Li got up and went to the north wing, and the topic of Fang Cai stopped.

Mrs. Chen nodded Old Man Chen's feet under the table, how could Old Man Chen pretend not to hear, pick up the wine glass and drink to himself.

For the absurd things that Chen Zichang and Chen Zigui made in Xuzhou Mansion, it has been spread all over Baitu Town, Old Man Chen just doesn't want to care, the two sons are so old, and the sons who have started a family are going to marry a daughter-in-law, where can they take care of it, as long as they don't do anything like a lawsuit, he is willing to throw away his hands and close his eyes to live, so although he understands what Mrs. Chen means, he just doesn't ask his eldest son to let Chen Zichang follow him to do business.

The pear blossom brew brought by Chen Xiucai to the south is different from the one sold in Baitu Town, and it is the wine from Xu Guozhifu. After hanging the pear blossom in the wine jar for a year in spring, the sweetness of the pear blossom is integrated into the wine, and the taste becomes more and more sweet and delicate.

Old man Chen drank glass after glass, his mouth "smacked", although this wine has a lot of stamina, but everyone does not stop Old Man Chen, he only indulges in drinking during the August Festival and the Spring Festival a year, and he doesn't drink much on weekdays. This year is different from previous years, the boss escaped death and returned home with a large sum of silver, and the two grandsons were both born as children, and the old man Chen was happy in his heart, and the wine became more and more sweet.

Chen Xiucai was next to Old Man Chen, and there was a plate of cold salad fresh pork liver in front of him, Li knew that Old Man Chen liked to eat it, so he deliberately placed it in front of him, and it was already half down at this time. Chen Xiucai sandwiched the pork liver and put it in the empty bowl in front of Old Man Chen, and saw Qi Ping leaning over the red dates and glutinous rice in the distance, so he hugged Qi Ping into his arms: "I'll clip it for you." "Scooped a big spoonful. Qi Ping's oily mouth was eating, his mouth was thirsty, and he reached out to take Chen Xiucai's wine glass: "My brother can drink." I'll taste it too. ”

After a bite, he coughed spicily, and his whole throat was on fire. He thought that this wine was as sweet as fruit wine, his face wrinkled spicy, and he stretched out his tongue and said to Xue Jiao opposite: "Spicy, sister handed me water." ”

Qi Ping's cute appearance made everyone laugh.

Old Man Chen's laughter was especially loud, and several women's wine cups were full of fruit sweet wine. Chen Xuejiao took a glass and handed it to Qi Ping, Qi Ping didn't drink it himself, but handed the sweet wine to Old Man Chen: "Grandpa drink it, go spicy." He watched Old Man Chen drink pear blossom brew cup by cup. I just thought that my grandfather had the same hot throat as him. As soon as Old Man Chen was happy, he hugged Qi Ping from Chen Xiucai's arms, and stuffed the largest chicken leg into his hand: "You know filial piety to grandpa at such a young age." ”

Mrs. Chen saw that Old Man Chen didn't take Chen Zichang seriously, and only cared about being close to the big house. The heart is angry. But if the dead old man can help say a few words, the boss will not dare to refuse so nakedly.

"Boss, don't listen to the outside chewing the root of your tongue, the second is your own brother" Since the dead old man looks unreliable, he gave up his old face to come out.

As soon as he was halfway through his words, he was interrupted by Chen Xuejiao: "Look, the moon has reached the middle of the sky." ”

Everyone looked up at Xue Jiao's words, and a round of brilliant full moon hung in the sky. The clear moonlight fell through the leaves of the plane trees, and the whole yard was as bright as day.

This cunning dead girl. It's a deliberate attempt to slap the mouth. Mrs. Chen glared at Chen Xuejiao dissatisfiedly, Chen Xuejiao didn't seem to see it, and pulled Xue Ru and Jing to point to the moon and laugh.

Chen Zichang's face was extremely ugly, shouting to drink hot tea, Xue Miao's girl Lu'er brought up the freshly brewed hot tea, Chen Zichang took a sip and threw the teacup to the wall, and the broken porcelain pieces mixed with a piercing sound of breaking came.

"You want to find death, we are not relatives, I pitied you at the time, so I let you into the house, raised you for so long, you can't even make a cup of tea, such a hot tea is served, you want to burn me, what kind of heart do you have, I don't know what to do." Chen Zichang gave Lu'er a slap with his backhand.

These words are naked and scolding Chen Xiucai! It's for Mrs. Chen!

Everyone is a crystal heart, liver and glass person, and they are silent when they hear this finger Sang scolding Huai.

