Eldest daughter

Chapter 41 The Matchmaker Comes to the Door
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, during the New Year’s Eve, when the dust is removed and the Kitchen God is sent to the Kitchen God, the Wang family gets up and gets ready before dawn. Even Fuduo, the youngest in the second room, is dug out of bed and sweeps around with a feather duster. of.

After daybreak, Mrs. Wang presided over the arrangement of all kinds of melons and fruits and sesame candies to sacrifice to the stove. Fuquan was a greedy person. He licked his lips and wanted to touch the candied melons on the stove. He was stared wide open after being drank by Mrs. Wang. Shi slapped Fuquan twice before giving up. Of course, those two palms didn't hurt.

After offering sacrifices to the stove, the family had breakfast again, taking advantage of the fine weather, they moved out the bedding and other things to dry, and cleaned every corner. After tidying up, the whole Wang family was completely new.

At dusk, Mrs. Wang led her two daughters-in-law to the kitchen, set up an altar, offered tea and wine to the Stove Lord in the altar on the kitchen wall, and offered candied melons made of caramel and noodles. Worship.

Mrs. Wang murmured: "Say more good things, don't say bad things, the Stove Lord has a sweet mouth, and bless my Wang family with no worries about food and drink." While spreading sugar around the Stove Lord's mouth, this is to plug the stove with sugar. The prince's mouth, sweeten his mouth, and tell him not to say bad things.

After a smooth process, at the end, the portrait of the Stove Lord was carefully removed, and the incense bone stems that had been enshrined in the incense burner for a year were taken out, and they brought gold, silver, clothes, paper and other things to the riverside, and used When the fire is lit, it is regarded as sending the Stove Lord to heaven.

In the countryside, after celebrating the new year, it is considered to have officially entered the new year. Every household starts to prepare various new year products, and the town is also extremely lively.

Wang Yuan'er's tea eggs were also sold out early today, thinking that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and she had some money in hand, so she thought of bringing something to the market for her younger sisters and mothers.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, all the hawkers on the street are selling horn combs, rouge and gouache, rough silk flowers, and needles and threads.

Wang Yuan'er pulled some colored threads for Wang Chun'er, looked at the brightly colored powders, touched the purse around her waist, gritted her teeth and picked out a box of the cheapest ones, and pulled some red-headed strings for Xiao Yaomei, one Xiao Hua'er went to the sugar shop to buy a small packet of sesame candy before returning home.

When they arrived at the house, a man came out from his own yard, met Wang Yuan'er, grinned and raised his handkerchief, and stepped forward: "Oh, isn't this the eldest sister of the Wang family?"

That iconic smile, those shining big gold teeth, that bright red handkerchief, who is not the famous Zhu matchmaker in the town?

"Matchmaker Zhu, what brought you here?" Wang Yuan'er smiled and blessed her, and asked, but she kept muttering in her heart, going to the Three Treasures Hall for everything, what is she here for?
Matchmaker Zhu covered her mouth with a flower handkerchief and smiled: "It's a good thing, of course it's a good thing. Later, eldest sister, please give me a couple of teas for Matchmaker Zhu." Without saying anything, she turned her back and left.

Wang Yuan'er looked at her back as she went away, and entered the yard with her lips pursed. She saw several girls in her family busy in the yard, and when they saw her come back, they surrounded her.

After distributing all the things they brought back to them, Wang Yuan'er pulled Wang Chun'er aside and asked, "Where's mother? Then what is Matchmaker Zhu doing here?"

Wang Chun'er frowned, pouted her lips into the east room, and said in a low voice, "Min'er's aunt is here, and she came with Zhu Matchmaker. First she went to find her second aunt, and then she went to our room, and took all of us together. After rushing out, Qing'er went to listen to the corner for a while, as if she wanted to say hello to the eldest sister!"

(End of this chapter)