Dusk came, smoke wafted from every house, and the smell of food filled. Chen Xuejiao stood under a sunflower at the gate of the courtyard and looked at the rivers and mountains at the end of the village, which was more like the mountain village where she was a village official, and even the name was Maoshan Village, and the Xuzhou Mansion to which Maoshan Village belonged was also her hometown in her previous life. I thought that I could never go back to my previous life, so I had to live a good life in this life.

In just half a day after coming to this life, I saw the family and environment I was in, and according to the previous life, I was a United Nations with a large number of excellent people. Fortunately, she is glad that her parents, brothers and sisters are more loyal and gentle, and if they are reformed out of this excellent United Nations, maybe they can give them the strongest support in this life.

Except for Xue Yao and Qi Lin, the rest of the people have seen it. I don't know what kind of people Xue Yao and Qi Lin are, just to marry Xue Jiao to the stupid son of the Sun family for the sake of glory and wealth, Xue Jiao doesn't think that this brother and sister are a stubble.

was thinking about it, and suddenly there was a tap on the shoulder, and Xue Jiao came back to her senses and saw clearly that it was the eldest brother Qi An standing beside her.

This was the first time Xue Jiao woke up and carefully observed Qi An. Qi An is fifteen years old, wearing a cyan straight-trimmed kaftan with patches and white shampoo. is in the year of uncrowned, tall and thin, with an angular and resolute face with a little scholarly elegance, black hair is not curled, and a pair of eyes are as clear as cold stars. Xue Jiao was stunned, thinking that the beautiful man in ancient times was not inferior to the Korean star who screamed and chased after the hot fans in the previous life.

"Sister, what's wrong? But my head still hurts. Young Qi An asked gently.

Xue Jiao came back to her senses, and was happy for her brother with such a high-quality appearance, so she smiled and said, "My head is fine." ”

"I've made you suffer, if my father and I were at home, you wouldn't have hit the wall." Qi An's eyes darkened.

"Brother, aren't I okay?" Xue Jiao hurriedly explained the beautiful boy in front of her.

"Don't worry, no one will be able to bully you in the future, and I won't let you marry into the Sun family if I die in the future." The young man said resolutely, after all, he was young, and he couldn't help blushing when he said the word marrying.

Xue Jiao was suddenly a little moved, and her hatred for the scumbag in her heart in her heart was diluted a lot by the love of her young brother in this life.

"I want to study hard and hard, and in the future, I will be a talent, a person, and an official in the court, and no one will bully my father, mother, sisters, sisters and younger brothers. If I were older, I would be able to protect even my aunt. Qi An blamed himself.

Looking at the handsome young man in front of her, Xue Jiao's heart was full of sorrow, she didn't want this young man's heart to be full of hatred, she said softly: "Brother, I understand your heart." But reading is not for revenge, not for the sake of parents, you are a man, you should be more open-minded. ”

Qi An looked at his sister's big bright eyes, and his heart was full of surprise, thinking that such a young sister was so open-minded, he was really ashamed. "My sister is sensible, she is no longer a little girl who pesters her brother all day long, and my sister's heart is actually incomparable to that of me, who is an older brother." Qi An patted Xue Jiao's shoulder.

"What do my sister and brother say about themselves?" Xue Ru walked over with the wood in her arms, and looked at the thin Xue Jiao with pity, "You just woke up, hurry up and go into the house, blow the wind carefully and have a headache." ”

"I'm fine, sister, I'll help you hold firewood." Xue Jiao wanted to step forward to help Xue Ru hug Chai He. "I'm so tired." Snow is like a coquettish avoidance.

"Come, give me the firewood." Qi An couldn't help but say that he took the firewood from Xue Ru's hand, and then whispered to Xue Ru and Xue Jiao: "Xingjian heard that Xue Jiao hurt her head, so I brought some food from home to make up for Xue Jiao. There were roast goose, eggs, and cakes from Hu Fulou, which I hid in the house, and Xue Ruping also had a share, and we ate them secretly at night. ”

"Yo, I said, Sister Xue Ru has been holding a firewood for so long, and it's not a daughter why is she tired, and she is still bothering Brother Xiucai to come to the rescue, maybe what are you muttering here, uneasy and kind." Xue Miao leaned on the door frame and said in a weird manner.

