Lucky husband

In a corner behind Li's courtyard, the unmarried young couple opened up their hearts for the first time to express their thoughts and get to know each other better.

Bai Chen strengthened his determination to go out to be an apprentice. Li Mingchun was very satisfied with Bai Chen and was full of expectations for her marriage with Bai Chen.

After a while, Li Mingxia watched the second sister with empty hands and flushed cheeks come out from behind, secretly smiled, and dragged her back to the house.

After a while, Bai Chen walked out from the position just now and trotted all the way home.

The next day, Bai Chen followed Village Chief Bai and left Shanghe Village as he said, and went to work as an apprentice at a carpenter's house in the natal village of Village Chief Bai's wife.

There is no salary for being an apprentice, because of Village Chief Bai, the carpenter is quite satisfied with Bai Chen and is willing to teach Bai Chen the carpentry work, but he wants Bai Chen to agree to continue working with him for three years after learning the carpentry skills.

Bai Chen is already 15 years old at the moment. It will take him two or three years to learn a craft, and then he will work with his master for free for three years. By the time he is able to become a teacher, he will be in his twenties.

Without further ado, Bai Chen agreed to the request on his own initiative, and the apprenticeship ceremony will be done on the same day.

Coincidentally, as soon as Bai Chen started his apprenticeship, his master took an order to make a complete set of furniture for a family who is about to marry a wife. The time was tight and he asked to finish it within a month.

At this time, if there is ready-made wood, it will be done very quickly, but the carpenter's wood has just run out, so he has to go up the mountain to find wood immediately.

In addition to looking for wood, you have to cut the wood into a suitable size, smoke the insects, dry it, and then make the planks and sticks into furniture. One month is a bit short, so hurry up and finally make it in one month. Finish these tasks within.

Bai Chen was older, he did more work than the eleven or twelve-year-old apprentice, he was very serious in his work, and could bear hardships. After finishing this order, the carpenter thought that Bai Chen was a good apprentice, and rewarded him with five copper coins.

After working for a month, the carpenter wanted to rest for a few days. He looked at Bai Chen who seemed to have lost weight, and agreed to let Bai Chen go home.

Bai Chen returned to Shanghe Village with the hard-earned five cents. He didn't go home directly, but ran outside the right side of Li's house, and repeated the same trick, smashing the windows of Li's sisters with mud.

At this time, Li Mingchun and Li Mingxia were doing embroidery work with Jiang Zhiyun at Li's house. They were not at home, Bai Chen threw seven or eight pieces of mud and did not see the Li family sisters, but attracted Qian Xinghua from another house.

Now it's the slack season, because their second room doesn't have pigs, and Qian Xinghua's daily tasks are cooking, washing clothes, feeding chickens, etc., and her life is quite leisurely, so she usually sleeps for nearly an hour at noon.

Today, she was sleeping comfortably and was suddenly woken up. Qian Xinghua was full of fire, looked at the lumps of mud in the yard, and yelled angrily: "Who! What kind of bastard, poor kid, it's okay to eat enough. Do it, throw mud into my old lady's yard, let me catch you, and see if I don't send you a bastard to your adults and talk about it!"

Throwing mud is usually done by children who have nothing to do. At the moment, they can't see anyone. Qian Xinghua has no other choice but to scold and pick up the broom to clean up. Let them all be scolded.

Because of the anger in her heart, Qian Xinghua cursed louder and louder. The Li family sisters in the left room next door heard the movement, and Li Mingchun's first reaction was Bai Chen.

Immediately, Li Mingchun's face turned red, but after hearing her mother's words, her face turned completely pale again. If it was really Bai Chen who did it, wouldn't he have listened to all her mother's curses?

Indeed, Bai Chen was a little embarrassed at the moment, but luckily he hid when he heard the movement just now, otherwise it would be even worse if he was caught by Qian Xinghua.

Qian Xinghua kept cursing, and after Li Mingchun pricked her fingers twice, Li Mingxia sighed, pulled her sister up, and found an excuse to go home and have a look.

No one was scolded around his house, Li Mingchun heaved a sigh of relief, Li Mingxia also heaved a sigh of relief, and planned to go back to the house to get the fabric.

"Aren't you two girls learning embroidery at this time? What are you doing when you come back? It's fun to watch my mother clean up the mud?" Qian Xinghua was furious, seeing the two sisters coming from next door, she really wanted to scold them. .

But with Mrs. Li pressing on her head, she didn't dare to really scold these two debt collectors, so she just stared at them and said a few words to settle the matter.

Li Mingxia watched her mother go into the house, rolled her eyes, and asked her sister to go back to the house to get the fabric, and she went nearby to see if her future second brother-in-law was there.

Bai Chen didn't leave all this time. First, because Qian Xinghua kept scolding with his waist stuck in the yard. If he went out at this time and was seen by his future mother-in-law, it would be a bit embarrassing. Second, he still wanted to see Li Mingchun when he came back. .

Li Mingxia ran to the hidden corner behind Li's courtyard, and she saw Bai Chen hiding there, she nodded to Bai Chen, and then ran back in a hurry, letting Li Mingchun pass by.

