"Xue Jiao, if you eat this rabbit meat, the meat on your legs is tender." The third concubine, Feng, pushed a new piece of hare meat in front of Chen Xuejiao, personally tore a piece of meat on the leg, put it in Chen Xuejiao's bowl, and opened a bitter smile, "I know that you came to visit relatives in the second year of junior high school, and your third uncle deliberately braved the snow to catch it in the mountains, this rabbit is fine, and he didn't take the bait for several days after getting off the clip."

Just now Feng mentioned Chen Xuejiao's marriage, listening to that tone, it seemed that he wanted to give Xuejiao to Feng's nephew to marry.

Chen Xuejiao was quite dissatisfied in her heart, not to mention who Feng's nephew was, it was too disrespectful to mention this matter in front of Chen Xuejiao. In this era, unless it is decided, how can it be discussed in front of the daughter who has not left the cabinet, and the Feng family still puts it forward in a bright light. But because she is an elder and Chen Xuejiao is a guest, she can't turn her face.

Chen Xuejiao felt uncomfortable, so she had to endure it, and when she saw Feng's flattering face, she handed over the rabbit meat, so she had to thank her: "Thank you, little concubine." ”

The rabbit meat is very delicious, and when you taste it, you know that it is the craftsmanship of the big concubine Qiao, but Chen Xuejiao eats it in her mouth.

"San Lang doesn't deserve to hunt a few rabbits for his niece, you talk a lot." Old Lady Li scolded Feng for the second time.

Feng's face turned red, and a pair of eyes swept towards Chen Xuejiao's body very uneasily, and tears filled in an instant.

After Qiao's family, it was finally so lively that the banquet became cold again.

Old Lady Li spat on the ground, and Feng's body trembled with a weak look.

In Chen Xuejiao's heart, her grandmother has always been a kind old lady. She is deeply respected by Mr. Li and his daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law, and she treats her daughter-in-law impartially and relaxedly. Usually listening to Li's small talk, Mrs. Li has never embarrassed her daughter-in-law, and even when her son and daughter-in-law have a conflict, she will know that she is so righteous that she will stand on her daughter-in-law's side.

What's going on today? Why did he target the Feng family, and he still did it in front of everyone. Although Feng discussed Xue Jiao's marriage in front of so many people, it would not embarrass her so much.

Could it be because the Feng family married into the Li family for so many years and did not give birth to a daughter until last year. But from Mrs. Li's usual appearance, she couldn't see her dissatisfaction with Feng. What's more, Mrs. Li loves Feng's daughter very much.

It seems that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

To be honest, compared with the cheerful big concubine and the gentle and obedient second concubine, Chen Xuejiao doesn't like the third concubine Feng. Every time she comes to her grandmother's house. I always see Feng Shi with a bitter face, which looks out of place with the concubine next to her, and she likes to hold Li's hand and hide in the house to complain in a low voice. I remember that my cousin Li Chanchan once revealed to her that the conditions of the three concubines' mother's family were not good. Back then, I wanted to take the three concubines to change the eldest brother's relatives. The three concubines were going to jump into the river in a fit of anger, and they happened to be rescued by the third uncle who was driven to do carpentry work, so the three concubines' mother's family relied on the third uncle, fortunately, the third uncle liked the three concubines in his heart, and insisted on marrying her. The second elder of the Li family was dissatisfied with this family business, so he had to admit it. Feng is silent on weekdays and doesn't like to get around his in-laws. doesn't talk to her husband much, but she knows her husband cold and hot, and does not instigate trouble, and after a long time, the second elder of the Li family also showed her a sincere heart.

Feng has only one daughter, and she is always worried that she will be divorced if she can't give birth to a son, so she is extremely sensitive, and if something is wrong, she will cry all night. What made Chen Xuejiao's impression of her even worse was that she was very disgusted with her own daughter, as if she would get her hands dirty if she hugged her, and now this little girl was raised by Mrs. Li's side, and she didn't bother to take a look. Once Li returned to her parents' house, she took Li's hand and cried, crying that her mother's family embarrassed herself, crying that she had no son.

Every time Chen Xuejiao went to Li's house to visit relatives, she would especially cherish Feng's daughter, and at the same time feel unhappy that she was coldly looked down upon by her mother.

In this era, it is indeed a pity that a woman does not have a son, but in Feng's mouth, it has become a matter of life and death. Chen Xuejiao wants to have no son like her third aunt Cai, but people don't complain like Feng, even if Cai's tears are shed behind his back, he has to live with a smile in front of people. In addition, for her daughter, Cai's is different from Feng's, she loves Xuewa and Xueyan very much, so that her daughter dares to tear her face with Mrs. Chen.

