On the evening of August 14, Sister Qiu invited Mr. Long and Mrs. Long to dinner, accompanied by Yan Yuanwai, An Zi, Lin Zhun, Zhang Ruoxu and Xiao Xu.

Sister Qiu used her mixed methods to cook a wooden table dish, and opened the wine sent by Wang Ming.

Mr. Long and Mrs. Long are not people who like to talk about hypocrisy, and they are all very familiar with Jia Shi and others during this time, and several people are sitting on the wooden table in the courtyard to enjoy the moon and eat vegetables.

Mr. Long was very satisfied with the meal, and praised Sister Qiu greatly, but the wine was not sticky. Jia Shi toasted him as the host, but he just smiled and pushed, "I can't drink." ”

Mrs. Long on the side was afraid of the cold scene, so she hurriedly took the wine glass and said with a smile, "I'll take his place." "Mrs. Long drinks a lot of alcohol, and she talks to Jia Shi Li Ailian, and the women are all cheerful people, and they talk happily and eat happily.

There are very many people in this world who are not allowed to drink, one type of people are allergic to alcohol, and some kind of people are poured with a glass, Sister Qiu looked at the "beautiful middle-aged" Mr. Long with a tall eyebrow and looked in the field, I don't know where Mr. Long belongs to.

A few women from the Jia family were talking on the side, and Mr. Long was talking with Yan Yuanwai, talking about the harvest and current affairs.

After eating, the moon had already risen in the sky, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu quickly withdrew from the table, put melons and fruits and moon cakes cut into small pieces, and several people sat in the courtyard to enjoy the moon and chat.

Mr. Long took a piece of moon cake, looked at the egg heart in the moon cake through the white moonlight, bit his mouth and smiled at Sister Qiu and said, "Sister Qiu, this is a Cantonese-style egg heart moon cake?" ”

"Yes." Sister Qiu smiled and said, "It's still Mr. Long who is well-informed. ”

Mr. Long laughed, said a few words to Yan Yuanwai, and then said to Lin Zhun and Zhang Ruoxu on the side: "You two don't have to be anxious, although you can't go to the exam now, you can just give it a try at this time next year." Now the important task of the two of you is to practice more words and read more, and when the spring of the next year begins, I will arrange for the two of you to start writing articles. This imperial examination, in the final analysis, is not a good reading can be examined, the test is the level of writing articles, as long as the article is written well, you can enter the eyes of the examiner. ”

Lin Zhun and Zhang Ruoxu glanced at each other, and their hearts were very excited. There are a lot of students in the college, all of whom went to the county town to catch the exam, and even Zhu Pingshan also went, Lin Zhun and Zhang Ruoxu, the two people who had just started, were a little disappointed, but Mr. Long's words of encouragement made them feel better.

"Thank you for your advice." Lin Zhun got up and gave Mr. Long a big gift, and Zhang Ruoxu was also in a hurry to give a gift.

Mr. Long smiled and shook his hand, "Thank you!" No matter how much I point, it's useless, and I still rely on your own efforts. ”

Jia's and Mrs. Long, Li Ailian led Sister Qiu, Zhang Yuxiu and Xiaoxu, and the staff took turns to tell stories to the children, Mrs. Long is a cultural person, and all the stories she tells are small stories in the history books, and Jia's and Li Ailian's stories are mostly rumors in the countryside, needless to say, the previous life and this life are combined, Sister Qiu's ears are all calloused, in addition to running to the moon, Jia also told the story of the old monkey carrying the uncle and the lady, and there is entertainment in the difficulty

In the ancient times, Sister Qiu listened to it with relish.

When the moon climbed into the middle of the sky, Yan Yuanwai wanted to take Xiao Xu home, but Xiao Xu was still reluctant to go, so he sat on Jia's lap with his arms and legs and hugged Jia's waist, and asked Jia to tell him a story again.

"Come over tomorrow, Auntie will tell you again!" Jia laughed and coaxed for a long time, Xiao Xu wanted to play coquettish again, and finally saw that Yan Yuanwai's face was already on the verge of anger, so he slipped off Jia's lap and followed Yan Yuanwai back.

When everyone left, Jia and Li Ailian went to the small kitchen to wash the dishes, and Li Ailian sighed: "That child is also pitiful, he doesn't have a mother to hurt him when he urinates." "Yan Yuanwai is a man, he is usually busy, he doesn't have the patience to coax children, and he is strict, otherwise there would be no Xiaoxuan running away.

Li Ailian's smile, "It's good to wait for Xiaoxu to grow up." Although she thinks that her own sister is good everywhere, and she is quite a match for Yan Yuanwai, but she can't say it, she understands her sister's temper, if Yan Yuanwai has no intention, then Jia's shame has no face to meet people.

Xiao Xu was sleepy on the way home, and fell asleep in Yan Yuanwai's arms, and when he got home, Yan Yuanwai woke him up, and brought a basin of foot-washing water to him to wash his feet and then sleep.

Yan Yuanwai glanced at him without saying a word, got up and went out with a gourd of cold water and poured it into the footbasin, and coaxed patiently: "Okay, this time it's not hot, hurry up and wash it." ”

Xiao Xu bit his lip and put his foot into the basin from the new, and suddenly it was curled again, okay, this time it became cold water...... Father's duel is intentional!

