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Chapter 19 Marriage

A year has passed, and the village is still the same small village, with almost no changes. Although the weather has not yet completely dark, more than a dozen bowls of oil lamps have been lit in my yard.

The living conditions of the Yang family are pretty good, but the people in the village live a simple holiday. On weekdays, they refuse to light the lights until dark, and they will rest early to save the lamp oil.

If you light the oil lamp early like today, there must be something at home. Yang Yulong can guess it without thinking. It must be the marriage of his sister. Marriage is a big deal in any family, especially when marrying a daughter, the equipment at home is often several times more than marrying a daughter-in-law. I hope that the daughter will suffer less after getting married.

The first person to see Yang Yulong was his younger sister Yang Xue. Yang Xue was two years younger than him and was already fifteen this year. As a girl from the Naxi tribe, she has already taken on the heavy responsibility of the family since she was ten years old. The Yang family has a good living conditions, so Yang Xue’s burden is not heavy. It is much easier than Luo Lijiang, but she also has to work in the snow-capped mountains every day.

When my sister got married, the busiest people in the family were her and her mother. Preparing dowry, sewing quilts, and preparing banquets were all mothers and daughters’ work. Fortunately, the women in the village helped, although they were busy, they were arranged in an orderly manner.

The most leisurely day of a Naxi woman in her life is counting the half month before and after getting married. During this half month, Yang Yulong's sister Yang Mei didn't have to do anything. She sat cross-legged on the kang every day, living a life of clothes and food opening.

It sounds very leisurely, but in fact, such a life is not easy. I am used to working, but suddenly I feel idle and feel uncomfortable all over. Moreover, sitting cross-legged on the kang is also a matter of being a blessing. Putting a red cloth the size of a palm on the kang, the butt cannot leave the red cloth.

In addition to going to the toilet and sleeping, I have to sit on the red cloth all day long. The fewer I go to the toilet, the more I will be in the future. After marrying, my in-laws will also become more interested in this daughter-in-law.

"Brother? Is it you?" Yang Xue put down the shoulder pole on her shoulder, and the wooden barrels at both ends were filled with half-melted snow water. Yang's yard has its own well, so she doesn't need to go out to fetch water when she gets water.

There are some special things to use for wedding banquets. You cannot use ordinary clear water. Instead, you must use the snow water melted from the snow on the sacred mountain to show purity and flawlessness. In banquets, there are usually only about ten tables, but the snow melt water required must be at least about a hundred barrels. The village is not close to the snow mountain, and it is the limit to be able to make ten barrels of water a day.

The family's sucking cow was busy with other tasks. She had to send the dowry with a relatively heavy weight to the man's house before her sister got married. Otherwise, she would not have to choose such heavy physical work by herself.

"It's me, is it tomorrow for my sister to get married? Fortunately, I caught up." Yang Yulong breathed a sigh of relief. He just knew that his sister would get married before the end of the year, at least one day, and I really didn't know. Looking at the busy crowd in the yard and the snow water that Yang Xue picked, it seemed that it was something that happened in the past two days.

"It's the day after tomorrow." Yang Xue smiled. She worked on the snow mountain all year round, and her little face was a little dark. This skin color can be said to be a symbol of Naxi women. Naxi people's aesthetic taste for women is also unique. The darker the woman means that the more capable the woman is, and naturally the more beautiful she is.

Yang Xue's expression was calm, and she didn't look very excited when she saw her brother. Anyway, the Naxi man would not help with these tasks regardless of whether he was at home or not. Her eyes were staring at the skateboard under Yang Yulong's feet. This was a good thing. With a small village as the center, there was no second one within a few hundred miles, or the entire Naxi tribe, which was also the only one.

This thing is not loaded with high weight, and it is really barely enough to use it as a means of transportation. It is far less lucky than using a cattle to consume it. It is more like a toy, but it requires a six-leaf bluestone fruit. The four-leaf bluestone fruit can be exchanged for a hundred bags of food. How much can six-leaf can be exchanged? Yang Xue’s little head doesn’t understand at all.

A spendthrift like my brother, I actually exchanged a six-leaf bluestone fruit for a toy that is useless. I am afraid no one can do this except my brother.

Although this thing is not very useful, it is fast after all, and it is flying, and the load is not high. It is definitely no problem to put four buckets of snow water. If she has this thing, she can carry at least fifty buckets of snow water a day.

"Brother, can you lend me your skateboard these days?" Yang Xue couldn't bear the temptation and asked.

"Of course, what's wrong with this?" He said that, he jumped off the skateboard, stuffed it to Yang Xue, picked up two buckets of water, and walked into the yard. Although the mental power was not of great use in this year's training, his strength increased several times.

Men in Naxi rarely work, drink tea and drink wine when they have nothing to do. When it comes to writing and painting, they can be said that they cannot hold hands or shoulders. Compared with men of the three tribes of Nagan, Nazhi and Nano, their physique is much worse. These two buckets of water are said to be heavy, and they also weigh sixty or seventy kilograms. Yang Xue, who is used to doing work, will be tired and weak after carrying it for more than ten miles. However, Yang Yulong is particularly relaxed to pick it up and almost doesn't feel any weight.

