Eating, drinking, shopping for calligraphy and painting, Ma Jinshan is still the same Ma Jinshan, relying on the share of the tea garden and the shop inherited from his grandfather, he has lived a leisurely life for 22 years.

Since I can remember, Jinshan has not had many unsatisfactory things, occasionally unhappy, and can always pass quickly, but life is becoming more and more uninterested, the food has no taste, the cook has a greasy day, the wine drunk has changed several restaurants, there is still no wishful thinking, the calligraphy and painting I bought, every time I get it, I will be excited for a while, but there is always no favorite.

On this day, when Ma Jinshan came back from Xiuyuan, he met the guy who was cleaning up the guest room, so he asked, "Are there any guests coming so late?" ”

"It was the young master who came to Pinyuan, and he was taken back by the eldest master, and the old man thought that the house smelled of wine, so I went to change it." The man replied.

"Oh." Geumseon turned around and went into the hall, and when he saw his mother also sitting in the house, he stuck to it.

The fourth lady worships the Buddha, stays in the Buddhist hall in the backyard all the year round, and no one can invite anyone except to come out by herself. came out at this time, naturally because he was thinking about his daughter, and the chopsticks hadn't moved yet, so he muttered, "You are not allowed to kick people out again this year, and if you don't salute again, you don't want to do it over there, that kid looks ugly, but he has some talent, and he likes you." ”

Before Jinshan could answer, Ma Siye spoke first, "I complain about what you are doing to get married, that child is also a little ugly, and I don't want to pay attention to him when I meet him on the road." ”

"You can't say that, it's not smallpox, it's good to survive, this catastrophe will not die, there will be a blessing in the future." The fourth lady was relieved again.

"He is blessed, and it is not our girl who suffers. If I were to say find an excuse to send it away, I couldn't bear that he would have to dangle in front of me for decades. "Fourth Master Ma doesn't like this son-in-law who hasn't come to the door yet.

"Then you can find a time to send me away, anyway, I'm here to get in your way." The fourth lady didn't like it either, but even if there was a marriage contract, she had to say a few more words for that person.

Jin Shan was annoyed by the noise, so he turned his head and said, "Okay, I'll bring someone in tomorrow and live, I'll go and be with Sister Yi, and my brother-in-law won't be there anyway." ”

"Okay, I won't urge it, don't go and make trouble for your sister Yi, since her father and mother are gone, I won't say these things, your father should hate me again." The fourth lady is kind-hearted and has always been unaccustomed to the dirty things of this tea garden.

Jin Shan turned his head to stick to the fourth lady again, and said, "I'm not going, I'm here to guard you." ”

The family of three ate some more food, and when the meal was finished, they each found a place to rest, and Jinshan was lying on the soft couch, watching his mother give him the soles of his shoes. Ma Siye lay on the rocking chair, leaned against the door of the hall, looked at the full moon outside, and knocked on the cigarette holder in his hand.

It was cold in winter, Jinshan didn't stay long before returning to the house, and when he was about to close the door, he almost hit his father's forehead, hurriedly stopped, came out sideways and asked, "What are you doing here?" Sneaky in the middle of the night. ”

Ma Siye didn't enter the house either, went to the side of the eaves and squatted down, and said, "Haven't you been to provoke Pinyuan recently?" ”

Poof, Jin Shan laughed, "I'm going to provoke him to do something, I can't meet someone once in a few years, he mixes in another circle, I can't even chew the root of his tongue." ”

"Don't touch the tea plantation, we are not the material. Let their families toss by themselves, eat better if they have money, and eat shops if they don't have money, and they won't go hungry. "Knowing the daughter Mo Ruo's father, Fourth Master Ma naturally noticed the abnormality in it, so he came to persuade him, but where did this work.

"I'm too lazy to care." After Jinshan finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the house, closed the door and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Jin Shanben asked Yiqin, the fifth girl of the Zhang family, to come to the house for tea, but by noon, no one was there. After lunch, a person came over with a sad face, and before Jinshan could ask, the five girls had already explained the matter.

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The fourth girl of the Zhang family, Yibei, is a quiet woman, the most unstriking of the five sisters, and there is no other skill to get her hands on, only a pair of shoe soles are solid, but unfortunately the hands are worn rough, and they are often laughed at by the sisters as an old woman. There were too many soles, and the family couldn't use them up, so they took them to the shop and sold them to save some private money.

On this day, the fourth girl Yibei took the soles of her freshly made shoes and walked to the familiar shop in the south of the city.

Yibei is shy, and he is the least familiar with Huai'an, so he wanted to take a detour to avoid Huai'an, but he saw a woman next to Huai'an under the hood.

When the second sister got married, Yibei naturally went there, sitting in a corner place, watching people coming and going, but he didn't see the woman next to Huai'an now. Since they are not relatives, people who are so intimate and accompanied by each other may be people who are raised outside.

Yibei had no idea for a while, so he had to run home with the newly made soles, but he ran into Yiqin who was about to go out.

