Mrs. Qian proposed two ways to marry, so that the fifth aunt and Lin Xiaochu wanted to hear it. Even Lin Xiaoyi, who doesn't understand anything on the kang, also plans to listen to it for fun.

"Miss Xiaochu," before the matchmaker said, she smiled first: "We are neighbors, I watched you grow up since childhood, if you want to listen, I will tell you; If I'm right, don't be surprised. Always tell you the truth, it's a piece of thought for your good. ”

In June, the house was extremely hot. Mrs. Qian sat in front of the kang, shaking a banana fan in her hand, and sweat was still dripping down her face. She is such a lazy person who likes to be comfortable, and she suffers like this in the house, Lin Xiaochu can't help but be suspicious.

"Auntie, please say," Lin Xiaochu said very thankfully, just wanting to hear what Mrs. Qian had to say.

"Then I'm not welcome," Mrs. Qian smiled with a spring breeze on her face: "If you want to say that there are two kinds of marriage, one is the rich marriage method and the other is the moneyless marriage method." ”

The fifth aunt in front of the stove laughed first: "Sister-in-law Qian, do you still know Xiaochu's family, where will there be a rich way to marry?" Mrs. Qian was confident: "If it doesn't work, I'll mention it for nothing." ”

These words aroused the curiosity of the fifth aunt: "Then tell me, what is the rich marriage method and what is the moneyless marriage method?" Mrs. Qian glanced at Lin Xiaochu out of the corner of her eye, and looked at herself with the same expression, as if she wanted to listen. Mrs. Qian said with a smile on her face: "Don't worry, listen to me slowly." ”

Lin Xiaochu, whose face remained unchanged, guessed part of the words of the matchmaker, but she only smiled to see what kind of ivory the suddenly kind matchmaker neighbor was going to vomit.

"Let's talk about this moneyless marriage method first," Qian Matchmaker began to explain one by one: "The junior girl was born with a water spirit, and she is young and young. If you want to find a solid family that doesn't care about your dowry, but just falls in love with you, it's not difficult. It's just that although there are many such people, there are many who fill the house and become concubines after passing the door. If you want to find a family that will be the main house when you enter the door, it is not easy to find. ”

The fifth aunt sighed, everyone thought about it. Honest people also think so, the children of the family have a clean face, even if they are well-born, they also want to climb more solid people.

"So this moneyless way to marry, either find a man who is also poor, and his parents can only have money for a dowry after saving for a lifetime, and then he will work hard after passing the door. If you have a few more children, the days will be even more miserable. The money matchmaker said again, the fifth aunt sighed even more, the fifth aunt thought that she was like this, at that time, she only wanted to be good, and she didn't beat or scold when she passed the door, but after decades of hard work, she felt that the years were long and long, and it seemed that the hard life could not end.

Mrs. Qian was sad on her face to the fifth aunt, and it was rare to be sad for her once. Thinking about the fifth aunt, she has not had a lot of children since she passed the door, and only two survived, but now she can also go to the ground to help do some work, and the life of the fifth aunt's family is better than before.

After finishing the tears of sympathy, Mrs. Qian smiled again and said to Lin Xiaochu: "This is how to marry without money, Miss Xiaochu, this marriage is a hurdle, you must go well." ”

The fifth aunt who was burning the fire under the stove also wiped away her tears at this moment, and said to Mrs. Qian with a smile: "Sister-in-law Qian, tell me how this rich marriage method is?" ”

Lin Xiaochu first heard about the moneyless marriage method, and then saw the tears of the fifth aunt, and was also curious about the following words of the money matchmaker, guessing that it should be for me to be a little wife for others, otherwise how could this moneyless matchmaker be so kind and think so much about me.

"This rich marriage method is actually very simple, that is, to get married after earning enough money. Not to mention how much you earn, at least you have a dowry money, and you can accumulate some more in your hands, so you don't have to panic when you need it urgently. The money matchmaker said it firmly.

The fifth aunt looked at Lin Xiaochu, Lin Xiaochu looked at the fifth aunt, and Lin Xiaoyi asked crisply: "Aunt Qian, where can I earn a lot of silver?" Mrs. Qian smiled and patted Lin Xiaoyi with a banana fan in her hand: "You are still young, people don't want you." Only then did he say to the puzzled Lin Xiaochu: "Look at how hard you usually work, get up early and pick flowers in the dark and then go to sell, not to mention the wind and sun, when it comes to windy and rainy weather, your business of selling flowers is not good, and besides, you can only sell this season of flowers, what do you sell after the flower season?" ”

"Aunt Qian, where can I earn enough money?" Lin Xiaochu thought to himself, if I could earn enough money, I wouldn't want to get married. In ancient times, it was legal for men to take concubines. If I have enough money, I will live the days of calling slaves and maidservants, and I will not want to marry the ancients.

"Silly girl, I also thought about it in my spare time, why don't you go to a big family to be a girl, eat well and dress well, not to mention, there is no wind and rain, a month's moon silver is saved, there is a lot, if you are right, the clothes and jewelry are constant. Everyone has such an idea, why have you never thought of it? Mrs. Qian was very serious, all for Lin Xiaochu's good intentions.

To say this, at first glance it sounds like the money matchmaker is a bad idea. Of course, Mrs. Qian just wanted to earn the fifty taels of silver from the Chu family, and Lin Xiaochu and the fifth aunt would not know.

