"Aunt Gu, Man'er kept clamoring to see you just now, but I didn't hold her." Yun Ying stood cramped at the door of the room, her lowered eyelids covering the thousand thoughts in her eyes. Man'er, who was pulled by her as an excuse, bit her little fingernails, opened her big bony eyes, and looked at Gu Banniang sitting on the edge of the kang without speaking.

Seeing this, Gu Sanniang smiled and got up and pulled Man'er forward: "Banniang, these are your two daughters, look at the little appearance, they look really good." ”

Yun Ying has actually been standing outside the door for a long time, she has heard what the Gu Banniang sisters said, and she can understand it, whoever marries and becomes the ready-made mother of three children can't be happy, right? In fact, Yun Ying didn't want to treat her as a mother, as long as she was strong enough to withstand the provocation of the Li family and others, Yun Ying was already very satisfied, at least that way she could keep a little more of the interests of her own family.

Gu Banniang's expression was a little stiff, but she still reached out and touched Man'er's small bag: "You are a camellia, and the one behind is my sister's flower, right?" She also heard that the Qiao family had sold a daughter chrysanthemum a few days ago, and she felt a kind of empathy for the two girls, which slightly dispelled the disgust in her heart.

Man'er shrank back slightly, leaned towards Yun Ying, who had already walked behind her, and whispered, "We have changed our name, my name is Man'er, and my sister is Yun Ying." ”

Yun Ying smiled and hugged Man'er's shoulder, after all, he was not a real nine-year-old child, and he couldn't pretend to be cramped for long, so he simply said to Gu Sanniang and the sisters generously: "Aunt Gu sit down for a while, I'll go and bring you a bowl of water to warm up." ”

"It's not cold today, Yun Ying won't be busy. Come and talk to your mother and third aunt. Gu Sanniang reached out and touched it in her purse, and found two black lumpy objects and stuffed them into Yun Ying and Man'er's hands respectively: "Take it, this is the brown sugar made by the third aunt's family, it's delicious." ”

Man'er's eyes lit up when she heard the word "sugar", she still ate the brown sugar brought to her by the Lei family's brother at her third aunt's house a long time ago, and it was so sweet that she almost swallowed her fingers; But she still couldn't bear to stretch out her hand, and turned her head to look at Yun Ying's face.

Gu Sanniang and Gu Banniang exchanged glances for this, and just now they could hear it, Yun Ying just called "Aunt Gu"; Gu Banniang took the brown sugar in her sister's hand and stuffed it into Man'er's hand, but she turned her face and whispered to Yun Ying: "The three of you sisters must still be thinking about your mother, just call me Aunt Gu, you don't need to change your words." It's not unheard of as a stepmother who doesn't need to change her words, Gu Banniang can't accept that three children of this age call her "mother" after all.

"Man'er, thank you Aunt Gu and Third Aunt quickly." Yun Ying was happy to see this, and helped Man'er put the candy into the small pocket on her clothes, she was no longer a child, so it was not good for this mouthful.

"Thank you, Aunt San, thank you Aunt Gu." is different from Yun Ying's maturity, the child knows that the good-looking woman in front of him is the bride married by his father, although the name "aunt" is a little different, but no one will say that he is a motherless child in the future, and he is still a little excited in his heart; took Yunying's hand and asked pitifully: "Sixth sister, I'm going to find my brother and give him candy." ”

Yun Ying nodded, Man'er rushed out of the door with her pockets covered and flying, Gu Sanniang glared at Gu Banniang helplessly, and smiled affectionately when she turned to Yun Ying. patted the edge of the kang, "Yunying, come and sit, talk to your Aunt Gu, talk about what you do at home on weekdays, and what you like to eat?" Your Aunt Gu's cooking skills are good, in the future, you can say what you want to eat. ”

Before she finished speaking, Gu Banniang had already reached out and pinched Gu Sanniang's waist: Dead third sister, are all big words said casually?

