Chapter 21 The Guan family is hired
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Aunt Li got Li Xin's approval, and Liu's reluctant consent, so she went back happily. After the whole family gathered in the evening, Liu said today's events, looked at his three sons and one daughter, and sighed.
"I agreed, who else do you have to object?"
Li Sanlang shook his head, he said that day that he believed that his eldest sister could handle the Guanjia. Now that the second daughter-in-law of the Guan family has been divorced again, there is no woman in charge of the Guan family, so the eldest sister has the final say? Li Sanlang has been studying for a few years, and his knowledge has been broadened, and he understands the principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Marrying into the Guan family is a good thing for the eldest sister, and the Sun family is just a clown who jumps off the beam, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Why not do things that outweigh the cons? Besides, the eldest sister is also willing.
Da Lang Erlang was still a little hesitant, Li Xin said: "Don't think too much about me, life will not be smooth sailing." Small bumps are always inevitable, when you encounter a hurdle, when you encounter a river, when you encounter a river, when you encounter a mountain, you can't do it. β
Da Lang sighed, "Then it's up to you." β
"Sister, if the Guan family bullies you, you must come back and tell us! My brother's fist is not vegetarian! β
Li Erlang slapped his palms on the table, and there were cruel words in his mouth.
Li Xin, who felt the strong affection from his family, felt sour in his heart, and said while nodding: "Then the second brother, you have to train the strength in your hands more, then Guan Wen is strong, I'm afraid you won't be able to beat him." β
The whole family laughed out loud, Li Erlang blushed and shouted Sister, Jiang hugged his stomach and looked at him with a smile.
The family affair with the Guan family was thus agreed.
Because the Guan family was in a hurry to marry, Aunt Li was busy running between the two villages, and the sweat was dripping out on the hot day. Liu was busy preparing a dowry for Li Xin, from a bed, a cabinet, a dresser, a big box, to clothes and jewelry, rouge and gouache, and he couldn't wait to send her everything Li Xin needed to use.
Li Xin saw that her mother was thinking widely, so she hurriedly pulled her, saying that the Guan family was now going to marry two daughters-in-law, and a younger sister was going to get married, so she couldn't take out so much money to buy it. Liu Shi glared, "Why, my only daughter is going to get married, and I can't marry more things in the past?" I don't have a dowry in my mother-in-law's house, but I can't straighten my waist! β
"Mother, that's right, but you give so much dowry, doesn't it look shabby if people give less dowry?" Li Xin said helplessly: "This has not passed, and we are afraid that they will bully me, no matter how kind the Guan family is, there will be a thorn in their hearts." β
Liu Shi pouted, but the movements in his hands stopped involuntarily, looked at Li Xin and said, "Mother is afraid that you will be wronged in the past." β
"How can it, mother, I'm not a soft persimmon, if the Guan family really treats me badly, I won't bear it. Besides, isn't there still Jiro's fist? β
Liu laughed, grabbed Li Xin's hand and rubbed it, and then stroked Li Xin's back for a long time and said, "You are a good one, I just hope that the Guan family can recognize your goodness." β
The Guan family's actions are fast. Li Xin is preparing a dowry here, and the dowry of the Guan family has arrived.
The two younger brothers of the Guan family who came to give the dowry were the second and fourth brothers of the Guan family, and the fifth girl of the Guan family, Ah Xiu. Aunt Li brought someone to carry the thin box into the courtyard, and Li Houzhong and Liu came out together. Guan Lao Er Mu was honest, and Aunt Li pulled him and said, "This is the second child of the Guan family, and that is the fourth child." Guan Er, this is your future sister-in-law's father, and you will be hit if you shout Uncle and Auntie. β
Guan Lao Er hurriedly shouted, Guan Lao Si was more flexible, and after calling someone, he also complimented him twice. Ah Xiu whispered to his brother to call someone, a little recognized, and his delicate mouth pursed slightly.
Liu frowned slightly when he saw the thin box, Zhang pulled her sleeve behind him, and Liu sighed: "It's a hot day, come into the house and drink saliva." β
Li Houzhong was also busy greeting people, and personally went to pour the tea and bring it out. Guan Lao Er took it crampedly, hanging his head and not saying a word. Guan Laosi smiled and said, "Uncle's body is okay?" β
"It's good, my daughter rubs my shoulders and beats my legs every night, there's nothing wrong with it."
Li Houzhong sat happily, rubbed his hands, and didn't say anything, this kind of thing should have been a woman's communication, he didn't adapt to this atmosphere, "You say, I'll go out and be busy, sit wide, sit wide." β
Guan Laosi hurriedly stood up and made a gesture with Li Houzhong. When Li Houzhong went out, Liu said: "His aunt, has the wedding date been set?" β
"It's set, the eighth day of the first month of next month, the auspicious day of the zodiac, if you miss it, you will have to wait for the New Year." Aunt Li hurriedly held an almanac for Liu to read, pointed to one of the pages and said: "On this day, it is appropriate to get married, and it is appropriate to live in a house, which is a very good day." β
Liu smiled, "Auntie, I'm sorry for you." β
"It's not troublesome, it's not troublesome, Xin girl's matter can help me, how can it be troublesome?"
Liu asked the Guan family about some specific matters related to the marriage, and Guan Lao Er was not specific, but Guan Lao Si said it in a timely and detailed manner. Liu thinks this young man is not bad, he also saw it in front of the closed house that day, and he can bear it, but when I see him today, I think he is also clever in speaking, but he is also a clever person.
As he spoke, Liu noticed Ah Xiu. She sat quietly and silently, looking quiet, worthy of her name. However, it is not good for the little girl's family to follow the family to discuss family affairs, Liu thought about it, and called Zhang to lead Ah Xiu to sit.
