Chapter 633: How is 633 handled?
In accordance with tradition, on the night before the wedding, two children had to be found to press down the bridal bed, symbolizing the early arrival of a precious child.
However, the children in the village who were of age were all too dirty. Nowadays, the conditions in the households had changed, and the children were naturally cleaner. They never lacked clothing, changing every three days, something that those who wouldn’t change their clothes even once throughout the winter could not compare to.
Thus, Mrs. He was afraid the children pressing the bed would dirty the new bedding, and she could only instruct her staff to bathe the children and change their clothes before sending them to press the bed.
Being able to receive a new piece of clothing for free naturally made the children’s families happy.
At this time, after clarifying the situation, Mrs. He explained, "This silver was in your child’s pocket when he came last night."
"How is that possible?" the woman didn’t believe it. She knew her own family’s situation well enough to be certain they couldn’t have that much silver, let alone to put it in a child’s pocket.
Thinking this, the woman hurriedly asked the child standing in front of her, and thus came to a conclusion.
As it turned out, someone had asked for directions yesterday and then given the child something. The child, never having seen silver before, didn’t know what it was and had absentmindedly stuffed it into his pocket.
Knowing that the person had been inquiring about Ye Jiu’s household, the woman couldn’t help but look awkwardly towards Mrs. He, "Auntie, what do you think about this..."
Since the person was just asking for directions, in principle, they shouldn’t accept the silver. Therefore, since the person was a guest of the Ye Family, they naturally had to ask the Ye Family members what to do.