Four Foods in the Mountains

I wrapped a piece of caramel and a few eggs in red paper, which is the gift that people in the village will take when they go to someone's house for a wedding.

After locking the courtyard door, Cen Ning went to the front to find Yao Chunling.

Yao Chunling also specially dressed up today, wearing bright clothes, a silver hairpin on her head, two silk flowers in her bun, and a pair of small earrings.

When she saw Cen Ning, she couldn't help but said, "You're still a little more sober, it's not that you have to dress up, but you're afraid that your aunt will gossip behind your back."

As he spoke, he reached out to touch the silk flower on his head, intending to take it off for Cen Ning to wear.

Seeing this, Cen Ning quickly pulled up his sleeves, revealing his wrists: "Sister-in-law, I'm wearing them."

Seeing the pair of silver bracelets on Cen Ning's wrist, Yao Chunling was relieved, held Cen Ning's wrist for a closer look, and boasted: "This bracelet is really heavy, and the pattern is also new. Your skin is white and your wrist is It's thin and looks good on you! Why haven't you taken it out to wear it on weekdays?"

Cen Ning pulled down his sleeves and covered the bracelet, saying: "The things in the dowry box have been kept in it all the time and I didn't even think about taking them out, and it's inconvenient to wear them when I work on weekdays."

Yao Chunling nodded: "That's right, my hairpin and earrings were also bought by my aunt at the silver shop before she got married, and she only wore them twice when she called. I was afraid that they would be messed up when I went to work in the mountains and fields on weekdays." lost."

As he spoke, he shook his head again, and asked Cen Ning, "Does it look good?"

She usually took care of the house and rarely showed the coquettishness of a young woman, but now she was putting on lip balm and shaking the hairpin on her head towards Cen Ning, showing a bit of the coquettishness of a boudoir girl.

"It's beautiful!" Cen Ning said with a smile while narrowing his eyes.

The two walked to Sister Ru's house, laughing and laughing along the way.

Walking to the entrance of the village, I saw from a distance that Sister Ru's house was hung with red cloth and double blessings, which was lively and festive.

Sister Ru and her mother were standing in the yard entertaining guests, their eyes lit up when they saw Yao Chunling and Cen Ning coming, and they rushed up to greet them: "Hurry up, go to the new house, we are waiting for you!"

There were two other women standing in the new house, one was sister Ru's mother's natal family, and the other was the eldest daughter-in-law of the village chief's family, Da Huzi's mother Zhu's family, both of them were dressed beautifully.

Zhu's hair is even more a thin golden hairpin. She helps the village head's wife in housekeeping at home and has given birth to several dolls. Everyone praises her as a blessing. Anyone in the village who wants to buy a house will invite her to come over. .

Following the process of pressing the room, the four of them spread out the red bedding and smoothed it out, and sprinkled dried fruits such as longan and red dates on it.

Mrs. Zhu looked at the quilt on the quilt and asked Cen Ning: "Brother Ning, I heard from my aunt that she asked you to embroider this quilt. It's really good!"

The woman next to her also agreed.

Mrs. Zhu said again: "When my son Ping gets married, I have to ask you to help me embroider two quilts. I can talk to you first."

The marriage between Lu Yunchuan and Cen Ning was done by the village chief's wife, and the village chief himself valued the Lu brothers, so Mrs. Zhu was willing to get close to Cen Ning and Yao Chunling.

The four of them smiled and finished decorating the new house. Sister Ru entered the house and said, "Aunts, my aunt called you to my house to have tea. Many aunts and aunts are here."

There are a group of old men sitting in the main room, and the daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law are arranged in sister Ru's room.

Sister Ru's house was built spaciously, and there was a lot of space in the house, and there were many people sitting in it at the moment.

Four people went in, a woman sitting on the kang made room for Mrs. Zhu, and the other three moved a bench to sit on.

As soon as Cen Ning sat down, a sharp and mean voice sounded: "Hey, you are dressed like this when you come to help someone hold a room? You look so poor."

