Probably the first person to eat crabs, since the son of Wu carpenter, Dabao, came to school in the Wushu School, and several families sent their children to enlightenment one after another, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shen Zhuo has accepted seven or eight students, and the sound of reading aloud can be heard every day in the courtyard of the Qin family, that is, Xiao Yezi occasionally recited a sentence that Ximeng's mother chose a neighborhood, and the neighbors in the alley were idle, and they were also very happy to sit in front of Qin's mother's house, and Shen Zhuo's father and son gradually became familiar with everyone.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Yinsuo has been dead for 100 days, according to local customs, this day to invite monks to recite a day's scriptures, but Wang Yinsuo died in an accident, and secondly, Gu Sanniang and Xiao Yezi lived in Qin's house, so it was inconvenient to pay tribute to Wang Yinsuo, so on this day, Gu Sanniang got off work early, picked up Wang Yinsuo's favorite meals before his death and made a few plates, and carried the gold ingots folded a few days ago, and went out of the yard with small leaves.

At that time, it was dark, and in September, there was already a little chill in the morning and evening, and the people around had already settled down, Gu Sanniang found a sheltered place at the entrance of the alley, and silently took out the food in the basket.

Xiao Yezi is very well-behaved, she drew a circle on the ground, and helped her mother light the gold ingots burned to her father, looking at the flames that lit up, Gu Sanniang felt a little bitter in her heart, she muttered silently: "You dead ghost, you have been walking for so many days, and you don't know how to give me a dream to come back, it can be seen that you have no conscience." ”

Thinking of the relationship between husband and wife in the past, Gu Sanniang's eyes also moistened, and she said: "I always dislike you for being clumsy and useless, and after you left, I realized that there were benefits of men in the family, but it's a pity that I can't live with you, and I didn't add you a brother." ”

Xiao Yezi heard her mother's voice with choking, so she also shed tears, she knelt in front of the fire, threw a few gold ingots into it, and said seriously: "Dad, don't worry about you below, my mother and I can still get by, say a word that is not afraid of your annoyance, here is more comfortable than living in the tunzi before, now I want to grow up quickly, and then I can help my mother share her worries, if you have a spirit in the sky, you must also bless me and my mother are safe and sound." ”

Hearing her daughter's childish words, Gu Sanniang sighed lightly in her heart, at that time, Xiao Yezi was still in swaddling clothes, she and Wang Yinsuo were empty-handed, and every day it was as if they were looking through their eyes, thinking that Xiao Yezi could grow up earlier, but now Gu Sanniang wished that she wouldn't grow up, just because the only thing she could count on now was her daughter.

It didn't take long for the gold ingots to burn almost completely, Gu Sanniang looked at the smaller and smaller flames, and she said: "Master, you can use this money, if it's not enough, give me and Ye Zi a dream, I have suffered all my life before my death, and being a ghost underground will definitely not make you poor again." ”

Looking at the ashes that were gradually burning, Gu Sanniang and Xiao Yezi's mother and daughter were stunned for a while, until the wind picked up, Xiao Yezi shivered, and she said, "Mother, let's go back." ”

Gu Sanniang took Xiao Yezi's hand and entered the alley silently, but as soon as she walked to the door, a voice sounded: "The lamp oil was spilled, and I fell carefully." ”

Gu Sanniang and Xiao Yezi were not wary, both of them were bluffed, and when they stood still, Gu Sanniang heard that it was Shen Zhuo's voice, so she covered her bouncing chest and said, "Who should I be, it turned out to be Shen Juren." ”

That Shen Zhuo originally found that the courtyard door was not closed, he lit the oil lamp and was about to close the door, he saw a fire at the entrance of the alley, it seemed that someone was burning paper money, and then remembered that a few days ago I vaguely heard Aunt Qin say that the 100 days of Gu Sanniang's deceased husband are coming, presumably the person who burned paper money is her, so he thought about it, he was about to keep the door, but he didn't expect that one did not pay attention, and the oil lamp in his hand was broken, and the lamp oil was splashed all over the ground, Shen Zhuo was worried that their mother and daughter would slip when they came in, so they waited for them at the door.

There was no moon tonight, it was dark everywhere, Gu Sanniang couldn't see Shen Zhuo's face, but he was so careful, she said softly: "Thank you Shen Juren, you have a heart." ”

Shen Zhuo didn't speak with his hands behind his back, he looked at Gu Sanniang, and after a while, he said, "Gu Niangzi, you mourn." ”

Gu Sanniang was gloomy, she nodded, remembering that Shen Zhuo couldn't see it in the dark night, and said again: "Everyone is gone, what can you do if you don't mourn?" Leave the living, three hundred and sixty days a year, which day will be without food and clothing. ”

Shen was stunned, he looked at the thin figure with his eyes, and said slowly: "What you say is very true." ”

Gu Sanniang stopped talking, she took Xiao Yezi, carefully stepped across the door into the courtyard, walked a few steps, as if she remembered something, turned back to the figure and said: "By the way, this lamp oil should be covered with grass ash, so that Aunt Qin will get up and open the door tomorrow and fall." ”

"I can save it." Shen Zhuo replied and watched them enter the West Chamber.

Gu Sanniang returned to the West Chamber, she took out the embroidery shed and sat under the lamp for a few stitches, and saw through the window that the opposite door was open, revealing a bright light from inside.

Time flies, soon the winter solstice, in the Yuan country the winter solstice is as big as the saying of the year, to this day, the hundred officials boycott the dynasty, the market is closed, up to the king down to the people to worship the ancestors.

