Dinner was extraordinarily sumptuous.
Two eggs are broken and mixed with white flour to make egg pancakes. Seven bird eggs are boiled and peeled and placed on a plate. There is also a stir-fried green vegetable, a fried lotus root ball, and a large bowl of white rice in front of each person.
Although they had been full for many days, the four boys could not help but drool.
Cheng Wanwan placed a bird egg at the bottom of each person's bowl, and the last extra one was placed in front of Wu Huiniang.
Wu Huiniang was a little flattered: "Mom, one is enough for me. This is for you..."
"Each person has an egg, it's fair." Cheng Wanwan glanced at her belly, "When I'm done with these days, I'll ask Doctor Zheng to come and show it to you."
She has never been pregnant and doesn't understand what she needs to pay attention to during pregnancy. However, in modern society, pregnant women have to undergo a prenatal check-up every month. It is definitely right to invite Doctor Zheng to take a look.
Wu Huiniang's eye circles felt a little warm.
One year after marrying into the Zhao family, she was tortured for a year. If Dashan didn't feel sorry for her and always secretly saved food for her to eat, she would have been unable to survive long ago.
In the past, the mountains were her light.
Now, she felt that her mother-in-law was also glowing.
She was able to eat two of the seven eggs at home. She never thought that her mother-in-law would be so kind to her.
"Mom, I..."
Wu Huiniang wanted to say something, but her throat was clogged and she couldn't say what she wanted to say.
Cheng Wanwan patted the back of her hand: "You are all going to be mothers, don't cry, otherwise the child will cry to death every day after birth."
Wu Huiniang's tears immediately went back.
The family is about to have a meal.
A timid voice suddenly sounded in the yard.
"Brother Ergou, are you there?"
It's a girl's voice.
Zhao Ergou didn't even bother to eat, threw down his chopsticks and walked out of the yard.
Cheng Wanwan looked over curiously, and saw a girl wearing lotus-colored patchwork clothes standing outside the courtyard wall. She looked slim and graceful, but the girl was very thin, and she looked like she was living in a lean year.
Her eyes were burning with gossip: "Sidan, don't eat it. Look, is that girl your second sister-in-law?!"
Zhao Sidan's mouth was stuffed with food and he nodded vigorously: "Yes, it's Sister Shui Qin. I met her once. It turns out she is the future second sister-in-law!"
Zhao Sanniu's eyes widened: "Second sister-in-law is so beautiful."
This girl has straight eyebrows and big eyes. She looks really beautiful, especially because she is wearing clean clothes, which makes her look even more outstanding.
The orange sunset fell on the girl, her pupils reflected the brilliance of the sunset, and she looked up at Zhao Ergou standing in front of her.
Zhao Ergou didn't dare to look into the girl's eyes at all, and his hands were so cramped that he didn't know where to put them.
Cheng Wanwan couldn't help laughing.
It's great to be young, there's no way to hide your love, and it makes people's hearts flutter just by looking at it.
Immediately, she stopped laughing.
Looking at the ecstatic expression on the second son's face, one knew that this boy was determined to marry him back. If this girl took the initiative to come to him, she should be interested in him.
In other words, their family is about to hold a happy event.
Holding a wedding means spending money.
She was not short of money. She had one hundred and twenty taels of silver from selling ginseng, which was enough to spend for a long time, but she lacked a reason to spend it openly.
Letting the money pass through the clear path is a major issue she is about to face.
Cheng Wanwan asked casually: "Da Shan, how much money did you spend on your wedding?"
Zhao Dashan's face suddenly turned red and he muttered: "No, I don't know..."
Wu Huiniang was even more shy, her head almost buried in her rice bowl.
Zhao Sidan answered on his behalf: "Mom, I know, grandma said that my sister-in-law didn't spend a penny to get in."
As soon as he said this, the original memory emerged in front of Cheng Wanwan.
Dashan went to the town to exchange for salt, and fell in love with Wu Huiniang, who sold eggs in the town, at first sight. The two of them got along well after going back and forth.
The Wu family was not the one waiting to exchange their daughter for a dowry. Seeing that the Zhao family was in good condition and had a father-in-law who joined the army, they agreed to marry their daughter without saying anything. Even the half-money gift given by the Zhao family was used by Wu Huiniang. The dowry was brought back. Of course, the money ended up in the original person's pocket and was sent to the Cheng family.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Wu Huiniang got married, Dashan's father died. Immediately afterwards, the original man made a noise and separated the family, and Wu Huiniang began a nightmare-like life.
Wu Huiniang was living like this in her husband's family, but she didn't go back to her parents' house to complain, for fear that her parents would rush over and chop the mountain into pieces.
Just as he was talking, Zhao Ergou walked in from the door.
He grabbed his hair, opened his lips, and said after a long time: "Mom, Shuiqin heard that every household in Dahe Village dug jade bamboo shoots, and she came here to borrow food."
Cheng Wanwan asked: "How much do you want to borrow?"
Zhao Ergou stretched out two fingers and folded one back: "Ten pounds."
Ten pounds of jade bamboo shoots is not too much.
Ergou obviously likes that girl, so it's not too much to help her with ten kilograms of jade bamboo shoots.
Cheng Wanwan asked Zhao Ergou to go to the cellar to get the jade bamboo shoots, and then looked at Wu Huiniang: "You have been married for a year, and you have never returned to your parents' home. Tomorrow, take ten kilograms of jade bamboo shoots back to your parents' home. Let's see. Let’s see what’s going on with your parents.”
The eldest daughter-in-law is already married, and the Wu family is a serious family, so giving ten kilograms of grain is not out of the ordinary.
Upon hearing Cheng Wanwan's words, Wu Huiniang's eyes almost fell.
Over the past year, my mother-in-law had bought countless things from the Cheng family, and scolded her openly and secretly for using her family's things to subsidize the Wu family.
The conscience of heaven and earth, after she got married, she never took a grain of rice from the Wu family.
She made a point of never mentioning a word about the Wu family in front of her mother-in-law.
Unexpectedly, her mother-in-law actually mentioned it and asked her to bring ten kilograms of jade bamboo shoots. This huge surprise made her eyes widen.
But at the entrance of the courtyard, Sun Shuiqin's eyes were full of disappointment.
She asked to borrow twenty kilograms of grain, but Zhao Ergou only took out ten kilograms. How could she explain it to her father when she went back?
"Cress, my family really can't afford more..."
Zhao Ergou spoke with some difficulty.
The four brothers dug out these jade bamboo shoots together. Each of them dug up about thirty or forty kilograms. If he borrowed twenty kilograms in one go, what would be the difference between him and his mother who used to go to Cheng's house to deliver things?
"I know it's not easy for anyone these days." Sun Shuiqin's eyes were filled with mist, "Brother Ergou, I'll go back first."
Zhao Ergou didn't dare to look into her eyes: "Then I'll give you a ride."
Sun Shuiqin walked in front, and he walked behind. There was always a distance between the two. He didn't want to ruin Shuqin's reputation before confirming their relationship.
Cheng Wanwan sat in the room, a little worried.
There are only two rooms in the house. After the second daughter-in-law comes in, where will the two of them sleep?
In this era, it cost about two taels of silver to build a four- to five-room adobe house. She had money on hand, but she couldn't explain where it came from.
After examining the girl's character, you can first give some betrothal gifts and let the two children get married, and then marry the girl in the spring after the New Year.
Cheng Wanwan decided silently in her heart.
