"Look up."
An Ran raised her head and glanced at the main seat. Sitting there was a wealthy woman in her early forties, and a middle-aged man with a beard.
This should be the in-laws.
There was a man standing next to the mother-in-law, with a stern face, but his facial features were very handsome, and he was about four or five points similar to the man sitting down.
It seems that this is her husband.
An Ran lowered his head, and finally understood why there were so many people in the bridal chamber talking inappropriately last night.
From her own point of view, the two of them were indeed not worthy of each other.
It seems that what they said about sending him to the countryside is probably true.
An Ran thought as he also saluted the two people on the main seat.
Ding Hanshi sighed and said, "It looks like he knows some etiquette." He said this, but his voice was cold.
"I think it's good. What dad decided back then won't be any worse." The middle-aged man said.
Ding Hanshi smiled softly and said, "Please serve tea."
Ding Changhe came over and said, "I have met my father and mother."
An Ran whispered, "Yes."
An Ran followed Ding Changhe, walked to his father and mother, took the tea cup and offered tea to the elders.
In front of a room full of people, no one deliberately made things difficult.
Ding Hanshi said: "It was a tiring day yesterday. Let's go back and rest first. You can understand what we are saying."
An Ran took a look, lowered his head and said nothing.
An Ran knew that whenever she spoke, she would be laughed at because her accent was too strong.
Ding Hanshi frowned and said to her son: "My son, I really wronged you. If it weren't for your grandfather, alas..."
Ding Changhe's father, Ding Shengkang, said: "Okay, boss, take your wife to kowtow to your grandfather."
After coming out, Ding Changhe strode forward quickly. An Ran had to speed up his pace to keep up with him from a distance.
After going to the mourning hall and kowtowing to the old man, Ding Changhe asked a woman to take Anran back to the house.
After a while, a mother-in-law brought breakfast to Anran. After eating, Anran put away everything in the house.
In the main hall, Ding Shengkang said to Ding Changhe: "Since the Third Prince has given the order, then you can set off."
Ding Hanshi said: "There are so many things going on at home, how can the boss leave now?"
Ding Changhe looked at his mother and said, "I have to leave for the future of the Ding family. I don't care about keeping a filial piety to my grandfather. And An, she feels wronged to marry at this time. Mother, please take care of the arrangements and don't treat me badly." .”
Ding Han said with a displeased look on his face: "You don't need to worry about the affairs of the inner house."
Ding Shengkang said: "You leave immediately after dark. I will leave in a month. Let your mother arrange the things at home."
Ding Changhe nodded. He had no choice but to take care of the most important things as everything was rushed together.
An Ran took out all the red envelopes he had just received and counted them. Fortunately, they added up to more than ten taels of silver.
An Ran gave a rare smile, forget it, she knew her mother-in-law didn't like her, so if she didn't like her, just don't like her. She had no initiative in this matter.
Those unpleasant words and critical and unkind looks really make people uncomfortable.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, if she were really sent to the countryside, she might live a more comfortable life.
The bride should return home on the third day after her wedding, and An Ran was put on a donkey cart on this day. There was also an ox cart pulling items, which took an elderly couple to a village in the countryside.
After the car drove away, the woman behind the door turned around and went back. "Madam, I'm sending you away, but how about you hide this from me and my uncle?"
"Why is it bad? Don't treat her badly and take care of her, okay? I gave her a house and a land, but that's not good enough."
After two days' journey in the dead of winter, An Ran caught cold and fever as soon as she arrived at Zhuangzi.
An Ran's mind was groggy, and she looked inside and outside, then asked Mrs. Ding to go to the village to grab some herbs, and asked Old Dingtou to find the chief here.
An Ran's grandfather was a local doctor. An Ran still knew the prescription for treating fever. He boiled the medicine himself, drank it, and found a place to cover his head to sleep.
The next day is the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.
Old Dingtou and Mrs. Ding were both people who used to be with Mrs. Ding. After Ding Han took charge of the family, these two people were idle.
When An Ran came to the countryside, her mother-in-law announced that she was praying for the deceased old man Ding and gave it to two servants.
First, he didn't want people to gossip, and he promoted An Ran, and by the way, he got rid of two useless old people.
The next day, An Ran felt better, so she went out to take a closer look at the place where she would live in the future.
The five large blue brick houses are not bad, and there is a large kitchen on the west side. But few people come to the house, so the courtyard is very dilapidated, and I don't know if the roof is leaking.
An Ran felt lucky that she still had these rooms. Before leaving, Ding Han sent someone to give her the deed to thirty acres of land.
An Ran said to Old Dingtou: "Uncle Ding, go to the village to see if anyone can come to help. We have to clean up the house and yard as soon as possible."
It's Chinese New Year in two days. We can't have three people without a place to sleep, right?
Old Dingtou and Mrs. Ding went to the village together. Old Dingtou found someone to help clean and organize the house and yard.
Mrs. Ding, on the other hand, went to buy rice, noodles and vegetables.
When you hire people to work, you have to take care of the food.
Finally, on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, I tidied up the house and tidied up the yard. Even on the roof, young men went up to check if there were any leaks, and they were all repaired.
An Ran took some more copper coins and a purse, and took Mrs. Ding to the village.
Everyone in the village knew that someone came from the wealthy family at the head of the village. It was said that the grandson's wife came to recite sutras and observe filial piety for the deceased old man.
So when she came into the village, everyone looked at her as if she was a rarity and looked at her more.
This time they bought some brown rice and pickled vegetables, and also bought some cabbage and radish from a wealthier family.
I have some meat left over from two days ago, just in time to eat it tonight.
In the evening, An Ran and Mrs. Ding cooked rice, steamed brown rice, pork belly stewed with cabbage, and radish soup. They had no choice but to have these things on hand.
There was no vigil after dinner, otherwise it would be too wasteful to light lamps and boil oil.
Before going to bed, An Ran counted the money on hand again, saw the red envelopes received as gifts, and gave her another five taels of silver before going out. I used some for food and accommodation on the road, and some for repairing the yard after I got here. Now I have less than eight taels in hand.
An Ran patted her chest and smiled softly, okay, okay, now she has a house, land, and money in hand, which is better than when she was at her parents' house.
On the other side, Lao Dingtou and his wife lamented An Ran's experience.
"It seems these days that Grandma is a nice person and knows etiquette, but the house just can't accommodate her." Mrs. Ding said with a sigh.
Old Ding knocked out his cigarette and said, "Don't worry about it. We will probably have to follow Grandma until we die."
Mrs. Ding said: "I think this is not bad. You see, after the old lady died, the madam couldn't even accommodate an old man in front of the old lady. If the two of us still stay in the house, we may not know where we will die in the future."
Old Dingtou sighed and stopped talking.
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An Ran: I'm not some little sheep. I'm just here for the first time, and my status is very different. I have to bow my head when I'm alone.
