The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Xuejiao woke up.

Xue Ru and Jing Hao also got up, it was still early, through the faint light, I saw Xue Jiao wearing a pomegranate red skirt, combing a double duck bun, and a crystal hairpin on her head, standing in the mirror to pin the lilac leaves on her ears.

"Xuejiao, why did you put on yesterday's skirt again?" Xue Ru propped herself up, yesterday her family wore new clothes to go to relatives, and the eyes that fell on the upper room were Lu Fu, but as soon as she got home, she was called by Mrs. Chen to ask for a golden crown.

When Qi Lin comes back today, maybe Wen Yan will also come to the room to give the August gift, if he sees the big house family wearing brocade clothes, I don't know how many moths will come out.

So, Xue Ru and Jing Hao discussed, and today they will wear the most ordinary homely clothes, and it is best to have no decorations on their heads and ears.

"This dress is not from yesterday, it is a new one." Xue Jiao turned around, the wide skirt flew up, and the lotus flowers embroidered on the side fluttered one by one, and the fairy scattered flowers and piled them under the skirt.

In her previous life, Chen Xuejiao's clothes were all plain, because she had to go to work, the clothes in the wardrobe were all black, white and gray without exception.

Chen Xiucai brought several large boxes of fine silk to the family in the south, and the Li family doted on the children, thinking that the family finally had the conditions, so he cut a few more sets of clothes for a few girls. Xue Jiao asked Li to make two red pomegranate skirts in one breath, today's one is more gorgeous than yesterday, yesterday's one is eight, and today's one is twelve, not only that. This one is also inlaid with gold and silver threads, and in the house, I don't feel that once I am in the sun outside, the whole garment seems to be plated with a layer of sunset.

"It's not the new one, this skirt has silk threads, and I embroidered it." Jing looked good and said with a smile. "Xue Jiao looks so good in red."

Xue Jiao put on a golden lilac leaf in front of the mirror. Because of the dim light, I couldn't get the essentials for a while, so I walked up to Xueru and said, "Sister." You can help me put it on. ”

Xue Ru sat on the bed and pulled her hair loosely in a bun, took the golden lilac leaf from Xue Jiao's hand, and dressed her in front of the white light that came through the window. After carefully examining her clothes, she cautiously said, "My sister-in-law is coming today." If you wear this, I'm afraid you'll have to ...... again."

The rest of the words were swallowed.

Xue Jiao quickly understood what Xue Ru meant, walked to the cabinet, and took out two sets of clothes from it. A set of silver-red pleated Ruyi moon skirts, and a set of autumn-colored gold thread yarn skirts, spread out to the snow Rujing bed and said, "I know what my sister means." Today, we don't wear homely clothes, just because my sister-in-law and the people in the second room are back. We wear the best clothes. ”

opened the jewelry box again, took out the golden hairpin, pearl pendant, and drop earrings from it, brought a golden incense ball on the skirt, turned around and said to Xue Ru and Jing: "Jewelry should also be brought, we will fall into their eyes." ”

Usually, Xue Jiaocai didn't care about the opinions of Shangfang and others, but yesterday an old lady Chen called Chen Xiucai over, and opened her mouth to ask for the east and west, it stands to reason that it is filial piety to her, and it is right to give it, but they don't owe Wen Yan, and they can't see that they have money and want to pick up Wen Yan. If it goes on like this, the life of your own family will get better and better in the future, and the east family will extort a sum of money from the west family to fight the autumn breeze, but your own family will not dare to eat well and dress well, even if you have that pool of silver at home, what is the use.

"Sister, are we really wearing these clothes?" Xue Ru lifted her chin and aimed her eyes at the upper room.

"Is that still fake? Not only do we wear them, but my mother also wears new clothes. Xue Jiao said with a firm gaze.

