Most of the neighbors brought some things at home, such as pillow towels, eggs, cotton cloth, brown sugar, pastries, etc., and even sent dishes and pickled vegetables at home! Those who have a slightly better relationship will come with a gift ranging from one to ten yuan, and the leaders who come will also follow the relationship with two to twenty or thirty yuan.

The Liang family, the Lu family, and the Duan family each followed five hundred yuan!

Zuo Ranjia looked at the neat and brand-new unity wrapped in three dozen red handkerchiefs, and was surprised and moved and proud. 500 yuan is worth more than 50,000 yuan in the 21st century! It is rare for Du Xuze to be treated like this by these three families. She can fully imagine what kind of dedication Du Xuze has made to these three families.

People are mutual, especially those three are not high enough for ordinary people, and they have different standards for measuring people's relationships.

She went through the bill so carefully, and received a total of more than 2,100 gifts. Other people's gifts are within the scope of her acceptance, but this Du Jialin comes with a gift, Old Man Du has five cents, and Du Qiaolan has five eggs, which is a bit of a joke. Du Qiaoyun, who lives in the countryside, also brought a jar of 20 salted duck eggs pickled by himself, a bag of fine orange cornmeal, a bag of dried vegetables and a basket of frozen pears. I'm afraid this is the most decent gift she can come up with.

Zuo Ranjia looked at it again and found that Du Jinxi's name had not appeared, and his gift turned out to be a home-woven coarse cloth! She knew that Du Jinxi was not living a good life, it could be said that she was half-deceived and half-sold by her third aunt to marry an alcoholic, and she had to work as a temporary worker every day to take care of her young children, and when she got home, she was waiting for her husband's punches and kicks, but Du Jinxi didn't want Du Xuze to know about it, for fear that he would make an impulse and no one would take care of the younger brother at home, so he could only reduce the number of times he went home.

Zuo Ran could imagine that this piece of cloth was the thread spun by the cotton and wool stamps that Du Jinxi had saved from washing many clothes in the neighborhoods in winter, and then how many nights he had secretly woven the cloth. She got up and trotted into the kitchen with some eagerness, opened the lock on Du Xuqing's third room, and looked at today's gifts.

The cloth was conspicuously pressed underneath a crowd of pastries, and she carefully took it out, looking at the firm and smooth lines, and the emotion and discomfort in her heart poured out again. The feeling of being tied to an unhappy marriage, she has experienced first-hand, the despair and loneliness that make the heavens and the earth ineffective, is indescribable.

Zuo Ranjia was still able to break free, but Du Jinxi had a child and had more concerns, and she was not relieved until her husband died drunk ten years later, but at that time, Du Jinxi's spine was broken, and she was tall and thin, and her back was completely lumped.

Zuo Ranjia sighed lightly, and really told Du Qiaolan that a list of gifts can see a lot of things.

"What's wrong?" Du Qiaoyun, who heard the movement, hurriedly walked out of the house, and saw her holding a coarse cloth in a daze, "This is Xizi's craft, right?" She is ingenious, and the cloth she weaves is durable and comfortable, and the pattern is unique. ”

Du Qiaoyun stroked the cloth with some nostalgia, "She still learned from me, since she also got married, we haven't seen each other again, it's been more than four years." It seems that she is doing well, and this cloth will cost older cotton. ”

Zuo Ranjia blinked her eyes to get rid of the wetness, and then she smiled and said, "Xizi's house is not far from here, wait for me to go with you to see her next time, right?" ”

"Okay, my aunt has been taking care of the children for the past few years and can't take care of her, just listening to the people who carry the letter for her during the New Year's holidays report that she is safe, but my aunt doesn't see that her heart is not steady." Du Qiaoyun nodded in response.

The children will wake up and play together in a short time after getting dressed.

"Sister-in-law, can you tie Shanshan's braid like mine?" Du Jinqi took Liu Xiaoshan's hand, ran into the house on his feet, and asked coquettishly while pulling the corner of her clothes.

Liu Xiaoshan's eyes widened, with some timid curiosity and expectation.

"Okay," Zuo Ranjia carried Liu Xiaoshan to the chair in front of the dresser and untied the red head rope for her. The child's nutrition is not good, and his hair is also yellow. She wet and combed it with water, and after drying it, she braided a small braid like Du Jinqi, but the color of the head rope was different.

Zuo Ranjia took a towel dipped in warm water and wiped Liu Xiaoshan's face and hands clean, and smeared it with horse oil.

Du Qiaoyun hurriedly stopped her, "What are the children's paintings, don't spoil the good things." ”

"Aunt, this thing is made of my own configuration, and it is made of oil immediately from others, and it has a good effect on anti-freezing and anti-cornice. When you leave, I'll bring you a few bottles, which are cheaper and easier to use than the ones sold outside. Zuo Ranjia smiled and continued to apply to the child, and the faint lemon smell permeated the warm room.

