"Did your uncle give these to you?"
"yes."
Liu was dazzled by the contents of the box. Inside were all kinds of luxurious jewelry, hairpins, earrings, bracelets, pendants...
She had never seen such beautiful and luxurious jewelry before, and she couldn't help but touch it again and again.
"Since it's for you, you should keep it well and wear it when you're older, or keep it in the bottom of your dowry when you get married."
Liu closed the lid reluctantly and gave instructions.
"Mom, wear them. These jewelries are too old-fashioned."
The light in Liu's eyes when she saw these jewels was so bright that it was hard to ignore.
And what she said was true. These jewellery were obviously made for adults and were not suitable for her age at all.
"What nonsense are you talking about? This is a gift from someone, how can I let you wear it? These things are indeed not suitable for your age, but you will grow up and wear them when you grow up. Besides, I have my own jewelry."
As Liu spoke, she touched the wooden hairpin in her hair, which was a gift from her husband.
In addition to this, she also had a silver hairpin as a dowry given to her by her father when she got married.
It’s just that it has always been the village chief with last resort.
In Yamada Village, a new piece of jewelry is enough to attract people's attention. A piece of silver jewelry will cause a sensation and attract people's attention.
"Put it away carefully. Even if you want to wear it now, you can't. It's too dangerous."
"I know, mother."
Lin Shiyu nodded. She hadn't wanted to wear it in the first place. Besides, she didn't like dressing up much. Jewelry was too cumbersome for her and inconvenient in her daily life.
"When your father comes back next time, mom will urge him to read more books. Once he has achieved success, wearing this won't be so conspicuous."
All girls like to be coquettish, and Liu thought Lin Shiyu should be the same, so she thought about it and comforted her.
"Then you have to supervise him well, Mom."
Although she doesn't want to wear jewelry, she can wear it against her conscience in order to help her father succeed.
"Okay!" Liu responded with a smile.
At the same time, she was already planning how to prepare more dowry for her daughter. I heard that the dowry for the daughter of a wealthy family is prepared from the moment she is born.
Their family doesn't have the conditions for this, but when her husband becomes successful, maybe he can learn from those families.
Time suddenly came to the end of the year.
When Lin Anru came back from vacation, she and Lin Anji transported several trucks of herbs to the county town.
This is the last batch of herbs to be sold this year. From the moment the money is distributed to everyone, every household begins to prepare New Year's goods.
In addition to the pork distributed when the village slaughters the New Year pig, every household will also slaughter a chicken on New Year's Day, and those who can afford it will also add a fish.
This year the weather has been good and the grain harvest has been abundant. The farmers have been smiling since the autumn harvest.
The villagers of Yamada Village are even better off. The harvest from the fields is good and they have extra income, so they have prepared particularly rich New Year's goods.
Meat, fruits, candy... almost everyone bought a little, and even bought a few extra sheets of red paper for decoration.
Then, Lin Anru, a scholar in the village, began to write couplets for everyone.
The villagers were illiterate, so they just followed Lin Anru in writing whatever he wrote. But Lin Anru was thoughtful and read out loud every time he wrote a picture.
Lin Boyu, who was in charge of grinding, looked at his father enviously.
It’s not that I envy his talent, but I envy his income.
Yes, there is a fee for writing couplets.
Bring your own paper, two cents per piece.
"Brother, come quickly, mom has steamed the sponge cake!"
As soon as Lin Shiyu called out, Lin Boyu didn't want to stay outside grinding anymore. His body was still in the yard, but his mind was in the kitchen.
"Go, go!"
Lin Anru waved his hand and let him go. It was almost the New Year and he didn't have the heart to scold his son for not concentrating on his work. He just wanted to treat it as giving his son a holiday.
Upon hearing this, Lin Boyu moved his feet and went straight to the kitchen without stopping.
In addition to the sponge cakes that Lin Shiyu mentioned, there are also mugwort dumplings, red dumplings, brown sugar rice cakes, mustard green dumplings, and fried dumplings in the kitchen...
It made his mouth water.
In his memory, these things were very delicious.
But when we were still in the old house, we didn’t have so many varieties, only one or two, and the quantity was not that large.
Every year he can eat less and less, so he thinks about it from the beginning to the end of the year.
"Don't eat those near the stove, they are for worshiping gods and ancestors."
When Liu saw him come in, she gave him some instructions and then ignored him.
It was the first time for her to prepare New Year's goods by herself. She was so busy that she had no extra time to take care of the children.
After showing off a few New Year's goods, Lin Boyu slowed down and asked:
"Mom, can we finish all the food if we make so much? Don't let it go bad."
If it gets smelly, you will get an upset stomach. In order to avoid getting an upset stomach, you have to throw it away. What a pity!
"Apart from offering food to the gods and ancestors, we keep some for ourselves and give the rest to relatives and friends."
Liu explained.
The two elders of the Lin family, the eldest brother's family, the second brother's family, the sister-in-law's family, the village chief, the neighborhood chief, and Lin Anru's classmates and friends, etc.
If you count carefully, there may not be enough.
But if you send it to others, they will also send it to you. If it is not enough, you can sort out the ones you received and send them out.
When he heard that they were going to be given away as gifts, Lin Boyu, who was already feeling a bit full, stuffed two more into his mouth.
Lin Shiyu looked at his actions and wanted to persuade him, but in the end she didn't say anything. Instead, she quietly prepared the digestive tea.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, come out quickly, something happened!"
Suddenly, Sun's voice was heard outside, and in a blink of an eye, even Sun's people appeared.
"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Liu asked hurriedly.
"Hey, the second son's wife's family came to collect the debt. The second son couldn't pay, so he said he would sell Shiyi's lake to pay off the debt. The child accidentally heard it and went to find his parents out of fear.
"The parents aren't home, so the child came looking for us. Just now, the Zhang family took Shiyi back, and Anji and Anru ran to stop them. The Zhang family is large, and I'm worried, so I came to find you to take a look."
It was only today that she found out that the second brother's house was built with money borrowed from his wife's family.
Liu wiped her hands, told Lin Shiyu to watch the fire at home, and she hurriedly followed Sun out.
"Brother, go find the village chief and tell him that someone from my second uncle's family is causing trouble. Ask him to find some help."
The New Year's goods are still steaming in the pot, so someone has to stay at home.
Lin Shiyu compared her legs with Lin Boyu's, and decisively asked Lin Boyu, who had long legs, to run for help.
None of the seven brothers from her second uncle's maternal side looked easy to deal with. Her pen-grabbing father and silly uncle were definitely not enough to handle them.
Lin Boyu nodded obediently and ran towards the village chief's house with his feet flying.
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