The most heartfelt person in her heart was Mrs. Chen, she knew that Chen Zichang saw that Chen Xiucai had made a fortune by cutting his flesh with a knife, so the mother and son greeted Chen Xiucai with a smile, and seeing that there was no chance to make a profit, they simply tore off the mask and scolded him. She was holding back a lot of things to say, just waiting for Chen Xiu to speak, beating him when he was young, he was studying, marrying a daughter-in-law, which one and which one, she, who was a stepmother, did not have Zhang Luo, but she turned her face and didn't recognize people when she was developed.

In Mrs. Chen's heart, Li Quan asked her to take possession, but it was all someone else's. She is not the only one who is the stepmother, although she did not do the cold and ask for warmth, but she is not like the stepmother who forced the original child to death, she thinks that the big face is the greatest kindness to Chen Xiucai.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiucai turned a deaf ear to Chen Zichang's scolding, and still ate the vegetables without changing his face. Even Xue Jiao, who has always been sharp and sharp-mouthed, is like a gourd with a sawed mouth at this time.

Old Mrs. Chen gritted her teeth, tore off a leg from the stewed chicken, and put it in Qi Lin's bowl. This is a bargain with Old Man Chen, you can give your grandson chicken legs, and I can also give my grandson chicken legs.

Old Man Chen closed his eyes slightly, leaned on the chair drunkenly, still holding the cup in front of him in his hand and sipping the wine one by one. The plate of pork liver in front of him was eaten clean, only a few shredded ginger were left, the old man Chen put it in his mouth with chopsticks and chewed it, knocked over a bowl in a drunken haze, and the soup was spilled, fortunately the soup was not hot, and the old lady Chen hurriedly wiped his hands and face for the old man Chen.

Zhao handed over a handkerchief, and Mrs. Chen was gambling in her heart, thinking that she couldn't cook well and couldn't compare to Li's, so she took the handkerchief and scolded: "Idiot, don't hurry up and fetch water, what's the use of handing over a dry handkerchief." ”

Here, the Li family had already brought up the water.

There was a commotion, and when Old Man Chen was moved into the house, the dishes on the table were already cold, except for Zhang's, everyone had no heart to eat, so they withdrew for a while.

Now that the reunion dinner has been eaten, there is no need to be together for moon viewing.

The big house set up a table at the door of his house, on which melon cakes and various fruits were placed, and a wind candle was lit next to it.

The customs of Xuzhou Prefecture. On the August Festival, girls worship the moon in order to have a good marriage.

Li spread a prayer blanket on the ground, and pious cups and hands finished worshipping. Let the Xue Jiao sisters worship again. Worship the moon naturally worships a good marriage, people in this era have an innate respect for a qiē sacrifice festival, Xue Ru, Jing Hao respectfully got up after worshipping, Xue Jiao only felt fun, and also followed a few kowtows on the head of a stick of incense, and prayed in my heart for the safety of my parents in the previous life.

"Mother, I want to worship too." Qi Ping was eating mooncakes. Side arch hand.

"No, this is a girl's worship, how can you worship the moon as a man. It's hard to want to marry a daughter-in-law at such a young age. Li was cutting the watermelon on the table, and said with a touch on his forehead.

Qi Ping naturally didn't understand the meaning of moon worship, so he took the watermelon and took a bite, swallowing the seeds together. Big black and white eyes crossed Xue Ruxuejiao's body. Tong Sheng asked, "Are my sisters looking for a good brother-in-law for me?" ”

This sentence made everyone laugh, and Xue Ru and Jing blushed with shame.

Chen Xiucai drank two drinks in a row today, he drank with Huang Xiucai in the private school at noon, and drank a few more glasses in the evening on the head of Old Man Chen, and after a while, he couldn't hold back to the house. The stone had already boiled water and brought the basin to the north wing, Li took off his boots to burn his feet, Chen Xiucai soaked his feet in hot water and rubbed them back and forth, and put a hot towel on his face. Li wiped his hands and wiped his feet and said, "Where is there so much money in our family, and we are used to living a poor life." There are five taels of silver in his hand are a lot of money to live in a yard, and he doesn't see anyone who looks up and looks down, but I'm afraid that his grandmother wants the second child to run the goods with you will not be broken, if the second child is really a good person, then another matter, but the family will suck blood more than the leeches in the field, and they can't get out of it. ”

During the meal, Li took the opportunity to go back to the room and listened to the stone talk about the banquet. Rao is a gentle person, but her heart is cold, she can't help but endure the words for a long time, and say it to the man.

"My money isn't that easy to come by." Chen Xiucai pressed his shoulder, what kind of virtue is Chen Zichang, he knows best, if he has no money, it doesn't hurt to give him some as a big brother, but this business matter must not be allowed to interfere.

