After dinner, the elders chatted in the hall, and Chu Yi treated the wounds of the two geese in the corner of the courtyard, cut their wings by the way, built a fence, and kept them in captivity in their own yard before the recruitment.

Chu Li plucked a few pigweeds from the outside, squatted on the side and fed the geese carelessly: "Brother, have you thought of a way to get the bride price?" ”

"Well, Brother is about to discuss this with you." Chu Yi said and put the wild goose in the fence that had just been fenced, patted the ashes on his body, and led his younger brother back to the house of the two.

Chu Yi took out a navy blue purse from the inside of the kang cabinet and poured the silver coins and copper plates inside onto the kang in one go!

"Daddy left us some silver money when he left, but you remember not to talk about it, there have been no big expenses over the years, plus one or two from selling wild geese today, now it is a total of ten taels three hundred and seventy-two."

Chu Li didn't know what his brother was doing when he said this, but he was a little strange: "Brother, aren't the geese in the yard?" ”

"Your cousin Chu Ping is amazing, he caught two pairs today, and sold one pair."

As he spoke, he took out the one or two in his arms and put them together, and then said, "Brother wants to discuss with you, take out four taels from here as a dowry, and keep the rest for you to study, okay?" ”

Chu Li shook his head and pushed all the money on the kang to Chu Yi's side: "Brother take it, I won't go to the school!" ”

"The village school only needs to pay 300 copper coins a year, why do you need to drop out of school to marry your brother!"

The Great Qian Dynasty admired literati and writers, and the style of scientific research and anthology prevailed, as long as it was not the family that could not open the pot, most of them would send boys to read and write!

There are schools and private schools all over the country, and there are as many as three schools for children to enlighten them in mountain villages!

At present, Chu Li is only in the stage of enlightenment, and it does not cost money, and those who really study are like Sun Churen, the head of the Chu family.

If you have already passed the examination, it means that you have some ability to read, so you need to go to a university or private school in the town or even the county to study, which is the beginning of the real imperial examination!

Early the next morning, Chu Yigang went to the grandfather's house next door.

Chu Ping was still asleep in the bed, and he was dragged up in a daze: "Cousin, why did you come here so early?" ”

"There's something I have to entrust you to do, and I have to keep it a secret from others for the time being." Chu Yi said, took out the things in his arms and handed them to his cousin Chu Ping, and told him his plans again, and saw that he had written them down, and then went back to his yard.

Yesterday, I had already delayed my work for a day, and I couldn't delay it any longer today, so I could only entrust the matter to my cousin Chu Ping.

September 30, on the last day of September, the Chu family is going to the Shen family today to pay the gift!

Na Zheng also called for the next hire, and the man's relatives and friends had to blow and blow all the way and send the dowry to the woman's home.

Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, Chu Yi held two geese with red ropes tied around their necks, followed by Qin Matchmaker at the forefront, followed by his younger brother Chu Li, holding a tray covered with red cloth in his hand, and then his cousin Chu Ping and Chu Yi's Fa Xiao Zhao Cheng carrying wine, tea, pastries and other dowry gifts, and finally followed by Uncle Chu and other Chu family relatives!

As soon as the hired team entered Hexi Village, the villagers were constantly attracted by the sound of gongs and drums to watch the excitement, and the children and idle adults of each family followed all the way to the front of Shen's house.

Mrs. Qin stood still and shouted with a smile: "The Shen family has a hundred women to ask for, and the Chu family is the first to come out!" The Shen family is about to open the door, and the Chu family is here! ”

With the festive voice of the Qin matchmaker, the door of the Shen family opened with a 'click', and everyone in the Shen family happily welcomed the Chu family and the villagers who came to join in the fun, holding a box full of melon seeds and candy to give everyone joy!

