Chapter 197 Double Dowry
Zheng Lin is not a high-profile person. The most important thing he has done after he retired from the field was that at the end of last year, he sent a big wild boar worth more than 300 kilograms to the Sang family as a New Year gift.
At that time, Sang Ye was plaguing rumors. He did this to support her, indirectly showing that she was not as unbearable as the rumors. She blocked countless malicious mouths and made their marriage open in the mountains.
Unexpectedly, it was not yet a year since this man did another high-profile thing. The ten-lift betrothal gift that was bent by the bar, attracted all the villagers I met along the way to the Sang family. At this moment, the three floors of the Sang family's yard were full of people watching the fun, and they all started to open the boxes and posted the betrothal gifts.
The ten-lift betrothal gift is nothing to be with a wealthy family. Generally, people who have two street shops at home can take it out. But the Zheng family is different. Everyone knows that the only one who can make money in the Zheng family is Zheng Lin. He took out the ten-lift betrothal gift at this moment, which shows that he is really attentive.
"Tsk tsk, the Sang family's eldest daughter is blessed. The Zheng family has brought so many betrothal gifts, so it really attaches importance to this marriage."
"No, I think, the Zheng family is probably emptied out most of the family's assets this time, but who can make Zheng Dalang have the ability? Others are really envious of it."
"Oh, how much money does it cost? If it is the other family, just this betrothal gift, all seven or eight wives have been married? Why didn't my daughter meet such a generous and rich infidelity?"
While discussing the betrothal gifts sent by the Zheng family, the villagers sighed that Sang Ye was lucky and that there was a family that valued her. This confirmed the old saying: If you are willing to spend a lot of money when getting married, you may not be really good to your married wife, but if you have the financial resources, you will call the poor family a poor family.
Especially the unsatisfactory women whose daughters lived in the in-laws' house, they wiped their tears as they talked and sighed that they were blind and didn't know how to be more careful. Before the man's family showed their sincerity, they hurriedly married their daughter, otherwise they wouldn't let their daughter live in the fire pit.
Without mentioning how outsiders discussed it, the Sang family was also shocked by the Zheng family's big moves. They thought that the Zheng family could use a big wild boar as a New Year gift, and this time the betrothal gift might be more than others. They never thought that there would be so many more, and there would be more nine-kiloss boxes!
Take the mulberry trees and mulberry forests as an example. When the two of them gave the Yu family a betrothal gift, they only carried a large box. In addition to the necessary tea and geese, there are pork, fruits, betrothal gifts and other items that will appear in the wedding betrothal gifts of ordinary people.
There are some other things, but they are not worth much. In total, there are up to five taels of silver. You can pack all the big boxes in one bite, and you may not be able to fill them.
Although he felt a headache for attracting so many people, the Zheng family's powerful approach made the Sang family very satisfied. It was already very eye-catching for ten boxes with big red silk in the yard. The Sang family did not open the boxes to the sun according to the old rules and directly asked the people who carried the betrothal gifts to carry them all into the house.
Mu's face smiled and saw the people in the yard yelling to see the betrothal gift. She couldn't say anything, so she ordered her two daughters-in-law: "Hurry, go and take out the candy snack I bought before, so that everyone can enjoy the joy."
The sister-in-law didn't care about watching the fun, so she hurried into the house to find a plate to serve candy and snacks.
Two days ago, the Sang family did buy a lot of candy and snacks back, but they were planning to wait for the gift to pack it in a handkerchief for relatives and friends who came to congratulate. Originally, there was no need to watch the fun today, but who made the Mu family feel good? Now the Sang family is not short of this stuff. After that, they can buy a bunch of them in the town.
Looking at Da Yu, Liu really came out with a plate full of candy. The villagers watching the fun stopped opening the box. They smiled and reached out to take the candy they brought to their sisters-in-law, and did not forget to say "congratulations".
There were many children coming this time. Yu walked in front to give it to the adults, and Liu squatted down to give it to the children. Even the people who came to Zheng Village who came to please him. For a moment, the yard was filled with congratulations, and even the children were infected.
