Li took Mrs. Li and the three girls to get on the bus to Xuzhou Mansion, which was hired yesterday and promised three cents a day. What is rare is that the Zhang family actually sent the Li family out with the Cai family, with a smiling face becoming more and more attentive, patting his chest and guaranteeing: "Sister-in-law, you can go to Xuzhou Mansion to go shopping, Qi Ping and Qi An will hand it over to me, and ensure that the soup and water are all prepared." ”

Zhang's family and Shangfang have one heart, and they don't see her smiling faces for a few children in the big room on weekdays. Qi Ping stood in front of the carriage with his eyes open, carrying his schoolbag, Zhang beckoned to Qi Ping, and hugged him affectionately, Qi Ping naturally didn't want to be hugged by her, and he got out of Zhang's fat armpit with his breath.

She pulled her cheeks and squeezed out a smile: "What's the matter, I live in a courtyard every day, and I don't recognize your fourth aunt and me." Li and Xue Jiao and the others hurried away, and they didn't climb with her, beckoned to Qi Ping, and then told the coachman to raise his horsewhip and go to Xuzhou Mansion.

As soon as the carriage left, Zhang complained to Mrs. Chen: "Dad is really, he takes care of things for me for no reason, I have to do laundry and cooking a day, and I have to take care of these two boys to eat." Why didn't my mother say a word, and asked me to send them out, my face hurt. ”

Mrs. Chen glanced at her and didn't bother to pay attention to her, this daughter-in-law has not been short of heart for a day or two. She also thought about it all night yesterday, and she had to get a picture for Wen Yan to send her son Guanyin, and Grandma Xianglian next door said that she was an old woman in her village, and when she was young, she burned incense to send her son Guanyin every day to ask for a child, and last year the old Beng Hanzhu in his sixties gave birth to a big fat boy. Sending a son Guanyin involves the heirs, which is the most difficult of all the Bodhisattvas to invite, and generally the fifty taels outside may not be sought, and Mrs. Chen has no ability to make up fifty taels of silver, but she has the ability to let the eldest daughter-in-law take it out without spending a child. This morning. She specially asked Zhang's to send Li out with a cheeky face, Zhang's stupid Li and her mother are not stupid, she must be able to guess that she asked Zhang's to see him off. The relationship is closer, and it is easy to ask for a picture of Guanyin.

"You will cut two catties of meat later, and you will go to the third child to get a catty of tofu." Mrs. Chen pushed the rice bowl, "Put leeks in the field, and I'll cook the leek egg cake at noon." ”

Zhang snatched half of the sauce elbow on the table and said loudly: "Mother is confused? It's so good to feed those two rabbit cubs. People made a fortune and didn't see anything for us. I heard that my mother wanted to ask my sister-in-law to ask for a picture to send Guanyin to Wen Yan, but the corners of people's eyes were so high that they didn't want to give it. ”

She said this too harshly. Li didn't like her in his heart, but he didn't miss her at all, since Chen Xiucai handed over the silver things, Li picked up two pieces of material and cut a new dress for each of her three boys. It was her, and the Li family also gave Cai's a peach blossom silver hairpin. Now she's wearing it on her head.

"Let you go, you go, why so many words? Pick up the fine and fat, if it is pork belly, it is better. Mrs. Chen didn't explain to her either. Raising his eyes, he took out more than 20 yuan from the box next to the kang.

This meat is not for the two rabbit cubs in the big house, and Wen Yan will go back to her parents' house today. Her favorite is braised pork belly and leek egg pancakes.

In the middle of the morning, Zhang rushed home after buying meat and stringing it with a straw rope. Seeing Wen Yan leaning on the kang and spitting melon seeds and spitting out the melon seed shell on the ground, he realized that this meat was for Wen Yan to eat.

Zhang put the meat into the stove, turned to the west wing and asked Cai for a pound of tofu: "My mother said to take a pound of tofu from you." ”

Cai's heart is on fire, is it easy for her and Chen Zifu to get a tofu shop when they are tired and tired? Every day when the chicken crows, he gets up to sift beans, soak beans, grind some tofu, Chen Zifu will carry two pieces of cake to the town to set up a stall as soon as the day dawns, in addition to the big house and the old man Chen, who has understood the bitterness of the three rooms in the courtyard, and the fresh soybean milk grinded every day will be filial piety to the two old men and two bowls of the upper room, and if you want to eat tofu, you will come directly to ask for it, and the small business will make a hard money, and no one can stand such a free meal.

"It's really unfortunate, the tofu has been pulled by the three of you to the town to sell today, and there are still two catties of tofu at home for Han Lao Liu, the head of the village, if the third sister-in-law wants to eat, I will discuss it with Han Lao Liu and give you a catty, let's live in a yard, and give you a penny and a catty to make a capital." Cai's face was smiling, and he couldn't wait to smack her face.

If you are used to it, you still need to do business every day.

Zhang didn't expect Cai's to raise money when he opened his mouth, Rao is thick-skinned, and she can't hang up at the moment.

