"There's something wrong with you, right?" Liu Fang threw the rag in his hand to the ground and scolded at Jian Yuexiang, "You take such good materials and cover them on the table?"

"I'm really full, and the table is still afraid of getting cold?"

Seeing that Yuexiang was sitting in front of the window and screwing the wick of the kerosene lamp, which she had just learned, so she was a little attentive, and suddenly heard Liu Fang scolding, which startled her a lot, and almost dropped the lamp in her hand.

When I looked back, I saw Liu Fang tearing off the flower cloth covering the table.

"Mom!" Seeing Yuexiang shouted anxiously, she calmed down and said softly, "It looks better on the table." ”

The words she swallowed into her stomach were that the old wooden table top had already been pitted, and the stains on it were so dirty that they were covered in greasy pulp, and she couldn't wipe it off for a long time in the morning, and her throat was always tight when she sat at the table to eat, so she had no choice but to take the materials she brought from home as a tablecloth to cover it.

Because the burden is not big, this cloth saw that Yuexiang only brought two horses, and originally wanted to make new clothes to wear after winter.

"Good-looking?" Liu Fang was angry, "Such good materials are used so badly just for the sake of looking good?"

Seeing Yuexiang, she was full of grievances, but at this moment, under the contrast of the new embroidery materials, Liu Fang's washed and white blue cloth clothes did not know how many years she had been sewn and mended, and even Aunt Zhang at home was much more decent than her.

The grievances disappeared in a flash, and the stalk in my heart was a little sour.

If she were her, and she had never worn such good materials in her life, but someone used the materials as tablecloths in front of her, then she would definitely be angry.

Seeing Yuexiang's face flushed, she walked forward with her eyebrows lowered and put away the materials, turned around and went into the back room.

"I don't have the ability to fart, I just know how to hide in the house!" Liu Fang glanced at the closed door, "I don't know what ecstasy soup I poured into my son, sooner or later I will have to kick you out of the door!"

In the back room, Mizukika took down the wooden box on the top of the cabinet, and put all the things she brought from Shanghai at the bottom of the box.

put the material back in his hand, saw that Yuexiang took out a piece of pomegranate red satin from Jilihu silk, went out of the house with the satin, and found the clothing store at the mouth of the alley.

When I walked back, although I thought that I should hurry back to help make dinner, I unconsciously slowed down, and when I came to the fork in the road, I even walked into another farther and more detouring road.

Seeing that Yuexiang wants to be a good wife, a good daughter-in-law, and a good mother in the future, she is not afraid of hardship, but she has never gotten along with someone like Liu Fang, she knows that Liu Fang is not polite, she scolds and is aggressive when she is angry, she doesn't blame Liu Fang for feeling uncomfortable.

Because her mother taught her since she was a child, parenting is used to restrain herself, not others.

Seeing Yuexiang knows that everyone grows up in a different environment, if Liu Fang grew up in Shanghai and grew up in Jianjia, she will also grow into a knowledgeable young lady, if she is Liu Fang's birth, then she will also be an ignorant woman who can't read a word.

But even if she saw that Yuexiang understood this, she wanted to breathe a sigh of relief right now.

Walking forward on the bluestone road, turning a corner, there is a crossroads in front of it, and there is a big banyan tree growing at the intersection, and there is a circle of people playing chess under the banyan tree.

Seeing Yuexiang at a glance, he saw Jiang Wengong in the crowd.

Jiang Wen held a fan in his left hand and a chess piece in his right hand, beaming.

Look at the stance, it's been here for a while.

Seeing Yuexiang stunned for a moment, I don't know why, I looked like a thief, so I quickly turned around and left, until I returned home, my heart was still pounding.

"There is no shadow in the afternoon, what are you doing?" Liu Fang came out of the stove house in an unkind tone and wiped the water on his body, "Aren't you shouting that you want to learn to cook? When will you learn it?"

"Now. Seeing Yuexiang gasping for breath, she immediately went to the stove room, "I'll study now." ”

The water in the big iron pot was already boiling, steaming hot.

