There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 190 Letting Go (Part [-])
"You like our big girl, don't you?" Niu Er Niangzi looked at Xiang Erbao, "Several times, she took the initiative to talk to our big girl, and she talked to our big girl today by the river, right? "

Xiang Erbao looked at his mother, who gritted her teeth in anger.

His father turned his head away.

His sister-in-law was teasing her one-year-old son.

His elder brother snorted coldly at Dabao.

Xiang Erbao was even more confused, not knowing what happened.

"Big girl... Big girl, she is a good girl." Xiang Erbao said shyly.

Niu Er Niangzi immediately became happy, and said to the eldest lady, "Look, the second treasure has admitted it, you are the man, you can't rely on it?"

Xiang Erbao asked in a daze, "Second Aunt, why don't you admit it?"

Niu Er Niang raised her eyebrows, "Didn't you admit it just now? You said that my eldest girl is a good girl and took the initiative to talk to her. If you say that, who would dare to come to my house to propose marriage? My eldest girl can only marry You. Choose a date for your family. We can start preparing the dowry. By the way, we can’t be sloppy about the dowry. My eldest girl is very capable, and we won’t agree to it without fifty pennies.”

With her series of words, Xiang Erbao was so shocked that he didn't know how to answer.

He looked at his mother, "Mother, this... this..."

His mother was so angry that she closed her eyes.

Xiang Erbao was so anxious that he waved his hands at Niu Erniang, "Second Aunt, is it too urgent to get married?"

Niu Er Niang stood up, pointed at Xiang Erbao's nose and cursed, "What do you mean? You want to dump my big girl? You don't want to marry her, so what are you talking to her for? Are you deliberately playing tricks on her? ?”

Where does this follow?Xiang Erbao, who wasn't very good at quarreling with others, was even less able to speak in a hurry.

"No, I mean..." He blushed so anxiously.

"It's fine if you don't, you can find a matchmaker to make a date, I'll go back and wait for the news." Niu Er Niangzi finished speaking, left Xiang's house, and went home.

Seeing her walk out of the courtyard door, the eldest lady immediately reached out and beat Xiang Erbao, cursing, "You're a dead boy! She wants fifty dowry gifts, where can we find so much money for her?"

Xiang Guangcai said in a muffled voice, "The gift money is a small matter. You can borrow it in the village and you can always get it. But if she comes to the door and asks, doesn't she take us seriously?"

Xiang Dabao pulled his younger brother away and asked, "Erbao, let me ask you, what's going on between you and that big girl?"

Xiang Dabao's daughter-in-law also looked up at her uncle.

Xiang Erbao murmured, "Is there anything wrong?"

"It's nothing, why did he come to the door?" Mrs. Xiang stomped her feet angrily, "Quickly tell the truth!"

"I..." Xiang Erbao stammered, "I just felt sorry for her, and I talked to her a few times. I have nothing to do with her, and I haven't even held hands."

"Really?" Mrs. Xiang looked at her younger son in disbelief.

In the past, she hoped that her youngest son would bring a girl back, but she didn't want it to be a girl from the Niu family.

"Well, that's it." Xiang Erbao nodded.

"Now, the Niu family is coming to urge the marriage, what are you going to do?" Mrs. Xiang gasped, looking at her younger son.

"I..." Xiang Erbao was speechless again.

He doesn't dislike Niu Da Niu, and even likes her a little bit.

He didn't like to look at many girls of her age in the village, but every time he saw Niu Da Niu, he wanted to go up and talk to her.

It's just that, being urged by her mother like this, he felt mixed feelings for a moment, and he felt a little conflicted for no reason.

"What me? Niu Da Niu's mother is easy to provoke? She will make trouble every day, and make you die!" Mrs. Xiang stomped her feet angrily.

She thinks she is a pungent, but when confronted with Niu Er's daughter-in-law, she basically loses.

The woman was making unreasonable noises, and she was pissed off, pretending to be crazy, and annoyed.

Do you want to be a son and daughter with that family?She will live 20 years less!

Xiang Erbao walked to the back door, sat on a low stool, frowned and said nothing.

"I make up my own mind for the things I provoked, the bride price and so on. The family will help a little, and you will pay a little." Xiang Guangcai said.

Seeing his father open his mouth, Xiang Dabao glanced at his wife, and said, "I'll help too, I'll pay half of my father."

Mrs. Xiang was so angry that her face became even more ashen, "Why, this is agreed? I haven't agreed yet!"

Xiang Dabao's daughter-in-law tugged at Xiang Da Niang's sleeve, "Mother, mother, please calm down, this matter, should we discuss it another day? This forced Er Bao to make up his mind, and he didn't think about it for a while."

