Before going to bed at night, Xie Wang persuaded Xie Qingshan for a long time, and taught Ping'an to say a lot of soft words to beg his father.

Xie Qingshan was not reluctant to give up money, but he just couldn't see his son disobeying them for a woman. Seeing the bleeding from his stupid son's forehead, he sincerely admitted his mistake and begged softly, and he had already forgiven a little in his heart, but he couldn't pull his face to speak.

Xie Wang washed Ping'an's wound with hot water and wrapped it carefully, fearing that he would suffer from the cold, so he sent him back to the house to sleep. Such a big event happened in the Xie family, and the vegetable shed was temporarily unguarded overnight, thinking that the vegetable shed was close to the village, and it was nothing if no one guarded it overnight.

Qiu Niang took Zhou Qin and Zhou Hong to rest in the east wing with her sister-in-law Lin.

Hui Niang took Sheng Lin'er and Li Ying, Li Lian and Xie Xuan to a room. A bench was placed next to the bed, a wooden board was attached, and the mother and daughter fell asleep.

Xie Xuan, whether before or after coming here, has always been used to sleeping alone, and in the past two nights, there are people around him, and he always can't sleep well.

That night, there were five people squeezed into the bed at once, an adult with three children and a baby, and the baby often cried in the middle of the night, and she couldn't live all night.

Li Ying and Li Lian slept very well, and they had always been in noisy disputes in the Li family. There is no grandma beating and scolding, aunts looking for trouble, cousins bullying, they eat enough, sleep well, grandma often buys some candy and candied fruit from the merchant with them, every day is just playing, life is no better than this.

This night, Xie Wang and Xie Qingshan chattered in the house for half the night. For a while, he said what to do about a safe marriage, and for a while, he calculated the family's money for the workers After calculating the accounts, it was not enough to give the Zhao family a bride price, and he didn't sleep until the fifth watch.

Because he didn't sleep well all night, Xie Xuan's eyes were sour when he woke up the next day, and his whole head was dizzy.

Hui Niang got up early to boil water, mixed a basin of warm water, brought it to Xie Xuan's house, and called the three girls to wash their faces.

Li Lian rushed to wash her face with water first, and Li Ying waited for her to finish washing and washed it with the rest of Li Lian's water. Xie Xuan saw that the water was a little dirty, so she picked up the water and prepared to change it, and Hui Niang said, "You put it down, I'll go and change it for you!" ”

"Ouch, mother, look, my little sister still thinks we're dirty!" Li Lian made a fuss.

Xie Xuan looked at her strangely and said, "Is the water really dirty?" What's there to say about this? ”

"You ......" Li Lian snorted a little angrily, and turned her head to complain to her mother: "Mother, look, she really thinks we are dirty!" ”

Hui Niang said softly: "If it's dirty, change a pot, what's a big deal, it's worth suing!" He picked up the basin and got up and went out.

Li Ying pushed Li Lian and explained to Xie Xuan with a smile: "Xuanxuan, don't pay attention to your second sister!" In our grandmother's house, there are a number of hot water, and our grandmother said that boiling water costs firewood! If it weren't for the fact that the water in the tank was frozen in the morning and couldn't be used, she would have liked the whole family to wash their faces with cold water! Our grandmother didn't wait to see our parents, but only scooped a scoop of hot water for us. Therefore, our family washes our faces in the morning in a basin. Your second sister has always been strong, she loves to be the first in everything, and she rushes to wash the first one every time. ”

Xie Xuan smiled and said: "Our grandma's family doesn't have this rule, as long as you are not afraid of trouble, you can wash it as many times as you like." The second sister doesn't have to pick on me for everything! ”

Li Lian was a little unhappy when she heard this, glanced at Xie Xuan, and muttered with a pout: "Who rarely picks on you?" ”

As she spoke, she got up and went to the table to wipe her face with facial grease, and she had to wipe her face every morning and evening these days, and even put a layer on her hands after washing them. was told a few times by Li Ying, but said that everyone was partial to Xie Xuan, and grandpa only bought facial fat for Xie Xuan, and even Li Ying said that she was smeared a few more times for her. Li Ying had no choice but to follow her.

