Zhao Xiaoyu knew that no matter what, there was no chance of going into the mountains recently. After telling her parents not to blame Xiao Lei, she went back to the house to deal with the medicinal herbs she had just dug.
Song didn't have much to say, except to tell Xiao Lei not to follow Zhao Xiaoyu's advice to go into the mountains. Zhao Dashu took Xiao Lei to his study and talked with him for a full hour. When he came out, he was in a daze.
Uncle Zhao's mouth is just like that of an old lady, he keeps chattering like a broken shoe sole, he has been muttering for so long, but he still has only one meaning over and over again, he really can't stand it.
He was released only after he promised countless times that there would definitely not be a next time.
"Huh, no matter what, you can't go up the mountain anymore. Uncle Zhao is too scary."
On the second day, Zhao Xiaoyu was preparing to deal with two big snakes. When Mrs. Fu heard that she caught one of the snakes herself, she came over out of curiosity and saw her peeling the snake's skin. She fell to the ground.
"Ah!" The woman sitting on the ground wanted to cry.
How could she think of catching and eating such a big snake? Oh my god, does Miss Qi have to be so fierce?
What's there to be afraid of? I was so scared that I sat on the ground. It's just a dead snake.
"Madam, when the snake soup is ready, you can have a bowl too."
Madam Master: ...
If it were her daughter, she would definitely be punished by copying "Rules for Women" a hundred times. She would be so crazy.
But both the husband and wife of the Xu family love their children very much. I have never seen them get angry with their children. Even though they made such a big mistake yesterday, I didn’t hear them scold them at all.
The teacher's wife shook her head. Every family has its own way of doing things. They were just hired to teach, and it was not known how many people they would be hired for. In the future, they will still have to return to their home in the provincial capital.
The new house here is just built for them to live in temporarily. The land deed belongs to their family, and the house also belongs to them.
So she actually has no sense of belonging here, and she has no land or house.
Soak the snake body in white wine and ginger slices for 15 minutes to remove the fishy smell. Blanch the freshly killed old hen and make broth. After blanching the snake, throw it into the hen broth. Add shiitake mushrooms and simmer on low heat for half an hour.
Stew until the snake meat is boneless, then take out the snake meat, cut it into thin strips, put it back into the pot and stew it for another quarter of an hour. She doesn’t use starch to thicken the soup, but directly pours the beaten egg white on it. Add coarse salt and pepper to taste.
The snake soup is ready. I have been busy for the whole morning just for this bite. Zhao Xiaoyu smelled it and found it really fragrant.
"Take this basin to the Master's room."
"yes."
Let’s build the house quickly. It’s actually quite inconvenient to live together. At least that’s what Zhao Xiaoyu thinks.
The children in the teacher's family are extremely boring. The boy only knows how to study, and the girl sits in the yard doing embroidery every day. When the mother sees them like this, she keeps nagging at them.
It was so boring that even Li Xi didn't want to play with them.
"Xiaoyu, Chunmiao is getting engaged." Zhao Dashu suddenly said during the meal.
So sudden? "With whom?"
"Heizi's son, both families have agreed that the engagement will take place next month."
So fast!
"Is Chunmiao willing?" She thought Chunmiao was only interested in playing in the mud and had no idea about relationships between men and women.
"Why doesn't she want to? Heizi's family is not bad either."
"Oh, I will give Chunmiao a gift when the time comes." When she got engaged, the girl gave her a hairpin.
"Okay, let me tell you, recently your eldest uncle and second uncle both wanted to marry their daughter to the village chief's family, but the village chief didn't agree, so he started looking for a new target.
Your eldest uncle and second uncle have surprisingly similar tastes, and they both like someone who is good friends with your father and me. ”
"Didn't you reject all of them, Second Uncle?"
"Yes, so we rejected your uncle again this time. No, no one wants the daughter of our Zhao family, right? Why do they all like the one who lives here? What do you think they want to do?"
"They want to take advantage of us to make money, and they also think these families are rich. Who would not want to find a son-in-law from a well-off family?
But I don’t understand why my uncle doesn’t look for her in the county town. There are more rich people in county towns, so what does our place count for? ”
"I guess no one in the county wants her daughter." Zhao Dashu said nonchalantly, not feeling embarrassed at all.
"Ahem..." Song coughed a few times to remind him that there was someone else sitting at the table.
"Your throat is sore, did you catch a cold? I'll have someone make you some heat-clearing soup."
Song was speechless. More than ten days had passed in vain without any tacit understanding at all.
Xiao Lei just focused on eating, pretending that he was deaf and dumb.
"Does cousin Ruxin know that she has been rejected?" Given her temper, she would definitely explode if she knew.
Zhao Dashu shrugged indifferently, "I don't care whether she knows or not, my brothers all look down on her anyway."
"Look at how capable you are. They call you uncle too. Can you be a little more polite when you speak?"
"I didn't tell anyone. The table is full of our people."
Shuzhen treated him as a family member, and Xiao Lei felt fulfilled.
Song decided not to talk anymore, and she would slowly talk at the bedside at night.
"Dad, when will we be able to fence off the wasteland we just bought?"
"It will take a while, maybe a month or so. The place is big enough and the fence is high."
“Remember to dig two wells.”
"Know."
………………
Zhao Dawen and his family finally couldn't wait any longer. It's been a month, and there's still no news. Another day off, I took Wang back to the old house.
The village chief really doesn't take them seriously. He hasn't even sent a matchmaker to their house. What do they mean?
Old man Zhao really doesn't want to see his eldest son now. He tells his son that he has messed up everything and he wants to mess it up completely.
The village chief, several clan leaders in the village, and several families at the end of the village all rejected him. He just didn't understand why he thought that the love for his popular eldest granddaughter had cooled down?
He thought that no matter which family it was, as long as they heard the news, they would come to beg for mercy, and then he and the eldest brother would slowly choose. Ru Xin was truly a girl that hundreds of families would come to ask for. He felt proud, and so did the eldest brother.
But the reality is, everyone tells him that his sons and grandsons are not worthy of his granddaughter. He didn't understand. They all looked down on Ru Xin, so what kind of person were they looking for?
A bunch of peasants just look down on the daughter of a scholar? Who would believe it if I told others? Their Ruxin is neither stupid nor disabled, and they are well-mannered and literate.
Because of this, he and his wife's hair turned a few gray again.
"Dad, what does the village chief mean? Why hasn't he come to the county town to find us yet?"
Old man Zhao choked up a little. He really didn't want to disappoint his eldest son.
"Da Wen, the village chief's relatives are dead."
"Ah? What do you mean?"
"They said they were not worthy of Ruxin."
Wang couldn't help but cover her face, not wanting her mother-in-law to see her losing her composure.
She worked so hard to raise her precious baby, but she felt heartbroken to see him being despised by a peasant.
Because of that beast Zhao Dawen, my daughter suffered a lot.
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