The new year is getting closer and closer. Tian Minyan originally thought of digging out the potatoes planted in September before the new year, but she dug out one or two potatoes and found that they were a little short, so she thought of digging together with the remaining ones.
Anyway, the difference between planting and planting is only about one month.
As the New Year was approaching, Tian Minyan paid wages to the long-term workers at home, sealed them with a big red seal, and also gave each of them ten pounds of meat, which made the long-term workers below very happy. Some of the people in Zhuangzi took the initiative to transfer long-term contracts.
, these days, there are not many good hosts, and good and generous hosts are even harder to find. Tian Minyan’s is considered to be excellent.
The long-term workers all had a holiday before the Lunar New Year, and Tian Minyan and his family were really free, so they took advantage of the free time to go shopping in the town and pick up some clothes.
In fact, Tian Minyan had already bought some New Year clothes for her family before, and now she just took advantage of her free time to hang out.
When we arrived in the town, we first went to a clothing store and picked some materials to make two sets of clothes for each person. Then we went to a jewelry store.
Tian Huairen and his two men had little interest in jewelry, so they took their two sons to their own shop to drink tea and look at the shop while waiting for Tian Minyan and his wife.
Without the man, Tian Minyan felt at ease. She dragged Luo Shi and went straight to Ruyizhai. Although she didn't like to dress up, it didn't mean that she didn't like jewelry. Moreover, a woman always has to buy some accessories.
On some important occasions, you can't just have noodles with clear soup and no jewelry at all.
It's okay if they don't have any money. Now that their family has earned money, it makes no sense to just spend it. They still have to spend what should be spent.
Luo Shi didn't object. Her daughter will be twelve years old after the Chinese New Year. The child is getting older every day and will be married to her husband's family in a few years. In the past, life was difficult and there was nothing to say. Now that the family has made a fortune, it is time to take things slowly.
I have prepared a dowry for my daughter.
"Oh, Miss Tian, Mrs. Tian, rare visitor, rare visitor." The Chinese New Year is about to come, and there are many guests in Ruyizhai. The waiters and shopkeepers are very busy. When they see Tian Minyan, they immediately welcome her.
Tian Minyan said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Wu, what a good business."
"Thanks to the girl, I got a little something." Shopkeeper Wu smiled so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes, and welcomed the two of them into the inner hall.
"Look, that's from the Tian family in Yangmei Village."
"Is that the Tian family who created rice fields to raise fish?"
"No, didn't you say you got a reward from the emperor? What a blessing."
"That girl is really good-looking, I wonder if others have told her."
"Don't think about it. People have already said that if you don't have a hairpin, you won't be married. Otherwise, I would have come to ask for it."
Before Tian Minyan fully entered the inner hall, she heard several people who were shopping for jewelry in the shop whispering. The sound was not loud, but it reached her ears clearly, and she couldn't help but laugh.
Shopkeeper Wu also heard about it. After welcoming her into the inner hall, she smiled and said: "Mrs. Tian is so lucky. The second girl is now well-known and is an ideal wife for many families. If it weren't for the fact that my two sons are already married, I would not be married."
I want to come and ask for help."
After Luo heard this, he was not happy that his daughter was praised and liked by others, but he just said modestly: "Shopkeeper Wu is joking, it's just a false name, it's not as good as they say."
"Haha, it's a fish eye or a pearl, but it's obvious to all." Shopkeeper Wu said with a smile.
Tian Minyan felt ashamed after hearing this and hurriedly changed the subject and said: "Shopkeeper Wu, we are here to pick out some jewelry. If there are any good designs, let's take a look."
"As for the good patterns, Miss Tian, the patterns you drew are the most popular. I'm afraid that our Ruyizhai won't be able to catch the girl's eye."
Tian Minyan laughed and said: "Shopkeeper Wu, there are so many talented people in the world. I know how many pounds it is, so you can take it and have a look."
Shopkeeper Wu was also talkative and hurriedly ordered his waiters to bring over some gold, silver, pearls and jade jewelry.
The New Year is about to come, and the jewelry that the waiter brought is very festive. There are silver jewelry, red gold jewelry, and pearls and jade. Tian Minyan is dazzled by it.
Speaking of the jewelry that Tian Minyan owns now, the most expensive ones are the jade beads that Mr. Zhang gave to her at the Zhang Mansion that day. They are also Tian Minyan's favorite jewelry.
In addition to this string of beads, there were also gifts from other ladies. If you really wanted to compare them, there really weren't many people in Yangmei Village who had the kind of clothing she had. Not to mention Yangmei Village, she believed that even Tian Minzhuang and Huang Wenru didn't have it.
After picking and choosing, Tian Minyan chose a pair of ruby earrings, a pair of intricately carved silver bracelets, and a red gold ring. Luo Shi chose a silver hairpin and a silver ring for herself, and wanted nothing else.
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"Mom, you are now the wife of the house, so it just doesn't make sense to dress like this. Sometimes, being too low-key makes you feel inferior. If you take my sister and I to some big occasions, you can't just wear a silver hairpin.
Isn't it so shabby? How will this make people think of our home?"
Being low-key is a good thing, but being too low-key can make you look petty. You don’t have to be gorgeous or ostentatious, but you must be decent and graceful. No one wants you to wear all the expensive jewelry on your body, but if you have one or two expensive ones, that’s called
Just right, neither ostentatious nor petty.
Luo Shi didn't care about it herself, but it didn't matter when it came to her two daughters. She didn't want others to underestimate her two daughters. Although she was a little hesitant, she looked at the jewelry again.
Seeing this, Tian Minyan pursed her lips and smiled. It would be better if she could listen. She wanted to make Baozi's father and mother into real masters and wives, generous and decent. This would also be good for their children in the future, so that they would not be looked down upon.
She glanced at the jewelry and took a fancy to a pair of red gold bracelets and a gold bracelet inlaid with rubies, and picked them up.
"This won't work, it's too expensive." Luo Shi was shocked, those two things cost a lot of money.
Tian Minyan didn't listen, and said: "It's not about the abundance of jewelry, it's about the exquisiteness. I look at these two and they are very good. Mom, when you went to visit relatives in the second grade of junior high school, you wore it back to my uncle's house. I don't know how many sisters I envy."
Luo Shi was a little moved after hearing this. When she was a daughter, she also had a few sisters who were well married. When they met every New Year, they were more respectable than herself. She knew that they had gossiped about her in secret.
It's like saying that I was a flower back then, but I couldn't get married.
But these two pieces of jewelry were too expensive. She shook her head and found that Tian Minyan had already asked the clerk to wrap them up.
"Nanny, this..."
"Mom, what are we working so hard for? It's just to live a good life. Once you earn money, you have to spend it, and after you spend it, you earn it." Tian Minyan laughed and said, "Let's live a luxurious life."
Then, he asked the waiter to bring some men's jewelry, and chose a jade ring for Tian Huairen, a white jade hairpin for Tian Minrui, and a silver necklace for Xiao Wu. Of course, she and Tian Minrui both had this. Finally,
Such a lot of jewelry left Ruyizhai with almost a hundred taels of silver. Tian Minyan didn't even blink when she handed over the banknote, but Luo Shi was frightened by the sight.
