The first peasant daughter of the green garden

Chapter 22

Li Caiwei was a little embarrassed by the praise, "Aunt Nian, no."

She glanced at her aunt, and estimated that she was in her 60s, but she looked sharp, wearing silk clothes, and Ying's family seemed to be doing well.

"Aunt Nian, can I borrow some eggs from your house? I want to cook, but I don't have anything at home."

"Yes, I happen to keep a few at home, so I can give them all to you."

"That's a big thank you."

Li Caiwei followed Aunt Nian to Nian's house to pick up eggs. When she went there, she saw that Aunt Nian lived in a painted earthwork. In front of the house was a large yard surrounded by a fence, which was full of various vegetables.

Li Caiwei just watched without talking, and followed Aunt Nian into the house.

Aunt Nian wrapped the five eggs in a piece of cloth, "I'm a daughter-in-law, these eggs are my gift to you."

"Then what a shame, I'll return it to you when I buy it tomorrow."

"What are you talking about? The new daughter-in-law should have a wedding. This Mrs. Yu really..."

Li Caiwei knew that she was talking about the Liu family's Chengniang Yu family.

"Liu Jiacheng's daughter-in-law, you don't have to pay it back, it's my gift money to you."

Li Caiwei knows that etiquette is very important among folks, if you don't accept it, it will be against etiquette. "Aunt Nian, I don't care about the wedding or not, as long as Jiacheng recognizes me."

"You girl, Mrs. Yu is stingy. In order to marry a wife, she forced her son out of the house."

"Aunt Nian, what happened to Jiacheng?"

"Ms. Yu lived in the same village as me when I was young. I married my current husband, and she married Liu Huansheng. I gave birth to three sons, and she gave birth to three daughters. She always wanted a son but couldn't have one. Liu Huansheng I had to marry two more daughters-in-law. Shi Yu couldn't be more angry, but he didn't want to make it public, so he swallowed his anger and gave food and drinks to the newly married daughter-in-law. The new daughter-in-law thought Yu Shi was a good person , but who knows that it is a harm."

"Ah."

"This Mrs. Yu was afraid that the two new daughter-in-laws would be pregnant with a son. Every time the new daughter-in-law was pregnant, she would give the medicine while the daughter-in-law was drinking the medicine. Once, the third daughter-in-law was pregnant again and said it was a boy. Liu Huansheng was very happy and said he would give it to him. The third daughter-in-law was 100 taels of silver. But who knew that she had another miscarriage later on. Liu Huansheng found out that it was Mrs. Yu who did it, and was so angry that she wanted to divorce her. Mrs. Yu begged and begged, and Liu Huancheng finally It still hasn't stopped, but Yu Shi has been left out in the cold since then."

"Yu lived alone in the old house, and Liu Huansheng brought the other two wives to live in the newly bought house."

"Yeah." Li Caiwei nodded, with doubts in her heart, "Who is Liu Jiacheng?"

"It's a long story. In the winter of the year before last, a temple was built in Liujia Village, and they said they were going to invite the troupe to come over for a few days. Mrs. Yu is a theatergoer, and she is the last one to leave every time. I don't know. What happened that night, I heard that when Mrs. Yu saw Liu Jiacheng, Liu Jiacheng was covered in blood. Mrs. Yu saw that it was a boy, so he asked someone to carry him back and asked the doctor to see a doctor, but the doctor said that the child's head suffered a lot. Serious injury, I'm afraid even I don't know who I am. Seeing this child with thick eyebrows and big eyes, Mrs. Yu was very happy, so she adopted this son."

"So it is."

"Then why did Liu Jiacheng move out?"

"Liu Jiacheng has reached the age of marrying a daughter-in-law. Mrs. Yu hopes to have a grandson as soon as possible, so she asks people to matchmaker everywhere. The daughter-in-laws are all girls from the village, and they say they can have a son." Aunt Nian smiled. Children are not stupid, those girls who can give birth to sons are not very good-looking, big and small."

"Oh, look, I'm just talking too much. I shouldn't have said these things to you."

Li Caiwei probably understands why Liu Jiacheng doesn't live with Yu Shi anymore, and also understands why Liu Jiacheng's family is completely destitute. It must be that Liu Jiacheng doesn't want to marry a wife, it should be Yu Shi who did it on purpose.

"Aunt Nian, I should know these things, thank you very much."

Li Caiwei thought about making lunch, "Aunt Nian, Jiacheng is still waiting for me to cook, I'm going back to cook."

On the way home, Li Caiwei recalled Aunt Nian's words, and felt that she and Liu Jiacheng shared weal and woe. It turned out that Liu Jiacheng was also a poor person.

At noon, I spread two eggs with wild vegetables and boiled the last bit of rice in the rice jar.

"Liu Jiacheng, do you hate me?" Li Caiwei used a big bowl to fill more than half of the rice in the rice pot for Liu Jiacheng, and filled some for herself.During the conversation, she was quite nervous. If Liu Jiacheng rejected many girls as Aunt Nian said, then Liu Jiacheng must be a very picky person.

Liu Jiacheng took the job, and Li Caiwei handed him a pair of chopsticks, "I'm your child bride. I can cook, wash clothes, and basically do all the farm work. I just hope you don't let me go. If I leave here, I don't even have the face to go home."

Liu Jiacheng put down the bowl and chopsticks seriously, although very shy, "I don't hate it."

He actually said three words.

Li Caiwei smiled happily, "You said this. If I do something wrong in the future, you can point it out. From now on, I will be yours, and I will follow you for the rest of my life."

Liu Jiacheng still had a mouthful of rice in his mouth, and he was a little embarrassed when he heard Li Caiwei say that, but for some reason, he felt warm in his heart, nodded his head a few times, and then ate with a sullen head.

"After that, let's live a good life. I think the rice at home is almost gone. We have a family by ourselves, and it is not easy to go to my mother to get rice. I think we should borrow some from my aunt's house last year. The first season of early rice is coming soon. Wait for the early rice. Once it’s done, return it.”

"Ah."

"No one cooks for you before, what do you eat?" "Eat."

Li Caiwei felt relieved when she saw her husband in a daze, at least her husband was a reliable person, and he would definitely not mess around with flowers and grass like those stinky men.

"Then who will cook for you?"

"Just eat."

Li Caiwei thought of what Aunt Nian said again, and suddenly felt that her husband was very pitiful, "Although the family is poor, it doesn't matter, I will cook a lot of delicious food for you, as long as you treat me well." When she said the last few words, her voice became softer a lot of.

After lunch, Li Caiwei took a basket and went to the mountain to find some bamboo shoots, so that he could make some sour bamboo shoots for dinner, and by the way, see if there were any other delicious ones.

She had just left when she saw Aunt Nian coming over.

"Jiacheng daughter-in-law, where are you going?"

"Aunt Nian, I'll go to the mountain to find some bamboo shoots, and I'll find something for dinner by the way."

"Well, I just happened to go to the vegetable field on the mountain to pick rice beans. I know where there are bamboo shoots. Come with me."

Originally, Liu Jiacheng said he would follow him, but since Aunt Nian was also going, Li Caiwei turned to Liu Jiacheng and said, "Jiacheng, you can go back, I can go with Aunt Nian."

(End of this chapter)