"What do we mean, Sister Xuemiao, what are we muttering? Let's tell you the truth, we are muttering who is the most beautiful and gentle sister of our old Chen family. My brother and sister agree that it is Sister Xueyao, and I think that among our sisters, Sister Miao, you are not only naturally beautiful, but also gentle and kind. According to Sister Miao's statement, we are uneasy and kind, do you disagree with me, do you think that Sister Miao thinks that the snarky chick belly is enough to describe herself. Xue Jiao fought back fiercely, some people in this world like to kick their noses in the face, Xue Jiao saw Xue Miao's dark nature, no matter how good such a person is to her, she doesn't appreciate it, she has to pick bones in the egg, then she doesn't need to be with Xue Miao, the direct naked challenge makes her even more jealous.

Sure enough, Xue Miaoqi's face turned red, and she couldn't think of a rebuttal for a while, so she stomped her foot and spit hatefully, and threw a sentence, "Hurry up and take Chai He in, the rice is not cooked and you will break your legs in the grandmother's house."

The three Xuejiao brothers and sisters hugged Chai He and walked into the pot house, and called the kitchen a pot house in Maoshan. The pot house was in full swing, the mother Li cut vegetables with quick hands and feet, and the round radish and cabbage turned into evenly sized shreds or pieces, which were poured into the pot by the third aunt Cai Shi and fried after cutting, while the mother continued to buckle the noodles in a yellow porcelain pot on the board and knead the steamed steamed buns. A large earthen pot, the wood is burning, and the fourth aunt Zhang sits on the earthen table in front of the pot stove and refills the wood inside.

"Xue Ru is also big, holding a firewood for so long, the pot is going to burn dry." Mrs. Chen sat upright at the door of the pot house to direct her daughter-in-law to cook, and when she saw Xue Ru's sister and brother saying that she was not salty, she glanced at Chai He in Qi An's arms and pretended to be surprised: "But I can't bother Chen Daxiucai, this is my own sister, and I can't call you this old woman." If you want me to say that you will be better than your father in the future, you should not be a master of lifting people, don't nest in Maoshan Village for the rest of your life, and go out with a big sedan chair to carry how can you make a living holding firewood. Xue Jiao could hear Mrs. Chen's sarcasm, and she had to step on her father hard.

"Isn't this exactly what my grandmother said, my brother will shine on the lintel as the eldest son and grandson in the future, and when it really comes, not only parents, but also grandfathers and grandmothers who have passed away will have glory." Xue Jiao said crisply, isn't Mrs. Chen the most afraid of her eldest son and grandchildren, she wants to say that she wants to hit her weakness.

Mrs. Chen just wanted to get angry, and suddenly a burst of smoke from the stove came straight to the door of the pot house, choking on her cough, and after coughing, she scolded Zhang who was burning the pot on the smoked stove: "Useless things, barbarians from the mountains, have been hunting and killing since childhood, and have injured Yin De or whatever, the pot can't burn well, if you can't give birth to a baby, what else does the old Chen family want you to do." Xue Miao covered her mouth with a handkerchief embroidered with red and bright peony flowers in her hand, frowned slightly and said: "Grandma, don't be angry, don't be angry, this is not to blame the fourth aunt, maybe the firewood that Sister Xueru hugged just now is wet." ”

is a good Xue Miao, and she wants to take the opportunity to drag the snow down the water, she seems destined not to let Xue Jiao's family have a good time.

"Sister Xue Miao didn't hold the firewood, how did she find out that it was wet, is it possible that Sister Xue Miao knows how to distinguish wet firewood from dry firewood, since this is the case, why don't you invite Sister Xue Miao to hold the firewood He also teach us how to identify, so as not to hold the wrong one next time." Xue Jiao didn't plan to let Xue Miao, otherwise there would be endless moths one after another.

