Chapter 222: Spring

The youngest daughter of the village chief's family quickly grabbed it and quickly opened the box: "Wow! It's a dragon and phoenix bracelet! Look at this pair of dragons and phoenixes, it's the same as the real thing! ”

Zhang snatched the dragon and phoenix bracelet in his hand and weighed it a few times, it was solid and weighty. A pair of bracelets must have three or four taels of silver! This precious thing has to be put away, don't let people touch it.

Li Xiaomeng picked up a pair of silver hairpins in the box and said to Yu Caidie: "Look, it's a lotus on it." Flowers bloom and stalk, the meaning of flowers and full moon. What is heavy in the hand should be solid. Alas...... I really envy you, why don't I have such a good life as you, and have such a generous second brother. ”

"This pair of earrings is quite festive, prosperous, and just in time. Caidie, Ming'er, you will take this pair of earrings to get married! The round-faced daughter-in-law put the red coral earrings next to Yu Caidie's face and gestured. When the bride gets married, she has to wear a red wedding dress, a red hijab, and a pair of red earrings, which is absolutely happy!

The youngest daughter of the village chief pretended to be well-informed, pouted and said, "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, what do you know!" This is made of red coral, my fourth sister-in-law has a pair of red coral earrings, the material is not so much, the color is not so positive, and it uses ten taels of silver! This pair of red coral earrings is more than twice as expensive as my sister-in-law's! ”

Don't say it, this girl still has some vision. Who made the eldest brother rich, and the little brother was an errand boy by the side of the county magistrate! I have seen more than the girls in the countryside!

When Zhang heard this, he hurriedly took back all the jewelry, put it in the box, and held it in his arms for fear of being snatched by someone. She said to the little girl: "Caidie, this thing is too valuable, my mother will keep it for you." Tomorrow is the day, and I will take it out for you to marry. With these, your father-in-law of that power will also look down on you! ”

Although the money that was cheated last time was finally recovered. can use more money later, no matter how much she loves her daughter, it is impossible to take out dozens of taels of silver as a dowry. Yu Lao Er still has a conscience and has not forgotten Caidie's younger sister.

Li, who had been silent in the house, quietly went out of the east room, pulled Yu Dashan from the courtyard to a secluded place, and complained in a low voice: "What do you say the sea is doing!" How faceless is it for you to be a big brother? Dozens of taels of things, say send them out! Or to the enemy's daughter, do you say he's stupid or not? ”

Yu Dashan also heard the movement in the main house in the courtyard, and his heart was on fire! Hearing her say this, a big-mouthed scraper slapped over: "What is the daughter of the enemy?" That's his own sister, and it's my sister! If you can't speak, take a needle and sew it up for me!! It's people's business how many things they like to take! Our family is not separated, the money is in the hands of my mother, and there is nothing wrong with sending a pair of silver cloves! ”

Li is an angry person, he was beaten in the mouth, and he exploded when he landed, his hands were crossed on his fat waist, and he shouted with a sharp voice: "Yu Dashan, you wretched!" If you have the strength, you go outside, what kind of hero is it to beat your own mother-in-law!! It's shameless, you have the ability to make money! Guarding a broken fishing boat, there are few items every day, and it is not as good as his son working at the dock to earn more! ”

Several mothers-in-law in the village hurriedly came over to persuade peace, and the Li family was the master of persuasion, and the more he scolded, the more energetic he became. It was Zhang who came out of the house, stood in front of her, and stared at her, and Li immediately stopped eating. For the mother-in-law who everyone dares to kill, Li is still stunned.

In addition to this little episode, Yu Caidie got married smoothly the next day. The people from the husband's family have more or less heard Yu Hai's name, and they know that he is related to Lord Qincha, and he can speak in front of the imperial merchant Zhou family. Therefore, the people of Yu Caidie's family, contrary to the past, with some arrogant attitude, were polite to the Yu family. Especially for Yu Hai, the second brother, the groom called "second brother" one by one, which was closer than his own brother.

Not long after Yu Caidie got married, the first snow of this winter fell unexpectedly. Mrs. Fang's child in the womb is getting older, and she lives in the middle of the mountainside, and the winter in the north is snowy, and it is even more inconvenient to go up and down. Xiaocao discussed with her father and mother to take her godmother to live in her house.

Now her house is spacious, with five blue brick houses divided into two courtyards, east and west, by a wall, with a moonlit door in the middle. The family lived in three courtyards to the east, two east wings to the east, and a kitchen and utility room to the west. The two courtyards on the west side have been empty, saying that they will be used as new houses for Yu Hang when he says goodbye.

Xiaocao mentioned the thoughts in his heart, and Yu Hai and the Liu family naturally did not disagree. After a few months of getting along, the relationship between the two families is closer than a family. The couple of the house town is really hurtful to his little daughter. Even if Mrs. Fang was pregnant with her own child in her belly, she did not favor her.

Every time the house town returns to Beijing, he will bring gifts to his family, many of which are things that are not even available in the prefecture. It's not too expensive to say it's valuable, but it's better than novelty. Because the house town knew that if he bought expensive things, the Yu family would not want it.

