't make a piece of cloth in a month.

The daughter-in-law works hard, and the mother naturally can't hold back, and the eggs that she is reluctant to eat on weekdays will be cooked every few days to make up for Helan's body.

Helan thought that in a place like the countryside, about eggs were a good thing for them to replenish their bodies.

At noon in the middle of the day, there was a person who was not counted as a noodle student at home, as for not being a noodle student, it was because this person Helan also knew him, and occasionally came to the house to talk to Wu's mother, but Helan didn't like to talk to her very much.

This person is Aunt Li, her husband's grandfather and Grandpa Wu are cousins, so there are a lot of contacts on weekdays, and this aunt also came to help when Qingjiang Qinghe and Wu Qingzhu got married.

The reason why Helan doesn't like Aunt Li is because this person likes to talk about gossip, who put an extra handful of rice today, killed the chicken and ate the meat, she can know it clearly.

And Helan doesn't like to pay attention to other people's rights and wrongs, it's okay to listen, if she lets her say a few words, forget it.

So when Aunt Wang came, Helan said hello and took her things back to the house.

The last time I ran a little slower, this aunt pulled a bench and sat beside her and talked for half an hour, not to mention that she did a lot of less work, and accidentally took a wrong stitch, which was changed by an hour.

When it was time to eat at noon, Wu's mother coughed twice without waiting for everyone to move their chopsticks.

After attracting everyone's attention, he opened his mouth with a smile: "Dad, today Wu Dashan and his mother dragged the Li family to the house to talk about matchmaking, what do you think?" ”

The mother-in-law in this family is long gone, and it is said that this kind of thing is decided by Wu's mother, but this marriage is also opened by Grandpa Wu, so Wu's mother also took advantage of this time to open her mouth.

Grandpa Wu was holding the dishes and chopsticks in his hand at the moment, looking at Mother Wu? "What's their say?" ”

"Everything is according to what other families should do, and every step will not be less, but I also know the situation of his family, so I can only try my best to make it up, and there is no guarantee of more or less."

"It seems that he is also sincere, although his family is a little poor, but he is not short of ambition."

To tell the truth, in this era, because the marriage was not concluded, there were many enemies, most of them because they took less money at the time, or did not keep the promises they made at the beginning, and in the end they made a lot of trouble.

It's not like I haven't seen this kind of happy promise like today, but I'm afraid that when the marriage is completed, there will be nothing and nothing that was promised at the beginning, and then force your girl to have to marry it.

Thinking about it, it shouldn't be the case in Wu Tong's house, his family had no son in the early years, and his life in the village was very low-key.

Later, because of a son-in-law who was still upside down, although he was a little confident, he was somewhat afraid that other families would look down on him, and he was still in-depth and simple on weekdays, for fear that others would say something more.

Grandpa Wu thought for a while and said, "His family is too poor, and we don't ask them to have anything, they really hollowed out their family, and Qingmei also suffered when she got married." ”

Hearing what Grandpa Wu said, Mother Wu also reacted, she was only happy before, and she didn't think about it at all.

Their family is not like other families who want to save face and suffer crimes, they really want to let the man's family empty out the family for a face-saving matter. If you can't say that you still have to borrow foreign debts, won't you have to suffer together to repay the debts when Qingmei gets married?

If you think about it carefully, it is easy to understand why the man's family is so reluctant.

His family had no status in the village, and now the only child in the village is willing to marry their daughter to their family, where can such a good thing be found?

Although it was said that he had been divorced, but their family knew the doorway in it, otherwise it wouldn't have been this marriage, right?

Originally, it was also said that there was no intermarriage between people with the same surname, but no one in a village knew that Qingmei, a girl, had followed her uncle's family name since she was a child, and she was not a member of the Wu family.

Besides, in the long run, this can be regarded as an investment, Wu Qingzhu is already a child now, and this year it will be a showman, and then he will be a person or an official master?

How to look at this marriage is also beneficial and harmless, now the scene is done to people, they are all relatives and from the same village, can you not think of them if there is a good thing in the future?

If Wu Qingzhu really becomes a showman, the eldest or second child of their family, it will not be ashamed to be an errand runner for Wu Qingzhu, maybe how many people will stammer.

"Then we can't just have nothing, let's just have a banquet, right?" Although Wu's mother figured it out, she was still a little unwilling.

"I still want what I should have, it's just a false courtesy, and if it's not necessary, forget it."

Helan thought about it, what Grandpa Wu said was those twelve rites, and the twelve rites of some people who pay attention to them are: red silk, golden flowers (golden hairpins), gold rings, gold earrings, sheep, pigs, candles, incense, salutes, cakes, flower pots, pomegranate flowers, etc.

If the man's family has prepared these twelve ceremonies when a girl gets married, it is a matter of the whole family fighting for face, and everyone has to say that the woman marries into a good family.

After that, the girls in the woman's family who have not yet married will not worry about getting married, and most of the people who ask for marriage will look up to them.

It's good to be able to make up something like their farmhouse normally, and it's good to have the same gold wire ware mentioned above most of the time.

Another example is red silk, at this time, most of the people who are reluctant will tear up the fabric of a dress and put it into the list of the dowry.

In addition to gold and red silk, as long as the family is not poor and cannot afford to eat, most of the other items can be made up.

Wu's mother thought for a while: "Then how many gifts shall we receive?" ”

"Let's make up an auspicious number, eight, as for which ones, let them look at them, and they will understand what is going on without saying anything else."

Hearing Grandpa Wu's judgment, everyone had nothing to say, and after Grandpa Wu moved the chopsticks, they followed and gobbled up.

Only Wu Qingmei at the dinner table was a little restless and couldn't swallow.