He held the skateboard in his arms, feeling indescribable. He had long forgotten the two buckets of snow water. It took him five minutes to wake up, and the bucket had long disappeared.

He sent two buckets of water to the backyard and Yang Yulong returned to the main house. This place is usually the residence of his parents, and these days it is used to give his sister the bayberry to sit for blessings. The big bowl of butter lamp is long and will last for fifteen days, symbolizing that it will never be extinguished and that it will last for generations. The same lamp is lit at the man's house, and it will be extinguished for fifteen days until the third day after marriage.

My family was not worried when they knew that their son was going to study Gebawen. On the Naxi Star, they were always quiet and peaceful, and they rarely heard of fighting, let alone killing people. Although there were mostly mountainous areas around, there were few beasts, so there was no need to worry about safety at all. But I didn’t expect that Yang Yulong had been away for a year.

With the relationship between the Luo family and the Yang family, the Yang family is naturally going to help. The main force is Luo Lijiang, a 16-year-old girl, who is already the pillar of the family, and she will definitely marry into the Yang family in the future, so she can't even help.

As for life at home, there is no need to worry about it. Although she is the only laborer at home, with the bluestone fruit produced by Kanda, there is no need to worry about the food problems of the Luo family.

Although there were forty-five pieces of Kantian, she didn't move the top six layers at all. She only took bluestone fruits below three leaves, and could not finish the food she exchanged for two years.

During this year, Luo Lijiang has been there three times, and the four-leaf bluestone fruit has been harvested three times, and the five-leaf bluestone fruit has been harvested one time. It is the six-leaf bluestone fruit that is about to mature. The seven-leaf bluestone fruit was used up by Yang Yulong last year, so he wanted to harvest it until next year. However, the eight-leaf bluestone fruit has matured and has harvested two. As for the top Kantian, the eight-leaf bluestone fruit has grown its eighth leaf. As for when it will become the ninth leaf, even Yang Yulong doesn’t know, so he can only wait slowly.

Compared to the harvest of Kandaaka, the Luo family's life can only be considered poor. If Lijiang is willing, taking out a few four-leaf bluestone fruits will be enough to make the Luo family's life extremely prosperous.

In her heart, Kanda belongs to Yang Yulong, and naturally to the Yang family. She took some three-leaf bluestone fruits herself. Although Yang Yulong didn't care, she always felt that she had taken advantage of the Yang family.

The eighteen four leaves, five leaves, two eight leaves, and three leaves are even more. Luo Lijiang carefully collected them. Fortunately, the bluestone fruits can be picked and stored for a long time, so there is no need to worry about rotting, otherwise she really doesn't know how to deal with these precious things.

After not seeing each other for a year, Luo Lijiang has grown a little taller. As the time for going up the mountain has been shortened a lot, her face turned a little whiter than before. She was wary of this. She should not be too lazy and hate work just because of the Kantian. Gods hate those people who like to get something for nothing the most.

After her elder sister's wedding and the New Year, she plans to go to the snow mountain to find more magical stones and collect more snow banyan liquid. Although the family is not short of food, people must not become lazy. Otherwise, even if the Yang family members watch her grow up, they will become dislike her.

During this year, the one who missed Yang Yulong the most was not his parents or sisters, but Luo Lijiang, who had taken on the heavy responsibility of the family since childhood. Whenever he saw the rice jars in his home, he would miss Yang Yulong more.

I thought to myself, but I never said it. Although men do not need to work, their knowledge is also necessary. If the men at home only know how to work but have no knowledge, they will be looked down upon. Yang Yulong went to learn Gebawen. Who knows Gebawen in the whole village? She will only be proud of her beloved. Even if she waits for a long time, she will wait and bury her longing deeply in her heart.

Not long after Yang Yulong came in, Luo Lijiang walked into the room with dinner. Before the wedding, the bayberry was not allowed to go to the ground, and all the food was cooked by relatives. Almost all the work was done by Luo Lijiang.

"Brother Long... is it you?" Yang Yulong's appearance has changed a lot, but even Yang Xue can recognize her, so how can she not recognize her?

Fortunately, Yang Yulong's mother was busy by the kang and reached out to catch the tray. Luo Lijiang was in a state of great excitement and had already become weak and could not hold the tray in his hand.

"It's me." Yang Yulong turned around and hugged Luo Lijiang. He had been separated for a year. During training, he had no intention of thinking about anything else, but when he returned home, he felt that he missed his relatives even more.

After a year of separation, the whole family had endless things to say. In front of Chang Ming's oil lamp, the whole family didn't sleep all night. Luo Lijiang didn't talk much, and looked at Yang Yulong with affectionate eyes, which made her particularly satisfied.

The next morning, everyone got busy again. Although Naxi men didn't have to work, marrying a daughter was extremely cumbersome. Within the scope of their ability, Yang Yulong's father would reach out to help. Yang Yulong is now in a strong and busy manner.
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