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Chapter 2 Marriage
"Xiu'er, why don't you talk?" Gu Linlang looked at An Xiu'er who was distracted, and there was a trace of displeasure in her eyes. In the past, every time she saw him, she was full of admiration. How could she ever ignore him like this?
"Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Gu." An Xiu'er was awakened by Gu Linlang's voice, and then she came back to her senses, packed her things, and said, "I'm getting married, and Mr. Gu will leave in a few days. I'm afraid I won't be able to come to see you off, so I wish Mr. Gu a smooth journey in advance."

After speaking, An Xiu'er carried her basket and walked out, and waved to her nephew as she passed the school.

Gu Linlang stood there in a daze for a long time, until the wind picked up his skirt, he came back to his senses, a glint of predation flashed in his eyes, it turned out to be a silly girl who was easy to catch, he didn't know what went wrong.

An Xiu'er and Gu Linlang expressed their feelings. At this moment, she just felt relieved. Her family's dilapidated farmyard was in front of her eyes. She stepped into the yard, but saw her mother Liang's face covered with tears. When she came back, Liang Shi sighed again, looking at her a little evasively.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" An Xiu'er took the initiative to walk forward.

Mrs. Liang didn't speak, An Xiu'er walked into the house by herself, but saw a piece of meat and two fishes on the table at home.

"Has Zhang Zhen'an been here?" An Xiu'er asked.

Liang Shi nodded, and said: "Just now he came with the matchmaker. He wanted to see you. I told you that you were not here, but he didn't say a word, put down his things and left with a sullen face."

Zhang Zhen'an is the name of the blind Zhang. To be honest, An Xiu'er only knew about this name two days ago. When she heard his name, she felt that she was destined to marry him. Zhang Zhen'an, Zhen'an, or not Are you going to suppress her?

"Since he brought something, why are you worried?" An Xiu'er comforted Liang Shi with a smile, and said, "He has a vicious face, so he doesn't necessarily mean a bad person, and a good-looking person doesn't necessarily have a good heart. He came here Look at me, you still don't forget to bring something, which means you take me to heart and value this marriage."

"But..." Mrs. Liang hesitated to speak, and she shed tears while grabbing An Xiu'er's arm. An Xiu'er then patted Mrs. Liang's back to comfort her.

Because of having the dream yesterday and hearing the Mulan Ci recited by the students today, An Xiu'er seems to have grown up overnight.

A few days ago, she was still worried and shed tears, but today she is calm. Although she is a woman, she still has to make some contributions to the family like Hua Mulan. In this way, her parents will not be in vain He held himself in the palm of his hand and loved him for more than ten years.

She doesn't even want to be romantic, but now, she only wants to marry a chicken as a chicken, and marry a dog as a dog. No matter how vicious Zhang Zhenan is, no matter how others look down on him, since she will be his wife in the future, she should It is to maintain him.

So when Liang Shi said, "That blind man's face is fierce, it's really terrifying..." An Xiu'er stopped her from continuing, and she said, "Mother, how can you think like that? Others looked down on Zhang Zhenan and nicknamed him Blind Zhang, but you will be his mother-in-law and his relative in the future, how can you belittle him like others? In the future, I don’t want to hear your mother say this again talk."

"Look, this girl Xiu'er is so caring. She started talking for you before she got married." The flower matchmaker stood at the door of An's house, waving a handkerchief, and said to Zhang Zhen'an.

Just now when she heard that An Xiu'er was back, she turned around and came back, intending to take Zhang Zhen'an to see An Xiu'er, but she didn't expect to hear the two mothers whispering.

The flower matchmaker secretly turned her head to look at Zhang Zhenan's face, seeing that he still had a serious face, neither sad nor happy, she was a little dazed, not knowing what to say, but she was a matchmaker, so naturally she wanted to match The person involved in this marriage coughed and said again:

"Don't worry, Aunt Hua won't lie to you. Xiu'er is really the first-class good girl in this village. Not only is she beautiful, but she also has a good heart. This time, you got a big deal. If it wasn't for An Jia Just short of money, how could a good girl like Xiu'er get your turn."

