Du Xuanmo saw that Shen Pomegranate didn't accept it, so he shook his head: "It's okay for the pomegranate girl to take it, this time I don't think I can make a few lanterns alone, I will definitely make a lot of money this time!" "The meaning is obvious, this time I gave the thank you gift first.

Shen Shiliu was a little hesitant, but finally took it.

"Thank you then!" Shen Shiliu took the handkerchief in his hand, and when he touched the material, it was not the same level as the coarse cloth he was wearing!

Du Xuanmo smiled, and then looked behind Shen Shiliu, who was looking at this side.

Sensing his brother's gaze, Shen Shiliu also hurried back to the front of his stall.

"What did he give you again?" After Shen Shu asked, he looked at Shen Pomegranate's hand.

"He said that his friend gave him brocade, and he gave it to me when he didn't need it, which was counted as a thank you for doing business together this time." Shen Shiliu opened the veil as he spoke.

The veil can be a foot and a half long, square, and there are paintings on the white material.

"What's this?" Shen Shiliu asked, and Shen Shu shook his head after a glance.

Shen Pomegranate pondered that it didn't matter what he painted, this handkerchief probably can't go into the water, so don't take it out and use it on weekdays, it's easy to spoil good things.

After selling the broth at noon, Shen Pomegranate followed Shen's father home, Shen Shu didn't go to the school today, and the three of them bought everything that should be done and went home.

Shen Shiliu took out the handkerchief given by Du Xuanmo and showed it to the Zheng family, and the Zheng family was also speechless: "It's a good thing, I remember that in the same year I married your father, the second girl in the same village also married, and her mother gave her a pillow towel like this, and the girls in the village are envious!" ”

Shen Shiliu smiled and went to change clothes first.

Shen Shu asked casually: "What kind of painting is it painted on?" Is it a begonia? ”

Zheng took it and looked at it carefully, and said, "I don't look like a begonia, but like a pomegranate flower!" ”

Shen Shu was stunned for a moment, pondering that there was a situation here!

Shen Pomegranate didn't know what kind of flower it was, and he didn't know what was going on inside, but Shen Shu directly asked Zheng to put away the handkerchief, and if he went to the county seat tomorrow, he had to ask Du Xuanmo what he meant.

Du Xuanmo at the other end was sitting at home, taking advantage of the clear moonlight, to chop firewood in the yard for a while. Today he gave Shen Pomegranate a handkerchief, in fact, he was quite apprehensive, but when he thought that Shen Pomegranate liked the appearance of the handkerchief, he was happy again.

Du Niangzi took the basket out and patched Du Xuanmo's clothes.

"Son, my mother asked where the family moved to live today, and tomorrow my mother will go and talk about your marriage!" Du Niangzi said: "The other party is also a scholarly family. ”

Du Xuanmo was worried again when he heard this, and turned back to his mother and said, "Mother, don't go, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand it!" ”

"There's nothing I can't stand it, although I'm not too rich, but I can't be too philistine." Du Niangzi said that people who read are more or less a little virtuous.

"Mother, don't go, why don't you listen to me!" Du Xuanmo doesn't want Du Niangzi to make his own decisions, he wants to make his own decisions about his relatives!

Du Niangzi was disgusted: "Then how can I listen to you!" Marriage events are the words of the matchmaker at the behest of the parents, and you have to listen to your mother in this matter! ”

Du Xuanmo was bored in his heart, and he didn't chop the firewood, so he went back to the room directly.

Du Niangzi saw that her son, who had always been relatively gentle, had a temper, and felt that this matter could not be hasty, so she put down the basket and went to Du Xuan's ink room.

"Xuanmo, you tell your mother the truth, why are you unhappy when I mention the matter of kissing?" Du Niangzi asked, everyone has married a daughter-in-law and forgotten his mother, but his son doesn't want to marry a daughter-in-law, so how can it be?

Du Xuanmo shook his head: "Mother, just listen to me, don't go to that family's house, and if you go, you will bring humiliation to yourself." "If it really means that, then the girl should be sixteen, it is impossible for a woman to mention family affairs after sixteen, it is obvious that people do not have a finger for their family to marry, even if his mother goes, there are two possibilities, one is to be rejected directly, and the other is that the girl has already married!

Du Niangzi shook her head: "Then you always have to ask, in case the girl is really waiting!" ”

"Mother, this is impossible, listen to me, let's not go." Du Xuanmo only hopes that his mother will not mess around, and when the time comes, why bother!

Du Niangzi pondered for a moment and asked, "Son, tell your mother, do you have someone in your heart?" ”

Du Xuanmo's face turned red when he heard his mother ask like this, it was really when he first fell in love, he was also shy. The face became complicated, which corresponded to the sentence "The heart is like a double wire net, and there are thousands of knots".

"Mother, don't ask when you're old, it's not early, let's go back and rest first!" Du Xuanmo didn't want to continue this topic, his heart was beating fast and he couldn't speak.

Knowing her son Mo Ruo's mother, how could Du Niangzi not see what Du Xuanmo's reaction was like, so she then asked: "Whose girl is it, if it is a good girl, my mother will ask you to ask a matchmaker to come to the door to say goodbye!" She is just such a son, so she naturally hopes that her son can marry someone she likes.

