After a few days of hardship, Meiqu finally did some work, and when the family was in a hurry, they finally plowed ten acres of land in the city and planted crops.

Mei Laosuo rested on the kang for seven or eight days, and then he didn't want to continue to lie on the kang, although he couldn't make great efforts, but he still did as much work as he could, peeling buds and rice grains, picking beans, and saying nothing was going on.

And these days, Aunt Jia's Tuo Chunhua sent two times of water tofu, and then she didn't send anything, and the Mao family was very unhappy when she collected the water tofu, and asked Chunhua without giving up, "In addition to these water tofu, she didn't give anything else?" ”

Chunhua'er's scalp cramped painfully, and she crossed her waist with a gloomy face and asked, "What's the matter, Auntie still suspects that I have tasted something in private?" "The villagers still suspect this, isn't it a bad thing! Besides, the five catties of water tofu are also worth ten copper plates, that is, Aunt Mei and Grandma Mei came to visit Mei Laosuo, and they only brought a bag of cane sugar and a bag of sugar slots, which is not worth ten copper plates! Mao hurriedly said: "I will also ask like that, you see where you are going!" After going back, he complained to Mei Laosuo who gritted his silver teeth, "Black-hearted and rotten liver!" Earn some money, just give a piece of water tofu! No one! The material in the ditch will be lost in the future! ”

"She shouldn't have paid for it, should she?" Mao immediately jumped up and shouted viciously.

Mei Laosuo lowered his head and stopped talking, looking listlessly at his own legs.

Jia's should not give this money, the big guy's heart is actually very clear, Jia's is affection, the Mei family should be grateful, no one can do what she looks like, in the end, the widow's family is divided into the widow's family, that is, the Mei family can't afford to pay for this medicine, looking for her help, she lent money to the Mei family, and then the Mei family also paid back the money, and the family is divided into a family, and the big money is clear, especially when the Jia family is still a widow's family, the most important link to maintain the relationship between the Mei family and the Jia family is gone.

In fact, what the Mei family did, the big guys all looked at it, and they didn't know how to say ugly things behind their backs.

Mei Laosuo lay on the kang and looked at the dirty and broken tent, sighed, and felt that it was not possible to beat Sister Qiu as a maid, since Huyang came back, the family has not been born in peace, the reputation is not as good as a day, and the life is not as good as before, even the most beloved son Mei Qu has also walked down.

It's just that he can't complain, and the things that have happened are all contributed by him and the Mao family, from the beginning of the separation, to the now forced Jia family and his wife to move to live in the shop in the town, if you want to complain, you can only complain that the eldest son is dead, and there is no one who can control Jia and Sister Qiu.

The Jiang family has planted soybeans in five acres of land all year round, and has collected nearly 2,000 catties of beans.

Where is Jia's willing to accept the beans of the Jiang family for nothing, and Chunhua is resolutely unwilling to ask for money, "This is all discussed by the old and young in the family, and I planned to give it to you when I planted the beans at the beginning, and I bought other people's beans and paid the flower money, isn't it?" ”

"That

You can't take it for nothing. Sister Qiu persuaded with a smile, "Just press the price of Uncle Shun's beans, three cents per catty, if you don't want to accept money, then we don't want beans either." ”

Aunt Chunhua talked for a long time, but the Jia family still insisted on giving money, and pulled the beans back without taking the money. Chunhua was so angry that she was stubborn, and she sat there for an afternoon, sifting the two thousand catties of beans from the new, and only selected the largest and fullest beans to leave for Sister Qiu's family, and the rest of the small beans were left to the oil mill to extract oil.

Sister Qiu borrowed the big scale in the grain store, weighed it, and weighed it, a total of more than 1,600 catties of beans, and calculated the price of three cents per catty, and settled the account for Aunt Chunhua.

Aunt Chunhua sent a piece of beans with a piece of bean grains and a furnace of 20 pounds of flower oil, this time the spring flowers have not disappeared, and she asked: "This oil is not money?" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and hugged Aunt Chunhua's arm and said, "Where can this be counted as money, this is what my aunt gave me and my mother to eat!" ”

The little lady is exquisite, soft and cute, and she sweetens people's hearts, and Aunt Chunhua's anger is gone, she rubbed Sister Qiu's cheeks with a smile, and said: "Aunt and Uncle can still be outsiders?" If you don't give money, don't you treat us as outsiders! ”

Sister Qiu knew that Aunt Chunhua was Jue, and their family usually took too much care of the Jiang family, and wanted to compensate them, but Sister Qiu felt that in the end, it was two thousand catties of beans and five acres of land, and it was not easy for the Jiang family to provide Lin Zhun to study, so they couldn't ask for their beans for nothing.

When the sowing was finished, Jia took Sister Qiu to see their more than 40 acres of land, which was rented out by Anzi as early as when they bought it.

