Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 9

Pomegranate pouted and went home, feeling angry all the way, kicking pebbles whenever she saw them, and breaking wild chrysanthemums by the roadside.She held the wild chrysanthemum in her hands, and then pulled off the petals one by one and threw them on the ground, cursing to herself while throwing: "Qian Feng, you big bastard! Big ruffian! Big... big bastard! Scoundrel! Smelly!" shameless!"

Thinking of Qian Feng mocking her for growing a body of pork, she began to cry again.

Although she also wants to get married early, so that her parents don't have to worry about her marriage anymore, and she can have a man who loves her, but Qian Feng doesn't seem like a person who loves people, he is obviously a bully of!
"Hmph, I'm not easy to be bullied!" Shiliu wiped away her tears, thinking that she sprinkled pepper on Qian Feng, making Qian Feng mad, she secretly felt complacent again.

Back in the village, she saw two girls, Lihua and Shaoyao, sitting under an old tree doing needlework.Both of them are going to leave the cabinet at the end of the year, and they started to stay at home and work in the fields two months ago.

Although Shiliu is not smart, she also knows that she does not like Lihua, so she walks by without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, Lihua was very interested today. Seeing that Pomegranate came back with a big red wedding cloth, she and Shaoyao came over and sat down together, holding Pomegranate.

Lihua has always been very disdainful of Shiliu, because the Qian family asked a matchmaker to propose marriage to her, but her parents did not agree, and she herself did not agree.In this way, Shiliu picked up a man she didn't want.

In the past few months, whenever she saw the pomegranate, she felt a sense of superiority.Seeing the big red wedding cloth in Pomegranate's hand, she joked, "Pomegranate, why do you buy all red cloth? Generally, a girl needs at least eight pairs of shoes when she gets married, two pairs each for spring, summer, autumn and winter. Do you want shoes for all seasons of the year?" They all wear red cloth shoes? You see, I buy some of all kinds of cloth."

Shiliu saw that there were red cloth, green cloth, purple cloth, and blue cloth in Lihua's small basket, but she felt that these cloths of different colors were not very good, and said, "Don't you have to wear red when you are a bride? It’s good to wear red in four seasons, I just need to embroider different colors on each pair of shoes.”

Lihua didn't expect Shiliu to say that. She rolled her eyes and said mockingly, "Could it be that you also make red cloth shoes for Qian Feng? How can a man wear red shoes? Your brain is really blocked by grass."

Shiliu usually listens to people's insinuations that she is stupid. In the past, she mostly pouted and didn't answer, but today she has something to say, "I won't do it for Qian Feng, I will only do it for myself."

Shaoyao was afraid that the two of them would quarrel, so she hurriedly interjected: "It's okay, you make it for yourself first, and then you can buy some cloth for Qian Feng when you have free time. No matter which family's girl gets married, she will make a few pairs of shoes for the man , this must not be missing, otherwise the in-laws will pick it up."

Shiliu gets angry when she thinks of Qian Feng, she is not willing to make shoes for him, she pinches the red cloth in her hand, and still insists: "I really only make for myself, I don't know how to make Qian Feng's shoes, and I don't know his shoes. How big are your feet?"

Shao Yao said again: "Just now I saw Qian Feng's parents went to your house to give a big gift, and they should have left the shoe samples to your house. Don't be stupid, Pomegranate, you must make shoes for your man. This is It's auspicious, and he won't beat you and scold you when we live together in the future."

The reason why Shaoyao said this was because she had heard a lot of rumors about Qian Feng. With Pomegranate's clumsy appearance and not very good-looking, she would inevitably be beaten and scolded when she went to her in-law's house, so she persuaded Pomegranate to make shoes for Qian Feng , so that the in-laws can save one mistake.

Shiliu's mouth is stupid, she can't talk to Shaoyao, so she just nodded and said: "Okay, next time when my father goes to town, let him bring some cloth back."

At this time, Lihua saw that Pomegranate's waist was bulging, so she reached out to touch it, "What did you buy?"

The pomegranate was about to take it out, but Lihua's hand was even faster, and she stretched out her hand and pulled it out of the pomegranate's wide loincloth.

Lihua hurriedly opened the small sachet she drew out, and found a pair of silver earrings and a silver hairpin inside.Lihua was surprised: "You bought this yourself?"

Shiliu blinked her eyes, "My mother made it when she went back to the town. I just went to get it back today. My mother said that it will be given to me as a dowry."

Lihua looked at it without blinking, she liked it so much, she touched it again and again, seeing that she was about to try on the silver hairpin on her head, but Pomegranate snatched it away.Lihua was annoyed, "Yo, it's not a golden hairpin, so why not wear it for a while?"

"No, my mother said that my dowry can be seen and touched by others, but it must not be worn by others, otherwise it will be unlucky, and men will have ulterior motives." Pomegranate said seriously, and then wrapped the silver hairpin with her sleeve. Wipe it with the silver earrings, then carefully put it into the small sachet and stuff it into the belt.

Lihua teased: "In other people's houses, the men make jewelry. How can the woman make it herself? Is it possible to coax the man to marry? My family also made a pair of silver jewelry, but those were reserved for my three younger brothers to marry." of."

Shiliu said without hiding: "My family still has thousands of Wen, and my parents said it's enough for Shi Yazi to get married."

Shaoyao next to her was very envious after hearing this, while Lihua was so jealous that her face turned blue.Lihua has three younger brothers, and her dowry will definitely be pitifully small, because her mother said that more than half of the dowry gifts from the man must be reserved for the younger brothers to marry in the future.

Shaoyao's family background is not good either. She has an elder brother who has already married, a younger brother and a younger sister. The family will not be willing to give her much dowry.

Shao Yao couldn't help but envy and said: "Pomegranate, you bring so much dowry to your in-law's house, even if you do something wrong in the future, your in-law's house will be ashamed to blame you, that's great."

Shiliu smirked after hearing this, and she didn't expect to comfort Shaoyao.

Lihua said in a strange way: "Shaoyao, you and Shiliu are both going to marry into Qianjia Village. The amount of dowry doesn't matter, what matters is how well you live in the future. Some girls have to work desperately in their in-laws' house after marriage They are often run on and ridiculed, and within a few years they are tortured to the point of becoming old. If they don’t give birth to a boy, they will wait to be divorced and go back to their natal family. But some girls are more nourished and delicious than living in their natal home after marriage. It’s easy to wear, and there are men who feel sorry for it, and they have both children and parents-in-law. These things, not only depends on fate, but also depends on what kind of man the man is married to.”

(End of this chapter)