Happy peasant girl

Chapter 71
"Girl Xi, you...you..." Although Lin Qingxi was several years younger than him, Lin Shitou didn't treat her like a child, and suddenly felt a little at a loss.

"Brother Shitou, I... what's wrong with me? Isn't sister Sun Qin beautiful?" Seeing Lin Shitou with a flushed face, Lin Qingxi couldn't help laughing, and didn't stop teasing him.

"Sister Qingxi, that sister Sun Qin must be very beautiful. Didn't you see that our brother Shitou stuttered when he spoke! Hehehe..." Lin Xiaotao also booed.

Lin Shitou was speechless by these people for a while, so he rushed back to his home with red face and lowered head, and everyone who saw him behind him burst into laughter at the same time.

Sun said happily: "I don't think Sun Qin has much opinion. This matter can almost be settled. I will go to Sunjiawan tomorrow!"

"It seems that you, the great matchmaker Sun, will soon have a big fish to eat!" Mrs. Ma was also happy for Lin Shitou and that girl Sun Qin. If this marriage really comes true, it will be a good marriage.

Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Ma walked into Lin Dashan's house while talking, intending to talk to Mrs. Mei about Lin Shitou's blind date today. It happened that Mrs. Mei saw Lin Shitou who had returned home, asked a few words, and hurried out Door.

The three bumped into each other at the gate of Lin Dashan's compound, Mei quickly pulled Sun and Ma into the house with a smile on his face, and then the three chatted.

At the same time, several people in Linqingxi also chatted lively, especially Sun's daughter Lin Xiaoyu, who was as enthusiastic as Sun. Lin Shitou's marriage was just a little short, and she began to talk about the gift. heart.

"Brother Shitou, if this matter really happens, we may get married soon. We have to embroider a gift as soon as possible. What do you think is good for embroidery?" Lin Xiaoyu is now most able to do her embroidery work, Moreover, Lin Qingxi, Lin Cuihua and Lin Xiaotao all know how to embroider, so she thought of embroidering a piece of embroidery as a gift for Lin Shitou.

Lin Qingxi didn't know if people in Linjia Village had the habit of giving gifts when other people had a wedding. Last time when Lin Hu got married, Lin Qinghe and his six teenagers used wild boars as gifts, and they almost lost their lives.Now, Lin Shitou's wedding has not even been seen, and Lin Xiaoyu is thinking about giving gifts. Why are these people so enthusiastic?
"Sister Xiaoyu, isn't it too early to talk about giving gifts now? Besides, aren't things like embroidery prepared by the woman?" Lin Qingxi didn't know many customs and customs of Chu State. Her cognition is just a conclusion drawn from her family members, or from the books that Lu Zhiming and Huai let her read, and the general understanding of ancient times in modern times, through "taking it for granted".

Lin Xiaoyu told Lin Qingxi that everything is not early, because ordinary people's families sometimes complete the marriage from blind date to marriage in less than a month, and when the sixth ceremony is over, it is much simpler than those of rich and noble families.

Lin Qingxi didn't quite believe what Lin Xiaoyu said at first, but in the next few days, the Sun family, Mu family, Ma family, Mei family, and Zhao family began to work on Lin Shitou and Sun Qin's six rites. Only then did she fully realize that ancient people did not have so many rules when they got married.

Of course, Lin Qingxi didn't know at this time that the "rules" and "simple" she saw at this time were only relative terms. When she became an adult, she would understand that it would be a very complicated matter. things.

On the day of accepting the lottery, Lin Dashan and Mei asked Sun, a matchmaker, to go to Sun Qin's house in Sunjiawan to propose a marriage, but Sun Qin and Sun Liang had no objections and agreed to the marriage.

Afterwards, the Sun family asked about Sun Qin's birth date, and after Lin Dashan's family retrieved Sun Qin's horoscope, they went to the Tianshen Niangniang Temple to perform the horoscope.

Lin Qingxi heard that Lin Shitou and Sun Qin's horoscopes were very similar, and the smile on Mei's face never stopped the day he came back from the Tianshen Niangniang Temple.

In ten days and less than six rites, the appointment was reached. Although the Lindashan family was very poor, but because the business of the tofu shop in the village was good, and the Lindashan family was very capable, they had saved some money over the past year. Money comes.

Mrs. Mei thought, although Sun Qin had previously said that no betrothal gifts or betrothal gifts would be required when her brother was married, but she could not wrong the girl, she still needed some betrothal gifts.So, she divided the family money into two parts, one part was used to buy bride price and dowry gift, and the other part was used for the wedding banquet money on the day of Lin Shiu's wedding.

The two younger sisters, Lin Juhua and Lin Cuihua, also worked hard day and night for their elder brother Lin Shitou's wedding, and kept rushing to embroidery work, hoping to make Lin Shitou's wedding a little more decent.

Soon, Lin Shitou and Sun Qin's wedding date was determined with the efforts of Sun and others. It was on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, which was the same as the day when Lin Hu and Zhao Lanhua got married a year ago.

Mrs. Mei thinks this day is very good. Although Linhu and Zhao Lanhua got married a year ago, the process of getting married was tortuous, but the result is still very good. Now Zhao Lanhua lives comfortably in Linhu's house, without any harassment from her natal family , I also gave birth to a fat son for Linhu, and the husband and wife are sweet.

When Lin Dashan's family rejoiced to celebrate Lin Shitou and Sun Qin's sixth ceremony, Lin Qingxi, Lin Xiaoyu, and Lin Xiaotao were not idle. embroidery.

"Sister Xiaoyu, is it appropriate for us to embroider the things this girl will use when she gets married?" When Lin Qingxi first embroidered things for Lin Dashan's wedding, Lin Qingxi still had a lot of concerns.

"Appropriate! What's inappropriate! We country people don't have so many rules. Sister Sun Qin doesn't have time to embroider these things as a dowry, and brother Shitou's house doesn't have decent sheets and bedding. We are both their younger sisters. There is nothing inappropriate for the two of them to embroider." In Lin Xiaoyu's eyes, some rules can be ignored as long as they can be ignored, otherwise life will not be able to go on.

Lin Qingxi didn't know that Lin Xiaoyu had such an "extraordinary" idea, if she had known earlier, then she would have taken her to do many things earlier.

"Sister Qingxi, don't worry, I have already asked those old ladies in the village, they said that the dowry for the girl's wedding and the things for the young man's wedding can be given by others, as long as you get married at that time It is enough to wrap it tightly with red paper on the day, and they also said that the more things others give, the more precious they are, and the more tightly they are wrapped in red paper, the more they can wrap up other people's happiness and bring it to themselves." Lin Xiaotao interjected.

"That's right! My mother said the same thing!" Lin Cuihua said as if she suddenly remembered something.

As soon as the twelfth lunar month enters, all parts of Chu State become very cold, either with heavy snowfall or frost and hanging branches. Fortunately, Yunzhou Prefecture, which is located at the junction of the north and the south, is warmer this year than in previous years. After two snowfalls, every day has A warm winter day hangs in the sky.

(End of this chapter)