"Then what kind of upright person did your grandmother find?" Sun Jingxuan followed her and hurriedly asked.

Liu Guiyuan looked at his series of anxious and nervous expressions, and had already guessed that Sun Jingxuan had affection for her eldest sister, but they were women who couldn't take the initiative to speak, so they could only take another dose of cruel medicine, so they pretended to be worried:

"Grandma is worried about this, and there is always no suitable one to pick and choose, either because the age does not match, or the person is not outstanding, it is really sad. By the way, Brother Sun, you know a lot of people, if there are upright people, you might as well recommend it. ”

After Liu Guiyuan said this, he didn't look at Sun Jingxuan, he walked out with an empty basket, and only walked a dozen steps, when he heard Sun Jingxuan shouting at her to stay, Liu Guiyuan's heart blossomed, but he still pretended not to know and asked: "What's the matter, Brother Sun, what did I leave behind?" ”

"No, that, Miss Guiyuan, you go back and ask your eldest sister, just ask her what she thinks of me?"

Sun Jingxuan let it go, he knew that if he didn't take the initiative, he would really lose the opportunity.

"What do you think?"

Liu Guiyuan looked at him with a narrow face, Sun Jingxuan suddenly understood, Liu Hongzao didn't want to say kiss at all, it was clearly Liu Guiyuan teasing him, but he was not annoyed, anyway, he just showed his heart, and he didn't look like a man anymore, so he took a deep breath and said seriously:

"I want to ask your eldest sister, what does she think of me, if she has that heart, she will ...... I'll call my mother to your house to propose marriage. ”

Liu Guiyuan knew that people in this time and space could reach this point in love, so he no longer embarrassed the other party, but said the words that he had thought of a long time ago, and said:

"My eldest sister is a woman after all, how can this kind of thing be announced, so let's go to the store in front of me to buy a sachet for me, if my eldest sister is interested in you, she will embroider the pattern on the sachet and give it to you personally, if it is unintentional, then I will return it to you, what?"

Sun Jingxuan didn't agree, he quickly ran to the embroidery pavilion in front, bought three or five plain sachets, handed them to Liu Guiyuan, and said that he was not in a hurry when he left, and asked her eldest sister to embroider slowly.

Liu Guiyuan covered his mouth and smiled, holding a handful of plain sachets of different colors, and went home happily, seeing her eldest sister, he threw the sachet into the other party's arms, and said with a smile: "Oh, Brother Sun bought it himself, and I told me to give it to you, and I don't know what it means." ”

Liu Hongzao glanced at the sachet in her arms, how could she not know what this meant, her cheeks turned red, she was afraid that Guiyuan would make fun of her, so she only lowered her head and did not speak.

"What, what did you buy?"

Liu Huanan was still resting on the bed because the sunflower water did not recede, and when he heard Guiyuan's voice, he hurriedly got off the kang and came out with his shoes on his feet, and when he saw a pile of colorful sachets, he couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing:

"Eldest sister, you have to thank Gui Yuan, if she hadn't met Brother Sun in the town, where did you get this marriage?"

Liu Hongzao stared at her with a stiff face, and said, "Then ask Gui Yuan to drive Ming'er to the town to meet more people, and then promote a marriage for you, okay?" ”

Liu Huaanhua's face is now a little lighter, and he is not as resistant to the future marriage as before, and said with a smile: "Okay, just ask Guiyuan to help me find it, we both marry in the town, and when the time comes, we will meet every day and talk about family life, what's the matter?" ”

Liu Hongzao was so angry that she stood up and made a gesture to beat her, and the three sisters beat Pippi for a while, and Grandma Luo heard it in the back room, so she came over and asked them what was worthy of their happiness.

"Grandma, that's what happened......"

Grandma Luo is not an outsider, Liu Guiyuan feels that it is necessary to tell her about the eldest sister and Brother Sun's eyes, first, once there is Grandma Luo's acquiescence, the eldest sister and Brother Sun will meet and interact in the future, and it will not be considered to be overstepping the rules and having a personal relationship; Second, if he can get her permission, there will be no resistance from his father and mother in the future for the marriage of the two.

In this time and space, Liu Guiyuan can be said to be bold in making money and getting rich, but in terms of the relationship between men and women, it is better for her to be cautious, after all, the ancient etiquette is very different from that of later generations.

After listening to Guiyuan's narration and the addition of peanuts, Grandma Luo realized that the three granddaughters were so capable, not only running an ice powder business at home, but also the owner of a foot shop in the town. Obediently, I knew that the three girls were so good at making money, why did Xiangxue and her family go away to live that hard life?

"Grandma, when my father and mother left, Brother Sun's foot shop was opened, and they insisted on leaving, we couldn't stop them."

Liu Guiyuan was afraid that Grandma Luo would blame them, so he quickly stood up and explained, Liu Guiyuan chose not to say it at that time, he was indeed selfish, but his father and mother wanted to go out to ask for food to earn money and the secret recipe for finding a child, which was also true.

Grandma Luo sighed slightly: "Alas, Grandma doesn't blame you, but she just thinks that there are some creations that make people, if your mother is not so stubborn, she is already living a good life at home now, so why bother." ”

Grandma Luo sighed for a while, then cheered up again, looked at them and said with a smile: "The descendant surnamed Sun you said, drive Ming'er to take me to the town to have a look, if it is really a straight person, your father and mother are not there, I will allow them first." ”

Liu Guiyuan and Liu Huahua glanced at each other, knowing that their grandmother agreed to this, and hugged each other happily, and Liu Hongjube was happy.

