Chapter Twenty-Seven: There Is a Reason for Marriage
Inside and outside here, how much money did you miss for a loser? As soon as she mentioned the succession, Mrs. Xia hated the roots of Yang's hate.
Just as he was saying this, Zhang quietly slipped in.
Mrs. Xia shouted: "What's the matter with you?" Sneaking every day, walking without a sound. Get out, one is more annoying than the other! β
Zhang glanced at Mrs. Xia resentfully, and went out again.
As soon as she went out, she met Xia Shouping coming in from outside.
"Mother is angry, third brother, you can be careful, don't be scolded with me." Zhang's words sounded like exhortation.
Old Mrs. Xia heard it in the house, and scolded loudly: "Build bridges and stir up fire every day, you love to stir up trouble so much, why don't you give birth to a weasel, it's really hard for Lord Yama to give you a human skin!" Third child, you come in for me, don't pay attention to that scheming thing. β
Only then did Qingbao know that among the three daughters-in-law, Mrs. Xia hated the fourth daughter-in-law Zhang the most, because of Zhang's bad character.
His mother-in-law, Huang Liuniang, is not liked by Mrs. Xia because her mother's family is too strong.
Among the three daughters-in-law, only the Yang family remains.
Although the Yang family is stupid and stupid, it is too easy to grasp and control compared to the two daughters-in-law, so among the three daughters-in-law, the Yang family can also be regarded as a general, and he barely entered the blue eyes of Mrs. Xia.
Xia Shouping hurriedly entered the house, and he was greeted by a bombardment from his mother: "Where is your daughter-in-law?" Where did it go? Their old Xia family has a big battle, is this to make Liuya angry, or is it to lose the face of our Xia family? β
Xia Shouping didn't dare to fight back, but replied sullenly: "Liuniang went to Dr. Lin to get medicine." Dr. Lin said that Liuya still has to drink medicine for a few days for this disease. β
Mrs. Xia snorted coldly, as if she was very dissatisfied with her son's cowardice: "You are also a man, your daughter-in-law's mother-in-law stepped on your head to make a threat, and you didn't dare to put a fart." When will you be able to stiffen your waist and fight for our old Xia family? β
Xia Shouping squeezed out a sentence for a long time: "If it weren't for the sister-in-law beating Liuya, her family wouldn't have so many people." β
As soon as she heard that her son was also speaking to the Huang family, Mrs. Xia became angry at that time: "Get out, you hurry up and get out of here, in the future, you will only recognize the Huang family and don't recognize the Xia family." Hurry up, hold that girl in your house and get out. β
Xia Shouping immediately said: Doctor Lin said that Liuya's head can't move......"
Before he finished speaking, the old lady immediately said, "What's the matter, do you still want Liuya to spend the night here?" I don't have time to show you the kids. β
Qingbao also pretended to be coquettish and said to Xia Shouping: "Daddy, I'm going home, I'm not at grandma's house." β
"Did you hear that, the child didn't want to be here, so hurry up and hug the family." Mrs. Xia was afraid that Qingbao would live here with her, and she would bombard the father and daughter like flies.
Xia Shouping was helpless, so he had to gently pick up Qingbao.
Qing Bao said in his heart, even if he left, he couldn't let Mrs. Xia and the Yang family have a good time, and he had to take revenge for being kicked.
Before going out, Qingbao pretended to be naΓ―ve and said to Xia Shouping: "Daddy, will you let your aunt steal our family's rice tomorrow?" She stole our rice, so we could go to grandma's house to eat dumplings, and the white flour meat dumplings made by grandma were delicious. β
As soon as she heard Qingbao mention the pot of white-flour meat dumplings, Mrs. Xia, who was already on fire, was even more angry, turned around through gritted teeth, and looked at Yang with a thunderous face.
was carried out of his grandmother's house by Xia Shouping, and as soon as he left the courtyard gate, Qingbao saw four pillars running and playing on the street.
"Second brother, take our pot of rice to the house and eat rice at night." A big pot of rice, it can't be cheap, Yang's, you have to get it back.
Erzhu agreed and ran into his grandmother's house.
Qingbao thought about it again, Huang Liuniang didn't know that Xia Shouping had taken her home, in case she returned to Mrs. Xia after taking the medicine, she would definitely have to be scolded by Mrs. Xia who was in an unhappy mood. In order to let Huang Liuniang escape this catastrophe, Qingbao shouted to Sanzhu again: "Third brother, you go to Dr. Lin's house to call your mother and let her go home directly." β
The three pillars led the four or six pillars and ran away without a trace.
Xia Shouping saw that his daughter's instructions were all the way, and couldn't help but smile comfortingly: "Daddy's six girls have grown up, they know how to live, and they know that they are worried about your mother." β
Fortunately, he didn't suspect that Liuya had changed people.
Qingbao stuck out his tongue and decided to talk less in the future, especially adult words, so as not to provoke criticism.
Xia Shouping took his daughter home, laid out the mattress, and let her lie down to rest.
"Liuya, you lie down and don't move blindly, if you hurt your head again, you will become a fool. You wait, Daddy will boil you saliva to drink. β
Qingbao obediently agreed, and Xia Shouping went to boil water with confidence.
