Chapter 68: Lantern Festival

Turn a few corners and you'll see lights not far away.

There were also more people, moving in all directions, no longer in the same direction as the flow of people on the streets.

In all corners, there are more snacks supporting stalls, and there are also some hawkers who carry, carry, walk, shout, and sell all kinds of gadgets for food, flowers, and grass.

The mother-in-law was squeezed away from Gu Xiao and Li Xiaonuan, Gu Xiao pulled Li Xiaonuan and let her walk in front of him, carefully holding her shoulders and protecting her.

Li Xiaonuan leaned on Gu Xiao's chest, only feeling warm and comfortable behind him, Li Xiaonuan turned his head and looked up at Gu Xiao slightly, Gu Xiao's two arms were circled in a semicircle, blocking the pedestrians who were crowding around, trying to separate a little space for Li Xiaonuan.

Li Xiaonuan leaned back slightly, hid in Gu Xiao's arms, and moved forward with him along the flow of people.

There was a loud and crisp shouting voice from the front:

"Selling Quail Dumplings"

Li Xiaonuan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly pulled Lagu Xiao, and said with a smile:

"Let's go buy dumplings to eat"

A hint of embarrassment flashed on Gu Xiao's face, and he lowered his head and leaned into Li Xiaonuan's ear and said:

"If you want to eat quails, let's let Mama Liu make it tomorrow, and I don't know if the things sold in the market outside are clean or not."

"Why is it not clean? So many people eat it, so we can't eat it cleanly? If you eat quail dumplings, you have to buy them here, and Mama Liu makes them, but they don't have this taste."

Li Xiaonuan held her toes, looking at the steamed bread stall in front of her that was densely surrounded by the crowd, her face was full of yearning, Gu Xiao smiled and shook her head gently, and squeezed Li Xiaonuan to the steamed bread stall, Grandma Sun and the two of them were separated by a few people, and hurriedly squeezed to Gu Xiao and Li Xiaonuan, seeing that the two had already crowded closer, she opened her mouth, thought about it, laughed, stood next to Gu Xiao, and did not speak again.

Li Xiaonuan held the purse in his hand, curiously looking at the things on the dumpling stall and the busy stall owner, the dumpling stall is a small car more than one person long, there is an oil pot at one end, the oil in the pot is smoking, the dumplings in the oil pot are swollen and swollen, happily rolling up and down, and at the other end there are five or six layers of boxy bamboo plaques, the top layer is covered with a clean fine white cloth, there is a bucket of bamboo sticks in the middle, four or five small tile pots with spices, and a thick stack of clean dried and soft dry lotus leaves.

The stall owner held a bamboo claw fence in one hand, neatly picked up a child's fist-sized, yellow-fried quail dumplings from the oil pot, poured them into the clay pot next to him, and lifted the white cloth covered by the bamboo plaque with the other hand, grabbed a few handfuls of steamed dumplings that seemed to be half-cooked, threw them into the oil pot, copied two with bamboo claw fences, put down the bamboo claw fence, grabbed a bamboo stick from the bucket, quickly wore the fried dumplings, and handed them to those salivating diners.

Li Xiaonuan stared intently at the dumplings that exuded an attractive fragrance and were tied up one by one by bamboo skewers with a short and thick "poof, pop" sound, swallowed saliva, looked up at the stall owner, and asked loudly:

"How much is a string?"

"Quail Dumplings~~~~~~ a string of ten texts~~~~~~~~"

The stall owner dragged his long voice and shouted in a clear voice.

Li Xiaonuan lowered his head, counted ten copper coins out of his purse, turned his head to look at Gu Xiao and said:

"It's enough for the two of us to eat one skewer, so let's buy one, okay?"

"Good"

Gu Xiao smiled and nodded in response, reached out to take the copper coin in Li Xiaonuan's hand, and handed it to the stall owner.

After a while, the steamed dumplings came out of the pot, the stall owner tied two, took a dry lotus leaf, and handed it to Gu Xiao together, pointing to a row of four or five dishes of seasoning and greeting loudly,

"This little brother, what mouth you like, you dip it yourself"

Gu Xiao looked at the saucer hesitantly, Li Xiaonuan pointed to the saucer that exuded a rich and mellow vinegar fragrance, and exclaimed excitedly:

"This this dips this"

Gu Xiao immediately dipped the steamed bun twice in the seasoning that Li Xiaonuan fingered in, connected it with a lotus leaf, and carefully handed the bamboo skewer to Li Xiaonuan.

Li Xiaonuan took the bamboo stick, couldn't wait to take a bite, sighed hot, nodded again and again, and said vaguely:

"Good...... It's delicious."

As he spoke, he turned around and raised the bite of the bun to Gu Xiao's mouth,

"You can taste it too, it sounds great"

Gu Xiao leaned over, took a bite, nodded again and again, bloomed with a smile on his face, swallowed with hot air, leaned over and took a bite, and said vaguely:

"Nuan Nuan, you're right, this taste, Mama Liu can't make it, it's really delicious"

Mama Sun was next to the two of them, looking at Gu Xiao and Li Xiaonuan with a smile, you ate the two dumplings in one bite.

Li Xiaonuan touched her lower abdomen with satisfaction, licked her lips gently, and sighed with emotion:

"It's delicious"

Gu Xiao looked at Li Xiaonuan with satisfaction, sighed comfortably, hugged Li Xiaonuan, and the two continued to walk forward with the flow of people.

