Chapter 174 Marriage is possible
On New Year's Eve, early in the morning, you can hear children chattering in the yard about pasting Spring Festival couplets and setting off firecrackers.
There are a lot of things to do on New Year’s Eve, but because there are so many people at home, it’s done in a short time.
Before Manager Liang and Uncle He left last night, Zhou Yunshu agreed that everyone would have lunch together on New Year's Eve.
So after Chen Shizheng had breakfast at home, Manager Liang and his family came to the house soon and prepared to prepare the family dinner together at noon.
All household expenses are managed by Li Jialan and Wu Yue together.
The two of them ordered three pigs and four sheep, plus dozens of chickens, ducks and geese half a month ago.
In the morning, the women of the Liang family, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Liao family, and Dong Ge, under the direction of Li Jialan and Wu Yue, prepared six large tables of banquets.
There are all kinds of meats to eat, such as Dongpo pork, steamed lamb with wine, five-spice lamb, braised pig's trotters, fried chicken with winter bamboo shoots, eight-treasure duck, sour plum goose, and steamed fish.
Fried tofu, vegetarian bamboo shoots, cold lotus root slices, vegetarian yam, fresh winter melon and other cold vegetarian dishes paired with black plum soup, pomegranate wine and Zhuangyuanhong can just stimulate the production of body fluids and relieve greasiness.
The staple food is simple, dumplings and rice. The dumplings are filled with peanuts and candies, and both adults and children who eat them will receive gifts as rewards.
The guests had a great lunch and did not clean up the yard until 3 p.m. They played in the house until 4 p.m. before dispersing.
In the evening, Manager Liang and his family returned home. With nowhere else to go, Zhan Chuan and the others had another meal at the house.
It’s just that we ate too much at noon, so everyone’s appetite wasn’t as big at night.
The food in the front yard was a little more, including braised pork, sauerkraut fish, stewed pork ribs with winter melon, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, big plate chicken, roasted lamb, tofu with green onions, three kinds of pastries and countless dried fruits, which made up two tables of simple New Year's Eve dinner.
The meal in the backyard was simpler. The children ran to the front yard to play before the table was cleared, leaving Zhou Yunshu and a few others in the main room to chat with Ji Mingzhu.
People were supposed to stay up all night on New Year's Eve, but Ji Mingzhu was not in good spirits. The others had been busy and playing all day and went to bed before the end of the 11th hour, and Zhou Yunshu was no exception.
In the morning, Zhou Yunshu was awakened by the sound of firecrackers. Xixi was right next to her, her little red face warm and Zhou Yunshu couldn't help but give her a kiss.
After waking up, the mother and daughter stayed in bed for a while. When they packed up and went out, Zhou Yunjia, Yuan Li and Yuan Yi were clumsily helping Zhou Yunzhi kowtow to Ji Mingzhu.
After Zhou Yunshu and her generation kowtowed, it was the next generation for the younger ones, Yuan Li and Yuan Yi.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Wu Yue opposite her, whose eyes were red and she was trying hard not to let her tears fall. She wanted to sigh, but she felt that it was not good to sigh on the first day of the new year.
Ji Mingzhu looked at the children around her with loving eyes. Only when she saw them did she feel that there was still life in her.
"Once Dongchuan's house is finished, we can spend the year in our new home."
Ji Mingzhu looked at Zhou Yunshu's belly and said, "I think this year will be the year of the birth of a new baby."
Everyone looked at Zhou Yunshu's belly with a smile, only Xixi frowned, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Mom." Wu Yue looked at Ji Mingzhu and said, "Yun Jia is not young anymore. Should we find him a wife this year?"
It is common to get married at the age of sixteen these days, but Zhou Yunjia was the youngest in the family before, so everyone thought that he could take his time choosing his wife and there was no need to rush.
It’s not too late to get married after completing your studies or passing the imperial examination.
But now that the Zhenbei Palace has been ransacked and the Zhou family has changed their identities, Zhou Yunjia's identity is no longer suitable for taking the imperial examination.
Since she couldn't pass the imperial examination and her family was in such a situation, Wu Yue was thinking about whether she should arrange Zhou Yunjia's marriage first.
In this way, after Zhou Yunjia gets married, he can give her a few grandchildren, and the second room will be more lively.
Ji Mingzhu didn't answer Wu Yue directly. Instead, she smiled and looked at Zhou Yunjia, who was looking at her mother, hesitant to speak. "Yunjia, what do you mean?"
Zhou Yunjia glanced at his mother, hesitated for a moment, and then expressed his thoughts.
"I think I'm still young, so I don't need to rush."
Although everyone thinks that his role in the Zhou family is more about continuing the family line, he now feels that in addition to continuing the family line, he can also help his eldest brother and third sister in other ways, and help them support the Zhou family.
He doesn't want to worry about his lifelong affairs for the time being.
And then...
"I think the current situation in our family is not suitable for a new person to join us."
When Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunzhi heard Zhou Yunjia say this, they looked at each other in surprise and then looked at Zhou Yunjia.
Their little brother, who had never worried about household chores before, actually thought of this.
Indeed, the Zhou family needs to keep a low profile now, especially since they have not yet truly established a foothold in Haizhou. This is not the most appropriate time for Zhou Yunjia to find a wife.
"Grandmother, mother."
Zhou Yunjia stood in the middle of the main hall, looking at the elders and his brothers and sisters in the room, and said seriously: "I know that my contribution to my family is limited, but I still want to do something."
"I don't have any ideas about my future wife. As long as she can help our family, I'm fine with it."
In the past, the Zhenbei Palace was too powerful, and its daughters could marry into high-ranking families, but the only thing they wanted was a daughter-in-law from a clean family.
For example, Li Jialan's mother's family has no power; Wu Yue's father is just an upright civil servant.
By Zhou Yunzhi's generation, both Fang Huiwen and Wu Gui's families were still not from high social status.
The purpose of the Zhou family doing this was to tell the emperor that they had no intention of making further progress in the ranks of high-ranking families through marriage.
But obviously, no matter whether they meant to do so or not, if the emperor disliked you, he could still find a hundred reasons to put you to death.
Zhou Yunjia doesn't care about this kind of thing, but family marriages are very normal around him.
Therefore, he was willing to leave his marriage to his grandmother, or more precisely, to Zhou Yunshu. After all, Zhou Yunshu was now the head of the Zhou family.
"Jiaer, you have grown up." Ji Mingzhu looked at Zhou Yunjia with relief.
You know, among all his grandchildren, Ji Mingzhu had the least demands on this youngest one, but he never expected that one day he would start to have demands on himself.
Wu Yue, who was standing aside, looked at her sensible little son and could no longer control the tears in her eyes.
I never thought that this fool would understand these things.
"However, after all, your wife is the one who will accompany you for the rest of your life. If there is really a suitable candidate in the future, I still need your approval."
Don’t let the marriage between Yunhai and Wu Gui cause discord between father and son.
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