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Chapter 20

On the Dragon Boat Festival, you need to eat mung bean cake and rice dumplings, and you also give gifts from relatives more. On the second day of May, Han Yue will go to the town to buy things.

Diligent people always spend money. The second brother spent all the savings he had saved with his brothers before. However, before and after Han Yue hunted wild boars, he searched for wild game in the mountains every day. When he saw the pheasant and the rabbit's eyes shone. The rabbit skin was sent to Manager Li to pay off the debt. The rabbit meat and pheasants combined, Han Yue saved more than 500 copper coins, enough to buy mung beans and glutinous rice.

"I'll go with you too." Chen Jiao took her purse and said to her husband who was about to go out. I don't know if she grew up one year or something else, but Chen Jiao found that she was wearing her bellyband last year, and she was wearing it very tightly. Chen Jiao wanted to buy some silk and make a few more pieces.

The petite lady from the Duke's Mansion can eat poorly and her clothes outside don't need to be too good, but she is close to her body. Since she has money in her hand, Chen Jiao doesn't want to be wronged.

"What do you want to buy?" Han Yue asked curiously.

Chen Jiao looked at him with a rant: "You have to care."

The petite lady stood in front of the closet in a green dress, holding a purse in her hand and suddenly looked up and glared at her. She glared at her with a look, making Han Yue feel comfortable.

"Let's go." He said with a smile. It's still cooler now. When the sun rises and becomes hotter, she is still the one who complains on the road.

Chen Jiao put away her purse, then surrounded a white floral and fine cloth headplate with a bronze mirror, and then followed Han Yue out.

"Where are you going, brother and sister-in-law?" Cao Zhenzhu came out of the wing room and saw the couple, and asked.

Seeing that Chen Jiao ignored her, Han Yue said, "Go to the town."

When you go to the town, you must be buying things. Watching the couple go out, Cao Zhenzhu immediately went back to the house and said to Han Jiang, who was lying lazily on the kang: "Brother and sister-in-law are going to the town. You can go with you and see what they have bought."

Han Jiang knew his elder brother's spending rules and said, "It's time for Dragon Boat Festival, what else can I buy besides rice dumplings and mung beans?"

Cao Zhenzhu curled her lips and snorted: "Just these two things, why did my sister-in-law follow me? Go and have a look. If my brother buys floral jewelry for my sister-in-law, then you can ask my brother to buy it for me too."

Han Jiang smiled: "Our family has no money, so my brother won't spend it randomly."

Anyway, no matter what Cao Zhenzhu said, Han Jiang was not happy to supervise his brother, and he also believed that his elder brother was not a big shot.

Han Yue is indeed not a big shot. Just talking about buying mung beans, the plump mung beans are expensive, and the shriveled ones are cheap. Han Yue asked the boss to call four kilograms for the most expensive ones and two kilograms for the most cheap ones.

Chen Jiao was curious and asked him the reason in a low voice.

Han Yue said: "Good gifts, we can eat at home if we are bad."

Chen Jiao has never seen a man who is better at living than Han Yue.

When buying glutinous rice and rice dumpling leaves, Han Yue still shared it like this, and then he was afraid that the petite lady would be unhappy. He whispered, "We will eat well next year." Now we can't do it indiscriminately.

Chen Jiao didn't mind whether she was good or bad. After buying things with Han Yue, she pulled him to the only cloth shop in the town.

The outside of the cloth shop is made of fabric and silk and satin are inside.

Chen Jiao went straight in.

Han Yue frowned slightly. If she bought cloth, as long as he didn't have much money, he would have enough money to pay, but silk...

Han Yue only brought two hundred documents out, and it had already spent almost half of it.

Chen Jiao picked two of the best silks in the shop. Because the bellyband is made of less material, the two pieces of good size are only 300 copper coins.

When paying, Chen Jiao didn't even look at Han Yue, so she took out her purse.

The boss's wife regarded Chen Jiao as a distinguished guest. In addition, Chen Jiao was beautiful and pleasing to the eye. The boss's wife used a beautiful piece of fine cloth to help Chen Jiao wrap two pieces of silk ruler heads, tie a knot, and carry it in her hand.

