Separated from the two sisters, Su Xiujin turned her head and went to her aunt's yard.

It was getting late, and before the lights were turned on in my aunt's room, the shadowy people were photocopied on the screen window, and the faint light threaded the needle.

As soon as the maid close to the aunt saw Su Xiujin coming, she said, "Fourth aunt, sixth lady is here." ”

The figure paused, and there was a sound of putting on shoes: "Jin'er?" ”

Su Xiujin entered the house, a woman greeted her, Su Xiujin frowned and said, "Why don't you light the lamp?" ”

The fourth aunt was a little cramped: "It's not that there is still light, I don't want to waste oil." ”

"It's better to spend oil than to waste eyes, if there is no lamp oil in my aunt's room, I still have some in my room, go back and let Cuizhu send it."

Su Xiujin skillfully took out a ceramic pot from the cabinet, shook it, left less than half a pot of lamp oil, poured half a spoon, took out a pair of scissors from the sewing basket, cut the blackened wick, lit the fire, and the room suddenly lit up.

"Does my aunt often work late?" Su Xiujin sat on the couch and asked.

The fourth aunt replied: "It's not too long, my eyes have been bad recently, so I have to go to bed early." ”

Su Xiujin sneered, and didn't know who to say: "Then yesterday I saw that there was still more than half a pot of lamp oil, and today there is only less than half a pot left." It's really weird. ”

The fourth aunt pinched the embroidery in her hand, and looked at Su Xiujin's eyes and kept dodging.

Su Xiujin's eyes swept to Xiao Jiu, the servant girl standing on the side, Xiao Jiu didn't seem to hear this, and she didn't move for a while.

Su Xiujin touched the two pearls in her arms, and wanted to use them to subsidize her aunt, and she could eat better. Now I have to pay for it, otherwise it will be wasted again, and there will not even be a sound.

Su Xiujin seemed to ask inadvertently: "Xiao Jiu, you said that it shouldn't be a mouse stealing lamp oil." ”

Xiao Jiu hung his head, unable to hear the emotion: "The fourth aunt's grandmother's house has been making trouble recently." ”

Su Xiujin sighed, didn't answer, took the upper in the sewing basket, and looked at it over and over.

When night fell, Su Xiujin glanced out the window, a lantern was raised in front of the third aunt's yard not far away, and the fourth aunt seemed to take a look, burying her head lower. Su Xiujin sighed inexplicably, it seemed that his father would not come again.

After sitting for a while, seeing that the upper in the fourth aunt's hand was mostly completed, Su Xiujin got up, the fourth aunt's eyes were full of reluctance, stood up, hesitated for a long time and didn't say a word to keep it.

Sent to the gate of the courtyard, avoiding those maidservants, Su Xiujin still took out some broken silver: "Auntie take it." ”

The fourth aunt excused: "You're about to get married, let's use these to add some jewelry and clothes." ”

Su Xiujin shouted in her heart, she will have to get married in less than a year, and when she leaves, who will take care of you? I'm afraid that without her, let alone lamp oil, even food will be less!

Su Xiujin stuffed silver into her arms without saying a word, turned around and left.

The fourth aunt still wanted to chase, but her eyes were not good, and she tripped under her feet: "Jin'er, remember not to pad the pillow at night, the rope on your knees must be tied, if you want to drink water, you must remember to mix some hot water-"

Su Xiujin became more and more anxious, and finally even wanted to cover her ears. With a trace of sadness on her face, what else to say, as early as three years ago, she was no longer her cowardly daughter, she was reborn, in her previous life, she was the enchantress of the country, before marrying the emperor, she was also the daughter of the Xiangguo Mansion, she was destined to be rich and noble since she was a child, she was talented, virtuous and famous, and God gave her unparalleled beauty, almost all the beautiful things in this world were given to her, including her most noble husband. She had no intention of fighting with others and robbing others, but she grabbed everyone's attention.

When he loved her, he was loved all his life, and his status was close to that of the queen, and even in the Nine Dragons Palace, she could enter and enter freely. He built a wine table for her to isolate the bustling city, and every night, whether he played the piano, she danced, or feasted on wine and food, her beauty and talent remained in the annals of history.

However, a qiē subversion was also overnight, she burned the wine table, in order to prove her innocence, the emperor who shed tears through the sea of fire, she asked him, the words repeated by the eternal demon concubine, which is more important.

He chose Jiangshan, but he didn't know that she never wanted Jiangshan to be comparable to her. It's just that he doesn't believe in her, so he can only lose.

Burned by fire, she thought she was going to be wiped out, but she didn't want to be reborn into a humble little girl of the Su family in Suzhou, in this life, she didn't have amazing beauty, only the fourth aunt who depended on each other.

The fourth aunt is a girl in the house, she has been serving the uncle, and she was accepted by the uncle once, but she can't change her temperament as a maid, she doesn't have a solid enough mother's family, and she gave birth to a daughter, so she can only survive in the cracks of this family. After the age of ten, Su Xiujin moved to an independent courtyard and divided a personal girl, Cuizhu, just thinking about saving the dowry and marrying safely.

Su Xiujin went back to Xiuge, Su Xiuli had already returned, leaving her the door, in the coat room in Xiuge, Su Xiujin slept in the blue gauze cupboard outside, Su Xiuli's personal maid just came out with water, and smiled sweetly at Su Xiujin: "The fifth girl left you a honeydew melon, and the washed one was put on a plate on the low table in your house, and the sixth girl should remember to eat it." ”

Su Xiujin nodded, motioned to Cuizhu to give her two money, and the maid did not shirk and accepted it obediently.

The melon was cut into small pieces and neatly placed on the plate, and Su Xiujin carefully put the two pearls in the small box and locked them.

Cuizhu asked, "Miss, why don't you make it into a hairpin?" ”

Su Xiujin said: "It's better to put away the things that the ancestors have rewarded." ”

Even she can see the flaws of pearls, let alone the ancestors, who have rewarded so many people, but I am afraid that the intentions will not be so simple.

I picked a few pieces of honeydew melon, wrapped them in a handkerchief and gave them to Cuizhu and asked her to take them to taste with the little sisters in the house. Cuizhu was naturally grateful, and after turning hot water, Cuizhu retreated.

Su Xiujin read a book under the lamp for a while, and the merchant family was not interested in reading, let alone a woman. All she could find was a few scripts, still with color pictures.

Pushing open the window, it was already late at night, and the entire Su Mansion was shrouded in night, with occasional chickens and dogs crowing, and the sound of unsleeping servants walking around. The hot water was half cold, and Su Xiujin stretched out her frozen feet and stretched them out.

The first snowflake of winter fell on the window lattice, Su Xiujin looked at it blankly, he grew up in the south in this life, and he had never seen snow in three years, this was the first time.

"What do you like? I will satisfy you. ”

"Snow, behold the earth turning white. Everywhere there was a white expanse. ”

"Good! Then I will build you a high platform, so that you can stand on the highest point and look at the snow. ”

Su Xiujin watched the snow in the palm of his hand turn into a drop of water, and closed the window with his backhand.

Hiding in the quilt, occasionally looking at the window, it's snowing, tomorrow will be the day of Su Xiuyuan and Su Xiuli's marriage. Su Xiujin closed her eyes.