sbdcsierra Chapter 1647: The First Day of the New Daughter-in-law
Chapter 1647: The First Day of the New Daughter-in-law
Chapter 1647 The New Daughter-in-law's First Day
The young couple is at the right age and in good health, and their night of love... is pretty crazy!
The next day, the couple got up late.
When Zhao Jun opened his eyes, the eight o'clock morning sunlight was blocked by the curtains, but it made the big red curtains shine.
Although Zhao Jun was an experienced driver in his previous life, this was his first time in this life. The physiological changes made Zhao Jun feel a little dry in the mouth when he just woke up.
As soon as Zhao Jun made the slightest movement, Ma Ling beside him immediately pulled up the quilt and covered her head.
Ma Ling woke up two minutes earlier than Zhao Jun. She didn’t feel anything when it was dark, but she felt embarrassed as soon as the sun rose.
"Wife." Zhao Jun called Ma Ling in a hoarse voice and said, "What shall we eat?"
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, Ma Ling's voice came from the quilt next to him: "You light the stove first, and I'll get up to cook when you're done."
"Oh, okay." Zhao Jun responded, stood up and pulled his clothes over and put them on.
After Zhao Jun got off the kang and went out, Ma Ling got up and put on her clothes after hearing the door close.
A new daughter-in-law is thin-skinned.
When Ma Ling put on her clothes and folded the quilt, she saw the bloodstains on the mattress sheet and her face turned red with shame again.
Ma Ling got up with difficulty, walked to the kang cabinet on the west wall, opened the cabinet that came with her dowry, and took out a blue and white checkered mattress cover.
Ma Ling's dowry was not much. There was no decent dowry in those days. It was just some daily clothes for a girl and some needles and thread.
The four boxes that the Ma family prepared for Ma Ling were all large pine wood boxes, 1.2 meters long, 60 centimeters wide and 40 centimeters high.
The boxes were ironed with two layers of beeswax, making them slightly red. Three of the boxes contained Ma Ling's clothes.
The box that Ma Ling opened was filled with some small items.
There wasn't much stuff in the box, and the same was true for the other three people. After all, these days, normal people don't have too many clothes, and only thick winter jackets and trousers take up a lot of space.
When Ma Ling was about to look for needle and thread in the box, she suddenly saw the money placed at the four corners of the box.
I saw a brand new big unity sticky on each of the four corners of the bottom of the box.
Since receiving the betrothal gift from the Zhao family, the Ma family has been discussing that when Ma Ling gets married, she must give more money for the dowry. Normally, one box is worth one yuan, but in the Ma family's case, one box is worth ten yuan.
This suggestion was put forward by Ma Yang. Ma Dafu agreed without hesitation and Wang Cuihua had no objection to it.
Only Ma Ling was reluctant to let her family spend so much money. However, Ma Dafu and Wang Cuihua said that since Zhao Jun's family had given so much as a betrothal gift, the Ma family could not be underestimated.
I don't know where Ma Dafu got the new money from, but the big unity is a little glued on the four corners of the box. It won't fall off unless you touch it. But as soon as you touch it, the money will be in your hands immediately.
Ma Ling took the dime, but she felt something was wrong with the money. She was slightly startled, and after twisting it with her hand, she was surprised to find that there was not one big unity banknote, but three.
"Huh?" Ma Ling was stunned, thinking that Ma Yang was careless and didn't twist the money apart when he put it in the box. After all, new money is easy to stick together.
Ma Ling thought about it and reached out to take the money on the other corner. When the Ma family pressed the money, they used a small amount of glue, which played a role in slightly fixing it.
As soon as Ma Ling touched it, the money on the corner fell out of the box and scattered.
Also three!
Ma Ling was even more surprised. She picked up the remaining two cents in the box and found that each corner was bet with three Great Unity notes.
Ma Ling quickly opened another box and took out the clothes inside. She saw that at the bottom of the box, there were big unity notes pressed on the four corners. At first glance, they were all one, but when they were taken down, they were all three.
There was also a little glue between the three bills. Even without clothes pressing on them, as long as no one moved them, the bills would stay in the corner of the box.
This shows that the Ma family or Ma Yang was definitely attentive. Because the money for the box deposit was usually put there by the younger brothers and sisters at home. Ma Ling didn't have a younger sister, and Ma Sheng had split up the family, so the money could only have been put there by Ma Yang.
Ten cents and thirty cents a box is one hundred and twenty, and four boxes are four hundred and eighty, which corresponds to the local concept of "stable".
This was the first time in Yong'an that he had received so much dowry. When Zhao Chun got married, Zhao Jun followed the local custom and gave one dollar for every corner of the dowry.
Of course, the Zhao family's conditions were average at that time. If it were now, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan could do anything.
