Chen Guotong and five years, before the winter moon arrived, a blizzard was falling, and the white snowflakes covered the entire Wenli County.

The sky was not yet dark, and the cold wind outside the house was cold to the bones, blowing more and more fiercely.

Suddenly, I heard the squeak of the wooden door, and a mother-in-law in a green jacket with red cheeks and a slight frostbite on her cheekbones lifted the curtain with her arms, retracted her thin sleeves with her rough hands, and crossed the wooden sill with a copper basin and entered the door.

The gale wind blew the curtains, and the snow slumped in from outside the door, and the green jacket woman lightly put the copper basin on the basin stand, and hurriedly turned her head and closed the wooden door.

After cleaning up the dozen or so calligraphy sheets lying horizontally and vertically on the red date wooden table, the mother-in-law looked at the bright sky outside, stretched her sore back, and rubbed her red wet hands on her clothes and entered the room.

In the back room, a thick couch was curled up, and there were long black hair scattered along the edge.

Half of Lu Shutan's face was retracted into the quilt, and his body was bowed and he slept like a shrimp.

The mother-in-law let out her red hand from her sleeve, put her palm on her cheek, and felt that it was not so cold, so she reached out and patted the hand of the person on the bed under her cheek with confidence.

"Girl—girl—"

The person on the bed frowned for a long time, and waved his hands in a daze for a long time, unable to endure the nagging of his mother-in-law, and finally raised his eyelids and stared at her angrily with a pair of apricot-like eyes.

The mother-in-law shook her head and smiled: "The girl is not too long-winded with the old slave, today the master and the young master Chang Yun came back from Beijing, and the lady has already agreed with the girl, and wants us to go to the east of the city with the people in the house to greet us." ”

The mother-in-law went to get the middle coat on the black lacquer horizontal and put it on Lu Shutan: "I heard that the young master of Shuhuai is also going today, hasn't the girl seen him for a long time, hurry up and prepare." ”

Lu Shutan took her little hand to warm her mother-in-law's reddish cool hands, stretched her waist and struggled to get up from the bed, and said, "Mother-in-law Chunzhi, don't be wordy, Shutan will get up now." ”

Although the mother-in-law in front of him is a member of Lu Mansion, she is accompanied by Lu Shutan all day long, and Lu Shutan is close to her in his heart.

Since the death of Lu Shutan's biological mother, she has lived in a remote hospital for a long time, in Lu Mansion, and has less contact with people. There is only one mother-in-law in the life of pots and pans.

The mother-in-law helped Lu Shutan to pull her hair and didn't talk to her: "When the girl sees someone today, she must behave and behave recklessly, make others laugh, and have the demeanor of a deep girl......

"Don't worry, Mother-in-law Chunzhi, Tan'er has already become a big girl!" Lu Shutan propped his arms on the wooden table and propped up his small head, staring at the bronze mirror and said casually.

I forgot how long it had been since I saw Shuhuai, and I don't know if Shuhuai is okay?

Lu Shutan looked at the snow whirring outside, and the sky was getting colder and colder day by day.

Last time she secretly ran to the front yard, but she was seen by a girl and told her wife, who was so angry that she even ran to her yard to punish her, and punished her for two months.

Madam was really angry, she had never dared to enter Lu Shutan's courtyard before.

Chunzhi's mother-in-law washes and sews on weekdays, and she is busy with their livelihoods, and she has no spare time to carefully groom and dress Lu Shutan. And on weekdays, Lu Shutan doesn't see anyone, so he always scribbles a big braid and hangs behind his head.

I haven't practiced for a long time, and when Mother-in-law Chunzhi, who was famous for her skillful hands when she was young, picked up a wooden comb and stroked Lu Shutan's soft hair, she couldn't help but feel a little rusty.

remembered that Tan'er's mother was clamoring for her to be a dowry because of her pair of wise hands......

Remembering the past for a while, Granny Chunzhi couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

The two of them moved quickly, and they were about to go out after cleaning up.

