It's cold, and it's inconvenient for any family to live.

Zhao Jiao asked Old Man Song and his wife not to move around to prevent falls and frostbite, and let them take their two sons to fire next door, while the eldest family stayed in the east, and it was simple to just burn some hot food.

Zhao Jiao has three more days of confinement, but unfortunately they didn't let her, let her continue to lie down, preferably two months.

Cai Dacheng believes that the first three months after giving birth are the most weak and the easiest to tonic, and it happens that this time her physical weakness and other symptoms will be cured and made up at one time.

The snow continued, and God seemed to have been poked into a big hole, and the rain and snow did not stop throughout the New Year, wet and cold.

Bao'er is confined to the house, and of course his henchman Song Geng.

The Cai Dacheng brothers went to the village from time to time to check the situation, especially to see the health of the elderly in the clan, and sometimes prescribed some medicine to them.

At the end of the month, the rain and snow finally stopped.

Shortly after lunch that day, the fifth aunt, who had not seen each other for a month, came to the door.

Seeing the fifth aunt's excited expression, Zhao Jiao felt that it was a happy event, so she asked:

"What happened to Aunt Five? Tell me about it, and I'll be happy. ”

"You don't have to touch this joy!" The fifth aunt waved her hand:

"Good boy! This treasure looks so good! The whole body is fleshy, alas! When my brother is as old as you, he is not as blessed as you! ”

Talking and hugging Xiao Bao'er and teasing.

"Ahh Oh..."Seeing someone talking about him, the little guy stared at her with wide eyes, that serious expression, as if he was studying something...

"A little thing! Grandma's meat! He kissed the child's little face again, and he didn't cry when he put the child down, he played with his nose and mouth, and screamed twice from time to time.

The fifth aunt teased the child for a while before saying:

"This morning, the daughter-in-law of the village chief of Panjia Village came to protect her niece from her own mother's family,"

Seeing Zhao Jiao listening carefully, she continued: "That girl lives in the town!" Her father is in the town Zhonghetang for consultation, and he is Dr. Feng.

This old doctor Feng is a kind person, and his family has a simple population, just a son and a daughter. The son is also a doctor in the pharmacy, but he has not yet graduated from the school, and the daughter-in-law he married is the lady of the pharmacy shopkeeper. ”

When Zhao Jiao heard this, she was also shocked, such a good object?

"Because in the first year, Liangzi followed Ercheng and them to the town, did Ercheng buy any medicinal herbs at that time?

The grain followed up, and it is said that Dr. Feng took a fancy to it at that time, and the client checked the bottom of the grain, and only after there was no problem did he ask the girl's aunt to say kiss. ”

In fact, the old doctor took a fancy to Ercheng, and after inquiring, he knew that he had married a wife, or a sister-in-law, and he was actually the same wife as his brother! Only then did he choose the grain.

The girl was also a good girl, but the man ruined her family, which caused the girl to have a bad reputation, and everyone in the town knew about it.

A good and particular person, even if they know that the girl is good, they don't want to find a bad reputation, almost all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, the old doctor is angry to death!

The man is disgusted with the poor and loves the rich to find a better and richer family, and they will not stop him, but what is the matter with stepping on his daughter's position!

I was bored, but I didn't expect to see Cai Ercheng, the young man was dressed well, his face was ruddy, and he looked good at his personality, smiling, so he fell in love, and after deliberately inquiring about the address, he asked his sister in the village to help him grow his eyes.

Pan Feng's heart hurt this only niece, seeing that such a good girl was almost ruined, he couldn't help her find a better one immediately, but he didn't expect his brother to take a fancy to the young man in the village, or from the village, so he didn't want to, and gossiped about it with Pan Changsheng.

And Pan Changsheng put it in his heart, for no other reason, the current Cai family in Hecun is too rich!

He could imagine the future of the Cai family in the future, and did not echo his daughter-in-law's words, "Since my brother has taken a fancy to Cai Ercheng, it means that this person must be good, don't you believe in your own brother's vision?" ”

Pan Changsheng didn't know Ercheng, after all, Ercheng was much smaller than him, and he only came down the mountain in the past two years, and Hecun was a poor village, so it was normal to be unfamiliar.

As for their brothers and wives, as far as the people in the village know, no one thinks it is a good thing, and the people in the village do not spread it, and the people in the other villages do not know it either.

And the house built in August was all Cai Dacheng's appearance, when he was measuring the land, he heard that his family had a daughter-in-law, and he also heard others say that he had a younger brother, so he took it for granted that the younger one was not married.

Pan Changsheng asked someone to inquire and found out that his brother had the same wife, which was very incomprehensible. But the affairs of other people's families have nothing to do with them, and besides, it cannot be said that these three people have broken the law, and this cannot be explained according to right or wrong.

However, after inquiring, he was surprised, and he went to Hecun in August, and occasionally heard people say that Hecun repaired roads or something, and the Cai family had money, thinking that everyone was exaggerating, but I didn't expect this Cai Dacheng to have such a big ability and so much family background.

Not only is there fifty acres of land in the clan, but also a house has been built to open a school, and the descendants of the Cai family are free!

What courage it takes!

It's not something that can be solved with one hundred and eighty taels of silver, can such a family have hope?

If you don't do it now, will you wait for the Cai family to be developed and then get together? Who knows you then!

