Chapter 22 Gestures of Kindness
In the evening, Chen Zimin and Chen Qilin took Jinghao home.
Mrs. Wang and Wang Baozhu didn't embarrass them, because the Wang family had already gotten a letter from Zichang Chen saying that they wanted to find a good mother-in-law for Jing Hao, and when they saw Jing Hao's uncle coming to pick her up, they thought it was the idea of Old Man Chen and Old Mrs. Chen.
Chen Zimin didn't tell Jing Hao about the plan of the second room, he was afraid that she would have an accident and was sorry for the deceased eldest sister, but said that her aunt and Xue Jiao Xueru sisters missed her.
Jing Hao killed his mother in the Wang family, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Chen's aunt and sister-in-law are a mold carved out of the temperament, and Jing Hao is the face of the late mother.
Jinghao came to Chen's house and entered the upper room, and Mrs. Chen's rare kindness took her hand and her granddaughter called it an intimacy.
The most affectionate to Jing Hao is Xue Yao and Zhao.
"Poor sight." Zhao almost dragged Jing Hao into his arms, Jing Hao took a step back, usually Zhao was not so affectionate to her.
"Sister Jinghao, let me see, in my opinion, there is no girl as beautiful as Sister Jinghao", Xue Yao affectionately held Sister Jinghao and smiled at Zhao and Mrs. Chen: "No wonder grandma talks every day, I don't know that Sister Jinghao thinks that Sister Jinghao is the granddaughter of the grandmother." ”
Mrs. Chen didn't say anything, she was born beautiful, what is the use of being beautiful, her dead mother was not also born beautiful, it's not that she can't give birth to a son, it's not as good as her little daughter Wen Yan's birth is not beautiful to the first child of her in-law's family is a son.
Zhao smiled: "No, even the average lady can't compare to Jing Hao's appearance." ”
"It's just that I pity my aunt, why did she go", Xue Yao took out a handkerchief embroidered with peach blossoms and wiped her eyes: "When my aunt leaves, I can't get out, and Nading Mansion doesn't say that you can take a leave of absence, this jade bracelet should be worn by Sister Jinghao." Xue Yao took off the jade bracelet on her wrist and put it on Jing Hao's hand, Jing Hao excused herself, Xue Yao smiled: "Are we sisters still outside?" Your arms are white, just with turquoise. ”
When Xue Miao saw the bracelet, her face had already been hung and pulled down, and she was stared at fiercely by Zhao.
Old Man Chen looked at the face of his deceased wife Liu in front of Jing Hao Ku Xiao, and his heart was mixed.
"I see that Sister Jinghao is a little tired, I'll take her back to the room to rest." Xue Jiao saw Jing Hao patiently dealing with Zhao and Xue Yao, and spoke.
"When you're tired, go to my room and rest." Xue Yao took Jing Hao's hand and kissed her.
"Eldest daughter-in-law, take Jing Hao back to the house." Old Man Chen rarely spoke to the Li family standing behind Xue Jiao.
Li Shi replied and returned to the north house with Jinghao.
Old Mrs. Chen stared at Li's back and gritted her teeth and scolded: "The little prostitute raised it." She remembered the slap her son had received in the morning.
"Auntie, second aunt, she and Sister Xueyao...... They did this to me, and I was scared. Jing Hao whispered, took off the bracelet on his hand and handed it to Li: "Uncle, I always feel uneasy when I wear this bracelet." ”
"Xueyao will wear it for you." Li put the bracelet on Jing Hao's hand again and asked with concern: "Since beating your mother and leaving, how are you doing at home?" ”
"I can eat enough, and I have to do work every day to supplement my family, but I am not afraid." Speaking of the dead mother, Jing Hao burst into tears, and finally held back and said: "I made a pair of insoles for my uncle, aunt, Sister Xueru, Brother Qi An, Sister Xuejiao, Brother Qi Ping, and beauty, and I don't know if it's suitable." As he spoke, he picked up the burden on the table and took it out.
"It's hard for you." Lee laughed.
"Sister Jinghao's embroidered flowers are so beautiful." Xue Jiao held the insoles, saw the lifelike flowers on it, and couldn't help but discuss with Xue Ru.
"Your Jinghao sister embroidered well and learned it from your aunt, I heard Grandma Xianglian say that your aunt learned it from your grandmother, and your grandmother's craftsmanship is incomparable." Li couldn't help but feel sad when he mentioned Wenying.
"Mother, grandma and second aunt are so good to Jing this time, why do I feel uneasy." Xue Ru, who has always been gentle and silent, spoke.
"It's not that I want to sell Sister Jinghao to that stupid son of the Sun family." Qi Ping was young, so he didn't care about saying it.
When Jing Hao heard the news, her body trembled, and her little face turned pale.
Li glanced at Qi Ping, originally thinking that he was not in a hurry to talk about this matter with Jinghao, so as not to frighten her.
"Originally, my father and mother wanted to hide this from you, I was afraid that you would be sad, so in my opinion, I simply picked it out and gave it to Sister Jinghao. They are so kind to you and have nothing to do, but we can't let them succeed this time. Chen Xue said as a petite adult.
"Your uncle and I can't ignore it, even if your aunt knows it, it won't agree." Li whispered softly to comfort Jinghao.
Xue Jiao simply told Jing Haoting about the plans of Chen Zichang's family, including her own collision with the wall because of the change of relatives, the marriage between Chen Qilin and the eldest lady of the Sun family, the Li family beat Chen Zichang, and all the things were strung together and told Jing Hao.
