In the inner room, Zhao was lying on the bed, his face was sallow and sallow, and the whole person was out of energy.

Li Shi brought the pimple soup over and persuaded Zhao to drink it, and Zhao shook his head. The Li family is honest, and he will not persuade people, and now he will not persuade the Zhao family when he encounters such a disgraceful thing as Chen Zichang.

Zhao smiled reluctantly, waved his hand at Li, and said weakly: "Sister-in-law, I'm fine, I want to talk to Xue Yao." ”

Li knew that the Zhao family wanted to get rid of himself, the Zhao family had always been a strong person among the concubines, and he was the most face-saving in the whole family, and now his man went to the fireworks field and slapped her in the face, but he was afraid that he didn't want to see anyone.

Li put the pimple soup on the mahogany and black lacquered table in front of the kang, and instructed Xue Yao: "Give your mother something to eat later, it's not okay to skip a meal, it's not worth it if your body collapses." He also told Zhao, "There are still fathers and mothers in big things, your body has always been weak, and you must pay attention to your body." ”

Li tucked the corners of the quilt for Zhao, hung the tent on the hook, and turned to walk towards the door.

"Sister-in-law." Zhao poked his head weakly and clutched a corner of the tent in his hand.

Li walked to the door, paused, and looked back at Zhao.

“…… You're satisfied. "I didn't think Zhao came to say this.

Because Zhao was pushing too hard, the tent hulala spread out, floating her face, the half-light and half-dim light reflected her resentful gaze, and the negligent glance replaced that gaze with weakness.

Li's heart was cold, she didn't expect Zhao to say such a thing. Even if the second room relied on the power of Old Man Chen and Old Lady Chen to suppress the long room everywhere, the honest Li never had the idea of complaining in his heart. Take the matter of Chen Zichang as an example, the Li family only sympathizes with the Zhao family in his heart, and has no other thoughts.

Li's smile froze at the corner of his lips, and he said lightly: "His second aunt is a little heartbroken when she says this." ”

Li Shi walked through the main room and saw Chen Zichang lying on the kang and humming, and Mrs. Chen was crying sadly. Old man Chen sat at the foot of the kang and was telling Chen Xiucai, Chen Zifu, and Chen Zigui beside him about Chen Zichang's beating.

In the ear room, Xue Yao hung up the tent that Zhao had pulled off again, and sat beside Zhao with an indifferent face.

Zhao stretched out his hand to hold Xue Yao, and the tears that he endured for a long time flowed out: "What is the meaning of my life in the future, I have always had a face in front of your grandmother, and I look at my face between my concubines, your father slapped me in the face so hard, how can I see people in the future." ”

Xue Yao looked at Zhao and was silent, Chen Zichang did such a shameless thing, and she, as a daughter, felt that she couldn't hold it on her face. But then again, which man is not **, she has seen a lot of such things in Ding Mansion.

"Your brother has always been competitive, and when he went to study at the White Horse Academy, although you said that you could sign a living deed as a girl in Dingfu, you are a capable and face-saving, and the people in the village don't envy me when they mention me. Who would have thought that your father would be like this, and he would extinguish all my strength to live. Zhao cried with tears on his face.

Xue Yao thought about his uncompetitive father, secretly hated, and snorted coldly: "He only knows that I am powerful in Ding Mansion, and he asked the master to send my brother to the White Horse Academy, and he trembled, how does he know my suffering." I just went to that kind of place, but I got into trouble with Zhang San, and I used my hard-earned money to go to that kind of place to fill my face. ”

Zhao cried even more sadly.

"I looked at it coldly, my brother still wanted to marry Miss Sun, and he originally planned to ask Uncle Dingfu to go to Sun's house to make peace, but now my father made such a shameless thing, not to mention Miss Sun's family, it is that ordinary small families are not willing to marry our family." The more Xue Yao thought about it, the more angry she became.

Seeing Xue Yao's angry look, Zhao stopped crying and said, "I have heard a few rumors before, I thought it was because people were jealous of our family, and I didn't ask your father in detail, I think it's all true." Gritting his teeth again, "What's so good about the girl in Cuihualou, he rushed to go." ”

Zhao said and cried again, Xue Yao felt sorry for his mother, although he resented his father in this case, but outsiders were watching his own jokes, how many people now hope that their own family will make trouble, but it can't be as those people want. So he reluctantly smiled and comforted Zhao: "Mother is right, my father is a ghost for a while, maybe he was tricked." It may be that Miss Bai Ling'er and Zhang San deliberately set up a trap, waiting for Dad to drill into it, so as to blackmail. ”

Zhao gritted his teeth with hatred for his own man, but it was still a fluke to be **.

"Mother, look at the eldest uncle, the third aunt, the fourth aunt, usually they dare to speak loudly to you, who are you satisfied with falling like this, and it is not that they have been cheapened." Xue Yao added a fire, "And milk, dad is her son in the end, she usually treats you like a daughter, but after all, there is no father, if you are separated from your father, the first thing that can't spare you is milk." ”

Xue Yao is right, she is powerful everywhere at home, and she only relies on Mrs. Chen. But after all, I was unwilling to be a man

"Mother, I'm not excusing my father, I also hate him to death now, but who made him my father. Mother, you are sad in your heart, but on the surface, you have to be full of indifference, only saying that you are distressed that your father's injury has fallen, so that people will only say that you are virtuous, and your milk will value you more. Xue Yao persuaded.

"Where is your brother?"

"Don't worry, mother, my brother has me there, you have to take this opportunity to catch your father's heart, you can't let him mess around outside, I'm going to beg the master of the Ding family on the Sun family."

