Lin Ziqing refused the invitation, which annoyed an older maid, she glared at Lin Ziqing and said coldly:

"Why are you so ignorant of what is wrong with this girl? Our old lady is the aunt of the current emperor, and if she can let you go to the house to admire the moon, it will give you the face of the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"This Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for folk families to reunite together, I am not at home with my relatives, why do I want to see your old lady, why do you still plan to come hard. Lin Ziqing sneered.

"Sister Qiu Ju, I think we should go back to the house and report this matter to the old lady, and let her make a decision!" said another maid in a low voice.

"Hmph......" The green-clothed maid named Qiu Ju glared at Lin Ziqing, flicked her sleeves and left.

All this was heard by Lin Shumei, who had just entered the courtyard, she listened to the conversation in her ears, and as soon as the two maids left, she hurriedly ran to Lin Ziqing and asked, "Qingqing, when did you know any old lady, and let you go to their house to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes?"

Lin Ziqing looked at her curious cousin and said with a faint smile: "I don't know any old lady, but if I'm not mistaken, I know her grandson, and you've also seen it, it's Ling Feng brought by Master Ling who came to us last time." ”

"Oh, I didn't expect that there would be a maid in their family? Look at the clothes and materials that the maid wears are better than the ones on me, then the Ling Feng family must also be a rich and noble family, Qingqing, you are lucky! Their family actually sent two maids to invite you to admire the moon, why did you refuse?"

Lin Shumei is really curious, the Ling family is not an ordinary person at first glance, if Lin Ziqing can be with such a family, it will definitely be of great benefit to the Lin family in the future.

"Sister Shumei, what do you think, I haven't even said anything to Ling Feng, and it's too fast to find the door! Besides, it's rare to have a Mid-Autumn Festival, and I must spend it at home." ”

"You're not afraid of offending their family!" Lin Shumei asked worriedly.

"Sister, don't worry, their family shouldn't have such a small amount of energy, don't think so much, it's not a big deal. Lin Ziqing said with a grin.

"I just think that we can't afford to mess with that kind of family, but I'm afraid we can't climb high!"

Lin Ziqing was a little stunned when she heard this, but she also knew what kind of person Sister Shumei was, and knew that she was doing it for her own good, so she patted her shoulder and said with a smile, "Sister, why don't you come to see me make wine, and you can also give me a hand." ”

"Okay, it just so happens that I don't have anything else to do, so I'll help you, I'll call my mother to help too. As soon as Lin Shumei heard that she was going to make wine, her face turned cloudy.

"Well, thank you then. If the third aunt is busy, there is no need to bother. Lin Ziqing said with a smile.

Lin Shumei nodded, this time she went back to the house, with a happy face, Xiao Liang was giving Lin Wennan the soles of her shoes, and asked busily: "What's so happy." ”

"It's time to make wine, mother, let's go help Qingqing! She said last time that the wine brewed will be divided into 100 catties for our family, and we will have money immediately, we can buy a house and a land, and then we will also buy two maids to come back, so that my mother will have someone to serve." ”

"You girl, what are you thinking about in your head? You also buy a maid to serve me, it is already a great joy for ordinary people like us to buy a house and land, and we still want to buy a population to serve, you want to be the eldest lady so much!" Xiao Liang said angrily.

"Mother, can't you think about it? Who doesn't want to be a daughter?"

"Don't think about those things that you don't have now, aren't you going to help Qingqing make wine? What are you doing here?" Lin Shuying also walked down from the attic, she was woken up by Lin Shumei's loud voice, and came down in single clothes.

"Well, sister, aren't you feeling unwell? Why don't you lie down for a while. Lin Shumei looked up and asked.

"It's hot and I can't sleep, so I'll go and see, I may not be able to do anything to help, and I'll come back after watching for a while. ”

"Then you stand far away and watch, you will be busy for a while, for fear of colliding. Xiao Liang confessed.

Lin Shuying nodded and promised: "Okay, I'll stand far away in a while." ”

This sake brewing is actually not that difficult, but because the amount is a bit large, a few people have been busy for a long time, and it is only slightly better when it is dark.

In the evening, in order to thank the third aunt and two cousins for their help, Lin Ziqing decided to cook more good dishes at her house, and then invited the third uncle to come over for dinner.

Eating in the hall of the middle courtyard, Lin Ziqing lit the candles she bought a few days ago, and the whole family had a happy meal, so tired that Lin Ziqing went back to the house early to sleep.

Early the next morning, I didn't expect someone to kill pigs in the yard, Lin Ziqing was woken up by a burst of pig-killing screams, and came out in clothes to know that the Li family on the other side was killing pigs, and it was intended for his granddaughter Li Yinghua to use personally.

In the end, the Huang butcher's family still did not retreat from marriage, and Li Yinghua still had to marry into the Huang family.

The people of the Li family are not stingy, and when the pig-killing rice is ready, they still invite the entire Shi Mansion to eat the pig-killing rice.