Mrs. Xiang took a deep breath, "Anyway, I don't agree, and I will never accept the girl from the Niu family as a daughter-in-law."

Xiang Erbao sat at the back door for a while, then went out of the house and walked towards Luo Cheng's house.

At this time, Luo Cheng hadn't come back yet, and all the doors of the house were closed.

Xiang Erbao walked to the backyard door of his house, found a shady place to sit, and waited for Luo Cheng.

Luo Cheng drove the carriage back to the village, sent Chunya home first, and then walked home.

Their carriage took a path, so they would go to the backyard gate first.

Luo Cheng saw Xiang Erbao sitting at the door of his backyard, and called out to him in surprise, "Erbao, why are you sitting here?"

Turning back to Erbao, Luo Cheng came driving the carriage. He patted the dust off his sleeves and stood up, "Brother Luo Cheng, are you back? I want to talk to you about something."

Li Jiaoniang poked her head and saw Xiang Erbao's expression was not very good, she couldn't help smiling and said, "Erbao, what's the matter? Your mother scolded you, or which girl scolded you?"

Embarrassed, Xiang Erbao said, "Neither...none of them."

Luo Cheng stopped the carriage firmly, and Li Jiaoniang jumped out of the carriage to carry the items on the carriage.

Xiang Erbao rushed forward to help.

"There aren't many things, I'll do it myself, you go talk to Brother Luo Cheng." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

She didn't buy many things today, they were all light items, such as thread, a few candles, a few pieces of fabric, and the heaviest thing was three catties of lamp oil.

Xiang Erbao carried the jar of kerosene into the yard and placed it on the side of the back door.

Luo Cheng moved other odds and ends into the courtyard.

Li Jiaoniang went to organize things, Luo Cheng pulled Xiang Erbao out of the courtyard, "What's the matter, Erbao?"

Xiang Erbao glanced at Li Jiaoniang in the courtyard, and sighed, "Let's talk by the river."

Luo Cheng raised his eyebrows, "It's mysterious."

Li Jiaoniang waved her hand with a smile, "Go, go, I can't help you with your men's affairs."

Xiang Erbao shyly said, "Sister Jiao Niang, we'll be back in a while."

When they reached the river, Luo Cheng immediately asked Er Bao, "Er Bao, what's the matter?"

It was getting late by the river, no one was there, and it was quiet everywhere.

Xiang Erbao went to the river and squatted down, sighed, "Brother Luo Cheng, at noon today, Niu Da Niu's mother came to my house."

Luo Cheng hummed, "And then?"

"She asked me when I would bring a matchmaker to my door to propose marriage."

Luo Cheng was surprised, "Why did she ask such a question? Could it be that you and the big girl..."

Xiang Erbao stretched out his hand and scratched his head, "No, no, Brother Luo Cheng, where are you thinking? I just feel sorry for her, isn't she often beaten and scolded by her mother and father, and she has to do so many things every day, I see her pitiful, I just said a few words to her, for some reason, her mother thought I liked a big girl, and asked when my family would come to propose marriage."

Luo Cheng raised his eyebrows, "You just pity her? Don't you like her?"

Xiang Erbao grabbed her hair, feeling very entangled in her heart, "Originally... a little bit, but today her mother made a fuss, and I... I... Anyway, I'm very disgusted to hear that I'm being asked to marry her."

He was pointed and scolded by Niu Erniang, feeling irritable and wronged for a while, and just wanted to find someone to talk to.

Luo Cheng looked at him and patted his shoulder, "Then, do you have someone you like now?"

"Now..." Xiang Erbao scratched his hair again, he thought of Chun Ya, did he like it, he couldn't tell, it seemed like he didn't, "No."

"Then you should marry the big girl." Luo Cheng said, "You pity her because you like her. When I first met your sister Jiao Niang, I pitied her and couldn't see her suffer a little bit of grievance."

Xiang Erbao looked at Luo Cheng, thought for a while, "I still don't want to marry."

Seeing that he couldn't be persuaded, Luo Cheng said, "Then you think about it again. After a few days, think about it again. However, whether you want to marry or not, don't make big girl sad, and don't make trouble. It’s big, making the two families look ugly.”

There are rumors in the village that Niu Er must receive fifty guan dowries before he is willing to marry his daughter. People in the village have already privately scolded Niu Er for being too greedy.

Most of the people in Jinshan Village are not rich, except for a few wealthy members, ordinary people's gift of ten strings is already insane.

Xiang Erbao didn't want to marry Niu Da Niu, but he didn't know if it was because of the bride price.

Niu Er and his wife are not good, but Niu Da Niu is not wrong.

Nodding to Erbao, "I see, Brother Luo Cheng."

(End of this chapter)