After this time, the Zhao family no longer imagined the Li family as weak and deceitful, and privately scolded the Li family for being a fool to Qi Lin, and lowered his head and lowered his eyes when he saw the Li family. In the past few days, in addition to cooking and serving Mrs. Chen, she has no face to walk around the yard, and even her old lady invited her to eat and drink on her birthday, but she didn't go because of her illness.

A few concubines gossiped together, and they all said that she should, and after so many years of publicity, she finally completely lost her face.

The Li family and the Cai family wished that the Zhao family would hurry back to Xuzhou Mansion with Xue Miao, and it was best not to come back to Xuzhou Mansion again.

The weather is getting colder, Li began to cut autumn clothes for a few children, a few days ago, Mrs. Li sent ten catties of cotton, Li thought about it, anyway, the material is ready-made, so he simply made winter clothes together.

“…… Catch up and ask your brother to go to school to measure Xingjian's feet, and you make him a pair of shoes. Li said to Xueru with a smile.

Xue Ruzheng took a piece of arrowroot cloth, and Chen Xuejiao headed to each other, teaching her sister how to reel in the thread, and when she heard Li say this, her face turned red, and her voice was like a mosquito and answered "yes".

Chen Xuejiao just wanted to smile and smile a few words, but suddenly thought of her sighing last night, I was afraid that it was because the Zhao family wanted to give Xue Miao to Han Xingjian, and she was a little reluctant to see her shy smile, so it was not good to laugh at her.

"Sister, what do you think of my needle walking?" Chen Xuejiao began to learn to do needlework since the beginning of spring this year, in her previous life, she had never pinched a needle through the thread, and she had suffered a lot at the beginning. I will be a kiss in the future. The first thing I did when I entered my mother-in-law's house was to show off a handful of needlework for everyone in my mother-in-law's house. Chen Xuejiao doesn't take not knowing how to needle and thread to heart, but she can't stand Li's nagging, and she is not willing to challenge the norms of this era. After studying for more than half a year, although the embroidery is not as watery as Xue Rujing's embroidery, it can be regarded as having the appearance of embroidery.

"It's okay, you go up the needle, go around it, and wrap the thread around, otherwise the thread won't look good." Although Chen Xueru has a lot on her mind. But I still patiently taught my sister to walk the needle.

"Okay, just follow what my sister taught me." Chen Xuejiao was planning to embroider a handkerchief for herself, and embroidered a plum blossom on the snow-white kudzu cloth. The light red plum blossoms are embroidered well, but the yellow stamen is not delicate enough, and the needles are not good.

However, for Xue Jiao, who couldn't even wear a needle at first. She is already satisfied with her current craft.

I heard someone outside shouting Chen Xuejiao. The stone said through the window that the apricot blossoms came to deliver firewood.

In the past few days, Xue Miao cried hoarsely, unable to speak, and someone was guarding day and night, Old Man Chen was relieved, Chen Xuejiao's salted duck egg shop returned to work, and Chen Zifu, who was in the third room, also began to sell tofu in the streets and alleys.

Since Xinghua did not work in the salted duck egg workshop, she followed Chen Xuejiao's requirements. Every day, he went to the mountains to chop firewood and sold it to Chen Xuejiao.

She chops firewood differently than others. Instead of cutting down the growing trees, they pick up the dead branches that have been struck by lightning, so that the wood is dry and dense and can withstand burning.

"I'm going out with you, and some time ago she borrowed shoes from me, and I'll send them to her." Jing Hao took out a pair of shoes from the sewing basket and followed Xue Jiao out of the North Wing.

It's all here, and the gate of the Chen family is still closed. Chen Xuejiao opened the door and looked out, and saw the apricot blossoms standing crisply next to the wheat stack, with two large bundles of firewood under her feet, and the strange thing was that the big egg was standing on the side, and her clothes were covered with mud.

"Sister Xuejiao, you see, today's firewood has no moisture at all, it's all dry firewood."

Chen Xuejiao ordered the stone to take the scale and weigh it, and gave Xinghua a string of money.

"Big Egg also went to chop wood?" Chen Xuejiao saw that Dadan's feet were covered with mud, and she concluded that he had come back from the mountain.

"My health has not been very good these days, I went to chop wood, and I met apricot blossoms by the way, so I came back together." The big egg grinned and smiled.

"Cousin, I made you a pair of shoes, you can try them on and see if they still fit." After Jing Hao finished talking to the big egg, he took out the shoes and handed them to Xinghua, "This is the shoes you asked me for last time." ”

When Da Dan heard that Jing Hao had made him a pair of shoes, he was embarrassed to scratch his head.

"Thank you, cousin." Chen Xuejiao swept a pair of shoes that swept the big eggs, and her toes were exposed, frozen red in the cold wind. Who let him be as lazy as Zhang's, his face was as pink as white, his three sons were like mud monkeys, his clothes were all torn, and his shoes were all showing his toes. Da Dan is old, he knows how to be shy, and every time he takes his clothes, he blushes and asks Li to help sew them, and the Dafang family sees that Da Dan is honest and diligent, and helps Dafang work against Mrs. Chen's scolding, so they make him a pair of shoes and sew clothes from time to time.

"Thank you, cousin, thank you, Sister Xuejiao." The big egg smiled embarrassedly, and hid under the firewood with a pair of feet.

Xinghua took the money and shoes, and left when Xie left.

“…… Oops, who knows when they will go back to Xuzhou Mansion, their family is happy, let my man help run errands, I live this life like a widow, I thought about it and I will follow me to Xuzhou Mansion to find my man. Zhang's loud voice came.

