take a wife to support the family

Chapter 151
Niu originally thought that if Song Xiuxiu married a young scholar, she would be able to live a good life of food and drink, not to mention calling slaves and servants, she must not dare to compare at home.

Besides, if the little scholar became an official, he would be able to ascend to heaven with his whole family—isn't the official's husband's family also an official family?

Unexpectedly, the girl married for a while, and she didn't bring gold and silver to the family. She looked yellow and thin, and Niu muttered: "What's the matter with this Liu family, a dignified scholar's family, is there still a shortage of food?"

The old man Song said: "There are rules in the family. Why do you care so much about the water that the married daughter pours out? Besides, the son-in-law is going to be an official, so there is no rush. At this moment, Xiuxiu will suffer for two years first. , it will get better in the future."

Niu Shi was persuaded.

Today when Song Xiuxiu came to borrow money, Niu's heart skipped a beat: "Tell me the truth, what is your husband's family like?"

Song Xiuxiu had her own thoughts: she relied on her husband's family's reputation as a scholar to be able to speak up straight in her natal family, so she naturally refused to tell the truth, and only said: "I don't have much money these days, mother, give me some money." money."

Niu couldn't believe his ears: "I sent you so many things, even the bottom of the box is a lot of money, why do you have no money?"

A lie needs to be covered by countless lies, so Song Xiuxiu had no choice but to continue lying and said: "The accompanying money is well placed, it's big money, I just spend a few money, I don't want to touch them."

Niu looked suspiciously at Song Xiuxiu up and down, and heard her daughter say: "If you don't give it, I don't want it either. Let's go now. Don't say I don't respect you in the future."

This is a living and talented lady, how could Mrs. Niu tell her to go away empty-handed?I didn't care about doubting any more, so I quickly called the person back, found more than 20 coins and gave them to her, and said: "This is all the change I have, you can use it as pocket money, in the future, you have to take care of your mother's family, remember Your brothers."

After thinking about it, he added: "Just remember your eldest brother, third brother and nephew, and the second child is a heartless bastard, just leave him alone!"

Song Xiuxiu took the money and was about to leave: "I have to go back and cook for my husband."

Niu felt that her daughter became diligent after she got married, and she was cooking for the little scholar again, so she was full of praise immediately, and didn't think there was anything wrong at all.

Song Xiuxiu took the money to buy the cheapest vegetables at the market, and saw that there was a seller of cabbage and radish seeds, so she bought another bag of seeds, and she already lost a lot of money.

Back home, Xiucai Niang said to her again: "I know how to run around every day. If you know it, you say you are restless. If you don't know it, you think my family has a bad style!"

Song Xiuxiu dared to talk back to her mother-in-law when she was only married a few days ago, after being trained these days, she dared not say a word, she just said: "Mother, I bought the vegetables, I will cook."

After all, she was ignorant of the money given by her mother, but Xiucai's mother is also a shrewd person, seeing that today's food is not tofu, she narrowed her eyes: "Where did you get the money?"

It's her sister-in-law who runs the tofu shop, not the one who sells vegetables.

Song Xiuxiu wanted to find an excuse, but she was not quick-witted, so she couldn't think of a suitable excuse for a long time, and Xiucai's mother had already thought about it: "You are already the daughter-in-law of my Liu family, so you must know some shame, don't rely on your youth to follow People hook up, my family can't afford to lose that person!"

"I didn't..." Song Xiuxiu was already petrified.

Ever since she married a young scholar, she has been contented, and she doesn't even want to look at other men's faces when she walks on the street, so how can she hook up with others?
Xiucai Niang picked up two vegetable leaves, and asked Song Xiuxiu's face: "You didn't hook up with a wild man, where did these vegetables come from?"

Song Xiuxiu really had no choice, and said loudly, "I bought it with the money my mother gave me!"

Xiucai's mother suddenly stopped her flag and said: "What's going on at home, don't let outsiders see it as disrespectful. Song Xiuxiu is a shameless person who has no money and doesn't know how to earn it by herself. She went to ask her mother-in-law for money. It's really embarrassing!"

Song Xiuxiu cried: "I have no way to make money, mother, if you don't give me money, can the old raven and sparrow bring me food?"

Xiucai was so angry that she pinched Song Xiuxiu's arm, and she wailed, "Your natal second sister-in-law can make money like that, don't you know how to learn from her? Marrying a prodigal woman like you, my son is really wronged." !"

If you want to say what Song Xiuxiu is afraid of, it is that she is afraid that she will not be worthy of the little scholar, and she will tell him to go home someday, and the little scholar will be an official in the future, and she will not have the benefit of her.

Xiucai's mother had precisely spotted her vital point, and once she caught it, she trained her daughter-in-law to be submissive in a short time, and she didn't dare to let another fart.

Song Xiuxiu lowered her head and said in a low voice, "Mom, it's too expensive to buy vegetables outside, why don't we grow vegetables too?" Seeing her mother-in-law's eyes turned over again, she hurriedly added, "My second sister-in-law is also growing vegetables at home."

Although Xiucai Niang didn't like Baihe's pungentness, she yearned for her ability to make money, and she was a little moved when she heard Song Xiuxiu's words, and said: "Since this is the case, you can grow vegetables so that you can subsidize the family in the future. "

She remembered very clearly that the vegetables grown by Li Da Niu could not only be eaten by herself, but also sold in the market for money.

Song Xiuxiu was dumbfounded: "Mom, do I grow vegetables?"

