The Aunt Chen in the maid's mouth is Chen Xuejiao's cousin Chen Xueyao.

"Don't you see that the eldest sister has guests here? Broke in without a word. A big maid beside Sister Ai took a step forward and pointed to the kneeling maid on the ground and said dissatisfiedly.

Saying that, her eyes quietly glanced at Chen Xuejiao, it is an indisputable fact that Aunt Chen is Chen Xuejiao's cousin, she is now a guest of her sister, I don't know how embarrassing it is.

Chen Xuejiao sat upright as if she hadn't heard of it, with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"The slave maid reported it, but somehow the news didn't come in, Aunt Chen's stomach hurt tightly, and the slave maid was bold enough to go inside......" The maid raised her head, her eyebrows were handsome, and there was a beauty mole on her forehead, but there was a little bit of Xueyao's shadow, needless to say, it must be Xueyao's maid, the maid glanced at Chen Xuejiao again, a pair of eyes dripping under the eyelashes, and said timidly, "I didn't expect to disturb the eldest lady, please atone for the eldest lady." “

"You're weird that the news hasn't come in? If it didn't come in, then who invited Langzhong? The big girl beside Sister Ai said hatefully, "Day by day, Lang Zhong said that it was okay, what did Aunt Chen want." “

"Bud." Sister Ai waved her hand to the big girl beside her, "This Lang Zhong this morning is not good, just invite one, it's not a big deal." “

The maid named Ya'er wanted to say something, but was glanced at by Sister Ai, then retracted her shoulders, and said, "Yes, the slave will arrange it." “

As he spoke, he ordered someone to pass the word and invited a Lang Zhong to come again.

"The slave maid is Aunt Chen, Sister Xie." The maid beside Xue Yao kowtowed. Sister Ai waved her hand. So he dug it with a knife, and the little girl wanted to say something, so she quickly shrank back. After a blessing, he withdrew.

"It's not like you're carrying a golden egg, and you're crazy every day." Bud whispered dissatisfiedly.

"Bud." Sister Ai suddenly raised her voice, quite stern, "No matter what, her belly is full of the blood of the Ding family." “

Ya'er's eyes were red, and she turned her back: "I'm not worth it for my eldest sister." “

Ai Sister took a sip of tea, turned her head and said to Xue Jiao: "There are many things in the house. Makes you laugh. I'm a maid, I don't speak lightly, because I grew up with me when I was a child. I can let her go. ”

Chen Xuejiao naturally didn't want to say anything, so she smiled and nodded.

Sister Ai naturally has a reason to love Sister in doing this, and Chen Xuejiao's good impression of her has increased a few points. It seems to be a big grin, but there is a plan in the heart. Otherwise, how can a young lady in the house call for wind and rain. There are a lot of dirty things in large households. Competing for the wind and jealousy, competing for family property, staged in turns, Sister Ai is deeply involved, she must not like the aunts in the Ding Mansion, but she can distinguish right from wrong, and she did not think about harming her aunt's children in the past. On the contrary, because of the child, he was polite to Chen Xueyao. As far as Chen Xuejiao knows, Chen Xueyao is definitely not a good stubble. She entered the Ding Mansion for the position of the eldest grandmother.

Judging from the current situation, I am afraid that her goal is not so easy to achieve. I'm afraid that after she gives birth, Sister Ai will take action.

Chen Xuejiao also knows a little about her sister, before Chen Xueyao went out, she once talked to Mrs. Chen, and she listened to her. said that Sister Ai is the most love-hate, and once Uncle Ding's beautiful concubine provoked the eldest grandmother and was sold by Sister Ai's leg.

The concubines of the Ding Mansion looked down on the eldest grandmother in their hearts, but none of them dared to come to Sister Ai, for fear that she would sell them all if she had a short amount of money in her hand.

Chen Xueyao is like this, I am afraid that she will have trouble with her sister more than once, and the reason why she is so ignorant of restraint is that she is the child in her belly.

There is also a little maid to send water chestnut, boiled water chestnut, although not as fresh as summer water chestnut, but it is a rare commodity in this festival.

The maid took scissors to cut off the sharp corners, Ya'er washed her hands and peeled a dish in front of Xuejiao, and handed the next one to Sister Ai, but was stopped by Sister Ai: "This water chestnut is only interesting if you peel it yourself and eat it, what's the point of others doing it." “

Chen Xuejiao also peeled one by herself and ate it in her mouth, although there was not much juice, it was also sweet: "It's hard for you to have water chestnuts in winter." “

"This is sent by the uncle of Weishan Lake in the summer, my mother's favorite food, when she misses her hometown, she eats a few edges. For convenience, there is a cellar in our home, and ice cubes are placed in it, otherwise in this winter, the water surface will be frozen, where will the edges and corners come from. Sister Ai said.