Zhang smiled and took Ah Xiu's hand, and Ah Xiu looked at her second brother and fourth brother.
"Go ahead, don't make a mess."
Ah Xiu nodded obediently and went out with Zhang.
"Our family is small, and the two babies in my house are still asleep, so it's not good to lead you in to rest, lest the two mud monkeys wake up and haunt people."
Zhang smiled, but there was a scale in his heart. She felt that Ah Xiu should not have come to the house to discuss family affairs with her brothers, but mostly to see her future sister-in-law.
The sister-in-law herself is a good one, and she is not afraid of her. Zhang's selfishness is that he wants Ah Xiu to be with Li Xin everywhere and know how good she is, so that Ah Xiu can go back and tell her eldest brother to hear it, so that her eldest brother will have a good impression of Li Xin.
So Zhang led her to Li Xin's room.
There was no one in the room on the other side of the West House, and Zhang saw the sewing basket on Li Xin's bed, but there was a small baby's clothes in it, and the soft fabric was already half ready. After thinking about it, Zhang knew that this should be made for the Jiang family's arms, and couldn't help but smile with emotion.
Ah Xiu looked at the room carefully.
The house is small, but very clean, a small window is slightly open, and on the window hangs gardenias that are threaded into a string, and when the wind blows, the fragrance of gardenias comes to the nose, no wonder the whole room has a faint fragrance.
In the whole room, except for one bed, there was only a table made of wooden planks next to the bed. Under the wooden platform was a box, on which was clean and dust-free, but there was a book and a few loose pieces of paper. There was a pen stand on the right side of the wooden platform, and in front of the pen stand was a pen restβthese two things that Ah Xiu had only seen at the sixth brother.
Ah Xiu was suddenly a little flustered, and said incoherently: "I, my sister-in-law will be ...... in the future Can you read? β
Zhang smiled: "Yes, when she is idle, she enlightens her two nephews and teaches them to read, read and count words." β
Ah Xiu whispered in disbelief: "Why didn't you listen to my eldest brother......"
"Your eldest brother probably doesn't know."
The marriage was interspersed with peace by Aunt Li, Guan Wen had never seen Li Xin, and Aunt Li said that this family matter would not specifically say that Li Xin was literate, and Aunt Li might not know it.
As he was talking, Li Xin came back with a book in his arms, and when he saw the door open, he saw that Zhang was about to say hello, but he saw Ah Xiu standing on the side.
Li Xin knew that she couldn't stand by the side when she officially said goodbye, so she avoided it. She also heard that the five girls of the Guan family also followed her brother to get hired, and she was thinking about whether to say hello to her, but she met her before she could think about it.
When Zhang saw Li Xin, he immediately smiled and said: "It's really impossible to talk about people behind your back, no, as soon as you say you, you will appear." β
"What bad things does my sister-in-law say about me?"
"Praise you." Zhang smiled, watching Li Xin put the book in his arms on the wooden platform, frowning slightly: "What kind of book is this?" β
"A thousand words."
Li Xin put the book away, tidied up the wooden platform, turned around and answered Zhang's words, and then said to Ah Xiu: "You are Ah Xiu, the fifth girl of the Guan family, right?" β
Ah Xiu watched Li Xin's white and tender fingers move on the wooden platform, and only felt that he had never seen such a meticulous person in the village. Even the former second sister-in-law in the family is not as good-looking as this future sister-in-law when she is carefully dressed. I heard that she used to be the most beautiful girl in Lijia Village, and it seems to be true.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law......" Ah Xiu didn't know what to call Li Xin for a while, her face flushed and she held back such a word, and after shouting, she felt that it was not good to call it like this, but she heard Li Xin already say softly: "Well, look at you, sweat in your head." I'll bring you a bowl of herbal tea. β
"No, don't ......"
Axiunuo said, but Li Xin had already gotten up and poured her herbal tea back, and reached out to her, "Drink it, it won't be so cold after a long time of being left outside." β
After taking the tea and drinking it slowly, Ah Xiu wiped her mouth, her eyes were shining, "Thank you, thank you...... Sister-in-law......"
"Well, you're welcome."
Li Xin took back the tea bowl and put it on the wooden table, sat on the edge of the bed, took the sewing basket and began to make clothes again, and said as she was doing, "Is the family okay?" β
Ah Xiu stammered, "It's okay, it's okay, it's all good......"
Zhang laughed softly, "You girl don't have to be so nervous, your future sister-in-law is very kind." β
Ah Xiu pursed her lips and smiled, still apprehensive in her heart. Sun's family is from a peasant family and is so fancy and charming, this sister-in-law came back from that kind of place that specializes in hooking people, will it be more difficult than Sun's? She didn't dare to take it lightly.
Li Xin didn't care about her slurred reply, it would take time for the two of them to get acquainted.
Li Xin asked Ah Xiu some more questions, and Ah Xiu answered them all although he was stumbling. Seeing that Li Xin has always been very friendly, Ah Xiu gradually relaxed, seeing that Li Xin is very skilled in being a female celebrity, and she doesn't look like a person who comes to reach out for food to open her mouth, and then look at her face, she didn't apply a little powder, a little rouge.
"Sister-in-law, you, why don't you dress up?"
"Dressed?"
Li Xin looked at herself, and when she saw her staring at her face, she smiled and said: "It's refreshing and comfortable, in the summer, apply some rouge gouache, and when you sweat, it's all mushy." β
This made Ah Xiu laugh. Sun loves to dress up, and he often has a confused face in the summer.