Chen Xiucai wrapped in a blue shirt, wore a hat, the rain on it rolled down drop by drop, only revealing two eyes burning and shining, seeing Li open the door and crack his mouth straight happy, seeing that she was not wearing thick clothes and wrapped in single clothes and shoes on this cold day, he came to open the door, and quickly called her in.

Li's heart overflowed with joy, she stood by the door, her body was still leaning against the door frame, the water droplets falling from the top of the eaves wet half of her shoulders, she hadn't seen her husband for more than half a year, and suddenly she didn't know how to suppress the joy in her heart, and her fingertips couldn't help trembling.

Chen Xiucai shouted back: "Stone, hurry up and move all the boxes in the car." ”

Only then did Li Shi see a sturdy young man standing by the gate, and he couldn't see clearly in the black light, so he agreed, and his rough voice showed that he was one or two years older than Qi Anxu.

Li Shi watched the stones move boxes of things into the house, and felt worried, there were many people in the house, where could these boxes and cages and packages be opened, it happened that Qi An was not at home, Li Shi put these things in Qi An's house first, Chen Xiucai waved his hand, let them be placed in the hall first, and he was cleaning up carefully.

The stone was not afraid of the rain, and the head was covered with a hat, and he didn't feel it when the rain wet his face, and he was happy to unload things. Li had never seen such a battle, his heart softened first, and he rolled up his sleeves to help unload the goods, and the frightened stone almost knelt down and kowtowed, which frightened Li Shi a lot.

When the things were unloaded, the stones were paid and the fares were settled, and the three coachmen drove to the town.

Li Shi entered the room, took a closer look under the light, and saw that Chen Xiucai was wearing a gray and black straight jacket, the hem had been worn out, and a shabby linen dress was put on the outside. A belt of unrecognizable color was tied around his waist, and the heels of the shoes on his feet were frayed and soaked in water, and the entire upper was wet.

The joy in his heart faded cleanly, he raised his eyes and burst into tears, turned his head to Chen Xiucai to take off his coat, and took a new silk towel to dry the rain on his body. It is said that the husband has made a fortune outside. The food and clothing are all that the family has never seen, I didn't think that he would wear such a tattered clothes to come to the house, I don't know, I thought it was a flower who came to beg for food in the wind and rain. Boxes of clothes, jewelry, and fabrics were handed home all day long. All I thought about was their mother, but I didn't care about it at all. Li wiped his body, his hand touched his shoulder, and last year's wound scabbed again. It must have been accidentally bumped into it when I was sleeping outside in the windy food, and my heart seemed to be soaked in Coptis juice. Unspeakable pain and pain. hung up Chen Xiucai's clothes, found new shoes and socks for him to change, fortunately when he made new clothes for the children a few days ago, he also did it, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and asked him: "It's raining so heavily." Why don't you stay in the town for one night, and rush home in the middle of the night, I'm afraid it's useless. I went to treat two dishes, and Xuejiao slept in them. ”

The stone man heard Lee say this. Hurriedly took a step forward and kowtowed: "Madam, just tell the little one, and the little one will also make rice." ”

Li patronized to speak to her husband, but forgot about this young man called Shishi, and when he heard him call himself his wife, he also pounced and kowtowed, and was frightened by this stubble, and pulled him up in a hurry. She took a closer look at the stone, she didn't see it clearly just now, but this time she saw his purple and black face, thin and thin body, seventeen or eighteen years old, I really didn't know that he looked so weak and had so much strength to carry that big box, Li couldn't bear to get up.

Seeing that Li Shi looked at him, Shi was embarrassed to get up, and beat his hands again to salute. Li guessed that he was a small servant next to his husband, and generally large families would have such people around him, and the errands, tea, and water were all ready with a command.

"Your name is Stone?" Li asked gently.

"Yes, the small one is called a stone, if the wife thinks this name is not good, she will bother the wife to take it again." The stone grinned, arched his hand and bowed to the Li family, and when he heard the sound, he knew that his wife was a kind-hearted person.

