Chapter 968: Honor in Troubled Times 36
In the big kitchen at home, Xu is cooking.
She was steaming rice to make a big pot of dishes, and An Ning took a few children to the small kitchen to stir-fry.
She cooks in a variety of ways in order to teach the children how to cook.
The children are still young and have no qualification, so An Ning wants them to learn more things, no matter what they can learn, they will not suffer.
The girls are also willing to learn, and they are quite motivated.
An Ning watched them steam the fish and fry several dishes, so Xiao Yin asked Xiao Yin to ask Xiao Yuan to eat.
During the meal, An Ning told Xiao Yuan about the old lady.
The children in the family listened, but none of them spoke.
Xiao Yuan thought for a while: "When you go back, you take two taels of silver and send it to the big house." ”
An Ning nodded: "Okay, I see." ”
An Ning took out a golden hairpin inlaid with gems: "You exchange this for money tomorrow, our family has not made it during this time, and the expenses outside the home are not small, first take this for money for a period of time, and when the wheat is harvested, we don't have to buy grain." ”
Xiao Yuan put the hairpin on his body: "Tomorrow I will take the fourth and sixth children to the beach, and you will guard the house." ”
An Ning looked at Xiao Song: "It's okay, how many children are there, nothing happens at home." ”
Several boys subconsciously puffed up their chests: "Dad, with us, others don't dare to bully our family." ”
Xiao Yuan smiled and sandwiched dishes for several children: "Okay, they are all young men, you must protect your mother and sisters when your father is not in the future, at home, you really have to rely on you in the future." ”
The boy was complimented, but he only felt that he was an adult, and he was more ambitious to protect his family.
Xiao Yuan got up early the next morning and left with Xiao Jin and Xiao Ling.
Xiao Song and Xiao Hui also went out early.
An Ning didn't go to the big house, but took two taels of silver and asked Xiao Ying to send it.
When Xiao Ying came back, her face was very ugly.
An Ning asked him what was wrong, Xiao Ying said hatefully: "The eldest aunt scolded us, saying that the mother was stingy, so she only sent two taels of silver, saying that two taels of silver is enough to do something, and also said that the father is not filial, and he only knows that he listens to his daughter-in-law, and he is a coward." ”
An Ning was also sullen when she heard this.
The Zhao family is getting more and more confused now.
Earlier, when she was in the Pingguo Mansion, she behaved quite well for the sake of face, at least she wouldn't scold people so much, but since she came to Nanyi, the Zhao family has become more and more splashed day by day, and day by day it is becoming more and more superb.
An Ning thought, this is fortunate to be separated, if you live in a courtyard, you will have to get angry and sick when you meet someone like Zhao.
"Okay, she said her, let's just have a clear conscience. ”
An Ning touched Xiao Ying's head: "You hurry back to the house to write, your father has assigned you ten big characters, and I have to finish it today." ”
Xiao Ying agreed, and An Ning said: "Call your younger brothers, and you will teach them to read and write today." ”
Xiao Ying went to call Xiao Bai to his house to write, while An Ning went to take care of the housework, and by the way, he closed the door in his room and made some pills.
Xiao Yin and Xiao Fu also worked in the house.
Xiao Fu took Xiao Yun to do needlework, while Xiao Yin played with Xiao Yi.
When the two of them were tired of playing, they grabbed the snacks on the table and ate them.
The two of them were just having a good time when they heard a noise in the distance.
Xiao Yin hurriedly ran out, and Xiao Yi also ran out.
When they went out, they saw An Ning also walking outside.
When the three men went out of the house, they saw a number of women walking toward the house of the big house.
"What's going on?"
An Ning grabbed a sister-in-law and asked.
The woman smiled and said, "Everyone is going to see the excitement, I heard that there is a commotion in your fifth room, it seems that the concubine of your family has beaten both of them." ”
An Ning was stunned for a moment: "How did you say this?"
"I don't know yet, isn't that just what I want to see? ”
The woman smiled and said to An Ning, and then walked towards the big room with her friends.
Xiao Yin pulled Xiao Yi and An Ning and said, "Mother, let's go and take a look." ”
An Ning didn't stop him, and waved his hand: "You two be careful, don't go for too long, you'll have to eat later." ”
"Got it. ”
Xiao Yin dragged Xiao Yi away without a trace.
An Ning shook her head and smiled, went back to make the pills and went to the front yard to clean up the classroom.
By noon, Xiao Yin and Xiao Yi would come back.
An Ning had already taken Xiao Fu to set up a meal, and when she saw that the two sweaty girls were back, she hurriedly asked them to wipe the sweat first, and then go to the brazier to warm up before starting the meal.
