071, Marry a Girl
071, Marry a Girl
In the early morning, after the city gates opened, the streets suddenly became crowded with people.
Lu Chunping brought his two nephews to the city to deliver bean sprouts. After entering the city, they first delivered the bean sprouts to the braised food stall and mentioned in passing that the eldest daughter of the Lu family's old house had gotten married yesterday.
In fact, everyone in their village was discussing this matter yesterday. When the eldest grandson got married, there was a banquet and wine, but when it came to the eldest granddaughter's wedding, there was nothing at all. The former only had a sedan chair to carry the person, and even the groom didn't come to pick up the bride in person.
Whether the husband's family values the bride or not can be seen from the way the bride is welcomed.
Hearing this, Liu Sanniang only sighed and said, "It's better to get married. If it weren't for the pressure from the old lady, the girls in our family would have been married long ago. The family that can afford the thirty taels of betrothal money is at least not a poor family. When Dahua marries, she will always have enough to eat."
Having lived there for several years, Liu Sanniang knew better than anyone what life was like for the girls at the Lu family's old house. So when she learned her niece was getting married, she thought that even though she was going to be a second wife, her life would definitely be better than the cannibalistic place she lived in at the Lu family's old house.
"That's true." Lu Chunping felt that what his sister-in-law said made sense.
"This is the money for today's bean sprouts. We also made some meat jerky yesterday. Take it and satisfy your cravings on the way." When Liu Sanniang gave Lu Chunping the money for today's bean sprouts, she also gave him a bag of meat jerky wrapped in oil paper.
Lu Chunping took the money for the bean sprouts, and he felt embarrassed to take the bag of meat jerky. He blocked it with his hand and said, "No, no, you guys keep it and sell it."
"Take it, take it, don't push it around." Liu Sanniang stuffed the things into Lu Chunping's hands without saying anything, and said, "Go and deliver the goods quickly. I'm busy here, so I won't entertain you. After you deliver the goods, come back and have dinner with us."
"Okay." Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Lu Chunping had to accept the meat jerky given by Liu Sanniang. When he came out, he greeted Lu Youtian who was setting up a stall outside, and left with his two nephews, pushing the cart loaded with bean sprouts.
As for eating, they were never too embarrassed to eat at Liu Sanniang's stall.
On the third day, the married girl did not return home, and the door of the Lu family's old house was also left unattended, as if such a person had never existed in the family.
Only Lu Erhua, the younger sister, didn't see her sister return. She ran to the village entrance and waited for half a day, but there was no sign of her sister. When the sun set, she realized that her sister would not be coming back that day. She returned home a little disappointed and told her mother that she would go see her sister tomorrow, but she was scolded by her mother.
"If she doesn't come back, then she doesn't come back. Can I go to someone else's house and ask her why she doesn't come back? A married girl is like spilled water. She will live a good life in someone else's house in the future. How can she think of her parents who eat bran and wild vegetables at home!" When Xiao Wang scolded her second daughter, she was also scolding the eldest daughter in her heart who didn't recognize her parents after getting married. She thought that the eldest daughter had forgotten their relatives because she had a good life.
"Mom, my elder sister is not that kind of person..." Lu Erhua did not believe what her mother said and felt that her own sister was not that kind of person.
"Not that kind of person? Then what kind of person is he? Huh? Tell me!"
Seeing her second daughter, who had always been submissive and docile since she was a child, dare to contradict her, Xiao Wang was furious and pinched her daughter, cursing: "I gave birth to each of you, raised you with great pains, and now you leave this house and don't recognize this family or me as your mother?!"
"Tell me, what kind of people are you? Where's your conscience? Ah? A bunch of ungrateful wolves!"
Little Wang was also furious. She was furious at her eldest children who had left the house and never returned, at her mother-in-law who had married her eldest daughter off as a second wife for thirty taels of betrothal money, at her husband who had acquiesced to her mother-in-law's actions after hearing that the other party had offered thirty taels of betrothal money, and at herself...
She was full of resentment, and on the day when her eldest daughter did not return home after her wedding, she took it out on her second daughter who came to ask about it.
"It hurts, mother, mother, I won't..." Lu Erhua dodged her mother's hand while defending herself and her elder sister.
But at this time, Xiao Wang could no longer hear what her second daughter said.
After pinching her two children several times, little Wang sat on the stool in frustration, not saying a word or hitting anyone anymore.
Lu Erhua stood aside and cried silently, crying for her elder sister and for herself...
At that time, none of them had thought that their daughter, who had been married for less than two days, would suffer inhuman abuse on the other side.
It’s not that Lu Dahua doesn’t want to go home, but she can’t even get out of bed at this moment.
***
After entering the winter month, the weather is getting colder day by day.
