"Who, knocking on the door so early in the morning." Ping'er Niang straightened her clothes, "Here, here, what to urge." ”

The first thing Xia Yan looked for was Ping'er Niang, not for anything else, just because she has one of the biggest characteristics, a big mouth, and loves to talk around.

Today the Wang family, tomorrow the Li family is short, and there seems to be nothing in the village that she doesn't know.

And if you help yourself to grow wheat to get flour, if you come to persuade them one by one, you are too tired and too passive not to say it, and it seems that your own flour is not precious enough, and I am afraid that they will not cherish this opportunity.

In order to make this matter spread faster, and to make this matter more tempting, Xia Yan thought of this method.

"Squeak" The door was opened, and Ping'er Niang saw the person clearly, and immediately put away the slightly angry look just now, and laughed flatteringly.

"Oh, no wonder I heard a magpie calling early this morning, and it turned out that there was a rare guest coming to the door." Ping'er Niang immediately stepped out of the way and made a gesture of please, "Several, come into the house and sit." ”

"Ping'er, what are you doing in the house?" As soon as Xia Yan and the others entered the courtyard, Ping'er Niang shouted into the house, "Don't come out quickly, carry a bucket of water, and boil water and pour tea for a few distinguished guests!" ”

"Don't panic, don't panic." Li Zheng hurriedly said to her politely, "We are not thirsty, you can let Ping'er stay in the house, the weather is strangely cold, so that the child will suffer from the cold." ”

"Uncle Lizheng, don't speak for that child, how can our country children be so expensive." Ping'er Niang yelled into the house again, and then sighed, "I don't have any eyesight at a young age, I'm worried, how can I marry a good family in the future?" ”

"Ping'er's family affairs haven't been said yet?" Li Zheng glanced at Ping'er who came out of the house with a bucket, "This kid is not young, could it be that she wants to learn from that Xia Weiwei and save her strength to find an official master?" ”

"How is that possible?" Ping'er Niang seemed to remember something nasty, and showed a disgusted expression, "How can our Ping'er compare with Na Xia Weiwei, that is a fox, and her heart is very high, not because our village is remote, and I really can't find a better family." Otherwise, let alone a future official master, even if it is a county master, she may not be able to look at it. My requirements for Ping'er are not so high, I just hope that she can find someone with similar conditions, so that she will not lack food and clothing, and she can help my son-in-law from time to time. ”

Hearing Ping'er Niang's words, Li Zheng couldn't help but pout, her requirements didn't sound high, but they weren't low.

Everyone in the village knows that Ping'er has an unsuccessful younger brother and an even more unsuccessful elder brother.

The elder brother took his younger brother to wander around the village all day long, except for fighting and gambling money, but he had already reached the age of marrying but could not find a girl willing to marry him.

A serious good person knows that this person is just an idle person, and he has no ability to take a shot, who is willing to bring his daughter over, isn't this pushing the child into the fire pit?

Those who are less qualified, although they are willing to marry their daughters, are also conditional.

One of the most important conditions is the dowry.

Any opening of the mouth costs three hundred taels, which is still a few, and some people even ask for more than one thousand taels.

Hearing this amount, the grumpy Ping'er Niang immediately scolded, this is a daughter, it is simply a money robbery.

Because of the lot of land in her family, she can earn dozens of taels of silver a year, but because her two sons spend money lavishly all day long, the family has no savings at all.

But if you don't come up with so many dowries, you won't be able to marry your daughter-in-law, and Ping'er's brother's marriage will be consumed like this, and it will take a few years.

In the blink of an eye, Ping'er's younger brother has also reached the age when he is about to say goodbye, but his younger brother is also incapable, and it will not be so easy to talk about his daughter-in-law.

Seeing that the two sons in the family couldn't talk about their daughter-in-law, and the incense of their ancestors was about to be cut off in their hands, Ping'er's mother was in a hurry, so she hit her daughter with her idea.

Girl, she also has it, and she will ask for a dowry.

As long as a large amount of dowry is due to Ping'er's marriage, there is hope for his son to marry his daughter-in-law.

But because Ping'er is not very beautiful, she doesn't dare to ask for too much, every time someone asks, she says that it only costs three hundred taels.

Anyway, let's use Ping'er's dowry to marry one of the sons to the daughter-in-law, and then talk about the other, when Ping'er marries someone and takes care of the in-laws' money, everything will be easy.

Although Ping'er Niang has always hidden these thoughts in her heart and has never told others, the people in the village have guessed from her words and deeds, so no one dares to talk to Ping'er about matchmaking.

Ping'er's mother couldn't find the reason, but she was still worried, so she saw Ping'er becoming more and more unpleasant.

gave birth to a daughter to earn money for the family, but the daughter couldn't get married, that is, it was smashed in her hands, and one more day of raising it would be an extra day of wasted money, what is the use of keeping such money-losing goods?

