Walking two streets north from the Ma family's house, you can reach the front of a single-entry courtyard. Pushing the door in, passing the front yard, bypassing the screen and entering the main house, an old servant with gray hair was already waiting there, and took the woman's coat and put it aside to dry, "Is Young Master Pinyuan okay?" ”

The woman who had just come back from outside had something on her mind, and when she heard the old servant's question, she was stunned for a moment, and then said, "It's much better, it's not that serious, it's all spread by people outside, if you don't worry about going to see it, I'll just come back and watch An An." With that, he went to the back room to change his clothes.

The old servant was still outside, looking at An An who was fiddling with toys, and replied inside, "I went to see what it looked like, but I watched the children grow up back then, but I didn't expect it to be so serious when I got sick for a while, girl, you go to see it, it's almost noon, I'll go cook, and when my uncle comes back, it's time to make trouble again." ”

The woman had already changed into a home dress and came out, and stopped the old servant who was about to cook in the east kitchen, "Why did he go out again, but did he say where to go, it was raining so heavily, should he go to that Wu family again." ”

The old servant looked embarrassed, and said helplessly, "Girl, I don't want to ask much about this uncle, not long after you went out just now, he changed his clothes and went out, holding the silk painting he picked up in the market a few days ago, and I don't know how much." And then he went.

The woman had to go back and continue to watch An An play, the child was really not worried, just now was still happily playing with toys, and when the mother approached, she found that the mother was back, so she babbled and shouted for the sugar gourd to eat, the woman had to coax first, saying that eating too much sugar gourd would attract insects to eat teeth, half coaxing and half frightened for a while before eating sugar gourd.

Mingyi didn't feel good in her heart, she was really a little uncomfortable these days. This branch of the family is not too bad in the Ma family, when the first generation of the Ma family was divided, the ancestors divided some shops and tea gardens, which is already regarded as the ancestors' favor. But the next few generations are not very good at business, the tea garden was sold to the big house, only some shops remained, but every year from the tea garden can share some cash, life is also good, to the parents when they live in the courtyard of Sanjin, but the parents died in the torrent, leaving two sisters and brothers.

If it weren't for the family's willingness to raise it, the two sisters and brothers with their ancestral property were only afraid that they would be divided up by those poorer uncles, and it was also thanks to the good relationship between their parents and the uncle of the current family that the two were able to live, and they gave their own part of the shop to themselves when they became adults, and continued to live in the Ma family.

But in the past few years after getting married, life has become more and more unpleasant, although part of it is because of his own frugality, he secretly saved the income in the shop and left it to An An, and only used the dividends in the tea garden to live, and the tea garden business was not good in the past two years. But Gao Jin didn't think so, he kept saying that 'the daughter will come back after being scattered', trying his best to take money from home to spend, and a few days ago he stole the contract of a shop to pay off the debt, but he only found out today.

When I went to discuss with the uncle today, I learned that this Gao told the uncle about selling the shop at the end of the year, and I really didn't know at all, and I couldn't stand the temper of not discussing with others at all, not to mention that this is still my own thing, but there is really a bit of a sense that I can't get by.

When she was in a daze, An An suddenly babbled and laughed again, it turned out that it was raining lightly outside, Ming Yi immediately went to the yard to collect the clothes that were being dried, and said to Mother Lin through the wall, "Mother Lin, it's raining lightly outside, what else needs to be collected besides clothes." "There is only one old servant in the family who has been with him for many years, so he has to do many things himself, which is normal for a merchant girl.

There was a coughing sound in the east kitchen, presumably it was smoked, and it was time to hire a younger cook in a few days, "Girl, there are still a little peanuts drying in the west wing, and the rain is not heavy, I haven't heard a sound in it." Saying that, Na Lin's mother rushed out, in the end, it was an acute one, rushed directly to the door of the west wing, put the peanuts in, and smiled at Ming Yi in front of the main house when she came back, "Fortunately, I didn't get drenched, otherwise it would have been dried in vain a few days ago, and the girl found it early, and my old bones became more and more useless." With that, he went into the east kitchen again.

