Whose farming family has the male protagonist giving three piglets as a gift at the beginning?

In late July, Su Zizhong's marriage was also put on the agenda.

The marriage proposal was made in late June, and the betrothal gift was very generous, ten taels of silver, plus two pieces of cloth, a bag of brown rice, a bag of corn, a bag of buckwheat noodles and half a bag of white flour.

This does not include jewelry and clothes. This betrothal gift is the largest in the area, which shows how much the Su family values ​​this marriage.

On the day of the betrothal, the two families sat together to decide the wedding date, which was set on July 28, a good day for getting married, traveling, cleaning, and moving.

Life is a bit rushed, but if we think about the future, we have to consider the autumn harvest and tax payment. After the autumn harvest, we will start planting the early spring crops, which means we will have even less time.

Moreover, the Su family has so much land and workshops. Taking these into consideration, the Wang family also agreed to get married earlier.

On the night of July 27th, Grandpa Su and Grandma Su had both gone to bed, but they were still not sleepy. Grandma Su sighed, got up and lit the oil lamp.

Mr. Su turned over and asked, "What's wrong? Can't sleep?"

Grandma Su hummed softly, then sighed heavily, "Zi Zhong is getting married in the blink of an eye. Looking back, the day when that evil boy was brought back seems like just yesterday."

Old Master Su looked displeased. He had been sleeping on his side, but now he turned over with a heavy movement and slept on his back.

"Why mention him when the time is right? Just pretend you never raised him!"

"We shouldn't have picked him up back then. It's better for him to freeze to death on the roadside than for him to come back and cause trouble for us. If it weren't for him, our family wouldn't have had such a hard time in those years."

Mr. Su became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and finally he simply sat up and said, "Go to sleep quickly. Why are you thinking about him? It would be best if he died outside and never came back."

After saying that, he lay down again, pulled up the quilt, and turned his body to the side.

Twenty, who had just come back from a stroll outside the door, blinked his eyes. He seemed to have heard something extraordinary.

Then he looked at Su Zizhong who had fainted beside him, pursed his lips, and thought: He acted very quickly, he should not have heard it, right?

He helped the man back into the house, muttering to himself that he should not have gone out with him tonight.

After turning off the lights at night, Su Zizhong tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, thinking about getting married the next day, so Twenty accompanied him for a walk.

I thought I was going out for some training and fell asleep when I was tired, but when I came back I heard the conversation between the old man and Grandma Su.

Su Zizhong's room was inside, and they had to pass Su A'nai's door. As soon as they reached the door, they heard Su A'nai say, "Zizhong is getting married in the blink of an eye. Looking back, the day when that evil boy was brought back seems like just yesterday."

Before Su Zizhong could react, he was hit by twenty-one knife-hand strikes and passed out.

When he helped him back to the house, Twenty was still thinking, if he didn't ask tomorrow, he would pretend it didn't happen, if he asked, he would just say...

The next morning, before daybreak, there was a knock on Su Zizhong's door. He woke up in a daze, touched the back of his neck, got up and changed his clothes as usual.

When leaving, Twenty couldn't help but steal a few glances at him. Su Zizhong looked calm, "Why are you looking at me?"

Twenty shook his head, "You look especially handsome today!"

Hearing his words, Su Zizhong glanced at him speechlessly. Although he didn't say anything, Twenty just felt that he was talking about the word "crazy".

Twenty's mouth twitched. She looked at his back as he left and whispered to Su Ziling beside her, "Girl, do you think he knows or not? Looking at his expression, it doesn't seem like he knows."

Su Ziling didn't say anything. She had just woken up early in the morning and hadn't even opened her eyes when she heard Twenty say that Su Zizhong was not a member of the Su family and that his two little bastards' parents were adopted.

But she was not too surprised. She had suspected this when she first came here. How could a smart grandma and an honest grandpa give birth to such a prodigal son? It turned out that he was rotten to the core. This was not surprising.

Some people are born bad and can never learn no matter how hard you teach them.

