After sending off the eldest daughter, Lin Dazhuang took the silver to the village chief's house and paid the money. When this matter was finally resolved, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief.
At night, when Lin Dazhuang and Zhang Huiniang were lying on the bed, they heard Lin Dazhuang sigh.
"Dali's family is going to send Chun'er to the palace." He didn't tell the children about this in the afternoon. After holding it back for a long time, he told Mrs. Zhang when he returned to the house in the evening.
"How come, Chun'er is over 14, so it doesn't fit. They're all old enough to get married, what do they think about the younger siblings?" Zhang Shi was surprised.
"Dali and Lizheng said that Chun'er has just turned 14, but it hasn't arrived yet." In fact, there are only so many people in the village, and they know how old their children are.
"Does Li Zheng agree too?" Mrs Zhang asked.
"Yeah, Li Zheng was probably afraid of not being able to gather enough people, so he agreed to count her as a place."
"Hey, you are so cruel!" Mrs. Zhang knew that the Dali family was more prosperous than them, but she didn't expect it...
Lin Dali is Lin Dazhuang's younger brother, five years younger than him. Lin Dali has a more active personality and a sweet mouth. With a clever mouth, he worshipped an old carpenter in the village as his teacher and learned the craft of making furniture.
The two brothers were also very harmonious at first, and Lin Dali also knew that it was very hard for his brother to lead him alone.
The problem was that after Lin Dazhuang got married, Lin Dali caught a cold and fell ill. Although I took two medicines to treat wind-cold, it was fine. However, Lin Dali still listened to the assertion of Zhang's life in the village, and believed that Zhang would overcome him. No matter how much Zhang Huiniang took care of him and how good he was, Lin Dali always kept a distance from his sister-in-law.
The conflict between the brothers Lin Dazhuang and Lin Dali became more and more intense after Lin Dali got married.
Lin Dali married Ke Meili, the youngest daughter of the Ke family in the same village. Ke Meili lives up to her name. She is very beautiful and is a flower in the village. Ever since Ke Mei and her wedding, there has been an endless stream of people who come to ask for relatives. The dowry offered by the Ke family was also relatively high, which scared off a group of people.
Lin Dali likes Ke Mei very much and begs to marry her. Lin Dazhuang saw that his younger brother really liked it, so he helped his younger brother to ask for marriage with a dowry gift.
At first, the brothers did not separate after they got married, but still lived together. Ke Meili has been favored at home since she was a child, she is very squeamish, lazy and greedy. In this way, the housework basically falls on Zhang Huiniang alone. Lin Dazhuang sees that his daughter-in-law has to take care of children again, and it is very hard to do housework, and he is very uncomfortable with Ke Meili. And Lin Dali has been helping her daughter-in-law, and the contradictions have been accumulating.
Finally, after Ke Meili gave birth to two daughters in a row, it broke out completely. Lin Dali and his wife felt that it was Zhang Shi who defeated them, so they did not have a son and insisted on separating the family.
Ke Meili had long wanted to split up the family. She felt that Lin Dazhuang's family had many children, and Lin Dazhuang could only farm and earn less than Lin Dali. Lin Dali usually does some carpentry work and helps the villagers make furniture, earning a good income. Ke Meili always felt that they were taking advantage of living together, and they were clamoring for separation every day. Lin Dali didn't say anything, but he didn't object either.
Lin Dazhuang was helpless, so he had to split up the family and divide the field in half. He also gave most of the cash in the family to his younger brother, and invited the elderly in the village and Li Zheng to witness together.
In this way, Lin Dali built a house at the other end of the village and lived there. Two years later, they actually gave birth to a boy, which made Lin Dali and his wife more and more sure about Zhang Shike and them. The two families gradually lost contact.
At the other end of the village, Lin Dali and his wife were secretly proud of their decision.
Ke Meili and Lin Dali are both strong in favoring sons over daughters, and think that their daughters are all money and goods. The eldest daughter, Lin Chun'er, was as tall as Lin Dali, and she was even more displeased that she did not inherit Ke Mei's beauty. Seeing that Lin Chun'er was about to get married, Ke Meili knew that her daughter couldn't marry like Lin Jin'er. With Lin Chun'er's appearance and stature, she would probably have to pay a lot of dowry to get married.
When the news of the recruitment in the palace came out this time, Lin Dali became more active. If you enter the palace, you will not only save dowry money, but also have a subsidy. In the future, there will be monthly money and money for the family, which is a great thing to think about.
Although Lin Chun'er was sad that her parents sent her to the palace, she thought that if Li Zheng had won the favor of nobles, she would be able to stand out.
Lin Chun'er was also very envious of the uncle's Lin Jin'er marrying into the city. But I also understand that my appearance is impossible, but I am not reconciled. This time entering the palace should be an opportunity.
