Chapter 42: The Pearl

The Chen family spent a Spring Festival leisurely and freely, and just after the fifth day of the new year, the peace was broken. The officials in Ancheng all knew that the Chen family had no relatives to leave, so they came to invite Chen Yuanheng to dinner, and invited their families to be guests.

Ancheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River, living a rich life, although it is a small county, there are a lot of entertainment programs, and many families invite the Chen family to go to arrange a troupe to sing. Bai likes it very much, but Chen Wenhui doesn't like it at all, in his previous life, Chen Wenhui even thought that TV was too slow to watch TV series, they all watched it on the Internet, and sometimes they would watch it in fast-forward mode, but now I have long been annoyed to watch this slow, babbling opera.

But after a few days of communication, there was still a harvest, and Chen Wenhui met another friend, Xu Mingzhu. She is ten years old this year and is the daughter of Xu Zhijie, a county subordinate to her father. Although this Xu Mingzhu is small, he has a hearty temperament, and he and Wen Hui hit it off at first sight, and the two of them quickly played together.

On this day, Chen Wenhui and Xu Mingzhu were both guests at the Li family, a Zhishi official, in Ancheng. Chen Wenhui was very happy to see Xu Mingzhu: "Sister Mingzhu, I was very happy to hear that my mother said that you would also come, and I specially brought you a small gift." ”

Xu Mingzhu hurriedly asked: "Hurry up and show me, what is it?" Chen Wenhui took it out of his sleeve: "It's the five blessings you said last time, I asked people to quickly type it out and bring it to you, but I forgot to ask you what color you want, I thought that it was still beige to match the clothes, so I played the beige one, and it looked elegant." ”

Xu Mingzhu took it and took a look, and sure enough, it was a beige silk thread with five blessings holding longevity, and five small bats surrounded a longevity character, which was very cute.

Xu Mingzhu said: "Oh, this one is more exquisite than the one I saw, your maid's skills are really good, when can you teach me." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "What is this, I have a maid who can fight any kind of flower, and has taught me a lot, like this, I will fight, but I don't have them to fight evenly." If you want to learn, come to my house and play with me, and I'll let them teach you. ”

Xu Mingzhu was about to agree, but a girl next to her said, "Isn't it just a network?" Where can't I buy it, I still have to learn it, it's all a craft learned by a maid, why should we learn this? ”

Chen Wenhui saw that Xu Mingzhu was standing next to a tall man, wearing a small red jacket full of gold, combing a Wangxian bun, and the hair draped behind his head was wrapped in a big red ribbon.

Xu Mingzhu said: "Ah, Sister Hui'er, this is my sister, whose name is Pearl." ”

Chen Wenhui shouted her sister, but she was puzzled, this Xu Pearl looked fifteen or sixteen years old, and she looked very gorgeous, but she was not like Xu Mingzhu. Xu Mingzhu is also very beautiful, but it is the beauty of the kind of small jasper, unlike this Xu Zhuzhu's high nose and big eyes, there is a lot of power in the gorgeous.

Xu Pearl treated Chen Wenhui with a pleasant face: "Sister Hui'er, my sister is small and not very sensible, you should be more responsible, where is the girl's family to learn things from the maid." I didn't have to humiliate my identity. ”

Chen Wenhui was very unhappy when she said this. But it didn't show it on his face. still exchanged a few words with Xu Pearl and walked away.

I just walked away for a while and happened to see Li Shuyu. Pleasantly surprised, the two little girls were busy catching up together.

After talking for a while, Chen Wenhui talked to her about the sisters of the Xu family, and Li Shuyu said: "Sister, you don't know, this Xu Pearl is from the concubine, and Xu Mingzhu is from the concubine." Xu Pearl also has an older brother and a younger sister Xu Baozhu, Pearl is fifteen years old, Baozhu is thirteen years old, and their aunt is very favored. Mingzhu's mother, Mrs. Xu, only has one daughter, no son, and is cowardly, and the two of them are very difficult to live in the house. I heard that you have to make your own needlework to earn your daily expenses. ”

Chen Wenhui was surprised: "But I don't think Sister Mingzhu is cowardly." But she does like to learn needlework. It turned out that I was forced by life. ”

As he was talking, he saw Xu Mingzhu and Xu Pearl also coming over, because Li Shuyu and Chen Wenhui were standing behind a flower tree and talking, although there were no branches and leaves on the flower tree in winter, but it was full of lanterns and the like, so the two people were covered, and the Xu sisters did not see them.

I saw Xu Zhuzhu's gorgeous face full of color: "Mingzhu, you don't embarrass me here, go everywhere to learn needlework, why are you not giving you food or clothing, what you wear on your body and on your hands is no worse than mine, but you deliberately make this face, why are you doing?" ”

Xu Mingzhu was not afraid of her at all, raised her head and said hatefully: "Hmph, it's a nice thing to say, every time I come out, I will give me clothes and face, and when I get home, I will take them off and return them to you, let me make face for you, do you think I want to come to this kind of occasion, it is better for me to do needlework at home." Besides, what's wrong with me learning needlework, I didn't steal or rob, and no one else said anything bad about you, why can't I learn it? “

Xu Pearl was furious when she heard this, and slapped it down, but Xu Mingzhu was very alert, and the person was small and flexible, so she dodged it with a dodge, and said proudly after dodging: "Haha, can you hit me?" If you can't say it, I'll beat me, what kind of ability. ”

Chen Wenhui was furious when she saw that Xu Pearl was still moving, and she was about to rush out immediately. But Li Shuyu was pulled, Chen Wenhui was very puzzled, and was about to ask, but saw Li Shuyu make a silent gesture, and then pointed out.

