On the fifth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival, every household hung mugwort on the door. Shen Luzhu took two colored strings early in the morning and tied them on the wrists of Chu Li and Chu Xiuxiu. He told the two little ones to wait until they came back. When it rains, they take off their clothes and throw them into the puddles. This is the local custom. It is said that the children will be healthy and free from illness and disaster all year round!
Seeing Chu Li and Chu Xiuxiu nodding and taking notes, he took two more small purses filled with dried mugwort and hung them around their necks. Recently, they had been busy selling paper money. This was what suddenly occurred to Shen last night. Luzhu made it freshly at last minute!
During the Dragon Boat Festival, most children in the village tied colorful ropes to seek good luck. Few of them made mugwort sachets. Chu Li and Chu Xiuxiu were very happy when they received the sachets made by their sister-in-law and ran to give them to San. Uncle and Chu Yi look!
After breakfast, Chu Yi and Shen Luzhu took Chu Li back to the Shen family in Hexi Village. Their daughter and son-in-law came back early in the morning on the day of the festival. The Shen family was very surprised!
Chu Li was taken by his cousin Shen Changshan to play with the children in the village. Chu Yi was taken by Grandpa Shen to the medicine shop in the front yard. Shen Luzhu accompanied the other elders and brothers and sisters-in-law of the family in the main room. Chit-chat to relieve boredom.
Although Shen's mother is happy that her daughter and son-in-law are spending the holidays at home, she still can't help but worry: "Why did you come back today, and you thought you would be here tomorrow and the day after tomorrow! On the official day of the festival, you two brought Chu Li over, and my in-laws didn't say anything What?"
"Chu Yi told grandpa and grandma yesterday that we will leave after lunch at home. Today, uncle Chu and his family are all going back to their old house. We can just have dinner together in the evening. It won't be a problem!" Shen Lu Zhu thought to himself, the eldest grandson Chu Ren came back to celebrate the festival, how could Grandpa Chu and Grandma Chu still see the three of them!
It's Boss Chu's family again. This is not the first time I heard her niece talk about it. Second aunt Zheng was really puzzled: "Their family always goes back? Didn't they say they had to separate and live alone in the first place?"
"Whenever there is a festival, we always go back to our old home. On weekdays, my aunt comes back more often. My grandpa and grandma said that we should not be distracted by the separation!"
After hearing this, the second brother Shen Songjie burst into laughter and said, "Aren't you distracted by the separation of the family? Isn't it just because you were distracted that you started the family separation! You're lying to a fool!"
Father Shen glanced at his second son: "After all, it's Lu Zhu's husband's family. Let's just chat with the elders. Why are you talking nonsense?"
Shen Luzhu winked at Shen Songjie quietly, it was her second brother, he really revealed the secret, but he was just lying to a fool! She has been married into the Chu family for several months. In addition to what she saw on weekdays, Shen Luzhu also heard a lot from the mouths of her two younger brothers and her third uncle. Uncle Chu's family was clearly abacus-maker. Xiang, with a dream that may or may not come true, holding on to Grandpa Chu and Grandma, it’s clear that you don’t want the bad ones, but you have to get all the good ones!
However, Shen Luzhu didn't plan to tell her parents about these things, so as to save them the trouble in vain!
The affairs of the elders of the Chu family belong to the younger generation. They have no choice but to make their own money in the future. Uncle Chu's family can just live with it!
The three of them had lunch at the Shen family and then returned to the Chu family's old house. Uncle Chu and his family had already arrived and were chatting with Grandma Chu and Grandma Chu!
Today is the festival. Grandma Chu was persuaded by her children and grandchildren not to cook. She left the kitchen to the juniors. Shen Luzhu and the hall sister-in-law, Chu Ren’s wife Li, plus Chu Xiuxiu who was helping out, the three Dinner prepared together.
Shen Luzhu didn't have much impression of this cousin sister-in-law. It seemed that she had only met him once on the morning of the day when she gave the new gift. After getting in touch with her one afternoon, she only felt that if the current environment was not wrong, if the hall sister-in-law had changed into more gorgeous clothes, she would have simply looked like a loser. The real-life version of the ancient lady written in the novel is worthy of being the only daughter of a scholar's family in the town. She always smiles a little and behaves very calmly, but she talks less!
