Chapter 190: Dry Grass and Feel Tired
When Cheng Yingzhen returned home, she found that only her youngest daughter had a pair of pearl flowers on her head. "Ajin, why don't you buy some?"
"I like to use ribbons." It would be better if there were rubber bands, simple, convenient and practical, but unfortunately there are none.
Cheng Yingzhen said in surprise, "You are already a grown-up girl, it's time for you to wear flowers and hairpins. If you don't dress up, do you have to wait until you are old?" She became angrier and angrier as she spoke, "I will go to the jewelry store to buy it for you tomorrow."
Summer just arrived and it was already so hot. Su Ruojin was thinking about what delicious food to make to cool down. While thinking, she casually refused, "Mom, I really don't want to wear it. If I buy it, it will just be left at home to collect dust."
"That won't work." Cheng Yingzhen insisted, "You are already thirteen years old, and a matchmaker has already come to you. You must dress properly."
Popsicles and ice cream must be made, but these are cold in nature, and it is not good for women to eat too much. Jelly and cold skin are okay, but they are not fresh. For some reason, Su Ruojin especially wants to have chewy jelly, but unfortunately Dayin Dynasty has no jelly powder for sale, so she has to give up.
He raised his head and asked, "Mom, what did you just say?"
This child, Cheng Yingzhen was just about to say, why is this child not shy when hearing that the matchmaker came to the door? It turned out that this child didn't listen to her at all. She was so angry that she reached out and tapped her forehead, "I said that there is a matchmaker looking for us."
Su Ruojin was stunned when she heard this: "My eldest brother passed the imperial examination last year, and he said that he would not consider marriage before he turned 20."
Su Anzhi's original words were that he would not get married unless he passed the imperial examination. Not only did Cheng Yingzhen disagree, but even Su Yanli disagreed. The couple said, "If you don't consider yourself, you have to consider your younger sisters and brothers."
It's okay for my younger brother, but the main thing is that I have two younger sisters. If he never gets married, although it doesn't absolutely mean that my sisters can't get married if my brother doesn't get married, it will always have an impact on my sisters' marriage.
So Su Yanli and his wife finally decided that if they met the right family, they would get engaged first, get married when they reached the right age, and set an example for their younger brothers and sisters.
Su Dalang finally agreed.
Cheng Yingzhen said goodbye to her daughter and said, "I'm not your elder brother. I came for you."
Su Ruojin: ...
Although she knew that young ladies in Dayin Dynasty started discussing marriage when they were twelve or thirteen years old, she was still shocked when it really happened to her. She pointed to her nose and asked, "Me?"
Cheng Yingzhen nodded, "Yeah."
Oh my god!
She blurted out, "I haven't even had my period yet. I'm not even a girl. These people are really ruthless."
Now it was Cheng Yingzhen's turn to call her mother. She reached out and hit her daughter, "You little bastard, how dare you say anything? Why aren't you ashamed?"
There's nothing to be shy about. There's no one else in the warm room.
Mrs. Ding was sitting by the couch doing needlework. When she heard her granddaughter and daughter bickering, she smiled happily and did not interrupt. This is the way mothers and daughters get along. They seem to be bickering, but in fact they are just showing off. They both look happy. This is the life she has always dreamed of, and now it has come true. How wonderful!
Su Ruojin was curious: "Whose family is the matchmaker talking about?"
Cheng Yingzhen was helpless to see that her daughter had no girlish reserve at all, but she and Su Yanli fell in love at first sight and they were in a free love relationship, so she just deliberately annoyed her shameless daughter.
He replied, "Your father was a colleague in the Imperial College. His son is the same age as your brother. He also passed the examination last year and is now in the Imperial College. The two fathers were colleagues, and the son and your elder brother were classmates. They know each other well. I heard from your father that the young man's conduct and personality are not bad. If you think he is suitable, let's meet each other first."
After traveling to the thirteenth year of the Dayin Dynasty, Su Ruojin took the issue of marriage seriously for the first time. Thinking carefully, she didn't seem to have too many requirements. "As long as the young master loves his family, wife and children as much as his father does, I will be willing."
Cheng Yingzhen smiled and said, "That's what I told your father. Your father said that the eldest son of the Wen family is a gentle and decent man with good looks and character. His father is now the director of the Imperial College, also a seventh-rank official. Our two families are a good match."
Su Ruojin is not really thirteen years old. She had been in love in her previous life and had some success in her career, so she had come into contact with different classes, whether it was love or marriage. If it were not for her loving parents and harmonious brothers and sisters in this life, she would actually be very afraid of marriage. It was really that her parents' failed marriage in the previous life dealt her too much of a blow, leaving her with a shadow.
But in this life, Su Yanli and his wife made her no longer afraid, but she also didn't have much longing. After all, how many people can meet a man like Su Yanli who cares about his family, respects his wife, and is responsible to his children?