As soon as ten days arrived, Li Zheng hurriedly took the list and went to the county town for assignments. After all, most people are still reluctant to part with their flesh and blood, and they managed to gather ten people. After that, Li Zheng distributed the money he received to the families. It was agreed that in ten days, people would be sent to the county seat to gather, and they would be sent to the capital together, so that each family would go back to prepare.
Ke Meili took the money from her and went to the county seat. After all, it is her own. Before sending her daughter away, she is going to buy a new dress for her daughter. Now that it is too late to make the cloth by myself, I am going to buy it for my daughter in a clothing store.
After buying the clothes and leaving the store, Ke Meili went to the dim sum shop again. I'm going to buy some snacks for my two little ones to eat, especially my son's favorite dim sum.
The dim sum made by this dim sum shop tastes good, the price is affordable, and the business has always been good.
When Ke Mei arrived, there was already a long queue at the door of the store, so she had to wait in the back, when she heard the two women in front were loudly talking about gossip in the city.
"Have you heard that the master bookkeeper Wang wants to marry his son, and is entrusting the matchmaker Zhang?"
"I also heard that my younger brother and sister's parents live next to Zhang matchmaker's house, and they said they are going to pay one hundred taels of silver?"
"One hundred taels! This time the Wang family is bleeding money."
"There's no way. The Wang family is just such a son. Now he is seriously ill in bed, and he doesn't know the personnel. The doctor shook his head when he saw it.
"Oh, even though it's one hundred taels of silver, what if you can't beat that woman, it will be ruined for the rest of your life. How can a good person want to."
"Yeah, I heard from the matchmaker that as long as the Wang family meets the eight characters, no matter how they look, even the villagers are willing. They also said that if there is an emergency after the wedding, they will agree to remarry in the future. It seems that the Wang family is really anxious! "
Ke Meili hurriedly bought some snacks and went back, thinking back to the words of the two old ladies along the way.
One hundred taels of silver, she had never seen so much silver, the more she thought about it, the more she felt itchy.
After returning home, Ke Meili told Lin Dali about it, "Alas! Why didn't you hear this sooner? My daughter is about to enter the palace."
"I'll go to the city tomorrow to find out." Lin Dali said, rolling his eyes.
The next day, Lin Dali took Lin Chun'er's horoscope to find the matchmaker Zhang's house.
The matchmaker Zhang is worried. The news has been out for several days without any news, and the master bookkeeper Wang comes to remind him every day. Hearing Lin Dali's message, he was overjoyed. Immediately took the eight characters to close it, and it really closed. I hurried to the master bookkeeper Wang's house to announce the good news, and finally we can hand over the business.
The master bookkeeper Wang was very anxious to rejoice, and without saying a word, he gave Lin Dali one hundred taels of silver as a betrothal gift. The two families agreed to marry the next day, and Lin Dali took the initiative to say that he would take his daughter to an inn in the city so that the Wang family would come to welcome him. The Wang family was naturally happy, but they were afraid that Lu Yuan would delay the auspicious time.
Lin Dali went home with one hundred taels of silver, and the whole family stared at the silver. The whole family decided to take Chun'er to the city early tomorrow morning.
Lin Chuner knew that she could not enter the palace. After thinking about it carefully, she still felt that it was better to go to the wedding.
The same is to gain a bit, naturally it is better to marry into the official family in the city. That is the only son of the master of the nine-pin, if it is usually something she would not dare to think about.
If this is done with Chong Xi Chong, she will be a serious official young grandma. Much more respectable than the businessman Lin Jiner married into.
If Chong Xi Chong is not good, he also said that he can remarry after two years. If she enters the palace and waits for her to leave the palace, she will be 25 years old, and it will be difficult to get married.
After two busy days, everything was done. Lin Dali and his wife began to be apprehensive about the quota for entering the palace. With one hundred taels of silver, they can also be the first in the village. But if they offend Lizheng, their life in the village will not be easy.
"Go to Lizheng to get the money back, and pay another 5 taels. Anyway, Chun'er is married, and now he is in the Wang family. Is Lili dare to offend, Wang Zhuzhu is a competent assistant by the county magistrate's side. "Ke Meili is now rich and confident.
"You also know how difficult it was for Lizheng to get 10 people this time, and now there is one person missing..."
"Anyway, my family's Chun'er is too old. If they didn't sign up, wouldn't they have one less person. Let Li Zheng find another home, anyway, there is no suitable family in our family now, Erya is only 10 years old. By the way, Don't you have two suitable ones for the elder brother's family? Let them come up with one. He has a pair of children, so raising the family is not a waste of food." Ke Meili thought maliciously.
"That's right, I'll go to Lizheng's house and talk about it. Anyway, it's already here. It's a big deal to live in the city in the future. Anyway, what are you afraid of if you have money!" Lin Dali also gave up.
That evening, Li Zheng brought Lin Dali and his wife to Lin Dazhuang's house.
When Lin Dazhuang and his wife saw them coming to the house at this time, they looked at each other and had a bad feeling in their hearts.
