Chapter 116: The Bride

When the money shopkeeper saw the tea leaves on the recipe, he nodded frequently, and admired the delicacy of the recipe very much. He secretly sent someone to taste almost all the tea eggs in Xuzhou Mansion, but none of them were cooked well with the taste of the Chen family, and the fundamental reason was the tea leaves.

The Chen family's tea eggs are made of high-quality tea, not to mention that ordinary people use such tea to boil eggs, even if they can't afford to drink it.

However, for the big proprietors of Jiangxiangyuan, tea is not a problem.

Because of the belief that he wanted to buy the lower zi, the money shopkeeper prepared the silver money when he came, but it was not silver, but a silver ticket, and the Chen family needed to go to the silver building to redeem it.

The money shopkeeper took out the silver ticket from his arms and handed it to Chen Xiucai with both hands, and Chen Xiucai handed it to Chen Xuejiao.

Chen Xuejiao got the silver ticket and smiled, this is the first time she has received so much money in this era, it can be called a huge amount of money, and her heart is no less excited than the scene of receiving her first month's salary in her previous life.

The money shopkeeper carefully folded the recipe and carefully put it into the cuffs.

"Your recipe will belong to the Sauce Fragrance Garden in the future." The money shopkeeper hesitated.

Chen Xuejiao understood the meaning of his words, which was worried that she would continue to use the recipe to make money in the future.

"Don't worry, we won't be selling it in the future." Chen Xuejiao said happily.

The money shopkeeper smiled, he has been a big shopkeeper for so many years and likes to deal with smart people.

"In the future, we will eat it at home, and it will be no problem to cook some." Chen Xuejiao asked playfully.

"No problem, no problem." The money shopkeeper said.

Chen Xiucai ordered the Li family to prepare lunch, and wanted to keep the money shopkeeper and Han shopkeeper for dinner.

"Thank you Chen Xiucai for your kindness, I have to rush to Xuzhou Mansion." The money shopkeeper stood up.

"Another day, there are still a lot of things going on in the restaurant." Shopkeeper Han smiled and excused himself.

After a few more pleasantries, Shopkeeper Han and Shopkeeper Qian left the Chen family.

Chen Xuejiao took the silver ticket and went into the room. Excitedly waved at Li, Xueru, and Jinghao.

"The guest is gone? What's in your hand? Li asked, taking the soles of his shoes.

"Gone." Chen Xuejiao smiled and said, "Mother, we have money now, a silver ticket of one hundred taels of silver." ”

"What, a hundred taels of silver?" Chen Xueru stood up excitedly.

Li and Jing Hao also looked incredulous.

"That's the case" Chen Xuejiao carefully explained the purpose of the money shopkeeper and the recipe for selling tea eggs to Li's, Xueru, and Jinghao one by one.

"So much money. Oops...... "Li Shi was so happy that he didn't know what to say.

At this time, I heard someone talking outside, and suddenly hurried to the upper room.

"How many years is this money enough for us?" Chen Xueru calculated it, and the more she calculated, the happier she became.

"I'm going to use this silver ......" Before Chen Xuejiao could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Zhang Shi, who was standing under the window.

"Sister-in-law, my mother asked you to go to the room, and Jing Hao will go too." Zhang said in a loud voice.

"I'll come now." Zhang changed his shirt and put down the needle and thread, because he wanted to go quietly, Li asked uneasily. "What did my mother call me?"

"Baozhu and her new daughter-in-law have come to the door." Speaking of the new daughter-in-law, Zhang's tone unconsciously carried a trace of disdain.

Li Shi was slightly surprised, the hand that tied the button slowed down two beats, and his face froze for a moment: "Why did you come here today, so fast." ”

According to the custom of Xuzhou Mansion, the first three days of the newlywed couple are the time to recognize their relatives. On the second day, he gave tea to his mother-in-law and returned to the door, and on the third day, he met the people of the clan and worshiped the ancestral hall. On the fourth day, my aunt and uncle went.

Today is the second day of Wang Baozhu's marriage, although Qingyu is the stepfamily. But the procedure that should be taken is the same as the original match, and it stands to reason that you should go back to the door, but instead you came to your aunt's house to recognize your relatives first.

There was a hint of embarrassment and panic in Jinghao's dark eyes.

Although yesterday, Qingyu gave her a bracelet and called her Miss, but she was still uncomfortable in the bottom of her heart. After all. Qingyu's wedding room is the house where her mother lived before her death.

"Hurry up, sister-in-law." Zhang's impatient urging.

Li finished changing his shirt, washed his face, evened out his face, and pulled his hair. I went to the upper room with Jinghao.

Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xueru, and Chen Qiping followed.

The upper room was full of people, and there were already many people in the Chen family, and with the addition of Wang Baozhu and Qingyu, I only felt that the kang was full of people on and underground.

I didn't think it before, but today I feel that this house is cramped every day.

