After the meal, Li took a few children to the house to check the New Year's gift for his mother's family. In front of his heels, a pile of things was piled up in a mess, and for fear that the four-colored fruit would be crushed in the sack, it turned out from the bottom and trapped it firmly with a red rope.

Chen Xuejiao specially left a jar of salt duck eggs for her grandmother's house, washed the salt on it, cooked it, and put it together with the four-color fruit.

In the midst of the chaos, the brothers and sisters Chen Qilin and Chen Xueyao from the second room came in.

"Oh, my aunt's New Year's goods are really abundant." Xue Yao was smiling, with a pretty face full of joy.

On such a cold day, Xue Yao was wearing a long skirt with a hundred flowers, all kinds of flowers were stacked along the gauze skirt in turn, and many plum blossoms on the skirt followed her movement to fall, and a green brocade feather satin cloak was put on the outside. A handful of green silk is pulled up with a silver card comb and a butterfly hairpin is inserted, and only a layer of rouge is rubbed on the face, making the skin more delicate and soft.

Chen Qilin was wearing a black satin robe, with a silver trim exposed inside the robe, and this jade pendant was pinned to his waist. He saluted Lee, his eyebrows slightly raised, and his eyes raised to give a gloomy feeling.

&☆~小~SAY☆ANSHUBA~nbsp; It is undeniable that this pair of brothers and sisters is indeed shining in this farmhouse yard, not at all like being from a peasant family, but a bit of a big family.

Xue Yao was immersed in the Ding Mansion when he was a child, and Chen Qilin went to the White Horse Academy, getting along with those noble sons every day, trying his best to wash off the earthy smell on his body, even if he was dressed at home, he was still meticulous.

When Li saw the two brothers and sisters come in, they were dressed so gorgeously that they hurriedly wiped the chairs and invited them to sit down.

Xue Yao has been at home for so many days, and it is the first time she has stepped into the house of the big house.

Chen Xuejiao looked at it coldly, not knowing what the idea of the second room was.

"Qi Lin wears so thin, is it cold?" The Li family has milked Qi Lin for a while. Seeing him wear so thin, he really cares.

Qi Lin took a sip of hot tea and said with a slight smile: "I am often tired when I wear warm clothes, and the whole person loses his spirit, which affects his reading." I have always worn such thin clothes in the academy, and I am also sober, and I am not sleepy when I read and write. ”

Wen Zou wrinkled when he spoke. From time to time, he glanced at Chen Qi'an, who was sitting opposite. Chen Qi'an was wearing a gray new cotton clothes, the cotton clothes were sewn by the Li family himself, and the cloth was also cheesecloth spun by spinning wheels, although it was not as gorgeous as Chen Qilin's clothes, and he still couldn't hide his demeanor when he wore it on Chen Qi'an.

Chen Xuejiao rolled her eyes and swept over Chen Qilin and Chen Qi'an in turn, these few months. Both of them have grown up, and now they seem to be rare young men with outstanding temperament in Maoshan Village. In terms of handsomeness, Chen Qilin is better, but his handsomeness contains an indescribable gloom, and although Chen Qi'an is inferior in appearance, he has a brightness all over his body, and he has a simple spirit in the countryside, which is more amiable.

Li took the fruit and stuffed it into Xue Yao's hand. He said, "That is what you say, but you also have to take care of your own body." ”

He talked for a while. Qi Lin and Xue Yao were full of gratitude to the Li family.

It's not because the Li family personally cooked a meal for Qi Lin last night.

At the time of tea, Qi Lin got up and went to the inner room to talk to Chen Xiucai.

Originally, Chen Qilin didn't know that the dean of the White Horse Academy was Chen Xiucai's former classmate, but before going home this time, he knew about it by chance, so he saluted Chen Xiucai as soon as he went home.

In the past, the children in the second room never took the big house in their eyes. Although Dafang bought the land and made some money, this idea is not worth a glance at to Xue Yao, who is about to enter the Ding Mansion, just like the fly on the leg, and it is now upside down.

