The youngest daughter of the village head's family snatched it quickly, and quickly opened the box: "Wow! It's a dragon and phoenix bracelet! Look at this pair of dragon and phoenix, it's just like the real thing!"
Mrs. Zhang grabbed the dragon and phoenix bracelet in her hand and weighed it a few times. It was solid and quite heavy. A pair of bracelets needs to be three or four taels of silver alone! This precious thing has to be put away, don't let people touch it.
Li Xiaomeng picked up a pair of silver hairpins in the box, and said to Yu Caidie: "Look, this is a lotus with two pedicles on it. The flowers bloom with two stalks, which means that the moon is full. The ones are heavy in your hands, and they should be solid. Sigh... really I envy you, why am I not as lucky as you, and have such a generous second brother."
"This pair of earrings is very festive. It's booming. It fits the occasion. Caidie, you can bring this pair of earrings to your wedding tomorrow!" The round-faced daughter-in-law put the red coral earrings next to Yu Caidie's face and gestured. Tomorrow, when the bride gets married, she has to wear a red wedding gown, wear a red hijab, and add on to this pair of red earrings, she is absolutely delighted!
The village head's youngest daughter showed off her knowledge and she curled her lips and said, "Sister-in-law Wang, what do you know! These are made of red coral. My fourth sister-in-law has a pair of red coral earrings. They don't use as much material and the color is not as good. Exactly, it cost ten taels of silver! This pair of red coral earrings is at least twice as expensive as my sister-in-law's!"
Don't mention it, this girl still has some vision. Who made the elder brother rich, and the younger brother works next to the county magistrate! He has been influenced by his ears and eyes, and he must have more knowledge than the girls in the village!
When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she hurriedly took back all the jewelry, put them into the box, and hugged her in her arms, as if afraid of being snatched away by someone. She said to the little girl: "Cai Die, this thing is too expensive, mother will keep it for you. Tomorrow is the day, I will take it out to you as a dowry. With these, your powerful father-in-law will also think highly of you At a glance!"
Although the money that was cheated last time was finally recovered. There will be more time to use the money in the future, no matter how much she loves her daughter, she can't spend dozens of taels of silver as a dowry. Yu's second child is still conscientious, and he has not forgotten the younger sister Caidie.
Mrs. Li, who had been silent in the house, quietly left the east room, dragged Yu Dashan from the yard to a secluded place, and complained softly: "What did you say Dahai did! How embarrassing is it for you to be a big brother? Give away dozens of taels if you say so! Or give it to the enemy's daughter, do you think he is stupid?"
Yu Dashan also heard the movement in the main room in the courtyard, and his heart was on fire! Hearing what she said, she slapped her with a big mouth: "What is an enemy's daughter? That's his own sister, and also my sister! If you can't speak with your stinky mouth, you can sew it up for me with a needle." Come on!! How many things people like to take is their business! Our family is not divided, and the money is in the hands of the mother, and there is nothing wrong with giving a pair of silver cloves!"
Mrs. Li is not the one to be angry. After being slapped on the mouth, she immediately exploded, put her hands on her fat waist, and shouted recklessly in a high-pitched voice: "Yu Dashan, you are so useless!! You are so strong, go out and use it!" Go, what kind of a man is he to beat his own wife!! It’s ashamed, you can earn money if you have the ability! Guarding a broken fishing boat, you don’t earn much every day, it’s not as good as your son earning more by working on the dock!”
Several women in the village rushed over to persuade them to make peace, but Mrs. Li is not the one who listens to persuasion, the more she scolds, the more vigorous she is. It was Mrs. Zhang who came out of the house, stood in front of her, stared at her, and Mrs. Li stopped cooking immediately. For her mother-in-law, who dared to kill anyone, Li still felt guilty in her heart.
Except for this small episode, Yu Caidie got married smoothly the next day. Those who came from her husband's family had all heard Yu Hai's name more or less, and knew that he was a blood relative to the Imperial Envoy, and that he could speak in front of the Emperor Shang Zhou's family. Therefore, members of Yu Caidie's husband's family, contrary to their usual arrogant attitude, were polite to Yu's family. Especially for Yu Hai, the second brother, the groom called "Second Brother" one by one, and he was closer than his own brother.
Not long after Yu Caidie got married, the first snow of this winter fell unexpectedly. The child in Mrs. Fang's womb is getting older, and she lives halfway up the mountain. The winter in the north is snowy, and it is even more inconvenient to go up and down. Xiaocao discussed with her parents to bring her godmother to live with her.
Now her house is spacious. Five blue-brick houses are separated by a fence into two courtyards, east and west, with a moon gate in the middle. The family lives in the three courtyards on the east, two east wing rooms on the east, and the kitchen and utility room on the west. The two courtyards on the west side have been empty all the time, and they are said to be used as Yu Hang's new house when he talks about his marriage.
When Xiaocao mentioned the thoughts in his heart, Yu Hai and Liu Shi naturally did not disagree. After several months of getting along, the relationship between the two families is closer than that of a family. The house town couple treated his youngest daughter like a real daughter. Even if Mrs. Fang was pregnant with her own child, she didn't show any preference.
Every time House Town returns to Beijing, they will bring gifts to their family, many of which are not even available in Fucheng. It's not that expensive to say it's expensive, but it's better than novelty. Because Fang Zizhen knew that if he bought expensive things, the Yu family would not want them.