Old Lady Chen and Old Man Chen sat on the kang, and Wang Baozhu and Qingyu sat on the chairs under the kang. Seeing Li come in, Qingyu stood up and saluted Li, the village people didn't have so many courtesies, Qingyu's etiquette made Li unaccustomed to it, so he had to stiffly return the salute. Seeing that Jing Hao was behind him, he took Jing Hao's hand and said hello carefully. Seeing Xue Jiao, Xue Ru, and Qi Ping again, they smiled and praised them one by one.

"Hello cousin." Chen Xuejiao called Qingyu like this.

Jing Hao didn't say a word, didn't know what to call Qingyu, and didn't want to call her.

"You don't shout mother." Wang Baozhu reprimanded Jing Hao.

Jing Hao's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and he pursed his lips. Old Man Chen couldn't help coughing a few times, and he was also dissatisfied with Baozhu's letting Jing Hao call Qingyu Niang.

"Just call me Aunt Yu." Qingyu helped Jing to break the siege.

Chen Xuejiao took a closer look at Qingyu, and saw that she was wearing an ordinary green shirt, loosely holding the woman's head, and simply inserting a wooden peach blossom hairpin, which looked extremely beautiful. The snow-white transparent face, the moist mouth, the upturned nose, and a pair of eyes that are not big or small, precipitate the coldness, and there is a trace of sorrow in the coldness, and the sorrow has disappeared when you look closely, as if it is just a human illusion. She just sat there quietly, rubbing the clay teacup with both hands, her back straightened, and she took off yesterday's heavy makeup and red shirt, but she looked more noble and refined, and there was no trace of dust between her eyebrows in her eyes.

Chen Xuejiao had never seen a noble lady in this era, but Qingyu gave her the feeling of being a well-born noble lady. In her previous life, her college roommate had a person with such a temperament, who was not very good-looking, but she had a temperament that others did not have, and a bunch of people sat there, and she was always the first to be noticed, and she couldn't help but let people look at it twice. She is a standard white Fumei. Since childhood, he has had an extremely good family upbringing.

Seeing Qingyu, Chen Xuejiao thought of her. I don't know what Qingyu's background is, maybe it's not good, how can the daughters of good families end up in Fireworks Alley. In all dynasties, there will be thin horses, who were selected into the Qinglou by wealthy businessmen and spent a lot of money to cultivate. To raise them to be beautiful and refined, in order to dedicate them to those in power when they grow up. Qingyu is also very likely to be this kind of thin horse, but it is difficult to say, thin horses are basically stored in the area of Suzhou, Yangzhou, how can there be a thin horse raised in the Cuihualou in Baitu Town, look at Chen Zichang, Wang Baozhu and others to know what kind of goods the guests received by Cuihualou, how can there be a skinny horse in Cuihualou, the skinny horse does not accompany the wine to pick up guests, and is usually raised like a daughter. Chen Xuejiao also learned about it from the book. In ancient times, some official eunuchs who were raided may also be sold into the Qinglou, such as Shi Xiangyun in Li, who was exiled to Fireworks Lane after the raid. But if she is an official lady, even if she is sold into the Qinglou, she can't hide her arrogance, how can she be lightly committed to Wang Baozhu.

This green jade is so hard to understand.

Chen Xuejiao's eyes couldn't take her eyes off Qingyu, Qingyu found that someone was looking at her fixedly, and looked up at Xuejiao and smiled. The smile is a bit cold and bright in the first snow of winter. Chen Xuejiao was embarrassed to open her eyes.

Old Man Chen, Chen Zichang, and Cai Shi all saw Qingyu for the first time, and they couldn't help but look at it.

Especially Cai's. Because I didn't go to the wedding because I had a body, I just listened to Zhang's general description, and I was inevitably curious about the fireworks woman, and I couldn't help but stare at it a few times.

"You just got married and came to see my aunt, which shows that Baozhu is a filial person, and it is not in vain to hurt you." Mrs. Chen sat cross-legged on the kang and said with a smile.

The day after the nephew got married, she came to see her as an aunt. There was light on her face.

"It's Qingyu who is coming." Wang Baozhu smiled.

Mrs. Chen nodded, originally this fireworks nephew and daughter-in-law, she couldn't look at the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, but when she heard Baozhu say this, she felt a little more comfortable. But he knows the rules.

"If you marry into the Wang family, you are a member of the Wang family, you must understand the rules, and it is a serious thing to give birth to a big fat boy to pass incense to the Wang family." Mrs. Chen's face softened, she glanced at Qingyu and gave a silver bracelet as a gift.

I wanted to say a lot of ugly words, but looking at Qingyu's demeanor, it didn't look like a fireworks girl at all, but like an official lady, Mrs. Chen was suddenly a little stunned, and those words were rotten in her heart.

"We are all from the countryside, nephew and daughter-in-law, it's not me who is an aunt to say you, your first three days are the new daughter-in-law wearing such new clothes, but after three days, you have to work in the field, cook, and serve your mother-in-law, you can't dress up like this, the country people have the appearance of country people, not like in" Mrs. Chen swallowed the next words.