There was nothing to do while lying on the bed, so Qingbao began to think about today's matter.
This nest of relatives of the Liuya family fights all day long, because they can fight with one meal, in the final analysis, it is because they are poor.
How can the poor care about hygiene, education, and quality when they have enough to eat, and all their thoughts and time are spent on stuffing their stomachs?
Since ancient times, China has said that "the warehouse is honest and knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace", when the food and clothing are not good, the etiquette and honor and disgrace have no meaning.
Liuya's family is too poor, and she must find a way to earn money, otherwise, after seven or eight years, when Qingbao is fifteen or sixteen years old, she will be married into the same poor family, or she may be sold in exchange for some silver for his sons.
Earn money, earn money, you must earn money, as long as you have money in your hands, you can decide your own life.
It's just that Liuya is too young, a six-year-old child, how can he make money?
If she goes too far, in this patriarchal and ignorant and backward country, it may be a tragedy.
And most importantly, she has no capital.
Although Huang Liuniang just got two taels of silver, Qingbao didn't have to think about it to know that it would be good for Huang Liuniang, who was desperately short of money, to give her two copper plates.
Too young, no capital, and living in the countryside, how can I make money?
Qingbao's head was broken, and he couldn't come up with any way.
Knowing that this matter could not be rushed, Qing Bao simply let go of his hand, and it was better to heal the injury first.
Before going to bed at night, Huang Liuniang and Lin Shouping talked for a while before falling asleep.
In this conversation, Qingbao heard the couple discuss that the two taels of silver should not be moved first, and they should save to build a house and prepare for the second pillar to marry their daughters-in-law.
Qingbao knew that the cost of the matter was completely out of play, and she had to find another way.
In the next few days, Qingbao spent time at home recuperating and didn't go anywhere.
On March 17, Huang's uncle Li came with Xia Yu.
Xia Yu was dressed in pink brocade, full of hairpins, and a pair of white jade bracelets on his arms.
When Huang Liuniang saw her daughter dressed so richly, and remembered that her daughter had grown so big, she had never bought her anything, and her heart was sour and astringent. Barely squeezing out a smile, Huang Liuniang said, "Big brother and sister-in-law, why are you here." β
Xia Yu was not upset this time because Huang Liuniang called her a big girl, but said happily: "Don't call me big girl anymore, I will officially change my name to Huang Yu from tomorrow, you can just call me Yu'er." β
Huang Liuniang opened her mouth, but the word Yu'er still didn't come out.
Uncle Huang sat down and said to Huang Liuniang and Xia Shouping: "Ming'er is the big day of the eldest girl's succession, and your sister-in-law and I think that you can't raise the eldest girl in vain, no, I will bring the eldest girl over, and I will say goodbye to you and play with my younger brothers and sisters." β
Xia Yu came to Qingbao's side, looked at the edge of the kang, looked at his new clothes, frowned, stood under the edge of the kang like that, took off the smallest hairpin from his head, threw it to Qingbao and said, "Liuya, this hairpin sister gave it to you, you can keep it and wear it." β
Seeing that Xia Yu actually gave out a hairpin, the eldest aunt Li couldn't help frowning.
Xia Yu, who was facing away from her, didn't see her expression, but Qing Bao, who was sitting on the kang, saw it clearly.
Xia Yu didn't notice it, and was still showing off to Qing Bao arrogantly: "I can't wear a lot of jewelry now, and I also have clothes, all colors, which are precious and beautiful." β
Through several contacts with the Li family, Qingbao can see that this eldest aunt is definitely not a good person who is full of love, and it can be seen from the fact that she is not a generous person by relying on the inheritance fee. Such a person would kindly plan for the children of her sister-in-law's family, who have no blood relationship with her and have a bad relationship with her? Not only do you have to pass through the past, but you also have to accompany sixteen dowries, how is this possible!
In this, if there is no problem, Qingbao will definitely not believe it.
Either the man's family is already poor, or the boy has some defects, or there is a major scandal in his family, which makes the Li family reluctant to marry his own girl and suffer. If it is really the eldest son and grandson of the scholarly family, and the family is good and wealthy, the Li family will definitely send their daughter away, which round will Xia Yu get such a good thing.
Huang's uncle, Huang Bingchen, and Li have a total of five children. The eldest daughter has been married for many years, the eldest son and the second son have also married, and the third son is sixteen this year and is already engaged. The youngest daughter, Huang Bingjing, is only eleven years old.
Huang Liuniang's father is a down-and-out scholar, and he has been admitted to the exam after reading a lifetime. Fortunately, Mrs. Huang can run it, although the Huang family is not a rich family, but it is also a little rich. Although the children under his knee have all studied since childhood, none of them have taken the road of the imperial examination. Now the brothers of the Huang family, although they have always claimed to be scholars, in fact, in secret, they all run their own shops, which is something that everyone knows, but the shops are not under the names of their brothers, so they have not fallen into the likes of low-status businessmen.
It can be seen that the scholarly family of that generation is in a hurry to marry such a Huang family, and there must be a hidden secret.