At this time, there are two forms of rent collection, one is to press the transaction rent, and the other is to press the fixed rent to collect the rent. Sister Qiu chose to press the fixed rent to collect rent, she was busy with Jia's family, and it was impossible to spend too much energy watching these tenants collect crops, no matter what the year was, a city of acres of land would pay 160 catties of wheat and 200 catties of corn every year.

After the farm is over, Zhang Yuxiu's marriage should also be decided.

Zhang Yuxiu's home is in Zhangjia Village, although he has no uncle, and his grandmother has passed away early, but there are still a lot of messy cousins, cousins, uncles, relatives, and there are patriarchs and patriarchs in charge of affairs in the village, and the affairs of the clan are handled internally. In this era, the power of the clan was huge, but if it wasn't for a crime, the official yamen would not be able to bypass the patriarch and the patriarch to control the people in the clan. And Zhang Yuxiu is married, and the elders of the clan must come forward.

The people of Zhangjia Village attach great importance to Zhang Yuxiu's engagement, not because of how important the deceased Aunt Zhang's aunt is, but because Zhang Yuxiu's engagement object Anzi is an official in the town.

The day of the engagement was very lively, the Jia family brought Sister Qiu and the Jiang family all over, and Furong and a few people from Mancang were close to Sister Qiu's house

The people who tied it all went to give congratulatory gifts.

Looking at the people who came to see the drama to congratulate her, Zhang Yuxiu couldn't help but complain to Sister Qiu, "My father has been gone for such a long time, and I don't see these uncles and uncles coming to help my family, even if they came to beat my family's property, now they come to my house with a shy face to be an elder!" ”

Sister Qiu coughed twice, and pretended to be serious: "Zhang, you have to pay attention, from today on, this is not your family, it is your mother's family, you and Brother An Zi are the family, and you will be the Liang Zhang family in the future." ”

Zhang Yuxiu's face turned red, and she twisted Sister Qiu in shame, "Joke with me again, ignore you!" ”

Sister Qiu grinned, and followed Zhang Yuxiu to hide on the windowsill of the west room and look at the hall.

In the hall, the patriarch of Zhangjia Village sat in the first place with Yan Yuanwai, and the elderly patriarch of the village and Zhang Yuxiu's cousins and uncles, Anzi sat outside Yan Yuanwai, and the patriarch took the lead, carefully complimenting and currying favor with Yan Yuanwai.

As Zhang Yuxiu's biological mother, Li Ailian's only immediate family members and elders don't even have the right to enter the hall to talk about this marriage event, so she can only invite female guests in the courtyard, or boil water and make tea in the small kitchen.

There are more than a dozen wooden tables in the courtyard, and the cooks and helpers in the corners are busy preparing wine feasts.

Jia Shi helped boil water in the small kitchen, Lin Zhun and Lin did set up a wooden table by the courtyard door, Lin recorded the list of guests who came to give gifts and the corresponding gift money on the real paper, Lin did take a cloth bag, responsible for receiving gifts and gifts.

According to the customs of Huyang, the engagement is more formal than the marriage, and the marriage can be done without wine, but the engagement can not be sloppy.

Sister Qiu glanced at the smoky hall, this is a patriarchal society, and women are always a vulnerable group. She didn't think about what she wanted to do and change the rules of this society, she only hoped that in the future, in her small family, her husband could put her on an equal footing with herself, respect her, and care for her.

When the feast was about to start, all the people in the village had almost arrived, so Lin Zhun picked up the wooden table by the door and folded the gift money list.

Sister Qiu also came out of the west room, ready to serve Zhang Yuxiu a meal, she is the protagonist today, a lot of uncles, daughters-in-law, daughters-in-law, and mothers came to congratulate her, but they can't eat at the table. The most important thing for Sister Qiu to cry and laugh is that many people came to knock on the side to ask where the handsome boy who was writing the gift list by the door was, how old was it, and whether he was engaged......

Lin Zhun saw Sister Qiu, and immediately walked over, with a smile on his eyebrows, and asked, "Where are you going to eat later?" Zhang Yuxiu is all engaged, and it won't take him and Sister Qiu a few years to get engaged.

"My sister and I ate in her house." Sister Qiu preached, and looked at the hall again, and Zhang Ruoxu also went in to deliver a cup of tea.

Lin Zhun sensitively noticed that Sister Qiu was wrong, and before the banquet was opened, he hurriedly dragged Sister Qiu out of the house, walked to a quiet place, and asked, "How are you?" Who oppressed you? ”

"Nope." Sister Qiu is stewed

Kicking the pebbles on the road, "Many people have asked me where you are, asked you how old you are, and if you are engaged." ”

Lin Zhun couldn't help but smile and asked, "Then how did you say that?" ”

"I said that you were already engaged, and the woman is a fierce female worm, so you can be strict! Look at the other girls more, and the fingers are all light. Sister Qiu said with a sly smile.

