The villagers are busy all year round, and only in winter do they have leisure time.

In winter, the rural people of Xuzhou Mansion are used to nesting at home in winter. In winter, there have been three heavy snowfalls, and the snow on the official road is more than a foot thick, and there is no special snow removal agency in this era, let alone advanced snow removal tools, so it is inconvenient to go out, so the farmers are more leisurely.

The private school is on vacation, Chen Qiping and Chen Qi'an don't have to go to school, the salted duck egg shop is temporarily closed, and there are not too many things to worry about in the fields. In front of the bed there was a brazier, and the whole room was warm, and there was a two-bed bed by the window, on which thick mattresses and cushions were set up, and everyone sat around them. Li took Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xueru, and Jing Hao to do needlework and draw patterns, and Chen Qiping and Chen Qi'an read and write. When they are tired, everyone drinks tea and eats frozen pears, and says that some parents are short, so that the days are comfortable and warm, which makes people feel peaceful and tranquil.

Since the incident of beating Wen Yan's step-nephew was revealed, Mrs. Chen stopped for a while, and the Chen family compound was rarely quiet for a few days.

I went back to the town to catch the market, saw Fei Laoliu's daughter-in-law, and revealed in the small talk to the Li family that Wen Yan was reprimanded by Mrs. Duan when he arrived at the Duan family, so he almost opened the ancestral hall to ask the ancestors, or Duan Erhu remembered his love for many years, and later the old man Chen went to the Duan family in person, so he did not tell the sù clan.

Fei Lao's sixth daughter-in-law's maiden family is in Duanjiazhuang, and her mother's family is also surnamed Duan, although Wen Yan's affairs have been hidden, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Wen Yan has a very bad reputation in Duanjiazhuang. Somehow, this thing came out, and who didn't scold her for lacking great virtue behind her back.

this day. Li went to the upper room and sighed when he came back.

"Mother, is your milk angry again?" Chen Xuejiao asked.

Li went to the upper room to give cotton shoes to the old man Chen, and every winter, several daughters-in-law will pay filial piety to the second old man in the upper room for a pair of cotton shoes, and this year is no exception. Although he was in the upper room, Li had a breath of anger. But basic filial piety must be maintained.

The big house and their group stood up, and they didn't dare to bully them casually. But every time I go to the room for something, I will inevitably be told a few words by Mrs. Chen.

Chen Xuejiao sighed when she saw Li. I thought she was told by Mrs. Chen.

"No, your grandmother didn't scold me, scolded your third and fourth aunts." Li said.

Mrs. Chen scolded people for picking up soft persimmons and pinching them, and her favorite scolding in the past was Li's. That's because Li is honest and thin-skinned. After the separation, Zhao became her punching bag, and after Zhao went to Xuzhou Mansion, it was Zhang's turn to be this punching bag. Among the four daughters-in-law, the only thing that Mrs. Chen scolded was Cai's, which did not mean that Mrs. Chen favored the third room, but that she was a little jealous of Cai's mother's family.

Cai's family has a sesame oil mill, and she can be regarded as a wealthy family in the town, if she hadn't accidentally fallen into the water. was saved by Chen Zifu, and the Chen family couldn't climb the Cai family at all.

At the beginning, Mrs. Chen also gave Cai's mother-in-law money. Eating with a face, scolding at every turn, Cai's is not as honest and thin-skinned as Li's, she urinated and followed Mrs. Cai to sell oil on the street, learned a belly of vernacular, and dropped chopsticks for Mrs. Chen at the dinner table in the first month of becoming a parent.

Her mother's family is rich, her dowry is rich, and she doesn't rely on Mrs. Chen for food and clothing, so of course she is impatient to look at her mother-in-law's face.

In addition, she has a powerful old lady. Mrs. Cai has been in business for so many years, she has never seen any splashing and shady, and when she was young, she dared to fight with street gangsters in order to survive, and she developed a good courage, and if she didn't say a word, she would go up to fight. Mrs. Chen has been raised in the inner house all her life, and she is indeed a fierce master, and all her skills are used to deal with her son and daughter-in-law, but not against outsiders. Once Mrs. Chen scolded Cai's fiercely, Cai's ran back to her parents' house and cried, Mrs. Cai brought her son to the door, and Mrs. Chen didn't scold Cai's much since then, but she often put on a face.

I really don't know why Mrs. Chen even scolded Cai's this time, although Cai's doesn't like her mother-in-law, but like Li's, she never treats Shangfang badly, not to mention anything else, just say that the tofu will give Shangfang a pound every day.

"Why did you scold the third aunt, but the third aunt didn't reply?" Chen Xuejiao asked in surprise.

"It's not because your third aunt doesn't have a son, I see that your third aunt is sad this time, and she really didn't reply, and I persuaded her to go back to the house."

