The next morning, it was still dark outside, Changsheng had already woken up habitually, the warm fire kang, the soft futon, and the chrysanthemums in the coarse porcelain vase exuded a rich but unassuming fragrance, and this home was still very warm and peaceful.

That incident is in the past, I believe that the father and brother will never do the same thing again, and Changsheng will never mention it again, it is always a family, and it can't be held on, no matter how valuable the jade bracelet is, it is not as important as a family harmony.

But the calm on the surface has nothing to do, and there is no mustard in her heart, Changsheng decided that she will keep a firm eye on the few belongings she has left in the future, in case the family can't live in, these belongings are the foundation of her life.

If yesterday's incident hadn't happened, even if her father and brother were greedy, even if they had been so ruthless that they refused to pick her up, for her mother, for Yusheng Liangsheng, and for her grandmother and uncle, she was still very willing to live in this somewhat desolate and backward mountain village first and then plan slowly, but now, if she didn't want to marry casually, she had to think about a way out.

There was a sound from the other end, it was Yusheng who was getting dressed in the dark, Changsheng was a little funny, she was afraid of waking herself, but she was a careful child.

"Yusheng, why did you get up so early, it's so cold, why don't you sleep for a while?"

"Ah, sister, you woke up, scare me!" Yusheng said that he went down to the kang and lit the oil lamp like beans with a fire fold, rubbed his eyes and said: "This father and brother have already gotten up to make tofu, I want to help my mother prepare breakfast for them, and after they leave, I will help my sister-in-law take care of the two children, settle the children, and feed the pigs and chickens." ”

Changsheng was a little ashamed, sat up and dressed, she had been back for the sixth day, and those who should have visited had been visited, and those who should have adapted have also adapted, and they couldn't always treat themselves as guests, and let Niang and Yusheng take care of themselves everywhere. Whether she wants to leave in the future or not, she is a member of the family for a day in this home.

"Sister, why are you up too?"

"I've been back for six days now, and I've rested enough, and I can still be a guest in my own home? Besides, I used to get up at this time in the palace, and I got used to it, so let's do things together in the future! ”

Yusheng still remembers the love and care of his second sister when he was a child, so he was very affectionate to her in just a few days, and he also admired her very much.

The two dressed up, Changsheng helped her comb a popular twist double-ring bun for a girl in Beijing, and braided into the red ribbon bought from Jinyang, and tied a bow at the root, and the beautiful Yusheng added a bit of girlish charm.

After freshening up and walking out of the house, I found that many rooms were dimly lit, and everyone started a new day's life, they usually got up so early, only she slept until she woke up naturally every day after she came back.

The kitchen was steaming, Zhou Wang's was cooking and cutting vegetables with his second daughter-in-law Zhao Baozhu, seeing Yusheng's new appearance and Changsheng taking the initiative to cook and help, Zhou Wang's heart was moved, this child has been kind and generous since he was a child, and yesterday's matter is put down. But he smiled and said to Yusheng: "Your sister is back to see your beauty!" ”

and blamed Changsheng for not sleeping too much, always feeling too indebted to her, Changsheng smiled and said: "Mother, today is the sixth day, I have rested enough, I will learn to do housework with you in the future, and the food will be the same as usual at home, don't treat me as a guest!" ”

Zhou Wangshi thought about it and nodded in agreement, no matter how much she loves her daughter, Changsheng is not too young, if she hires someone else, she will marry soon, and if she doesn't adapt to it, what should she do after marrying? In-laws are no better than parents.

In the following days, Changsheng learned to do all kinds of housework very seriously, and followed his mother to learn spinning, weaving, and cutting, so that he no longer had to wear the custom clothes of the palace maids, and learned to dress himself well under limited conditions.

The bit of needlework she learned in the palace was either embroidering and piling yarn or making sachets, or designing pillows and treasure tents with novel styles and colors for Yuwen Zhaoyi, at most groping to make some ** clothes close to the previous life to wear, these fists and embroidered legs are useless in the countryside, and what the countryside has to learn is to make real spinning and weaving to make clothes.

