1225. Poor Mountains and Bad Waters, Mujia Village
This farmer's family is Mu Xuemei's family. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Ye Ruo met a mountain village lady who claimed to be the mother of the girl who gave away the girl back then. Of course, Ye Ruo didn't just listen to her, Ye Ruo looked at her eyebrows, and then looked at the people who were at home in this courtyard at that time, and still felt that this family and Mu Xuemei had a family relationship. It should be said that with family members, in such a small mountain village, it should be right. There is no way that anyone can pretend to be Mu Xuemei's family.
Ye Ruo led the woman to see Mu Xuemei. Before, Ye Ruo carefully explained to her, and when she saw Mu Xuemei, don't scare her too much. After all, it hasn't been seen for years. Even if it's a mother and daughter, they will be estranged.
In fact, this explanation, Ye Ruo was completely too careful to take care of Mu Xuemei.
When this lady saw Mu Xuemei, she didn't show a trace of excitement at all. The people in the mountains, who are already in poverty day after day, have lost their temperament with ups and downs, and for them, living is to get up and work every day, and this is to live. Great joy and sorrow, that is the luxury that only the people in the city have to eat and support. They don't have those.
When she saw Mu Xuemei, she could only rub her hands and didn't know how to speak.
After rubbing her hands for a long time, in the voice of Ye Ruo's aunt coming slowly, the peasant woman opened her mouth and shouted to Mu Xuemei: "Big girl, is it big girl?"
Big girl?
Big girl?
Big girl!
It seems to be her milk name when she was a child!
Mu Xuemei was excited.
hugged the peasant woman at once, and in this way, the peasant woman trembled with fright.
She was a peasant woman, and she was suddenly hugged by a disciple of Xiaoyao Palace who was dressed so "gorgeously", so she was naturally afraid. Of course, in fact, Mu Xuemei was only wearing the clothes of a disciple of Xiaoyao Palace, and she was not gorgeous at all. However, in such a small mountain village, the clothes were already very expensive and gorgeous.
It seems that Ye Ruo should not tell the eldest lady not to be too excited and scare Mu Xuemei, but should tell Mu Xuemei not to scare her mother in turn.
"Why did you come back when you were a mixed person? But. It's good that you're here. At home, your brother's daughter-in-law, his mother and your father married him, and it is still thanks to you. If it weren't for the fact that there was a person in the family who became a disciple in the Xiaoyao Palace, this family business, others would still look down on our family. However, your brother's marriage is in trouble. Use your fame. can help your eldest brother mix a daughter-in-law, and then, others can see that this eldest daughter-in-law's family has not gotten any benefits from our family, but it is not good to mix with a little daughter-in-law. No, your brother's daughter-in-law, she just can't talk about it. Now that you're here, can you help talk? Tell your brother a daughter-in-law, too?"
As soon as they met, the peasant woman opened her mouth to ask Mu Xuemei for something.
Again, that's the same sentence. Mountain people, there are not so many extravagant feelings.
They are practical.
Since Mu Xuemei took the initiative to go home, then, they don't want to do any benefits, just don't want it in vain.
"Mother, what do you want?" Mu Xuemei didn't think it was inappropriate.
Maybe. In essence, she is still the eldest girl born in the mountains, and she feels that she still owes this family.
"Is this who you're talking to outside?" the peasant woman asked Mu Xuemei.
"Hmm. This time, Mu Xuemei was not shy, and nodded directly in acknowledgement.
The peasant woman who knew this said with a slight embarrassment: "Then can our family ask him for a dowry? It's okay for the mother to ask you to borrow it. I'll bring it and tell your brother a daughter-in-law. ”
"Yes. He can afford it. Mu Xuemei was happy. In addition to the joy, it is heartache. Heartache, this home, she used to be able to give too little care. Although she is the descendant of the Mandate of Heaven of the Daomen, but, after all, she has no long things!