The two didn't know how long they had been shopping, but Grandma Sun squeezed over and said with a smile:

"It's been a long time, and I'm going to go shopping, I'm afraid that the eldest lady and the second lady will be impatient, or else, go back first, and come back next year."

Li Xiaonuan smiled and nodded, handed the grasshoppers and grasshopper cages full of straw to the mother-in-law who squeezed over next to her, pulled Gu Xiao, followed behind Grandma Sun, and went back to the dock.

Gu Yunshan was standing anxiously at the door of the cabin, looking out, and saw the two of them entering the cabin with sweat oozing from their sideburns, and gently stomped their feet and complained:

"Look at the two of you, you don't know you're coming back when you play? What time has it been? Look back at night to make the ancestors worried"

Li Xiaonuan and Gu Xiao glanced at each other, stuck out their tongues with a smile, sat down in the armchair, took the tea served by the girl, and drank it urgently.

Gu Yunhuan pulled Gu Yunshan to sit on the chair, smiled and persuaded:

"You can come out like this once a year, with Grandma Sun following, how can the ancestors not worry? Okay, okay, let's sail and I'll be home in a while. ”

The boat docked to the dock, a few people returned to the house, and went to Ruixuan Hall to report their safety, and Mrs. Li sent a few people back to rest.

Out of the fifteenth, the Spring Festival gradually drifted away, Gu Xiao re-began to travel before the living arrangements, every morning and morning with Mr. Chen to study, in the afternoon with Mr. Lin to learn painting, the rest of the time, most of the time soaked in the Songfeng Temple.

Seeing that the first month was out, Mrs. Zhang personally went to the Gu family, took the auspicious date selected by the invite, and discussed the wedding date with Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhou, which was set at the end of March.

Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Li discussed the housekeeper, family, mother-in-law, and girl of Gu Yunshan's marriage, and discussed the manpower to be added, Mrs. Li listened carefully to Mrs. Zhou, and there was almost nothing disapproves, Mrs. Zhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief, her face relaxed, she took a sip of tea, and continued with a smile:

"Yesterday, when I went through these girls with Mama Zhou one by one, I found that a few girls in Xiao'er's yard are not small, Juying and Zhuzhi are seventeen this year, and Xinghong is also sixteen.

Old Madam Li looked at Mrs. Zhou with a slight surprise, and nodded with a smile,

"Or are you thoughtful, this is also the right reason, is there a candidate for this supplement?"

"Yesterday I discussed with Mama Zhou for a while, picked it over, and chose two people, one is the second-class girl in my house, Lumei, who is 14 years old this year, careful and dedicated, originally I planned to let her top Lan Zhi's lack, and now I still let her top Lan Zhi's lack, and call Xiao Er, the monthly example is still from my yard."

Mrs. Zhou explained with a smile, Mrs. Li smiled and nodded slowly, Mrs. Zhou relaxed slightly, and then said:

"There is another one is Qingzhi, who is twelve years old this year, the same age as Xiao Er, has a very good life, and has a docile personality, so let her go to Wutong Courtyard to be a second-class girl first, and the monthly silver is also supported from Chengxin Courtyard, so that it is not a violation of the rules."

"Angelica Angelica? Mama Zhou's second girl? ”

"Mother's memory is really good, it's her, this girl is a few points better than Lan Zhi, and her temper and personality are also very good, so it is perfect for Xiao'er."

Old Madam Li sat up slightly straight, looked at Mrs. Zhou without any emotion in her eyes, and nodded slowly for a while,

"You are Xiao Er's mother-in-law, what you arranged is naturally proper, but Xiao Er is still young, it is the age of study, you can explain it well, no one can distract him"

Mrs. Zhou was stunned and nodded hurriedly,

"What my mother said is very true, I am also afraid that people will distract him, so I am placed like this, my mother can rest assured, Lumei and Qingzhi have been with me for three or four years, and they are both honest and reliable girls."

Mrs. Li looked at Mrs. Zhou bitterly, lowered her eyes, nodded, Mrs. Zhou bit her lip lightly, and then said:

"Mother said about distraction, this is also my heart, Xiao Er is getting older and older year by year, and like before, I am mixed with Xiao Nuan every day, I am afraid that it is not suitable, after all, I am not a brother and sister of my relatives, for the sake of Xiao Nuan, I also want to avoid suspicion, I think ......"

Mrs. Li looked at Mrs. Zhou expressionlessly, Mrs. Zhou looked at Mrs. Li timidly, and swallowed back the words in her mouth, Mrs. Li stared at her for a long time, slowly turned her head, looked at the window and was still a withered flower stand, stopped for a while, then turned her head to look at Mrs. Zhou, and slowly said word by word:

"Xiao Er is not distracted, you only look at his studies in the past three or four years, how well Xiao Er has learned, you must also have a number in your heart"

Mrs. Zhou looked at Mrs. Li inexplicably, thought for a while and said:

"I think so too, Xiao Er is the only bloodline of the master, I can't say that the blue is blue, at least it's not bad, if it weren't for the fact that I played more in Songfeng Courtyard, I'm afraid that I would be able to write articles last year, and I also watched him waste his studies like this, so I was a little anxious......"

Old Madam Li's eyes widened slightly, and she looked at Mrs. Zhou in a daze

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