Chapter 172: Red Sleeves and Fragrance (14)
Zhu Chunjiao thought about Gu Sifan's white-washed robe on weekdays, and the smile in his eyes was so thick that he couldn't care about it alone, where could he raise a few more? Even if Ji Ranjia really got a lot of rewards from the main family, there are not many of them, right?
Soon they don't have enough money to spend, so they can't go home and ask for it again?
The Gu family can't afford it, so she can only take out the silver, when the time comes, hum, she squinted her eyes slightly, and couldn't hide looking at Gu Sifan, who had changed into a new cyan cotton shirt, with a tall and handsome posture, wouldn't this man still have to succumb to her pomegranate skirt at that time?
With the first time, the second and third times will not be worried.
Gu Sifan is now Xie Yuan, and it is very likely that she will be the champion tomorrow, and she is a person who takes silver for him to become the champion, wouldn't she sit firmly in the position of Mrs. Champion?
After all, the Chinese national style is quite open, and the emperor has a precedent for marrying a sister-in-law, they will at most cause criticism for a while, and when the matter is a foregone conclusion, it will become a beautiful conversation.
Thinking like this, Zhu Chunjiao took a deep breath to suppress her agitated heart, and soon, she saw how hard their backbone was.
Ji Ranjia didn't talk much, everything was blocked back by Gu Sifan, and she suddenly found that her new husband was a woman who was afraid of the world, and he didn't have the gentlemanly demeanor advocated by the world at all. However, she didn't hate his behavior of protecting his shortcomings, but she was a little worried that when Gu Sifan really embarked on a career in the future, how should Old Man Gu ask for a reward for his kindness of raising and studying?
When everyone got to know each other, the food was already cold, Ji Ranjia went back to the pot and brought it out, barely able to eat, they didn't pick a word, and buried themselves in hard work.
"Auntie's cooking is delicious," said the eldest son of the Gu Fang family, patting his bulging stomach after eating, and smiled contentedly.
"If I had to mix white flour with cornmeal every day, and put enough meat oil in the dish, I wouldn't make it unpalatable," Ma Meilan hummed unconvinced.
Gu Mu put down the chopsticks with a click, and glanced at Ji Ranjia, and the voice without gentleness was like a broken bellows with a hoarse ear: "The fourth family, we ordinary people have to live a careful life, don't rely on having two dollars in your hand and don't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt." At yesterday's wedding banquet, everyone ate enough meat and fish, and there was enough oil and water in their stomachs, and they were not allowed to use meat oil in the next few days! ”
Ji Ranjia hummed, and her heart did not rise and fall in the slightest, disappointing those who looked at the bride's red eyes and gloating.
has been a subordinate, especially a palace maid, without full forbearance, where can there be a day of success? Before she was flustered because she couldn't see the future and entered the magic barrier, now Ji Ranjia is Gu Sifan's wife, no matter what, life has to go on, instead of passively fighting and wasting her life, it is better to live seriously, maybe she can jump out of the established fate.
After eating, everyone in the Gu family put down the dishes and chopsticks and went back to the house.
She folded her sleeves and stacked the dishes and chopsticks together, and took two trips to the kitchen to wash. Gu Sifan sent back the tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks he borrowed yesterday one by one.
After cleaning up, Ji Ranjia was just about to go back to the house when she was stopped by her mother, and she was stuffed with a pot of clothes with a strange smell in her hand, both men, women and children.
She pursed her lips with a slightly pale face, looking at the underwear of a man with white dirt at the top, and when she took it, her wrist was weak, and the wooden basin fell to the ground with a chirp, just against a stone, and the whole basin turned over, and her clothes were scattered on the ground.
"What do you mean? I asked you to do some work, and you were wronged? You go out and ask whose bride is not allowed to take over all the work in the house on the first day, so that the family can see your ability to live. How did it get to you, and it didn't work? Gu Mu's eyes were full of anger and excitement, and her voice was not small, and it spread far and wide in the afternoon when everyone was full of wine and food and a little drowsy.
"Mother-in-law, I'm sorry, I didn't hold it because I had little strength," she pursed her lips and lowered her head slightly, admitting her mistake with a good attitude.
"Whoever is born with great strength, let me practice when I am small! I think I was also a delicate flower back then, and I was held in the palm of my hand by my family, and when I arrived at the ancient house, I didn't still pick up the water to do laundry, cook, feed pigs, feed chickens, and take babies? Let me tell you, don't think that if you look bewitching and win the love of men, you will be lawless and even unable to listen to your mother-in-law's words!
If you don't do these things well for me, don't want to follow the fourth child to the town to hide lazy.
The fourth child wants to teach to earn money and continue to take exams, what else can you do with you to disturb his peace? Gu Mu snorted coldly and kicked the wooden basin with her foot, "Why don't you pick it up for me and go to the river to wash my clothes, you can't eat if you can't finish washing." ”
Ji Ranjia squatted down and pulled the clothes into the wooden basin, and the people in the village were waiting to see what the bride Gu Xie Yuan married looked like. They sighed twice, their hearts were surprisingly balanced, what about Xie Yuan, there are Gu family couples who don't treat Xie Yuan'er as their son, I'm afraid that in the future, Gu Xie Yuan will be admitted to the champion as an official, and they will also be able to practice it.