"Big damn it, you put it there first, I'll knead the noodles and I'll cook them." Li was afraid that Mrs. Chen would be angry with a few children, and hurriedly played a round, worrying that Xue Jiao's temperament had changed more and more since she woke up, and she dared to talk back in front of the old lady.

Zhang's wished that Li would come to burn the pot, she was so lazy, and shouted in a loud voice: "Sister-in-law is a warm-hearted person, and the firewood that Xue Ruhu is dry, how can I not burn the pot, and if I burn it again, the whole pot house will burn." ”

"You're a lazy and slippery person." Old Lady Chen's fire was triggered on Zhang's body again, and her eyes stared at Cai's with elves, and suddenly shouted: "Put an extra spoonful of oil, and you can put so much oil in a fried radish." You grew up drinking sesame oil, what do you do with so much oil, lest people don't know that your mother's family makes a living by grinding sesame oil. ”

"Why isn't the second aunt in the pot house?" Xue Jiao asked Xue Ru quietly.

"You forgot it, the second aunt has never entered the pot house, saying that she can't smell the smell of oil smoke, and her heart hurts as soon as she enters the pot house." Xue Ru whispered in Xue Jiao's ear.

When the meal was ready, Mrs. Chen instructed Qi An, Da Dan, and Er Dan to carry the table to the courtyard. The weather in early autumn is still a little hot, and at night the gust of wind blows very comfortably, and the moonlight is just enough to save candles when eating in the yard.

Li and Cai brought the meal and steamed buns to the table. A pot of steamed potatoes, a pot of fried radish, a pot of choked cabbage, a pot of sweet potato noodles, a stack of white steamed buns, a large bowl of noodle sauce, and a large handful of green onions.

The second and third eggs were young, and as soon as Wowotou was brought to the table, he grabbed it with his dirty hands and stuffed it into his mouth, and was taken away by Mrs. Chen.

Everyone sat around the table, Li's, Xueru, Qi An, and Qi Lin took the wowotou, and Xuejiao also took the wowotou. But the others were each given half a white steamed bun, especially the old lady Chen, the old man Chen, and the second uncle and aunt's family were all white flour steamed buns. Others are free to pick up the dishes, while their mother and older siblings occasionally stretch out their chopsticks to symbolically clip and watch Xue Miao casually rummage through the dishes and pick what she likes to eat. Xue Jiao knew that it was unfair for this family to be strict, and her own family was bullied to the top of her head.

His father, Chen Zimin, did not come to dinner, because the death of his aunt hit him hard, and he hid alone in the house and was sad. Although the mother and several children are also sad, in this family, if the expression Xiàn comes out, it will cause a bigger turmoil. Xue Jiao could sense the love of her mother, brother, sister, and younger brother barely eating, and she couldn't swallow it herself.

Xue Jiao looked at Old Man Chen's calm face, and thought to herself that her daughter died without any emotion, what kind of old man is this.

"Wenxiu is going," Old Man Chen finally spoke, "Early tomorrow morning, Zifu, you will accompany your eldest brother to Zhang Banxian's colorful board funeral in Baitu Town." ”

"Yes, Dad, I'll go with my eldest brother." Chen Zifu agreed.

"She is relieved to go, leaving my hard-working nephew, she married into our old Wang family and has nothing to be buried in the ancestral grave is a great glory, and let her mother's family hold a funeral, she is not the queen and let the world provide for her." Mrs. Chen swallowed a mouthful of cabbage and said angrily.

"Everyone is dead, it's useless to say anything, just take her to accompany her mother." Old Man Chen said lightly.

"Accompany her mother? You dead old man, are you still thinking about the dead ghost in front of you? You think about people, you are affectionate, you are not ashamed when you are old. People may take a fancy to you, what are they, they are the eldest lady of the official family, literate and hyphenated, and they may take a fancy to you, a bad old man who farms. Mrs. Chen threw the chopsticks in her hand and shouted loudly.

"What nonsense." Old Man Chen was obviously excited, and his eyes were foggy.

