Zhao Biru took Dou Zhao's hand and walked back slowly.

Dou Zhao asked Zhao Biru: "What is my favorite thing to eat?" ”

Zhao Biru was stunned, but still said very docilely: "As long as it is sweet and crunchy, you like to eat it!" ”

Dou Zhao asked again, "When was the last time you came to our house?" ”

Zhao Biru looked at Dou Zhao's eyes and was even more surprised: "The day before the beginning of winter." My father asked my sister and I to ask my aunt if he had come back. We gave my aunt a picture of Jiuhan, and my aunt rewarded us with a pair of beaded flowers. My sister also accompanied you to turn over the rope for a long time. Did something happen? ”

Dou Zhao shook his head.

The relationship between the two families is so close, her aunt wants to take her to play with her cousins, why does she bite her aunt?

Back in the main courtyard, the maids serving in Chapter 18 of the house were standing under the corridor, and when they saw Dou Zhao and Zhao Biru, they stepped forward to salute Zhao Biru with a smile and respectfully, and said with a smile: "Miss Cousin, please go to the wing room for a while, my uncle is talking to my grandmother!" ”

Zhao Biru glanced at the window lattice of the main house in confusion, and followed Hanxiao to the side room softly, but Dou Zhao ran into the inner room with a smoke, just in time to hear his aunt say angrily: "...... It just doesn't make sense! If their Wang family dares to come, don't say anything, lest you lower your value, and I will come forward with the Gao family theory! ”

There was still a little choked in the mother's voice: "Sister-in-law, why bother! The uproar made the sky back, but it gave the people of the Wang family a place to speak. In any case, it's all 10,000 yuan, isn't it. ”

The aunt sighed, and after a while, she said, "My sister is just too soft-hearted!" ”

The mother smiled and said, "Husband and wife are one, he has lost his face, and my face is also not good-looking." I took my sister-in-law's wishes, and asked my sister-in-law to go back and not tell my brother - it's just a concubine, do you want to alarm my mother's brother to put gold on the Dou family's face? ”

"I know." My aunt said, "When the time comes, I'll just come over quietly by myself." ”

"Thank you, sister-in-law, Chapter 18 Spring Warmth." "I think the quieter this thing is, the better." ”

My aunt nodded. On the twenty-second day of the twelfth lunar month, he really came alone. When the eldest aunt asked, the aunt only said that the uncle wanted to study behind closed doors, and the eldest aunt didn't ask much, so she took her uncle's hand to the flower hall, and met with the third aunt, the fourth aunt, the sixth aunt and other in-laws. The ladies of the Dou family went to the table, watched the cards, laughed and laughed, and it was very lively.

Only a few of my father's brothers were invited outside, and everyone was talking and drinking tea.

No one from the Wang family came.

The sedan chair carrying Wang Yingxue stopped directly in the flower hall, and Wang Yingxue, who was wearing a pink moon season flower makeup and gown, was helped out of the sedan chair by a maid, and gave tea to her mother in the flower hall, which became a gift.

Mama Yu led Wang Yingxue to Qixia Courtyard, and the people in the flower hall played cards and joked and laughed, until the third watch, and then dispersed one after another.

Wang Yingxue breathed a sigh of relief.

Fuwang Yingxue's maid pouted her mouth high, and said dissatisfiedly: "Miss shouldn't persuade grandma, look, where is this like doing a happy event?" ”

"Hugh is talking nonsense." Wang Yingxue frowned and scolded the maid, "I am a concubine for others, is it something glorious that can't be done?" When the eldest grandmother came, she was just humiliated in vain. You should be careful when you speak in the future, if you let me hear such arrogance again, I will send you back to Nanwa immediately. ”

When the maid listened, her eyes immediately turned red, and she bent her knees and said, "The slave doesn't dare anymore." ”

Wang Yingxue was still a little uneasy, and repeatedly told the maid: "People are under the eaves, so they have to bow their heads." You stay with me honestly, and remember not to cause trouble. ”

The little maid should only be.