Cai's didn't really ask her for money today, but reminded her that Sanfang tofu is not something that can be eaten for nothing, knocked it out and took out two pieces from the house and handed them to Zhang, and said with a smile on his face: "It's not easy for anyone to do business, I'll give you two pieces to eat first, forget it if you don't have money today, no matter who you are, I won't follow it if I come to get tofu in Baba in the future." ”

Zhang's was carried by Cai's all the way, carrying two pieces of tofu full of stomach gas to the upper room, Wen Yan was eating walnuts while complaining to Mrs. Chen's mother-in-law, Mrs. Chen's sharp eyes saw Zhang's probing at the door, Mrs. Chen was interrupted when she was talking to her daughter, and then she glanced at the elongated voice: "What are you doing here, don't go to the stove to burn the fire." ”

Zhang's gust of wind seemed to blow over, and then blew in and raised the tofu: "The third sister-in-law said that she would have to pay for eating tofu in the future." ”

Mrs. Chen's face changed a few times, these daughters-in-law all went to the sky one by one, and they didn't know who the head of the Chen family was without knocking: "All of them are happy, and they don't pee and take care of themselves, what's wrong with me eating her piece of tofu, just rush to the fact that she has no son, and it is not a matter of a word for our Chen family to divorce her." ”

Zhang's was so frightened that he retracted back into the stove, and Wen Yan followed with a helping voice: "What does the eldest daughter-in-law drag, isn't it right to embroider a picture of Guanyin for me?" I look at the third sister-in-law like this, but the left is just instigated by the eldest daughter-in-law, and she doesn't look like she doesn't have a son. ”

Wen Yan said this harshly, and she didn't want to think that her family was the same as Cai's.

After school, Mr. Chen personally went to the private school to take Qi Ping to the house, Qi An did not come back, Qiu Yu arrived soon, in order to save time to read more books, Xue Jiao often sent lunch to the private school, today only brought two green onion cakes to eat with hot tea.

Qi Ping arrived at home with his schoolbag on his back, his door was locked, Wen Yan was looking into the house with his eyes on the window, and Sister Chun was standing aside with a flower card in her hand. The big house was rich, Zhang said that the house was full of gold and silver treasures, Wen Yan looked through the window and didn't see the gold and silver treasures for a long time, only to see that the house was newly painted, and the tables and chairs were also newly painted.

"Auntie." Although he didn't like this aunt in his heart, Qi Ping still shouted.

Wen Yan snorted out of his nose, raised his eyes to look at Qi Ping, and saw that he was wearing a royal blue shirt, with an ordinary style, and the material was indeed something that had never been seen in the entire Baitu Town, and there was a golden longevity lock around his neck.

Qi Ping had the key in his hand, opened the door, Wen Yan walked in with Sister Chun in a big way, walked around the room, didn't see anything good, his eyes were fixed on the locked cabinet, I'm afraid the good things are inside. Qi Ping knew that this aunt was not a good person, and when he saw her looking around, he said, "Auntie, I'm going out." ”

Wen Yan tugged at the corners of his mouth and took away a plate of pine nut candy on the table.

Qi Ping knew that his grandmother and aunt didn't like him, so he awkwardly followed him into the upper room, sat down and came out, walked to the south wall and played with the big egg, the persimmon tree on the south wall was full of persimmons, and it was still green at this time, and he and the big egg looked up to find the red persimmons.

Old Man Chen came over and said two sentences: "The Chengri family only knows how to play, go to the stove to give you milk and firewood." As he spoke, he led Qi Ping into the upper room: "Go to the house to play." ”

Wen Yan and Sister Chun sat at the table and ate pine nut candy, Sister Chun bit the candy and rattled, chewed one after a while, and went to the plate to get another one, and the pocket was also full.

Qi Ping looked at it for a while and only felt aggrieved in his heart, this candy is still his own. He is now constantly eating, and when he goes to private school, he always has sugar melon cakes in his bag, and now his brother has not come back, so he has poured all his snacks to his brother.

Qi Ping stood in front of the table and watched for a while, and Wen Yan said to him: "I heard that your father brings silver to the house every day, is it true or false?" ”

"How can children know about adults." Qi Ping is young, but he is not heartless.

"What did your dad bring you?" Wen Yan asked without giving up.

"I didn't bring anything, I brought a brush, and said I could use it for writing."

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Wen Yan stopped his mouth with a "tsk".

Qi Ping stretched out his hand and took a pine nut candy from the plate, and Wen Yan hid the plate behind Sister Chun: "Delicious ghost, you don't have enough sugar for you to eat, Baba has to grab it for Sister Chun." ”

"This is my family's sugar." Qi Ping argued.

"You're going to be stinging." Wen Yan kicked the table.

Sister Chun was used to giving her a temperament, where did this sugar take it from, once it was in front of her, it was hers, and no one was allowed to touch it, seeing that Qi Ping took her sugar, she stomped her feet angrily, and there happened to be a pot of hot lamp oil on the table, which was knocked over by Sister Chun with a palm, Qi Ping was close, and the hot lamp oil was sprinkled on Qi Ping's body, and he couldn't stand it and screamed a few times.

Wen Yan also panicked, if it was true that she hated the big house, she didn't think about scalding Qi Ping, and she didn't eat the sugar, so she picked up a handkerchief and rubbed it on Qi Ping's body, and saw that his face and hands were fine, so she coaxed him: "It's okay, it's okay, don't cry, don't cry." ”

After the meal was set, everyone sat around the table, Mrs. Chen poured honey water into each bowl like jasmine wine, and the old man Chen took a sip of wine and just wanted to eat the food, and the table was full of Qi Ping, and he frowned and asked, "What about Qi Ping?" ”

Several adults looked at each other, Mrs. Chen stared at the big egg, and Zhang said disapprerovantly: "He was still there just now, he must have gone to the North Wing." ”

The door of the north wing is locked with an iron bucket.

Wen Yan took the chopsticks to the pork belly, took a bite and swallowed it, chewed one piece and went to pick up the other: "I grinded my teeth with Sister Chun for a few words, and ran out, I must have gone to a private school." (To be continued)