Zhong Shi pointed to the bowl on the table, "Your second uncle gave you noodles, just in time for the hot to eat." ”

Hongzhu thanked him with a smile, brought it over to eat, and said, "I am hungry for this bowl of noodles from my second uncle every day, if I don't eat it one day, I won't be able to do it all day." ”

Zhong was happy when he heard it, "I have never seen a little girl with such a sweet mouth as you." Reaching out to her forehead, he teased her again, "You have a good temperament, and you are also handsome, and I don't know who will be able to please you in the future." I heard that the matchmaker came to your house a few days ago, did you talk about you?"

Hongzhu pretended to be embarrassed and glanced at her, but the words in her mouth were extremely crisp and crisp: "Second uncle, my father has been gone for less than three years, where did the matchmaker come to the door." What's more, I'll be thirteen after the New Year, which is still early. ”

Zhong frowned, and suddenly said, "Remember when your father was at the beginning of February, right? ”

"Yes, my mother is worried about it, and she will have a small event after the New Year. Hongzhu said, his tone a little gloomy.

"Alas, three years have passed, and I don't know which of the immoral bastards knocked Mr. Cheng back then, and now there is no result. Zhong couldn't help but sigh again, and then said, "Even so, you should talk about your affairs slowly." ”

Hongzhu smiled: "Okay, if there is a good one, wait for the second uncle to be the matchmaker." ”

When Aunt Gu heard this, she teased her loudly and said: "You little girl, you are not ashamed at all, others can hear that they are talking about family affairs and immediately hide, and you still have a one, two, three talk in your mouth, and you also ask someone to be a matchmaker, very powerful, not afraid of others at all." ”

Hongzhu was not annoyed when she heard this, and looked at her and said: "Auntie, I can't compare with your eldest sister, I heard that her embroidery work has even been praised by the master of the Thousand Embroidery Pavilion, which shows that she is virtuous and virtuous." For example, I recite the mundane things of money and silver every day, but I am not able to do it. If others say it, it's their own panic, and I don't pay attention to it. ”

Aunt Gu was also a cool person, and she laughed when she heard it, "Yes, yes, I'm also an idler, so I shouldn't talk about this." ”

Hongzhu and Zhong both laughed.

Second Uncle Li was pulling noodles over there, but when he turned around, he said: "We are not those big families, and we can still let the girl not go out of the door, I see, Hongzhu is better, and she will live a good life at a glance." ”

Hongzhu answered: "I listen to my second uncle." ”

When Aunt Gu heard this, she smiled and said, "Your second uncle likes you, and it is appropriate for you to listen to him." ”

Hongzhu couldn't hear the meaning of her words, the cousin of the Li family was one or two years older than her...... Aunt Gu is noisy! Hongzhu didn't have time to think deeply, and suddenly laughed and scolded: "Auntie, you are still worried about Sister Niu! She will be fifteen years old in the next year, and there is no news at this time, so it can be seen that her mother is not careful." ”

Aunt Gu smiled and said straightly: "It's done, I won't recruit you." ”

After eating the noodles, Hongzhu neatly walked to the wooden basin next to Zhong's, rolled up her sleeves and took out the clean dishes and chopsticks stacked in it and put them aside, then poured water into the basin, and washed her dirty dishes and chopsticks first.

After laughing at such gossip, Zhong still asked Hongzhu quietly: "It's not your business, what is the matchmaker doing at your house?"

Hongzhu has always been close to the Zhong family, and she doesn't feel that there is anything to say at home, not to mention that she wants to hide it, and it should be spread all over the world in a few days, so she whispered.

In the spring of last year, Zhu Biyun, the eldest daughter of Uncle Zhu Guida, married the youngest son of the old Deng family in the east of the city. The Deng family and the Zhu family have been friends for decades, and they were originally prepared to ask for a pass after Zhu Biyun's June and Lu this year, but because of the autumn test, Deng Jinyu wanted to give it a try, so he delayed. The prefect failed the test, but Deng Jinyu got sick after coming back, and asked the doctor for a few months, and now it is winter, and it is still lingering, and I heard that people are too thin to look like a man.

Hongzhu's eldest aunt Jiang Shi inquired about the news, and naturally panicked, for fear that Deng Jinyu's life would delay her daughter Zhu Biyun. Therefore, in the past few days, I have found Mrs. Zhang to come to the house and discuss wanting to withdraw from my family.

"Retirement, we haven't encountered such a thing in Dachunfang in the south of the city for many years, where is the Deng family willing?" Zhong was taken aback when he heard this.

Hongzhu shook her head, "I don't want to." ”

Zhong frowned and thought for a while, and said, "The old Deng head of the Deng family is honest, but his sister-in-law Deng of the Hun family is a powerful one. And now the Deng family is different from the past, I heard that the old Deng Tou has a nephew with a wide range of hands, and he got acquainted with the nobles of the Zhao Shangshu family in the capital, and this Deng sister-in-law is even more unreasonable and has to be divided into three points. I have an idea, if you insist on quitting your relatives now, the Deng family will not be happy, and your cousin's reputation will not be good. If you don't drag it out, if it's really bad for Deng Jinyu, it's cold weather, where is he ...... If you want to drag it out for a few days, it's just that. ”

Hongzhu glanced at her meaningfully, "I don't know how to do this method." Merely...... My eldest aunt doesn't even want to bear the reputation of Kefu, so if she is willing to wait, she naturally has to hurry up and break it off first. ”

Zhong Shi was a little ashamed when he heard this, and snorted, "Only people like her think of such a good thing." Then he said: "You are not a family with her, this is her Zhu family's business, how to toss if you like." ”

"Hmm. Hongzhu answered, and when he saw that a guest was coming, he went over to help Second Uncle Li.

