my grandmother

Cui Ye got up early in the morning, put on new clothes, came out happily, and met the Yuting not far from the house, and when she heard that she couldn't make it, she was immediately dejected.

Yuting had a lot of work this day, so she spread good news, and even walked and ran back in a hurry.

Cui Ye walked back a few steps, stopped, looked into her yard, and hesitated.

If she goes back, her mother will definitely ask her to change out of her good clothes and arrange a lot of work for her. She is in a bad mood and doesn't want to work.

Cui Ye turned around, walked a few steps towards A Nan's house, then turned around and went to Da Weng Weng's house.

There is no one in Ah Nan's family who can speak, so let's go to Sister Ai Ye.Among the cousins, besides Ah Nan, her favorite is Sister Ai Ye.

Da Weng Weng's house has been scrubbed clean, the courtyard door is open, and there is no one in the courtyard, only Ai Ye is busy cleaning and tidying up in the kitchen.

"Sister Ai Ye, are you alone at home? Da Weng Weng and the others have all gone to the ancestral hall?" Cui Ye stood at the door of the kitchen and looked inside first.

"Aniang and Second Aunt went to reconcile the accounts, why haven't you left yet? Didn't you two say you were going early yesterday?" Ai Ye shook off the washed rag and hung it on the string.

"A'nan was called away by that Wan Qing." Cui Ye's shoulders were pulled down by Ai Ye's question.

"Ah Nan is not working hard, she is very worried and very busy. I am busy, the sun is good today, let's sit in the yard and talk to get ingots." Ai Ye smiled and pushed Cui Ye come out.

The two were sitting in the yard talking, and after a short while, Li Shikuan came back with his hands behind his back, and when he saw Cui Ye, he stopped and asked, "Didn't you go to the county seat? Where's Ah Nan?"

"Wan Qing called her away." Cui Ye answered hurriedly.

Li Shikuan frowned, and after a moment, hummed, turned and walked out.

Li Shikuan went straight into the ancestral hall and called out his eldest son Li Wenliang who was busy.

"Cui Ye said, Wan Qing invited Ah Nan away." Li Shikuan said bluntly.

Li Wenliang was stunned, "I'm already 29 years old..."

Li Wenliang didn't go on with the rest of the story. How could someone call someone out at the age of 29? Is there any urgent matter that can't wait until after the year?

"A family like that understands rules better than us, and is more disciplined than us." Li Shikuan understood what his son meant, "At this time, Wan Qing is a little girl, how dare she, she must be the son of the world."

"What happened? Let Ah Nan accompany him to celebrate the New Year?" In a split second, Li Wenliang thought a lot.

"If you want to accompany the Chinese New Year, if you go away for several days, Ah Nan will definitely have to explain, that child, Ah Nan, knows it very well. I am not telling you this. I want Xuedong to be the officiant about praying for blessings and worshiping ancestors tomorrow. Add gold beads to those who accompany the sacrificial offering, and stand on your mother's head." Li Shikuan said in a low voice.

"Huh?" Li Wenliang's eyes widened.

Although Xuedong is not the oldest and the eldest, nor is he the eldest grandson of the eldest son, but he is the head of the clan, so it is not wrong for him to officiate, but Jin Zhu can accompany the sacrifice, which is not justified!
"Our family rules should also be changed." Li Shikuan continued: "The surname of the daughters and daughters is Li, they are all members of the clan with the surname Li, and they are all ancestral blood. They should be recorded in the genealogy and stand in this ancestral hall. Kowtow to the ancestors."

Li Wenliang was stunned for a moment, "Is it because of Ah Nan?"

Li Shikuan hummed, "Yes, not all of them. I have thought about this for a long time. It is good for our Li family."

"If you want to enter the ancestral hall to worship your ancestors, you have to register the genealogy, and the head of the family has to be counted on the genealogy. Family property has always been counted on the basis of the head. Should this be changed? Also, if a family has only one daughter and no children, or the daughter of the Li family brings along If the son returns home, then the blood of the Li family..." Li Wenliang thought more and more.

"Speaking of it, what's the difference between the Anan's family and Li's daughter returning home with their son?" Li Shikuan interrupted his son's words.

Li Wenliang choked.

Ah Nan's family is a married woman, and it is indeed the same as Li's daughter returning home with her son. They are all daughters.

"If you want to have a good reputation, you must first be broad-minded. Tolerance is the greatest." Li Shikuan patted his son, "Go and talk to the second and third, if you brothers think it's okay, let's call the heads of each house and discuss it together. discuss."

"Okay." Li Wenliang turned around and entered the ancestral hall, paused, stood there thinking for a moment, then hurried in to find Li Wenru and Li Wenhua.

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Pingjiang City.In the garden mansion of the Yu family.

