People are easy to be sleepy in the summer afternoon, and Xiao Man, who was holding on to the flower bandage at the end of Manyun's bed to practice embroidery, nodded his head from time to time like a chicken pecking rice, and dozed off.

The heat floating on the white silk paper window paper gradually receded, and the shadows of the trees were slightly slanted. Carrying a bright copper teapot in his hand and lifting the curtain to enter the door, Du Shi quietly walked to the side of Man Yun's bed, and walked silently.

She stretched out her hand, delicately removed the embroidered bandage from Xiao Man's hand, looked at it very seriously, and then pursed her lips disdainfully, and flipped her wrist outward.

The clumsy embroidery work arced in the air, and was thrown into the dustpan of the bedside cases, and Xiaoman's soft body leaning on the side of the bed was also put crooked by Du Shi at the end of the bed.

The crimson smoke skirt was lifted straight up, and the clothes were windy, and Du Shi sat firmly on the small footstool next to the bed, with a golden knife.

"Oops, ......", Mother Zhu, who followed the door with her back feet, just snorted half of her throat, but was stopped by Du Shi hurriedly waving her hand.

Du Shi gently patted Xiao Man, who was frowning lightly when he heard the sound, and sighed, his voice was no longer the lightness that he had told Man Yun before, and he was full of exhaustion. "Forget it, she's still young. I was also tired from taking care of Sister Yun in the past two days. ”

Mother Zhu nodded, dragged a pear blossom round stool, sat down next to Du Shi, and before the fat buttocks were next to the stool, she smacked the ground first.

"Phew! That wretched woman! ”

Seeing that Du Shi was a little annoyed that she was not paying attention to it, Mother Zhu raised a big fat hand to block her mouth, and deliberately lowered her voice, "I think Mrs. Xun's training is ignored, if it wasn't for her insistence on staying in this realm, how could my sister be worthy of this crime!" ”

"No matter what, she is also Sister Yun'er's grandmother!" , Du's apricot eyes are white, disgusted, charming and natural.

"Miss, you have been the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family for a long time, and your temperament has become more and more kind." , Zhu's mother flattened her mouth dissatisfiedly, and her low complaint burst out.

"Uncle can confess earlier, he will take care of the master in Luojing, and our family should not stay in Pingzhou, but take a boat to cross the river to Huocheng as soon as possible. But as soon as the uncle on the front foot left, the lady on the back foot cried in a hurry, beating her chest against the wall to find death and life, and she had to stay in Pingzhou and wait for the news of the master.

It's good now, a large family is trapped in this place, neither south nor north, not up or down, and it has provoked the plague god Niangniang for nothing. At this time, four or five children are sick, and she feels that she is agreeable? If you want me to say, she's ......."

"My mother-in-law was also scared, when my father-in-law was demoted to Yanzhou, she didn't follow, and then she made a lot of trouble." Du Shi pursed his lips and smiled, pointing to the tip of his nose, "Lessons from the past, don't be careful now." ”

"But Madame, she doesn't want to go back to Huocheng, and she shouldn't point to Xiao ...... Grandma scolded for being unfilial and disrespectful. If grandma persuaded her, wasn't it all entrusted by your uncle? I heard that Mrs. was afraid that she would have to serve Mrs. Tai as soon as she returned to her hometown.

This mother-in-law is used to it, who still wants to go back to her hometown and be a little daughter-in-law? Besides, there is still a three-room house at the end of Huocheng's old mansion. When it comes to unfilial piety, dragging a large family to work hard here, isn't it also unfilial to Mrs. Tai? If only a few children had a ...... of strength."

"Don't talk nonsense!" , Du Shi glanced at Man Yun, whose shallow breathing voice had changed slightly, his brows furrowed, and one hand slapped the back of Zhu's mother's hand heavily, and there was a crackling sound.

Zhou Manyun, who was lying on the bed, closed his eyes tightly, her cherry-red mouth smacked a few times restlessly, her pink cheeks rubbed against the pillow, and she turned over unconsciously.

