The three of them who were busy in the kitchen hurriedly went out, only to see Xie Huiniang wearing a faded and half-worn crab shell green coarse cloth bijia, and a patched indigo coarse cloth skirt, although it was rough, but the skirt was skillfully embroidered with a circle of twigs and grass patterns, adding some color to the twenty-seven-year-old woman. She carried a tightly wrapped swaddling cloth in her arms, and followed by two girls into the door.

Xie Wang stretched out his head to look out of the door and asked, "Where is my uncle?" ”

Xie Huiniang showed an embarrassed look on her face, and said in a low voice: "My mother-in-law said that there was work at home, so I didn't let him come, so I had to bring the children over." ”

Xie Qiuniang was quick to speak, and scolded hatefully: "This old pious woman doesn't understand etiquette at all, and I have never seen such a wicked mother-in-law in ten miles and eight villages......

was cursing, when I saw Xie Qingshan and them in the hall, they came out, and after listening to Xie Qiuniang's swearing, they knew what had happened.

Xie Qingshan's face sank.

Xie Wang's family hurriedly stopped Xie Qiuniang, turned his head to comfort Xie Huiniang and said: "I don't know if their Li family's aunt will come, as long as my good daughter comes back, my good granddaughter and grandson come back, I will be satisfied." He went to pick up the swaddling child in Xie Huiniang's arms again, looked at the sleeping child in the swaddling clothes, and showed a look of pity on his face: "Why is this child so thin?" Is there not enough milk to eat? ”

Xie Huiniang nodded gloomily.

Lin said: "Come on, come on, hurry into the house to talk, it's so cold outside, what are you standing here?" ”

Xie Wang took the child and took Xie Huiniang into the east ear room, and Xie Qiuniang and Xie Xuan followed. A group of children originally wanted to follow in, but Lin thought that the three of them wanted to be considerate, so they persuaded the children into the kitchen.

Xie Wang put the sleeping child on the bed, covered it tightly with a quilt, and asked seriously: "Hui Niang, you tell your mother the truth, since you gave birth to Sheng Lin'er, has your mother-in-law been better?" ”

Xie Huiniang's face was gloomy and said: "Since I gave birth to Sheng Lin'er, my mother-in-law doesn't scold me for being out of business, but she still doesn't want to see me every day, and she only eats some sorghum gruel and millet buns every day during the month, this milk is a little insufficient, and Sheng Lin'er is so thin." If it weren't for the basket of eggs that my father and mother brought over last time, I would hide them and not take them away, I'm afraid Sheng Lin'er wouldn't even be able to eat milk......"

"Sister, you just have a good temperament, you seem to have to let her knead the dough, and you can't go to the kitchen to find it if she doesn't let you eat it? Can't you eat some of your own when cooking? "Xie Qiuniang hates iron and does not become steel.

"The grain, rice, oil and salt at home are in the house of my parents-in-law, I take turns cooking with my two concubines, and my mother-in-law only measures it out when she cooks every day, and everyone's food is counted, if it is less, I will scold in the courtyard, how can I stand this?" Xie Huiniang said.

"How can this wicked woman be so vicious? She treated you like that before she gave birth to a grandchild, she gave birth to a grandchild, and she didn't even give you oil and water, how can you have milk? This Sheng Lin'er is not her own grandson? She is an old lady who eats persimmons - she picks soft pinch, you don't just want to be a virtuous daughter-in-law, you have to quarrel with her when you should quarrel, with me and your father here, what are you afraid of?! When Xie Wang heard this, he couldn't help but be angry and hateful, and felt sorry for his daughter:

"Before you married into the Li family, I only heard that the third child of the Li family was an honest person, thinking that you were kind and smooth, and found an honest two people to live without arguing with Meimei, even if the mother-in-law was stricter, just respect her. Who knew that the son-in-law was not only honest, but also a wreck, and the mother-in-law was even more of a tofu looking for bones - a ...... who had nothing to do."

Xie Hui Niangqiang smiled and said, "Mother, what are you talking about?" ”

"I regret it!" Xie Wang couldn't help wiping his tears, "Later, I learned a lesson and found a family without a mother-in-law for your sister Qiu Niang, who knew that not long after the marriage, my father-in-law became ill, and it dragged on for so many years, and I swallowed my breath at the beginning of the year, and my family was also dragged down." Why are our daughters so miserable......"

Xie Qiuniang was speechless for a while, just sighed.

The three sorrows of the mother and son came from it, and they couldn't help but bow their heads and cry secretly, Zhou Qin next to Xie Qiuniang and the two girls next to Xie Huiniang couldn't help crying when they saw the adults crying.

Xie Xuan had a headache, it stands to reason that she should cry with them, but she can't cry! If you don't cry, everyone else is crying, and it doesn't look like you're standing there without moving.

