Chapter 32: Cousins and Cousins
After getting up in the morning, Xiao Jinxuan finished washing up as planned, and the breakfast was also placed.
When she came to the table and looked at the exquisite dishes in front of her, she sighed, and she didn't mean to move the chopsticks at all.
Seeing this, Lan Zhi on the side hurriedly asked, "Miss, isn't this dish to your liking?" This pigeon ginseng soup has been stewed by the chef for a long time, and it is best to warm up your body in winter, so you can try it. ”
looked up at Lan Zhi, but Xiao Jinxuan didn't speak, she didn't think the food was good, but it was because it was too good, so she couldn't eat it.
Now that the snowstorm is coming, many people in Yangzhou can't even eat, she has a deep understanding of that kind of bitterness in her previous life, and she has long told the kitchen that everything is simple, but she didn't expect such a waste of silver supplements to be moved to her dining table.
Smiling lightly, she asked lightly: "I didn't tell the kitchen to make this pigeon, and the ginseng in this soup is stewed with whole roots, I'm afraid that the effect of this tonic soup will be too great." ”
Who knew that Lan Zhi smiled when she heard this, and hurriedly explained: "This soup was stewed by the slave maid, as for this ginseng, it was also stewed in water first, and when the stew was the most effective, it was brought to the young lady to stew the soup, this is all made by the slave and the maid personally watching them, young lady quickly taste it and see if you like it or not." ”
Xiao Jinxuan raised her head again, glanced at Lan Zhi deeply, and said, "You have a heart", and lowered her head to eat, but the pigeon soup was not touched at all.
Lan Zhi saw it in her eyes, and a bored look flashed on her face.
I don't know why, in the past half a month, no matter what she does, this fourth young lady is indifferent.
On weekdays, I mostly tell Bamboo to do it, as if I deliberately alienated her.
At this moment, Bamboo came back from outside, and when he entered the house, he said: "Miss, the eldest lady is now more and more able to make trouble, and when I went, there was no good thing in her house, and all of them were smashed. ”
Xiao Jinxuan put down the chopsticks and said softly: "The meat that fell from her body is naturally distressing, Sister Chang is now crazy and imprisoned in the family temple, and it is normal for her mother to make trouble, since she thinks those furnishings are eyesore, then she simply doesn't have to buy things to go in, send someone to watch her, don't let her have an accident." ”
Xiao Jinxuan felt that time was indeed fast, and half a month had passed since the plum blossom banquet that day.
Zhao Quan died that day, Xiao Jinlian went crazy, and the two parties became like this, so the fornication was over.
But afterwards, there were rumors in Yangzhou that were not conducive to the Xiao family, and afterwards, Xiao Heng also tortured the girl who found the sachet and asked the truth, knowing that there was still Ning's handwriting.
Xiao Heng, who was in a hurry, immediately confined the Ning family to his residence, and Xiao Jinlian was also sent to the family temple overnight.
As for Xiao Heng himself, he immediately returned to the barracks to clarify the rumors and stabilize the morale of the army.
Before leaving, Xiao Heng handed over all the affairs of the family to Xiao Jinxuan to take care of, and asked Aunt Shen to help.
So now the real power of the Xiao family, Xiao Jinxuan is a well-deserved top spot.
Xiao Jinxuan didn't eat much, and just wanted people to take the food down, when suddenly the maid who was guarding the courtyard came in.
And handed her a golden hairpin and said, "Fourth Miss, someone outside the door is asking to see you, saying that she is from Meizhuang." ”
Xiao Jinxuan was stunned for a moment, looked down carefully, and recognized after thinking about it, this was the hairpin she gave to Liu Langzhong's daughter.
Knowing in his heart that it was the old man who was looking for him, he hurriedly said: "Tell the doorman to let people in, and bring them directly to me." ”
Yahuan retreated in response, and it didn't take long for Zhang Baishu and Xiao Wenxin to be brought in.
Xiao Jinxuan looked at the skinny girl in front of her, and still recognized who she was: "You are Liu Langzhong's daughter, your name is Baizhu, right?" ”
Seeing that Xiao Jinxuan still had an impression of herself, Baizhu was very happy, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed and said, "Fourth Miss Wanfu, that is, the little girl, my father is dead, and I ask Miss to take in Baizhu." ”
Xiao Jinxuan was shocked, during the snowstorm in her previous life, Liu Langzhong was still alive and well, so when she left Zhuangzi, she didn't remind the other party too much. But now why is he dead?
After all, it was someone who was kind to her, so Xiao Jinxuan hurriedly asked: "Why did you go, Baizhu, you get up first, and tell me what happened." ”
Baizhu wept when he heard this, but he still sobbed and told the story.
It turned out that since Xiao Jinxuan and his party left, Liu Langzhong wanted to take care of Xiao Jinfu's face, so he stayed in Zhuangzi with Baizhu and stayed for nearly two months.
The heavy snowstorm came a while ago, and their father and daughter were also trapped in Zhuangzi, but their status was humble, how could Xiao Jinfu's mother and daughter share the food on Zhuangzi.
Liu Langzhong begged for his daughter, and was beaten badly, so he had no choice but to escape with Baizhu.
But on the way, Liu Langzhong's wound was bleeding, which attracted a man and a bear, and finally he led the beast away and saved his daughter's life, but he couldn't come back.
Baizhu, who was alone, had no relatives to go to, and when she was at a loss, the golden hairpin on her head fell to the ground, and she remembered Xiao Jinxuan, and came to Yangzhou with the attitude of giving it a try.
