Chapter One Hundred and Twelve New Year's Ceremony
"I'm okay, I don't have anything in particular that I want to eat. But I remember that one year the oranges at our house were quite delicious. They were sour and sweet, very appetizing."
Hearing Mrs. Wang mention oranges, a trace of apology flashed across Sun Fucheng's face: "Hey, speaking of it, our family hasn't bought any for so many years. We finally had some at home that year, and my mother saw that my eldest sister was pregnant, so she gave them to her.
Went. This year, our family will also weigh you ten pounds and let you have a good meal!"
Mrs. Wang glared at him: "Why don't you have a number? Ten catties? Is this meant to be eaten? Just weigh one or two catties to satisfy your cravings!"
Although Sun Fucheng was glared at by her, he was not angry. Instead, he smiled and said, "Hey, I will listen to you and listen to you. Is that okay?"
Only then did Wang turn his anger into joy.
Next, her thoughts turned to buying new clothes for Zhuqing and Zhushan.
"Qingya, you have to go to town with me, and I'll take you to the best tailor shop in town to make new clothes! I'm afraid that those good materials will be wasted if I don't make them well. Besides, they are very new now.
I haven’t touched the style for a long time, so I don’t know how to look good. It’s almost the Chinese New Year, and you have to go to a lot of places, but you can’t dress too coldly and make others look down on you.”
Wang was very considerate, and Zhu Qing nodded in agreement: "Okay, but you don't have to do too much, that's great. When we go out, we just need to be passable on the surface. If I'm too particular, people will think I'm showing off."
Mrs. Wang smiled and nodded: "Hey, you child, how can we be more particular about it? Mother knows how to do it."
Zhushan interjected from the side: "Mom and dad, you should also buy new clothes. Every year, you have to wear something new."
Zhuqing nodded: "Yes, that's the truth!"
Wang and Sun Fucheng looked at each other and smiled, nodding in relief: "Yes, Tim, let's have Tim too! It's the end of a new year, and from now on, our family will be better off, so we will wear new clothes every day!"
Next, the whole family discussed the specific purchase of new year's goods together, and finally decided, and the family went to town together the next day.
Early the next morning, Sun Fucheng went to Li Zheng's house, borrowed his family's mule cart, and then drove the family of four to Ping'an Town.
As soon as his family left, an uninvited guest came to his door.
"Is this Miss Sun Zhuqing's home? Our master asked me to give them New Year's gifts!" A fat woman with a smile on her face got off a carriage. She asked because she just went out to pick vegetables.
Aunt Sophora japonica.
Aunt Huaihua looked at the woman who was dressed like a wealthy family. Even the hairpin on her head was made of gold. She couldn't help but be very enthusiastic: "Yes, yes! Which family do you belong to, this lady? What are you doing here?"
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The fat woman glanced at Aunt Huaihua, but handed her a small silver coin: "Are you a relative of Miss Sun's family? A little bit, it's disrespectful. I'm from the family of Prime Minister Pang County in the county. This is not
Their family got married to Miss Sun’s family last time, have you come here specially to give New Year’s gifts today?”
"Hiss..." Aunt Huaihua couldn't help but take a breath when she heard that it was the Cheng family of Pang County.
Last time, due to the affairs of the Cheng family in Pang County, Zhuqing's grandmother Lu and Mrs. Wang were beaten in public. The tragic situation was right in front of her eyes. She didn't want to be involved in this bad luck!
"Hey, this silver coin is too heavy, I don't dare to take it!" It's rare that Aunt Huaihua doesn't dare to take advantage of it.
She put the silver coin back into the woman's hand, and then walked home: "I've never heard of Qingya's engagement. Maybe you got the wrong person? I have other things to do, so I won't accompany you!
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When the old woman saw Aunt Huaihua acting like this, she couldn't help but look in disbelief: "What's wrong with her? Didn't Matchmaker Liu insist that the Sun family had already agreed? Moreover, their family took the deposit!"
Another person who came with her who looked like a steward also had a displeased look on his face: "What does this mean? Does our family's lintel humiliate the sun family? It's really unreasonable! No, I have to find the leader of this village.
Ask clearly!"
As he spoke, he jumped off the carriage, then he randomly found a villager, asked for the address of Li Zheng's house, and went straight to Li Zheng's house.
Hearing the purpose of the Pang family manager's visit, Li Zheng felt bad.
