MTL - Rebirth Married The Control Group Fulang-Chapter 17

"Hegeer, do you see how nice these earrings look on me?"

Xu He was sweeping the floor when he heard the voice and looked up. Xu Shaochun was sitting on the side of the charcoal basin, with a bronze mirror standing in front of him, holding a pair of pottery painted earrings and comparing them back and forth in front of his plump profile.

He nodded: "It looks good."

There are a pile of gift boxes on the table facing the hill, all of which are Xu Shaochun's spoils during the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is really busy, there are so many gift-givers, and she has to visit relatives and friends. She has not had time to open many of the gift boxes to have a look See, those who didn't like it couldn't be given to Xu He in time to return the gifts to those who gave them, so they had to accept everything as ordered.

Fortunately, during the Chinese New Year period, everyone has more money in their hands. To be precise, they are more willing to spend money than ordinary days, so the gifts they send are more expensive than usual, which makes Xu Shaochun very satisfied.

The second sister was satisfied, and Xu He was also satisfied. During the Chinese New Year, he traveled a lot to build bridges and give gifts to the young talents in the village, and he even saved dozens of pennies.

"Mother said that my aunt is coming to visit today, so you have to cook earlier. My hands and feet are not as clumsy as you, so I will talk to my aunt when the time comes."

Xu Shaochun was very satisfied with the younger brother's answer, and took a moment to glance at Xu He, looking at the dingy people who had been tidied up during the Chinese New Year, she shook her head secretly.

Xu He responded, anyway, he didn't like talking with his elders, and the elders didn't like talking to him either, after all, they couldn't talk together.

"Then I'm off to work."

"Um."

Xu He went out from Xu Shaochun's warm house filled with the fragrance of flowers collected and dried in spring, and wanted to carry some firewood into the kitchen in the yard. There are many customers coming and going during the Chinese New Year, and the stove is burning firewood every day, and the firewood is used up quickly. Before the Chinese New Year, the full firewood he saved was almost completely burned.

"He Geer!"

He was hunched over and holding firewood when he heard someone yelling from afar. Xu He straightened his waist, watching his aunt's hair combed smoothly, her waist twisted and her complexion rosy coming from the field ridge, and he went to open the gate of the courtyard.

"Knowing that my aunt is coming, are you ready to cook so early?"

Xu He also said politely: "Auntie finally came here, so she should treat her well."

"well."

Xu Shaochun in the room heard the voice and hurriedly packed up his things, and ran out in small steps: "Auntie!"

Liu Xiangmei looked at her little niece who was as delicate as a flower, and immediately left Xu He and went forward: "Shaochun has grown a lot taller, let my aunt take a good look at it, but her appearance is even more lovely."

"Auntie, hurry up and sit in the house. My mother started talking about my aunt coming over two days ago. Shaochun specially lit a charcoal fire in the house. It's warm now. I can't let my aunt come back to the village to catch the cold. .”

"This little girl's words are getting sweeter and sweeter. Going inside, it happened that my aunt brought you some presents."

Seeing his aunt and nephew entering the house talking and laughing, Xu He carried the firewood to the stove.

His aunt married in the city, and her life was better than in the village. Every time she came to visit her, his mother, Liu Xianglan, would bring out the best things to entertain her, just because she didn't want to be inferior to her elder sister from the city.

Xu He knew this very well, even if her mother didn't confess, he also knew to go to the ice well to get a piece of good meat, not only that, but at least an old hen had to be caught.

He lit the fire and put the rice into the pot first, thinking about what to cook.

The old hen must be used to make soup. In the soup, put some mushrooms collected in spring and dried to stew; Every time my aunt comes to the house, the food must be better than the Chinese New Year. Thinking about these dishes, they are no less than the big ones, and they are almost the same.

While the chicken feathers were being scalded, Liu Xianglan came to the stove with an oiled paper bag. First, she checked the dishes that Xu He had arranged for today. She was quite satisfied, and then she put the things in her hand on the stove: "You My aunt brought the pig's trotters and made them for lunch too, you can figure it out."

Liu Xianglan tidied up today in a very spirited manner, and even put the plain silver hairpins on her hair that she couldn't bear to wear in the upper city.

Xu He agreed, so he didn't use his own pork.

It's easy to handle with pig's trotters, so let's use the uneaten winter bamboo shoots to make a hoof flower soup. His aunt also loves it. Every year after winter, his mother will dig some in the village and send them to the city.

Liu Xianglan didn't say anything about helping Xu He light the fire, and turned back to the middle hall.

"Hey, by the way, Zhang Fangyuan, the fifth eldest member of the Zhang family in the village, do you know what he's doing?"

Liu Xiangmei knocked on the melon seeds that Liu Xianglan took out, and started chatting.

Liu Xianglan is also strange, since her sister married to the city, every year when she visits her relatives in the village, she can't stop talking about the happy life in the city, but this is the first time she talks about the good and bad of the village.

"He, didn't he fool around in the city first, and suddenly wanted to start a family for some reason a few years ago, and asked a matchmaker to talk about marriage, but it turned out that..."

Liu Xianglan told her sister vividly about the bizarre events in the village. When visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, everyone in front of the table and behind the stove must bring up the incident and talk about it, each sighing: "After he caught the thief, everyone My opinion of him has changed a bit, and I have stayed in the village longer."

Liu Xiangmei listened with gusto. After all, she was from Jijiu Village before she got married. After such a big gossip happened in the village, she was able to talk to people when she returned to the city: "Then he said he was married now?"

"I haven't heard of it. At first, I was in a hurry. Maybe I felt uncomfortable when I met the Guang family. Now everyone doesn't say anything about him. On the contrary, I don't see him continuing to propose marriage."

