Cuiye got up early in the morning, put on a new set of clothes, and came out happily. Not far after leaving the house, she met the rain pavilion. When she heard that she couldn't go, she was immediately dejected.
Yuting had a lot of work that day. He spread good words and even walked around and hurried back.
Cui Ye walked back a few steps, stopped, looked into her yard, and hesitated.
If she goes back, her mother-in-law will definitely ask her to change into her nice clothes and give her a lot of work. She is in a bad mood and doesn’t want to work.
Cuiye turned around, walked a few steps towards A-nan's house, then turned around and headed towards Daweng's house.
There is no one in A'nan's family who can talk, so we should go find Sister Ai Ye. Among the cousins, apart from A'nan, her favorite is Sister Ai Ye.
The old man's house has been scrubbed clean, the courtyard door is open, and there is no one in the courtyard. Only Ai Ye is busy washing and tidying up in the kitchen.
"Sister Ai Ye, are you alone at home? Have you all gone to the ancestral hall?" Cui Ye stood at the door of the kitchen and first stretched her head to look inside.
"My grandma and my second aunt went to settle the account, why haven't you left yet? Didn't you two say that you had to get in early yesterday?" Ai Ye shook off the washed rag and hung it to dry on a string.
"Ah Nan was called away by that Wan Qing." Cui Ye was asked by Ai Ye and her shoulders slumped.
"Ana is trying not to use her heart. She is very worried and very busy. I'm done. The sun is nice today. Let's sit in the yard and talk and fold ingots." Ai Ye smiled and pushed Cui Ye.
Come out.
The two people were sitting in the yard talking. After a while, Li Shikuan came back with his hands behind his back. When he saw Cuiye, he stopped and asked, "Didn't you go to the county seat? Where is my grandmother?"
"Wan Qing called her away." Cui Ye replied quickly and loudly.
Li Shikuan frowned, for a moment, he hummed, turned around and walked out.
Li Shikuan went straight into the ancestral hall and called out his eldest son Li Wenliang who was busy.
"Cui Ye said that Wan Qing invited Grandma away." Li Shikuan said straightforwardly.
Li Wenliang was stunned, "I am already twenty-nine years old..."
Li Wenliang didn't say anything else. How could anyone come to the door and call someone out on the 29th of the year? What urgent matter can't wait until after the new year?
"A family like that knows more rules than us and pays more attention to them than we do." Li Shikuan understood what his son meant. "At this time, Wan Qing is a little girl. How dare she? She must be the prince."
"What happened? Let grandma accompany him to celebrate the New Year?" Li Wenliang thought a lot in just a moment.
"If I'm going to spend several days with you during the Chinese New Year, I'll definitely have to explain to you that A'nan, that kid, knows it very well. I'm not telling you this. I want to pray for blessings and worship ancestors tomorrow. I want Xuedong to preside over the ceremony.
The person who accompanies the sacrifice will be decorated with gold beads, and your mother will be the next one." Li Shikuan said in a low voice.
"Ah?" Li Wenliang's eyes widened.
Although Xuedong is not the oldest and oldest, nor is he the eldest grandson, he is the clan leader, so it is not wrong for him to preside over the ceremony, but it is unreasonable to accompany the ceremony with gold beads!
"Our clan rules should also be changed." Li Shikuan continued: "My children and Ya'er are all surnamed Li. They are all members of the Li clan and have the blood of their ancestors. They should be recorded in the genealogy and stand in this ancestral hall.
Kowtow to the ancestors.”
Li Wenliang was stunned for a moment, "Is it because of Ah Nan?"
Li Shikuan hummed, "Yes, not entirely. I have already had an idea about this matter. It will be good for our Li family."
"If you want to go to the ancestral hall to worship your ancestors, you have to go to the genealogy. When you go to the genealogy, you have to count the heads. The family property has always been calculated based on the head. Do you want to change this? Also, if there is an only daughter and no children, or the daughter of the Li family has a child.
When the son returns home, the blood of the Li family..." Li Wenliang thought more and more.
"Speaking of it, what's the difference between A'nan's family and Li's daughter returning home with her son?" Li Shikuan interrupted his son.
Li Wenliang choked.
A'nan's family is a daughter-in-law, just like Li's daughter returning home with her son, they are all daughters.
"If you want to have a bright door, you must first be broad-minded. Tolerance is great." Li Shikuan patted his son, "Go and talk to the second and third brothers. If you brothers think it's okay, we'll call the heads of each house over and discuss it together.
Discuss."
"Okay." Li Wenliang turned around and entered the ancestral hall, paused, stood there thinking for a moment, and then quickly walked in to find Li Wenru and Li Wenhua.
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Pingjiang City. In the garden house of the Yu family.
Grandma Wu was sitting on a wicker chair with a cylindrical cushion behind her waist. She was twisting a persimmon cake and biting it slowly with one hand, and gently caressing her abdomen with one hand. She was wearing only a single shirt and was waving.
