In the past few days, the atmosphere of the entire Chen family has been relatively solemn. Chen Zichang's injuries gradually stabilized, but he still spoke inarticulately, he knew that he was ashamed and didn't talk much, lying on the kang all day long, even when relatives came to visit, he was sent away by Mrs. Chen because his injuries were too serious to speak.

Chen Wenying brought Zheng Huozi and the two children to visit, but Mrs. Chen didn't raise her eyebrows, and muttered behind her back that Chen Wenying brought too few gifts.

Chen Wenyan also came, and when she saw her brother being beaten in Fireworks Alley, her face was pale, because she had been laughed at by several concubines at her in-law's house these days. Mrs. Chen took her hand and burst into tears, and scolded Zhang San again.

Mrs. Chen didn't go out and knew that she didn't know what Chen Zichang was beaten outside, so she instructed Chen Zifu and Chen Zigui to go to a crowded place in the village to be defended by Chen Zichang, and said that they were framed by others.

Chen Zifu was pulled by Cai's and refused to go, and Chen Zigui confronted Mrs. Chen: "...... The things that are obvious are getting darker and darker the more they are depicted. "I was scolded by Mrs. Chen.

Zhao was lying in the back room, no matter how Xue Yao persuaded her, she couldn't come out, she couldn't give up her face. Mrs. Chen was inevitably depressed.

Thanks to being so good to you at all times, people have supported you in front of you, and now that your man is injured, you only care about yourself and don't care about men.

What should Xue Jiao do, but it doesn't affect at all. When I heard the discussion outside, I just smiled lightly and didn't take it to heart.

Master Qin came back from Yingchuan, and went to polish the ink for Master Qin every morning. Xue Jiao boiled tea eggs for Master Qin to eat, and Master Qin was happy to teach Xue Jiao and Jing Hao to practice calligraphy.

The crops in the field are almost finished, the corn is broken home, the corn stalks are cut, the soybean stalks are harvested, and only the last crop of cotton is left unpicked.

Mr. Chen is a good worker, and he takes his family to work in the fields all day until dark.

Mrs. Chen takes care of Chen Zichang at home, Xueyao Xuemiao takes care of Zhao, and Cai's is pregnant, so this year's labor force is less than in previous years, and the guys assigned to everyone are inevitably a bit heavy.

Chen Qilin doesn't have to go to the ground in the name of reading books, they are also students, Qi'an has to go to the ground, and Chen Xiucai closes the museum and works in the field.

Li is a capable man, one person can do the work of three people, breaking corn, cutting corn stalks, everything. Chen Xiucai completely eliminated the image of a weak scholar in the crop field, and together with Chen Zifu, he put the corn stalk at home.

Originally, the Zhang family was responsible for cooking, but Mrs. Chen disliked Zhang's sloppy and lazy gluttony, and after she secretly ate egg white noodles a few times, Mrs. Chen ordered Li to go home to cook after finishing the work in the field.

Li's personality has always been gentle, and he doesn't care about these things, but only said that thanks to Xue Rujinghao and Xue Jiao's three children, she helped her carry firewood and pick up water and vegetables, which saved her a lot of trouble.

One day, Li took Xue Rujing Hao and Xue Jiao to be busy in the pot house, and Zheng Huozi came with Dongping.

Xue Jiao liked this uncle very much and hurriedly welcomed him in. Zheng Huozi brought pastries to eat, in duplicate, one went to the upper room and gave it to Mrs. Chen, and the other was secretly left for Xue Jiao.

"Uncle him, why are you here?" Lee greeted.

"The family is busy with the autumn harvest, I'll take a hand." Zheng Huozi smiled innocently, "Dongping hasn't studied for the past few days, I'll bring him to work." ”

"Why doesn't Dongping study?" Li Shi took two poached eggs and handed them to Dongping and asked kindly.

Dongping smiled innocently.

"Going to school is not a piece of material, and following the eldest brother will also recognize words, and it is not enough to be blind. The eldest brother also agreed, saying that reading is not necessarily the way out, and the family's grocery store will be a serious place to eat in the future. Zheng Huozi grinned.

Chen Xuejiao thought that Chen Xiucai was not so pedantic.

"Uncle, you came to help our family work, what about the grocery store at home?" Xue Jiao asked.

"Your aunt and Niuniu are still at home." Zheng Huozi laughed.

"Every spring and autumn, I have to trouble you." Lee sighed.

"The eldest brother still has to sit in the museum, and it takes a lot of work to save the tiredness, I don't have anything to do anyway, so I have the right to help the eldest brother." Zheng Huozi said.

Xue Jiao's heart was full of gratitude, her uncle was such a good person, Mrs. Chen didn't want to see him, and the reason why she came to help with the work in spring and autumn every year was for her family.

Li cooked the meal, and after several people ate it, Zheng Huozi helped pick the food to the ground. Chen Xiucai, Chen Qilin, Chen Zifu, and Da Dan saw Zheng Huozi's warm greeting, and Old Man Chen raised his eyebrows and looked like a matter of course.

In the evening, someone came to the ground to look for Zheng Huozi.

It turns out that Zheng Huozi also has a hand in cooking, and he has a grocery store at home, so he is in charge of red and white ceremonies in the countryside when he is not busy. The person who came is Cai Jiujin of Cai's mother's family, Cai Jiujin, who is still Cai's cousin, just got a grandson last month, and this month is a full moon wine, and other people who handle red and white ceremonies are busy with the autumn harvest, so they found Zheng Huozi. At the grocery store, I learned that Zheng Huozi was helping her mother-in-law's house, so she hurried to the ground.

"I can't be idle if I find a few houses, and tomorrow the full moon will find you in a hurry." Cai Jiujin stood on the ridge and said.

