After dinner, Shen Kan walked out for a walk, and under the light of the lantern, Shen An's daughter-in-law, Sister Chunmei, walked over with a basket and swayed.

"My mother sent some wild things, and I'm about to send them to you." The other party raised his hand to say hello, and then straightened his hair in a bun.

Shen Kan smiled: "Thank you, give it to me."

Unconsciously he had a great change in his opinion of Shen An's daughter-in-law, it turned out that during the Chinese New Year, thanks to Sister Chunmei reminding him to mention something here and there, there were no major mistakes in the food supply, and he also told him many precautions, such as the freshness of the ingredients, the selection of porcelain, and the stealing of the subordinates.

Sister Chunmei is a very diligent and shrewd young woman, with a beautiful appearance, a convex and concave figure, and a very kind person, of course, her temperament still does not change that trace of frivolity, not only does not care about the men's ill-intentioned ridicule and gaze, often even she takes the initiative to tease others.

Shen Kan has seen a lot of such women, and there are many similar people in the workplace in modern society.

But in ancient times, such a non-constrained defense of men and women would undoubtedly become the focus of the most criticized homestead.

Shen Kan wanted to remind Sister Xia Chunmei to pay attention to her words and deeds, but she couldn't say anything.

Stretched out his hand to take the heavy bamboo basket, the hands of the two couldn't help but touch together, Shen Kan didn't feel anything, but Sister Chunmei couldn't help but tremble slightly, her eyes were like a pool of spring water.

He's a good boy, it's a pity! Sister Chunmei's strange appearance was concealed in the dark night, and she said with a regretful expression: "If you have something good when you go back, I will send it to you again."

"Good. By the way, I have a pot of good daughter red, I'll get it for you. Shen Kan smiled, he knew that the other party was good at drinking.

"Then you can send it to me." Sister Chunmei didn't want to be seen and cause misunderstanding, so she turned around and smiled.

In the courtyard, Aunt Jin said solemnly: "That daughter-in-law is not a good person, you stay away from her."

"Yes." Shen Kan nodded, and his defense for Sister Chunmei undoubtedly seemed to be a cover-up, so it was better not to say anything.

When he left with the flask, Cai Dong asked, "Which daughter-in-law is not a good person?"

"Go, it's none of your business." Aunt Jin said angrily.

"Humph!" Cai Dong was not happy, and turned his head and entered the house.

Here Shen Kan walked to the big kitchen, and heard the scolding coming from inside, and when he went in, Sister Chunmei crossed her hands on her waist and scolded several wives: "You long-tongued women who can't die well, you can't bully me on the stage, no wonder even the little guy doesn't dare to pay attention to me!" You say, 'Why do you see that I am an adulteress?' Don't you even speak? My mother-in-law also guarded me like a thief, and in this case, I wanted to steal a man for her to see. ”

"Look at your grease-smeared style, still in the future? I don't know how many wild men I have stolen. A wife sneered, causing a crowd to laugh.

"I'll kill you with a mouth full of." Sister Chunmei was furious and was about to step forward to tear people.

At this moment, the second wife Gan and the fourth wife Sun rushed over with someone to hear the news and stopped it in time, and Shen Kan frowned and stood aside.

Because the Sun family is in charge of the big kitchen, Sister Chunmei is the right-hand person under her, so she first saved the heart of helping, and after listening to the miscellaneous arguments between the two sides, she looked inexplicable, and asked: "Which one deceived you?" Which ignores you? Which one is wary of you? Let's make it clear first. ”

Sister Chunmei was inconvenient to say her mother-in-law, so she said angrily: "The bastard mother-in-law in this yard, which one won't come to bully me?" No matter if any man came over, they would spew blood and say that I was stealing. ”

The second wife, Gan, said funny: "You are so angry, tell me the reason for the quarrel, don't make a big fight, your daughter-in-law is very clever when she sees it on weekdays, why don't you understand the truth of public anger?"

"Yes." Sister Chunmei suddenly threw the things in her hand to the ground, "Today, my mother's family sent some things, I was thinking of buying a satin to honor my father, so I called Xing'er's dog mongrel and asked him to buy it, who knew that he ignored me and ran out." As soon as I was about to stop him, these long-tongued women scolded Huai indiscriminately, and in front of my wife, I didn't learn those unpleasant words. ”

Shen Kan glanced at the copper coins all over the ground, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Sister Chunmei would steal someone and fall for it.

"What should I do?" Sun also secretly sighed, and immediately said to the housekeeper's daughter-in-law: "You go to the door and say that it is the duty of the outside to help buy things, even if you are not happy, you have to explain it, why ignore it and leave?" also led to such a play, and the New Year must not be clean. Go and have the boy be rebuked with ten strokes of the rod. ”

"Yes."

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law answered, and after going out for a while, Xing'er followed his wife in, knelt down at the bottom of the stairs and said, "The little one wants to return to Mrs. Ming, even if he is willing to receive a hundred sticks."

Not good! As soon as Shen Kan saw that Xing'er was fourteen or fifteen years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, he knew that things were not good.

