Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 131 [131] Brother Xiren Marries a Wife

In fact, in the original book, Zhou Guiren had a bad relationship with Jia Yuanchun.

The battle in the harem is brutal, no less intense than the battlefield.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhou Guiren conspired with others to assassinate the Jia family.

Hearing Emperor Chongrui's order, Jia Chen said:

"The minister obeys the order."

After speaking, Jia Chen wrote a piece of calligraphy.

Emperor Chongrui praised repeatedly, and nobleman Zhou was also full of praise.

At the same time, Hua Zifang, Xiren's older brother, was going to marry a wife. Xiren originally wanted to go home, but Jia Baoyu was ill and she couldn't get away.

At this time, the Hua family is planning a happy event.

The Hua family was full of joy, decorated with lanterns and festoons, and red happy characters were pasted on all the doors and windows.

There is a big red flower hanging in front of Hua Zifang's body. Today he is the bridegroom official and is going to marry Yang Lin'er from the next village.

Seeing her elder brother Hua Zifang grinning foolishly at the mirror, Hua Zixiang was not happy at all.

Hua Rui participated in the White Lotus Sect, was later wanted by the imperial court, and fled outside the pass. His whereabouts are unknown, and his life and death are unknown.

The loss of the backbone of the family has made the Hua family's family situation worse and worse. Now, the family is almost too poor to open their mouths.

But Yang Lin'er's father, Yang Feng, insisted on asking for a stone of millet as a dowry before marrying Yang Lin'er to Hua Zifang.

One stone is equal to one hundred catties. Logically speaking, one hundred catties of millet is not too much.

But in this year of drought and catastrophe, there is almost no grain harvest, let alone a hundred catties of millet, Hua's family can't even produce ten catties of millet.

The Hua family lived in a village on the outskirts of Shenjing City. A while ago, there were bandits in Shenjing City. After being wiped out by Wang Ziteng, many bandits fled to the surrounding area of ​​Shenjing City, looting food and property.

The village where the Hua family was located was robbed once, which resulted in less food for every household in the village.

Yesterday, the Hua family managed to get enough of this stone of millet from the good-hearted neighbors.

Early this morning, the family was happily preparing to go to welcome their relatives.

But Hua Zixiang knew that on the way to meet her relatives, she might encounter robbers who would steal this stone of millet.

Because of this, Yang Fengfeng refused Yang Lin'er's door-to-door, and the elder brother couldn't be the groom's official today.

But this is exactly what Hua Zixiang wants.

Because he likes Yang Lin'er.

Hua Zixiang wants to marry Yang Liner.

However, since her eldest brother Hua Zifang had a marriage contract with Yang Liner, now Yang Liner wants to marry Hua Zifang wholeheartedly.

But Hua Zifang is timid and cowardly, irresponsible, pedantic, and doesn't know right and wrong, so she is not good enough for Yang Liner.

Hua Zixiang must not let Yang Liner marry this weakling.

But we can't let the one stone of millet that we managed to get together be snatched away by bandits.

"Zi Xiang, why are you still standing there? Go to the kitchen, tie up the one hundred catties of millet on the pot table, and tie it to the pole. You are strong, and you will be responsible for carrying it later." Hua Wei's In a word, Hua Zixiang, who was thinking, was awakened.

"understood!"

Hua Zixiang responded, walked into the kitchen, took advantage of no one around, found another sack, poured the millet in the red cloth bag into the sack, and then hid the sack of millet in an old poplar tree in the backyard in the tree hole.

Immediately afterwards, he filled the red cloth bag with sand, tied the mouth of the bag, pretended it was a bag of millet, and tied it to the pole.

"Zi Xiang, it's time for us to set off to pick up your sister-in-law!" Hua Wei's call came from outside the door.

"Hey, here we come!" Hua Zixiang agreed, picked up the pole, and walked out of the kitchen.

Although this bag of sand weighs at least one hundred and fifty catties, as a farmer, he has a lot of strength, and he can walk like flying with this bag of sand.

When she arrived in the yard, Hua Zixiang found that the whole family had packed up, with beaming smiles on their faces.

It's just that they are dressed more shabby than the other.

Huawei was wearing a navy blue cotton-padded jacket with white dots, with two patches on it.

Eldest brother Hua Zifang was wearing a crumpled gray cloth gown. It was the only unpatched piece of clothing that the Hua family could find.

The third brother, Hua Zifen, was wearing a shabby patch upon patch of clothes, like a little beggar.

Of course, Hua Zixiang's own clothes also have a patch on the left and a hole on the right.

This family is dressed in such shabby clothes, with big and small bags on their shoulders, it doesn't look like they are going to greet their relatives, they are simply going to flee famine and beg for food.

Hua Zixiang felt very uncomfortable watching it, her family was already so poor.

In the future, we must find a way to let the family members live a better life as soon as possible!

Hua Zixiang secretly made up her mind.

There are also several drummers in the courtyard who are in charge of playing suona, sheng and waist drum.

It is said that they are drummers, but they are actually some neighbors in the neighborhood. Usually, the big guys face the loess and their backs to the sky, planing food in the soil.

In this difficult time of famine, people often starve to death and freeze to death. The villagers can only hug each other to keep warm and help each other to survive.

At this time, a woman's loud greeting came from outside the door:
"His aunt, his aunt!"

Along with the shout, a middle-aged woman in gray sackcloth walked into the courtyard.

Hua Wei hurriedly went up to greet her, and greeted warmly: "Big sister, you are here!"

The middle-aged woman handed Hua Wei a bamboo dustpan in her bosom, and said with a smile:

"His aunt, it was put together by our family. Your eldest is married, so it's useful."

Hua Wei took it over, and lifted the light blue cage cloth covering the dustpan, and saw a stack of corn flour pancakes in the dustpan, only six in total.

Huawei's hands trembled, only to feel that the dustpan weighed a thousand catties, and his eyes instantly became moist.

Hua Zixiang's heart is also warm. In recent years, there has been a drought, and the grain in the fields has almost failed, and there are many miscellaneous taxes.

But even in such a difficult situation, the neighbors scraped together six pancakes as a wedding gift and gave them to Hua's family. What are these pancakes, they are more precious than gold!
Seeing that Huawei's eyes were full of tears, and she was too moved to say a word, Hua Zixiang walked up to the middle-aged woman and said solemnly:
"Auntie, my old Hua's family will remember today's friendship, and I, Hua Zixiang, will remember it. I will definitely repay you in the future."

The middle-aged woman opened her eyes and said with a smile: "They all belong to the folks in the village. If you say this, you will be offended."

Hua Wei looked at Hua Zixiang who was standing upright, a trace of surprise flashed in her tearful eyes.

In the past, Hua Zixiang had a wild temper and a stubborn temper. She would fight with the neighbor's children at every turn, and often caused troubles for Lao Hua's family.

Unexpectedly, today he suddenly changed his temper, and he behaved politely and spoke generously.

Why is it like a different person?Is this still the stubborn second child?
It seems that the second child has grown up and is sensible.

Hua Wei's heart felt very relieved and happy.

Hua Wei thanked the middle-aged woman with tears in her eyes:

"In order to collect that stone of food for our boss, which one of you didn't scrape the bottom of your own tank?"

(End of this chapter)