The flower matchmaker also felt that An Xiu'er was worthless, and she was about to say something wrong, but fortunately Zhang Zhenan didn't seem to care, she collected herself and asked, "Then do you still want to go in and have a look?"

"No." Zhang Zhen'an shook his head, took out some money from his pocket, and said, "You and I can give this betrothal gift to An's family." After speaking, he strode away.

The flower matchmaker looked at the money in her hand, and couldn't figure out whether the blind Zhang was satisfied with An Xiu'er or not. She sighed, and smiled again on her face. As she walked into the courtyard, she said: " Big happy event, great happy event, Mr. Zhang Jialang asked me to come to your house to give a betrothal gift."

"Really?" Mrs. Liang quickly wiped away the tears on her face, went forward to meet her, and said, "The flower matchmaker is here, come in and sit down."

Seeing that it was a flower matchmaker, An Xiuer lowered her head, cleared the table, and served tea for the flower matchmaker.

"Xiu'er is really the first-class girl in our village." The flower matchmaker took the tea handed over by An Xiu'er, saw that her face was blushing, and she looked even more lovely, so she couldn't help but praise her again She said a word.

"Xiu'er, go back to your room first." Liang Shi sat down and said to An Xiu'er.

An Xiu'er obediently went into the back room, and sat on the edge of the bed, the words that the flower matchmaker said to Mrs. Liang kept burrowing into her ears.

"According to the customs of our Qingshui Village, Xiu'er wanted to meet Zhang Zhen'an. He also arrived at the door just now, but he was very happy when he heard Xiu'er's words. I said that Xiu'er is gentle and filial. He heard this, and immediately gave me money to hire me, tell me, does he value your Xiu'er very much?"

The flower matchmaker said a lot of good things, but seeing that Mrs. Liang was still miserable and unhappy, she put the money on the table and said to Mrs. Liang, "See, six liang of silver is not missing at all. It's not like other people who procrastinate in giving a few taels of dowry, although this person is old, he will love others and is straightforward."

"Yes, yes." Liang nodded quickly, feeling a little happier in her heart.

"Although this piece of Zhen'an looks a bit vicious, it is also good. Your daughter is married to him, who will dare to bully her in the future?" the flower matchmaker said again.

Mrs. Liang thought about it, and nodded again.

The flower matchmaker said: "That's it, I'll put the money here. Even if we have settled on this marriage, we are both from the countryside, and there are not so many rules. I think Zhang Zhen'an means to let Xiu'er marry as soon as possible." , you take the money and go to the town to cut a set of clothes for Xiu’er, so that she can get ready to get married.”

"What date did Zhang Zhen'an tell you?" Liang asked again.

"I calculated it with him, and the 28th of this month is an auspicious day." The flower matchmaker said.

"So soon?" Mrs. Liang was somewhat reluctant to marry An Xiu'er so soon.

"I've been talking about this for so many days. Zhang Zhen'an is old after all, and I want to marry your Xiu'er as soon as possible." The flower matchmaker smiled at Mrs. Liang ambiguously, stood up, and said, "Then say so." It's settled, I'll go first."

After she left, An Xiu'er came out of the room calmly. Liang Shi sat on the table, raised her head, and said, "Xiu'er, did you hear everything?"

"En." An Xiu'er nodded.

"Don't panic, I'll discuss it with your father tonight, and talk to Zhang Zhen'an to see if we can give him a few days' grace." Liang said to An Xiu'er.

"Mother, don't worry. Marry early and marry late. There is nothing to procrastinate." An Xiuer shook her head and said, "I heard that Zhang Zhen'an makes a living by fishing. I will marry you sooner and give it to you earlier." Abduct a son back, just in time to ask him to help our family with work."

