The couple in the last days traveled to ancient times, farming and storing grain and meat in the war

The village chief is here too. Jiang Shengcai and Sun personally went to invite him yesterday evening. The village chief had been planning to come anyway, so naturally he came today.

Since the village chief was there, he naturally became one of the witnesses.

Logically speaking, if both parties are illiterate, the village chief would definitely help to sign the marriage certificate, but Xiao Yan is a scholar and his handwriting is better than the village chief, so now it is natural that Xiao Yan writes the marriage certificate himself.

Xiao Yan was very fortunate. He tried it with a brush last night and found that the original owner's muscle memory was still there. Even though he had never used a brush to write in his original world, he could still write very well.

In addition, everything the original owner had learned was also in his mind, so he naturally knew how to draft a marriage certificate.

Besides, the village chief was also teaching him how to draft...

In short, he quickly wrote two marriage certificates.

Naturally, his and his wife's names must be on the marriage certificate.

And the names of witnesses.

Both sets of parents are also considered witnesses.

Therefore, the village chief, matchmaker Zheng, Jiang Shengcai, Sun, Xiao Fushan, and Tian all put their fingerprints on the marriage certificate, above their respective names in the row of witnesses.

After Xiao Yan put his fingerprint on his name, Sun took the two marriage certificates, went into her daughter Jiang Ningning's room, and asked Jiang Ningning to put her fingerprint as well.

Jiang Ningning really felt that the process was cumbersome, but when the marriage certificate was handed to her and she saw the black words on the red paper, she had a different feeling.

It was as if she had really put down roots here and had a new beginning with her husband.

Jiang Ningning naturally couldn't show that she could read. Isn't this just traditional Chinese? Even if it has more strokes than simplified Chinese, she really knew it.

Sun was of course illiterate, but just before she brought in the marriage certificate, Xiao Yan and the village chief had told the woman where to press her fingerprints, so she just pointed to that place and asked her daughter to press it.

"They said this is your name, just press it."

"Yes." Jiang Ningning obediently dipped her fingers in the red ink and pressed her fingerprint on her name.

After both copies were signed, Sun went out again with the marriage certificate.

The man takes one portion, the woman takes one portion, and the matchmaker sings again, which means the engagement ceremony is over.

At this point, the woman is actually considered a member of the man's family.

However, the last two steps of setting a date and marrying the bride will have to wait until a year later.

Because here, after the engagement, the date is usually not set immediately to marry the bride.

Generally, they would wait for a year before choosing another date to marry the bride.

There are some who get married within six months of engagement, but they are very rare.

If the couple is married shortly after the engagement, either they have to hurry up to get married because they want to take advantage of the mourning period; or the family needs a happy occasion and there is no other choice.

If it weren't for these two reasons, marrying her so quickly would have caused a lot of malicious speculation.

For example, whether the woman is no longer a virgin and needs to get married quickly; or whether the woman is pregnant and needs to get married quickly... and so on.

Most of them are speculations about the woman, which are extremely malicious.

In short, this world is really not friendly to women.

Therefore, in order to be appropriate, the two families naturally followed the trend and tentatively set the wedding date for one year later.

Xiao Yan doesn't care even if the wedding date is set for three years from now since his wife is still young and in her current physical condition. After all, even if they get married a year later, he can only watch.

He can't accept such a young age, and his wife certainly can't accept it either. At least they both have to be over 18 years old.

However, because of this reason, the wedding date was set for a year later, which made Xiao Yan very unhappy.

He doesn't care what others do, but sooner or later he will let his wife be free in this world.

Jiang Ningning also felt that the world was full of malice towards her, but fortunately she was engaged and she didn't have to stay in the room anymore.

So she could finally come out of the room and meet her husband openly.

But she still had to pretend. She just glanced at her husband and quickly lowered her head.

Everyone just thought she was shy and laughed.

Only Xiao Yan knew his wife's personality clearly. It was impossible for her to be shy.

Back then, when he confessed his love in his sophomore year, he was so nervous that he couldn't even speak clearly. In the end, his wife couldn't stand it anymore and confessed first.

At this time, many onlookers came in and congratulated the two families.

Several girls surrounded Jiang Ningning, sincerely congratulating her and sharing in her joy.

Some people were too embarrassed to come in because they had gossiped about Jiang Ningning's family in the past, and some had even quarreled with them.

With so many people here to watch the fun, naturally people from Jiang Ningning's uncle's family and third uncle's family couldn't sit still and came to watch as well.

But when they saw so many betrothal gifts, plus an additional three taels of betrothal money, the mouths of the people who came from my uncle's and third uncle's families opened wide in an instant. Some of them even stopped watching the fun and hurried back to their homes, telling their families all the situations here.

Uncle Jiang Changcai immediately kicked over the stool in front of him.

I was so angry that smoke almost came out of my head!

Because of the treatment of Zhu and Jiang Chuchu's injuries in the past two days, their family savings were reduced to just over two taels, but his second brother's family suddenly had three taels, and was directly richer than his family!

How could he not be angry!

Third uncle Jiang Facai was also very angry. When his daughter Jiang Xingxing got married, the betrothal gift was only 400 coins, not to mention the betrothal gifts. There was no wine, no meat, and no goose!

"What should we do, head of the household?" Third Aunt Li was also very unhappy.

The first and third wives have always been better than the second wife. How could she be happy when the second wife suddenly became so good?

"What can we do? Even if they get so much betrothal gifts and betrothal money, it's still not as good as our family!" Jiang Facai felt much more comfortable as soon as he said this.

Jiang Facai continued, "Our fields are all good, but do they have any? We don't know how many years it will take for their fields to become less barren!"

And their dilapidated house might collapse someday, but our house was built less than two years ago!

So what if his future son-in-law is Xiao Yan?

Although Xiao Yan is a scholar, not all scholars can pass the examination to become a scholar!

Xiao Yan was usually polite and could not even say a word. Even so, he still thought that even if he failed to pass the exam, he could still find a good job in the town? He should at least have some tongue!

Besides, when Grandpa Xiao Yan and his brother died, the culprit only paid fifty taels of silver as compensation. Xiao Fushan and Tian Shi are just like us, peasants. How much extra money can they have?

After supporting Xiao Yan's studies for so many years and now giving him so much betrothal gifts and dowry, how could Xiao Yan's family still have money?

Xiao Yan probably won’t be able to go to school next year!"

The more he talked, the more comfortable Jiang Facai felt, and in the end he even burst out laughing.