Cen Ning was startled, looked up, and met Wang Fengyu's gaze.

Sister Ru frowned after hearing this: "Auntie, what are you talking about, Aunt Ning was invited by my aunt."

Wang Fengyu sneered: "Sister Ru, I think your mother is confused, if you can't invite anyone, just tell me, I can help her find it, why does everyone come to the house on such an important day?" Please!"

The people in the room who were joking and joking stopped after hearing this, and turned to look at Cen Ning and Wang Fengyu, the room was silent for a moment.

Wang Fengyu's words just now were extremely harsh. On the surface, he wanted to run on Cen Ning in front of so many people, but he was actually trying to demote Lu Yunchuan in a different way. After all, Lu Yunchuan was the man of the family and the head of the family.

Yao Chunling was furious when she heard it, and when she was about to stand up, Cen Ning held her down with his hands, and his sleeves were rolled up during the movement, revealing a silver light.

"Oh, what a bright silver bracelet!" Shouted Mrs. Zhu who was sitting on the kang.

Everyone followed her gaze, and they saw a pair of silver bracelets on Cen Ning's wrists, which were as thick as a thumb.

"Ning Geer, this pair of bracelets must be solid, it looks really weighty."

"The style is also good-looking. The silver in the shops in the town is expensive now! I wanted to give my daughter a hairpin, but I was not willing."

The aunts exchanged winks, and what you said to me, coupled with Yao Chunling's response, made Wang Fengyu's face turn pale.

Cen Ning looked at Wang Fengyu. Not only was he not annoyed, but his tone was normal: "I'm not afraid of jokes from you aunts. Our family is indeed not a wealthy family. This pair of bracelets is also my aunt's dowry. But let's just pretend that I don't have this bracelet. I tidied up today, and even changed my clothes specially to come to Sister Ru’s house to ask for a wedding wine, why do I look poor in my aunt’s eyes?"

After Cen Ning finished speaking, the faces of the girls and aunts in the room also changed.

That's right, don't you have one or two pieces of jewelry on your body, so you are poor?

Everyone is a farmer, and they all plan their food in the soil. Who is Wang Fengyu looking down on by saying this?Not everyone here can afford the pair of bracelets in Cen Ning's hands.

Sure enough, after a long silence, an aunt in the corner of the room said coldly: "Aunt Fengyu, you are not poor, you are not poor, why were you arguing with Sister Liu about that copper coin for a long time when you bought tofu yesterday? It's not that the money collected from people's search is used to make jewelry, but it smells bad on the outside."

"You...he..." Wang Fengyu clutched his chest, pointed at Cen Ning and the aunt back and forth with shaking hands, and was speechless for a moment.

She thought it was easy for Cen Ning to be quiet when he was young, but who knew that like Yao Chunling, he was also sharp-tongued!

The atmosphere in the room froze suddenly, it was still Ru sister who was clever, went out to hold melons and fruits: "Come on, aunts and aunts come to eat some fruits and knead some melon seeds, my brother is getting married today, I don't want to listen to these sour words. "

"You—" Wang Fengyu was about to explode, and Sister Ru grabbed a dried apricot and stuffed it into her hand: "Auntie, eat more!"

Wang Fengyu was so angry that she had to bear it because of the bad situation. She took a piece of dried apricot and put it in her mouth. After chewing it a few times, she couldn't help but spit it out: "It's so sour!"

There was a low chuckle in the house.

Yao Chunling was always happy when she saw Wang Fengyu slumped, but now she couldn't contain her joy and elation, as if she was the one who was going to get married today, and she felt refreshed all over her body.

Seeing that she was so beaming, Cen Ning handed her a cup of tea, asking her to cover the corners of her mouth that reached to her ears.

Yao Chunling happily took it, and put it in her mouth without thinking about it, but she opened her eyes wide at the thought that the tea was still hot, and swallowed it because of face.

Fortunately, the tea didn't boil very much, and there was no burn.