Ming Yi didn't reply, you have to find time to talk about recruiting people, if you make the old servant for many years cold, this is not her own, so she went back to ponder her own thoughts.

But in a moment, Lin Ma brought the dishes to the main house, except for a stewed pig's feet that were served on the stove in the morning, the other dishes were fried first, and the taste was better than what ordinary people do.

When Mother Lin put all the dishes and chopsticks on the table neatly, but Gao Jin didn't come back, Ming Yi said to Mother Lin, "That's it, let's eat the two of us first today, so I won't wait for him." "When Gao Jin was at home, Mother Lin never went to the table. For this matter, Ming Yi also had trouble with him before, after his parents went, Lin Ma has always eaten at the same table with her sister and brother, and the uncle never stopped her, but after becoming a parent, she had to go back to the east kitchen to eat, which is unreasonable, but Gao Jin is not dependent, and what she has always said is to let others see what it looks like, Lin Ma cherishes herself, but when Gao Jin is there, she excuses that there is something hot on the stove, so she stays there.

It was rainy in the afternoon, Gao Jin still didn't come back, Mingyi asked Lin Ma to accompany An An on the side, and she started needlework, she was worried about something, she was stabbed many times, so she was annoyed and stopped doing it, and came to lie down on the chair to rest.

When it was getting dark outside, there was a sudden sound outside the door, it should be Gao Jin coming back, Mother Lin on the side didn't expect to come back so early, and said in a low voice, "Girl, I'm going to cook, don't quarrel with your uncle later, the family can only live a good life by discussing it, and arguing can't solve the problem." Ming Yi waved her hand and let Mother Lin go.

Gao Jin entered the hall but did not stay, went directly into the back room, and after a long time changed into his clothes at home and came out, shouting loudly, "This meal is not good, I am idle at home all day, and I am getting more and more unruly." Although these words were shouted at the east kitchen, his eyes were floating on Mingyi.

"I didn't see you Gu family at noon, and now it's time to shout, everyone in this family owes you, and they all revolve around you."

Gao Jin was blocked, and he didn't show weakness and replied, "It's raining so heavily at noon, it's kindness for people to keep me, but it's not mine here for you, at this hour, other families have already prepared a meal and waited, so my family raised a lazy person, relying on love to bully others." ”

Ming Yi became even more angry when she heard this, got up and pointed at Gao Jin's nose and scolded, "Even if you raise it, it is also raised by me, it has something to do with you, Mother Lin has worked hard for my family all her life, and I should raise it, you don't have to make a splash here." After speaking, he said to Mother Lin in the East Kitchen, "Mother Lin, bring him the stewed pig's feet left at noon from the stove and send this starving ghost to reincarnate." Then he sat back in his chair.

Gao Jin stayed at Wu's house at noon because of the rain, cheekily rubbed a little food there, and he didn't eat enough, and when the rain stopped, he came back immediately, and he was hungry and uncomfortable, and he was angry when he heard that there were stewed pig's feet left, and his heart was happy again, but he was scolded by someone who pointed his nose and had to get back some face, and said to the position of the east kitchen, "If you don't serve pig's feet early, don't steal it and can't take it out." ”

Ming Yi was even more angry, this person was obviously hungry outside and came back to be angry, he really took himself seriously, just about to scold back, Lin Ma had already entered the house, put the stewed pig's feet on the table, and served a leftover meal from noon, but there were tears hanging in her eyes, and she didn't know if it was smoked or something else, so Ming Yi was so distressed that she had to stop her mouth, this trouble would only implicate Lin Ma again.

Mingyi had to say to Mother Lin on the side, "I don't know what to do, don't look at who is relying on to clean up such a neat house." "Sent Mama Lin out again.