"That'...... Then ten sheep, two loads of fine noodles, two loads of coarse grain, and ask you for half a piece of pig for a banquet. Well, it's better if you can still have a calf, and there is a shortage of labor at home, so it is convenient to have cattle to plow the fields. The peasant woman seemed to be worried that others would think that their lion would open his mouth and ask for too many things, but she would turn her face, so when she asked Ye Ruo for a dowry, she looked at Ye Ruo's face, pondered Ye Ruo's bottom line and reaction, and then decided whether to ask for more things.
It's like haggling.
Although the people in the mountains are simple, they are not stupid. The more careful the people who live their lives, the more inevitably they are shrewd. Of course, the shrewdness of a farmer is only a small shrewdness. However, this does not prevent them from being able to live the good life they want. Although, in the eyes of outsiders, what they want is not worth mentioning at all.
Seeing the cautious and expectant look of the Mu family's aunt, Ye Ruo didn't want her to be so tormented anymore and said honestly: "I won't return these dowries, I will give them to you in a real way." Don't make a trace of falsehood. Didn't you even say that there was a shortage of cattle at home? You want calves and you have to feed them. That's a bottomless pit foodie, I'll just give you a big ploughing cow, so you can use it. ”
"The big ploughing ox is precious!" said the peasant woman in surprise. She definitely didn't expect Ye Ruo to be so generous and sincere.
Ye Ruo just smiled slightly: "No matter how expensive it is, it's worth it." ”
The peasant woman was stunned for a moment, and then said to Ye Ruo and Mu Xuemei: "Come in." Don't dislike the dirty house. ”
Ye Ruo understood that the peasant woman's eyes just now looked at him as a dumbfounded and stupid hat.
Because in the farmer's house, how can anyone not take the initiative to bargain for the dowry, but take the initiative to raise it.
It's not what a stupid hat is!
The peasant woman led Ye Ruo and Mu Xuemei into the low courtyard made of stones, and when they entered the courtyard, the peasant woman said to a couple of men and women inside: "Dashan, your sister-in-law has gone home, and she has brought the person she talked to with herself." You, you go and kill a sheep to entertain your brother-in-law who comes to the door for the first time. ”
When she said that she would kill a sheep to entertain Ye Ruo, the peasant woman's lips trembled. After all, it was a sheep! However, then she thought that Ye Ruo still had ten sheep in the dowry gift for her, and a big ploughing cow promised to her, her distress was better.
The farmer will also calculate this account. This is called reluctant children can't trap wolves.
"Hey. Mother!" The young man named Dashan, tall, gives people the image of a cowardly man, taciturn, at a glance, he knows that he can't take any big ideas, and even fears his daughter-in-law. Sure enough, he did whatever his mother told him to do, and he didn't think about it at all. Otherwise, he would definitely say to his mother, isn't it too expensive to kill a sheep to entertain Ye Ruo? Even if they celebrate the New Year by themselves, they are not willing to kill a sheep to eat.
"Kill a sheep, what kind of sheep to kill! I was pregnant with a baby, and you didn't kill a sheep for me to eat to replenish my body. When they come, there will be sheep to eat, and I am not pleased. I'm pointing to the three sheep at home!"
The little peasant woman should be the eldest daughter-in-law of the Mu family, but she was bitter and mean, and she didn't even shy away from Ye Ruo and Mu Xuemei in front of her, and she was about to make trouble.
"Daughter-in-law, what are you talking about? The eldest girl has only returned home once in more than ten years, even if it is to eat a sheep, let's talk about it. Besides, the big girl doesn't eat your food for nothing. The eldest girl talked about the object herself, and the dowry that people gave us ten sheep, counting, our family will not suffer. ”
Before Aunt Mu finished speaking, the bitter daughter-in-law's foul language had already burst out, interrupting her and saying: "You old thing, you are old and confused! He said to ten sheep, and you will believe it! This year, the things you talk about are useless! If you don't get the things in your hands, you don't want to believe it." This sheep is not to be killed! My dad and my brother came to your house, and I didn't see you killing sheep for entertainment. I saw you kill a chicken to entertain my brother, and you were all distressed for a long time! I should not have come to your house if I had known that your family was like this. I'm blind, there are so many people, I picked yours. Seeing that your family is poor, what about letting me enjoy happiness with your capable daughter? )