The Guan family sent a betrothal gift and said goodbye after dinner. Their family was also busy today. Like the old Zhou family, they also had to prepare dishes for the wedding banquet the next day.
Back at Guan's house, Guan Erlang's wife couldn't help but said: "The sister-in-law of the Zhou family is really pretty. I don't know which family is lucky enough to marry her."
When saying this, Guan Erlang's wife couldn't help but look at her father-in-law with bright eyes. Just as she was about to continue speaking, Chief Guan Li said: "Don't think about it. Don't talk about your family. Even our family can't talk about her. Even though she is her biological child."
Her parents are gone, but her biological father is also a righteous man who was commended by the emperor and was given posthumously as a Mianzhou animal husbandry. Even if he wants to marry, she will marry in the prefecture and county."
Guan Erlang's wife stopped talking with regret.
Guan Dalang's wife had never seen Man Bao before, so she couldn't help asking her sister-in-law in a low voice, "Does it look good?"
Guan Erlang's wife nodded, "She is prettier than everyone else in their family. The main reason is that she is not only good-looking, she attracts more attention than others wherever she stands."
Guan Lichang said: "That's what I learned from reading."
He turned to look at Guan Yong and said: "Even though your sister-in-law is young, she is very good at reading. She is the one who taught the children of the next generation of the Zhou family how to read and read. In the future, when your daughter-in-law comes in, she must be more respectful.
Don’t neglect her just because she’s young, you know?”
Guan Yong responded obediently.
Guan Lichang nodded with satisfaction and said to his two daughters-in-law who were still paying attention to their appearance: "Zhou Man is good-looking because she is like her father. All the children of the old Zhou family are good-looking. A Yong's children will also be good-looking in the future. Wait for the new ones."
As soon as the daughter-in-law came in, she and A Yong were asked to move to the county town and give birth to a child as soon as possible."
Guan Yong's face turned red, and Guan Dalang's wife happily agreed, but Guan Erlang's wife felt that this topic seemed to hurt her.
How can a new daughter-in-law move to the county seat as soon as she enters the house?
However, no one doubts the good looks of Lao Zhou's family. When Lao Zhou was young, he was famous for his good looks in villages all over the country. His descendants have taken this good looks two steps further.
Da Ya used to be young, didn't eat well, and often went to the fields, so she was dark and thin and couldn't stand out.
But in the past few years, she first studied in a school for a year, and then went to work in a shop in the county town. Although the family life was good and bad, her food supply was not short.
So now she has a well-proportioned figure and is much whiter. Once her black hair is spread out, just sitting there gives people a beautiful feeling of peace and tranquility.
Zhou Lijun probably expected that his eldest sister was getting married, so he also asked Manbao to bring gifts.
She and Qiu Pei bought the rouge on the street. I heard that many young girls in the capital like to use it.
Early in the morning, after Da Ya woke up, she started to wash up and have breakfast, and then started to put on the wedding clothes that had been prepared at home. When they were sitting in front of the dressing table, the family was struggling with several boxes of rouge.
In the end, Man Bao ran to Bai's house and pulled Zheng over to help.
When a girl from a peasant family gets married, she will trim her eyebrows, twist her face, tie her hair, and put a little rouge on her lips, but not much else.
Even eyebrow shaping and hairstyle are those styles that few people delve into.
Ms. Zheng knows how to put on makeup herself. She can do everything except hanging noodles.
So after Daya finished twisting her eyebrows, Mrs. Zheng trimmed her eyebrows. While trimming, she taught her how to trim her own eyebrows in the future, and then applied rouge to her.
As for bunting her hair, Mrs. Zheng did not come, but whispered: "This needs to be done by a lucky person, so I won't interfere."
Who is the luckiest person in Qili Village?
There used to be many candidates, but now, apart from Mrs. Bai on the other side of the river, the most blessed one is the Qian family.
Mrs. Qian did not invite anyone, but stepped forward with a smile. Under Mrs. Zheng's guidance, she gave Daya a unique hairstyle, and then carefully tied the gold and silver headdress prepared for her on her head.
Man Bao stood on her toes and stood behind the crowd to watch. Because there were so many people surrounding Da Ya, she could only barely see a few.
When Mrs. Zheng came out and saw her leaning on her toes, she couldn't help but feel happy. She stretched out her hand and led her out, "There are a lot of people now. You can go in after she's dressed up and there are fewer people."
Indeed, there were many people in the house at the moment. Not only her mother and sisters-in-law were there, but also her aunts and sisters. There were also many aunts and sisters-in-law from the village, and they even brought some children to touch Da Ya’s skirt for good luck.
and send blessings.
Zhou Xi's wedding was not so lively in the past, and even the marriages of her brothers were not so grand.
The relatives and friends who had gradually come outside also saw the changes in the happy events of the old Zhou family, and they were alert and whispered: "The life of the old Zhou family is really getting better and better."
"Didn't you say in the past two months that you emptied your entire family fortune for Man Bao?"
"Who knows, I heard that Man Bao is so powerful now. She can go to the palace to see the emperor in the capital, and she also treats the nobles in the palace. When the nobles are happy, they reward her with many things."
"What's there?"
"That's a lot, I can't say it, I can't say it."
"Tch, you don't know, do you?"
"Who said I didn't know? Yesterday, the old Zhou family killed a pig and I came over to help. As I was told on Thursday, the nobles in the palace are very generous. They can take whatever gold cakes, silver basins, silks and satins they want."
"Really?"
"Is there any lie? Anyway, I heard that the old Zhou family is not short of money now. By the way, yesterday Thursday said that the nobles in the capital like our bitter tea here, and they want to collect some and send it to the capital, so that everyone can make money together.
Woolen cloth."
Everyone was obviously more interested in the topic of making money. After hearing this, they immediately asked: "Really or not? Just those bitter leaves on the mountain? Besides us, is there anyone else who drinks it?"
"Isn't the tea outside better than ours? How can you buy bitter tea from us?"
"Who knows, Thursday said that noble people have different tastes. For example, the noble people outside don't like to eat meat, and they shout all day long to eat more vegetables. Isn't this a joke? Can these vegetables be as delicious as meat?"
"It's just that you can gain weight by eating meat. Those noble people who are rich want to be more sophisticated than the poor."
"Oh, I mean, how is he going to collect the bitter tea?"
"I don't know about that. Zhou Lang only said he wanted to take it, but he didn't say he must take it. Besides, I don't have it at home either."
In previous years, when I had tea, when I wanted to drink it, I would go to the mountain and grab some, stir-fry it, and it would last for several months. If I didn’t have it, I would just drink it, so I really didn’t have any accumulated at home.
"You idiot, those tea trees have sprouted since the beginning of spring. You can pick them before Qingming Festival. Why don't you ask more?"
"In the past two years, Zhou Zhou has a lot of connections outside. He has sold all the gingers in the village with Zhou Lang."
There was a lot of discussion over there, and some of the guests in the big Ya room here finally dispersed, and Man Bao and San Ya could finally go in.
Man Bao saw the newly dressed Da Ya and was amazed, "Da Ya, you are so beautiful."
Da Ya lowered her head and pursed her lips and smiled, a little embarrassed, her rouged face became even redder.