When she opened the white plum porcelain box containing the facial fat, she saw that the pale pink cream-like facial fat inside had already bottomed out, so Li Lian wiped it clean with her fingers, and applied the little residue to her face and hands.

Li Ying looked at it and couldn't help but say to her: "You're all used up, how can Xuanxuan use it?" This is the flour fat that our grandfather bought for Xuanxuan, and it costs a few dollars of silver! ”

As soon as Li Lian heard this, an evil fire rose up, and she opened her mouth and said, "Why can she use it, but I can't?" is also grandgranddaughter, as far as she can use it, I can't use it? Is her cheeky more expensive than mine? ”

Li Ying was speechless when she robbed her, so she had to say: "She is our little sister!" You're a sister anyway, why don't you know how to let people? ”

"Our little sister is in my grandmother's house, living a good life in the sky, what kind of life are we living in my grandmother's house, I finally came to my grandmother's house, shouldn't she let us?" As she spoke, she glanced at Xie Xuan and turned her face away, not looking at her.

was making a fuss, and saw Hui Niang come in with a basin of warm water again.

Putting the water on the ground, Hui Niang greeted Xie Xuan and said, "Xuanxuan, come and wash your face, the water is not cold or hot, just right!" ”

Seeing that the atmosphere of the three of them was not right, he smiled and asked, "What?" The little sisters are still angry! ”

Li Lian preemptively said: "Mother, there is a little fat left, and I will use it up." Xuanxuan still blames me! ”

"Lian'er, Xuanxuan didn't say a word about you, why are you still beating a rake!" Li Ying said about her.

Xie Xuan didn't sleep well all night, so she didn't care about her careful thoughts, and said in a cold tone: "I'll use it up when I'm done, I'll ask my grandfather to buy another box." With that, he squatted on the ground and washed his face, and brushed his teeth with a toothbrush dipped in green salt.

The toothbrush was repeatedly ordered by her to not be shared by others, and it also made Li Lian unhappy for two days.

"Xuanxuan, don't keep asking your grandpa and grandma for things!" Hui Niang gently persuaded her: "That noodle fat is not cheap, a box costs several dollars of silver, enough for our family to live for more than half a month!" Your grandfather and grandmother are greedy all day long, your brother-in-law is not married yet, and the Zhao family wants to pay some dowry, and life is also tense! Grandpa and grandpa raising you is already the greatest kindness to our family, how can you still ask for expensive things? ”

This is right from Hui Niang's standpoint.

It is the proper meaning of the biological mother to educate her daughter not to ask for things from her grandmother's family; On the one hand, it is normal for Hui Niang to be considerate of her mother's family.

But Xie Xuan listened a little awkwardly.

Since coming here, after many things, Xie Xuan has accepted in her heart that the Xie family is her own relatives, but she has no feelings for little Xie Xuan's biological parents.

Now Hui Niang comes to teach her not to ask her grandfather and grandmother for things, just like an irrelevant outsider teaching a child not to ask his parents for toys and snacks, always giving people a feeling that this matter should not be taken care of by her.

Although it was a little awkward, Xie Xuan understood Xie Huiniang's position, so she nodded and did not speak.

Because Xiao Xie Xuan has dry skin, if she doesn't wipe the face grease after washing her face in winter, her face will be chapped and uncomfortable. She didn't say a word, and silently ran to the room of Grandma Dong'erfang, ready to wipe her face with Xie Wang's face.

When I entered the door, I saw Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang sitting on the kang, on which there were more than a dozen ingots of silver with white flowers, as well as some scattered silver and a few strings of copper coins. It turned out that Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang's family were discussing the matter of asking Mrs. Guo to go to the Zhao family to propose marriage.

"Grandma, I'm running out of facial grease, wipe my face with yours." Xie Xuan glanced at the silver on the bed, and went straight to get the white porcelain box on the table beside the kang.

"It's okay, you just have to use it. Come back and ask your grandpa to buy you a new one! Xie Wang smiled and said, "It just so happens that you are here, come and help grandpa and grandma calculate, how should we ......spend this money?"