Chapter Seventy-One: Yan Song's Courtship
"Our family has winter? Are you going to marry Handong? Qi Ning was stunned, she didn't remember how many times Han Dong and Yan Song had met.
"Girl, I do." Han Dong ran out after speaking.
"Ah??? Both of you? When? ”
"Mrs. Hui, I have actually taken a fancy to Han Dong for a long time, I asked her outside the door just now, and she is willing. Ask the lady to be fulfilled. Yan Song's rough black face was flushed.
"You get up first, since you are all willing, I will naturally agree."
Yan Songcai stood up, holding his hands and looking at Qi Ning stupidly.
"But you are a military household, do you still have parents at home? Have you told them about it? ”
"My father died at an early age, only one mother is in the hometown, I wrote back to report, my mother is also very happy, the military family is the father died and the son replaced, the brother died and the younger brother died, from generation to generation, although to join the army from generation to generation, but there are also many benefits, the family also has food and salary every month, and there is no need to serve labor. I will buy a house in Qing'an and bring my mother to live with us. ”
"Then you go back first, I still have to ask Handong's mother, you will come back in a few days to hear the news, if it becomes you, you can ask a matchmaker."
"Thank you, madam, please say more good things to your mother-in-law." Yan Song's cheeky one is called his mother-in-law. He made a deep gesture to Qi Ning, and then left in a hurry.
Qi Ning asked Hanqiu to call the Zhao family to ask, and the Zhao family was naturally willing, in addition to receiving salary and silver in addition to their own monthly rations, the family can also receive monthly rations, and the family can also be exempted from conscription.
In the evening, Qi Ning asked Jing Su Yansong's conduct again.
"Yan Song's brothers are very good, they have studied for a few years, they want martial arts and martial arts, Yan Song don't look at the elder Cheng, he is actually only twenty-five, and it is a very good destination for Han Dong to marry him."
"Yan Song is only twenty-five? I always thought he was in his thirties. "Yan Song has been in the army for many years, and he looks a little old.
Qi Ning hadn't decided on the charter yet, and Yan Song, who was anxious early in the morning, came to the door with the matchmaker.
When the matchmaker entered the door, Yan Song was full of praise, and Yan Song was embarrassed to hear it.
Yan Song had already bought a small courtyard in the east of the city a few days ago, and Qi Ning asked the housekeeper to take Lu Carpenter to Yan Song's house tomorrow to measure the size of the furniture, and the furniture was made of sour branch wood. At the beginning of June, they got married. The marriage was thus decided.
The matchmaker was gone, and Qi Ning suddenly remembered whether she should marry first? secretly said in his heart, let Yan Song's stinky boy take advantage of the loophole.
Qi Ning asked the housekeeper to go to the yamen to eliminate Han Dong's slave status, and made a deed for a small shop with a very good location at the intersection outside the east gate, ready to give Han Dong as a dowry.
Han Dong didn't let her do her work recently, and she was busy embroidering wedding dresses, hijabs, pillowcases and the like every day.
Qi Ning asked the housekeeper to go directly to the silk village to buy twenty fine silk satins, and invited the Wu family, Xiao Wu and Mrs. Zhou to help make ten shops and ten covers, as well as various curtains and tents.
Early in the morning of the eighth day of the first month of April, Yan Song's mother brought a matchmaker to carry a sixteen-lift dowry to the next place, and the housekeeper asked Tie Niu to set off two firecrackers outside the door.
The dowry was carried to the backyard one after another, and a middle-aged woman in a dark purple dress went straight to Qi Ning holding the child with a smile: "Presumably this is Mrs. Jing, the old woman is Yan Song's mother, and she came to give Miss Handong a dowry today." ”
Qi Ning didn't expect Handong's mother-in-law to come in person, it seems that Yan Song's mother and son are very proud of Handong, so they can give such a big face.
"Mrs. Yan, please sit in the room, I won't greet you if I hold the child."
Qi Ning let Mrs. Yan and the matchmaker into the living room, the matchmaker spat and praised Yan Song and Han Dong, the boring Dabao held his mouth and wanted to cry, Qi Ning hurriedly let Han Qiu take him out.
Zhao came in with tea, and Qi Ning hurriedly took it and served tea to Mrs. Yan and the matchmaker: "You also sit, today you are the main master." This is Yan Song's mother. If you have anything to say, I'll say it today, and in the future, we will rely on my aunt to take care of it more. ”
Zhao had already changed into a new blue dress, she greeted Mrs. Yan unhurriedly, and let Mrs. Yan sit down: "Our mother has a good life, and I have nothing to say about a good master like our girl, just the same, my daughter is used to being a little petty, and I hope that Mrs. will discipline her strictly in the future." ”
"Look at what the eldest sister said, I only got two sons, if Han Dong marries into my family, I will treat him as my own girl, if Yan Song's kid dares to play tricks, I will definitely not be able to spare him."
"My family has been well-behaved and sensible since he was a child, and he has a good needlework. I have been hurting my sister all these years, and I hope that my wife can treat her well. Qi Ning looked at Yan Songniang with a smile.
"Madame put ten thousand hearts, I only have pain, and I will never let Miss Handong be wronged."
"That's right, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is good, and the family is harmonious. In that case, let's change the Geng post. The matchmaker interjected unwilling to be lonely.
Zhao and Mrs. Yan both took out the eight characters written on red paper and handed them to each other, and Zhu Xiuwen helped write the marriage book and handed it to Mrs. Yan to go to the yamen to enter the file.
Qi Ning invited the Wu family and the Xiao Wu family to accompany him to the upstairs private room, and invited everyone who came to the dowry today to have dinner, and the man was accompanied by Zhu Xiuwen in another private room. The meal was enjoyed by both the guests and the hosts.
Qi Ning is the worst at this, but fortunately, the Wu sisters helped to adjust the atmosphere. I kept talking and laughing while eating until mid-afternoon, and then I sent it away.
Before leaving, Qi Ningstuff gave the matchmaker five taels of silver: "I'm tired of my aunt, I still have some bachelors and girls at home, and I will have to trouble my aunt in the future." ”
The matchmaker grinned happily to the root of his ears: "Madame can only tell me if she has something, and in the future, your family's affairs will be my own business, and I will definitely pick it out, and I will not hide it at all." ”
Seeing Mrs. Yan and the matchmaker get into the car, Qi Ning rubbed her sour face. Tired, he stretched his waist and returned to the backyard and went directly into Handong's house. Han Dong was sitting on the kang in a daze with an unfinished belly pocket, and saw Qi Ning come in and hurriedly stuffed it under the pillow.
"Don't hide it, I've seen it all, it's for Yan Song?"
"Girl......" Han Dong's face instantly turned red into an apple.
"You're going to get married in two months, and to be honest, I'm really reluctant to let you go, as if my treasure was stolen by Yan Song's kid."
"I'm even more reluctant to marry the girl and Dabao, I'm not married, woo woo ......" Han Dong threw himself into Qi Ning's arms and cried.
"Silly girl, just say stupid things, you are obedient, don't go out these days, use my face wiping and face to wipe your hands and face every day, if you can't do it, go to the shop to buy more and use it later, and then be a beautiful bride."
Qi Ning patted Han Dong's back with a little choked up: "You don't have to worry about the dowry, I won't let people underestimate you." I'll give you a shop in the east of the city gate, and I'll ask the housekeeper to go to the jewelry store to order the jewelry. When the time comes, I'll give you some more silver at the bottom of the box, and I can't think of anything else for a while, what else do you think? ”