"I'll pick up medicine for my sister!" , Mother Zhu muttered dissatisfiedly, but she didn't dare to say more. The big fat face smiled and folded two pieces of meat, got up and probed Manyun's forehead, then put his hand into his sleeve, strode into the meteor, lifted the curtain and went out.

"Sister Yun? Sister Yun! Du Shi tucked his daughter's quilt corner, and called softly twice, seeing that Manyun was sleeping sweetly, he didn't feel that he was inexplicably alert, and he laughed dumbly.

Waiting from the west chamber of the second courtyard where Du's mother and daughter stayed to the stove in the front yard, Zhu's mother, who had not yet exhausted her resentment, also vaguely understood that the young lady was holding back, and estimated that she was teaching her filial piety according to what her uncle taught, and she wanted to teach Sister Yun by word and deed.

"My uncle's words are light, if he is filial or not, he has to be in Pingzhou! No matter what, he crawled out of his wife's belly ......", Zhu's mother sat under the kitchen porch and shook her head and sighed while choosing the bitter Xuancao.

On the way back to his hometown to protect the Zhou family, the fifth master Zhou Zhe received the news that the old man Zhou Xian and Zhou Shirong and the old man Zhou Bai were imprisoned in Kyoto, so he turned around and returned to Luojing.

Zhou Tan, the fourth master who stayed in Pingzhou to manage foreign affairs, was a concubine, and he was used to being submissive in front of his mother-in-law since he was a child, and Mrs. Zhou said that he wanted to stay, so he didn't dare to persuade him to leave.

In order to wait for the news, the small courtyard temporarily rented in Fengjin County, two and a half, can only be used as an inn to live. Up and down, they thought that it would be ten days and half a month, and when Mrs. Zhou, who has always been picky, relieved her sadness, she could continue to go on the road again.

I didn't think about it, but I was sadly trapped in this Fengjin for two months!

Mother Zhu's long sigh made the two women who were busy in the stove room through the window couldn't help but cover their mouths and smile.

The two of them came together and quietly bit their ears. After two clicks, the two of them hurriedly finished the work at hand, and as soon as the steamer was on the pot, they hurriedly walked out of the stuffy kitchen.

"Mother Zhu, I heard that Sister Yun is all right?" , a young woman with a round face, squatted down neatly as soon as she approached, and helped Zhu's mother pick up the herbs scattered all over the place.

"No! My sister is blessed with a great life, and she only ate this bitter herb for two or three days, and then woke up. It's just that I've been sick and lost a lot of weight, which makes people feel distressed! Speaking of Man Yun, Zhu's mother's small pair of eyes suddenly smiled.

"I'll just say that home remedy works!" , another older woman with a long face, handed Zhu's mother a scoop of well water that had just been beaten.

took a sip of the gourd, and it was cool in her heart, Mother Zhu raised her eyes and smiled, as if she remembered something important, she raised her hand and slapped her head suddenly, and the face of the cake was suddenly lightly brushed with red oil with shame.

The two women who had been hired from Toyotsu to help with the kitchen quickly exchanged glances, and their expressions were immediately a little embarrassed, and the movements of their hands to help slowed down.

With a string of honest laughter, Mother Zhu's big fat hand reached into her arms, and after a while, a bright silver bracelet was put on the right wrist of the woman with a long face.

Half pushing and half refusing, the round-faced little daughter-in-law also has an anemone hairpin on her head.

The two women happily thanked the five grandmothers of the Zhou family for their rewards, and the hands and feet that helped them do the work were even more neat, deliberately flattering the kindness of the five grandmothers and the pleasing of Sister Yun.

For the locals of Fengjin, Zhu's mother's humming voice is obscure, but the two women are still fascinated by half-understanding.

"Mother Zhu, sing another song!" , the round-faced young woman, blushing and pouting.

In the vast Chen Dynasty, the thirteen states south of the Tuojiang River, which only accounted for one-third of the country's territory, had very strict etiquette, and even Pingzhou, Jiangbei, which was only separated by a river, was also influenced by southern customs.

Mother Zhu looked at the young daughter-in-law's half-lowered apple face, squeezed her eyes and smiled, and the humming sound in her mouth became clearer. "Little kisses come to love love! Turn your little face around, little kiss pimple...... A good face should be matched with a good guy......"