Liu Xiangmei smiled meaningfully when she heard the words, and patted Liu Xianglan's thigh: "I think you don't know that he rented a stall in the city and started a business!"

"Huh? What business does he do?"

Liu Xiangmei said: "What kind of business can a butcher do? He buys and sells animals and sells meat in the meat market! He's a good talker. I bought my meat at his stall today. He recognized me at a glance. Let me go back to the village."

Liu Xianglan opened her mouth in disbelief, unable to put the person her sister mentioned on the burly and fierce Zhang Fangyuan.

"On the way, I chattered and asked about his chariot and horses. Guess what, he bought it himself, and it was specially used for business and pulling things." The more Liu Xiangmei talked, the more satisfied she became: "The big guy is strong and strong, I see you can Have a look with Shaochun."

"Don't you admit the wrong person!"

Liu Xianglan glanced at her sister suspiciously. It was a car and horse business and a meat market. It sounded like a cross talk, but if this person was Zhang Fangyuan, she felt it was outrageous.

"Hey, why don't you believe me for a long time! He said that he is Zhang Fangyuan from Zhang's old five family, and his parents are gone. Could it be that there are other Zhangs in the village with the same background? "Liu Xiangmei frowned beautifully, pointed outside and said: "I got off the car on the road over there, and people drove the horses and horses and continued to go up. Zhang Fangyuan's house is right there."

Liu Xianglan was speechless immediately, and murmured: "Could it be that he has reformed himself."

Liu Xiangmei earnestly said: "You, when you look at people, you only focus on their past, and you also need to look at the present and the future, so you should give advice and advice. Since Shaochun was born with such a condition, he must choose a household for him. People, you and your brother-in-law don't have any males, so you will have to rely on your son-in-law in the future."

Talking about the daughter who made Liu Xianglan proud, her face was ruddy, and she said frankly: "I probably already have a good look at Shaochun's husband-in-law, and I already have a candidate."

Liu Xiangmei raised her eyebrows when she heard the words: "Oh?"

Liu Xianglan said brightly, "You know the Fei family in our village. The only son of that scholar's family passed the Tongsheng examination early in the morning and was studying in the city. He heard that his literary talent is very good. He will take the college entrance examination this spring."

"The lady of the Fei family has already had tea with me twice, and we have communicated with each other for a long time. After the court test, I will come to our house to propose marriage."

The conditions for scholars are good, they can write, and the court gives money and things with fame. Anyone who looks at them will be envious. They are extremely popular son-in-laws in the city, let alone a villager. It's easy to pass the exam, what if you can't pass the exam?"

Liu Xianglan felt that her sister was short-sighted: "If I can't do it this year, I will take the exam again next year. There are very few people who pass the exam. It's always time to take it slowly. Fei Tongsheng is a talented person. There are many people in the village who want to get married. Even the village head's family has hinted at Fei's family several times. Yes, but I didn't agree. That's right, how can a scholar like the fat taro-like daughter of the village chief's family."

Liu Xiangmei didn't care about her younger sister's complacency: "It's better to be cautious and look at it more. That picture far away is really good."

"If my sister thinks it's better to keep that one far away, she might as well tell her about my own garden."

Liu Xiangmei knew that her sister was choking herself, so she said angrily: "I told you kindly, you are not happy anymore, Yuan Yuan has already engaged her cousin, and you don't know. I regret it so early now. I agreed and didn't look any further."

Xu He was picking bamboo shoots and peeling them in the small room next to the middle hall. Hearing what his mother and aunt had said, he was a little surprised that Zhang Fangyuan was doing business in the city. No wonder he hadn't seen him for a while. He put the bamboo shoots next to each other into the basin, thinking that this guy is really powerful, and even his aunt in the city, who has his eyes high above his head, fell in love with him.

Liu Xianglan saw that her sister rarely showed such a regretful expression, she seemed to really think highly of Zhang Fangyuan, and said, "Let me take a look again, in case it is really stronger than the Fei family, and I didn't say anything, there is still A chance to turn around."

Liu Xiangmei felt a little more at ease when she heard such words, but she also knew that her younger sister liked scholars more: "Hey, Brother He is not young anymore, he is not a few months away from Shaochun, and both of them are going to marry, why not?" You think about it..."

Before the words were finished, both of them knew what they meant. Xu He, who was about to go back to the kitchen, did not expect that the topic would fall on him for the first time, so he couldn't help but pause.

"It's a pretty idea. Look at that talent, Brother He. It would be nice to have two men in the village. That Zhang Fangyuan was always fooling around in the city before, and I heard that he even guarded a kiln. What kind of Yingying Yanyan hasn't seen her before, so she won't be able to get a wife, and I'm afraid she won't like Brother He's appearance, and she can't speak, she just knows how to work."

"Actually, when he came to the house to butcher pigs, he secretly watched Shaochun..."

In fact, Xu He had heard such words a lot, but for some reason, he was so bored and flustered today.

Xu He didn't make a sound, tightened the basin on his waist, and went back to the kitchen silently.

Liu Xiangmei sighed slightly, with Zhang Fangyuan's appearance, he could indeed ask for a Shun'er, and the conditions are attractive now, if his reputation comes back, even his eyes can grow to the top of his head.

Zhang Fangyuan's brain is also flexible, he knows to put forward the conditions first, and he is not in a hurry to propose marriage.

Thinking about it this way, she found that Zhang Fangyuan was even more capable.

Thinking that he has only one younger sister who is close to him, and there is really no girl or younger brother to talk to elsewhere, so he spread out and talked to his younger sister in detail.