Chapter 15: The Past (8)

Seeing that Yuexiang had been a teacher, she was familiar with teaching children to write, and the only thing she had some concerns about was that Jiang Wen would have an opinion on it.

Taking advantage of Jiang Wen's absence in these three days, after finishing his work every day, seeing Yuexiang would go to Wang Dahua's house with a lamp to teach her two children a while to write for half an hour to an hour, so Yuexiang slept later.

I can only sleep four or five hours a day, but I didn't expect to be in better spirits after getting up in the morning, and I don't know when it will be better after a few days of burning.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, just after breakfast, Jiang Wen went home with his hands copied.

Seeing that Yuexiang was still washing dishes, Jiang Wen dragged Yuexiang to the back room, raised his voice and shouted at Liu Fang who was sitting in the hall: "Mom, you don't wash the dishes or cook them, you are idle all day!"

Liu Fang was so angry that he stood up: "Hey, what you said, Yuexiang has married into the door, isn't it time for me to enjoy the blessings?

"Mom, Jiang Wen didn't mean that, don't move the bowl, wait for me to wash it later. Seeing that Yuexiang was pulled into the house, she hurriedly spoke.

With a bang, the door closed, and Jiang Wen pulled Mizukika to the center of the room.

"What are you doing?" "Seeing Yuexiang wiped the water on her hand and put it on the tied apron, "Is there anything you can't say outside?"

Jiang Wen lowered his head slightly and looked at Yuexiang's face, seeing her wipe her hands so casually, his brows furrowed, and he let out a vague "tsk" in his mouth.

Seeing Yuexiang, she reacted immediately, untied her apron, and put it on the table.

She was wearing the most common women's clothes in Qingchuan, with a white half-sleeved plaid shirt on top, but the common cargo pants on the lower body were replaced by brown over-the-knee skirts.

Jiang Wen shook his head, thinking that he was dissatisfied with what she was wearing, but he didn't say anything more, but said softly with a frowning brow: "I know you want to make friends, but what can you and Tan Pork's daughter-in-law have in common?"

"I will take you to a place on Friday afternoon, and all you can go to are our famous poets and painters in Qingchuan, and you will definitely make friends there. Jiang Wen smiled and continued, "But you have to prepare well for this dress, you can't go out to meet people like this." ”

Jiang Wen looked up and down to see Yuexiang: "What did you bring from Shanghai to wear? Do you have a cheongsam? I remember that you look very good in a cheongsam." ”

Now it is fashionable to wear cheongsam, and Jiang Wen was not allowed to see Yuexiang with a dowry at that time, so she only took three sets of dresses that she carried on the road to change and wash, thinking about one place and one custom, and waited until she arrived in Qingchuan and then went to the tailor shop to make two sets according to the local fashionable style.

Seeing Yuexiang shaking her head, Jiang Wen took out some money from his pocket: "Then go do it, I remember that you brought two good horses." ”

Seeing that the material brought by Yuexiang was only the piece that was ripped off by Liu Fang at the beginning.

As soon as he handed the money into the hands of Jian Yuexiang, Jiang Wen took it back: "Why don't I go with you, let's go to the tailor shop now." ”

Seeing that Yuexiang didn't say anything, she turned out the piece of material from the box.

On the green and dark silk of the gray lake, there are fine gold moirés, which are very soft and smooth to the touch, but they are very suitable for making cheongsam.

Out of the back room, seeing that Yuexiang said that she would go to the back to wash the dishes soaked in the pot before going out, seeing Jiang Wen's face sinking again, seeing Yuexiang hurriedly explained: "I have promised my mother just now, I have to do what I say, don't you?" Besides, I washed very quickly, and I couldn't delay any time. ”

"What is said and done, it is all a family, who washes it or not?" Jiang Wen was dissatisfied, "What's more, my mother is idle and idle......"

"Don't say it!" Seeing Yuexiang seeing Liu Fang shouting again, after letting out a low voice, she had already broken free of Jiang Wen's hand and hurriedly ran to the back stove room.

The dishwashing sink is made in the corner of the narrow aisle next to the stove, and there is no light on it, and the underground ditch is shallow dug, and the water cannot be drained all year round, and the dark and damp is full of greasy stains.

Seeing that Yuexiang couldn't get down when she first came, she always felt that there would be cockroaches and mice crawling over her instep when she stood there washing dishes in the dark, so she didn't bother to wash dishes and laundry before and moved to the yard to do it. Then she spent the whole day cleaning the sink, and although it was still dark and damp, it looked much more comfortable, at least not the scalp-numbing cockroaches and rats.

Seeing Yuexiang's quick movements, she washed the dishes in three or two times, and rubbed her apron, so she went out with Jiang Wen.

As soon as they left, there was a knock at the door.

"Lose three and four. Liu Fang thought that Jiang Wen and the others had forgotten something, and scolded again, "If you have a key, you don't need it, I have to run for you to be comfortable!"

As he spoke, he got up and ran to open the door, but as soon as the door opened, it was Wang Dahua standing outside.

Liu Fang was scolded by Wang Dahua last time, and since then she has remembered it in her heart, she has seen Wang Dahua outside several times, Liu Fang has rolled her eyes, Wang Dahua is also interesting, and she always quickly avoided Liu Fang when she saw her from a distance, and the two never scolded again.