"It's still called whatever it was called." Li Shi waved his hand again and again, looked at him again, and saw that his clothes outside were also wet, "You change your clothes first, it's not fun to be wet with wind and cold all over your body." ”

Li thought that he didn't bring clothes, so he was about to go into the inner room to get Qi An's change for him, and Shi hurriedly knelt down again: "Madam, I brought clothes, brought clothes." ”

Li poured a bowl of hot tea for Chen Xiucai and a bowl for the stone, and said: "Don't kowtow at every turn in the future, our family doesn't like this." ”

As soon as the stone tilted his neck and drank all the hot tea, he was about to fall into tears, and quickly wiped it with his sleeve, and a hot vapor rose in his throat and eyes.

The room itself is small, and it is even more cramped to put a few large boxes, and there are no soles under your feet. The lamp oil in the hall was almost burned, and Li went into the inner room to get the lamp oil, and Chen Xiucai put down the tea bowl and lifted the curtain and followed. Qi Ping was sleeping soundly, Li Shi saw that he didn't kick the quilt, and wanted to carry him into Qi An's room to sleep, Chen Xiucai saw that Qi Ping's face was round and really cute, so he pinched his face with his hand, Qi Ping turned his head and woke up.

In a daze, there was a man standing in front of him, Chen Xiucai used to be a private school gentleman, and his face was white, and he had been out for so long and was much stronger than before, Chen Qiping hadn't seen his father for more than half a year, and he couldn't recognize it at first glance.

Qi Ping just wanted to pout and cry, but Chen Xiucai picked him up and tossed him in his arms: "It's so fat." ”

Li smiled and nodded Qi Ping's head: "Ping'er, this is Dad, I don't recognize it." ”

Qi Ping rubbed his eyes with both hands, completely ran away from sleepiness, and took a closer look at it It was really his father, so he reached out and hugged Chen Xiucai's neck, put his head on his shoulder, and called out in surprise: "Dad, dad is here, bring me something delicious!" ”

I still can't forget to eat.

"What a snack." Chen Xiucai hugged Qi Ping tightly and scratched his armpits, and the father and son giggled.

Four girls ran in the hulala room, Xueru, Xuejiao, Jinghao, and Yellow Dragonfly all got up, except for Dragonfly, the other three girls all looked at Chen Xiucai with tears in their eyes. Chen Xiucai looked like a loving father in front of Xiao'er, but he was a little restrained in the face of his daughter's niece, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to nod.

"Daddy!"

"Uncle!"

The three girls saluted Chen Xiucai with tears in their eyes.

The snow is like this, and the quiet is getting more and more watery, standing in one place and getting rid of two demure flowers.

Xue Jiao wiped away her tears. His eyes regained his previous cleverness, and he looked at Chen Xiucai and said coquettishly: "Dad has worked hard all the way. ”

If you talk about the first few children in the family, Chen Xiucai values this daughter the most, seeing that she is a little fatter than before, her face is round and mellow with a ball of joy, tied with loose double screws, and she looks innocent and lively. pinched her face and smiled: "Xue Jiao is falling out like a little adult." ”

Chen Xiucai spoke. The strangeness of not seeing each other for a few months was eliminated, and the family was happy.

Shi saw several girls rushing into the room, and knew that they were the daughters and nieces of the old man's family. Along the way, the old man couldn't stop chattering, and he also knew a rough idea of the situation at home. Chen Xiucai was full of memories of his home, and he walked in a hurry all the way, except for having breakfast in Xuzhou Mansion in the morning. Never eaten again. The stone walked out of the house and searched the yard. I wondered how there were three pot houses living in a courtyard, and all of them were locked, and I didn't know that one belonged to the master. So I went back to the north wing, and when I heard the laughter and conversation of Chen Xiucai's family, my nose was sour and I almost burst into tears. He was next to the window. opened a crack to see the light in the inner room, and looked at Qi Ping in Chen Xiucai's arms. knew that it was the master's youngest son, and there was an eldest son who was taking the exam in Fucheng.

"Dad, who is that?" Chen Xuejiao was the first to discover the stone outside.

"It's a stone, and I followed my father all the way." As soon as Chen Xiucai said this, Xue Jiao understood the identity of the stone, "I was in your Xu Bo's Mansion before, and then I followed." ”

It turned out to be given to him by Xu Guozhi.

