Before noon, the sky was overcast with clouds, and the sun, which was still shining brightly, was obscured by the clouds.

Seeing that a heavy snowfall is coming.

The room was smoky and warm, and the snow was sitting cross-legged on the bed to draw patterns, and there were piles of various colored silk threads around her.

Chen Xuejiao looked at Xue Ru for a while, and knew that the piece of arrowroot cloth in her hand was a snow jacket made for Han Xingjian, and the two sleeves that she cut off last time were now connected again. Since Han Xingjian and Xue Ru confessed their hearts in Merlin together, Xue Ru's face has become more and more shiny, her eyes are clear and refreshing, and even walking is lighter than before.

Chen Xuejiao embroidered a handkerchief by herself, embroidered it for half a month, and embroidered half a peony. Although the needle and thread are not so fine, the color matching is much more advanced than before, with red petals, pink stamens, dark green poles and branches, which also have a lifelike charm when viewed from a distance.

"Cousin, your portrait is very detailed." Chen Xuejiao pulled through the patterns of Jing Hao's drawings and took a closer look.

She didn't draw this pattern on paper, but directly embroidered the outline on Ruan Yanluo, so she took great pains to make a mistake, and a whole piece of Ruan Yanluo was ruined.

"It's a portrait of the grandmother of Dingfu." Jing Hao raised his head and smiled, but the needle in his hand did not stop.

The bottom of this Ruan Yan Luo is as thin as a cicada's wings, looking at it from a distance like smoke, but such a light and thin soft smoke Luo on the auspicious clouds and shadows, the fairy spirit is sufficient, there seems to be a rainbow of light shot out from it, the rainbow light Chinese medicine king holds a gourd in his hand and steps on the colorful auspicious clouds, followed by countless little fairy children riding cranes, holding fairy peaches, respecting a hundred flowers, sparse and dense, as if walking down from the painting.

Outside the window, a cold wind blew in the thin snow, and soft smoke drifted in the wind. The painting of the king of Chinese medicine is even more vivid.

This portrait, because it was embroidered for the grandmother of Dingfu, and it was Ai Sister who personally sent someone to ask for it, although she had not seen Ai Sister, but Jing was grateful for her filial piety, and this embroidered statue was embroidered by herself without fake hands.

Thread breaking, needle grinding, embroidery. It's cumbersome. Jing Hao concentrated, very attentive, embroidered for so many days. It's just a silhouette. Rao is like this, the medicine king fairy child in it is lifelike through the outline, if it is embroidered, I don't know what the scene should be.

Chen Xuejiao took a look. praised it once, and pulled his handkerchief in annoyance and frowned: "Oops." It took me ten days and a half months to embroider half a flower, and if I embroidered a portrait like my cousin, wouldn't it take eight or nine years? ”

"Don't worry, I'm going to learn embroidery when I'm your age. It is not easy for you to embroider such a complex peony. Jing put down the needle and thread and pinched Chen Xuejiao's handkerchief. pointed to the peony on the top and praised it.

Although she knew that Jing Hao was saying comforting words, Xue Jiao made a happy appearance. With a big eye turn, he turned out a pair of socks that he had embroidered half a year ago: "Look, I also think this peony is better embroidered than half a year ago." ”

Chen Xueru and Jing Hao glanced at each other, suddenly smiled, and pinched Xue Jiao's cheeks: "That's not, who embroidered a pomegranate flower half a year ago and embroidered it into a meat ball." ”

Chen Xuejiao wrapped a half-embroidered peony handkerchief around her hand, pretending to pout and be unhappy.

"Sister." As he was talking, he saw Xuewa walking in with Xueyan in her arms.

"Xuewa is here!" Chen Xuejiao hurriedly put the silk thread on the bed inside, and took a thick cotton mat and spread it on it, Xuewa put Xueyan on the cotton cushion, sat next to Chen Xuejiao, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Xue Yan will learn to walk, only dare to hold people's hands, but dare not let go. She climbed on the mat for a while, Chen Xuejiao stuffed her with a milk soft snail, she chewed and ate it, suddenly smiled at Chen Xuejiao, grabbed Chen Xuejiao's hand and staggered and stood up. Chen Xuejiao saw that Xue Yan Yuxue was cute, so she supported her hands with both hands, supported her arms, and walked from one end of the bed to the other, having a lot of fun.

Xuewa was crooked on the bed, took the flower moon order carved by the wooden sign to play, engraved a poem on it, and read a sentence when she clicked a flower, which was still learned from Chen Xuejiao, and expressed December with flowers.

She has been familiar with this flower calendar with Chen Xuejiao early on, and this flower calendar is catchy, even those who walk the streets and alleys can say two sentences, when Xuewa is fine, she often comes to Chen Xuejiao, the two of them are in the house, Chen Xuejiao said the last sentence, she will pick up the last sentence, and she can play for a long time.