Grandma Wu was sitting on a rattan chair with a cylindrical cushion on her waist, holding a dried persimmon and slowly biting it with one hand, and gently stroking her belly with the other. Yu Dalang, the husband who beats rice cakes with a wooden mallet, is thinking about how to get Yu Dalang to buy her a servant girl.

Although her mother-in-law hasn't used to order people yet, she shouldn't have passed her mother-in-law, but now she is double-bodied, and everything is inconvenient, and after giving birth to a son, there must be someone on tiptoe to order her around.

This matter has to be done quickly, it is best to buy someone as soon as the dental store opens after the year, and if you buy it now, when the baby is born, it will be said that breastfeeding is too exhausting, she is weak and cannot bear it, and then I will hire a nanny.

Grandma Wu was thinking about it when a matchmaker's voice came from outside the courtyard: "Is Da Lang at home?"

"Yes." Yu Dalang stopped, leaning on the gavel, frowning slightly.

He doesn't like Miao Matchmaker.

"It's Mama Miao." Grandma Wu drew a long voice and bowed slightly, as if she wanted to stand up but couldn't.

"Hey, don't be so violent! You are the youngest and most delicate now! Sit down quickly." Miao Matchmaker stepped in and hurriedly yelled when she saw Grandma Wu.

Yu Dalang's complexion improved a bit.

Grandma Wu sat firmly, and said with a smile: "Then I won't get up, why is Miao's mother here? The Chinese New Year is so busy."

"There is something important. Where's your mother?" Miao Matchmaker looked around.

"I'm going to burn incense in the temple." Grandma Wu replied somewhat reluctantly.

At this moment, she felt that if her mother-in-law was at home, she would be in front. She didn't like to offend people.

"Your mother is blessed." Miao Matchmaker laughed, dragged a bamboo chair, sat between Grandma Wu and Dalang Yu, looked at Grandma Wu and smiled, "It's a very good thing! It's you and Dalang Lang's great fortune. I just found out."

"What's the matter?" Grandma Wu smiled.

"The eldest son of our Pingjiang Weaving Department, Huang Zhubo, has come to our Pingjiang City. He said that one is to go to the school attached to the government, and the other is to make friends in our Pingjiang City!"

As Miao Matchmaker spoke, she laughed and clapped her hands.

"Look, our fourth sister is so blessed! I went to see him secretly once. Huang Dalang is so tall, with delicate features and good-looking features! Master Huang is a dignified court official, from the eighth rank!"

Miao Matchmaker narrowed her eyes when she smiled.

"What a wonderful marriage! If our fourth sister gets married like this, Da Lang's business will definitely be easy! Da Lang can buy as many looms as he wants, and open as big a weaving workshop as he wants!"

Yu Dalang put down the gavel, and the smile on Grandma Wu's face disappeared.

"Huang Zhubo is from an official family, and Huang Dalang was born so well, can the fourth sister be able to climb up to this family?" Yu Dalang asked doubtfully.

"Yes!" Matchmaker Miao waved her hands and smiled, "I have it! Let me tell you, as long as it is someone we like, it must be ours! Except for us, he can't even think of being a second family!

"Don't worry about this marriage, I have to finish it with our fourth sister!
"However, there is something that Dalang has to take care of." Miao Matchmaker looked at Yu Dalang.

"Mother Miao, tell me." Yu Dalang said with a smile.

"It's the dowry of the fourth sister, and Da Lang has to take care of it. Originally, the three sisters and their three sisters would be enough for the dowry. But now, if you want to get married with Huang Zhu Bo's family, the dowry can't be too much." shabby.

"Her elder sister and second sister's family is noble, and they are incomparable with Da Lang in terms of money. I have to ask Da Lang to take care of the money."

"That's it." Yu Dalang frowned, looking at Grandma Wu.

Grandma Wu laughed and said, "Mother Miao also knows that Dalang spent a lot of money in the fine cloth business, but he didn't see any profit, but piled up a whole room of cloth. Dalang and I have no cash on hand. We have to wait for Auntie to come back." , just ask Auntie."

"That's right. Tomorrow's [-]th, the second and third year of junior high school, I'll come over and talk to your mother about it. Your mother is one of the few people who understands the benefits of this marriage. When your mother hears it I know." Miao Matchmaker stood up with a smile and said a few words that people with twin bodies should be careful, and said goodbye and went back.

Seeing Matchmaker Miao leave the courtyard, Yu Dalang smiled and said, "Mama Miao can really say that this marriage is done, so let's add this dowry to your fourth younger sister."

Grandma Wu's face was gloomy, and after a while, she stood up abruptly, stretched out her hand to Yu Dalang, and said, "Give me two silver coins, and I'll go find my second sister. Even if the dowry needs to be added, she can't catch our family and pull it out." hair."