"Don't hurry up and get off the rice!" Liu Fang followed in and scolded Jianyuexiang, who didn't know where to start.

"Oh. Seeing Yuexiang pick up the washed rice in the basin, pour it into the pot, hold the basin in one hand, hold the lid in the other, and don't know whether to cover it or not, it took a long time before she blushed again, and asked Liu Fang in a cowardly voice, "Mom...... And then what?"

"Hmph, what a fool. Liu Fang didn't look down on Yuexiang in her heart, "I can't even cook rice, what did you eat to grow so big, why didn't you starve to death?"

Seeing Yuexiang's fingertips clenching the edge of the basin, she was so embarrassed that she wanted to cover her face with the lid of the pot.

"Pick up the spatula and stir it. Liu Fang didn't bother to look at her again, "Don't stick to the bottom of the pot, stare at the rice and steam it after the core is almost cooked." ”

"Oh. Seeing Yuexiang answered again, after a while, she hesitated and asked, "How do you see that the rice is almost cooked to the core?"

"You should really starve to death!" Liu Fang hated, "I wouldn't be so unlucky to have a daughter-in-law like you!"

"If you don't know how to look at it, you can twist it by hand. Liu Fang continued, "It melts as soon as it is twisted, and there is a small hard core left in the middle." ”

"Okay, Mom. Seeing Yuexiang, I was not afraid of burning my hands, but I was afraid that it would not be cooked well enough, so I twisted it once in a while, and twisted it again every other while, and when I steamed the rice on the steamer, the meat on the tips of my fingers was already hot and red.

didn't care about the pain, and when I saw Yuexiang, I had to quickly cut vegetables and stir-fry.

But when she picked up the clay pot, she found that it was already empty: "Mom, the salt is gone." ”

"Gone?" Liu Fanggu stood up suddenly, snatched the salt shaker, picked up the spoon and rubbed it along the wall of the tank twice, "What is this?

Seeing Yuexiang took the spoon, she put all the salt into the pot at once.

"It's really a full man who doesn't know that a hungry man is hungry, this spoonful of salt will fry a dish?" Liu Fang put the salt shaker on the stove, "Okay, okay, from tomorrow onwards, this vegetable shopping will be handed over to you, if you think this salt is gone, you can buy it yourself, you can put as much as you like, one jar at a time!"

"Mom, what are you arguing about!" As soon as Jiang Wen pushed open the door, he heard Liu Fang's earth-shattering voice in the kitchen.

"What are you arguing about? You really married a big mold wife! When we are a landlord's house!" Liu Fang walked into the hall and shouted at Jiang Wen.

"Oh, Mom, can you stop being angry with Yuexiang all day long?" Jiang Wen put the fan on the table, "I'm tired for a day, you two also stop, let me eat a hot meal first." ”

"If it weren't for my mother, you would marry such a daughter-in-law and still want to eat, dream!" Liu Fang was not angry.

Seeing that Yuexiang was serving the dishes to the table, she didn't hear Liu Fang's words, so she smiled lightly and said softly to Jiang Wen: "The meal is ready, I'll serve it to you." ”

Jiang Wen didn't feel annoyed when he saw Yuexiang's bright smiling face, and pulled Liu Fang to persuade him: "Mom, you don't have to embarrass Yuexiang." ”

"Am I embarrassed her?" Liu Fang was so angry that she went crazy, "Did she hide in the bed and say bad things about me to you? Am I embarrassed for her? Why don't you say that she is embarrassed when she sees Yuexiang is fine?"

Liu Fang's sharp voice made Jiang Wen so annoyed that he threw his chopsticks, got up and went into the inner room, slamming the door.

Seeing that Yuexiang had just come over with food, when she saw this situation, she hurriedly went into the house to see.

Jiang Wen didn't take off his shoes and socks and half-lay on the bed, his eyes closed, his chest rising and falling violently.

