In the previous life, Li Xin's hometown, whether it was a dignitary or a common man, as long as he gave birth to a daughter, he would plant a camphor tree at the door of his house.

Because only the family that gave birth to a daughter will plant it, because the camphor tree is a hardwood, how old it grows in 18 years, it is all in a certain way.

How can a matchmaker who knows how to look away.

When the daughter gets married, the parents will cut down the camphor tree to make a box for the daughter to make a dowry, and the family with a solid family will put a silk quilt, and the family with a poor family background will have a layer of silk and cotton, and they will have a bed quilt anyway.

So Li Xin has inexplicable feelings for the camphor tree, of course, when he was born, the grandmother did not plant any camphor tree for Li Xin, which almost became a lingering gloom between Li Xin's childhood and adolescence.

Although Li Xin was born in his last life, his grandmother did not plant any camphor trees for Li Xin, but when his younger brother was born, his grandmother buried a lot of jars of champion red on the ground, just waiting for his younger brother to come out of the ground, or to dig it out of the ground when he asked to marry, and everyone was lively.

For his younger brother, his grandmother gave everything she had, but in the end, people were not as good as heaven.

Grandma Wang looked at Li Xin and looked up at her yard, although it was already winter, the camphor tree was still green, and said: "This tree is popular in the south, but here, there are not many people who recognize it."

Even if it is a carpenter, making some good furniture is also close to wenge, it is rare to think that this wood is also excellent for furniture, does the girl of the Li family still know this tree? ”

Li Xin suddenly came back to his senses and nodded, hugged Grandma Wang and said, "Grandma, let's go into the house, it's cold outside, take care of your body." ”

Grandma Wang stretched out her hand and touched the camphor tree with the big mouth of the bowl and said, "Girl, guess how old this camphor tree is." ”

Li Xin looked up at the camphor tree about seven or eight meters high and said: "Why is it more than 20 years, this camphor tree grows slowly, and it will take some years to grow so thick." ”

Grandma Wang nodded thoughtfully, and after listening to Li Xin's words, Grandma Wang's muddy tears fell: "My mother's family has an unwritten rule that a dowry tree should be planted for the born daughter, and this one was planted by me for my daughter."

She was born that year, and when the moon was full, my father-in-law specially entrusted someone to bring the tree species from the south, and at first I was afraid that it would not adapt to the soil and water, and the plant would not survive, but I didn't expect that when my daughter was thirteen years old, she would be so thick. ”

Grandma Wang said this, stretched out her hand and gestured, "When my daughter and Lu were young, my old man and I began to prepare for the dowry of our daughter's marriage, but once my daughter went to the river to wash clothes, in order to save two children who fell into the water, she washed the water by herself, and when she found it, her body was swollen and unpresentable. ”

Grandma Wang said that at the end, she almost couldn't cry.

After Li Xin heard this, he was speechless for a while, and directly took Grandma Wang's hand and entered the house: "Grandma is cold outside." ”

Grandma Wang stretched out her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes and smiled: "You see I'm really confused, I finally had a guest at home, and I actually said something unhappy, so that the girl of the Li family smiled, girl, you sit, the old woman will soak you in water." ”

"Don't be busy, grandma, take your time."

Li Xin then looked around at the furnishings in the room, although a few tables and chairs were a few years old, they were spotlessly clean.

There is also a self-made purple bamboo vase on the table, in which there are a few yellow plums, emitting bursts of faint fragrance, but this room adds a bit of vitality.

Grandma Wang poured a bowl of tea from the bubbling stove and pushed it to Li Xin's side and said, "Girl, drink it, this is what I keep in winter, old ginger mother tea, drink it to warm up." ”

Li Xin sighed, rubbed his hands, picked up the bowl and took a sip, the strong spicy taste of ginger instantly warmed up the whole body, "Grandma, this ginger tea is well done." ”

"That's right, I also made the old brown sugar myself." Grandma Wang squinted her eyes and said proudly.

"It's hard to make old brown sugar, grandma is really amazing." Li Xin said and poured a big sip into his mouth, this ginger tea is indeed hot.

"Yes, the harvested sugar cane, after being washed, finely crushed, chopped, and pressed out of the juice is going to be removed from impurities.

Boil on low heat for three hours, stir constantly to let the water slowly evaporate, so that the concentration of brown sugar is getting higher and higher, and then cool it and cut it into pieces and seal it for preservation. ”

"This stall makes a living, I have been doing it with your grandfather Wang for decades, and then your grandfather Wang's physical strength is not good, and people have to serve the old when they are old, so he went to drive the ox cart, although he doesn't earn much, and his life is leisurely."

Grandma Wang looked at the plum on the table and continued: "Although he can't make a lot of money, he hasn't given me a very rich life, but for decades, he picks some plum for me in winter and puts it in the house, and the thunder can't move."

When my daughter was gone, I repeatedly persuaded him to take another concubine while he was young. ”

Grandma Wang gently stroked the plum in the bamboo tube with her hand as if she was touching a treasure: "But your grandfather Wang is stubborn, in the words of our hometown, it is a dead cow and a whip, and he refuses to listen to me, I ran away from home angrily, and he followed me unhurriedly with his package." ”

"From dawn to dark, I'm annoyed with him, you're just like that?"

Grandma Wang said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "Guess what he said, my mother is going to run away, I don't want to follow well, what do I want, and then I walked for three days, he followed for three days, and told me that if I sneak away next time, he won't do any work in his life, just look for me, and turn into ashes and find me home." ”

Li Xin took Grandma Wang's already wrinkled hand and said: "Grandma, you are so happy, this happiness is something that others can't ask for, I'll tell grandma a story to relieve her boredom."

In the past, the mother's family was a middle-aged couple, looking at the husband's successful career, and it was still profitable, the lady went to buy some rouge gouache or something if she had nothing to do, and the neighbors were so envious of her good life, the husband could make money, and he was considerate, and he knew that one day the outer room came to the door with a pair of sons. ”

In fact, when Li Xin told this story, he remembered the leader in his own hospital in his previous life, and he and his wife were respectful of each other.

Later, because he wanted to have a son, because he and his wife had already given birth to two daughters, he and his wife faked a divorce, but the divorce was less than half a month before a little girl got married, and the little girl still had an eight-month belly, and it was said that she was pregnant with a son.

Therefore no man shall be disguised, and the sea shall not be measured. Since then, Li Xin has been telling himself that what he sees with his eyes may not be true, and what he hears with his ears may also be false.

Grandma Wang patted Li Xin's hand and said, "Listen to my old man, you have been a little cautious recently?" ”