There was a section in the middle of this road that was walking against the wall, and when she passed the window, Chen Shuangchuan suddenly heard some sounds, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly hid down.

"Madame is really coming, at this time?"

"Now it's just a letter, and when the weather is warm after the New Year, it's good to leave, and it will take a month or two to walk on the road, which will take time." It seemed to be Mrs. Ho as she heard the voice.

It would be terrible if he was caught eavesdropping, Chen Shuang felt weak for a while, hurriedly walked under the window with his body, and then hurriedly ran back to the yard with his skirt.

Sister-in-law Zhou was busy steaming the pig's head, and when she saw that Chen Shuangchuan had finally returned, she didn't have time to scold, so she hurriedly brought her in to boil water.

The pig's head rooster used to worship the ancestors is prepared by Mrs. He's small yard, and the pig's head has to be boiled in a large pot for an afternoon to cook the skin thoroughly, and then it is loaded on a large plate, and the pig's tail is placed in the pig's mouth. In the case of the rooster, only the long tail feathers are left, boiled and snow-white, and placed on another plate.

Then led by Mrs. He, it was brought to the lobby of the main house, where five kinds of fruits and five kinds of dried fruits had already been placed, waiting for the pig's head rooster, and then all the irrelevant people withdrew, and the men of the He family bowed to the fairy land inside, and then replaced the pig's head rooster and put on eighteen dishes again to worship the ancestors.

The daughters of the He family burned gold and silver ingots outside the lobby.

After the end of the sacrifice, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which was the annual reunion of the He family, even the impatient and lively Mrs. He sat happily on the main seat, watching the juniors come up one by one to pay their respects, smiling and distributing a small purse one by one.

This meal lasted until seven or eight o'clock, Mrs. He felt tired, and Sister-in-law Zhou, who had been waiting, helped him back to the yard with Chen Shuangzhuan, served him to wash his face and change his clothes, and fell asleep, so he was relieved.

This day was busy, and she didn't even take care of eating, not only Chen Shuang, but even Sister-in-law Zhou felt a sore back, and after beating it a few times, looking at Chen Shuang's deflated expression, Sister-in-law Zhou smiled and pinched her face, and said, "Okay, there's nothing to do with us here, hurry up and go to eat, sleep, and get up early tomorrow." ”

Zhou is a man, there are many female relatives on the occasion of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it is inconvenient for him to go in, but he can eat early, sit outside and wait, and they all begin to doze off.

woke up Zhou Zheng, Zhou's sister-in-law didn't have the strength to speak, pointed to the inside, explained to Zhou Zheng about Mrs. He, and then yawned and walked out of the room.

Because it is the New Year's Festival, the food in the kitchen is quite luxurious, and there are many dishes that are not common in the old frost, but it seems that he has been hungry for too long, and the dishes are cold and greasy, but he has no appetite, and he eats two bites in a hurry, and he falls asleep on the bed with heavy eyes.

It's just that the sound of firecrackers is so loud that Chen Shuangchuan felt dazed all night, and when he got up at five o'clock, it seemed that he hadn't slept at all, and he was still sleepy. When I got to the kitchen, when I was just about to boil water, Sister-in-law Zhou didn't need to come over, and Mrs. He got up in the middle of the night to pick up the land, after all, he was old and a little unbearable, so he had to sleep a little more today.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you can't clean, you can't sew, you can't pour water, there are a lot of taboos, Mrs. He hasn't gotten up yet, you don't have to wait, if you calculate it carefully, Chen Shuangchuan actually found that he didn't seem to have anything to do, and he was idle for the first time.

Sister-in-law Zhou smiled and flicked Chen Shuang's forehead, and said, "This girl is a hard worker." ”

The He family has very few relatives in the local area, so most of the tenants who come to visit the New Year in the New Year are nearby, and they are lively, but there is always a bit of a stuttering taste, Mrs. He basically doesn't pay attention to these things, except for a few juniors who come by chance, the courtyard here is as clean as ever.

At the beginning of March, the aunt and wife who Chen Shuangchuan had overheard by chance suddenly arrived at He's house.

Even Mrs. He was taken aback, and hurriedly welcomed people in, and when the idlers dispersed, Mrs. He took Mrs. He's hand and said a little puzzled: "I always think that you should be in April and May, and this road is going well." ”

Mrs. He is Mrs. He's sister-in-law, her name is Green Lotus, her husband's family is a scholar surnamed Li, and later the gold list was nominated to become an official in Beijing, and Mrs. He rarely saw this sister. This time, not only Mrs. Li came, but also brought her daughter Li Lanpei, Mrs. He was happy, but she inevitably felt a little strange.

The appearance of these two sisters is very similar, but unlike Mrs. He's shrewd and strong, Mrs. Li looks much more gentle and cowardly, and her eyelids are slightly red and swollen, as if she has just cried.

Mrs. He also knew a little bit about this sister's temperament, so she could only sigh and persuade her for a long time with a pleasant face, before Mrs. Li wiped her tears and choked her throat and said, "Yao Sui is ...... and another concubine. ”

Mrs. He thought that something big had happened, making this sister cry like this, when she heard that it was the case, Mrs. He was also a little embarrassed, even if it was her family, Master He still had several concubines, sighed, and persuaded her: "Which man is not three wives and four concubines, why do you bother to give him such a look?" ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Mrs. Li cried even more sadly, and Mrs. He hurriedly patted her back and coaxed her for a long time, and Mrs. Li said what happened intermittently.

It turned out that Li Yaosui accepted a new concubine last year, and inevitably began to snub Mrs., Mrs. Li is also a soft character, except for crying secretly a few times, there is no side to think about. It's just that the little concubine saw that Mrs. Li was kind and deceitful, and gradually became bolder, not only did she not take Mrs. Li in her eyes, but secretly made a lot of stumbling blocks for her.

Mrs. Li didn't notice it, she fell into the trick several times, and was scolded by Li Yaosui several times, so she wrote a letter to Mrs. He, thinking that the He family would come to live for a while, and came out to relax.

Because it was close to the end of the New Year at that time, Mrs. Li originally planned to wait for the Chinese New Year, and when the weather was warm, she would slowly take the car over. It's just that in the first month, the little concubine was confirmed by the doctor to be pregnant, but she deliberately fell in Mrs. Li's inner room and almost didn't slip the child.

The concubine cried and said that it was Mrs. Li who pushed her, and Mrs. Li was severely beaten by Li Yaosui, but she almost didn't say on the spot that she wanted to divorce her wife.

Mrs. Li was so angry that she almost didn't get angry, so she had to quickly pack her package, and took her daughter out on the second day of the first lunar month, and ran all the way to He's house.

As soon as she talked about this, Mrs. He was naturally angry.