take a wife to support the family

Chapter 144

Lily wants to talk about welcoming the spring, even if she is self-motivated, she shouldn't risk the young master's body.

As long as the young master is fine, if she eats too much, won't she just walk around without food?
When doing things in a big family, the first and foremost thing is to be safe, and the second is to be outstanding. It is better not to be top-notch than to make mistakes.

It's just that she was full of reasoning and no one listened to her, Yingchun was impatient to tell her these things, and she didn't have a chance today, so she had to wait until she came home on leave to talk about it slowly.

Not long after, Song Xiuxiu went out for a drink, and the relatives of the Song family and the neighbors all came to help, and Baihe was her own sister-in-law, and she had to bear many things.

Niu called Lily over in the first two days, meaning that all the tofu for the banquet came from her shop. Lily responded with a smile, and said: "Our own family, I won't tell you if there are too many. Give me some capital, and don't make Wenwa's parents work hard for nothing."

It's not that she is extra stingy, it's really Niu's aggressive temper, this time he gave her tofu for free, but next time he doesn't know what she wants.

Angrily, Niu took out dozens of money and gave it to Lily, saying, "Why don't you suffocate to death if you can't get in?"

Asked if she could be a chef, Lily told the truth: "It's okay for me to cook for a few people, but I can't take care of too many people, and I haven't gone through such a big battle. I'm afraid it would be embarrassing if I really do it."

Niu thought she was going to be a talented mother-in-law, and would rather spend some money to hire a chef than be ashamed of herself, and then said that there is no use in having Lily, and finally invited a chef who often prepares wedding banquets to come home.

The chef has a set rule for cooking, five cold dishes and nine big bowls. Some dishes can be prepared a day and a half in advance, put in a large wooden basin, and taken out as you eat; some dishes need to process raw materials a day or two in advance. It is cooked fresh when the banquet is opened; some of them must be cooked fresh when the banquet is opened.

The chef knows what to do, so he guides the women who come to help around. Lily is not picky inside. When others tell her to choose vegetables, she can choose vegetables, and when she is told to wash dishes, she can do the dishes.

For Song Xiuxiu's going out, apart from asking her uncle's family to set up three separate tables in the main room, the rest will set up five or six tables in the courtyard.

The tables, chairs, benches, pots, pans, and pans that Lao Song’s family didn’t have extra were all borrowed from the neighbors, who marked the things and returned them after they were used up.

A stove is built with yellow mud and stones in a sheltered place outside the house, and a large pot is placed on it. The fire is kept on all day long, the hot soup is tumbling, and several stews are steaming.

There was also a hot stove, the chef waved the frying spoon to stir-fry vegetables, Lily looked at the heavy spoon, and was glad that she didn't volunteer to take over the work indiscriminately - the spoon alone weighed four or five catties, and she couldn't fry it with her physical strength. All day dishes.

The uncle's house is a distinguished guest, including Niu's brothers, Niu's uncle's house, and Song's uncle's house. Three tables were full, and five cold dishes were served for them to eat wine. The cold dish was: braised pig ears , steamed sausage, cold celery, toon egg and tofu with shallot.

After drinking for three rounds, the uncles talked about the scene, put six or seven stews into nine bowls, and served them on a large wooden tray. There were stewed vegetables, stewed tofu, stewed dried beans, stewed kelp, etc. A pot of hot rice was soaked in stew soup.

The old man Song accompanied the guests, and Niu was busy in the kitchen. When she saw someone being lazy, she would make insinuations. She was not stupid. I didn't see your fourth aunt being so busy, hurry up and help her peel garlic!"

The fourth aunt who peeled the garlic understood and had no choice but to speed up her work, secretly slandering Niu: Isn't it just that the daughter wants to marry a young scholar, who made you happy, and if you don't know, you will marry the champion!
The Niu people are in high spirits on happy occasions, their faces are full of red, and they can't see at all that their beloved youngest son is in prison, and his daughter even passed out because of her anger.

But Song Xiuxiu was nowhere to be seen, why?

It turns out that this is the case when people get married. The groom and the bride only show up when they are needed, and it doesn't matter if they are there or not at other times.

Especially on the day of going out for a drink, Song Xiuxiu was not allowed to leave the house, and only stayed in her own house, chatting privately and cracking pumpkin seeds with a few boudoir close friends.

Speaking of which, Song Xiuxiu didn't have two handkerchiefs in her boudoirs. How could she find a true friend with her disposition of treating herself as noble as a bodhisattva and others as contemptible as mud?

It was the two who had a good time at first, but they gradually drifted away after she got engaged to Xiao Xiucai, firstly because she was jealous of her winning the first place, and secondly, because Song Xiuxiu became more and more difficult to get along with each other.

So those who talked with Song Xiuxiu in the room today were only a few girls from the Song family, everyone was a little lukewarm and chatted casually.

They were all young girls, gathered together and said something about clothes and jewelry, and one of them said: "Xiuxiu, show us the jewelry in your dowry."

It's okay if she doesn't mention it, but when it comes to jewelry, Song Xiuxiu is both proud and resentful: proud that her parents can't hold back, she went to the silver house in the city and bought her some eye-catching jewelry. Da Niu Li got the butterfly hairpin on her head, and her eyes almost burst into flames when she saw it.

