Gong Jichang turned around, only to see Xiao Taohong dressed in plain clothes, fluffy green silk fluttering in the wind in the morning light, she is very charming and moving without makeup, her mental state is very good, compared with yesterday's makeup, more real and elegant, this so-called "natural carving, clear water out of hibiscus".

"Little lady, what are you doing when you get up?" Gong Jichang asked.

Xiao Taohong smiled slightly: "The sun is out, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep, so I got up...... It's been a long time since I've breathed such fresh air. ”

"What time is the first month?" Gong Jichang asked.

"It's March 3rd." Little Peach replied, "What are you asking for?" ”

"It's going to be a holiday again." Gong Jichang said slowly.

"What festival?" Little Peach was puzzled.

"I almost forgot, aren't you also a Miao person, you don't know about this festival." Gong Jichang smiled, and then explained-

Legend has it that in Chudi, people have headaches because of the wind and rain. On the third day of the first month of March, Shennong passed by Yunmengze, and saw that the villagers had unbearable headaches, so he found wild eggs and vegetables to cook for people to satisfy their hunger.

Every year in March of the lunar calendar, everyone goes to collect cauliflower and boil eggs to eat, and over time, the custom of "March 3, eat boiled eggs with ground vegetables, no headache for a year" has continued to this day, and people set the third day of March as eating cauliflower.

Shepherd's cabbage is not only a delicacy, but also an elixir. In traditional Chinese medicine, the medicinal value of shepherd's cabbage is very extensive, and it is known as "licorice in vegetables". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's cabbage is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and it belongs to the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians, and has the same effects as the spleen, water, hemostasis, and eyesight. In our Miaojiang, there is not only a proverb that "on the third day of March in spring, shepherd's cabbage should be the elixir", but also the saying that "spring food shepherd's cabbage race elixir" is spread.

When my grandmother and my mother were alive, on this day, they would always take me to the mountains to dig camellia and boil eggs, saying that eating camellia eggs can brighten the eyes and prevent colds and flu......

"Oh, are grandma and mother okay?" Little Pink asked.

Gong Jichang was silent for a while before he said slowly: "My mother died of illness when I was eleven or twelve years old, and my grandmother died not a few years after I joined the army......

"Husband, do you still have relatives at home?"

"No more. Since my mother passed away, I have been living in my aunt's house until I was twenty years old, I really didn't want to be a bastard anymore, accompanied by my uncle, I joined Jiang Changyi's Jiang family army as a foot squad leader. Today, he has been in the army for more than ten years. ”

"Do you still live at your aunt's house?"

"Well, that's all there is to it. Until I repay my uncle's affection, I will not leave the Zhu family compound. ”

"Oh. Love is priceless, your generation can't pay it off, so when will we go back to Zhu's home? ”

"I don't know. The blue wolf army in Nanyue has not been completely wiped out, and I have no time and no money to go home and repair the house. The old house is uninhabitable. Gong Jichang hugged Xiao Taohong's shoulder, "You and I are together, and you don't even have a small world of your own, I'm ashamed of you." ”

"With you, I'm satisfied. Without money, we can earn it together......" Xiao Taohong paused, "Didn't the Blue Wolf Kingdom be exterminated by the imperial court last year?" Why can't we be disarmed and repatriated to the field? ”

"Little lady, I may spend my whole life in Rong Ma Xuan. Those fortune tellers said that I made my career in the army, and I will eventually die in the army. ”

"Husband, then don't stay in the army, we can open a small shop in Wuyou City and live like this." Little Peach snuggled in Gong Jichang's arms.

"Except for the fact that I can dance with knives and guns, I can't do anything else, and it's not business material. A small shop has little profit, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to feed the family. Gong Jichang shook his head.

"I can't do business, I can learn." Little Pink said.

"Hey, I'll talk about it when my life stabilizes in the future." Gong Jichang nodded......

"Oh you, you two are so sticky......" Tao Dongjiao, wearing a blue cloth coat, walked out of the east wing, holding a small round fan in his hand.

"Sister-in-law, morning." Gong Jichang said as he let go of the hand holding Xiao Taohong.

"It's not early. I've got to go to the room to make breakfast......" Tao Dongjiao said with a yawn.

"Didn't Mama Li go back after breakfast?" Little Pink asked.

"She's too busy on her own, so I'll have to go check it out." Tao Dongjiao twisted his waist and went to the room.

It's strange that the black handsome is back, she should have slept a little longer. Gong Jichang said with a smile.

"You dead ghost, Brother Huang has two wives, maybe he is sleeping with Hongxing in his arms." Little Pink said.

"Not necessarily, it's likely that in the first half of the night, Hei Dashuai was in Tao Dongjiao's room, and in the second half of the night, he went to Hongxing's place......" Gong Jichang smiled.

