Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 114
"Is Mrs. Dafu at home?"

Mai Xiang heard someone shouting outside, and hurriedly hugged Mai Di to go out. It turned out to be the wife of the head of the village.

"Hey, Mai Xiang, it's you, where's your mother?"

"My mother is in the room, is my aunt here?"

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, the head lady did not move her place, but stepped forward, took the wheat field, and said with a smile: "Look at how rare this fat boy is, we are getting more and more capable, not only You can earn money, and you can take care of your younger siblings, you can see that the younger ones in your family have been trained to be more cute by you."

After hearing this, Mai Xiang didn't know whether the other party wanted to praise herself or Mai Huang, and when she didn't know how to answer, Mai Huang and Mai Qing came back with baskets of grass.

"Hey, Erya, I just praised you to your eldest sister, and you guys went to cut grass today?" When the white lady saw Mai Huang, her face immediately burst into a smile.

"Auntie is here." Under Mai Xiang's training these days, Mai Huang has spoken a lot more generously. Of course, it may be that life at home is easier and she has more confidence.

Mai Huang put the basket behind the house, just entered the house to scoop up water and asked Mai Qing to wash his hands, only then did he find Mrs. Wan sitting on the kang at home, flipping through Mai Xiang's pen and ink.

While watching, she asked Jiufeng how long Mai Xiang had learned the characters, who she learned from, and so on.

Just as she was talking, she saw Mai Huang coming in with a basin to scoop up water to wash her hands. The old lady couldn't ask any more questions, so she got off the kang and visited Mai Xiang's house, only to find that there were several bundles piled up at the end of the kang. Furoshiki are still made of half-worn silk.

Seeing Mrs. Wan staring at the fur skin, Jiufeng hurriedly said, "This is the last time Maixiang went to Gege's house, and Gege gave it to me."

"It's no wonder that Mai Xiang doesn't like my things anymore, so there are better ones." Mrs. Wan joked with a smile.

Mai Xiang heard this at the door, and replied with a smile: "Nurse Wan is laughing at me, it's good if we have some, how dare we pick and choose?"

When the white lady heard someone talking in the room, she thought it was some old man in the village or a relative of the Liu family, so she stood at the door and took a look. She saw that the old lady was wearing silk clothes and skirts. How could she dare to look again? He lowered his head and wondered who this old lady was?

The Wan family hadn't been with the Ye family for a long time, so almost no one in the village knew that the Ye family had this kind of relative, so the white lady thought it was another one who came to give Mai Xiang a gift.

When the white lady was suspicious, she saw Mrs. Liu coming. She hadn't seen Mrs. Wan for a long time, so she came here specially to see if Mai Xiang had neglected the guests.

"Auntie, congratulations, Auntie looks very energetic today." The white lady congratulated Mrs. Liu first.

"It turned out to be his mother Chubby. You saw that you came, and you didn't go to the room to sit and sit. It's really chaotic today. There are some places where greetings are not good. Please bear with me." Liu said with a smile.

"Auntie is too polite. I came here to reach out to help, but I don't know that there are people rushing to do this job, and Auntie's popularity is too good." The white lady glanced into the room while talking beautifully.

"It's good that you're here, why would you dare to bother you?" Of course, Mrs. Liu knew that the white lady was being polite to her, because she didn't do much work at home, anyway, her husband had two wives for her to order.

"Auntie, go and greet the guests. I'll talk to my sister-in-law." Seeing Mrs. Liu looking into the room a few times, the white lady guessed that the guests inside were more important, so she stopped pulling Mrs. Liu to talk.

"Sister-in-law, come, come and sit in the room. I'll show you the new house." Seeing that the white lady had finally left, Mrs. Liu rushed into the room to greet Mrs. Wan, she was afraid that Mrs. Wan would be left out in the cold.

Mrs. Wan smiled and said, "Okay, my old lady will also follow suit."

Seeing that everyone had left, Mai Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly put the wheat field on the kang, and after holding the child for a long time, she was exhausted, and she was only ten years old with this body.

Just as Mai Xiang was about to lie down for a rest, she saw Da Mei leading a few sisters over. Mai Xiang had no choice but to cheer up and talk with her, because she knew that these people used to be her girlfriends, even though some of them still called No names.

"Big girl, your grandma's family is so rich, your fifth uncle actually killed a pig when he got married, and even killed these ducks and geese." Someone said.

Someone pouted and said, "What is this? I heard that your mother gave ten taels of silver as a gift money. Tsk tsk, ten taels of silver, what good dowry can there be?"

"I really don't know about this." Mai Xiang smiled.

Last night, she had listened to the analysis of the three sisters-in-law of the Ye family. The custom here is to give the dowry a day or two before marriage, and let the relatives of the man see what dowry the woman has, but the Li family did not send the dowry , so Qian and Sun reckoned that the dowry would definitely not be available, and they were afraid that it would be unpopular if it was delivered in advance, so they simply waited to bring it together when they got married.

In fact, in Mai Xiang's eyes, ten taels of silver is really not a big deal now, so she is not at all interested in the dowry that these ten taels of silver can buy, but what she is curious about is that the Ye family gave a gift of ten taels of silver Who will say the money?

