Shi Gui returned to Yongshan Hall and waited, Ye Wenxin was still in with the old lady, Qibao saw Shi Gui coming back, beckoned to her, and asked her to sit in the tea room.

Qibao Coral was also familiar with Shi Gui in the past, sat together and added charcoal, and took a plate of milk cakes: "You see that you used to love to eat these, but it happens that you can taste it." ”

The old lady doesn't like these people, she is a vegetarian all year round, her mouth is already very light, and the milk cakes have some smell, she refuses to use them anymore, and the kitchen will not come in.

Shi Gui smiled, thanked her, took a piece and ate it, with the tea, a few pieces were gone, Qibao looked at her like this and smiled: "Why are you hungry like this, you wait, I'll bring you a box back." ”

This thing is easy to get in the city, but it is not easy to have it in the countryside, Shi Gui is not polite, Qibao sent the little girl to the kitchen, looked up at the house and sighed: "The old lady has not been so happy for many days." ”

Ye Wenxin was there, Song Mian came again, the ordinary room was empty, it was full of people for a while, why was he unhappy, Shi Gui asked about Zezhi's marriage: "I heard that there were people in the family who were also selected, and the third girl refused to keep filial piety for his wife, which is really filial." ”

Qibao added tea and brought it to Shi Gui: "No, that family also said that the third girl is a filial person, and she is willing to get engaged first, and then get married after the filial piety period has passed." Qibao sighed slightly, the old lady was in such a hurry to settle down, she just felt that her body was not good, and she wanted to do things beautifully while she still had the energy.

Shi Gui looked at Qibao's expression and took her hand: "The third girl is so good, and it is not in vain that Mrs. is good to her." "The two concubines, the Ye family has gifts, picked out some antique small pieces from the dowry, put them in the box, one person divided two boxes, because Zezhi is not married, and there is a dowry that the Ye family gave her.

Qibao sighed: "Mrs. is such a good person. But he didn't live long, and he couldn't say this sentence anymore, and when he heard laughter coming out of it, he laughed as soon as his ears moved: "I was still a young lady of the Hanlin family, and I was afraid that I would have to be like the third girl, but I knew that I was very good at saying that the old lady liked her, and she was reluctant to let her go out like this." ”

Shi Gui peeled the orange and picked out the white floc, bit a piece and put it in his mouth and it was sour and sweet, Qibao waited in the old lady's house when he was young, and the first few left, she was promoted to the first class, since the Ye family was gone, Song Yintang went home to mourn again, and the old lady's house became quieter and quieter.

"I didn't know that Young Master Tang was a caring. Qibao looked up from time to time to see the movement in her eyes, she came out to make tea, waited for the tea to come out, and took the saucer in.

Ye Wenxin still has to go out of the city, and it will be late if she doesn't leave, the old lady pulled her and said for a long time, looking at her face as if looking at Ye's: "Come to the house for two days during the New Year, and when you go to Suizhou, you can't wait to see you if you want to." ”

Ye Wenxin's eyes were red, and he responded in a low voice, and the old lady asked Song Mian and his wife to come again, and only then did she think that Song Mian still had to go to his father-in-law's place, and the two of them could still talk about the article, nodded at them one by one, and sighed when the people went out.

Shi Gui waited under the corridor with a cloak, as soon as Ye Wenxin came out, he covered her and helped her hand, Ye Wenxin slowly exhaled a breath, only then did he feel that the stuffiness in his chest had dispersed a little, and he smiled at Shi Gui: "Have you seen it all?"

Shi Gui nodded: "See, I think the girl will have to come back in the New Year, so I promised to come back to accompany them for the New Year and eat dumplings." The two bypassed the Hanging Flower Gate and went all the way out, Song Mian took a step behind and helped his wife out.

After getting in the car, Ye Wenxin sighed, Song Yintang guarded the mountain tomb and did not come back, the old lady and the old lady knew that he was not only guarding the Ye family, but also his son Song Siyuan, who had been hiding from him for many years, and he had to let him fulfill his filial piety, so he was not in a hurry to urge him to come back, and when he had kept enough, he would naturally come back.

Shi Gui tucked his sleeves for Ye Wenxin, Gao Jia drove them back, fine snow fell on the road, the wind blew the curtain corners, and blew in a few snowflakes, Ye Wenxin lifted the curtain to see, Shi Gui asked Gao Jia to stop the car from time to time, and they all went to the city, and they always had to bring some delicious food back.

The two first bought the eight treasures to save the box of dim sum, and then bought some fried Qiaoguo small halva, to the cloth village, but also bought two pieces of cloth, at this time the wool in the winter is expensive, the cloth in the summer is sold cheaply, both to go to Suizhou to take advantage of the cheap to put some, Songjiang cloth is not much worse all year round, Ye Wenxin has been in Yangzhou for a long time, speaking of the head is the way, the eyes are sharp, is it the old year, is it outdated color, sentence or two, said that the guy gave the profit, more than a dozen money.

The car was piled up, Shi Gui also bought a lantern for Xizi, and when he got home, he sent it twice, and the water chestnut followed up, Shi Gui also bought her a lantern, and the water chestnut carried the lantern, and his eyes were crooked, and he was busy following Shi Gui in and out.

Qiu Niang Lucalyx laughed when she saw that she bought these many things, there were cotton fabrics in it, Ye Wenxin picked a piece, and said that she would make one more than Shi Gui's body, and when she went to Suizhou, cotton cloth was much more practical than silk.