When she was lying in Chu Yi's arms at night, Shen Luzhu was still thinking that fortunately she was born into the Shen family in Hexi Village. If she dressed like a young lady from a famous family and looked like that all day long, she would be driven crazy. !
On the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Chu Yi took his wife and younger brother to his grandfather's house. The Cui family's grandmother liked her grandson's bride very much. After caring about the current situation of her two grandsons, she took Shen Luzhu to the inner room. The fourth aunt Xiao Qin and a strange woman also entered the house.
Grandma Cui pointed at the strange woman and introduced it to Shen Luzhu: "Lu Yatou, this is your second aunt. Last time you and Ayi came back, she went back to her parents' house and is not here."
Shen Luzhu hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Second aunt!"
"You must be Lu Zhu. I've been hearing my grandma talk about you lately, and I like you so much. The last time you came back, there happened to be something urgent at my parents' house, and my second aunt and uncle were both away. I felt really bad about it, so I prepared a gift. Here it is, my nephew-in-law must accept it!" After saying that, he took a tin tea set that had been prepared nearby and asked Shen Luzhu to accept it.
"Second aunt was joking. Chu Yi and I were supposed to visit our elders. The affairs of second aunt's family are of course more important." These days, tin is the fourth most precious metal after gold, silver, and copper. Not to mention a complete tea set, how dare Shen Luzhu accept such an expensive gift from his elders.
Seeing Shen Luzhu's refusal, Grandma Cui helped persuade: "Lu Yatou, why don't you continue quickly? Your second aunt is the richest in our family, so don't let her save it!"
"Listen to your grandmother, accept it quickly, and don't be polite to my second aunt!"
The second aunt Sun's natal family is a well-known local landowner. Not only does the Sun family own a large area of cultivated land outside the mountain village, but they also own teahouses and wineries in the town. Although the Sun family is not from the eldest family, she is also the Sun family. If the family's direct granddaughter hadn't been rescued by Uncle Cui in an accident, she would not have married into the Cui family. Fortunately, the Cui family has a good family tradition and the brothers are united, so their life has been good these years.
Shen Luzhu refused, but finally had no choice but to accept it. When she met her second aunt Sun, she felt that yesterday's hostess seemed to have lost her taste. Her second aunt was also very dignified and elegant, but she would not give people an impression. A feeling of holding on, kind and natural, as if everything is engraved in the bones!
"It's the Dragon Boat Festival again. I remember that when Chu Yi and his mother-in-law got married, it was also the Dragon Boat Festival. It's been so many years!" Grandma Cui was chatting, inevitably thinking of Chu Yi and his mother-in-law again.
Grandma Cui gave birth to a total of six children in her life, four boys and two girls. Chu Yi, his mother-in-law, Cui Shi, was the fourth child, with a younger brother and a younger sister.
When Ms. Cui got married, her three older brothers had already started a family, so Ms. Sun naturally knew: "But, my memory is really good. She got married on the Dragon Boat Festival!"
Shen Luzhu has never heard anyone mention this matter, and perhaps even Chu Yi doesn't know about it: "My grandson and his wife don't even know about it."
"Don't talk about you, even my fourth aunt didn't know that my eldest aunt actually got married during the Dragon Boat Festival!" When Xiao Qin came in, Mrs. Cui had been married for two years, and this was the first time she had heard of it.
Grandma Cui patted Shen Luzhu's hand and seemed to be lost in memories: "When they were young, your three uncles loved your grandma the most, which made the four boys always eat it. Once, your uncle picked it up by the river. It's a pebble, smooth and transparent. I thought it was jade. It looks special. It's white and transparent on the outside, but yellow in the middle, like a poached egg. Yes, your uncle inlaid a ring of silver on the outside of the stone to make it look like a pebble. It became a pendant for your grandma to wear, and the four boys were also clamoring for one. The three of them were so troubled that they tried to frame him, saying that if a man wore it, he would not be able to marry a wife when he grew up! Later, Your father fell in love with your mother-in-law and came to ask for her hand in marriage, but the one who was most reluctant to let her go was your fourth uncle!"
