Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 156 Four Color Ceremony

Liu Junhao was also quite depressed hearing what she said. He didn't care about the honey, but Zhang Qian, the second sister-in-law, was too ignorant.What's the matter if you take something back to your mother's house that someone brought to your parents.

If you really want honey, even if you bring me a can, Zhang Qian will not refuse.To get a big porcelain jar is to eat big people. I really think that honey is as much as the rotten cabbage leaves in the vegetable market?

But he really can't think of any good solution when he is depressed. If it is a stranger, you can ignore it completely and pretend that this person does not exist.But Zhang Qian's second sister-in-law is still a relative after all, if she really comes, whether you entertain her or not, you can't drive her away all the way.

Fortunately, there is only such a top-quality person in her family. If there are a few more Liu Junhao, I am really afraid that I will not be able to handle it.Let's do as Zhang Qian said, and don't give her a good face when she comes, otherwise she will really slap her nose.

Another thing Zhang Qian came back early this time was that her parents were going to Liujiagou in the next few days. She was afraid that Liu Junhao's arrangements would not be appropriate, so she rushed back early.

In fact, there is nothing to worry about. Zhang Ma has already been here once, and she is quite familiar with Liu Junhao's family.

But the meanings of the two visits are different. The last time it was mainly to meet the son-in-law, and this time it was to discuss the marriage of the two.Zhang Ma is a decisive person. After identifying Liu Junhao as her son-in-law, she secretly urged the two to get married.She has not been idle in the past few days at home, and has led her daughter to the temples in the city and the hexagram stalls on the side of the road.

Zhang Qian didn't believe in this before, but she was still a little uneasy when it was her turn, so she let her mother play around with it.

But fortunately, there is nothing wrong with the horoscopes of the two.

When I was in the dormitory, several sisters discussed privately that no one should get married if they were under 30 years old.It seems that she is not very old, Zhang Qian wonders if her mother can't wait to marry her off.

In fact, this is the difference in thinking between young people and elders. Old people always hope that their children can settle down early, so that they can worry less.

"By the way, my mother told us not to forget to buy a pair of shoes for Uncle Zhao and Aunt Wang."

"Why send shoes, they don't have any shortage?" Liu Junhao was very puzzled.

"Of course it's a thank-you gift for the matchmaker. You don't understand that." The two discussed it before, and both the matchmaker and the elders invited Professor Zhao and his wife to be the matchmaker.

"There is no one who gives shoes to a matchmaker. We all give pork, fruit, wine, and sugar here. This is called a four-color gift."

Having never eaten pork or seen a pig run, Liu Junhao still knows the customs of his hometown quite well, and the four-color gifts they give to matchmakers here are very particular.Pork must be cut into strips of [-] to [-] centimeters, which is called Li Ling.Fruits and sugar should be packed in bulk, and finally wrapped in that kind of kraft paper, and a red happy word should be pasted on it.There is no bulk white sugar sold anymore. When people give gifts, they buy white sugar at the store and re-open the paper packaging.

"Pork" Zhang Qian was puzzled after hearing this, and didn't know what to give.It's really a trip for three miles, and the customs are very different.

The matter should be sooner rather than later, the parents will come in two days, of course the matchmaker must be arranged in advance.As soon as she got home, she called her mother, but Zhang's mother solved it by saying "do as the Romans do".

So the next day they went to the street early to buy four-color gifts. In fact, these are very common things, and it doesn't take much trouble to buy them.

Zhang Qian asked in a low voice after seeing people praising the fruit, "How do you eat this fruit?"

She was a little surprised when Liu Junhao said yesterday that she was going to give away fruit. Why is it a popular custom here to give fried sticks to matchmakers? Who knew that she only knew that the fruit was in this shape when she came to the street.It looks like a crescent moon, but it feels bulging, with a layer of hoarfrost on the surface.

"Just put it in your mouth and eat it, girl, you can pinch one and try it, it's delicious." The woman selling fruit said with a smile.

After hearing her words, Zhang Qian carefully squeezed one out of the wooden basin, put it in her mouth and took a bite, the mucus immediately flowed down the corner of her mouth.

"Give me facial tissue, facial tissue!" Zhang Qian hurriedly shouted, she never thought that the fruit was filled with other things.

"It's like this the first time I ate it. It's filled with sugar syrup." Liu Junhao smiled and handed over the tissue paper.

After taking the second bite, Zhang Qian became careful.This fruit tastes sweet and creamy, and there is a chill in the stomach after eating.Especially the layer of hoarfrost on the surface, which is very refreshing when eaten with a rustle in the mouth.

"It's delicious, let's buy some to eat at home too?" She only ate one, and she immediately fell in love with it.She has been in Liujiagou for more than a year, and this is the first time she has seen such a thing as fruit.

