The county seat is almost dozens of miles away from Weijia Village.
Even though it's mid-April, the morning wind is still a bit cool.
Not long after Shen Xiu was on the road, she sneezed.
Yang carried a rough sermon on his back and said: "Don't take advantage of your youth and not take your body seriously. It's only April and you've already changed into single clothes. What will you do if you get sick later?"
In the past few days, Mr. Yang has greatly changed his view of Shen Xiu, and there is a hint of concern in his words.
Shen Xiu smiled and said nothing. She specially wore the singlet with the wishful pattern today. She originally wanted to find another way to make money for herself, but she forgot to put more clothes inside.
Seeing that she was silent, Mrs. Yang didn't say anything else. If the person being talked about was the eldest daughter-in-law, she would definitely have to quibble. Thinking of the eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Yang couldn't help but frown slightly. Mrs. Zou would have gotten sick sooner or later.
I'm sick. I just happened to get sick today. I don't know if it was intentional or not.
Zou did it on purpose. In the past few days, Shen Xiu has become more and more capable and received more and more recognition, which made her feel a little unbalanced. So she pretended to be sick on the day she went to the county town, in order to make Shen Xiu
Make a fool of yourself.
The dozen or so pieces of coarse cloth were quite heavy. Usually, Zou and Yang took turns carrying them to the county town. Now that she was pretending to be sick and couldn't go, the task of sharing the weight for her mother-in-law fell on Shen Xiu.
If Shen Xiu was so coquettish that she couldn't carry the cloth, she would definitely be scolded. Thinking of Shen Xiu being scolded, Zou felt the sullenness in her heart.
Unfortunately, the scene that Zou expected did not appear. Shen Xiu did not show any signs of cowardice and left with the cloth on her back. Even though she was extremely tired, she gritted her teeth and remained silent.
In fact, Shen Xiu was able to be chosen by the master at a glance from so many apprentices, and finally became a famous embroidery master. Shen Xiu relied on this tenacity to refuse to admit defeat. Now this tenacity is used by her on the back cloth.
.Since others can carry it, she can also carry it.
This tenacity was naturally noticed by Ms. Yang. She was not the kind of evil mother-in-law who liked to teach others. She knew that Shen Xiu did not often do heavy work, so she would let her rest for a while from time to time, and then walk faster when it was her turn to carry the load.
Some.
In this way, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took turns carrying the coarse cloth on their backs and walked for more than an hour before finally reaching the county seat.
People were coming and going in the county, and Yang was afraid that Shen Xiu would get lost when she came here for the first time, so she repeatedly asked her to follow her closely. Shen Xiu followed Yang while looking at the shops on both sides of the street.
At this time, the shop fronts were very simple, and the plaques were all wooden, with the words Li Ji Tea Shop, Xinglong Buzhuang, etc. engraved on them.
Shen Xiu's mind was not on these tea shops and cloth shops. Her eyes quickly swept across the plaques, and finally landed on an embroidery shop. The facade of this embroidery shop looked similar to other shops, the only difference was that
All the people coming in and out are women, and most of them are married women.
Just as she was looking at it, Yang turned around and called her. Shen Xiu first wrote down the location of this embroidery shop and continued to follow Yang.
Yang is going to a grocery store. The owner of the grocery store is named Qin. The ancestors of Boss Qin are from Weijia Village, so he has always taken good care of the people in Weijia Village. Yang can weave more coarse cloth here than elsewhere.
Give me a few pennies.
When Mrs. Yang entered the store, Boss Qin came over to greet her: "Auntie is here." He glanced at Shen Xiu again and said, "This must be Wei Yan's new wife!"
Shen Xiu didn't know what to call him, so he had to smile openly.
Yang said for her: "Boss Qin guessed right, this is my second daughter-in-law. Second daughter-in-law, please call me Uncle Qin."
Shen Xiu called Uncle Qin.
Boss Qin agreed. He knew about Wei Yan's happy event. He had felt sorry for Wei Yan before. For such a young man with both talent and appearance, if he became a scholar in the future, I'm afraid many people would want to marry him.
If you were lucky, you might be able to get married to a wealthy family in the county. But now, because of luck, you married a country girl in a confused way.
But when Boss Qin saw Shen Xiu today, he felt that there was no trace of the country girl's shyness and timidity in her, but instead she was very generous.
It seems that Wei Yan's luck as a wife is not too bad.
Boss Qin's mental activity lasted only a moment, and he quickly called the waiter. After the waiter finished taking the measurements and calculating the price, he politely invited Mr. Yang to sit at home.
Ms. Yang hurriedly waved her hands: "We still have to go to the second brother's place to have a look. I can only accept the kindness of the eldest brother."
Boss Qin did not force himself and escorted them out of the store in person.
"Mom, is Uncle Qin related to our family?" Shen Xiu couldn't understand why the owner of the grocery store was so polite to them.
Yang and Yourong said: "The reason why he is so polite to us is because of the second child. You just came here not long ago, and your mother hasn't told you about this yet. I remember when the second child first went to a private school to study, it was like that."
He was only ten years old, and once he was shopping in the city with his classmates. There happened to be a fortune teller setting up a stall on the street. When the fortune teller saw the second son and several classmates coming over, he didn't point to anyone but him alone and said,
His life is noble, and in the future he will be a general or prime minister."
"Later, this matter spread. It was only later that I found out that the fortune teller was Li Tiezui, a famous fortune teller within a hundred miles, and he was the most accurate in fortune-telling. Your uncle Qin believed in Li Tiezui's words the most, and he has been telling Li Tiezui since then.
People in our family have become more and more polite. And the master of the academy has also treated me differently from then on."
Shen Xiu couldn't help but ask, "Has Li Tiezui mentioned that our husband was seriously ill before?"
If he could even calculate this, then Shen Xiu would really believe it.
Yang said: "I heard the second child say that he seemed to have said that once you pass the age of seventeen, you will be able to go smoothly in the future. It's a pity that we didn't take that seriously. Now think about it
, then what Li Tiezui said is really accurate. It's a pity that this man died early, otherwise I can still ask him to settle matters and see if there will be any disasters in the future for the second brother."
Shen Xiu didn't expect that Li Tiezui was really capable. Could it be that if she married Wei Yan, he would be able to become the prime minister of the court in the future?
Of course, this is impossible to say for sure. Destiny is the most magical and elusive. Perhaps Li Tiezui, the most accurate fortune teller, sometimes sees bad luck.
However, this did not affect Shen Xiu's curiosity about Wei Yan. After the two got married, Yang did not trust others to take care of her son, so the couple almost never got along alone. Later, after the other party recovered from his illness, he went to the county seat.
It has been more than a month since he left. The original memory of him is already very vague. What kind of person is it that can attract such praise from Li Tiezui?
Shen Xiu only remembered that Wei Yan was thin and better-looking than the others. As for what he looked like, she only had a vague impression. If she saw him in person, she might recognize him immediately. But she had to be careful.
Looking back on the other person's appearance, I can only think of a rough idea.
Later, Mrs. Yang said she wanted to go to a restaurant to see Wei Yan, but Shen Xiu had no objection. After she became curious about Wei Yan, she wanted to meet this cheap husband.