Seeing Yuexiang walking over and sitting on the edge of the bed, she stroked his chest for him: "Don't be angry, get up and eat first, you're hungry." ”

"I'm full of gas, what else to eat!" Jiang Wen let out a heavy breath, his eyes still closed.

"Why don't I bring it in for you?" said Yuexiang soothingly.

"I don't eat it. Jiang Wen opened his eyes at this time, looked at Yuexiang sitting next to the bed, pulled out the hand that was pressed behind his head, and stretched it out to the side, "Come, I'll hug you, hug you, I feel better." ”

Seeing Yuexiang smile shyly, she leaned sideways into Jiang Wen's arms with a slightly red cheek.

It took a long time for her to ask, "Have you lost your anger?"

Jiang Wen nodded, and his chin gently rubbed against Jianyuexiang's head.

Seeing Yuexiang bury her face in Jiang Wen's chest, she listened to his heartbeat slowly calm down, and said, "Don't be angry with your mother, and I'm not angry with your mother." ”

Jiang Wen didn't speak, his chin leaned down, and he kissed Yuexiang's forehead.

Seeing Yuexiang thought for a while: "How's your job looking?"

Jiang Wen's hand around Yuexiang suddenly loosened, and his brows furrowed heavily: "I'm finally a little happy, can you not always say something that is uninteresting." ”

Feeling that Jianyuexiang's body shrank slightly because of nervousness, Jiang Wen realized that his tone was not good just now, and he hurriedly hugged her tightly: "I brought several poems and handed them to the magazine and newspaper, don't worry, you will notify me in a few days." ”

……

Early the next morning, Liu Fang handed the vegetable basket to Jianyuexiang and asked her to buy vegetables by herself.

It's just that Liu Fangguang gave the vegetable basket and didn't take out a penny.

Liu Fang said that Jiang Wen hadn't taken money from his family for a long time, and his family had no money.

"Aren't you arrogant? find a way to buy it yourself, but if you can't buy it, the whole family will follow you to drink the northwest wind. ”

Seeing Yuexiang, she had to go to the garment shop yesterday first, she had no money, and it was one-third of Jili Husi for her family to make clothes.

In order to buy vegetables, she gave out a third of Jili Lake Silk and asked the garment store owner to exchange some money.

The remaining third was just enough to make a dress, and the tailor had been in a hurry since yesterday afternoon, stayed up all night, and finally wrapped the clothes and handed them to her when she came back from shopping for vegetables.

On the way home, seeing Yuexiang hesitated for a moment, and walked the long way yesterday, and today it was just noon, and Jiang Wen was already sitting under the big banyan tree.

Seeing that Yuexiang still didn't call Jiang Wen, she hugged the basket and turned her head to leave.

As soon as she turned around, beside Jiang Wen, a man smoking a cigarette stabbed him: "Eh, look, is that your daughter-in-law?

Jiang Wen raised his head and saw the back of Yuexiang, his face turned purple, and he stood up suddenly, and hurriedly chased back.

Behind him, a group of old men playing chess burst into laughter, Jiang Wen stopped walking, his face became even more ugly, and it took a long time before he gritted his teeth again, and then chased after him.

There happened to be a passing in the alley selling dragon beard candy, Jiang Wen thought about it and thought about it, then took out the only money on his body and called the vendor to buy a pack, and when he chased back to the door, he heard Liu Fang's shouting and scolding from the house from a distance.

The fat aunt next door Xu had just come back from washing, holding a wooden basin and tilting her head to the door to listen to the sound, Jiang Wen only felt that he had encountered something embarrassing today.

scolded at the fat aunt: "Have you finished your own bad work, just lie on the wall and listen to the excitement of other people's houses!"

"How do you speak? It's a shame that you're still a scholar, and you don't have any self-cultivation at all, you're really in the belly of a reading dog!" The fat aunt was not convinced, "Your daughter-in-law and your mother quarrel all day long, who doesn't know in the whole alley? If you want to be embarrassed, you go back and cover their mouths, what are you angry at me?"

After the fat aunt finished speaking, she poured the basin in her hand to the wall, and a basin of dirty water splashed Jiang Wen's trouser leg, then shook her face and turned around and went home.

