The maid hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed vigorously and said: "I beg the old lady not to drive the slave and maid away, the slave and maid have served the lady for eight years, and have never made a big mistake, and I hope the old lady will forgive." ”

Jiang Li also gritted his teeth and said: "Dad, although Xi'er, this girl is occasionally confused, but she has served me for so long, and she has no credit and hard work, so let her stay in Jiang Mansion." ”

The old lady let out a soft snort in his nose and said, "For your sake, I'll spare her once, but this month's monthly money has to be deducted, so hurry up and prepare." ”

After getting the old lady's order, Jiang Li withdrew from the front hall with Xi'er in a gloomy manner.

Jiang Li's face was indignant, no matter how he thought about it, the old man said that he would prepare it according to the specifications of the New Year's gift to her mother's family in the past, it was simply eating her flesh and drinking her blood, which made her whole heart hurt.

walked towards Jiang Mengcheng's room angrily, only to hear the laughter of men and women inside, and his face became even more ugly.

"Aunt Xu, you go out first."

The disheveled Aunt Xu stood up from Jiang Mengcheng's arms, secretly glanced at Jiang Li, and after being coquettish with Jiang Mengcheng, she twisted her waist and walked out of the room.

Jiang Mengcheng's good deeds were interrupted, he was a little displeased, raised his eyes and said, "Didn't you go to the front hall to receive the second brother?" How did it come out? ”

Jiang Li sat down angrily, and said angrily: "It's not your second brother in the countryside, I don't know how to teach such an uneducated girl, and I actually dared to lift the cloth I covered on the New Year's gift basket in front of everyone." ”

"What's wrong? Didn't you prepare a New Year's gift? Jiang Mengcheng disagreed.

"Didn't you dislike your second brother before, so I prepared less, but the old man didn't know what was going on, so he actually protected your second brother and lost his temper with me."

"And this?"

"Of course, now the old lady asked me to prepare according to my mother's New Year's gift specifications, isn't this spending our family's money on others!"

Jiang Mengwei didn't understand the old lady's move, but listening to her words, it seemed that giving it to her mother's family was not spending money, and giving it to his brother was bloodletting, and he was unhappy in his heart.

"Usually you know how much you take from your mother's house, you are the head of the Jiang Mansion, I will turn a blind eye, this time it must be too much, my father will be angry, and I dare to come to me and say, is it possible for me to be sent to my father to be scolded like you? A little leakage from your fingers is enough for their New Year's gift, you have to make your father care, this is called stealing chickens and rice! ”

I thought I would be comforted, but I didn't expect to learn a lesson, Jiang Li was in a panic at the moment, his fists were clenched, and his fingernails were about to be embedded in the flesh.

Jiang Mengliang's family chatted with the old lady for a while, and after handing over the filial piety silver to him, they left the house with the New Year's gift re-prepared by Jiang Li's family.

On the way, Zhou Huihui carried a large basket that was obviously several times heavier and smiled from ear to ear.

"My little thought is clever, if it weren't for this, we wouldn't have anywhere to say if we suffered losses."

Jiang Xiaonian jumped forward and said: "I just want to see what my aunt has prepared, I thought that the Jiang Mansion is so big, there will be good things, but it is not as good as my own." ”

"Mother, there are so many things, let's let Dad go and drive the donkey cart over first."

"It's fine."

Jiang Mengliang is also in a good mood today, mainly because the old lady's attitude towards him is much better, and this New Year's gift is worth it.

It didn't take long for Jiang Mengliang to drive the donkey cart over, and Zhou Huihui put the big basket on the donkey cart, and several people sat on it.

"Oh, look at the material of this cloth, it's so soft and slippery, it should be satin, right?"

"Mother, you should look at this fish, it's so big!" Jiang Wei looked at the grass carp strung with a straw rope inside, and his eyes lit up.

"What is this? Is this rouge? Jiang Xiaonian asked curiously holding a delicate small clay vase.

Zhou Huihui looked at it, shook her head and said, "Mother doesn't know, we can't use this thing at home." ”

"Then give it to me." Everyone has a love for beauty, and Jiang Xiaonian is no exception.

"Sister, you don't have to apply rouge to look good!"

"Brother, do you know what looks good?"

"Of course I do! That's what my sister is! ”

"Hahaha......"

The family returned home laughing and making noise, and Fleur took the fish and meat that Zhou Huihui took out of the basket and went to cook happily.

She hadn't seen Jiang Xiaonian cook fish since she came here, and after making the other dishes, she specially brought Jiang Xiaonian to cook fish.

Put some oil into the pot, burn the fish on both sides, then put ginger, garlic, chili pepper and salt to remove the fishy seasoning, add water to cover the whole fish, cover the pot and boil over high heat, and then cook on low heat for about half an hour, open the lid, steaming, fragrant, when out of the pot, Hibiscus can't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

"Miss, your approach is always different from other people's, I once secretly saw others cook fish, that is, boiled in white water, you can smell the fishy smell from afar, and it is not so fragrant."

Jiang Xiaonian smiled, of course, this is her grandmother's specialty.

"Let's go and call everyone to dinner."

"Great!"

A table of people sat at the table, eating the sumptuous dishes on the table, and enjoyed themselves.

"Xiao Nian, this fish soup is so fresh! It's delicious. ”

"Miss's craft is the best, I haven't learned half of Miss for so long." In just a month or two, Fleur went from being timid to fully integrating into the family.

"That's it, my sister can be compared to anyone." Jiang Wei gurgled and drank the fish soup, and did not forget to praise.

"Childe ......" Fleur was very aggrieved.

Jiang Wei didn't feel that he was wrong at all, in his heart, no one's craftsmanship was comparable to his sister.

"Okay, okay, you guys hurry up and eat, the dishes are going to be cold." Jiang Xiaonian looked at them, and pointed to the dish in front of him with a smile.

In the next few days, Jiang Mengliang and Zhou Huihui sent New Year's gifts everywhere, from Wang Yuhu's house and Li Tiezhu's house, which are more familiar in the village, to Zhang Da's house in Yanshan Chong, and even the owner of the grocery store in the town, the owner of the butcher's shop, Qian Dehou's family sent persimmons before, and they didn't send them again, and Zhou Huihui's mother's family planned to prepare another one on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

The New Year's gift is not a valuable item, just a lively picture, that is, a little home-made meatloaf, Jiang Xiaonian made them into the shape of petals, which is very beautiful.

Each family has some return gifts, there are expensive and cheap, depending on the situation at home, Zhou Huihui likes a set of porcelain cups sent by the grocery store owner, the pattern on it is very exquisite, porcelain is still very rare here, this gift can also see the importance of the grocery store owner to Jiang Mengliang.

And the butcher shop owner Zhu Changfei's return gift was the most real, two catties of pork belly, Jiang Mengliang also cheekily asked for all the pig bones and pig offal he didn't want.

Originally, this kind of thing couldn't be given out as a gift, but Jiang Mengliang didn't care, thinking that it would be a pity to throw it away, it was better to bring it back and turn it into a delicious dish.