Knowing that the Sang family was busy greeting their in-laws, the adults who received the candy snacks did not continue to get in the way here, so they each pulled the children with candy wrapped in their mouths and left with satisfaction. After a while, the people in the yard left cleanly.
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r In the room, mulberry leaves leaned against the window, and saw everything that had just grown in the yard through the gaps in the window.
Although the betrothal gift was given to her, she, the daughter who was waiting to marry, did not need to go out to entertain guests. So before the betrothal gift was sent into the yard, she hid in the room as she followed her parents' instructions. Later, she only had to go to the kitchen to cook more than a dozen dishes, and show off when the wine and food was served on the table, so that the relatives of the Zheng family would recognize her face and she would be fine.
When the Zheng family learned that the Zheng family had sent the 10-carried betrothal gift, the vanity that Sang Ye hid deep in his heart was rare. On the one hand, it was the joy of being valued, and on the other hand, it was the blame for his fiancé too high-profile. It can be foreseen that in the next period of time, the center of the village gossip will revolve around the ten-carried betrothal gift again.
"Tu tuk!"
Just as she was striking, the door was knocked. Sang Ye came back to his senses and hurriedly went up to open the door. Liu squeezed in and said anxiously: "Ye'er, there are too many people coming from the in-laws today. My mother said she wanted to open three tables of mats. We have to go to the kitchen to cook now, otherwise we wouldn't have time to make a meal at noon."
According to the rules, the person who carried the betrothal gifts to the woman's house had to have a meal at the woman's house before leaving. Before this, I thought that two tables of tables were enough for his family, but I didn't expect that there were twenty people who carried the betrothal gifts alone. In addition to the three members of the Zheng family, the matchmaker, etc., the three tables of tables were only enough. If two more people came, four tables would have to be opened.
"Then go and make it now. Fortunately, my elder brother and second brother bought a lot of ingredients yesterday, otherwise it would not be enough for the three tables of food today." When Sang Ye saw the ten-pick betrothal gift, he expected to add another table of food. Now he is only glad that my elder brother and second brother were buying enough ingredients today.
Liu also smiled and said, "No, if the face of the table is not enough today, our family would be embarrassed. If I had known this would be the case, your elder brother and second brother would not have to be scolded by my mother yesterday."
Thinking of the situation where my mother saw that my elder brother and second brother had bought too much food yesterday, and the scolding made me unable to raise my head and dared not retaliate. Sang Ye covered his mouth and smiled: "I am afraid that my elder brother and second brother will be so depressed now, so I might complain to my mother!"
As the sister-in-law and sister-in-law were talking, they quickly walked through the yard and came to the kitchen. They started washing and preparing for the noon table with Yu and Yue Niang.
Zheng Lin, who was sitting in the main room chatting, glanced at the corner of his eyes and saw his fiancée hurried into the kitchen. He suddenly realized that such a large group of people came over and caused trouble for his fiancée. He couldn't sit still and found an excuse to walk out of the main room and penetrated into the kitchen.
Seeing Zheng Lin, the mulberry leaves that were cutting vegetables almost cut into her hand. The next moment, her eyes flashed, and her hands were gently held up by a pair of big hands.
"It's okay, I haven't cut it." Under the ambiguous gaze of my sisters and sisters, Sang Ye took his hand back embarrassedly, and did not forget to knock out the person: "The room is full of guests. Don't you hurry up and run to the kitchen to do something."
Zheng Lin also noticed those different gazes. He coughed uneasyly, and did not say anything inappropriate to say in public. He pointed to the ingredients on the chopping board and said, "Is these enough? If not enough, I will take some from home."
Sang Ye glared at his fiancé in anger, and continued to cut vegetables and said, "Enough is enough. Yesterday, my elder brother and second brother bought a lot of more vegetables, and it is just right now. But you, if you don't say so many people in advance, it will almost embarrass my family."
Zheng Lin was a little embarrassed, but more helpless: "There were not so many betrothal gifts, nor so many people. My mother said that getting married was a big deal. This time in her life, I can't treat you badly on the betrothal gifts, so she made some more reservations. Today I will carry all of my things."