"Alas, the treatment of daughters and daughters-in-law is not the same at all." Chen Xuejiao said disdainfully, Wen Yan has no son like Cai, in Mrs. Chen's heart, the daughter-in-law blames the son-in-law if she has no son, and the daughter-in-law has no son but it is not about the son.

How could Chen Xuejiao not know that these people were sophisticated, Cai's didn't care if she had a son, but she was looking forward to it in her heart. Chen Zifu is honest, the business depends on the father-in-law, if the Cai family really can't give birth to a son, and I don't know how painful Chen Zifu is, the countryside doesn't have a son, even if he goes out, his face is disgraceful, and when he dies, he is also said to have no face to see his ancestors.

Cai's is spicy, but he is also a little shorter above his son, so he was scolded by Mrs. Chen, and he was only sad.

Don't look at the face of any grandson except Qi Lin in front of Mrs. Chen, but this doesn't mean that she doesn't want a grandson. In the countryside, of course, the more grandchildren, the better, and Mrs. Chen is strong everywhere, but the third son just doesn't have a son. Although Cai's is still young, he lost his body when he gave birth to a child, and it is difficult for Lang Zhong to diagnose pregnancy. Concubines are things that only happen to rich and noble families in this era, and the villagers don't even dare to think about it, if anyone really takes a concubine, they will be ridiculed as a loser, but there are exceptions to everything, if the Cai family really can't give birth to a son, according to Mrs. Chen's temperament, maybe she really gave a small amount to the third room, and it happened to disgust the old lady Cai who broke her face.

Chen Xuejiao let out a long sigh in her heart, this era is harsh on women, even so, everyone thinks it is reasonable. I really don't know if Xue Ru will worry about the heirs when she marries into the Han family. and myself, looking young, but in three or five years, I will be engaged, I really don't know what kind of family I will be engaged to.

Inside the upper room. Mrs. Chen hummed and chirped righteously, and no one was pleasing to the eye, so she scolded Cai's first. scolded Zhang again, everyone was scolded by her, and she became more and more uncomfortable alone in the house.

"Why are you scolding the third daughter-in-law? You can't blame her for not giving birth to a son, the last time she was pregnant with twin sons, you stopped you from inviting Langzhong, then you really invited Langzhong, and the male fetus could fold as soon as it fell? Old Man Chen saw that she was not scolding. A few words of defense for Cai's.

"This time she blames me, she is a delicate young lady, and she asks all over the village. Which woman gives birth to a child who does not give birth to herself, and who invites Langzhong? Dafang didn't pull some Imperial Doctor Zhu later, and the Imperial Doctor had seen the emperor before, so why didn't he cure her. It hurt one of my eldest grandsons. "Mrs. Chen is in a bad mood. Speaking of this stubble, he scolded the big house together, and left himself clean.

"Alas, if you really can't give birth to a son, I will give her the successor of the fourth family." It is false to say that Old Man Chen is not worried about Sanfang, and he is also worried that Sanfang has no son.

Mrs. Chen was even more energetic: "Succession, you know about succession?" Can the fourth daughter-in-law be willing? Last time, I didn't want to pass it on to Wen Yan, and I could pass it on to the third child. I see that your heart has deviated too far, and you only have a son and no daughter in your eyes."

"You foolish old woman. Can that be the same? The daughter married out to be a member of the Duan family, but the son is flesh and blood, and the son of the fourth family is passed on to the third child, so he is also surnamed Chen. Old Man Chen's face sank, his hands were back, and he stomped his feet angrily, he couldn't stand the temper of his old wife, so he opened the curtain, "People say that you should marry a wife and marry a virtuous person, you are good, there is no virtuous place on your body." ”

As soon as the old man Chen left, Mrs. Chen angrily pounded the bed board, hit the wall with her body, and cried: "I'm not virtuous, I'm not virtuous, you look for a virtuous person, you are virtuous in front of you, why did you die so early, it can be seen that God has long eyes." ”

Crying and scolding, making trouble for nearly an hour, the whole family could hear it, but there was no persuasion.

In a few days, the snow will melt, and Chen Xuejiao's salted duck egg shop will reopen.

"Oh, isn't this a talented lady? He Xiangu greeted Li with a smile.

Chen Xuejiao's mind tightened, this He Xiangu is extremely famous in the town, and she can do everything to see a doctor and a house, but she is afraid that she will see that Chen Xuejiao's family is living such a life now, and she wants to collect a few sesame oil money. Chen Xuejiao was not interested in such ghosts, ghosts, and gods, so she stood behind the Li family unceremoniously and looked at He Xiangu with an unkind expression.

He Xiangu looked Xuejiao up and down, and said to Li with a smile: "The rich people in the town donate a few taels of sesame oil every month to keep them safe, and Chen Xiucai often goes out to run boats, do you want to make a merit." ”

In a word, Li was a little moved.