"It's good to see our days, no matter what his grandmother does to us, she occupies the name of the elders, we should be filial to those who should be honored, as for the second family, as long as it is not excessive, we can get by." Li is a country woman, simple and kind is her nature, although she doesn't like the upper room, but she knows the truth that everything can't be done, and there is always some room to live in a yard.

"In a short time, I'm going to go out, and I'm going to buy a house in the town, so that you don't have to live here and get angry." Chen Xiucai squinted and covered his face with a hot towel, and tilted his eyes on the bed.

Li wiped Chen Xiucai's feet clean, and suddenly remembered something: "I received a post from the Han family today, saying that Ri Xingjian's mother is coming to our house, but I forgot to mention it to you during the day, you see how we prepare......"

"Then you prepare well, Xue Ru is also older, Xingjian's child has a good character," Chen Xiucai responded.

It is rare for people in the countryside to visit the house, unless they want to be relatives, the Li family knows the purpose of Zhou's visit, and took advantage of the evening to discuss this matter with Chen Xiucai.

After Chen Xiucai rested, Li walked out of the house with a few thick clothes in his hands. In this weather, it looks warm during the day, but at night the humidity and dew come up, and it becomes cold. The children are in good luck today, and they finally appreciate the moon, but they are not beautiful after typhoid fever.

Under the window, Xue Jiao and several children sat on the felt carpet in a group, eating moon cakes and drinking hot tea, and the sound of crisp laughter spread all over the yard. Li walked over with a smile, and saw that several children were wearing jackets, presumably prepared by Xueru in advance, and couldn't help but smile appreciatively at Xueru, his eldest daughter is so sensible and thoughtful, and she will definitely be able to please her mother-in-law when she arrives at her mother-in-law's house in the future. Seeing that the children were happy to play, he gave a few instructions, and went to the stove to cook some sweet soup to quench the children's thirst.

"The selection of Chang'e Fairy on the day of the August Festival in the south is the same as the selection of Ice Lantern Fairy in winter here, it seems that there are local customs everywhere, I really want to go out and have a look." Xue Jiao took a bite of the moon cake and pulled out the green silk inside, she likes to eat the five-kernel filling, but the green silk in it doesn't like to eat.

“…… I have been to Beijing with the governor before, the customs there are different from the south, once there is a festival, the whole city is forbidden to remove the curfew, the scholars and scholars have fun, not far from the palace, set up a shed to watch the show, the shed is decorated with silk flowers, the silk flowers are made of fine silk cloth, the top is decorated with indescribable lanterns and night pearls, the whole market is as bright as day, there are people who watch a hundred opera performances, there are also those who wear animal masks, beat gongs and drums and dance, or laugh and chase, everyone let go of their arms to play. ”

It turned out that the stone was telling Xue Jiao a few times about the grand occasion of the festival outside, and the scene described in his mouth was vivid, which attracted Xue Jiao, Qi An, and Qi Ping to yearn for it.

Stone has now been fully integrated into the life of Chen Xuejiao's family, and he is a small guy in terms of identity, but no one regards him as a subordinate, and often plays with Qi An and Qi Ping.

After laughing for a while, I saw the Chen family reunited, but my parents had not yet been found, and I was alone in this world, I was suddenly extremely sad, and I couldn't help blurting out: "The full moon and Mid-Autumn Festival, when I was reunited with my parents and brothers, I don't know if I can still see my family in this life." ”

Everyone was silent when they heard it, especially Jing Hao, her mother had been dead for a year, and she wanted to see each other, but she really lost hope.

Xue Jiao comforted the stone: "No news is good news, although you and your parents and brothers are not in the same place, but they are all enjoying the same moon, you think like this, you can be regarded as a reunion in one place." ”

"The moon is cloudy and sunny, people have joys and sorrows, at this time, it is difficult to be complete, thousands of miles together, this is the reason." Qi An sighed.

Because of the sad topic, everyone lost the interest in admiring the moon a little, and after a few laughs, they dispersed. Shi was very uneasy, and felt that he had made everyone block because of himself, and Xue Jiao comforted him: "...... The moon has been rewarded, sitting down, the night is heavy, and the wind and cold are not playing, not to mention that the elder brother and younger brother will go to the private school tomorrow, and the late Mr. will be punished again. ”

Xue Jiao felt very uncomfortable, not for the stone, but for herself, to be precise, for herself in her previous life.

I don't know if my parents in my previous life will be sad because they miss themselves.

She hopes that one day she will be able to wear into her parents' dreams and tell them that her daughter is living well in a world that they can't see.

"Xuejiao, what do you think, be careful that the dew wets your hair." Li saw Xuejiao standing under the window, holding her arms, looking at the moon in a daze, and quickly pulled her into the room. (To be continued......)