At the end of September, Zhou Zhoulang and Xiang Mingxue returned with the caravan.
He took off the dog fur hat on his head, and said to them: "It's snowing in the north, but the weather here in the capital is fine."
It's fine for Beijing to wear jackets right now.
This year he went late, so he brought back fewer things than in previous years, but he also has his own regular customers, so the speed of sales, replacement and purchase is fairly fast.
If he hadn't rushed back to attend Man Bao's wedding, he could have stayed for a while longer.
He looked around and asked, "Why didn't eldest sister come to Beijing? When I went to Beijing, she was very excited to come to Beijing."
Man Bao said: "She is pregnant."
"Yo," Zhou Zhou Lang raised his voice, pleasantly surprised: "That's good, only one child is still a bit weak, and there will be companionship after another one."
Man Bao said: "Father and mother are thinking about going home this year to take a look, and then you can take them back with you."
Zhou Zhoulang said there was no problem, and asked, "Are you going back, brother and sister-in-law?"
"If they don't come back, the second elder brother and the second sister-in-law will also stay with Li Wei for the wedding."
Zhou Liwei got engaged to the eldest daughter of Mr. Lan's family in Zhou Lixue School, which was the most proud thing about Zhou Zhoulang's last visit to the capital.
When Man Bao came back, the marriage had already been settled, and Zhou Lixue and Zhou Ligu had told her about it. She had met the little girl twice, and she was about the same age as her. Well, she was only less than one year old, and she looked very shy. a girl.
But she wasn't shy at all.
I heard that Mr. Lan first took a fancy to Zhou Lixue. After all, Zhou Lixue is studying in the school, isn't he
But the girl liked Zhou Liwei, and Zhou Lixue was only focused on copying books to make money and studying for the imperial examinations, and he didn't really want to get married, well, he doesn't want to now.
So Mr. Lan could only regret it, and the Zhou family also came to propose marriage for Zhou Liwei, so he reluctantly agreed.
When Zhou Lixue and the others first entered the school, they were often isolated and bullied because they were foreigners and spoke with a Sichuan accent.
But the three of them went to school together, so they could become a small group by themselves. They still had a lot of things to do after school, and they didn't play with those classmates at all, so it was difficult for people who didn't like them to conflict with them.
But after a long time, I couldn't hold it back a few times. Several boys were fighting in the school. It happened that Zhou Lizhong followed Zhou Zhoulang to the north that year, and Zhou Liwei who stayed behind took care of them. Friday Lang and Saturday Lang went there twice, and then they went often.
Give them some food at noon, or occasionally call them when they pass by. Those students are bullying, knowing that their family has a restaurant on the other side of the street, so they don't dare to provoke them.
And when Zhou Liwei occasionally brought them food, he would also give it to the master in the academy, and occasionally met Mrs. Lan who also brought food to Mr. Lan. After coming and going, the two became acquainted...
Later, when Xiaoqian went to Beijing, the steamed pork she made was delicious, and the restaurant sold the steamed steamed pork. No matter who came, they could buy a few bowls with a basket.
Mr. Lan also likes to eat, so Mrs. Lan went to buy it from time to time, and the two of them became more familiar with each other.
When Mr. Lan revealed that Zhou Lixue's knowledge and character were all right, and that he could be recruited as a son-in-law, Mrs. Lan quietly told her mother that Zhou Lixue was good, but she had her eyes on Zhou Lixue's brother.
Zhou Liwei is not young anymore, Zhou Zhoulang thought to take advantage of this time in the capital, and take care of it, but it's not counting the days yet.
In fact, the capital city and Qili Village have been traveling more often, and they feel that the two places are not very far apart.
Mainly because they have their own car.
Horse-drawn carts, um, not this one, but they have mule carts, donkey carts, ox carts, especially mule carts, which they think are no different from horse-drawn carts.
It is very convenient to have a car. If you go out more times, you will feel that staying in a hotel and traveling is fine.
Once or twice without experience, you can’t make it to the shelter and have to sleep outside, but after the third time, unless you encounter an accident, you can live in a place you are familiar with, so you don’t feel difficult .
Zhou Zhoulang is very used to going out now. After eating, he put down the bowl and wiped his mouth: "By the way, Mr. Yang knows that you are going to get married, let me bring you two boxes of presents, one is for you , one box is for Bai Shan."
Man Bao was happy, "Where is it?"
Zhou Zhou Lang led her to see, the box was opened, and inside she had exquisite fabrics, a set of glazed tea sets, and a set of jade jewelry.
Man Bao was speechless, "It's so precious."
Zhou Zhoulang said: "I said it was for you to add a box."
Man Bao looked at Bai Shan's box, wanting to open it to have a look, but Bai Shan was not there, so she held back, well, wait until he comes back from overtime.
Man Bao asked Xibing and Jiulan to take the things back to her room and put them away.
The time passed very well, Man Bao and Bai Shan took the wedding leave together at five o'clock.
That's right, officials in Dajin have marriage leave, up to nine days.
Both Man Bao and Bai Shan took nine days of vacation at one go, including the two days in between, so they had a total of eleven days of vacation.
Bai Shan's family moved from Zhou's house to Changqing Lane, and they went to give the dowry on the sixth day.
Bai Shan invited Bai Dalang, Bai Erlang and Yin or Liu Huan to be his relatives and friends in the escort team.
Liu Huan, who was already on errand, happily asked for leave and ran to join in the fun. Following the people beating gongs and drums, they carried the dowry around the inner city and sent it to Zhou's residence.
Many people in Chongyuan Square stood at the door to watch the excitement, of course the servants watched the excitement, and the masters waited behind to listen to the report.
There were only one or two naughty ones, who couldn't help but lie on the wall of their own house and look out, watching one pick after another betrothal gifts being sent into Zhou's house, they couldn't help but be speechless, "I saw at least four picks of houses just now, the Bai family is so rich?"
If there is a house in the dowry, put a model of a small house on the burden, with the house deed under it, and it will belong to the bride when she arrives at her home. The parents of the bride can choose to stay or send it back as the bride’s dowry .
The old Zhou was very happy to walk around the dowry, and then led someone to replace the happy word on it with the seal of their Zhou family, and left some things intentionally, and the rest was recorded on the dowry list intact As Man Bao's dowry.
Old Zhou wandered around and left two pieces of silver, one for him, one for Qian, and two bolts of cloth, each one for each person.
Old Zhou Tou sat among a pile of bride price and dowry and sighed.
Zhou Dalang and the others took a model of a small house and set it up. Seeing it, they asked: "Father, what about the deed of this house, you have to press it, or you will forget it later."
Old Zhou said: "What's the rush? There's still one day left. I'll press it tomorrow. What if it's stolen now?"
Zhou Dalang: ... Who would come here to steal things? It is still the house deed to steal, it is better to steal silver and cloth.
No, no one will steal anything at all, okay