"Don't talk nonsense, there is no son-in-law working for the father-in-law's family." Liang looked at An Xiu'er reproachfully, seeing that there was no dissatisfaction on An Xiu'er's face, she felt relieved.

An Xiu'er smiled at Liang Shi. In fact, she wanted to marry early so that she could get rid of Gu Linlang, so that he would not have other thoughts about her.

"Mother, have you delivered food to Daddy and the others?" An Xiu'er suddenly thought of this.

"Oh, I forgot." Mrs. Liang slapped her head, hurriedly walked to the kitchen, and said, "Your father must be very hungry."

"Don't be in a hurry." An Xiu'er carried the fish and meat she put in the basket, followed to the kitchen, and said, "Father and the others have worked hard these past few days, so they packed up the fish and stewed it for them. When he comes back in the afternoon, he won't blame you for making them hungry in the morning."

"You're right." Mrs. Liang said and hurriedly went to deal with the fish.

An Xiu'er helped to heat up the rice in the pot, and then asked: "Where did Daya and Erya go?"

"I asked them to hunt pigweed." Liang said casually, "These two dead girls are so slow in hunting pigweed. They haven't come back yet. I don't know where they went to be lazy."

An Xiu'er frowned when she heard this, and said helplessly: "Mother, stop scolding, there are so many people hunting pigweed now, how can the two of them come back at once."

In An's house, no one has free time. If we talk about free time, An Xiu'er is the one who has the most free time. Every day, she embroiders flowers in the house and helps deliver meals to An Ronghe. It is really busy farming, so she is needed to help with housework. Since she was a child, she has been the gold bump in the hearts of Father An and Liang's. The two husband and wife held her on the apex of their hearts. Thinking of the choice she made in the dream, An Xiu'er felt a dull pain in her heart.

Anyway, it was a dream. An Xiu'er felt a lot more relaxed when she thought about it. She quickly took out the rice, washed the piece of meat brought by Zhang Zhenan, cut off a few large pieces, wrapped them in rice flour and put them in a small bowl. In the dish, I plan to wait until the fish is stewed so that the meat can be steamed.

"You child, you are good at everything, but you are a big spender." Liang just happened to pack the fish in his hand, saw An Xiu'er's movements, and said something to her.

An Xiu'er was not annoyed, she just walked to the stove, helped light the fire, and said: "Daddy and the others have worked hard these past few days, let them eat some meat and be happy."

"Why don't you say how expensive this meat is?" Mrs. Liang came over and saw that the pot had been cleaned, so she dipped a little oil with the radish tail, wiped the pot slightly, put in ginger, and then poured the fish into it.

There was less oil, and the fish soon soaked into the pot. Mrs. Liang hurriedly poured a ladle of water into it, and stewed the fish.

"Put the meat in and stew together." An Xiu'er said, Liang Shi gave An Xiu'er a reproachful look, found a bamboo stick to put on the pot, put the meat in and steamed it.

"I know you're greedy." While cooking the fish, Liang shi packed up the food, ready for An Xiuer to send it over.

The firewood is big, and the fish will be cooked soon, Mr. Liang removes the lid of the pot, takes out the bamboo shoots and steamed meat, and then pours in sliced ​​scallions and salt, the boiled fish is considered ready.

Served the fish in a small earthenware pot, Liang Shi carefully put it in a small bamboo basket for An Xiu'er, opened the food box, and put two pieces of meat in the pickle bowl.

When An Xiu'er saw it, she said again: "Why don't you add another piece, the second sister-in-law has worked hard."

"You silly boy." Mrs. Liang couldn't resist An Xiu'er, so she took another piece and put it in the bowl.

"You are really the best mother and mother-in-law in the world." An Xiu'er casually praised Mrs. Liang, then covered the food box with satisfaction, and went to the field with the food box and bamboo basket.

(End of this chapter)