Her husband, Yu Dalang, who was beating rice cakes with a mallet, was thinking about what to say to get Yu Dalang to buy her a servant girl.
Although her mother-in-law has not yet used to summon people, she should not go over her mother-in-law, but now she is double and inconvenient, and when she gives birth to a son, she will have to have someone to help her.
This matter needs to be done quickly. It is best to buy a baby when the dental store opens in the next year. If you buy it now, when the baby is born, you will say that breastfeeding is too tiring and she is too weak to bear it. Then hire a wet nurse. p>
Grandma Wu was just thinking about it when the Miao Matchmaker's voice came from outside the courtyard door: "Is Da Lang at home?"
"Here." Yu Dalang stopped, holding the mallet and frowning slightly.
He doesn't like Miao matchmakers.
"It's Mother Miao." Grandma Wu drawled and bowed slightly, as if she wanted to stand up but couldn't.
"Hey, don't get up! You are still young and most delicate now! Sit down quickly." Matchmaker Miao stepped in and shouted hurriedly when she saw Grandma Wu.
Yu Dalang's face looks better.
Grandma Wu sat steadily and said with a smile: "Then I won't get up. Why is Mother Miao here? She is so busy during the Chinese New Year."
"There is something important. Where is your grandma?" Matchmaker Miao looked around.
"I went to the temple to offer incense." Grandma Wu replied somewhat reluctantly.
At this moment, she felt that it would be better if her mother-in-law was at home and blocked the front. She didn't like to offend others.
"Your mother-in-law is lucky." Matchmaker Miao laughed, pulled a bamboo chair, and sat between Grandma Wu and Yu Dalang. She looked at Grandma Wu and said with a smile, "This is a wonderful thing! It's you and Grandma
What’s Lang’s great blessing? I just found out.”
"What a good thing?" Grandma Wu smiled.
"The eldest son of Mr. Huang Bo of our Pingjiang Weaving Department came to our Pingjiang City. He said that firstly he wanted to study in the provincial government and secondly, he wanted to become a close family member in our Pingjiang City!"
As the Miao Matchmaker spoke, she laughed out loud and clapped her hands together.
"Look, our fourth sister is so lucky! I went to see Huang Dalang secretly once, and he is so tall, with fine features and good-looking eyes! Mr. Huang is a serious court official, from the eighth rank!" p>
The Miao matchmaker’s smiling eyes narrowed into slits.
"What a wonderful marriage! If our fourth sister gets married like this, our Da Lang's business will definitely be easy to do! Da Lang can buy as many looms as he wants and open as big a weaving workshop as he wants!"
Yu Dalang put down the gavel, and the smile on Grandma Wu's face disappeared.
"Master Huang is from an official family, and Huang Dalang was born so well. How can the fourth sister be able to get into this family?" Yu Dalang asked doubtfully.
"Yes!" Matchmaker Miao waved her hands and smiled, "I am here! Let me tell you, as long as it is the family we like, it must be ours! Apart from us, he can't even think of being a second family!
"Don't worry about this marriage, I have to make it happen for our fourth sister!
"However, there is something that needs Dalang to take care of." Matchmaker Miao looked at Yu Dalang.
"Mother Miao, please tell me." Yu Dalang smiled.
"It's the fourth sister's dowry. The elder man has to bear some responsibility. Originally, it was enough for the three sisters to help out with what the family had prepared. But now if you are marrying the Huang Lord's Bo family, the dowry cannot be too much.
Shabby.
"Her eldest sister and second sister's family are very noble. In terms of money, they can't compare with Da Lang. For this money matter, I have to ask Da Lang to take care of me."
"This is about it." Yu Dalang frowned and looked at Grandma Wu.
Grandma Wu smiled and said, "Mother Miao also knows that Dalang spent a lot of money on the fine cloth business. He didn't see any profit, but just piled up a room full of cloth. Dalang and I didn't have any cash on hand, so we had to wait for grandma to come back.
, just ask grandma."
"That's right. Tomorrow is the 30th of the Lunar New Year, the second and third day of the Lunar New Year. I'll come over and talk to your grandma about this matter. Your grandma is one of the few people who understands the benefits of this marriage. Once you hear the benefits of this marriage,
That's all." Miao Matchmaker said as she stood up with a smile, said a few words about twins being careful, and then said goodbye and went back.
Seeing the Miao matchmaker leaving the courtyard, Yu Dalang smiled and said: "Mother Miao can really talk about this marriage, so we will add this dowry to your fourth sister."
Grandma Wu had a gloomy face. After a moment, she stood up in a loud voice, stretched out her hand to Yu Dalang and said: "Give me two silver coins, I will go find the second sister. Even if I want to add this dowry, I can't let her catch our family."
Mao."
"That's true." Yu Dalang quickly took out two silver coins and handed them to Grandma Wu, "Tell your second sister carefully that this is a good thing for everyone."