In fact, since his engagement last year, Zheng Lin has been thinking about the betrothal gift. He knew that whether it was his fiancée or the Yue family, he didn't like to be high-profile, so he thought about preparing to carry the betrothal gift in three or five years and preparing more betrothal gifts. After all, the betrothal gifts are given privately, and outsiders will not know how much they give.
But what he didn't expect was that when he was preparing for the betrothal gift, his mother also took out his body and put in another one. The two betrothal gifts together became a real ten-fold, and no box was not full.
After listening to his fiancé's explanation, Sang Ye felt so nervous that he couldn't hide the smile on his face, but he said, "You don't know if you stop me. Aunt's money is my aunt's.
, It’s not easy for her to save some body, so you have the nerve to let her contribute money and effort.”
Zheng Lin couldn't tell what his fiancée liked, but he just liked to see her quarrels: "It's okay, in the future, we will always support our parents, and we will be filial to them in the future."
With a word "we" tied the two of them together, a hint of blush quietly climbed onto their cheeks. Sang Ye was about to say something when he saw the sisters-in-law and sisters beside him laughing. He was embarrassed and annoyed, and raised his elbow to push the person out: "Go out and go out quickly, so that people can see what it looks like."
Zheng Lin stared at his fiancée's beautiful face, but knew that this was not the time to speak, so she obediently walked out: "I'll go out first, you should take it more carefully, don't cut it."
Sang Ye gave him a blank look: "You are just talking too much!"
Zheng Lin didn't care and left the kitchen with a smile.
"Wow, my brother-in-law is so considerate. He came over to cook for a meal and told the elder sister not to cut her hands." Looking at the elder sister with a blushing face, Yue Niang shook her eyebrows and teased her eyes, with indescribable envy.
"No, I have married your elder brother for so many years, and he has never reminded me like this. Alas, it's so annoying to compare people!" Yu took over the conversation, and it was true to tease his sister-in-law, and it was true to complain that her husband was not considerate enough.
"After all the time, it's better for our Ye'er to be lucky. My brother-in-law is really good." Liu looked at his sister-in-law and made a summary directly: "So, when a woman seeks a husband, it doesn't necessarily depend on whether he has a great future. As long as he is ambitious, he is a person who knows the cold and cold. Even if he eats braised vegetables with him, he will feel sweet."
Sang Ye is not an ordinary person. If others secretly joke about her, she might feel embarrassed. But if anyone makes a joke, her face will be thicker than the city wall, and she will just fight back.
Now that she was teasing her sisters and sisters in unison, the blushing on her face remained unchanged, and she fought back as soon as she touched her mouth, "Yue Niang, if you like your elder brother-in-law like this, I will ask my mother to find you like this."
After saying that, she looked at Yue Niang with a smile and her face turned red in an instant, and she began to criticize Yu again: "Sister-in-law, if you complain that your brother is not considerate enough, I will tell you later. I must know that if your brother knows, I will ask you for advice on how to be a considerate husband."
She accidentally heard her elder brother and sister-in-law’s corner several times. It seemed that every time her elder sister complained about her elder brother, there would be a disharmonious voice in the room after a while. The next day, the elder sister would get up a little late. If she told the truth today, hehe!
Sang Ye smiled maliciously, and it was Liu's turn, and she laughed even more happily: "Last year, when our family first started the flower sauce business, my second brother said he would save more money to let my second sister-in-law and Zaoer live a good life. I never thought that my second sister-in-law never valued this. When I tell my second brother your feelings, my second brother will love my second sister-in-law very well."
Not to mention the second brother, she is more sweet than the eldest brother, and she is more considerate to the second sister-in-law than the eldest brother. If the second brother knows that the second sister-in-law's confession, she will definitely be moved to repay her body and complete the harmony of life. She still lacks a little nephew!
Not to mention the shameless and shameless Yue Niang, who has been married for many years, has been married to her husbands, and Yu and Liu, who know their husbands well, have also blushed. But they don’t know what happened in their rooms, and their sister-in-law accidentally saw them. The reason why they blushed was purely following the words of Sang Ye.