But this time, this Wang Dahua was actually sent to the door.

"Ouch, who should I be, isn't this the daughter-in-law of the Tan family with a small mouth!" Liu Fang didn't have a good face, "What, you came here today to come to see me, the old lady Diao who has done all the bad things?"

Wang Dahua grinned: "Yuexiang's mother, why do you still hold a grudge?"

Wang Dahua moved the jar in his arms forward: "Yuexiang, I'm here to deliver mash to you, don't hit the smiling person with this hand, don't remember that file!"

"Yuexiang went out. Liu Fang's eyes turned around the earthen jar, "What kind of mash did you send to our family for no reason?"

"Why is it for no reason?" Wang Dahua saw that Yuexiang was not there, so he sent the jar to Liu Fang's hand, "I can thank your Yuexiang so much, Yuexiang's mother, you really found a good daughter-in-law!"

Liu Fang took the jar in a daze, and as soon as she held it firmly, a smell of rice wine wafted out from the mouth of the altar covered with oil paper.

Liu Fang loves to eat this bite, but she has no skills, and she did it a few times when she was young, but she always didn't succeed, not because it was too sour, it was all wine, and then she never did it again.

"Your moon fragrance is really good, people are beautiful, gentle and gentle, and literacy can read, these days, teach my two rotten egg boys every night, the older one even recited poems yesterday!" Wang Dahua admired and yearned for Yuexiang from the bottom of his heart, and his expression naturally revealed a sense of admiration.

Liu Fang couldn't help but be a little complacent when she saw Wang Dahua's appearance, and thought about it, back and forth in a few alleys, which daughter-in-law is like her own moon fragrance, not to mention, this is neat and careful, and the home is properly arranged inside and out, clean and clean, pleasing to the eye when you look at it, and knowledge, you have studied and know how to read, and this alone can surpass how many women in Qingchuan.

"What is it to be able to read and write, our Yuexiang can also draw!" Liu Fang couldn't help but praise, "I heard Jiang Wen say that she used to be a teacher at school, specializing in teaching people to draw, and only she drew the paper, which was enough for your family to eat for a month." ”

"Ho! Yuexiang can also paint?" Wang Dahua's eyes brightened, "Yuexiang's mother, you are really blessed!"

"That's ......" was the word, and Liu Fang pursed her mouth again, "Seeing that Yuexiang can marry into our Jiang family, it is also her blessing, I think how many little girls our Jiang Wen had to look at at it at the beginning." Besides, if it weren't for my hand-in-hand teaching, she wouldn't be able to do laundry and cook when she saw Yuexiang, you don't know, when she just came, she couldn't cook rice, I really don't know what she grew up eating. ”

Wang Dahua laughed even more: "No, I taught her to carry water!"

Speaking of this, Liu Fang sneered and laughed, and made Wang Dahua look at him a few times: "For the sake of your bad face, forget it about the last time you scolded me!"

"You don't want to eat all this mash yourself! I only do it once a year, so you save some. Wang Dahua added two more sentences, "Yuexiang has been in your Jiang family for a few days, it should be news, when the time comes, I will give birth to a doll and eat it with this mash boiled egg, but I will be milked." ”

After Wang Dahua walked away, Liu Fang came back to her senses, and saw that Yuexiang had been coming to Qingchuan for three months, and it was indeed time to come to good news.

Holding the jar back to the house, Liu Fang put the jar in a cool place and put it aside, and took a handkerchief to cover the mouth of the altar, after thinking about it, his eyes rolled and he hurriedly went out.

After a while, Liu Fang came back with a small bag of yellow paper, the yellow paper bag was bulging, she folded her hands and held the paper bag and bowed, and without waiting for Yuexiang to come back, she went to cook by herself.

By the time Jiang Wen and Yuexiang came back, Liu Fang had already cooked a table of dishes.

Jiang Wen squeezed his eyes at Yuexiang: "My mother is like this, she has to yell all the time, otherwise she will be lazy." ”

Yuexiang didn't like to listen to this kind of talk very much, she didn't promise Jiang Wen, she put on an apron and was about to help Liu Fang, but Liu Fang kicked her out: "You can rest tonight, and you will come back tomorrow." ”

As he spoke, he turned his back and opened the yellow paper bag that he had been holding in his hand.

There was a pinch of white powder ash in the yellow paper bag, Liu Fang sprinkled the powder ash into a bowl of sweet potato porridge scooped out separately, stirred it with a spoon, and waited until the ashes were all melted in, and there was no shadow to be seen, so she went outside to see Yuexiang and went forward: "Drink a bowl of porridge first." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and went into the stove room, and went to serve Jiang Wen another bowl.

After watching the two of them pick up the bowl and take a sip, they pursed their lips and smiled and returned to the stove room, bowed to Tianxu again, and said softly: "God, God, bless my Jiang family with a man in one fell swoop!"

In the hall, seeing that Yuexiang drank up a bowl of sweet potato porridge, and when it got dark, she put down the bowl, took out the kerosene lamp, snapped, and skillfully lit the lamp.

The dim light expelled the darkness and lit up slowly, and the heart of the moon fragrance gradually became full and warm in the flickering light.