Mrs. Qin instructed Chu Ping to put the dowry in the courtyard of the Shen family, signaling the neighbors who were watching the excitement to be calm, and then took out the gift list she and Chu Yi had prepared last night from her arms and spread it out, cleared her throat and sang: "The male should get married, and the female should marry and marry; Thousands of miles of marriage are tied by a thread, and men and women love for a hundred years! Chu Jiaerlang asked to marry the daughter of the Shen family, a pair of wild geese, two jars of mellow wine, two cans of tea, four boxes of various pastries, six taels of silver, a pair of plain silver bracelets, a pair of Ruyi silver bracelets, a pair of peach blossom silver earrings, and a peach blossom silver hairpin......"

If Uncle Chu was present and listened to this gift list, he would have been very surprised, didn't he say that he would be the same as Chu Ren at the beginning, and make up a dowry of ten taels? How did it become six taels plus some silver jewelry?

Chu Yi originally wanted to make up ten taels, but then he thought about it, if Grandpa and Grandma knew, it was estimated that they would count all the extra seven taels on the third uncle's head!

Although Tian Sanliang and Tian Qi Liang are all added, they have not been crossed over by their son, and the third uncle is even more indispensable to be reprimanded, and the tired third uncle is not good at life, so it is not good.

simply asked his cousin Chu Ping to run away from the silversmith shop in the town for him, and turned all the four taels of silver into silver jewelry!

Every time Qin Matchmaker says the same, she will open it and show it to everyone, the ones in front are okay, although the geese are difficult to catch, but now the season is just right, as long as you are willing to take the time, you can always catch it, and the other ones are not all these, and there is nothing unusual, until the tray that Chu Li was holding was lifted, and the villagers who came to join in the fun began to discuss.

"Aunt Li, I think the two pairs of bracelets have to have two or three taels of silver, and they also paid six taels of dowry, doesn't it mean that the Chu family's life is not as good as before, this doesn't look like it?" The daughter-in-law of the Wang family is a little puzzled, can she still pay for the bride money and jewelry if she is broken?

Aunt Li, who was asked, disagreed: "Two, three, two? Counting the silver hairpin and earrings, I don't think there will be four or five taels! ”

The mother-in-law of the Liu family, who came to join in the fun, explained: "The daughter-in-law of the Wang family, you have just married into our Hexi Village, and you may not know very well, unlike your mother's side, these villages near us are surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the cultivated land is also fertile, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, your life will not be too bad!" Although they are all dug in the ground, but as the years go by, who still doesn't have a ten, two, eight, or two, not to mention that this Chu family still has a craft! ”

Aunt Li also said: "Yes, if it weren't for these years, the Chu family would have had too many bad things, and everyone in the family would point to this Chu Yi, this handsome son-in-law with craftsmanship, who doesn't want it!" ”

The mother-in-law of the Liu family looked at the things on the tray and was amazed: "This six taels of silver dowry is nothing in our place, just an ordinary amount, but the dowry gift sent so many silver jewelry, I really haven't seen it, how can a country woman use that expensive thing!" ”

The daughter-in-law of the Wang family was a little dissatisfied, but the fact that Mrs. Liu said that his mother's village was indeed poor, and she was married for two taels of silver at the beginning, and she thought it was a good thing, and now she knows the truth about her husband's family, and she is very angry!

Aunt Li pursed her lips and said in a low voice: "That's right, no matter how good life is in the countryside, I haven't seen anyone's eldest girl and little daughter-in-law wearing gold and silver, not to mention that the Chu family is not useful, they all point to this Chu Yi, the next hire is so extravagant, it seems that it is not a person who will live, and I don't know what it will be like in the future!" ”

Everyone in the Chu family had already been invited to sit by the Shen family, and the eldest aunt Wang listened to these words, as if a nail had been pressed on the stool, and she couldn't sit still, her already black and yellow face was even tighter at the moment, without any smile, and a pair of cloudy little eyes were even more uncertain.

The eldest aunt Wang secretly speculated that when her son got married, she married the only daughter of a private school teacher in the town, and her in-laws paid a dowry of ten taels!

Her family Chu Ren is the hope of the old Chu family in the future!