Madam Yang, my former neighbor on the right, had a husband, but she lived like a widow, supporting the family alone and living like a man; my neighbor on the left, Lord Xue, and his wife, except for having children, seemed to have no communication at all. When she asked Lord Xue for help, she saw that he was hanging around outside when he had nothing to do and didn't go home. She thought Lord Xue was looking for ways to make money again, but Lord Xue said, "I don't want to go back early to face Madam's nagging."
Lord Xue and Madam Xue really lived their lives with mutual respect.
I don’t know if I can meet a man as loyal as Brother Su Yanli in this life.
Su Xiaomei was playing with a doll. When she heard the conversation between her mother and her elder sister, she looked up and asked, "Mom, is Brother Wen as good-looking as Brother Zhao?"
"That's definitely not the case."
They are all colleagues. Cheng Yingzhen has seen the young master of the Wen family. There is no one in the whole of Bianjing who is more handsome than the young Prince Zhao.
Su Xiaomei curled her lips and said, "If I get married, I'll find someone as good-looking as Brother Zhao."
Cheng Yingzhen was shocked (⊙o⊙)…
She quickly asked her eldest daughter: "Ajin, you..."
Su Ruojin quickly waved her hand: "That's your little daughter's idea. I don't have that idea. Qi Da is not an equal. I still understand this principle."
Sister actually doesn't like a handsome man like Zhao. Su Xiaomei asked curiously, "Sister, what does 'Qi Da Fei Ou' mean?"
Su Ruojin explained the idiom "齐大非偶", first recounted the allusion, and then concluded: "It means that the family background is not right, the family background is not right. As for the young prince Zhao, we can just admire him from afar, but we dare not try to marry him. Do you understand?"
"But Brother Zhao is definitely not as unattainable as my sister said. He is very nice every time he comes, just like my brother."
Su Ruojin raised her eyebrows, "How long has your brother Zhao not been here?"
It has been so long, so long that she almost forgot she had such a handsome brother.
"Okay." Su Xiaomei curled her lips: "Brother Zhao, the rich man, has forgotten about us."
Not really. A few days ago, Su Ruojin received a letter from Zhao Lan, saying that he was in Quzhou, Zhejiang, and asked if there were any local specialties she wanted to bring back.
specialty?
Su Ruojin's eyes lit up, (*@ο@*)Wow~, the magic weapon to relieve the heat is here!
Quzhou is close to the south, where grass jelly grows. Made into grass jelly, it is definitely a healthy version of jelly!
Su Ruojin ran away. She wanted Zhao Lan to bring her some dried herbal remedy. Dried herbal remedy shouldn't take up much space, right?
A few days ago, Qiuyue reminded the young lady to write back to the young prince, but the young mistress seemed not to have heard it. She was not enthusiastic about the letter from the young prince, but was indifferent, as if she didn't want to reply.
When the young lady returned to the room, Qiuyue thought that she had thought of something. It turned out that she had indeed thought of something. She picked up a pen and wrote a letter to the young master. Unexpectedly, after a simple greeting, she asked the young master to bring some dried grass.
What kind of dried grass is so precious that the young prince wants to take it back?
Qiuyue, who was standing nearby grinding ink, watched with her eyelids twitching. Chunxiao felt something was wrong, so he passed by while cleaning the table and secretly glanced at the letter written by the young lady. When he saw the dried grass, he was as shocked as Qiuyue.
After a while, Mao Ya came in from outside, "Sister Qiuyue, Grain in Ear is looking for you."
Qiuyue put down the ink block, came out quickly, and took Mangzhong to the side. "Did you find out?"
Mangzhong nodded, "I found out, they are all trying to curry favor with the Wuhou family. The girl in pink is called Yao Hanyan, the daughter of the third wife of Chenghou Mansion. She is fifteen years old this year, the same age as Luo Fangfei of Wuhou Mansion. The Yao family often takes advantage of the Wuhou Luo family to attend various gatherings in the capital. I guess they want to marry into a wealthy family."
Qiuyue's eyes turned cold, "If she wants to get married, that's her business. She can't step on our young lady. When the master comes back, I'll give her a good beating at the Marquis' Mansion."
Mangzhong nodded, "I understand."
Qiuyue was about to turn around, but stopped and warned, "The master is not at home, be careful and don't let anyone with ulterior motives get close to anyone in the Su family."
"yes."
As it got dark, Ah Song came over and called for dinner. He was Shu Tongshu's son Xu Niansong, who was also six years old this year and became Xiao Silang's servant.
"Is my father back?"
"My Lord is back."
Su Ruojin happily hurried to the restaurant.
A big yard has its advantages. It is spacious and comfortable to live in, and there is also a large garden and vegetable patch, so you can plant whatever you want. Su Ruojin lives a wonderful life with both a garden and a vegetable patch.
But there are also some bad things. My parents and my sister live in the main courtyard, she lives in the small courtyard on the west, and my brothers and sisters live in the big courtyard on the east. The scene of seeing the whole family at a glance in front of the corridor in front of the room is completely gone. I have to go out of the courtyard to eat, which is not as good as before.
Asong's facial features are more like Lu Dani's, but overall he is delicate, like Shu Tongshu, and likable. Su Ruojin held his hand and asked with a smile, "How many words did you learn today?"
