The marriage book and deed were all set up, and Mrs. Ming began to direct her daughters-in-law to set the table.

Chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork ribs stewed with beans, braised pork belly, braised liver tips, braised pork heart, sweet and sour fish, braised rabbit meat, shallots mixed with tofu, braised eggplant in oil, purslane salad, seven meat dishes and three vegetarian dishes in a coarse porcelain vegetable pot filled the two tables.

The staple food is the leek box prepared by Mrs. Ming, the fresh small leeks produced in her own vegetable garden, with the fresh eggs under the local chicken at home as the filling, and the white flour mixed with one-third of the sorghum flour as the skin, and the leek box baked out is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, which is very delicious.

The Ming family is in the landlord's house, and the old man Ming takes Mingdi, Mingcheng, Mingtang, Mingxu, and Yu Jiayan to entertain all the male guests, including Li Zheng, Dr. Li and Yu Shouyi; In the West House, Mrs. Ming took her three daughters-in-law to entertain the female guests and children of her relatives' house.

Erlang and other Tao boys, who were not qualified to serve the table, were arranged by Mrs. Ming in their own room in the east wing, and several children sat around the kang table, giggling and eating braised pork, pig water, and leek boxes.

As one of the protagonists, Comrade Mingyue was still in a state of "grounding" at this time, and Mrs. Ming was afraid that she would be bored, so she specially arranged for Huang Xiaoying to come over to have lunch with her, and chat with her by the way.

“... Yu Jiayan said that his uncle actually stayed at your house with Li Zheng and Dr. Li to eat and drink, and he was also thick-skinned. I heard my grandmother say that this must be a pro-wine, and both the man and the woman have to put it on the table. It doesn't matter if he doesn't set the wine for Yu Jiayan, he is actually embarrassed to stay at your house for dinner. Huang Xiaoying, like Mrs. Zheng, didn't look down on Yu Shouyi's little caution, she was eating with Mingyue while muttering bad things about Yu Shouyi.

Mingyue couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, she rubbed Huang Xiaoying's yellow-haired mustache, "Why do you say you are so worried?" If you want me to say, he definitely didn't stay voluntarily, eight times out of ten. Nine is that he can't resist my father and my father. ”

Although Mingyue has never dealt with Yu Shouyi, she is a person with the mature soul of a thirty-year-old aunt after all, and in her opinion, Yu Shouyi is definitely not the kind of person who throws her face on the ground and tramples on it in order to satisfy her appetite.

What's more, in the memory of the little original owner, Yu Shouyi has always been an honest and honest person, and before he bullied the Ming family to talk well and wanted the Ming family to give him a nephew for nothing, he never took advantage of anyone in the village.

Such a person, if it weren't for the sincerity of the main family, Mingyue believed that he would never die here just to eat a good meal.

She took a chopstick of braised pork to Huang Xiaoying, "You eat more." ”

Huang Xiaoying immediately threw Yu Shouyi out of the clouds, she bit the braised pork and asked Mingyue vaguely, "Don't you eat it?" ”

Mingyue smiled and bit the leek box, "I like to eat this more." ”

Huang Xiaoying whined and ate happily, "Then I'm welcome." ”

Mingyue smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, "What's polite?" We're good sisters. ”

Huang Xiaoying immediately smiled when she heard this.

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The day after the Ming family set up a family wine, Zheng Dachang drove a donkey cart to send his eldest daughter Zheng Youyan to the Ming family.

Along with Zheng Youyan, there was also a small bag of white noodles, a small bag of sorghum noodles, and two air-dried hares.

Mrs. Ming refused to accept it, and Zheng Dachang refused to take it back, the two families pushed me to argue for a long time, and in the end Zheng Dachang played a scoundrel, threatening that if Mrs. Ming didn't accept it, he would take Zheng Youyan back together, and Mrs. Ming was defeated.

Mingyue couldn't stand this kind of occasion the most, arguing with people was more tiring for her than doing a day's farm work, so she hid in the backyard early in the morning under the banner of feeding grass to rabbits.

It wasn't until the elders decided the winners and losers that Mingyue walked out of the backyard gracefully.

When she came out, Mrs. Ming was taking her three second daughters-in-law to prepare a meal to entertain her uncle.

Zheng Dachang was not polite to the Ming family, and after having lunch at the Ming family, he drove the donkey cart and drove a small bag of soybeans, a small bag of millet, and two baskets of vegetables that the Ming family forced into him back to his house in Daqinggou.

For more than two months after that, Zheng Youyan began to take Mingtang, Dalang, Erlang, Sanlang, Shilang, Wulang, Mingyue, and Yu Jiayan as soon as it dawned every day.

Don't ask why a big man in Mingtang also joined in the fun with their group of children, Mingyue said that she didn't know.

After tying the horse and having breakfast, Zheng Youyan will ask everyone to tie sandbags of different weights to their waists and legs, and then she will take everyone to Nanshan to dig wild vegetables, dig herbs, hunt pheasants, and chase rabbits.

Mingyue felt exhausted for the first time, and since the first day of being drilled by Zheng Youyan, Mingyue and the others have lived a hard life of "oops" in the morning and "oops" in the evening.

Shiro and Gorou cried and shouted that they would never practice again before they arrived, and this was because they were ordered by the elders of the family before the practice, otherwise Mingyue estimated that they would have to pick a son the next day.

Although Erlang and San Lang didn't dare to pick on their sons, they had sad faces every day, and they had no love on their faces.

Only Yu Jiayan has been gritting his teeth without saying a word, and his efforts are not inferior to Mingyue, a person with a mature soul.

Mingyue didn't see it as a problem, she thought about it again and again, and finally decided to talk to Mrs. Ming.

Mrs. Ming doted on the child as always, Mingyue said a few words like this, and Mrs. Ming immediately nodded and agreed to Mingyue's suggestion.

She took out two strings of money and asked Ming Xu to buy candy, snacks, pork belly and pigs, "... Whoever behaves well, Grandma will give him candy cubes and snacks, and if they all behave well, Grandma will reward all of you for eating meat-filled dumplings and pigs. ”

A few Tao boys suddenly came to their senses, and no one made any more fuss about not practicing.

When everyone got used to the training content arranged by Zheng Youyan, Zheng Youyan appropriately added a little more burden to everyone according to their age and progress.

In this way, little by little, step by step, soon Mingyue and the others were able to carry ten to thirty catties of sandbags on the South Mountain.

Zheng Youyan saw that the heat was almost over, so she began to teach everyone boxing in the backyard of the Ming family every afternoon.

After a set of boxing techniques were taught, almost a month passed, and Wulitun ushered in the hottest summer season of the year.

“... You have almost learned the boxing method, as long as you practice diligently in the future, I will go back to Daqinggou first. ”

Zheng Youyan, who lived in her grandfather's house for more than three months because of the kindness of the Ming family, returned to her heart like an arrow, and she couldn't even wait to send a letter to Zheng Dachang to pick her up, so she had to go back with the people from Daqinggou who came to the market.

How could the Ming family let her go back with the people in the village by herself, Mrs. Ming urgently helped her pack a bunch of things, and then asked Ming Di and Ming Xu to send her back together.

The reason why she sent two people to follow was because Mrs. Ming brought a lot of things to her eldest daughter's family.