"Where." Chi Yuan scratched his head embarrassedly, "This is fate." Chi Yue, as smart and capable as you, the family affair that I want to marry in the future will definitely be more beautiful than mine. ”

The two chatted for a while, and Chi Yuan saw that Chi Yue didn't mean to let him go, so he couldn't help but ask, "Chi Yue, where is my contract?" Since the three hundred taels of silver were given to you, then you can let me go, right? I'm also planning to open a small shop with Xiuxiu and sell something to make a little money. With a wife, I have to plan for the future of our family, don't you think? ”

Chi Yue searched for a while in the locked secret cabinet, searched for a while, and suddenly remembered something, patted her forehead, got up and smiled: "Look at my memory!" I'm sorry Brother Yuan, I put your contract at home, and when I come tomorrow, I'll give it to you, okay? ”

Originally, Chi Yuan couldn't wait to go back and go to Chi Yue's house to get the contract, but in order to prevent the other party from seeing his impatience, he had to endure his impulse and nodded, "It's okay, it's not too late to come back tomorrow to get the contract." Chi Yue, you take these silver taels first, just give me the IOU tomorrow, I can trust you! ”

Chi Yue sent Chi Yuan away, and her doubts were even heavier.

When she went back to the village, she went straight to Xu Er's house.

Xu Er was picking up the wheat that he had just harvested in the yard, and when he saw Chi Yue, he thought she was here to discuss taking care of the mushroom field at night. Thinking about it, nothing has gone wrong lately, but I'm a little puzzled.

He got up and greeted with a smile, "Chi Yue, it's the time when the farm is busy, and I don't care to go to harvest sugarcane with you." Look, these two acres of wheat have tired our family enough! ”

Chi Yuewaner, "I know that everyone is busy harvesting wheat now, and even the workers in the workshop have asked for leave one after another, and they have gone back to work, where can I find you to help in my field?" I'm here today, I want to trouble Second Uncle Xu for you to do me another favor, it's not a big deal, I just don't know if you have this time to spare. ”

When Xu Er heard this, he immediately patted his chest and said: "Chi Yue, the money I earned from you has turned our family into a new one, and it has become a family that can be put on the table in this village, and I don't have to worry about the New Year's Festival, it's all thanks to you giving me the opportunity to make money!" If you have any difficulties, I, Xu Er, will never sit idly by, just say it. ”

"Come inside and say, I'll make you tea." Second Aunt Xu came out of the house enthusiastically, "Chi Yue, you are a distinguished guest of our family, don't see you when you come, have dinner together and leave." ”

Chi Yue also smiled and entered the house with Xu Er.

She took a sip of tea and went straight to the point and said what she meant.

"I want to ask Second Uncle Xu to call Chi Yuan over tonight, I have something to ask his new daughter-in-law, that is, my sister-in-law. If Second Brother Xu is also troubled by this matter, then I will ask someone else to help with this. ”

"Please come over Chi Yuan?" Xu Eryi was really a little difficult, "Chi Yuan is a half-year-old, and the two of us don't see each other often on weekdays, so I can't say anything, I want to invite him over, there is no legitimate reason, I'm afraid it's a little difficult." ”

Chi Yue was not discouraged, and reminded: "But Second Uncle Xu, don't you often eat wine with my uncle?" If you want to let him take Chi Yuan to eat and drink and catch up with him, the uncle will definitely not refuse, right? ”

Hearing Chi Yue say this, Xu Er suddenly clapped his hands, "Yes, why didn't I think of this?" Okay, I'll invite the two of them to come over for a drink, your uncle likes to eat and chat with me the most, and I also like the side dishes made by your second aunt Xu the most, fried crispy peanuts, that's called a delicious! I asked him to come, and he agreed without saying a word, and Ma Yoyo came running. ”

This was also what Chi Yue expected, and she thanked her with a smile on her chin, "Then thank you Second Uncle Xu." ”

Xu Er saw that Chi Yue didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask more.

Seeing that the two of them were finished talking, Aunt Xu poked her head out of the kitchen and said, "Chi Yue, since you are here today, you must not leave!" The meal will be ready later, and you can taste your second aunt Xu's craftsmanship. ”

"Second Aunt Xu, don't be busy, I'd better go back to the house to eat. When I came out, my mother was cooking, and she told me to go back to dinner later, and I agreed. Chi Yue politely excused herself. After that, no matter how Xu Er's sister-in-law and Xu Er retained, she insisted on refusing to eat here, and only said that the Zhou family was waiting for her at home, and the two had to give up.

Chi Yue went back to the house to eat, estimated the time, and came to Chi Lao's house.

Qiao's was washing the dishes in the yard, his face was full of uncertainty, and he was angrily brushing the dishes, as if he had a grudge against the bowl. While muttering in his mouth, "I asked you to wash the dishes but you didn't wash them, and you didn't do the work when I asked you to do the work, could it be that we married a young lady, and we have to support you like a god statue?" You little vixen, seducing my son in a daze, telling him to speak for you everywhere and excuse you, I really don't know what tricks you have used, so that he is so reasonable! You dead pig......"

