Chapter 7
Han Yue sent Lin Yu out of the door and turned back into the room. Both younger brothers looked at him with excitement.
"Congratulations to brother, either you don't marry a wife, you can marry the best one as soon as you marry!" The second brother Han Jiang said half happy and half enviously. If he had known that a hero would be able to marry a fairy-like daughter of the Lin family, he rushed over by himself and tried his best to stop the mule cart.
The third brother Han Xu simply was happy for his elder brother. The twelve-year-old young man also knew that the more beautiful his wife, the better.
Han Yue looked at his second brother and took out the copper jar where he kept his money.
In front of his two younger brothers, Han Yue re-invented the property.
The Han family was very poor. When Han’s father and mother passed away, the Han family owed a sum of money outside, and the three brothers buried their parents and borrowed another sum. In recent years, Han Yue has been living frugal, while farming, working hard to make more wild game, chop more firewood to sell. Finally, he slowly paid off his foreign debt and also pulled his two younger brothers up.
After the second son Han Jiang was able to help farm and make money, the Han family saved some money and poured it out to count, a total of fifteen taels.
Han Yue said to his second brother guiltily: "This money is for you to get married, now..."
Fifteen taels, Han Yue calculated well. Five taels were built for the second brother and his wife two rooms, and the ten taels were used as gifts, and the rest were held.
Han Jiang actually wanted to marry Cao Zhenzhu home as soon as possible. Which young man didn't want to? But no matter how he thought about it, he would not only care about himself. Before his brother finished speaking, he said, "You are the eldest brother, you should have married first. I am only seventeen. I will not be in a hurry to wait for two or three years. Come on, please come first!"
Han Yue pretended to be the money and promised his younger brother: "At the latest two years, my elder brother will save enough money to marry you."
Han Jiang smiled, but thought to himself, how should I explain this when I see Cao Zhenzhu next time? Cao Zhenzhu is already fifteen years old. Will the girl be willing to wait for another two years?
Forget it, it is natural for the elder brother to marry his wife first!
The two families became angry, so Han Yue asked the matchmaker to propose marriage to Lin's house. In terms of the betrothal gift, Han Yue did not pretend to be fat. The betrothal gift he gave was similar to most farm families. It was not worth showing off when he said it, but it was also impeccable.
Lin Boyuan and Tian are not greedy people, let alone knowing the Han family's family's background. They are very satisfied with Han Yue's ability to do this.
The wedding date is set on the eighth day of the first lunar month next year.
In fact, the matchmaker discussed three auspicious days with Han Yue and sent them to the Lin family for the woman to make the decision. Lin Boyuan was interested in the auspicious day of March. Tian thought more carefully, thinking that every family had to treat her in the first lunar month, and the wedding date was set in the first lunar month, so the son-in-law could hold a less banquet, which would save some money.
"Jiaojiao, the Han family is not as good as us. If you get married, don't quarrel with Han Yue over money. One day you are in a tight position, just come and ask your mother for it." When explaining the wedding date to her daughter, Tian explained her daughter earnestly, for fear that her daughter's delicate temper would affect the relationship between the couple.
Chen Jiao nodded obediently. She adapted from the Duke's Mansion to the Lin family. How bad is the Han family?
The marriage was about to happen, so Chen Jiao stayed in the house with peace of mind and was not afraid that Tian would come to urge her to go out.
Tian didn't have time to keep her daughter in the house or stay outside the house. Her husband was busy teaching and couldn't leave. Tian wholeheartedly prepared her daughter's dowry. The dressing table, mirror, washing rack, washbasin, towel and other items needed for newlyweds in the house. Tian specially ordered a set from the town, and the craftsmen also went to the Han family to measure the size.
After ordering the large items in the house, Tian ordered a set of jewelry for his daughter. Next, his daughter was busy embroidering wedding dresses, and Tian was also busy making quilts for his daughter. When the bride got married, she had to bring a few sets of quilts from her parents' home. Tian sewed a total of eight sets of quilts for her daughter, four sets of 10 kilograms of cotton for autumn and winter covers, and four sets of 4 kilograms of cotton for spring and summer.
