Mr. Liu opened the door, it was Liu Qian, and the dinner outside was ready to stop.

Although tonight's dinner is a little rushed, but it is also sumptuous, most of them are Liu Yueyue's home has made haode, some of the dishes and snacks made by Liu Qian are also icing on the cake, so that everyone who has not eaten her craft for a long time is very appetizing, the guests and hosts are happy during the banquet, and they said a lot of gossip, Liu Butcher's family knows what Mr. Liu means, and they are also very happy for Liu Qian, and they also said a lot of blessings, but they have not officially engaged to the Zhang family, so they are still very subtle when they speak.

Everyone was very happy, only Zhang Xiaohu glanced at Liu Yueyue from time to time from the corner of his eye, but unfortunately, Liu Yueyue's attention was not on him, which made him inevitably disappointed.

After the meal, after talking for a while, Liu Qian, who had been walking all afternoon, had already yawned, so Liu Kai arranged for the two brothers Zhang Xiaolong to stay overnight to rest, and the Liu Butcher's family also went home to rest.

Early the next morning, Zhang Xiaolong's brothers were about to resign and go back to Guozhuang, Liu Qian considered that she hadn't been home for a long time and wanted to stay for a few more days, and Zhang Xiaolong wanted to discuss the engagement with her father and mother when she went back this time, so she was really shy and didn't go back. Mr. Liu specially instructed Zhang Xiaolong to go back to explain his mind to Zhang Cai, not to have a pimple in his heart about the previous refusal, and to ask Zhang Xiaolong to pick a good day and an auspicious day to come over and book the family affairs.

Zhang Xiaolong naturally agreed, so in Liu Qian's reluctant gaze, the two of them went on the road.

The way back is full of sweetness, and the way back is full of joy.

Back to Guozhuang, you can pass through the low wall of the Zhang family, and see the family standing in the small courtyard, looking at the entrance of the village from time to time. Seeing Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu appear in the field of vision, Zhang Xiaohua was the first to jump up, ran out quickly, ran to Zhang Xiaolong, and asked happily: "Big brother, how is the situation? What about the good news that we are all looking forward to? Huh~~ Why didn't Sister Qianqian come back with her? Is it ......?"

Zhang Xiaohua was a little afraid to ask.

Before Zhang Xiaolong could speak, Zhang Xiaohu said angrily: "You didn't see that the eldest brother had peach blossoms on his face, and he was happily closing his mouth, you still took the bottle in my hand first, I carried it all the way." ”

Zhang Xiaohua became happy at this time, and did not take the bottle in Zhang Xiaohu's hand, but turned around and ran home to report to her father.

Zhang Cai and Guo Sufei, who received the good news, were also very happy and ran to the gate of the courtyard to greet their son. Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu were clustered into the Zhang family's courtyard like heroes, and when Zhang Xiaolong sat down on the chair, took the boiling water handed by Zhang Xiaohua, and drank a few sips, then began to talk about the situation in Baligou, Zhang Cai and Guo Sufei listened to the eyebrows flying, and secretly put down a big stone in their hearts. Happily, I really didn't see the wrong person, Mr. Liu is still a friend who can make deep friends, of course, he will be a good family in the future, and he is a good family that can be assured, the worry is that this engagement should have a bride price or something, and his family's family background is like this, this aspect is a problem, give less, his face doesn't matter, Mr. Liu's face can't hang up, and give more, he really can't afford it, and it will make Zhang Xiaolong and Liu Qian's future life difficult.

However, these are all things to consider later, and the key now is to celebrate a little and set a date first. Guo Sufei also happily told her grandmother, who was already bedridden, the good news, and her grandmother was also happy and rosy.

A few days later, the Zhang family was immersed in joy, when the spring returned to the earth, Zhang Xiaolong's spring also came, Zhang Cai and Guo Sufei were busy with the engagement, Zhang Xiaolong and other brothers were busy with spring plowing and spring planting in the field, this day is getting warmer day by day, the land in the field has long been frozen, and the warm spring breeze blowing on the face is to remind people that spring ploughing is not too early.

The custom of engagement is also very simple, that is, the man's father and mother bring all kinds of gifts, and prepare the man's birthday, to the woman's home, the woman accepts the gift, and gives the woman's birthday to the man. In fact, the bride price is just some kinds of gifts, but people have the psychology of comparison, this gift is each family than each family, at this time, many times directly send silver, sometimes also called lottery money.

No, Zhang Cai and his wife are worried about the lottery.