The family is ready to make New Year's dishes, Qiu Niang made assorted dishes, cut into thin strips in the same way, mixed with sesame oil, do not use the knife in the year, the New Year's vegetables are made a pot and just waiting to eat, Shi Gui has not been on the stove for many years, many crafts are rusty, only follow Qiu Niang's side to turn around.

The kitchen is full of the smell of hot oil, the green calyx in the house is made of new clothes, Xizi's body is always new, and there are lanterns hanging before and after, but Ye Wenxin's house is still not bright.

cut red paper and tied it to the pomegranate tree, Ye Wenxin also wrote a couplet, Shi Gui grinded the ink, and wrote a big character of Fu, Ye Wenxin picked it up and looked at it: "You haven't practiced writing for half a year." ”

Shi Gui's face turned red, there have been many things in the past six months, where can I still take care of practicing calligraphy, Qiu Niang Green Calyx already feels very good, but Ye Wenxin smiled and nodded: "If you don't write for a day, you will be born, and if you wait a few more days, the framework will be gone." ”

The green calyx looked at it with a blank eye, she really wanted to learn words in her heart, and the only thing she had to learn with Chen Niangzi was how to write the deed, spend a few pennies, and ask someone to write a stack, and the green calyx also memorized it word by word, and learned to read it after memorizing, and told Chen Niangzi that if she learned it, she didn't have to ask someone to write it.

Suffering from illiteracy everywhere, she even had to half-hide and half-hide when she wrote a letter to Shi Gui, and she didn't dare to explain everything, knowing that the water chestnut followed Ye Wenxin to learn words, she didn't dare to bring it up, so she listened to it next to the door, and listened too much, and was seen by Ye Wenxin, invited her in, and followed to learn the three-character scripture together.

Ye Wenxin's favorite thing to do is to teach people to read, Green Calyx wants to learn, and is willing to work hard, Ye Wenxin taught her two sentences a day, and also made her a red book of large characters, Green Calyx really knows how to read.

Some she knew before, and some she seemed to know, but she didn't dare to say it, for fear of making a joke if she said it wrong, but Ye Wenxin never laughed at her, she always spoke softly, shook her hand to teach her to write, and encouraged her with Shi Gui's knowledge: "She can learn, you can also learn, at that time, she practiced calligraphy every day, no matter how much work she had, she never stopped." ”

Green Calyx wants to learn literacy, more than half of it is also because of Shi Gui, in the Song family, she wanted to be literate, took the Taishang induction chapter and flipped through it, word by word, really let her learn, the word written is not worse than those outside the reader.

She didn't dare at first, Ye Wenxin looked at everyone's beautiful background, but she didn't think that there was no shelf at all, she didn't dare to bother her from time to time, who knew that she often asked, she was willing to spend effort, what was the green calyx that she was unwilling to, she was more willing to work harder, faster than the water chestnut learned.

Even the water chestnut turned out to be no one to compare, someone compared, she also learned quickly, the most happy thing for Shi Gui was Xizi, Xizi turned out to have read the book, or Qiu Niang came, Shi Gui knew that the family had been reading for him for a year, and it was these Tongmeng books that he learned.

Later, followed by Mingyue, Mingyue is also literate, but she doesn't often read it, and no one in the barracks takes a book seriously, but Mingyue will say something about Guan Erye's reading, and the exercises are insufficient, where will you read when you rest.

Xizi gets up every day to fight a set of punches, Mingyue is not there with Mingyue, he is the same, Qiu Niang naturally likes to see her son have spirit, I don't know how many times I have recited the Buddha for Mingyue, as long as I talk about it, I have to say it again, always hanging on my mouth, Shi Gui can't cry or laugh, she naturally noticed Qiu Niang's meaning, but she has never spoken.

Xizi saw that everyone in the courtyard was reading, even Qiu Niang watched and learned to write his name, he also learned, Ye Wenxin was delicate, Xizi was not really sitting upright and listening to her, but when they were talking, he was hanging by the door, Shi Gui wanted to laugh when he saw it, what did he learn badly, but he learned enough of Mingyue's temper to save face.

Mingyue left at the beginning of November, and if you count it at this time, it's been almost a month, and I don't know if he arrived in Suizhou, how was the road, and arrived

I am not used to staying in the place.

Shi Gui thought about it once, and threw these away, the matter is slow and round, whether it is good or bad in the future, and then talk about it later, Mingyue said that she would leave decisively, but she kept it firmly in her heart.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone watched the New Year together, and Liu Pozi took the water chestnut to her son's house for the New Year, and there were two charcoal basins in the house, which were burned hot, and threw taro to bake in it, and then threw some peanuts into it, rubbed it out and dipped it in salt, and the taro was wrapped in sugar, and said while eating.

Ye Wenxin was in the house by herself, firecrackers and fireworks were also set off in the countryside, and she could still see the fireworks lit up at the end of Yuanmiaoguan from a distance, she sharpened the ink by herself, picked up the pen and was about to write a letter, Shi Gui also came in from the west chamber, lifted the curtain and pursed her lips, she also wanted to write a letter to Mingyue.

When he cut the paper, he thought that there was no way to send it, Mingyue didn't know where he was, and these many soldiers couldn't send it to him, so he simply waited for Ye Wenxin to write the pen and ink, seeing that she wrote it to Song Yintang, and wanted to avoid it, he heard Ye Wenxin chuckle: "Get me a paperweight." ”