Chapter 23: Summer Solstice

Shi Gui was very depressed for a few days, the future was involuntarily, and before he took the first step, he fell first, and the girl in the same room only scolded her, and comforted her twice: "You have a godmother, it's better than the two of them don't, she wants to be faced, and you have to breathe to succeed." ”

Shi Gui smiled bitterly, what she was afraid of was that Mrs. Zheng wanted her to come out, don't take a step to see a step, to her I can't wait to take a step to see a hundred steps, now look at it, the way in and out of the mouths of the girls and mothers-in-law, even marrying a commoner is not as good as being a concubine to the old master and young master in the house, although she is young, but Mrs. Zheng really wants to think about it, she has to think of some way to avoid it.

A few days before the summer solstice festival, the kitchen was busy, and the courtyard laid out green bamboo curtains when the people did not come, and the courtyard was plain, only the silver and red carpets were laid out in the two girls' rooms, and the summer solstice cakes and three fresh vegetables were also eaten in each room.

The summer solstice has to eat three fresh, in the water on the ground in the sky, adding up to nine kinds of vegetables, all of which have to be made on the table in the summer solstice, Zheng Pozi is a vegetarian food, and the three fresh on the ground will belong to her, a basket of new amaranth, new broad beans and raw almonds, sent to the small kitchen, she is the new official to take office three fires, thinking about showing her ability, and asked Shi Gui: "You said that this new amaranth and new broad beans and garlic seedlings, what should you do?"

The spring soup is the soup of new amaranth and fish slices, the new broad beans are tender and raw, and the taste of fine salt is better than that of fish and sheep after cooking.

Mrs. Zheng eats these things freshly, but the three fresh water sent up are only sent to Gan's room, and the old ladies and ladies in the east courtyard don't eat meat, and the aunts don't even make a special reason to send them.

Even the most favored Aunt Qian, she also sent grapes over, saying that there was no need to prepare them, and the grapes came back to the kitchen as if they were returning to their hometowns, and before they reached the door, they called Shi Gui's name and said that they were coming to see her.

In the end, I have lived in one place for a long time, and I have been punished with her, even if I mix my mouth and block my breath, I am still a godsister, Shi Gui smiled when she saw her, the grapes are really different, there are small beads in her ears, incense strings are on her hands, and her clothes are no longer the blue goose yellow one, and she has changed into a narrow-sleeved primrose shirt with a blue background, and a pair of blue-bottomed pants at the bottom, and she has only been gone for a few days, but she is like an inner courtyard girl.

"Our aunt told me to come over, saying that on the day of the summer solstice, I would reduce the number of dishes in my wife's room, and there was no need to add any more sides. Grape was about to step into the kitchen, smell the smoke, take a step back, pull Shi Gui to the door, and chirp endlessly.

I heard her say that this sentence is really growing, who knows that after finishing speaking, he raised his sleeves and showed her the new clothes on her body: "Look, as soon as I went, Sister Muxiang gave me two sets of clothes." After chattering about the clothes and the residence, the soap bean flower oil used, the body was washed fragrantly, the hair was black and shiny, and he took out a small bottle: "This is given to you, this is osmanthus oil, you use it to comb your hair, these yellow hairs can also grow well." ”

When Shi Gui came, her hair was yellow and thin, raised for half a year, the bottom was still yellow, but the top was black, and her grandmother also taught her to pick rose leaves and wash her hair, without dandruff, and the fragrance of plants and trees, Shi Gui didn't want to, but she had a heart to show off

also received: "Thank you Sister Grape." ”

Grape Crisp smiled: "It turns out that my aunt still wants to change my name, but my wife said that this name is good, so she hasn't changed it." "Grape and pomegranates have many seeds, and when they came to Aunt Qian, they would kowtow to her, and she said that this name is not elegant, and she wants to change it, knowing that this name Ye has nodded, Aunt Qian is just that.

Shi Gui's heart moved, and he said that Aunt Qian was liked by the Ye family, so she was careful about this, nodded, and took care of the dishes: "Sister Grape, don't worry, I will do it well." ”

Grape pinched her: "We are sisters, how to say this, you wait, and if there is a shortage in the future, I will make up for you." "Shi Gui can make cakes, she has already been with Aunt Qian a few times, but there is no movement, and when there is a letter, they are still in the same room, she lives with the little girl, and then she feels that Shi Gui is good.

Never take her things and don't say anything, if there is any food gadget, she will share her, she has lived in it for only a few days, and then she lost everything, and a pencil of eyebrows was not used a few times, and she turned around and disappeared.

