At this time, Liu Zhizhang ran in and shouted to Zhang Yan, "Sister-in-law, the banquet will be dispersed soon, our father asked you to accompany your mother to the door to thank you." Zhang Yan hurriedly got off the kang, Liu Lao Niang and Hui Lan and other family members were in Zhongzhang's house, helping the invited chef to work all morning, the guests ate and drank almost, they had to be idle, they were sitting on Wei Ji's kang and gossiping, Hui Lan smiled and said to Liu Lao Niang, "Sister, just now you saw Zhang Yan this girl for my brother-in-law to block wine, are you very happy?" Mrs. Liu smiled from ear to ear, "That's not it, Aidao is seeing that it's time to get married, Yizhang is not at home, Renzhang is not in charge like me, and your brother-in-law has to worry about all the big and small things in the family, now it's okay, with Zhang Yan, I think her posture is bigger than your brother-in-law's, and she has surrendered hundreds of men, no wonder your brother-in-law always praises Zhang Yan in front of me, this daughter-in-law is right!" ”

"Sister, my brother-in-law just praised Zhang Yan, but he didn't praise me in front of you?"

"What do you have to boast about? People who are almost thirty years old are not in shape, and they still pester him like a child all day long, what else can they do except talk to him? Your brother-in-law too, always told me that you were still a child, and I think he spoiled you since childhood. ”

Huilan hugged Liu Lao Niang's neck and began to be coquettish, "My sister, you and your brother-in-law are going to cross the river and tear down the bridge, Zhang Yan is not that I often take her to our Liu family compound to play, so I got along with Renzhang, there are so many men chasing her, I always tell her good things about Renzhang, and now that the new daughter-in-law has entered the door, you two can't get used to my sister!" ”

Lin Qi looked at Liu Lao Niang and Hui Lan affectionately like a mother and daughter, and was very envious, she had been married to the Liu family compound for five or six years, and she was incompatible with the people in the compound. I don't know why I just can't conceive a child, and if I continue like this, I will be retired by Zhongzhang sooner or later, and I can't help but cry when I think of this.

"Zhongzhang's family, why are you crying? Is Zhongzhang bad for you? Seeing Lin Qi suddenly crying, Hui Lan asked her distressedly, Hui Lan usually heard Wei Ji say that Zhongzhang tortured Lin Qi and took her as an inappropriate person.

"Auntie, it's nothing, I see that you and your aunt are so good, I miss my mother." Liu Lao Niang and Hui Lan both sighed, even if they knew that Zhongzhang was not good at holding Lin Qi, there was no way, so they had to comfort her, Liu Lao Niang took Lin Qi's hand and said, "Zhongzhang's family, since you are married to the Liu family's compound, try your best, it is best to give Zhongzhang a boy and half a girl, and if you have a child, Zhongzhang will slowly get better." ”

"Auntie, I also want to conceive a child, but I can't conceive, I have tried all kinds of methods, but it doesn't work."

"Zhongzhang's family, don't worry, you are less than twenty this year......" At this time, Zhang Yan walked in with Xinzhang, Huilan jumped off the kang and touched Zhang Yanhong's fluttering face, and said with a smile, "Zhang Yan, you can give your husband a long face today, since Yizhang joined the army, he has shouted that no one has to drink with him, now it's okay, with you, what problems have been solved." Zhang Yan pretended to be angry and said coquettishly to Mrs. Liu, "Mother, you don't talk about my aunt, she is just talking nonsense, how can there be a daughter-in-law who drinks with her father-in-law, and it doesn't make people laugh to death when it is passed out?" Mrs. Liu took Zhang Yan's hand and said with a smile, "Good girl, don't be like her, she and your father have always been no big or small, and you will get used to it after a long time, she doesn't have your amount of alcohol, otherwise you can really drink with your father every day." Of course, Zhang Yan knew that Daddy Liu doted on Huilan very much, she smiled and said to Huilan, "Auntie, I was forced to drink for my father just now, Renzhang drank a small amount of wine, and drank like a pile of mud, my father was drunk again, and the family was not messed up, by the way, my father asked my mother to go to the gate to thank the guests, and I almost forgot about the business." Zhang Yan took Mrs. Liu's arm and walked out, and Huilan asked Zhang Yan, "Have you all gotten to the door?" ”

"Auntie, the dumplings are all cut, just waiting to be divided."

