The old and young of Yunjia Village, after smashing the Liu family, were happy, laughing all the way over the mountains and mountains, but when they returned to the village and were questioned by many villagers, they immediately had a bitter face, and the matter was still not solved!

Li Zheng and the clan elders and the men of each family got together and discussed for a long time, but finally they could only use a stupid method, and also sent people to various villages to refute the rumors, and they had to pretend to be surprised when they heard the rumors, and then said a set of falsehoods they had made up again, in short, they pretended to be as innocent as they were, and completely transformed into a victim who was jealous and maliciously slandered.

Of course, when they say this, others naturally can't fully believe it, but it is inevitable that they will be suspicious of the previous rumors, and the two sides will be balanced, each with different opinions, and after a long time, this matter will be covered up.

Of course, there is a more important thing, that is, to raise the value of the daughters of Yunjia Village, and there are four or five days before Sister Hui of the four families of Yunlao in the south of the village will get married, and every family in the village will pay money to add makeup to Sister Hui, and the dowry is rich, and outsiders can see that marrying the daughter of Yunjia Village is "profitable", and the proposal will naturally come to the door as before.

Everyone thought it was a good idea, but some felt sorry for the family's savings, some were strapped for money, and some felt that they shouldn't pay for their daughters, in short, they were silent. Yun Laosi was very surprised when he heard it, but he also knew that he was not good at opening his mouth, so he pretended not to hear it, and everything was decided by everyone.

Li Zheng was also helpless, signaling his daughter-in-law to serve tea to everyone and say something else.

Yun Er's aunt was impatient standing outside the crowd, so she planned to go home to coax the children, but the house was empty, and when she asked the neighbors, she knew that Rui Xue missed the two children, and sent Caiyun Caiyue and Lei Zi's daughter-in-law to pick up and talk, and there was nothing to do at home, so she raised her legs and rushed over, sat in the yard, and told Rui Xue what had just happened, and she should relieve her boredom.

Rui Xue listened, thought about it carefully, and felt that this was a good opportunity to win people's hearts, called Caiyun to the warehouse, picked a peach, a rain over the azure, two-color brocade, and turned over a box of good rouge gouache, a very exquisite carved hollow copper mirror came out, all put in a big box of jujube red lacquer, and wanted Caiyun to hold it well, so he planned to go to Lizheng's house in person.

Aunt Yun immediately stood up and stopped her, not letting Rui Xue go out, you must know that Lizheng's house is not close, and the road in the village is not smooth, in case there is a black dog or scalper somewhere, which scares Rui Xue to have a good time, she didn't explain it to the shopkeeper Zhao, after all, she said it with her mouth.

Rui Xue was really a little crying and laughing, she originally wanted to take the opportunity to go out for a walk, but now she was in the soup again, but the second aunt was also kind, she couldn't complain, so she simply explained what she wanted to say and entrusted it to her.

Aunt Yun Er told Lei Zi's daughter-in-law to take good care of the child and not kick Ruixue's stomach, so she took the box and went all the way back to Lizheng's house, everyone was more silent than before she left, and there was not even a loud pant, and the house was only filled with the spicy smell of dry smoke.

Seeing that his wife came in with something, Second Uncle Yun hurriedly made a look, although their family is not a stingy person, and they are willing to help the girl of their clan, but at this time, it is not easy to offend the public.

Second Aunt Yun shook her head slightly, walked around the middle of the room, and said with a smile, "Uncle He, I went to Zhao's house just now and gossiped about it with the proprietress, and everyone also knows that the proprietress has always been kind and generous, and she doesn't want the girls in our village to have a good marriage." She said that the Zhao family is also from Yunjia Village, and she also has to contribute to this matter, so she turned over the good things in the warehouse, and counted her as adding makeup for Sister Hui. ”

After speaking, he reached out and put down the box, opened the lid of the box, and took out the brocade, rouge, gouache, and bronze mirror, all the same, and saw that the eyes of everyone in the room were shining, and they all praised, "This brocade is so good!" ”

"Oh, this rouge is still Su Ji's, I'm afraid it will cost two taels of silver for a box."

"This bronze mirror is so delicate, I have seen it at my cousin's house, and it is not a cheap thing."

Li Zheng was different, there was no joy on his face, and he sighed in a low voice, "Don't you feel ashamed of this gift?" ”

Everyone was stunned, suddenly shut up, and hung their heads a little sneeringly.

"Don't mention it first, because of the Zhao family, how much benefit everyone has gained, how much better life is, just talk about the incident that night, if the Zhao family investigates the trouble, everyone doesn't look good on their faces, and now there is such a disaster in the village, not only do people not follow to see the excitement, but regardless of the previous suspicions, they sent such a valuable thing, what a kind of open-mindedness. Compared to some people, but the world is different, it's me, and when I see people again, I can't raise my head in shame. ”

Li Zheng went to the Zhao family to apologize on the same day, and he had such a shame in his heart, and when he heard about it today, he completely broke out, staring at Yun Sanye, and his words were extremely unkind.

Everyone is naturally not stupid, the culprit of this matter is the Yun Sanye family, originally because of Li Zheng's protection, they couldn't say anything, but now Li Zheng has spoken, and the matter of adding makeup is entrusted to the blessing of the Zhao family, and most of it is solved, so they echoed and said, "It's too sorry for the Zhao family, you should come to apologize." ”

"That's it, it's not an exaggeration to kneel and kowtow."

