The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when Daya returns home. Originally, according to the date, she should have returned home on the first day of the Lunar New Year. However, it is not suitable to go out on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Plus, it is the Chinese New Year, so she must follow Guan Yong to meet her relatives.
So I postponed it to the second day of the new year, which coincided with my return to my parents’ home.
On this day Zhou Xi also came back with her husband and children.
The Guan family in Dalicun Village is older than the Zhou family in Qili Village, and has more clan members than the Zhou family. But in terms of the number of people in the family, the Guan family is really far behind the old Zhou family.
So when Guan Yong walked in and saw so many family members, he was a little confused for a moment.
Especially a child, if he didn't have a good memory, he would definitely be confused.
Guan Yong is thin-skinned, and today he is one of the protagonists again. Even though he is accompanied by two uncles, Zhou Lang and Wu Lang, who are about the same age, his face is still thin and red.
Da Ya had already been dragged into the room by Man Bao and others to talk. Xiao Qian had something to ask her secretly, so he kicked Man Bao and others out.
Sanya turned around confused and asked Manbao, "Sister-in-law, why do you want to avoid talking to us?"
Man Bao coughed lightly and said seriously: "Because what they said is what adults can say, they think we are still young, so they don't tell us. But actually, I still have a book to give to Da Ya."
"What book?"
Manbao lowered his head to meet Sanya's gaze, and after thinking for a while, he swallowed his words and said, "You will understand when you learn."
Guan Yong and Daya met before they got engaged. Both parties were very satisfied with each other, and they also communicated with each other after the engagement, so they lived in harmony these past few days.
Knowing that Da Ya was doing well, Xiao Qian let go.
After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the shops in the county town will also open. Then mother and daughter will go to work in the shops together, and then they can be together every day.
The brothers of the old Zhou family took their two uncles together over a meal and got to know each other well. When they learned that the Guan family had bought a house for the young couple in the county town, Guan Xin smiled and said: "We also live in the county town, and we happen to be close to each other.
It’s not far, we can visit each other in the future.”
Guan Yong naturally said there was no problem.
Da Ya's life in the Guan family was better than she expected. Of course, it was not just because of the shop where she was escorted. In fact, she didn't know until yesterday how important the books Bai Shan and Bai Erlang gave her were.
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Bai Shan went to Fu Xue, and now he is studying Guo Zi. His annotations and notes are naturally very precious. Yesterday when Daya was sorting out her dowry, she took out the book and gave it to Guan Yong.
Guan Yong was immediately shocked. In this era, books are so precious.
Rich families rarely use books as dowries, let alone small families like theirs.
In his opinion, these books were more valuable than the shop.
Of course, Chief Guan also knew this, so he showed his attitude and was very kind to Daya. When other people in the Guan family saw this, they would naturally respect Daya more.
Her parents valued her, and Guan Yong recognized her interest, so they stayed for dinner and left when it was almost dark.
Zhou Xi and Guan Xin also said goodbye. She said to her mother: "When Manbao and the others set off, ask your sister-in-law to tell me and I will come back to see her off."
Qian nodded and agreed.
On the second day of the second day, I greeted the two aunts who returned to their parents' homes. On the third day of the third day, it was the turn of Lao Zhou's daughters-in-law to return to their parents' homes.
Naturally, each house took their children with them. This year, Man Bao did not go back to Qian's house with Xiao Qian, but went to the county town with Bai Shan and others to pay New Year's greetings to his husband.
This time, Mrs. Liu also went along.
When Mr. Zhuang sent them out in the afternoon, he looked at Bai Shan and Man Bao and smiled.
The two of them had already guessed what was going on. Although their faces were serious, they couldn't help but feel their faces getting hot.
Bai Erlang sat on the carriage and looked at this and that, with a puzzled expression on his face.
The main reason is that he doesn't understand why the two of them suddenly started to argue with each other, even though they were fine before.
It wasn't until the next day that he couldn't wait for Bai Shan to come and play with him. When he was about to run over to find him, Mrs. Bai stopped him and said, "Don't go. The Bai family went to the Zhou family to propose marriage today, but no one was home."
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Bai Erlang's eyes widened, "How could they hide such a big thing from me?"
Old Mrs. Bai smiled and said, "How could I hide it from you? Didn't you already know about this a few days ago?"
"I only knew they were talking about getting engaged, but I didn't know they were getting engaged today." Bai Erlang turned around and ran out.
Mrs. Bai was anxious, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to watch the fun," Bai Erlang shouted back as he had already run away, "I'm their brother, how can I not be there?"
Old Mrs. Bai stopped and turned back to Mrs. Bai with a speechless face: "But it scared me. Seeing him so anxious, I thought he also took a fancy to Man Bao."
Mrs. Bai:......
Old Mrs. Bai sighed and asked: "Erlang is older than the two of them. They are both engaged. Erlang's important event cannot be delayed. There is also Dalang..."
Old Mrs. Bai became anxious when she thought about it, and said with a sigh: "What are you two busy with all day long? Why don't you worry about the life-long affairs of your child?"
Mrs. Bai said: "Mom, don't worry, didn't I take Da Lang out today? I heard that she is the second young lady of Mianzhou's growing family. The day before yesterday, we came back from my parents' house and stayed in Mianzhou for one night. Growing up
Shi asked me to have a drink with him, that's what it meant."
Mrs. Bai's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but sit up straight, "So, can a man really marry a young lady from an official family?"
Mrs. Bai smiled and said: "It shouldn't be bad."
She was also very surprised, so she thought it was worth the wait. If Dalang was just a student at Mianzhou Prefecture School two years ago, he would be a girl from the county magistrate's family.
If you meet a concubine, she might as well be the legitimate daughter of a squire.
Only then did Mrs. Bai become happy, and then said: "Erlang's marriage must be arranged as soon as possible."
Mrs. Bai lowered her head in response.
Bai Erlang quickly ran to Lao Zhou's house. To his surprise, his husband was also there.
Bai Shan and Man Bao, who were standing behind their parents, turned around and saw Bai Erlang coming, and winked at him together.
Bai Erlang slowed down, looked at Bai Shan, then at Man Bao, and finally considered that both of them were named Bai, so he still stood next to Bai Shan.
Mr. Zhuang, who was also a matchmaker for the first time, glanced at Bai Erlang and continued to smile and ask Old Zhou to marry Man Bao on Bai Shan's behalf.
Originally, Lao Zhoutou wanted to be pretentious two or three times, but when he saw that Mr. Zhuang was the matchmaker, he put away this idea and nodded in agreement with Mr. Zhuang's words.
Then he agreed to Mr. Zhuang's proposal of marriage.
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said: "Today is a good day. Since Duke Zhou has no objection, why not make the decision today?"
Lao Zhou glanced at his wife and nodded in agreement.
Madam Liu had already expected it and had prepared the wedding ceremony.
She reached out and took a box from Mother Liu's hand, opened it for them to see, and said with a smile: "This is a jade Ruyi. It was given to me by my master back then. It was something my mother-in-law brought from her natal family."
, and later passed it on to Shanbao’s mother. Now that Shanbao wants Xiaoding, I took it again.”
Lao Zhou's family looked at the jade Ruyi in the box and were speechless. They had never seen such a thing before. The jade quality looked very expensive.