Date: 212-11-23

Li Danruo was startled, and hurriedly asked, "Are you better now?" Do you still feel particularly aggrieved? ”

"Yes, how does the fourth sister know? It's much better now, if I'm sad and want to shed tears, I can ask someone to bring my brother over, watch the child, and tease him to play, and everything will be fine. \[\]" Li Yuju smiled with satisfaction, Li Danruo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, of course she knew about this, a long, long time ago, a beautiful and lively colleague in her office jumped off the building after giving birth.

"That's good, when the child is older, he can laugh and play, it's fun, you tease the child, and the day can pass." Li Danruo smiled comfortingly, Li Yuju nodded and thanked again and again: "Hello fourth sister, I remember ......"

"What do you remember, we are sisters, how can there be more close than us? By the way, the third sister came to see you? Li Danruo smiled and changed the subject. Li Yuju nodded and said, "It's the day before yesterday, alas, when did you last see her?" Li Yuju turned to ask, Li Danruo smiled bitterly: "Since she got married, I haven't seen her again, she didn't go home for the New Year, she said she was sick, and a day passed in the third year of junior high school to pick up the second uncle's family, and the wife didn't care about her, and no one mentioned her, is she doing well?" ”

"I don't look very good," Li Yuju frowned and said, "The third sister's temper, you know, act ...... I always feel a little too stubborn, she and the Chen family have quarreled several times, listening to her, back and forth is for the Chen family and the family, what does she hate, saying that the Chen family is not angry, no face and no skin on the pole to pick up people, they are all a family, you come and go, how to get involved in picking up people? ”

Li Danruo got up and poured a cup of hot water for Li Yuju, changed a cup of hot tea himself, came back and sat down to listen to her continue: "The Chen family Lang also often comes to find our master, the two of them are very compatible, I heard the master praise a few times, saying that the Chen family Lang is a smart person, besides, the male protagonist is outside, the female protagonist is inside, the man in charge of the family is out and about, and the woman should not care, I didn't dare to say it deeply, so I mentioned a sentence and a half, first, the temper of the third sister, and second, it also caught up, she just had a big quarrel with the Chen family Lang last month, and she was angry when she came, I can't listen to it. ”

Li Yuju paused, hesitated and said in a low voice: "I heard this matter, but the Chen family is not, but I didn't tell the third sister this, I was afraid that she would get angry when she heard it, and I went back to quarrel with the Chen family brother, and only picked up the ability to persuade her once, this matter, alas, the fourth sister has always been considerate, and I won't hide it from the third sister, the second aunt's birthday last month was not a whole birthday, the third sister thought about her parents It is not easy, and she told the Chen family early that she wanted to pick up the second uncle and the second aunt to come over for a lively day, and congratulate the second aunt on her birthday. If you want the Chen family to go back to the yamen, who knows that the Chen family has not come back until the person has passed, and he sent the little maid in the middle to deliver a sentence, saying that the entertainment outside is important, the temper of the third sister, you also know, how can you hold it, send away the second uncle and aunt, catch the little guy and torture him, alas!"

Li Yuju sighed: "It turned out that the Chen family was drinking flower wine with the eldest brother, and the third sister was angry, and sent people to call the Chen family back one after another, saying that it was really noisy all night, and the Chen family's things were thrown all over the yard. ”

Li Danruo didn't know what to say, holding the cup in both hands, and was stunned for a while before he smiled bitterly: "This year's wife's birthday, the family is not ready to do it, this year, so many people have birthdays, none of them have done it, in previous years, except for the wife, others are just a bowl of longevity noodles, everyone gives their own gifts, and the third sister's heart knot is too deep." ”

"Well," Li Yuju replied softly, there is a big difference in a bowl of longevity noodles, everyone gives their own gifts, and the sky hangs in the sky, Li Danruo is extremely sensitive, and he hurriedly changed the topic: "What, the third sister shouldn't be so noisy with the Chen family, such a quarrel, the pain is painful, but what's the use?" ”

