This year, the selling price of persimmon cakes has increased by three cents per catty. Originally, Lin Dazhu and the others did not want to increase the price, but this time the cost of hiring a carriage has increased by twenty cents. Since the cost has gone up, the selling price will naturally follow suit. .
Shopkeeper Yu doesn't have anything to say. He must say that these three brothers can be considered honest people. Otherwise, in a one-man business like this, who wouldn't be ruthless enough to increase the price?
After weighing the goods and settling the bill, we received a total of twenty-one taels of silver for more than six hundred kilograms of persimmons.
After saying goodbye to Shopkeeper Yu, the three brothers started various purchases. Lin Yuanfeng's wedding is scheduled for this month. There are only ten days away, so whether it is the things at the banquet or the things in the new house, they should be Just be prepared.
Because there were too many things to buy and they were worried that their sons would miss something, Wu and Lao Lintou specially asked their eldest grandson to write down everything they needed to buy on paper one by one.
Now in this family, Lin Yuanfeng is the most literate person except Lin Yuanqiu. Whenever he has free time, he often picks up a pen and practices calligraphy according to the book for a while, so Lin Yuanfeng can write many words.
As for the rest of the family, except for Lao Lintou and his wife, they all know some literacy more or less. Not to mention that everyone would learn from Lin Yuanfeng from time to time. Even Zhou and her three sisters-in-law, who had been embroidering the characters for so long, could understand them clearly even on pig heads.
This was said by their mother-in-law. Although she was called a pig's head, the three sisters-in-law have always agreed with her mother-in-law's words.
In the eyes of the three sisters-in-law, the mother-in-law has crossed more bridges than the roads they have walked, so it will definitely not go wrong to listen to her mother-in-law's opinions.
Just like this time, Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Zhou talked about the marriage of their eldest granddaughter Chunmei. According to Wu's idea, there was no need to rush into the marriage. Although Chunmei was already fifteen, she was born in the twelfth lunar month. The month is young, so the family can slowly look for it, and they must find a grandson-in-law who can live a down-to-earth life.
In fact, what Wu has not yet said is that next year, her grandson will most likely take the government examination. If she is lucky enough to pass the exam, then her eldest granddaughter's in-laws may be able to choose from a family with slightly better conditions.
Marriage is a lifelong event in a girl's family. As a nanny, she always hopes that her granddaughter can find a better family.
Although this was Wu's inner thought, the three sisters-in-law also understood what their mother-in-law meant.
However, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Feng only listened on the sidelines and did not interrupt. After all, Chunmei was the sister-in-law's daughter, and it was not easy for them to give random ideas.
It’s just that Ms. Liu and Ms. Feng felt that if it were them, they would definitely be willing to wait. Anyway, it’s not impossible for a girl to get married at the age of sixteen. Aren’t the girls of many families in the town only start getting married after they have hair extensions? .
Mrs. Zhou was a little hesitant, still worried that her daughter would become an old maid.
But when she thought about it, she had never seen her mother-in-law make a wrong decision since she married into the Lin family. Besides, with her nephew's ability to pass the county examination at the age of eight, there is still a high possibility that he can pass the government examination next year. , thinking of this, Zhou didn't hesitate anymore and nodded in agreement.
As for Chunmei, she didn't think much about her marriage at all. If she was asked to say, life like this is so wonderful. If possible, she wished she could stay in her mother's family all her life and never get married.
After the three brothers returned from the county town with all the things needed for the wedding banquet, Zhou, Liu, and Feng all suspended their embroidery work and began to prepare for Lin Yuanfeng's marriage.
But before that, Lao Lintou and Wu decided to sell the embroidery work at home.
There will definitely be a lot of people coming and going at home in the next few days. If you accidentally get passed by, all your efforts will be wasted.
Knowing that their embroidery work would soon be converted into money, the Feng family were naturally happy.
The three sisters-in-law found furoshiki and wrapped all the stacks of arranged book covers in cloth. In the past seven months, a total of 1,120 book covers have been made, covering more than a dozen large bundles.
When he went to town, Lin Sanzhu didn't bring all the book covers, but took one of each style. He always wanted to see the goods and negotiate the price first.
Seeing Lin Sanzhu coming, shopkeeper Gao greeted him with a smile. In a few days, his niece would marry to the Lin family. From now on, the two families would be a definite couple.
"His third uncle, did you send me some embroidery again today?"
After the two families agreed to get married, shopkeeper Gao changed the previous name of Brother Lin to his third uncle.
Shopkeeper Gao was a little puzzled. This month's embroidery had been delivered a few days ago. Why was it still available today?