"Did you send it to my mother and Mrs. Chen?" Sister Ai asked, and Ya'er said, "I sent it over early." ”

Sister Ai nodded, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and said to the maid at the door: "You go to the Yuhan Pavilion and tell Aunt Chen that my father will not come back today, let her eat whatever she wants, and let her pick out new clothes first when she makes new clothes for the New Year." ”

Chen Xuejiao therefore knew that Chen Xueyao lived in the Yuhan Pavilion.

"I'll go, Miao'er is clumsy, don't tell the wrong word." Bud went out first.

Chen Xuejiao suddenly realized that the maid just now broke in, but she was afraid that Chen Xueyao's stomach was uncomfortable as an excuse, but the real purpose was to see if Uncle Ding Fu had returned.

Sister Ai asked the maid to pass the word, and there was also the intention of not letting Chen Xueyao make trouble. She glanced at Chen Xuejiao, after all, Aunt Chen is Chen Xuejiao's cousin, but this relationship is constantly cut, in case the trouble continues, and Chen Xuejiao's mother and daughter are uncomfortable, it is that the Ding Mansion is not considerate.

The maid in the house also looked at Chen Xuejiao.

Chen Xueyao is her cousin, this is an indisputable fact, rather than hiding it, it is better to find out first.

"My cousin ......" Chen Xuejiao pondered for a while, then said, "Among our sisters, the smartest and smartest, because she urinated and came to the house, we don't see each other much a year, even if we meet, it's just a face-to-face, and now that our big house is separated, we rarely meet, it seems that she has a very good life in the house, thank you Sister Ai for bothering." ”

The room is full of not only Sister Ai, but also the maids are crystal glass hearts, as soon as Chen Xuejiao said it, everyone understood. Chen Xuejiao's meaning is clear, although they are cousins, they are just nodding friends. Now they are separated. Each room is even more of a room, and Chen Xueyao's affairs have nothing to do with their room.

"I know what you mean, your cousin is your cousin. You are you. I heard from my grandmother that you are different from your cousin, but this look is really different, so I befriended you. "Sister Ai said generously.

After a while, a maid brought rose poria cakes, which were freshly made in the kitchen. Sister Ai let Chen Xuejiao eat, and suddenly thought that Qi Ping liked to eat this, so she ordered the maid to bring it to Qi Ping to eat.

"The country people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and life is extremely simple. There is a large threshing floor at the gate of my house, and it is time to harvest wheat. The children of the village are crowded together to play...... The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is fun, fishing a large piece of ice from the Xiaohuai River, carving it into a variety of ice lanterns, and hanging it on both sides of the river. This is nothing unusual. I want to come to Xuzhou Mansion to look better than the lanterns in our town. Chen Xuejiao talked to her sister about watching ice lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

Sister Ai'er listened with relish, and her big eyes rolled: "Yes, but I have only heard of it, and I have never been there." There were too many people on the fifteenth day of the first month, and my mother was afraid that I would be squeezed, so she didn't allow me to go out. I only light a row of lanterns at home every year, and I'm tired of seeing it, but you're still at ease. If you want to go out, you can go out. ”

It's not, although Sister Ai is clothed and fed. Movement is restricted. She is not bad, she can still go to the garden to walk, and there are even more young women, who are not as good as Sister Ai, her feet are wrapped in urine, and the door is not out of the door, so she can only sit in the house and work as a female worker. When I usually go out, I sit in a sedan chair, and I don't dare to open the curtain.

This is the sorrow of the lady of the big family.

"It's okay to see the ice lantern every year, it's like that, the most rare thing is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month last year, so that many beauties hold the ice lantern and choose the Oiran ......" Chen Xuejiao said this, but he didn't say it. Because she thought of last year's Oiran Qingbi, she was raised by Uncle Ding Mansion to make an outer room. 、

"I know that." Sister Ai didn't care, "I heard that Oiran can sing and play chess, and was raised by my father in the outer room." ”

Sister Ai said this very slippery, not at all like a young lady who didn't go out, and there was no embarrassment on her face that a girl who hadn't left the cabinet.

Chen Xuejiao was also happy when she saw her open, and she clapped her hands and said: "If you have the opportunity to go to our place to play, my family has a new big yard in the town, and you go to live in it." ”

When Sister Ai heard this, her eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "Then I really want to go." “

Seeing that it was noon, a little maid came to report: "Eldest sister, Mrs. heard that the two young ladies and the young master of the Chen family are also here, and I want to meet them." “

Sister Ai is also a little surprised, the eldest lady has never seen people much, why do you want to see guests today. I forgot to talk just now, the eldest lady had already talked to Chen Xuejiao's mother for a while.

