But I saw that the original gray and peeling walls were freshly painted, the flashes of white flowers, the newly replaced carved wisp pattern desk, the high pen holder on the table was filled with brushes of various colors, and the original squeaky bed with bricks was now replaced by a vermilion carved bed, the plain curtain of landscape painting was hung on the bed railing, the bed was covered with a fine satin sheet, and a large flower cotton was neatly leaned against the wall!

Mrs. Huang looked at it, nodded and smiled: "Old Mrs. Gu is really a living Bodhisattva, and I am really grateful to say that I have been taken care of by you for more than two years." ”

"Where is it, I'm just afraid that Jiao'er won't be used to it, so she just doesn't have to worry about it." Old Lady Gu said with a smile.

"It's just that this tent is too pure, and it's okay for people like us to eat fasting and chant Buddha, and a delicate girl looks bland, do you say it's an old lady?" Madame Huang pointed to the bed curtain and smiled.

"Ah, what Madame said is very true, the old body is changed." Old Lady Gu was busy echoing.

Ming'er hurriedly said a few words in Mrs. Niang's ear, and when Mrs. heard this, she nodded hurriedly, bowed down, and laughed: "Look at me, I'm really old and confused, it turns out that I live with my aunt and grandmother, but Jiao'er mentioned it to me, and I forgot about it." ”

Mrs. Gu blushed and smiled slightly embarrassed: "Madam, because Jiao'er was still young when she came to Gu's house, I was afraid that she would be inconvenient to live alone, so I let her live with my widowed granddaughter to facilitate her care. ”

"The old lady has too much heart, Mrs. Ben thinks it's good to live together, Jiao'er has lived with me for a few days, and has been praising how well the old lady treats her, and how well my aunt treats her, but I'm a confused person, and when I see these inappropriate things, I forget about it." Mrs. Huang half-covered her mouth and laughed.

The old lady smiled and nodded, and said some flattering words before throwing the matter over.

The Gu family prepared a meal, but Mrs. Huang just refused to stay, and held Ruan Jiao's hand for a long time, and was about to leave, and she was afraid that she would not be at ease, so she had to leave two girls for her.

Ruan Jiao refused to live or die, but her wife disagreed, so she called the old lady too, and only then did she agree to leave only one Doucao, who was a local, and also agreed to stay with Ruan Jiao, so she gave up.

The old lady was polite to Mrs. Huang for a long time, asking her to stay for dinner, but Mrs. Huang refused for a long time, went out and got into the carriage, and reluctantly left.

Mrs. Huang walked head to foot, and the old lady told Li Zhong and Yu Sheng to clean up the quiet room next to her main house, let Gu Xiaofeng move there, and let Ruan Jiao live alone.

Where was Ruan Jiao willing to let her do this, it took a lot of words to make her dispel her thoughts, and promised to let her live with her aunt and grandmother, but the old lady refused to stop by replacing the bed curtain with a pink light veil.

It wasn't until Aunt Liu came in and asked when the meal would be opened, that she felt that it was appropriate.

Mrs. Gu took Ruan Jiao's hand, came to the restaurant, asked her to sit on her left, kissed her with the bowls, and said with a smile: "Jiao'er, eat more, I asked the second child to go to the town to buy your favorite bean curd." ”

Ruan Jiao said politely, looking at everyone seated.

Since she came back, she has been with her wife and the old lady, and there is no one else in the eyes of the lady except her and the old lady, so she has no time to greet everyone, but now she is free and can take a good look.

Liu is still wearing home-style linen clothes, described as withered, half a dead person, Feng Shi thought that he knew that Mrs. Huang was coming today, and she was wearing a bright and bright dress, but she had a tired face, two big dark circles, and a lot of fat powder, but she couldn't cover it.

Gu Xiaofeng is still the same as before, plain and bland, nothing has changed. Ping'er wasn't at the dinner table, and I didn't know where she went, but I didn't see it.

The uncle said that he was not in good health, he didn't eat, the second master was not at home, and when everyone wanted to move the chopsticks, Wenxiu held a little girl with one hand, stroked her stomach with the other, and walked in with a smile, looking high-spirited.

"Ah, old lady, I took the tocolytic pill and was a little surprised, but I didn't expect it to be late, guilty, guilty." As he spoke, he sat down in the empty space to the old lady's right.

"You kid, how many times have you told you, your body is not well, just rest on the kang, I asked the girls to send the food to you to eat, what to run back and forth, beware of the tire gas!" The old lady sneered at her, but her eyes were full of love.

"These few doses of medicine, I feel much better, how dare I bother the old lady always thinking about me, my sisters are always serving me, I am uneasy, and the doctor also said that walking around more is good for production." Wen Xiu said with a smile.

"Thanks to Jiao'er, the second child got a table of delicacies from the mountains and seas back today, hurry up and eat it, I'm afraid there won't be such a good time in the future!" The old lady reached out and poked her under the forehead and told everyone to move.

Everyone ate silently, after eating, offer tea, drink tea to eliminate food, Ruan Jiao asked the second grandmother why Ping'er was gone, the second grandmother asked, laughed wryly, hung her head and drank tea, and smiled for a long time: "That girl, don't care about her, let her make trouble, can't it go to heaven!" ”

Ruan Jiao didn't know what she meant, and was about to ask again, but Gu Xiaofeng secretly tugged at her sleeve, glanced at her, and didn't let her say, she had to give up.