The snow has stopped, Lu Shutan's yard is remote, there is still some way from Mrs. Li's courtyard, and no one takes care of the snow on the path.

It's still early, and I heard that Master Lu and his eldest brother are estimated to be here in the morning. Lu Shutan took her mother-in-law and walked slowly towards the pear courtyard. At the first rooster crow, the two men were almost in the front yard.

Standing in front of the circular arch, Granny Chunzhi was still nagging Lu Shutan to be cautious in her words and deeds, but she didn't want to interrupt the two with a sharp cry.

Lu Shutan hurriedly rushed in-

The small Shuhuai knelt in the middle of the broken porcelain, the viscous liquid of the stars stuck to the elegant dress of Mrs. Liu, and the spilled porridge was still steaming.

"It's rare to have a good day today, I painstakingly asked someone to cook porridge for you and change you into new clothes, and you are here to make trouble for me? Really followed your femme fatale's mother, I am not used to seeing me on weekdays, and I am still making trouble for my mother at this critical moment? It's really a lotus root, and it's full of heart and eyes! See if I don't beat you to the point of begging for mercy! ”

The wife of the Lu family, Liu, stretched out her slender hand, but her strength was not weak at all, and she snorted and twisted Lu Shuhuai's body.

Lu Shuhuai was trembling with fright, and when he saw Lu Shutan coming, his eyes that were originally hazy with tears lit up suddenly, and he rushed towards Sister A in a hurry, hiding behind his sister and whimpering lowly.

Lu Shutan's face was also swollen, and he used his body to protect Lu Shuhuai like a chicken.

Shuhuai was still sobbing in Shutan's arms, but he didn't dare to make a loud noise, for fear of provoking the Liu family again, so he just held it hard one by one.

Lu Shutan gently comforted his younger brother's head with his hand, blocking the violent beating that Liu would vent.

Fortunately, at this time, Chunzhi's mother-in-law also arrived, and hurriedly dissuaded the Liu family: "Madam, the little young master is still young and doesn't understand, today the old master and Young Master Chang Yun are going back to the house, and early in the morning, it will make you angry and make people laugh, you know that you don't want to scold anymore, and it's not too late to beat and punish when it's dark." ”

Liu squinted his eyes and looked over, and Lu Shutan knelt on the ground tightly protecting his younger brother.

Xu is shadow is difficult to dissolve, although Lu Shutan is only a dozen, Liu Shi looks at how she looks like a femme fatale with her mother.

Although the Liu family hated Mrs. Lu Jiaxian in every way, they were also frightened by her evil methods, and they really didn't want to get along with her.

She glanced at her brother and sister on the ground in disgust, unwilling to talk to these two fox cubs again! If it weren't for the fact that there was something important to do, she wouldn't have cracked the skin of his whip.

The lady was in a hurry to change her clothes, held her breath in her heart, straightened her messy hair, snorted coldly, and turned around with her mother-in-law and left.

As soon as the person left, Lu Shutan's spirit relaxed, and he couldn't help but feel tired after a burst of nervousness in his chest. Over there, Shuhuai pounced on him with tears in his eyes, "Sister, it's all my fault, Sister!" ”

Lu Shutan comforted Shuhuai softly, "Shuhuai, don't be afraid, my sister is protecting you, it's okay." ”

Mother-in-law Chunzhi was busy comforting Shuhuai, and her rough big hand stroked Lu Shuhuai's back to help him calm down, "Little master, what's the matter, don't be busy crying, speak slowly and clearly." ”

"Sister hasn't come to see Shuhuai for a long time, Shuhuai hasn't seen you these days, I can't eat and sleep well every day......" Shuhuai sobbed in response, hugging Sister Ah and saying what happened.

It's just a small thing the size of a sesame seed --

It turned out that he heard his mother say this morning that his sister was also going to the east of the city, and he was overjoyed and accidentally dropped his job, which annoyed his mother.