"Da Ya, the clothes on your body are so beautiful, are they newly made?" Someone lifted Mai Xiang's clothes to have a look.

Because today is the day when Wu Fu gets married, Mai Xiang is wearing the jacket made by Liu Huilan, Mai Xiang has not worn it a few times.

"Ah, Mai Xiang, when did you have a pair of bracelets?" When the clothes were lifted up, someone saw the bracelets on Mai Xiang's hands.

Since Mai Xiang heard Liu Huilan's words, she thought that this bracelet was just a gift from the elders to the younger generation, so she put it on without thinking too much about it, and usually put it in her sleeves. Who would have known that these people would actually rummage through their own clothes? sleeve.

"Let me see." Immediately, several heads came over and took Mai Xiang's hand for a closer look.

"Tsk tsk, it's so pretty." Someone was envious.

"Big girl, tell the truth, are you engaged?" someone asked.

"What nonsense? I'm only young enough to get engaged?" Mai Xiang quickly denied it.

"Maybe why do you have a bracelet to wear? Who gave it to you? Could it be another rich lady?"

These people already know what Ge Ge Mai Xiang has met, so even life with Mai Xiang is easier, and it would be a lie to say that they are not envious.

Mai Xiang didn't hear anything else, but was startled by the sentence "How can someone wear a bracelet if they are not married?"

It turns out that in their cognition, they generally think that the man will give the woman a bracelet when he is engaged. This is different from what Liu Huilan said. Liu Huilan said that as long as it is not a dragon and phoenix bracelet, it doesn't matter. Who should I listen to?

Mai Xiang carefully recalled every detail of Mrs. Tong's treatment of herself. It seemed that she was a very easy-going and caring person when meeting her for the first time. Because of this, she accepted the pair of wall shoes that Mai Xiang gave her. Only then will there be subsequent contacts.

She already had a daughter-in-law by default, and Mai Xiang couldn't see that she wanted to make herself a concubine, but she could see that Tong Liwen seemed to be really attracted to him.

"Hey, I'm talking to you, what are you thinking?" Someone pushed Mai Xiang.

"Ah? What are you talking about?"

"Big girl, you really meant to kiss me, right? This bracelet must have something to say, or else you'd be taken aback when we mentioned it. Would it be strange if you didn't have ghosts in your heart?" Someone smiled and held Mai Xiang down.

When the girls saw it, they quickly held down Mai Xiang and yelled at her together, hoping that Mai Xiang would tell the origin of the bracelet.

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble, outsiders should laugh at us when they hear it." Mai Xiang raised her hand for forgiveness.

"No, if you don't say it now, you won't say it next time."

"Okay, I'll say it." Mai Xiang couldn't stand the itch, and begged for mercy again.

"Okay, tell me." Damei stopped first.

"Sister Damei, this is really a gift from a wife, it's definitely not what you think."

"Bah, I'm so ashamed, you know what we think? How old are you?"

"Okay, it's obvious that you guys picked it up first, and you're going to blame Da Ya again." Da Mei still prefers Mai Xiang.

How did Mai Xiang know that the noise of these girls had already spread, and several daughters-in-law and women in the village who knew Qian well smiled and asked Qian and Sun about Mai Xiang's engagement.

Mrs. Qian has long been dissatisfied. Among the three sisters-in-law, the eldest is injured and cannot work, and the third is pregnant with a child. Both of them stayed in the upper room to accompany the guests, and she was the only one left to make arrangements outside. She is the one who cooks the fire and washes the vegetables, so she has already made her look ashamed. The two sons who were born to her also stayed at home today, and they didn't get anything cheap.

So after hearing what these daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law said, they sneered and said, "I dare not say whether they are relatives or not, but it is true that someone will always send her something."

"Yo, that's it, right? Otherwise, who would be willing to spend that money?"

Coincidentally, Mai Huang led Mai Qing and Mai Lu to stand outside to play. Hearing these words, he hurriedly said loudly: "Second Aunt, my eldest sister didn't say goodbye."

"Yo, at such a young age, you know what to say or not to kiss? Is it because our Erya also wants to say kiss?" The two women laughed and teased Mai Huang.

When Mai Huang heard this, her face became red with anger, and she ran into the house a few steps, pulled Mrs. Zhao out, pointed at Mrs. Qian and the women and said, "Mother, they spread rumors, saying that the elder sister said they were married. "

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao quickly spat, and cursed: "Damn, who's gossiping about saying that my aunt said we were married? Who's making rumors?"

Mrs. Zhao's yelling made everyone pay attention to them, and everyone stretched their necks to listen. Who wouldn't want to watch the excitement?
When Mrs. Qian saw Mrs. Zhao staring at her angrily, this was obviously misleading everyone into thinking that she was spreading rumors. It was her own niece's rumors. Is that okay?How will she go out and behave in the future?

"Sister-in-law, who are you talking about spreading rumors? People asked me what happened to the bracelet on Da Ya's hand? I said I don't know, anyway, someone always comes to give Da Ya something. What's wrong with that?"

Qian Shi straightened her back and wanted to have a fight. She had already suppressed her anger, and she didn't know who to turn to to vent her dissatisfaction.

(End of this chapter)