Xiao Yin and Xiao Yi waited to bake the clothes on their bodies not so cold, so they sat down at the dinner table, Xiao Yin was not in a hurry to eat, she opened her mouth and told the matter loudly.
It turned out that the reason why Xiao Fang, who was in the fifth room, accepted a concubine was also because he wanted someone to help him work, firstly, he disliked the Jin family, and secondly, the Jin family really couldn't do any work.
But the women here in Nanyi are different, the women here can not only do housework, but some are strong and can even do work in the fields.
Xiao Fang had this idea in mind, and paid a lot of money to take a concubine back.
The concubine he accepted was a little taller than the men, and she was very stout, but her appearance was not ugly, and her facial features were quite delicate.
This woman's surname is Lan, and she is the fourth in her mother's family, known as Fourth Sister Lan.
Fourth Sister Lan looks rough and stupid, and she doesn't like to talk much in front of outsiders, but in fact, she is a calculating person in her heart.
It's just that no matter how much she calculates, her mother's family is poor, and she gave birth to several girls, and finally gave birth to a boy, in order to build a new house for her brother, her mother took a high dowry and sold her.
Fourth Sister Lan is not unwilling, anyway, where is she alive, life in the Xiao family is better than in her mother's family.
After she came, Xiao Fang treated her quite well, anyway, she was warmed and fed, that is, she worked a little more, but Fourth Sister Lan had a lot of strength and was not afraid of work.
In this way, she didn't have long to be at Xiao's house, but she won Xiao Fang's heart.
Xiao Fang disliked the Jin family's dirty body, never went to the Jin family's house, and always stayed at the fourth sister Lan.
Xiao Fang is good to Fourth Sister Lan, but the Jin family grits her teeth with hatred for Fourth Sister Lan, the Jin family has small calculations and some wrists, she stumbles on Fourth Sister Lan from time to time, Fourth Sister Lan doesn't understand, she really didn't understand it at the beginning, and she saw it later.
She told Xiao Fang about these things, but Xiao Fang didn't call the shots for her, but asked her to put up with the Jin family.
No matter what, the Jin family gave birth to a son to Xiao Fang, and it was also the daughter-in-law he was marrying, he couldn't see it as true, but he didn't plan to divorce the Jin family.
The main thing is that Xiao Fang doesn't look down on the women on Nanyi's side, and if he divorces the Jin family, he will have to marry a Nanyi woman as his wife, so it is better to let the Jin family occupy the position of the main wife.
Fourth Sister Lan was angry when she saw that Xiao Fang didn't call the shots for her, and her heart was uncomfortable.
A few days after this kind of day, the Jin family put some medicine in the food of Fourth Sister Lan to weaken her body, and the result was that Fourth Sister Lan saw it.
The main reason is that when Sister Lan was young, she often followed an old doctor to the mountain to pick herbs, and she learned a lot of pharmacological knowledge from the old doctor.
Her nose is very smart, and she can smell a lot of medicine.
Jin's method of drugging Fourth Sister Lan was rough, so he directly put the medicine into her porridge, and Fourth Sister Lan couldn't eat it.
When she ate it, she dropped the bowl immediately, and then she had a quarrel with the Jin family, Xiao Fang happened to see it, so she said a few words to Fourth Sister Lan, saying that she was just a concubine, and the Xiao family couldn't tolerate her presumptuousness.
Fourth Sister Lan is so angry.
At the moment, I don't care what concubines, what wives and concubines, I just beat Xiao Fang and his wife, and the two who beat him cried and called his mother.
That's not all, the fourth sister Lan ran out and made a fuss, scolding and shouting in her mouth, saying that the fifth child of the Xiao family was not a person, she lied to her, and clamored for someone to call the shots for her.
She is not ashamed, starting from the fact that the Jin family was dirty, and then to the stumbling block that the Jin family gave her, and then to Xiao Fang being a coward, anyway, she scolded everyone all over again.
When Fourth Sister Lan was in her mother's house, she often used shrews to scold the street, and she also learned a lot of tricks, so she sat on the ground, no matter how dirty the ground was, rolled a muddy ball, and even rolled and sprinkled, until the ancestor of the Xiao family, anyway, there was nothing in her mouth that she didn't dare to scold.
Xiao was not angry, so he reprimanded Fourth Sister Lan in the past, and told her to hold down and beat her.
Xiao Yin sat on the chair and dangled her two little short legs, and vividly said to An Ning what she saw in the big room: "Mother, didn't you see it, the fifth uncle asked Fourth Sister Lan to knock him down with one punch, and the fifth aunt let Fourth Sister Lan catch her on her face, I think it's broken......"
An Ning smiled and gave Xiao Yin some dishes: "I know, hurry up and eat your meal." ”