Chapter 56: The Wedding Feast
Because of the wedding banquet of Shen's shopkeeper's house, Wen Wan got up early in the morning and went to the dim sum shop in the west of the city to buy all the four good gifts, and because the eldest wanted to eat sugar gourds, she had to grit her teeth and buy some seasonal fruits. It cost her two taels of silver to buy it in the past half a day, which is worth half a month's expenses of her family. Money, still lack of silver!
When she got home, she boiled the syrup painfully, put the citrus, yam, and pinkie fruit on bamboo skewers, wrapped them in syrup layer by layer, and let them cool before going to the house. At this time, the hawthorn has not yet borne fruit, and she has to say that the hawthorn is wrapped in rock sugar gourd in autumn to be called palatable.
On the west side, it was not as good as in the past, so Wen Wan knocked on the door and waited for a long time before seeing Mr. Wang's face turned pale and opened the door.
"You've come just in time, and you'll see with me." In the past, Mr. Wang did not jump up and down happily, but always smiled and gossiped with her.
On this day, I didn't look at her, and the atmosphere was a little dull.
Wen Wan suddenly felt that something was wrong, and she only squinted her eyes frequently to look at the two sons who were reading with their heads down: What's wrong? What a big liver fire!
Yuan Bao lowered his head and turned a blind eye, but Ah Xian turned his head at her.
Wen Wan chuckled in her heart.
"Look at the paper of the two of them." Mr. Wang's gray beard was curled up and curled, and there was a hint of anger.
Wen Wan took it and took a look, one of the first-class ones didn't need to look at it to know that it was Ah Xian's, and the other only had a sloppy "Ding" character.
"It was better in the past, but now it's been two times in a row." Seeing her smile awkwardly, Mr. Wang calmed down.
"If it's just that I can't answer the exam papers, it's just that because of my talent, I won't reprimand him more. When asked about his ambition today, he said that his ambition is not in this way! Speaking of which, Mr. Wang touched his undulating chest, and took another sip of chrysanthemum tea to slow down, but he was angry with this old gentleman!
It's just that you don't have the conditions to enter the school, and if you have to learn, you don't cherish it, and you have to be blind, isn't it ridiculous?
She looked at the ingots with an indifferent look on her head, and smiled at Mr. Wang: "The rock sugar gourd you just made, you have a string of defeats, as for the bastard thing of the ingots, I will take it out and pack it up and send it to you." ”
Mr. Wang touched his beard and was dispensable.
When it came to the kitchen, Wen Wan took out a string of rock sugar gourds and handed them to Yuanbao, and saw that his hands were swollen and a little distressed: "Mr. beat you?" ”
Yuan Bao held a red fruit in his mouth and said lightly: "I don't fight all the time, I only beat a few times when I am angry." I'm not reading material, I just want to doze off when I read, just let Ah Xian read with my husband. ”
Wen Wan only touched his head and smiled softly: "What is the worst grade of the answer sheet?" ”
Yuan Bao looked at his mother: "A-Niang, you are stupid, how can the worst be waited, just send it with the word 'batch'!" ”
Wen Wan Yile: "Cheng, then you give A-Niang a batch of words!" As long as you can pass the test, don't say that you don't learn knowledge, whatever you do, A-Niang doesn't care about you, and buys you Bazhen cake to make a color head. ”
Yuan Bao stood up and shook his mother, his eyes were full of brilliance, "Really? ”
He likes to eat Wanxianglou's Bazhen cake the most! It's just that it's expensive, and the small six pieces cost one or two silver.
Wen Wanxiao: "Seriously, but you are not allowed to hand in blank papers!" ”
Yuan Bao smiled and hugged her gentle face and kissed her fiercely, and the sweet syrup pasted her face: "That's not easy?" A-Niang, just wait! ”
After packing up her son and working for two days, Wen Wan took Mr. Wang off and took the two Yuanbao brothers to the wedding banquet at the shopkeeper Shen's house.
