Lucky husband

Although the dowry was not prepared much, the Li family's attitude was very correct, which obviously meant that they attached great importance to this marriage. Therefore, after Li Chengzhi and his wife arrived in Zhoucheng, the Qu family not only did not embarrass them, but also warmly received them, at least proposing marriage In the past few days, the two families have been getting along quite happily.

After the engagement was completed, Li Chengzhi solemnly handed over 300 taels of silver to his second son: "Mingli, both parents know that the dowry of 30 taels of silver has wronged Ms. Qu, and you also know the situation at home, we can't take out more , instead of swollen face to make you fat, I'd rather give you the money to buy you a house in Zhoucheng."

"Here is 300 taels of silver ticket. It should be enough to buy a smaller one in Zhoucheng. Once you enter the small courtyard, you can take the money and find the house to look at the house. Buy one before the end of next year, so that you and Miss Qu can get married." Afterwards, if you have a house to live in, others will not say that you rely on your wife's family for food."

Li Mingli looked at the three 100 taels of silver notes in his hand in surprise: "Father, mother, you can't give me all the money in the family. You need money for business, and elder brother also needs money for studying and rushing for the exam. Besides, elder brother will get married before me next year." , on his side..."

Li Chengzhi interrupted him and said: "You don't have to worry about your family and your elder brother's affairs. Parents still have some money. We also plan to give 300 taels to your elder brother. We just don't know whether he will go to Fucheng or continue after he finishes the exam. If you stay in our county, you can live in our house if you stay in the county, and you can’t buy a small courtyard in Fucheng for 300 taels, so he can rent a house with his wife like the Jiang family boy.”

Before the separation, the bowl of water was equal, and the two sons had the same amount of money for dowry, marriage and subsidies. After the separation, the couple will live with the eldest son, and they must be partial to the eldest son, but That's for later, it's still very early.

Squeezing the banknote in his hand, Li Mingli was very moved. He is the second son, but his parents have always treated him the same as his eldest brother. After he gets married, he has to persuade his wife to treat his parents well.

In September, Li Mingli made an engagement, and in October, news of Li Mingxia's engagement also came. The person who was engaged to Li Mingxia surprised everyone, and it turned out to be Zheng Shan, the son of Zheng Orion in the village.

In the eyes of the villagers, Zheng Liehu's family is not easy to mess with, because Zheng Liehu and his son Zheng Shan are tall and strong, and they often go hunting in the mountains. The father and son have many wounds on their bodies. Seeing the two of them coming down the mountain with blood on their bodies, the villagers would subconsciously hide away, a little afraid of them.

Of course, this family does not have much sense of presence in the village, mainly because their family will not come outside at other times except for necessary life.

Moreover, Zheng's family is small, perhaps because too much hunting will smell blood on his body, and their family's offspring are not abundant. Zheng Orion has no brothers and sisters, and so does Zheng Shan. His mother gave birth to a child of him.

Zheng Shan is a complete member of the Zheng family. He is tall and strong. In summer, his bulging muscles can easily fill thin summer shirts. He is not the same type as the slender Li Mingxia at first glance.

To be honest, with the conditions of the Li family, no one would have thought that these two people would have a relationship, probably like the second miss of the Qu family and Li Mingli.

In fact, Li Mingxia and Zheng Shan have known each other for many years. At first, it was because Li Chengzhi wanted to buy Zheng's hunting dog to guard the home.

The two hounds raised by Orion Zheng are fierce and obedient. After the two hounds gave birth to puppies, Li Chengzhi couldn't wait to take them to Li's house, but Li Chengzhi and his wife were busy with business. Old lady He Li didn't like dogs, Li Mingyue was still young at that time, Li Mingxia happily took over the feeding of the two puppies after seeing the two puppies.

He had never raised a dog before, so Li Mingxia ran to Zheng Orhu's house alone when he encountered something he was not sure about, and asked Zheng Shan how to raise a dog.

