Chapter 229: Proposal (2)
Manager Mu has said several times that if Song Liyun agrees, he will choose a girl from his family to marry her.
But at that time Hong Jingtian had not been caught yet, and Song Liyun did not want to implicate others, so she postponed it to winter.
Later, Song Liyun became notorious. Since her husband's family had such a powerful sister-in-law who had not yet married off, other families with daughters did not dare to mention it rashly.
Only Xu's sister-in-law was brave enough to come directly to the door.
In fact, according to Song Zhenping's age, it is time for him to talk about marriage, but the character of Xu's sister-in-law is not good, and Song Liyun's impression of her cousin is greatly reduced. Even if she is praised as a flower, she will still have doubts in her heart.
Unexpectedly, Song Zhenping also refused.
Why refuse?
Song Zhenping blushed again and again, and finally said, "Mrs. Zhang said that a distant cousin from her mother's village will come to the market in a few days, and she asked me to go to her house to help harvest the rice..."
Song Liyun suddenly laughed.
Mrs. Zhang is the young wife Chuntao who proposed to Aunt Ma in the town to find a job in the Song family.
The family was hardworking and took over the land of Hu Qing and Xue Zhuang in the town to grow crops.
Since they were both farming in the same place, he naturally had a lot of contact with Song Zhenping. Song Zhenping also often helped his family with work, and they became very familiar with each other after a few visits.
When asked by Song Liyun, Song Zhenping readily told the story of the woman.
The girl's surname was Yang, and her name was Yang Hua. She was older than Song Zhenping, already 22 years old, which was considered too old for marriage in the Wu Dynasty.
Sister-in-law Chuntao did not hide it and said that because her parents died early and her younger brothers and sisters were young, the girl had to take over the family and raise the child alone.
Now that her younger sister is married and her brother's wife is living in the family, she can no longer stay in her parents' home and wants to find a family to marry into.
But most boys dislike her because she is too old and has no dowry, so they are unwilling to marry her. Now they are talking about widowers or men who have divorced their wives.
Chuntao said that the girl was diligent and down-to-earth, a good housekeeper, and had a good appearance, but she was delayed only because of her younger siblings.
Moreover, my distant cousin has a good temper. If she marries into the Song family, she will definitely take good care of Xiao An.
Others were afraid that Song Liyun was too fierce, but the Zhang family had a lot of contact with Song Zhenping and Xiao An, so they naturally knew that Song Liyun was a person with a cold appearance but a kind heart.
He was just worried that the Song family would dislike the girl because of her age, so he wanted Song Zhenping to meet her first.
When Song Zhenping heard that the girl delayed her marriage for her younger brother and sister, he immediately thought of himself. He was also willing to give everything for his younger brother and sister.
If Yun'er hadn't taken me away, I don't know what my life would be like now.
The feeling of sympathy made him decide to meet him.
In addition, he also thought that Yun'er was already eighteen years old, and if he got married earlier, he would have an older sister-in-law at home to arrange the marriage for his sister.
He was just worried that Yun'er would object since she was older than him, so he had been thinking about whether he should tell her these past few days.
Song Zhenping is not a scheming person after all. Now that his sister asked him, he did not hide it.
Song Liyun nodded continuously after hearing this: It doesn't matter that the girl is two years older, you just need to meet her first and find out what her situation is.
No matter how good a girl is, you cannot marry her if she sacrifices her youth for her younger brother before getting married and sacrifices her family for her younger brother after getting married.
As for Song Zhenping's marriage, Song Liyun thought it would be a good idea to find a farm girl who matched his personality.
Song Zhenping is an ordinary farm boy, and now he is a military household, so he has no future.
A perfect life is one in which one has no worries about food and clothing and lives in harmony with his wife.
In the future, Xiao An can go to Qili County to live with him, so that Song Zhenping and his wife can live a stable life.
Song Liyun asked the Zhang family to arrange the time for harvesting rice, which was also the time for them to meet the girl, so that she could stay at home.