After the brother and sister left, Li gave Chen Xuejiao a few sighs. Chen Qilin has read the book in the end, understands the reason, and knows the etiquette.

Li's temperament is soft, his brain is tendoned, others give a needle and think it is a mallet, and the children in the second room show a three-point smile, she thinks they have changed their temperament. Chen Xuejiao wanted to pour a basin of cold water on the Li family, but she couldn't help it when she thought about the New Year. There was an exclamation in the courtyard, and Chen Xuejiao poked her head out. I saw the yellow dragonfly holding a bouquet of pink and white plum blossoms in his hand, his face flushed and standing face to face with Chen Qilin, who had a few residual flowers on his clothes.

The plum blossoms in the private school bloom well, and the yellow dragonfly picks a bouquet every day and sends it to Chen Xuejiao.

The snow in the yard was slippery, and he didn't see his feet clearly for a while, so he slipped and hit Chen Qilin, a handful of plum blossoms rubbed against his chest, and the black silk robe was full of crumpled petals.

The yellow dragonfly stood helplessly, unable to speak. Today, she is dressed up extraordinarily pretty, wearing a red plum blossom skirt with a carved silk jacket on the outside, reflecting the red plum in her hand, making the surrounding ice and snow lose their color.

"Be careful of slippery roads!" Chen Qilin picked Danfeng's eyes, opened his mouth lightly, and bowed his hand, "I'm sorry, I'm blocking the girl's way." ”

Flicked the remnants of the flowers on his body, turned around and walked towards the upper room. The yellow dragonfly was stunned for a moment, a few plum blossoms swirled and fell on the snow, she clenched the plum branch in her hand, and her heart thumped.

This scene all fell into Chen Xuejiao's eyes, she patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was okay that Qi Lin was polite to outsiders.

"Dragonfly." Chen Xuejiao walked out of the door in a few steps and grabbed the yellow dragonfly, her fingertips were cold, her eyes were dumbfounded, only when she was frightened just now, she took the plum blossom in her hand and comforted her, "It's okay." ”

Huang Dragonfly watched the curtain in the upper room lift, the figure of the black boy disappeared, and when she came back to her senses, Chen Xuejiao pulled her towards the north wing, and asked after a long time: "Who is that person?" ”

"My cousin." Chen Xuejiao only asked casually as a yellow dragonfly, and explained to her, "I studied at White Horse Academy and came back on annual vacation." ”

Huang Dragonfly didn't say a word, the discord between the second room of the Chen family and the big house is something known to the whole world, and she naturally knows it.

It's just that the young man is so elegant, if he hadn't held himself with one hand just now, I'm afraid that he would have fallen to the ground and would be covered in mud. There is an indescribable smell on his body, and the fragrance of plum blossoms, which is more and more lingering.

Chen Xuejiao took out a box of peanut nest silk candy and handed it to Huang Dragonfly, she took it and took a bite, this candy is her favorite food on weekdays, in the past, she had to praise it sweetly, but today she didn't say a word. I just felt tasteless in my mouth, and I didn't take one after eating it.

Chen Xuejiao is also strange. Ask her, "Why, you have always liked to eat, why don't you like to eat today?" ”

The yellow dragonfly picked up another one, bit out the peanut kernel inside, and chewed it carefully, saying, "It's because I liked it so much in the past that it hurt my teeth." I don't dare to eat it. He said as if to hide something, "But I still panic in my heart." ”

His eyes were staring straight at the plum blossoms inserted in the bottle.

Chen Xuejiao didn't doubt it, she really thought that her toothache was just a shame.

