my grandmother

Chapter 178 The bridge can be demolished after crossing the river
Matchmaker Miao sent two or three replies, asking Grandma Yu to go back to her natal home.

Grandma Yu couldn't wait any longer. Seeing that the sun was starting to set to the west, she slowly moved to Yu Dalang's side.

Yu Dalang was facing the ledger, quickly moving the abacus. Grandma Yu looked at Yu Dalang and said with a smile, "The accounts are all right? Your abacus is so fast, my eyes are blurred."

Yu Dalang closed the ledger and hummed.

The things copied from Hejia Village are worthless, and they have been in the shackles for more than ten days, but they still can't get a penny. Alas, they have lost 37 taels of silver!

That Nier of the Li family was so cruel that she even pulled the loom away!It's not a thing!
"Auntie sent a message that she missed me. The elder sister sent someone back, but she didn't see me. The elder sister also remembered me very much. There is nothing in the store at the moment. Why don't I go back and have a look?" Grandma Yu spoke softly.

"Didn't your aunt just come here the day before yesterday? I came here with Mrs. Miao." Yu Dalang thought about the 37 taels of silver, and his heart ached.

"I've been here, I've come here, didn't I think about it again." Grandma Yu leaned on Yu Dalang.

"You can go if you want, it's not far from your mother's house, just walk there." Yu Dalang put the account book in the drawer.

"Go empty-handed?" Grandma Yu pouted, said softly, and pushed Yu Dalang.

"Your mother came last time and took two pieces of material."

"It's two pieces of cloth, one is bigger and the other is about half a foot long, so you can make two pairs of shoe uppers." Grandma Yu said in a very soft voice, although she refuted it.

"Go to the opposite side and carry a bag of fruit." Yu Dalang counted twenty big coins and pushed them to Grandma Yu.

"Just a bag of fruit? I don't care. My mother-in-law will never bother with me. If you take this bag of fruit back, the Yu family's face will be honored, and the Yu family's face will be shamed if you don't!" Grandma Yu said a little Annoyed.

"Then how much do you want to take?" Yu Dalang became annoyed.

"Anyway, you have to get a four-color gift. How can there be a bag of fruit to go back to your mother's house? I didn't marry into your Yu's family naked!" Grandma Yu turned around, and she was not angry.

"You have the face to say about your dowry?"

Yu Dalang thought of his daughter-in-law's dowry, and felt distressed, which added another layer of embarrassment.

"The dowry list says a rosewood cabinet. I dare say that there is a layer of rosewood veneer pasted on the side facing the outside! The dowry carrier looks like a piece of silk, but it turns out that the top piece is made of silk, and there is even coarse cloth underneath." If you tear off the top silk and wrap it layer by layer, you can say it's all silk!"

"What do you mean by that? Are you despising me?" Grandma Yu felt aggrieved while holding Yu Dalang's arm.

"I don't dislike you, this is not a rush to talk." Yu Dalang sighed in annoyance, opened the drawer, and counted another thirty big coins, "Buy two more packs of fruit, you just go back and have a look, it's not the real deal. Going back to your natal family in a serious way, how can you use the four-color gift? The copper in our house is not yours? Besides, if you buy too much, your mother won’t be able to eat it.”

Grandma Yu wrapped the copper tin in a handkerchief, went to the pastry shop opposite to pick up two packs of pastries, and went back to her mother's house.

The next day, after lunch, Grandma Yu and Dalang Yu said with a smile: "Auntie told me about a small matter and asked me to discuss it with my second sister. The store is not busy at the moment, why don't I go over there?"

Yu Dalang stood up hastily, "Don't be empty-handed, you pick some ingredients for your second elder sister, and I'll go to the opposite side to make a few packs of dim sum. I remember that Ping Yatou likes to eat sesame crisp candies."

Grandma Yu was taken aback by surprise, and quickly agreed, watching Yu Dalang hurried out of the shop door, moving over, picking up materials absent-mindedly.

Yu Dalang called a car again, and he piled up a dozen or so bags of snacks and two pieces of ingredients on the car.

Seeing the ingredients and a pile of dim sum, the third grandma of the Ping family first sent people to distribute the dim sum brought by her third younger sister to various places, warmly welcomed her third younger sister, raised her voice to ask for snacks and tea, and waited for a while before sitting down. down.

"Why are you here?" Third Grandma Ping looked critically at her third sister.

"Auntie asked me to come over and discuss with you about the dowry of the fourth younger sister." Grandma Yu took a piece of cloud cake and took a bite.

"Fourth sister's dowry should be your business, why don't you discuss it with me!" Third Grandma Ping immediately raised her eyebrows.

"It's not that I'm looking for Second Sister, it's Aniang who asked me to come here." Grandma Yu glanced sideways at Second Sister.