Du Xuanmo hesitated for a moment and asked, "Really?" What if the son says that his mother doesn't agree? ”

"You have to say it first, and I believe that my son's vision must be good!" Du Niangzi gave a positive answer, which made Du Xuanmo feel reassured.

Du Xuanmo said directly: "I have a crush on the pomegranate girl of the Shen family!" ”

Du Niangzi is the right number, the pomegranate of the Shen family? Which Shen family? Which pomegranate? Pomegranate...... Pomegranate?

"What?"

As soon as Du Xuanmo's words fell, Du Niangzi jumped up in surprise, isn't the pomegranate of the Shen family the girl who is as fat as a ball?

"The pomegranate girl of the Shen family!" Du Xuanmo was afraid that Du Niangzi didn't hear clearly, so he said it again and used it to tell his mother that she had heard correctly.

"No way!" Du Niangzi shook her head directly, anyone can do it, but the pomegranate ...... of the Shen family, fat like that, if they marry, outsiders will say what is wrong with his Du Xuanmo, so many good-looking people don't marry, they want to marry a "ball"!?

As soon as he heard his mother's rebuttal, Du Xuanmo's expression became nervous, and he hurriedly asked, "Why can't it?" What's wrong with Pomegranate Girl? ”

Du Niangzi just said that she believed in Du Xuanmo's vision, and now she can't wait to chew that sentence back, this vision is too strange!

"There's nothing wrong with pomegranates, they're smart and capable, but ...... But she's fat like that, if you marry her, our family will definitely be laughed at! Du Niangzi said with an embarrassed face, she still values face very much!

Du Xuanmo was anxious: "I'm not afraid of being laughed at, when I was hungry and fainted, it was the pomegranate girl who saved me, when our family couldn't eat, the pomegranate girl also sent food, the pomegranate girl is smart and capable, and she is kind-hearted, I don't think there's anything wrong with being fat, just get fat, and I don't think there's anything wrong with being fat." Those people laugh when they want to laugh, they only know jokes, and we didn't see them help when our family was in trouble, are their jokes so important? Aren't those people as important to us in the eyes of my mother as the pomegranate girl? ”

Du Xuanmo was rarely so excited, on the one hand, because Du Niangzi objected to kissing him and was in a hurry, and on the other hand, she was also angry that her mother valued those idlers too much and said Shen Pomegranate like this.

"No just no way! Mother still expects you to take a fame test, when the time comes, Pomegranate's chubby daughter-in-law, you will definitely be laughed, I am a son like you, your relatives have to listen to your mother, you can't say it today! Du Niangzi's face darkened, and she turned around and left after speaking, but she didn't listen to Du Xuanmo anymore, although she knew that what Du Xuanmo said was right!

"Mother!" Du Xuanmo screamed, and he didn't look back when he saw his mother, and he was worried. Thinking of Shen Shimei smiling at himself every time, his heart became even more uncomfortable.

Du Xuanmo didn't sleep all night, he really couldn't sleep, not to mention the Shen family, his mother didn't agree, how to go after that?

Shen Shiliu didn't go to the county seat for a few days, so he went to the river early in the morning to herd ducks, found a place to cast his net, and then wondered if it was time to repair the house in winter.

Their houses are all thatched houses, although they do not leak rain, but they leak wind, the windows are old, and they are a little out of shape, and they are not strictly managed.

"It's going to take next year to build a house." Shen Shiliu muttered, now the family has saved more than ten taels of silver, and it is estimated that they will be able to build a big house next year.

Shen Pomegranate went home, tidied up the pigweed at home, and then fetched water from the well, brushed the pigsty, and cleaned the duck house.

Zheng followed Shen's father to the county seat, and there was only one Shen Pomegranate at home, and after a busy morning, Shen Pomegranate began to put the rice in the pot, and it was time to cook lunch.

The porridge was almost boiled, Shen Pomegranate threw a handful of mung beans into it, and was boiling, when he saw his daughter-in-law Qian on winter vacation outside the door going back and forth at the door, wandering and wandering to enter and not close, and not to leave.

"Aunt Han? Why don't you come into the hospital and sit down? Shen Shiliu put down the pot and spoon first, and then walked over and pulled the fence door open.

Qian Shi saw Shen Pomegranate come out, and a smile forced out of his face, and his expression was almost tangled.

"What's wrong Aunt Han, what's the matter?" Shen Shiliu saw that Qian's appearance was difficult and couldn't speak, so he asked.

Qian looked left and right, and then followed Shen Shiliu into the courtyard of the Shen family.

"Aunt Han, you sit down first." Shen Shiliu poured a bowl of water for Qian Shi as he spoke.

Qian asked Shen Shiliu to stop working, and beckoned Shen Shiliu to come over: "Pomegranate, where is your father and your mother?" ”

"I haven't come back yet, I'll be back in a while." After Shen Shiliu finished speaking, he asked Qian: "Aunt Han is sitting here and waiting for a while." ”

Shen Shiliu didn't tell her when she saw that Qian had something, so she let Qian sit by herself, and she continued to cook porridge.

After a while, the Shen family and his wife returned. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Qian's family, and I was stunned.

"The Shen family's sister is here?" Zheng stepped forward to greet him, and Father Shen went to pick up the things first.