CHAPTER XVI
Ruan Jiao couldn't get out, sat down on the chair, and pointed to Ping'er's feet: "Grandma, can you just watch Ping'er suffer?" ”
Gu Xiaofeng spread her hands and smiled bitterly: "Miss Ruan, if you want to help her, then help her find a big family to marry as soon as possible, otherwise, when will this child's hard life be in harmony with the Tao, the second grandmother's temperament, this breath can't be pulled out, how can she rest?" ”
Ruan Jiao couldn't help but sigh: "I can't help with this, and my girl's family can't take care of this kind of thing, so I have to ask my aunt and grandmother to help." ”
Ping'er couldn't open her mouth when she cried more and more, and said intermittently: "As soon as this county lady leaves, the next one doesn't know if she can do this draft girl, but I have already made it like this, it's better to die." ”
"All sins have been suffered, and yet they say this! Although the second grandmother is strict with you, your father's words are always true, there is no crime in vain in the world, if this foot is really wrapped, maybe you will be the official wife in the future. Gu Xiaofeng hugged her and wiped her tears.
As he was talking, he heard someone in the courtyard shouting the old lady.
Gu Xiaofeng poked her neck to look outside, and grinned: "This old biting insect is here, I don't see her coming to flatter her on weekdays, but now she has slipped her legs, and she comes to order every day." ”
Ruan Jiao looked at the old woman who walked into the courtyard, and saw that her face was wrinkled, but she had a delicate big flower on her head, and her cheeks were red.
"Who is this?" Ruan Jiao asked.
"This person, he has a big background, a serious official media, a license, on weekdays, the man has to go to her house with a gift to invite her, and she is willing to go out of the mountain to help, since you were invited by the county lady to be a guest, she has become a frequent visitor to our house, which day will come two or three times, I don't know what to say to the old lady." Gu Xiaofeng sneered.
"I heard my mother say that it was nothing more than to tell Sister Ruan about matchmaking, the old lady kept talking and not letting go, so she came day by day and didn't give up." Ping'er interjected.
Gu Xiaofeng glanced at Ruan Jiao, sighed slightly, and remained silent.
Ruan Jiao smiled bitterly in her heart, now she wants to immediately recognize her as a great-grandson daughter-in-law, thinking that she can't get over the face, after all, they have lived together for three years and have never mentioned this stubble matter, and now she doesn't bring it up coldly, it's not good-looking, I'm afraid that I will be laughed at by the neighbors and become snobbish.
"The old lady wakes up and it's time to drink pine nut tea, I'll go to the kitchen and take a look." Ruan Jiao walked out.
Ping'er wanted to stop her: "Which one uses you to bring tea and water, come back quickly." ”
Gu Xiaofeng tugged at her sleeve and smiled with her mouth covered: "If you say that you are stupid, you are a fool, if you have Miss Ruan's slightest heart, you will not be deceived by an aunt like this, and her feet will be wasted." She just went to serve tea and pour water, but she just wanted to go over and listen to what the old lady had to say. ”
"What's so nice about this, it's not something that a girl's family should listen to!" Ping'er said with a smile.
"Miss Ruan, you still don't know? I will repay you for your grievances, just wait, and a letter will come back in a while. Gu Xiaofeng said.
Ping'er hung her head and fiddled with her nails: "Don't hide it from my aunt and grandmother, my mother has already begged her with the money, but she only excused herself and refused to do it seriously!" Choke me enough to be girly, saying that she looks down on people with dog eyes! ”
Not to mention Ping'er and her aunt's gossip, only said that Ruan Jiao went to the kitchen, took the pine nut tea that the old lady wanted to drink, and personally brought it into the house. These people owe the old lady a beating. ”
"Ju, Sister Hua, what did this pious woman say to the old lady? Who do you want to match? Ruan Jiao pulled the sleeves of the chrysanthemum and flowers, pointed to the back room, and asked with a smile.
Chrysanthemum, Hua handed the tea to the silver bottle and brought it in, and smiled at her in a low voice: "It's not for you?" Today's son of the rich man's family, tomorrow the nephew of the rich man's family of the rich man, has not been idle for a few days, day by day, the old lady also annoys her, but it is not good to drive her away. ”
When Ruan Jiao heard this, she leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words to her, chrysanthemum, and laughed while listening, looking at her, not saying yes or no.
"Millions, please, please." Ruan Jiao saluted her, chrysanthemum, Hua half bit her lip, pulled her under the eaves outside the house, and asked her quietly:
"Miss Ruan, you want to find a matchmaker in private, but for the sake of you and Young Master Sun? This is not appropriate, it is not a chrysanthemum, the flowers are not accommodating, this is not reasonable, it is not in love, how can you talk to yourself as a matchmaker, but it does not make people laugh? ”
"Where do you want to go?" Ruan Jiao stomped her feet and said, "Don't you see a poor man with bound feet at home?" I'm for her! ”
Chrysanthemum, Hua covered her mouth and smiled, nodding: "If it is for Miss Ping, but, second, grandma and this Mama Li do not agree, when Mama Li went to the second in person, grandma's mother's house proposed a rich son, and was rejected by the second, grandma Li on the spot, this Mama Li is a person who holds grudges!" Ping'er is so old, it hasn't disappeared yet, and it doesn't matter how much she threatens to give! Second, grandma took the soft and begged her, but it didn't work, if you want me to say, Miss Ruan don't touch this soft nail as soon as possible, these ten miles and eight villages are a hundred miles away, just such a serious official media, how many people beg her, she may not buy your face. ”
"You have to ask her if you buy it or not, and it doesn't cost anything." Ruan Jiao said with a smile.