As soon as we met, Bai Chen put the already warmed five copper coins in Li Mingchun's palm: "I made a set of furniture with the master this month. These five coins are my reward from the master. You will keep them next spring." , I will give you all the money I earn in the future, and I said that I will let you live a good life with me."

Li Mingchun stared at the five cents in her palm with wide eyes, felt the temperature on it, and was a little at a loss: "This, this money..."

The two of them are not married yet, so how can she accept his money? Even if he doesn't want to take the money home, he can keep it for himself.

"The five pennies are a little less. This is because I am an apprentice. If my master rewards me with silver in the future, I will still give it to you. We are married, and you are my unmarried daughter-in-law. You help me manage the money, I don’t worry.”

After finishing speaking, Bai Chen stepped forward to hold Li Mingchun's hand, and grinned at her, "Mingchun, we have been engaged until now, but I haven't been able to give you any presents. I will make you a more decent one before I come back next time." Gift,"

Li Mingchun gave him a beautiful purse, Bai Chen had been thinking about giving her something back, this time he came back in a hurry and only brought five Wen, he planned to go back to his master and start making a beautiful wooden hairpin for Li Mingchun.

Li Mingchun's attention changed from the five cents in her palm to Bai Chen's hot palm. After listening to Bai Chen's heartfelt words, she plucked up the courage to shake Bai Chen's hand back, and nodded shyly: "Okay, I will help you collect the money well."

"Ah."

This time, Bai Chen didn't reach out to hug Li Mingchun, he just rushed back, covered in sweat, he was worried that he would smell Li Mingchun, and he would despise him in the future.

The two hid behind and chatted for a while, Li Mingchun left first just like last time.

Because she had five Wen coins on her body, Li Mingchun didn't go directly to the left side of Li's house, so she asked Li Mingxia to wait for her at the door, and she went back to the house and hid the five Wen coins at the foot of her bed.

At the door, Li Mingxia thought that it was not easy for her second sister and her future second brother-in-law to meet once or twice, and she still had to worry about it, so she decided that she must find someone with a simple family and nothing wrong with her in the future when she gets engaged.

The annoying daughter came and went in and out of the house, Qian Xinghua was a little impatient in the hot weather, she walked over and planned to scold them in a low voice.

At this time, it was the first time for Li Mingchun to do something like hide money, and she was very nervous. Just as she put the money away, she heard her mother's voice, and her hands trembled in fright.

Qian Xinghua didn't see Li Mingchun hiding the money, but seeing Li Mingchun's frightened appearance, she became suspicious: "What are you still doing at home, because you want to learn how to embroider and don't do anything. , I really think that I am the eldest lady!"

"You two dead girls, if you hadn't been protected by your father and grandmother, my mother would have sold you two money-losing goods."

"If you're engaged, you should get married. What do you do at your mother's house and eat my food for nothing? I really don't know what's going on in your father's mind."

Qian Xinghua's voice was kept low, Li Mingchun was nervous, except for the first sentence, she couldn't hear the rest clearly.

Seeing that Li Mingchun was still standing at the foot of the bed, Li Mingchun gave her a disgusted look: "What are you doing standing here, don't you want to embroider? Hurry over."

Qian Xinghua thought about it, since the embroidery of the two girls can be sold for money, then their dowry will be paid out of the money they earn, and it is reasonable to keep the money at home for her bright talent to study.

Li Mingchun glanced nervously at the place where she hid the money, and under Qian Xinghua's gaze, walked out of the room with stiff steps, and walked to the courtyard of Li's house with Li Mingxia.

After Li Mingchun left, Qian Xinghua had no intention of continuing to sleep. She planned to move a stool to sit under the eaves and rest for a while. Seeing the weather, Ming would be back in a while, and she was about to start cooking dinner.

Just when Qian Xinghua was about to turn around and go to her room to get a stool, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a person quietly running past.

"Huh..." Qian Xinghua blinked, walked out of the house, built a shade with her hands in front of her forehead, squinted her eyes and stared at the back carefully, "Why do you look more and more like that kid from the Bai family?" .”

Qian Xinghua frowned, didn't she mean that Bai Chen had gone out to be an apprentice? Why did he appear in the village at this time, and was still near their house.

Shaking her head, Qian Xinghua returned to the house, always feeling weird.

Moved a stool out and put it under the eaves, sat down and drank a few sips of water, Qian Xinghua was still wondering if the back figure she saw just now was Bai Chen.

Thinking about it, Li Mingchun's abnormal behavior today flashed through Qian Xinghua's mind. She slapped her thigh and suddenly understood.

"This dead girl!" Standing up quickly, Qian Xinghua walked to Li Mingchun and Li Mingxia's room, stood where Li Mingchun was standing just now, looked at the messy quilt, and directly lifted it.

To Qian Xinghua's disappointment, there was nothing under the sheet.

After thinking for a while, Qian Xinghua squatted down and reached out to grope under the bed. As expected, she found a small bag at the foot of the bed. When she opened it, she found that it contained five cents!

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