"Bad morals! Shame on you! At the end of the corridor outside the kitchen, there was a sharp cold snort!

"You scold me!" , Mother Zhu put aside the bitter herb in her hand, and Huo Di stood up.

The fat mother Zhu's eyes were burning, and a woman who was slowly pacing from a distance walked very steadily under this knife, like a lady practicing her gait in the garden.

As they approached the three of them, a pale green half-used silk handkerchief covered the lips of the visitor, and only a few impatient coughs could be heard from under the handkerchief.

The sound was not loud, but it frightened the two women who were not worried about cooking, and hurriedly turned around and drilled into the kitchen.

The round-faced little daughter-in-law took a step slowly, and the silver light on her black bun flashed, and it suddenly hurt the eyes of the housekeeper's lady Guizhi.

"Mother Zhu, this kitchen is entrusted to me by my grandmother! How can you hook these few every day and not do work? Besides, what were you singing nonsense just now! It's purely ruining the reputation of the Zhou family! Huocheng Zhou family champion, no less than forty or fifty people in the six generations of this dynasty are officials, just talking about our master, that is the second rank of the dynasty......"

The cinnamon branch in charge of the kitchen is only in his early thirties, quite a bit of color, neatly cleaned up, and the hairpin is inlaid with a few rice beads that have been gathered into flowers. She was originally a second-class maid married by her grandmother Xie, and she was a clever girl when she was a girl, and she was also very decent.

At this moment, Gui Zhi consciously took advantage of the reason, holding the style of the servant of the master's family, the two thin lips kept opening and closing, and the words and sentences bubbled out, and the round pink face of the duck egg revealed a little color, and the mouth foamed everywhere.

"In other words, even if the master of the Du Mansion family is from a poor background, he is tired of military achievements and has become an official. But how to accompany the fifth grandmother, but there are some unruly subordinates, Mother Zhu, take a look at your old appearance...... I can't say, people really think that if there is a servant, there must be a master, what a shame! ”

Mother Zhu, who had been bowing her head and being silent, had dark eyes, and with her right hand, she grabbed a kitchen knife next to her and slashed it fiercely at a bundle of bitter herbs.

"I'll chop you to death to look good, but you'll climb the rotten branches of the bed!"

The knife slashed the stone floor, and a few stars flashed brightly, and a white-edged knife mark appeared on the blue brick floor.

The bluffed Guizhi screamed, leaned back, and hugged the pillar tightly.

With a cold snort, Mother Zhu stood up arrogantly, her fat arms deliberately squeezed through the pale cinnamon branches, and entered the kitchen door with a dustpan of haode herbs, and rolled up her sleeves to fetch water.

Gui Zhi leaned against the pillar and thought carefully about Zhu's mother's cruel words just now, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately followed up the kitchen with a weak heart, but when he swept his eyes, he saw the two servant women sitting by the stove pretending to be messing around, and the low eyebrows were even more weird, and he felt that his face was hot and feverish.

Gui Zhi, who forgot to hold the shelf for a while, gritted his teeth fiercely, squeezed to Zhu's mother angrily, stretched out his hands indiscriminately, grabbed a handful of herbs and threw them into the hearth.

The fire in the hearth flickered, and Aoba was involved in the tongue of fire, and a thick smoke instantly floated out.

"Siping's family, you dog kills! Why did you fill the stove with the herbs I pulled for Sister Yun! Mother Zhu choked on the herbs, raised her big hand, and slapped Gui Zhi hard. The old lady is going to pick your skin! ”

The crooked cinnamon branch simply pulled with both hands, swept the haode meals, ingredients, and dishes on the stove to the ground, and then tore off a few strands of green silk and floated on the side of his neck, covered his face, and ran out crying.

"Count you little bitsam, run fast!" Zhu's mother, who was splashed with oil, stood at the door of the kitchen, pointing at Guizhi's shadow and scolding for a long time. When she turned back, she could only consider herself unlucky, sorted out the remaining herbs, and went to the inner courtyard with the laughter of the two women.