When the big egg heard what his mother said, an embarrassed smile appeared on his face. Chen Xuejiao and Jing Hao glanced at each other, this Zhang family couldn't help it, and he had to come out to nag at the risk of being scolded, and when he turned around, Mrs. Chen knew about it, and the family couldn't live in peace.

Basically, every household in the village has an open door, and every household has five big and three thick men, and there is no petty thief, because it is daytime, and they do not sit in the house, and the neighbor women next to them take small baskets and sit down along the wall, doing needlework or threading or tying in their hands, sewing some clothes, and then grabbing melon seeds and fruits, knocking teeth, and listening to Zhang's words, all around her to listen to jokes.

When such a big thing happened to the Chen family, the Zhang family naturally didn't dare to say it outside, only how stingy the second room was, how vicious the Zhao family was, and how ruthless Xue Miao was.

Those women all echoed a few words, there were those who were not used to the Zhao family's people, and their own lives were good, so they held their heads high and saw that the villagers ignored them, and she flew to the branch to be a phoenix with her daughter, who didn't know that her daughter was just a concubine in Dingfu.

“…… Why don't the merchants come these days, my hair oil is gone, and I don't come for a few days, and I have to go to the town to buy it if I don't come. A bunch of women knocked their teeth, saying that they had finished the Zhao family, so they pulled on the dress and decoration.

"Phew, what kind of good thing can that merchant be, like our grizzled people, he naturally behaves more well, don't you see, when he meets a tender little girl and little daughter-in-law, his eyes are like hooks, and they are nailed to people. I've seen a lot of them, and if they see me, don't take a big knife and cut them over. A black-faced daughter-in-law spat on the ground while munching on melon seeds.

"And this kind of thing, I heard in a trance, he saw a girl in the town, and someone was beaten, but his rouge was really good, and it only took a little bit to wipe it off." Another daughter-in-law interface.

Chen Xuejiao didn't listen to this, and frowned when she heard it, the reputation of the merchant is so bad, but I don't know if Xue Miao's thing will spread.

Zhang got into the pile, reached out and pinched the melon seeds and threw them in his mouth, and opened his mouth to say: "That's not it, it's just that merchant......"

"Fourth aunt, the milk called you." Chen Xuejiao spoke up to cut off Zhang's words.

Zhang's mouth is a doorless one, and on a whim, she may poke out the matter of Xue Miao's private meeting with the merchant.

Zhang was talking happily, and when he heard his mother-in-law calling himself, he smiled unnaturally at the women around him, and twisted his body in embarrassment.

"Well, what do you want me to do again, isn't there Qi Lin and his mother at home, there are so many things." Zhang muttered and walked into the courtyard.

Seeing that Zhang's family entered the upper room, Chen Xuejiao and Jing Hao entered the courtyard, and just wanted to close the door, they saw a tall and middle-aged young man with a dark face, wearing a blue shirt, and carrying a pair of pork liver and ribs in his hand.

When she saw Chen Xuejiao standing under the peach tree, she took a closer look at the courtyard gate, and grinned with white teeth: "Xuejiao, is my aunt at home?" ”

Chen Xuejiao recognized him, it was Zhao Butcher's eldest son, known as Zhao Da, who came to the door.

Although Zhao Butcher is not very good, his wife and son are reasonable, every time he sees Chen Xuejiao come to buy pork, Zhao will cut the best meat for her, and he will add a piece of fat when he comes.

Last time, Mrs. Chen said to her face that the eldest son of the Zhao family had a crush on Xue Ru, and she was talking about him, and when the Li family found Zhao Butcher's wife to reason, she found that it was a misunderstanding, and it was the wishful thinking of Mrs. Zhao to let Xue Ru and the Zhao family be married, Zhao Dake never thought about it like that, and saw Xue Jiao and Xue Ru have always been treated as cousins.

"The second aunt is in the house, and my cousin came in and said." Because Zhao Da is Xue Miao's serious cousin, it is not an exaggeration for Chen Xuejiao to call him a cousin, "Cousin, come to see the second aunt." ”

"No, my grandmother said that my aunt is not very good, let me send two pieces of pork liver to replenish my body." Zhao Da smiled and took a mouthful of white teeth.

Suddenly, I saw Jing Hao standing on the side, but I had never seen it.

"This is my aunt's cousin, and she should call you cousin." Chen Xuejiao smiled and pulled Jinghao.

Jing Hao recognized his life, was pulled up by her, and pursed his lips and smiled sideways.

Zhao Da carried the pork liver, stared at the big eyes that were still full of water, and the pear vortex that was revealed with a smile on his lips. I just feel that standing in the cold wind, there is a sense of dryness.

Fortunately, his face was black and he couldn't see the red, so he hurriedly lowered his head, tightened the straw rope tied to the pig's liver in his hand, and lowered his voice: "Blame me for not knowing it, but it's my cousin." ”

Jing Hao turned sideways slightly, called out to his cousin, a pair of big watery eyes sparkled, and Zhao Da was stunned on the spot.

Zhao saw her nephew talking to Chen Xuejiao through the window, so she was angry, she thought that this nephew was a second goods who turned his elbow outward, usually at home not to his own father but to his grandmother's house, and Mrs. Zhao is not very close, now come to Chen's house to see her, not to mention entering the upper room, but standing and selling to the big house.

Zhao just wanted to call his nephew when he was born, but his voice was still in his throat and he didn't spit it out, when he heard a knock on the door outside: "This is the Chen family?" (To be continued......)