Chapter Ninety-Two: Breaking the Threshold
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Sister-in-law Liu stepped forward to join in the fun, and said flatteringly: "Su Xiucai is really getting more and more promising, not to mention Xie Yuan, who won the first place in the examination, and opened a painting gallery, which will soar in the future, don't forget our Tanglin Village"
Ma Shi has always been unaccustomed to Liu Meizi's yang and yin face, she smiled and didn't give a good face and said: "I forgot who was there to tell right and wrong everywhere"
With a word, Sister-in-law Liu's embarrassed face was full of her no.
Liu Daqian couldn't sit still, he was persuaded at home, it's not the right time to come now, no, where to put the face on his face.
He made amends to Su Xie Yuan and the silly girl, and dragged his mother-in-law away.
Su Jin learned the news of Yuan in the exam, and it exploded in a pot in Tanglin Village.
In the afternoon, the whole village almost broke the threshold of Village Chief Su's house, and Su Yunshan wanted to play a game of chess quietly with his virtuous nephew, but he was also disturbed and upset.
Ma sent them away, and the room was quiet.
Yan Qing couldn't help but her aunt insisted on slaughtering the two chickens, saying that she was celebrating her husband.
In the evening, they had eaten and drunk enough chicken soup and returned to their homes.
I haven't been back for a long time, and the dilapidated rooms are still as poor as when I left, and the wooden gate of the wall courtyard has been cut down by someone, and the lock is still hanging on the door.
Yan Qing took out the key and opened the wooden gate.
The two entered the hall, Su Jin went to the study to find a candle lit, they looked inside the study, and saw that the tables and chairs were covered with a thick layer of dust.
"Husband, I'll rest for a while, I'll go get a basin of water and clean the house!" Yan Qing said and walked out of the hall.
Su Jin took the candle and put it on the table, followed his wife to the kitchen room, he lifted the wooden barrel that had been shelved for a long time and said to his wife: "The lady goes to clean up the bed, and the work of fetching water will be handed over to the husband."
Yan Qing saw that before her husband finished speaking, she had already walked to the courtyard with the wooden barrel, and replied: "Okay, I'll go get the futon out first."
The two of them were busy with their own work.
Su Jin fetched a bucket of water from the well, filled two basins respectively, and then brought another bucket up, and then took a basin of water and prepared to clean the house.
Yan Qing opened the old cabinet, and there was a musty smell inside, she beckoned to disperse the unpleasant smell, thinking that there was no bedding to sleep with tonight.
Su Jin wiped the tables and chairs in the hall and study, and when he came to the bedroom, he saw that the lady's delicate face was gloomy, and then looked at the futon placed aside, he understood and said in a low voice: "The dampness in the room is too heavy, and it is understandable that the bedding is damp." Lady, we're going to be in trouble all night!"
"Well, that's it!" Yan Qing smiled and got up and said, "Anyway, with a husband by my side, I am willing to sleep on the ground."
Su Jin smiled and was about to help his mother spread out the futon.
At this time, they heard the two of them enter the hall when they heard footsteps, and Yan Qing said softly: "Husband, let's go and have a look."
"Good!"
Before they walked out of the bedroom, an aunt's happy voice came from the hall: "Jin'er Xiaoqing, I'll send you a futon."
"Auntie!" Yan Qing said happily: "Auntie is really a charcoal in the snow, she anticipated what we needed, so she sent it to us."
Su Jin smiled and took the futon in Ma's arms and went back to the bedroom first.
Ma sighed: "In the village, there has been a mildew and rainy climate for a while, and your house has been empty for a long time and no one lives in it, so it will definitely get damp." No, I've got a futon for you to bring over."
"Thank you, Auntie!" Yan Qing took her arm and said, "Auntie has a heart for us"
"Hehe!
Yan Qing and his aunt sat down in the hall. Suddenly, Ma Shi remembered something and asked her, "You guys are back this time, but do you plan to stay a few more days and then go back to Lan'an?"
"I should go back tomorrow!" Yan Qing saw her aunt's reluctance, she said apologetically: "The gallery still needs me and my husband to take care of it, Uncle Feng is too busy painting alone, Sister Xinrong and Aunt Li are also enough for them to be busy, when we came, Aunt Li also took care of us, how dare my husband and I still be idle here."
"That's right!" Ma said happily for them: "The business of the gallery is important, if you have to be free, it is good to come back and see more"
Yan Qing nodded and smiled: "Definitely, both sides are important, I look forward to when my aunt will go to Lan'an?
"Your uncle is heavy, as long as he sits down, he doesn't want to move anywhere, let's take a look!"
"Listen to Auntie"
Yan Qing and Ma chatted for a while, and Su Jin laid out the futon.