Sure enough, Sister Chunmei seemed to have been stepped on by the tail and shouted, "You don't want to die, what nonsense do you say, get out quickly."

"Yo ......" The women suddenly showed gloating expressions one by one.

"Shut up!" Sun's face also sank in an instant, "Xing'er, you say." ”

Xing'er hurriedly said: "Last night, I got up to pee on the fourth watch, and I was thirsty for a while, so I came over to make a bowl of tea to drink." I didn't want to be unlucky, and I met ......"

"You bastard, spread your mother's panic." Sister Chunmei was so anxious that she jumped like thunder.

"What did you encounter?" Sun's face became more and more gloomy, and he didn't pay any attention to her.

"Yes, I met Chunmei's sister-in-law, she beckoned me to go over and pour water." Xing'er chattered.

"What's there about pouring water?" The second wife, Gan, disagreed.

"It's not like that." Xing'er looked strange, "The little one reached out to catch the water, but she didn't fall, but pinched my arm a few times." Aunt Shen has instructed, the kid in the family, who dares to hook up with Sister Chunmei, and immediately kicks him out, and Brother Dazhu also said that whoever dares to cuckold him, the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out. At that time, the little one was scared half to death, so he ran out of his legs, and he didn't even make tea. Chunmei's sister-in-law also told me to come back and come back, but the little one didn't dare to agree, so she ran away in one breath. ”

"You have riddled my hand, and you have framed me for pinching you?" Sister Chunmei ran out like crazy and was about to beat someone, but was stopped by several mothers-in-law with a smile.

It's over, Shen Kan knows that this matter is irreparable, no matter who harassed whom, with Sister Chunmei's much-criticized style in the past, since someone came forward to accuse her of being unchaste, it would be impossible to wash it by jumping into the Yellow River.

Sun glanced coldly at Sister Chunmei, who had a dead face, and said to Shen Anjia, who sighed again and again: "Your daughter-in-law, you can do it yourself." As for Xing'er, drag it down and be punished with a real cane. ”

That night, Sister Chunmei was kicked out of the Shen family by her parents-in-law, and Shen Kan couldn't help her at all.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the family decided to invite an opera troupe to sing. In the early morning of the 14th, under the command of Shen Kan, the people removed all the doors and windows of the main hall, built a stage opposite, and hung all the marquee lanterns and colorful spike palace lamps under the eaves.

The wings on both sides of the road and the entire verandah are hung with all kinds of small lanterns made of silk and kudzu yarn or papier-mâché, and the ground is full of chrysanthemums.

In the main hall, there are five large eight immortal tables with pear blossom wood, and lily incense is burned in the bronze three-legged incense tripod. There are some small and delicate bonsai on the coffee table, and various vases are filled with fresh flowers such as the three friends of the year.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival. At noon, the invited troupe blew and played, and Shen Jiayou personally helped the old lady out.

Shen Kan invited his grandmother to sit on the soft couch in the middle, and the maid put tea cups, snacks, spittoons, spit boxes, glasses and other things on the side.

Shen Peiwen, Ye Xiuru and other sisters entered the inner room, Shen Jiayou and the men who wanted to watch the play were on the east seat, and on the west side were several old ladies and elderly seniors, and the three wives and the wives of the family sat together.

"Move the screen over." Shen Kan instructed Shen An to separate men and women.

The old lady Gu said with a smile: "Call out the four girls Xiuru, Peiwen, Peiwei, and Yuqin and sit on both sides of me."

Shen Kan saw that there was nothing to do, and he was going to go to Sun's Mansion in order to go to the night to get sick. But Shen Jiayou was present, so it was difficult to leave, so he honestly sat down and listened to the play first.

The first song on the stage was "Fortune and Good Celebration", Shen Kan looked at Shen Shi funny, everyone was sitting, only he was standing next to his father holding a silver kettle.

Shen Jiayou turned sideways and laughed with a few nephews for a while, his demeanor was very kind, he watched the play for a while, got up and walked over, first toasted his mother, and then persuaded him to drink at each table, and the women hurriedly got up to laugh and laugh.

The old lady smiled: "I know, you don't want to stay here, you want to go out, don't you?"

Shen Jiayou bowed and said with a smile: "There is also wine outside, and there are guests, and they want to go out to take care of it." Besides, it's inconvenient for everyone to be here. ”

"Well, okay, I'll let you out."

"Yes."

"You're old too, don't drink too much."

"Yes."

"Take care of it for a while, and go back to the house to rest."

"Yes."

"Alright, let's go."

"Yes."

Shen Kan, who was in the distance, watched the uncle say a lot of words with him, and then he turned sideways and withdrew step by step, and couldn't help but sigh at this ancient filial piety!

As soon as Shen Jiayou left, Shen Shi immediately put the wine jug on the table and rushed into the back room.

It turned out that Ye Xiuru and the four of them were sitting in front of the old lady in a panic, and when they were talking, they hid on the side, and they had already slipped away one after another, and everyone was inside.