"Aunt Miao and Auntie said a long time ago that the rules are set, one should bring the other, and the dowry of the fourth younger sister is your business!" Third Grandma Ping also weighed a piece of cloud cake, and turned her head to look at the beams of the house.

"My dowry is thanks to my elder sister, and my second elder sister didn't give me a few copper coins." Grandma Yu waved the cloud cake in her hand.

"What do you mean by that? Do you think it's a bad marriage, or do you think the dowry is too little? If you think it's a bad marriage, you can't blame me. It's not my business, and I don't care about it! "Grandma Ping San is about to turn her face.

"I didn't mean that, alas!" Grandma Yu sighed, and leaned forward, "Second Sister, let's say something decent, Second Sister has probably never been looked down upon in the Ping family, but I In the Yu family, alas, what my Dalang said clearly, he said that we were born in the bottom class!"

"Why are we so obscene, he is talking nonsense!" Grandma Ping was annoyed.

"I was also very puzzled at the time, so I asked him. Guess what he said?" Sister Yu tilted her second sister.

Grandma Ping also looked sideways at her third sister.

"He said, your Aunt Miao is a matchmaker. Isn't your family a low class?" Grandma Yu said slowly.

"Grandma Miao is not from our family! Her surname is Miao, our surname is Wu!" Grandma Ping San retorted very quickly.

"That's what I said too. You didn't see what our Dalang looked like. His face was full of surprise. He called out and said that Miao Matchmaker lived in your house. You shouted one by one, why is it not a family?" People outside say that your elder sister and second elder sister were both born to her." Grandma Yu smiled.

"Nonsense!" Grandma Pingsan raised her eyebrows.

"It's just nonsense, but what Dalang said, second sister, you should think about it calmly. If you were an outsider, what would you think? Have you asked the second brother-in-law? What did the second brother-in-law think?" Grandma Ping gently shook Twice the handkerchief.

Third Grandma Ping leaned at her third sister, looked away for a moment, and snorted.

Her family Saburo had said similar things several times, asking her why Matchmaker Miao was so kind to their sisters, and whether Matchmaker Miao and her mother were real sisters.

"Speaking of it, the eldest sister is the one who suffers the most. What about us? Your father-in-law is a government official. Our family is a merchant. The eldest sister is a serious scholarly family. It's no wonder that the eldest sister rarely goes back to her mother's house. Don't pay much attention to us, I used to complain about Eldest Sister, but now that I think about it, Eldest Sister is so miserable, she was dragged down to death by her family." Grandma Yu took her time.

"Mother Miao is almost fifty?" Grandma Pingsan's face was a little gloomy.

"That's right, I went back to see Auntie yesterday, and she was telling Auntie what to do when she gets old." Grandma Yu pursed her lips into a smile.

"What did they say?" Third Grandma Ping leaned forward and asked.

"What else can I say? It's not like you haven't heard them talk about it when you were at home, but let our sisters take turns to raise them. Mother Miao said that she has been unable to do what she wants in the past few years, and she will not be an official media when she is fifty. It’s an errand, and she also said that she is the most compatible with Ping Yatou, and she will probably spend the most time with you in the future.” Grandma Yu twisted the handkerchief slowly.

Grandma Pingsan's complexion became even worse, and after a while, she snorted.

"It's not been a few years, we all have to prepare well, alas, our family is the most difficult, Dalang, I am annoyed when I hear the merchants, I don't know how many times I have said that when I have a child, I must let him Study hard, my mother-in-law is a very shrewd person, alas, when I think about it, I am so worried that I can't sleep.

"If we kiss our own mother, there is no way. No matter how difficult it is, we have to bear the brunt and face it. Whether Dalang or my mother-in-law, no matter how unhappy, there is nothing more to say. Even if we talk, we will I can push it back, but Mama Miao... well, it seems that it is very rare in our family, when the time comes, I am afraid that the second elder sister will have to bear more."

"What am I responsible for? It's not difficult for me? We are a big family, and a lot of things happen all day long, can I stand such a torment?" Grandma Ping San said angrily.

"Second Sister, it's difficult for us, otherwise, let's discuss it with Eldest Sister, and we have to persuade A Niang." Grandma Yu gently poked her Second Sister.

"There are still four and five at home." Grandma Ping San was silent for a moment, then frowned.

"There are three of us older sisters. What are the fourth and fifth elders afraid of? We got rid of this matchmaker. Our family is a serious and innocent family. Mother Miao sticks to us and doesn't let go. The three of us sisters are the ones who suffer If you are not a drag, you still get benefits, who knows." Grandma Yu sighed in annoyance.

"That's true. To be honest, it's not good for us sisters to marry like this." Grandma Ping San sighed, and then smiled: "Your family is full of money, and Da Lang can make money." , the three of us sisters find a restaurant to get together, and you treat us."

"Okay, Dalang is not going well these days, and business is difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, there are still copper coins for our sisters to have a meal together." Grandma Yu readily agreed.

(End of this chapter)