Pei Shaorong's purpose of looking for Cai the matchmaker was very simple, he just wanted Cai the matchmaker to introduce Sun Yaocai to someone and give him a woman to liven up the family.
As for who this woman is, it is of course Xue Huaer, who is pretending to be a hero. This sour scholar feels pity for her and wants to meddle in other people's business because she is bullied by a bully like him. Well, just take her home and deal with it thoroughly.
Didn't Aunt Xue want to marry Xue Huaer off as a co-wife? Now she has come to her doorstep. Sun Yaocai is such a suitable candidate. He is a scholar as well. This son-in-law has a bright future!
And Mo Lanzhu, doesn’t she yearn for the beautiful love in the fairy tale world all day long? If there are more women to share her man, let’s see if this woman can continue to be a fake white lotus!
Of course, all these plans were just Pei Shaorong's idea. Whether these ideas can be realized depends on whether Sun Yao is interested. After all, as an outsider, he cannot force others to get married.
Pei Shaorong didn't really ask Cai the matchmaker to do anything. He just gave her some money and asked her to run back and forth between the two sides, give some advice, and bring the couple together.
If Sun Yaocai was really a good person, then the plan would have failed. Pei Shaorong, on the contrary, still looked up to the sour scholar. He was a bit pedantic, but his loyalty was still admirable.
But if this sour scholar can't resist the temptation, then we can't blame him for stabbing you in the back. The great Chairman Mao told us that we should treat our enemies as cruelly and mercilessly as the harsh winter...
After this sinister move behind the scenes, Pei Shaorong didn't care how Matchmaker Cai tried to bring the two families together. There was plenty of time anyway, and if this plan didn't work, there were other plans. In short, Meng Wan wanted peace in her life!
And now, he has to take good care of his Abao. Revenge for Gu Ran is important, but nothing in this life is more important than Abao and the baby in his belly!
Because of the drought, most crops in the fields could not be planted, so Pei Shaorong suspended his farming plan.
All the tree and fruit seedlings have been put away in the space. According to the current weather, the seedlings will definitely be sun-dried to death if left in the fields.
The only crops left in the fields at the moment are sweet potatoes and potatoes. Although these two crops are drought-resistant, they do not completely require water.
If it doesn't rain, everyone has to fetch water from the river themselves. Manpower is limited, the water in the river is decreasing, and there is only so much land that can be planted.
Not to mention that the Pei family is small, Pei Shaorong only planted two acres of the ten acres of land. Carrying water and farming under the scorching sun at 40 degrees is really not a job for humans.
The weather is bad and the harvest is poor now. It is not cost-effective to plant too much in the fields. I have stored a lot of food in my own space cellar, which is enough for me to eat. There is no need to work so hard.
Even if the villagers were suspicious, he could just go wander around in the mountains and bring back the food he found as hunting. This is what Pei Shaorong has been doing since he could no longer farm in the fields.
And while going up the mountain, Pei Shaorong secretly went deep into the mountains without telling Mo Xiaobao. Compared with the outside, there was no sign of drought in the mountains.
Therefore, Pei Shaorong simply planted the fruit tree seedlings in the space deep in the mountains. The trees were already full, and if the drought continued for a few years, what would happen to his fruit tree plan? Since there was nothing wrong in the deep mountains, it would be better to let them grow wild!
I also heard from people in the village that it is not easy for a young boy to get pregnant and give birth. If he is not careful, he may have a miscarriage, and the adults will also suffer.
Now that Abao is pregnant, he must stay with her and not be distracted. Pei Shaorong is worried about letting others come, and there are too many secrets in his family that cannot be known to others. It is really inconvenient!
Mo Xiaobao found that there were no signs of pregnancy before she became pregnant, but after this discovery, all the hobbies of a pregnant woman came out all at once.
Pregnant women particularly like to eat sour and spicy food, and Mo Xiaobao is even more so. He has a good appetite to begin with, and after getting pregnant he can eat even more, without aversion to sour and spicy food.