She told Shi Gui these thoughts, and Shi Gui comforted her twice: "Don't take it and use it, just ask, if you borrow it or pay it back, or your sister forgets it by herself." ”

The grapes sat on the pestle and talked for a while, the food and clothes were different, the powder on the face and the oil on the head were all good things, and the wife was afraid that Aunt Qian would only look at the green of the water, so she would be confused, so she moved two pots of flowers to her: "Don't you see it, there are two big pots of Baozhu camellia, one is the size of a bowl, Aunt Qian is very baby, and the petals and leaves are not allowed to be touched." ”

She said for a while that she wanted to pinch one and bring it to Shi Gui, and then said that she was not allowed to touch it, the preface did not match the afterword, and Shi Gui did not expose her, she listened to her with a smile, and peeled peanuts for her to eat, she used to love these snacks the most, how could it not be enough to eat, and she disliked this thing at this time: "I forgot, I should wrap a bag of snacks for you, Sister Muxiang's craftsmanship, I can't eat it next to it." ”

Shi Gui smiled when he heard this, Mu Xiang is a girl who can make dim sum, and she will not recruit another one in, and persuaded: "Godmother said, tell me to learn the rules for another two years, and my sister doesn't have to rush to play for me." ”

Grape was still chattering, and she had a lot of words in her stomach, and she vomited it clean at one time, and then she got up to leave, Shi Gui sent her to the door, and Grape sighed: "How good we are, if you can really come in." ”

Shi Gui sent her away, took out the bottle of osmanthus oil and divided it, it turned out to be not much, poured out of the small porcelain bottle, and the six girls were gone, and the three families were still wrinkled their noses, and they also had relatives who were on errands in the courtyard, where was this missing: "It's really a noble relative, or a godsister, just take this to send you." ”

Shi Gui didn't pick up the stubble, and someone came out to play the round: "It's better than buying outside." "There were people on the mountain, and there were still so many people, and the ferry under the mountain prospered, and there were merchants who carried the burden up the mountain to sell groceries, and when they opened the corner gate, they sold goods by the door, and the other garden immediately became angry.

A few people went to the door when they had a holiday, and the keeper of the door was still Mrs. Sun, spare her a few tea money, and she would be able to open the door.

"You go, I can't be idle, the summer solstice is going to be wrapped in wheat dumplings to make summer solstice cakes, so busy that I can't give birth to four hands, if you see a delicate comb, just bring me a handful." Saying that, he went back to the kitchen, peeled broad beans for Mrs. Zheng, and gave her wine to eat, Mrs. Zheng saw that she was just as diligent as she had been taught a lesson, and nodded in her heart.

"You come to my house tonight, and we will have a summer solstice meal. Mrs. Zheng still lived in a single room, and since she said so, Shi Gui nodded and asked, "Do you want to call Sister Grape?"

Mrs. Zheng snorted in her mouth: "You don't have to call her, just come out when she has a fake." Shi Gui unloaded his errand, washed up, and went to the corner gate, where he made half a pot of wine.

Grandma is gambling with a few mothers-in-law, today it is her turn to be the head, no matter which one wins, she has a tap, win ten draws and two will make a steady profit, just for her to have a house by the garden, which can block the wind and rain, far away, and will not disturb people again.

The first family has to prepare tea, melons and fruits, grandma weighed some fried goods, boiled a copper kettle of water, set up a small table, there were five or six people around it, Shi Gui saw her supporting the table, knew that she was going to make a game today, plainly accepted her love, played a dime of wine for her, and took a plate of braised chicken feet edamame from the kitchen, which was considered to be a wine for them.

Grandma Sun felt that there was light on her face, and the few people who had formed a game with her all asked, knowing that it was Zheng Pozi's goddaughter, and they all wondered: "She is sharp-eyed, and she actually accepted such a filial piety." ”

Shi Gui listened to their praise and said with a smile: "It's not worth it to take care of your grandparents, and a few mothers are happy." The grandmother also sent her to the door and told her to come out later.

Mrs. Zheng's table was piled up, and she had just pasted the baked hot cakes, the old tofu style bacon, chopped and chopped and mixed, a spoon was inserted into it, and she ate this package of summer solstice cakes.

Shi Gui knew at a glance that Mrs. Zheng had taken a ready-made meal in the kitchen, wheat kernel porridge and cold wontons, and also grinded sesame sauce, and took out the wine. ”

Bad edamame under the wine, sucking the chicken paws and gnawing with relish, Shi Gui took the pancakes, the meat in the material is more and less tofu, a bite and a mouthful of oil, but I feel enjoyable, after a while, I rolled up two to eat, such a thing, sent into the garden The two girls rarely touched, and frowned when they saw the meat.

Mrs. Zheng ate a small half pot by herself: "Edamame with sake lees, how can those people in it know the taste." "Pinching the tip of the edamame, I bite two or three and then jump into my mouth, sucking the full of bad marinade, and my mouth is full of the aroma of wine.

When he had the intention of drinking, he looked at Osmanthus and said: "Since you recognize me as a godmother, I will treat it the same, but don't say that I only love your sister, not you." As he spoke, he drank a full cup, took a sip of it, and chewed a mouthful of edamame: "I'll think of an idea to stuff you into my wife's yard." ”

Shi Gui's eyes widened, he didn't expect to get his wish, Mrs. Zheng looked at her drunkenly, and taught her: "People go to a high place, what are the benefits of walking half of the way, you girl, you can't enter the garden first, you know it at this time? ”

Mrs. Zheng has Mrs. Zheng's plan, she didn't think that Shi Gui would figure it out so easily, her own daughter and son-in-law are not successful, she failed to learn a little bit of cleverness, and accepted two goddaughters, and it was easy to pick out this tall one from the short man, seeing that she was good and stable, and when she heard that she was going to pick someone inside, she moved her mind and acted in Shi Gui's appearance, it was not difficult to enter the garden, but the difficult thing was to enter the wife's house as an errand boy, so it was good to just be a sprinkler and sweep.