There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 178
Cuiniang turned her head angrily, "Niu Niu, if you have something to do and run to Brother Luo Cheng's house, you are the one who went to see him, right?"

Niu Da Niu blushed with anger, "You... you, you, you, you are talking nonsense! Sister Jiao Niang saved my brother, and my mother told me to give something to Sister Jiao Niang. I didn't go to see Brother Luo Cheng, I went to see Miss Jiao."

"Come on, they live in the same room." Cuiniang snorted coldly, "Look at Li Jiaoniang, didn't you also look at Brother Luo Cheng?"

"You you you you..." Niu Da Niu was so angry that she didn't know how to reply, "You talk nonsense!"

"Look, am I right? You can't answer, you have a ghost in your heart! Hehe!" Cuiniang turned around and strode away.

"Sister, she is a fierce woman. Mother said, the girl's family is too fierce to marry, so let's ignore her." Niudan was young and knew that his sister had suffered, but he didn't know how to help, so he was only angry.

Niu Da Niu smiled, "She's engaged, so I don't have to worry about not getting married."

"Sigh." Niu Dan sighed, "You are so fierce that you are engaged, but you are not engaged yet, eldest sister."

It really is a pot that cannot be opened without mentioning.

Niu Da Niu blushed with anger, and reached out to tap her brother's forehead, "She is three years older than me, of course she is engaged first, I am still young, what's the hurry?"

According to the custom in the nearby villages, when a girl turns 12, someone will come to her door to propose marriage.

Like those girls with good conditions, people rushed to the door when they were ten years old.

As soon as the girl's age is over, the family arranges to get married.

But she is 14 years old, and a matchmaker has never come to her door.

Niu Da Niu couldn't understand why no one took a fancy to her?

She doesn't look ugly, does she?

Niu Da Niu put the basket on her shoulders and held her younger brother's hand, "Let's go, brother Luo Cheng and sister Jiao Niang have gone home, let's go to his house."

To Luo Cheng's house, one must pass through Xiang's house.

Xiang Erbao pushed open the gate of the courtyard, and was about to go to the field to call his father back for dinner, when he saw Niu Da Niu and his brother coming, he smiled and waved, "Big girl, come and find Sister Jiao Niang."

Niu Da Niu hummed, "My mother asked me to give some melons to Miss Jiao Niang."

"The melons my father grows are really sweet." Niudan said proudly.

"Really? Second Uncle Niu is too powerful!" Xiang Erbao laughed.

"Erbao, why don't you call your father? Who are you talking to?" Mrs. Xiang shouted loudly in the yard.

"Understood, let's go." Xiang Erbao waved to Niu Daniu and ran away.

Niu Da Niu shrugged and walked to Luo Cheng's house.

Mrs. Xiang walked out of the courtyard gate, glanced at Niu Daniu and her brother, and then walked back.

Dabao's daughter-in-law is holding the hand of her one-year-old son, who is learning to walk, "Mother, does Erbao like the eldest girl of the Niu family? I saw him talking to that girl several times."

"He likes it, but I don't." Mrs. Xiang shook her head, "Can the girl from the Niu family marry?"

Xiang Dabao's daughter-in-law was puzzled, "I think that girl is quite clever, why can't mother marry her?"

"That girl is good, but she has a bastard father! She has a hot mother." Mrs. Xiang shook her head when she thought of Niu Er and his wife.

"Her parents, why are you such a hot-headed bastard?" Xiang Dabao's daughter-in-law asked curiously.

"Aren't you an idiot for asking for fifty guan dowry gifts? Can our family afford that much money? Your family only asked for ten guan dowry gifts, why should her family want fifty guan gifts?" Mrs. Xiang looked dissatisfied.

Daughter-in-law Xiang Dabao had a pretty good impression of Niu Da Niu. When she heard that Niu's family wanted a fifty-column dowry, she stopped talking.

If the sister-in-law's bride price is too much higher than hers, won't she be laughed at by the villagers every day if they go out together in the future?
Besides, the eldest girl of the Niu family is not a fairy, so why should she ask for so many beauties?

"The betrothal gift is indeed a lot. Dabao and I didn't save much money. I'm afraid we won't be able to help mother. It will be hard work for mother and father to save fifty pennies." said Xiang Dabao's wife.

"Besides a lot of betrothal gifts, there is another condition for Niuer and his wife." Mrs. Xiang sneered.

"Ah? There are so many betrothal gifts, what are the conditions?"

"After Niu Da Niu gets married, she has to go back to her mother's house for half a month every month to help take care of her brothers. Tell me, you are married, and you go back to your mother's house for half a month every month. What is this called? Anyway, the other family wants Marry and marry, we can't afford it."

"This... this condition is really harsh." Xiang Dabao's daughter-in-law was speechless.

……

Niu Da Niu took her younger brother to Li Jiao's family.

Li Jiaoniang had a cut on her hand, and she was sitting in the main room blowing the cool breeze and flipping through her notebooks to enjoy the happiness, while Luo Cheng was washing the newly bought sheets and blankets in the backyard.