"Fourth sister, where are you going?"

Yibei didn't know if the woman was the person he thought, and he didn't dare to talk outside, he panicked for a while, and couldn't even speak clearly, "I... ”

Yiqin snatched the sole of Yibei's hand and said with a smile, "Didn't you say that last night, that's all." As he spoke, he was going to take his sister to the south of the city, "It just so happens that I will also stop by and go together." ”

"I... I'm not going, I'm feeling a little uncomfortable." Yibei subconsciously wanted to avoid the two of them, not even the soles of his shoes, and hurried back to the house.

This time it was Yiqin's turn not to understand, and after being stunned for a while, she also followed the fourth sister back to the house, and before she entered the door, she heard the fourth sister keep muttering, "What should I do?" What to do? ”

"Fourth sister, what happened to you?" Seeing the fourth sister so troubled, Yiqin was not interested in joking.

is a little girl who has nothing to do, how can she know how to deal with this kind of thing, at this time, even Yiqin came back because of herself, as if Yibei was hiding it for the two of them, Yibei regretted it even more in his heart.

Yibei bit his lip, put the hat on the table, took Yiqin's hand, and said, "Wait, no matter what you see, don't do anything." After speaking, he pulled Yiqin and walked outside.

I walked through the streets and alleys, walked a long way, and went around many alleys, and finally found Huai'an and the woman in an alley that was not too remote, and they were more intimate than just now.

Yiqin knew the woman, and when she went to Huai'an's house with her second sister when she was a child, she saw the woman, but she was more wealthy at that time, not as shabby as she is now.

Otherwise, Yiqin had an idea, she really didn't shout anything, and directly dragged Yibei to Huai'an's house in the west of the city, and saw that Yixi was serving flowers and plants, so she endured it again, said a blessing to her sister, and went around before returning home.

But there is no need to hide it from his father, and he told Zhang's father how the two sisters met Huai'an today, and waited for the head of the family to come up with an idea.

"Your second sister really doesn't know anything over there?" Zhang's father held the steel ball in his hand and kept spinning, no longer having his usual idle appearance.

Yiqin thought back to the time when she dealt with the second sister, and immediately said, "No, with my understanding of the second sister, she shouldn't have even noticed the slightest rumor." ”

Father Zhang was worried, and thought for a long time before saying to Yiqin and Yibei, "Wait a minute, I'll ask someone to bring the second sister back, you two keep your mouth tight, and don't say anything in front of your second sister." Especially Yibei, you can't hide things the most, go to your grandmother's house today, and come back tomorrow when this matter is over. ”

Yibei nodded, and was about to pack his luggage, but was stopped by Zhang's father again, "It's not that I can't believe you, it's just that it's better for you to not know these things, and Yiqin will also accompany your sister with you." ”

"What about my third sister? Do you want me to let her go with me? Yiqin asked.

Father Zhang waved his hand and said, "Let your third sister stay here, otherwise your second sister will be suspicious." ”

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At night, when Huai'an came home, he saw that there was no one in the hall and there was no food on the table, so he asked his mother-in-law to ask, "Where is the young lady?" ”

"In the afternoon, Master Zhang sent someone to pick him up, but the young master is eating at home? The rice was still hot on the stove. The woman replied.

The woman went back to her parents' house, this is an ordinary thing, but Huai'an has often suffered from gains and losses recently, and she panicked when there was a stir, and when she heard that Mrs. was taken back by her father-in-law, she panicked and asked, "But what is it for?" ”

"That's not true, the two little girls came to play in the morning, and they sent someone to pick them up in the afternoon, maybe the mother misses her daughter." The mother-in-law replied.

"Did you say when you would be back?" Huai'an sat down, a little undecided.

The woman replied, "When the young lady left, she only let us look at the flowers and plants, and didn't even bring our favorite Yueji, thinking that she would come back tonight." But it's already this hour, and the young lady has one more on her, and it's estimated that it will be tomorrow. ”

Huai'an couldn't make up her mind, which play was this singing, neither said why she went, nor said when she would return, she was shocked by Liang Tian last time, it had been more than a month, and she couldn't talk about it at this time, but she was afraid that she knew something.

If he knew, then he was afraid that it would be a Hongmen banquet, and Huai An really couldn't make up his mind, so he paced in the hall.

The mother-in-law on the side saw it and said with a smile, "Since the young master is worried about the young lady, he will go and pick it up, presumably Master Zhang will also understand." ”

Huai'an couldn't be thick-faced and broad-hearted, so he didn't care about the bride, changed into cyan clothes, carried a lantern, and walked to the Zhang family's house.

When I arrived at the Zhang family's house, there was already a mother-in-law waiting by the door, smiling to pick up the lantern, leading Huai'an in, and said as he walked, "Uncle, our master has been waiting for you for a long time, and it is inevitable that you will have some temper when you wait. ”

"Hmm." Huai'an responded.