Chapter 22: The Matchmaker
When Nie Yaoyao returned home, he found that there were many red wooden boxes piled up at the door of the big house in the courtyard, and there was a person who looked like a small servant watching on the side.
When she entered the house, Kang Wenxiao had already left, and Xiuru was squatting on the ground and pulling the lotus root he sent.
"Sister, there are a lot of people in the next room just now, like they are coming to matchmaking." Xiuru pulled Nie Yaoyao to stand by the door and peeked, "Look, are those things piled up at the door a dowry?" ”
"Maybe." Nie Yaoyao was not very interested in the affairs of the next room, so after a few glances, he went to Zhang Luo for lunch.
"Eh, in-laws, your brother Quan is really good-looking and talented, I have found someone to calculate, your brother Quan and my daughter are really a match made in heaven!" A middle-aged woman in a purple and gold cardigan dress took Sun's hand, which was called an intimacy.
"Hey, I said you know how to be a human being, do you know how to come first and come first? Shall I come first? Another woman dressed in crimson pink tugged at Sun's other hand, looking anxious.
"Brother Quan'er, my family is the Huang family who opened a livestock farm in the town, and there is only at least a thousand taels of silver every year, if your brother Quan marries my daughter, then half of our Huang family's family property will be your family."
As she spoke, she pointed to the dowry piled up outside the door, "Your daughter's name is Wang Jiao, right?" I look at it and I'm also a good girl, why don't we be happy and happy, and forget about your daughter to my eldest son! ”
"Your family can earn a few thousand taels of silver every year?!" Sun's eyes immediately brightened when he heard this, he let go of the purple-clothed woman's hand, clasped Mrs. Huang's hand with both hands, and hurriedly asked, "That's a good dare, how old are your daughters and sons?" Have you studied yet? What is it for? ”
Seeing this, the woman in purple hurriedly stood up and pulled Sun and said, "Mrs. Wang, although her family has a lot of money, but those are all copper-smelling roads, my brother-in-law's family is our county master!" If your son marries my daughter, then the whole Longtang Town will have to listen to you from now on. ”
Hearing this, the Sun clan suddenly opened his mouth and stammered, "County master?!" ”
She immediately let go of Mrs. Huang's hand, turned around and held the woman in purple again, "Eh, county master, what a blessing this must be to marry your daughter, I don't know your daughter?" ”
Mrs. Huang was immediately anxious when she saw it, and stood up suddenly, "I said Mrs. Yu, your daughter has a foul smell disease, and no one will marry her after she is twenty years old this year, so you are embarrassed to deceive Wang Juren?" ”
"What foul odor?" Sun's face immediately changed when he heard this.
Mrs. Yu is not a vegetarian either, she listened to her hands on her waist and pointed at Mrs. Huang and said: "No matter what happens to my daughter, she is also a good girl who is honest and responsible, like your daughter, a boudoir in the room has been bumped into three or four times by someone who has met men in private outside the house, and she may have been enlarged a few times."
"You! You fart! Mrs. Huang's face turned red with anger when she heard this, and she swallowed it in her throat and couldn't get up or down.
Sun pursed his lips and squinted at the two of them, and he understood that the daughters of these two were not innocent and good girls.
She stood up and smiled, "Why do you two hurt the harmony so much? In this way, let's talk about this today, the children at home are not present, and it is useless for us adults to talk about it, and I will discuss with him when my brother Quan comes back from meeting friends outside in a while, okay? ”
"This, okay, Mrs. Wang, you must think about my family, my child is the most well-behaved and sensible." Mrs. Yu grabbed Sun's hand with a reluctant expression.
Mrs. Huang also hurriedly said: "There are also two children in my family, both of them are smart and clever, if our two families become successful, we will definitely not let your family suffer in the future."
In the afternoon, many people from other villages came to the village, and they went to buy grapes from Uncle Yang in the village.
Uncle Yang's carefully cultivated grapes are large and purple, full of juice and sweet flesh, and are quite famous in villages and towns within a radius of hundreds of miles, and many merchants and vendors come to buy grapes at this time of year, and then resell them to the rich families in the town at a high price.
Nie Yaoyao was also hungry for grapes, so he went to Uncle Yang's vineyard to buy grapes.
The vineyards are on high ground in the village of Lotus Flower, and the green leaves scattered all over the mountains are dotted with pleasing purples, which are beautiful to look at from afar.
Several carts pulling grapes were parked at the gate of the vineyard, and at the gate of the courtyard sat an old woman wearing a headscarf, surrounded by three villagers.
"Old aunt, why are this year's grapes twelve cents a catty? It's two pennies more expensive than last year. ”
The old woman sighed slightly, "There's no way, this year, a group of wild monkeys came down from the mountain and stole a lot of grapes, so this year's grapes are more expensive than in previous years, and selling them for twelve yuan a pound is a lot cheaper for the people in our village, and the merchants from other villages come to buy it for twenty yuan a pound." ”
"Your house was robbed by wild monkeys? Eh, the bud rice field at the west end of the village has been taken out by the herd of livestock, and I will go back to my field to see more. ”
"Old aunt, I'll pick two catties, my baby has been talking about your grapes for several days."
"Okay, just pick whatever you want, just don't pick off the grains with your hands and feet."
Nie Yaoyao walked over to the crowd and lowered his head to pick, and found that the grapes raised by Uncle Yang were really good, each bunch of grapes was huge and full, and the skin was purple, and it was very appetizing to look at.
Nie Yaoyao picked four large bunches of grapes and handed them to the old woman: "I want these, grandma please weigh me."
"Okay."
The old woman weighed it with a scale in front of Nie Yaoyao, and it was nine and a half catties.
She packed the basket of grapes made of straw rope and handed it to Nie Yaoyao, "Take it, girl." ”
Nie Yaoyao took out one hundred and fourteen coins from her sleeve pocket and handed it to the old woman, and when she took the grapes, she had a flash of inspiration in her mind, remembering wine!
That's right! In ancient times, there was no wine, and it was only later that there was a time when the state entered the imperial court to supply the imperial court, and China slowly had wine as a wine.
In addition, according to historical records, when the emperor and his ministers first tasted wine, they were full of praise for its unique mellow aroma.
In modern times, the process of making wine has long been mastered, and it is easy to make delicious wines even at home.
In her previous life, Nie's grandmother liked to make wine very much, and she learned how to do it.
Thinking of Nie Yaoyao, he was excited and brightened his eyes.
So she and the old woman ordered another 300 catties of grapes and asked her to send them to the Wang family the day after tomorrow.
Three hundred catties of grapes is not a small amount, most of these grapes were originally sold to the town at a high price, Nie Yaoyao can only buy so many yuan per catty cheaper, that is, eighteen wen yuan a catty, three hundred catties is five taels or four dollars of silver.
Nie Yaoyao didn't have that much money in her pocket, so she told the old woman to give her money when she gave the grapes the day after tomorrow.
The old woman knew that Nie Yaoyao had just divided the family property and was not bad for money, so she also agreed.
After ordering the grapes, Nie Xiaoxiao called Jia Shun to help him go to the town to buy some rock candy and four large vats to come back, ready to make wine tomorrow.