So when she heard Twenty's words this morning, she was more surprised than shocked.

As for Su Zizhong, he is used to hiding his emotions, so it's normal that we can't see through him.

"Okay, just pretend you didn't hear anything and get busy." Su Ziling patted his shoulder and started to get busy.

The sky was still gray at this time, but Grandma Su and the others got up and began to prepare. They usually boiled water first and took out the vegetables that would be used, and then the villagers would come to help.

Su's mother was busy in the kitchen, boiling two large pots of water, with a bucket of brown rice and a bucket of white rice soaking in the bucket, and two pots of buckwheat noodles rising on the side.

There were also two pots in the yard, boiling water, which would be used to scald pig and duck feathers later.

Su Ziling was generous and determined to make this marriage a grand occasion. He asked Yang the butcher to help buy a pig. Fearing that there would not be enough food, he bought a fat one, spending nearly four taels of silver.

The pig was brought back a month in advance. After all, the journey was long, and the pig was exhausted and out of breath after walking for a whole day. It had lost a lot of fat, so Grandma Su felt sorry for it and replaced it.

They were afraid that the pig would not be able to grow back by the time Su Zizhong got married, so for the past month, they had been feeding it with sweet potato residue and corn bran. You can’t tell how well the pig was fed.

In one month, not only did the pig gain back the weight it lost, but it also gained a lot of weight. Grandma Su watched the pig change every day and exclaimed that the pig was easy to feed and was willing to eat.

The water here hasn't turned on yet, but people from the Su family have already come one after another, "Second brother, second sister-in-law, is the water turned on? We are here to kill the pig."

It was Su Yongyuan and the others. Su's father invited them to come and help take care of the pigs and ducks.

"Is Yuan here? The water isn't turned on yet. Come in and sit for a while. I guess it will be ready when everyone gets here."

Su's father welcomed the guests into the house. On the table was brewed tea, a plate of melon seeds, a plate of chestnuts, and two plates of snacks. There were rice cakes and steamed cakes made by Su Ziling. They were made last night and could be eaten after steaming this morning.

With a faint aroma of wine, the rice cake is soft and delicate, and sprinkled with some osmanthus flowers. The white and clean pastry looks tempting.

"You guys sit down and rest for a while. We are all brothers, so I won't treat you." Father Su poured them tea and went out to do his work.

Su Yongyuan and the others didn't really sit down. They drank a cup of tea, ate some pastries, then got up and walked around to see if there was anyone who needed help.

As the sky gradually brightened, Liu Guilan and her friends came over with kitchen knives and chopping boards. Seeing that the butchers had almost arrived, they took ropes and started to tie down the pigs.

Others went to their fourth uncle's house to catch ducks. They had agreed to do so half a year in advance and keep the old ducks.

We caught five drakes. They were a bit old, so we had to stew them in advance, otherwise they wouldn't be cooked well.

Liu Guilan, Ji Yunchu, and several daughters-in-law of my third and fourth uncles came to help pick, wash and cut vegetables.

The chef was Su Ziling. She had a lot of preserved purslane from last year, and thinking that the new purslane was already available this year, she soaked the rest and would use it to make braised pork with preserved vegetables later.

Stew the duck in a large pot to make sour radish and duck soup, and then make a pot of bean powder and eat it cold.

Boil a pot of white sliced ​​meat, add some dried radish roots and stew together, then stir-fry some sour wontons with pig blood, which can be used as a dip in the white sliced ​​meat or mixed with rice.

There were a lot of mushrooms at home. The shiitake mushrooms could not be cooked, but the blue-headed mushrooms and buckwheat mushrooms could be cooked. She asked someone to kill two chickens and use them specifically to stew the mushrooms.

I also soaked the vermicelli in a pot, cut a piece of pork belly, stir-fried it until fragrant, and used it to stew the vermicelli.

The last dish is the stir-fried pork. I scooped out some pickled vegetables, chopped them up a little, and stir-fried them with the shredded pork. It tasted sour and spicy and went really well with rice.