Chen Xueru and Wang Jing are embroidering handkerchiefs. It is not common to use embossed embroidery, first the cotton or waste thread is clumped together, the cotton ball is nailed in the embroidery pattern with thread, and some are sealed with thin silk on the cotton ball, and then the original stitch method is embroidered. This embroidery method is extremely complex and changeable, and most people don't embroider much, and they don't embroider well. Xue Ru is ingenious. The embroidery was still not satisfied, and a handkerchief was dismantled and embroidered. Jing Hao because he learned from his mother when he was a child, embroidered very easily, a handkerchief embroidered with snow, a red plum in the snow, lifelike, look at it from a distance, give it really the same.

Such a handkerchief is sold in the shop of the second aunt Wenying. Very sought-after. It's the New Year, and the big girl and the little daughter-in-law don't have such big rules. In my spare time, I often go to the town to visit, and it is common to buy a handkerchief and a headscarf. At the beginning, Chen Xuejiao put the window flowers that Jing Hao cut in Wenying's shop and sold them on consignment, but the window flowers that she didn't want to cut were sold out in a day, so Jing Hao started to sell the curtains.

Since the last time she set up a stall in the town to sell handkerchiefs, she met her father who went to Fireworks Alley, and she was never willing to go to the town again.

Consignment of handkerchiefs in Wenying's shop. Although the money is not much, it is an input in the end. The Li family was very generous, and let Jing Hao keep all the money for herself, and said with a smile that it was the money she would marry in the future.

Chen Xuejiao looked at the yellow dragonfly and pulled her into the inner room to watch her sisters embroider.

The relationship between the yellow dragonfly and Jing Hao is deeper than that of ordinary people. It's also because both of them lost their mothers.

The room was warm, reflecting the snow outside the window, embroidering, drinking tea, and chatting on the kang, which seemed very leisurely.

"This handkerchief is well embroidered, and the plum blossoms are really the same." The yellow dragonfly picked up the handkerchief in the basket on the kang and rubbed it carefully.

The plum blossoms reminded her of Chen Qilin in a black silk robe, and the juice of the plum blossoms stained his snow-white cuffs, and she didn't know if she could wash them off.

Thinking of this, his face turned red.

Jing glanced at her, the embroidery needle in her hand flew over, and said with a smile: "If you like, take it." ”

"Really?" The yellow dragonfly held a handkerchief, and her face was close to the side of the plum blossom, and her heart was full of tenderness.

Chen Xuejiao nestled on the kang, stretched lazily, and made a bowl of fried noodle tea to drink. She didn't know how to embroider, and she broke two handkerchiefs in a row, and she didn't have to do it at all. Li was worried that she would make jokes when she arrived at her in-laws' house in the future, and asked her to embroider a few stitches a day, but nothing else, and she would have to help her with her wedding dress in the future.

Xue Jiao promised in her mouth, leaving Li's eyes, and still going her own way.

At this moment, the curtain of the door was lifted, and a strong aroma rushed in.

Chen Xuejiao walked towards the door, only to see Xue Yao coming in with a piece of silk in her hand. "Oops, it's so lively." Xue Yao stepped into the door, and without waiting for others to say hello, she smiled first.

She has always looked down on these cousins, why did she come uninvited today.

"Jing Hao is getting more and more prominent, and so is Xueru." Xue Yao looked at Xue Ru and Jing carefully.

Both of them wore homely jackets, simple and simple, but also refreshing and generous. Jing Hao was born beautiful, with indescribable coldness and brightness hidden in her eyebrows and eyes, and a homely jacket draped on her body could not hide her elegance.

"Sister Xue Yao." Xue Jiao stood up and gave up her seat to Xue Yao.

Xue Yao didn't sit down, stretched out her hand to wipe the handkerchief beside Jing Hao, and looked at it carefully, her eyes were full of amazement, and she really praised it.

The visitor is a guest, let alone a cousin. Xue Jiao brewed noodle tea for Xue Yao for one night, and the smell of burnt fragrance filled the room.

Xue Yao sat down quietly and put the pink silk in her hand on the kang. took a sip of Xue Jiao's noodle tea, and gently knocked on the edge of the bowl with her nails smeared with bright impatiens.

