Mother Xu listened to Ah Zhen's praise, her face was bright, and she introduced those dim sum and said: "I made it myself, and I also used Jiang rice flour to fill some walnut stuffing with bean paste, cooked and cooled, and it can be eaten for many days, in fact, it is also very simple." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Ah Zhen looked at the pastries, looked at Xu's mother, smiled, and didn't speak. Xu's mother was puzzled: "What's wrong?" ”

Ah Zhen smiled: "I see that my wife's dim sum is so good, unlike what is made by Shanghai women today." ”

Mother Xu also laughed: "Sure enough, I am a local [note], and my ancestor is from Zhenhai." Take advantage of the situation and boast: "Speaking of my ancestors, but there were governors, according to the stage, passed to my father's generation, looked down on fame, came to Huating to buy a piece of land to live, the heart is too real, during the Opium War, the field was donated more than half, and the court rewarded a tribute, what is the use now?" I only remember that since I was a child, I was particular about eating and living at home, and I was looking for those good recipes. Let me cook anything before I am allowed to leave the cabinet! Who would do this now? ”

(Note: The so-called "locals" refer to the residents of the suburbs of Shanghai, who are basically farmers, and are not the same as urban residents.) Here, Xu's mother confessed to her more rustic background, but the word "local" is an authentic urban Shanghainese, which faintly means that she has climbed up now. ）

Complaining and showing off, false and real, Ah Zhen only laughed, and did not go to the bottom of it, after listening to her, she said with Siling: "The eldest young master is looking for Miss, and Miss will not go!" ”

Si Ling's face was flat: "He is sick and bored and looking for me for recreation, I won't go." ”

Ah Zhen said: "Miss can wronged the eldest young master this time!" How do you know? The small movie machine that my uncle said last time, he sent it to someone, and he was just about to install it, and the eldest young master said that the second miss likes it, and the second miss must come to see it. Miss said that the eldest young master misses Miss? ”

Si Ling didn't make a sound. Ah Zhen knew her temper and waited with a smile. Xu Ning was so curious that he didn't dare to ask, he just looked at his mother, Xu's mother listened to another article in the words, thinking that they were a big family, Master Chen was born as a warlord, he had many little wives and children, he was jealous and robbed of family wealth, and the entanglement was complicated, others didn't understand, it was not good to make fun, and it made people unhappy, so he didn't intervene. Si Ling was silent for a while and asked, "Is it installed now?" ”

Ah Zhen said: "The workers are reading the design book, measuring the size of the house wall, and seeing how it is good, but it has not been done yet, and the young lady will not go again, but it is too late." ”

Si Ling took Xu Ning's hand and said, "Let's go and see it together." ”

Xu Ning was startled, her heart wanted to go, but she was just timid, silent, and looked at her mother with bare eyes, Xu's mother shook her head and said, "How can you disturb the house like this." ”

Ah Zhen also persuaded: "Now that there are screws, pieces of paper, and wooden boxes spread out on the ground, how can you treat guests in a mess, it is better to wait until they are installed, and what I asked my wife is to buy a few new cartoons from Great China and Lianhua Film Company, and give Miss to entertain guests!" ”

Xu's mother listened to it, and even more insisted on Xu Ning's defense. Si Ling's face was not happy, he thought about it, and said to Xu Ning: "Then I'll try it first, please come." You're coming! ”

Speaking sincerely, Xu Ning nodded unconsciously. Ah Zhen swept Si Ling's hair, and Xu's mother tied two more bags of dim sum and asked Ah Zhen to take them back, and said, "Miss's clothes will be sent after I wash them." Ah Zhen smiled: "Partial to the teacher." "I took Siling with me for a while. Xu Ning felt that there was still a fragrance in the room, like sandalwood not sandalwood, like musk not musk, it was contaminated by Si Ling, I don't know if it was foreign soap, or Western incense powder, incense tablets, so good, I was in a daze, and suddenly saw a head at the staircase, and I was so frightened that I cried out.

Mother Xu had already rubbed out her clothes in the yard to dry, listening to her daughter's screams, and when something big happened, she hurriedly ran back, and looked up at the foot of the stairs: "Isn't this Ah Kun?" A-Ning, what the hell is your name? ”

The boy on the stairs turned his face slowly, wearing ordinary blue cloth short pants, which did not fit, and the sleeves and trousers were shortened, revealing his wrists and ankles, slender like a girl, his face was yellow and thin, his eyelids were slightly swollen, and he was covered downward, and the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, with a little peach blossom. Xu Ning settled his mind and recognized that this was Ah Kun, the son of the Tao family's tailor shop next door, who often came and went. At this time, the silent cat came in, pestle at the staircase, it was from the window to see Xu's mother's newly dried Western-style children's clothes, the lychee-colored cuffs were pressed with coral red gauze lace narrow lace, condensed water, drop by drop, the sun shone brightly, the waist was narrow, there was a kind of pretty.

Xu Ning pointed at Tao Kun and complained to his mother: "He scared me!" ”

Xu's mother was inconvenient to intervene in the child's dispute, and Tao Kun asked Xu Ning towards the clothes, "It's not yours?" ”

"It's not. Why? Xu Ning asked.

Ah Kun was silent, his finger sliding over the railing, as if hesitating. There is that strange aura in him, as if silence is also silent, hesitation and hesitation.

Mother Xu asked, "Ah Kun, what are you doing?" ”

His eyes were on the bamboo basket he was carrying.

Tao Kun said: "Last time Auntie's bowl, my father asked me to come back." Thin fingertips lifted the lid of the basket. Xu's mother bought a big bag of field chicken last time in the countryside, fried it with green peppers, couldn't finish eating, and filled a bowl with a blue porcelain bowl on a white background to hold the pottery tailor, and now people are back, naturally not empty, washed clean in the bowl, a clean paper bag, wrapped in a thin rope, fragrant and refreshing, I don't know what is inside. Ah Kun said: "It just so happened that my relatives sent brick tea, and my father said that he remembered that Master Xu also likes to drink this, so he asked me to send a bag over." ”

Mother Xu calculated the price, several times that of the fried field chicken with green peppers, and hurriedly said: "What does the old killer like to drink, why do you remember him?" I still took it in my hand, put it in the cabinet, grabbed the uneaten snacks on the table and stuffed them into Ah Kun's pocket, and said ashamedly, "I also want to ask you to borrow an iron, our house is not easy to use, whether it is hot or not, ask your father to borrow an envoy." Then he went to the tailor's shop with Ah Kun and asked Xu Ning and the young man to look at the shop.

Xu Ning stared at the clothes drying in the courtyard behind the window, looked at the wall behind the clothes, the slightly exposed canopy behind the wall and the spire of the mansion, and thought: "Can her movie machine be installed, will she really invite me to play?" I was a little flustered, and then thought, "At least when her clothes are ironed, I will ask my mother for this messenger and send it for her, and then I can enter her house." Thinking like this, I was comforted, and I smiled slightly.