Chapter 201 Who are you sleeping with?
In winter, cattails dry up, and they can be used to make straw mats, so they can be used right after they are cut. Mrs. Chen rarely comes out, and she finds it interesting to see the children practicing. The sun is shining brightly on the open space, so Chen Lie simply puts all the cattails next to the open space for practicing martial arts, and asks Sang Luo to wait while he goes back to move a few small stools for Sang Luo and the others to sit on to make straw mats.
As soon as he left, Chen Dashan, seeing them coming back, quit his job as the second master and left the group of children to practice on his own. Seeing that Gan and Sang Luo were beside his grandmother, he quickly ran after Chen Lie, followed him to the side, and asked in a low voice: "How is it? Did the Zhou family agree?"
He looked at his grandmother with a smile on her face.
Chen Lie thought about what Sang Luo had just whispered to the old lady, and smiled: "Your grandma said that she didn't agree to it the first time, and she has to go again the day after tomorrow, but I think it can be done."
He whispered, "Congratulations."
Chen Dashan was so happy that he almost lost his mind. He discussed with Chen Lie: "You stay in the valley for two more days tomorrow. I have to go into the mountains to find something."
Weddings are not big events in the countryside, and it is not realistic to have a wedding banquet in the current situation. He wanted to prepare more betrothal gifts so as not to let Zhou Ge down.
Chen Lie knew Chen Dashan very well. He knew what he was going to do just by the tone of his voice. He smiled and said, "Go ahead. This is a good thing. If you need help, just pick a few people. These guys are all pretty good now. Even your Ershan and my kids can hunt small prey now. We just need a good helper to let them go."
Chen Dashan had just tested the skills of Shen Lie's disciples this morning, and knew that Shen Lie was right. He said, "Okay, I'll think of getting some fresh food, and I'll take Ershan to explore the depths tomorrow."
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During the day, Sang Luo, Gan Shi, and Chen Po made straw curtains. Chen Lie took a few boys out to dig up a lot of yellow mud, and then used the mud and straw to paste a layer of mud walls on the outside of the wooden house where Chen An and Shen Jin lived. Thick curtains were hung inside the doors of the cave and the wooden house. With leather and thick quilts, it would be much warmer at night.
Mrs. Chen was worried about her grandson's marriage, so she decided not to go back to the valley and stayed in the village outside the village. The Chen family's cave was slightly larger than Chen Lie's, with two beds, and the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren could squeeze in.
It was because she stayed that she discovered that Shen Ning actually lived with Shen Lie and Sang Luo, which stunned the old lady.
It was not easy to ask Chen Lie and Sang Luo about this, so the next day she quietly called Chen Ning aside to question him.
Chen Ning really didn't understand these things. She had never had parents around her since she was a child, so she didn't think so much when she was a child. In the valley, every family lived together, so in her opinion, it was very normal for her family to live like this.
Gan lived outside, but the Shi family's cave was far away from Shen Lie's cave. Shen Ning and Sang Luo both learned martial arts and got up early every day. There was a wooden house next to the Shen family. How could Gan know that Shen An and Shen Jin were the only ones living in the wooden house?
So apart from Mrs. Chen who came out on this trip, no one really paid attention to these things.
"You said you slept with your sister-in-law?"
Shen Ning nodded without thinking.
Mrs. Chen's eyes widened: "Then where does your elder brother sleep?"
"A couch. We have a couch under our bed. We can pull it out when we sleep at night."
Mrs. Chen had a lot of question marks in her head and was dumbfounded.
There was no way to do it in the valley, how come they came out now, and there was a house, Sang Luo and Chen Ning sleeping there???
She suddenly remembered the curtain hanging between the two beds in Chen Ning's room in Shili Village, and asked Chen Ning in amazement: "Your sister-in-law has never slept with you, has she?"
Chen Ning also felt that something was wrong, although he didn't know what was wrong, and nodded hesitantly.
Mrs. Chen cried out and slapped her thigh, the marriage was not consummated at all.
The old lady looked at Chen Ning again, her head was big, she looked around and saw no one, and whispered: "You are stupid, how could you sleep with your sister-in-law? Your eldest brother and sister-in-law are married, they should sleep together, how come you slept with your sister-in-law."
Oh my God, what is going on?
Shen Ning was also dumbfounded. She didn't understand the deeper meaning of the old lady's words, but she understood what she should have understood on the surface. She was not a fool, but no one taught her relevant things since she was a child. She had no contact or observation, so she didn't pay attention at all.
Especially after entering the valley, everyone was doing the same thing, and her elder brother and sister-in-law acted as if it was their due, so she wouldn't think too much about it.
After Mrs. Chen's ambiguous words, she understood, "Then, then, then I will move in tonight?"
There is still room in Shen An and Shen Jin's room. Just move her eldest brother's couch over there.
"Move, move, move, you silly girl, what can I say to you?" What kind of affection is Chen Lie? In a year, he hasn't even sat next to his wife's bed.
Fearing that Sang Luo would be embarrassed, he said, "Don't tell me that I taught you, and don't let your sister-in-law know that I know. Just say that you are old enough to live in the same cave with your brother, and ask to move to the wooden house."
As Mrs. Chen was talking, she wanted to slap her thigh again. Finally, she rubbed Shen Ning's forehead twice with her hand and said, "Silly."
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Shen Ning is going to move to a new house.
Sang Luo was still a little confused, "Why would you change it for no reason?"
Chen Ning agreed to Mrs. Chen's request that she not expose her, but she didn't know what to say for a moment, so she thought of Xu Wenyin and said nonsense: "I think Wenyin is like this. She said that we girls have to avoid taboos when we grow up, so she didn't live in the same room with her father, uncle, cousins, etc. Instead, she separated two rooms in the cave, one for her and one for her brothers. I see there is room in our wooden house, so please move your couch over there. I can hang a straw curtain next to my couch and have my own room."
