Several little girls in the village gathered together to chat.
"My mother said that Shen Chi is going to be engaged soon."
"I didn't expect Shen Chi to be settled so quickly. My mother also said that it is difficult for both children to settle down. Shen Chi's luck is really good. Generally, the better the conditions in the village, the earlier the settlement."
Before, some people were guessing that Shen Chi's reputation had been ruined, and no one wanted it. Maybe, like Chen Xiaomi, the decision was delayed until very late, and he became an old couple who couldn't get married.
Lu Tong is good-looking, and someone has already come to propose a marriage, but Tang's vision is too high, so it has been delayed year after year.
Zhang Ya said sullenly: "It's hard to say, maybe it's a mistake."
Zhang Ya's mother, Mrs. Ma, went to propose marriage to Lu Lin before, but she was rejected. Hearing the rumor that Lu Lin settled on Shen Chi, she almost died of anger.
There were rumors in the village before that Shenchi was shameless and posted Chen Xiaocai, but no one thought that Chen Xiaomi would really set up the sinking pond for Chen Xiaocai.
"Matchmaker Wang said that, there should be nothing wrong." A little girl said.
"But, my mother said, Matchmaker Wang is full of lies, and even dead people can be told to live." A little fat man said, after the little fat man finished speaking, he seemed to realize that he had said something he shouldn't have said, and covered his mouth timidly .
Lu family.
Tang said sullenly: "What's Chen Xiaomi thinking? I've decided on someone for Chen Xiaocai so early, and I don't know how to pick and choose, so I just set him up with a pair, that is, Chen Xiaocai. Xiaocai is ignorant now, but if she can agree, when Chen Xiaocai grows up in the future, she should blame Chen Xiaomi, how can marriage be a joke."
Lin Xiu'er smiled, mocking Tang Shi a little more in her heart.
Tang Shi picked carefully, but he picked too much and couldn't find anything good.
Lu Chengyu found a useless eldest lady, and Lu Tong found a nerd with a mop bottle. Not long after they got married, Lu Tong had already run back several times because of quarreling with her husband-in-law and mother-in-law. Shi didn't feel ashamed, she still felt ashamed.
"Isn't it because there are so many people in the village who are making a fuss, which turns the fake into the real." Lin Xiu'er said sarcastically. "I don't know how much engagement gift Chen Xiaomi will give my younger brother."
Before Lu Chengyu got married, it was really extravagant. Everyone in the village thought that Chen Xiaomi was rich, so they were very curious about how much engagement ceremony Chen Xiaomi would give.
Tang Shi squinted her eyes and said: "The people in this village are really right. This little boy Shen Chi has a lot of eyes."
Tang felt a little depressed when he thought about the fact that his family had sold the land to Grandma Shen.
Tang didn't expect that the Shen family would marry Chen Xiaocai. In a sense, the land of the Lu family fell into Lu Lin's hands.
A few days later, Chen Xiaomi, Lu Lin, and Matchmaker Wang rented another donkey cart and went to Shen's house.
Lu Lin's family already had a donkey cart, but for the sake of face, Lu Lin rented another one.
Two donkey carts passed by the village, attracting many people to watch the excitement.
Chen Xiaomi appeared in front of the villagers with her belly outstretched, causing many people to mutter.
There were rumors in the village that Chen Xiaomi was a childless child, but this meeting was a slap in the face.
Chen Xiaomi found that many people in the village were staring at his stomach, and couldn't help curling her lips.
Chen Xiaomi felt that the people in the village regarded him as a man, and seeing him with a doll should feel amazing.
The engagement gift sent by Chen Xiaocai included rice, noodles, dishes, cloth, clothes, and shoes. The bracelets weigh nearly two taels of silver, and everything added up is about five taels of silver.
This kind of engagement ceremony is already very good in the countryside. For some poor families, the engagement ceremony is just some rice, flour, grain, oil, cloth, baskets and so on, but no bracelets.
The engagement gift Chen Xiaomi sent was already very respectable, but it wasn't too out of the ordinary, reaching the level of astonishment.
With the lessons learned from Lu Chengyu, some people think that Chen Xiaomi is being stingy. After making so much money, it is still a bit shabby to do it. Originally, some villagers wanted to marry their daughters to Chen Xiaocai, just to cheat Chen Xiaomi a lot.
After delivering the engagement ceremony, Lu Lin and the others went back.
After the two parties agreed to complete the engagement, Grandma Shen and Shen Chi would go back to work in the town.
"Shen Chi is so lucky to have settled down so early."
In the evening, Grandma Shen's house was full of people who came to join in the fun
"These bracelets are not light. If you give them away, you will get two. Chen Xiaomi really made money."
"Achi, you are so lucky!"
Shen Chi was surrounded by everyone, his face blushed slightly, many people said good things, but there were still exceptions.
"I heard that Lu Lin bought a bear in the town before, but it cost twenty taels. Such a calculation, such a small deposit, is nothing to Chen Xiaomi."
The one who spoke was Mrs. Zheng who was the first to take aim at Chen Xiaocai. Mrs. Zheng didn't expect that she would spread the news about Shen Chi and Chen Xiaocai indiscriminately, but she actually hit the mark. In her heart, she felt that she might have helped Chen Xiaomi, and she was very depressed.