When Hongzhu returned home, the grocery store in front of her had already opened, and everyone in the family had also risen. She still entered through the back door, and as soon as she turned around, she saw that the Li family had moved several wooden basins in the yard and was washing glutinous rice, red beans and other things by the well. Her younger brother Cheng Wenhan was not there, so he thought he went to school early.

Hongzhu hurriedly stepped forward, "Mother, you can't touch the cold water, be careful and turn around and have a hand ache." I'll wash it. ”

Li Shi didn't let him, but said: "I did this little work." Your sister Biyun is busy working in the kitchen, you go and replace her. ”

The Zhu family's grocery store is really a veritable grocery store, in addition to the daily use of firewood, rice, oil, salt, lamp oil, fire wax, etc., all kinds of small things can be found in the store, and in the summer sells cold vegetables and herbal tea, in winter sells mountain goods and cured meat, and there are many things to meet the situation every festival. Just like this Laba Festival, in addition to boiling their own Laba porridge, the Zhu family also prepared several things to sell, so two days earlier, the Zhu family began to be busy.

Hongzhu looked into the kitchen, Zhu Biyun was cutting salted meat on the board, and there was still a fire burning on the small stove next to him, and the fragrance of egg custard was faintly wafting. Hongzhu saw that there was still a reconciled dough on the side, and knew that Mrs. Zhu, Hongzhu's ten-year-old cousin Zhu Zilan, and three-year-old cousin Zhu Shuzhi had not yet gotten up.

The breakfast of the Zhu family on weekdays was divided into two trips, and the first group of people to eat white porridge, steamed buns, pickles and other things, and then the old lady Zhu, Zilan and Shuzhi ate noodles and egg custard.

Hongzhu glanced at it twice, and secretly said that there was nothing to help with those few things, so he still moved a small bench to sit beside Li, holding his sleeves to help wash all kinds of beans. But as soon as she scrubbed for a while, someone spoke from the south window of the middle room next to the kitchen, "What kind of noble person is this, and he can't touch the cold water?

When Li Shi heard this, his body stiffened.

At this time, the New Year is approaching, people are coming and going in the grocery store, and a half-sized guy hired is going to deliver goods to the outside, Zhu Guida and Jiang are not at all in front of them, if it weren't for Hongzhu to respond to Uncle Li's stall, Mrs. Zhu would have called her up early every day to work in the shop. This labor, which does not cost money, belongs to the Cheng family, and Mrs. Zhu makes her happy! As far as her younger brother Cheng Wenhan goes to school, Mrs. Zhu also talks about the cost of money and time, and she can't wait to detain Cheng Wenhan and prevent him from going.

Now because of the red beads Cheng Wenhan is not satisfied, Mrs. Zhu has only one of the Li family, and she scolds in the house: "I use that expensive tonic every day to raise, what else do I want? Even I, a mother-in-law, don't have that life to eat." Now I don't want to do some work, it seems that our small temple can't afford to live in this big Buddha! Let's move there as soon as possible!"

"Mother......" Li Shi's eyes were red, and he couldn't argue at all.

And Hongzhu endured it, but raised her voice to speak, "Grandma got up? It snowed in the middle of the night last night, but it was really cold, and grandma slept well?"

For a while, Mrs. Zhu didn't move for a while, but she was obviously effective, Hongzhu smiled secretly, and said again: "Grandma, Sanbao is also awake? I'll bring hot water in for you, don't freeze Sanbao." ”

Sanbao is the nickname of Zhu Guida's youngest son, Zhu Shuzhi, and because of the old affairs of the Cheng and Zhu families, the rankings of their generation are messed up. Uncle Ji, Xiu Qi Zhiping, this was specially invited by Grandpa Hongzhu to start up that year. Uncle Zhu Guida gave birth to the eldest son Zhu Boxiu, and the second uncle Guifang gave birth to Zhong Qi, if ranked according to age, Hongzhu's younger brother is the third, and he should be called Shuzhi, and Zhu Guida's youngest son is the fourth brother, which should be called Ji Ping. But now Wen Han is a member of the Cheng family, so he even missed the ranking, and the third brother has become someone else.

Sanbao sleeps at night, and he sleeps with his father, but Zhu Guida and Jiang have to get up early to open a store, for fear that Sanbao will sleep alone and freeze, so Jiang will take him to Mrs. Zhu's house when he gets up.

As soon as Hongzhu mentioned Zhu Shuzhi like this, Mrs. Zhu replied, "...... Bring water in. ”

"Yes, Grandma. Hongzhu agreed, and went into the kitchen to fetch water.

Li sighed secretly.