Li sat next to Mrs. Li, facing Feng, seeing the third sister-in-law soaked in tears, Chu Chu looked pitiful, sighed faintly, and said to Mrs. Li with a smile: "The third brother hurts Xuejiao's children, it is a few children who are blessed, and people in our village say that thanks to my three good brothers and sisters-in-law, it was so difficult in the past, and they also came over with their help." ”

The Li family was very dissatisfied with the third sister-in-law telling Xuejiao to her nephew, their Feng family was confused, and their daughter was raised at home all her life, and she was unwilling to marry someone like that. I heard that Feng's nephew is only fifteen or sixteen years old this year, and he will not go to private school after two years, and he will either steal chickens or touch dogs all day long.

The Li family was angry with the Feng family, knowing that his nephew was acting like this, but he still wanted to allow Xue Jiao over. She also knew that it would be good for her sister-in-law to be half sincere to her sister-in-law, she didn't expect Feng to treat herself as her own sister-in-law, but she didn't expect that the third sister-in-law, who had always been honest, would calculate her daughter-in-law, so she couldn't help but be angry.

"It's right for my brother to help my sister, they have a problem, don't you worry about it." Mrs. Li stroked Li's back and added.

"What my mother said is that brothers and sisters should help each other." Qiao Shi laughed heartily.

"Sister, don't say this, I don't have to see outside." Wen pointed to a new jacket with a reed placket on his body, "If my sister sees outside, I won't dare to wear this new jacket you gave me." ”

One sentence made everyone laugh.

As soon as Chen Xuejiao looked up, she saw Feng's, and the whole banquet fell into excitement again, setting off Feng's extremely lonely and delicate figure. Chen Xuejiao noticed that she opened her mouth and wanted to speak several times. But he couldn't get it in.

Chen Xuejiao felt a little pity for her.

Feng's eyes wandered around the table, and when he saw that everyone was lively, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes. Suddenly met Chen Xuejiao's cool eyes, and just wanted to dodge, she saw Chen Xuejiao smile kindly at her.

Qiao Shi saw Feng Shi sitting at the banquet uncomfortable, angry and pitiful for her, and suddenly thought that there was still a pot of sweet soup stewed in the pot house, so he smiled and relieved Feng's siege: "Third sister, there is white fungus and red date soup boiling in the pot." Go and bring a bowl to your nieces. ”

"Hey." Feng Shi hurriedly responded, stood up and hurriedly opened the curtain and walked out, accidentally taking a bowl down. Half a bowl of sweet wine was sprinkled on Li Chanchan's skirt, but the bowl did not fall to the ground and break, otherwise the bowl would be broken during the New Year, and it would be unlucky enough.

Li Chanchan stroked the wine on her skirt vigorously. Gao Gao pouted: "This is the new dress my aunt gave me." It's up. ”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, just wash it left and right." Li Chanchan's mother, Wen, was afraid that Mrs. Li would be angry, so she hurriedly smiled and relieved the siege, "The flower magpie on your skirt drank this glass of wine, and there must be more good things for our family." ”

Mrs. Li originally wanted to get angry, but after listening to the words of her second daughter-in-law, she suppressed her anger.

Li Shi also hurriedly answered the call to relieve the siege: "I still have two such horses there." You like it too, and I'll send it to you. ”

"Look at Chanchan. One meal earned two horses of material for my aunt. Qiao's family has no daughters, so he treats Chanchan as a daughter.

Talking and laughing, he swept away the unhappiness brought by Feng.

If it weren't for that, Feng would have to cry to her husband again at night, and it would be difficult for San Lang to be caught in the middle.

Feng had been out for a while, and no one expected her to return to the banquet. The window was facing the mat, and as soon as everyone looked up, they found that Feng was standing in front of the grape trellis in the corner of the courtyard, wiping his eyes with a handkerchief in his hand.

Everyone pretended not to see it, but Mrs. Li had a dark anger in her heart, but she didn't have a seizure.

After a long while, Feng Shi came in again, took a large bowl of white fungus soup in his hand, divided it into two bowls and handed it to Chen Xuejiao and Chen Xueru.

After lunch, the men were talking outside, and the women sat in Mrs. Li's room and chatted.

The north wind was howling outside, but inside the house was as warm as spring. The Li family's house is made of large stones mined from the mountains, and the walls are very thick, which is much warmer than Chen Xuejiao's house.

“…… Did you come here today, did your mother-in-law say anything? As he spoke, he turned to Mrs. Chen, and Mrs. Li asked Mrs. Li with concern.

