After greeting for a while, seeing that the time was not early, everyone came out to eat.

The meal had already been prepared, and Xie Ping'an set up two tables in the hall, one for men and one for women, and the children followed the women.

The ladies served the dishes one after another, each table has a braised fish, boiled rotten chestnut stewed chicken, fragrant roasted pork, red Yanyan roasted pig intestine, trembling stewed pig's blood, green tender garlic seedlings fried pork liver, and vegetarian fried fried winter melon, white raw fried cabbage heart, lard fried miscellaneous mushrooms, a whole nine dishes, and a steamed basket of white flour steamed buns as the staple food, the residual temperature of the firewood in the stove is still hot with a pot of white flour egg soup.

Lin said to eat the dishes on the table first, and when the food was almost done, he would bring the hot soup and drink it while it was hot to warm his stomach.

It is rare in a year that such a sumptuous meal enters the stomach, and the men have wine on the table, and everyone pushes the cup and changes the glass, and the more they talk, the more they talk, the hotter it gets.

The meal lasted for an hour, the table was clean, there was no vegetable soup left, everyone was very satisfied, and the children ate with round bellies and couldn't straighten their waists.

The Lin family asked the three mothers and daughters of the Xie family to go back to the room to talk, and went to collect the leftovers and wash them coldly.

Xie Wang's took his two daughters to continue to go back to the room to talk about himself, seeing that the children had gone to play and were not around, Xie Wang's couldn't help but whisper to the two daughters: "You two don't know, Xuanxuan had an adventure a few days ago, got a professor, recognized a few medicinal herbs, and taught your father and your brother that they went up the mountain to dig He Shou Wu and sold it for a few dollars, so our family has only been much more prosperous recently, otherwise where would we have the money to buy this sumptuous meal." ”

Xie Qiuniang and Xie Huiniang were a little unbelieving when they heard it, Xie Xuan was only six years old, even if she was precocious, what could she understand?

Xie Wang's family had no choice but to choose what had happened in these days to the two daughters who could talk about it.

The mother and daughter didn't talk in the room, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng took Zhou Hong to play outside, and the three girls followed Xie Xuan to her west room to sit down and eat snacks.

Xie Xuan's west ear room is also nothing valuable, a simple large wooden bed was slept by the two sisters Xie Huiniang and Xie Qiuniang, and there were two worn-out thin quilts stacked on the bed. At the foot of the bed was placed a camphor wood box, which contained Xie Xuan's clothes, and an elm table and square stool were placed at the head of the bed. It is all furniture made by village carpenters, with no ornamentation, simple and clumsy.

The elm table was wiped clean, with a mahogany comb and facial grease on it, a toothbrush in the pottery cup, a wooden box of green salt for brushing teeth next to it, and half a jar of water in a potbelly clay pot, which was obliquely inserted with a few small yellow wild flowers picked from the back mountain, adding a bit of fun to this simple room.

There was another plate of snacks on the table, a plate of roasted chestnuts and hazelnuts, Xie Xuan brought four cups of hot water on a tray, and ate and drank with the three girls.

Zhou Qin, Li Ying, and Li Lian sat on the edge of the bed eating snacks, their eyes looked at the bed and the table, their eyes lingered over toothbrushes, green salt, and wild flowers, and finally they all stayed on the red plum and white porcelain box grease.

"What is this?" Li Lian pointed to the fat and asked Xie Xuan.

"Face grease, for wiping your face." Xie Xuan said.

"But that kind of smooth face fat that smells good on your face?" Zhou Qin's eyes lit up and asked, "When we marry a new daughter-in-law in the village, there is a box in the dowry, and it is said that only the girls and ladies in the city use this, and they will not be wrinkled when they wipe their faces, and they will cost a box of several dollars of silver!" ”

Li Ying and Li Lian all looked at the box of noodle fat with envy when they heard this.

Xie Xuan smiled dryly: "A few days ago, my face was cracked, so I begged my grandfather to buy this." Seeing the envious looks of the three girls, he said, "If you want to wipe it, just wipe it." ”

The three girls were eager to try, Zhou Qin said: "We have to wash our faces first, I heard that this is wiped after washing your face!" ”

Li Ying and Li Lian went to the kitchen with Zhou Qin to wash their faces.

The three girls washed their faces quickly, and came back in a moment, Li Lian was the first to get the box of facial cream, and opened it carefully, there was still more than half a box left, and the white and slightly pink geltled fat appeared in the eyes of the three of them, and a faint fragrance spread.

"It smells so good!" Li Ying gently inhaled the fragrance floating in the air and said.

Li Lian pursed her lips, then dug a large piece of one-third with her fingers, and wiped it on her face regardless of it.

"Lian'er, why are you so polite?" Li Ying couldn't help but say her.

"What am I polite, this is what our grandfather bought for his granddaughter, am I not his granddaughter?" Li Lian glanced at Xie Xuan and said.

"You......" Li Ying smiled embarrassedly at Xie Xuan: "Xuanxuan, your second sister has always been a strong pinch, but in fact, she doesn't have any bad intentions, don't blame her." ”

Xie Xuan was not angry with a little girl, she just smiled and nodded.

Li Ying and Zhou Qin both dug a little bit, and only dug a little more at Xie Xuan's urging, they both wiped their faces, feeling the fragrant and smooth skin on their faces, and the three of them looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

"Xuanxuan, grandpa is really good to you, make you a new dress, and buy you face fat, toothbrushes, and salt, if only I had come to grandma's house...... Li Lian said.

"Lian'er, what do you say? Why did Xuanxuan come to her grandmother's house, did you forget? Li Ying pulled Li Lian's sleeve and said disapprovingly.

"If I had known that I would be able to live such a good life, I would rather be thrown out! In our family, I can't finish the work all day long, I can't eat enough, I don't have enough clothes, I don't talk about it, I am disgusted and scolded by my grandmother all day long, and I am bullied by my cousins and cousins. Li Lian pulled out her sleeves and said angrily.

Li Ying's face was gloomy, so he didn't speak.

Zhou Qin was surprised: "Is your grandmother doing this to you?" ”

"You don't have grandma, and grandpa is dead, so naturally I don't know what kind of life we live......" Li Lian said angrily.

Zhou Qin was choked by her and snorted, "Why do you talk like this?" ”

"Am I not right?" Li Lian was aggressive.

Zhou Qin was an honest person, and she couldn't speak for a while, so she had to sulk secretly.

The atmosphere became dreary for a moment.

"Why are you arguing while talking?" Because she had been with Zhou Qin for a long time before, and Zhou Qin was honest and kind, Xie Xuan was a little unaccustomed to Li Lian bullying Zhou Qin in her heart, "Second sister, Zhou Qin also cares about you kindly, but you don't appreciate it, but choke her, this is your fault......"

"Okay, Xuanxuan, aren't you our own sister? Why do you talk to outsiders instead? After Li Lian came to her grandmother's house, she looked at Xie Xuan's food and clothing, and she was already a little jealous in her heart, and when she heard Xie Xuan say about her, she immediately got angry and said: "Is it because of the love of grandpa and grandma that you look down on our two sisters?" ”

"I'm helping or not helping my relatives, what does it have to do with whether you are doing the right thing and whether I am your own sister or not?" Xie Xuan's tone was cold, and the smile on her face faded.

Li Lian choked on her, turned around and ran out of the west ear room.