Speaking of April, the Peony King. Peony is in phase. Poppy full. Woody scents rise. Cuckoo returns. Tea Mingxiang dream.

Xue Yan has teeth, she can already say a few words, such a big idea people like to learn to speak the most, the delicate voice is like Huang Ying'er who has just come out of the valley and learned a few words with Xuewa, she can't say the whole sentence, word by word jumps out: "Peony...... Euphoric ...... Dream. ”

Seeing that she was tired of walking, Xue Jiao put her on a cotton mat, sat cross-legged and stuffed a wooden drum into her hand for her, and saw Xue Yan shaking her head and learning cutely, so she praised her: "Yan'er said so well!" ”

As she spoke, she pinched a croissant honey from the fruit saucer and stuffed it into her mouth, Xueyan opened her mouth to take it, and her smile drooled.

Xuewa put back the April flower moon brand, and took out another May one: "Pomegranate flowers shine in the eyes." More North Township. Late. It is fragrant. Mallows open. Shandan pre. ”

Sister Chun shouted and ran to the outer room, and the little person's head was full of beaded flowers, and she shouted: "Big girl, I want to eat meat." ”

Chen Xuejiao didn't have any good feelings for Wen Yan and Sister Chun, she frowned when she heard Sister Chun's voice, put a cotton cushion in front of Xue Yan to prevent her from falling, turned around and walked to the door to look outside, only to see Wen Yan wearing a new shirt and coming in with a smile on her face.

Li Shi sat outside, his eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and he smiled: "If you want to eat meat, it's not easy, let Shi go to the pot house and bring a bowl." ”

Wen Yan's face was full of smiles, and he stepped in front of the Li family: "The eldest sister-in-law is a rich wife in the end, and she doesn't blink when she gives a bowl of meat to Sister Chun." ”

Chen Xuejiao sneered, when the family was not rich in the past, Wen Yan came to her mother's house, and when did she not scrape a layer of skin from the Li family.

Chen Wenyan came to Chen's house five days ago and has not returned.

I thought she would mention Ji Qiping's matter, but I didn't expect that she hadn't mentioned it in the past few days.

Just when Chen Xuejiao and Li were wondering, they got the news from Erdan, and Wen Yan called him and Sandan into the upper room. took fruit and poured tea, and at the end asked Da Dan and San Dan if they would like to recognize her as a mother.

Chen Wenyan has never been attentive to a few nephews, and he is a little better to the sons in the second room, but he has never taken a straight look at the children in the third room.

Chen Xuejiao and the others understood after a little thought, Wen Yan is thinking about the child of the third room.

While Li breathed a sigh of relief, he was quite disdainful. said coldly: "Your milk is also a fool." She was messing around, and no one heard that her daughter didn't have a son. I want to pass on my own grandson. ”

"Grandma may not know this truth, but compared to her grandson, her daughter is more important in her heart." Chen Xuejiao pointed out Mrs. Chen's situation, "I'm afraid she will be difficult to do these days." ”

On one side is the grandson. On the one hand, she is a girl, if she is not difficult to do. Who believes!

Looking at these days, Zhang's didn't react, but I don't know if she knows Wen Yan's plans.

Chen Xuejiao looked at it coldly, the second and third eggs were still young. For Wen Yan's enthusiasm, I don't know what to do next. Wen Yan's abacus was really loud, and when he saw that Ji Qiping was impossible, he turned his head and started the idea of four rooms. There are many sons in the fourth room. There is no pressure to pass it, even if Old Man Chen stops it. As long as Zhang and Chen Zigui are willing, this matter will be a certainty. According to the temperament of the four rooms and two people, it is really possible to have a son.

Wen Yan is so young, and it's not that she can't give birth, why should she have the idea of stepping, Chen Xuejiao thought to herself, she was afraid that the relationship between her and Duan Erhu had fallen apart, otherwise it would be impossible for her step-son to pass over in a hurry.

"Sister-in-law, when will the house in your town be renovated? Such a big yard, and a flower shelf, I will take Sister Chun to live for a few days in the spring. Wen Yan sat down and had nothing to say.

Li didn't plan to give her face, and smiled faintly: "The yard looks big, we have a lot of family, and one room for one person is not enough." ”

A sentence choked Wen Yan.

Chen Xuejiao saw that these astronomical concubines came to the room from time to time, their mouths were like smeared with honey, and they would praise the tips of Li's two fingers, and she was a rich wife from the root; After a while, if Xue Ru looks like this, then the Han family is high; After a while, Kwa Qi'an looked at it as the material of the champion's list. Li endured nausea and listened to her Hu Zou, and after some words, her tired back hurt, and she didn't want to move.