"That's true." Yu Dalang quickly took out two silver coins and handed them to Grandma Wu, "Tell your second sister well that this is a good thing for everyone."

Grandma Wu hummed speciously, went into the house, took a big silk coat, and went to Ping Yatou's house to talk to her second sister.

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In the early morning of the 31st year, Li Xuedong and Li Jinzhu were called into the ancestral hall to rehearse ancestor worship.

Li Xiaonan and Cuiye stood behind and watched for a while, feeling bored, they went out to watch the troupe rehearse and sacrifice to the gods.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, seven members of Li Xiaonan's family and Cuiye's family gathered at Li Shikuan's house and had a lively reunion dinner. During the day's birthday, each of them ate a few dumplings, changed their clothes, and went out to the ancestral hall. Worship ancestors.

The Li family is not considered a famous family, but there are hundreds of households and 3000 people. This year, both men and women enter the ancestral hall to worship.

Of course Ah Wu and Yu Ting did not participate in Li's ancestor worship. Sister Mei returned to Li Xiaonan's house, standing next to Li Yuzhu, very excited, kowtowed and cried.

She didn't expect that she would be able to enter the ancestral hall to worship her ancestors one day.

Li Xiaonan didn't feel much about whether she could enter the ancestral hall to worship her ancestors. In the bottom of her heart, there was a distance of thousands of years between her and Sister Mei's crying.

After worshiping the ancestors, Li Xiaonan and Cuiye went to Hong's house to visit the third elder sister Li Yinzhu by paying New Year's greetings. I went back to Lijiaji after wandering around watching the lights until midnight.

On the second day of the new year, Li Xiaonan took a day off and went to bed early.

Gu Yan said that she was invited to Linhai Town just to see the excitement, but I can’t believe it all. She is with Mr. He’s shopkeeper. She has to watch what needs to be seen, and she must pay attention to what needs to be paid attention to. She needs to rest and sleep well. Keep your spirits up.

Early in the morning on the third day, Wanqing and the cart arrived.

Li Xiaonan was dressed in new clothes, and got into the car with a saving box.

"What is this?" Wan Qing looked at the red lacquer box.

"The fried fruit from Sister Ai Ye's house, the red bean cake from Sister Cui Ye's house, the peanut candy from Uncle Lobby's house, and a few more, all of which are best at each house. Let me give you a taste of our New Year's products." Li Xiaonan lifted the lid of the box , let Wan Qing take a look, cover it and put it aside, "It's all things that can be put in, you take it back to eat, let Shi Roller taste it too."

"Thank you." Wan Qing smiled, leaned over and took out a carved lacquer box, took out a plate of hawthorn cake, and put it in front of Li Xiaonan, "Don't blame me, this is our son's order, clearly stated, This plate is for you to digest."

Li Xiaonan picked up a piece, took a bite, and said vaguely: "Hawthorn cake is also a cake, what kind of food do you eat? Do you want to eat it?"

"That's not it!" Wan Qing laughed out loud.

"I forgot to ask if it was a dinner party or a luncheon party." Li Xiaonan lifted the curtain and looked at the guards who were riding horses and running leisurely outside.

"How can there be time for the luncheon! We can come at the end of the afternoon, have something to eat, and you have to freshen up and change your clothes..."

"Ah!" Li Xiaonan interrupted Wan Qing's words in surprise, "Why didn't you say it earlier, it's useless to say it sooner, I just have this new clothes, I wash my face and comb my hair, I take off the skirt... "

Li Xiaonan straightened up, and Wan Qing pulled her back.

"The clothes are here. They are all ready. I will pick them out for you. Our elder son said that you are not suitable for you to follow Mr. He as shopkeeper."

Li Xiaonan looked at Wanqing obliquely.

"Our family doesn't care about one suit or two suits of clothes. Our eldest son changes at least once a day. Sometimes it is common for us to change three or four suits a day. Except for the best woolen materials, we only wear them once. , even me, do you see that I have worn very old clothes?

"You can wear it if I give it to you. Let me tell you, this whole set of clothes, not counting this white fox coat, not counting head jewelry, costs two to three hundred silver.

"Let's not compete with our elder son to make such a fool." Wan Qing patted Li Xiaonan, speaking with sincerity.

Wouldn't it be worth thousands of silver if you count the head and face jewelry of the white fox coat?Li Xiaonan took a deep breath, she can't afford this effort!
"I'll just wear it once, and I'll change it when I get back. You can take it back." Li Xiaonan reached out and stroked the long white fox fur carefully.

"Okay, let me here, I'll keep it for you." Wan Qing readily agreed.

Around the end of the afternoon, the cart stopped at the side door of the He family's house in Linhai Town. Wan Qing and Li Xiaonan got out of the car one after the other, and followed the mother-in-law waiting at the door.