Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 180: Trying to bring Shen Guyan and Liu Dali together

She laughed and said, "I won't hit you, at most you'll just scold me a few times."

"We feel sorry for Gu Yan who is suffering at home. As long as the man gives a large betrothal gift, her grandmother won't care whether she is related to her relatives or not."

After thinking for a while, he continued.

"I think what you said before is right. Liu Dali's parents should have died at the end of their life span. You can't blame him."

"If it's really a bad omen, then there are many people in his village who are related to his family, aren't they all living well?"

"Aunt Lan, I think we need to find out what kind of character he has in the village and how he gets along with the villagers."

Ji Wenhe hopes that Shen Guyan can marry into a good family. If Liu Dali is really a good person, she also wants to arrange this marriage.

"Okay, I'll ask your Rongshan later."

"Oh, Aunt Lan." She suddenly remembered something. "Didn't Uncle Ping's family have a banquet? Then he would be at a loss if he gave the gift money."

"If you don't do it at home, you can't get it back."

Lan Qiuhua turned to look at her and asked in surprise, "Didn't you go to their house to give them a gift?"

Ji Wenhe shook his head: "No, they didn't have a wedding banquet, so I have to give a gift? I don't understand."

She really didn't understand, and Shen Rongshan had never told her, so she probably didn't know either.

"We all went to see it and gave six coins as a gift. I thought you had been there before, so I didn't ask you about it."

"No, I haven't been there, and I don't know."

It's over. Shen Ping wouldn't think that their family did it on purpose.

Hearing her anxious tone, Lan Qiuhua comforted her, "It's okay, just send it to him when you get home."

"This is also my fault. Rongshan was away for many years before returning. After his parents passed away, everyone would come to my house to ask questions when they encountered problems."

"You've just arrived in our village, so there's a lot you don't understand. I should go to your house to ask, but it's okay, I can just go back and give it to you."

Ji Wenhe breathed a sigh of relief: "In our place, if we don't hold a banquet or invite guests, we don't have to give gifts, so I thought it was the same here."

When you get back, give the money to them immediately.

"Some families can't afford to host a banquet and don't invite guests, but we still have to go and congratulate them."

"Just like your uncle Shen Ping's family, we can't force them to host a banquet. Every family has its difficulties."

She nodded in understanding and asked, "Is there anyone who would not host a banquet on purpose to save money?"

"I heard from the older generation that there was, and such people are not welcome in the village."

Lan Qiuhua has been married to Shenjia Village for many years and has never encountered such a thing. Only families that are extremely poor will not hold a banquet.

"Sister-in-law, Aunt Lan." Shen Wenshan stood beside the donkey cart and waved at them.

The goods have been loaded onto the truck and appear to be waiting for them.

Shen Rongshan took the pottery jars from their hands and turned to look at her: "Didn't you buy the cotton?"

"No, come back in August."

“Is the price too high?”

"That's not the case. Forty cents a pound. I need to make two thick quilts and a cotton coat. It will take more than twenty pounds."

"We don't have much money. If we don't buy it now, we can come back in two months. Can we leave now?"

He nodded: "Well, let's go."

The three of them got on the cart and sat down, and he led the donkey cart in front.

After leaving the town, Lan Qiuhua asked, "Wenshan, you and Liu Dali know each other."

"I met them when I went to their village to sell goods. What's the matter, Aunt Lan?"

"I want to bring him together with Shen Guyan." He turned his head and looked at the man driving the carriage in front. "Rongshan, what do you think of Liu Dali?"

Shen Rongshan thought about it carefully: "He is a good person, very loyal, brave, and dares to fight."

When hunting wolves in Baiyun Mountain, he also killed a wolf, which shows his courage.

Ji Wenhe took over the conversation: "Brother Shen, how much do you know?"

He recalled the days he spent in Baiyun Mountain, during which he had always obeyed his master's instructions, unlike some people who kept arguing and did not trust his master.

The people in Liujia Village also believed in his words, and he was the one who went to talk with the villagers.

When they were invited to hunt the wolves, they agreed that the whole village would pay for it. But in the end, after the wolves were hunted, they wanted to pay half of the money.

It was Liu Dali who went to talk to the village chief and distributed the agreed money to them in full.

"I think he's a nice guy," Shen Wenshan said. "He has land and a house, and he knows how to hunt."

"He has a bad reputation. People in his village said that if it weren't for this bad reputation, he wouldn't have been unable to find a wife."

Turning his head to look at the person behind him: "Aunt Lan, he is a good person, but he is unkind. If you tell him to Shen Guyan, that would be..."

Do you want a beating?

Lan Qiuhua sighed helplessly: "That's what I'm worried about. I'm afraid that Aunt Xie will say that I'm a bad-hearted person for marrying such a person to her granddaughter."

"But Liu Dali is much better than what Lin Yueniang said. Shen Guyan has seen two men, but one of them can't afford a betrothal gift and has a seriously ill mother at home."

"The other family had three brothers who lived in a thatched house with their parents. They only had two acres of land and could not even afford a betrothal gift."

"Why do you always introduce people like this?" Ji Wenhe frowned, "Isn't Lin Yueniang taking it to heart?"

If you marry into a family like this, wouldn't you definitely suffer?

"Wen He, you don't understand. Lin Yue Niang says what she wants based on what the girl's family is like."

"Even those with rich families would not look down on Shen Guyan. It is impossible for Xie Fenglian to ask for more betrothal gifts."

That's why she wanted to tell Shen Guyan to Liu Dali.

Lan Qiuhua added: "Look, Liu Dali is alone, without parents-in-law. If she marries Shen Guyan, she won't have to worry about being bullied by her parents-in-law."

"Liu Dali is a capable man. If you marry him, you can have a good meal every now and then and eat meat."

"Isn't this better than what Lin Yue Niang showed me? How could he not come up with three taels of betrothal gifts?"

Ji Wenhe swung his legs and said slowly, "Aunt Lan, there is only one problem now, which is his reputation as an unlucky person."

"I personally don't care about these things and I don't believe them, but the villagers do."

"And if you really want to introduce Gu Yan, you might as well ask her first if she's willing to meet him."

"If Gu Yan is willing to meet me and doesn't mind, then you can go and talk to Aunt Xie."

Lan Qiuhua was silent for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I'll ask when I get back."

When they returned to the village, they placed part of the goods in the shed and carried part of them to her house.

I've talked to the surrounding villages and asked them to pass on the message to purchase supplies at the end of the month or the middle of the month.

No longer sell to nearby villages, let them come to Shenjia Village to buy it themselves.

I eat only five pounds of meat at the end of the month.

I will go to a distant village to sell tomorrow. If there is not enough meat, I will not go in, so it’s first come, first served.

The main reason is the hot weather, and we’re afraid that we won’t be able to sell the goods after we import them, and that they will easily go bad.

If you can bring more in during the winter, it won’t go bad easily when the weather gets cold.