Pursed his lips and smiled shyly.

Grandma Luo is not an old-fashioned person, or in other words, she has lived to this age, and she has seen many things, as long as that person has a good character, is responsible, and can treat red dates sincerely, red dates will not suffer if they marry in the past.

The family had lunch happily, Liu Guiyuan came to Liu Jindi's house happily with his little hands behind his back, and the eldest aunt Gu had just eaten, and when she saw her, she asked her if she had eaten, and sat down to eat together.

"Eat, my family ate early today, auntie, rubbed a few buckets today, and my eldest sister and I are still rubbing at our own house."

Liu Guiyuan came over to ask this, Grandma Luo is now at home, she and her eldest sister want to rub ice powder at home, and a few people talk about homely things, which is more comfortable than at Liu Jindi's house.

The eldest aunt looked under the fig tree, where there were four buckets of kneaded ice powder, and before she had time to send it to the cellar, she smiled and said, "I don't have much to do in the afternoon, I rub two buckets here, and you also rub two buckets over there, okay?" ”

Liu Guiyuan nodded, and was about to leave, when the eldest aunt called out to her and asked: "Longan, the watermelon in my field is ripe, and it will be harvested in the next two days, and your family is about the same, what should you do with this ice powder when you see it?" ”

Gu's family planted a whole acre of watermelons, this year ripe well, just in time for the dog days, these watermelons received home, all of them can be sold at a good price, and the watermelons are durable, can be sold until the autumn is slightly cool.

Yes, the watermelon is ripe, the watermelon at this time is still quite expensive, a pound can be sold for a penny, each watermelon can be sold for two to five cents due to different sizes.

A watermelon vine produces an average of 3 watermelons, an acre of land can be planted 300 plants, according to each watermelon three and a half dollars to sell, then an acre of watermelon can earn at least three taels of silver, of course, this value is only an idealized calculation, the specific yield per mu, but also depends on the actual output in the field.

"It's okay, the ice powder business will stop for two days, and we'll talk about it when we have finished collecting the watermelon."

Liu Guiyuan had thought about this in advance, not only did she grow watermelons in her own family, but also the fourth grandmother's family and Uncle Gu's mother's house planted watermelons. As for the two buckets of ice powder that Yang Mansion wants every day, they can make it at home.

After returning to Uncle Gu's holiday, Liu Guiyuan turned his head and went to the watermelon field, and took a look at them one by one, although these watermelons looked small, most of them were ripe, and they couldn't wait any longer, so it was better to start harvesting them tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, when the sun just rose, the weather was not hot, Liu Guiyuan's three sisters came to the melon field with dung baskets and cloth bags.

If you want to say that harvesting melons, it is much happier than harvesting wheat, finding watermelons in the field, twisting the melon seedlings, and piling them one by one to the ground, and then borrowing a car to pull them home later, of course, Liu Guiyuan did not forget, their family had to return two hundred watermelons to the field.

"Eldest sister, you said that growing watermelons makes so much money, why do we only grow half an acre?"

Liu Guiyuan's arms were sore while holding watermelons, so she could only squat in place to rest her hands and watch her two sisters collect melons.

Liu Hongzao picked a crooked melon, put it at his feet first, and then picked two big ones, one by one in the dung basket, and then replied to her words: "It seems that you have to pay melon tax if you plant too much, I heard that it is higher than the grain tax, our father and our mother calculated an account, and said that they only planted half an acre for a few dollars." ”

Liu Guiyuan thought about it a little in his heart, it is really the truth, if the melon tax is higher than the grain tax, the common people must choose a variety of grains first, so that the imperial court can ensure the grain output of the peasants, and the common people will not have a famine crisis because of a variety of melons and less grain.

However, Liu Guiyuan thinks that as long as his family has enough land and grows two or three acres of watermelons, even if he pays the melon tax, the remaining profits are extremely considerable, but Liu's family has a total of four land, so there is no need to take this risk.

At noon, Grandma Luo followed her to deliver a meal, and the three sisters sat under the mulberry tree a hundred meters away, eating the egg cakes made by Grandma, and when they were thirsty, they opened two watermelons that were not so good-looking to eat.

As the saying goes, crooked melon cracked jujube, this not very good watermelon, tastes very sweet, red melon pulp, black melon seeds, basically very close to the watermelon of later generations.

In the afternoon, when the three sisters saw that the watermelons were almost picked, they went to the second uncle's house to borrow an ox cart, and with his help, they collected most of the watermelons in the field.

"The first time I planted melons, I didn't clean up very diligently, there were more than 300, plus the ones that were not picked in the ground, a total of 350 can be gathered." Liu Huahua counted the watermelons one by one three times, shouting very happily.

"In this way, it seems that we are not a loss for watermelons this time, in addition to returning them, we can still get two hundred."

Liu Hongzao pulled up her sweaty hair, tied it with a hairband, sat on the bench on the threshold, and couldn't help laughing as she watched the peanuts count melons outside.

"Eldest sister, second sister, the remaining two hundred, let's only sell one hundred, and keep the remaining one for ourselves, okay?"

Liu Guiyuan was reluctant to sell all the melons, and now that their family is not as short of money as before, they don't want to treat their stomachs too badly.