Perhaps it was her first time being so close to her teenage sister, Su Xueyan was a little curious, looking left and right. However, she was not familiar with Tian Xing'er and Liu'er, so when they noticed her gaze, the little girl quickly lowered her head to pick mushrooms.
He even fiddled with the flowers and plants at hand, just to avoid making eye contact with the two of them.
It just so happens that Tian Xing'er and Liu'er are both the type who are extroverted and a bit mischievous.
They originally liked Su Xueyan's cute and fair appearance like a little snowball. Feeling the other party's evasive gaze, they wanted to tease her instead. The two of them took turns to "suddenly attack" the little girl, scaring her like a frightened kitten, and she wanted to curl herself into a ball.
Seeing this, Su Qingluan suppressed her laughter: It turns out that everyone likes to tease the little cutie.
Later, seeing that her sister was so desperate that she almost curled up into a ball and looked a little pitiful, she rolled her eyes at her two friends and patted them: "I say, you two, it's almost done! Come, Xueyan, come to me, I'll string this wreath on your hands!"
It was a bunch of lavender wild flowers, I don’t know what they were called, but they looked particularly bright and lovely on the little girl’s fair and tender wrist.
"Que'er also likes lavender clothes..." Tian Xing'er stared at the bracelet woven with wild flowers and murmured something unconsciously, making the air around her stagnant for a moment. Only Su Xueyan, who was completely unaware, was still fiddling with the new bracelet, giggling in the sunlight.
Liu'er patted Su Qingluan and Tian Xing'er's hands: "Hey, why are we being so depressed here? No matter what, Que'er will be a bride soon, right? Maybe the husband's family is older and more considerate? Maybe the husband's family will see how good Que'er is and change for the better? Maybe..."
She desperately tried to find the possibility that "everything would be fine," but her voice grew fainter and fainter. The three people present knew that this was just a way of comforting themselves.
"It would be great if women could also have their own private property..." Tian Xing'er murmured.
"Isn't my family's dowry considered private property?" Su Qingluan looked up in surprise, muttering to herself: Could it be that all the popular science I read before was fake?
"But how much dowry can an ordinary family like us have?" Liu'er shook her head helplessly.
After traveling through time, Su Qingluan had witnessed one or two weddings in the village and town. The legendary ten-mile red wedding was completely non-existent. The family in the village just walked across a small path and the husband's house was diagonally opposite. There was no dowry or betrothal gifts. The girl just covered her head with a red cloth when she entered the house, and that was considered "married".
For someone like Que'er, who had to embroider her own wedding dress, it was considered a "luxury".
Su Qingluan changed her mind after hearing Liu'er's words, and calmly said, "I have been doing some small business with my parents to supplement our family income, which at least makes our family life better."
Liu Er didn't want her friends to be immersed in a depressing topic, so she quickly followed Su Qingluan's lead and continued, "I heard that your family has been buzzing with activity every day lately. It's quite lively."
Su Qingluan nodded: "Actually, there is still a part that has not been completed. It will probably take another month or so to complete the entire yard."
The Su family's main house has been repaired and expanded a lot during this renovation, but the courtyard part still needs to be repaired, and the ground needs to be repaired.
Unfortunately, it has rained a lot recently, and the part inside the house is at least protected by the roof, so it is not too affected. However, the yard is damp all day long, which greatly affects the construction.
Su Guangfu simply waved his hand and asked all the hired helpers to go back and come back to repair the yard after the early autumn rain.
However, the fact that the Su family paid more for their workers than other families during that period of time became a hot topic in Huaxi Village. After all, in the village, just by working as a helper for a day, you could get a full meal and a few dozen copper coins, which could be considered a "generous reward."
Therefore, anyone who has worked there would always be anxious to know when the Su family would recruit again, and they would rush to sign up for the reward.
When talking about renovating the house, Tian Xing'er and Liu'er immediately became excited. They chattered and told Su Qingluan a lot about what their dream yard would look like. Even the speed of picking mushrooms slowed down.
In the end, it was Su Xueyan, the little girl who was most focused on "mushrooms", who protested, otherwise the three of them would probably have chatted to the ends of the earth.
Although they had to walk slower because they were accompanied by Su Xueyan, the girls were chatting and laughing freely. Soon, their backpacks were filled with mushrooms of all sizes, and they were getting closer and closer to the depths of the forest.
Su Qingluan looked at the surrounding terrain and frowned slightly: The woods here are getting denser. Although I have never heard of any large wild animals appearing near Huaxi Village, in places like this with dense grass and forests, the many dangers underfoot are more worthy of attention than large animals.
"Let's rest here first." Su Qingluan reached out and held Tian Xing'er and Liu'er who wanted to go deeper into the grass.
"Eh? Are you tired?" Tian Xing'er teased. "Your physical strength isn't that great, is it? You're not even as strong as your little sister!"
Su Qingluan shook her head and flattened the grass near them: "The grass here is already higher than our knees, not to mention there is a small area here, we should be more careful."
"Sister, what are you doing? Why are you crushing the grass?" Su Xueyan came to her senses when she saw that her sisters had stopped leaving. She tilted her little head curiously and asked.
"Well, let's make some 'preparations' before we go." Su Qingluan squatted down, pulled the wide and long grass leaves next to her as a rope, tied her sister's trouser legs tightly, and then tied the cuffs tightly with the same method.
"You two better tuck in your trouser legs and sleeves," Su Qingluan said to her two friends as she squatted down, "The grass is very deep here, and it's been raining, so you can't be sure if you'll run into snakes."
When they heard the word "snake", Tian Xing'er and Liu'er were so scared that they shuddered and quickly tied up their cuffs and trouser legs.
Although many women in this era wore long skirts as outer clothing, fortunately, ordinary people mostly wore short skirts for the convenience of movement and work, rather than the deep-cut, curved-hem robes commonly worn by wealthy families. Otherwise, it would be even more troublesome because they would not be able to tie their trouser legs.
Seeing that they had tied up their trouser legs and sleeves, Su Qingluan broke off a branch from a low tree trunk nearby and said to her sister, "From now on, Xueyan and Sister, how about we play a game together?"
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