Lin Ziqing thought about it for a while and decided to go back and give Li Yinghua a little gift.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, she is going to go to the market to see if there are any grapefruit for sale, there are still very few fruits in this era, and she doesn't know if she can buy them.

If not, buy some meat and vegetables and come back to the third uncle's house, and let the third aunt go to grandma's place together, and eat Mid-Autumn Festival dinner at grandma's house in the evening.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I saw a woman chasing a child in the threshing floor in front of me, scolding and scolding: "You stinky boy, cheap bones, little thief, you dare to come to my house to steal things, see me catch you, I will kill you." ”

The woman held a bamboo broom in her hand, and chased after her while jumping her feet, and kept scolding.

The little figure was dressed in tatters, and stared at the woman with frightened eyes, but it did not run away, and seemed to be holding something in its hand.

"Forget it, the third daughter-in-law of the Xie family, Song'er is still a child, she must be hungry, so she will come to you to get some food, you are his third aunt, or take care of it more, just a duck leg, just pity him." A mother-in-law walked out of the courtyard of the Huang family, looked at the pitiful appearance of the little boy, and helped persuade her.

"Yo, Mrs. Huang, you are right, a duck leg is just a duck leg, and a duck leg is also a good piece of meat, and it costs a lot of money. Besides, he didn't talk about my own nephew, so I could take pity on him and give him a duck leg to eat as a little beggar? That is my Lan'er's favorite food. My family is poor, not as rich as yours, you see that he is pitiful, why don't you take him home and raise him as a grandson?"

The third daughter-in-law of the Xie family threw the bamboo broom to the ground fiercely, put her hands on her waist, and ridiculed the mother-in-law of the Huang family unforgivingly.

Granny Huang is old, her hair has turned gray, her ears are a little back, and she is not angry when she is damaged, but Song'er is not her own relative, and she doesn't know how to help him.

This child is poor, the adoptive parents are gone. and has no blood relationship with the Xie family, the clansmen of the Xie family don't want to adopt him, only let him fend for himself, when Song'er's parents left, some rice and fields left behind were also taken away by his brother Xie Yuansheng, and he gave Xie Song'er a bowl of vegetables and rice every day, just not to let him starve to death, but also starved a fat child into skin and bones.

Because it is not the bloodline of the Xie family, and this child has never gone to school, and he has no knowledge, the patriarch of the Xie family just asks.

Granny Huang is also powerless, although her family is not in a tight situation, but she is not a rich family, of course she can't bring Xie Song'er back to her home.

"What? When it comes to letting him go to your house for dinner, you don't want to, right? Then the duck leg I cooked was stolen by that stinky boy, and I didn't beat him right?" The third daughter-in-law of the Xie family raised her voice, and a few people quickly gathered around to see the excitement.

There are also people who help Xie Song'er speak: "It's all from your Xie family, even if it's not your own, it's the second child of the Xie family who has worked hard to raise him to the age of eight, and you brothers can't watch him starve to death, it's just a duck leg, just eat it, and it's not a big deal if your fat girl eats less." ”

"Song'er's child is really pitiful, if his adoptive parents knew that their brother treated this child like this, they wouldn't be blind!"

"The second child of the Xie family left more than a dozen acres of paddy fields, if they are all given to this child, even if they are rented out, they will not starve to death, it is really a sin, the eldest of the Xie family occupies all the fields, and he still does this unconscionable thing. It's really ruthless, if Song'er's child hadn't been hungry for a long time, he would definitely not have run to steal the food of the third daughter-in-law of the Xie family. ”

As soon as she heard that she was all talking to the little thief, the third daughter-in-law of the Xie family scolded with a blue face: "If you want to blame, go and blame the boss, he is too ruthless, what does it matter to our family, when he is hungry, he will go to the old man to eat, what's the matter with stealing my house? Let's go, you all go, the dog catches the mouse and meddles in things." ”

"The third daughter-in-law of the Xie family, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, you should accumulate some virtue. Someone spoke again.

"You are lacking in morality, there are thieves, you don't care about stealing, and you dare to scold me. The third daughter-in-law of the Xie family stared, she was a well-known shrew, so she refused to listen to these outsiders, and the clansmen didn't care, why did these people care about her, bent down to pick up the bamboo broom, and said viciously: "Don't get in the way, I will teach that little thief a lesson today." ”

Xie Song'er had been hiding in the corner of Shi's house, and when she heard that the third aunt was still coming to chase her, she ran over to Lin Ziqing in a panic, and just bumped into Lin Ziqing's waist.

Lin Ziqing listened to the excitement for a long time, frowned, pulled Xie Song'er behind her, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't be afraid." ”

Xie Song'er raised her stained face and nodded, looked at Lin Ziqing's delicate face with her black and white eyes, and whispered: "Sister, I didn't eat the duck legs, I didn't steal them for myself, I ate them for the aunt Ai'er in the village, she was dying, and she was lying in the broken thatched hut behind the Dahua Temple, she said that she had never eaten duck meat in her life, and she didn't even know what the taste of duck meat was, so I would ......"