The little guy laughed and said, "I learned the same amount as Shiro, ten words."
Seven-year-old Xiao Silang is not as good as Su Anzhi at seven years old. When Su Dalang was seven years old, he could already recite the Thousand Character Classic by heart, and began to learn the Book of Songs and go to university. Xiao Silang has just started to learn the Thousand Character Classic and only learns ten characters a day. How long will it take him to finish this?
Not only Xiao Silang is like this, Su Sanlang is not much better. Uncle Hua Ping went to the south with Prince Zhao, and he found a new master to teach Su Sanlang. This kid is naughty and mischievous, but he can endure hardships when learning kung fu. He persists every day and his skills are now quite good. It seems that he wants to pursue a career in martial arts!
The two younger brothers each had a servant. Because of Xu Niansong, the servant bought by the eldest brother was renamed A Yang, which means poplar tree. Su Sanlang's servant was the child picked up by his master. After he came to the Su family to work as a servant for Su Sanlang, he was renamed A Yu, which means elm tree. Of course, it was also because the child was taciturn that his master called him elm. Fortunately, although he was taciturn, he was not really a blockhead, otherwise... haha, it would be bad.
When they arrived at the restaurant, the family was all there, waiting for Su Ruojin. She smiled and said, "Don't wait for me, you guys eat first!"
Cheng Yingzhen said, "Everyone has just arrived." Then she turned around and said, "Mother Song, let's have dinner."
"good."
Shu Tong is the one who manages the external affairs of the Su family. His wife Lu Dani has not returned to the Lu family to run the barbecue stall since she had a child. She takes care of the housework at the Su family, which is equivalent to the nanny in charge of the inner courtyard of the Su family.
Now that I’m pregnant again, I can only stay at home and can’t go out to do business or anything like that.
Su Ruojin noticed that his father was not in a good mood today. After Cheng Yingzhen set the table for him, he also set the table for his wife, but did not set the table for her. This was because his brain was thinking about other things, and his instinctive and subconscious usual movements became inconsistent.
"Dad, is work going wrong?"
Su Yanli was awakened by his daughter's call, "No."
Her daughter's words reminded Cheng Yingzhen. She leaned in closest, glanced at her husband who looked tired, and whispered softly, "Eat first."
"Yeah." Su Yanli looked up, "It's nothing, Ajin, don't guess." After that, he calmed down, returned to normal, and had dinner with his family.
Last year, Su Anzhi returned to his ancestral home in Pingjiang Prefecture and entered the Imperial College after passing the examination for the scholar. Now he comes back every day for dinner, and the family is finally together.
He glanced at his sister who obviously didn't believe him, and motioned for her to eat first. "Eating is the most important thing in the world," was his sister's usual motto.
Su Ruojin suppressed her thoughts and ate peacefully.
Su Sanlang was practicing martial arts and growing up. He was the only one who ate the most voraciously among the people at the table. Cheng Yingzhen didn't even care about her husband and quickly wiped the sweat off his forehead with a towel, "Slow down, no one is going to snatch it from you."
Su Sanlang wrapped his mouth around the rice and said as he ate, "Mom, I know, I'm just hungry."
"You kid." Cheng Yingzhen shook her head and thought, if he had eaten like this six or seven years ago, my family would have gone bankrupt because of this kid.
After dinner, the Su family moved to the warm room to digest the food. Lu Dani asked the maids to clean up the table and set up a new table for the servants to eat.
Li Xiuzhu discovered that Mother Ji always ate in the lady's warm room and never came out. She made clothes for the master's family every day, and it seemed that there were endless clothes to make. It was really strange.
The window of the warm room was open, and the evening breeze blew in, bringing a slight coolness, making people feel a lot more comfortable.
Su Yanli lay in the rocking chair and said with his eyes closed, "The weather is so hot this year, I guess many places will be dry. Ah Jin, prepare more food."
Yes, it was unbearably hot in July in previous years, but this year it was extremely hot in June. Su Ruojin has already realized it.
"Dad, did you hear anything?"
"I heard from patrolling officials that in the north, not a drop of rain has fallen since the end of May."
Last year, there was a flood in the south, but unexpectedly, it was the turn of drought in the north. The Dayin Dynasty has been quite unstable in recent years.
In the past three years, Su Ruojin used the money she earned from the shop to buy two courtyards, but she did not use it to buy anything else for the shop. However, she bought twenty or thirty acres of land and planted a lot of grains, beans and other cash crops needed for the shop.
On the one hand, it is to reduce the operating costs of the shop, and on the other hand, it is also to prepare for natural disasters.
If there is a severe drought in the north, food prices will definitely rise and business will become difficult.
Su Ruojin felt that his father was not worried about this, so he sat next to him and helped him massage his arm, "Dad, how is the strength?"
Su Yanli opened his eyes and said, "I'm not tired."
“Is that mental fatigue?”
Su Yanli: ...
Su Ruojin smiled and said, "Then let me guess why Dad is so tired?"
(End of this chapter)
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