Wen Yan is deliberately currying favor with Dafang, she knows that her foundation in the Duan family is now unstable, in case she is disliked by Duan Erhu in the future, the only one who can help her is Chen Xiucai. Don't look at this brother, he was not born from a mother's belly, but in the end, he occupies the position of the eldest brother, and Xiucai is the name of the county lord who has to respect him, not to mention that Duan Erhu has always gotten along with Chen Xiucai, and when he really comes to that point, he can only count on this brother to help say a few words.

As he spoke, the stone had already brought up the meat. This meat is pork belly, Qi Ping's favorite food, every day after school, Li will make a bowl and serve it to him. Thick knife meat, cut into domino size, boil oil flowers in clear water, take a big spoon to skim off the meat foam, take out the warm water, put it in the pot to fry the oil, add onion and garlic and cook until the meat is rotten, add spices, soy sauce and rock sugar to simmer in the pot until it is cooked, fill the root between the stove and slowly simmer the meat with thick firewood little by little.

Sister Chun saw Qi Ping eating, and wanted to make a fuss about eating, in front of Old Man Chen, Li was embarrassed, so she had to serve her a bowl, but the matter of a bowl of meat, Li didn't care. It's just that she is addicted to eating as soon as she eats, these days, she runs into the upper room every day to ask for meat, and Li is not good at caring about a child.

Wen Yan chattered endlessly, and Li listened absentmindedly, his brain was swollen, and it was difficult to drive her away.

"Sister-in-law, what kind of food do you cook at noon, Sister Chun, this child is not used to eating in the upper room, and she said that she likes the craftsmanship of the eldest concubine the most......"

The cheek is really thick-skinned, and before she finished speaking, Chen Xuejiao opened the curtain and walked to Li's side, and told Wen Yan: "Mother, my brother's thick clothes are only made and there are still two sleeves missing, and I will wear them tomorrow when it snows." ”

Wen Yan ate a soft nail and secretly hated Xue Jiao in his heart. She originally wanted to walk around with the big house to repair the relationship, Li is a soft, a little coaxing is enough, who knows that every critical moment, Chen Xuejiao jumped out and intercepted her words sentence by sentence.

Li Shi entered the room, waved his hand and muttered like a fly: "It's really annoying to her, like a fly, once it is entangled, it will never let go." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a "chatter" outside, and the door was knocked open, and Zhang's voice came in: "...... If you can't give birth to yourself, you will take away my son, what kind of heart do you have, the water spilled by the married girl, those three eggs are not a piece of meat that fell out of my stomach......"

Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of tables and chairs colliding and Wen Yan's wail.

Li Shi, Chen Xuejiao and others hurriedly walked out.

"You are raised by a little woman, you have the ability to give birth to one by one, don't be black-hearted and dirty, hit my idea." Zhang pulled Wen Yan's hair, and Wen Yan, who slapped him, couldn't slow down.

The floor was in shambles, the chairs were overturned, the tables were slanted, and the fruit in the fruit bowl was spilled on the floor.

Li Shi pulled forward, Chen Xuejiao immediately sank her face, they fought Chen Xuejiao couldn't care, but they couldn't fight on the territory of the big house.

Chen Xuewa, Chen Xueru, and Jing Hao followed Li forward, the two hugged Wen Yan's waist, and the two pulled Zhang's arm.

Wen Yan's hair was scattered, and Sister Chun next to her also caught Zhang's one, the beads on her head fell all over the ground, and she was crying with her fists, Zhang pointed at Wen Yan's nose and scolded, and was drunk by Chen Xuejiao: "You have to fight and go out to fight, don't dirty our family's ground." ”

"She wants to pass the three eggs, and the three eggs are not my sons." Zhang cried and scolded and was about to arrest Wen Yan.

Chen Xuewa and Chen Xueru pulled Zhang's family, Chen Xuewa smiled at Xuejiao, let go of her hand, and pulled Xueru away by the way, and Zhang's slapped Wen Yan again.

Don't look at Wen Yan's usual sideways, it is all supported by Old Man Chen and Old Lady Chen, if it is this fight, her small body is not the opponent of the five big and three thick Zhang family at all.

was beaten and pulled by Zhang's again, Wen Yan's face was lost, and as soon as he fell, he sat on the ground and cried.

"Her sister-in-law, what are you doing here, what are you doing?" Li didn't sympathize with Wen Yan at all, he just felt that she was doing it herself, but she still had to pretend to be a sister-in-law and pull her desperately.

"If you two have any business, we don't care, if you want to fight, go to the room and fight enough in front of grandma." Chen Xuejiao slapped the table with a cold face.

Zhang was stunned by Chen Xuejiao's momentum, and with a pair of hands that exploded, he wanted to pounce on Wen Yan, but he took it back, pointed at Wen Yan and said: "Xue Jiao is right, go, go to the upper room, go to your father and say, I see what you have to say." (To be continued)

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