Zhang Cai believes that Liu Qian is a good daughter-in-law and should give more prize money, saying that it is very precious for the Zhang family to marry this daughter-in-law, and Mr. Liu is also very face-saving, Guo Sufei believes that although there should be something to say, but the conditions of his own family are limited and cannot be too valuable, otherwise the daughter-in-law will not be able to marry her, and this day will not be able to pass first.

Zhang Cai actually knew about this situation, and he thought so before, but when it came to the matter, he hesitated. After all, don't you still have hundreds of taels of silver tickets hidden at home? With this possibility, of course I want to do things better in my heart. When Zhang Cai talked about the silver ticket, Guo Sufei was also a little hesitant, when he told Liu Qian before, he also made up his mind to use the silver ticket, but was stopped by Liu Qian, at this time, since there is a silver ticket, why not use it? Besides, more than a month has passed, and no one has come to the house to make trouble, presumably people really take this money as compensation, so, this money is their own, why use it?

The differences between the husband and wife seem to be disappearing, and both tend to use this silver ticket. So, Guo Sufei took out the silver ticket hidden at the bottom of the box and the token. Then he called Zhang Xiaolong into the back room.

Zhang Xiaolong's injuries healed rapidly, and he no longer needed to fix his arm after a few days of hard work, but his injured arm was not able to lift heavy objects. Zhang Xiaolong entered the back room and asked, "Daddy, mother, is there anything wrong?" I was about to go down to the ground to loosen the soil. ”

Guo Sufei said lovingly: "Your arm hasn't healed yet, it's better to do less work, let Xiaohu and Xiaohua do more." ”

Zhang Xiaolong said with a smile: "I've been in bed long enough this month, this bone feels rusty, and it's really comfortable to move now." Besides, Xiaohua is still young and growing her body, so how can she let him work more?"

Zhang Cai said: "Knowing that you are in a strong mood now, we don't plan to stop you, but the days to come are still long, you have to pay more attention to your body." ”

Zhang Xiaolong responded: "Got it, Daddy, what's the matter? ”

Guo Sufei said: "Oh, that's the case, your father and I are going to go to Baligou in the next few days to book your relationship with Qianqian, but our family can't get too much haode dowry, and we plan to take out those silver tickets last time to exchange a little." ”

After speaking, he put the two silver tickets and tokens in front of Zhang Xiaolong, pointed to the token and said, "You also take this thing first, in case something happens when you exchange it, take this thing out, it may work." ”

Zhang Xiaolong looked at the earnest faces of his father and mother, as well as the silver ticket and token in front of him, sighed, and didn't pick it up, he said: "Daddy, mother, didn't we say that this silver ticket will not be used again that day?"

Zhang Cai smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, that's what I said at the time, but the situation is stronger than people, we don't have a decent bride price to take out, isn't Liu Qian's family very faceless?"

Zhang Xiaolong said: "Daddy, if you talk about the quality of your family, these ten miles and eight towns are much stronger than us, and the people who go to Liu's family to propose marriage are even more sea, how can we compare? Liu Qian is willing to marry into our family, not to see our family background, the day before yesterday in the Liu family, Mr. Liu told me a lot, he knows the situation of our family very well, and did not mention any bride price, I think we don't have to slap a swollen face and become fat." ”

Guo Sufei said: "Xiaolong, if people don't mention it, it doesn't mean that people don't care, it's not strange to have many people, let's get ready." ”

Zhang Xiaolong said: "No, mother, I can't ruin my family just because I marry a daughter-in-law, this silver ticket is a bane, we must not use it." ”

Guo Sufei said: "I have also lived with your father, I haven't found the door for so long, it should be fine, and besides, with this token, they may not dare to do anything to us." ”

Zhang Xiaolong smiled bitterly and said: "Mother, this token is given to us by Xu Nuxia, just to show that if there is a bully who comes to find trouble, use it to prove that she is there to protect us, and didn't Wen Daxia also say it? Don't touch these silver tickets, when the bully comes to the door, we will return it quickly, if people come to the door in the future, we don't have a silver ticket for others, what should we do?"

Zhang Cai and Guo Sufei were speechless, in fact, they didn't know this, they cared about it, and it was inevitable that they would be confused about their son.

Zhang Xiaolong said again: "The Liu family appreciates that our things are not money or anything like that, besides, doesn't our family have something more precious than money?

Zhang Cai smiled bitterly and said, "What is more in our family than money?

Zhang Xiaolong smiled mysteriously and said the following words.

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