So at the end of December, he rushed to the town in person, broke up with his uncle and said that the girl must marry into the Cai family.

Dr. Feng also has his own knowledge, I heard about Caijiazhuang, I heard about my brother and his wife, I heard that the gentleman who invited me is a gentleman, and I heard that...

Although he knew that Pan Changsheng was sleek, he was quite reliable, and after listening to his advice, he decided to marry his daughter to Liangzi, who was closest to Ercheng's family.

Zhao Jiao and the fifth aunt don't know these things.

The fifth aunt only felt that a pie had fallen from the sky!

Even if the matchmaker, that is, her aunt, said that the girl's only drawback was that she had to marry someone in the village because she was divorced, she didn't think it was a shortcoming!

If you can marry her family?

Can be literate, can see a doctor, needlework and cooking are all shot, the most important thing is that the person has a good personality and looks good!

She was so happy that she was about to float!

Since the departure of Pan Fengshi in the morning, I have been happy until now!

But Zhao Jiao felt a little abnormal, and nine times out of ten, abnormal things were boring!

However, she didn't say anything back, just congratulated the fifth aunt on finding a good daughter-in-law, and asked Cai Dacheng to inquire about it in private, and everyone was happy, if the other party deliberately deceived and had any hidden diseases, then don't blame her! After all, it was the other party who was at fault first.

Since the fifth aunt is so satisfied, there must be something to do today, so Zhao Jiao will wait for the following.

Sure enough, the fifth aunt said: "The other party's dowry is not much, just two taels of silver, although it is a lot for the village, but is the girl from the doctor's family worth such a little money?" This is to adapt to the village, and for our family, there are so few, and the town has at least more than five taels. The dowry is for us to look at, how can this be done? ”

Zhao Jiao didn't know what to say now.

According to the village, it is generally a piece of jewelry, which is worth about 20 yuan; Several sets of clothes for the bride are worth about a hundred dollars. All of them add up to less than two hundred dollars, because the bulk of it is in the bride price.

At least half of the bride price was brought back by the bride, but it was not the silver that was brought back, but the dowry: a few bed covers, wardrobes, boxes, basin racks, etc., and even the buckets of the children and grandchildren, that is, half of the items brought back after the money went, and the woman's maternal uncle also had to accompany the dowry, such as: boxes, bath tubs, etc., which may come from their uncle's house.

I love my daughter even more, I am afraid that my daughter will be bullied in her mother-in-law's house, so I will accompany the dowry more, and I will start saving the dowry from the moment my daughter is born! For the sake of the looper in her daughter's hands, and even more so that her daughter has a foothold in her mother-in-law's house and has the confidence to speak, not only will she accompany the bride money back, but she will also marry a lot.

Marrying a daughter here is generally a loss, unless you want to sell your daughter! Otherwise, how did the money come about?

According to the dowry in the village, it is obviously not good, and no matter what, the girl lives in the town.

On the day of the girl's wedding, she was going to post the dowry list, as well as the man's dowry list, and she wouldn't be laughed to death when she took it out? How will the Feng family raise their heads and behave in the town in the future? It's the entire Cai family, don't want face!

So the Feng family has no choice, just let them watch it, I hope that the brother of this grain can help support the scene, otherwise not only the Feng family will be embarrassed, but the Cai family will also be embarrassed! It's not about fun!

"Bao'er Niang, how much dowry do you say our family will pay? I'm worried about this, and I have to borrow money from you! ”

The fifth aunt also made a difficulty, the whole family tightened their belts and married the daughter-in-law of the grain, and the silver turned out became the daughter-in-law's dowry. If you don't move, you don't have any money.

But she didn't want to give up such a good daughter-in-law, so she could only ask Zhao Jiao to give her ideas.

Zhao Jiao thought for a while and said:

"Fifth aunt, I came out of your dowry, so I don't need to borrow it.

You know, Brother Dacheng brought back a lot of things to me, and I took one as a dowry, which is considered a meeting gift for my younger siblings, and they will get married in the future. ”

"This won't work! I didn't know that Dacheng gave you all the good things! It's not a matter of one or two silvers! The fifth aunt hurriedly stopped.

Zhao Jiao: "Fifth aunt, come!" ”

Zhao Jiao got out of bed and dragged the fifth aunt to the dresser, opened a large cabinet with many small boxes, Zhao Jiao took one casually and opened it for the fifth aunt to see.

The fifth aunt's eyes widened, how could she, a country woman, see such gorgeous jewelry!

Inside is a pair of pure gold bracelets carved with gorgeous auspicious clouds; a pair of red gold stud earrings; a ring set with rubies; And a gold chain with rubies!

"You scumbag! Put it away! Can this be shown casually? It's so casual! ”

The fifth aunt was scared to death by Zhao Jiao's heartless eyes!

This looks like it can't be bought for a hundred taels of silver!

She had been to the jewelry store in town, but she had never seen such beautiful jewelry!

How can this send grain to the daughter-in-law!

They can't afford it!

Zhao Jiao is very clear about the fifth aunt's personality, and she never takes advantage of others easily, let alone such a valuable item.

But she had to let her take it, otherwise take a daughter-in-law and the whole family to drink the northwest wind?

Whether it is from the perspective of repaying the favor or the character of the fifth aunt's family, or even from the distant interests of his own parents, this thing must be done beautifully.