He said it smoothly, and solved the problem of his bed, but Shen Lie almost choked. He cleared his throat two or three times before saying, "You can move it over, but I won't move the couch. If you have extra wood, I'll build you a bed."
He and Sang Luo used to live together, but it wouldn't work without this couch. He started to feel something was wrong just thinking about it.
Chen Ning only remembered that Mrs. Chen asked her to move. It didn't matter whether it was a couch or not. She didn't understand it at all. She was happy when her elder brother said he would make her a bed: "Okay, then elder brother, go get me a thin quilt and two wolf skins tonight. I'll put some more hay on it, and use it as a half cushion and half cover. I'll put the wolf skin on top and it'll be warm."
Shen Lie agreed, and Sang Luo didn't think much about it. Shen Ning usually spent time with Xu Wenyin every day. It was not surprising that Wei Lingzhen taught Xu Wenyin these rules. As for the fact that there were only her and Shen Lie in the cave, she and Shen Lie had lived together for a long time before Shen Ning and the others left the valley, so it didn't matter.
Chen Lie went to Chen's house to borrow a saw. When Mrs. Chen heard about beating the bed, she was stunned.
Why do you still want to make bed?
It turns out that the couch hidden under the bed is still for Chen Lie to use.
But it was hard for her to say this.
Okay, okay, it’s better than having Shen Ning sleeping next to you.
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On the third day, when Chen Dashan and Chen Ershan brought back two musk deer from the mountains, Gan brought back the news that the Zhou family had agreed to the marriage.
Without even waiting for the next day, two days ago when Shen Lie went back to the valley to get the wolf skin for Shen Ning, Chen Dashan went back with him and took out the betrothal gifts. Now, along with the two newly hunted musk deer, the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren, plus two boys who helped carry things, and Gan went again to deliver the betrothal gifts.
Two shi of millet, two shi of various beans and grains, two jars of salt, six pieces of leather, two ends of new cloth, sixty jin of smoked meat, and two musk deer.
This betrothal gift, not to mention the refuge in the mountains, would have been considered extremely generous during the peaceful times of the past few years, not to mention the salt, grain, cloth and meat available now, which one is not in short supply for everyone?
The Zhou family was dumbfounded when they saw so many betrothal gifts.
The Zhou family only has one cave, and there is nowhere to hide. When talking about marriage, there is actually no need to avoid it too much. Chen Dashan and Zhou Ge finally met each other after two months.
Different from before when only they knew each other's thoughts, this time everything was clear, so it was different, and each look at the other was filled with sweetness.
There are not so many rules in the countryside, and now that they are taking refuge in the mountains, there are even fewer rules to follow. Zhou Ge just hid in the cave, and Mrs. Chen and Zhou Laizi's wife began to discuss the wedding date.
Compared to keeping her daughter with her longer, Zhou Laizi's wife would rather her daughter go to Chen's house earlier.
Because of trust, because peace in the mountains is in sight, and no one knows when someone will come in. It is true that there are many people in the village, but Zhou Laizi's wife trusts Chen Lie and Chen Dashan's group more, and believes that her daughter is safer in the Chen family.
Since one wanted to marry and the other wanted to get married, the wedding date was easy to negotiate. We just had to choose based on the time the two families needed to prepare for the wedding, and it was set on November 28th.
Chen Dashan and Zhou's father and son were on the other side. When they heard that the wedding was less than ten days away, they were so happy that their lips curled up high. Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang also laughed when they saw this.
After talking about this, Zhou Laizi's wife and Chen Pozi left the small courtyard and talked about something in private in the big courtyard outside where they were growing crops. Then the Chen family went back.
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The Chen family was preparing to marry their grandson's wife, so the most important thing was naturally to build a house. They built a new house directly in the cave, and just like the Shen family, they built a wooden house outside the cave, separating the toilet and the firewood room for Chen Youtian and Chen Ershan to live in.
Not to mention the adults, all the children in the valley were skilled in felling trees and building wooden houses. Dozens of people, big and small, could work very quickly. Chen Youtian made new beds for his son and daughter-in-law, and moved the two old beds into the wooden house for himself and Ershan to use. It could also provide space for other family members to stay when they occasionally went out of the valley.
The Chen family was going to build a house, so Chen Dashan stayed outside the village every day. Chen Lie and Sang Luo were thinking about preparing a wedding gift for Chen Dashan.
In these big mountains, if you want to give something as a gift, you can only look for it in the mountains.
"I was thinking of catching a few live sheep and raising two of them in a sheep pen. Then we can send one or two to Dashan and the others."
Sang Luo liked to drink goat's milk. After leaving the valley, the goat's milk from the ewe in the valley was basically supplied to the elderly and children in the valley. Sang Luo herself couldn't drink it, but he chiseled a stone mill for her, so she could occasionally make some soy milk and tofu pudding to eat, but there was no better food.
Chen Lie had been thinking about it for a long time, but he just couldn't get out before. Now that Chen Dashan is staying here, he can go and think of a way to look for it.
Sang Luo's eyes lit up when she heard about raising sheep. She looked at Chen Lie and asked, "Is it easy to find sheep now?"
Animals are actually very smart. With so many people living in this area, there are people hanging around in the surrounding mountains every day. Except for small animals like pheasants and rabbits, those that can run actually hide deep inside. It is not easy to hunt big animals from the outside. Chen Dashan also runs very far when hunting musk deer.
Chen Lie saw her intent and his eyes moved. "If we go deeper, we will have to rely on our luck to find specific animals. It may take two or three days to find them. Do you want to go with me?"
My eyes are full of anticipation of being with you.
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