The snow had been falling intermittently for several days, and most of the street vendors had stopped coming. However, Liu Sanniang's braised food stall was open every day because some of her regular customers often came to buy from them. She didn't want to let customers who wanted to try their braised pork rice go in vain, so unless there was some unavoidable reason, she would only close the stall for a day or two.
Otherwise, if you don't open your stall all the time and people come and look for it once or twice and can't find it, they won't come back. This is how business works. If you want to keep your customers, you have to persist. You can't fish one day and dry the net for three days. That way, you won't be able to last long.
However, the business of the braised food stall has been much slower recently. There are fewer people going out on snowy days, mainly because there are fewer caravans coming and going in the city recently, so their stall has done much less business, and they now don't prepare as much braised food every day.
However, the business of meat sauce and meat jerky is good. They have recently received several orders of various sizes, which will keep them busy for a while.
Lu Youtian no longer runs his own stall, but instead comes to help his wife with the braised food stall. Lately, his stall hasn't been doing much business, and since his wife is too busy, he might as well come and help her. After all, they both make money, so there's nothing shameful about doing whatever makes more money.
After school, Lu Mingfei came home and made pork jerky with his mother.
They were currently making original and sweet flavors, and he thought that if he could find chili peppers, maybe he could make a spicy one? And with chili peppers, the pork jerky would be more durable.
But he had been in this world for so many years and had never seen anything like chili peppers.
The grocery store doesn't have it, maybe someone can help him find it?
Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei's eyes lit up. He planned to draw a picture of the pepper after he had dinner and returned to his room, and then ask Zhao Lang to find someone to help him find it.
"Ming Fei? Ming Fei?" Liu Sanniang saw her son standing there, not knowing what he was thinking, with a happy smile on his face.
Lu Mingfei realized that it was his mother calling him, and quickly came back to his senses. He turned to look at his mother and asked, "Ah? Mother, you called me?"
"What are you thinking about? You look so happy?" It was the first time that Liu Sanniang saw her eldest son, who had been smart since childhood, acting so silly. She couldn't help but be curious about what her son was so happy about just now.
"No, I thought of something. Mom, what did you just say to me?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Mother is asking you, when will your private school have holidays?" Liu Sanniang repeated the question she had just asked.
"The teacher said that we will have a holiday at the end of this month and go back to class after the 15th of next year. We, the students who have exams in February next year, can come back and study on our own. If we encounter something we don't understand, we can go to the teacher's house to ask him for advice." Lu Mingfei said.
There's no summer break here, only winter break. In previous years, classes ended at the end of November, with winter break starting in December. My husband's decision was mainly to consider that some of his students live far away and would have difficulty commuting to school during heavy snow, so the winter break was slightly longer.
Lu Mingfei actually liked a longer winter break, as his family was busy at the end of the year and he could come back to help with some chores. He was also exhausted after a full year of classes and wanted to rest.
"Oh, it's pretty much the same as in previous years. I'll prepare some New Year gifts later, and you can send them to your teacher's house." Since her child was studying at her teacher's house, Liu Sanniang knew how to handle some of the social interactions. Otherwise, if other families gave gifts to her teacher and her family didn't, she worried that her teacher would treat her child differently.
Lu Mingfei nodded and said, "We'll make some sausages and bacon in a few days and send them to Mr.'s house. They're durable and can be eaten for a longer time." He was also a man who understood the ways of the world, but he gave gifts to Mr. not because he was worried that if others gave gifts and they didn't, Mr. would have a different opinion of him.
So he gave the gift to the gentleman purely to thank him for his care and education in the past.
In this era where "once a teacher, always a father", the teachers who teach them truly treat teaching and educating as a teaching profession and educate them as their own children, not just as a tool to make money. Therefore, as students, they also have great respect for their teachers.
Lu Mingfei also knew some of the situation of their teacher's family. With only the small amount of tuition fees from teaching a few students, the teacher's family was not well off. They also had to rely on the gifts from these students to make ends meet.
"You mentioned earlier that you were going to make sausages and bacon to sell. I've been so busy these past few days that I haven't had time to make those things." Speaking of sausages and bacon, Liu Sanniang suddenly remembered her son's previous promise to sell New Year's goods. Right now, their family is so busy with braised food, meat sauce, and pork jerky that they don't have time to do anything else.
Obviously, Lu Mingfei was also concerned about their family's lack of manpower, so he discussed it with his mother and his mother: "Mother, what do you say about us going to find our adoptive father and mother and working together to make sausages and bacon? Our main problem right now is that we're short of manpower. If we can get our adoptive father and mother, we'll have two more people working together. Later, when this business takes off, we can also hire a few more people to work together."
"...It's not impossible. I'll ask them if they are willing." Liu Sanniang thought for a while and said.
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