Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

Ming Yang and Hua Muchin exchanged tokens of love and engagement letters on the same day to confirm their marriage. As for other procedures, they will be carried out after Ming Yang reaches the age of 15. Anyway, those are just for outsiders to see. The two are currently in an engaged couple relationship that is agreed by both parents and known to relatives and friends.

Yan Yiyi never expected that by holding a wedding, she could actually help her second brother win his childhood sweetheart. She couldn't help but sigh that this auspicious day was chosen so well!

The day after Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye's wedding, the people of the entire Shacheng knew the identity of the husband of the eldest daughter of the Hua family.

He was indeed a country boy, but not an ordinary country boy. He was a country boy who discovered the high-yield grain sweet potato and reported it to the court, receiving a commendation from the emperor.

Moreover, there were several dishes made with sweet potatoes at the wedding banquet, which tasted good and revealed that there are many ways to eat sweet potatoes. As long as it is cooked well, it can be a delicious delicacy.

What's more, he is a culinary genius. Any ingredient can be transformed into something magical in his hands. There were many rare delicacies at the wedding banquet, all of which came from the recipes he researched.

The second young master of the Hua family is recognized as the best businessman. He promised to gradually introduce the delicacies in the recipe after the New Year, which made many guests who attended the event look forward to it and also aroused the curiosity of the people.

The people of Sand City felt inexplicably relieved. It was not that they looked down on the peasants, but they felt that the Hua family did not pay attention to family background. However, they were self-righteous and missed the opportunity to create sparks with the eldest daughter of the Hua family.

Now that you know the abilities of the Hua family's son-in-law, don't you feel more balanced?

Isn't it natural that such an outstanding person would be noticed by the eldest daughter of the Hua family and accepted by the Hua family?

But...if such talents were to go to other families, they might not receive such good treatment.

Yan Yiyi would not go back to her parents' home for three days, and it started snowing these days, so they seldom went out. They even skipped the usual dinner at the hospital and had the kitchen prepare it and send it to their respective courtyards.

Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye stayed in their own yard for a few days until New Year's Eve when they went out.

The servants were responsible for decorating the house. On the morning of New Year's Eve, the two of them were still staying in their own yard. In the afternoon, they moved to the main yard.

Xin Ye is in charge of the reunion dinner this year, and everyone else is responsible for helping out and doing any work that requires touching water. The two women in the family don't have to touch anything, so they are responsible for helping to pick vegetables. Yan Yiyi and Chen Youyou have an important task today, which is to pick Ruyi vegetables.

The so-called Ruyi dish is to remove the heads and tails of bean sprouts and the roots in the middle, leaving only the white stems of the bean sprouts. The bean sprouts processed in this way are very refreshing, and you won’t eat hard soybeans and tough roots.

Xin Ye guessed that this dish would be very popular with everyone, so he had to ask his wife and mother-in-law to concentrate on preparing it.

As for the others, Hua Feifan was responsible for slaughtering and plucking the chickens and ducks. The chickens were for making pig tripes, and the ducks were for making roast duck. It was just a coincidence, as they could be put into use after being built two days ago.

Xin Ye took into consideration that today was New Year's Day and as the new son-in-law he wanted to add some fresh dishes to the Hua family, so he notified the kitchen and asked them to kill a duck according to the quantity for the reunion dinner of the whole family.

When he is roasting the duck here, the chefs from the big kitchen will come over to learn, and then they will go back to roast the duck for the whole mansion.

Hua Murong and Hua Muchin are responsible for cutting vegetables, while Hua Muyu is a "brick" who can be moved wherever needed.

"Third brother, come and pluck the hair with me!" Hua Feifan shouted towards the small kitchen.

Hua Muyu was kicked out by the two good brothers in the kitchen. She came to Hua Feifan with a pout, pulled a small stool over and sat down, looking at the bald chicken plucked by her father, which was in pieces, and she couldn't bear to look at it.

His mouth reacted faster than his brain: "Dad, this is too ugly, isn't it? You can't even pluck the chicken feathers properly."

Hua Feifan glanced at him coldly. Seeing the majesty from his father, Hua Muyu immediately backed down: "Well... I think the chicken was not scalded properly, so it's hard to pluck the feathers. It's all my brother's fault. He can't even scald a chicken properly. I'll take it back and ask him to redo it!"

As he spoke, Hua Muyu grabbed the chicken's neck and ran away.

Hua Feifan glanced at the duck nearby and shouted, "There are more ducks!"

Hua Muyu ran out happily again and ran back to the small kitchen, pinching the duck's neck.

Hua Muyu returned to the kitchen and kicked her eldest brother on the butt. It was clearly he who said it was okay and then she took the chicken and duck out of the pot, but in the end she put the pot on his head. He really deserved a lesson.