"That's right, that's what I said about her, how can I argue so much with my husband? The man is socializing outside, and it is not a woman's family to take care of, the temper of the third sister, alas, she can't listen to it......" Li Yuju sighed and kept talking, Li Danruo listened to Li Yuju's gentle words, and her heart was full of emotion and sourness, the girls of the Li family looked as if they were all as delicate, but here they were different, but at this time, they clearly understood in front of them, and no one taught Li Yuju how to be a qualified housewife, her way of getting along with husband and wife all came from Aunt An, So she married in the next month and opened her face to keep people to compete for favor, she was glad that the old man could come to her house once or twice a month, and then come to a trip or two, waiting in bed, it can only be Chunyan and Chunhua, right? She is afraid of her daughter-in-law, and even afraid that her daughter-in-law will send her to the nurse, she doesn't know how to stand up, she will only compete for favor, and she will make a wife into a concubine.

Li Danruo sighed secretly, Li Yuju didn't mention it, this Li Jinrui, her heart, she can understand a lot, but she is so strong, how can she have half a benefit? This truth is not something that people can listen to, and it takes a lot of pain to understand it......

Li Yuju talked straight for most of the hour, and Chunyan came in in the middle to send a bowl of red date lotus seed soup, Li Yuju ate it, and the two gossiped for a while, and Li Danruo got up and said goodbye and went back.

The next month, the fifth master Jiang Yanming took the orders of Mrs. Cheng, and went to the Li Mansion to ask Mrs. Ning for peace, and talked with her for most of the day before she went back, and Mrs. Ning and the Yang family were very satisfied with Jiang Wuye.

The two families flipped through the yellow calendar to find someone to criticize the good luck, came and went more than a dozen times, and finally agreed on the wedding date on May 12 next year.

In mid-November, the third master of the Li family brought a letter, has been returned to Beijing to report on the will, at the beginning of March next year, the family will be able to return to the capital, Mrs. Ning is happy to wipe tears, the third son has been tossing and turning, the first few years of the official is small, even if he is transferred, there is no need to return to Beijing to report on work, this blink of an eye, have not been back for more than ten years, when they left Beijing to take office, the third master and his wife Yan were only in their twenties, holding their daughter and waving to her to say goodbye, she remembered it clearly, as if in front of her, and then had two grandchildren, It's thirteen years old this year, and she hasn't seen it yet.

Mrs. Ning was excited for a few days, remembered the business again, called Mrs. Liu and Li Yujing in, and instructed to take advantage of the New Year to carefully count the grange, shops, and houses, and divide one, two, and three according to the income, and then count the treasury and cash on the bill, and when the third master came back, she was ready to divide the family.

Mrs. Liu and Dai's are busy with the New Year's affairs, busy with Li Danruo's family affairs, collecting the year-end reconciliation, collecting the income of various Zhuangzi and shops, and taking stock of the family, and they are busy with their feet.

After a busy New Year, at the beginning of February, the Li family's family had all the inventory, and every account was clear, before it was handed over to Mrs. Ning.

As soon as March, Mrs. Liu sent people to a post station after the third master entered Beijing, and Mrs. Ning could hardly sit still, so she took Li Danruo to see the courtyard of the third master Li Yushao and his wife, the fifth lady Li Lingbo, the fourth master Li Yunqing and the sixth master Li Yunhui several times, and ordered to open their own warehouse, personally picked a bunch of antique furnishings, and personally placed them in the house of Li Lingbo and Li Yunqing and Li Yunhui.