With the godfather going back and forth between the capital, Fucheng and Dongshan Village, Xiaocao's jewelry box has changed from one to two, and there is a trend of developing to the third. There's no way, she's a godfather, and every time she goes out, she first thinks of bringing gifts to her goddaughter. What does the little girl like? Isn't it just jewelry, clothing, or something?

It is estimated that there are no jewelry stores in the capital and Fucheng who do not know the general of the house. Almost every other month, this strong man like an iron tower would come to their silver building, scare away a wave of ladies and misses, and let them take out all the latest jewelry suitable for teenage girls, and pack it away without even asking the price. The two deputies behind him became the ones who specialized in paying the bills......

Yu Hai is also a spoiled daughter, and has a common language with the house town. Fortunately, Xiaocao is not really a teenage girl, otherwise she would have been spoiled by her father and godfather and didn't know how many pounds and taels she had!

As soon as the couple heard Xiaocao say that they would move to live in the yard next door to their house, they thought about it for a while and agreed. The house on the hill is really not suitable for pregnant women in winter. Especially when the snow is slippery, their daughter comes to add food to Mrs. Fang every day, which is very inconvenient. Just yesterday, the girl slipped and fell, but fortunately she was dressed thickly and was not injured. Otherwise, Mrs. Fang would not blame herself for dying.

They also have a house in the town, but when they move to the town, they are far away from their daughter, and it is not so convenient to see their daughter. If it snows heavily, the carriage will not be able to pass for a few days, and the couple will feel like something is missing if they haven't seen their daughter for a day, let alone for several days.

The couple are not hypocritical, aren't they just borrowing the house of the family for more than a winter! If you're afraid of gossip, it's a big deal to say that they rented it. I believe that as long as the house town opens his mouth to rent a house, it is to rent the house of the village chief's house, and he will have to vacate it if he doesn't live in it.

Say move, move! The next day, the couple took their subordinates and lived in the west courtyard of the Yu family. The design of the west courtyard is a separate courtyard, and there are many east and west wings, kitchens, and storage rooms. There were not many servants in Dongshan Village, and the subordinates lived in the west wing, and the east wing left a room for his two deputies.

Li Li and Wu Yun would occasionally come over in the afternoon to report to him on some matters in the port. Why did you come in the afternoon? Don't you just want to have dinner and breakfast the next day? The couple and the people of the Fang family were used to staying overnight, so they didn't forget them when they moved.

The winter countryside is idle, and everyone is honest at home cat winter. In winter, business on the docks is also much lighter, short-term workers are dismissed and go home, long-term workers (that is, regular workers) can also take turns to rest, and it is good to have ten days of work every month!

The Yu family likes to squeeze on a kang in winter, and this winter is the same. It's not to save firewood, but the kang between the east and west is also burning, so why don't people live? Because Xiaocao asked Dad to get more than 20 wooden boxes, which were full on the kang. The box was filled with soil and sprinkled with some vegetable seeds, such as baby greens, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, garlic sprouts, leeks, etc...... Yes, this is exactly the grass tossing out of season vegetables!

The Yu family's kang is near the window, and the window is a glass window, so there is no lack of sunlight for cultivating vegetables on the kang. The temperature is enough, the sunshine is sufficient, and the grass is watered with some diluted spirit stone water from time to time, and those out-of-season vegetables are rising well. Throughout the winter, other families have become little white rabbits, cabbage and radishes, but the Yu family has never lacked green leafy vegetables.

As a key protection object, Mrs. Fang, a pregnant woman, is even more close to her with any vegetables, and the winter that she felt difficult in previous years has passed unconsciously this year.

When the first lunar month had just passed, and the frozen soil in the field had not yet melted, the Yu family was busy weaving strawberries. Last year, vegetables were able to sell at a good price, and the biggest reason was that they were marketed more than a month earlier than ordinary vegetables. This year, the Yu family has the experience of last year, and the land in the front yard and the back yard has been sorted out early.

This year's yard has expanded many times compared with last year, and the two courtyards in the front yard add up to three or four acres, and the backyard is naturally not to mention that there is no shortage of them.

Before the spring day dawned, the grass family's vegetable seeds had been sown in the vegetable garden. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and the like have also begun to be bred on the kang in the east and west wings.

The Yu family, including the small stones that have been put on the winter vacation, has the task of opening the grass one by one in the morning when the sun is full, so that the newly germinated vegetable sprouts are bathed in the warm spring sun. In the afternoon, when the sun turns west and the temperature begins to drop, cover them with thick straw one by one. At this time, Xiaocao regrets that there is no plastic film in this era, otherwise she can engage in greenhouse vegetables, which is much better than grass and straw!

The vegetable patch in the west courtyard hardly needs to be stretched out by the Yu family. Mrs. Fang, two capable big girls, led her subordinates to take care of the work of serving the vegetable field. Pearl and Linglong are both the sons of the Xia family, and they are good at serving people, but they have never served the vegetable field. However, the work of lifting the straw is still quite easy. Seeing the first vegetable sprout sprout, both girls could happily talk to their wives for a long time. The seedlings grew taller day by day, and their hearts were filled with a sense of accomplishment......