Lin Xiaoman went to pick some vegetables outside the courtyard wall, and then went to get some meat from the freezer in the warehouse. He had just finished six dishes when there was a knock on the courtyard door.

Lin Xiaoman thought it was Lin Erhu who had come back and wiped the handle before coming out. When he opened the door, it was Qing Shu standing outside, holding a dripping covered bamboo basket in his hand.

Qingshu saw Lin Xiaoman passing the basket forward and grinned, "This is brought here at high speed. Miss Xiaoman has a try."

Lin Xiaoman took it and opened the top lid, and saw that it was covered with thick velvet, which had been soaked with ice water. Under the ice cubes were half-red and half-green lychees.

Lychees grow in the south. At this time of year, not to mention they are in the northeast, they are rare even in the Central Plains. It is really rare to be able to send them here. I don’t know how much ice melted and how many horses were tired on the way to bring them here.

A small basket.

Lin Xiaoman thought of a poem she had just read in a book: Riding on a red dusty concubine, no one knew it was a lychee.

Let’s just say I’m touched. It’s really touching. But I’m also really distressed!

In this season, lychees that look better than these over there are only a few dollars a pound. Sending such a basket of lychees all the way is a waste of time and money, so why bother?

Qingshu saw that there was not much joy on Lin Xiaoman's face, so he just thought she didn't recognize the lychees, "This is a lychee sent from Lingnan. Miss Xiaoman, please try it."

Lin Xiaoman hummed, picked up a lychee, and pinched it skillfully with two fingers. The lychee shell was pinched in half, revealing the snow-white lychee flesh inside.

Qingshu, who was eager to teach Lin Xiaoman how to peel lychees, silently put his raised hand down. No matter how proficient Lin Xiaoman was in eating lychees, it didn't look like he was eating them for the first time.

Well, it’s embarrassing for the master to ask him to take it as if it were a treasure.

"Miss Xiaoman is very skilled at peeling lychees. Have you eaten them before?"

Lin Xiaoman naturally couldn't admit it, "I've never eaten it, I just saw it in books, and it seemed delicious."

Although Lin Xiaoman didn't look like she had never eaten lychees, Qingshu didn't suspect her of lying. After all, she lived in the south and the north, and she had never heard of Lin Xiaoman going to the south when she was a child. It was only normal that she hadn't eaten it.

Lin Xiaoman ate one himself and handed a few to Qingshu, "Brother Qingshu will eat too."

To be honest, it took too long on the road, and even if I put ice on it, the lychees were not that fresh. The most important thing is that the core of this lychee is too big, and it is not like the new varieties cultivated over there, which have sweet pulp.

There is only a small core.

Qingshu waved his hand and refused, "My lord will not miss my food. I eat it often. Miss Xiaoman will eat more. My lord has said that in the future, I will send whatever delicious food I have to Miss Xiaoman."

"Yeah, thank you sir for me. Sir, remember us siblings. If I have any delicious food in the future, I will make it for you."

Qingshu scratched his head, but he didn't say that the adult asked him to send lychees to Lin Xiaoman, and he didn't mention Lin Erhu at all.

Qingshu took out another piece of broken silver and handed it to Lin Xiaoman's hand, "My lord asked me to come and buy some melons to eat with Miss Xiaoman."

Lin Xiaoman said: "If you want to eat, go to the fields and pick it. Why don't you buy it?"

"If it was just me and the adults eating it, I wouldn't be polite to Miss Xiaoman. But this time I want to buy it and eat it with the officers and soldiers in the county, so I have to pay for it."

After speaking, he winked at Lin Xiaoman, and Lin Xiaoman understood that although these officers and soldiers guarding the city were also under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate, their immediate superiors were county captains, and Lu Jin did not completely regard those people as his own.

If she took people to pick melons in her field without even saying hello, then those people became accustomed to going to the field to eat and pick up melons. Her melon field was not enough to deal with these evil things.

Lin Xiaoman accepted the broken silver and asked: "Have you eaten it?"

Qingshu's eyes lit up when he smelled the fragrance wafting from the yard, but he looked back at the officers and soldiers stationed outside. In front of these people, he couldn't eat alone with the adults.

When he was in trouble, Lin Xiaoman saw his worry and said, "Erhu is still at Mr. Xu's place. I just happened to go to pick him up, so I brought the food there. When the adults are finished, you can go over and have dinner with Mr. Xu."<

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Qingshu nodded immediately, "Okay, sir and I will be there in a moment."

Lin Xiaoman delivered the food and took Lin Erhu back. Lin Erhu kept saying that Xu Qiuliang asked him to help arrange the betrothal gift, which made him very worried, "Sister, you said that I have never married a wife.

Who knows what kind of betrothal gift to prepare? My husband asked me, do you think you are worried about someone else?"

Lin Xiaoman said: "The betrothal gift for most families in our village is two taels of silver. For example, when my third sister got married, her husband's family gave her a cow, which was the only one in the village. But my second grandfather

I added some more dowry and asked Da Honggu to take it back together. Da Jiaogu’s betrothal gift is probably just a formality, and the second grandfather will still bring it back when we go out."

Lin Erhu was not born when Lin Erjiao got married, so he didn't know this, but after listening to Lin Xiaoman's words, Lin Erhu asked: "So how much do you give as a betrothal gift, sir, but you still have to bring it back in the end?"
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Lin Xiaoman thought for a moment. In the past, Lin Youwang's family didn't have much money, and they didn't covet their daughter's dowry. Now every household in the village has money. Their family has grown a lot of tomatoes and peppers, and now they are the first in the village to do so.

If you are rich, you will not be greedy for Lin Dajiao’s betrothal gifts.

"Well, my grandfather and grandmother are not that kind of people."

Lin Erhu clapped his hands and said, "Then what are you worried about? Sir, you will pay as much as you have, and you have to bring it back anyway."

Lin Xiaoman disagreed, "You can't have this kind of mentality when marrying a daughter-in-law in the future. It's not easy to raise a daughter. She has to marry into her in-laws' family as soon as she is raised. No matter how much betrothal gift you give, it is all to thank your in-laws' family for their upbringing.

It's a kindness to bring her back, and it's your duty not to bring her back. You can't blame her in the future because your wife didn't bring back the betrothal gift."

Lin Erhu nodded, "I know, I'm not that stingy. Even though my husband doesn't have much wealth, he has used it as a betrothal gift. He is afraid that my eldest daughter will suffer with him if she gets married."

Lin Xiaoman didn't think that Lin Dajiao would suffer if she married him. She was the one who planted the most new crops with him in the village. She made more than one hundred taels from selling tomatoes and peppers this month, which was one of the richest in the village.

However, she was still curious about how much betrothal gift Xu Qiuliang could give, "Did Mr. Xu say how much he could give?"

Lin Erhu stretched out two fingers, and Lin Xiaoman asked: "Twenty taels?"

Lin Erhu shook his head, "Two Liang!"

Lin Xiaoman's mouth twitched, "His total net worth is only two taels? Last year, he followed the villagers to play Kang, and he didn't make any money?"

Lin Erhu sighed, "You also know that my husband is so greedy, how can he save a fortune? At that time, he never thought that he would marry a wife one day. He spent the money he earned in restaurants in the city. Now it is too late to regret it.

.These two taels of silver were given to me by my eldest brother."
Chapter completed!