The news that Chu Tao and Shi Li are about to come to an end has spread throughout Jinling.

While countless girls are heartbroken and feel that Shi Li is blind, there are also many men who envy Shi Li's good fortune and marry the first beauty in Jinling, can they still get out of bed that day?

The relationship between Chu Tao and Shi Li is also very in line with etiquette, either you invite me to taste the paintings, or I look for you to enjoy the flowers, or the elders come out to eat, listen to opera, and there are always elders to accompany them, everything looks so harmonious and happy.

No one notices that the smile of the first peach, who is always smiling, is getting thinner and thinner, more and more fake.

The happiest is still the Liu family, her baby daughter Jiang Chutao has finally found her own belonging, and she is very, very satisfied with this belonging.

It's a pity to find a fortune teller to come over and calculate, saying that the two of them are not very compatible, and they can't get married for the time being.

Liu thought for a long time and didn't understand what "things return to their original owners", she felt that since the marriage had been decided, and the heart of the girl Chu Tao had been withdrawn, there should be no moths.

Liu's mood is so good that she eats half a bowl of rice every night.

Autumn has arrived. The air was a little dry, the weather was always clear, and there was not a single white cloud.

The yellow ginkgo leaves and red maple leaves on the Three Kings' Mansion are staggered together, which is delicate and subtle.

Chu Tao sat by the bridge to feed the fish, and her sleep reflected her clear face.

The red and yellow carp in the water circled around the fish food scattered by the first peach, making the first peach a little in a trance, whether it was the fish in the water, or the ginkgo biloba leaves and maple leaves?

Thinking like this, Chu Tao's hand leaned slightly, and he didn't know that most of the fish food was scattered.

"Hey, hey, Miss is in a daze again." Xiao Zi said to Xiao Hong.

"Yes, I didn't notice that all the fish food was sprinkled in, I see, even if she is strangled in the whole person, she is still like this, and she is thinking about her broken heart again." Xiaohong said.

"Madame has been coming so diligently lately, every time she comes, Miss is depressed, and refuses to tell us what is going on, such a lively and happy little girl, suddenly become like this, I am so uncomfortable." Xiao Zi said.

Xiaohong said, "Xiaozi! Our young lady is going to get married! Isn't it good to marry Master Shi? You can't wait for Xue Congjia all the time, right? Miss is not sober, we can't be confused. ”

Xiaozi said: "Miss is so good to us, I just hope she can be happy every day, in the days when she was entangled with Xue Congjia before, she was often unhappy, but she would also be happy because of Xue Congjia, sometimes coquettish and sometimes angry, she is a girl of flesh and blood......"

"Xiaozi, maybe I haven't liked anyone, so I don't understand what it's like to laugh and cry. But I think that life is so long, it is not easy to find someone who is tolerant of you, suitable for you, and can accompany you for a lifetime. It is very hard to remember the vigor, but in the end it is the blandness that is true. Xiaohong said.

Two more days passed, and the weather was not as crisp as before.

The sky was gray, and the surroundings were very quiet, like yesterday that had disappeared not far away. Lying on the bed, Chu Tao was lazy and didn't want to think, so the time for a pillar of incense had passed, but some things could not be filtered.

Even if you don't think about it deliberately, many things flash in a flash, and you can't always forget it, Chu Tao feels that some people will stay in their hearts forever, and those memories can be erased if you don't want to.

This evening, Chu Tao's mother asked Shi Li to enjoy the chrysanthemums together for her.

It's still early, Chu Tao doesn't want to pick clothes, let alone groom up, seeing that she is getting more and more sloppy, she doesn't care, anyway, Shi Li will not dislike her.

The Liu family rushed in, since Chu Tao and Shi Li got married, she often walked around the Three Kings' Mansion, looked at Chu Ying, and then looked at Chu Tao by the way.

Now, Liu Shi is seeing Chu Tao more and more pleasing to the eye, and he doesn't scold her much.

"My little ancestor, why are you still lying here, it's almost moldy! Hurry up, hurry up, the mother has cut the fabric for you, the duck egg blue origami pattern, the neckline and cuffs are crescent white trim, and then look at the chest, the hollow in the shape of a chicken heart, is it good! Get up and give it a try. Liu took the clothes and gestured in front of Chu Tao.

"Mother, don't you just ask someone to send it, you still come from so far away." Hatsu Tao said lazily.

"Hmph, do you think I'm here to give you clothes? Dream of you, for your mother, you're here to see the first cherry blossoms, and you're the one who is stained. Liu said.

Chu Sakura has been pregnant for more than five months, her belly is gradually bulging, her movement is very inconvenient, her legs and feet are swollen, Chu Tao watched the shoes on Chu Sakura's feet change and change, and her feet are as fat as a steamed bun.

"Mother, did you say that Sister Sakura's belly is a boy or a girl?" Hatsumomo sat up from the bed.

"How do I know that? Why do you ask this? Liu said.

"I see Sister Sakura making some small clothes and shoes, all of them have to make double copies, one for boys and one for girls, but it's hard." Hatsu Tao said.

"It's also the hard work of happiness, you know. You'll find out when you're pregnant in the future. Liu said.

