Chapter 50
After the Spring Festival, Big Wolf told his brothers that as their parents got older, someone at home must take care of them. He no longer wanted to go out and wanted to stay at home to take care of his parents. The brothers understood that the eldest brother actually wanted to take care of his parents.
She was in love with her daughter-in-law. Everyone looked at each other and smiled, said goodbye to their parents, brother and sister-in-law, and started on the road again.
Gou Sheng was not touched by the spring flowers, and felt sour in his heart, so he secretly laid maggots on the spring flowers. That day, the big wolf went to the ground with a hoe and passed by the door of Gou Sheng's house. When Gou Sheng saw the big wolf, he waved to him.
Big Wolf is out all the time and has basically no interaction with Gou Sheng. When he saw Gou Sheng waving to him, he stopped and asked Gou Sheng through the fence: "What's the matter?"
Gou Sheng said: Come in, there are no dogs in this yard, let me tell you something private. Dalang heard Chunhua talk about her interaction with Gou Sheng, and knew that Gou Sheng couldn't spit out ivory from his mouth. Since he was in the same house,
Living in a village, Big Wolf still gave Gou Sheng some face and walked into Gou Sheng's yard. Gou Sheng crawled next to Big Wolf's ear and deliberately loudly said: "Big Wolf, you married a bad guy, you know
What's your wife's nickname? She's called Nian Nian, and she's been clinging to so many men! The hole in her vagina is so big that she can even get in a carriage..." Before she could finish her words, her remaining legs were hit with two hoe blows.
, Big Wolf had no time to talk nonsense with Gou Sheng, and said as he walked away: "Chunhua said she owes you a liter of rice. When will she come home to get it? If you are talking nonsense, be careful I will smash your mouth!"
Matchmaker Liu was worried that her daughter would not be able to get married before she got married. After her daughter got married, she felt empty inside. On this day, she kept herself spotless, put on a pair of embroidered shoes with thousand-layer soles on her feet, and walked twenty miles on the mountain road to arrive at
Under the crooked neck tree at the entrance of Guoyu Village, he took out his handkerchief and wiped himself again and again, spit on the palm of his hand, smoothed his hair, and then walked to his daughter's house.
The wolf woman came out and stood at the door of the house, with an unnatural smile on her face: "Oh, my mother-in-law is here, go back and sit in the house quickly."
Matchmaker Liu snorted, thinking that when you kicked our mother and daughter out of your home, now you recognized me as your biological mother? Things have changed, and it is your turn to flatter me, Matchmaker Liu, but she won't enter the house.
, standing in the yard and deliberately asked: "Is this my daughter's house?"
Mother Wolf knew that Matchmaker Liu was angry, so she thought to herself that it didn't matter. It would be okay for us to accept a few dirty words from you. She still had a smile on her face and said: "The father and son went to the fields with Chunhua, and I am the only one in the house."
One, I know my mother-in-law is unhappy, so I’ll hit you as many times as you want while no one is around, and scold me as much as you want.”
Matchmaker Liu was also a sharp-tongued person, thinking that she had already been given a step up, and it would be a bit unjustifiable if she didn’t know the level. So she also smiled and asked: "Are you still not letting me in today?"
Mother Wolf hurried forward and pulled Matchmaker Liu into the house and said, "My mother-in-law, you are tired from walking. Get on the kang and rest while I cook for you."
Matchmaker Liu didn't want to leave as soon as she settled in. She felt that her son-in-law's house was much better than her own house. Living here, she had enough clothes to put on her hands and food to eat, so she didn't need to run around for three meals a day. Besides, her son-in-law's daughter was also very filial to her.
Matchmaker Liu doesn't live a leisurely life, and helps her in-laws' mother with work every day. The two in-laws get along well with each other, and there is always endless gossip every day.
People in the mountains are basically self-sufficient. They generally eat what they grow. When going to the market, they carry mountain goods in exchange for some salt and daily necessities. Food is usually grown on the hillside, and cotton is grown in the Sichuan. Every house has textiles.
The aunties would spin and weave cloth when they had free time, and the family's clothing and bedding were all made of old cloth. Matchmaker Liu could also spin and weave, so Granny Wolf asked Funnel to buy a few kilograms of cotton from the market town.
Anyway, it seemed that Matchmaker Liu would not leave, so the two mothers took turns spinning and weaving. Matchmaker Liu got sore from spinning, so she stood up and walked around the village.
Suddenly, someone from behind called Matchmaker Liu: "Mother"!
