Wang Ru was disdainful in her heart, and she dared to think, "No, there are hairpins and bracelets for my mother in here."
Then he put the box on the table, gave his father a purse, and said, "I am tired. These cloths are for mother and father. You guys pack them up!"
After saying that, Wang Ru winked at her second and eldest sisters and took her two sisters out.
Sun opened the box and was not satisfied. There were two silver hairpins and a pair of silver bracelets. The fat woman from the Zhou family and Li's family both had jewels on them. "Look at what she means."
Wang Laosi's attention was focused on the banknote, which was given to him by Wang Ru. It was a banknote of fifty taels. Seeing his wife's dissatisfaction, he also felt dissatisfied. "Mr. Shi is so rich, but he went out and brought back such a small amount of things. It's too useless."
Wang Ru didn't hear it. She would have been furious if she had heard it. She didn't want to take anything in the first place, but she didn't want to go to Shi's house again, so she deliberately brought more things to make her life easier in the future.
In Wang Ru's room, Wang Ru took out two boxes and gave them to her two sisters. After knowing the importance of reputation, she felt guilty, but the guilt only lasted for a while. Without them, she couldn't marry well. "These are gifts for my sisters."
Erya Wang Rong opened it first. There were two silver hairpins and two pairs of silver bracelets inside, and a gold ingot weighing one or two taels in the corner.
The same thing happened to Wang Daya and Wang Xin, but that girl was not in love. She wanted to marry a good husband and was resentful of her sister, but she had also learned to be smart and she couldn't let her mother take everything away.
The next day, the Zhou family prepared for spring plowing. This year was a late spring, so farming started a week later than in previous years. Since they hired people to harvest the fields last year, the Zhou family hired people to plow the fields this year. The same was true for farming this year, paying them ten cents a day without any food.
Zhulan also felt sorry for Li. Every day, Li was the cook and Zhao helped. She would sometimes go to help, but there were many people in her family, most of them men, and the amount of food they ate for one meal was not small, so she would add some silver money and not cover the meal.
Zhou Shuren had no intention of taking care of the family's land. It was all arranged by the eldest brother. Today, he hired fifteen people and planned to finish working ten acres of dry land in one day.
It rained in spring a few days ago. Spring rain is as precious as oil. The land is moist and perfect for farming.
Most of the people hired this time are from the clan. The other three are not from the clan, but they all helped with work last year.
After the dry land was cultivated, it rained again. The Zhou family had ten acres of paddy fields and were ready to plant rice. Zhulan didn't know whether the ancient rice seedlings were good or not. She had never been to the fields to check them out and had been embroidering clothes at home.
Paddy fields are more difficult to work on than dry fields. It took fifteen people more than a day and a half to complete the work, and they were paid two days' wages.
In the village, Zhulan's family was the first to finish farming, and Li and Zhao were greatly envied by the young wives in the village.
Li was very proud, even if she heard sour words. She especially liked wandering around the village recently. The more jealous eyes she got, the happier she was.
Zhao seldom went out, but she went to the fields to bring water to Zhou Laoer. Inevitably, she met people around her. Zhao no longer cried at home, and her subconscious reaction was much weaker. She did not cry when someone pulled her, but just lowered her head and felt embarrassed.
Later, everyone in Zhoujia Village knew about it. Zhao stopped crying and became even more envious. Those who had daughters in the village also turned their attention to Zhou Changlian.
The Zhou family became a scholar's family. They didn't have to pay taxes on their twenty acres of land. They now hired people to farm the land. The women in the family all dressed well and wore jewelry. Zhou Yang was also a good mother-in-law. The Zhou family suddenly became a wealthy family. Zhou Changlian was also a well-educated man, so he became a wealthy son-in-law in the surrounding villages.
At the end of May, just as Zhulan finished her clothes, the matchmaker came to her door. Even though Zhulan had experience in her memory, she did not believe in the original owner's experience. It could be seen from Li that if she had come earlier, she would not have liked Li, no matter how delicious her cooking was. Therefore, the original owner's experience had no reference value.
After the matchmaker praised the Zhou family, she sipped her tea and thought to herself that the Zhou family was really amazing, with a solid foundation and good tea. After drinking tea and looking at the Zhou family, she got down to business. "Sister, Wang De's family asked me to come to their house. Your third son should get married. What do you think of Wang De's little girl? I'm not praising her. There is really no one who can compare to her in the surrounding villages."
Because they are from the same village as Zhoujia Village, the matchmaker did not exaggerate. Everyone in the village knows each other. It was precisely because she knew each other that she came to the Wang family. The girl from the Wang family is really a good one.