Chapter 243: Set a Date
Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were frightened by the stone, and the two supported each other and stumbled out of the courtyard of the second room.
"Girl, girl!" Niu Er strode from the gravel road with a happy face, followed by a large group of people such as Black Jiaolong, Phoenix Fairy, and Big Girl.
The road is narrow, and when Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law saw the stout Niu Er, their eyes shrunk, and they stood with their heads down against the wall, not daring to walk with him head-on.
Niu Er glared at them, looked at them with disgust, and saw that they looked obviously deflated, so he expected that he didn't take advantage of anything. He was happy to-day, and he didn't bother to find himself unhappy, so he walked straight past them and into the courtyard.
"Why are you here?" Du Mei heard his cry and had already come out.
"The old man has already visited the church, so we came to say hello to you, my sister is amazing, obedient, widow." Niu Er grabbed Du Mei's shoulder, and a smile bloomed on his face.
"Leave it, let it go, pay attention!" Fengxian patted Niu Er's big hand with a silk handkerchief and said angrily.
Niu Er let go of his hand with a smile and let go of the side. Fengxian took advantage of the situation and grabbed Du Mei's arm.
"What's this, it's not an ordinary day." Du Mei led the group into the house.
She doesn't care much about this reward, if she wants to live a good life, she has to rely on her own heart and brain.
The three little ones came to help, and took all the teacups they had used before to the kitchen to wash, and the eldest girl helped make tea for them.
"Our Dujiagou has finally come out with an official!" The second stunned looked excited, and he took out the melon seeds from his pocket and swallowed them.
"I'm afraid it's not in a hundred years." Niu Er interjected. He looked at Du Mei, the beauty in his heart, this is the girl he recognizes, so promising!
"I remember when Uncle Erjin was buried, there was a sudden rainstorm, and your father said that 'the rain hit the coffin head, and the princes came out from generation to generation', is there such a thing?" The second stunned man suddenly remembered this incident, and stopped eating melon seeds, so he grabbed Du Shu and asked.
"Hmm." Du Shu responded.
If you ask him how much grain he collects in an acre of land, he must not know, but he remembers these strange things clearly.
"What kind of prince am I, I have no money, and I have no power." Du Mei smiled and looked at a room of friends who were good friends with her and happy for her.
"It's an official after all. It's okay to be angry with your grandma and your third aunt, otherwise, every time you mention your third uncle, hey, that great virtue! The second stunned spit the melon seed shell on the ground and said angrily.
"I just saw them just go out, so I didn't bother you." The black dragon asked with concern.
"No, they were scared away by the stones." Du Mei laughed. She looked up in the courtyard looking for stones, but she didn't see a shadow.
"Hmph, if you dare to have a next time, let me see half a minute, and I will definitely break their necks!" Niu Er raised his big hand and twisted it out of thin air, as if he was choking someone's neck.
"You guys......" Xu shook his head with a smile and brought a bowl of noodles to Du Mei.
They had been busy all morning, their lunch was delayed, and now, they had to order some noodles to cushion their hunger.
"Auntie, I want to eat too." Fengxian smelled the fragrance of sesame oil and said with a shy face.
"Didn't you just eat at the old man's house?" The second stunned looked at her suspiciously.
"Wait, I'll fill you a bowl, which of you still wants to eat?" Hui looked around at the rest of the room.
"I want to eat, but I can't, I still have my stomach to eat big fish and meat at night." The second stunned man said.
His words caused everyone to laugh, and Du Shu blushed for him, isn't it all Du Jiagou people here, and he was embarrassed and thrown to his grandmother's house.
Du Mei ate the noodles, everyone talked and laughed for a while, and the sun began to turn west.
"Let's go to the old man's house, I still have to stir-fry the dinner at night." Du Mei estimated that the time was almost up, and she promised the old man to make him a wedding banquet, but she couldn't give up halfway.
"Mother, I'm going to Brother Yan's house to help." Du Mei probe spoke to Xu, who was sitting on the edge of the bed folding clothes with his back to her.
"Okay, go ahead and congratulate him on my behalf." Xu tilted his head and secretly wiped his tears.
"Okay." Du Mei was worried about cooking, and didn't come in to take a closer look at her mother.
A group of people talked and laughed all the way to the old man's house, and Du Mei rolled up his sleeves and prepared to put on an apron.
"This can't be helped, this can't be helped!" Aunt Fang tugged on her apron and didn't let her wear it.
"Aunt Fang, what are you doing here? I'm still cooking in the morning. Du Mei said with a smile.
"At this time and that time, you are a widow now, how can you still go to the kitchen!" Aunt Fang said seriously.
"The widow also has to eat, besides, I promised Brother Yan." Du Mei frowned. Because of a holy decree, the villagers sent her to be offered as a living bodhisattva.
"Meizi, don't be busy, give it to your aunts." The old man listened to the sound and came out of the house to speak. He is the groom's official today, and he can't leave, otherwise, he will follow her to say goodbye.
"Don't do that." Du Mei was a little uncomfortable with their sudden change of attitude.
"Meizi, come here, I have something to tell you." Du Huaibing happened to walk into the courtyard at this time, and when he saw this scene, he spoke.
In the morning, he sent Chu Lin and his party away, and hastily ate lunch and rested. He is the patriarch, so he naturally remembers that the happy event of the old man is the first in the village, and his parents are gone, so he always has to take care of it more, so he came early.
"Go, go." Aunt Fang waved her hand again and again.
"Master, what's the matter?" Du Mei had no choice but to give up and walked up to Du Huaibing.