"Look at me, just talking patronizingly, forget that your father hasn't eaten yet, I'll do it." Lee stood up.

"Mother, I'll help you." Xue Ru and Xue Jiao followed out, and Jing Hao and Dragonfly also followed.

Seeing that Li Shi came out with the girl, Shi hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Xue Ru, Jing Hao, and Dragonfly all blushed, and Xue Jiao smiled at him generously.

Knowing that Chen Xiucai was going home, there were neatly arranged braised pork and braised chicken fried lotus root clips on the stove, and there was a bowl of steamed egg custard in the pot, and all kinds of firewood and rice were all complete. Xue Ru just wanted to start the fire, but was preempted by the stone: "Miss, I'll come, you rest." ”

Where has Xue Ru seen this battle, she was stunned by the eldest lady who shouted left and right from the stone, and she blushed and didn't know what to do. Xue Jiao is very calm, the family will be rich in the future, not to mention this little guy, maybe there will be cooks, porters, and maids, if a young lady is out of proportion, what can I do in the future.

"Sister, let the stones burn the fire." As soon as Xue Jiao spoke, Shi breathed a sigh of relief, the first second lady in the family is a powerful one.

Chen Xiucai likes to eat mixed vegetables, Li slices the autumn cucumber, shreds the belly, pats the garlic paste, chili oil, and sprinkles sesame seeds, Chen Xiucai eats it with his hands, and his mouth is slurking: "The dishes you make are still delicious, and the outside is always unappetizing." ”

Xuejiao scalded a pot of wine for her father, and the stone helped to roll the hot soup again, and added a bowl to Chen Xiucai, Chen Xiucai drank two large bowls before he felt that the moisture was removed from his body, and said to Li: "Ming'er, I will go to Fucheng to pick up Qi'an." ”

Chen Xuejiao saw that the stone was so diligent, rushing to burn the pot and brush the dishes, and knew that thanks to him for taking care of his father all the way, he sent soup to Chen Xiucai and said with a smile: "You also hurry up and sit down and drink a bowl of soup." ”

As soon as Shi raised his eyes, he saw a big bowl of soup, four big steamed buns, and a big pot of hot braised pork on the table, and his heart was hot: "Why do I use such a big table." ”

As he spoke, he ate it on a chair.

"There are not so many rules in our family, you eat yours, you came from Yuhang, you love to eat rice, we only have steamed buns here, I don't know if you are used to eating it, and you will eat it." Xue Jiao brought the bowl back to the big table.

Shi twisted and sat on the chair, his mouth sullen: "Thank you, Second Miss, I am used to eating small rice and steamed buns." ”

After eating, Li personally gave Chen Xiucai a basin of foot washing water, took off his shoes, saw a thick layer of cocoons on the soles of his feet, and tears rolled down into the footbath, Chen Xiucai didn't say a word, and when Li finished wiping his feet, he had already snored, thinking that Chen Xiucai was a water bandit and sleeping in the open on the road, and the tears fell more intensively.

Li covered Chen Xiucai with a quilt, only to think that the stone had not yet been placed.

Chen Xuejiao had already led the stone into Qi'an's house, she knew that large families had special places for their subordinates to live, but they didn't pay attention to so many rules in the countryside, and there were no extra empty houses at home. Shi knew that it was the eldest young master's house, and sniffed, although this room was not as good as the subordinate room of the Xu Mansion, but the Chen family regarded him as a person, and they were most afraid of meeting a ruthless master's family, and they would beg for a beating if they were not careful, and the second miss of the Chen family would arrange for him to live in the eldest young master's room.

"The house is crowded, you are sleeping here now, Xue Jiao gave him the old quilt to cover, although it is old, it is built by himself, thick and warm.

Shi Shi was moved and arched his hand and bowed to Xue Jiao: "Trouble the second miss, the small one will be laid on the floor for the eldest young master to keep vigil in the future." ”

Li Shi came out and saw that Xue Jiao had generally placed the stones, and after some instructions, he went back to the inner room. He was next to her husband, only to feel satisfied, blowing out the lamp, the rain outside stopped for some time, the bright moon passed through the clouds, and the moonlight was like a halo like the rain splashing. (To be continued)