Everyone in Lao Zhou's family knew about this change. The children didn't feel anything about it, but the Feng family members were envious of it.
Especially the Feng family. Apart from Da Ya, she was the only one in the old Zhou family who gave birth to two daughters.
So as soon as Zhou Lang lay down, she pulled him up and asked in a low voice: "Why did dad agree to give the shop to Da Ya?"
Zhou Erlang said nonchalantly: "Manbao went to tell me, what's the matter?"
Feng was so sour that she unconsciously pulled his hair and said, "Didn't you say that you would leave it to Man Bao as a dowry?"
"Man Bao said, she doesn't need this shop, and she doesn't lack the money," Zhou Erlang pulled out her hair from her hands, lay down and said, "Okay, go to bed quickly, we have to go to the vegetable field to weed tomorrow."
Well, the fifth child has to go to the county town to ask someone to inquire about the fourth child and see when he will come back to celebrate the New Year."
Mrs. Feng pulled him up again and continued to pester the matter, "Even if there is no shortage of treasures, wouldn't there still be big heads and three heads? Sister-in-law, it's okay to give the shop to your son, why should you take it away with your daughter?
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Zhou Zuorang knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight unless he made it clear. He sat up and said, "You don't care who the eldest brother or sister-in-law is. Anyway, you can't give it to anyone else, so is there any difference between giving it to Da Ya or Da Tou?"
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"Why not? If you give it to Datou, the shop will still be in our hands. It's always a benefit, isn't it?"
"Don't worry, even if I give it to Da Ya, my sister-in-law is also in charge of it. Da Ya's craftsmanship..." Zhou Lang paused and said: "Like eldest brother, I guess he can't learn it in ten years or so, so the restaurant has to
The vegetables we use are still produced at home, and the grain and beans are also bought from home. Then we will still follow the old rules and hand over part to the father-in-law, and the rest belongs to my sister-in-law and my aunt."
When Mrs. Feng heard this, she let him go, but she was still envious, "I wonder if the family can give Erya a shop when she gets married..."
"Don't think about it. We only have a shop at home, and if you really bought a shop, are you willing to give Erya a dowry?" Zhou Erlang broke through her fantasy, and then said: "By the way, give her back Sanya's colorful silk."
Go back, that child was almost crying when he found me yesterday."
Feng: "...I was afraid that she would waste the good stuff, so I kept it specially for her. I will give it to her when she gets married."
Zhou Erlang: "She is not young anymore. She can take care of her things by herself. Once the eldest daughter gets married and the second daughter is in the capital, she is the only girl in the family. Didn't you see that dad is a lot kinder to the two girls in the family?"
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Feng grabbed his hair and said, "I didn't say that I wouldn't give her anything. Every year, the clothes, shoes, and bundles she wears when she goes to school? We also spend money on the books, pens, ink, and paper she needs to buy."
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Feng felt distressed when she said this, "She spends a lot more money for a girl than her brother. The books her brother studied at that time were copied by her sister-in-law, the pen and ink she used were leftover by her sister-in-law, and the paper she used was also her sister-in-law's.
Some of them were given to her, and some were bought with her own money, so we just gave them to her? But when it comes to her, do you think how much money she spent in a year?"
Zhou Zuorang said: "Didn't Man Bao lead them to make money back then? Sanya and the others have no one to take them with them now, and they don't have a penny with them. How do you ask them to buy it?"
"Actually, I think she has studied for two or three years. She should be sent to her sister-in-law to learn cooking skills. If she can learn how to cook like Lao Liu, she can open a shop in the future and help the family.
no?"
Seeing that Erya was lying down again, she pulled him up again, gave him a beating and said, "I'm asking you a question. Look at Erya. After she went out, she didn't know when she came back. Man Bao said she didn't earn anything."
It’s a small amount of money, but I haven’t seen her take it back to honor us. What’s the point of a girl reading so many books?”
Zhou Erlang could only sit still. He lowered his voice and reasoned with her, "You can tell just by looking at Man Bao. Do you think it is useful for girls to study? We are strong now and don't need to have children.
It’s time to be filial.”
He said: "Erya didn't get the money back, and neither did Ertou. By the way, that boy came back, but he ended up not being as good as a family, not even as a daughter."
Mrs. Feng pinched his ears and said, "We've just passed through the house, and they just turned around when they got to Mianzhou."
Zhou Erlang was not afraid of her pinching him, since it didn't hurt her anyway.
"But it's not enough to just study all the time. You still have to learn a craft," Feng insisted, "This girl is no better than a boy. If she studies too much at school and can still be an examiner, what should she do?"
"Er Ya is good at accounting after all. She is learning to be a bookkeeper outside and will have a job in the future. But what can San Ya do after studying?" Feng said: "Either, like my sister-in-law, she has good cooking skills; or, she
Like her sister, she can do accounting; otherwise, she must be as good at medicine as her sister-in-law. Otherwise, no matter how many books she reads, she will still have to farm and weave when she gets married, so she might as well not study."
Zhou Erlang thought for a while and felt that what she said made sense, so he said: "Okay, I will ask her what she wants to do in the future when I am free tomorrow, but you should return the colorful silk to her first. Everyone else has it.
Only she didn’t.”
Feng: ...Why hasn’t this matter passed?
She said: "They don't have the four heads either."
"That's a boy, can it be compared with a girl?"
Feng also lay down, pulled the quilt over her head, and pretended not to hear.
Zhou Erlang pushed her and said, "I'm talking to you."
Feng snored, indicating that she was asleep.
Tuesday Lang:......
The next day, Manbao entered his mother's room early in the morning, squatted in front of a large urn, and touched the eggs from the inside out with her, counting them as he did so.
Qian put a layer of rice in the basket, put the eggs he found in it, poured another layer of rice, and put another layer of eggs. After putting twenty eggs in total, he took the basket out.
When little Qian caught the basket, she asked her family, "We are going to the Taoist temple to worship God. Which of you will go?"
The children all raised their hands excitedly to express their intention to go, and Zhou Dalang said: "Mom, let Sanlang take you there. The second child and I will go to prepare a whole vegetable field."
Mrs. Qian nodded and asked Zhou Lang to harness the ox cart. Then he asked his daughters-in-law, "Do you want to go and pay homage?"
They were also very moved, especially the Fang family and the Lu family. Their home was in Dali Village, and they could also go back to their parents' home when they went to the Taoist temple, so everyone nodded in agreement.
Man Bao had already sneaked back to her room to get three books. She wrapped them in cloth and handed them to her mother to take with her. "These are the books I bought in the capital. They are for Dao He. Mother, please help me first."
Take it."
Qian took it and said, "Aren't you going?"
"I'm going to go with Bai Shan and the others, and take a look at Brother Bai by the way."
Qian then put away the book and said, "Then hurry up. It's best to enter the palace with us. I will take you to see the host."