Matchmaker Liu was startled. When she looked back, she saw that it was the leftover dog.
A wicked smile appeared on Gou Sheng's face, and he was still so affectionate when he saw Matchmaker Liu: "Mom, how many daughters do you have?"
Matchmaker Liu was not the kind of soft persimmon who could be manipulated by others. She immediately responded to Gou Sheng: "Gou Sheng, you don't even take a look at yourself by soaking in urine, are you worthy of being my son-in-law?"
Gou Sheng pulled Matchmaker Liu aside, still with a smile on his face: "Do you know, old man? That Zaiwa and Huohuo's master and apprentice married Zhang Yu'er's two wives."
Matchmaker Liu had heard people say this. It seemed like it was not a rare thing. It had happened before in the world and in dramas. Matchmaker Liu had seen a lot of people and asked Gou Sheng, "Do you feel envious? I'll yell at you."
He called me "Mother" and let's see whose old pig woman gave birth to piglets. "Mom, I'll catch one for Gou Sheng." Gou Sheng was used to being scolded, so he wasn't annoyed and called out "Mother" sweetly:
"Mom, there is a ready-made wife now. Tell Gou Sheng about it." Matchmaker Liu asked, "Tell me and let me see who she is."
Gou Sheng said: "I heard from someone in Wagou Town this morning that Zhang Yu'er's four sons were having a huge quarrel over the separation of their families. Zhang Yu'er's fifth aunt was kicked out by the Zhang family because no one was willing to support them.
"Please, mother, please run an errand and talk to us."
As soon as Matchmaker Liu heard that Gou Sheng asked her to be a matchmaker, she felt itchy in her heart. She thought that she wouldn't go home for many days, so she gave Gou Sheng the opportunity to go to her poor house to have a look. So she said to Gou Sheng:
"Borrow your godmother a donkey and let her ride on it. You will need a gift when you meet her. You must prepare some more gifts. Keep yourself clean. Don't let people think you are a coward when you meet them."
Matchmaker Liu said something, and Gou Sheng nodded. He thought that the donkey was easy to borrow, so where could he buy it as a meeting gift? But Gou Sheng couldn't reveal his true self in front of Matchmaker Liu, and he had to keep up his face, so he slapped his chest loudly.
Matchmaker Liu made a promise: "Godmother, as long as you are willing to run errands for me, Gou Sheng will never embarrass my godmother. Godmother, just wait at home and Gou Sheng will come to pick you up when he is ready."
After Gou Sheng resigned, Matchmaker Liu returned to her home. She looked around and saw that the family was in ruins. How could she have the money to buy a gift? After much thought, she pulled out the big pot that her parents had left behind when they died.
On his back, he came to Huohuo's house.
Master and apprentice Huohuo are newly married. They haven't gone out to set up a stall in the past few days. They lighted the stove in the yard and are making iron tools. Huohuo rhythmically presses the bellows made of sheepskin tubes, which makes the work in the stove even hotter.
Yue Wang saw Gou Sheng coming in with an iron pot on his back. Zaiquwa thought it was Gou Sheng who came to mend the pot. He took the pot off Gou Sheng's back and took a look. The pot was fine and had no leaks.
Gou Sheng squatted down in front of the stove and asked Huo Huo: "Master, how much do you think this pot is worth?"
Huohuo replied while pressing the bellows: "I only collect scrap iron here, I think your pot is a good pot."
Gou Sheng said: "Selling a good pot as a bad pot, do you want to take it?"
Huohuo stopped what he was doing, stood up, walked to the pot, looked at it, and asked Gou Sheng: "How will you cook if you sell this pot?"
Gou Sheng didn't really sell the pot, he just wanted to borrow money. When Huo Huo asked him, he said directly: "Zhang Yu'er's fifth concubine was also kicked out by several sons. I want Liu Matchmaker to go and help him."
Let's agree, and if we can agree, we will become 'brother-in-law' from now on."
Zaiquwa laughed and said: "What kind of coincidence is there in the world? Zhang Yuer's three concubines were all brought back by the people from Guoyucun."
Nahuohuo also smiled: "Three women are not three sisters. Why do you say that the three of us are brothers-in-law?"
The Sixth Aunt and the Seventh Aunt also came out and stood in the yard to watch the fun. They heard that Gou Sheng was interested in the Fifth Aunt, so they all gave Gou Sheng advice: "If you want to go, walk quickly. If you go slowly, you will worry about not getting involved."
Come on yourself”.