"Then what can I do, if grandma and grandma tell me about this, grandma will definitely agree, they can't wait to exchange me for silver, and a few days ago they said that it would be better for Sister Tuo Xueyao to let me go to Dingfu as a maid." Jing Hao said as tears fell.
"It doesn't matter what they say, the key is you, Sister Jinghao, as long as you don't want to, they will do nothing about you." Xue Jiao said.
"Of course I don't want to, if that's the case, I'll hit the wall too." Jing Hao secretly made up her mind.
"Don't you learn from me, there is a solution to everything except death, I have died once, if I really die, wouldn't my father, mother, sister, brother and brother be sad, sister Jinghao must not learn from me, this will only make the heart that really hurts you sad." Xue Jiao grabbed Jing Hao's hand and said firmly, she is a person who has died once, and she knows the value of being alive.
Hearing Xue Jiao say something beyond her age, Li thought that Xue Jiao was different from before after that kind of thing, and there were different benefits from being different.
"Talking about children again, what is your uncle and I to bear, we love you as much as we hurt Xuejiao, Xuejiao hit the wall when I thought about it, you must not do stupid things, listen to your sister Xuejiao." Li said kindly.
Jing Hao held Xue Jiao's hand and was still sobbing with her head down.
"With your uncle here, I won't let others bully you. Don't worry, if you really get to a certain point, seeing the Wang family's clan, the head of the Wang family is a reasonable person and will not let you go to the Sun family. Chen Zimin entered the courtyard and said. The patriarch of the Wang family is Chen Baoshan's father, and he can speak with Chen Baoshan's help. The solution to this matter can also be a lawsuit, Chen Xiucai does not need to kneel when he sees the official, and even the county magistrate also gives seven points of thin noodles, but the lawsuit has a bad reputation in his daughter's family, so the safest thing to do is to ask the patriarch to come forward.
Chen Xiucai opened his mouth, and he was a little relieved.
"Sister Jinghao, just now I said that your embroidery flowers are beautiful, and my sister also loves embroidery, you can teach me and my sister." Xue Jiao pulled Jing Hao's hand and used embroidery to divert her attention. When Xue Ru heard this, she brought her embroidered patterns to Jing to look at.
Cai also came to the North House, sat and watched their sisters embroider, and after embroidering for a while, it was evening. Today, Zhang was supposed to be in charge of cooking, but the food she cooked was not to everyone's taste, and Li had to go over to help. Xue Ruxue Jiao Qi calmly helped the Li family to hold firewood together, Xuewa was also rushed by the Cai family to help make a fire, and Xue Yao came to the kitchen to help choose vegetables.
Mrs. Chen asked Chen Zifu to catch a chicken to kill.
Cai pouted, she was pregnant, but she had never seen Mrs. Chen let the chickens be killed, Qi Lin and Xue Yao went home, and killed chickens and geese every day.
The fourth Chen Zigui was even more unconvinced, his family gave birth to three sons, and he usually couldn't get chicken to eat.
During dinner, Xue Yao sat beside Mrs. Chen affectionately, and Zhao desperately put chicken into Jinghao's bowl. Mrs. Chen complained that the radish was fried too salty, and when she heard that it was fried by Zhang's family, she only scolded: "You eat salt as a vegetable and want to kill me." ”
At night, Xue Yao instigated Jing Hao to sleep with her, but Jing Hao thought that she wanted to teach Xue Ru embroidery.
Before going to bed, Xue Jiao said to Li and Chen Xiucai: "Daddy, we always live under the control of others, it is better to separate and live alone, so that Dad is the patriarch of our family, and he can come forward in everything, and he doesn't need to be calculated." ”
Li and Chen Xiucai were shocked by this sentence, they didn't even think about separating their families, and it was a big rebellion for their parents to split up. Even if Mrs. Chen and Mr. Chen don't want to see them, if they are separated, wouldn't the villagers scold them by pointing at their backbones, not to mention that Chen Zimin is still a showman, and he follows etiquette and filial piety.
When Chen Qi'an heard his sister's words, his eyes couldn't help but light up, this was what he had been thinking about. The law of this dynasty stipulates that unless the parents propose, the son cannot propose to divide the family, but in this family, the separation is a benefit to their family, but I didn't expect my sister Xuejiao to propose it.
The idea of separating the family also had in Chen Zimin's heart, but he just thought about it. He pondered for a while and said to Xue Jiao: "It's not so easy, don't mention it if you break up in the future." ”
Xue Jiao couldn't help but be depressed when she heard this, and took out the six taels of silver under the bed and said: "Look at the money I earned, these two taels of silver are obtained by me and Ping'er catching crabs and picking wild chrysanthemums, and the remaining four taels are given by Gu Gongzi Huang Gongzi, I went to inquire about eight taels of silver to buy a good piece of land." Father's 20 taels of silver a year, if the family is divided, Dad's silver is enough for us to live, save some in the land, and the family will be saved up year after year. "Xuejiao has always wanted to make money to buy land, if they don't split up, even if they buy land, they can't count it as their house.
Chen Xiucai was silent when she heard Xue Jiao's words, and she couldn't help but glance at this daughter in her heart. When Li saw the silver in Xue Jiao's hand, the mountain road in his heart twisted eighteen times, Chen Xiucai's twenty taels of silver a year didn't have time to touch it and went into Mrs. Chen's pocket, but her daughter was planning for this family, and she tried her best to earn money, which was really difficult for her.