Chapter 128 Marriage

"So fast?" Liu Yinyin was slightly stunned.

From the time we met to the wedding date, it took only one month.

Jiang Cuihua didn't think there was anything wrong with it: "Why hurry up? I'm free now, so I have time to get married."

The Chinese New Year is less than a month away. It will be so joyous to bring a new bride home before the New Year.

Jiang Cuihua was delighted when she thought about it: "By the way, did you buy the things I asked you to buy?"

The betrothal gifts of both families had already been agreed upon. Huang Laizi asked for a betrothal gift of 88 yuan, two kilograms of meat, two kilograms of wedding candy, and a new set of clothes.

As for the dowry, when a country family marries off a daughter, they would usually make a new quilt and a few pieces of furniture as the daughter's dowry.

However, there are also some cruel parents who do not give any dowry at all.

Jiang Cuihua didn't really care about this. No matter how much dowry the other party gave, it all belonged to the woman. As a mother-in-law, she would not covet her daughter-in-law's things.

According to the customs in the countryside, such a betrothal gift is considered high.

The main reason is that new clothes are hard to come by, and you need tickets to buy fabrics.

But Jiang Cuihua agreed to the request because she thought that the girl's family had defective cloth.

In addition to clothes, there is also meat and wedding candy.

There is salted meat at home, but when Liu Lai-fu and his wife went to the Huang family to discuss the marriage yesterday, they had already given two kilograms of salted meat and five kilograms of flour.

Marriage is a happy event, so it is better to buy fresh pork for the woman.

You only get married once in your life, so you still have to spend the money.

Liu Yinyin smiled. During this time, she was either taking care of the children at home or going up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. She had no time to go to the county town.

However, there is no rush to buy meat and wedding candy, as there is still half a month left.

Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "I'll go to the county town tomorrow to buy wedding candy."

I haven't been to the county town for a long time. By the way, I have to go and take a look at the house in the staff compound. There are more than a thousand kilograms of grain inside.

Don't buy pork for now.

and.

"If Gu Cheng comes back, I will kill the pig at home so we don't have to buy pork." Liu Yinyin said.

One of the two pigs in the family was handed over to the collective a few days ago.

The other one is still being kept in the pigpen.

The New Year is coming soon, and it’s time to kill the New Year pig.

Liu Yinyin raised two pigs, each of which was very fat, weighing more than two hundred to nearly three hundred kilograms.

The one handed over to the collective was a little smaller. The last time it was weighed, it weighed 274 kilograms.

The other pig in the pigpen is even bigger. After another half a month, it is estimated to grow to 300 kilograms. For a moment, everyone was shocked.

During those two days, many people in the village came to ask Liu Yinyin how she raised pigs and how she could make them so fat.

For an ordinary family, it is considered good if they can raise a pig to 200 kilograms.

Every pig raised by Liu Yinyin is fat and strong, nearly 100 pounds fatter than other pigs! How much more money would this 100 pounds of pork meat cost!

Liu Yinyin was embarrassed. How could she know how to raise pigs? She just set a small stove for the two pigs every now and then. When the pigs were full, they would naturally grow meat.

Occasionally, we would cook some food, such as beans, sweet potato vines, and coarse grains like corn.

Moreover, she had heard Jiang Zhiqing mention it once before, saying that pigs can grow meat easily by eating pumpkin, carrots and beets.

Therefore, Liu Yinyin usually feeds pigs with a lot of these vegetables.

I don’t know if this is the reason, but the two pigs at home are fat and strong, with shiny fur, and they look very healthy.

Liu Yinyin then passed the blame to Jiang Zhiqing, saying that he had read the pig-raising technical manual and knew how to raise pigs.

So the villagers went to Jiang Zhiqing for advice again.

Only then did Liu Yinyin's home return to peace.

She wanted to keep another pig at home and slaughter it near the Chinese New Year, but the exact time would have to wait until Gu Cheng came back.

The pig handed over to the collective was not raised for free. Liu Yinyin received five kilograms of pork tickets and more than ninety kilograms of money.

But it makes other people jealous.

The pig raised by the Liu family was also handed over to the collective, but the pig weighed only about 190 pounds, and they only got two pounds of pork, which was less than half of what Liu Yinyin got.

However, these two pounds of pork tickets and a few dozen yuan can be used to arrange Liu Mingyuan's wedding.

For this reason, Jiang Cuihua no longer needs to borrow money.

But in this way, the family was completely emptied out.

The lady's family has a pig to be slaughtered.

Jiang Cuihua was looking forward to her son-in-law coming back soon.

The next day, Jiang Cuihua came over early in the morning to help the young lady take care of the child.

After finishing her breakfast, Liu Yinyin packed a basket of things and rode her bicycle to the county town.

"mother......"

Seeing Liu Yinyin leaving, Gu Yanyan instinctively chased after her for a few steps, shaking his legs. Unfortunately, he was not walking steadily and soon, he sat down on the ground.

When Jiang Cuihua picked him up, Gu Yanyan pointed his chubby hand outside the yard and shouted, "Mom..."

His mother is gone and he wants to go find her.

Unfortunately, the little guy can only call dad and mom now, and can't say other words.

Jiang Cuihua patted the dust off his butt and said, "Mom is going to the county town to buy you some delicious food. She will be back soon."

Gu Yanyan didn't understand anything else, but he did understand the word "eat". He tilted his head and thought about it, then suddenly uttered a word: "Times!"

Jiang Cuihua smiled and said, "Yes, your mother has gone to buy you something delicious, so don't cry."

Gu Yanyan seemed to understand something. He cried out twice and stopped looking for his mother.

Then, he turned his attention to the puppies and began to destroy them ruthlessly.

Gu Yanyan likes the puppy at home very much and strokes its fur from time to time.

The puppy has a gentle personality and now recognizes its owner. It will not resist even if caught by Gu Yanyan.

Fortunately, the little guy was not strong enough, and Gu Yanyan's little fat hands pulled him here and there, which felt like itchy on his body.

Liu Yinyin rode her bicycle to the county town and first went to the house in the staff compound.

I haven't been here for a while, and the house is covered with dust.

Since she wasn't staying here, Liu Yinyin simply packed up her things and went to visit Aunt Zhou next door with a basket of things.

When she came, she brought fifty eggs, ten pounds of potatoes, a rabbit, a handful of Chinese cabbage, a handful of mustard greens, and a handful of celery.

The weather was cold, so the vegetables in the fields didn't grow much. But it hadn't snowed yet, so Liu Yinyin didn't harvest the vegetables in the fields.

She couldn't eat much by herself, so there were still a lot of vegetables left in the field.

Aunt Zhou was washing clothes in the yard when she saw Liu Yinyin coming to her house.

He immediately welcomed the person in with a smile, complaining, "Yinyin, why did you come to the county town after such a long time? I look forward to your coming every day."

I was mainly thinking about the food that Liu Yinyin brought.

Although the people in the city were not greatly affected by the natural disaster, the crops in the fields did not produce any results.

The materials supplied by the supply and marketing cooperatives will definitely be affected.