Thinking of her family, Ma Ling's eyes turned red. But this woman was gentle on the outside but strong on the inside, otherwise she wouldn't have fought like that with Zhao Jun in her previous life.
Ma Ling also had enough energy. She sniffed, then stood up and took down the two boxes stacked on top.
Then Ma Ling opened the two boxes underneath, took out the clothes inside, and revealed the money that was pressed inside the boxes.
This time, Ma Ling did not touch the money. She got off the kang, pushed the door open a crack, and called softly, "Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun!"
I don’t know about it in the city these days, but among young couples in rural areas and forest areas, it’s okay for a man to call a woman his wife, but it’s unacceptable for a woman to call a man her husband.
"Hey!" Zhao Jun, who had just finished using the toilet and was carrying firewood into the house, heard Ma Ling calling him. He hurried over and asked as he walked, "What's wrong, wife?"
In the first few days after a man has tasted the sweetness of love, he will be particularly enthusiastic towards his wife.
Not only people are like this, but when Black Tiger and Little Bear were first paired last year, they also followed Little Bear around every day. Such a greedy dog, if there is anything delicious, he would not eat it himself but give it to Little Bear, and the dog became so hungry that he became thinner. He just waited until the excitement wore off, and then he stopped pampering Little Bear.
"Come here!" Ma Ling called Zhao Jun into the house. When Zhao Jun entered the house, he saw a pile of clothes on the kang.
"What's going on?" Zhao Jun asked, but Ma Ling did not answer. Instead, she took Zhao Jun over and let him see the money in the box.
"Ouch!" Zhao Jun thought that the bottom of the box was filled with ten yuan, and laughed, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law are really nice to their daughter!"
Zhao Jun thought Ma Ling was trying to show off to him, but at this moment Ma Ling gently patted Zhao Jun's arm, pointed into the box, and said, "Look at how much money is there?"
"Isn't that ten dollars?" Zhao Jun reached out and took the dime in his hand. He instantly felt that something was wrong with the money.
Zhao Jun was also stunned when he twisted it. He reached out and took another dime, and found that there were also three bills.
"Oh my God!" Zhao Jun looked at Ma Ling in surprise, but saw Ma Ling nodded heavily and took a stack of big unity notes on the pillow next to her.
"One hundred and twenty for a box?" Zhao Jun asked, and Ma Ling nodded heavily in response.
"Then you should keep it, wife." Zhao Jun said to Ma Ling, "This is a gift from our parents to you. You can put it under the box if you don't want it."
In his previous life, when he married Ma Ling, Ma Ling's dowry was only 16 yuan. In the second year of their marriage, Zhao Jun wanted to buy Zhou Chengguo's barrel-mounted gun and a dog to develop a dog gang. Ma Ling gave Zhao Jun the 16 yuan, along with the private money that Ma Dafu had left with her.
There is nothing we can do about it. Most people are short of money these days.
In this life, Zhao Jun has money now, and he will definitely not let his wife touch this money. These new great unity will be kept in the box as a souvenir.
As for the private money of his father-in-law, Zhao Jun knew that it was actually for Ma Ling. It should be said that his father-in-law really loves his daughter.
But Zhao Jun knew that the money was not clean. In order to make his father-in-law live a better life in the future, he decided to find a chance to return the money to his father-in-law.
My family is rich, so I will never let my wife live a tight life.
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Ma Ling smiled and nodded. The money was indeed a gift from her parents, which made Ma Ling very happy and touched.
At this moment, Ma Ling thought of her brother again and said to Zhao Jun, "You said Xiaoyang, he put the money there without telling me."
Ma Ling complained about Ma Yang, but she was actually showing off to Zhao Jun.
"Ah, haha." Zhao Jun smiled when he heard that. Of course he had to agree with Ma Ling at this time.
"How can the younger brother you raised be bad to you?" Zhao Jun said so, and Ma Ling's face immediately broke into a smile.
But the next second, Zhao Jun changed the subject and said, "But Xiaoyang is still the best with me."
"Huh?" Ma Ling was stunned. She stared at Zhao Jun with her bright big eyes, not knowing where Zhao Jun's words came from.
Then, Zhao Jun, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, laughed and said, "My little brother has said that if you are unhappy with me, he will come to deal with you, hahahaha..."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun couldn't help but think of Ma Yang's serious look when he said this yesterday.
Zhao Jun couldn't help laughing, and Ma Ling also laughed. She smiled and patted Zhao Jun twice, saying, "Don't laugh at us!"
"Okay, I won't say any more, haha..." Zhao Jun laughed as he spoke. After Ma Ling rolled her eyes at him, he calmed down a little, then pointed at the clothes on the kang and said, "Wife, pack up these clothes, keep two for now. As for the rest, give them to others and leave them behind."