Xue Ru and Jing hesitated for a while, Xue Jiao locked their daily clothes into the cabinet, put the key in her waist, pointed to the brocade clothes on the bed and said, "Anyway, I'm going to wear this dress today." ”

After saying this, Chen Xuejiao Shi Ran went to Li's room, Chen Xiucai got up early in the morning to read, and was not in the house, so Xuejiao went in to see Li's dressing.

Li was sitting in front of the dresser combing his hair, carefully grating his hair through with a wooden comb, smearing it with osmanthus oil, and pulling it into an oily and slippery bun, then opened the dresser, took out an old silver from it, and just wanted to put it on his head, he was taken away by Xue Jiao.

"Xuejiao, what's wrong with you? Why don't you sleep more? Li Shi turned around and saw that it was Xue Jiao, showing a loving smile.

"Mother, why are you inserting the old silver hairpin today, and what about yesterday's gold?" Xue Jiao put the silver hairpin into the box and took out yesterday's golden crown.

"That one is too heavy and flashy, I am usually busy at home, where can I wear it, not to mention that your aunt is coming to the house today......" Li said with a smile.

Sure enough, Li's worries were the same as Xueru's.

If you live in the eyes of others, you don't have to live here at all.

"Mother, let's get dressed today" So Xue Jiao told the Li family what she thought.

Li frowned before, the more he listened, the more he felt that what Xue Jiao said made sense, and her daughter had paid too much for the family this year, and she usually didn't ask for anything, so she asked her family to wear red and green today, so it was better to follow her.

“…… Xue Jiao is right, people live to fight for a breath. We used to have enough food and clothing, not because we were poor, but because we didn't have the idea to live a good life, but now that the days are better, we are going to live a good weather, and we can't take a big step because of the gossip of others. Li agreed with Xue Jiao's words, changed out of the blue homely clothes in the morning, took out a lilac-trimmed cloud brocade skirt from the cabinet, and put a gold collar around his neck, because the gold crown was too heavy, Li picked up a large pearl-inlaid gold hairpin and inserted it on his head.

Today's private school is resting, Qi Ping and Qi An are at home, and Xue Jiao also asked them to change into a new set of clothes and pants.

Breakfast was made by Li himself, and he got up every day to make breakfast since he came to the house with stones. Because Chen Xiucai said yesterday that he wanted to eat gnocchi soup, gnocchi soup is Li's specialty, so he decided to make a husband to eat it himself.

Don't look at the gnocchi soup is very simple, but the simpler the rice, the more it tests the kung fu, first of all, the noodles should be stirred evenly, and the water should be no more or less. The stirred pimples should be strong and smooth, and it is really not easy to meet these conditions.

As soon as the pimple soup came up, Chen Xiucai drank two large bowls.

The north wing was eating here, and there was movement in the upper room.

"Third child, you leave me two catties of tofu, Qi Lin loves to eat it." Mrs. Chen shouted at Chen Zifu with a lot of anger in her little feet, and after shouting at Zhang, she shouted at Zhang. "Look at the meat in the pot house. It's not enough to cut a few pounds on the set. ”

Because the Erfang family was coming back, Mrs. Chen was extremely happy, and her face was no longer elongated. Walking and humming a little tune. It's just that when I passed by the north wing, I saw a family of flowers sitting and eating, and my eyes were straight, just this family. and deserve to wear new clothes.

Old Man Chen is also happy, the second family has been gone for a long time. Although Chen Zi didn't live long and made him lose his old face outside, he brought a good grandson to the Chen family, and this grandson won the first place in the government examination. Now walking outside, Old Man Chen's back is straight, who doesn't boast about it. Therefore, Old Man Chen's dissatisfaction with Chen Zichang disappeared in his heart. I hope they will come to the house.

"When the son and grandson come back, look at your sloppy look. The smell of smoke is full of smoke, you go and wipe your teeth with green salt, wash your hair, and take care of it. Mrs. Chen saw Mr. Chen sitting in a rocking chair smoking and pushed him.

