The door of Zhu Boxiu's house was not closed, but it was half-hidden, and the courtyard of the Zhu family was so big, he must have heard them coming. Hongzhu shouted at the door, and Zhu Boxiu let them in.

Hongzhu looked around the room, and saw Zhu Boxiu sitting under the window grinding ink, so he smiled and said, "Brother Boxiu is practicing calligraphy." He glanced at Cheng Wenhan, and said: "Wenhan has also been working hard at home these days, he is young and restless, I see that he is reading a book, but I don't know if he can see it or not, but I am sad to death." ”

Cheng Wenhan naturally knew what was going on this time, and when he heard his sister open her mouth and talk nonsense, he didn't refute it, but only pretended to be aggrieved: "This is me reading books and talking about me, and I don't read books and talking about me." He stepped forward and approached Zhu Boxiu and said, "Brother Lobby, you can also give me a comment, and it doesn't hurt to read more books." ”

Zhu Boxiu put down his pen and said first: "Your sister is right, you have just entered the door on the road of studying, how can you have the ability to explore it yourself? He didn't have a appetite either, and then said, "I'm going back to the academy in two days, so you can come with me and meet Mr. Hui seriously." When the introductory test comes, you won't be afraid. ”

Hongzhu was immediately happy when she heard this, and only said, "Thank you, Brother Boxiu!"

Cheng Wenhan looked up at his little face and praised him very seriously, "Brother Bo Xiu is so powerful, I know what you do, there is nothing that cannot be done." ”

Hongzhu smiled secretly, if she had said this, she would not have been so natural and well-behaved.

Zhu Boxiu reached out and touched the top of Cheng Wenhan's head, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but he looked very happy and relieved on his face. He did hear a word or two when they were talking in the courtyard outside, and said, "You will do your business the day after tomorrow, and we will not go until we are done on the fourth day of the second month." He thought for a while, and then said: "In previous years, the introductory test in the spring was about the tenth day of the first month, and there was still time. ”

The red beads should be down. After finishing the business, Hongzhu said a few more gossips to Zhu Boxiu, and when he couldn't find any more topics, he made a look and let Cheng Wenhan stay, no matter what Zhu Boxiu's character was, he was a smart person in reading, and Cheng Wenhan could also ask him about learning.

Compared with going out to talk to Mrs. Zhu in the ring, Cheng Wenhan was still more willing to stay and talk to Zhu Boxiu about some schoolwork, and it happened that Zhu Boxiu was tired of practicing handwriting, and he was willing to talk to him, so Cheng Wenhan stayed.

Once they came to Zhu's house, the three of Hongzhu didn't want to stay longer, they chose to come over in the middle of the afternoon, and they thought that if it was not appropriate, they didn't have to stay for dinner. But as the Li family said, now that they are two relatives, Mrs. Zhu probably has the same idea as the Li family in her heart. So gossiping, Mrs. Zhu opened her mouth to keep them.

The Li family was originally a rule-abiding person, and this first time she came to the door seriously, she wanted to stay, but she was a little worried that the Jiang family was unhappy, and she hesitated for a while when she heard the words.

But it was Zhu Yanmei who said: "What's wrong with the third sister-in-law? It's only been a few days since I've been out, and people are starting to see each other? You have to think about it when you eat, it's not my sister who said you, so people know that it's very unseemly." ”

After getting such a sentence, Li couldn't refuse, and said, "I'm just afraid of disturbing my mother." ”

Zhu Yanmei said: "What's this? Ming'er Zhao Liang happened to come to the city for something, and I won't rush back today, so I will stay and be lively." She paused, and then said, "On the day you do things, I will not be free, and I will not be able to come and go, so I can talk now." The third sister-in-law, don't blame me for not being deciful. ”

Li had no choice but to say that there was nothing to do, but in the end he left a meal.

Hongzhu listened to her answer, and there was no reason to dismantle the stage for her mother, so she didn't say anything. This Zhu Yanmei has always spoken well, but if you want her to be good, don't be confused. Hongzhu listened to it, secretly disdainful in her heart.