With one-on-three, mulberry leaves won the best! She was so worried that she whistled and continued to cut vegetables with a smile.
When the heat on the faces of the three of them quietly dropped, the pottery basin in front of the mulberry leaves was filled with chopped old sauerkraut. They did not dare to delay any longer, and quickly put their thoughts down and continued to work on what they had at hand.
The sister-in-law and sister-in-law worked hard for a whole hour before they finished cutting all the ingredients. Then, mulberry leaves started to cook. Liu, who had a relatively good cooking skills, started to do it. Yue Niang burned the fire in the stove, and Yu looked at the soup stewed on several stoves, paying attention to the heat at all times, and adding and reducing charcoal fire.
Another hour passed, all the dishes were prepared, and there was no time to miss the start.
When the sister-in-law and sister-in-law and sister-in-law used trays to bring a plate of dishes to the table placed in the main hall, the Zheng family, who gave the betrothal gift this time, officially met for the first time and was about to become the Zheng family daughter-in-law.
Woman's mulberry leaves.
Twenty people were given gifts to the Zheng family, all of whom were relatives of the Zheng family. These people were about the same age as Zheng Lin, but they got married early and their eldest children could go to work in the fields.
In fact, in fact, these people are not very familiar with Zheng Lin. Before that, there were even two people whose names could not be called out intact by Zheng Lin.
Zheng Lin cannot be blamed for this. Not long after he was born, he was sent to his master. Not long after he returned from the village, he went to the battlefield for Old Man Zheng. Even the people from his family did not recognize him. He was running outside for many years, so he became familiar with him.
If he hadn't returned a few times a year, he would have been very respected, and he would probably not be able to find anybody who would carry the betrothal gift today.
Zheng Lin's brothers had never seen Sang Ye before. He only heard that she was a widow with a child. He thought that this widow had lost her husband at a young age and wanted to live with another child. It seemed that she would not be much better. Maybe she was a bitter-faced woman.
But when he saw the real person, he was stunned. Suddenly, he understood why Zheng Lin, who had a very high-eyed vision, wanted to marry a widow with a baby. This didn't look like a person who had married and had children at all, but it was no different from the ladies they had seen in the city before.
Everyone thought so, but they did not show it on their faces. After meeting Sang Ye's gaze, they smiled very angrily. These people are all men. Even if they are brothers of Zheng Lin, they have not yet married, so they can't talk to Sang Ye casually.
However, this first impression is undoubtedly good, especially after learning that the dishes on the three tables were all made by mulberry leaves, they praised Zheng Lin for being blessed, and congratulated the two elders of the Zheng family, which made them smile.
The vegetable house made from mulberry leaves is ready to put ingredients, and the taste is natural and delicious. In addition, the Sang family is generous and all the wine they brought out on this happy day is good. In addition, the two brothers Mangshu and Sanglin were used to persuade them to drink. These twenty people had enough food and drink, and they had a better impression of the Sang family.
You should know that before carrying the ten-carrying betrothal gifts to the Sang family, these people were privately complaining that Zheng Lin was stupid and had a lot of money, but he was so eager to mess with his own little family fortune to the Yue family. Now seeing the tables and the nature revealed in his words and conversations, he knew that they were not short of money and would not be greedy for the Zheng family’s betrothal gifts.
The host and the host were having fun, and in the end the twenty people were a little drunk. The Sang family was inconvenient and could not rest so many people. Mangshu and Sanglin, who had barely remained awake, were responsible for sending them back to Shangzheng Village. Fortunately, they were not far away and there was nothing wrong in the middle.
However, after these people returned home, they took advantage of the alcohol to praise the Sang family's goodness and Zheng Lin's wife's goodness. If one or two said this, others would smile and go over. As a result, all twenty people said this. Those who originally didn't believe it had to believe it a little, and they became more curious about the Zheng family's wife who had not passed away.
Of course, the Sang family and the Zheng family didn't know about this. While the people who carried the betrothal gifts left, the two families sat together and began to discuss the details of the wedding on August 28th.
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Happy National Day!
Chapter completed!