"Why are you sleeping here?" Xu Ma called out to her, and Huang Xiaoxian woke up in a flash.

The fire had long been extinguished, and Huang Xiaoxian followed Mother Xu into the back room.

Mother Xu asked puzzledly, "What are you going to do?"

Huang Xiaoxian said, "Sleep?"

The woman pointed to the firewood room and said, "Aren't you going to sleep there?"

Huang Xiaoxian glanced back, only to see some straw in the firewood room, and a person's figure appeared on the straw, Huang Xiaoxian asked incomprehensibly: "Why do I sleep there? How cold is it?"

The woman, who claimed to be her mother-in-law, began to look her up and down, and said, "Haven't you slept on it every day these days? You have changed too much, if it weren't for the fact that you look exactly the same, I would have thought that if you were a different person, would wrestling really make people smarter?"

Huang Xiaoxian still didn't understand.

The woman said, "I didn't let you sleep there, you wanted to, and you didn't do anything if I let you into the house." I'm also from a poor family, it's impossible to make things difficult for you, besides, don't call me aunt, it's not called this, my surname is Xu, everyone calls me Granny Xu, but it feels good to hear you call your aunt, come in, the kang here is enough for the two of us to sleep. ”

"Is it just the two of us here?"

"It's spring now, the firewood is almost ready, and two more have been borrowed to the house, from now on, you still go up to the mountain every day to collect firewood for heating and cooking in the white house. ”

Huang Xiaoxian nodded.

"Don't call me aunt, I'm in my forties, you can call me Xu Ma or mother-in-law. She admonished again.

Huang Xiaoxian nodded again.

Granny Xu threw a broken quilt to her, kicking up a puff of dust, and she said, "Let's just leave it, we are not from the house, and there is no good treatment outside." ”

When Huang Xiaoxian looked at it, he saw that there was hardly any furniture inside, except for a large kang, on which there was a cabinet made of wood, and some messy things were placed in it, which seemed to be some old clothes.

Mother Xu lay down, Huang Xiaoxian didn't dare to take off her clothes, she felt that the quilt was too dirty, and there was a musty smell, it seemed that no one had used it for many years, she was not far away from Granny Xu, she asked, "Mother Xu, where are we going to take a bath?"

Huang Xiaoxian felt as if her body was covered with dust, and the cloth on her body was hard, and she didn't know what kind of material the cloth was, which also made her extremely uncomfortable.

"Take a bath? That's a patent for the superior people, we're okay here, we can finally boil some water, but if people know, we won't have a good life,"

"That'...... It seems to be itchy on the body. ”

"Come on, in a few days, the stream on the mountain will be alive, and you will be free to go outside and wash. ”

Huang Xiaoxian rolled her eyes several times in the dark.

"Granny Xu, what dynasty are we?" Huang Xiaoxian couldn't sleep at all, and when she thought of being dirty, she couldn't sleep even more.

"There's something wrong with your brain, we're Qian Chao. ”

"The former dynasty, what the former dynasty, and the later dynasty?"

"It's the money with the surname Qian, our emperor's surname is Qian, of course it's the Qian Dynasty. ”

Huang Xiaoxian was stunned and asked, "What is the front of the money?"

"Huang Dynasty, the emperor's surname at that time was Huang, if you were born in which era, it would be good, and those with the same surname would be reduced by one percent. ”

Huang Xiaoxian was even more confused, she wanted to know that she was at that stage of history, and she didn't seem to understand it.

"Could it be that the Qian Dynasty defeated the Huang Dynasty?" Huang Xiaoxian wondered, if she had gone through two dynasties.

The woman smiled again and said, "The Qian Dynasty has been decades or hundreds of years, and I have only heard of the Huang Dynasty in front. ”

Huang Xiaoxian then understood.

"The eldest son of Baifu is getting married tomorrow, which young lady is he marrying?" Huang Xiaoxian felt that this should be a big deal.

Granny Xu laughed again.

Although life is not easy, Huang Xiaoxian likes Granny Xu's smiling personality.

"I tell you, don't you dare tell the second person. After saying that, she smiled again and added: "Who can listen to you?" hahahaha, it's good to talk to you, even if you really say it, no one will believe it." ”

Huang Xiaoxian didn't smile, she felt that she had to know everything about Baifu, although she was a girl who collected firewood, she had special functions, that is to say, she could run, and she could run when she encountered danger.

She didn't understand why she had crossed over, she had to think about it when she was alone at night, and the top priority now was to know the specific situation of Baifu.

"The Bai family is really not easy, the master is over forty years old this year, although he has eight daughters, but only one son. ”

"Eight...... Eight daughters?" Huang Xiaoxian was stupid, thinking, this is too much, and thinking about it, this is ancient, and it is normal.

"Why only one son?"

"Who said it wasn't, the lord and a few wives were in a hurry, and they had eaten all kinds of home remedies, but they were ...... Now don't talk about sons, not even a pregnant one. ”

"It's okay, if you have a single seedling, you won't have to worry about spreading your leaves. ”

"Everyone thinks so, but don't you know, our family's ninth son is a fool?" said and laughed meaningfully.

"What, fool?" Huang Xiaoxian was stupid again.

Granny Xu said openly: "It's worse than you, you can finally understand us, but this fool basically can't even speak normal words." ”

Huang Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment and asked, "That...... Whose girl is willing to marry him?"

Mother Xu laughed again and said: "In these years, what kind of children's marriage, what kind of personal accidents, the foundation is the most important, especially those who are officials in the court." ”

Huang Xiaoxian was quite philosophical when she heard her speak, so she said admiringly: "Mother Xu, can you actually see such a profound truth?"

"It's not a reason, it's experience, it's old, and the rest is just experience. ”

"Anyway, I don't want to marry such a man. ”

Mother Xu laughed so hard that she almost broke her breath and said, "You want to...... I can't get your turn......" and then laughed uncontrollably.

Huang Xiaoxian looked at her stupidly.

Mother Xu finally laughed enough and said: "Why don't you want to think about it, our lord is a third-grade official in the dynasty, and there are naturally not a few people who stammer, besides, women, as long as they can pass on the ancestry, this is also the most anxious thing for the old lady." ”

"Is there really a catch?"

"Of course, it's not a few, our lord said, don't want the low-grade ones. ”

"Sir...... Isn't there an old lady in the White Mansion?"

Huang Xiaoxian thought about it, the old man is in his forties, then there will definitely be parents.

"The lord of Baifu has a total of three sons, the second in our house, the eldest lord has also been to Sipin before, because I don't know anything, anyway, there is no position now, and the rest is also a big family;

There are the most aunts in our second master's house, all because they don't have a son, eight young ladies and one son;

There is also the third master's family, the old lady likes this son the most, but this son is not angry, he only has five grades in the court, or the credit of the second master of our family, if it weren't for him, he would have been sent out of Beijing a long time ago. ”

Huang Xiaoxian remembered the Dream of Red Mansions, so she asked, "Is the third master's family Ding prosperous?"