These jewelries will be put into the dowry box and sent to the Liu family. Song Xiuxiu also wanted to show off, so she opened the box for everyone to look at. There are also silver earrings, silver bracelets, and red-copper gold-plated hairpins... Song Xiuxiu thinks it's all It's not as eye-catching as Lily's hairpin, and the little girls are stunned.

There were so many people on this day that it was inconvenient for the little girls to go out, so Niu asked Dong to bring a few bowls of food to Song Xiuxiu's house.Mrs. Dong happened to come to a small day, her back was sore, her mother-in-law watched over her accidental birth, and she couldn't do it if she wanted to take time off, so she scolded her sister-in-law in her heart: she didn't even know how to pick a good day for going out to drink!

Mrs. Dong almost spit in the rice bowl before bringing it in. Fortunately, there were so many people coming and going around her that she had no time to play tricks, so she had to honestly bring the rice in, when she heard Song Xiuxiu talking bad things about her second family: "...It's so arrogant that my sister-in-law asked her for something, as if she wanted her life. I don't have a son and a half girl. Can I bring all that money into the coffin?"

The girls all laughed coquettishly, and Mrs. Dong coughed dryly: "Sisters, it's time to eat, that one is also the second sister-in-law, don't talk about it."

Song Xiuxiu sneered: "Which one recognizes her as sister-in-law? Which one of you likes to recognize her? Anyway, I don't recognize her!"

The sister-in-law and sister-in-law were angry, Dong secretly agreed, and then said a few words with a smile, obviously to persuade Song Xiuxiu, but secretly she didn't know how much oil was poured on the fire, Song Xiuxiu just said it casually, but she was really discouraged by it Recognize the second brother and the second sister-in-law.

When Dong came out of her sister-in-law's house, she saw Lily talking and laughing with others, and they were also working there wearing old clothes. She looked much more glamorous than others, not because of clothes or jewelry. It is really the spirit that comes from the heart.

"In the future, Mrs. Xiucai will make things difficult for you, I don't think you are so proud!" Dong muttered to herself.

She didn't know why she hated her sister-in-law so much, she just didn't like her and wanted to see her bad luck.

After eating and going out to drink, the Liu family's betrothal gift was delivered, according to the customs of the countryside, just those few things, no more and no less.Everyone saw the betrothal gift once, and they all thought: It is said that it is a scholar's family, but is it also these things...

When I saw Song Xiuxiu's dowry, I couldn't think about it this way - 25 acres of land, even if a rich man's family married a daughter, it might not be able to accompany so much. This old Song family is really willing to spend money for a small scholar.

Apart from the field, there were four or five pearwood boxes on the ground, all of which were full, one for newly made quilts, one for four-season clothes, and the rest for odds and ends. The lacquer is painted with the patterns of double happiness and magpies climbing plum blossoms. It is really full of flowers and beams of joy.

Everyone watching the dowry was stunned: It's amazing!

The old man Song and the Niu family felt that they had good looks, and they were so happy that they could see their teeth without seeing their eyes. The patriarch Song had witnessed that he picked out a dozen young and strong young men from the family, and carried the dowry to the Liu family.Song Xiuxiu will go out tomorrow, pretending that she has to be sent there in advance.

Mrs. Dong and Baihe are sisters-in-law, they want to go over to make the house, unfold the quilt by hand and spread it on the bed of the new house, and if there is any dissatisfaction, they have to speak on behalf of the bride in advance, so as not to wrong the poor guest.

After making the bed was Dong's happiest moment, she pushed Jin Bao: "Go up and roll!"

Jinbao is a male doll, and the country places are particular about it. When the new bed is made, the male doll rolls on it, which means that a baby will be born early, and the in-laws will give Jinbao a red envelope.

Jin Bao was fat enough to have double chins, and his whole body was trembling. Everyone praised him for his good fortune.The son was wrapped in a red envelope and his eyes narrowed into a line of laughter. Dong glanced at Lily triumphantly, meaning: I have a son, but you don’t even have a dick!

After drying the dowry and making the bed, and then returning to Lao Song's house, it was the turn of the people who helped today to eat, and they also served the same meals as the ones on the table, rewarding these people who had been busy all day.

An aunt of the Song family laughed and said, "My family is running out of tofu, so I should steal a piece from the kitchen." Everyone laughed.

Who knew that that night, when Niu checked the kitchen and saw that a few eggs were missing, he went to the aunt's house to search for them, and said, "During the day, you said you wanted my things in front of everyone, and you didn't take them." Now, which one is it?"

The aunt cried so much that she looked for death and life, and said that life was hard to live, and Niu didn't even find an eggshell, so she had to go home with all her flags down.

Then it was found out that Mrs. Dong cooked the eggs for Jin Bao to eat, and Mrs. Niu took stolen goods everywhere, but Dengxia Hei forgot to check his own home, and lost a lot of people.

Such a thing happened on a good day when we were going out for a drink. People in the town often laughed at the old Song's family for being stingy and unreasonable, and everyone was waiting to see the good show.

Ordinary days, you can not see such a thing miles.

(End of this chapter)