Grandma Shen smiled, Mrs. Zheng's words were obviously saying that Chen Xiaomi didn't take her grandson seriously, and Grandma Shen didn't take her grandson seriously. up.
She also knew that Lu Lin spent twenty taels to buy bears, but that was Xiong Linzhen's medicine shop, and they were only willing to pay eight taels of silver to buy bear bile. Later, it seemed that they were sold in Liuzhen. The drug store offered a generous price, twelve taels.
The bear skin is also worth a lot of money, and the sum is not much worse.
"Not too many." Grandma Shen said.
Seeing Grandma Shen's smile, Mrs. Zheng didn't feel depressed because of her words, and said a little angrily: "Shen Chi, I asked Matchmaker Wang, the reason why Chen Xiaomi ordered you not to work carelessly for others.
Shen Chi curled his lips, and thought to himself: He is not a young lady, so how can he not work? It's not the same wherever he works.
Chen Xiaomi taught him arithmetic, probably because he wanted him to look after the store, and it was much better to be able to look at the store than to plan food in the field.
"I can work." Shen Chi said.
"Achi, I didn't expect you to be so capable. There are not many good men here. If you meet a good one, you should hold on tight to my daughter. You won't be as capable as you are." Zheng said with a gun in his belt. The stick made Shen Chi somewhat unable to step down.
"Your daughter just likes to care too much. When the little man picked up her handkerchief, she pestered him to make him pay. It's a shame to do so." Zheng is shameless, and Grandma Shen is too lazy to give Zheng's face Shen Grandma, what do you mean? "
Grandma Shen glanced at Mrs. Zheng, and said, "Tell me what you want, why are you still angry?"
Seeing the few people present, Mrs. Zheng knew to say good things to please Grandma Shen, and felt bitter, so she got up angrily and said goodbye.
"Grandma Shen, you are bothered, she feels sore."
Grandma Shen smiled and said, "Why should I be angry?"
Once the matter between Chen Xiaocai and Shen Chi was settled, the female workers in the village knew that Shen Chi would belong to the Chen family from now on.
Nowadays, many people in the village want to sell embroidery to Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi. Naturally, some people want to curry favor, so someone secretly told Grandma Shen that the news about Shen Chi and Chen Xiaocai was first spread by the Zheng family.
Although Grandma Shen felt that Mrs. Zheng was too vicious, her grandson was so young, her reputation was bad, and the bad things turned into good ones, and Mrs. Shen didn't want to bother with Mrs. Mrs. Zheng, but she never expected Mrs. Zheng to come and give her eye drops.
There were a lot of guests coming and going, and it was very late that Grandma Shen sent off all the people who came.
Except for the bracelet, Chen Xiaocai put all the engagement gifts in Shen Chi's house.
After sending everyone away, the grandparents and grandchildren will have a chance to organize the engagement ceremony.
"Grandma, look at this."
"What?" Grandma Shen was frightened when she saw what Shen Chi brought out.
"Why, why is this thing?" Grandma Shen held two land deeds, her fingers trembling slightly.
The betrothal gift Chen Xiaomi sent was not out of the ordinary. Many people talked to Grandma Shen, saying that Chen Xiaomi and Lu Lin had earned so much money or sold less. I am afraid they still didn't take his grandson seriously.
Grandma Shen felt that those people just wanted to marry his grandson, so she was sour.
Chen Xiaomi has a lot of money, that is also Chen Xiaomi's own business, Chen Xiaomi has given enough, and most people in the village don't get married that much.
"Grandma, is this a land deed?" Shen Chi said.
Shen A nodded, "It is indeed a land deed." Two land deeds of his own home.
Grandma Shen bought two acres of land from the Lu family for Lu Lin before, and then agreed to exchange her own two acres of land to Lu Lin. However, because Lu Lin had already planted crops in the land, Lu Lin and Grandma Shen He said that he would transfer the crops after harvesting, but now the land deeds for these two acres actually appeared in the box.
Since Chen Xiaomi sent the land deed, the two mu of land deed should also be used as an engagement gift.
Grandma Shen gritted her teeth, he thought those two bracelets were the big deal, but it turned out that the land deed should be the big deal.
These two land deeds are worth at least a dozen or so taels of silver. In comparison, those two silver bracelets seem nothing.
"Where did you find it?" Grandma Shen asked.
"In the box of the bracelet, there is a mezzanine in that box, and the title deed is in there." Shen Chi said.
Grandma Shen said nervously: "What's the matter? Why did you put the land deed there so casually? What if you don't find it? It's not because Chen Xiaomi forgot where he put the land deed."
Shen Chi hesitated for a moment, and said: "Actually, Xiaocai told me."
Grandma Shen glanced at her grandson and said, "Did you say the side dish?"
Shen Chi nodded, and said: "Xiaocai said, this box is custom-made by a special person, it is very expensive, so let me not lose it." Grandma Shen immediately got the idea when she heard it, and Chen Xiaocai must know what is in the box. There is a land deed, so I told my grandson so.
There is a saying that money is not revealed. Grandma Shen thinks that Chen Xiaomi and Lu Lin are doing things properly. It is true to live a good life. It is useless to get so much limelight. It's not interesting for Lu Chengyu to marry a young lady back with great fanfare.
"Okay, grandson, you are blessed." Grandma Shen was in a very cheerful mood. This Chen Xiaomi was worth two acres as soon as he made a move, so he must be very satisfied with his grandson.