If this is the case, Shopkeeper Gao is in a bit of a dilemma. The sales of embroidery products such as fan covers and pencil cases are not very good now. If he sends too many, there will be a lot of backlog.
I am also working for my boss, so I must not blindly accept too many goods, otherwise my boss will definitely have something to say.
Therefore, Shopkeeper Gao was already thinking about how to say the rejection.
Don't tell me, it's quite difficult.
Lin Sanzhu didn't know what shopkeeper Gao was thinking at this time. When he saw that there was no one else in the bookstore, he took out more than a dozen book covers embroidered with different patterns from the bag.
"what is this?"
After seeing that these were not pencil cases and fan covers, shopkeeper Gao was relieved and at the same time became curious about the things in front of him. But after he took them in his hands and looked at them carefully, he quickly understood the use of these embroidery items. Because there are book titles embroidered on it, The Analects of Confucius, The Book of Songs, Daxue... In addition to the titles of the Four Books and Five Classics, there are also three hundred and thousand, so I'm afraid this is for holding books.
"This is the book cover."
Lin Sanzhu asked shopkeeper Gao to bring over a copy of The Analects of Confucius, then found the book cover corresponding to the title of the book and put it on directly.
Not too big, not too small, just right, and on the cover where the title of the Analects of Confucius is, there is an embroidered red plum blossom, and there are cloud patterns on the embroidered cloth, which makes it look a lot more elegant.
Shopkeeper Gao really couldn't figure out how the Lin family's brains grew and how they could be so smart. He knew without much thought that this thing would definitely be easy to sell.
Finally, shopkeeper Gao gave different prices according to the difference of fabrics. The fine cotton book cover was 40 cents a piece, and the satin and textured one was 52 cents.
When Lin Sanzhu said that more than a thousand book covers were ready at home, shopkeeper Gao opened his mouth in surprise and did not close it for a long time.
The next day, the three brothers delivered more than a dozen packages to the bookstore. Shopkeeper Gao carefully inspected the embroidery and found that the workmanship was exquisite and there was nothing shoddy.
Then the quantity was counted, and then the payment was settled. Finally, the total was fifty-two taels of silver.
When Lin Dazhu handed over a fifty-tael silver note and a few grains of silver to Old Lintou, Old Lintou once again had the idea of buying land.
I thought I would wait until I was busy with my eldest grandson's wedding before asking where I could buy paddy fields.
November 20th is an auspicious day for getting married.
It was a coincidence that Lin Yuanfeng's big day coincided with the school's ten-day holiday, so the boy who rolled on the bed today was naturally Lin Yuanqiu.
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Chapter 52 Lin Yuanfeng gets married
The bride's dowry was brought over yesterday. There are six in total. In addition to the clothes for all seasons, pillows and bedding, the treasure bucket for descendants, and the wooden box for the dress box, the most eye-catching thing is probably the four pieces wrapped in red paper. The soil is embryonic, which means that the bride’s family will marry four acres of paddy fields.
The villagers were stunned to see that the four acres of paddy field was twenty-seven or eighty taels at least. God, Lin Yuanfeng's father-in-law's family was really willing to give up.
Before the aunts and ladies could finish their astonishment, the woman who went to Lin's house to see the dowry was coming back and told her, "Oh no, there are still sixteen taels of silver left in the box!"
"What! Sixteen taels?"
The thin-faced lady was so shocked that she slapped her thigh, "Oh, this is not a bride-to-be. She is just carrying a money box into the door, okay?"
The others also nodded repeatedly, but it was just a money box. After marrying such a wife, you don't have to worry about your future livelihood.
"Mr. Zhou is really capable, she actually gave her son such a good kiss."
"Isn't that right? Four acres of paddy fields, plus sixteen taels of silver, and a lot of clothes and bedding. Whose daughter-in-law in our little Gaoshan Village has such a large dowry?"
"Not only that, there is also a set of silver-headed noodles in the makeup box."
"Yes, yes, there is also a set of silver-headed noodles!"
While several women were chatting lively, Lin Shi's wife on the side couldn't help but said, "It stands to reason that there are many good families in the town, but Yuan Feng's wife specially married to our country. Oh, I'm afraid this marriage is... It’s destined by God!”
They all say that you have to listen to what you are told. The words of Lin Shi’s wife made everyone think more. Yes, there are no good families in the town, but this family chose to marry their daughter to the countryside. This approach is really effective. Unnatural.
Thinking back to it, some people in the village had previously speculated that Yuan Feng's wife was probably incomplete, so this was a dowry, and Lao Lao had a lot of money to pay for it. This was most likely the reason.
Thinking about it this way, those who were originally jealous felt a lot better now.
So, early the next morning, after breakfast, everyone hurried to the west end of the village.
