Chapter 15
Ding Duofu was silent and said for a while: "Why aren't our own child? There are still many places to spend money at home. The marriage between the third brother and Cuiyu will be discussed in one or two years, so why should our eldest daughter discuss marriage?"
"Silly!" Mei pushed him, "Chunjiang studied hard, but his studies have always been mediocre. But those two children always carry the fragrance of ink when they speak and do things. If one passes the exam, how can he not recommend Chunjiang to come next?"
"It seems that this is the reason..." Ding Duofu was surprised that his wife thought so thoroughly.
The two decided on this matter and asked it back only when the time was right.
Not long after, the sky fell.
The third child of the Ding family asked someone to send a message saying that when he went home today, Ding He was so happy that he was busy killing the chicken and adding vegetables.
When it was hot, the old hens at home didn't like laying eggs, and it would be useless to keep them. Ding He made a good idea to nourish his youngest son, but he never thought that no one could eat the chicken this time.
After serving on the dining table, the fragrant fried chicken nuggets and a large bowl of stewed chicken were brought up. Ding He couldn't wait to pick up a big chicken leg and put it into the bowl of the third brother. The third brother didn't eat it, and just lowered his face and whispered: "I want to get married."
"Pick--" With a sound, the chopsticks in Ding He's hand fell to the ground. She hurriedly leaned over and picked them up, looking at the third brother with joy, "Lao San, do you tell me who is your favorite girl?"
Old Ding also put down the bowls and chopsticks and looked at his youngest son seriously: "Isn't it the girl in the town? Is it just that our family members like me?"
"Her surname is Bai, and she has a tofu shop at home." The third brother suddenly stood up, and then knelt down to Lao Ding's head and feet.
Old Ding was frightened and hurriedly helped him, but he couldn't help him. The third brother knelt tightly, ignoring everyone's face, and his head lowered, "Dad, mother, you must agree to me."
"San Lao, what are you doing? If you like your mother, can you not agree?" Ding He lost his bowl and chopsticks, stood up and helped his son, but was suddenly stopped by Lao Ding. She said with an unhappy look: "What's wrong with you?"
Old Ding looked solemn, cleared his throat and said, "You stupid, look at his appearance, you must have something to say yet." Eighty-most not something good...
"Dad," the third brother kowtowed twice, "She is a widow, a woman..." At the end of the conversation, it was extremely light.
Ding He did not react in an instant, and opened his mouth and said, "What's wrong with widow, widow, widow, widow...what are you talking about? widow, widow?" As she said that, she understood, and suddenly became furious, grabbed the third brother's collar and scolded: "No! widow, widow can't marry! Our family can't afford to lose this person!"
The eldest daughter-in-law was not allowed to like her. Although the second daughter-in-law was sweet-mouthed, she was not a good thing. She just waited for the third child to marry a good wife, but after that, she wanted to get a widow for her and the wife came in.
Humph, no way!
The third brother kowtowed again: "Mom, she is a good girl, but she just married the wrong person. Moreover, her husband was a sick man, and she died just after she passed the door. She is still innocent now, so you agree."
It would be fine if I didn't say it, but Ding He's eyes widened even wider, "Is it still a husband-bearing person? That would be even worse!"
The third brother who was still kowtowing heard her words and his face turned pale a little: "If I don't let me marry her, then I'll just not marry her in this life!"
"You dare!" Lao Ding finally got angry. He swept the table casually and poured all the chicken soup on the table on Lao San's body. The basin broke with a "pop".
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The matter was stalemate for several days, and the third son did not return to the tailor shop in the town, and only stayed in the house every day. Ding He was crying every day, pointing to the sky and scolding the earth. Lao Ding only sucked the dry tobacco and didn't say anything.
The whole family lost their good looks.
Just as Chunjiang came back from Master's house, Mei asked him to lead a few young people to study and play, and not walk around in front of the old Ding and his wife, so as not to get angry. Ye Kui took the opportunity to ask Yanzi, and Mei agreed.
Yanzi is the daughter of the Wu family in the village. She is about the same age as her. Ye Kui is happy that she is smart and can help her if she can help her on weekdays.
The Wu family is not very poor. Only Yan Zi's mother likes her son but not her daughter. She is very partial and very bad to Yan Zi.
When they arrived at Yanzi's house, Yanzi was about to go out to pick pumpkins, but when they saw Ye Kui, they smiled. The two carried the basket and walked out with the tiger-skinned cat. The two said something happily, and Ye Kui helped her prepare the meal before returning to Ding's house.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw the third child of the Ding family who was still looking for death the day before yesterday, standing in the yard with joy.
Her eyes couldn't help but look at others, and they all looked solemn. It was thought that the matter of marrying a widow and entering the house was decided.
Ding He felt uncomfortable in his heart. When he saw Ye Kui, he caught her and scolded: "It's all you who ruined the Feng Shui of my Ding family! Otherwise, my obedient son would be crazy and want to marry a widow and a wife! It's all caused by you! You still have the face to eat my rice! Go back to the dilapidated temple!"
Mei heard it in the kitchen and was so angry that she shivered.
Ye Kui was fine, just thinking that Ding He was a mosquito.
It was a long time to the Xia Zhe River. When the widowed wife Bai came in, Ding He was scolded by someone else.
Because she was widowed and remarried by a woman was not something worth talking about, so on this day, Ding He only asked Ding Duofu to lit a string of firecrackers at the door, and he didn't even invite a guest. But she turned around and felt wronged her son, and she became more and more disliked by Bai.
Ding He has always been a ecstatic and joking man, and he always has to mess with Bai's family.
Bai endured it, but the third brother felt distressed: "Dad said at the beginning that I had married and let my elder brother and the others live alone. Now I have married a wife, and the whole family is not doing well, so let's just divide it!"
Lao Ding slapped the table with his head, "Don't make a noise! Third brother, you said you want to marry her, did I ask you to marry her? Now that the person has only entered the door for a few days, you are yelling to split the family. Where do you put the faces of your two brothers, and you and your mother? How old is Cuiyu this year? She is also about to talk about the girl she is about to kiss. If someone knows that our family is divided in this way, what do you think?"
A series of questions were thrown out, and the third brother's aura became weaker little by little, and there was a faint feeling of regret and retreat on his face.
"Dad, it's okay to be separated from your family, but look at the mother who is looking for trouble." The third brother frowned and whispered in a low voice.
Old Ding waved his hand, got up and walked towards the inner room with his hands behind his back. His slightly hunched back was a little sluggish. He stopped when he was about to reach the door and said to them with his back: "It's time to harvest rice in mid-June. You can only calm down after only a month!"
The rice in the south is planted for two seasons. It is indeed the time to harvest early rice in the middle of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. What Lao Ding said means is that after harvesting the rice, they will let them separate the family, waiting for the grain to be collected, and the land will be divided.
Ding He believed that the matter of separation was because everyone mentioned it first, so the third brother would talk about it like this that day, so all this was instigated by Mei.
Fortunately, the family is close to me, Mei is in a good mood, so she tolerated it everywhere.
When Xiaojiu and Ye Shu were studying, they had already spoken to a few young men and waited for the food to be collected and distributed to them. Xiaojiu refused, but could not resist Ding Duofu and Mei, so he had to respond.
Ye Kui quietly went to the bamboo forest.
The mysterious old woman told her to smell the scent of the secret. She remembered the look she looked at Chi Po inadvertently that day, and couldn't help but feel surging. She couldn't help but feel curious and decided to take the risk.
Chapter completed!