"Brother-in-law, big brother, beat me up!"

Xin Ye would not be so stupid as to interfere in the friendly interaction between the brothers. He pointed to the stove beside him and said, "Come and help add some firewood. The fire is not strong enough."

Hua Muyu went over and sat down to help light the fire, then looked at Xin Ye dimly: "Brother-in-law, you don't even make the decision for me."

Xin Ye was speechless. How did this younger brother-in-law know that he could suppress his older brother-in-law?

Then he gave a fake dry laugh: "Brother~ He is also my brother."

Hua Murong was very happy when he heard this: Very good, very good, my brother-in-law has a good awareness, he is worthy of being his good brother-in-law!

Hua Muyu choked, puffed up her mouth and blew hard into the stove, as if to blow away the depression in her heart.

Xin Ye didn't care. There was water boiling in the pot anyway, and the bigger the fire, the better.

Hua Murong fished out the chickens and ducks that had been reworked and put them in a wooden barrel: "Okay, kick them out and pluck their feathers with dad."

Hua Muyu could only carry the wooden barrel emitting white smoke and go back to work with her old father.

Hua Muxin finished the work in her hands and asked: "Brother-in-law, I have killed and cleaned the fish. What should I do next?"

"We need to prepare some minced garlic. Second brother, can you help peel more garlic?"

“Where’s the garlic?”

Xin Ye took out a basket of garlic from the wooden cabinet and handed it to him: "You'll need about one third."

Hua Muchin took the garlic basket and a large bowl, went back to her room, sat down with her mother and sister, started peeling garlic, and joined in the conversation among the women.

"Mom, will you go back to your parents' home on the second day of the New Year?" Hua Muchin asked.

"Let's go back. I'll take you with me and we can go together as a family. Besides, your sister and brother-in-law are newly married, so it would be nice to go there and pay New Year's greetings and get some red envelopes."

"Can I still get red envelopes after getting married?" Yan Yiyi was quite surprised.

"Sure, it's their fault for not coming to your wedding. As my family members, they have to make up for it with the red envelope." Chen Youyou said this righteously, not feeling that there was anything wrong with cheating her family members in this way.

As for why they didn't come, they knew it very well. The idea was from Hua Muchen, the poison was prepared by Yan Yiyi, and it was Chen Youyou who ordered the post to be handed back. The three of them were the main forces.

Yan Yiyi nodded obediently: "What if someone doesn't know what's good for them and deserves a lesson? Can we use force against them?"

The three brothers had previously explained to her in detail the character of Chen Youyou's family and their relationship with Chen Youyou. It was normal for her to ask such questions, especially since she was currently in a state of amnesia.

Chen Youyou responded readily: "Sure."

Hua Feifan, who heard their conversation not far away, felt depressed. He knew the hardships his wife had suffered in the past and had always been dissatisfied with the Chen family. However, since they were his wife's family members, he had to show mercy to them even though he had taught them a lesson before.

It seems that these twenty years have completely wiped out the last bit of affection his wife had for her family. It is just the right time to take action now, but it is not appropriate to poison her daughter to death. Everyone knows that her daughter's flower medicine pavilion has pills that can bring the dead back to life.

It is not possible for him to send people to kill their entire family. There are only a handful of people in Sand City who can deal with people so cleanly and efficiently without leaving any traces. The situation of his wife and her family is known to the family members with whom he has a close relationship. It is easy for them to guess that it was us who did it.

But, after all, they are his wife's relatives. She can ignore them, but she cannot let her husband and children have their hands stained with the blood of her family members. It would be somewhat disgusting.

Alas... Time not only makes them consume their wives' affection for them, but also wears away their wives' hatred for them. Moreover, the dead are gone, and if they really need to take action, it should be she who does it herself, not them on her behalf.

The New Year's Eve dinner was prepared by the whole family. There were ten dishes in total: pork tripe and chicken soup, Dongpo pork, roast duck, braised lion head, chopped pepper fish head, cumin lamb, mapo tofu, fried spring rolls, garlic sweet potato dish, and Phoenix crystal (Ruyi dish).

The main purpose is perfection.

Except for the garlic sweet potato dish, Hua Feifan and Chen Youyou had never eaten the other dishes. Every dish was very tempting. For a moment, they almost didn't know where to start.

Xin Ye thoughtfully served his father-in-law and mother-in-law a bowl of pork tripe and chicken soup: "Dad and mom, drink a bowl of soup to warm your body first."

After Hua Feifan started eating, everyone else also started eating. Everyone drank a bowl of soup first. This was a habit they developed when eating with Xin Ye in Dashan Village. In the past, not every meal at home had such delicious soup. Their mother would ask the kitchen to make the soup not too hot for them because they saw how hard they were working.

The soup cooked by Xin Ye is obviously different from the soup cooked by Chen Youyou.