"It's a bright silk." The yellow dragonfly reached out and wiped the satin.

The silk like water is laid out on the kang, exuding a soft and bright luster, and it is the best Suzhou and Hangzhou at a glance.

Xue Yao blushed slightly, leaned out, revealing her thin collarbone, pursed her lips and smiled: "To tell the truth, I came to ask for a good sister." ”

Jing Hao was stunned, stopped what he was doing, and said, "Ask me for something?" ”

Chen Xuejiao pricked up her ears.

Xue Yao touched Jing Hao's hand and said, "I know that my cousin's work is good, and the embroidered flowers and birds are really the same." I came to you because I wanted you to embroider for me."

Xue Yao's face flushed.

In an instant, the girls in the room turned red. They all know that this is going to embroider a wedding dress, and the daughter who has not left the cabinet is shy to talk about such a thing.

Xue Yao gritted her teeth: "I embroidered it myself, but because the embroidery was not good-looking, it was ruined by my scissors, so I can only take a young sister." ”

Xue Yao is going to Ding Mansion to be a concubine, and the entire Chen family knows it, but she just doesn't show her face.

Jing Hao's temperament has always been soft, and he can't see anyone begging for him, so he frowned slightly and said, "What does my cousin want?" ”

Xue Yao knew that Jing Hao, a girl who had not yet come out of the cabinet, was the first time to embroider a wedding dress. Spread out the pink silk and say it to Jing Haoting one by one: "You must tuck your waist, mop the floor three feet, embroider your clothes with a big red phoenix, and lock them with peonies on the side...... The peony should also be red, it must be a red silk thread."

Xue Ru continued: "The pink clothes with the big red phoenix will contrast colors, will it not be brilliant." ”

Xue Yao glanced at Xue Ru, the corners of her raised eyes had a hint of sharpness, and she changed to a soft expression and said, "It's okay, that's it, cousin, I believe in your craftsmanship." ”

doesn't explain why it's so embroidered, Chen Xuejiao's heart is very bright. The concubine is not as expensive as his wife, and she can only wear a pink wedding dress when she goes out, which is unbalanced in her heart, so she embroiders a red phoenix and peony.

The phoenix and peony have always been embroidered on clothes in the main room, and Xue Yao is demonstrating to the young grandmother of Dingfu.

It seems that she is really favored in the Ding Mansion, otherwise how would she dare to be like this as a noble concubine.

As soon as Xue Yao turned around, she met Xue Jiao's eyes, and the black pupils seemed to be able to see in her eyes, and she quietly shifted her gaze.

There was silence in the room.

Xue Wa's aggrieved voice sounded under the window: "Cousin, look at my water-red jacket, it was made like this by Xue Miao, you are skillful, can you help me re-embroider it, I have rubbed the flowers on it." ”

Xuewa's arm was not burned, and she felt sorry for her new jacket, and was washing her jacket under the window at this time. Blanched three times with boiling water, and carefully rubbed the pancreas three times, the vegetable juice on the top still could not be washed off, but the embroidery on the top was rubbed open.

She was distressed and angry, and deliberately said it loudly, in order to let the second room hear that she had been wronged.

Without waiting for Jing Hao's answer, he continued to sobble and said: "How can I have a good sister like her, go to be someone else's concubine, wear endless new clothes, and follow one after the other is broken"

Without waiting for Xuewa to finish speaking, Cai Shi broke off and said, "What maggots are chewing nonsense." ”

Xuewa was too frightened to speak. Xue Yao went to Ding Mansion as a concubine, which is a disgraceful thing for all the girls of the Chen family, Xue Wa can be nonsense if she doesn't understand, but Cai's understands that although she hates the second room, she can't use this as a pawn.

Xue Yao was still discussing what embroidery method to use with what silk thread to use for Jing Hao, and when she heard this, her face turned white and red, and her eyes were full of fierceness. (To be continued......)