"Uncle, I've found the right person now, my brother-in-law's craftsmanship is first-class." Chen Zifu greeted Cai's mother's family warmly.

Zheng Huozi laughed a few times, and then agreed, and Cai Jiujin, who was happy, shouted a few times Buddha.

After finishing the work, Zheng Huozi took Dongping to go back, and Li and Chen Xiucai stayed for dinner. Zheng Huozi said that he would prepare the dishes of Cai Jiujin's grandson's full moon wine when he went back, so he would not eat.

“…… Something occurred to me. Zheng Huozi said with a smile, "I heard on the street a few days ago that Xuejiao sells eggs made from tea, and the old man next door who sells oil tea says it is delicious." Xue Jiao hasn't been on the street in the past few days, and many people still ask. It just so happens that there is a dish in the full moon wine that is eggs, and they are boiled eggs on weekdays, so I don't think it is better to let Xue Jiao go the day after tomorrow to help make boiled tea eggs. ”

Xue Jiao's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she looked at Chen Xiucai and Li, meaning to go. In the past few days, I have been doing farm work in the field, except for cooking tea eggs for Master Qin, I haven't been to the street to set up a stall for a long time, and I don't have time to make osmanthus candy. There must be a lot of people who go to the full moon wine, so why not take this opportunity to let your tea eggs win fame, and sell them better in the future, and you can also use the reputation of tea eggs to sell other things.

"Xuejiao is still a child, what do you know." Li said uneasily.

"Since his uncle is here, he is not afraid." Chen Xiucai spoke.

Xuejiao big snake followed the stick, and hurriedly pulled Chen Xiucai's arm to thank him, and thanked Zheng Huozi. Before, Chen Xiucai had never been so close to the child, and no child pulled him to be coquettish, seeing Xue Jiao's body stiff like this, a father's tenderness rose in his heart.

Chen Xuejiao followed her uncle to the town, and Xueru and Jinghao brought two handkerchiefs and two pairs of insoles to the second aunt and Niuniu.

Jing Hao told Sù Li that he wanted to go home at night. Li thought that she was worried about Wang Baozhu, so he asked Qi An to accompany him. Jing Hao shook her head desperately and said that she wanted to go home by herself, and tears came out. Li thought that Wang Baozhu went to the fireworks field, and although she was calm on the surface for a while, she was inevitably embarrassed in her heart, and she could understand her idea of not wanting people to accompany her home, so she had to promise to let her go back alone, and asked her to come back when she went to the house to see.

The next day, Xue Jiao followed Zheng Huozi to Caijiazhuang, and met Xue Wa at Cai Jiujin's house, she came to give gifts instead of Cai's.

Zheng Huozi commanded everyone to build a wedding shed and build a pot, and he was busy all morning, and Dongping was also busy.

Xue Jiao guarded the stove to cook tea eggs, and everyone who had seen Xue Jiao in the town came around.

"Chen Xiucai's little girl, the eggs boiled with tea are delicious, I bought one to try last time in the town."

“…… That Chen Xiucai sat in the museum for less than twenty taels of silver a year, why did she still let her daughter do business? ”

"You don't know, Chen Xiucai's stepmother."

"One of their brothers went to Fireworks Alley and was beaten half to death."

Everyone was talking, but Chen Xuejiao was unmoved, guarding the stove to add spices.

This side went out of Master Qin's courtyard early in the morning, and did not go to the direction of Wangjiazhuang, but went to Qingfeng Village in the town.

She stood at the corner of Qingfeng Village, not daring to go in, for fear of encountering Han Xingjian. After waiting for a long time, the person she was looking for finally came out.

"Huang Gongzi."

Gu Siyuan went to Xuzhou Mansion, and Huang Sanlang walked out of Qingfeng Village alone with all kinds of boredom, and heard a coquettish voice calling him.

When I turned around, I saw Jing Hao standing quietly and elegantly in the autumn breeze like a plum blossom in winter, looking at him with an uneasy face.

Chen Xuejiao didn't know that Jing Hao, who had always been timid, suddenly had the courage to go to Huang Sanlang, and she was busy at the full moon banquet at this time.

The guests who came were all from the village and the children's families, and everyone heard that there was a dish called tea eggs at the banquet, so they couldn't help but be interested.

Xue Jiao was worried at the beginning that everyone's expectations for tea eggs were so high, what if he was not satisfied with the food, but he didn't expect that everyone's reaction after eating it was beyond his expectations. She thought that this was the ancient life, everyone was reluctant to eat an egg on weekdays, and suddenly ate tea eggs, no wonder she kept boasting.

Everyone's praise gave Cai Jiujin face, and Zheng Huozi should have been given three hangings of wages, but this time he was given two more hangings.

What made Zheng Huozi even happier was that the two guests who came to the banquet said in public that they would also ask him to buy a flowing water banquet when their son married next month. There are even a few wealthy families who ask where Xuejiao's family lives, indicating that they will go to the house to buy tea eggs in the next few days.

On the way back, Zheng Huozi gave Xue Jiao two pieces of money, and Xue Jiao excused herself and accepted it.

After spending the night at her aunt's house, Xuejiao found an excuse to go to the street in the morning. There are two pawn shops in the town, and Xuejiao is going to ransom the hairpin for the Li family. The first pawnshop said that it had not seen the hairpin depicted by Xue Jiao, and the second pawnshop said that it remembered the hairpin, but it was redeemed yesterday.

Xue Jiao asked the person who ransomed the hairpin what he looked like, and the pawn shop said that it was a little girl, and he didn't compare the girl's appearance for a long time. Xue Jiao only sighed.