Everyone has only one purpose, and that is to see what is going on with the bride that makes her family pay so much dowry. Is it because she is not smart enough, is she lame, or is she extremely ugly?
Among those who wanted to watch the excitement, naturally the Jin family, Zhang family, and Xu family were also included.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were originally going to come over for a banquet today, so it was justifiable for them to come over early.
Therefore, when Lin Yuanqiu and Lin Yuanbai, who were dressed like two big red envelopes, were about to roll into bed in their new house, they were stunned by the crowds of aunties surrounding them in the yard.
Lin Yuanqiu was puzzled. The sister-in-law would have to wait at least another hour before coming over. Why did the bride come so early?
Lin Yuanqiu returned home last night, so he didn't know that his sister-in-law's dowry had caused a big stir in the village. Naturally, he couldn't guess that these people were here to watch a joke.
Generally, when there is a happy event, people from Quanfu, who have both parents and children, will be invited to help arrange the wedding gifts.
The Wu family invited Lin Youyin's daughter-in-law. Most people in the village invited her to hold weddings, so she was considered a lucky person.
Originally, this kind of child rolling on the bed should be taught by people from Quanfu, but in the eyes of Lin Youyin's wife, Lin Yuanqiu is a talented scholar, so the auspicious words naturally come from his mouth. And use her to teach.
Even Lin Yuanbai on the side had an expression full of expectation. In Lin Yuanbai's view, his son-in-law brother was so good at studying, he was destined to be able to say many auspicious words in one breath.
Lin Yuanbai couldn't wait to think about the red envelopes he would receive immediately after making love. "Let's start quickly. Fourth brother will listen to you."
Lin Yuanqiu's secret line was that this was the first time for a big girl to get on the sedan chair, so he didn't know what to say.
Looking at the people present, they are all waiting with smiles on their faces.
Lin Yuanqiu felt that if he didn't perform well today, he would be embarrassed and thrown into his grandma's house.
But what should I say?
Is it because you gave birth to a child early?
Or is it a good match for a hundred years?
Lin Yuanqiu suddenly remembered that in his previous life on the Internet, there were many lively scenes of giving wedding blessings, and he could learn from them.
He remembered that one of his colleagues had gotten married before, and he had referred to the online video of making a bed. He remembered all the words clearly, and he only had to slightly change the content.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqiu suddenly calmed down a lot. After organizing his words, he took Lin Yuanbai's hand and the two of them walked into the room.
Soon, everyone heard a loud voice saying, "I am very happy when I walk into the new house. I roll the bed for the newlyweds. The house is full of children and grandchildren. The husband has a son and a daughter. This wedding bed is really good. The couple will love each other until they grow old." , this wedding bed is made wide, with mountains of gold and silver piled up. This wedding bed is made long, if a No. 1 son is born next year, shake the wedding quilt first, there will be all kinds of wealth and glory, and then wrap the wedding quilt Wrap, the days are getting more and more prosperous..."
Lin Yuanbai has been very busy since he took off his shoes and went to bed. After hearing the words "Wrap up in quilt", he immediately opened up the quilt and wrapped himself and Gouzi brother in the quilt.
This is the first time that the villagers have heard such a series of auspicious words. The words of gold and silver and the birth of a top scholar are really great.
Oh, you are indeed a kid who can read.
Lin Youyin's daughter-in-law on the side couldn't help but want Lin Yuanqiu to say it a few more times, so that after she learned it, she could use these auspicious words with great meaning when she was a blessing person in the future.
Just after Chen hour, there was the sound of crackling firecrackers. Is this the arrival of the bride's big red sedan chair?
Sure enough, after a while, someone ran over quickly and said, "Hurry, hurry, hurry up, firecrackers, the bride is here!"
Upon hearing this, several tribesmen waiting at the door immediately lit the firecrackers hanging on bamboo poles.
For a moment, the deafening sound of firecrackers filled the sky, small crimson confetti fell down in the wind, and the ground was covered in red.
As soon as the sound of firecrackers stopped, the boys rushed forward quickly, each picking the confetti on the ground with their feet to see if there were any firecrackers that had not exploded.
The adults, on the other hand, surrounded the big red sedan chair. Everyone was eager to see the newlyweds.
Today, Lin Yuanfeng was wearing a bright red wedding robe, with a cheerful smile on his face. Xiniang took out the red silk. Then, Lin Yuanqiu saw the same scene as on TV. The groom was walking in front holding the red silk, and wearing a red hijab. The bride, holding red silk in her hand, is supported by Xi Niang and follows behind the groom.
After entering the house, the young couple began to worship, first to the heaven and earth, and second to the high hall. The husband and wife bowed to each other, and then they were sent to the bridal chamber.
