When Liu Chunmiao heard Zeng Rong mention her dead mother, she was stunned for a moment, and then she was unhappy.

Last time, she specially asked Zeng Rong about family affairs, and Zeng Rong did not mention the death of her biological mother at that time, only saying that there were parents in the family, two older brothers, two younger brothers and a younger sister.

Also, when Fang Zengrong persuaded her, he only mentioned that this was the first chicken leg she had eaten when she was so old, and he didn't mention the death of her biological mother or anything.

Therefore, she said this obviously to win Qin Chuxue's sympathy.

"Your own mother is gone, why haven't I heard you mention it before?" Liu Chunmiao spoke before Qin Chuxue.

Zeng Rong heard the resentment in Liu Chunmiao's tone, and smiled bitterly, "Go back to Aunt Liu, okay, who wants to mention these sad things?" ”

"And who's in your house?" Qin Chuxue asked with concern, and her face finally had a little warmth.

Knowing that Zeng Rong had two older brothers and two younger half-brothers in the countryside, Qin Chuxue pushed the silver ingot in front of Zeng Rong, "Take it, you need it more." ”

"I really don't need to, I have five taels of silver this month, which is enough."

"And how do you get your wages back?" Liu Chunmiao asked.

"I entered Beijing with a distant relative, and before leaving, I borrowed forty taels of silver from a distant relative to settle them, and I have paid off this debt in the past six months in Jinxiufang."

Hearing the words "distant relative", Liu Chunmiao suddenly remembered one thing, Zeng Rong's letter of guarantee was written by the wife of Xu Fushan, a cabinet scholar, that is to say, the distant relative in Zeng Rong's mouth should be Mrs. Xu.

Old Mrs. Xu?

No wonder she always feels that she is missing something, my good girl, this backer is hard enough, which is still rootless and rootless?

By the way, eighty percent of Qin Chuxue also fell in love with Zeng Rong because of the Xu family, right?

What does she want to do?

Could it be that she hasn't died yet?

But her only reliance is gone, and if she continues to toss, it will be nothing more than a few more innocent lives, so why bother?

Qin Chuxue saw that Liu Chunmiao's gaze suddenly became complicated, with pain, compassion, anger, incomprehension and shame, she thought carefully about Zeng Rong's words for a while, and analyzed them word by word for a while, and then suddenly realized.

"Rest assured, I'm not so despicable."

"Then why are you..." Liu Chunmiao didn't say the rest of the words, because Zeng Rong was there.

Qin Chuxue obviously didn't want to continue the topic, and when she saw that Liu Chunmiao had shut up, she shouted to the outside world, "Xiaocui, bring some pastries." ”

"I'll go find Sister Xiaocui." Zeng Rong saw that there was a bit of tension between the two, and he hurriedly found a reason to get out.

Because she could only overhear a word after she went out, if she was there, these two people would definitely not say anything in order to avoid suspicion.

For this reason, Zeng Rong said that he didn't wait for the two people to agree and went directly to the kang to find Xiao Cui, Xiao Cui was sitting on the kang in the west room, holding a pair of thick soles in his hand, and when he saw Zeng Rong, he hurriedly put down the soles, "Is it my aunt calling the slave?" ”

"No, it's me who came to talk to my sister, and the two aunts should have something to say." Zeng Rong smiled, then took off his shoes and put them on the kang, then picked up the soles of Fang Na's shoes and looked at them, "This is for Aunt Qin?" ”

"Yes." Xiaocui is also a cherished word like gold.

"It's definitely not easy to accommodate such a thick sole, so it's better to make the sole a little bigger and thinner when you make shoes in the future, and then put a pair of fox fur or wool insoles inside, so that you don't feel cold when you step on it, and it's easy to change and wash." Zeng Rong suggested.

This is still the method she came up with for Xu Jing in the previous life, Xu Jing had to get up early every day to study, and he complained about the cold in winter, Zeng Rong thought of a way for him, using fox skin or wool skin in the corners to make gloves, knee pads, insoles, etc., especially insoles, he said that it was comfortable to step on without socks, fluffy, warm and soft, and later, Zeng Rong himself also used this kind of fur insole.

"We have insoles too, it's like this." Xiao Cui took out two pairs of embroidered insoles from the basket on the kang.

"This is suitable for warm weather, and I say thicker than this, preferably made of wool or fox fur, cut directly into the size of an insole and put it on the sole, it must be warmer. Also, if my aunt is afraid of the cold, and then use this kind of skin to make her a pair of knee pads, I heard that women are probably cold from the feet, and when they are older, they should pay attention not to freeze to the joints. ”

Xiaocui is a man of action, and when he heard Zeng Rong say this, he pulled out a package from the box at the end of the kang, which contained leftovers from various animal skins, large and small.

Zeng Rong picked out a few small pieces of wool skin with the same leather and similar color, sewed them with a needle first, and then picked up the insoles embroidered by Xiaocui for comparison, and directly cut out a pair of wool insoles.

"It's that simple? Don't have to sew another sleeve? Xiao Cui picked up the pair of insoles and looked back and forth, and asked.

"Isn't it comfortable and warm to the touch?" Zeng Rong rubbed his hand on the insole.

"Then I'll send it to Aunt Qin." As soon as Xiao Cui was happy, she took the insole and was about to go down to find Qin Chuxue.

Zeng Rong didn't stop her, and followed her down the kang, but unfortunately, when the two of them entered, the two people in the house had already talked about the next step in the embroidery workshop.

"Aunt Qin, can you try this insole?" Xiao Cui sent the insoles to Qin Chuxue.

Qin Chuxue took it and looked at it, "It's so simple, will it lose hair if you don't sew a cover?" ”

"No, it's warmer and more comfortable." Xiaocui glanced at Zeng Rong and saw that Zeng Rong didn't squeak, so she had to explain by herself, and she also learned Zeng Rong to reach forward and rub it on the wool a few times.

"Was it Aron's idea?"

"Not really, I am..." Zeng Rong didn't want to rob Xiaocui of the credit.

The corners of Qin Chuxue's mouth curved slightly, and there was a little heat in her eyes, "Thank you, come, sit down, have you ever eaten hot pot?" ”

"Huh?" Zeng Rong was blinded all of a sudden, how did he go from insole to hot pot?

However, Zeng Rong in front of her perfectly interpreted her background, Liu Chunmiao said with a smile: "This kid, I'm afraid that I haven't heard of hot pot?" She has only been out of the countryside for more than half a year. ”

These words reminded Zeng Rong in time, no, it is difficult for the countrymen to even have a full meal, where have you seen any hot pot?

"You go and arrange it." Qin Chuxue said to Xiaocui.

Xiao Cui answered and went out.

"I'd better go, those little cubs have black hands." Liu Chunmiao got off the kang as she spoke, and smiled at Zeng Rong with her head sideways as she bent over to put on her shoes.

Zeng Rong was stunned because she didn't understand the deep meaning behind the other party's smile, and similarly, she didn't understand the two people who were still tense just now, and this time the effort was actually combined?

Could it be that what agreement did these two people make?