Everyone in the room laughed when they heard this.
"It turns out that your mother-in-law always said that the pendant is for a little girl to wear. If she has a daughter in the future, she will give it to her daughter. If she doesn't have a daughter, she will give it to her granddaughter. If she sees you, she will be very happy. , I changed my mind when I couldn’t save everything, and I want to give it to you again! It’s a pity that she died early due to dystocia, and the pendant couldn’t be given away, so I had to be buried with her!”
After having lunch at their maternal grandfather's house, Chu Yi and the other two chatted with Grandma Cui for a long time. It was not until mid-afternoon that they saw that the old lady was a little tired and persuaded Grandma Cui to rest in the house before leaving Cui's house.
As Chu Yi walked, he talked to Shen Luzhu about the purchase. Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, he took his wife's hand and squeezed it twice: "Azhu?"
Shen Luzhu was lost in thought when she suddenly heard Chu Yi call her: "Ah, what's wrong?"
Chu Yi chuckled: "You are in a daze, what are you thinking about?"
"Chu Yi, did you know that grandma has a pendant that looks like a poached egg?"
"I've seen you twice, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing. I heard my grandma say it today. I didn't think anything was wrong at the time. Just now, I suddenly felt like I had seen it somewhere before. It felt like it was very recently, but I couldn't remember it no matter how hard I thought about it! Could it be that I didn't take a break at noon? "Are you confused?" Shen Luzhu was a little confused, was he hallucinating?
Chu Yi rubbed his wife's hair, a little funny: "If you can't remember it, don't think about it."
"Okay, by the way, you just called me, did you want to say something?"
"I want to say, should I buy some goods at home?"
The previous time I went to town, I bought a total of 100 dollars of white money and 100 dollars of yellow burning paper. Although the white money was used in large amounts, it was only used during funerals, so not much was sold. There are many, so I shouldn’t be in a hurry to purchase this one. But yellow burning paper is indeed different. It is used for various sacrificial festivals and various cycle anniversaries. I used thirty dollars to make copper coin burning paper. Although it only sold less than ten dollars, ordinary yellow burning paper I have sold a lot of burned paper, but I’m afraid there won’t be much left, so it’s really time to restock!
Shen Luzhu slapped his forehead: "Look at me, I have been resting for the past two days and just visited the house. I forgot about such an important thing. If you hadn't reminded me, I might have to open the skylight tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. No wonder A Niang You are more reliable than me! Chu Yi, what would I do without you? "
Looking at Shen Luzhu who was leaning on his arm and looking a little sluggish, Chu Yi comforted him: "Azhu has done a lot. Even if I don't remind him, Azhu will remember it tomorrow."
"This is our family's business. I'm free, so I should do more. Besides, I just looked at the stalls and didn't do anything. I'm accompanied by Ah Li and Xiu Xiu, right?" Shen Luzhu He said and looked at Chu Li next to him.
Chu Li has become very accustomed to his brother and sister-in-law in the past few months, and they make little moves from time to time. He is still young, and he only knows that brother and sister-in-law are happy, and he is also very happy: "Brother and sister-in-law are both great!"
"Ah Li is also awesome!" After saying that, there was a 'pop' sound, and Shen Luzhu and Chu Li high-fived each other. This is something Chu Li has learned recently. Every time he sells something, as long as Chu Li or Chu Xiuxiu is around, Shen Luzhu I will give them high fives to celebrate!
"However, Chu Yi last time we went to town to purchase goods, and with the holidays in these two days, if we delay another day to purchase goods, wouldn't we have saved a lot of work at home by then!" Shen Luzhu is not afraid of Chu Yi. My grandpa and grandma are not happy, they are just afraid that they will talk about Chu Yi, and as they accumulate more and more work, Chu Yi will still have to work hard!
"It's fine."
"No, I'll go by myself. I've already been there once, so I can do it!"
"No, I don't trust you if you go alone! Besides, you still have to look at the stalls!"
"What should we do?"
