Chapter 183: Man dies for money
After the marriage, Lan Yi's life was no different from before, but she had to step up her time to do handiwork - embroidering dowry. When she came back from Meixian, her mother-in-law Zheng took the two sets of quilts and bed curtains that Chun Tao had repaired before and asked her to bring them back. The handicraft-like embroidery and patterns on the back and bed curtains were so intricate and delicate that she was dazzled. If Chun Tao really traveled to the present as she saw in her dream and became herself, this skill can also allow her to wear gold and silver to live in a garden house, even if she graduated from graduate school, at most she will stay in school to be a poor teacher or find a big company to work 9 to 5 to get a dead salary, which is incomparable with others!
Other embroideries Zheng and Jia can help her make them, but the wedding dress must be made by Lan Yi herself. Fortunately, the day of marriage is in the summer, and Lan Yi only makes outerwear and underwear.
Speaking of summer clothes, Lan Yi is still a little helpless. In order to be cool in the summer, Da Zhou women do not wear obscene pants in long skirts, even if they are worn, for convenience, profane pants are also open, Lan Yi is difficult to accept such unrestrained dressing, and she made a few pairs of underwear and a few bras. It's okay to say that the bra took a lot of thought and waste a lot of fabric to make a style that can be worn on the body, and the style is the simplest, so she doesn't wear a belly pocket in her underwear in summer, only a bra. But now that she wants to get married, her belly pocket is also embroidered, and according to the rules, it is still a complicated pomegranate belly pocket, and she has a headache when she sees it.
On the market day of Zhoujia Village, Lan Yi and Yu'er had breakfast and took the goat and Xiaohuo Xiaobai to the hillside, and the family of four locked the gate to catch the market. Yu'er and Wenxuan rode on donkeys with small bags, and Lan Yi and Jia Shi walked. According to the two children's intentions, they were going to ride horses. However, Lan Yi and Jia Shi are not at ease, it is more secure to have a donkey.
When Jia was in Meixian, he was mostly in the inner courtyard, and now he and Lan Yi are walking on country roads. Breathing in the cold air, looking at the crops and distant mountains and white clouds everywhere, the mood is particularly comfortable, and the corners of his mouth are also smiling.
Yu'er and the two sang children's songs loudly, and Lan Yi also whispered softly, enjoying themselves.
After Lan Yi bought some daily necessities, she asked Yu'er and the two to buy what they liked, and she came out today mainly to take Jia and the two children to relax.
The farm is idle. There were a lot of people in the market, and there were naturally many vendors selling things, and the two children ran hand in hand. Look for stalls that sell groceries. Niu Dan bought a colorful monkey mask a few days ago and wore it to show off everywhere, and Yu'er and Wenxuan and other friends were very envious. When they came over today, they wanted to buy something better, and Lan Yi promised to buy them a few more to give to their friends, and they didn't have to spend the copper coins in their own jars. In the end, the two children chose eight animal masks on the merchant's burden. Pigs, cows, sheep, leopards, wild boars, etc. Lan Yi chose two pink and cute girls who planned to go back and give them to the second uncle's family, and the ten exquisite masks were only twenty yuan, which was very affordable.
Lan Yi originally wanted to buy some dishes and chopsticks, but when there were more people in the family, she naturally had to prepare more, but unfortunately she didn't find what she liked after a long time, so she decided to go to the city another day to have a look. Jia Shi had been keeping an eye on the two children at the market, and he didn't buy anything, so he could see it. She's still in a good mood.
When the four of them returned to the village, many people in the village came up to greet the family of four. Lan Yi and Jia responded politely, and Yu'er met the grandmother and aunt who also opened their mouths when they met each other, and they were praised countless times.
After Zhou Weiji and Lan Yi got married, Yu'er and Wenxuan had several fights with the children in the village, because the children in the village laughed at them for changing their fathers, but no one wanted them.
Lan Yi had talked to them many times before, and they knew that their mother would not hurt them in the future, and they would have an extra father who would hurt them, and what the people in the village said was false. The mother also said that whoever said bad things about them and bullied them would go up and beat them directly, but the mother would take them to beat them. They also have the help of friends such as Dafu, Niu Dan and Sanwazi, plus Yu'er and Zhou Weiji learned boxing and kicking, and the fight is fierce and powerful.
Zhou Weiji came back and knew who the child was bullied by, so he didn't say much, and when he kicked the juju, he beat the adult of that family with a blue nose and swollen face. Lan Yi's feat of swelling Zhou Yang's daughter-in-law made her notorious, this family is not easy to mess with, and the village will not dare to talk nonsense, and the children are even warned by adults not to provoke this family, and soon no one dares to talk nonsense in front of the children.
In addition to the strength of these families, Second Uncle Wang's family has had a better life in the past two years, and his words in front of the people in the village have gradually gained weight. Second Uncle Wang and Zhao Lizheng were both willing to speak for Lan Yi, and everyone was in their eyes. Another reason is that there are not many idlers in the village this year. Even if the farming is idle now, everyone either wants to take advantage of the cold to get more mountain goods, or they are busy planting greenhouses and pickling sauerkraut, so naturally they don't have time to gather together to chat.
After all, how can gossip be more affordable than making money?
"Since ancient times, people have died for money, and birds have died for food. There is no one who is not greedy for money, but it is just to see if you can afford the price, and whether you can find the object that makes him happy! ”
Cheng family Luohua Courtyard, two men sit in the garden pavilion, one of them has black hair meticulously on the top of his head, his blazing eyes appear sharper on his bronze face, the clear face is handsome and domineering, the sturdy body is still hidden in the purple and red robe, he looked at the marigold silver chrysanthemum that still refuses to wither in the winter depression, thin lips pursed out a cold smile.
