He said: "The Zhou family is generous, so we don't make it difficult for them. The dowry costs three taels of silver, we keep two taels, and the remaining one tael is given to Er Niu, and we will bring the dowry to her and that's about it. "
There is a saying in the countryside, if you have money or not, marry a daughter-in-law to celebrate the new year.
People who are more generous will marry their daughter-in-law before the winter solstice, so that the new daughter-in-law can save two months at least when they enter the house, and they will be busy after the new year.
But there are also unlucky days. One is that they didn’t choose a good day, and the other is that they said their marriage late like the two of them. Most of them will get married before the year. Don’t think it’s a young year, but the countryside doesn’t pay attention. The betrothal gift is taken quickly, and it is normal to finish the banquet in three days.
In that way, there will be an extra labor at home in the spring, which happens to be busy in spring.
Some people are mean, even if they talk about getting married early, they will deliberately squeeze the time to get married around the new year, one is to save the previous rations, and they can get married before the busy spring.
People who are more mean will choose to get married in the first month of the new year, and the new daughter-in-law will be busy as soon as she enters the house.
To be honest, they said that the kiss was late, and Zhou Zhoulang was not too young, and the Fang family was really worried that the Zhou family would choose to get married in the next year, so that the second girl would have to go to the farm as soon as she entered the house, and had to adapt to the new life of her parents-in-law.
Zhou's ability to take the initiative to postpone the date to May shows that they are very considerate of them.
The Zhou family is generous, and the Fang family is not unreasonable. The two parties came and went through the matchmaker, and the details of the engagement were finalized.
At present, the gift of three taels of silver is not too small, but it is not too much. Given the family background of the Fang family, only three taels of silver is considered a small amount.
Qian has calculated that in addition to the betrothal gift, there are banquets and some gifts required for marriage, the total amount is about five taels.
Originally, after Thursday Lang gambled, she estimated that it would cost him between seven taels and nine taels to marry a good wife.
There is no way, the quality of the groom is too low, so he can only make up for it with a bride price.
Fortunately, Zhou Zhoulang didn't cheat the family on this point, relying on his face and mouth to deceive, oh no, he found a high-quality bride, Miss Fang.
The public does not have this money now, especially after the family moved into a new house.
Not long after Man Bao recovered from his illness, the carpenter Lao Zhou found finally finished all the custom-made furniture and sent them over.
A bed was put in each room, Xiaoqian and the others also used the cloth they bought to make a quilt cover, stuffed with cotton, and added some bamboo furniture woven by Zhou Zhoulang. It's a good day to enter the new house.
Of course, it was for the banquet, and Lao Zhou received a wave of gift money because of this, but the gift money was basically the same as the money spent on the banquet, so he had neither a loss nor a surplus.
So the money box, which originally only had more than 200 coins, still only has more than 200 coins.
Therefore, the three taels of dowry to the Fang family was borrowed from Zhou Xi, and at the same time, the Qian family also borrowed two taels more for the banquet in May.
Because until the autumn harvest, she estimated that the family would not have a large income.
This debt, although the old Zhou Tou has been clamoring for Zhou Zhou Lang to repay it by himself, it is actually impossible.
And the night before Xiaonian made the decision, Lao Zhoutou held a family meeting on this matter.
"The fourth one is useless. He lost fifteen taels of silver last year, but he returned it this year. The money he owed you is also with us, and all the houses he built before were taken out." Old Zhou said: "This Part of the account is for me and your mother, and I will return it to you when the public has money in the future."
Nobody has an opinion.
Old Zhou Tou continued: "Although I said that the fourth brother has to pay the money for his own marriage, but you all marry your daughter-in-law with the money from the father-in-law, and if you don't have one, you will be an exception, so the five taels of silver that Hexi took is also the same. I'm back with your mother."
Zhou Xi opened his mouth, but finally remained silent.
The old Zhoutou looked at Zhou Zhoulang and said: "If you marry a daughter-in-law, you will be an adult, maybe you will be a father at any time, work harder, and you must be successful in your heart, if you are so foolish, I will beat you. "
Zhou Zhoulang responded in a low voice.
That's it.
Because there is less money in the money box, this year has been a little dull. In order to save money, Qian's cut off a lot of necessary expenses.
Like meat.
In the past Chinese New Year, except last year when Zhou Zhou Lang gambled and lost his family fortune, the Qian family would buy a batch of meat to make bacon.
Not only can you eat it at home, but you can also take it to relatives.
This year is the same as last year, no meat is bought at home.
However, it is different from last year. Although there are still a lot of delicious food missing this year, everyone is very happy because they have moved into a new house.
Especially Man Bao and the other little ones are as happy as a holiday every day.
She moved into her new house, and Lao Zhou took her money. Although she didn't make an extra-large bed for her, he also made a normal-sized bed, which was simpler than the one that Man Baosleep made at home. The version of the small bed is much better.
Man Bao couldn't help but rolled twice on the bed before going to see the furnishings of the room.
Zhou Zhoulang works hard every day to make bamboo weaving. In addition to getting bamboo baskets and dustpans sold in the market, there are also things that can be used at home.
For example, a bamboo screen was placed in Manbao's room to separate the inner room from the study.
Knowing that Manbao likes all kinds of flowers and plants, Zhou Zhoulang also asked her to paint on the bamboo screen and put them in the room after drying.
Besides, Lao Zhou bought her a dresser and two chairs, one in front of the dresser and the other in front of the desk.
The desk was also made by a carpenter at the expense of Lao Zhou. He held a family meeting a long time ago and announced that these things will be Man Bao's dowry in the future.
It can be said that Manbao's room is the most expensive and the most fully furnished.
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang also built a three-compartment bookshelf for her out of bamboo, and put it next to the desk.
Then she made two cages out of bamboo for her to store clothes and various sundries.
Of course, things made of bamboo are not as good as wooden things, but for a girl who has not left the court, especially a little girl who is six or seven years old, these things are very precious.
In short, Man Bao was very happy.
So even if she can only eat a few meals of meat during the New Year, she is happy every day,
She was so happy that she forgot to avoid suspicion, and ran up and down with Bai Shanbao every day, even on the first day of the new year, they got together and ran around the village to pay New Year's greetings, and then received a lot of red envelopes.
Of course, most of the villagers' red envelopes contained only one penny, but Manbao was very happy.
Then when she was happy, she followed Bai Shanbao's ass to Bai's house to celebrate the New Year.
Of course, Master Bai would not give them just a penny. What he gave them was an exquisite purse, and inside the purse was a golden nude stamped with Jinshi and degree.
Man Bao didn't pay attention at the time, she felt that the purse was very beautiful, so she took a closer look at it.
Master Bai liked Man Bao very much, and thought she was a very smart child, so he specially brought his second son here, and solemnly handed it over to the two smart children, saying: "You have to take brother to play, don't leave him behind."
Bai Shanbao and Man Bao just received the gift. Although they didn't want to play with this stupid classmate, they still patted their chests and said to Master Bai that they would play friendly with him.