Chapter 191

He said: "the Zhou family is generous and thick. We don't embarrass them. The bride price is three Liang silver. We leave two liang, and the rest one or two to ER Niu. We'll bring her the dowry."

There is a saying in the countryside that if you have money, you can marry a daughter-in-law for the new year.

A more generous family will marry a daughter-in-law before the winter solstice, so that the new daughter-in-law can save two months and get busy after the new year.

But there are also days that don't happen to happen. First, they don't choose a good day. Second, they marry late like their two families. Most of them will get married before the new year. Although it's a small year now, the countryside doesn't pay attention to it. As long as they get the bride price quickly, it's normal to finish the banquet in three days.

In that way, there will be more labor at home at the beginning of spring, and spring is just busy.

Some people are mean. Even if they say marriage early, they will deliberately press the time to get married before and after the Spring Festival. First, they can save the food in front and get married before the Spring Rush.

More mean people will choose to get married in the first month of the new year. As soon as the new daughter-in-law enters the door, she is busy in spring.

Seriously, they said they got married late, and Thursday Lang was not young. The Fang family was really worried that the Zhou family would choose to get married in a year, so that the two girls would go to the ground as soon as they entered the door, and had to adapt to the new life of their parents-in-law and sister-in-law.

The Zhou family took the initiative to postpone the date to may, which shows that they are very considerate of them.

The Zhou family was generous, and the Fang family was not unreasonable. As soon as the two sides came and went through the matchmaker, the details of the engagement were finalized.

At present, the bride price of three Liang silver is not small, but it is not much. In the Fang family, as long as three Liang is small.

Qian has calculated that in addition to the bride price, there are also banquet and some wedding gifts, which are almost five Liang in total.

Originally, after wagering money on Thursday, she expected that the cost of marrying him a good daughter-in-law would be between 72 and 92.

No way. The groom's quality is too poor, so he can only make it up with a bride price.

Fortunately, on Thursday, Lang didn't pit his family at this point. He cheated by his face and mouth. Oh, no, he found the high-quality bride, little lady Fang.

Gongzhong doesn't have the money now, especially after moving into a new house at home.

Not long after man Bao recovered from his illness, Lao Zhoutou's carpenter finally delivered the customized furniture.

A bed was put in each room. Xiao Qian and his family also made the quilt with the cloth they bought, stuffed cotton, and some bamboo furniture woven by Zhou Erlang. When they put it in, the family chose a good day to enter the new house.

Of course, it was wine. Lao Zhoutou received a wave of gift money, but the gift money was basically the same as the money spent on the banquet, so he had neither loss nor surplus.

So the original money box with only more than 200 Wen is still only more than 200 Wen.

Therefore, the three Liang betrothal gifts to the Fang family were borrowed from Zhou Xi. At the same time, Qian borrowed two liang more for the banquet in May.

Because until the autumn harvest, she estimated that her family would not have a large income.

Although old Zhou tou had been clamoring for Zhou sirang to repay the debt himself, it was actually impossible.

The night before Xiaonian was set, old Zhou tou also held a family meeting on the matter.

"The fourth is useless. He lost 15 liang of silver last year, but this year he returned all the money he owed you. We have all taken out the houses he built before." Old Zhou said, "this part of the account is for me and your mother. I'll give it back to you when the public has money."

No one has a problem.

Old Zhou tou continued: "although I said that he had to pay back the money for Lao Si's wedding, you married your daughter-in-law out of the public money, except when you came to him, so your mother and I also paid the five Liang silver He Xi took."

Zhou Xi opened her mouth and finally didn't speak.

Lao Zhou looked at Zhou Lang on Thursday and said, "if you marry your daughter-in-law, you'll be an adult. Maybe you'll be a father sometime. Work hard and have some success in your heart. If you hang around like this, I'll smoke you."

Lang whispered on Thursday.

It's settled.

Because there was little money in the money box, the year was a little light. In order to save money, Qian changed a lot of necessary expenses.

Like meat.

In the past Chinese new year, Qian would buy a batch of meat to make bacon, except that he lost his family's fortune by gambling on Thursday last year.

You can not only eat at home, but also take it to visit relatives.

This year, like last year, my family didn't buy meat.

But it's different from last year. Although there are still a lot of delicious food this year, everyone is very happy because they live in a new house.

In particular, man Bao and a group of small children are as happy as holidays every day.

She moved into her new house. Old Zhou tou took her money. Although he didn't give her a super large bed, he also gave her a normal size one, which is much better than the simple version of the small bed that man Bao sleeps in.

Man Bao couldn't help but roll on the bed for two times before he went to see the furnishings of the room.

Zhou Erlang is making bamboo weaving every day. In addition to the bamboo baskets and dustpans sold in the market, he can also use them at home.

For example, a bamboo screen is placed in man Bao's room to separate the inner room from the study.

Knowing that man Bao likes all kinds of flowers and plants, Zhou Erlang asked her to paint on the bamboo screen and put it in the room after drying.

Besides, Lao Zhou gave her a dresser and two chairs, one in front of the dresser and the other in front of the desk.

Old Zhou tou also paid a carpenter to make the desk. He had a family meeting long ago and announced that these things would be man Bao's dowry in the future.

It can be said that man Bao's room is the most expensive and fully furnished.

Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang also made a three lattice bookshelf for her with bamboo and put it next to the desk.

Then he took bamboo and made two cages for her to put clothes and all kinds of sundries.

Of course, things made of bamboo can't compare with wood, but for a girl who hasn't come out of the cabinet, especially a little girl of six or seven years old, these things are very precious.

In short, man Bao is very happy.

So even if she can only eat a few meals of meat during the new year, she is happy every day,

She was so happy that she forgot to avoid suspicion. She ran up and down with Bai Shanbao every day. Even on the first day of the new year, she ran around the village to pay New Year's greetings, and then received a lot of red envelopes.

Of course, most of the red envelopes wrapped by the villagers have only one Wen, but man Bao is also very happy.

Then as soon as she was happy, she went to Bai's house to pay New Year's greetings behind Bai Shanbao's ass.

Of course, master Bai won't give them only a penny. What he gives them is a delicate purse. In the purse is a gold naked child printed with Jinshi and.

Man Bao didn't notice at that time. She thought the purse was very beautiful and looked carefully.

Master Bai likes man Bao very much and thinks she is a very smart child. Therefore, he specially brought his second son and solemnly handed it to the two smart children and said, "you should take your brother to play. Don't leave him behind."

Bai Shanbao and man Baocai received gifts. Although they didn't want to play with this stupid classmate, they patted master Bai on their chest and said that they would play friendly with him.