"Grandma, mother, auntie, don't cry, my little brother is about to be woken up! Besides, my grandfather and they thought something was going on when they heard it outside. Xie Xuan persuaded, "Grandma, the problem of my aunt's family is easy to solve, let's help, don't be lazy and come over slowly." Xie Xuan gave Xie Wang a look.

Xie Wang understood in his heart, so he wiped his tears, stopped crying, and said worriedly: "But what is your mother's way here?" ”

"Can't you split up?" Xie Xuan asked.

Xie Huiniang touched Xie Xuan's fine yellow hair, and said softly: "Silly child, if the parents don't agree, where can the children take the initiative to propose a separation, if they go to sue, they will be punished for the crime of unfilial piety if they are known by the officials." ”

Xie Xuan realized that this was the ancient times of feudal ignorance and loyalty and filial piety, not the 21st century of people's freedom, and the set of methods she knew about solving things would not work here.

Thinking of this, Xie Xuan was a little frustrated, this feudal ancient domination of human nature is like a thousand shackles, thousands of shackles in the body, if those modern girls really understand the meaning of crossing, I'm afraid they won't yearn for crossing.

"Mother, my sister's clothes are so beautiful!" Suddenly, I heard a little girl beside Xie Huiniang say.

Xie Xuan looked and saw two girls next to Xie Huiniang, one of them was taller than Xie Xuan, and the other was about the same as Xie Xuan, the two looked a little similar to Xie Xuan, both of them had thin eyebrows and thin lips, both of them were extremely thin, their hair was burnt yellow, and their clothes were shabby and thin. The two girls looked here, looked there, looked at Xie Wang's family, and then looked at Xie Xuan, and finally their eyes stayed on Xie Xuan's new skirt.

This should be Xie Xuan's two sisters, Li Ying and Li Lian, one is nine years old and the other is seven years old. It was Li Lian who just spoke out.

"Mother, is this the clothes you made for Xuanxuan?" Xie Huiniang saw Xie Xuan's new clothes when she entered the door, but she didn't have time to ask, so she had time to ask.

"Yes, Xuanxuan's clothes in previous years were small and worn, a few days ago I pulled a few pieces of fabric to make a new dress for the whole family, and I also went to the county ready-to-wear shop to see what other people's ready-to-wear looks like, saying that these eight skirts are new and fashionable." Xie Wang pulled Xie Xuan, "Xuanxuan, you turn around and let your mother take a look." ”

"Mother, just dress it cold, why spend so much money to make new clothes for her, how much fabric does it cost to do this?" Xie Huiniang said to Xie Wang's family that this is a thoughtful consideration for her mother's family and not to break the bank.

"My granddaughter has not been loved by her parents and grandparents since she was a child, and if I don't love it anymore, it will be too pitiful!" Xie Wang held Xie Xuan's hand and said lovingly.

Xie Huiniang remembered Xie Xuan's experience when she was a child and almost lost her life, and then thought that she had never fulfilled her mother's responsibilities, so she sighed, and saw that Xie Xuan's dress was plain and unadorned, so she said: "Mother doesn't have anything good to do with you, so it's okay to work hard and embroider some tangled flowers and plants on your cuffs and skirts!" ”

Xie Wang also smiled: "That's just right, the clothes that have just been cut haven't had time to embroider, the embroidery on the dresses of other people's ready-to-wear shops is really good-looking, but it's a pity that the pattern is too complicated, we won't, I haven't thought about what flowers to embroider!" ”

With that, she asked Xie Xuan to go back to the house to change her clothes, and brought the onion white short jacket over as well, and asked Xie Huiniang to embroider lace for her.

"Mother, I also want to wear a new dress......" Suddenly, Li Lian said, her eyes staring at Xie Xuan's skirt.

Xie Huiniang frowned, and said in a low voice: "Lian'er, when the New Year comes, my mother will make ...... for you."

"Mother liar! Last year, my mother said the same, but I still wore old dresses during the New Year! Li Lian immediately interrupted, her face full of disbelief, "I want the same new dress as my sister!" ”

Xie Wang hurriedly said: "Don't worry, after a while, grandma will make one for each of you, Qin'er, Ying'er, Lian'er, all of them!" Hong'er and Sheng Lin'er also do! ”

Zhou Qin, Li Ying, and Li Lian next to him all showed a look of surprise on their faces.

Xie Huiniang persuaded: "Mother, our family is not a rich family, Lian'er is a small child, not sensible, and has always been a little insufficient, don't listen to her nonsense!" ”

When Li Lian heard this, she immediately looked unhappy, and her face was long.

"You don't care!" Xie Wang smiled and said, "I am willing to make clothes for my grandson and granddaughter!" ”