In the local dialect, "撇" means to throw. For example, when an adult threatens a child, he would say, "If you don't behave, I will throw you into the street (gāi)."
"Ah?" Ma Ling was startled, and then she heard Zhao Jun add: "Let's go to the street in a few days and buy new ones."
"Please forget it." Ma Ling's face changed when she heard that. She quickly picked up a pile of clothes and said, "These are all nice clothes. Why are you leaving them behind?"
Ma Ling said this, and seeing that Zhao Jun didn't agree, she gently pushed Zhao Jun's arm with her hand and said, "In the future, we should live our lives and not spend money carelessly."
"Ah, OK." Zhao Jun agreed casually. It was a good thing, so he didn't have to argue with his wife. Besides, Zhao Jun's mind was not on this at the moment. It was already nine o'clock, and the two of them hadn't had breakfast yet.
"Wife, hurry up and clean up here." Zhao Jun said to Ma Ling, "I'll go check. There are some frozen dumplings in the refrigerator. I'll cook two and we can just make do."
"No, no!" Ma Ling said, grabbing Zhao Jun and saying, "I'm your wife, how can I let you cook?"
At this point, Ma Ling glanced at the clothes on the kang, then pushed Zhao Jun out with her hand and said, "Go to that room and watch TV for a while. I'll cook for you soon."
I don’t know what it’s like in the city these days, but in the countryside and forest areas, it’s women who cook.
Even a chef like Zhao Youcai never cooked at home when his secret fund was raided and his image was still intact.
People say that old traditions are unacceptable, but Zhao Jun feels that some traditions are still good.
"Then I'll light the stove first." Zhao Jun said so. Ma Ling thought about it and nodded, saying, "Okay then."
The Zhao family’s new house has a stove, which can be used to boil water and cook, and is relatively cleaner than burning a stove.
The Zhao family's stove can connect to the fire wall of the two west rooms. When the weather is cold, the stove will burn the fire wall.
When the weather gets hot, insert the baffle and the hot air will go out of the chimney.
As Zhao Jun was walking out, he heard Ma Ling ask, "Isn't our mother able to come for a while?"
Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this, but he soon understood what Ma Ling meant and said with a smile, "Mom went to the township meeting today, right? I guess if she comes, she will come in the afternoon."
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Ma Ling subconsciously glanced at the money in her hand, and then said hesitantly: "Mom...can you think about it more?"
The Zhao family did not move in, leaving the new house to the young couple to live in their own world so that they can complete the important mission entrusted to them by their family and history as soon as possible.
But Wang Meilan had to come over today, and she came for no other reason than to get Ma Ling's dowry.
The dowry money is the money for the dowry, and this custom exists in many places.
In Yong'an, it is important to pay attention to how much money the daughter-in-law brings as a dowry, and the husband's family will also put the same amount of money in the box.
Just now Zhao Jun said that Wang Meilan would come over today to give some dowry money to the new bride.
Ma Ling was worried that Wang Meilan would think too much because her parents gave her too much. Her parents gave her 480 yuan, so Wang Meilan had to give 480 yuan too.
Zhao Jun knew what Ma Ling was worried about, so he smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's okay, don't worry, our mother doesn't worry about anything."
When Zhao Jun spoke, he looked at Ma Ling with a smile in his eyes. His wife was still naive. If they were a couple who were separating, the dowry money given by her in-laws could still be kept.
But if the family is not divided, whether the money can remain in the hands of the new daughter-in-law depends on the people in her husband's family.
Of course, Wang Meilan would definitely not be thinking about the two dollars. If she was happy, she could just give Ma Ling two dollars at will, maybe even more than this.
From the 480 yuan dowry, Zhao Jun saw the love and attention that the Ma family showed to Ma Ling.
The Ma family gave so much dowry as a gift, firstly to support their daughter, and secondly to support their daughter.
When the two families exchanged gifts, the Zhao family gave a dowry that was considered a sky-high price in the area.
After the Ma family received the betrothal gift, they gave back a sky-high amount of dowry money, asking their daughter to bring back the extra part of the betrothal gift.
They thought that if they did this, their in-laws would look up to their daughter. Ma Ling also had confidence in her in-laws, which was called "righteousness" in the local dialect.
Ma Ling hadn't thought of this, and Zhao Jun didn't plan to tell her. Because Zhao Jun knew Ma Ling's character, if he told her, no matter it was given by her parents or her husband's family, Ma Ling would definitely give it all to Wang Meilan.
In their previous life, the couple somehow came to the point where they hated each other. But now, Zhao Jun looked at his wife and found her more and more precious.
I owe you another chapter update. I'll make it up before 6pm.