Mrs. Ming's hands kept moving, and a round dumpling was placed on the curtain by her, "Then wait, wait until Erlang takes the county exam next fall." He's still young, anyway, and he can drag it out for a few more years. ”

Xie's heart understands - their family's life is getting better and better, in a few years, Erlang will be able to talk about better family affairs, if the ancestors bless him to be a showman, then he can't marry a little lady from a scholar's family.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quickly reached an agreement, but Zhou, who was sitting on the side and was also wrapping the dumplings quickly, stopped talking.

Mrs. Ming glanced at her, "Say whatever you want, what is the family doing?" ”

Zhou Shi said "hi", "I'm not afraid of ruining you and your sister-in-law!" Don't you know, I went back to see my mother yesterday, and my mother said that someone asked her to say goodbye to our family Mingyue. ”

As soon as she said this, the eyes of everyone in the room immediately focused on her face.

"It's the mother-in-law of Yang Ergou in Yangjiazhai, not to say that his eldest son has taken a fancy to our moon girl. My mother told her that our Mingyue had already decided to get married, but she arranged a meal with one mouth, which means that she has not given up yet. ”

Mingyue looked confused, what did she fancy her, she didn't even know whether the surname Yang was round or flat! Where did she fall in love with someone she had never seen before? Could it be that this surnamed Yang has a pair of clairvoyance?

"Ignore them, if you invite a matchmaker, we will refuse directly." Mrs. Ming didn't raise her eyelids to decide how to deal with this matter, and Old Man Ming nodded on the side in agreement - their old Ming family is not the kind of perfidious family, as long as Yu Jiayan is not sorry for the Ming family and Mingyue, their Ming family will definitely fulfill the marriage contract and marry Mingyue to him.

***

On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, the day after the Ming family finished wrapping up the dumplings, all the old and young of the Ming family went to Daqinggou where the Zheng family was located in an ox cart.

With them were Minghe and his family, and Chen Bai took two days off from the old shopkeeper of the restaurant this time.

They went to send Zheng Youyan to get married, in order to add makeup to Zheng Youyan, Mrs. Ming and Ming He went to the county's silver building a few days ago.

Mrs. Ming bought a pair of silver hairpins, a pair of silver rings, and a pair of silver earrings, while Ming He bought a pair of silver bracelets and a pair of silver flowers.

In addition, Minghe also embroidered two pairs of pillowcases and sewed two sets of clothes for Zheng Youyan.

As for the rest of the Ming family.

Under the leadership of the old man Ming, the three brothers of the Ming family made a set of buckets for Zheng Youyan, a set of tables, chairs and cupboards, and the Xie family, Tao family, and Zhou family each prepared two quilts to send Zheng Youyan.

Mingyue, who is an extremely ordinary embroiderer, Yu Jiayan, who is still under the fence, and a few boys of the Ming family who have never used needlework at all, have seized all their free time to jump into the mountains since the autumn harvest.

They don't do anything else, they just grab bows and arrows every day and go around the mountains and fields in search of wild things.

The trap and the rabbit trap, they still hand it over to their home as usual, and only if they hit it themselves, they will stay alone to save private money.

After tossing for almost two months, a few small people finally saved enough money to add makeup to Zheng Youyan.

When Mrs. Ming went to the county, Mingyue and Erlang ran along.

Of course, they didn't go to a silver building, but a shop selling rouge gouache and satin cloth.

The two first bought a box of incense powder and a box of rouge in the fat powder shop, and then went to the cloth village to buy two light-colored muslin and two dark coarse cloths.

The remaining dozens of copper plates Mingyue did not waste, when passing by the stall where she bought wooden hairpins before, Mingyue bought a few wooden grates with fine carving and excellent meaning, "... One to my cousin, and the rest we can give to our grandmother, my mother, the third aunt and the eldest uncle, I see that their comb grates are more or less missing a few teeth. ”

Erlang has no opinion, "You can do it." I don't understand these things about you women anyway. ”

Mingyue squinted at him, "So you're just here to eat?" ”

Jiro laughed.

Mingyue didn't embarrass him, there were less than ten coppers left in the private money of several of them, plus the twenty yuan that Mrs. Ming gave them pocket money before, she was very bold and gave Erlang all the delicious food.

Of course, Erlang didn't eat alone, he bought it, but he bought it for everyone.

Tao was "lazy" to Mingyue and didn't do needlework, but he had to spend money with the Tao boys at home to buy things to add makeup to Zheng Youyan, which was a heartache, Mingyue was annoyed by her, so she had to patiently embroider two handkerchiefs and add them to Zheng Youyan's makeup.

At the end of the morning (nine o'clock in the morning), the Ming family had already rushed to Daqinggou, and it was said that if they were just here to add makeup, they didn't have to come so early, but the Ming family was Zheng Youyan's grandmother's family, and they couldn't do anything to wait for the banquet after giving a gift.

Gifts are gifts, and they still have to help if they help.

“... This is the dumpling that our family wrapped yesterday, and it has been frozen, so you can keep it and eat it slowly. There are two versions of this tofu that are frozen, and two versions that you can keep for tomorrow. I've cooked this basket of eggs and this basket of goose eggs for you, you put them in the cupboard, and you can take a few when you want to eat them. ”

After greeting the Zheng family, Mrs. Ming pointed out all kinds of things that the Ming family brought to Ming Ju to Ming Ju one by one.

Although Ming Ju has been used to it, but the heart of happiness and gratitude has never changed, she quickly gave Mrs. Ming baskets, cloth bags and baskets, while asking some trivial things about Mrs. Ming's mother's family.

Mrs. Ming replied with a smile, and Ming Ju then talked about Zheng Youyan's marriage, "... Her grandmother originally wanted to delay until the beginning of spring next year, but it was my mother-in-law who said it badly, and her old man reluctantly agreed to let Youyan marry in the month. ”

"Your mother-in-law is also in pain, this girl is married, and she has a different life than in her mother's house. In-laws, husbands, children, uncles and sisters-in-law, all have to worry about everything. ”

Mrs. Ming's words simply entered Ming Ju's heart, like she is already well married, her mother-in-law is open-minded, her husband is loved, her children are sensible, and she doesn't have to worry about food and clothing at home, she is far more tired than when she was a daughter, not to mention those little daughters-in-law who are so unsatisfactory.

She couldn't help but sigh when she thought about it, "Who said it wasn't, but this girl is older, and she always wants to get married." I can't leave Youyan in the Zheng family as an aunt and grandmother for the rest of my life. ”

Mrs. Ming couldn't help laughing, she raised her hand and slapped her daughter, "What are you talking about?" I think the little offspring that your mother-in-law chose for Youyan is very good, and she will definitely be able to live well in the future. ”

Ming Ju let out a sigh, "I've been persuading myself like this for the past few days. ”

- What else would she do? Just like she said to Mrs. Ming, no matter how reluctant she is, it is impossible for her to keep her daughter at home as an old aunt.