Chapter Twenty-Six: Recognizing the Daughter, the Old Woman Rejoices, and Returns the Meat and Vegetables to Observe the Suffering
Her biggest wish in life is that Yan Ming can find a good daughter-in-law and live a dull life with his wife and son on the hot kang.
Now that their mother and son are forced to go to Bishan and fall into the grass, she doesn't expect anything.
There is a daughter from a good family who is willing to marry her indisputable son, and she also wants to meet her.
The main thing is that there are half-sized men on this mountain, otherwise they are vulgar sisters-in-law and aunts like her, and they are not as careful and considerate as the youngest daughter's family. Everyone was busy, and no one really wanted to talk to her.
It's just that from day to night, there is not a trace of eyebrows.
"Ah Ming," Yan Mu stood up on crutches, and groped forward with her other hand.
"Mother, the child is here!"
Yan Ming hurriedly held his mother's hand groping in the air and helped her sit down again.
"That girl, why haven't you come yet, don't you dislike our reckless background, don't you want to, and regret it?"
"Godmother, how could it be, there can be such a good big brother, Ah Yu can't catch up, how can he dislike it!"
"Girl!"
Yan Ming was overjoyed, and looked at the front of the lobby, and sure enough, it was Qiao Jinxin and Gu Weijun.
"Big brother!"
Qiao Jinxin was full of spring breeze all the way, nodded and greeted everyone in the hall, and went all the way to the temporary offering table incense case, first took the hand of Yanmu, and then squatted down humbly, lying on the old lady's lap, a mouthful of "godmother", the soft and glutinous little voice was sweet and well-behaved.
Yanmu couldn't help but touch Qiao Jinxin's tender little hand excitedly, and responded with a "hey", her heart was about to melt, and she was a little overwhelmed for a while.
Yan Ming was on the side, and he was also very moved, this girl really recognized it well, no need for anything else, just this self-intimacy, he was less than one in 100,000 in his ability to please his mother.
This time the old lady's heart was completely captured.
Not only is she not blamed at all for being late.
Next, when it came time to cut off her fingers and drip blood, the old lady even blocked it, and her heart was distressed, saying that this was a man's rule, and women didn't have to follow it all.
"Mother, this is the rule, I have told heaven and earth, I can't play with children."
Yan Ming knelt on the ground, being interfered with by his old mother, feeling embarrassed and unsightly.
"Tell me what the world, my mother has recognized her goddaughter, that is your own sister, what do you still use blood, according to my opinion, this wine is also drunk, hurting your body, you two kowtow to your mother is considered a ceremony."
"No way!"
The ceremony was already messy, and Gu Weijun had to cross a bar.
"What's wrong again?"
Yan Ming was just about to lean over and kowtow, but when Gu Weijun stopped him, he had to raise his head again and ask him what he meant.
"Kowtow to Gao Tang, only when the two of them get married, you two just recognize brother and sister, and you are not married, what do you do if you have nothing to kowtow to your elders?"
"That's right, that's right, I'm going to wait for my daughter-in-law to serve me tea before I accept it!"
"Oh, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, so be it!"
Qiao Jinxin's last bit of patience was finally exhausted, she really didn't understand, but if she wanted to recognize her brother, where did she come from so much attention to the law and the rules and clichΓ©s?
"Anyway, if you go out of the sky, you are all my relatives!"
Qiao Jinxin's domineering announcement in the hall finally calmed down the senseless dispute, and Yan Ming's heart also warmed a lot.
Next is to drink and eat, and the village will have fun.
"Sister, we're miserable."
During the banquet, Yan Ming's face was flushed, and he talked more.
"Do you know where all these dishes come from?"
Yan Ming pointed to the five or six dishes on the table, including chicken, duck and fish, and said sadly.
"Big brother, you're drunk."
Yan Ming didn't say anything, Qiao Jinxin also knew it, so as soon as it was on the table, no matter how Yan Ming and the others greeted him, he didn't move a chopstick.
"I, I'm not drunk. I just think that I, the owner of the village, is too bad, so that the whole village is full of hardship, they are robbed by the barbarians at the bottom of the mountain, and they can't eat, but I still can't eat enough in this village, it's my incompetence, woo woo woo. β
The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.
"Big brother, everything will be fine."
Qiao Jinxin didn't know what to do, so he comforted him a little, didn't say anything, just let it vent, and after a while, he secretly called the dog and asked the origin of a few dishes one by one.
"Who are these dishes?"
The dog scratched his scalp and looked very embarrassed.
"Miss, the owner of the village won't let me say it."
"He said it himself, and he still wants to hide it from me?"
Faced with Qiao Jinxin's eye suppression, the dog had no choice but to surrender and confess honestly.
"The meat is from the Biaozi family in the east, the duck is sent by the old lady of the second family of Wang, the chicken is killed by Brother Zhang Mazi, and the fish and a few vegetarian ones are all sent by Aunt Li."
The dog said to the plate on the table, like a few treasures, but Qiao Jinxin listened to it very badly.
This meal is really a "hundred family banquet" made up by force.
"What about the wine, I can't eat enough, where is the big wine to drink?"
Qiao Jinxin has wanted to ask this question for a long time, such a poor village, but this wine has never been broken.
"Hehe, my family has a wine shop in the county, and my father is a good winemaker in Xingxian County for more than ten years."
"You can't have stolen it......"
Qiao Jinxin saw the ghostly appearance of the dog, and understood a little in his heart.
"Miss, what you said is my father's permission."
"You lie to the ghost, this kind of wine is not worth the money, will your father agree to you move to the mountains like this?"