This one of the second family, but he married the daughter of a pharmacy and gave six taels of dowry, why did he still have so much silver jewelry! I'm afraid there are not four or five taels, why!

Could it be that she and the head of the family have gone back less recently, so that the second family's stuffy gourd has deceived the second elder? No way! She has to go back and find out what her mother-in-law is talking about!

At the end of the levy ceremony, Mrs. Qin rolled up the gift list again and handed it over to the Shen family to take over along with the dowry.

Different from the day of the proposal, Shen Luzhu can show up today, but there were too many people in the courtyard before, and now the villagers who are joining in the fun have dispersed one after another, and Shen Luzhu came out to greet the elders of the Chu family one by one.

Chu Yi saw Shen Lu holding the woodcarved peach hairpin on her head, thinking that she should have put it on specially today, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly, it seemed to look better than the last time the cousin of the Shen family got married!

Shen Luzhu was following his sister-in-law to serve some tea and pastries to the guests and his parents, he felt as if someone was looking at him, he looked up and saw that it was Chu Yi, thought about it and walked over with the pastry, and then in Chu Yi's slightly surprised eyes, he suddenly turned his direction and stood in front of Chu Li: "Meet again, you are Chu Li!" ”

Chu Li didn't expect that the Shen family's sister would come to greet him, so he hurriedly stood up: "Hello Shen family's sister!" ”

"Well, sister, please eat pastries!" After that, he stroked the broken hair in front of Chu Li's forehead, put the pastry on the small table between the Chu Yi brothers, and took advantage of the fact that everyone was not paying attention, turned his head and said four words to Chu Yi silently, regardless of whether Chu Yi understood it or not, he left after speaking, and he didn't look like a chic!

Chu Yi stood in front of the closed door of the Shen family's pharmacy for a moment, hesitating whether Shen Luzhugang was talking about "front yard pharmacy", and finally pushed open the door, and when he saw that she was really inside, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Something to find me?" ”

Shen Luzhu patted the stool next to him, motioned for him to sit down, and then reached out and took the blue cloth bag on the table and handed it to Chu Yi: "Oh, it's for you." Then he pointed to the hairpin on his head and said, "It's a thank you gift for this hairpin, I like it very much!" ”

Chu Yi pinched the blue cloth bag in his hand, and was a little surprised: "What is it?" ”

"A-Niang said that there was a birthday for you and Chu Li in October, so she made a pair of soft-soled shoes and a bookbag."

Since the thug received Chu Yi's hairpin, Shen Luzhu has been wondering, should I send something in return to Chu Yi, it just so happened that A-Niang said that Chu Yi's brothers were born in October, so she simply did this, fortunately, she was an art student in her last life, and her hands-on ability is good, and it is not difficult for women to get red needlework!

After hearing this, Chu Yi opened the package in his hand, and rubbed the thin stitches with his fingers: "It's really good, Ah Li must like it too, thank you!" ”

For some reason, seeing him carefully examine the shoes, Shen Luzhu suddenly became a little embarrassed: "Thank you, you said it was a thank you gift from the hairpin...... By the way, where did you buy this hairpin, is it in town, the style is quite chic! ”

"I didn't buy it."

"Didn't you buy it? So, is it possible that you did it yourself? ”

Shen Luzhu heard Grandpa and Daddy say that Chu Yi's craftsmanship in making coffins is very good, even surpassing Grandpa Chu's, but he didn't expect that in addition to making coffins, he could also make such exquisite hairpins.

Shen Luzhu suddenly felt that his thank-you gift was a little out of his hands, Chu Yi was so attentive, and he made a hairpin for her with his own hands, what should I do as if I had picked up a treasure!

Chu Yi saw that the girl next to him had a very rich expression, one moment surprised, one moment a little annoyed, another moment surprised, and finally looked at himself with admiration on his face!

For a while, I had a lot of thoughts in my heart, just because of the sparkling stars in those black eyes!

After a long time, a thousand words turned into that sentence: "Well, if you like it!" ”