Jin's embroidery village also took a two-day holiday, as long as the people who worked in the embroidery village, each person was given two catties of pork and two feet of coarse cloth, but when he received the pork, something happened.

The housekeeper of Xiuzhuang, Guan Yongwang, took pity on Gu Sanniang's widow, and it was not easy to live alone with her daughter, so she deliberately left her an excellent piece of fat meat, who knew that Song's sister-in-law, who had always been at odds with Gu Sanniang, looked at the hot eyes, and insinuated in her mouth to talk non-stop, usually if she said Gu Sanniang's gossip, maybe there were still people who followed her, but today she was involved in Guan Yongwang, and the big guy's heart was clear, if he talked about other people's gossip, he worked under Guan Yongwang, but he still couldn't get along with him, wouldn't it smash his own job?

No one followed Sister-in-law Song to talk, then Gu Sanniang didn't hear it, Guan Yongwang is a big man, and he didn't bother with Sister-in-law Song in the end, everyone only thought that Sister-in-law Song said a few words, but she became more and more confused, after receiving the things, she said by name that Guan Yongwang and Gu Sanniang were not clear, Gu Sanniang was not easy to provoke, and sarcastically beat her with a gun and a stick, and Sister-in-law Song said that she couldn't say anything, so she had to stomp her feet in anger, and in the afternoon, Guan Yongwang's lady, Guan An, nicknamed the Patrol Lady Yasha, rushed to the embroidery village, didn't leave any decency, and gave Song's sister-in-law more than a dozen mouths, Song's sister-in-law was dumbfounded, and she didn't dare to fight back, and Guan An's mouth was scolded by □□thousands of hooves, forcing Song's sister-in-law to hide in the back of the treasury before stopping, everyone originally thought that Guan An's also taught Gu Sanniang a lesson, and didn't want her to find Gu Sanniang, looked at her for a long time, and saw that she was a decent person, not like those female goblins who picked on everything, but didn't say anything, and left with Guan Yongwang.

After a farce, Gu Sanniang carried pork home, because of the old custom of eating dumplings on the local winter solstice, early the next morning, Gu Sanniang got up as soon as the day dawned, she left half of the pork to hang on the stove, and the rest was chopped into minced pieces, mixed with a pork cabbage filling, a pork leek filling, and then a large pot of noodles, and so on after the small leaves got up, the mother and daughter buried themselves in making dumplings, and after a while, they wrapped a hundred, Gu Sanniang counted sixty dumplings, and sent Xiao Yezi to Qin's mother's house.

Not long after Xiao Yezi left, Brother Yu came in with messy hair, he looked left and right, and said, "Where's my sister?" ”

"Go to your Grandma Qin's house." Gu Sanniang smiled, she beckoned Brother Yu to come over, pulled a bun for his hair, and said, "Why didn't you study with your father today?" ”

"Dad said, the winter solstice is over, and the scholars also have to take a day off." Brother Yu shook his head and said, he saw Gu Sanniang's table stacked dumplings like ingots, so he asked, "Aunt Gu, are you making dumplings?" ”

Gu Sanniang touched his head, and she said, "There are a lot of dumplings made by my aunt's house today, you can also take them back and taste them with your father." ”

"That's great, I'll thank my aunt on behalf of my father first." Brother Yu'er's round eyes smiled into a crescent moon, he hadn't eaten dumplings for a long time.

When Gu Sanniang and Yu Ge'er were talking, the movements in her hands did not stop, and Yu Ge'er saw that she pinched her hand, and a dumpling was fine, so she praised: "Aunt Gu, you are really amazing, my father can't do anything but read and write, and when he was cooking yesterday, he cut his finger blood." ”

Seeing that Brother Yu'er was a villain who made up his own father, Gu Sanniang pretended to glare at him and said: "How can a son say that Lao Tzu is not good, this will not be said in the future, if people hear it, it is time to laugh at you for studying in vain." ”

"Okay, I got it." Brother Yu nodded and said.

After a while, Xiao Yezi came back, carrying a piece of mutton in her hand, which was a return gift from Aunt Qin.

After a while, Gu Sanniang and Xiao Yezi had wrapped all the dumplings, and when Shen Zhuo on the opposite side called Brother Yu to go back to eat, Gu Sanniang also asked Xiao Yezi to send sixty dumplings over, when Xiao Yezi came back, he was holding a drawing in his hand, and Gu Sanniang was cooking dumplings at that time, she asked casually: "What is this?" ”

Xiao Yezi looked at it for a long time, and she said: "Uncle Shen gave a return gift, he said that this is a picture of the ninety-nine cold, and when the plum blossoms are painted red, it will be the New Year." ”

Gu Sanniang leaned over to take a look, only to see a plum blossom painted on the picture, the ink marks on it had not yet dried, thinking that it had just been painted, she couldn't help laughing, this Shen Juren, gave them a picture of what kind of cold to dispel, and she didn't have that red pen to paint.

"Okay, hang it on the wall and come over and eat dumplings."

Xiao Yezi found a bright place to hang it up, and happily went to eat dumplings with her mother.

After the winter solstice, Gu Sanniang has a day off, it is rare to be able to rest for a day, but she has never been idle, a few days ago, she took a private job, it is to embroider a picture of Baifu for people to celebrate their birthday, it is almost finished, today is a good day, she and Zhu Xiaoyue took the child to work in the yard while basking in the sun, when the two were gossiping, someone knocked on the door outside, Zhu Xiaoyue raised his voice and asked: "Who?" ”

"Dare to ask Shen Zhuo, but Shen Juren lives here?" A man's voice sounded outside.