Unbeknownst to them, not long after they agreed, Jiang turned back from the front shop.

Thinking that there were many customers in the shop in front, Jiang didn't have time to pay attention to the back, and this time she ran into Li's Hongzhu in the yard, and she was stunned for a moment. At that moment, she raised her eyebrows, smiled, didn't say anything crooked, and beckoned them and said, "An Niang and Hongzhu are here?" After a while, he said: "Later, when I saw that there was no news, I secretly thought that you were also busy, and it would be even more difficult for us to come to the door to ask for trouble." ”

Li Shi frowned and wanted to answer, Hongzhu spoke first: "I really let the eldest aunt guess, I've been really busy and dizzy these days!" She sighed deliberately and said: "Now I know that there are so many things to live in a courtyard, and my own life is either lacking this or that, and we are cleaning up here and there, and we can't even eat a hot meal for the first two days! She sighed, "Then I just thought, how could there be such a thing here before, think about it, and you will know that it is the eldest aunt who is capable of cooking the yard clearly, and we used to be blessed!"

This is really a slap in the face for the Jiang family. If you want to say that this is to clean up the yard and make some things, Li and Hongzhu were cooked before, where is there no place. It's the Jiang family, who had a lot of work for their mother and daughter before, but now that they are gone, she really can't take care of this side and not the other, and she is so busy jumping to her feet.

In front of Li's Hongzhu, Jiang couldn't say half a sentence. So when Hongzhu said this, her eyes froze, but she secretly gritted her teeth and endured it. After a while, he said: "It's not easy for anyone, no one has lived this day, it was like this for a while, and then you should understand." She said something that was not light or heavy, how not to worry about it now, let's see the future.

Zhu Yanmei smiled and opened her mouth, took her mother's hand and shook it, and only said: "Sister-in-law is right, who has the blessing to guard her mother every day, let her mother take care of you, and there is nothing wrong with it." You're fine, it's closer, but I'm not going to be it, you don't know, I'm living a ridiculous life. ”

One sentence made Mrs. Zhu laugh, and she only scolded her: "How old are you, you are still messing around in front of me, and you are not afraid that your nephews and nieces will laugh at you!"

There was such a divergence, and Jiang also stopped talking. Only later, as soon as she heard the voice, not only Zhu Yanmei, but even the three members of the Cheng family had to stay at the Zhu family for dinner, and she was unhappy again, so she brought a little bit out of her face. She didn't say anything bad, only greeted them lightly, and said that the shop in front was too busy, so she turned her head and went out to shop.

As soon as the man went out, it didn't look like he was going to turn back.

After a while, although there was still daylight outside, the sky began to get cold as soon as the hour and night began, and Mrs. Zhu didn't stop, shouting Zhu Yanmei to take Zhu Sanbao back to the house. Zhu Zilan had already thrown down the embroidery and returned to her room.

Li frowned and looked at the courtyard in front of him, didn't say anything, got up and walked to the kitchen spontaneously.

When the Li family agreed to stay before, Hongzhu thought of such a situation. When I arrived at my grandmother's uncle's house, it was very common to help out and cook a meal, and Hongzhu was not unwilling to work. But why did everyone in the Zhu family think that it was a matter of course for her mother Li to cook and serve their family?

Hongzhu held her breath and raised her voice in the courtyard: "Mother, why are you going?"

Li Shi was a little strange when he heard this question, and he didn't pay attention to anything, so he replied, "I'll cook." ”

Hongzhu was surprised: "Mother, what about our relatives, grandma left us to eat, do you still have to do it?"