After listening to Mrs. Qian's words, the fifth aunt felt that it was feasible, and she also glanced at Mrs. Qian gratefully, this person has changed his mind today, and he is willing to give ideas to poor neighbors.

"Xiao Chu, your Aunt Qian is right, she knows a lot of people in this city, just trouble her to find you a master's house, earn a few hundred yuan a month, although it is not much, it is a net leftover. If you're worried about petty things, you can just leave her to me. The fifth aunt said this, and Mrs. Qian smiled even more.

Lin Xiaochu was also dizzy when he first heard it, and when he accidentally saw the smile of Mrs. Qian, he understood. It's not ten times the profit, and the money matchmaker won't sit here and make up his mind diligently. The matchmaker's mouth should be to collect money according to her words, and with this effort, she can find a patron at home and say that it is a family matter, and she can get a lot of money from the matchmaker.

"Aunt Qian, which one in the city is looking for a girl?" Lin Xiaochu's voice was sweet, so he asked directly.

Mrs. Qian was stunned, this girl is very clever, she guessed a lot of my thoughts. Mrs. Qian said out on the spot: "There are a lot of people looking for girls, the Mo Governor's house in the city, the Zuo Garrison family, and a clever girl like Miss Xiaochu are all wanted." As soon as he heard that the Mo Zhifu family and the left guard family, Lin Xiaochu frowned. The contradiction between the two officials, thinking of ways to use innocent people behind their backs, Lin Xiaochu doesn't like either.

"There is also the Chu family, and the Zhang family, that is, the Zhang family is smaller, and he is a businessman, and Master Zhang is not serious," Mrs. Qian said, and the fifth aunt also remembered: "The Zhang family can't go." "It's a family that harms the girl, and the matter is settled after a few taels of silver.

It sounds like only the Chu family is the best, Lin Xiaochu seems to be smiling in his heart, this Chu family is the person who Qian Matchmaker really wants to talk about. Lin Xiaochu was bored at this time, so he might as well listen to the mind and asked Mrs. Qian: "Aunt Qian, what kind of family is the Chu family?" ”

"It's our Zhuangzi's land master," Mrs. Qian didn't speak, and the fifth aunt said first. Mrs. Qian felt that this thing could be done, so she immediately said the Chu family carefully: "Lord Chu is from us here, and now he is an official residence in Beijing." The tenant land near us is all from the Chu family. It was Gongzi Chu who wanted to spend the summer here, and Steward Pang persuaded that there were few servants, and he wanted to hire a few more girls, and there were also domestic servants who sold themselves and helped, if you wanted, I will inquire about you in detail. ”

The fifth aunt, who has always taken care of the Lin family sisters, agreed first. Just as the water was boiling, the fifth aunt took an empty bowl and poured boiling water and handed it to Mrs. Qian: "Sister-in-law Qian, you have to discuss whether you want to go or not, how about you help inquire first?" Even if you are a domestic helper, you have to find a reliable person. ”

"Of course," Qian Matchmaker can tongue the lotus once, and she can tongue the lotus twice, she plans to delay for two days, Xiao Chu was injured in the leg, so she can't sell flowers for a few days. There was no income for a day, and she should be anxious, and it just happened to let her think about it, whether it was better to sell flowers and earn unstable income, or to give people help.

This was settled, and Lin Xiaochu also felt that there was something wrong with listening to it.

A few people were sitting and gossiping, and they hurriedly came over with Doctor Qin outside. Dr. Qin was sweating all over, and he was also a good-hearted neighbor, so he explained that he was late as soon as he entered: "I was in Chu's house to see the people on the door, and it was too late." ”

Doctor Qin showed Lin Xiaochu and prescribed medicine, and left Lin Xiaoyi a bottle of medicinal wine for bruises. Lin Xiaochu glanced at Lin Xiaoyi: "Xiaoyi, give all the medicine money we owe to Doctor Qin." ”

Today, my leg hurt badly, and I heard Dr. Qin say that I would have to rest for a few days. Lin Xiaochu couldn't let Lin Xiaoyi cover the silver for three days, for fear that there would be no income in these three days, and he couldn't help but spend all the money, so it was better to pay off the debt first.

Lin Xiaoyi, who was a little reluctant, could only take out the silver, and after paying back the medicine money owed before and today's medicine money, there would be no more than 200 wen left. Mrs. Qian looked at the only remaining string of copper coins and smiled even more. She wished that the two Lin sisters didn't have a penny in their hands, so they walked along their ditch.

Dr. Qin is gone, Mrs. Qian is also gone, and there are also things at the fifth aunt's house. There were only three people left in the house: Lin Xiaochu, Lin Xiaoyi and Shengdi. Lin Xiaochu slept on the kang and still had a black face in front of the raw land, and he fought with people outside for the sake of the raw land, and Lin Xiaochu persuaded him more than once.

There is only one sister in the Shengdi family, and if she marries fifty miles away, there is no one to control her in the Shengdi, and he fights all day long, except for Lin Xiaochu, only the fifth aunt still persuades him.

"Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu," Sheng Di wiped the sweat on his face with the placket of his clothes, and shouted Lin Xiaochu with a smile. Lin Xiaochu felt that he had said enough, and he could be regarded as playing the piano to the cow.

Lin Xiaochu, who was in severe pain in his legs, closed his eyes and ignored him. Shengdi had no choice but to confess to Xiaoyi: "You accompany your sister, I still have to go out to pick up work, and I'll come back to get food at night." ”

When he doesn't fight with people, he also helps people carry bags or do odd jobs.