After listening to this, Xiao Jinxuan's eyes flashed a trace of loneliness, and sure enough, she was reborn in a lifetime, and many things have changed.
She ruined Xiao Jinfu's face and was able to return home early, saving her brother's life. But Liu Langzhong was left in Zhuangzi because he wanted to heal Xiao Jinfu, and he lost his life.
In this way, the other party's life is indirectly lost because of her, and when she thinks about it, her heart is very uncomfortable.
At this moment, an extremely loud sound of swallowing saliva attracted Xiao Jinxuan's attention.
Looking up suspiciously, I saw that the young man who came in beside Baizhu was looking longingly, and the rest of the food in front of her table, the saliva at the corners of her mouth, was about to flow out.
Xiao Jinxuan suppressed the discomfort in her heart and said with a smile: "You two are hungry, I haven't moved much this breakfast, or you two will eat some first." ”
When Xiao Wenxin heard this, his eyes lit up, and he was not afraid to say: "Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, don't dislike it, little cousin, don't think we're sloppy." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he sat down with the restrained Baizhu, then took the bowl used by Xiao Jinxuan, filled a bowl of rice, handed it to Baizhu, and picked up the rice bowl and ate it in a big gulp.
Little cousin? Xiao Jinxuan was amused by these words, and asked jokingly: "What did you call me just now, you are also from the Xiao family, which one." ”
As before, Xiao Wenxin and Baizhu said, the Xiao family is a big family in Yangzhou, but everyone with the surname Xiao hooks up relatives, but the relatives are far away and close, and they are different, and many of them don't move around at all on weekdays.
When Xiao Wenxin heard this, he raised his head buried in the basin, and said with rice on his face: "My name is Xiao Wenxin, my father is Xiao Kuo, and he is the dead Xiao Xiucai, my ancestor's grandfather, and your grandfather are brothers, we are a great-grandfather, I am not very old, I am fourteen years old this year, and I am not your cousin in terms of seniority." ”
As soon as Xiao Wenxin's tongue twister-like words were finished, Xiao Jinxuan, Zhu Zi and others were amused.
These relatives are almost five generations, and the two of them can't even count as distant relatives, and the other party is still a cousin on the left, and a cousin on the right is excited, and it is interesting to listen to.
Xiao Jinxuan was in a much better mood by him, and said half-jokingly: "That cousin needs to eat more, otherwise my cousin will not be happy to go." ”
Xiao Wenxin took the bowl of pigeon soup that had not been touched, took it to the front, sandwiched all the pigeon meat in it to Baizhu, fished out the ginseng in it, and put it in the cloth bag around his waist.
But he said: "You are a nobleman, call me cousin, I can't stand it." You still call me Wen Xin, by the way, you don't want to boil this ginseng soup, then I can take it away. ”
Lan Zhi on the side glanced at Wen Xin with a bad face, this soup was for her to please Miss, but now she was eaten by these two dirty things.
Immediately, without waiting for Xiao Jinxuan to speak, she snorted and said: "I just finished climbing relatives, this is eating and taking, fortunately my Xiao Mansion, there are not many poor relatives like this, otherwise it will not be a few days, and our mansion will not be emptied directly." ”
Wen Xin's face flashed with embarrassment, but he has been ridiculed since he was a child, but he was uncomfortable for a while, so he said with a smile: "I am full today, but my mother is still waiting at home, this ginseng that has been boiled in soup, I think my cousin will not use it anymore, just let me take it away and make some water for my mother to drink." ”
But this time Lan Zhi sneered again, and said in a weird manner: "If you want to take it, just say take it, move out of the old lady to talk about things, this is to show that you are a filial son, whose ginseng is not blown by the wind, even if it is a waste ginseng, it can be studied into the end of the face, you want to take it away in a few words, where did such a good thing come from." ”
Lan Zhi's words were really ugly, and the bamboo on the side pulled her twice, and she couldn't listen to it anymore.
And Wen Xin also took out the ginseng from the bag slowly, lowered his head, and silently put it back on the table.
Xiao Jinxuan's face turned completely cold, and she looked at Lan Zhi, who was standing with a tricky face.
She said coldly: "In my courtyard, I don't know when you Lan Zhi will be in charge, or in the future, what will happen to the next people, you won't have to lead people in front of me, so it's good for you Lan Zhi to take the idea and prop up this door." ”
Xiao Jinxuan said at the end, her voice suddenly raised, and her right hand slapped on the table, and anyone could see that she was annoyed.
Wen Xin's lowered head was raised suddenly, his face full of confusion and surprise.
His father left early, and he has been dependent on his blind mother since he was a few years old, and there are a few close relatives who are very wealthy, so since he was a child, he often went to these relatives' houses to ask for something to supplement the family.
These relatives, many times, are not good at refusing, so they call the people around them, make sarcastic remarks, and squeeze him away, just like Lan Zhi just now.
Therefore, Wen Xin saw that Xiao Jinxuan didn't speak, only when this fourth lady was also that kind of person, but he couldn't refuse because he had a good face, so he humiliated him by that girl.
Although he is poor, his skin is not as thick as the city wall, and he knows that people don't like it. So when he returned the ginseng, he was going to say goodbye and leave.
But now looking at Xiao Jinxuan's frosty expression, Wen Xin felt that he seemed to be thinking wrong, this fourth young lady was really different.