"Make a veil?" Han Yue couldn't help asking after leaving the shop. He couldn't think of what he could do with such a small fabric, but wouldn't it be too luxurious to buy such expensive materials just to make a few veils? Although she had no right to interfere with anything she bought with her dowry money.

"You will know in a few days." Chen Jiao couldn't say anything and deliberately kept her insincerely.

Han Yue looked at her and guessed it all in his mind, but he just didn't guess correctly.

The couple slowly returned home.

In the yard, Cao Zhenzhu thought about the time and deliberately brought out a basin of water. She sat under the eaves of the room to wash clothes for Han Jiang. She washed slowly. Seeing that the two of them were back, Han Yue was holding mung beans and other items. But Chen Jiao didn't know what the small package was, so she asked again: "Sister-in-law's cloth looks so beautiful, what is inside?"

Did she really ask casually or deliberately ask, who can't hear it?

Han Yue's face was a little dark.

Chen Jiao looked at Cao Zhenzhu and said lightly: "Buy whatever you want."

After saying that, Chen Jiao went to the east room.

When Han Yue saw that his second brother Han Jiang had also come out of the wing room, he called the person to the main hall. He put the things on the dining table and divided the good mung beans and glutinous rice into two average portions, and said to Han Jiang: "This is for gifts. Take it over and when will you go to the Cao family? Let's eat the bad ones at home."

Han Jiang knew that his brother would spend money fairly and would not be too generous to him or her.

"It's not necessary to go to the Cao family. In the future, the elder brother will buy the same one as us." Han Jiang sat opposite his brother and muttered in a low voice. Now the Lin family does not accept Shu Xiu from his third brother. During the holidays, Tian family gives them all good things. It's up to the elder brother to respect the Lin family. As for the Cao family, Han Jiang did not want to please him with all his heart, just asking Hu not to always worry about the things of the three brothers.

The relationship between people is not just that you respect me and I respect you.

Han Yue looked outside and lowered his eyes and said, "Pearl is married, don't let her heart be cold."

As the head of the family, Han Yue felt that he should maintain fairness and gave the Cao family the same gift as the Lin family to show his younger brothers and sisters.

"By the way, your sister-in-law bought two pieces of material and spent the dowry money." Since Cao Zhenzhu asked, so as not to make her brother suspicious, Han Yue took the initiative to explain.

Han Jiang was a little embarrassed and scratched his head and said, "Pearl was broken and liked to inquire about everything. My elder brother told my sister-in-law and told her not to mind."

Han Yue nodded.

Han Jiang carried his mung beans and returned to the wing room.

After Cao Zhenzhu finished washing her clothes, she went into the room and complained to him: "Did you see, my elder brother really bought good things for my elder sister-in-law."

Han Jiang glared at her angrily: "Brother said that my sister-in-law spent money on her dowry, and you can buy it if you have it."

Cao Zhenzhu had no dowry that she could take. Not to mention silver, her mother didn't even give her one. After hearing this, she naturally shrank her neck, but Cao Zhenzhu quickly snorted again: "It sounds nice, the money is in her hands. Who knows whether she spent the dowry or was it saved by your brothers with great effort?"

Han Jiang's heart moved. His wife's suspicion was not unreasonable, but he also knew that his elder brother had not asked his sister-in-law to take care of the money.

In the afternoon, Han Jiang went to the west room. He knew where the eldest brother had hidden the piggy bank. He found out and counted. There were more than 400 copper coins in it, which was the right amount of money for the eldest brother's expenses today. In other words, the sister-in-law did spend the dowry money.

Therefore, when he was lying in bed at night, Cao Zhenzhu muttered about this matter again, and Han Jiang scolded her.

Chen Jiao and Han Yue went back to their parents' home to celebrate the festival in the third year of the year. The mung beans and glutinous rice were soaked last night. After dinner in the morning, the couple prepared rice dumplings and mung bean cakes together.

Chen Jiao would make this kind of pastry when she was in the Duke's Mansion. The two of them divided the work. Han Yue made rice dumplings and she made mung bean cakes. This was for gifts, so they naturally used good beans and glutinous rice.