The Li family, who is a little daughter-in-law of others, really didn't have the consciousness of treating herself as a guest, and was stunned by Hongzhu's question, and only replied: "It doesn't matter if anyone does it, I see that your aunt is busy there." ”

Hongzhu also followed to the kitchen, but the footsteps moved very slowly, and she said very worriedly: "Also, the eldest aunt used to be very busy, and she couldn't see anyone if she didn't shout when she got to the meal." I don't know how I've been eating here for the past two days, but don't go back and make some simple pastries to fool people. ”

Hongzhu knows Jiang's craftsmanship, and the Jiang family says that it is a poetry and book heirloom, and raising a daughter is indispensable for cooking. Jiang married into the Zhu family, and at that time, the Zhu family had only one daughter-in-law, and Jiang worked food, and no one else could say that she was bad. But later Zhu Guifang married a wife, and then the Li family also came to the Zhu family, Jiang was the eldest sister-in-law, and there was someone to call her underneath, so she went to the kitchen to put on a show, and it was no longer her turn to do dirty work.

In the past two years, the Li family has lived in the Zhu family by virtue of affection, and the Jiang family has more confidence to arouse people. Now don't say anything about the smug dishes, Jiang can only cook porridge and scald noodles when she enters the kitchen, and she can't make fine things anymore.

Therefore, Hongzhu's speculation is very clear-sighted.

Li somewhat understood that his daughter was unhappy, and sighed, although it was not good to follow her to say bad things about Jiang, but he was not willing to reprimand his daughter.

Hongzhu winked at her while hiding from someone, but corrected her mouth and said: "Mother, in my opinion, this is not possible, the uncle is earning a livelihood in front of him, and he can't lose his stomach, and the grandmother is old and the three treasures are still young, and now Brother Boxiu is still raising it at home, and this matter of presiding over the feed is even more important." With a cold pot and a cold stove at home, who has a comfortable life?"

What she said was that Mrs. Zhu also felt slapped in the face when she heard this, she was a serious wife in the family, and she couldn't cook in the kitchen for her family, who didn't feel surprised when she heard it. Could it be that she is still a noble wife in the Gaomen compound.

And Zhu Yanmei has more ideas in her heart, she lives in her mother's house, and it happens that Li's Hongzhu and they are here today, and they also have a person to work. If they weren't there in the future, wouldn't she have to cook by herself when she came? Zhu Yanmei didn't want to be so biased towards the Jiang family and be so used to her.

So she also echoed Hongzhu and said a few worried words, and whispered: "Mother, sister-in-law doesn't even cook, do you dare to give a look? ”

After the previous incident of Jiang's waist stiffening and facing her, Mrs. Zhu had a lot of ideas about subduing Jiang. Let Zhu Yanmei go to the front and call Jiang to come back and cook!

Mrs. Zhu spoke, and Hongzhu pulled Li back to the hall quietly.

Zhu Yanmei went out to call people, but even Zhu Guida followed Jiang in.

I don't know what Jiang said to him, Zhu Guida still had some doubts and annoyance on his face, "Mother, there is still a mess ahead, what is the urgency?" I listened to Yanmei, and this sister-in-law talked about her sister-in-law again. ”

Zhu Yanmei suddenly put on an aggrieved look.

Mrs. Zhu was just putting on a show to make her mother-in-law majestic, but when she saw that Zhu Guida was still protecting the Jiang family, she blamed Zhu Yanmei, and she immediately became really angry, and only scolded Jiang Shi: "Now you are more and more out of tune! I think that the Chinese New Year has just passed, and I don't have time to talk about you in the mess at home these days, but now my sister-in-law is here, An Niang and they are also here, and the family is waiting for you to greet you, so you are still lazy to go forward? Could it be that you are still waiting for me to prepare a meal and wait for you to eat?"

Where did the Jiang family dare to respond to this, he just said that he was busy for a while and couldn't be idle.

Mrs. Zhu said again: "Now that An Niang is out, you will take the big one, can I really rely on you alone?" Seeing that Zhu Guida was about to speak, she scolded again: "The boss is also used to you now!"

Zhu Guida won't talk about it.

Old Mrs. Zhu snorted twice, and then said, "When the second child comes back, let's see how you guys are still doing weird!"

Hongzhu felt rare when she heard this, why was her second uncle coming back for no reason?

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