Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 494 Ten Miles of Red Makeup

   It's not just the eyeballs that fell out of the pot, Zhu Ping'an's whole body was about to fall into the pot.

   What Zhu Pingan thought of was a little horrifying, that the arrogant and self-willed Li Shu turned out to be the chef of the Li family who had cooked delicious food for him for several years...

   Since when did this girl cook for herself?

Then, Zhu Pingan remembered the clues of the past. When he was borrowing books from the Li family in Shanghe Village, he told about the story of Yitian Tuyu. Li Shu asked someone to send him a plate of snacks. It seemed to be some kind of braised meat. , um, it tastes even darker, so bad that I have no friends. I still remember that I asked Li Shu and the others if the Li family had changed chefs, and then, in an attitude of being responsible for the Li family, I greatly damaged the newly recruited cook at Li Shu's family, and finally came to the conclusion: this cook is right Fan is completely ignorant and has no roots of wisdom. For your safety, it is better to change to another...

  Now, Zhu Pingan understands why Li Shu loses her temper, throws plates, and puts on a bad face for no reason after hearing what she said. It is said that Li Shu didn't mix a bottle of rat medicine for herself at that time, it was all light.

   At that time, it was probably the first time this girl cooked food for herself.

Then more clues surfaced from the bottom of Zhu Pingan's heart. Zhu Pingan remembered that when Li Shu was reading at Li's house, Li Shu once said that she wanted to go out to change clothes and not let the maid follow her. When she came back, Zhu Pingan found that There seemed to be a black spot on the tip of Li Shu's pink and tender nose. At that time, she thought it was because she accidentally dropped an eyebrow pencil on the tip of her nose when she was putting on makeup.

  Thinking about it now, it must be the ash from the girl's cooking that fell on the tip of her nose.

   Then, Zhu Ping'an understood why Li Shu would be so arrogant and stinky when she praised the chef of the Li family.

Then, I remembered that I like to get up early and read books every day. The sky is only five o'clock, the rooster has not yet crowed, and the breakfast carefully prepared by Chef Li's family has arrived; Every time I have eaten breakfast made by Chef Li's family; how early does this girl get up...

  …

  Even if Zhu Ping'an is unresponsive, he can still understand the hidden meaning of a tsundere noble lady putting down her figure to cook for herself...

  However, Li Shu, who had long, small, poor and short legs when she was a child, and became a stinky toad when she grew up, unexpectedly...

   Deep thinking and fear

  This fact is simply like a group of grass mud horses, suddenly appearing unexpectedly, and then roaring and running in Zhu Pingan's mind unreasonably...

When Zhu Pingan fell into a strange state, Xiahe Village had become a sea of ​​excitement, with the continuous sound of firecrackers, the suona blowing through the world, and the singing troupe set up two stages in Xiahe Village, babbling and singing happily, There are huge crowds of people in the village, and the roofs and trees at the end of the village are full of people.

Red lanterns and red couplets were pasted up in the Zhu family’s mansion at the west end of Xiahe Village. Dozens of tables of flowing water banquets were set up on the road outside the house, and ground pots were set up to slaughter pigs and sheep, boil chicken and stew duck, Cutting the fish, picking vegetables and moving the table, the villagers and neighbors all started, and the scene was very lively.

  Many people came from Qili and Eight Villages, and Xiahe Village was crowded.

  What day is it today, Xiahe Village is so lively?

People who are crowded in the front streets and back alleys of Xiahe Village can tell you the answer to this question. Today is the big day when Xiahe Village is also the No. 1 scholar of the Ming Dynasty—Zhu Pingan and the rich man Li’s family in Shanghe Village get married. No one will miss it. This is lively.

  Everyone knows that Zhu Ping'an is the No. 1 scholar in Ming Dynasty, and everyone knows how rich the family of Mr. Li in Shanghe Village is. Everyone has also heard how handsome Miss Li is, how good the family is, how virtuous, and how filial.

   On an island thousands of miles away, the wedding that Li Shu was worried about without a bride and groom, unexpectedly took place in Shanghe Village on time!

  As early as early in the morning, Xiahe Village was already busy.

  People from Qili and Eight Villages occupied their places early, eating peanuts, melon seeds and candies generously distributed by the Zhu family, and joining in the fun with relish. People who didn't occupy a good place also showed their creativity, climbing a tree and sitting on a branch, climbing a wall to build a room, and turning into Spider-Man one by one, almost going to heaven. Holding the stolen money and candy, the crazy bear child ran through the crowd screaming like a runaway colt. His mother chased after him, shouting worriedly and angrily, "Slow down, slow down, Don't fall".

   "Come, come, the bridegroom is back."

  The crowd in front suddenly exploded like cold water dripping into a frying pan. For a while, people stretched their necks and looked forward.

   Then there was a uniform sound of dejection, which was so shocking.

The scene in front of them is simply beyond their imagination. Generally, the dowry given by the daughter’s family is the woman’s private house, but the water poured out by the married girl is also just for the sake of the dowry. It means, give more to those who feel sorry for the girl, so that the woman can have confidence in her husband's family. Sixty-four dowry for women is an integer, which is called full dowry, and if it is less than this number, thirty-two dowry will be accompanied, which is called half dowry. Of course, this is the case for big families, and basically not for small families, because they can't make up. As far as Xiahe Village is concerned, the dowry is only seven or eight lifts, at most a dozen lifts, and it will be exhausted.

  But the scene in front of them really almost made their eyes pop out, and they almost doubted their own eyes.

  The dowry of Li Shu's family simply suffocated them.

  Ten miles of red makeup.

It’s really ten miles of red makeup. There are one hundred and twenty-eight dowries in front of them. People in neat red clothes carry the dowry, extending from Shanghe Village to Xiahe Village. I heard that the tail of the team is placed in Shanghe Village and then onwards. of a village.

The dowry bearers who make people gasp the most, deliberately open the dowry boxes and cabinets to carry them. This is also to show off the dowry of the woman’s family to people. See, our dowry is all real. There is no falsification at all, there is quantity and quality.

The dowry box lifted at the front was open, and inside it was not gold, silver, pearls, jade, or precious stones, but bricks, each of which was very thick and large, and the patterns of maps were engraved on the bricks, and people counted them. , a total of twenty such adobe bricks.

   Just this lift made people's eyes pop out.

These adobe bricks are not ordinary adobe bricks. These adobe bricks represent the land. This is a custom in the dowry of the Ming Dynasty. There is a land deed under each adobe brick. The size of the brick corresponds to the size of the land. This is the dowry of the Li family. Earth bricks, I am afraid that each brick represents ten hectares of fertile land, and twenty yuan means two hundred hectares of fertile land. In the Ming Dynasty, 50 mu is converted into one hectare. This dowry is 10,000 mu of fertile land.

  According to the convention, "the famous land of a family is limited to a thousand mu." If a family can own a thousand mu of land, it is already an amazing "shijia". But once the Li family reaches out, it will be a dowry of tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

   Not to mention that there are more than a hundred dowry in the back.

  This old Li’s family is marrying a daughter, it’s like marrying a princess, even a princess doesn’t have such a dowry.

  I heard that Lao Li's family is not simple, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful.

  Actually, the people carrying the dowry in the Li family listened to the words of the people on both sides of the road with disdain, one brick ten hectares? It's a hundred hectares!

  (end of this chapter)