After March, the Jiang family began to prepare for Jiang Cheng's wedding.
Jiang Cheng went to several markets before he bought two wild geese. He clipped their wings and kept them in a cage.
Yingbao saw that her eldest cousin walked with a breeze and a smile on his face all the time.
"Baoer, what are you growing in the yard?"
Chunniang was winnowing rice when she saw her daughter tinkering in the small vegetable patch in the yard, so she asked.
"Plant gourds." Yingbao buried two gourd seeds in the soil.
She wanted to plant a lot of gourds, sell them for money, and give Wu Daozi a few big gourds. When Sister Wen came back, she would give her two more.
It’s already the end of March, why hasn’t Sister Wen come back yet
At this moment, Tang's voice came from the gate. "Is Chunniang home?"
Chunniang stood up immediately: "Yes, yes. Aunt Tang, please come in."
Tang walked in with her grandson Xiaoyao, and looked around the yard with a smile, "Wow, your yard is really spacious."
"No." Chunniang smiled and moved a bench for Tang to sit on. "I see your family has also started making adobe bricks on the south slope. Are you going to build a house?"
"Yes." Tang sat down with a smile and pushed Xiao Yao: "Go play with sister."
The little demon ran up to Yingbao and stood there without saying a word, staring at her.
Yingbao ignored him and just dug the ground to bury the seeds.
Tang: "Once my house is built, we can go out more often. I will also grow some vegetables in the yard by then, which will save trouble."
"Why are you also building a house on the south slope?" Chunniang asked with a smile.
Tang sighed, "Nanpo is a big place. Sooner or later, Zhuer will have to separate from his two brothers. It's better to do it sooner rather than later. I'm not dead yet, so I can take care of them. When I die, who will care about the life and death of Zhuer and his family?"
"Look at what you said. After all, he is Uncle Chen's biological son. How can he be so heartless?"
"Alas, Chunniang, you don't know..." Tang shook her head and didn't bring up the topic again.
He turned to Yingbao and said, "Yingbao, do you still have any pills? I want to buy some."
I have to buy more pills for backup before the family splits up. Anyway, that old guy will definitely not treat everyone equally. If I don't spend more money now, the eldest and second families will benefit from it in the future.
"Yes, how many does Granny Tang want?" Yingbao ran over immediately when she heard Granny Tang wanted to buy pills.
Tang took out a small silver ingot of five taels of silver and said, "Just buy this much."
This was something she had begged for from the old man with great difficulty. She had also seen through it all. No one's life was as good as hers. Only as long as she was alive could Zhuer's family live in peace.
Yingbao took the silver with a smile, ran back to the house and ran out again, holding a porcelain bowl of pills in her hand, "Here, a total of thirty pills, you can only take one a day."
This is the Baohe Pills she prepared a while ago, which is made up of hawthorn, Shenqu, Pinellia, Poria, dried tangerine peel, Forsythia, radish seeds, and a little bit of Wudingzhi.
This pill is for people like Granny Tang who have thick and dark blood lipids.
Grandma Tang took the pill and put it into her big sleeves, called her little grandson over, stood up and said goodbye to Chun Niang.
Not long after Grandma Tang left, Sister Jiang came over and asked my third brother's wife to sew the wedding quilt.
There are some particularities to sewing a wedding quilt, and only a person with five blessings can sew it.
A total of four wedding quilts were sewn, all of which were made of hundred-seed silk satin with cotton linings, and filled with soft and warm cotton wool.
Mrs. Jiang did not look happy. She chatted with my third brother's wife while sewing a quilt.
"Yesterday, the matchmaker from the Chu family came to ask our family to give a betrothal gift of 100 taels. Sigh, I don't know what that family is thinking."
Although Mr. Jiang made a lot of money last year, he had just started his business and had just built a new house, so all the furniture in the house was new.
And what about those bamboo sheds and all the other things we bought? Which one of them doesn’t cost money
"Didn't you give the Chu family thirty taels when you got engaged last time? You also bought a pair of silver bracelets. Why do you want another hundred taels?" Do you really think the Jiang family has a fortune of millions
Mrs. Jiang sighed, "That's right. If it weren't for the engagement and Dacheng's particular fondness, I would have wanted to cancel the engagement."
How could a peasant family spend so much money to marry a wife? It's like marrying a lady from a wealthy family.
One hundred taels, which family could have thought of that? All they had together was just over seventy taels.
Chunniang didn't respond, and she felt even more displeased with the girl from the Chu family.
But she is my eldest nephew's future wife, and as her aunt, I cannot have any say in this.
"Originally, we were talking about the daughter of Chu the bamboo craftsman, but I don't know how the matchmaker ended up using the horoscope of Chu Cunzheng's daughter and said it matched our Dacheng's horoscope very well. Alas." Mrs. Jiang became more and more annoyed the more she thought about it.
She had seen the daughter of Chu the bamboo craftsman. Although the girl did not have the marks of Chu Cunzheng's family, she looked like a well-behaved child.
It was because of my own greed that I agreed to meet the daughter of Chu Cunzheng's family.
Chunniang shook her head secretly.
It is true that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being fat. The news that the Jiang family planted golden ears has probably spread far and wide. Otherwise, why did Chu Cunzheng force his daughter's horoscope to the matchmaker? This is too embarrassing. If the man disagrees, wouldn't it be a complete loss of face
After sewing the quilt, Chunniang went home to wash rice, cook porridge, and then knead dough to make pancakes.
In the evening, Jiang Sanlang returned home from the fields and picked up his two sons from school.
Now Xiaojie and Xiaowu have officially started their education in the clan school. They go to and from school with Huzi and Yuanbao every day. Occasionally, Jiang Sanlang will pick them up.
The two children were very intelligent, and even the teacher praised them for being smart and clever.
Chunniang served the food on the table and served the children porridge and pancakes. The fried leeks and dried fish were delicious when rolled in white flour pancakes.
Yingbao ate three in one breath and drank half a bowl of porridge, her little belly was bulging.
"Chun Niang, we won't be planting ramie this year. I've bought a lot of seedlings over at Beishan and planted them." Jiang Sanlang took a bite of the roll.
Chun Niang: "If we don't want to plant it, then don't plant it. Planting hemp is too tiring. Let's just plant more cotton this year."
"Well, I have planted ten acres of cotton, and my eldest and second brothers have also planted ten acres. We will finish sowing in two days."
Jiang Sanlang took a few sips from the bowl of porridge, put it down, and said, "After we finish the cotton, we can plant golden fungus."
His golden ear mushrooms are still covered under the straw curtain, so he will probably be busy again.
Yingbao immediately said, "Dad, I'll give you some premium golden ear and snow ear fungus spawn later. We'll grow them ourselves, and you can give the ordinary ones to others."
Jiang Sanlang's eyes lit up, "How many sperm bacteria does Baoer have?"
"There are probably several hundred strains. Our family can give out 600 of them, and at most 300 each to our eldest and second uncles."
In order to grow high-quality golden fungus and snow fungus, you must use a special nutrient base. Once the nutrients in the nutrient base are absorbed, the ones that grow will be the same as ordinary golden fungus.
So no one else can grow this fine product.
"Okay." Jiang Sanlang was very happy and didn't think about where his daughter had put the golden ear mushrooms.
Oh, no, my daughter’s golden ear mushrooms were kept separately in a bamboo shed in her own yard, and now they were covered under a straw curtain, but he had never gone in to check.