Before going to sleep, Xiao Xu took off only a red belly pocket and got into the nest, blinked, and asked Yan Yuanwai: "Father, why do all people have mothers, but I don't?" ”

Yan Yuanwai patted Xiao Xu's hair, frowned and said, "Hurry up and go to bed, I have to practice reading and reading when I get up tomorrow, don't think about it." ”

The small prelude is flat-mouthed, the person he is most afraid of is his father, who has a straight face all day long, and he doesn't smile at anyone, and the family is also cold. He is very envious of Sister Qiu, although Sister Qiu has no father, but she has a very Wen Nong very good mother, Xiao Xu not only thought about it, if he changed it with Sister Qiu, it would be good, he wanted Jia to be his mother, and changed his father to Sister Qiu. Although Xiao Xu doesn't know what his own mother should look like, in his opinion, it must be like Aunt Li's, good-looking, delicious cooking, and will hold himself to tell him stories, let him be coquettish, all of them coax him.

"Father, I want Aunt Li to be my mother, I like Aunt Li and Sister Qiu." Xiao Xu whispered.

Yan Yuanwai patted the palm of Xiao Xu's back for a moment, thinking of the woman with beautiful eyebrows, soft speech, and a warm smile, and asked, "Don't you want a stepmother?" They all threatened me with running away from home. "That's different!" Xiao Xu said anxiously, "I didn't know Aunt Li at that time...... Aunt Li is a good person, she is definitely not like Zhu Baozhu's stepmother! ”

Xiao Xu came to the spirit, "Zhu Baozhu sat with me, he showed me everything, his arms and legs were all blue marks pinched out by his stepmother, and he didn't want him to eat enough." I told Aunt Li, and Aunt Li was so embarrassed when she heard it, and she boiled four red eggs for me to bring to Zhu Baozhu to eat. Aunt Li is a good person, not like those stepmothers who have bad intentions. ”

In other words, Jia's stepmother-in-law, he is still more willing to accept Di!

Yan Yuan smiled embarrassedly, thinking about the first time they met, although Jia was afraid of his own life, he dared to stop him when he was angry and wanted to beat Xiao Xu, and persuaded himself to be patient with the children.

She is a soft-tempered woman. This was Yan Yuanwai's first impression of Jia's family.

Later, I had more contact, knew more, and saw how Jia's aunt oppressed her, an honest person, which deepened the impression of Yan Yuanwai, and in my free time, I thought about this pair of hard-working and wealthy women who relied on their palms, and they felt pitiful while appreciating, so I couldn't help but take care of them a little more.

After relieving himself, Yan Yuanwai found that Xiao Xu was still looking at him and waiting for him to reply, so he smiled at the kid with difficulty, patted Xiao Xuguang's back, tucked the quilt for Xiao Xu, avoided Xiao Xu's question, and turned to speak: "Sleep, don't tell outsiders about this, otherwise your aunt will be angry, and your sister Qiu will not pay attention to you anymore." ”

"I understand this, this is a big defense for men and women." Xiao Xu nodded and spoke, his expression was very serious and earnest, "It's just father, you better think about it again, Aunt Li is only two years older than you, I don't have a mother, Sister Qiu doesn't have a father, if you marry Aunt Li, I have a mother, Sister Qiu also has a father, the best of both worlds!" ”

"You even know how old they are?" Yan Yuanwai looked at Xiao Xu dumbfounded, this is not how the idiom is used......

"yes." Xiao Xu was natural, "I asked Sister Qiu, and Sister Qiu told me." ”

"And what else did you say?" Yan Yuanwai immediately asked in a panic, for fear that the kid would say something that he shouldn't say, and he would be despised.

Xiao Xu shook his head with disdain in his father's panicked eyes, "I'm not a child who doesn't understand anything, so I asked Sister Qiu how old Aunt Li is, Sister Qiu said 31, you are 29 years old, you two are not much different, I heard Mama Zhang, who cooked for me before, say that the female junior holds gold bricks!" Besides, Aunt Li is good-looking, and she looks not as old as you! ”

Yan Yuanwai's "old" word to the kid was stimulated, his face was very gloomy, Xiao Xu knew that his mouth was about to poke the hornet's nest, and hurriedly shrank his neck to pretend to sleep in the nest, and in less than a moment there was an even sound of breathing and fell asleep.

Yan Yuanwai naturally didn't take Xiao Xu's call too seriously, he has been a father and a mother for many years, and he has brought up children by himself, and only he knows the hard work. Since he became an official, many people are willing to marry Huang Huaer's eldest daughter in the family to him as a house-filler, but he has never thought about this aspect, because he is afraid of wronging the boy.

The boy has been relying on him for many years, and he is afraid of marrying a big one

The grandmother will not take care of the boy and give the boy a good feeling, but if he wants to marry a widow's family, don't say that no one will introduce him to the widow's family, that is, he is himself, and he can't get over the hurdle in his heart, what kind of woman does he want, why should he marry a widow's family?

But Jia Shi doesn't seem to be very ordinary, she is not only good to Xiaoxu, she is also very good to other children, very kind. To say greedy for money...... I'm afraid that compared to her, he is a poor official, and she has a daughter who is smart and understands things, and she supports the family business, which is better than all the boys. And the Jia family is not bad, this month he saw in his eyes, the Jia family is getting whiter and more beautiful, and Sister Qiu's delicate little noodle plate is the good appearance of the Jia family.

The most important thing is that Jia's temper is good, Wen Nong is considerate, he is really terrible, and he is too temperamental!

(End of chapter)