It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon when the guests were sent away, and Liu Wengui led the men, women and children in the Liu family compound to clean up the tables and stools and clean up. Father Liu came to the study alone, took out the 'gift' from Liu Shangzhang from his pocket, a thin letter, and saw two lines written on the letterhead, 'Brother Wende, a thousand sails on the side of the sinking boat, and ten thousand trees in front of the sick tree!' The dog Shangzhang is the desert poplar, and the love of rice is the valley Zhilan! The two of them are the work of heaven, and I hope that the virtuous brother will be perfect! Foolish brother Wenhua. Father Liu smiled knowingly, he knew that now Liu Wenhua was so poor that he was only arrogant, where is this congratulatory gift, it is clearly for Shang Zhang to propose to himself, he did not receive a single gift and had to take the baby girl, no wonder he can make a lot of money, such a deal is sure to make money without losing money, and it also makes you happily agree, he wrote a reply letter, "Brother Wenhua, the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains!" The little girl loves rice as a phoenix, which makes Lang Shangzhang like a green tree! The phoenix is not a sycamore, and the little girl is not married. Foolish brother Wende. ’

Zhang Yan sat on the kang, looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky through the window lattice paper, Tiangong was particularly fond of the Liu family, the wedding banquet began to snow heavily, this is the first snow this winter, the Liu family compound finally fell silent after a day of hustle and bustle, Simai, Wei Ji, Wang Hui and others cleaned up the tables and stools and went back to their homes, Renzhang was still asleep, seeing that this posture could not wake up after the cave room, Aidao disappeared from the banquet, anxious to go on a date with Shang Zhang, Zhizhang carried a big bag of delicious food to send Liu Wenxi home, Mrs. Liu hasn't slept much in the past few days, and now that the event is over, she fell asleep in the West House, only Xigu and Xinzhang were still energetically pestering Zhang Yan, Xinzhang took out a piece of sugar from his cloth pocket, peeled off the candy paper and stuffed it into Zhang Yan's mouth, Xigu fiddled with the rubber band on the side.

"Xigu, where did our father go?"

"Sister-in-law, dad must be reading in the study at this time."

"Xigu, Xinzhang, let's go to the study together to see him, okay?"

Xigu and Xinzhang waved their hands and couldn't go.

"Xigu, why don't you two want to go?"

"Sister-in-law, in the study, except for the second brother and Aunt Huilan, no one else wants to go, the second brother likes to read, and he can drink with his father. Aunt Huilan, she goes every morning, she likes to fight with her father, help her father make tea and beat her back, several times I went to call my father to eat, and I met her frolicking with her father. ”

"Does Aunt Huilan also drink with her father?"

"That's not true, Aunt Huilan never drinks like her mother, once she lost a bet with her father, and was fined a small glass of wine, but she got drunk and cried in her father's study for a while, and I remember that my aunt drank that wine. When it comes to drinking, my second brother is the most powerful, my father can't drink him, he often drinks his father's wine secretly with Sister Wei Ji, and I know it with Xinzhang. ”

"Do we have a lot of alcohol in our house?"

"Of course, there are dozens of jars of wine hidden in our cellar, most of which are brewed in the winery in the township, the grain is from our own house, and those bottled wines are given to my father by others, and Aunt Huilan brings wine every once in a while." Zhang Yan touched Xigu's head and said with a smile, "Xigu, you are like a roundworm in your father's stomach, you know everything?" ”

Xigu pointed to the letter and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, don't look at the letter chapter, he knows more, since the second brother joined the army, he moved to the West House to sleep on a kang with his father, he knows all the whispers that his father and mother say, and he told me a lot of them." ”

"Really? Confessions. The letter nodded.

"Then let me ask you, who is your second brother Yizhang's favorite?"

Xinzhang made a simple gesture with his two hands, and Xigu translated it to Zhang Yan and said, "Xinzhang said that the second brother likes Wei Ji and Houzhang the most. ”

Zhang Yan hugged the letter and said softly, "Sister-in-law started to learn dumb language from Xigu today, I can't not understand my little brother." Xinzhang nodded vigorously, gestured with his hand a few more times, and Xigu translated again, "Sister-in-law, Xinzhang said that he likes you very much and wants to sleep with you at night." Zhang Yan couldn't help laughing when she heard this, she kissed the letter and said with a smile, "I agree, but your eldest brother won't agree, can I sleep with you in my arms during the day?" The letter chapter made a few more comparisons, and Xi Gu continued to translate, "The eldest brother is not as good as the second brother, when the second brother is at home, he sleeps with the letter at night, and the eldest brother never sleeps with the letter seal, he thinks he is dirty!" Zhang Yan likes Xinzhang more and more, Xinzhang is right, Renzhang is very particular about dressing and hating, clothes are always spotless, and a big man always likes to wear white socks.

"Xinzhang, accompany my sister-in-law to the study to see my father, my sister-in-law has something to discuss with my father, okay?" Xinzhang stood up, leaned on Zhang Yan's back, gestured a few times, and Xigu said, "Sister-in-law, Xinzhang said that you carried him, and he would accompany you." Zhang Yan smiled and said briskly, "Of course, it's snowing so heavily outside, I'm not at ease if you go by yourself." After saying that, he got off the kang, Xigu put shoes on Xinzhang, and then said to Zhang Yan, "Sister-in-law, then I'll go to my uncle's house to play with Sister Nianshu." With that, he ran out first.

Zhang Yan took the letter to the east house and looked at Renzhang, he slept soundly under the quilt, Zhang Yan picked up a coat of Zhizhang, put the letter on his head, and walked to the study with the letter on his back.