"You're thinking too badly." Xiao Tao glanced at Gong Jichang, "I really can't understand, why do you men marry wives and concubines?" A wife can stick together every night, there are more beautiful wives, can the body eat? ”

"Marrying a wife and virtue is not marrying, and making friends is not wealth." Gong Jichang disagreed, "There are too many mothers-in-law, they are too beautiful, and they will lose their lives." ”

"Everyone has a love for beauty, and so do men, otherwise how could there be a verse of 'My Fair Lady, Good Gentleman'? I think you take wives and concubines more to show off. If I looked like a dominatrix, you wouldn't marry me. Xiao Taohong still has some complaints about her position as a concubine, but who made her a singer, and she was also gifted?

"Little lady, I don't actually want to marry so many wives, but I can't control myself......" Gong Jichanghan said with a smile, "Men want to be able to marry a beautiful woman as a wife, but for men who want to have good luck, 'Nase' is definitely not as practical as marrying a virtuous woman." When a man is looking for a life partner, he should look at the human heart, and not blindly pursue a beautiful girl......"

These words were said in the heart of the little peach, and immediately my heart was warm, and I suddenly felt a sense of spring. Xiao Taohong sang in the troupe for a few years, and many rich children bought her as a concubine, but she refused on the grounds that her family was poor. fell in love with Gong Jichang, a poor general, at first sight, although she still didn't get a name, but she felt annoyed by her years of perseverance.

In life, there are not many things to judge people by their appearance. People love beautiful things, including beautiful faces. Good-looking people have an advantage in social competitors, and even more so when choosing a mate.

Marriage is a long-term process, and even the most beautiful face will have a time when you get tired of it. Husbands and wives are meant to get along for a long time, and the key is to have a suitable personality, not two faces that look compatible.

People are inherently lonely, each with their own independent soul, and they need the collision of their hearts, rather than looking at a beautiful face dangling in front of them every day, and the heart is still lonely.

In Gong Jichang's view, to have a happy marriage, the key lies in the criteria for choosing a mate, and when choosing a mate, you should pay attention to conduct, then the probability of happiness will be greater, if you only look at the outside and not look at the heart, then this is like buying a beautiful vase.

Now that I have married the wife of the third aunt, I can't give them a good future, and this big family will disperse sooner or later. If you don't work hard, it will be impossible to unite several wives around you and realize the revival of the Gong family.

After breakfast, Gong Jichang and Hei Dashuai and his wife said a brief goodbye, and then rode a horse to take Xiao Taohong to the "Maoshengxiang" money village, where they exchanged a thousand taels of silver, bought a few sets of new clothes for the youngest wife, and then checked out of the inn, left Wuyou City, and went to Xiao Taohong's village to meet his parents-in-law.

As soon as they arrived at the low thatched hut, the younger brothers and sisters quickly gathered around Little Peach, all of them were skinny and tattered, and they did not even wear shoes on their feet, they were all mud, and their faces were black, as if they had washed their faces for a long time.

This scene made Gong Jichang feel very uncomfortable. When these little guys saw Gong Jichang standing behind Xiao Taohong, with the Dragon Lock Sword hanging from his waist, they were all timid and didn't dare to speak.

Little Peach took out a bag of candy from her baggage, put it on a stone slab in front of the cabin, pulled the youngest child and asked, "Three dogs, where are their parents?" ”

"Sister, you're back, my father and mother have gone down to the field to plant sweet potatoes......" Sangouzi said in a milky voice.

Xiao Taohong said that the three dogs are called Luo Chendong, only ten years old, he has four sisters, and the three dogs also had two brothers, the big dog and the second dog were seriously ill, had no money for treatment, and died, so the three dogs became the only boy in the family.

And Xiao Taohong hasn't sung for a few years, and her savings have been almost spent, so she doesn't even have the opportunity to go to private school with her only younger brother. Sangouzi yelled every day that he wanted to go to a private school, but his family was too poor to let him read and write.

"Sister, this big brother and the door god on the door are like oh, the black is not slippery, the fierce god is evil, who is he?" The three dogs looked up at Gong Jichang.

"Sangouzi, he's not a big brother, he's your brother-in-law...... Hurry up and call my brother-in-law......" Little Peach touched the tofu cube on the head of the three dogs.

"Don't bark ......," the three dogs pouted.

"Wow. Hurry up and call your brother-in-law......" Xiao Taohong pulled the three dogs to Gong Jichang.

But the three dogs still twisted their faces to the side and refused to call Gong Jichang brother-in-law, which made Gong Jichang very embarrassed. However, a few younger sisters (one year apart in age, the eldest is only fourteen years old) are a little more sensible, holding candy in their hands, surrounding Gong Jichang, and shouting together: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law......"

"Bhoo, belch, belch." Gong Jichang's tense face finally showed a smile.

He squatted down and gently touched the tiger-headed three dogs with pity. Unexpectedly, the three dogs grabbed Gong Jichang's hand and bit it hard. No matter how little peach pulled, the three dogs didn't let go.