Ma is an interesting person, and besides, Jin'er and Xiaoqing have been tired from returning to the village for a day, and the hour is not early.
She got up and was about to leave, and told the two of them with a smile: "You guys rest early, I'll boil porridge tomorrow morning, steam a basket of steamed buns, you sleep more in the morning, don't go too early, otherwise, I'll be in a hurry."
Su Jin and Yan Qing responded and sent her out of the courtyard gate, and the two of them turned around and entered the house.
Early the next morning.
They were still asleep, they were woken up by a knock on the door, Yan Qing turned over, hugged her husband and continued to sleep, yesterday was really tired, always felt that he couldn't sleep enough.
As soon as Su Jin saw Uncle Su come out to greet him, he smiled and said, "Uncle Su, the little nephew and the lady have come back to see you, how are you doing?"
"Okay! Okay!" Su Yunshan responded happily a few times, and when he saw the silly girl, he only smiled and didn't say anything.
Yan Qing saw that Village Chief Su didn't seem disgusted with her, smiled and saluted, and shouted with her husband: "Uncle Su"
"Okay!" Su Yunshan smiled, judging from today's situation, Su Xian's nephew and this silly girl's life is quite good, as long as Su Xian's nephew is not dragged down by the silly girl, he will not interfere with anything.
Su Yunshan invited the two of them into the house and sat down, brought tea and sent it to the hands of the two, still thinking about the remaining game of chess, and smiled at Su Jin: "Su Xian's nephew, it's just the right time for you to come back, come, our uncle and nephew have a good game of chess."
Su Jin took a sip of tea and put it down, looking at Yan Qing.
"Go ahead!" she laughed.
"Okay!" Su Jin went to Uncle Su and sat down.
Yan Qing saw that Uncle Su was in a strong interest in playing chess at the moment, and she was not good at taking out gifts to talk about things, so she wanted to wait for them to play chess before giving gifts.
She went out of the hall and saw her aunt at home, and now it was almost noon, and she thought, go into the kitchen to see if there is anything she can do to help.
She saw a handful of water celery on the ground that had not yet been picked, and she had nothing to do but could take it to the yard to pick the leaves.
"You?"
She leaned down, and before she could get the water celery, behind her was her aunt's questioning voice.
Yan Qing hurriedly turned around to look at her and smiled and explained, "Auntie, you're back, I see that the leaves of this dish haven't been removed yet, I think..."
"Silly girl, why are you back?, where are the Jin'er people?" Ma Shi carried a blue washed greens, and only then did he look from the back, as if he didn't expect it to be a silly girl.
Yan Qing smiled and replied: "Fujun and Uncle Su are playing chess in the hall! Fujun misses you, so he wants to come back to see you."
"The old man has finally brought Jin'er back!" Ma happily put away the vegetable basket and said to Yan Qing: "Don't be in a hurry to cook first, let's go!"
"Okay!" Yan Qing followed Ma out of the kitchen.
"Jin'er!" Before the Ma people entered the hall, they began to shout, she hadn't seen Jin'er for a long time, and thought that Jin'er had been worried about his uncle's wrongs since he left, so he didn't want to come back to visit them.
Su Jin dropped a chess piece, heard his aunt calling him, smiled with Uncle Su, looked at his aunt, and said with a smile: "Auntie"
"Hey!" Ma responded happily, walked up to them and smiled: "You see, as soon as you come back, your uncle will pull you to play chess with him, and you will be hungry!
"Why don't you have any good food?" Su Yunshan made it difficult for the next move, and he said impatiently: "You go, slaughter those two chickens, for the virtuous nephew... and a little clean wind to wash the dust"
"Okay!" Ma thought that fortunately there were two chickens at home, and they could eat rice grain without laying eggs every day, and they just happened to stew a pot of chicken soup today.
"Auntie!" Su Jin stopped her.
Yan Qing understood what her husband meant, and also stopped Ma Shi and said with a smile: "Auntie, the two chickens in the family should be kept for another meal during the festival!
"What's going on?" Ma ignored her.
Yan Qing stopped her again and said: "When the husband was on the road, he began to say that he was hungry, you slaughtered chickens and stewed chicken soup, you have to be busy for more than an hour, don't wait for you to be busy, the husband has passed the hunger pang."
"What the lady said is what I want to say!" Su Jin followed Uncle Su and dropped a chess piece.
Ma really couldn't resist them, so he had to agree to make a few home-cooked dishes.
Yan Qing then went to the kitchen to help her.
This meal made Su Jin and Yan Qing unexpectedly eat extraordinarily warm.