The little girl sat obediently, blinking her big eyes and looking at herself in the mirror with joy, then looked at Du Jinqi, and asked in a low voice: "Sister, mine is different from yours, but they are both good-looking." She was embarrassed to whisper to Zuo Ranjia in the mirror, "Thank you, sister-in-law." ”

"The children of Gujiao are really good," Zuo Ranjia exclaimed, several children in the second room of the Du family's big house were brought out by Du Qiaoyun, although their fate was bumpy at the beginning, but their hearts were not bad, and this was enough.

Zuo Ranjia reflected on herself again and again, why did she also take care of children, but the younger brothers and sisters who grew up by herself were that kind of selfish and ruthless? He even did not hesitate to kill her!

Maybe they knew her identity from the beginning and enslaved her like a maid, so what she said and did was a matter of course for them. Without a minimum of respect and respect, she is naturally the one who is exploited and abandoned.

She took a deep breath slowly, telling herself that everything was over, that she was born again, and that no one or anything else mattered to her. If they could live in peace and not trouble her, then nothing would have happened to her, and if they still wanted something from them, she would no longer be merciful!

Du Qiaoyun smiled embarrassedly: "My aunt's culture is not high, I only know a few words, and I can't teach them too much, but I still understand the principles of life." It is better to rely on others than on yourself, and what you earn with your hands really belongs to you. If the way is right, life can be right, but you can't let others bully. ”

When Zuo Ranjia heard this, she almost didn't cry.

The truth is simple, but how many can really do it?

Liu Tianming had already turned over the yard, picked the weeds and insects aside with a hoe, washed his hands and entered Du Xuqing's house.

Zuo Ranjia took out the milk powder and made a cup for everyone. Seeing that Du Qiaoyun said again and again that one cup was enough, but he still didn't block it, looking at the nine glasses on the table with a rich fragrance of white flowers, his heart was distressed.

"Aunt, the children are growing up, and they can't be short of food. Besides, you and your uncle haven't tasted it yet, so drink some. Zuo Ranjia knew that it was okay to persuade her to drink it once, even if she supplied it infinitely, I am afraid that Du Qiaoyun would not be willing to drink it herself. Nowadays, people's nutritional concepts are backward, and they only think that children and the elderly need to eat well, but they don't know that young adults also need to supplement protein and calcium.

"This is our filial piety to you, if you don't drink or keep it for the children, then I'll pour it," Zuo Ranjia picked up the cup and was about to throw it on the ground without even hesitation.

"You kid," Du Qiaoyun hurriedly stopped, choked and nodded: "Okay, aunt, drink!" ”

She nodded at her children, smiled and said, "Why don't you thank your sister-in-law?" ”

The children exclaimed slightly, and bowed their eyebrows and thanked Zuo Ran Jia in unison.

Du Qiaoyun instructed the two older children: "Drink slowly, it's still hot." She was blowing milk, and Xiaoyu in her arms couldn't wait to take her arm and send it to her mouth.

Du Xuqing sent Liu Tianming a cup, and specially explained that it was allowed by his aunt, this man grinned and drank it, and after drinking, he smashed it and said that it was strange and delicious, and Du Xuqing smiled when he returned to the house.

Du Jinqi and Liu Xiaoshan drank milk hand in hand, touching the small ribbon pompom on each other's head from time to time.

Du Xuyuan and Liu Zhengjun went to the cubicle with their cups, and drank milk while talking about what is fun in winter, where is interesting in spring, frogs in the pond in summer, and yellow eels in autumn. Du Xuyuan stared at him when he heard this, and felt that in addition to living comfortably, food and clothing in the city were better, it was really not as interesting as the countryside.

Du Xuqing also listened interestingly, and rushed to Zuo Ranjia's side, "Sister-in-law, when are we going to my aunt's house as a guest?" ”

Du Xuyuan and Liu Zhengjun ran over and looked at Zuo Ranjia with blank eyes.

There is a blood relationship between them, and the children of the Du family have deep feelings for Du Qiaoyun, and Du Qiaoyun often whispers about them in the children's ears. So in addition to being unfamiliar at the beginning, the babies of the same age played together because of some trivial things, and suddenly had the mood of hating each other, and the new partnership had just been established, where did you want to separate?

Du Qiaoyun looked at Zuo Ranjia, so far she didn't hate her new niece and daughter-in-law, seeing that the three children were more energetic and fleshy than before, she was only happy in her heart. She also looks forward to having relatives come to her house as guests, and every time she watches the other three-room concubines receive guests, she feels sad, and always has a feeling that duckweed is floating without roots.

Zuo Ranjia understood the expectation in Du Qiaoyun's eyes, and nodded with a smile: "Okay, the countryside is not busy in winter, if we have time before the year, we will go to the village to see my aunt." ”

The children all jumped in place happily and shouted in circles, and Liu Zhengjun even said what to do with them when the time came, which made the three babies full of anticipation.

"Kiyoko open the door?" There was a sudden knock on the door, and Pang Jingbo's voice came.

Du Xuqing rushed out of the house and opened the door, and Zuo Ranjia and the others also went out to see what was going on.