In addition to these, Tian also bought a little girl who was washing and cooking for her daughter, named Chunxing, who looked ordinary and looked very honest at first glance.
"We Jiaojiao has never touched the stove. We can't keep our hands thicker when we get married." I hope that our daughter will be a virtuous daughter-in-law. After all, Tian is a mother who dotes on her daughter. When she comes to her husband's house, she becomes like her, surrounding the stove and clothes all day long.
"Mom, please buy you a maid, too." Chen Jiao said distressedly. The Lin family is not without money.
Tian held his daughter's tender hands and said with a smile: "Mom is used to it, Jiaojiao is different."
Chen Jiao's eyes suddenly felt sore, and she hugged her mother who was heartbroken to her in this life.
In October, Hongmei got married. Before the wedding at home, Hongmei came to Lin's house to visit Chen Jiao.
Chen Jiao said embarrassedly: "I won't go the day after tomorrow." She was afraid to face the fingers of the villagers.
Hongmei understood and held the hands of her good sister and said, "Our love is not in that one or two meals. I just can't bear to leave you. When I get married, I can only come back during the holidays."
Chen Jiao has been in Dawang Village for half a year, and only Hongmei is a friend, and she is about to part with her, so she is reluctant to leave.
"But on the day you get married, I will definitely come back for a wedding banquet." Hongmei tried hard to liven up the atmosphere.
Chen Jiao smiled.
On the day Hongmei got married, Chen Jiao asked Tian to give a pair of pillowcases that she embroidered as a gift.
After this incident, the Lin family continued to prepare for their daughter's marriage.
I'm busy, and the Chinese New Year is coming.
The prospective son-in-law Han Yue came to greet his father-in-law and mother-in-law with tea, wine, cakes and fruits.
Chen Jiao did not show up, but she hid behind the door panel of the west wing and looked at Han Yue who was talking to her parents in the yard. It was cold in the first month, and the man was wearing a thick 70% new winter clothes, making him look even more burly. He had a cloth scarf tied around his head, and his exposed side face was straight and steady. Chen Jiao had never looked at it carefully before, but now she realized that Han Yue was handsome, even if she was a little dark, she was too strong.
"It's cold outside, let's go into the house and sit down." Lin Boyuan enthusiastically invited his prospective son-in-law into the house.
Han Yue naturally obeyed.
After the person left, Chen Jiao continued to stand at the door for a while before sitting on the warm kang.
At noon, Tian came to ask his daughter to go to the room for dinner.
Chen Jiao was both surprised and nervous, and hesitated: "This, isn't this right?"
Tian smiled and said, "What's wrong with it? It's not just you two. Before Hongmei got married, Zhao Zhuang went to her house to visit. When did Hongmei not have dinner with her? It's just a family. She's not the ladies in the county. She's just talking nonsense."
As he said that, Tian took the initiative to pick up his daughter's embroidered shoes and asked her to wear them for her.
Chen Jiao could see that Tian was very satisfied with Han Yue and was very anxious to marry his seventeen-year-old daughter!
She put on her shoes helplessly.
Before leaving, Tian also helped her daughter straighten her hairpin.
Chen Jiao:...
When I went to the room, Lin Boyuan, Lin Yu, and Han Yue had already sat around the square red painted kang table, empty to the west, leaving it for the Tian mother and the two.
Han Yue was less talkative, but he was not good at speaking. On the contrary, he often went to and from the county town, and his horizons were wider than those of ordinary villagers and he spoke less rustic than those of villagers. No matter what Lin Boyuan talked about, he could talk.
As he was talking, someone came in as he lifted the curtain.
Han Yue looked over subconsciously.
Chen Jiao lowered her head slightly and met her fiancé for the first time after the engagement. This was still the case. She blushed a little and was flirted with her pink jacket. She was more beautiful than a flower.