Yun Sanye's old face had already turned purple for a long time, how could he not know that his family was wrong, but he was of high seniority, he had always been respected in the village, and he had never been angry in his life, so he really asked him to kowtow to a person with a foreign surname who had settled down for less than a year to admit his mistake, which could not be done anyway.

However, everyone refused to let him pass the test as he had done the previous few times, and he had to express his position, and he was helpless before he admitted his mistake, and Li Zheng directly decided that early tomorrow morning, the clan elders would accompany him to Zhao's house.

Uncle Yun's two sons are working in the workshop, although they are not at home for a few months, but the Zhao family has already paid twenty taels of wages in advance, and they also send a lot of edible food from time to time on weekdays, and they have long been the richest people in the village, so he also has the confidence.

With a good start, everyone is also enthusiastic to report the number, this two hundred Wen, that one hundred Wen, even the poorest people also took fifty Wen, less than a moment, actually made up five taels and three dollars, Li Zheng was overjoyed, and his own family added another seven hundred yuan, a full six taels of silver, plus the generous gifts sent by the Zhao family, as well as the four families of Yun Laosi, a total of more than 20 taels, this is the most generous dowry ever for a daughter in Yunjia Village.

When everyone went home, they each married copper coins and came back, jingling and putting them in a clay pot, which was collected by Lizheng Niangzi, and tomorrow they went to the city with Yun Lao's fourth daughter-in-law to procure. As for Ruixue's generous gift, he directly gave it to Yun Laosi and took it back.

Yun Laosi walked such good luck for the first time in his life, the pie that fell from the sky hit the top of his head, and his eyes were full of joy for a while, and he walked as if he was stepping on cotton, his house was only half a street away from the main house, and he actually fell three times, but fortunately, he still remembered holding the box firmly, but his body was dirty.

Their family is an honest person, and no one except him goes to see the excitement, so as soon as they enter their yard, when the wife and daughter see him like this, they thought they were being bullied, and they all exclaimed, provoking their sons and daughters-in-law to run out to inquire.

Yun Laosi "snapped" to open the lid of the box and happily stuffed it into his daughter's arms, "Sister Hui, this is your dowry." ”

"Dowry?" The family looked down and were all surprised, "Where did Dad get such a good thing?" ”

Yun Laosi entered the hall, drank a big bowl of herbal tea, and told him about today's events, and everyone who was still a little worried about the change in their daughter's marriage immediately showed their happy faces, and Mrs. Yun was about to rewrite her daughter's dowry list, but was stopped by the eldest daughter-in-law, "Mother, tomorrow I have to go into the city with my eldest uncle to buy more things, and it's not too late to write tomorrow, let's discuss and see, what is missing from my sister's dowry." ”

"Yes, that's right." Mrs. Yun laughed, pulled her eldest daughter-in-law and daughter and ran to the West Chamber, the family was overjoyed, and the people in the village were also envious, but who let her daughter not catch up with this time, but just gossip.

In the past few days, it was time to settle the bill, Zhao Fengnian was much busier than usual, after dinner in the evening, the couple took their own accounts, and then went to bed early, and Ruixue didn't have time to talk about the afternoon.

Early in the morning of the second day, the clan elder Li came to the door at the same time, Zhao Fengnian still suspected that something was wrong, and when he understood the meaning, he realized that his wife had successfully earned a good reputation for him, and he was inevitably proud and happy.

He was kind and kind of words, entertained the elders to drink tea and eat snacks, and handed over the distribution of 50 acres of paddy fields at home next year to Zhang Luo to decide, the elders of the clan consciously respected, and they were all happy to respond, and then heard that three earthen houses were to be built in the field, and Zhang Jiangzhu, who was ready to see the rice field, directly took care of it, patted his chest and assured that the field was not busy, and the people in the village helped to do it, but it was over in three or four days.

Zhao Fengnian naturally did not refuse, and said that the Zhao family would take care of the three meals a day, and everyone was happy.

Finally sent away the clan elders with smiles on their faces, and Zhao Fengnian returned to the inner courtyard.

The night was a little stuffy, Ruixue didn't sleep well, and was leaning on the rattan chair to take a nap when the morning was not too hot.

The rattan chair is sent by a force worker surnamed Feng on the dock, a few days ago his old father was seriously ill, and the family had no money for treatment, although the Peishui Gang received some help, but it was still more than half, Zhang's sister-in-law thought about Ruixue's instructions on weekdays, and when she came back, she told her, Ruixue cut some of the most of the ginseng at home, and entrusted Zhang's sister-in-law with five taels of silver.

The old man of the Feng family took medicine in time, and he got better after half a month, because the family was poor and couldn't pay the money for a while, so he took a few sons to weave this rattan chair and sent it to the Zhao family to express his gratitude.

When the old man was young, he lived by this to make money, his craftsmanship was excellent, the armrests, backrests, everything was polished smooth and shiny, Rui Xue liked it very much when he saw it, and accepted it happily, and said that there was no hurry to repay the money, and he also sent more food and other things to the old man to replenish his body, the Feng family thanked him for leaving, and this rattan chair became Rui Xue's throne, and he deliberately sewed a few soft cushions and threw them on it, leaning on it was like sinking into a pile of cotton, which was extremely comfortable.