"Your edict has been rewarded, in the hundred-year history of our Dujiagou, there are not many people who study and become officials, and there are even fewer who can achieve seven grades, not to mention that you are still a girl. I want to choose a good day and open an ancestral hall to comfort my ancestors, what do you see? Du Huaibing lit the cigarette pot and took a puff.
Du Mei really felt that because of the sealing of this holy decree, even the grandfather and her conversation became a tone of discussion.
"But it's up to the master to decide." Du Mei didn't understand the red tape of the sacrifice very well, so he had to respond first.
"Scrap the manuscript, you can do it." Du Huaibing beckoned to the scrapped manuscript, counting the days, he is still the best.
"If you talk about the good days recently, it's nothing more than the Double Ninth Festival under your nose." After listening to Du Huaibing's meaning, the scrap manuscript thought about it for a while.
"Oh, that's right, the Double Ninth Festival is a day to worship the heavens and ancestors, why didn't I think of it." Du Huaibing patted the table and said happily.
"Master, let's hang the plaque together that day." Du Mei thought for a moment and said.
"Yes, yes, I'll book a troupe in a few days, and then we'll have fun for two days." Du Huaibing smiled happily, his eyebrows and eyes stretched, he has been a patriarch for a lifetime, and the glory of Du Mei is the glory of Du Jiagou, and it is also his.
"Okay, let's set up a two-day flowing water banquet for everyone, so that everyone can eat and have fun." Du Mei smiled crookedly.
"I heard that there is a master chef in the town who specializes in making banquets, and the craftsmanship is very good, and the price is not expensive, so let's not be busy with it ourselves." Du Huaibing was in a good mood and wanted to do something decent.
"I'll take the money!" Du Mei said busily.
"How can it be, this is a great joy in the clan, how can you be asked to take it alone." Du Huaibing said unhappily.
"Didn't I get a reward, this table will cost less than ten taels of silver." Du Mei is not a stingy person, and she mentioned that she proposed the banquet.
"I'm sure I'm going to come." Feng Xian hurriedly said.
"We are all coming. By the time the clock doctor and the shopkeeper Ye are definitely coming! Niu Er said with his fingers wrenched.
"It's so lively, and I don't envy the other people in the village to death." The eldest girl said wistfully. Her senior sister is a widow, and she is happy in her heart.
"What's the way to do that, who let them not have the ability to make a widow." The second stunned shrugged and said with his hands outstretched.
"Haha." Everyone laughed at him.
At the end of the day, Song Shaohuai suddenly came riding on the snow, and Feng Xian was very surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold his arm, happily told him this and that, and told him Du Mei's happy event.
He kept laughing, but he wasn't surprised. I think he had already gotten the news from his father, Lord Zhongshu Ling.
While laughing, the kitchen began to move dishes one after another, and soon, the five tables in the courtyard were filled with large bowls and small plates of various dishes. Because the relatives who were far away were going home in a hurry, they sat down to eat first, and the old man politely came out to toast a round of wine.
Fengxian had a big belly, and she didn't rest at noon, Du Mei was worried that she was tired, so she let her eat first, since she came to eat the banquet, she didn't pay much attention to the respect and humility of the master and servant, Du Mei let Zhang Pozi Xiaolian and Liu Gengsheng also eat at the same table, and found a few familiar aunts to accompany her.
Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong are not happy without alcohol, Song Shaohuai likes the home-brewed soju in the countryside for some reason, the three of them sat at a table, and at first they toasted in a regular manner, and also saluted the others who sat together. But soon, the people who didn't have much alcohol had eaten and left the table, and only the three of them were left to drink.
Fengxian ate and saw that Song Shaohuai would not be able to get off the wine for a while, so he said goodbye to Du Mei and went back first in the carriage.
The second table was opened again, because Niu Er and they occupied one table, and this time only four tables were opened. At this time, the elders of Dujiagou began to sit at the table, and the old head naturally came out to toast again.
"Tonight, it's a pear tree pressing a begonia." Song Shaohuai had a sense of alcohol, he looked at the white hair on the old table, and suddenly dragged a sour word.
"What...... What does it mean? Don't be fooled...... Bully me for not studying much! "The black dragon drank so much that his tongue was bigger.
"Hee-hee, good poetry, you...... You stupid, you can't even hear this? Niu Er was drunk and hazy, and raised a glass to Song Shaohuai.
When Du Mei heard them, he knew that they had drunk too much. There are elders sitting at the table next to this, and if they are listened to a sentence or a half, they will inevitably feel that they are dissolute.
"Don't talk nonsense, Brother Yan just has gray hair, and he and Sister Chunya are facing each other." Du Mei stepped forward and whispered.
"We didn't say they weren't right." Niu Er looked at Du Mei and seemed annoyed, but his brain, which was drunk into a pulp, couldn't move for half a minute.
"I know, Miss Du has a heart. If they have the same heart, age, appearance, and status, what can hinder them from being together? Song Shaohuai gathered his mind and said seriously.
"You have too much wine, it's time to go back, Sister Fengxian is still waiting for you." Du Mei persuaded. What he said seemed to have a deep meaning, and Du Mei was unaware of it at this time.
"You should go back early, don't make the family wait for a long time." After Song Shaohuai said this, he had the last bowl of work with Niu Er Hei Jiaolong, and turned over on his horse and left with a drunken heart.
"Be careful." For the sake of the phoenix, Du Mei chased after her.
"Come back." Song Shaohuai immediately shook his hand.
Du Mei saw him riding his horse and walked away slowly. I thought to myself, this man is probably drunk, and their sisters are here, and they haven't eaten dinner yet. Her mother accompanies Juniper at home and cooks for the stones, where is she in a hurry to urge her to go back?