Chrysanthemum, Hua was about to speak, when she suddenly heard the old lady calling her in the back room, hurriedly agreed, and ran inside.
Ruan Jiao stood under the eaves for a while, and saw that she had no intention of coming out again, so she had to go back.
Ping'er had already left, and Gu Xiaofeng was sitting on a chair embroidering.
"It's so beautiful, auntie, this quilt of crane longevity has also been ordered?" Ruan Jiao leaned over and asked while looking at the needle and thread in her hand.
"No one ordered, this is embroidered for Aunt Liang." Gu Xiaofeng laughed softly, and two red clouds couldn't help but fly on his cheeks.
Ruan Jiao was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered what Gu Xiaofeng told her before she went to the county seat, so she smiled again: "Have you met?" ”
Gu Xiaofeng glanced at her: "How can it be so fast, his mother-in-law has just died for only two months, and it is always necessary to burn the anniversary before we can talk about marriage again, a few days ago, you were not at home, Aunt Liang told me that because there are three children at home who are waiting to be fed, the youngest one is only more than nine months, and her nephew is afraid that he will not be able to wait so long, so let me prepare first, and then we can meet." ”
"Three children!" Ruan Jiao took a breath of cold air: "Grandma, you have never brought a child, and you have to bring so many children to him as soon as you go over, if you can't, I won't let you go." ”
"Fool, I have the reputation of a Kefu, even if it is my luck to have a man willing to marry, where to pick these, it is just bitter, it is better than eating dead food at my mother's house and watching the white eyes of my brother and sister-in-law." Gu Xiaofeng said in a low voice, and couldn't help but start whimpering.
Ruan Jiao put her arms around her neck and shook her: "Auntie, I will support you, my godmother gave me a lot of money, I can support you for a lifetime." ”
"It's even more stupid to say this, how much money can someone who has only known him for a few days give you? Don't talk about it everywhere, there is no one who has a father and a hot mother, and no one will give you much dowry if you want to marry in the future, now that you have money, just take it well, and when the dowry is richer, you will not be bullied when you go to your husband's house, do you know? Gu Xiaofeng put down the embroidery work in her hand, took the color seriously, and taught her a lesson.
"Auntie, do you really want to get married?" Ruan Jiao asked her again, and Gu Xiaofeng's tears couldn't help but flow down her cheeks.
Ruan Jiao stretched out her hand to wipe her, only to hear the sound of the door curtain "Huo Hao", chrysanthemum, flowers led Mrs. Li to walk in, seeing this, she smiled: "It can be seen that you two are close, and I brought people over the face, if you have anything to say, say it quickly, and the old lady saw it, and said that I was nosy, and scolded me." ”
"Thank you sister for your kindness!" Ruan Jiao gave her a salute and thanked her.
Chrysanthemum, the flower went out, and did not forget to turn around and tell her, hurry up, the old lady may come out after drinking tea.
Ruan Jiao agreed and came in.
Mrs. Li was talking to Gu Xiaofeng, her mouth was crooked to the sky, and she pouted with a reluctant expression: "It's not me who said, auntie, I won't accept your kind of work, I didn't smash my signboard!" I have been a matchmaker for my whole life, and I haven't had any stubble, but I don't want to be planted in the hands of a second marriage head like you. ”
"Mama, I'm looking for you, not my aunt, look at your hot tea, you didn't take a sip of this hot tea, but arranged the Venerable Master first, if it's your aunt's business, I don't dare to trouble your old man." Ruan Jiao poured a cup of hot tea from the thermos and offered it to her, smiling.
Mrs. Li hurriedly stood up, took the tea, and changed her ambiguous smile: "Could it be that the eldest girl is looking for me to have something?" ”
"This girl is looking for you for something, but it's not her own business." Ruan Jiao smiled, took out Zhang Huizi from her sleeve, and saw that the good one was stuffed into her hand.
Mrs. Li accepted the general, and a smile instantly appeared on her face, clapping her hands and laughing: "The girl has something to say, and the old woman listens." ”
"Mama, I heard that everyone now wants to marry a mother-in-law with little feet, isn't that the case?" Ruan Jiao asked her.
Mrs. Li laughed twice: "Big girl, it's hard to say, the one who wants to wrap the little feet of the lady is a serious family, marrying a lady and going back is for seeing, in our rural place, what is the use of marrying a little foot?" can't go to the ground, can't live, who is willing to raise it for nothing? ”
"I heard that there is a little lady in the next village who married a big family because of her foot-wrapping, and the family moved to the capital to enjoy happiness." Ruan Jiao covered her mouth and smiled.
Mrs. Li looked down at her feet and shook her head: "Big girl, you are a fool's dream, and your big feet are also wrapped in feet?" Besides, you are now a young lady of the assassin family, which family is not on the pole, there is no need to do this. ”
Ruan Jiao pursed her lips and grinned: "Mama has no ability to say one, she can only say some dry things to fool people." ”
When Mrs. Li heard her say this, she couldn't help but get angry, and her voice rose: "Big girl, don't you have the ability to say one?" You only take a ready-made three-inch golden lotus out to see if the old body has the ability to say it! ”
"Can you really say that? As Mama just said, the real family, who doesn't have to work and only be a young grandmother? Ruan Jiao asked again.
"Don't take it seriously! The old body is a gold medal iceman personally sealed by the county lord! If you can't do this, you will be blind to this ability, and immediately return the next sign to the master! Mrs. Li was anxious because she was looked down upon by a girl's family, and patted her chest and swore an oath.