The days are short in winter.

Liu Qingxin and his entourage, traveling non-stop, to Zhouzhuang, it is also the time when the sun sinks in the West Mountain.

Old man Shen is old, his legs and feet are not as convenient as in previous years, but he still refuses to listen to persuasion, from noon, he stubbornly crutches, waiting at the head of the suspension bridge leading to the outside of Zhouzhuang, and looking in the direction of the official road from time to time.

"Coming, coming, they're coming, grandpa!"

Shen Luoyan has always been a noisy child, although she gave birth to a daughter, her words and deeds are not like a girl.

She never called Old Man Shen's grandfather like other grandchildren, and when others saw Old Man Shen's promise, they didn't bother to care about her, a crazy girl who never listened to people's advice.

Before saying this, she was sitting on the branch of the old elm tree at the head of the bridge, holding a slingshot in her mouth, and rubbing the mud balls used to hunt birds with both hands.

The innkeeper who came back to deliver the letter said that the two daughters found by her third uncle were very similar to the one who was killed by the annoying villain of the Bi family, and her cousin Liu Qingxin, whose whereabouts are still unknown.

She has been close to Liu Qingxin since she was a child, every time she makes a mistake, she will hide in Liu Qingxin to avoid trouble, I heard that her favorite cousin was killed, and her whereabouts are unknown.

"Grandpa, you say, could it be that God opened his eyes and brought my cousin back to life?"

"I think it's a sure God who found out that he did something wrong, didn't thunder and kill the bad guys, but let someone as good as my cousin die in vain, and I feel guilty, so, well, that's why I paid the two of us all of a sudden!"

Shen Luoyan hung an upside-down golden hook, more playfully than a monkey, slid down the trunk of the tree, slid to the ground, put the slingshot into his sleeve, and put all the mud balls into the purse on his waist.

"Nonsense!"

"My cousin didn't die!"

"She's just missing, and she's not sure when, she'll be back!"

For Liu Qingxin, although Shen Shenyu does not have such intense feelings as Shen Luoyan, he is close, but there is no bit of it.

She likes to read, and often asks her husband some whimsical questions, and if she can't answer them, he will avoid her perfunctory, but Liu is light-hearted but not, no matter how weird the questions she asks, she will help her find the most suitable answer, and the handwriting is beautiful, and the piano is also played well.

A few days ago, the Chen family in Jiangnan hired a matchmaker, brought eight gifts, came to Zhouzhuang to propose, and was pushed back by his father on the grounds that she was still young, but this kind of reason is okay to use once, if next year, the Chen family will make someone come to propose marriage and move out to use it, it will be a bit reckless to disregard people's face.

The young man of the Chen family who wants to hire her as his wife, named Chen Maoyan, she saw it during the begging festival last year, she looks white, treats people with humility and courtesy, and is a good candidate for a husband, and his eldest brother Chen Maoling from his mother also married Shen Lichuan, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, as his wife.

I don't know if my cousin can come back to the Shen family before she gets married.

Before she got married in Ningxia, she promised her that when she got married, she would personally help her write the seal of the dowry box.

Shen Shenyu thought so, and his cheeks flushed unconsciously.

"People are doing it, the sky is watching, and retribution is never too late."

"Your cousin is such a good girl, God, you will also protect her."

Hearing Shen Luoyan say that people were coming, Old Man Shen instinctively stretched his neck and looked into the distance.

Sure enough, after a short while, a horse team appeared in the afterglow of the sunset, and the one at the forefront of the team was Shen Hongxue's little servant, Shen Mo.

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Unlike ordinary families, the Shen family does not have the habit of separating men and women.

Old man Shen and his two sisters-in-law, a grandson and five "granddaughters" used the dinner that was prepared early in the morning.

During the banquet, Old Man Shen drank two glasses, happy like a child.

After dinner, Old Man Shen was supported by his two sisters-in-law and went back to his yard to rest, while Liu Qingxin and Yu Yan went to the courtyard of Shen Wenlei's room under the guidance of Shen Mo.

Shen Wenlei's wife, Duan, has suffered a miscarriage many years ago, and her health is not good, and when it is cold in spring, she will be seriously ill, and she can't get out of bed for more than half a month.

But even so, she still asked her nurse to help her to wait in the front hall, and the nurse was afraid that she would become more ill after the cold air, so she had all the doors and windows closed, and in the front hall, she lit seven or eight braziers.

"Nurse, you go to the yard to see if the two children are back."

Duan's sable fur cloak was wrapped in a brazier, and he still felt the cool air rushing from the soles of his feet to his whole body.

Because they were afraid that Liu Qingxin and Yu Yan would accompany Old Man Shen back from dinner, and seeing that the door of the front hall was closed, they misunderstood her, so they sent their eldest maid Lu Xue to wait at the gate of the courtyard, and every once in a while, they urged the nurse to take a look.