This person is the eldest young master of the Cheng family, Cheng Zimu, the cousin of the Cheng family's Xiaoqi, and the man sitting opposite him has a fair and delicate face, a white robe showing a bit of elegance and elegance, and his face that should be detached from the world has a pair of slightly picked peach blossom eyes.
Xia Chongshuang's slender and icy fingers gently stroked the jade cup in his hand, and when he saw the little maid holding wine next to him peeking at him, he raised his eyes and smiled affectionately, seeing that the little maid's cheeks were red, and her head was buried in revealing a slender neck.
Brother Cheng said this very much. That Zhang Qi has an ordinary face, who would have thought that he would have a flower-like daughter who holds an eyeball. When the girl saw Brother Cheng once, she secretly promised that my sixth sister would lead her to go to the wall to spread the book in order to get Brother Cheng's favor. Hehe, Brother Cheng Yanfu is really not shallow. ”
Cheng Zimu showed his sharp eyes and showed obvious disgust, raised his head to drink the contents of the cup, raised his glass and asked the maid to pour wine, who knew that the little maid was in spring after stealing Xia Chongshuang, and she didn't notice him at all. Cheng Zimu's thick eyebrows twisted, and he slammed the jade cup on the stone platform with a bang, "Something without eyes, get down!" ”
The little maid turned pale with fright, shivered and wiped the table with her sleeve and hurriedly retreated.
Xia Chongshuang watched with a smile, "Brother Cheng, why be angry, scare the little beauty like this frosted chrysanthemum, and lose your interest." ”
"I like you to bring it back with you."
"That's it, there are a lot of chrysanthemums with such a posture in my brother's house, and there are not many maids in your Luohua courtyard, so let's keep them."
Cheng Zimu frowned, "What did you ask over there, Zhang Qi?" ”
Xia Chongshuang's peach blossom eyes were still smiling, "It's really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world, although Zhang Qi loves his daughter, he is a backbone." I'd rather marry my daughter to a poor scholar than take a concubine with someone. I used the letter written by his daughter to threaten him, but he was only willing to hand over the recipe for extracting oil from peony seeds and 10,000 catties of peony seeds, but he refused to disclose more. ”
Cheng Zimu snorted coldly, "You are too soft-hearted this time." ”
Xia Chongshuang sighed, "Brother Cheng, Zhang Qi is my eldest brother's steward, I can't do it too badly to hurt my temperament." Besides, Xiao Qi is close to my eldest brother, no matter how much they toss, they are not under Brother Cheng's nose, what are you afraid of! ”
When it comes to Cheng Xiaoqi's affairs, Cheng Zimu always finds it difficult to maintain his sanity, "I'm afraid that they won't be a small fight this time." It's just a matter of peony seed oil extraction, Xiao Qi took back the private money left with me, saying that he was going to do something big, and I suspect that he invested in Tsingshan Shangji. Qingshan Shangji's actions are not small, if Xiao Qi tosses with them, I am afraid that he will be ambitious. ”
"Although Zhang Qi is in charge of the oil mill, he is not the head of Tsingshan Shangji, according to him, every time Tsingshan Shangji discusses a major matter, it is Xia Chongxiao, Xia Shun and his son and the Wang brothers who discuss it behind closed doors, and it is difficult for him to know the details."
"The brothers of the Wang family in Beigou Village, how many times did Xiao Qi go to Beigou Village to look for them?" Cheng Zimu
Xia Chongshuang nodded, "I heard that there is also their widowed sister-in-law, the Lan family." The Wang brothers are honest croppers, and since his sister-in-law came back, he began to plant peonies and toss the oil mill. Zhang Qi said, this oil mill was originally made by my eldest sister and Lan's investment shares. There is also the sauerkraut business, which is also from the hands of the Lan family, and the sauerkraut business of Cheng Beiyou and Xiao Qi is not a little eye-catching. ”
"How capable can a widow be!" Cheng Zimu frowned, "Xiao Qi has always disdained such a woman, it must be because she learned Xiao Qi's identity and wanted to get some benefits from him!" Hmph, this woman will only take a bad Xiaoqi, and she can't stay! ”
Xia Chongshuang's peach blossom eyes were slightly solemn, and she stretched out her slender arm to fill the jade cup for the two, "Brother Cheng, no matter what she thinks for the time being, this woman can't move." She just got married to Zhou Bantou of the Yamen, Zhou Weiji is this person, let's not mess with it. ”
Cheng Zimu's brows furrowed even tighter, and he said in disgust, "You can actually see a widow on Tuesday?" It seems that she really has a bit of a flaxy trick. ”
Xia Chongshuang narrowed his peach blossom eyes and shook his head, "This little brother of the Lan family has seen it from afar a few times, his appearance is average, and he looks like a decent person, but those eyes are still bright and attractive." Brother Cheng, there is news in Beijing that the king of war is demoted and promoted, and he was entrusted with a heavy task by the saint and left Beijing with great fanfare. Some time ago, it was rumored that the border pass was not peaceful, and if the war broke out again, the current saint would reuse the war king, and his henchmen who were dormant everywhere would definitely reunite under the command of the war king, and they must be guarded against. ”
Cheng Zimu nodded, "Zhang Qi's side, don't let go if you don't succeed, don't lose big because of small things." ”
Xia Chongshuang stood up and stretched her waist gracefully like a cat, "Don't worry, I know." When will the merchant ship depart, and will Brother Cheng go there in person this time? ”
"The storm is tight over there, and the weather is really strange this year, the merchant ship has been canceled, and I will not go out this winter." After Cheng Zimu finished speaking, he seemed to remember something happy, and his sharp eyes narrowed, showing a little softness. (To be continued......) R1292