The Shen family's pomp and circumstance was very large, and the lights inside and outside were full of fire, not to mention, even the two stone lions at the door were also tied with red hydrangeas, which looked particularly festive.
Wen Wan took her son and handed the gift to the porter with a smile, but when she walked inside, she found that the shopkeeper Shen and his wife were standing at the door of the hall with a smile and bowing their hands to everyone, and the courtyard was full of relatives or family members who came to congratulate. There are also helpers who are busy killing pigs and sheep, chickens and fish, and the scene is very bustling.
"Uncle Shen, Uncle Shen is overjoyed!" When she was gentle, she smiled and said goodbye.
"Tongxi, Tongxi, these two handsome dolls are your boys, right? You're too late today! The shopkeeper Shen was in good spirits on happy occasions, and Mrs. Shen only bowed her head slightly and smiled kindly.
"I won't miss Brother Shen's good time, why do I have to ask you for a drink!" Gentle and joyful, she taught her son to call people with a smile on her face.
Shopkeeper Shen smiled even more when he heard this: "The Shen family is here today, you can be smart in a while." ”
smiled gently: "Thank you Uncle Shen for mentioning it." ”
The Shen family's own family refers to the Shen Lao Tong family in Shuozhou City, and the children in the family take many official careers, and the most poor side branches also do business like the Shen shopkeeper, and the Shen family can be regarded as deep-rooted. If it weren't for the shopkeeper Shen, the Shen family's character Wen Wan would not be able to see it easily.
Because the hour had not yet come, when Wen Wan entered the room, all the ladies in the hall were sitting around a richly dressed woman and chatting. Wen Wan also took her son to sit behind the people casually, eating snacks and listening to some gossip silently.
"The fourth grandmother is about to give birth, right?" The woman said.
The richly dressed woman smiled: "It's almost over, it's just a matter of a few days." The mother-in-law and nurse in the family are prepared, and the son and daughter-in-law are filial, so I don't have to worry about it. ”
For a while, there were some compliments and praises, and Wen Wan listened for a long time before she understood: This woman full of jewels is the wife of the second room of the Shen family, because the wife of the Shen family is not in good health, the Shen family has always been in charge of the second lady Kang's family, that is, the niece of the old lady Shen.
In a gentle daze, a room of children and relatives had already laughed and talked about the pink child in Kang's arms: "The little boy is so white, handsome, generous and sensible, there is no more in this radius of a hundred miles." ”
They are all squires and wealthy families, and when they saw the second lady of the Shen family, who was easy to see, they naturally praised and praised her mother and son inside and out, and praised and praised.
The enthusiastic woman couldn't help but pinch the porcelain doll in Kang's arms when she saw the male doll in Kang's arms, and after a while, she pinched the little boy's cheeks so red and swollen.
The little boy buried his face in Kang's arms, and said sullenly: "It hurts." ”
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with this situation, Kang Shi frowned slightly, thinking that these dilapidated houses could not be put on the table, but his face did not show it, and he only smiled at the child in her arms: "Mo Chengri is in my arms, and your children go to play by themselves." ”
But the boy of the right age with this little boy is just a shy boy who is a cankan ingot, Ah Xian and another shy boy standing behind the person, and the little boy was pushed by his mother, so he had to lower his head and walk in front of Wen Wan.
Wen Wan's human spirit for many years naturally won't let a child lose face, and she also pushed out the two that she had been impatient in her arms together: "The auspicious time is coming, you boys just go to the front to ask for some bridal fruits to eat, and come back to talk to us about the excitement of the groom's official kiss." ”
Ah Xian and Yuan Bao had to pull the little boy and call the shy boy again, and bowed to the female dependents together: "Aunts, rest, let's go ahead and take a look." ”
The polite little appearance made the adults laugh, and they praised a few children at the moment. Wen Wan knew it in her heart, and she didn't say much, only when everyone was cold or embarrassed, she said a sentence or two appropriately.