In the wing room, Cao Zhenzhu smelled the fragrance and became greedy, so she encouraged Han Jiang to ask for her for food.

Han Jiang glared at her: "If you are greedy, you can do it yourself. That was taken by your elder brother and sister-in-law to the Lin family."

Cao Zhenzhu covered her stomach and acted coquettishly: "It's not that your son wants to eat it, otherwise I wouldn't be so greedy."

Han Jiang still said the same thing: "If you want to be greedy, do it yourself!"

Cao Zhenzhu really did it herself, took out the good beans that Han Jiang brought to her, and the good glutinous rice was soaked.

Han Jiang raised his eyebrows: "That was given to your parents."

Cao Zhenzhu ignored it: "I'll use it first, and you can go to the main hall to get it."

Han Jiang smiled halfway: "The one we eat in the main hall is much worse than this one."

Cao Zhenzhu didn't mind even more. She couldn't eat much when sent to her parents' home, so what did it matter if it was good or bad?

On the other side of the room, Chen Jiao made eight small and exquisite mung bean cakes, which were neatly wrapped for gifts. Two pieces were accidentally broken. One was stuffed into Han Yue's mouth, and the other was taken to the west room for the third brother Han Xu to eat. The broken mung bean cakes were just ugly and tasted just as beautiful.

"Thank you sister-in-law." Han Xu said with a smile.

Chen Jiao likes this brother-in-law very much. When she looked at the books on the table, she cared about it: "It's rare to have a holiday, and my third brother will also take a break."

Han Xu nodded.

Chen Jiao retreated.

Han Yue's eight big rice dumplings were also steamed and put into the food box. The couple then went to the Lin family.

When his daughter and son-in-law came to the door, Tian prepared good wine and meat, and lunch was the big rice dumplings brought by his daughter.

Tian prepared a roast chicken and prepared it after the meal. He asked Han Yue to take it back for his two younger brothers. Han Yue refused to ask for it, but he couldn't resist his mother-in-law being too enthusiastic. If he dared not, Tian would chase him and send him to the Han family. Anyway, they were from the same village.

Han Yue had to bring the roast chicken home, but he did not give it to his two younger brothers, so he kept it for dinner and the family of five had eaten together.

Han Yue decided to split Chen Jiao and Cao Zhenzhu with two legs.

Chen Jiao doesn't like greasy chicken legs, so she put them on Han Yue.

Han Yue was sure she didn't want to eat it, so he put the chicken legs in his third brother's bowl.

When Cao Zhenzhu saw Han Jiang look at her several times, she then gave her some chicken leg meat to her husband.

The next day, Han Jiang and Cao Zhenzhu were going back to her parents' home to celebrate the festival. Because Cao Zhenzhu ate some glutinous rice and mung beans, and the rest was not enough to give gifts, she took a basin to scoop it into the main hall.

Han Yue happened to come back from the backyard and saw it, and said nothing.

He was in a bad mood, and Han Yue carried the curtain into the east room, but saw the petite lady on the kang hid something behind her.

Han Yue suddenly forgot about Cao Zhenzhu getting more food and asked Chen Jiao: "What are you sewing? Why don't you let me see?"

Chen Jiao's face was a little red.

Han Yue wanted to know more and more, and he got on the kang and wanted to grab it.

Chen Jiao was afraid that he would be stabbed by a needle, so she took out her half-embedded bellyband with red face.

Han Yue recognized the material at a glance. Looking at the petite lady's pink face, he laughed and said, "This is also about hiding."

Chen Jiao glared at him, lowered her head, and continued to sew.

Han Yue glanced at her chest, and didn't know what he was thinking, and started chatting casually: "Don't you have a few more items? Why are you making new ones?"

Chen Jiao refused to say it.

Han Yue touched her little hand, and the petite lady would make trouble if she didn't answer.

Chen Jiao patted his big claws and said softly: "The past, all of them are small."

After hearing this, Han Yue's eyes fell on her clothes again.

That night, the farmer was particularly enthusiastic.
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