Someone said: "The seventh master is here!" ”

Wang Yingxue's eyes lit up.

Dou Shiying walked in quickly.

Wang Yingxue hurriedly greeted her, bent her knees and saluted, "Seventh grandmother...... Do you know? ”

"Yes!" Dou Shiying smiled, "She was the one who urged me to come over." ”

Wang Yingxue was a little excited when she heard this: "Thank you Grandma Seven for saving my face, I will respect her as a sister in the future." ”

"Didn't you treat Gu Qiu as your sister in the past?" Dou Shiying joked, "I told you a long time ago that Gu Qiu is a very virtuous person. ”

Wang Yingxue's smile froze, and said: "This matter, I am not kind, I owe Sister Gu Qiu a lot, I am afraid that she will annoy me, even though I treat her as a sister in my heart, I don't know if she is a sister who treats me as a sister-in-law...... Now it seems that I am too careful, and I am not as generous as my sister. ”

Dou Shiying smiled, looking proud.

Wang Yingxue's eyes were slightly downcast, but she quickly regained her smile.

After welcoming the king of the stove and sweeping the dust, it was the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The east and west sinuses returned to Beilou Village together to worship their ancestors.

Wang Yingxue lowered her eyebrows and followed behind Zhao Guqiu, when someone's eyes fell on Wang Yingxue, Dou Zhao, who was holding her mother's skirt, would sweetly shout "Aunt Wang", everyone suddenly praised Wang Yingxue's good appearance, and Mama Yu explained on the side: "It's the girl from the Nanwa Wang family." Wang Yingxue's face turned purple with shame.

Mother scolded Mama Yu a few words, and then some relatives asked about Wang Yingxue, Mama Yu didn't say more.

Dou Zhao only hated himself for being young.

Wang Yingxue glanced at her mother gratefully.

The mother turned a blind eye and continued to laugh with her relatives.

But Wang Yingxue's identity still spread.

During the Spring Festival, Wang Yingxue hid at home and was reluctant to go out to pay New Year's greetings to relatives: "They are all serious grandmothers, and I follow, it's not suitable." ”

Mama Yu smiled and persuaded: "What's suitable or inappropriate?" Grandma has Aunt Wang by her side, one has a companion, and the other has a person who serves tea. ”

Wang Yingxue was very embarrassed, her father couldn't help frowning, and looked at her mother: "Is this what you mean?" ”

The mother lowered her head and took a sip of tea, and said lightly: "In this case, Aunt Wang will stay at home." So as not to move the tire gas! ”

The father wanted to say something, but stopped.

Mother hugged Dou Zhao out of the door.

The father immediately followed, and said in a low voice: "If you do this, you will only make the relatives see the joke." ”

"I see." The mother said expressionlessly, "When the child is born, should I tell my relatives that it was born prematurely?" ”

"You!" The father glared.

Mother had quickly stepped into the carriage.

The father stomped his foot, and only after a while did he reluctantly get into the carriage.

Dou Zhao buried himself in the big pillow in the carriage and sighed deeply.

The mother's fears were justified.

This kind of thing, although trivial, is annoying.

It's like a flea that falls on your body, you ignore it, he bites you all over the body, and if you take him seriously, you can't say it.

Didn't my father say that he wanted to send Wang Yingxue to Zhuangzi?

After the New Year, I have to remind my father!

Dou Zhao pondered and ushered in his three-year-old birthday.

Father, mother, Wang Yingxue, grandfather, grandmother, Aunt Ding, aunt, aunt, and several aunts all gave her birthday gifts, and her mother returned the gift with a birthday face; The servants of the family kowtowed to her in the courtyard to pray for her birthday, and her mother rewarded each of them with five pieces of silver. They were overjoyed, even happier than the New Year.

The Lantern Festival is closed, and the wind blows on the face without chill.

It's time for spring ploughing.

Dou Zhao said in his heart, clamoring for his mother to go to see his grandmother.