Han Yue was stunned for a moment, unable to tell whether it was her blushing face or her delicate and quiet demeanor, which made him feel tremble inexplicably.
"Jiaojiao sit first, mom goes to serve the food." Although Han Yue quickly lowered his eyes, Tian, who observed the performance of his prospective son-in-law as soon as he entered the house, still captured Han Yue's brief absenteeism. Tian was very happy and proud. Who wouldn't like her daughter like a flower bud?
Chen Jiao sat restrainedly on the west side of the kang table, with her own brother on her left, and Han Yue and her father on the opposite side.
Chen Jiao didn't dare to look at Han Yue. It was not until Tian's food was served and Tian also sat next to her that Chen Jiao relaxed a little.
The five of them started chatting while having a meal.
Just like all mother-in-law, Tian despised her daughter in front of her son-in-law: "Hey, Han Yue, Jiaojiao has been spoiled by us. She can't do anything about washing clothes or cooking. She has never learned the work in the field. There is no way. I bought her a little maid, so don't think she is stupid."
Chen Jiao's face turned redder when she heard this. Is there anyone who says that about her daughter?
Han Yue was thinking that there were only three rooms in his family now. He and Chen Jiao lived in the east room, and his two younger brothers lived in the west room. Where did the maid they bought live?
If his fiancée is not that spoiled, he won't have to worry about it.
When marriage is about to happen, there is really no place for a maid to live in the family. Han Yue paused and said politely: "Auntie is too worried. My second brother and I can do laundry and cook. After Miss Lin gets married, she doesn't need to do anything. Maid, please keep it for yourself. I'm not afraid of you to joke. There's really no place for maids to live in now."
Tian was stunned.
Lin Boyuan relieved the embarrassment between his wife and son-in-law in time, and scolded his wife with a smile: "I just said I don't have to buy a maid, but you like to worry about it."
Tian laughed dryly, worried that if he didn't take care of his maid, his daughter would be laughed at by the villagers sooner or later, but is it still too late to teach his daughter?
Chen Jiao was eating silently. In fact, when she was in the Duke's Mansion, she also learned how to cook. The maids cut all the ingredients and she used spoons to stir-fry them. Now the maids can't use it anymore, Chen Jiao decided to learn how to cook farm meals from Tian tonight, so as not to get Han Yue's wholeheartedness after marrying her, because she can't cook, she will not get Han Yue's wholeheartedness.
As a result, at night, when Chen Jiao tried to break the corn pole and firewood, the corn pole accidentally cut her delicate fingertips.
Tian was so distressed that he couldn't do it.
Lin Boyuan sighed repeatedly.
Chunxing, a little maid who didn't want to be sold, took the initiative to propose a solution: "I can follow the lady during the day and live here at night!"
Tian was overjoyed: "Yes, that's it!"
All problems were solved. On the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month, on the eve of Chen Jiao’s marriage, Tian came to teach his daughter the last and most important thing.
"Hey, Han Yue's body, my Jiaojiao may have to bear it more."
It was late at night and Tian hugged his baby daughter and sighed softly.
Chen Jiao was named a nobleman when she entered the palace. The old emperor asked her to serve her on the first night. Before serving her, a palace servant specially taught Chen Jiao's secrets in the tent, which was much more detailed than Tian's. She even put out a jade piece to call Chen Jiao to open her eyes... Fortunately, the old emperor was abducted by the imperial concubine and died, and Chen Jiao didn't use the things she learned.
Now that the groom is replaced by a tall and strong farmer, Chen Jiao's fear is more than resistance.
Too scared, Chen Jiao didn't sleep well that night.
On the Han family, the second son Han Jiang secretly stuffed a half-old booklet into his brother's bed while his brother was feeding pigs.
At night, Han Yue went to bed with a quilt and the booklet fell out.
Han Yue frowned, opened it, took a look, and immediately closed it.
"two……"
He wanted to call him the second brother, but before he could say "brother", Han Yue closed his mouth again, put his shoes on the floor, threw the booklet into the stove, and burned it.
Chapter completed!