However, since Mo Xiaobao can eat a lot, Pei Shaorong doesn't dare to indulge him. He has to control his food intake and just get enough nutrition.
This boy is different from a woman. If the baby in the belly grows too big, the adult's life will be in danger when giving birth.
While he was happy that Abao was pregnant, Pei Shaorong was also worried. However, seeing that Mo Xiaobao could eat both sour and spicy food, he couldn't help but wonder what Abao would give birth to for him.
They say sour food means boys and spicy food means girls, but Abao doesn't mind sour and spicy food, and has a great appetite. His belly is not very obvious, and you can't tell whether it is round or pointed. I really don't know if it is a boy or a girl, or a boy...
But no matter what it is, he likes it!
But it is better to have a son as the first one. If Abao has a daughter and a little boy in the future, they will have an older brother to love them. When they fight, he will fight with them, and when they walk, he will carry them on his back. What a warm picture.
But if you give birth to a daughter or a boy, it's actually not bad either. A sister is attentive and caring. If it's neither a boy nor a girl, but a boy, then that's even better. He can be both a brother and a sister, the best of both worlds!
When Pei Shaorong thought of the scene of having children and grandchildren around him in the future, his mouth was so happy that it stretched to his ears. His heart was filled with sweetness. Happiness is actually nothing more than such an ordinary life...
Abao was pregnant, and the Pei family was celebrating, but the weather outside was getting hotter and hotter, and one would sweat just by going out. There was no air conditioning in ancient times, so a large palm-leaf fan was of no use at all.
Fortunately, the water level of the river next to the village no longer decreased. Everyone had stored food, and the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the fields also survived. There was no problem holding on for two or three years, but life was a little harder.
There is completely no one in the town now. The villagers who were lingering in the town before have either continued to move forward or have all run to the mountains. After all, there are no supplies in the town now.
Almost all the villagers downstream also moved to the upstream villages. The village suddenly became very lively. The weather was too hot during the day and everyone stayed at home to escape the heat.
But in the evening when it gets cooler, every household comes out to get some fresh air. Women and boys gather together to gossip, and men get together to drink a little wine. The atmosphere is very leisurely and cheerful.
But there are bound to be drunk people making trouble, women and boys gossiping and quarreling, in short, the commotion over trivial matters is the fun of country life, otherwise every day would be so boring!
Indeed, if he didn't listen to the gossip about the chaos in the village, Pei Shaorong would feel really bored after staying at home for a long time because of the natural disasters and he couldn't go out to work.
Especially when you have stabbed someone silently, you would feel anxious if you don't check the results of the stab.
Originally, Pei Shaorong did not have full confidence in letting Matchmaker Cai to bring Sun Yaocai and Xue Huaer together.
After all, even if Sun Yaocai is a scholar, the Sun family is not doing well now, with insufficient money and food. And because of the disaster, the next imperial examination will most likely be postponed.
So Sun Yaocai, a lazy scholar, is not popular now. Xue Huaer is beautiful, with lotus feet that everyone here envies, so it is really unfair for her to marry him as his equal wife.
But who knew that man's plans were really not as good as God's plans? This matchmaker Cai was just doing the job for money, and she intentionally or unintentionally went to the Xue and Sun families to chat for a while.
Matchmaker Cai never mentioned the matchmaking business explicitly from beginning to end, but she briefly mentioned that the Xue family had a beautiful daughter and the Sun family had a talented man, and the two families took the bait!
Aunt Xue looked down on the strong but poor men in the village. Xue Huaer followed her mother's ideas since she was a child and naturally looked down on the men in the village.
As for Pei Shaorong, if it weren't for Aunt Xue who kept praising how good he was, and if it weren't for the fact that Pei Shaorong was indeed good-looking, gentle, and from a decent family background, Xue Huaer would never have been willing to marry into the Pei family as a concubine.