The scolding voice is not big, but it is not small, Xiuxiu in the house is dressing up and applying nail polish in front of the bronze mirror, and then she heard her mother-in-law scolding her outside, where can she bear this breath, and immediately got up and came out to ask: "Mother, where did I offend you, so that you are a fox spirit and a dead pig's trotter to abuse me like this?" ”

Qiao Shi shook the bowl in his hand, regardless of whether the bowl was cracked or not, he pinched his waist angrily and said: "I asked you to cook before, and I asked you to wash the dishes, but you used the excuse that you couldn't do it with a headache in your fingers, and now the clothes of a family must have been washed by me!" You mother-in-law, my son marries you only so that you can eat him, wear him, use him, sit at home and enjoy it, but do not make you work? ”

Xiuxiu held her breath, stretched out her fingers and said with reason: "Mother, you didn't ask me to sift wheat yesterday, where did I do this kind of rough work?" If you look at my hands, there wasn't a single calloon, but now there are more than four or five! In the month since I came here, I have lost twenty or thirty pounds! Oh my God, every day when I look at myself in the mirror, I almost don't recognize myself!

Xiuxiu's exaggerated words really made Qiao's angry, "Okay, what you mean by this is that our Chi family bullied you, deliberately told you to eat badly, and tortured you, didn't you?" ”

Xiuxiu said in a snort: "That's not what I meant...... It's just that you have to be considerate and considerate of your daughter-in-law, your daughter-in-law is really tired and panicked, and she can't do so much work......"

"Hmph, which of the heavy work of harvesting wheat and threshing ears of wheat in the field before did you move a finger? But you sifted the wheat, so that you wept and cried out that you were tired? Qiao's ruthless iron is not steely, "Look at the daughter-in-law of these four miles and eight towns, who only eats and drinks at home all day long during the busy farming season, and doesn't know how to help in the field?" I knew that marrying you was so useless, and I would not send the ten taels of silver to your house no matter what! ”

Xiuxiu's face turned red, only to feel that she had never been so angry since she was a child, and was about to say a few more words, when she suddenly saw Chi Yue walking in from the door, she simply ignored Qiao's and went over to greet Chi Yue.

"Sister Yue'er, it's rare for you to have time to come to us today. Unfortunately, just now your eldest brother and uncle went to Uncle Xu's house for dinner, but the two of us can also sit down and chat, I like to chat with you the most! ”

"It's been very hot in the workshop these days, and everyone refuses to do more work, so I simply told them to disperse early." Chi Yue said with a smile, "This son will take advantage of the time to come and sit down, but I don't know if it bothered you, right?" ”

"Where can I be, I don't have anything to do with this son, and I'm waiting for someone to come and talk to me for a while."

Xiuxiu said, took Chi Yue's hand, and went to her room to invite.

Xiuxiu, who is the daughter of a lifter, originally had a sense of pride in being superior, but seeing that Qiao and the others did not rely on her very much to provide for her, and suppressed themselves everywhere, there was nowhere to vent the depression in her heart.

Chi Yue can be regarded as a figure with a head and face in this village, and those who can talk to her are also valuable people. It was Xiuxiu who wanted to make friends with Chi Yue in order to satisfy her inflated vanity.

When Qiao Shi saw Chi Yue coming, he also shut up, stopped arguing with Xiuxiu, and continued to torture those bowls by himself.

Entering her own West House, Xiuxiu glanced outside, leaned into Chi Yue's ear and lowered her voice: "Look at your aunt like that, as if you want to eat me." I didn't look down on me like this for a few days after I got married, and I really don't know how to live in the future! ”

Chi Yue had doubts about Chi Yuan, but she didn't plan to pay her sincerity at this time, so she persuaded the two of them, but just dealt with them lightly: "Auntie is that temper, just get used to it." ”

Xiuxiu sighed, "Don't talk about this, let's have some fun." ”

She pulled Chi Yue to her dresser, opened her delicate jewelry box, and immediately said with a smile: "You see, this is the dowry that my father and mother asked me to bring when I got married, but it is very much and very valuable!" Sister Yue'er, when I first came here, I felt that I had a fate with you, which one you like, I will give you which, and it is also the first meeting gift I give you. ”

Chi Yue saw that in the jewelry box, there were jade and gold butterflies, all kinds of hairpins, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces, gold, silver, and even pearls, which were worth a lot of money.

But all the things that women grease and powder, here are all available.

Look at Xiuxiu who is dressed up in flowers, her red mouth and her face as white as paper are particularly distinct, the golden jade and vermilion hairpin at one end, the floral clothes made of good fabric, twisted like a buffalo waist of a python, are incompatible with this poor and remote place.

However, it was probably because of this that Chi Yuan fell under her wide pomegranate skirt and helped her speak well to Qiao's family.

"Sister-in-law is not only beautiful, but also dresses up like this, no wonder Brother Yuan treats you so well, and praises you like a fairy every day." Chi Yue opened her eyes and said nonsense, but it also made the listener laugh even more, and her eyebrows and eyes were almost squeezed together.

"But don't you know that this is all your dowry, sister-in-law?" Chi Yue picked up the jade butterfly that seemed to be the most expensive and shook it, and asked casually while looking at it.