Donating a few taels of sesame oil money is not a burden for Chen Xuejiao's family now, but Chen Xuejiao can't look down on her so blatantly, what is the difference between this and grabbing money. And this He Xiangu has a bad character, it is said that she often gives people ideas to make villains and curse others, such a person, Chen Xuejiao does not dare to let her have dealings with the Li family.

He smiled at the moment: "We have already enshrined the Bodhisattva in the Yunlong Temple in Xuzhou Mansion and donated sesame oil money. The Bodhisattva there is very spiritual, I heard that the son of the fairy Gu has been sick recently, if you don't feel at ease in Langzhong, where can you go to invite a Bodhisattva back. ”

As soon as he spoke, He Xiangu's face was red, and he stammered: "My son is already well, I still have something to do." ”

With a twist, he went to the upper room.

He Xiangu's son is a loser, a few days ago, he climbed over the wall of Widow Liu in the north of the town, and was beaten by Widow Liu's two sons, and only hid at home and pretended to be sick. That's why Chen Xuejiao took this to talk about it, if she didn't use her son as a cutter, maybe He Xiangu at this time would have followed the Li family into the North Wing to drink tea.

"Xue Jiao, don't mess with this fairy girl, she will do it." Lee's hands are folded.

"What to do? Even if she curses others, she is not right. Chen Xuejiao glanced up to the room, and saw that Mrs. Chen welcomed He Xiangu in with a smile on her face.

No wonder He Xiangu came to the Chen family without any suddenness, it turned out that she was invited by Mrs. Chen.

Chen Xuejiao was worried that she wouldn't give Mrs. Chen any bad ideas to harm them. As the saying goes, the heart of defense is indispensable, so Chen Xuejiao put down the work in her hand, tiptoed into the upper room, and eavesdropped through the door.

Mrs. Chen was worried that Wen Yan would not have a son and was really divorced by the Duan family. He hid from Old Man Chen and walked around with some fairy aunts and Taoist women every day, inquired about the prescription for giving birth to a child, and said that it was for the third daughter-in-law, but all of them were left for his daughter.

An old sister took the lead and caught up with He Xiangu.

“…… I can't hide it, my daughter can't give birth to a son, but I don't blame her, blame my son-in-law for not having sex with her, what do I think I'm worried about, fairy girl see what way to do it. Mrs. Chen said a few words, and then went to the bottom.

"If they live a good life, it will be easy to do, but this situation is a bit difficult." He Xiangu's face was unfathomable.

When Mrs. Chen heard that it was difficult, she became nervous.

"There is a way, but this method is difficult, I don't usually say it, the big family who went back to Xuzhou Mansion invited me to go, but they gave me fifty taels of silver." He Xiangu squinted her eyes slightly at Mrs. Chen, and carefully observed her expression.

As soon as she heard that there was a way, Mrs. Chen's brows relaxed, and when she heard that she would ask for fifty taels of silver, her brows furrowed again.

He Xiangu suddenly smiled: "Old sister, I know that in the countryside of our township, let alone fifty taels of silver, even five taels of silver is a large amount, and I don't want much, so I asked you for this number." ”

He Xiangu stretched out two fingers.

Twenty taels of silver! This is a huge amount of money for the countrymen, and this He Xiangu is really black. Chen Xuejiao thought to herself.

Old Mrs. Chen gritted her teeth, turned around and grabbed a box from the head of the bed, took out a piece of silver and a few hairpins from it, and pushed it in front of He Xiangu: "This silver is five taels, but the hairpin was brought by my eldest granddaughter from Dingfu, all of which are real gold, and there are more than a dozen taels of silver in this one." ”

He Xiangu smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, grabbed the hairpin in front of her and bit it, and smiled even more happily.

"What about the recipe?" Mrs. Chen asked.

He Xiangu wrapped all the hairpins and silver into her arms, and whispered: "First of all, let your uncle and Wen Yan have the same room, Wen Yan's blood on the first day of menstruation is collected, part of it is wiped on the head of the bed, and part of it is kept, buy a dog whip, chop and menstrual blood pills into pills, fry them in the pot, stew them for your aunt to eat, your uncle eats the balls, and I am willing to have sex with your daughter." I still have a pill here, you take it to Wen Yan, let her put it in your uncle's rice bowl, and eat it with the menstrual blood dog whip. ”

After hearing this house, Chen Xuejiao was so disgusted that she wanted to vomit. When I looked at it quietly, I saw that He Xiangu was holding a red pill in her hand, and she knew that it was an aphrodisiac medicine.

Seeing this, Chen Xuejiao wanted to quietly leave the upper room. As soon as he turned around, he heard He Xiangu muttering, "...... It's not easy for you, the family forgot about you when they were rich, I just saw the big girl, and the eyes are going to eat people. ”

"What's wrong with my heart, I'm not worried about her being a girl, I'm just worried that Qi An will steal the limelight from my grandson in the future."

"I have a recipe here." Chen Xuejiao saw He Xiangu take out a small wooden figure in her hand. (To be continued......)