After the meal returned to normal, in addition to the New Year's festival or visitors, the Zhou family's breakfast is mainly bean dregs cake and multigrain cakes, accompanied by pickled pickles, sauerkraut and soybean milk and goat's milk, at noon is hand-rolled mixed noodles or yellow rice dry rice, plus cabbage stewed tofu or sauerkraut fried vermicelli, occasionally bacon stewed radish or fried bean sprouts, dinner and breakfast are basically the same, but the soybean milk and goat's milk are replaced by multigrain porridge.

Fortunately, although the drought-tolerant coarse grain beans are the mainstay, but there is no modern processing of the original and pure, there is a food original fragrance, the Zhou family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law tea and rice skills are good, simple meals can be made delicious, the food is better than ordinary farmers, especially there is no shortage of soybean milk and goat milk, although there is no added sugar, but the sheep that grow up purely by eating wild grass, the milk is very fragrant and pure, and there is no smell, Changsheng is very satisfied. It's a pity that the dim sum she learned from her teacher in the palace and the meals in her memory in her previous life are almost useless because of the incomplete ingredients, seasonings and cooking utensils in the remote countryside, burying her good craftsmanship.

Zhou Wang was afraid that she would be greedy, so he comforted her and said that when the bacon sausage was smoked, he would make it for her every few days to satisfy her hunger, and let her eat poached eggs with her sister-in-law in the moon bed.

The tea at home is the cheapest, bitter and heavy tea powder, Changsheng can't swallow it at all, fortunately, there are wild sea buckthorn all over the place, and there are chrysanthemums in the yard, which can be soaked in water as tea to drink.

The most frustrating thing for Changsheng is the lack of fresh vegetables, and fruits are even more rare. In the extremely cold weather for nearly half a year from now, she can eat almost pickled vegetables and pickles and cabbage radishes and green onions in the cellar, even in the summer, there are not many vegetables to eat, and most of the land is used to grow food, so it is easy to persist in a short time, but whether she can stand it in the long run, she doesn't know.

Since she knew that it was inconvenient to use water, she had not taken a bath for ten days after taking a bath on the day she went home, and she was really uncomfortable, so she took Yusheng to boil water and take a bath together.

Zhou Wang said puzzledly: "Haven't you just washed it for a few days?" ”

Changsheng explained: "Mother doesn't know, my daughter serves nobles in the palace, and cleanliness is the most important thing. There is a special bath room for palace maids in the palace, the people who serve close to each other have to bathe and change clothes every day from the summer solstice to the beginning of autumn, bathe and change clothes once every three days after the beginning of autumn, wash your feet every night, get up early to comb and clean your teeth, clean your hands and face, check it very strictly, and you will be severely punished if you are a little lazy, for fear of polluting the nobles. So my daughter is used to it, and she has itching on her body if she doesn't wash it for three days, and she sees that it is inconvenient to use water at home in the past few days, so she has endured it until now, and she can't stand it today. ”

Zhou Wang sighed and said, "Okay, if you can't bear it, you can wash it." But in the future, you have to slowly get used to it, it's better to say that there is more rain in summer, it's winter now, just wash it once a month, didn't you use it at home before? It's not that my mother is distressed about the firewood that boils water, but we are really short of water here, if there is a drought, the water in the cellar is not enough to eat, how to talk about bathing? Only the wife of the rich man's family only bathed once a few days. ”

Take a shower once a month? Changsheng's eyes widened, this matter was even more unbearable for her than the lack of fresh vegetables.

Zhou Wang couldn't bear to say: "Don't worry, if the snow is heavy in winter, let's go to the field to shovel more snow and come back to the water cellar, you can wash it a few more times." ”

Changsheng smiled bitterly, I hope God will be merciful, and it will snow more this winter.