Chapter 1361: Make a decision
The second day of the Chinese New Year is the day when Daya returns home. According to the calendar, she should have returned on the first day, but it is not appropriate to go out on the first day of the Chinese New Year. In addition, it is just the Chinese New Year, so she must follow Guan Yong to meet her relatives.
So it was postponed to the second day of the Chinese New Year, just in time for me to go back to my parents' home.
That day Zhou Xi also came back with her husband and children.
The Guan family in Dali Village is much larger than the Zhou family in Qili Village, and they have more clansmen than the Zhou family. But in terms of the number of family members alone, the Guan family is far inferior to the Zhou family.
So when Guan Yong walked in and saw so many family members, she was a little confused for a moment.
Especially children, if they don’t have a good memory, they will definitely confuse people.
Guan Yong was a sensitive person, and today he was one of the protagonists. Even though he was accompanied by two uncles of similar age, Zhou Silang and Zhou Wulang, his face still turned slightly red.
Daya had already been pulled into the house by Manbao and others to talk. Xiao Qian had something to ask her in private, so she drove Manbao and others out.
San Ya turned around and asked Man Bao, confused, "Aunt, why is Auntie avoiding us?"
Manbao coughed lightly and said seriously, "Because what they said is something that only adults can say. They think we are still young, so they don't tell us. But actually, I still have a notebook to give to Daya."
"What book?"
Manbao lowered his head to meet Sanya's gaze, thought for a moment, and then swallowed his words and said, "You'll understand when you learn it."
Guan Yong and Daya had met before their engagement, and both were very satisfied with each other. They also kept in touch after their engagement, so they had been living in harmony these days.
Knowing that Daya was living well, Xiao Qian let it go.
After the seventh day of the New Year, the shops in the county town will also open. Then the mother and daughter will go to the shops to work together, and they can be together every day again.
The Zhou brothers took the two sons-in-law for a meal and a drink, and they became acquainted. Knowing that the Guan family had bought a house for the couple in the county town, Guan Xin smiled and said, "We also live in the county town, and it just so happens that we are not far away. We can visit each other in the future."
Guan Yong naturally said that it was no problem.
Daya's life in the Guan family was better than she had expected. Of course, it was not just because of the shop that came with it. In fact, it was not until yesterday that she realized how important the books that Bai Shan and Bai Erlang gave her were.
Bai Shan attended the provincial school and is now attending the Imperial College. His annotations and notes are naturally very valuable. Yesterday, when Daya was packing her dowry, she took out the book and gave it to Guan Yong.
Guan Yong was shocked. In this era, books were really too valuable.
Rich families rarely give books as dowry, let alone small families like theirs.
In his opinion, these books were more valuable than the shop.
Of course, the head of the Guan family also knew this, so he showed his attitude and was very kind to Daya. Seeing this, the other people in the Guan family would naturally respect Daya more.
Since her parents valued her and Guan Yong was sensible, they stayed for dinner and left when it was almost dark.
Zhou Xi and Guan Xin also said goodbye. She said to her mother, "When Manbao and the others leave, please ask my sister-in-law to let me know and I will come back to see her off."
Qian nodded and agreed.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, we invited the two aunts who had returned to their parents' home, and on the third day it was the turn of the Zhou family's daughters-in-law to return to their parents' home.
Naturally, each family took their own children with them. This year, Manbao did not go back to the Qian family with Xiao Qianshi, but went to the county town with Bai Shan and others to pay New Year's greetings to the master.
This time, Old Madam Liu also went along.
When Mr. Zhuang saw them out in the afternoon, he looked at Bai Shan and Man Bao and smiled.
The two of them had already guessed what was going on. Although they looked serious, they couldn't help but feel hot on their faces.
Bai Erlang sat in the carriage, looking at this and that, with a puzzled look on his face.
The main reason was that he didn't understand why the two of them suddenly became awkward, even though they were getting along fine before.
Until the next day, he waited for a long time but Bai Shan did not come to play with him. When he was about to run over to find him, Mrs. Bai stopped him and said, "Don't go. The Bai family went to the Zhou family to propose marriage today, but no one is home."
Bai Jilang's eyes widened. "How could they hide such a big thing from me?"
Old Mrs. Bai laughed, "Why would I hide this from you? Didn't you know about this a few days ago?"
"I only knew that they were discussing marriage, but I didn't know they were getting engaged today." Bai Erlang turned around and ran out.
Mrs. Bai was anxious, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to watch the fun," Bai Erlang shouted back after he had already run away. "I'm their older brother, how can I not be there?"
Mrs. Bai stopped and turned back to Mrs. Bai in silence, "I was so scared. Seeing him so anxious, I thought he was interested in Manbao too."
Mrs. Bai: ...
Mrs. Bai sighed and asked, "Erlang is older than the other two. They're already engaged, so Erlang's important event can't be delayed. And what about Dalang..."
Mrs. Bai became anxious when she thought about it. She cried out, "What are you two busy with all day? Why don't you worry about your child's lifelong affairs?"
Mrs. Bai said, "Don't worry, mother. Didn't the master take Dalang out today? I heard that she's the second daughter of the Chengzhang Shi family in Mianzhou, and she's quite good. The day before yesterday, we came back from my mother's home and stayed in Mianzhou for a night. Chengzhang Shi asked the master to drink with her, and that's when it became interesting."
Mrs. Bai's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but sit up straight. "So, Dalang can really marry a daughter of an official family?"
Mrs. Bai smiled and said, "It should be pretty good."
She was also very surprised, so she felt that the wait was worth it. If it were two years ago, Dalang was just a student at Mianzhou Prefecture School, and at most he could be said to be the daughter of a county magistrate.
If you meet a concubine's daughter, it would be better to meet the legitimate daughter of a gentry family.
Mrs. Bai was now happy, and she said, "We have to hurry up and arrange Erlang's marriage."
Mrs. Bai nodded in agreement.
Bai Erlang ran to Lao Zhou's house, and to his surprise, the master was there too.
Bai Shan and Man Bao, who were standing behind their parents, turned around and saw Bai Erlang coming, and winked at him together.
Bai Erlang slowed down, looked at Bai Shan, then at Manbao, and finally, considering that they all had the surname Bai, he stood next to Bai Shan.
Mr. Zhuang, who was also acting as a matchmaker for the first time, glanced at Bai Erlang, and continued to smile and ask Old Zhou to marry Manbao on behalf of Bai Shan.
Originally, Old Zhou wanted to act pretentiously a few times, but when he saw that the matchmaker was Mr. Zhuang, he gave up the idea and nodded repeatedly in agreement with Mr. Zhuang's words.
Then she immediately agreed to Mr. Zhuang's proposal.
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "Today is a good day. Since Duke Zhou has no objection, why not make it today?"
Old Zhou glanced at his wife and nodded in agreement.
Old Madam Liu had anticipated this and had already prepared the betrothal gifts.
She took a box from Madam Liu's hand, opened it and showed it to them, smiling, "This is a jade ruyi. It was given to me by my master when he betrothed me. It was something my mother-in-law brought from her family and later passed on to Shanbao's mother. Now that Shanbao wants a small betrothal, I took it out again."
Old Zhou's family looked at the jade ruyi in the box and were speechless. They had never seen such a thing before. The jade was so lustrous and looked very expensive.
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(End of this chapter)
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