Look at the residence, and the girls in the courtyards, the little maids, and the mother-in-law have seen it again, and even the rough maids and mother-in-law have passed their eyes one by one, busy with these, and anxious to tell the kitchen to make the three old men's family's favorite food, and ordered a few things, only to remember, except for the son, granddaughter and grandson's favorite food, she actually knows nothing, not only loves to eat, but also knows nothing about this granddaughter and two grandchildren, Mrs. Ning wiped her tears again, Li Danruo was busy saying this and that persuasion, Mrs. Ning shed a few tears, pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and sighed:" Poor fifth sister, when she went to work with her parents, she was still in her arms, and when she came back in a blink of an eye, she was seventeen years old, and I don't know if she has changed when she is older, and Brother Qing and Brother Hui, I heard that they are extremely smart in reading, and they are better than your father!"

"The third uncle was smart back then, I heard my mother say once, the third uncle has already been lifted, if it weren't for Enyin, he would have been a two-rank jinshi!" Li Danruo hurriedly smiled, Mrs. Ning laughed comfortably, held Li Danruo's hand and patted it and said with a smile: "It's not true, although your third uncle is not as good as your father, it is rare to study, and now the two brothers are like this again, if sister, my wife told you, your sister has not had a home for so many years, and I will hurt more when I come back, you are not allowed to be jealous!" Mrs. Ning nodded Li Danruo's nose and smiled, Li Danruo frowned and smiled: "My wife has five granddaughters, I am just such a sister, when my sister comes home, I have to hurt first!" Old Madam Ning laughed when she heard this.

Early in the morning, the stationmaster came back with Pegasus to report, and the third old man's family set off from the post station at the end of the morning, and they could get home when they entered the morning. On this day, the day will be bright, alas!"

"Mrs. is not struggling to see people carrying the burden," Li Danruo said with a smile: "The third uncle's family has been walking for more than two months along the way, how tired they have become?" Besides, the sixth brother is young, and the wife is really, if you know that you are in such a hurry, the third uncle will designate to rush back day and night, and as soon as you get home, you will have to fall ill several times, depending on which one the wife is distressed about. Old Madam Ning nodded at Li Danruo and smiled at Mrs. Liu: "Look at it, she is talking about me!"

"If Sister Er said that this is the reason," Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "We don't go out at home, I don't know how hard it is, my mother still remembers the last time Brother Zhi went to that field, and went straight back and forth for more than half a year, as soon as I heard that I was back, I couldn't sleep, and I had to go to the city gate before dawn, and my mother also said that I was coming." ”

"It's not, alas, I don't know what San Lang has become now, I always say that I have gained a lot of weight, and I don't know what it has become fat, it's not okay to be too fat." Old Madam Ning took Li Danruo's tea, took a sip, and smiled quietly.

"It's so hard to be an outsider, how much weight can you get? But the fifth sister heard that it is very good, not worse than Sister Ruo'er, I like girls like Sister Ruo'er, and it is comfortable to look at. Mrs. Liu continued, and Yang looked at Li Danruo with doting eyes and smiled: "How can Sister Ruo compare to the fifth sister?" The double-sided embroidered interstitial screen that was sent back to my mother to celebrate her birthday a few years ago was not embroidered by the fifth sister herself? If my sister can embroider it? There is also that word, writing poetry, if you are a brother, you can be a jinshi! I've heard that it's good to be born. ”

"The fifth sister was born when she was a child, and it is not enough to say that she is a powdered jade brick, her mother was born well, and among her mother's daughters-in-law, she is counted as good-looking." Mrs. Liu smiled, and Yang nodded in agreement: "No, if you are born well and capable, your mother will pick people." ”

A few people talked and laughed, Mrs. Ning was anxious and calmed down a little, but she was not in the mood to eat at noon, and she didn't have the heart to take a nap after dinner, Li Danruo had to accompany her, saying that Mrs. Ning was anxious and anxious, and when the hour was about to pass, a few little girls outside rushed in, and they didn't care about the rules, and shouted while running: "Old ancestor, the third master is back!" The third wife is back!"

Mrs. Ning stood up and rushed out, startling Li Danruo, jumping two steps to keep up, tassels and Yingluo were also startled, and hurriedly rushed over to lift the curtain, and Mrs. Ning didn't need to be helped, and walked like flying to the gate of the courtyard.