Fortunately, Yun Ying is not a real nine-year-old village girl, and she didn't make any big requests, but calmly sat on half of her butt on the edge of the kang and said, "There are many people in the family, they all do what they eat, and they don't have any special favorite food." ”

"Yo, this kid can talk." Gu Sanniang was really surprised, you can say that Yun Ying can be calm and calm, but after entering the house, according to their sisters' observations, this Qiao Yunying is clever and generous.

Gu Banniang was naturally not good because she was a new daughter-in-law who entered the door, and she didn't know what to say to Yun Ying, so she listened to her third sister knocking on the side to help her ask about the situation of the Qiao family, the more she listened, the more she looked at Yun Ying, her answer seemed to say a lot, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that almost all of what she says is something that can be easily heard outside, and the rest, such as what kind of daughter-in-law the Li family likes, who is the most sincere in the Qiao family, who is careful and thoughtful, etc., are not asked.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Qiao's family's lunch was finally poured out, Qiao Baisheng and a few men who came to see off their relatives were seated at the table of eight immortals in the main room, three tables in the courtyard were sitting men from Qiao's three courtyards, and two tables were set up in the stove room where Qiao's daughters-in-law and girls were sitting, Yunying and Man'er still couldn't serve the table, but fortunately, the third aunt Yang helped them put a lot of pork stewed cabbage and radish in the bowl.

There is Qiao Baisheng pressing on the top, there are concubines in the middle, and there are juniors watching below, even if the Li family is distressed about the money spent, they have to grit their teeth and endure it, and keep giving her baby daughter and granddaughter meat and vegetables, and there is a tendency to eat back.

And Luo, who was supposed to make a fuss, was slapped by Qiao Hammer, and was dealing with the meat and vegetables in the pot on the table with half of his face red, picking and choosing looked like dealing with the enemy, seeing Yun Ying's heart tremble, it is foreseeable that the Qiao family will be more lively in the future.

As it turned out, Yun Ying's guess was completely correct.

This meal is also the farewell meal for Gu Banniang and her mother's family, indicating that she has become an authentic Qiao family since this meal. Led by Yue's circle, the old, the young, the big, and the small all recognized their familiar faces, and she was dizzy and couldn't completely tell who was who, but she was resolute by nature, and she successfully coped with it by gritting her teeth.

After the meal, the people of the Gu family hurriedly set off to go back to Gujia Village before it was completely dark, which provoked Gu Banniang to wipe her tears while holding on to the courtyard gate.

It stands to reason that the newlyweds will "cry and marry" at their parents' house before they go out, and when they get to their in-laws' house, they should "get married". Gu Banniang also knew this, and she really couldn't help but secretly wiped the corners of her eyes, who knew that she was so coincidentally looked at by Luo who was cleaning up the tables and chairs in the courtyard.

"Oh, our Qiao family is a wolf's den or a tiger's den, so I wiped my tears well, how unlucky." Luo, who gave birth to a child and became big-shouldered and round-waisted, has never seen a bewitching woman, and now there is such a woman who has become a concubine, which really makes her feel uncomfortable from top to bottom, so she pays extra attention to the performance of this concubine, but she catches a mistake.

Li was talking to his daughter Qiao Erni, who had not seen him for a long time, in front of the main room, and looked up at the door. She didn't care about Gu Banniang's appearance and character, but she was very angry about the five taels of silver dowry that she spent for this daughter-in-law! No, plus today's meal, it's a full six taels of silver. Thinking of this, Li scratched his heart and lungs.

"Wood daughter-in-law, I smashed the pot and sold iron and spent five taels of silver to hire you home, what do you mean now? If you are not happy, you can return my money while you are not yet a person in the wooden house, and let the wood send you after your brother. ”

Qiao Mutou was cleaning up the tables and chairs, and when he heard this, he looked at Gu Banniang, who was slim at the door, with reluctance in his eyes. Gu Banniang didn't see the pity in his eyes, took a deep breath and exhaled again, silently took the broom on the side to help sweep the ground, and used practical actions to prove that she was willing to marry into this family.

Li Shi asked and didn't get an answer, it was like a heavy punch hitting the cotton, and the heavy sense of loss almost didn't hold back the earth-shattering cough.