This year's New Year, when the snow suddenly fell on the morning of the first day of the new year, and the snow stopped turning cloudy after noon, people happened to go out to pay New Year's greetings to their neighbors. The morning of the second day was cloudy, and the women happened to go back to their parents' house. But after noon, it began to fall again, and after the morning of the third day, it rained and snowed, and so on for several days.

On the good day of the New Year, you can't be trapped at home by rain and snow, and those who travel to pay New Year's greetings still go out according to the previous plan. It's just that no matter how much protection they try, in the end they have to wear wet clothes and step into the doors of relatives and friends. The guests of the Ji family are the same as the wolf bèi entering the courtyard gate, so that in the garden, the women have more work to dry the guests' coats.

Ji Shuli and Ji Anning are determined to serve their grandmother, and in the past few days, the brother and sister have slept directly in the side room of Mrs. Ji, coaxing the old lady into the New Year, and the smile on her face has never been restrained. Ji Shouye pulled Ji Shuli aside to inquire, knowing that it was the Tian family's uncle's meaning, and seeing that his nephew was obviously willing to accompany his grandmother's side, he finally reached out and stroked the top of his nephew's head, and said: "You are only allowed to live with your grandmother these days, and on weekdays, you are not allowed to disturb your grandmother's tranquility." ”

Ji Li nodded happily, on a day like the Chinese New Year, people came and went in a garden, and he also felt that it was more comfortable for their brothers and sisters to live in the old garden than in a garden. Although they had to go to greet Mrs. Ji sooner or later, every time they had to face Mrs. Ji's weird aura of yin and yang, both brothers and sisters felt that it was not something that could not be tolerated.

The old garden is relatively peaceful compared to the first and second gardens, and after the guests of the family come, they will come to meet Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Ji according to etiquette. Of course, it's just that after meeting and saying goodbye, the guests will still go to whom's house. Ji Shou's husband and wife are not at home, there are only two children who are not at home in the three gardens, there are no relatives and friends, and Ji Shuli and Ji Anning are not happy to look at the relatives and friends who come and go in the two gardens to look at them.

The Tian family interacted with the Ji family in accordance with the general rules of relatives, and made an appointment on the sixth day of the new year, and came to the Ji family to participate in the New Year's reception with the big stream. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, in the morning, the weather was rare and sunny for a while, and after the guests came, they were all smiling and happy. After the two aunts of the Tian family and Tian Baizhen came to see Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Ji with everyone, Mrs. Ji politely opened her mouth and kept them talking in the old garden.

Ji Li was handsome at a young age, and Bushi specially made him a pink and purple scholar's robe, and when he put it on, the little boy already had a graceful posture. He saw the four uncles and cousins of the Tian family happily accompanying them, and went to the outer courtyard of Ji Shouye in a garden to talk. Bushi made two bright red skirts of different styles for Ji Anning, and when Mrs. Ji put on her New Year's clothes, she said with a smile: "Ning'er dresses up like this, it's really too pleasing." ”

Ji Anning didn't know that this current appearance particularly aroused the joy of the elderly and elders, she was a walking group, clumsy and clumsy, and had a natural cuteness. When Ji Shouye came to greet Mrs. Ji, he couldn't help but tease her to walk around the room and give him a reward. Ji Anning didn't mind letting them have fun, her body was a little more pumping than in previous years. I'm afraid that next year, if the family wants to see her now, they can only look for it in their memories.

The two uncles of the Tian family and Tian Baizhen looked at Ji Anning dressed up so happily, and the three of them happily looked around her, Tian Baizhen deliberately pulled her around the room, which made Mrs. Ji laugh, stretched out her hand and pointed at Ji Anning and said to the two Tian family aunts: "Ning'er is young and very filial, and with her here with me, I can't close my mouth every day." The two uncles of the Tian family squinted their eyes with a smile, and by the way, they flattered Mrs. Ji as a rare loving grandmother.

Mrs. Ji has a good impression of the two uncles of the Tian family, and she is very comfortable talking in one place. After the eldest aunt of the Tian family told Mrs. Ji about the fact that the Tian family had been separated, Mrs. Ji was surprised, and she also agreed: "There are many big trees and branches, since the children have already started a family, it is better to separate as soon as possible, so as not to get along for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some small frictions due to small things, but it will hurt the family relationship of the brothers and sisters." ”

The two aunts of the Tian family exchanged glances in surprise, the Ji family is headed by a big house, and I heard that the brothers and concubines get along extremely well, listening to Mrs. Ji's words, it seems that they are not as perfect as the rumors outside. Old Mrs. Ji raised her eyes and saw the looks in the eyes of the two uncles of the Tian family, she laughed and said, "If your tongue and teeth have been together for a long time, you may fight." People have been getting along with people for a long time, and their temperaments and behaviors are different, so there may be no right and wrong in the dark.

The eldest daughter-in-law of our family is generous and decent, and over the years, she has never cared about the gains and losses of the small family, which is why everyone has managed it harmoniously. But now she is a person with grandchildren, and her bowl of water is flat, but she also needs another person, as she grows older, she is sensible and generally knows how to advance and retreat. The second child in our family is the governor, and he has already told his brother and sister-in-law that after the New Year, his expenses for this house will be independent, and he can no longer take advantage of his brother and sister-in-law. ”

Mrs. Ji mentioned that Bushi was very satisfied, this daughter-in-law has paid too much for this family, she is already at this age, and she has also reached the time of leisure, and she has less thoughtful thoughts about the independent expenses of the second room. As for the living arrangements of Ji Li's brother and sister, Tian is the governor's person, and he took out the business profit of a shop.

Bu Shi quietly communicated with Mrs. Ji, saying that he would save those silver taels and use them on Ji Li's brothers and sisters in the future. They are the ones who are uncles and aunts, and now they can afford to raise a pair of nieces and nephews. Mrs. Ji's children are filial, and secretly they will stuff odd flowers for her. She has never had much expenses, and she has saved some private houses in her hands over the years, and when she is older, she is afraid that she will be in a hurry in the future, so she explained these things to her eldest daughter-in-law by the way.

After such a back and forth, Mrs. Ji and Bushi naturally got along with their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law one step further. Ning's usual treatment of Mrs. Ji is a face-saving feeling, Mrs. Ji is too useless in her heart, she can't control her husband's actions, she can't get the silver in her husband's hand, and in the end, she has to support her in a big house. Now that Ji Shoucheng insisted on living separately, she immediately felt that the silver in her hand was not enough.

She told Mrs. Ji about her hard work, and Mrs. Ji only listened to her once, and never admitted anything wrong to her in private.