Chu Tao remembered that Xiaozi once said that her mother used to be a well-known stable woman within a radius of ten miles, and she could know whether the fetus was male or female through the pulse.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and try on your clothes, look at you stupid." Liu said.

"Oh......" Hatsumo's movements were still slow.

"Even if you are already familiar with Brother Shi, you have to pay attention to your own image, your mother gave birth to you so beautiful, you still have to waste this face of you, you have to dress up beautifully at the age when you should be dressed......" Liu was still talking, but Chu Tao's thoughts drifted far away.

That year, it was also an autumn with the fragrance of chrysanthemums wafting in the air, and Chu Tao didn't know which recipe to see the chrysanthemum water snake soup, so he muttered to eat.

Xiaozi and Xiaohong disliked it, Miss really ate everything, even the water snake.

Chu Tao firmly believes that where there is water, there are water snakes, but she is very afraid of live snakes, so she hit the idea into the small pond behind the Qizhu Pavilion where Xue Congjia lives.

She deliberately asked for advice from others and learned that as long as she tied the straw into a pile with a rope, she became a "scarecrow". Place the right amount of eggshells in the haystack and soak the straw pile at the bottom of the fish pond.

In order to prevent the haystack from floating, the lower part of the haystack should be pressed with stones to make it calm and not float. After a night, pull up the haystack and untie the rope to check if there are water snakes around the eggshell to eat the eggshell, and if there are water snakes, you can kill them in time.

There is a method, but there is a lack of a snake catcher.

Xue Congjia is more suitable, so the first peach is soft and hard to soak, grinding Xue Congjia for several days, which makes Xue Congjia very unhappy: "If you want to eat, you go to the cook on the island!" What are you looking for me! ”

"But the cook said that they didn't have this dish in their recipe, and if I could provide water snakes and chrysanthemums, he would make them for me." ”

"What does it matter to me if you want to eat? It's not like I want to eat. Xue Congjia replied.

At that time, he seemed to be reading an obscure book, Chu Tao was grinding on the side, and Xue Congjia couldn't concentrate on reading at all.

"I want to eat, so I'm going to catch water snakes, but I'm afraid of snakes, so I'm looking for you." Hatsumomo explained.

“…… Don't go. Xue Congjia glanced at Chu Tao and continued to read.

"I can't eat water snake soup, I'm very sad and angry, if I'm sad and angry, I want to find someone to lose my temper, but Xiaohong and Xiaozi are not here, so I will lose my temper with you......" Chu Tao said.

"So what? You just send it. Xue Congjia looked too lazy to pay attention to the first peach.

"I'll keep pestering you...... Xue Congjia, Brother Xue? Xiao Xue Xue, Xiao Jiajia, please, you can help me catch snakes, it's very simple...... "Chu Tao is coquettish."

"Stop ......"

Xue Congjia said slowly: "I read it in a book before, saying that beauty coquettishness will make people feel numb, guess I ...... now"

"You're numb in your feet, aren't you?" Hatsu Tao said.

"No, I have a cramp in my foot." Xue Congjia said.

"Go grab one! Both the snake and I will be grateful to you! ”

Later, with the unremitting efforts of Chu Tao, Xue Congjia and Chu Tao did not sleep well for two consecutive nights, but they still couldn't catch a snake......

And the chrysanthemums used to match the water snake are also gradually withering in the regret of the first peach.

"Peaches? Why are you crying? Before a piece of white chrysanthemum, Shi Li asked.

"The wind was so strong that I lost my eyes." Hatsumomo rubbed her eyes.

Shi Li said: "It turned out to be a blindness, but it scared me, I will teach you, if you cough a few times, the sand will come out of the eyes." ”

Hatsu Tao did so, but tears ran out of her eyes.

Because she remembered that in the days that followed, chrysanthemum water snake soup really appeared in Jichangyuan's recipes.

At that time, Xue Zicheng was still muttering: Who is this, the taste is so heavy, if you want to eat such a thing, I will be scared when I see the snake, let alone eat it. What did this cook think, the king was very unhappy.

Chu Tao was very happy and said, this cook really has ideas and really understands me.

Xue Ziwen said, where is the chef's idea, this is the dish that Xue Congjia asked for, it sounds really weird, that guy never took the initiative to eat something, this is the first time.

Xue Zicheng smiled and said, hahaha, what to eat and make up, I think that kid is ......

Later, Hatsu Tao asked him, why did he let the cook do this?

Xue Congjia thought about it and said very seriously: "Because I really don't want to hear you coquettish, and I really don't want to squat by the pond and be bitten by mosquitoes." ”

……

Shi Li looked at Chu Tao's expression and said, "If you're not feeling well, let's rest." ”

Chu Tao nodded and said, "Okay, I'm just tired, let's rest." ”

Shi Li said: "I've been busy with official business these days, so I finally have some time to accompany you out, let's go to Tongqing Building to eat food in a while, okay?" ”

"Ah...... Go to Tongqing Building......" Chu Tao hesitated.

As soon as I said goodbye to Qinglou that day, I never saw Xue Congjia again.

"Yes, you forgot, I also invested in Tongqinglou. You can eat whatever you want, it's autumn, the crabs are fat, let's go eat crabs. Shi Li proposed.

"Okay, let's go eat crabs." Hatsu Tao said.