"Anyway, my father only knows how to guard those wines all day long, so it's better to let me pull them to the mountains and relieve my brothers of alcohol cravings!"
"Drink, drink again, why don't you drink it, girl!"
Yan Ming, who finished crying, suddenly screamed and startled everyone, but he quickly fell down with soft skin and snoring.
"Dog, put up all the dishes on the table, lead the way, and return them one by one."
Qiao Jinxin immediately greeted him.
"No, Miss, this is all the hearts of each family, and others want to send it yet."
"I can't afford this kind of heart, I can't eat it with peace of mind."
The dog is still waddling.
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and pack it up, and lead the way ahead!"
Qiao Jin was annoyed that the dog had been twisting in front of her, and she was also very polite, so she gave a kick directly.
Only then did the dog take the order to work, and no longer argued.
Several families are scattered everywhere, and the road is extremely difficult to walk.
Qiao Jinxin Gu Weijun and the three dogs, all holding torches, walked in the night with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
I don't know what's going on, some things have to be done at night recently, the mountains are dangerous, and the lighting is not good, Gu Weijun has been guarding the back several times, otherwise Qiao Jinxin must be broken.
"Which one is this?"
I saw that there were dots of fire not far away, sometimes extinguished, sometimes the flame head was large, the curled ashes burned by the confetti, and the moths flew up as hard as they could, and they turned into a cloud of smoke not far away, without a trace.
Just like they are coerced in the troubled times, they are pieces of duckweed with no fixed body, and they want to try their best to stay in the world, but in the end they are all phantoms.
"It seems that Aunt Li is burning paper money with Xiaohu."
"I said why did Aunt Li have to go down the mountain today, it turned out that today was Xiaohu's father's death day."
The dog sighed, looking at the old and the young who depended on each other, and his heart was full of sadness.
"How did Xiaohu's father die?"
Thinking that on a day like today, Aunt Li also carefully prepared a delicious meal for herself, Qiao Jin's heart swelled up with a lot of sourness, and the feeling in his heart was even deeper.
The dog sighed, and looked at Xiaohu and Aunt Li who were kneeling and sobbing, squatting and constantly adding paper.
"Last autumn, Ciyi Town finally welcomed back a bumper harvest, and every household happily collected grain and stored grain, who knew that it was robbed by the officials and soldiers in less than half a month, and Xiaohu's family was also considered a rich family, and he was the first to be robbed, and his father was killed by the officers and soldiers."
"What about the rest of his family? Why are there only Xiaohu and Aunt Li left? β
"Miss, you said, robbing is robbing, and they set fire to the entire village in order to destroy the evidence of the crime! If it weren't for Aunt Li playing with Xiaohu in the village at that time and hiding in time, she would not have escaped death. β
"You mean the soldiers of the court? The official robbed the people's grain and slaughtered the village? So unconscionable? β
Qiao Jinxin suddenly understood the reason why Yan Ming hated the official soldiers, and he also regretted his self-made cleverness of "persuading people to be generous".
Don't persuade others to be kind without others suffering.
"In this world, they only care about themselves, how can they still care about the law of heaven and king? I heard that the queen mother in the palace is about to celebrate her sixtieth birthday, which of those who are officials didn't squeeze their heads to send it? Is that the money that was sent? That's the blood of our people, the flesh of our people! β
Qiao Jinxin didn't answer, but just adjusted her emotional state, and when Aunt Li burned all the sacrificial yellow paper and led Xiaohu to go everywhere, she raised her legs to chase after her, still pretending not to know, and went up.
"Auntie, you're busy."
Aunt Li heard the sound, took Xiaohu and turned around, and saw that it was a strange woman who stopped her enthusiastically, glanced at her around, and her eyes flashed with doubt.
"Auntie, this is the eldest lady."
The dog hurriedly stepped forward to introduce.
"Oh, it turned out to be the eldest lady, look at me with no beads."
Aunt Li stretched out her hand and slapped herself directly in the face, which shocked Qiao Jinxin.
"Auntie, what are you doing?"
The dog is not surprised.
"Miss, Aunt Li has been used to being a subordinate in a big family for so many years, don't worry too much."
"What kind of bad habit is this, it's changed, now everyone is a family, and we won't be allowed to do this in the village in the future."
"Okay, well, listen to the eldest lady."
This Aunt Li still has a flattering smile on her face.
Qiao Jinxin shook his head, it seems that this "servility" has been changed for a while, but it is still very difficult.
Habits become natural, and some things have been carved into the bones for a long time, which is also a terrible thing.
"Have you eaten your aunt's meal?"
"Eaten, Miss, haven't you eaten yet?"
Aunt Li looked confused, not knowing what this eldest lady meant.
"Xiaohu is still young, and it is the time to grow his body. Come, Xiaohu, my sister specially brought delicious food. β
Qiao Jinxin didn't say a word, snatched the basket from the dog's hand and was about to enter the house.
As soon as Xiaohu heard that there was something delicious, he followed Qiao Jinxin straight around.
"Miss, how embarrassing is this."
Aunt Li hurriedly went into the house to light the lamp and help Qiao Jinxin settle it.
"Don't you mean it, auntie, this is in a hurry, the dishes are cold, I have to trouble you to be hot again."
Qiao Jinxin took it out, embarrassed.
"Miss, aren't these all the dishes I sent this morning, why are you...
"Oh, Aunt Li, I can't finish eating, so I'll send it back to you, don't waste it."
"Okay, okay, it's not early, Aunt Li, hurry up and finish eating with Xiaohu, rest early, it's not early."
"But, Miss...