"Look at this girl, she is such a scoundrel with her when everyone is in the door, you don't shame the seventh lady when you come to the door?" Old Madam Ning laughed, the first half of the sentence was laughing with Dai's, but the second half of the sentence was seriously teaching Li Danruo.

"The fourth sister is the most rare, those people outside, when it comes to the fourth sister, which one is not full of praise? The wife is the best at training people. Dai was busy flattering, Li Danruo leaned on Mrs. Ning, glanced at Li Yuju, who was stunned and heard the loss of consciousness, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and he sighed secretly, young and young, who does not have countless longings, looking forward to marrying a wishful husband and wife, and being a young couple, but Li Yuju is going to marry an old man who is over forty years old in November.

Li Danruo stood up and sat next to Li Yuju, approached her and whispered: "Second sister, this year's furnace festival, shall we have a good time?" I remember that this year will be my aunt's 45th birthday, let's congratulate her. Li Yuju was stunned, and subconsciously turned her head to look at Mrs. Ning, who looked at the two of them and smiled: "What is the fourth sister muttering?" Let me hear it too. ”

"Wife!" Li Danruo brushed his feet and turned back to Mrs. Ning and said with a smile: "I told my second sister that we are going to have a furnace opening festival alone this year!"

"Huh? What's wrong? Dislike the wife? Mrs. Ning pretended to be angry and said angrily, Li Danruo held Mrs. Ning's arm and shook it while complaining: "I have lived with my wife, I don't drink well, my wife has been saying, 'Alas, drunk hurts your body, you see that you are drunk and uncomfortable, don't drink it' once!" This year, I'm going to get drunk with my second sister!"

Dai's 'poof' laughed out loud: "When the fourth sister said this, I remembered that the year before I got married, it was also the furnace festival, and several of our sisters didn't drink it happily, so they hid a few jars of wine and went back to drink it secretly, but they were so drunk that they couldn't get up the next day, and my mother punished me for copying the women's scriptures for ten days!"

Old Madam Ning glanced at Li Yuju, turned her head to look at Dai and said with a smile: "What you said reminds me of fifty or sixty years ago...... Being a girl is a coquettish, and when you get married, you have to work hard and abide by your duties, okay, you can live by yourself, you sisters can be happy as much as you want, just the same, that drunkenness is really hurtful, don't drink too much!"

"Thank you, madame!" Li Danruo said happily, Li Yuju's eyes were shining, and a thick smile appeared on her face, Dai Shi looked at the two and joked: "What dishes you want to eat and drink, just tell your sister-in-law." ”

"The wine is going to be aged and my daughter is red, the vegetables, the crabs must be wanted, and the others, wait for me to go back and open a list for my sister-in-law!" Li Danruo bent his fingers and said seriously, Old Madam Ning laughed: "You are not allowed to come out of the public school!" Since your sister-in-law said it, let her give you the money!"

"If you don't have a few taels of silver, besides, this is the duty of being a sister-in-law." Dai replied with a cheerful smile.

While talking, the small kitchen brought the food up, the tassels and Yingluo set the meal, Dai's Anzhen, Li Danruo and Li Yuju accompanied Mrs. Ning left and right, ate quietly and silently, drank a cup of tea, Mrs. Ning smiled: "Go back early to rest, it's cold." Li Danruo agreed and stood up, but Mrs. Ning beckoned to Li Danruo and said, "You slow down, I asked for a scroll from the temple today, and you take it and copy two copies for me." ”

Dai Shi and Li Yuju withdrew, and Old Madam Ning took Li Danruo's hand and sat on the kang and whispered with concern: "How do you think of spending the furnace festival alone?" ”

"It's nothing, I just think that the second sister will get married in two months, and October 1 happens to be Aunt An's forty-fifth birthday, first, I want to make the second sister happy, and second, I also want the second sister to do her best, after all, she is the biological mother." Li Danruo paused, and added in a low voice: "In the future, the second sister marries into someone else's family, and when she thinks of her mother's family, her heart is always warm." ”

Old Madam Ning sighed softly, raised her hand to stroke Li Danruo's sideburns, and sighed softly: "You child, my wife told you, don't believe those nonsense words in the book, this concubine, with his wife, no one can really get along with sisters, even if you don't live or die, it must be either you who pressed me, or I pressed you, and then I have a son, it's really ...... Fourth sister, do you remember, if you marry someone in the future, you must not be soft-hearted, do you hear it? ”

"I heard it, I wrote it down, I am...... For the sake of the second sister. Li Danruo leaned into Mrs. Ning's arms, and explained in a low voice, Mrs. Ning said softly, paused for a while and explained: "It's not the meat on your body, no matter how you can't stick it, because of this, when you told your mother, this heir is the heir, you can't raise a parent, don't waste that heart, it's better to pick a grown adult stereotyped, know the character and character, just ask for a respectful guest, there is no shortage of gifts, this is said clearly, and you can see it clearly, and you must understand it in the future. That concubine gives birth to a child, that is, a concubine gives birth to a child, don't spend your mind in vain, but also watch your husband closely, don't give birth to the matter of pity for your mother......" Old Madam Ning paused, took a deep breath, and said categorically: "I can't let you suffer such grievances, my wife is reluctant!" Your mother-in-law's family, I'd rather have a lower family, but you have to say it first, unless you are over thirty years old and have no children, otherwise, you must not have concubines and children, not one!"