Ai Sister nodded, sent someone to the back room to call Xue Ru, and called Qi Ping again.

The group was surrounded by maids and went to Wu's courtyard.

Wu's courtyard was lonely, and the trees were full of red and yellow flowers, exactly the same as what Chen Xuejiao had seen in the garden when she first arrived.

"My mother is depressed all year round, in order to make her happy, I deliberately let people wrap flowers around the tree, my mother looked at the flowers to give the spring, maybe the illness will be cured." Sister Ai said with a smile.

Wu was waiting in the warm pavilion, and as soon as he walked to the door, he heard: "...... If you want me to say, what does it mean to have brocade clothes and jade food, I envy you, the family is harmonious and beautiful, I heard you say that your eldest son was admitted to Tongsheng, the two daughters are sensible, the younger son is lively, and the children are complete, if I am willing to die. “

The voice is young, it just sounds powerless.

"Everyone has his own problems, and there is nothing perfect. I think your sister is a good one, and she can't take care of such a big yard at a young age, and she can't leave it in our small door. It was Lee's voice.

Chen Xuejiao secretly thought to herself, looking at it like this, the conversation between Li and the eldest lady was quite speculative.

Everyone entered the warm pavilion, and at the top was a chaise longue, covered with a thick mink mattress, and beside it was a brocade brocade soft pillow, and a young woman who looked haggard but had delicate eyebrows and eyes leaned on the soft pillow, wrapped in a thick sweater, and a thick fox fur bib around her neck. Li sat in the middle, and the two talked happily, while Jing Hao was invited by the maid next to Wu to the ear room to talk.

Seeing Chen Xuejiao and others coming in, Wu made a gesture to get up.

Without waiting for Wu to stand up, Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xueru, and Chen Qiping stepped forward to salute together.

"It's so good to be born, it's a marriage this year." Wu Shi took Xue Ru's hand, let go, and took Xue Jiao and Qi Ping's hands one by one, and looked at it. "This is your second lady, and I can talk to my sister, it's really good. The youngest son is good, these eyebrows and eyes are so good-looking. ”

Because the Wu family had no son, he couldn't let go of his hand when he saw Qi Ping, so he ordered the maid to take fruits and pastries for Qi Ping to eat.

A girl sent hot tea and snacks, Chen Xuejiao only felt that the room was as warm as spring, there were three braziers in front of the chaise longue, and Li's coat was taken off, but Wu's was still covered tightly, she guessed that Wu's body was extremely weak, and she was afraid that she had a cold.

"The embroidery you embroidered is so good, even better than the embroidery in my mother's shop." Wu said.

From Wu's mouth, Chen Xuejiao knew that the largest embroidery workshop in Xuzhou Mansion was Wu's mother's family. Chen Xuejiao's heart suddenly moved, the embroidery workshop was only afraid that it was the shop that used to find Jing Hao's embroidery statue, and then Li's opened the embroidery workshop, Jing Hao stopped the business over there, thinking of this, Chen Xuejiao tried to ask about the situation of the embroidery workshop, and it was true that it was when she asked.

Everyone sighed that it was really fateful.

Wu thought that Li was a vulgar country woman, and when Wu Mama presented the embroidered image, she was shocked in her heart, this double-sided embroidery she saw her mother embroider when she was a child, and said that it was a family heirloom, but she didn't expect that in the farmhouse, a little girl also knew this method, so she asked to see her.

I didn't expect to meet the eyes of Li, and learned that she was a talented lady, although the conversation was simple but reasonable, I liked it in my heart, and I couldn't stop chatting.

Seeing that the Wu family had not been so interested as recently for a long time, the people who were waiting for them were all relieved, and they treated Chen Xuejiao more and more respectfully.

Everyone chatted for a while, and when they saw that Wu was tired, Mama Wu said that the small kitchen had prepared lunch at Sister Ai's.

"Mrs. Chen, I'm not in good health, I take medicine all day long, and if I confess myself, I won't accompany you to eat." Wu smiled and said to Li, "We should have a fate, and Xuzhou Mansion will often come to me in the future." Sister Ai, treat Mrs. Chen and Miss well. “

There are big maids with all kinds of gifts, two rulers, three gold rings, three pairs of gold lilacs in the red tray, and two sets of four treasures in the study.

"Mrs. Chen, thank you for the embroidered statue, and thank you Jing Hao for bothering her. This gift, for a few of their sisters, is not worth much, and please accept it with a smile. “

Li took Chen Xuejiao up to thank her.

Originally, the little maid prepared a silver nude, but was reprimanded by the big maid, and prepared a generous gift again for Wu's meaning.

"Then don't bother my wife." Chen Xuejiao said crisply.

Jing Hao was also invited out of the ear room by the maid at this time, and the group left the Wu family's courtyard. (To be continued......)