The scholar said: "If it's not you, who is it? My son married you to ask you to honor us, not to ask you to be a young mistress, but to have your parents-in-law take care of you. If you want to, just be reasonable, and you have a lot of better ideas." marry my son."

"Mother, I'm going to grow vegetables, so don't tell my husband." Song Xiuxiu could only say good things in a low voice.

In fact, the best season for growing vegetables has long been missed at this time, but radishes and cabbage are not expensive, and they can still live if they order them now.

Unlike Lily's family who lived in the west of the town, where there was a large open space next to their house, Xiao Xiucai's house was in the middle of the town, surrounded by neighbors' houses, but there was no open space for Song Xiuxiu to grow vegetables.

Song Xiuxiu thought for a long while with a frown, and asked her mother-in-law: "Mother, can I grow vegetables in our yard? If I plant them outside, I'm afraid someone will steal them."

Xiucai Niang nodded in agreement, and Song Xiuxiu went to the utility room to get a hoe and dig the ground in the yard.

She has never planted land at home, and this is the first time, the hoe was waved indiscriminately, the dust danced wildly, and she failed to open a suitable vegetable plot in half a day.

In the afternoon when the little scholar came home from school, she saw Song Xiuxiu digging in the yard with a disheveled face, and hurriedly asked her, "What are you doing?"

Song Xiuxiu wanted to prevent her husband from seeing her dusty appearance, but the house is such a big place, where can she hide?
Seeing that she didn't answer, Xiao Xiucai asked again loudly: "What are you doing to mess up the house like this?"

Song Xiuxiu said in a low voice: "Master, I plan to open a vegetable plot in the yard and grow some vegetables to eat."

Little Xiucai immediately recalled many unpleasant memories: Mrs. Li was growing vegetables at home, but the growing was booming.

Scholars often pay attention to a farming and reading heirloom, a scholar, a farmer, a businessman, and a second in the agricultural ranking. It is by no means a lowly job.But the truth is the truth, the reality is the reality, and the reality is that those who work in agriculture are not as comfortable as those who do business.

Liu Rulong is a scholar, and he doesn't like businessmen, and he doesn't like the rough men and women who work in agriculture. What he is most proud of is that he is different from those people.

Some scholars like the rural scenery, picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, planting beans under the southern mountain, etc., he doesn't like it at all.His Liu Rulong's ambition is to see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.

So his parents gradually stopped farming, and Xiao Xiucai was quite happy, so that he looked like a scholar, not like those illiterate villagers.It is true that although his parents talked about the rules of the scholar family every day, they were actually illiterate.

It took him a lot of effort to make his family look like a scholar's family, who knew that Song Xiuxiu, a stupid woman, would rush to farm the land not long after she married, what a disgrace to his family!
Wouldn't it make him laugh to death to let those people in the school know that his wife did such a lowly job?

Originally for marrying Song Xiuxiu, some people in the school laughed at him for his poor eyesight, so some pretty big girls looked down on him, and finally fell in love with Song Xiuxiu.

Little Xiucai yelled at Song Xiuxiu and told her to put down her hoe and roll away. Song Xiuxiu felt aggrieved and scared, and explained that Xiucai's mother told her to grow vegetables.

The whole family of the Liu family depended on the little scholar for their livelihood, and the lady of the scholar naturally treated her son very kindly. When she saw him come in, she hurriedly apologized and smiled: "It turns out that your daughter-in-law said that she wanted to subsidize the family. Some vegetables. If you don’t like it, don’t grow it.”

Xiao Xiucai said angrily: "Mother, our family has her dowry now, and it's pretty decent, why do we need to grow vegetables?"

No matter how much he doesn't like Song Xiuxiu, that's his wife. How embarrassing for him to grow vegetables.

Xiucai Niang said: "How long can the dowry last for that idea? We still have to prepare for you to rush for the exam in the future. Don't we have to save some money?"

This made sense, so the little scholar didn't get angry at his mother, instead he said to Song Xiuxiu: "Even if you grow vegetables, you don't have to stay at home, what a mess it looks like!"

Xiucai Niang nodded again and again: "Yes, yes." She never mentioned that she agreed to ask Song Xiuxiu to grow vegetables in the yard.

After thinking for a while, the little scholar said: "Mother, I will give her two dollars to buy vegetables every few days. In the past few days, there is only tofu, and I don't have the strength to write articles."

Xiucai Niang said without saying a word, "Succeed, I will give her money to buy vegetables in the future, so I can't wrong my son."

If you want the little scholar to say that Song Xiuxiu's culinary skill is to give her dragon liver and phoenix marrow and ask her to make it, the food he cooks is also wronged him.But everyone is married into the family, so he has no choice but to bear it. Now that he has not met the destined lady from an official family, it would be nice to have someone who can work in the family.

"Mother, teach her more, what she cooks is not rice, but pig food!" the little scholar complained.

Xiucai's mother wholeheartedly wants to enjoy the blessings of her daughter-in-law, but unexpectedly Song Xiuxiu can't do everything, and she has to teach her to do this and that, how can you feel angry?
From then on, even though Song Xiuxiu was given money to buy meat and vegetables, she was too strict to allow her to eat more, and she didn't look good when teaching her to cook and sew clothes, "Your mother won't teach you, I will teach you, so as not to embarrass my son!"

Song Xiuxiu was very wronged, but she didn't dare to tell others, for fear that others would laugh at her, so she had to endure it.

She thought, it would be fine when Xianggong became a high-ranking official, and she could order a few maidservants to do this and that, and if she didn't like it, she would throw her out with a kick.

(End of this chapter)