When Liang Shengdi saw Lin Wenxuan, she had just finished washing herself. It wasted a lot of firewood, but she was clean from head to toe. She was still breathing out with wet hair in the middle of winter, but she felt relieved.
Fortunately, there is no one who looks ugly and they are still young.
Liang Shengdi felt that she had not married blindly.
Lin Wenxuan, on the other hand, could only smile foolishly when he saw Liang Shengdi, who had been thoroughly washed.
Later, when Liang Shengdi's belly was very big, she asked about this matter again and asked him why he was laughing.
Lin Wenxuan still smiled and said, "You look good."
Liang Shengdi also laughed and scolded, saying that you must be blind.
She has been hungry for so long that her eyeballs are almost bald, but there are still people who say she is pretty. If not blind, what is?
Of course, this is all later.
Zhang Xiaonv was quite patient. She did not let them get married that night, but said that she would set up a formal wedding banquet the next day so that she could tell Old Man Lin and all the ancestors of the Lin family.
The descendant Lin Wenxuan is going to get married.
Zhang Xiaonv let Liang Shengdi sleep on the bed board that her parents-in-law used to sleep on, and also took an old quilt to cover her.
Although the quilt was old, it was not dirty and did not smell musty. Compared with the quilt on her previous bed which was thinner than the blanket, it was several times thicker.
Liang Shengdi had been wandering for so long, and finally on this night, she had a big bowl of thick six-grain porridge, slept on the bed, covered with a quilt, and felt extremely warm.
When she dreamed, she seemed to be eating meat and drinking hot soup. It was as if she was really eating it. It smelled so delicious that she almost closed her eyes and shouted, "Marry well! Marry well!"
Fortunately, she was tired enough and slept soundly, so she didn't actually scream out. Otherwise, the other two people in the room would have been scared by her through the door.
After all, Liang Shengdi was the only one who fell asleep in the family that night, and the other two were very busy.
Lin Wenxuan was suddenly going to be a groom, so he was naturally so excited that he couldn't sleep, so he got up to help his mother.
Zhang Xiaonu was preparing things for tomorrow's ancestor worship and wedding.
There were grain bags stored on the beams in the corner of the Lin family's house. Zhang Xiaonv was originally doing it by herself, but as soon as Lin Wenxuan came out, she directed him to move the ladder to get the grain.
Lin Wenxuan looked east and then west, and suggested with some embarrassment,
"Mom, tomorrow is such a big day, let's not eat old rice, at least eat some rice from this year..."
"We've only harvested a few grains of rice this year! And you're already thinking about eating them!" Zhang Xiaonv scolded her son, but still asked him to carry down the bag of new rice, and scooped out three spoonfuls with shaking hands.
Zhang Xiaonu is a very stingy person. She is well-known for her stinginess in the surrounding area. She is not only stingy with outsiders, but also with her own family.
But the Lin family was able to survive safely during every year of poor harvest because of her thriftiness.
Because before Lin Wenxuan's father's generation, they were all servants of the local landlords. They had a good relationship with the landlords and did not owe any debts to anyone, so the grain grown by his family was generally not sold but stored.
Every year, Zhang Xiaonv would seal and store the new rice, not wasting any of the rice husks or wheat bran. She would then eat the remaining old rice from last year.
They eat stale rice year after year, and only when offering sacrifices to their ancestors will they dig out a few spoonfuls of new rice for their ancestors, and also give it to the living to taste.
She said that old rice is not as delicious as new rice, but when there is nothing else to eat, old rice is a lifesaver.
For example, during the famine that began last winter, 70% of the people in Yuezhou were struggling on the starvation line, but she and Wenxuan were still able to secretly drink rice porridge at home. That was all thanks to Chen Mi.
Lin Wenxuan then asked, "Why don't we kill another chicken tomorrow? One of the three chickens at home doesn't seem to lay many eggs anymore."
Zhang Xiaonv almost rolled up her sleeves to hit him, but Lin Wenxuan quickly dodged.
"Didn't they kill a chicken when my eldest sister got married? I remember Dad even bought a pig's head back then..."
"What was it like back then? What's it like now?" Zhang Xiaonv cursed softly, gritting her teeth. "You still think our family is really a wealthy one!"
Lin Wenxuan was also stubborn and refused to give up, and continued to persuade his mother.
"According to the rules, weddings require ten bowls of rice. But because our times are tough, our ancestors know how hard we've been, so they killed a chicken, which is considered the biggest dish!"
"You're killing a chicken in the house right now! The dogs next door will be over here in a moment!"
"Then why don't we eat faster?"
"you……"
"We've already saved a lot on getting married, you can't possibly skimp on this wedding dinner too!"
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In the end, the old hen that had laid eggs for the Lin family for two years was finally killed. First, its body was covered with red paper as a sacrifice to the ancestors, and finally, it was stewed into a pot of bright yellow chicken soup. It could be said that it had devoted itself to the master family until its death.
Liang Shengdi, wearing Lin Wenxuan's grandmother's old clothes, stood in front of the table. She did whatever Zhang Xiaonv asked her to do, but her eyes were fixed on the chicken. A string of crystal tears clearly flowed from the corner of her mouth.
Although she wiped it off quickly, it was still seen by Zhang Xiaonv, and the thought that "my brain might be a little stuck" became even stronger.
When she was finally able to sit down and eat, Liang Shengdi's mouth was watering.
Lin Wenxuan handed over a bowl of rice.
"Mom said you can't eat anything too hard yet. Today's rice is softer. If you don't feel full, there's more in the pot."
Zhang Xiaonu sat opposite Liang Shengdi and said with a stern face,
"After this meal, you will officially marry into the Lin family as a daughter-in-law. You must be filial to your parents-in-law, be considerate of men, be thoughtful, and have more children to expand the Lin family..."
No one knew how many words Liang Shengdi heard. All we knew was that it was after Zhang Xiaonu said the last sentence "Eat".
Her hand quickly reached out to the chicken in the basin, tore off a piece of meat, and stuffed it into her mouth. She swallowed it without chewing it for a few times and almost choked to death.
Lin Wenxuan quickly poured her a bowl of chicken soup to soothe her throat, and tore off a chicken leg for her.
"There are plenty! Such a big chicken! Don't be impatient! Eat slowly!"
Zhang Xiaonv rolled her eyes at the table looking at her son's attentiveness. The old saying that a man forgets his mother when he gets a wife was right!
Even so, she still tore off a chicken leg and put it into her son's bowl, urging him to eat it, for fear that it would all end up in Liang Shengdi's stomach.
A hen that's over three years old! So nourishing!
"You two should eat more! Eat more! Then you can give birth to a plump and white baby!"
As Zhang Xiaonv said this, she picked up the bowl of preserved vegetables on the side and was reluctant to touch the chicken soup.
On the four-cornered table,
A pot of chicken soup, a bowl of preserved vegetables cooked in chicken soup, three bowls of white rice,
Three people.
A new one.
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