"I'm talking nonsense, I'm not as alive as a dead ghost. I have been married into the old Chen family for so many years, day and night, and I have given you three sons and a daughter, and I am not as good as her. Are you still thinking about her, you talk about it, what am I still doing when I am alive, I will simply learn from your girl to wipe her neck and hang herself. Old Mrs. Chen became more and more unreasonable, and Old Man Chen trembled angrily.

"Yes, she is the eldest lady, and she is like a fairy, and she will give you a beautiful eldest son. You think about her and miss her, what's the use, people still don't look at you when they're alive, and they probably don't want to enter the ancestral grave of the old Chen family when they die. What kind of sin have I created, when my stepmother has worked hard all her life, she is not as good as a dead person, and now you don't know why you hate me, chewing your tongue behind your back and saying that my old Wang family killed Wenxiu. Mrs. Chen clapped her hands and cried, leaned over and grabbed Li's hand and scolded: "Don't look at your usual silence, you think of your mother-in-law who has never met before, you are angry and want to force me to death." ”

Xue Jiao saw what it meant to be unreasonable, and Old Man Chen's beard trembled angrily. Xue Jiao observed Old Man Chen carefully, and when she heard Old Lady Chen mention the original partner in front of her, her expression was obviously gloomy and low.

Several daughters-in-law hurriedly persuaded Mrs. Chen that the Zhao family was the best at acting, and said in a choked voice: "Mother, look at your grandchildren, which one doesn't treat you as a serious grandmother, your eldest grandson Qi Lin is so old, and he will take the Xiucai exam next year." What point is you worse than the front, the literacy and hyphenation in front, when Qi Lin took the exam, he may not be able to bring glory to you in the imperial examination. ”

"Grandma, don't cry, I'm your own granddaughter, you have many sons and many blessings, grandchildren and granddaughters, what are you afraid of. My grandmother has a better life than other grandmothers, what about the literate and hyphenation official lady didn't die early in the end, and now she takes another one, who will she take away in the future? What is as blessed as you are? Xue Miao rolled into the arms of Mrs. Chen and persuaded her, but her words were obviously vicious and cursed.

Don't sleep if you continue to make trouble like this, Xue Jiao thought of a way to stop it, and Xue Jiao smiled when she recalled Mrs. Chen's unscrupulous words.

"Grandma, don't cry, you just said that the aunt is not the queen and let the world provide for it. The aunt is indeed not the queen's mother, but how can grandma compare the aunt to the queen's mother, in case it spreads out and ends up disobeying the court, who in our family can bear it. Xuejiao's crisp voice was clear in the dark night, "Brother, you read a lot, you tell me what it should be to be disrespectful to the queen and disobey the court." ”

"Destroy the sins of the nine tribes." Qi An said.

"Destroy the Nine Clans, grandma, then our entire village in Maoshan will be wiped out because of your words." Xue Jiao suddenly cried, and everyone was silent when they heard Qi An say that they would destroy the nine clans.

"Don't say anything else, grandma, you have to think about Brother Qi Lin, just now the second aunt also said that Brother Qi Lin will take the Xiucai exam next year, and maybe you will earn a champion in the future, if the customer becomes an official in the future and is accused by others of disobeying the imperial court, what should I do?" Xue Jiao said anxiously.

Others are fine, but Zhao and Xue Miao were shocked when they heard this, all the hopes of their family were in Qi Lin, if it was really because of Mrs. Chen's words, the future would not be good. At this time, the Zhao family complained that Mrs. Chen had nothing to do.

Mrs. Chen was also frightened in her heart, she didn't want to take away a large number of people who were arrested and tied up like the storyteller said. Everyone persuaded Xue Jiao's words, and Mrs. Chen also went down the steps and was helped by Xue Miao to enter the hall, but she was still crying and cursing Mrs. Chen.

Xue Jiao caught sporadic information about her grandmother in Mrs. Chen's scolding, such as Miss Guan's family, who looked down on her grandfather and when Mrs. Chen was talking about this, Old Man Chen's always cold face rippled, she couldn't help but feel puzzled in her heart, and thought that she would definitely ask her parents about her grandmother's life in the future.