"How can it be so fast, miss."

"The old man is happy today, and he will definitely drink two glasses."

As Duan's dowry, the nurse Wang has always called Duan's "Miss".

Compared with other subordinates in the courtyard, she is quite stable in her work, so she has always been relied on by the Duan family.

The nurses of Duan's two daughters were all recommended by her, and at this time, the "Shen Qingxin's nurse" who was hurrying to Zhouzhuang was her distant relative.

"I know the old man is happy."

"But the two children, all the way to the tiring, must be tired, how can you stop it!"

For those who have nothing, it is far more precious to lose and regain it than others.

Duan's hand holding the stove changed the angle of the hug from time to time because it was too urgent, as if, no matter how she took it, it was not elegant and good-looking, and it was not enough to be an example of her daughter who was about to be lost.

"The child's family is in good health, so I can't help but be tired."

"Miss can't spoil the two little young ladies because she is distressed and soft-hearted, you know, when they marry into their husband's family, no one will be like their mother's family, everything depends on them, and everything is fulfilled for them."

After adding a few more pieces of charcoal to the brazier and persuading Duan, the nurse Wang sighed lightly, stood up, and walked to the door of the front hall.

As the saying goes, drowning is like killing a child, and whoever gives birth to a girl, why not?

Before, her young lady understood this truth, but now, it seems that she can't hold it anymore.

I just hope that the two little ladies, in the years outside, have developed a temperament that is not arrogant and arrogant, otherwise......

"It's back!"

"The two young ladies are back!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up and hold the lights! ”

Outside the door, there was the crisp voice of the big girl Lu Xue, who was waiting by Duan's side.

Immediately after, there was the sound of hurried and brisk footsteps of the servants who were waiting in the courtyard.

For the people living in this courtyard, the return of the two young ladies means that they will be able to stand tall in front of people from now on, especially the eldest lady of their family, who has been married by His Majesty and is about to marry into the Three Princes' Mansion as a concubine, hum, look at the future, who dares to say that their wife is a hen that can't lay eggs!

"Quick, help me up, nurse!"

"Two kids are back!"

Listening to the eldest girl at the gate of the courtyard, Lu Xue, shouting the palm lamp, Duan's excitedly put down the hand stove and was about to go outside the door to greet her.

However, her body was too weak, she just stood up, and before she could take a step, she fell back into the chair, and when she was in a hurry, there were beads of sweat the size of mung beans on her forehead.

Her Yan'er is back.

No, it's her two daughters, both back!

Outside the door, the eldest girl Lu Xue held a pair of hand stoves, trotted in front of Liu Qingxin and Yu Yan, and before they could answer, she hurriedly stuffed the hand stove into the hands of the two of them, and by the way, she glanced at Shen Mo, the little girl who led the way.

Her wife, really prescient, this unreliable little girl, really, the stove was not prepared for her young lady, this cold day, the hand is frozen, who is it?!

"Eldest Miss, Second Miss, you can be regarded as back!"

"Madame is in the main hall, waiting for you for a long time!"

Seeing that Liu Qingxin and Yu Yan took over the stove, their eyes looking at the main hall were a little strange, Lu Xue first stagnated slightly, and then understood that they had misunderstood Duan, "The two young ladies don't know, the lady is weak, she can't blow the cold wind, and she is anxious to see you, and she refuses to lie on the bed, and the nurse can't help it, so she came up with this way to close the doors and windows of the front hall and burn more charcoal pots inside!" ”

"Mother is sick?"

Liu Qingxin just heard Shen Wenlei say that Duan's body was weak, thinking that Xu Hui would need to help her do some conditioning in the days to come, but she didn't know that she was sick now.

She wrinkled her eyebrows slightly, looked at Lu Xue, who was walking next to her and Yu Yan, helping them guide the way, and asked her in a low voice.

"Since I got bored, I haven't had a better time."

"Every year from the beginning of autumn, I start to cough non-stop, and when it comes to the wax moon, I will be seriously ill, and before the summer, it is not good."

"Miss, watch out for your feet, there is a bluestone here, half an inch higher than the place next to it."

Listening to Liu Qingxin's question to her, Lu Xue was busy knowing everything.

She didn't know that Liu Qingxin was a doctor, so she only asked her so if she cared about the Duan family.

This eldest lady is a big man who is going to marry into the Three Princes' Mansion, and she is the tip of her wife's heart.

Thinking so, Lu Xue talked to Liu Qingxin in a tone that was instinctive, and it was a little more flattering.

"Go and bring my medicine box, Rixia."

For Lu Xue, who turned pleasing the master into an instinctive maid, Liu Qingxin can't say that he likes it, and he can't say that he hates it.

She stopped, turned around, and instructed Lixia, who was following her, "Let someone boil some hot water and send it to my mother's room, and burn it in a clay kettle, without touching the iron." ”