The mother was surprised: "Didn't you see it during the Chinese New Year?" ”

"It didn't make sense." Dou Zhao said, "When I worshipped my ancestors, my grandmother stood far away, and when I was eating Chinese New Year's Eve, my grandmother didn't say a word, and my father asked me to accompany my grandfather to keep vigil...... On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I went to pay my grandmother's New Year's greetings, and she had already returned to the Grange. ”

"Didn't she leave you the New Year's money?" Mother smiled and took a peach blossom from the crystal plate and inserted it on Dou Zhao's bun, "What the hell are you doing?" ”

"I don't have the idea of fighting ghosts." Dou Zhao muttered, but said in his heart that after her grandmother died, she left the grange to her, and she arranged for a competent person to manage the grange, and it took a lot of effort to ensure the harvest in drought and flood, which was one of the few things she was quite proud of.

Although she was not sent to the Grange in this life, she had a very deep affection for her grandmother and the Grange.

"I'll take you there in a few days." Seeing that Dou Zhao was unhappy, his mother said, "After the spring plowing of each grange is completed in a few days, your father will go to the village with the steward, and we will go with your father when the time comes." ”

It is no secret that grandfather does not like grandmother. In order not to offend her grandfather, her mother, like the Dou family, chose to turn a blind eye to her grandmother.

Dou Zhao thought of that kind woman, and his heart was sad.

Mother smiled: "Shall I take you to my uncle's house to play?" We haven't been back to Anxiang for some days. ”

Dou Zhao noticed that every time his mother talked about her mother's family, she always liked to use the word "Hui", as if the Dou family was not her family. This seems to be a common problem for many women. However, this does not include Dou Zhao.

After she married into the Wei family, she only felt relieved, and everyone was in a lot of energy, and she felt a little angry.

Maybe it's because he has never regarded the Dou family as his mother's family?

Dou Zhao thought about it and went to Anxiang with his mother.

In the countryside, there are not so many rules.

My aunt got the letter and led her two cousins to wait for them at the gate.

The eldest cousin Zhao Biru Dou Zhao already knows each other, the second cousin Zhao Xiuru is nine years old this year, and the third cousin Zhao Zhangru is five years old this year. Their sisters look alike, but Zhao Xiuru is shy, Zhao Zhangru is lively, as soon as she saw Dou Zhao, she pulled her to the house: "Mama Peng fried sugar chestnuts, and my mother said that I would wait for you to come and eat a piece!" ”

Dou Zhao was dragged by her for a moment, so he had to follow her and run inside.

Tu Niang hurriedly followed.

Everyone entered the gate laughing.

Zhao's family is at the head of the village, and after entering the black lacquered copper ring door, there is a horse ring on the left hand, and a grass hut on the right hand, stacked with carts and furniture. There are several long-term workers living in the left and right wings, entering the second door, facing the five blue brick houses, the left and right are three wings, the window lattices are pasted with white Korean paper, and the steps are next to the old locust trees that hug the thickness, clean and tidy, spacious and magnificent.

As soon as his mother and aunt entered the house, Zhao Zhangru broke in with the shirt of Mama Peng, who was holding sugar-fried chestnuts, and turned around and urged Dou Zhao: "Hurry up!" Chestnuts don't taste good when they're cold. ”

It made everyone laugh again.

finally sat down, Zhao Biru and Zhao Xiuru peeled chestnuts for Dou Zhao and Zhao Zhangru to eat in the style of sisters.

Mother and aunt sat on the hot kang and spoke: "Count the days, the eldest brother should enter the field, right?" ”

"Hmm!" My aunt was a little worried, "If I don't win this time, I'll have to wait another three years." ”

The mother listened and groaned: "I heard Yu Daqing say that my sister-in-law sold ten acres of fertile land a few days ago......"

My aunt blushed and said in a low voice: "I borrowed it a few years ago, I didn't dare to tell your brother, your brother went to Kyoto to sell the field, and made up for the previous deficit ......" and said quickly, "Sister don't worry." I still have some marriages, but they are all in the booklet, and I am afraid that your brother will be unhappy when he finds out, so I don't dare to move. ”

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I'm going to work again tomorrow......~~~~(>_