The banquet at Sister Ru’s house is very carefully arranged. Although there are only three meat dishes in the ten bowls, they are sufficient. The fried kidney and braised chicken are all fried with oil and aniseed ingredients, not to mention the bowl of sauced rabbit meat. , The fragrance is so delicious that people turn somersaults.

The staple food is not only a basket of corn buns, but also a bowl of white noodles with dried vegetables and pork skin sauce on each table.

For a while, the only sound in the yard was the overwhelming sound of sucking noodles, which was a loud noise.

The table where Cen Ning and Yao Chunling were sitting was mostly children, and the children had to compete for food to be delicious. Yao Chunling and Cen Ning did not compete with the children. Fill your belly.

Only there was a plate of dry fried small balls on the table. Cen Ning picked up one and thought it tasted good, so he tasted two more.

He chewed it carefully, and tasted that it was probably a ball made of yam flour. He thought that he had yam flour at home, so he could cut a piece of fresh meat back someday, chop the meat into fine pieces, and mix it with yam flour. Let Lu Yunchuan have a taste of deep-fried mountain flour meatballs, he loves these deep-fried foods that are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

On the way home after eating the wedding wine, although her stomach was still empty and her tongue was a little numb from the burn, Yao Chunling's good mood was not delayed at all.

"I asked that old lady to find fault with us today, she deserves to lose face in public! What a pleasure!" After finishing speaking, he looked at Cen Ning: "Ning'er, it's been a long time since you've been married, and this is the first time I've heard you being mean. It's a pleasure!" Extremely!"

"That's right." Cen Ning also followed Yao Chunling's smile, although he didn't show it on his face just now, but he was as happy as Yao Chunling in his heart.

For Wang Fengyu's words to mock her, Cen Ning didn't care at all, she had done nothing wrong, she was free to say what Wang Fengyu wanted to say, why bother to talk to her.

But Cen Ning couldn't bear the fact that Wang Fengyu belittled Lu Yunchuan in front of everyone by mocking him.

Lu Yunchuan suffered so much because of Wang Fengyu since he was a child, and whenever he thinks about it, Cen Ning feels uncomfortable.

However, Wang Fengyu didn't know how to repent, so she separated her family and wanted to tarnish Lu Yunchuan's reputation in front of everyone.

Cen Ning has a soft temper, but how could anyone lose his temper?

It would be ignorant to say that my husband-in-law is not right in front of my face, Cen Ning thought silently in his heart.

Before going out for the wedding, Yao Chunling sent Brother Zhi to Aunt Qian's house and asked Brother Zhu to take it with her.

Brother Zhu was embroidering wedding dresses at home every day, and Aunt Qian was afraid that he would go out for a wedding and spoil his mind, so she didn't let him go today.

In the yard of Aunt Qian's house, Brother Zhu was playing hide and seek with Brother Zhi and his nephew. An adult and two children were having so much fun, Brother Zhi's face turned red.

Brother Zhu's sister-in-law, Li Shi, was sitting by the side, feeding the two children a few sips of water from time to time, taking care of them very meticulously.

Yao Chunling entered the courtyard to say hello and hugged Brother Zhi, and Cen Ning also stepped forward to say hello to Li Shi.

Because of the chestnut cake incident last time, Mrs. Li was a little embarrassed seeing Cen Ning, but seeing Cen Ning being generous, she nodded with a smile.

"Thank you so much for today." Yao Chunling hugged Brother Zhi and said.

Mrs. Li took Brother Zhi's hand and said, "Otherwise, let Brother Zhi play with Boy Sen for a while. In the past, you didn't often bring Brother Zhi out to play. Today I took Brother Zhi for half a day. He really It's cute, I can't bear it."

This is a polite saying among adults, Yao Chunling has heard it a lot, and because her brother Zhi is really well-behaved, Yao Chunling smiled and said: "Then I will bring him to play with your son Sen some other day."

"That's a good thing!" Mrs. Li still held Brother Zhi's hand, and said with a smile, "I saw Brother Zhi playing with Boy Sen for half a day today, and they had a great time. Three, hold the gold brick. I thought, Brother Zhi is three years older than our Mori boy?"