No way, then the Lu family was so bold that he still accepted the deposit from the Pang family? He thought the Sun family had already solved this matter, so why did it happen again?
He thought that all four members of the Zhuqing family were not at home, so he simply took the Pang family steward to Sun Fuhou's house to ask about Lu.
Seeing Li Zheng coming to the door with the Pang family steward, Sun Mantang, the head of the Sun family, was very surprised: "Haoying, what are you doing?"
"I want to ask you about anything! This is the steward of the Cheng family in Pang County. He insisted that your family has agreed to their marriage proposal and accepted their deposit, so he came here to give you a New Year's gift today.
.Why have I never heard Qingya and his family mention this matter?" Li Zheng said with an angry look on his face.
Sun Mantang also looked confused: "Is there such a thing? You taught the old lady a lesson last time. Didn't I ask her to go back to the matchmaker?"
He thought about whether the Lu family would be acting against the will, and couldn't help but get angry: "Old woman, come out! Look at the good things you have done!"
Mrs. Lu was feeding chickens in the yard early in the morning when she suddenly heard a bunch of people coming into the house and the voice of Li Zheng. She couldn't help but think of how she was timid when she was taught a lesson by Li Zheng last time. Suddenly she heard the old man calling her, but
He was so frightened that his hands shook, and with a clang, the chicken food bowl in his hand fell to the ground, causing a group of chickens to immediately rush up and peck at him.
"Oh, what a sin! Hush... Hush..." Ms. Lu hurriedly cursed while chasing the chickens, picked up the chicken food bowl that fell to the ground, and called someone: "Jin Ya, quickly get a broom and clean up this sorghum."
Scan the shell!"
She was busy here, and the old man's roar came from the other end. It can be said that Lu's whole body was in a hurry and panic.
She only had time to cross her fingers through her hair, which was messed up by chasing the chickens, and went out in a panic.
The last incident caused her status in the family to plummet. She was no longer taking advantage of the old man's idleness, so even if she felt resentful, she didn't dare to stay out.
She was a little surprised when she saw Li Zheng and a strange man dressed in rich and expensive clothes.
She didn't know this man. Did the old man take the wrong medicine when he asked her to go out?
"Old man, what did you call me for?" she asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"What's the matter? You don't know about the good things you've done? Didn't I ask you to go back to the Pang family last time? It's better for you. Not only did you not listen, you also secretly accepted the deposit! You said you
What are you thinking about?" Sun Mantang looked angry.
This anger includes both the anger after one's own authority is challenged, and the anger after the old woman disobeys and causes trouble.
"What, what deposit? I, I didn't accept it at all! When did this happen? I have never received a deposit from the Pang family!" Mrs. Lu was confused when asked, and at the same time, she realized in hindsight: "This
,This is, is the Pang family?"
When Manager Pang heard Lu's denial, he couldn't help but get angry: "What do you mean? Are we, the Pang family, paying a deposit of three hundred taels, yet we still want to falsely accuse your family? Are you too courageous?
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Lu couldn't help but frown after hearing this: "I, I really didn't get any money! And I, I asked my second son's family to go back to the matchmaker when I came back that day. That's what I remember!"
As she spoke, her heart moved, but she turned around and shouted at the top of her voice: "Second daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, come out, what the hell is going on?"
Sun Mantang knew what his wife was like. Although she sometimes acted a little tougher, she did it and she would never deny it. Since she denied it, it meant that she had indeed given up.
And according to her desperate need to save face, she was definitely not willing to embarrass herself anymore after being criticized so hard by Li Zheng and the villagers that day.
So he also said to Sun Fuhou, the second son who came out from Xun Sheng: "Fuhou, call your wife out and see what's going on! The Fucheng family is not here, why did the Pang family come to the door?"
When Sun Fuhou saw his father's anger and his mother's aggrieved look, he couldn't help but feel conflicted. His wife Li Yuhuan shouldn't be so bold about this, right? This matter is really unreliable!
When he walked into the house, he saw his daughter Sun Zhujin winking at him: "Dad, mom is not feeling well. Please don't let her come out to see people!"
Hearing what his daughter said, Sun Fuhou knew something was wrong, so he pushed open the door of his west room and walked in quickly.
But he saw Li Yuhuan lying on the bed with a handkerchief wrapped around his head. He turned his head when he heard the voice, but he was full of anger: "Jin Ya, can you lower your voice..."