As the godfather travels between the capital, Fucheng and Dongshan Village, Xiaocao's jewelry box has changed from one to two, and there is a tendency to develop into the third. There's no way, as her godfather, every time she travels far away, she first thinks of bringing a gift for her goddaughter. What do little girls like? Isn't it just jewelry, clothing or something
It is estimated that there is no jewelry store in the capital and Fucheng who does not know General Fang Fang. Almost every two to two months, this strong man like an iron tower would visit their silver building, scare away a wave of ladies and ladies, and ask them to bring out all the latest jewelry suitable for teenage girls. Take it away without asking the price. The two assistants behind him became the servants who paid the bills...
Yu Hai is also a doting daughter, and he has a common language with Fangfang Town. Fortunately, Xiaocao Neili is not really a little girl in her teens, otherwise she would have been spoiled by her own father and godfather so much that she doesn't know how much she weighs!
When the house town couple heard Xiaocao's move to live in the yard next door to their house, they agreed after a little thought. The house on the mountain is really not suitable for pregnant women to live in winter. Especially when it snows and the road is slippery, it is very inconvenient for their daughter to come to give Mrs. Fang extra meals every day. Just yesterday, my daughter slipped and fell. Fortunately, she was dressed thickly and didn't hurt herself. Otherwise, Mrs. Fang would not blame herself to death.
They also have a house in the town, but if they move to the town, they will be far away from their daughter, and it will not be so convenient to see her. If there is heavy snowfall, the carriage will not be able to pass for a few days, and the couple will feel like something is missing if they don't see their daughter for a day, let alone for a few days.
The couple are not hypocritical people, they are just borrowing the house of Yu's family for a winter! If you are afraid of people gossiping, the worst thing is to say that they rented it. I believe that as long as Fang Fangzhen opens his mouth to rent a house, he will rent the house of the village head, and he will have to vacate it himself.
If you say move, move! The next day, the couple moved into the west courtyard of the Yu family with their servants. The west courtyard is designed as a single-door courtyard, with a lot of east and west wing rooms, kitchens, and storage rooms. Fangfangzhen didn't have many servants in Dongshan Village, and the servants lived in the west wing, leaving a room in the east wing for his two deputies.
Li Li and Wu Yun would occasionally come over in the afternoon to report to him about some matters in the port. Why did you come in the afternoon? Don't you just want to have dinner and breakfast the next day? The Fangfang Town couple and the servants of the Fang family were used to staying with them, so they did not forget them even after moving.
The countryside in winter is leisurely, and everyone stays at home obediently. In winter, the business on the wharf is also much lighter. The short-term workers are sent home, and the long-term workers (that is, regular workers) can also take turns to rest. It would be nice to have ten days of work every month!
The Yu family likes to huddle together on a kang in winter, and it is the same this winter. It's not to save firewood, the kang between the east and west is also burning, why are there no people? Because Xiaocao asked my father to get more than twenty wooden boxes, and they were full on the kang. The box is packed with soil and sprinkled with some vegetable seeds, such as green vegetables, lettuce, lettuce, garlic sprouts, leeks, etc... Yes, this is the grass that is tossing out-of-season vegetables!
The kangs of the Yu family are all facing the windows, and the windows are glass windows, so there is no shortage of sunlight for growing vegetables on the kangs. The temperature is enough, the sunshine is enough, and the grass is poured with some diluted Lingshi water from time to time, and the out-of-season vegetables are growing well. Throughout the winter, the other family turned into little white rabbits gnawing on cabbages and radishes, but the Yu family never lacked green leafy vegetables.
As the key protection object, the wife of the pregnant woman's room is especially concerned about all vegetables. The winter that was difficult in previous years has passed without knowing it this year.
When the first month had just passed and the permafrost in the field hadn't thawed much, the Yu family was busy weaving grass thatch. Vegetables sold at a good price last year. The biggest reason is that they were on the market more than a month earlier than ordinary vegetables. This year, the Yu family had the experience of last year, and they cleared out the land in the front and back yards early.
The size of the yard this year is many times larger than that of last year. The front yard and the two yards add up to three or four acres at least, and the back yard is of course no less.
When the spring day has not yet emerged, the vegetable seeds of Xiaocao's family have been scattered in the vegetable garden. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers have also begun to be bred on the kangs in the east and west wings.
The entire Yu family, including Xiaoshi, who was on winter vacation, had a daily task of removing the grass thatch one by one when the sun was shining in the morning, so that the newly sprouted vegetable sprouts could be bathed in the warm spring sun. When the sun is westward in the afternoon and the temperature begins to drop, cover them with thick grass thatch one by one. At this time, Xiaocao regrets that there is no plastic film in this era, otherwise she can grow vegetables in greenhouses, which is much more useful than grass thatch!
The vegetable field in the west courtyard hardly needs the hands of the Yu family. Mrs. Fang's two capable girls led the servants to take care of the vegetable fields. Pearl and Linglong are both the sons of the Xia family, they are good at serving people, but they have never tended the vegetable field. However, the work of lifting the grass thatch was done smoothly. Seeing the first vegetable sprout sprout, the two girls could happily talk to their wives for a while. The vegetable seedlings grow taller day by day, and they feel a sense of accomplishment in their hearts...