Huohuo returned to the house, dug out a cloth bag in the corner, took out a silver dollar, and handed it to Gou Sheng: "You carry the pot back, I will lend you a dollar, so that you can afford to support your wife.
You can’t live without being ruthless.”
Gou Sheng took the silver dollar and nodded while thanking him: "Uncle is right, you are right. Gou Sheng listened to what he said and decided to live a better life."
Gou Sheng carried the pot on his back and a silver dollar in his arms. He was so happy that he returned home and put the pot on the pot table again. He took out the silver dollar, blew it with his mouth, and immediately put it to his ear and listened.
The silver dollar was clanging. A bushel of millet couldn't be exchanged for a silver dollar. The master and apprentice of the small furnace maker sold a hoe for only 30 cents. This silver dollar was a big fortune for Gou Sheng. I thought to myself
That's really generous.
Gou Sheng borrowed Guo Quanfa's donkey and asked Matchmaker Liu to ride on it. He pulled the donkey's tail and followed behind, happily arriving at Wagou Town. However, they searched every corner of Wagou Town and couldn't find it at all.
When the fifth concubine asked people, almost everyone shook their heads. Gou Sheng was so disappointed that he followed Matchmaker Liu to her house listlessly. She hadn't entered the house for many days. Seeing that the hut was filled with thick dust, Matchmaker Liu also
I had no intention of cleaning, I just wanted to get something to eat and drink before leaving. I opened the lid of the rice jar and two mice ran out. When I scooped out the millet, I saw that half of it was mouse droppings. In desperation, the two of them came to the stall selling sesame cakes.
After two people ate two sesame seed cakes, Matchmaker Liu waited for Gou Sheng to pay. Gou Sheng pretended to have a stomachache and walked all the way to poop. Matchmaker Liu waited and waited for Gou Sheng to come, so she had to pay for the sesame seed pancakes out of her own pocket. Here
As soon as she paid for the sesame cakes, Gou Sheng came over with his pants lifted. Matchmaker Liu thought she was unlucky, but she didn't dare to offend Gou Sheng yet. She wanted to ride the donkey Gou Sheng borrowed back to Guo Yu Village.
When Matchmaker Liu returned to Guoyu Village, she saw many guests coming to her daughter's house. The three sons of Mrs. Wolf who had gone out for a business trip all came back. They also brought back their shopkeeper Lin and a young girl who was said to be their boss.
She is the daughter of Shopkeeper Lin. Shopkeeper Lin intended to betroth his daughter to Da Lang. Unexpectedly, Da Lang got married when he returned home for the New Year. Shopkeeper Lin betrothed his daughter to Erlang again. Shopkeeper Lin brought his daughter down this time mainly to get to know her husband's family.
, as long as Erlang’s father and mother are willing, they can decide on their daughter’s marriage.
Funnel is not doing anything at home, and Mrs. Wolf has no reason not to be reluctant when she sees Shopkeeper Lin's magnanimity. The family is busy and does everything they can to entertain Shopkeeper Lin and his daughter. Matchmaker Liu is also not idle, helping her mother-in-law choose vegetables and light the fire.
, it was already getting late after dinner, so of course shopkeeper Lin and his daughter had to rest at Erlang's house. On weekdays, Matchmaker Liu lived alone in a small house, and Granny Lang's house was relatively well-off in Guoyu Village, but there were so many people coming back all at once.
People, arranging accommodation became a problem. Everyone put it together and asked shopkeeper Lin to live in the small house of Matchmaker Liu. His two sons and daughter-in-law slept in Dalang’s new house, and their four sons lived in the big house. Matchmaker Liu had no place.
To rest, I can only sleep on the same kang as Funnelzi and my mother-in-law.
Matchmaker Liu can also think about it. The houses in the countryside are not well-off, not to mention that they only sleep for one night and the guests will leave the next morning. That night, Granny Lang slept in the middle of the kang, and Funnel and Matchmaker Liu slept on each side. Funnel slept until midnight.
The man got up to urinate, and the urine dropped into the copper urinal. It was like thunder in the sky. Matchmaker Liu covered her head with a quilt. The smell of the man's urine was overwhelming. After the funnel man finished urinating, he didn't know whether he was confused or intentional, but he got into it.
Entering Matchmaker Liu’s bed...
The wolf woman didn't dare to say anything because there were other guests in the yard. She could only pull Funnel's ears and slapped Funnel a few times.
Before dawn the next day, Matchmaker Liu got up. Without saying hello to anyone, she quietly left Guoyu Village alone and returned to the shabby house in Wagou Town, where she cried miserably.
Chapter completed!