After drinking tea, the old lady had to take a nap, and everyone dispersed.

Ruan Jiao followed Gu Xiaofeng back to the house, Doucao stepped forward to serve, Ruan Jiao smiled and said, "Sister Doucao, isn't your home in Shilipo?" In the past two years, I have been working in the county, so I think I can't go home, right? Now that I'm free, I'm just going back and seeing. ”

Doucao held a fan in her hand and fanned her, and said with a smile: "It's not like I haven't been back for two years, last year my brother went to the county town to buy grain, and I saw it once at the door, and I didn't say a few words, after all, I don't know what happened to my family." ”

Ruan Jiao went over and opened the box, took a bag and wrapped two clothes, and gave her some broken silver, and said with a smile: "Take these, don't be too little, when I make money, I will give you more, hurry home and have a look, stay for a few days and come back." ”

"Miss, you?" Doucao held the burden in his hand, and was stunned for a while, unable to speak.

Ruan Jiao stretched out her hand to hug her waist and said with a smile: "My good sister, we have been together for more than half a month, don't you know?" Where am I a person who needs someone to serve, you just go home and live, when you have lived enough and come back, I miss you, I won't let you go home, your deed of sale is still with me, I really want to go home, I have to come back to get it again, right? ”

Doucao smiled and nodded: "Then thank you for the kindness of Miss, Doucao is not polite to you, so I will leave, at least one day, more than three days, the slave will come back, I am just thinking about the old lady at home, when she left, she was sick, and now I don't know how." ”

Ruan Jiao and Gu Xiaofeng sent her out of the door, turned back, and saw Ping'er limping to the well platform to fetch water, and when she saw Ruan Jiao, she stopped, but the tears were like beads with broken threads, rolling down her cheeks.

"What's wrong with you?" Ruan Jiao was taken aback and walked over to ask her.

When Ping'er asked, she threw the copper basin in her hand aside, and simply cried.

"What's the matter, you say! Why is this still lame? Could it be that he was beaten by whom? Ruan Jiao took her arm and asked urgently, one hand ripped open her skirt to look at her legs.

"Let's talk about it when we come inside." Gu Xiaofeng came over and crossed Ping'er's waist and helped her into the house with Ruan Jiao.

Ruan Jiao pushed her to a chair and sat down, squatted down to pull her pants, but her legs were good, smooth and tender, without a single scar.

"What's going on?" Ruan Jiao was dumbfounded, and asked for a while.

Ping'er only cried and didn't answer her, but Gu Xiaofeng, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, sighed heavily and pointed to Ping'er's feet.

"It turned out to be a broken foot!" Ruan Jiao sighed, smiled, and reached out to take off her shoes, but she gasped and almost sat on the ground.

"This, this, what's going on, how did it get like this? This is not possible! Why is it still wrapped like this, isn't it going to kill someone! ”

Ruan Jiao gritted her teeth and pulled the wrap on her feet.

Ping'er retracted her foot, refusing to let her untie it, choking up more and more crying.

"Miss Ruan, you don't know either, do you? Today, I took a closer look at Mrs. Huang's feet, which were bigger than the feet of me, a person who did rough work. Just wearing embroidered shoes? Isn't she an official wife? Now it's still the wife of a big official! Gu Xiaofeng said hatefully.

"Grandma, what's going on? Why did you break your toes and tie them up like this, you know! Ruan Jiao's nose oozed beads of sweat and asked anxiously.

"Miss Ruan, it's all because of that Wenxiu, what did I tell my father that all the ladies in the city are now fashionable to wrap their feet, the smaller the foot wrapping, the better they will marry, there is a little lady in her village, who looks average, but only wrapped a pair of three-inch golden lotuses out, walked up and swayed, was favored by everyone passing by, and became a lady overnight, so the family all wore gold and silver, raised their eyebrows, and it didn't take long for them to move to the capital with their daughters, and it was really Mu Sha others......" Ping'er sobbed and said, before she finished speaking, was snatched by Gu Xiaofeng:

"The second grandmother heard that this is crazy, she has to force Ping'er to bind her feet, no one will listen to her, the old lady is angry, her own daughter, it doesn't matter what others say, it's up to her to make her own decisions."

Ruan Jiao looked at Ping'er's deformed feet and the blood-soaked footcloth, and felt annoyed, sat cross-legged on the ground, and pulled the footcloth away despite Ping'er's objections.

"It's good that you have to come back two days early, but if you stop it, she won't be able to say anything, but it's too late, it's been wrapped up for four or five days, the toes that should be broken are all broken, and the sins have already been suffered, even if you untie it now, it won't help." Gu Xiaofeng said with pity.

"I'm going to get a doctor and ask him to attach your toe bones, what kind of Rausch thing! It is really infuriating that someone would come up with such a cruel idea. Ruan Jiao said angrily, got up and patted the dust on her body to go out.

Gu Xiaofeng stopped her waist and hugged her, dragged her back, and shouted: "My dear good girl, go out to live for a few days, this temper is getting more and more irritable, but this can't be helped, now that Mr. and Mrs. Huang are afraid that they have already set off for Jiangsu, we have to continue to live in this family!" What can you do? ”