In fact, this is not surprising, the fruit was originally only used when visiting relatives during the holidays.Now people are not so particular about Chinese New Year. They usually use cigarettes and alcohol instead of visiting relatives, and this fruit stall is slowly declining.Now there is only such a fruit seller in the town, and it is still near the residential area.Every time Zhang Qian went to the street, she walked around the two main streets, so she never noticed this small stall.

"What is this fruit made of?" She kept talking along the way, pinching a piece out of the paper bag to taste it from time to time, and now she feels that there is a sweet smell when she exhales.

"The ingredients are simple, just sugar syrup, flour, and peanut oil, basically these things..." Liu Junhao knows the main ingredients, but he can't even make them.

"But... how did the syrup get into the fruit? Could it be like making dumplings, pouring them one by one?" Zhang Qian was even more puzzled when she heard what he said.It looks good on the surface, but the inside is full of syrup. I really don't know how it got in.

"I can't tell you about this, it shouldn't be." The syrup is liquid, and it is impossible to wrap it as smoothly as dumpling stuffing.

Liu Junhao was riding in front without paying attention, and when he stopped at the entrance of the village, he realized that nearly half of the bag of fruit had been eaten by Zhang Qian.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly snatched the paper bag away. Eating too much of this stuff can easily lead to indigestion.

Zhang Qian wanted to eat at first, but after hearing what he said, she realized that she seemed to be really full, and now she didn't feel hungry at all.

As soon as they got home, before the car stopped, Haoyu and Tongtong came up to him, yelling for Liu Junhao to lead them to see the puppies, those little guys had already opened their eyes.

"Really?" Zhang Qian couldn't do it with joy, she hurriedly put her head in front of the kennel.

I saw a few chubby puppies whimpering and sniffing around, trying to climb out of the kennel several times, but they were captured by the black panther with their mouths.

Their eyes followed the panthers, and their big black and shiny eyeballs flickered and looked at the few people outside, as if they were curious about everything.

It's a strange thing to say, Xiaopi and his wife seem to know that Zhang Qian is the future owner of this family, so they treat her the same as Liu Junhao.

Seeing Zhang Qian affectionately teasing the puppy, the two little fellows became greedy and insisted on touching it.But Xiaopi didn't give face, as soon as they stretched out their hands, they immediately started whining.

"Don't look, move things quickly." Liu Junhao looked at it for a while before he remembered the business. He arranged the four-color gifts in a bamboo basket, covered it with a layer of red cloth, and went out with arms.

It takes less than fifty steps from his yard to Professor Zhao's house, and it takes less than a minute to walk there.

"Xiaohao, what good things did you buy on the street today, and you wrapped them in red cloth?" Teacher Wang was washing clothes in the yard, and when he saw the two of them coming, he hurriedly greeted them.

"Uncle Zhao quickly came up to pick him up, we are here to visit relatives." Liu Junhao said with a smile.

"Visit relatives?" Professor Zhao thought he was joking.He didn't know it was real until he slightly turned the corner of the red cloth and saw the long strip of pork inside.

The couple were quite confused, it was neither the Chinese New Year nor the holiday, what kind of relatives were they leaving.

Under Liu Junhao's coy narration, Professor Zhao and Mr. Wang glanced at each other, and they both understood that feelings are a gift of thanking the matchmaker.

As soon as the gift was accepted here, Tongtong and Xiao Haoyu became interested in the things wrapped in the paper, and wanted to see what was inside.Soon the fruit was opened by them, and each of them held a paper bag to taste it.

Naturally, they ate here at noon. During the dinner, Liu Junhao talked about asking the couple to be elders, and Professor Zhao naturally agreed.

After eating, he didn't sit down any longer, and made a big bowl of leftovers for the panther.

As soon as the panther started to eat, the puppies were relieved and slipped out of the kennel one by one, whining and barking.

They are interested in everything, and almost every two steps they take will lower their heads and suck and sniff.

Liu Junhao looked at them for a while and ignored them.I believe that with Xiaopi looking after her, nothing will happen.

People tend to get sleepy when they are full, so just take this opportunity to lie on the hammock and rest for a while.

I drank a little less porridge just now, and my lips started to dry after a while.The hammock was wobbly and comfortable, Liu Junhao was too lazy to get up and pour tea, so he simply opened the space to see what quenched his thirst inside.

After thinking about it, he found that only lotus pods can be eaten, so he picked up a lotus pod with a bowl-sized mouth in the spring water and ate it happily.

After eating a few, I found my paws were itchy, as if something was licking them.

Turning my head to look, I didn't know when the little yellow dog ran over.

You can't eat this thing, Liu Junhao hurriedly retracted his feet.

Unexpectedly, the little guy immediately became interested in his slippers again, opened his toothless mouth, and ran towards the kennel.

Good guy, not only does it look the most like Xiaopi, but even the habit of holding shoes is hereditary.

Liu Junhao hurriedly ran after the puppy with his bare feet, and finally took off the shoes. The little guy actually barked at him like a father.

(End of this chapter)