Lu Shutan was silent for a while after listening to what Shuhuai said, didn't say much, touched Shuhuai's little head, and wiped the porridge residue on Shuhuai's body with a handkerchief.

Granny Chunzhi was silent, sulking in her heart, thinking that Mrs. Liu could speak rudely to an innocent child, complaining, and she was not a kind and open-minded master.

A few girls hurriedly cleaned up the messy table and floor with their heads down, and retreated with their miscellaneous items.

As she stepped out of the door, a round-faced girl in a goose yellow shirt looked back at the room again.

In the bright and warm room, the girl with watery eyes and red lips is gently comforting the little master.

The goose yellow girl asked the person next to her secretly: "This girl is really good-looking, she is more beautiful than our three girls, I have never seen her before, she is-"

Before she finished speaking, she called the person next to her to screw it hard, and the goose yellow girl was about to frown and scold her, but in the blink of an eye, she saw a rose-red figure.

"Hello three girls." The two girls leaned over and saluted the girl in front of them.

The rose-red girl's eyes rose slightly, her delicate nose snorted softly, she looked at the sisters and brothers in the room, squinted her eyes and didn't know what to ponder, and stroked the top of her hair and shook away.

Seeing that the person in front of him turned the corner of the corridor, the person next to him exhaled as if relaxed, and hurriedly walked towards the kitchen with the goose yellow girl.

"You girl always doesn't leave a door on her mouth, and you scared me just now, do you know!"

"What's wrong?" The goose yellow girl took the arm of the person next to her, tilted her head and asked curiously.

"I don't know if you've just been here, and the girl in the house is also from our house, so you can't say good things about that girl in front of Mrs. and the third girl!"

"Ah~ I've never seen her before, Sister Dongling will talk to me in detail!" The goose yellow girl took Dongling's hand and shook it from side to side, stared at her round eyes and said coquettishly: "Who is she?" ”

"Oh, don't shake it, don't shake it, you think it's shaking the Lantern Festival, it's going to shake me out of the trap. Stop, stand still! Dongling's head was shaken by her, and she pulled her hand out of her arms like a turnip.

Xiaomei straightened up and obediently listened to Dongling.

"That and the little master are the brothers and sisters, that is, the master's original wife, as for the current one in our house-" Dongling stopped around the corner, looking at Xiaomei's impatient Baba looking at her and couldn't help but chuckle, "The current lady was just a concubine a few years ago." ”

"You don't know that lady is amazing!" Dong Ling's voice unconsciously raised a little, his head held high, and his eyes were shining.

"Ahem...... Well, I was also young at that time, and I just listened to what my mother said, that lady was a ruthless corner, and she obeyed our family! ”

Dong Ling rolled her eyes and tugged at Xiaomei's sleeve again, "My mother won't let me talk nonsense outside, just listen to this, but don't spread it outside!" ”

"Oops! Good sister, good sister~ I definitely don't talk nonsense to others, you tell me how powerful that person is, what happened later? Xiaomei's head arched to Dongling's body and asked coquettishly.

Dongling raised his eyebrows, and wanted to say: "That ......"

"Ling'er! Don't hurry up and do the work, what are you going to do here! ”

A low and hoarse female voice sounded, which frightened Dong Ling's heart, and hurriedly glanced back at the sound source, and then lowered her head and shouted weakly, "Mother-"

"Granny Silverbranch—" Xiaomei also seemed to notice that something was wrong, and shouted quietly with her head down.

The person who came was an old woman, with a silver hairpin in her bun at the back of her head.

Deep lines were imprinted on her forehead and the corners of her eyes, and her face was covered with the marks of time. Her sharp eyes glared at Xiaomei, and she said urgently: "Don't hurry up and get out yet!" ”

Xiaomei lowered her head and walked out, paused slightly when she arrived at the door, and only faintly heard the mother-in-law of the silver branch behind her whispering there, "What are you talking to her!" Don't you know what my mother told you? If you let Madame hear your ......"

The voice became deeper and more cautious, and then Xiaomei could not hear it.