The young bride also looked at the groom, who stood in front of her with an unusually handsome eyebrow and starry eyes, and a body as straight as a javelin. She lowered her head shyly.
Zhang Xiaowu wanted to praise her for her beauty, but somehow he blurted out: "Not bad, not ugly."
Suddenly, the little bride raised her head angrily, stared at her eyes and said angrily: "I'm not ugly, you have to apologize to me."
Zhang Xiaowu saw that she was covering her stomach with one hand and clenching her fist with the other as if to protest, so he said, "Are you hungry? Let's eat together. I haven't eaten in several days, and you haven't eaten in a day either."
Let’s eat?”
The young bride was surprised and said: "Huh? You generals can't have anything to eat? At least my family can have one meal in two days."
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't believe it: "Ordinary people only have one meal every two days?"
The young bride whispered: "I also have a younger brother, the only child of our Yin family. He has been weak and sick since he was a child. He needs to eat more to survive."
"It turns out that he is also a brother-supporting demon." Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and sighed.
Not to mention that in this era of cold weapons, even in the modern world, many families that favor boys over girls are not willing to let girls go to school, and even some selfish family members kidnapped and separated from their families. He endured this in his heart
The hungry young bride gives food to her brother
Feeling doubly sad, he added: "It is really a Chinese tradition to starve a sister to death for a male. Fortunately, you are no longer from the Yin family. From now on, you will be from my Zhang family. I don't know how to do anything special."
I'll starve you, and our old Zhang family doesn't have the tradition of starving a new wife to death."
After hearing this, the little bride's heart trembled, and she raised her head with a blushing face and looked at Zhang Xiaowu strangely. Her heart was indescribably complicated. Isn't it everyone's duty to starve her sister to death and eat her younger brother? Isn't it right for the younger brother's life?
Should I be meaner than my younger brother? Did Grandpa say it wrong?
Seeing the little bride's bright eyes full of doubts, but sitting aside and not daring to move, Zhang Xiaowu felt that the little bride was a little too imprisoned by feudal ideas. Maybe the little bride had a bit of a shrewd personality, but her thoughts were much more conservative, so he left
He stepped forward and took the young bride's hand to the dinner table.
The little bride's face was even redder after being held by his hand for the second time, and her mind went blank. She struggled to get rid of his hand, but found that the big hands were strong and powerful and it was difficult to break free. She was reserved for a while, but she was really too hungry, so she held her hand.
Sitting at the table, I saw Zhang Xiaowu moving his chopsticks, thinking that I was already a "little woman", so I stopped being polite and started eating.
Zhang Xiaowu smiled slightly and said: "Food is precious now, let's not waste it and eat it all. I don't know if there will be another meal after this meal."
One of these two people was in a coma for two days, and the other only drank a mouthful of gruel yesterday. They were really hungry. They were very polite at first, but after eating, their "nature was exposed", and they quickly wiped out all the food on the table.
, only four noodles are left. Zhang Xiaowu is
After eating, the little bride couldn't bear it anymore, but she started to clear the table. She was born in an ordinary family. She helped her family with things since she was a child. She was hard-working and agile, but she didn't know where the kitchen was. After all, the county government was a bit big. Zhang Xiaowu
Then let her put it next door.
The young bride put away the tableware and the sky gradually darkened. When she returned to her new house, she suddenly thought of what her female companions said. She suddenly became worried and her heart was beating wildly. She stood at the door for a long time before entering the house with a blushing face. She closed the door.
After closing the door, he leaned against the door and did not dare to step forward. He glanced at Junlang opposite him with a blushing face, but suddenly hiccupped out of nervousness.
"Well……"
Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help laughing when he heard her burping. The little bride hurriedly buried her head and wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground. Her stomach was growling from hunger before, but now she couldn't stop burping. How could she face the gentleman in front of her?
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Zhang Xiaowu stepped forward and led her back to the bedside for the third time, turned around and sat on the chair next to the dining table, and said softly: "I am not Liu Xiahui, nor Yue Buqun, but you are too young. Although you are more beautiful, I
It's not a pervert. So just sleep here today.
I'm going to find a place later. The county government office is here. I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Zhang and my name is Xiaowu. My companions all call me Xiaowu. You can just call me...Brother Xiaowu. After all, how much older am I than you?