Li Jiaoniang said that new clothes should be washed before they can be used.

Taking advantage of the sunny weather, Luo Cheng set up a big wooden basin in the backyard, with his sleeves rolled up high, and he rubbed them neatly.

Niu Da Niu laughed when she saw it, "Brother Luo Cheng is really hardworking."

Li Jiaoniang also laughed, "Be diligent, right, my family's treasured man."

Niu Da Niu took off the basket on her shoulders and said with a smile, "My mother asked me to bring it. The melons my father planted are so sweet. My brother can eat three of them a day."

Niudan interjected, "I ate four yesterday."

Li Jiaoniang patted the back of his head and reminded him, "It's delicious, but you can't eat too much, be careful that your stomach hurts if you eat too much."

Niu Da Niu took out the melons one by one and put them in a pile in the corner.

Niudan ran forward and counted, "Five."

Niu Da Niu laughed angrily, "Obviously there are ten, and you can't count after five, so it's also five?"

"Keep it at home to eat, why did you give me so much?" Li Jiaoniang felt very sorry, and moved out the watermelon given to her by Mrs. Zhong yesterday, "Take a watermelon home, there are too many melons at home, just Luo Cheng and I will eat it. I can't finish it."

Niu Da Niu refused to take it, "I have it in my field."

The little girl insisted not to.

Li Jiaoniang had no choice but to give up.

Thinking that she bought some candies yesterday, Li Jiaoniang took them out and distributed them to her siblings.

This is a rarity, and the siblings happily accepted it.

Niu Niu said after eating the candy, "Sister Jiao Niang, when I came, my mother said that if Miss Jiao Niang is free, she can go to Xiang's house for more time."

Li Jiaoniang didn't understand this.

She and Xiang's family are next door, and the two families communicate every day.Even if they don't enter each other's house, in the evening, they will go to each other's courtyard to sit and chat to cool off.

"I go every day." Li Jiaoniang said.

"What my mother meant was that Miss Jiao Niang should inquire when she has time, whether Erbao is engaged or not."

Li Jiaoniang understood now.

Second Aunt Niu has taken a fancy to Xiang Erbao, and wants to marry the big girl to Erbao?
The two children are the same age, and the situation of the two families is similar, but they are close relatives.

It's just that the honest and young Niu Da Niu still doesn't understand what her mother means.

"I see." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

Niu Daniu and her brother played for a while and then went back.

After Luo Cheng washed his clothes, he went into the house to drink water.

Li Jiaoniang poured him a cup of herbal tea and talked about Niu Daniu.

Luo Cheng frowned and said, "However, Mrs. Xiang doesn't like people from Second Uncle Niu's family, so I'm afraid this marriage won't work."

Li Jiaoniang blinked, "Oh? What else is going on?"

"Not only does Mrs. Xiang not like the Niu family, but the people in this village don't like it either." Luo Cheng said after finishing his tea.

Li Jiaoniang was puzzled, "Although Second Uncle Niu favors sons over daughters and is superstitious, he is not a very evil person, right? He is much better than Father Chun, and he even gave us a new bed."

Luo Cheng said, "Jiao Niang came to the village late, so I don't know about his family's situation. Everyone in the nearby village knows about it. Second Uncle Niu wants the eldest girl to marry and go home to live with her eggs. According to the rules in the village, when a girl is married, she cannot live in her natal family for a long time, unless she is a door-in-law, but the Niu family does not recruit a door-in-law."

Li Jiaoniang understood, "That is to say, if you marry a girl, you get a bride price, but you want the girl to still live in her natal family and help her natal family?"

"Well, that's what it means."

Li Jiaoniang was speechless, "If you have this idea in your heart, don't say it like that. Second Uncle Niu made such a request publicly, who would want to marry?" She shook her head, "I will do what I can."

……

Luo Cheng washed his clothes, put them in a basket, and carried them to the tight river in front of the village to rinse.

Jiao Niang said that large clothes are rinsed in the basin at home, and the place is small with little water, and the soap locust juice cannot be washed away, so they have to be washed in the river to clean them.

It's almost noon, and the big sun is shining on the earth like a fireball.

There is no one by the tight water river with no shade.

Luo Cheng walked up to a bluestone quay, took off the back basket, put it on the slate, and threw the sheets into the clear river to rinse.

When he was washing the second piece, a voice behind him said, "Hey, Brother Luo Cheng is doing laundry?"

It was that Cuiniang's voice, Luo Cheng didn't turn his head, and went about his own business.

Cuiniang, who had finished weeding from the field, came to the river to wash the hoe, and found that Luo Cheng was there, and she immediately walked over.

Seeing that Luo Cheng didn't respond to her, she said again, "Isn't it right for a woman to do laundry? Brother Luo Cheng, Jiao Niang usually doesn't do laundry? Is it all done by Brother Luo Cheng? Then your wife married..."

(End of this chapter)