After saying that, Mr. Chen, he went to the house to take a photo in front of the mirror table, took the hairpin given by the big house and compared it, thought about it, opened the makeup box, took the hairpin given by Xueyao in the past, pulled his hair into a bun, inserted it in his hair and took a photo for a long time, and went out with the bracelet on his wrist.

Since receiving the letter from the second room family, the Chen family's big room has been busy, Mrs. Chen stared at Zhang's with a big egg from yesterday to quickly sweep out the upper room and the wing room, seeing that Zhang's sweep was not clean, she let her dance the broom and sweep it again: "Now Qi Lin is different, he has a new name, his identity is precious, everywhere must be tied, and no dust is allowed to be seen in the door frame and table corner." ”

The Zhang family is busy enough.

After breakfast, he took another pair of small feet and went to the west wing to find Cai's: "The third daughter-in-law, has the quilt been made?" Your brother and sister-in-law are no more new than before. ”

Cai didn't know how many times he had listened to her instructions in the past few days, and he was upset, but because she was a mother-in-law, he didn't dare to refuse, so he had to take the cotton and the back, and hurriedly made four new quilts, two of which were still cotton from Li's help. Cai Shi listened to Mrs. Chen's rambling again, and put the beans in his hand: "Mother, the quilt has been covered, didn't you say that you are drying in the sun while the weather is good today?" I've hung on the rope outside. ”

In private, I was cold, the same daughter-in-law, the same are the children and grandchildren of the Chen family, her family Xueyan was born until now, her mother-in-law has not given a handful of cotton, the children of the second room have come back, but they have a new mattress and a new quilt, who is more noble than whom, and the heart is also biased.

Mrs. Chen still wants to repaint her house in her heart, just like the north wing, one is too late, and the other is that the boss only sent ten taels of silver last night, and now it is too late to paint.

Zhang's was burning the fire in the pot house, Mrs. Chen took a few glances from the north wing, still thinking about the golden crown, turned around and hurriedly went to the kitchen to inspect Zhang's, looked at the five-pound fat duck that she bought two days ago, and asked Zhang's in the pond: "Can you feed the duck water and vegetables, don't let you eat the chaff anymore, raise the meat rough, quickly let the big egg beat some fresh grass for it to eat, eat fat, good stew for Qi Lin to eat." Go back and cut a few catties of mutton on the set, your second brother likes to eat, and he is buying a few fruits that Wen Yan likes to eat. ”

Zhang's mouth agreed, flattering his mother-in-law: "Leave the job of running errands for my mother to me, my mother will also be an ancestor in the future, Qi Lin has now taken the first place in the exam, and in the future, he will be a master and a slaughterer for the official." ”

Mrs. Chen has always been unaccustomed to the sloppy Zhang, but now when she heard this sentence, she laughed: "That's not it, that's my eldest grandson." ”

After saying this, his eyes glanced at the north wing. I walked in front of the house just now, and I didn't see the real thing, but I saw one of Li's hairpins dangling on his head.

Mrs. Chen was busy for a long time, walked into the house, and turned over the silk given by the room for a while. I planned in my heart, which horses were given to Wen Yan, and which horses were kept for the eldest grandson Qi Lin to tailor.

In the north wing, Chen Xuejiao and the others finished breakfast, Shi put away the dishes and chopsticks, and Li instructed Shishi: "Yesterday I ordered a bowl of mutton at Butcher Liu in the town, and you can get it when you go back." ”

Since you eat with the upper room, this lamb naturally has to fight to cook.

"Mother, is my aunt here today?" The aunt in Xue Jiao's mouth is naturally Wenying.

"It's not necessarily, there are too many things in the embroidery workshop, and as soon as your father comes home, everything falls on her."

As he was talking, he saw Mrs. Chen blowing out of the upper room like a gust of wind, and shouted back at the top of her voice as she ran: "Dead old man, hurry up, Da Dan just said that there is a carriage at the entrance of the village, maybe it is the second family, hurry up." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard the door squeak open, and a crisp voice came: "Grandma! (To be continued)