Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Touching Teeth
The number of female relatives gradually increased, and some brought their children to see the bride.

For example, Bamei Cao brought her youngest son over and said to Mianmian, "Mianmian, help me touch your eldest nephew's teeth."

Mrs. Liu was eating wedding cakes by the side, watching Quanfu people open up Mianmian's face, put on makeup, and put her hair in a bun.

Hearing what Cao Bamei said, Mrs. Liu laughed so hard that the crumbs of the pastry spewed out of her mouth.

"I said Bamei, you are too impatient. How old is your third boy? It is impossible to start changing teeth before the age of six or seven. It won't work if you touch it now."

"Fourth Aunt, it's not that I want to touch it, it's that this kid has been thinking about it all night, and I don't know where I heard that the teeth that the bride has touched will be neat and tidy in the future. Forced to do nothing by him."

With a shy smile, he whispered a few words to Quanfuren, who nodded with a smile, and stepped aside for a while to drink tea and rest.

Mianmian turned sideways and waved gently to the third boy of Cao Bamei's family: "Come here, aunt, and I will touch your teeth."

Mian Mian is wearing a bright red wedding dress today, and is wearing a golden silk necklace with eight treasures. The three emerald gemstones on the necklace are dazzling, and they are very valuable at first glance.

The green gemstones matched her fair and delicate makeup very well, and the red wedding dress was bright and eye-catching on her body, which is probably why it was so beautiful.

"Open your mouth." Mianmian reminded gently.

It was only then that everyone realized that not only were they dumbstruck by the bride, but even the youngest child of Cao Bamei's family was fascinated.

Mrs. Liu clapped her palms as if she had discovered a new world, and said happily: "Baby sister, your third boy likes to see the bride so much, so tomorrow I have to say baby kiss to him!"

Bamei Cao was really speechless to Mrs. Liu, "Aunt Si, what are you talking about? My third boy is only three years old."

"What's wrong with being three years old? Many people talk about baby kisses while their babies are still in their womb. If you talk about baby kisses on the terms of your second wife, a bunch of people from ten miles and eight villages rushed to pick up the baby."

Yang Yongjin is young, in his 30s and less than [-] years old, and he manages restaurants as big as the county town. Like Yang Huazhou, he has long been paying dividends instead of wages.

So the restaurant is equivalent to a small half of their property. If someone else opened the restaurant, they may lose money or even close down if they catch up with a bad year.

But Yang Yongjin and Yang Huazhou's Tianxianglou don't worry about that!
Just before and after the flood in the last summer, many large and small restaurants closed down one after another in the county seat and Qing'an County, but Tianxiang Restaurant could not close down even in the off-season.

why?
Because there is Yang Ruoqing, the biggest owner behind them, with such a huge net worth, even if the two restaurants lose money in the off-season, they can still bear it.

What's more, Yang Ruoqing's restaurants are far more than these two. There are Xiushui Town, Licheng, and Huguang County in the south.

It’s just that the other places have been transferred out now. Zuo Junmo is mainly in charge of Huguang County, and Xiushui Town and Licheng have been taken care of by Brother Ahao and Cousin Lan’er for a long time...

Closer to home, Cao Bamei was very proud when she heard Liu's praise of their second wife's condition, but she still had to say modest words: "Fourth Aunt, don't say that, it's just a superficial thing. There are three children in the family. The new house has just been built a few years ago, and the inside has been hollowed out!"

"On the other hand, your fourth wife, it's time to get married and you're all married now. The burden is lightened, and life is getting better every day..."

Just as Cao Bamei and Liu Shi were exchanging compliments, Mianmian's teeth had already been touched by the third boy.

Cao Bamei hurriedly dragged the third boy back, and looked at the saliva on Mianmian's white fingers, she was very embarrassed, took out a handkerchief and handed it over: "Come on, wipe, this kid is so dirty, he is still drooling at the age of three." .”

Mianmian took out her handkerchief to wipe it off, shook her head lightly and said with a smile, "It's all right, kid."

Teeth touching is just one of the small steps. After touching, Quanfu people will then apply makeup on Mianmian, and everyone will stand or sit tactfully without disturbing.

As for the children, they had already been caught with a few handfuls of candies, and were sent outside to play with a few pieces of wedding cakes.

Yang Ruoqing and the three sisters Xiaohua and Xiaoduo were sitting on the same bench, smiling and accompanying Mianmian to put on makeup.

Mrs. Liu squeezed over and had to sit next to the three sisters, but the stool was so long that she couldn't squeeze in at all.

"Fourth aunt, are you underestimating which of the four of us have a butt? They are all people who have children and raise daughters, and they are all as big as a millstone. Why do you have to squeeze over to sit?" Yang Ruoqing teased with a smile.

Xiaohua and Xiaoduo covered their mouths and laughed.

Mrs. Liu also chuckled, "Fourth Aunt wants to whisper to you!"

Yang Ruoqing said: "Come, come, sit on my lap, don't squeeze Xiaoduo, she is pregnant."

Mrs. Liu shook her head: "Then how is it possible? If I sit on your lap like this, your leg will be useless!"

Yang Ruoqing rolled her eyes, thinking you're a bit of a loser.

"Then don't squeeze, don't squeeze into my Duo'er!" Yang Ruoqing said again.

Yes, Yang Ruoqing is the only one who can directly talk to Liu Shi like this and tell Liu Shi not to do this or that.

If it were someone else, Mrs. Liu would have to be impatient with her.

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu was not annoyed by Yang Ruoqing's words at all, she turned her attention to Xiaoduo, patted her thigh and said: "I almost forgot, Duo'er, you are pregnant, the house of the bride You can’t come here, the baby in your stomach will be disfigured if the gossip mirror shines on you! I think I couldn’t bear the loneliness when I was pregnant with Kang, and I had to go with a big belly when someone married a wife in Layue Village. Look... the result, you all know it!"

When Xiaoduo heard this, she became a little nervous, subconsciously covered her stomach with her hands, and turned to look at Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing said: "It's okay, the gossip mirror is hung up before going out, now it's under the pillow!"

Xiaoduo breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Ruoqing herself doesn't believe in these at all, because there is no logic, and there is no convincing evidence to prove that the gossip mirror that the bride hangs on her body when she gets married can drive away evil spirits, and there is no evidence that the mirror can penetrate the pregnant belly and The placenta causes the child inside to be born deformed.

From a medical point of view, deformities have very complicated causes...

But here, there is no science, only those customs and traditions, some of which are even passed down by word of mouth.

'I heard', 'someone said it before', 'everyone said it'...

As for who the subject of "saying" is, there is no way to study it. Anyway, everyone just follows it, and there is nothing wrong with it anyway.

So Yang Ruoqing said to Xiaoduo: "Don't panic, someone will remind you before you hang the mirror, you are not the only pregnant woman in this room, so just stay at ease."

(End of this chapter)