Li Danruo's body trembled slightly, looked up at Old Madam Ning, her nose was sour and almost burst into tears, and she nodded heavily: "Don't worry, wife, I won't let people bully me, only I will bully him, never let him bully me, don't worry, I understand." ”

Mrs. Ning sighed uncomfortably: "If we are from that small family, I will recruit you a son-in-law, you are a hundred times smarter than your aunt, but this temperament is too light, such a big child, I have never seen you lose your temper or get angry, it is not a good thing to be too tranquil, like your aunt is a little better, people are spicy and do not suffer!" Li Danruo moved, stretched out his hand to hug Mrs. Ning, rubbed his cheek against Mrs. Ning's face and smiled: "Don't worry, mother-in-law, with you and your mother protecting you at this time, how can you lose your temper?" In fact, I am fierce, my wife will definitely be shocked when she sees me fierce in the future!"

Old Madam Ning laughed, stroked Li Danruo with pity and smiled: "Look at it, it's still the same as being six or seven years old, and I'm tired of my wife's face again!" The powder has rubbed off you!" Li Danruo smiled and let go of Mrs. Ning: "My wife is tired from listening to the scriptures all morning, I went to find my sister tassel to get the scriptures, and my wife rested early." Mrs. Ning called into the tassel and took the scroll, watched Li Danruo put on the cloak, turned around the Baibao Pavilion and went out, and sighed again with a lot of heart, the old man is very thoughtful, when Wan'er said that her mother-in-law was married, she didn't worry about being like this.

The next day, it was nearly noon, Mrs. Liu, Li Danruo's mother, and the fourth grandmother Yang returned to the house, and in the evening, Li Danruo went to the mother's courtyard first, picked up her mother, and went to the main courtyard to greet Mrs. Ning.

Li Danruo walked all the way with his mother in his arms and said in a low voice: "...... Yesterday, my mother said that she was optimistic about the heir candidate, but my mother was not here, and my mother didn't say who it was, so did my mother have any good candidates in her heart? ”

"How can I have the heart to think about this? Besides, your wife's eyesight is better than mine, and she can see people accurately, and she can see it well, if you think it's not suitable, just tell me, and I'll go tell my wife. Mrs. Yang patted Li Danruo's hand and said in a peaceful tone, Li Danruo said 'um': "Let's see which one the wife has taken a fancy to, those cousins have often come to say hello to Ann over the years, and my mother has also seen it." The two of them talked all the way into the main courtyard.

Mrs. Liu had arrived one step earlier, Yang sat down, and Mrs. Liu accompanied Mrs. Ning to talk about Mrs. Weiyuanhou's funeral for a while, and sighed for a while Mrs. Weiyuanhou's youth and impermanence, and it was time to set the meal, Mrs. Liu and Yang waited for dinner, Mrs. Ning sent Mrs. Liu and Dai, Li Yuju to go back first, Yang ate in the side hall, Li Danruo got up and served tea to his mother, Mrs. Ning retreated from the girls, looked at Yang and smiled: "It's Chengyou's matter, did the fourth sister tell you?" I fancy one, that is, the second eldest of the Li family in the pickaxe room, named Li Yunzhi, have you seen it? ”

Yang frowned and thought about it, and shook his head slightly: "I can't remember." Old Madam Ning turned her head to look at Li Danruo, Li Danruo raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Since his mother passed away, it seems that he hasn't been to our house for five or six years." Old Madam Ning looked at the Yang family, who was still at a loss, pointed at Li Danruo and said with a smile: "You give your mother a wake-up call." ”

"Mother has seen a lot of people, and he hasn't been here for five or six years," Li Danruo explained, looked at his mother and said with a smile: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival last month, didn't my mother tell me that this Aunt Yufu is far inferior to Aunt Yufu in the first place." Yang stroked his forehead and suddenly realized: "I remember, it is the youngest son of the first Yufu sister-in-law's family, I remember!" The arms and legs are slender, the person is very thin, silent, but the eyes are black and bright, I remember clearly. ”

Mrs. Ning smiled and nodded: "It's him, I went to the temple to offer incense yesterday, and I happened to see him setting up a stall in front of the Zisheng Gate to write, I didn't recognize it at first glance, but I looked familiar, and let people inquire about it, only to know that it was him." Yang was stunned for a moment: "How did you fall into this?" What's going on at home? Last month, Yufu's daughter-in-law came over with her children, and the three of them were brightly dressed, how could they ......"

"What can it be? If there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather," Mrs. Ning waved her hand and sighed: "Within two months of his mother's death, his father continued to have a daughter-in-law, and in the past few years after entering the door, he has already given birth to two sons, this daughter-in-law ...... You have also seen that the mean is rare, the year before his second sister got married, and the dowry prepared by his mother was hidden by her stepmother and not given a single piece, he had a big quarrel with his stepmother, saying that since then, he has lived in the school and never returned home. ”

Yang pressed a handkerchief to the corner of his eye, and said in a sad whisper: "How can there be such a person, and no one cares?" Li Danruo looked at Mrs. Ning, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "I heard that the gentleman in the school likes him very much, but he failed in the test this autumn." ”