Chapter 24: The Five Concubines' Family
Maybe it's preconceived, maybe my grandmother also looks at Qinglian like her own daughter, she looks good-looking and well-behaved, so she likes this granddaughter very much. Seeing her coming, he happily ran out of the house with his little feet in his hands, laughed and took her hand, and shouted to his grandson to light a fire for his niece to roast her hands.
Qinglian looked at her grandmother and was stunned.
Didn't my mother say that she had a leg pain? Grandma's legs are running quite fast! I said in my heart: Mother, you can do it, in order to achieve your own goals, the old lady is cursed.
Qinglian thought about it in her heart, looked up at the familiar courtyard of her grandmother's house, and looked at her grandmother who was still in good spirits, her heart was very warm, so she temporarily suppressed the unhappiness in her heart and took her grandmother's warm hand into the house.
The grandmother's house is two courtyards in front and back, and the grandmother lives with the second uncle's family when she enters the door, and the uncle's family lives in the front yard. So the people who entered the yard heard a loud voice, you and I shouted "Qinglian" one by one, and the hula la was full of grandma's house after a while. Qinglian smiled and shouted one by one, but she felt a pang in her heart: everyone greeted her, but she didn't see her mother.
After squeezing the fire with the eldest uncle and second uncle, the eldest concubine and the second concubine, cousin, and cousin, Qinglian asked her grandmother, "Where did my mother go?" ”
Grandma smiled lovingly and said: "Your mother took a fancy to the cotton shoes worn by your five concubines, and said that she would make a pair for each of your sisters. Hahaha, your mother, you can get along with your five concubines, and every time you come to your five concubines' house to play. ”
Qinglian felt a sigh in her heart, so she whispered to verify: "Did my mother go to my fifth concubine's house?" ”
Grandma didn't know what to do, so she laughed and said, "This child, grandma can still coax you." ”
Qinglian got up and said, "Grandma, I'm here to call my mother to go back and make cotton shoes for my sister, my third sister's cotton shoes are almost unwearable, I'll go to my mother." ”
Grandma doesn't know her daughter's thoughts, she has always disliked her son-in-law, and she doesn't care much about her small family! But the good life is good, but it is just a bitter son-in-law.
She asked a granddaughter to go with Qinglian, but Qinglian excused herself and went to the house of the five concubines.
She guessed that her mother didn't go to the five concubines' house to find cotton shoes, because she didn't plan to make cotton shoes for her three younger sisters at all, and when she went out, she must have had a private meeting with her "bamboo horse".
But she still has to ask, in case the mother really sees the cotton shoes worn by the five concubines and likes it very much, by the way, she borrowed the cut patterns for her sisters to make. Mother's hands are actually very skillful, and the shoes worn by the family are also made by the mother, and she follows her father to work in the field when she doesn't go to school, so that she can't do needlework.
"Five concubines, is my mother at your house?" Qinglian asked when she arrived at the house of the five concubines.
The fifth concubine was obviously stunned for a moment, but she laughed and said enthusiastically: "Ahhh...... Qinglian is here, oops, your girl hasn't been here for a few days, ouch, it's really getting better and better, I have to show you a ...... in-law's house."
shouted at the girl's house with a loud voice: "Erni, your sister Qinglian is here!" ”
The second daughter of the five concubines came out of her hut, and saw Qinglian running over with a smile and a smile, and pulled her into her house with affectionate words.
But Qinglian came to find her mother. She had to say a few words to her cousin perfunctorily, and then came out to ask the five concubines if her mother had come.
The five concubines laughed and said, "What are you looking for your mother to do, girl, your mother only came yesterday and asked her to stay here for a few days." ”
Qinglian looked at the five concubines suspiciously, she was not old and confused, she asked twice if her mother was at her house, but she didn't say, whether she was there or not.
She had to ask a third time, and before the five concubines could open their mouths, a voice came from her house: "I'm here, didn't I just come here, I'll borrow your five concubines' cotton shoes, and go back to make a pair for each of your sisters." ”
The mother walked out of the hall of five concubines.
Qinglian looked at her mother suspiciously, and her mother was obviously a little flustered, with an unnatural smile on her face.
When she met her daughter's burning eyes, her heart fluttered.
Qinglian suddenly grinned, and she said as she walked towards the door of the hall where her mother came out: "Ah, mother, what a coincidence, I bought a few feet of shoe cloth in the market today, just to call my mother to go back and make shoes for my sister." Then I'll see what kind of shoes my mother is holding. ”
"Oh, the shoes aren't in this house, they're in your second cousin's house." The mother stretched out her hand to stop Qinglian, who was about to enter the house, and said in a panic.
also dragged Qinglian to the second cousin's house. The five concubines also laughed and said, "It's okay, the shoes are in your second cousin's house, go to your second cousin's house and take a look." ”
At this time, the second cousin asked her mother in surprise: "What shoes look like, aren't the shoes all in your house?" ”
The five concubines patted their hedgehog-like heads and said, "Ahaha, look at my memory, in my house, in my room, that, Qinglian, go to your cousin's house to play, I'll go get shoes." ”
Qinglian blinked and said hello, but when her mother turned around, she slipped into the hall of the five concubines.
Her mind was rushed, and her feet were nailed to the spot: there was a white and clean middle-aged man who looked a little like Cai Guoqing sitting on the chair in the door. He saw a flash of fear in Qinglian's eyes, and then his eyes dodged in a panic.
The five concubines and Wang Xiuli all ran over, Wang Xiuli grabbed Qinglian's arm, and said angrily: "You crazy girl, you really don't understand the rules, so you ran to your five concubines' house, and there are still guests in this house." ”
As he spoke, he pushed her out.
The five concubines also looked nervous, and casually echoed: "It's okay, it's okay, it's not an outsider...... That, Xiuli, I'll give you a shoe look. ”
Needless to say, this person is my mother's "bamboo horse".
Qinglian was pushed out of the hall by her mother in a daze, it turned out that every time her mother had a private meeting with her "bamboo horse", she was led by five concubines.
No wonder, in her previous life, she heard that her mother had a special relationship with the five concubines, who were child daughters-in-law and were sent to the fifth uncle's house when she was a teenager. She is not a few years older than her mother, and her mother is as close to her as a sister. When my mother got married, I still had a good relationship with her, and every time I lived in my mother's house, I played at her house as before.
But she now knows that there is such a "deep" relationship between her mother and her.
She shook Wang Xiuli's hand, looked at the five concubines coldly, and walked out with her head held high.
"Qinglian...... Qinglian ......" Wang Xiuli screamed and chased out.
She ran a few steps to grab Qinglian, looked around and said without begging: "Qinglian, don't think nonsense, don't talk nonsense, I really came to your five concubines' house to borrow shoes just now, and I don't know that she has a guest at home......"
Qinglian stopped, looked at Niang Yanran and smiled, and said softly: "What am I thinking nonsense, what am I talking nonsense?" What does it have to do with me if there are guests in the five concubines' family? Mother, why are you nervous? ”
Wang Xiuli's face turned red all of a sudden, she was stared at by her daughter's phoenix eyes that were exactly the same as hers, and she couldn't say a word in her throat.