In order to prepare for Xiaomeng's wedding, Su Siyong specially brought back a cart of lime powder from the county.
"We need to prepare a new house for the wedding. The walls need to be plastered with lime, and the thatch on the roof needs to be replaced with new ones."
Su Siyong was busy here and there, and his eldest brother and second brother were not idle either. They came back to help whenever they had time.
Several brothers pooled their money together and hired a carpenter to build a new bed, as well as a wooden table and wooden chairs.
The men were busy with physical work, and the women were responsible for sewing new quilts, making new clothes and new shoes.
"Now that I am both a mother and a mother-in-law, I have to prepare both things. Washbasins and kettles. If other people's daughters have them, Xiaoqing should also have them." Li Xiu'e gave her eldest daughter-in-law everything she could think of.
Write it down.
Zhang Guilan couldn't help laughing and said: "Mom, you are marrying your daughter-in-law, how come you are marrying your daughter?"
"If my mother didn't give birth to a daughter, wouldn't she just treat her as a married daughter?" Zhao Fengzhu said with a smile.
"If I really marry my daughter, I won't be able to laugh at it! I'll have to cry to death."
Zhao Fengzhu put a thimble on her middle finger and inserted the needle through the thick sole.
While taking the shoes, she asked, "When Jin Bao marries Hua Hua, will you cry or laugh?"
"Laugh. If Jin Bao marries Hua Hua, I will laugh. If she marries another brat, I probably won't be able to laugh."
Li Xiu'e's words reached Yao Hua's ears, and he said anxiously: "Grandma Su, don't worry, Jin Bao can't marry anyone else."
"Hua Hua, that's not necessarily the case," Zhang Guilan joked, "Jin Bao was already so beautiful when she was a child, and she will definitely be even more beautiful when she grows up. There will be a lot of boys who like her in the future, so she might fall in love with someone else.
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"I have been with Jinbao so that Jinbao can see me every day, so she has no time to look at other boys."
"You are four years older than Jinbao. You will go to middle school and Jinbao is still in elementary school. How could she not look at other boys?"
Seeing that Hua Hua's expression became worried and anxious, Zhao Fengzhu couldn't help teasing him, "Yes, if you and Jin Bao are the same age, they can go to school together and possibly stay together every day. But it would be difficult if they are different ages."
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"I...I'll wait for Jinbao to read, and then I'll read again."
The adults were stunned when they heard this, "What? You were twelve when Jinbao was eight."
Zhang Guilan pursed her lips and smiled, "Hua Hua, you are only in the first grade when you are twelve years old. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by other classmates?"
Yao Hua shook his head without hesitation, "I'm not afraid. They can laugh if they want. I don't care."
Worried that the child would really wait until the age of twelve to go to elementary school, Li Xiu'e said seriously: "Twelve is too late, Huahua, if you really want Jinbao to like you, you should take the first place in the exam every year. Girls
They all like smart and capable boys and don’t like followers.”
After saying that, she touched the head of little Jinbao next to her, "Is grandma right?"
Jinbao is making red eggs, his little hands are bright red.
"Grandma, did you say it was wild?" She tilted her little head and blinked her big eyes.
"Oh, my dear, look at your hands...the red paper is stained and it's not easy to clean."
Zhang Guilan saw that the hard-boiled eggs she steamed for Jinbao to eat in the morning were painted red with red paper. She smiled and said, "Mom, look, Jinbao made a red egg. I haven't seen a red egg in many years."
Already."
"What a red egg! In recent years, no one is willing to eat eggs, and no one makes red eggs when getting married."
After listening to the two daughters-in-law, Li Xiu'e thought that when she got married, her mother hung two red eggs around her neck.
"Yes, I remembered that when you marry your daughter, you have to make a purse to hang around the bride's neck, stuff it with red eggs, red dates, peanuts, longan and lotus seeds, which means that you will have a child early, so you have to buy these."
The fourth daughter-in-law, Ye Xiangqin, happened to walk into the house at this time, "Mom, can I do this bag?"
"Xiangqin, you're here, haha, I just wanted to ask for your help. You are very handy and the purses you make will definitely look good."
Ye Xiangqin smiled and said, "Mom, please don't praise me. I won't be embarrassed if I don't look good when the time comes."
"Xiangqin, please stop being modest. I am the only one in our family who has no skills. You and Fengzhu are both great. I just recently learned that Fengzhu can make shoes. She is also good with her hands. I am the only one with clumsy hands, so I can only help a little bit."
The menial job of shopping.”
"This is the best way for us, with a clear division of labor. Mom will sew quilts, I will make shoes, parsley will make purses, and sister-in-law, you can write a few words and buy things." When she said this, Zhao Fengzhu had a smile on her face.
Ye Xiangqin asked: "Who will make the bride's clothes? Or should I find a tailor?"
Her mother-in-law answered her: "I originally wanted to ask a tailor to make it, but Xiaoqing said she wanted to make it herself. I thought about it and realized that the wedding dress made by a tailor might not be as beautiful as the one she made herself, so I agreed."
While they were talking, Jin Bao looked outside the house and saw Nie Xiaoqing lingering outside the door for a while, then turned around and left. He couldn't help but jump off the stool and followed him out curiously.
"Little aunt?" Jinbao called softly.
Nie Xiaoqing was hiding in the corner secretly wiping away tears, but now he was hurriedly wiping away his tears.
"Jin Bao..." The woman turned back, with tears still in the corners of her eyes that had not been wiped away, "Jin Bao, why did you come out?"
"What's wrong with little auntie?" Jinbao wondered, "Why are you crying?"
"No, I didn't cry..."
"Auntie doesn't want to marry uncle?"
After Jin Bao asked, Nie Xiaoqing couldn't help laughing, squatted down and scratched the tip of her nose with a smile, "How could I not want to marry your uncle?"
"But you seemed sad just now."
Thinking that Jin Bao followed him because he cared about him, Nie Xiaoqing felt a warm feeling in his heart.
"I saw everyone was so kind to me, and then I thought about my mother who passed away, so I couldn't help but cry..."
Jinbao asked: "My little aunt also has two brothers. Do you want to invite them to the wedding?"
Nie Xiaoqing shook his head without hesitation, "No!"
She went on to say: "I have been very scared these days. I am always worried that they will find me. Last night, I dreamed that on my wedding day, they suddenly broke in and told the villagers about my life experience. I was so scared that I woke up."
Jin Bao's little hand held Nie Xiaoqing's hand, and her sweet voice was cute and soft, "Auntie, don't be afraid. As long as you don't want to see them, they won't be able to find you."
It's strange that Nie Xiaoqing felt that his mood became particularly peaceful, even though it was the little girl's casual words of comfort, and there was no fear or worry at all.
At the bottom of the mountain, Nie Xiaoqing's two brothers walked for several hours, sweating profusely.
"Mom? Did you get it right? That stinky girl Nie Xiaoqing is really in this place called Qishui Village?"
Their mother, Guo Baozhu, kept gasping, "It can't be wrong. I spent 50 cents and asked a nurse to find out. She said that Su Xiaomeng was in Qishui Village and took a group of people to the health center a month ago.
see a doctor."
"This stinky girl actually hid in such a remote place, making it difficult for us to find her..."
He was about to say harsh words when he suddenly saw a black mist in the distance and a "buzzing" sound getting closer and closer. He couldn't help but pointed and asked: "What do you think that is?"
"It seems like a horse...wasp? It's coming towards us."
Guo Baozhu had never seen so many wasps before. His eyes widened and he was completely frightened.
After being pulled hard by her son, she reacted, screamed "ah" and ran in the opposite direction in panic.