A wooden basin in the countryside can be used for a long time, and it has many functions, but each of them is big and heavy, and with a pointed basin of clothes, even adult men can feel the weight, not to mention Ji Ranjia, who also lives delicately in the palace.
She found a rope to tie the basin in, and dragged it forward like a dog to the river.
Gujia is not close to the river, almost one in the east of the village and one in the west of the village, the day is just beginning to get cold, the work in the field is over, the villagers are quite idle, although the voice of the ancient mother just now is only for the neighbors to hear, but can not bear to live around is a big mouth, with a brown sugar water can go through half of the village, and talk about this matter to the sky.
Everyone looked through the crack in the door at the woman wearing a brand-new scarlet cardigan skirt, with a slender figure and a unique appearance, and they rubbed their eyes in amazement. Such a person is willing to be ruthless?
It is a rule for the bride to make the first breakfast, and those who love their daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law only let them hold the spoon, that is, the mother-in-law who is secretly rubbing and preparing to deal with her daughter-in-law will not let her take care of the family's clothes on the first day. After all, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and the reputation of the daughter-in-law is not good.
Everyone felt sorry for the bride, and the hard days had just begun.
The water flowing down from the mountain stream flows into a river that passes through more than a dozen villages, and although the sun is hanging high, it is no longer the scorching temperature of yesterday, and the water naturally carries a forest chill.
Ji Ranjia sighed lightly, when people are always not fully satisfied, the high-ranking people envy the people who live freely and vividly, but ignore the hardships and tediousness of the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea; The poor envy the rich and noble families do not worry about eating and dressing and walking flowers and birds all day long, but they do not know that the rich and noble contain sinister hearts and the greed of being dissatisfied.
She left the royal family and left the capital to return to the countryside, and she was also ready to return to mediocrity, but when she arrived, she felt infinitely aggrieved and depressed.
A word of filial piety overwhelmed her, how can she live a happy life?
In the final analysis, she still lives in the eyes of others, lives above the bottom line, and can't break free from complex human nature. She rolled up her sleeves, gritted her silver teeth, and then picked up an ancient mother's gown and soaked it in the river.
A pair of black flannel shoes with elaborate workmanship appeared in her eyes, and the blue gown was also sewn by herself, and the man's feet stepped forward, and the heavy wooden basin was kicked half a meter away and fell into the rushing river.
The tub poured out and all the clothes were scattered, and the river flowed away with the floating tub with great merry.
She looked anxiously, pursed her lips and reddened her eyes.
Gu Sifan sighed lightly and squatted down, and her slender and dry hand wiped away the tears that had just overflowed, "Weren't you very powerful before, like a little wolf cub, who dares to provoke and bully your sisters and brothers, can you want to bite off a piece of their meat?" Why have you been in the palace for a few years, but it's not as good as before? Won't you be bullied in the palace? ”
She blushed and waved his hand away, and saw from a distance the women who were also washing clothes by the river leaning their heads and pointing at them, and said in shame, "This is outside, you, can't you behave properly?" Don't you know that this is why you are calling me a trample? ”
He stood up with a pale face and took a deep breath, "Ji Ranjia, I see that you haven't learned other skills now, but you have learned to be angry?" Who bullied you, and you scolded you back? What a tantrum with me! ”
"Am I having a temper, a good basin of clothes was kicked over by you, that's your mother, she naturally can't do anything to you, what about me? When you go to the town to teach, I won't even be able to eat. The fire in her heart went straight to him, and she regretted it after saying that, she had endured it for so many years, why did she break it at this moment?
Maybe she found that the path she chose was to lead to another quagmire that would be difficult to get out of, so she was a little disheartened, right?
She simply threw the clothes in her hand into the river, washed her hands and stood up, and walked up in a huff.
"Angry?" Ji Ranjia was anxious, but Gu Sifan chuckled lightly, and followed her with long legs unhurriedly, "Little girl, life has always been like this, everything will not be as you like." ”
"Didn't you say that you would marry me so that I would be happy and not be wronged?" She glared at him, she had already given up on herself, anyway, she didn't think that he would be able to do what he said, and she was not afraid that he would find out his true temperament and be divorced.
"Yes, I'm also solving problems in my own way. She asked you to wash your clothes, and your clothes were gone, will she continue to let you wash them? ”
Ji Ranjia stood still suddenly, and said with a smile: "I really don't know how you took the Xie Yuan test, I guess it's stupid to read." I washed my clothes, won't your mother count money with me? She has more of a reason to let me do things openly. And she didn't give me anything to eat. ”
This is the most important thing, when she was young, she was very hungry, and she was quite obsessed with eating.