Hard times have room

Chapter 40

"Okay, how much money does your family have now? Will all this money go to your sister? How many work points can you earn each year? How much food do you share?"

"I'm just this sister. If my sister gets married, she will definitely not be wronged. You keep saying that let her be the head of the family, and the money must be handed over to her to arrange. If the money is not given to her, it must not be considered as the family, right? Besides, asking about work-point food is to see if the food you earn can support your family.”

"I'm not with you, and I'm not in this Qingping Town. When my sister married, she is the Qin family, and everything in her hands will belong to the Qin family in the future. Besides, my sister brought so much dowry over here, she definitely won't I'm greedy for something from your house."

Qin Dashan thought about it for a while, and there was nothing hesitant to say: "The family doesn't have much money, and it adds up to 55 yuan and 5 cents. As long as your sister marries me, I can hand over all these to her for safekeeping. After the New Year, the money and food will be divided. It is also handed over to her to arrange, and the summer grain and autumn grain are distributed every year. The work points of my brother and I can divide about 3 catties of rice and 150 catties of coarse grains, and the money is not too much, only a dozen or 500 yuan."

"Yeah." Pauline nodded, but still asked, "Can you share the household chores? My sister will definitely be able to do things like cooking and washing clothes, but you should be doing things like carrying water and chopping wood?"

"Well, these things were originally done by men, and you definitely won't let your sister do them. What else? Let's ask together." Qin Dashan nodded obliged to do these tasks.

"No more for now, treat her well in the future." Pauline said, her eyes couldn't help getting wet.

She seldom cried, and every time tears swirled in her eyes, she would raise her head, look at the sky, and let the tears go back, because she felt that tears would not solve any problems, but would only make herself seem weak and incompetent.

But this time, she couldn't hold back. After all, after tomorrow, her sister will belong to someone else, stay away from her, and have children for this man. From now on, she can only come here to see her a few times a year.

But Pauline wishes her that she deserves a home, finds her other half, and lives happily in the rest of her life.

At present, Qin Dashan is all right. Paulin hopes that he can do what he said and not let her sister down, otherwise Baolin won't mind doing it herself and teach them a profound lesson.

After finishing speaking, Paulin walked outside, squatting in the corner of the yard, looking at the tender pumpkin seedlings and leaves, she always had a feeling that her cabbage was being arched by pigs.

In the evening, Qin Dashan killed the only fat hen in the family that laid eggs, stewed soup with the abalone brought by Paulin, and steamed white rice for the two sisters and Aunt Xiang, the matchmaker.

After the meal, sisters Paulin and Li Cao, Aunt Xiang and the two brothers discussed tomorrow's wedding matters. It was not a big deal, so I just invited the chief secretary and the captain plus the head of the Qin family's relatives to have a meal. , about two tables.

The staple food is white rice, sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge. The only vegetables are one meat, two vegetables, and one soup. At this time, there is not much food in the family. In the future, there is no need to get married and empty the house. Bao Lin and Li Cao All are practical people.

The meat dishes are made with three salted fish that Paulin took out of the bag, cut into small pieces, and stir-fried with chili and spring onion. Two plates of meat dishes are enough.

The two vegetarian dishes are only wild vegetables and mushrooms, and the soup is just six eggs plus wild vegetables and chopped mushrooms.

Although this dish will not be enough to look at in the future, it is a good feast now, with one meat and two vegetarian dishes and soup. Before, Baolin went to a vegetarian picnic banquet in Shanghe Village.

Because when you come, people have to bring gifts. If you go to more people, you will definitely bring more gifts. After all, at this time, people who have a little face will not do such a free thing. If there are less gifts, they will Those who are paid attention to by others have a bad reputation.

At that time, Wang Ermazi, who held a vegetarian banquet and married his wife, had a reputation as a stinky street. He had been paid attention to for several years in Shanghe Village, and now those people in the village have not let him go.

After negotiating, Baolin and Li Cao followed Aunt Xiang to her house. Aunt Xiang's house was not far away, just next door to Qin Dashan's house. At the beginning, Uncle Qin Dashan wanted the homestead together with his father and brothers. Together, the brothers take care of each other.

Aunt Xiang has a lot of family members. All three sons have married wives and gave birth to a baby. The whole family adds up to a total of fifteen members, and the population is very strong.

Aunt Xiang drove the eldest son and the second son to Qin Dashan's house, and then put the two daughters-in-law together to sleep together before making a room for the two sisters.

After the sisters put their things away, put their hands on the head of the bed and chat while lying on the bed.

"Sister, why don't you change your name, tomorrow will be your new start."

"Well, it's just that my new name should be called?" Li Cao agreed after thinking for a moment. After all, the name was randomly given by Mrs. Li when the Li family registered her, and the name is just a proxy. , In fact, it doesn't matter if she changes it or not, since Pauline doesn't like it, then change it!
"Why don't you call it Li Ting? It's a good name, it's nice, and it has a beautiful meaning. I think it suits you very well." Paulin touched her eyebrows and thought about it. Well, Li Ting is really good.

"Sister, you're getting married tomorrow, I'll be here with you the day after tomorrow, and I should go back to Shanghe Village the day after tomorrow."

"Well, I know, after all, where are your parents, you always have to go back. When the time comes, Dashan and I will send you back." Li Ting said disappointedly.

Thinking of the separation, both of them were silent. In this silence, soon, the two who had not slept well for two nights were finally unable to meet Duke Zhou's summons, and they made small shouts one after the other.

The next day, Pauline woke up, and after a good night's sleep, she felt refreshed and all tiredness was swept away.

Li Ting looked at Bao Lin who woke up, and said with a teasing: "Little lazy pig, I've slept until now, and I'm finally willing to get up."

Pauline ignored her teasing, went out, went to the water tank, picked up the ladle and scooped the water, then snorted on her face, washed her eyes with water, she really felt better.

For breakfast, the two sisters went to Qin Dashan's house to eat. After dinner, Paulin didn't go out for a walk, but stayed at Aunt Xiang's house and watched two or three women dress up Li Ting around them.

Seeing that the aunts used thread to clean her eyebrows and the fluff on her face, this is called opening her face, and then they sipped her with red paper, and after a while, her lips were stained with red.

It's a pity that Bao Lin and Li Ting left in a hurry. Now Li Ting not only can't wear the red wedding dress, but also doesn't even have a decent dress. Aunt Xiang lent Li Ting the dress that her young daughter-in-law wore at the time of the wedding. , it didn't make Li Ting too embarrassed.

There are clothes and fabrics in Baolin's space, but the size of the clothes is wrong. Paulin used to be 1 meters and weighs 63 pounds, so she is a bit fat. In addition, she likes loose clothes, which is even more inappropriate. A set of bed sheets and quilt covers is left for her to make clothes here. When she is married, she must have a decent set of clothes to stand up in front of other sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law.

Therefore, the congratulatory gift that Baolin gave that day was enough blue cotton cloth for Li Ting to make two clothes, and a pound of brown sugar.

(End of this chapter)