Chapter Seventy-One: Delicious
Xu Shiyan didn't know why the Wu family changed his hexagram, Xu Shide's marriage was very smooth in his previous life, and there were no such mistakes.
But he knew that it would be difficult to do well now.
Because Xu Shiyan clearly remembered that Wu Qiuyan entered the door on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month of the previous year, and gave birth to Xu Haiyang in the sixth lunar month of the second year.
At that time, it was said that the child was born prematurely, but Xu Haiyang gave birth to more than seven pounds, which was not premature at all.
If this is the case, at this time, Wu Qiuyan already has goods in her stomach.
What year is this? In '77, the folk customs were not so open.
The two of them slept together before they got married, and they were pregnant with a baby, and it was not only the woman who had no face when it came out, but also the man who was embarrassed.
Moreover, once the woman retorts and says that the man is a hooligan, the result will be even more terrible.
Xu Shide will be caught and squatted on the fence, and if it is heavy, it is possible to eat peanuts.
Of course, the Wu family should not be so ruthless, it is estimated that they just want to take the opportunity to take advantage of it and ask for more benefits from the Xu family.
Otherwise, they would have come directly, so that they would not let the matchmaker carry the letter and ask for so many things.
"Dad, don't beat him, things have come to this point, what's the use of beating? Let's figure it out. ”
Xu Shiyan sighed, he really didn't want to come back, as soon as he went home, he had all kinds of worries, and it was so difficult to stop and live his life?
"How can it be solved? A hundred yuan bride price, two turns and one ring, smashed my old bones, and our family can't take these out. ”
Xu Chenghou was stopped by his sons, and the broom pimple in his hand couldn't greet the fourth child, so he simply threw it over directly, just hitting his son's head.
"I just divided the money in the solar calendar year, except for the two of you, the four strong laborers in the family plus your mother, a total of about 600 yuan.
I took it to him and said daughter-in-law, our family can't live anymore? ”
The Xu family has a lot of labor, and there is a lot to eat, more than a dozen people, old and young, and they have to get thousands of catties of rations a year.
After deducting grain, it can be converted into six or seven hundred yuan, which is really a good life.
"Fourth, you go to the Wu family, have a good talk with the other side, and ask the Wu family what they think.
The conditions proposed by their family, not to mention our big house village, even if they go to the commune, no, even in the county, few families can do it. ”
"If their family doesn't want to get married, make it clear as soon as possible, don't be so embarrassed.
If their family still wants to marry their daughter, they can talk about it, and then make a fuss about it after the wedding date is set, and spread it out to make outsiders laugh. ”
Xu Shiyan thought about it for a while and proposed to let Xu Shide go to Wu's house to find out.
It's not suitable for others to come forward in this matter, anyway, Xu Shide is married, this bastard boy has done everything that should be done and shouldn't be done, he can't hide and not come forward when things come to an end, right?
"Huh? Let me go? Will it work? Xu Shide hesitated.
"Isn't it all about matchmakers when we talk about marriage? How can you talk about it yourself? ”
"You're not going? If you don't show up for your own marriage, who will come forward? What's up? Do you still want our father and mother to come forward?
Fuck off, hurry up, get things sorted out and come back. ”
In the past, Xu Shiyan had a low status at home, his father didn't want to see him, and his brothers looked down on him, so he didn't speak hard.
Now it's different, he has moved out to live another life, and his life is quite good, his waist is stiff, and of course he is hard to speak.
"Well, I think the third child is right. Fourth, you hurry up and go to Qingling.
Just tell the Wu family that they want a bride price of 100 yuan, and I can give it through gritted teeth, but the rest can't, we can't get it. ”
Xu Chenghou pondered for a while, and felt that there was only this way at present, so he immediately ordered Xu Shide to go to Qingling.
Xu Shide was full of unhappiness, but he couldn't help it.
I had to put on a coat, put on a hat and gloves, went out and went straight to Qingling, and went to talk to the Wu family.
"Oh, by the way, I also brought back a lot of meat, all in the yard."
Xu Shiyan then remembered that he had pulled half of the plow, and all of them were resting in the yard.
"The fourth child is going to get married and hold a banquet, I think that there is not much meat at home, and I have not been less drawn these days, so I want to come back for the fourth child to get married.
Old Five, come with me and move down, pack it up and keep it. Xu Shiyan said, got up and walked out.
The three brothers of the Xu family were all sitting in Beikang, and when they heard this, they hurriedly followed out.
Everyone else couldn't sit still and went out to watch the excitement. Look outside, good fellow, climb the plow with two sacks.
"What's this? It's all meat? The whole family was dumbfounded.
How many things did the third child pull on the mountain this winter? I often send it home, and today I got two sacks?
"Not all, there are some pine nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, grape cakes, soft dried dates, sugar plum cakes, mountain red skins, and mountain pear lumps.
It's all made by Eiko when she was idle on the mountain, and she kept it for the sixth child and the children to eat.
The rest is wild boar, black blind man, deer, roe deer meat.
Anyway, this winter is really not a little drawn, I left some favors, and the rest was brought to the family. ”
These two people are both idle people, and Su Anying is also pulling all kinds of when she goes up the mountain.
She can't hunt, but she can pick walnuts, hazelnuts, mountain grapes, sugar plums, and so on.
The mountain grapes were boiled into cakes and then dried according to Xu Shiyan's method, and the soft dates were dried directly.
The ripe sugar plums are rubbed out of powdery pulp with a sieve, steamed with a little starch and kneaded into small cakes to dry, which can also be used as snacks.
I peel off the skin of Yamanashi and wear it with thread and hang it to dry.
Dry it to a semi-dry pot and steam it, and then take it out to dry it after steaming, which is a pear lump.
The pear meat is coarse and sour, and it is not delicious to eat directly, but it is dried into pear lumps and steamed out with water, but it is particularly delicious with sweet and sour.
In the era when there were no snacks, these things were children's favorites.
It's just that most people don't have the time to get it, the autumn is too busy, and the autumn harvest can't take care of it, who has the leisure to do so?
Su Anying followed Xu Shiyan up the mountain, and she didn't have to do any work, so she did this under Xu Shiyan's guidance.
"Oh, third sister-in-law, it's better for you, get us so many delicious foods."
As soon as Xu Shiqin heard that there were so many snacks, he was happy.
A few small ones also came to Su Anying's side, the three aunts were long and the three aunts were short, which coaxed Su Anying into a daze.
Zhou Guilan was also very happy, walked up to the climbing plow, and carefully looked at the contents of the sack.
Then he instructed his son to put all kinds of frozen meat in the barn, and take the rest of the snacks and stuff in the house.
The things were unloaded from the plow, and the family returned to the East House rejoicing.
Zhou Guilan grabbed a few handfuls of food from the bag and asked Xu Shiqin to take the children to the Westinghouse to eat, and the adults here talked about it.
"The third child, the team divided the money a few days ago, and the money of the two of you is here with me."
Zhou Guilan got up, found a stack of money from the cabinet, and handed it to Xu Shiyan.
Xu Shiyan and his family shared a lot of work, in addition to food, they also divided more than 100 yuan and some tickets.
Xu Shiyan directly took out a hundred and stuffed it to his mother. "Mom, the fourth child is going to get married, I don't have much ability, that's all I can help."