Sure enough, Li Zheng explained the situation, and returned the money that Lin Dazhuang had paid to him, "Da Zhuang, you see that although the two of you brothers have split up, you can't write two Lin characters in one stroke. Dali this time. What you do is not authentic. Later, we and the clan will open an ancestral hall to ask for family law. But this time you enter the palace, you must go to one in your family.”
"How can you do this, come out and do the opposite. My family paid the money early in the morning." Mrs Zhang cried, but she didn't expect that in the end, she still wanted her child to enter the palace.
Lin Dazhuang clenched his fists and was about to beat Lin Dali.
Seeing this, Lin Dali hurriedly hugged his brother's leg, "Brother, my brother knows it's wrong. I'm really fascinated by money. I'll give you another ten taels to subsidize you."
It was okay for Lin Dazhuang not to listen, but when he heard it, he got even more angry, and Lin Dali screamed and screamed.
Seeing that Dali was beaten, Ke Meimei also went up to protect him, crying and shouting, "Ah! Brother, stop beating, you are going to kill him."
"Who wants your money! You are not welcome in our family." Lin Jiawen also came out when he heard the movement.
"Humph! You... how did you talk to your elders? How did your elder brother and elder sister teach you? You are still a scholar. Bah! Today, even if you beat Dali to death, your family will have to enter the palace alone." Ke Beautiful proudly.
"Brother, in fact, I am also doing good for you. Look at your family's Shuang Er, he is getting older, he is a Shuang child and has little strength, and he will not be able to do heavy work or farm work in the future. Let's talk about marriage, who will marry. Shuangwazi is a wife, but you don't want him to be a rich man's concubine. Why don't you just stay at home for the rest of your life? It would be nice to go to the palace. It saves expenses and lightens the burden. He can save money himself. Some money, how nice!" Lin Dali looked like he was thinking of his brother.
"Dali is right, think about it. There are still a few days left, so prepare for the child." Li Zheng didn't give Lin Dazhuang a chance to refute, so he left with Lin Dali and his wife.
"Father and mother, the second uncle is right. It is useless for me to stay at home. Let me go to the palace. I will take care of myself." Lin Jiabao pretended to be strong, but tears had already fallen.
Lin Jiabao knew from an early age that he was different from other children. No child wants to play with him. I remember when he was four or five years old, a man came to the door and said that he was going to buy him. The rich family did not like him, and his parents drove him away. When his mother took him out, he would always be pointed at. Mother would hug him and cry, but father and mother always treat him the best. There is delicious food at home, and the fun always sticks to him first, and his brothers and sisters love him very much. Even after the birth of the twin brothers and sisters, everyone still treats him as well as always, and he loves his family very much.
Zhang Shi hugged Lin Jiabao and cried, "Jiabao, you are my parents' treasure. My parents never felt that you were a burden, and my parents really couldn't bear you! This thousand-knife-killing Lin Dali did this. thing... woohoo..."
Lin Dazhuang was silent. He knew that there was no way out. If the number of people couldn't be gathered, the whole village would suffer, and Li Zheng's determination could not be blamed. And their family has to choose one, and Jiabao is also the most suitable choice.
Lin Dazhuang stepped forward and put his arms around them, "Jiabao, don't blame your parents, go to the palace and be fine, your parents will wait for you to come back, and then your parents will be gone, as well as your brother, your brother, your elder sister and younger sister. .do not worry!"
Lin Jiawen swore: "Don't worry, Jiabao. In the future, your elder brother will support you. When your elder brother has a son, I will let your little nephew take care of you and be filial to you."
Lin Jiacai also shouted, "And me, and me, and I will also support the second brother."
For a time, the family gathered together and hugged together.
Now that they accepted the facts, Lin Dazhuang's family got busy. Mrs. Zhang was busy shopping for shoes, Mrs. Wu was busy making clothes, and her second sister, Lin Lier, was also going to embroider a purse for Jiabao. Even the twins seemed to have grown up overnight and helped with housework.
Lin Jiawen did not read books these days, but taught Jiabao to read. He had taught a little before, and he felt that Jiabao would be better off learning more. In addition, I also told Lin Jiabao a lot of things to pay attention to, don't cause trouble, don't meddle in your own business, be aggressive, keep a low profile, don't have bad relationships with others, etc., etc. After all, Lin Jiawen is a scholar and knows a lot.
Lin Jiabao listened carefully, trying to remember what his brother said.
Time passed quickly, and it was time to gather. Lin Jiabao's family and the family of the other nine people in the village went with Li Zheng to the county seat to see him off.
"Jiabao, you must be well when you go to the palace. Your parents and your brothers and sisters are waiting for you. Keep the purse that your second sister embroidered for you carefully. There are 10 taels of silver in it, so be smart when you go to the palace. Don't save what you need to manage, you can suffer less. And remember what your elder brother said." Lin Dazhuang asked worriedly.
Just in the reluctance of the Lin family, the carriage carrying Lin Jiabao and other ten people was escorted by the officers out of Pei County.