Chapter 1011

In this era, it was still very conservative. Generally speaking, for two people who were engaged, the woman would be picked up by the man to live in the man's house for a period of time during the first lunar month of each year.

And the purpose of doing this is actually to let the man and woman communicate more, so as to increase the feelings between them.

However, the "living" mentioned here does not mean the man and woman living in the same bed; it just means the woman living in the man's house.

Besides this, the woman generally would not take the initiative to go to the man's house.

Normally speaking, before the two got married, meetings were always the man going to the woman's house.

So at this time, Li Xiuyu's behavior, if seen by those who love to gossip, would lead them to talk behind her back, saying things like this girl is "not deep" or "shameless" and other ugly words.

Loving to gossip means "liking to spread rumors," but gossiping is more serious in degree than "rumors."

And "not deep" here means "not reserved."

Of course, as time passed, this kind of talk was taken less and less seriously, and by later generations, these sayings became dross.

Seeing Wang An enter the courtyard, Wang Li and Li Xiuyu immediately stood up, and the young couple said almost simultaneously:

"Fourth Brother is here?"

Wang An nodded upon hearing this, and then smiled and said to Li Xiuyu:

"Xiuyu, when did you come over? Why didn't you go to my house to chat with your sister-in-law?"

Li Xiuyu had completely recovered from her father's sudden death and her family being forced by loan sharks. Hearing Wang An's question, Li Xiuyu smiled sweetly and said:

"I was thinking of going after I finished drying the mushrooms."

Li Xiuyu and Mu Xueqing were originally from the same village, so for Li Xiuyu, seeing Mu Xueqing could barely be considered seeing her own family.

Wang An nodded again and smiled:

"Yeah, it just so happens that your sister-in-law is heavy and can't go out, and it's quite boring at home. It's really good for you to go over and chat with her."

The reason Wang An said this is because last month, Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli, the young sisters, both started school.

Of course, there was also Wang Li's younger sister, Wang Xiaorong, and Mu Xueli's younger sister, Mu Xueting; both of them also started school.

However, because the primary school in Kaoshan Village hadn't been built yet, the three young sisters of the Wang family went to the township primary school, while Mu Xueting went to the primary school in their village.

In this era, schooling followed the principle of proximity; no one would consider problems like teaching quality.

So for the past month or so, when Wang An went to train during the day, except for Zhao Cuiyun and Shen Wei who would be at Wang An's house when working, Mu Xueqing was alone at home the rest of the time.

As for Wang Dazhu and his wife, they were either digging wild vegetables or picking mushrooms all day, and were generally not at home.

When Li Xiuyu heard Wang An say that Mu Xueqing was bored at home, she immediately said:

"Then I'll go find my sister-in-law to stay for a while now; I miss my sister-in-law too."

Turning her head, Li Xiuyu said to Wang Li:

"Then I'm going to find my sister-in-law; you chat with Fourth Brother."

Wang Li nodded, saying with a face full of attachment:

"Yeah, I'll come pick you up before dinner."

As she spoke, Li Xiuyu walked out of the courtyard.

Li Xiuyu had already left the courtyard, but Wang Li was still looking, so Wang An said to Wang Li with annoyance:

"Look at your useless appearance; do you want to tie her to your body? You useless thing."

As he spoke, Wang An also gave Wang Li a fierce look with his eyelids.

I have to say, Wang Li's performance was truly a bit too embarrassing. It's best to use that term from later generations to describe Wang Li most aptly, and that is "dead simp"!

That's right, a dead simp, and a dead simp stuck deep in the mud of love.

Wang Li blushed upon hearing this, scratched his head very embarrassedly, and said:

"I don't know what's going on either; I'm like this as soon as I see Xiuyu, and I'm not like this when I don't see her."

Wang An didn't even look at Wang Li, and said with great disdain:

"Just stop your nonsense. What kind of character you have, don't I know? You useless thing, with that useless look."

As he spoke, Wang An took out the carved gold cake and handed it to Wang Li, and said again:

"I melted those 6-plus jin of gold fragments. We ten people each get 6 liang. I made 10 plaques, one for each of us ten. This one is yours."

Wang Li hadn't reacted from being scolded yet. Seeing the gold cake Wang An handed over, he said in a daze:

"Extra? When did it become extra? Why don't I know?"

Wang An said with a speechless face upon hearing this:

"You should think less about Li Xiuyu. Is your whole head filled with nothing but Li Xiuyu?"

Seeing Wang Li still looking confused, Wang An explained helplessly:

"When we picked people's pockets, didn't we put all those scattered gold pieces with me? And that little bit of stuff couldn't be divided, so it hasn't been divided until now."

Explaining up to here, Wang An was too lazy to explain, so he directly stuffed the gold cake into Wang Li's hand and said again:

"Alright, take it if I give it to you. This can be considered a souvenir of our ten people acting together."

Wang Li thought for a long time before remembering what was going on, and then Wang Li looked at the gold cake in his hand and said very generously:

"Oh, I know now. Why divide that little bit of stuff? You should just keep it yourself."

As he spoke, Wang Li even wanted to return the gold cake to Wang An.

I have to say, people with gold are truly different. 6 liang, which is a full 300 grams of gold, can be ignored. Tell me, where can you reason with this?

Wang An said while walking towards the back garden of Wang Li's house:

"Take what is yours. Could I take such small advantages? By the way, aren't the muskmelons in your garden ripe? Take me to pick a few; I'll take them home later."

Muskmelon is just a fragrant melon, but the local name is different.

Wang Li followed behind Wang An, looking at the gold cake in his hand, and asked in surprise:

"Fourth Brother, did you carve this eagle? This eagle is really beautiful, just like a real one. Fourth Brother, you have this skill too?"

Wang An was very happy to hear this, and immediately showed off:

"That must be carved by me. Your Fourth Brother has many skills; this is just the beginning."

Who knew that after Wang An finished speaking, Wang Li said with great longing:

"Fourth Brother, teach me? I want to learn too."

Wang An knew what Wang Li was thinking as soon as he heard this, and looked at Wang Li sideways:

"What? Do you want to learn to carve something for Li Xiuyu?"

Having his thoughts poked, Wang Li smiled awkwardly and didn't speak, but Wang An said again:

"Teaching you is fine, but gold can't be exposed right now. Wait a few years until the authorities are a bit looser, then you can ponder carving."

Wang An remembered that starting from next year, that is, 1982, gold jewelry could be sold with restrictions and conditions.

As for now, it's better to be honest.

Thanks to "Empire Emperor" for the reward, thank you, thank you!

Wish you, big brother, a smooth journey and everything goes well!

(End of chapter)