When Pei Shaorong ruthlessly rejected her, Xue Huaer was so ashamed and angry that she wanted to die. Of course, it was just a thought and she didn't really want to die as she was still so young.
Sun Yaocai bravely stood up for her at that time, and even though he failed in the end and was so embarrassed that he peed his pants, in Xue Huaer's heart, Sun Yaocai was a hero.
Young and ignorant girls always admire heroes who stand up for them, and Xue Huaer is no exception. In addition, Sun Yaocai is a well-educated scholar, so she naturally has more thoughts about him.
As for the Sun family, Sun Yaocai and Mo Lanzhu have been married for many years and have long passed the honeymoon period. Now that Mo Lanzhu has given birth to a child, her appearance and figure have naturally changed, and she is no longer charming.
Add to that the fact that Old Man Mo's father-in-law is always causing trouble, and it's impossible for there to be no rift between the two.
Especially after learning that Mo Lanzhu had secretly used contraception for two years after her marriage, Sun Yaocai became furious.
No matter how much he liked Mo Lanzhu before, and no matter how they made romantic vows, he was ultimately a serious ancient man. How many men in ancient times did not value offspring?
But who would have known that his wife didn't get pregnant after several years of marriage? When their relationship was good, Sun Yaocai thought there was something wrong with him. He even protected Mo Lanzhu when his mother scolded her.
It was only later that he found out that it was his wife who was secretly using contraception, saying that she was too young and having a baby would be bad for her health…
To be honest, there is nothing wrong with Mo Lanzhu's reason. Giving birth in a teen is indeed not good for the mother. But her mistake is that she forgot that this is ancient times.
When Sun Yaocai found out about this, he was speechless. What kind of nonsense is this? Even relatives are still young? Is having a baby now bad for your health?
Since ancient times, every woman and boy in the surrounding area would get married and have children when they reached the age of 15. Why is it that something is wrong with Mo Lanzhu? Is she the only one special among all the women and boys in the world?
Not to mention that ordinary ancient people could not understand it, even Pei Shaorong had to say that since you have traveled through time, you should just follow the local customs. A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake, and an arm cannot twist a thigh!
So when Mo Lanzhu gave birth to a daughter after finally getting pregnant unexpectedly, Sun Yaocai was somewhat dissatisfied with her.
As the saying goes, there are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no descendants. Even though Sun Yaocai still had feelings for Mo Lanzhu, Mo Lanzhu had not given birth to a son for the Sun family in all these years, so Sun Yaocai naturally had other thoughts in his mind.
Xue Huaer is pretty and was educated well in etiquette by a master of etiquette hired by Aunt Xue since she was a child. She also has precious three-inch golden lotus feet.
Therefore, when Matchmaker Cai mentioned it ambiguously, Sun Yaocai became interested. Without Matchmaker Cai continuing to talk, three months later, the Sun family asked the matchmaker to go to the Xue family to propose marriage, wanting to take Xue Huaer home as his second wife.
When the news came out, Mo Lanzhu was completely stunned. She stared at Sun Yaocai who was still saying that he loved her but was going to marry another woman. All her beautiful dreams and vows of love were shattered at this moment. She rushed out of the house with a pair of scissors in her hand...
When Pei Shaorong heard the news, he saw Abao sleeping soundly in his arms. He still couldn't change his habit of blowing bubbles when sleeping. His little mouth was pouting and his face was pink, which made people feel very distressed.
Pei Shaorong kissed his lover's little mouth lovingly and leaned leisurely on the head of the bed with a smirk on his face. Even if a salted fish turns over, it is still a salted fish. It is really hard to evaluate a stubborn person.
Since this happened in ancient times, we have to follow the ancient rules and no one is an exception. Having no independent skills to rely on is seeking death. Can an ant go against an elephant?
So now when he closed his eyes, he saw Molanzhu's future - a dark one!
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