Ping'er's mother can't wait to put all the housework on Ping'er, in order to squeeze out her only value in this family, but also to get out of the breath in her heart.

When Xia Yan saw Ping'er's red, swollen and cracked hands, and she was telling her about the family's situation on the way here, she immediately had a countermeasure in her heart to persuade Ping'er's mother.

"Auntie, don't be busy, let Sister Ping'er come into the house and rest, I have something to tell you." Xia Yan smiled politely at Ping'er Niang.

"What's the matter, it's more important than drinking tea." Ping'er Niang kept looking at Xia Yan, "You are distinguished guests, it's my fault for neglecting you, it's weird and cold, what's the matter, drink hot tea to warm up." ”

In addition to her bad temper and big mouth, Ping'er Niang also has a characteristic of watching people talk.

In the past, Xia Yan's family was poor and couldn't open the pot, so Ping'er Niang had no contact with her family.

But now it's different, since Xia Yan's family built a house, the whole village knows that her family's conditions are getting better and better, and there are even signs that she has surpassed the Xia family's old house and become the richest man in the village.

So much so that every time Ping'er Niang saw Xia Yan's family of three, she changed her old style, she was enthusiastic, and she didn't know how good her relationship with Xia Yan's family was.

Ping'er's mother also had the idea of marrying Ping'er to Xia Huai, but after calculating the age of the two, she could only give up, and even regretted why she didn't give birth to Ping'er a few years later.

The mother-in-law is weak and easy to bully, and the sister is also a weak girl, and she has no backbone, and the father-in-law is a real person, not to mention the magnificent house and groups of subordinates, such a good family can't be found with a lantern.

Hey, that's a shame.

"It's a big deal." Xia Yan smiled mysteriously, "It's about the marriage of your children, do you say it's important?" ”

"Yan'er, could it be that you came to my house early in the morning to talk to the matchmaker?" Ping'er's eyes lit up, "Is it that your brother wants to marry Ping'er, no problem, I'll agree now." ”

"Auntie, what are you talking about, my brother is only ten years old and has no plans to marry." Xia Yan was amused by Ping'er's eagerness, and laughed out loud.

But there were still important things to do in front of her, so she quickly suppressed her laughter and said, "Auntie, if I have a way to make you earn enough to marry your daughter-in-law within a year, three hundred taels, or more, but you just need to cooperate with me to do one thing, will you agree?" ”

"Agreed, of course I agree to this kind of good thing." Ping'er Niang almost jumped up excitedly, but suddenly thought of something, and looked at Xia Yan with some hesitation, "Yan'er, your conditions sound tempting, but my aunt's family is a serious and good citizen, and I don't want to do things like stealing chickens and touching dogs." ”

"Don't worry, auntie." Xia Yan smiled, "We are all from the same village, and with Grandpa Lizheng following, how can I let you do the thing of stealing chickens and dogs?" ”

"That's good, that's good." Hearing Xia Yan say this, Ping'er Niang breathed a sigh of relief and looked at her with anticipation, "Yan'er, what do you say, what is it that allows us to earn so much silver?" ”

"Auntie, do you know my wheat?"

"Of course I do." Ping'er Niang licked her mouth, "The wheat is ground out of flour, not to mention how delicious it is, but it's too expensive, I can only occasionally buy some to satisfy my cravings." ”

"Would you be willing if I said that if you agreed to this, you would have endless flour to eat, and you could even exchange it for silver?"

"I definitely want to, but ......" Ping'er Niang glanced at Xia Yan in disbelief, "There is still such a good thing in the world?" There is no need to steal chickens and dogs, and there is endless flour and large sums of silver. Yan'er, you're not fooling me, are you? ”

"Do I need to trick you?" Seeing that Ping'er Niang had already aroused her curiosity, Xia Yan no longer sold Guanzi, "I actually want to discuss with you this time and borrow your family's land for a while." As long as you help me to plant all the wheat in your field, then when it is ripe, you only need to hand in a certain amount of flour according to the size of the field, and the rest is all yours. ”

"Really?" Ping'er Niang felt that the child in front of her was probably stupid, and she was willing to let herself help her grow it if she didn't eat it alone?

You must know that they, the villagers of Bianxi, have been jealous of her family's wheat for a long time, if it weren't for the fact that they couldn't grow it, they would have secretly planted it without Xia Yan.

"Really." Xia Yan smiled, "Auntie, I'm afraid you think I'm stupid at this time, how can you give up the opportunity to eat alone?" ”

"No, no." Seeing that Xia Yan guessed what she was thinking, Ping'er Niang smiled awkwardly.

"Auntie, I won't tell you, I really wouldn't be willing to do this if I did it before." Xia Yan sighed, "But you also know that I opened a shop in the county town, and the business is getting better and better, and this flour has long been in supply, and now it has begun to be sold in rations." The guests all have opinions, and I have no choice but to do so. ”