Hua Feifan and others have been eating with Xin Ye and others during this period. There is soup almost every day. They have gradually gotten used to it and drinking a bowl of soup before meals is indeed delicious.

They had to admit that since their son-in-law came to their house, the couple had eaten a lot of new food. They felt reluctant to let their son-in-law leave soon after the New Year.

Of course, the son-in-law left behind many recipes, and the people in the kitchen also learned them seriously, and the taste was good, but the feeling of eating was not the same as what the son-in-law made himself, and it always felt like something was missing.

Today the whole family is on guard in the main courtyard. They can't just sit there and do nothing. In previous years, they father and son would play chess here, but Chen Youyou found it quite boring.

This year is different. With the help of the skilled craftsmen of the Hua Mansion, Yan Yiyi asked the craftsmen to make mahjong and poker while living in her small apartment.

Yan Yiyi used to live in the end times and had only heard of these things. After getting mobile phones and tablets, Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye studied how to play, but they could only play stand-alone games.

It would not be difficult to figure it out with Xin Ye's skills, but the problem was that it would be easily exposed, and, no matter the two of them were playing Landlord or Mahjong, there would always be three missing one or four missing two.

As for the creation of this game, Xin Ye put the blame on Old Man Li who was far away in the mountain village without hesitation.

"This is something my father saw someone playing when he was escorting people. He didn't understand the rules, but he just remembered the tools. My wife and I worked out the rules ourselves."

The game of Landlord cannot be called Landlord here. After all, landlords are very common here. Most of them are just honest landlords with a little money.

Therefore, the game of fighting landlords was changed to fighting robbers.

The reason is very sufficient. The robbers are capable and armed, and they rob ordinary civilians on the road. Civilians are weak, and it takes two people working together to defeat the robbers and win.

The Arabic numerals on the playing cards were changed to "壹贰叁..." and "JQK" were not special either, just 11, 12, 13. The big and small kings were represented by adult and cub tigers. The tiger was called the king of the mountain, and they were called "the big and small king" so as not to be afraid of being exposed.

Mahjong does not use numbers. The number of circles on the pattern is the number of tubes, and the number of vertical bars is the number of strips. There is no problem with ten thousand. There were simple characters for one, two, and three in this dynasty, but they were not widely used because simple characters were easily tampered with, so most written characters still use traditional characters.

There are seven people in the Hua family, three of them fighting the robbers and four of them playing mahjong, which is just right.

The whole family had a great time on New Year's Eve this year. If the housekeeper hadn't come to inform them that the time had come and they could set off firecrackers, Hua Feifan and the others would not have reacted!

In this era, there were no firecrackers and fireworks like in later generations. After setting off firecrackers, the younger generations would kneel down and kowtow to their elders to wish them a happy new year. The elders would give the younger generations red envelopes. Afterwards, the servants would pay their respects to the host family and the host would distribute red envelopes.

In the past, several children were in charge, and this year is no exception, except that there is one more person, Xin Ye.

After distributing the red envelopes, they can return to their respective courtyards to rest. They have to get up early the next day to go to the ancestral hall to burn incense and offer tea to their ancestors.

In the Hua family, there is no rule that female family members are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. To be precise, there is no such rule in the family's ancestral hall, but the ancestral hall of the entire Hua family still has to abide by this rule.

The ancestral hall in the family has been dedicated to the generation of Hua Feifan's great-grandfather. The ancestral hall not only enshrines the ancestors, but also the family tree of their branch. The family tree includes not only Yan Yiyi's name, but also Shen Ye's. This was registered by Hua Feifan himself when the two of them went to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors after worshiping heaven and earth.

The elders of the Hua family were of course very dissatisfied, but they could not persuade Hua Feifan. Their Hua family still had to live according to Hua Feifan's wishes. Moreover, he was touching the family tree of his branch, Hua Feifan, and did not make any changes to the family tree. The elders turned a blind eye, fearing that they would anger Hua Feifan. Cutting off contact with him would be the least of their worries. He would directly let the secret guards kill those who disobeyed him.

Hua Feifan had done a lot of bastards. After he came to power, many elders in the clan took advantage of their seniority and within a few days, he cleaned up all the elders who opposed him. From then on, no one dared to refute him.

Even though they are very dissatisfied, what's the use?

I can't do it by myself, and I can't do it by comparing power and money, so I can only endure it in frustration.

He endured this for more than 20 years, and the clan elders were replaced two or three times. The grass on the graves of those who were dissatisfied with him was half a person tall. Although the newly appointed clan elders could not be said to be die-hard supporters of Hua Feifan, they were at least obedient. Those who were not obedient were all dealt with by Hua Feifan.

He will not allow those who are against him to gain power and engage in internal fighting with him.