In the end, I still hammered a few words.

"My aunt taught me a lesson." Qingyu Shi Shiran stood up and handed Old Lady Chen a brocade box, "This is your nephew and daughter-in-law's filial piety." ”

Mrs. Chen accepted it with a gentle face.

"I'm a cigarette pouch, honoring my uncle." Qingyu continued to take out a long brocade box and handed it to Old Man Chen.

Old Man Chen took it uncomfortably. Ever since Chen Zichang interrupted the cigarette pouch, Old Man Chen has been smoking rolled big-leaf cigarettes, but he didn't expect this Qingyu to give such a hearty gift.

Qingyu continued to take out things from the box she brought, all for the female relatives and children of the family. The female dependents are a pair of shrimp bracelets, the girls are a Yingluo, the boys are a long-life lock, and Qi An has an extra pen wash in addition to the long-life lock.

Zhang, who didn't even look at Qingyu, couldn't help but smile, and Zhao was still faint.

Chen Xuejiao stroked the Yingluo in her hand, thinking that this Qingyu was extremely good at being a person, and she had prepared all the gifts for everyone in the Chen family in such a short time.

"Eldest daughter-in-law, let's eat together today, and you take a few sisters to cook." Old Man Chen said to Li.

Li agreed a few times, and he was going to take Zhao and Zhang out to cook.

"I heard that the eldest cousin is sick, let's go see the eldest cousin first." Qingyu stood up and looked at Li with a smile.

"Okay, you go with the eldest daughter-in-law." Mrs. Chen didn't stop it.

Li took Qingyu and Wang Baozhu to the north wing together.

Originally, the Li family was worried that Chen Xiu would have contempt for Qingyu, but he didn't expect him to be indifferent.

After chatting for a while, Li began to cook, and Qingyu sat in the upper room to talk to Mrs. Chen.

I don't know what method Qingyu used, Mrs. Chen suddenly let go of her prejudices, regarded Qingyu as a bosom friend, took Qingyu's hand and said that, there was a harmonious atmosphere in the upper room. During the meal, Mrs. Chen ordered Qingyu to sit beside her and sandwiched dishes for her several times, which was only given to Wen Yan and Xue Yao. After the meal, Mrs. Chen continued to pull Qingyu to sit on the kang and chat.

Li took Xue Jiao to the north wing and secretly looked at the silver ticket of one hundred taels of silver.

"Let's keep quiet about this silver." Chen Xuejiao whispered.

Everyone knows that if this silver is known by the upper room, it will inevitably be another storm.

"I don't say, I don't say." Qi Ping covered his mouth tightly.

"Sister-in-law, in the house." Suddenly, Qingyu's voice came in.

The mother looked up and saw that Qingyu was already standing at the door, and her face was extremely beautiful under the backlight.

"Sit in the house." Li stood up, a little apprehension, such a magnificent person had actually entered their humble room.

Qingyu smiled and sat on the pedals, and Li's life was like pouring tea, but Qingyu stopped him.

“…… I just came from my second cousin, and yesterday's incident was Qingbi. Qingyu said with a smile.

It turned out that Qingyu went to the Zhao family, and he must have apologized for yesterday's incident.

"Then Qingbi is your sister?" Li Shi felt that this question was inappropriate, and added, "I think you all look the same." ”

Qingyu didn't care, and pursed her lips: "It's a sister who grew up together." ”

The atmosphere froze for a while, and Li didn't know what to say.

"The embroidery is so beautiful." Qingyu picked up the shoes beside Jing Hao, she didn't call Jing Hao the eldest lady today, "Catch up and embroider one for me." ”

Jing Hao was silent, and Qingyu didn't care.

"I also know, a quiet mother" Qingyu slowed down, "I married into the Wang family, and I don't want anything else, I just want to live in peace." ”

Qingyu's tone was full of world-weary helplessness.

"Sister-in-law, Jing Hao has lived in your house for a while, although you and your cousin treat her as if she were your own, but I think it is not a law to live for such a long time after all, I came to discuss with you to see when Jing Hao will go home." Qingyu Mo rubbed the embroidery and said quietly.

Jing Hao's expression was stagnant.

"It stands to reason that Jing Hao should go home," Li pondered.

"But what do you mean by Jing Hao?" Qingyu gave a step.

"Not really." Li said.

The two looked at Jing Hao together, Jing Hao bit her lip, and said softly, "I want to stay at my uncle's house." ”

Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief, Qingyu smiled and didn't say anything.

This topic stopped, and Qingyu talked to Li about some parents' shortcomings, and then said goodbye.

"If Jing Hao wants to go back, you can do it at any time, the Wang family will always be your home, and even your father can't stop you." Qingyu said softly, snuggling at the door and smiling gently.

"Such a good person, why did he fall into that place." Li watched Qingyu go away, muttering to himself, after chatting just now, Li seemed to have fallen in love with Qingyu.

However, judging from Qingyu's appearance, she is indeed not an annoying person. (To be continued......)