Outside the courtyard, Chen Xuemiao was decocting medicine in the stove, she had never done such a job, her face was gray, the stove only smoked but not fired, and she cried in a hurry.

Xue Ruxue Jiao and Jing couldn't look good, so they walked over to help Xue Miao make a fire. Xue Miao stood by the stove unappreciatively and looked at them coldly.

"How can you make a fire out of wet fire?" Xue Ru said softly.

"Sister Xue Miao, you go and pick up some firewood, the corn stalks that you want to dry are easy to ignite, and you are getting some firewood." Xue Jiao said to Xue Miao.

Xue Miao didn't seem to hear it, and she had an attitude that she didn't care about herself.

"Chai He is here." Qi An took Qi Ping and Big Egg and brought Chai He.

Xue Ru took the dried firewood and lit it, and a gust of wind blew the sparks in all directions, and the soot was filled.

I only heard Xue Miao jumping on her feet and shouting: "What kind of fire has stained my skirt." He looked at Xue Ru with disgust.

Several people were dusted, Xue Jiao couldn't look at Xue Miao's teeth and claws, and said coldly: "Sister Xue Miao, this is what we are helping you decoct medicine for your father, what are you yelling about." ”

"Who told you to help?" Xue Miao knew that she was at a loss and shouted.

"Xue Miao, how can you say that, we are brothers and sisters, even if you don't let us help, we don't have a reason not to help, the second uncle is still waiting to drink medicine." Qi An took out his brother's panache.

Who would have thought that Xue Miao would cry, and said while crying: "You are a gang, bullying me alone." ”

Chen Xuejiao was really speechless about this girl.

Li heard a few children noisy in the yard and walked out, and gently scolded his own children.

Xue Miao said to the Li family: "Now you are satisfied." ”

Xue Miao's words turned out to be exactly the same as Zhao's words. Li's face sank, and his kindness was exchanged for such heart-wrenching words.

"Xue Miao, I'm your aunt, you just talk to me. On weekdays, I see that you are a well-behaved person in front of your milk, why are you so ignorant of the rules now. Li taught Xue Miao unceremoniously, "Several of your brothers and sisters are here to help decoct the medicine, and your father is still lying in the house, what should you do if you delay your father to drink the medicine like this, and see that you have a reputation for unfilial piety." ”

It was the first time for Li to say heavy words to a child, and Xue Miao knew what it meant for the girl's family to "not understand the rules and be unfilial" even if she was a child, so she wiped her eyes and stopped talking.

Regarding the attitude of Zhao and Xue Miao, although Li was sad, he also took the responsibility of his sister-in-law and personally fried medicine around the stove.

"Mother, I heard that your hairpin was taken as a mouthpiece." Seeing Xue Miao enter the upper room, Xue Jiao quietly asked Li.

Li listened to Xuejiao's words and knew that the matter of being a hairpin could not be hidden from a few children.

"Mother, that's the dowry that grandpa gave you, you are usually reluctant to bring it, so you should be sad when grandma knows." Qi An's face was gloomy.

"Since your grandmother gave me the hairpin, she won't ask me how to make it. Your second uncle was covered in blood, and he needed to invite Langzhong, there was no money at home, how could I, as my eldest sister-in-law, watch him bleed. Li said lightly, "Human life is more valuable than hairpins." ”

Chen Xuejiao could see that Li was extremely distressed about the hairpin, but her face was faint. She knew that the Li family cherished the jasper hairpin very much, which was the dowry gift given by her grandmother when she got married, representing all a mother's expectations for her daughter's better life in the future.

"The second uncle's family has no money? Sister Xueyao and the second aunt don't have any silver? Xue Jiao wanted to say that Chen Zichang had the money to go to Fireworks Alley and didn't have the money to invite Langzhong, she didn't believe it, in the end, she couldn't say the words "Fireworks Alley", "The family is the head of the family, why doesn't she take the silver." ”

"At that time, your second aunt fainted, and your grandmother only cried blindly when she saw your second uncle like that, and your second uncle couldn't help but invite Langzhong, so I had to give the hairpin to your father" Li sighed.

Xue Jiao thought to herself, whether intentionally or unintentionally, they are good at playing the abacus of a big house. In that case, there are still three rooms and four rooms, why is it that only the Li family is a hairpin.

“…… Mother, the second uncle is now...... Mother, I think we should have separated. Xue Jiao cautiously mentioned the separation again.

“…… If you want to be able to divide it, you can divide it all early. Li Shi was relieved this time, "It's not that easy. ”

"After the family is separated, we can help them with something, and now it is better to be entangled like this. Mother, think about it, the second uncle is so nonsense, what kind of eyes do people look at us when they mention our family, if we are separated, we will not be affected. Xue Jiao thought that even if the separation could not be achieved now, she would have to do ideological work for the Li family, so that the idea of splitting up would take root in her heart.

"I'll be saying that later." Li sighed, "Listen to your father." ”

Li thought about it and said to a few children: "Don't mention the hairpin in the future, if you do, you will be it, it is all a family who does not have a problem." ”

After listening to Li's words, several children were silent, they all knew the meaning of the hairpin to Li's.

"Mother, I'll buy you a better hairpin in the future." Zi'an said.

"Okay, I'll wait." Li Shi responded happily, and the gloom in his eyes could not be hidden.

Xue Jiao thought that the money she used to sell the recipe last time was still there, and she originally wanted to buy the land, but now that she has not divided the family, it is better to use the silver to redeem the hairpin. She believes that in the future, whether it is Qi An or herself, it is possible to give Li an expensive hairpin, but no hairpin can compare to the one to marry.