Chapter 16: Three Sheets of Paper
Looking at the little brother who jumped out, Zhou Banxia smiled. The letter was taken out of the red wooden box, and the dowry slip was folded and put back in its place.
When the table is dispersed outside, the mahogany box will be carried out by her mother along with the dowry list, and handed over to the male matchmaker, one of the "three media" present today, to bring back to the man.
There are so many customs.
It's been simple again and again, and even the six salutes have been almost once today, but it's still quite frustrating, but I don't know what Xuanzi wrote in the letter.
I wrote three pieces of paper. Xu is still not used to using a brush, the pen seems weak, and the traditional Chinese characters written out will not be only one word on a piece of paper.
With this hand, he is not as good as her. has more than five years of experience in copying scriptures in the small study, and she can copy them as unforgettable as embroidery.
Look at the content again.
It's all about the general situation of the Gu family's four rooms, including the occupations of the people in each of their rooms, the amount of silver they pay every month or every year, and even the situation of the Yue family.
Charcoal is here in the snow.
She is not a city baby, she was originally the eldest daughter of a poor family in the valley, and she was later admitted to college and went out, so she knows the situation of rural people too well.
When I was a child, it was common for some people to have a little goosebumps, and the concubines could quarrel with each other, and even the men with them also fought.
Although there are good quarrels, good and noisy concubines, it is not that they have lost the quarrel and returned to their parents' house, and they brought people to fight with their husbands' families immediately, and even beat people to death.
Later, when the legal system was perfect, and the children and grandchildren of every family were not willing to live together, the village chief and the elderly in the village had little power, and fewer people were killed.
Now that dozens of people from four generations of the Gu family live under one roof, when their tongues still touch their teeth, not to mention that the whole family has a scholar, how can there be no contradictions.
Suddenly glanced at what Gu Wenxuan wrote on the last page of the paper, see you when you go out on the third watch tonight? The good ones don't learn, they learn the bad ones, and they hooked up with her to go out over the wall at night!
Zhou Banxia almost burst into laughter, but she just heard footsteps coming towards the room, it was her mother's footsteps accompanied by the eldest sister muttering something towards the room.
Make it difficult for them.
On weekdays, the two of them had already opened their voices and shouted, but before the person arrived, the voice arrived first, and now they had to whisper softly.
Putting away the letterhead, Zhou Banxia didn't wait for anyone to enter the room, and took the lead in placing the wooden box containing the dowry list in a clear place where the Li family could see it at a glance when he came in.
"You're alone in the house."
Zhou Daya suddenly remembered that she seemed to have said that she would stay in the house with the third sister today and not go anywhere, and then smiled: "I'm busy forgetting it, I'm hungry, the eldest sister will go and serve food." ”
Zhou Banxia was busy waving his hand, and now you are coming and going outside, pushing cups and changing lamps lively, and there are many people in chaos. "Not hungry, pastries. Wait for the guests to leave, let's eat together. ”
Well said!
You're not as good as your sister. Both elders are here, what to eat. How long has it been since I ate it in the morning, eat and eat, and starve to death and reincarnate!
Li opened his mouth and closed it, but he couldn't hold back his scolding, and picked up the wooden box with the double happiness word paper-cut, "Have you added all the dowry gifts you took away?" ”
"Fill in all three."
"Okay, my mother will take it out first and hand it over to the Gu family's grandmother (the man's matchmaker). There are a lot of people outside, you wait in the house first, ask you to go out, and then your mother will call you. ”
Seeing Li come out of the room, Zhou Daya squeezed her eyes at Zhou Banxia, "Have you seen it?" People outside are afraid of bumping into you, and when you turn around and go to your mother-in-law's house, your mother must not cry to death. ”
You don't understand this, our father prepared the elder's dowry list last night and had a purpose, that is, he wanted the second elder of the Gu family to open his mouth and let your third sister and I go to the field to do farm work.
But speaking too showy, even if almost all of the family's wealth is saved by her, no matter how arrogant her temperament is, it doesn't mean that she is happy to see her parents treat her differently.
"It's the same, my mother also loves you. She was worried that there were many people outside, because she was afraid that I didn't know the wrong person and made a joke. Did you see Dajiang, no one poured him into a bar? ”
Zhou Daya shook her head, "Your brother-in-law and Gu Liulang are here." Sister looked, brother-in-law is good, he and our family, and asked your brother-in-law why he didn't bring the child. ”
That is, if Xuanzi wants to be self-cooked, anyone can treat him as warm-hearted. "That's good, and he and his brother-in-law will have more contact in the future."
Chow Daya was very happy to hear this. The two younger brothers are still young, but they have to go back and forth more to help the two younger brothers, otherwise they will be able to choke on their parents.
The two sisters chatted quietly for a while, and the three-party matchmaker who was outside had already left the banquet early and returned to the hall to begin to do their part.
Speaking auspicious words, Aunt Gu took the dowry list handed over by the Li family, and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou patriarch also looked at the return gift that the Li family had prepared to bring back to the man.
The banquet in the courtyard in front of him was dispersed at noon as Zhou Banxia expected, and the two elders and relatives who were guests all warmly greeted each other and stood up.
In the hall, Aunt Gu got the dowry list, and then listened to the movement, and mentioned to the other two matchmakers that it was almost noon, that is, twelve o'clock, and the implication was that it was time to leave.
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou patriarch had already determined that there was no rudeness to return the gift at this time, and when she heard this, she also happily called Zhou Banxia, who was staying in the West House, to come out, and arranged for someone to move the return gift.
Zhou Banxia is not slow to come out, the hot Zhou Daya is here, she wants to straighten her clothes, take a look at the hairstyle is messed up, and she is about to be dragged out.
Following the guidance of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou patriarch, Zhou Banxia, who didn't know what customs to follow next, went out of the hall with a few of them, and saw Gu Wenxuan in the courtyard again.
Gu Wenxuan accompanied the elders behind his father Gu Erzhu, listening to them chatter as they walked out, and he was looking back to see if Zhou Banxia had come out.
In the crowd, the two looked at each other.
Seeing that Patriarch Gu and the others in front of him were about to leave the hospital, Gu Wenxuan quickly turned around and strode away, standing one step away from Zhou Banxia, and said quickly.
"Wait for me, I'll pick you up in twelve days."
"Okay, wait for you!" Zhou Banxia was a little stunned by such a sudden attack from him, and his mouth was quick for a while, only to find that there were many people on the side.
There was a moment of silence and laughter.
Gu Erzhu is even more happy to spend.
Yes, I know how to protect my daughter-in-law when I am outside. It is worthy of his second seed! Saying this, who doesn't know that his family Liulang likes his daughter-in-law very much, and the two children are also in love.
"Okay, don't be happy, look at the two children's faces are red. Gone, a village, now all hired, you can see whenever you want. ”
So, there is no rule that men and women cannot meet before marriage? Zhou Banxia really didn't know that Qinghe Village didn't have this custom, so she couldn't do it in the prefect city.
The young ladies in Gaofu are all after the invitation period, that is, after the date of marriage is chosen, the man and woman must not be able to meet before the marriage.
In that case, why do you still meet in the middle of the night? She didn't believe that Gu Wenxuan, who inherited her memory, would not know this custom, so she could just come to the door?