Chapter 1351 Marriage
The Guan family sent the betrothal gifts and left after dinner. Their family was also busy today. Like the Zhou family, they also had to prepare dishes for the wedding banquet the next day.
When they returned to Guan's house, Guan Erlang's wife couldn't help but say, "The Zhou family's daughter-in-law is so pretty. I wonder which family is lucky enough to marry her."
When she said this, Guan Erlang's wife couldn't help but look at her father-in-law with a sharp gaze. Just as she was about to continue speaking, the head of the Guanli clan said, "Don't even think about it. Not only your family, but even ours can't say she's suitable. Although her biological parents are gone, her father was a righteous man commended by the emperor and was posthumously awarded the title of Governor of Mianzhou. Even if she wants to marry, she will marry into a prefecture or county."
Guan Erlang's wife stopped talking with regret.
Guan Dalang's wife had never seen Manbao before, so she couldn't help but ask her sister-in-law in a low voice, "Is he pretty?"
Guan Erlang's wife nodded, "She's prettier than anyone else in the family. More than just being prettier, wherever she stands, she draws more attention."
The head of the customs said, "That's what you learn from reading."
He turned to look at Guan Yong and said, "Don't underestimate your aunt because she's young. She's a great scholar. She's the one who teaches the next generation of the Zhou family how to read and write. When your daughter-in-law comes home, you have to be respectful to her. Don't neglect her because she's young, understand?"
Guan Yong agreed obediently.
The head of the village nodded in satisfaction and said to the two daughters-in-law who were still concerned about their appearance, "Zhou Man is good-looking because she looks like her father. The children of the old Zhou family are all good-looking. Ayong's children will also be good-looking in the future. When the new daughter-in-law comes home, let her and Ayong move to the county town and hurry to have a child for the family."
Guan Yong's face flushed red, and Guan Dalang's wife happily agreed, but Guan Erlang's wife felt that bringing up this topic seemed to be shooting herself in the foot.
How could a new bride move to the county town as soon as she gets married?
However, no one doubts the good looks of the Zhou family. When Old Zhou was young, he was famous for his good looks in the surrounding villages, and his descendants have taken this good looks even further.
Daya was young before, didn't eat well, and often worked in the fields, so she was dark and thin and nothing much could be seen.
But in the past few years, she first studied in school for a year, and then went to work in a shop in the county town. Although the family's life was sometimes good and sometimes bad, they never lacked food.
So now she has a well-proportioned figure, is much whiter, and with her black hair let down, just sitting there she gives people a beautiful feeling of a peaceful and tranquil life.
Zhou Lijun probably anticipated that his eldest sister was going to get married, so he asked Manbao to bring back gifts.
She and Qiu Pei bought the rouge by going from street to street. She heard that many young girls in Beijing liked to use it.
Early in the morning, Daya woke up and started to wash and have breakfast, then put on the wedding dress that had been prepared at home. When she sat in front of the dressing table, the family was troubled by several boxes of rouge.
In the end, Manbao ran to the Bai family and asked Zheng to help.
When a girl from a farming family gets married, she will have her eyebrows trimmed, her face combed, her hair done up and a little rouge on her lips, nothing more.
Even eyebrow trimming and hair bunning are of the same few styles, and few people study them.
Zheng knows how to put on makeup herself. She knows everything except how to do facial scrunching.
So after Daya finished trimming her eyebrows, Zheng trimmed them for her, taught her how to trim her own eyebrows in the future, and then applied rouge for her.
As for the hairdo, Zheng didn't come, but whispered, "That should be done by someone with good fortune. I won't interfere."
Who is the luckiest person in Qili Village?
There were many candidates in the past, but now, the one recognized as the most fortunate, apart from Mrs. Bai on the other side of the river, is Mrs. Qian.
Qian didn't ask anyone for help. She walked forward with a smile and, under Zheng's guidance, she gave Daya a unique hairstyle, and then carefully pinned the gold and silver headdress prepared for her on her head.
Manbao stood on tiptoe behind the crowd to watch. Because there were too many people surrounding Daya, she could only barely see a little.
Zheng came out and saw her standing on tiptoe. She couldn't help but smile and reached out to lead her out. "There are too many people here now. Wait until she's dressed up and there are fewer people around before you go in."
Indeed, there were many people in the room at this moment. Not only her mother and sisters-in-law were there, but her aunt and sisters were also there, as well as many aunts and sisters-in-law from the village, who also brought some children to touch Daya's skirt to get blessings and blessings.
Zhou Xi’s wedding was not so grand in the past, even her brothers’ marriages were not so grand.
The relatives and friends who had gradually arrived outside also noticed the changes in the Zhou family's happy events. Some of them were alert and whispered, "The Zhou family's life is really getting better and better."
"Didn't you say two months ago that you emptied your family savings for Manbao?"
"Who knows? I heard that Manbao is very powerful now. She can enter the palace to see the emperor in the capital, and she also treats the nobles in the palace. When the nobles are happy, they reward her with many things."
"What are they?"
"That's a lot, I can't even begin to describe it, I can't even begin to explain it."
"Tsk, you don't know?"
"Who said I didn't know? Yesterday, I came to help Old Zhou's family slaughter a pig. Zhou Si told me that the nobles in the palace are very generous. They give away all kinds of treasures, such as gold cakes, silver basins, silks and satins."
"Really?"
"Is that true? Anyway, I heard that the Zhou family is not short of money now. Oh, and yesterday, Thursday, they said that the nobles in the capital like our bitter tea and want to buy some and send it to the capital so that we can all make money together."
Everyone was obviously more interested in the topic of making money. Upon hearing this, they immediately asked, "Really? Just those bitter leaves from the mountains? Besides us, is there anyone else drinking them?"
"Isn't the tea outside better than ours? Why are you buying bitter tea from us?"
"Who knows? Zhou Si said that nobles have different tastes. For example, the nobles outside don't like to eat meat. They keep shouting that they want to eat more vegetables. Isn't this a joke? Can vegetables be as delicious as meat?"
"That's right, eating meat is the only way to gain weight. Those wealthy people want to live like the poor."
"Oh, I mean, how is he going to collect the bitter tea?"
"I don't know. Zhou Silang only said he wanted to take it in, but he didn't say he had to. Besides, I don't have any at home."
In previous years, when I wanted to drink tea, I would go up the mountain to pick some and fry it, and that would be enough to last for several months. If there was no more, I would just not drink it, so there was really no accumulation at home.
"You fool, the tea trees have been sprouting since spring, and we can pick them before Qingming Festival. Why don't you ask a question?"
"Over the past two years, Zhou Si has had a wide network of contacts outside. The extra ginger in the village was sold by Zhou Silang and him."
While people were discussing over there, some of the guests in Daya's room finally dispersed, and Manbao and Sanya were finally able to go in.
Manbao saw Daya dressed up in a new look and exclaimed, "Daya, you look so beautiful."
Daya lowered her head and smiled, feeling a little embarrassed, and her face, which had been rubbed with rouge, became even redder.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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