Seeing that the person who came was actually her husband, her expression suddenly changed: "Fuhou, I, I didn't mean it. I was also deceived by the matchmaker. She said that anyway, the Pang family was talking about the girl from the Sun family, and there was no
I pointed out which one it was. Besides, I also wanted to find a good family for our Jinya, so, in a moment of confusion, I gave her the birth date of Jinya and accepted the deposit of 150 taels from her.
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"You, you! You are confused!" Sun Fuhou looked at his wife, who always claimed to be smart, and became very angry.
"If you don't look at it, what kind of family is the Pang family? Can they like our Jin Ya? Jin Ya just comes to their house to be a girl, and she might be disgusted by them! They came here for Qing Ya in the first place.
!Besides, the Pang family insisted that the deposit was three hundred taels. Why did you only take one hundred and fifty taels? Where was the remaining silver? By the way, where was the one hundred and fifty taels of silver? You put it all away
Where is it?"
Li Yuhuan was a little nervous and a little unconvinced by what he said, "We are all girls from the Sun family, how come our Jinya is worse than Qingya? Our Jinya is now good at needlework and good at cooking, but we can do both.
Take action! Why are you only worthy of being a girl? Are you considered a biological father? Well, I’m afraid you won’t agree with that money, so I went back and asked my mother to hide it first!”
At the end of her sentence, she suddenly realized that the amount of money was wrong: "What did you say? The deposit is three hundred taels? No, I was tricked by her! That damn woman, she, she lied to me! What, what should I do?"
Li Yuhuan finally realized that he seemed to have been tricked. So he was completely panicked.
"You stupid bitch! You don't look at anything or discuss it with me, you just make the decision privately! What do you mean by this?" Ever since Sun Fuhou married this wife, he has never spoken loudly to her.
Pass.
But today when he listened to what she did, he could no longer hold back the anger in his stomach.
"Forget it, you are so smart! You were cheated out of one hundred and fifty taels of silver! One hundred and fifty taels! We have never seen so much money in our lives! How can we pay back this money? Sell Jinya.
There are not that many! In the town, no, in the county, even if the rich people buy a high-quality girl, it only costs about ten taels of silver!" Sun Fuhou became angrier as he talked!
Li Yuhuan couldn't lift her head from what he said. She was also worried now. If the Pang family refused to marry her family, how could they make up for the gap of one hundred and fifty taels of silver?
And she only realized it now. Even if she asked the matchmaker to give Jin Ya's birth date, if the Pang family refused to recognize it, it would be impossible for their family to defeat the Pang family!
Alas, it was all the fault of the matchmaker's talk, which made her obsessed with it. She thought that her daughter could live a good life by climbing to a high branch in the future, but she did not expect that she could not climb such a high branch if she wanted to!
Now that she was defrauded of one hundred and fifty taels, Li Yuhuan wanted to die, but she didn't dare.
"Fuhou, tell me, if Qingya is willing to marry, will this problem between us be solved? Otherwise, we should find a way to beg your brother and sister-in-law to save our family and let Qingya marry? Anyway, right?
This is also the case with the Pang family
There are well-known families in the county who want to marry Qingya and are willing to spend money. If Qingya gets married, their life will definitely be very comfortable!" Li Yuhuan had no other thoughts and could only put the idea over Zhuqing's head.
superior.
Sun Fuhou looked solemn: "This is not that easy! My eldest brother and the others must not agree. Their reaction last time was very fierce. It's not like you don't remember that my eldest sister-in-law, who is usually so easy to talk to, actually dared to talk to Mrs. Wang
Challenge."
Hearing Sun Fuhou mention Wang's great achievements against Mrs. Wang last time, Li Yuhuan shrank her neck subconsciously. That time she saw Wang's toughness.
If Ms. Wang refused to agree this time, she would really not be able to pass this test. But when she thought about the one hundred and fifty taels of silver, she felt a heart-scratching pain.
"Fuhou, what are you talking about? Are you asking me to call someone inside the house?" Outside the house, Mrs. Lu's extremely impatient cry came from outside.
Sun Fuhou glanced at Li Yuhuan, who looked frustrated, and finally helped her and replied: "Mom, Jin Ya, her mother has a headache, and she can't stand up now! I asked her nothing, but she didn't
Fahui!"
Hearing what he said, Li Yuhuan breathed a sigh of relief.