Chen Wenhui looked back, only to see another girl, wearing a pink Panjin embroidered brocade jacket, her head was also full of pearls, younger, about thirteen or fourteen years old, bright and moving, and Xu Pearl was a little similar between her eyebrows and eyes.

When this little girl came, she blamed Xu Zhuzhu: "Why did my sister do it to her in someone else's house, she was desperate, and after a while, she would deliberately dangle in front of those ladies with a slap mark on her face, and lower the face of our aunt." ”

When Xu Pearl heard this, she said hatefully: "I won't beat you here today, and I'll clean you up when I get home, don't be complacent." ”

Xu Mingzhu was not afraid at all: "I'm afraid of you when I go home, I have the ability not to let you get on those dog legs, the two of us go head-to-head, who fights who is not certain." ”

After saying this, Xu Zhuzhu's anger rose again, and she raised her hand to fight again, Chen Wenhui couldn't help it now, and rushed out Sister didn't scream, and said directly: "Stop, what do you want to do?" ”

Xu Pearl hurriedly withdrew his hand and put on a smile: "We sisters are used to having fun, and Mingzhu never minds, isn't it, Mingzhu?" The latter sentence was said to Mingzhu through gritted teeth.

The girl also smiled and said, "My sister has never played with our sisters, and we sisters are often like this." ”

Chen Wenhui said coldly to the girl: "Who is this, call me sister, but I don't know it." ”

The girl who said it had a look on her face. Xu Pearl hurriedly said: "My sister has never seen it, this is my second sister, and her name is Baozhu." ”

Chen Wenhui said with a strange expression on her face, "Am I familiar with you?" Why do you call me sister? Our Chen family doesn't have such a sister. ”

Mingzhu laughed out loud when he said this, and Li Shuyu on the side couldn't hold back his laughter. Xu Pearl and Xu Baozhu's sisters' faces were blue and white for a while.

Chen Wenhui ignored their reactions and directly took Xu Mingzhu and Li Shuyu's hands and said, "Sisters, let's go watch the fish." Xu Mingzhu and Chen Wenhui left, and when they left, they deliberately snorted at the pearl.

Now the pearl was even more angry, and the handkerchief in her hand was rubbed out of shape. When they were far away, Xu Baozhu said: "Sister can't collide with Chen Wenhui, her father is a county magistrate, and she is still from the Chen family in the capital." Although our father doted on us, he was now befriending Master Chen, and when he came out today, he told us to find a way to befriend her. ”

Pearl was even more angry now, and all the breath she was holding was on her sister, and she said sharply, "Don't I know? But you look at it, she values Mingzhu's dead slut and dislikes us as concubines. Hmph, I don't want to think about it, her own parents are also concubines. What's so great about it. ”

When Xu Baozhu heard her sister's words, she couldn't get angry, and hurriedly reached out to cover her sister's mouth: "You don't want to die, can you say this here?" It's nothing to offend Lord Chen's daughter, but it's miserable to offend Lord Chen's husband and wife. Do you want to be grounded by your father? ”

These words reminded Xu Zhuzhu, and he hurriedly looked around and found that no one was relieved. I had to go in the opposite direction with hatred.

Here, Chen Wenhui, Li Shuyu, and Xu Mingzhu came to the pond to feed the fish. Xu Mingzhu saw that the girl of the master's family was not here, took Chen Wenhui's hand and said, "Sister, thank you today, we didn't have long intersected, so I asked you to stand up for me, I'm really embarrassed to be a sister." ”

Chen Wenhui put her other hand to shake Xu Mingzhu's arm and said, "What did my sister say?" Aren't we good sisters, say thank you, but I'm afraid that they will go back and be angry with you. ”

Before he finished speaking, his hand had already held Xu Mingzhu's arm, and Xu Mingzhu couldn't help but let out an "oops". Li Shuyu hurriedly pulled Xu Mingzhu's arm and rolled up the sleeves of his jacket, only to see that his arm like white jade was blue and purple, and Li Shuyu couldn't help but gasp.

Chen Wenhui's eyes widened angrily: "What's the matter?" Do they really do it to you? ”

Xu Mingzhu smiled: "It's not in the way, I'm used to it, but my sister just held it and it hurt a little, and now it doesn't hurt anymore, don't believe it." After saying that, he shook his arm.

Chen Wenhui looked at Xu Mingzhu's sunny smiling face, and somehow, tears came out all of a sudden.

Li Shuyu's voice on the side was also choked: "You are such a character, you don't care about anything, you can't tell your father, I don't believe that your father is partial to them when he sees you like this." ”

The house fight began, asking for recommendation tickets, asking for collections, and asking for clicks.