Later, the second room of Li's family built a new yard, Li Chengli also went to Zheng's house to pick up the two puppies at Li Mingxia's suggestion, and they still handed them over to Li Mingxia to keep them.

Li Mingxia and Zheng Shan became friends because of raising dogs. Maybe it was Li Chengli's cowardice towards Qian Xinghua when she was a child that made Li Mingxia want to find a man who made her feel safe as a husband. He gradually grew up, grew taller and stronger Zheng Shan came into her sight, she felt that Zheng Shan was very masculine, every time she saw Zheng Shan coming down from the back mountain carrying prey, she couldn't help feeling admiration for him while being terrified.

So when Mrs. Li found her and said that she would start dating her, Li Mingxia directly said that she fell in love with Zheng Shan.

Mrs. Li has never had any prejudice against Zheng Orion's family. When the drought happened that year, if Zheng Orion and his hounds hadn't warned, the wolves and the wild boars descended from the mountain. I don't know what would happen to the village.

The only thing that worries Mrs. Li is that the Zheng family relies on hunting for a living. Compared with farming and hunting, although the income is higher, it is also more dangerous. With a whole body of injuries.

Li Mingxia is not so worried about this, because she has already decided to marry Zheng Shan, so she is unwilling to think about the danger behind it, or if there is danger, she will talk about it later, it is impossible for Zheng Shan to stop hunting in order to marry her Instead of farming, it's better to tell Zheng's family slowly after she is married.

Mrs. Li was quick to do things. She saw that Li Mingxia had made up her mind and was a man of success. After asking Li Chengli and she had no objection, she went to Zheng Orhu's house in person.

In fact, Zheng Shan is also interested in Li Mingxia. Others in the village want to hide away when they see their father and son carrying their prey. Only Li Mingxia looks at him with shining eyes.

Therefore, Zheng Shan would often make a special trip down the mountain from Li's house after hunting, just to take a look at Li Mingxia, and let Li Mingxia see his abilities by the way.

When Zheng Liehu and his husband received the old lady Li, their mentality was the same as that of Li Chengzhi and Bai Xiuhe back then. There was a feeling of being hit by a surprise. They were all thinking that if their son was 20 years old, if there was no daughter-in-law. If they are willing to marry in, they will use all their family savings as dowry gifts and ask a matchmaker to help match the match.

Unexpectedly, his son settled his marriage without making a sound. Zheng Orion took Zheng Shan into the mountains to kill a wild boar as a dowry gift, and went to Li's house to propose marriage.

The elders of both parties agreed that Zheng Shan and Li Mingxia's engagement went very smoothly, and the date of their marriage has not yet been decided, because Li's family thinks that Li Mingxia is still young, and they can wait another year or two.

Li Mingxia has been living a secluded life since she got engaged. Every day, she spends less than half of her time making her own wedding dress, dowry quilt and other items that will be used when she gets married. The rest of the time is buying clothes for her family as usual. She followed Jiang Zhiyun to do embroidery work, and then she took the time to make a thin black padded jacket for Zheng Shan in winter.

Both Zheng Shan and Zheng Orion are in good health. The father and son don't need to wear particularly thick padded jackets in winter, as long as a thin layer with some cotton is enough to keep them warm.

Compared with the ups and downs of Li Mingchun and Li Mingde's marriage, both Li Mingli and Li Mingxia went very smoothly. During their engagement period, Li Mingjin didn't have a single dream, and he was still not used to it.

After Li Mingxia got engaged, Li Mingjin suddenly had a bad feeling. The fourth sister was only less than a year older than him. Could he be the next person in the family to be engaged?

Li Mingjin silently thought about his cousin's resistance to seeing each other and getting married, and couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

Li Mingjin's premonition was correct. It has been almost two years since their family moved to the county seat. In the past two years, Jiang Zhiyun has not given up. She has been secretly checking who is suitable for her family's brother Jin, but unfortunately, she has not found one that is particularly suitable for her.

Seeing that brother Nian Jin is going to be sixteen, if she doesn't meet again, she will be thinking whether her vision is too high, or she will lower her standards.