"What can you say? Since he cursed Qi An, he let go of the hall once, and he put his tail between his legs and became a man. Li peeled an orange, peeled off the white veins on the orange petals, handed it to Mrs. Li, gritted her teeth and said, "In the past, I respected her, but I only thought she was small-minded, but I didn't expect that she was not only small but also poisonous." ”

Mrs. Li sighed and said: "You should be respected, you should stay away, you will move to the town in the future, if you don't live in a yard, if you can't see it, you won't be able to give birth to a moth." ”

"That's not it." Qiao Shi said, "You four children are getting more and more promising, and no matter who you are, I don't dare to underestimate you." ”

As he spoke, Qiao pulled Li aside, and the sister-in-law bit their ears.

Chen Xuejiao pretended to look at the window grille, and quietly moved behind Li, pricking up her ears to listen to their whispers.

“…… Alas, when I said that I would say kiss after the New Year, he still looked impatient. I've asked Feng Matchmaker to quietly take a good look at a few of them," Qiao Shi looked mysterious.

"What do you think in your heart?" Lee asked.

Chen Xuejiao knew in her heart that this was to say goodbye to her second cousin.

"What did he think? When I mentioned this, I was worried, and as soon as I said that I would look at my daughter-in-law, he would blow up, and I didn't want to look at each other. I thought he had a crush on one in his heart, but Chanchan told me that Da Zhuang had asked her to send something to the dragonfly, and I knocked on the side several times, afraid that he had fallen in love with the dragonfly. A cloud of sadness appeared on Qiao's face.

Chen Xuejiao secretly laughed in her heart, but she didn't expect her second cousin, who had always been silent or swallowing, to fall in love with the yellow dragonfly. But to be honest, the yellow dragonfly is beautiful and delicate, I'm afraid that I went back to Weishan Lake and walked all the way, planting feelings in the second cousin's heart. It's just that I don't know if Huang Dragonfly has a second cousin in his heart, and he usually chats together, but he can't see it.

Although marriage in this era obeys the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker, Chen Xuejiao still hopes that her second cousin can marry a woman she loves and loves herself.

"Dragonfly, that girl is good, literate and hyphenated, good-looking, although she has no mother, she is also a good hand at housework" Li is happy.

"That's what I said, but I think the dragonfly is too thin, I'm afraid it's not easy to grow." It seems that Qiao's is not very satisfied with the yellow dragonfly.

Li Shi didn't have anything to say, after all, this was her nephew's marriage, and she could only give it to Jianyi, but she couldn't interject in the redundant words.

Just when he didn't know how to answer, Li was called over by the third brother.

Chen Xuejiao looked at Qiao's sad face, and thought to herself, sure enough, all mothers-in-law in the world are the same, and they all think that their sons are the best and need the best women to match.

However, since her cousin was interested in Yellow Dragonfly, she wanted to help her cousin, and when Dragonfly came back, she asked her if she had any other thoughts about her cousin.

Li stayed in Feng's house for an hour, and when he came out, there was fine snow in the sky.

Seeing that it was not early, after drinking tea, Chen Xuejiao's family said goodbye and went back.

"Mother, what did the three concubines say when they asked you to go over?" After getting into the carriage, Chen Xuejiao snuggled up to Li, put her feet into the quilt, rubbed her hands and asked.

"What else can there be, that is, she shouldn't say something she shouldn't say at the banquet today, which made your grandma angry, let me persuade your grandma." Lee said lightly.

"Then she doesn't think she you off?" Chen Xuejiao asked.

"That's right, she's going to accompany me."

"Mother, why did the third concubine tell me to her nephew." Chen Xuejiao endured it, although she knew that it was not a girl's family who said this, but she still asked it.

Li didn't blame her, his eyes darkened, and he hated her a little: "Your third concubine is just a fool, saying that her mother and sister-in-law forced her to open her mouth and asked her to find a daughter-in-law for her nephew, preferably a girl from her own family." I don't think she really wants to tell you to her nephew, she just asks like this, and when I see her mother's family in the future, she will have an explanation, and if her mother's family investigates, she will say that she asked, and we will not agree. ”

Chen Xuejiao only felt unbelievable when she heard this, and felt that the Feng family was too honest, so honest that she couldn't turn around, no wonder she would be pinched in her hands by her mother's family.

The carriage drove all the way to Maoshan Village, and when it was getting dark, I arrived at home, and when I arrived at the door of my house, I saw that the upper room had been lit.

Chen Xuejiao's family got down from the carriage one after another, and before they entered the yard, they heard a warm greeting: "Sister-in-law, I'm back from my mother's house." (To be continued......)