Grandma Wu gave a specious hum, went into the house, took a silk coat, and went to Ping Yatou's house to talk to her second sister.
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Early in the morning on New Year's Eve, Li Xuedong and Li Jinzhu were called into the ancestral hall to rehearse ancestor worship.
Li Xiaonan and Cuiye stood behind and watched for a while, feeling bored, so they went out to watch the theater troupe rehearse to worship the gods.
On the eve of New Year's Eve, seven members of Li Xiaonan's family and Cuiye's family gathered at Li Shikuan's house and had a lively reunion dinner. At Tianjiaozi, each person ate a few dumplings, changed their clothes and went out to the ancestral hall.
Worship ancestors.
The Li family is not considered a prominent family, but there are hundreds of households with two to three thousand people. This year, both men and women went to the ancestral hall to offer sacrifices. The small ancestral hall could not hold enough space. There was a line of people all the way out of the ancestral hall, and the East and West streets were full of people.<
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Of course A Wu and Yu Ting did not participate in the Li family's ancestor worship. Sister Mei returned to Li Xiaonan's house and stood next to Li Yuzhu. She was so excited that she kowtowed and cried.
She never thought that one day she would be able to go to the ancestral hall to worship her ancestors.
Li Xiaonan has no feelings about whether she can enter the ancestral hall to worship her ancestors. Deep in her heart, there is a thousand years of distance between her and Sister Mei's excited crying.
After worshiping their ancestors, Li Xiaonan and Cuiye went to the Hong family to visit the third sister Li Yinzhu in order to pay New Year greetings. After having dinner, they said goodbye to the third sister and went out. Mr. Hong picked two safe wives to follow them and filled the streets in the county town.
I walked around looking at the lights until midnight before going back to Lijiaji.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xiaonan took a day off and went to bed early.
Gu Yan said that he invited her to Linhai Town just to see the excitement. She couldn't believe this. She followed Mr. He, the shopkeeper. She still had to see what she should see and pay attention to what she should pay attention to. She had to get enough rest and sleep.
Keep your spirits up.
Early in the morning on the third day of the lunar month, Wan Qing and the cart arrived.
Li Xiaonan was dressed in new clothes and got into the car with a savings box.
"What is this?" Wan Qing looked at the red paint box.
"Fried fruits from Sister Aiye's house, red bean cakes from Sister Cuiye's house, peanut candies from Uncle Datang's house, and a few more. They are the best of each. Let me give you a taste of our new year products." Li Xiaonan opened the lid of the box.
, Wan Qing took a look at it, covered it and put it aside, "They are all things that can be stored. You can take them back and eat them, and let Shi Kui have a taste too."
"Thank you." Wan Qing smiled brightly, leaned over and took out a lacquered suitcase, took out a plate of hawthorn cake, and placed it in front of Li Xiaonan, "Don't blame me, this is our prince's order, he said it clearly.
, this plate is just for you to eat."
Li Xiaonan picked up a piece, took a bite, and said with a smile: "Hawthorn cake is also a cake. What can you eat if you eat it? Can you eat it?"
"No!" Wan Qing laughed.
"I forgot to ask if it was a dinner or a luncheon." Li Xiaonan lifted the curtain and looked at the few guards riding horses outside, running leisurely.
"There's no time for lunch! We can arrive at the end of the afternoon and have something to eat. You also have to freshen up and change your clothes..."
"Ah!" Li Xiaonan interrupted Wan Qing's words with a surprise, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Forget it, it's useless. I just have new clothes. I washed my face and combed my hair, and I took off my skirt...
”
Li Xiaonan straightened up, and Wan Qing pulled her back.
"The clothes are here. They are all ready. I picked them for you. Our prince said that it is not appropriate for you to follow Mr. He and wear cloth clothes."
Li Xiaonan tilts her head towards Wanqing.
"We don't care about one or two clothes in our house. Our prince changes at least once a day. Sometimes when something happens, it's common to change into three or four clothes a day. Except for the best woolen materials, everything else is only worn once.
, even me, do you see that I wear very old clothes?
"You can wear it if I give it to you. Let me tell you, this outfit, not counting this big white fox coat, not counting the jewelry on your head and face, costs two to three hundred silver.
"Let's not compete with our prince and make him stupid." Wan Qing patted Li Xiaonan and said sincerely.
If you include the white fox coat and the jewelry, wouldn’t it cost a thousand pieces of silver? Li Xiaonan took a breath, she couldn’t afford it!
"I'll just put it on once and change it when I come back. You can take it back." Li Xiaonan reached out and carefully touched the long white fox fur.
"Okay, put it here and I'll keep it for you." Wan Qing readily agreed.
Around the end of the afternoon, the big car parked at the side entrance of the He family's house in Linhai Town. Wan Qing and Li Xiaonan got out of the car one after another, and followed the mother-in-law waiting at the door.
