Farmhouse Green Plum

Seeing them, Liu's face looked a little ugly, and she didn't answer. Instead, the shopkeeper beside her smiled and said, "A daughter's marriage only happens once. Even if a mother is reluctant on weekdays, she must buy some good cloth and make a beautiful wedding dress for her daughter."

"Wedding dress?" Aunt Meihua suspected that she had heard it wrong. Aunt Liu San had only one daughter, Xiaohua, who had already been sold by her. Why would she need a wedding dress?

Then I thought about her Dalang's marriage proposal, could it be prepared for his daughter-in-law?

She was not the only one who had such speculation. There was also Chen, who wanted to return to the village earlier. She couldn't help but look at Aunt Liu. Surprise temporarily replaced her anxiety. When a girl got married, the wedding dress had to be prepared by her parents' family and embroidered by the girl herself. How could the husband's family prepare a wedding dress for her?

After being stunned for a while, Aunt Meihua came to her senses, laughed with a hint of sarcasm, folded the silk cloth, and handed it to Aunt Liu San, "Sister-in-law is so generous that she even pays for her daughter-in-law's wedding dress!"

"Daughter-in-law?" This time, it was the shopkeeper who was surprised.

The woman came into the store only saying that she wanted to buy cloth for her wedding dress, so he naturally thought she was buying it for her daughter. How could she be preparing a wedding dress for her daughter-in-law?

The shopkeeper didn't know what to say for a moment, so he turned to Aunt Meihua awkwardly and said, "Sister, what kind of cloth do you want to buy?"

Aunt Meihua glanced at Aunt Liu San and said sarcastically, "Coarse cloth will do. We are a poor family and have to live frugally. We are not like those wealthy people. Our daughter-in-law's wedding dress must be made of silk cloth!"

She deliberately raised the volume of the words "daughter-in-law" and "wedding dress" so that people passing by could hear them.

Aunt Liu San immediately felt several gazes falling on her, her face flushed, and she pointed at Aunt Meihua and trembled, "You...you..."

After he kept talking for a long time, he didn't say anything else. Aunt Liu was so angry that she lost all desire to bargain. She counted out a bunch of copper coins and slapped them on the counter, then picked up the silk cloth and left.

After watching her leave, Aunt Meihua snorted softly, turned around, put on a smiling face, and said to the shopkeeper, "I'm sorry to make you laugh."

The shopkeeper shook his head and pointed at the cloth: "Sister, what color do you want..."

Daya didn't go to see Aunt Meihua choosing cloth. Her thoughts were out of control. She thought of Xiaohua, who was now in the brothel and might be suffering inhuman torture.

Her own mother used the money from selling her to buy expensive cloth for her sister-in-law who was not yet married into the family, but she herself never wore it.

She felt suffocated, like she was drowning.

How can it be so ridiculous?

On the way back, Daya was in a trance. She didn't know when Aunt Meihua picked out the cloth, nor did she know how she got back.

"Daya, come to my house for dinner tonight."

Chen's voice brought Daya back from her trance. She calmed down and realized that it was already dark. They had arrived at Xu Yulan's home, but Aunt Meihua and her husband had left at some point.

Daya jumped off the cart and reached out to untie the rope. "No, I need to go home to eat. I have to take the cow back."

As she spoke, she remembered that the cow had worked hard all day and had not yet eaten grass, so she had to take it back quickly. She hoped that her second uncle had asked Song Tian to cut grass for it.

"Daya, you have a good memory. Help your aunt identify the ground tiger first."

Daya nodded and was about to say that she would go with them early tomorrow morning, but when she met Chen's eager eyes, she realized that Chen wanted to go now.

She was actually a little impatient for the ground tiger. If she could make money by collecting herbs, her family would not sell her out easily.