"Village Chief Su, Sister-in-law Ma"
Outside the house was the shouting of Sister-in-law Liu, and when Su Yunshan heard it, his brows couldn't help frowning.
Seeing the old man's unhappy appearance, Ma naturally remembered that if it wasn't for Sister-in-law Liu's coming to the house to sue Jin'er, the old man would not have said the foolish words of letting Jin'er move out of the village in anger.
She put down her chopsticks and didn't respond.
Instead, Sister-in-law Liu and Liu Daqian walked into the hall, saw them eating at home, and said with a smile: "Yo! Isn't this Su Xiucai coming back? The silly girl is also coming back together."
As soon as she came, several people lost their appetite in an instant.
Yan Qing thought back to those festivals with Sister-in-law Liu, although her mentality has relaxed now, but when she thought of humiliating her in front of the whole village, she still felt a little uncomfortable.
Sister-in-law Liu's enthusiasm was not reciprocated, she smiled awkwardly and turned her arm to the house.
"Hmm!" Liu Daqian's chest ached, and he was forced to laugh and said: "Village Chief Su, I was working in the fields in the morning, and I saw Su Xiucai coming back, and we chatted a few words!"
"Hmm!" Su Yunshan was much more comfortable listening to Brother Liu's words, and he said, "Sit down!"
"Thank you Village Chief Su, you eat, don't worry about us, let's talk after eating!" Liu Daqian sat down on the bench and said.
With Sister-in-law Liu here, where can they still eat, and the good warm atmosphere has been ruined.
Su Yunshan put down his chopsticks and chatted with Su Xian's nephew: "Good nephew, if Uncle Ruo remembers correctly, August is the autumn season, and a few days ago it happened to be the day when the list was released, I don't know if you can enter the autumn festival?"
Yan Qing heard Uncle Su ask about her husband's Qiufu, she glanced at her husband and smiled knowingly.
Su Jin replied politely: "I've been admitted to the exam."
"Hmm!" Su Yunshan also guessed that his nephew would not miss this year's autumn festival again, so he changed his comfortable posture and asked again: "How is it?
So asked.
Mr. and Mrs. Liu and Mr. Ma both felt nervous.
Su Jin smiled humbly and said, "I won the first place Xie Yuan in the exam."
"Haha!" Su Yunshan laughed, he really didn't mistake his nephew, and said happily: "If you hadn't won the first place Xie Yuan in the exam this time, you wouldn't have thought of coming back to visit us, right?
Su Jin smiled instructively.
Ma Shi said happily: "Great! Jin'er won the first place Xie Yuan in the exam, which can be regarded as fighting for face for our village."
Liu Daqian admires Su Xiucai very much, oh no, it's... It's Su Xie Yuan, hehe!
The embarrassed look on her face is nothing more than Sister-in-law Liu, in the past, she did not ridicule Su Xiucai and the silly girl, now that people have passed the exam, they must be going to make a name for themselves in the future, and at that time, they will not look for her to settle this account, right?
"Uncle Su, Auntie!" Yan Qing said with a smile: "When we came, my husband also specially asked me to buy a chess piece and cloth for you, I will go and get it now!" Yan Qing said and got up.
"Come on, come here, what kind of gifts do you bring, Jin'er has a heart for us!" Ma Shi couldn't close his mouth.
"It should be!" Su Jin said respectfully.
Yan Qing brought the chess pieces and fabrics, handed them to Uncle Su and Aunt Su and said: "This chess piece is made of agate, the color is smooth and bright, listen to the shopkeeper, there are also the benefits of cool summer and warm winter." Auntie, I don't know what kind of fabric you like, so I bought a piece of Shu brocade and a horse of woven cloud brocade, if you like it, next time I come back, I will bring some more."
"I like it, I like it!" Ma stroked the fabric, and the texture of the touch was a good material.
"Hehe!" Su Yunshan also couldn't put down the chess pieces in his hand, but when he thought of it, he lowered his voice and asked: "Virtuous nephew, Xiaoqing, these two things add up to a lot of silver, right?
Su Jin was thinking back.
Yan Qing took his words and said: "The silver, it was earned back by the husband and I with our ability, and we began to go to Lan'an, we were forced to make a living, or set up a painting stall, and later went to the mansion to paint, and when there was silver, the husband opened a painting gallery."
"Opened an art gallery!" Ma Shi looked at them and said: "Look at your current life, it is getting better and better, and you Uncle Su and I are very happy for you."
Yan Qing smiled, held Ma's hand and said kindly: "When Uncle Su and Aunt Su are free, you can go to Lan to rest for a few days, my husband and I will definitely honor you."
"Okay!" Ma patted her hand and said with a smile: "Xiao Qingzhen is becoming more and more sensible."