Lin Zhunxiao's shoulders all trembled, and a pair of warm eyes flashed with a soft light, and he nodded in agreement, "Yes, it's a fierce female worm, I want them to stay away from me." ”

Sister Qiu couldn't laugh, she thought of the bunch of men in that room, and she didn't even have the ground where Li Ailian was standing.

Lin Zhun asked a few more words before asking what Sister Qiu was thinking about. In fact, from Lin Zhun's point of view, this kind of thing is nothing unusual, in Zhangjia Village, the patriarchal law is greater than favor, and the people who discuss and believe in marriage are the patriarch and the patriarch, not Li Ailian.

"I'm just that my aunt and Sister Yuxiu are very aggrieved, obviously it's my family's business, but because they are women, they don't even have a part in it." Sister Qiu said softly. Lin Zhun stood with Sister Qiu, put a palm on Sister Qiu's shoulder, and said softly: "Don't worry, when we get engaged in the future, I will definitely ask my aunt to sit on the seat with my father and mother, and be filial to the elders." No matter what others think, let's not make those false ones. ”

Zhang Yuxiu's engagement ceremony is still very grand, Anzi brought three gold and three silver, three gold is gold rings, gold earrings, gold necklaces, three silver is silver bracelets, silver locks and silver hairpins, three gold and three silver are all Anzi deliberately went to Huyang to buy the most fashionable style, in addition to these jewelry, Anzi also sent six batches of red printed brocade, stacked full of brushes and brushes resting there, shining beautiful soft light under the sun, three gold and three silver pressed on the brocade, very good-looking.

The people who come to congratulate all envy Zhang Yuxiu, very few people can buy three gold and three silver when they are engaged, and only three silver are given if the family is a little worse, even the three silver are saved.

Sister Qiu watched from the side, and secretly worried that Anzi was engaged for this time, but she had spent all her money, and she estimated that all the money she had saved in the past few years had been taken out.

When the sun was in the west, the wine feast was finished, and after the people who came to congratulate Li Ailian, they said goodbye to Li Ailian, and then went back, and the rest of Li Ailian and a few women of the Jia family helped to pick up the wooden tables and dishes.

Most of the wooden tables and pestles are borrowed from the villagers, and they have to be returned in a hurry after they are used, while the dishes and dishes are brought by the chef himself, and there are helpers responsible for cleaning, which saves a lot of people a lot of things.

In fact, there are not many leftovers on the banquet surface, the life of the Zhuang family is hard, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to eat a big meal, Aunt Chunhua picked up the leftovers on the banquet noodles, poured it into the bucket, and prepared to pick it home to feed the grass pig. There are also a lot of dishes made by the chef, and the dishes that could not be put on the banquet are all placed in the two large wooden basins, and Li Ailian's is not stingy, and every woman who came to help her has a lot of dishes to go back.

Yan Yuanwai looked for a car and sent Jia and a few people back to wait for her

When they returned to the town, it was nearly dusk.

Sister Qiu looked at a tall and thin figure standing by the door of her shop from afar, and when she got closer, she realized that it was Mei Laosuo who had always stood there.

"Father, why are you here?" After getting out of the car, Jia Shi asked, looking at Mei Laosuo's leg, "How is the injury on your leg?" ”

Mei Laosuo put away the cigarette gun in his hand, shook his head and said, "It's not in the way." ”

At this time, Sister Qiu and a few people also got out of the car, Yan Yuanwai and Anzi sat in front of the car, looked at Mei Laosuo, and frowned in unison.

Anzi even jumped out of the car and asked Jia, "Auntie, why don't I stay for a while?" ”

Jia Shi smiled, "No need, you and Yan Yuanwai are also tired for a day, hurry back to rest, and come over for dinner in a while." ”

An Zi glanced at Mei Laosu with a gloomy face, and said with a smile to Jia's family: "That little aunt, what do you want Sister Qiu to call me in the township!" ”

"Rest assured, go and go." Jia said with a smile.

Mei Laosuo's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and the palms of the cigarette gun were all trembling, what does this official mean by this, could it be that he can eat the Jia family? He is the father-in-law of the Jia family, the grandfather of Sister Qiu, and in theory, he is the family of the Jia family!

The two people he remembered driving, one was an official, and the other was an official, who kidnapped him and Mao's that day, and took Meiqu away from the academy, he was naturally angry with these two people in his heart, but he gave him 100 guts, and he didn't dare to say anything in front of Anzi and Yan Yuanwai, he only dared to bow his head and hunch his back, and he didn't dare to breathe more.

When Yan Yuanwai followed Anzi, Mei Laosuo still didn't say a word, smoking silently.

"How long have you waited? Why don't you go in and sit down? Jia asked tentatively.

(End of chapter)