Song Zhenping blushed and said, "Brother Zhang said that my family doesn't have much rice, so we should harvest it together."
Is this a blind date competition in the field?
Okay! No problem!
Song Liyun was also looking forward to meeting this great girl.
Song Zhenping is going on a blind date, and Song Liyun is inexplicably excited.
Not only did his smile not fade in the past two days, but he even walked briskly while carrying the plates, so briskly that Zhou Xiang and Lin Tao asked him what good things had happened to him.
How can I reveal this matter when it hasn't even started yet?
She made up a random excuse, saying that Captain Luo had told her that if Lord Jiang wanted to take the silver, he had to get approval from Captain Luo first.
At dinner time, Xiao Cui, who had stopped her that day to question the private room, came again.
When she saw Song Liyun serving dishes, she showed disdain: "So you are a servant doing menial work. Come here and order some food for me."
Song Liyun already knew the girl's name through the membership card. It was Xiao Cui. She came here from Pingyang Prefecture for a visit and lived in Zuichunlou with her host.
It seems that Xiao Cui is very favored by her master and can come out to eat.
He is also very generous. Last time he ordered a lot of grilled skewers, plus fruit wine and lunch boxes, which cost at least two taels of silver.
"Miss Xiao Cui, people are divided into high and low classes, but jobs are not. They are all for money. What would you like to eat today?" Song Liyun didn't want to discuss the distinction between high and low classes with the people here.
As long as there are people, there will be classes, high and low.
The only thing they have in common is that they all use different means to make money. Some work diligently to make a small profit, while others are unscrupulous and greedy.
She casually changed the subject to the dishes Xiao Cui wanted to order.
Hearing that there was no distinction between high and low jobs, Xiao Cui curled her lips. The maids and cleaning women in the mansion were all lowly servants doing menial work.
But the Master's orders were crucial, and she couldn't chat any longer. So, she folded her delicate hands and began to order: "Today, I want one hundred skewers of lamb, fifty skewers of roasted kidneys, chicken skewers, roasted chicken heads, chicken hearts, chicken feet, shrimp balls, lamb penis, lamb eggs, lamb kidneys, pig skin, fish tofu, and roasted leeks... roasted eggplant, roasted..."
Song Liyun frowned when she heard this. This was a bit too much!
Xiao Cui finished speaking in one breath, and then said proudly: "Ha! There are so many today, can Tianxianglou bake them all?"
These things can definitely be baked, but some ingredients cannot, such as roasted chicken feet and roasted lamb eggs.
There were no special chicken farms for feed production in the Wu Dynasty. Each family only raised a few or ten chickens for eggs, and the chickens sold in the market were all live chickens.
Tianxianglou buys a few chickens every day to make soup and barbecue, and only gets some chicken feet and chicken hearts.
Now Xiao Cui wants twenty skewers of chicken feet and twenty skewers of chicken hearts at once, but the store doesn’t have enough in stock.
"Miss Xiao Cui, we have as many lamb skewers as you want, but we don't have lamb... lamb eggs or lamb kidneys, or chicken hearts or chicken feet. Can you replace them with other dishes?" Song Liyun explained politely.
"If you don't have it, go buy some right away! I'll order twenty skewers of chicken hearts, and you can go buy the chicken." Xiao Cui said nonchalantly.
Song Liyun was speechless: In order to buy twenty strings of chicken hearts, she needed to buy sixty chickens. She had to go to her grandma's house.
She didn't want to talk to this fairy who didn't understand the hardships of life, so she just forced a smile and said, "We really don't have chicken hearts or chicken feet. Miss Cui, please try something else! We have grilled cold noodles now, which are also delicious."
"Oh, then I'll give you another twenty skewers of grilled cold noodles, and fifty skewers of chicken hearts and chicken feet..."
Song Liyun's eyes flashed: It's increasing instead of decreasing, he's deliberately looking for trouble!
(End of this chapter)
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