.I heard your mother-in-law say that your nickname is Jiuer, what is your nickname?"
The little bride blushed and didn't know what she was thinking. Now she regained her well-behaved expression and said, "I don't have a nickname because I was born on the ninth day of April. My family calls me by my nickname Jiu'er, and no one asks me about it on weekdays."
My name is my name." When she explained the origin of her name, her expression was like that of a deer, her eyes quick and cautious, for fear that her husband's family would think she was uneducated.
Zhang Xiaowu joked: "The name Yin Jiu'er is hard to be considered elegant. Why don't I give you a name, a serious name?" There is a flower poem in "The Book of Songs" that says: If you run away, burn the flowers, your son will return.
, suitable for his family. How about I name you Yin Yaoyao?"
The little bride stared with a dissatisfied and stubborn look on her face. Even though her eyes were angry, they were extremely beautiful. After a while, she pouted and protested: "Yin Yaoyao, it sounds so ugly. I don't want it."
Zhang Xiaowu clapped his hands and laughed. Although this marriage is a bit ridiculous, it is also very interesting. The ancients got married first and then fell in love. Like Butterfly Lovers, most people who fell in love first and then pursued marriage became butterflies, while those who married first and fell in love later
, it may not all be a tragedy. At least compared to the 50% divorce rate in later generations, couples who get married first and then fall in love rarely get divorced. He shook his head and joked: "Yin Yaoyao has such a nice name, why not?"
Called?"
"No, I have a nice name, so I don't want to change it, huh." In order to fight for the right to her name, the little bride even forgot to hiccup.
Zhang Xiaowu nodded and said: "Actually, Yin Jiu'er is pretty good, but the name Yin Jiu doesn't sound good. It sounds like a boy in a gambling house or an errand boy in a certain Ranger."
The young bride was still stubborn and said: "My name is Yin Jiu'er, not Yin Jiu." She suddenly found that she no longer hiccupped, and she immediately became happy. Her eyes and smile were like the crescent moon of command, which made people feel relaxed and happy.
Zhang Xiaowu felt that the time was almost up, so he stood up and walked to the door, opened the door and was about to go out, but turned around and said: "Go to bed early, good night."
Yin Jiuer was told that she was going to get married in the morning, and she was warned a lot by her mother and aunt, but she didn't expect that they were getting married. The groom didn't touch her, so she breathed a sigh of relief. When she heard the door closing, Yin Jiuer looked up and saw that the groom was gone, and she was immediately confused.
Get up, there are only two of them in such a big yard. If he leaves, will she really be the only one left in this house? The little bride couldn't help shouting: "Zhang Xiaowu! Brother Xiaowu! Don't leave."
"What's wrong?" Zhang Xiaowu was closing the door. Hearing the shouting inside, he had no choice but to walk in and ask.
Yin Jiuer blushed and said, "I'm afraid of the dark."
"Little Pepper is still afraid of the dark?" Zhang Xiaowu was startled for a moment, and then he realized that the little bride in front of him was only fourteen years old. According to the standards of later generations, she was only in the first grade of junior high school. Then he laughed, walked back to the bed and said:
"Seeing your fierce personality, I thought you were brave, but I didn't expect you to be afraid of the dark."
"Well..." Yin Jiuer said in a shy voice, and suddenly asked warily: "What is Xiaojiao? Which girl's name is it? Are there other concubines? What does she look like?" Although she is young,
But I have also been exposed to it since I was a child. If a family takes a concubine, the wife will most likely be left out. Especially in a wealthy family, the wife will most likely be just a decoration and will be ostracized by the concubine.
At this moment, Jiu'er suddenly started to think wildly, thinking that she was the real wife of the eight-carriage sedan chair matchmaker, and she definitely couldn't let that "little bitch" bully her.
Zhang Xiaowu looked at her big, bright, dark eyes and understood that she must be thinking wildly. Women are women after all. No matter how old a woman is, the ability to be jealous is innate. He couldn't help laughing: "No matter how old you are,
The vinegar is very strong. The small pepper I am talking about is you. The small pepper is a dish from my hometown. It is like dogwood and extremely spicy. This is a metaphor. Do you understand the metaphor? "
The little bride suddenly stared at him with big eyes and looked at him angrily, but she was so happy in her heart that she couldn't hold back her giggles for a while.