November and December were fleeting, and the county government had its annual vacation at the end of December as usual. Li Chengshi and Jiang Zhiyun returned to Shanghe Village from the county seat with packed New Year gifts.

After returning to Li's house and putting away her things, Li Mingjin happily went to chat with Li Qiusheng. After Jiang Zhiyun helped her mother-in-law with the work at hand, she saw that there was nothing to do, so she couldn't help but carried the small basket Went to the Bai family next door.

Although Jiang Zhiyun's time in the village has been reduced a lot in the past two years, the relationship between her and Bai Yaoshi has improved, almost reaching the level of talking about everything. She went to Bai Yaoshi to ask Does the other party have any suggestions on Brother Jin's marriage?

It is more difficult for brothers to meet and get married than ordinary women. Jiang Zhiyun wonders if she is always picky, and if she is delaying brother Jin.

However, Jiang Zhiyun felt that her brother Jin was well-behaved and sensible, and just because he was a brother and not a woman, she was careless and perfunctory in the marriage, and she couldn't convince herself.

When she arrived at Bai's house, Jiang Zhiyun looked at Bai Yao who was embroidering something, and walked in with a smile: "Sister Lanyue, why don't you burn a charcoal stove when you do needlework?"

Embroidery usually takes a lot of eyes, and it takes a lot of hands in winter. You have to hold a thin needle and thread to pierce the fabric. You can’t carry other things on your hands, otherwise it will easily affect the accuracy of the needle, and the embroidered things can’t be seen. .

And if the hands are too cold to freeze, it’s even worse, and the needles are also inaccurate. In case of frostbite, the hand will be hurt even more, so when they want to embroider in winter, they will put a hand-warming charcoal stove next to the embroidery frame. .

Bai Yao pulled Jiang Zhiyun to sit down, and touched Jiang Zhiyun's hand with her own, making Jiang Zhiyun feel that her hand was indeed warm: "I just came out of the stove and it was very hot, and I will feel a little hot later. When it’s cold, turn on the charcoal stove, I’ve already ignited the charcoal.”

Jiang Zhiyun nodded in understanding and didn't say anything. She put her little basket aside and followed Bai Xiuhe to look at the spring shirt she was making.

The two discussed this spring shirt together, and when Bai Xiuhe felt the temperature on her body began to drop, she went to her kitchen and put the charcoal that had already burned into the charcoal stove and carried it over, before continuing to do embroidery.

Bai Yaoshi noticed Jiang Zhiyun's frown when she entered the door, and after a while, she took the initiative to ask Jiang Zhiyun if there was anything wrong with her recently.

Bai Yao is concerned about the affairs of the Li family. In autumn and winter, two children of the Li family were engaged. Bai Yao guessed that what Jiang Zhiyun was worried about at this time had something to do with Li Mingjin's marriage. After all, the next one in the Li family should be engaged. The person is Brother Jin.

Jiang Zhiyun was thinking about what to say, when Bai Yao asked her, she stopped thinking about it, expressed all her worries, and finally concluded: "I originally planned to let Brother Jin get engaged before the age of 16, and keep him Marriage at the age of 17, now it seems that whether you can get married at the age of 17 is a problem."

After talking about her brother Jin, Jiang Zhiyun thought that the Bai family also had a younger brother, who was three years younger than her brother Jin, and it would be Yi's turn to be engaged in a short time. I don't know what Bai Yao's plan was.

Looking at Bai Yaoshi who seemed not in a hurry all the time, he wondered if there was someone in his heart who would choose him, maybe he had already agreed with others, and he would come to propose marriage when the other party reached the age.

Just when she was about to ask about Brother Yi, Jiang Zhiyun suddenly thought of Bai Zhiwen of the Bai family, who is 17 years old this year, and why is she not engaged? Does it mean that Bai Zhiwen has a baby relative in Zhoucheng, and we will wait until he reaches his age Or can you get married if you pass the exam?

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