Jiang Wen's face was so angry that his face was blue, his wet pants were terrible, he stood at the door and listened to Liu Fang's sharp voice in the room, and leaned against the wall for a long time, silently let out a long breath, calmed his sharply undulating chest, and then slowly opened the well-wrapped dragon beard candy and stuffed it into his mouth.

In the room, there is a silk coat in the cloth bag spread out on the table, which is made of simple tailoring, but the satin surface is shiny with silver light, moist and dense, and it is a good material that is rare for ordinary people.

Liu Fang's body size is about the same as that of Jianyuexiang, and Jianyuexiang specially took Jili Lake silk yesterday and asked the tailor to make a dress according to her own size, wanting to give it to Liu Fang, which made her happy.

"Do you want me to be happy? I think you're deliberately trying to be angry with me!" Liu Fang roared when he saw Yuexiang, "This kind of material, every day when you pick up water and grind it, you want me to offer it like a bodhisattva, and kowtow three times a day with three sticks of incense on my head?"

"I really don't have enough for you to provide a young lady, and you need to provide another piece of clothing?" Liu Fang's eyes were red with anger, "Do you want me to see that I can't wear it and scare me to death?"

Seeing Yuexiang hanging her head and rubbing her hands, she never thought about what clothes she would wear and what clothes she wouldn't wear when she was convenient for work.

Seeing Yuexiang biting her lower lip gently: "Mom, I didn't think well and made you angry." ”

After speaking, she wrapped up the clothes on the table, turned around and walked out of the door, just stepped out of the door, Jiang Wen, who was leaning against the door with his eyes closed, suddenly stood up, the two looked at each other, and no one spoke for a while.

Seeing Yuexiang's eyes red, her eyelashes drooped downward, the first thing she saw was the dragon beard candy in Jiang Wen's hand, and there was one left.

Jiang Wen opened his mouth, closed it tightly, his lips turned white, his throat moved up and down, and finally stretched his hand forward: "Eat a candy, dissipate your anger, don't be like my mother, she is a ......"

Before the words were finished, Yuexiang took a deep breath and raised her eyes, and the tears in her eyes were gone.

She said to him, "Although your mother's words are ugly, she is right, blame me for not doing well." ”

After a pause, she smiled again: "I came back so early today, is there any news from Shiwen?"

Jiang Wen's face sank, his hand stretched out in mid-air retracted, and he shook his head: "You just ......"

"Oh, I just went the wrong way. Seeing Yuexiang, she seemed to suddenly remember something, "I saw you playing chess there, and I didn't call you when I came back to make lunch." ”

"You're not angry with me?" Jiang Wen wondered.

"What are you angry about?" Seeing Yuexiang smiled again, "You work hard to find money, it's good to play chess to relieve boredom." ”

Jiang Wen was completely relieved, and his chest and abdomen regained confidence, and he handed over the sugar in his hand again: "Now, I bought it for you, try it?"

Seeing Yuexiang take the sugar, take out the last one, look at the empty sugar paper packet, think of the same empty salt shaker, she swallowed what she wanted to say with the dragon whisker candy, her mouth was sweet, and her heart poured a lot of sourness.

Let Jiang Wen go home first, and see Yuexiang went to the garment shop with the clothes, such good materials, such good clothes, it was easy to sell them for a good price. Seeing that Yuexiang used the money from selling satin clothes to buy simple and sturdy cotton shorts and trousers, and bought a small bag of salt on the way, and weighed some pork ribs and a few turnips.

At noon, Jianyuexiang cooked a pot of radish and pork rib soup, and only took out the clothes when the family was full of food and drink.

"Mom, I changed it for you, you try it, if you like it, you can stay, if you don't like it...... I'll change it again. ”

Seeing that Yuexiang said sincerely, and the clothes were really pleasing to Liu Fang, Liu Fangnunu mouthed, although she still stretched her face and did not speak, a pair of dry and rough hands stroked back and forth on the soft clothes several times.