The weather at the end of Xining's eighth year was extremely cold, especially for Lin Saiyu from the future society, although she had been here for five years, but she still couldn't adapt to such a cold winter, the heavy snow had been falling for a whole day, and when the sky was gray and dark, Lindsay Yu, who was wrapped in a cotton jacket, came back from outside, and just knocked on the door twice, an old man opened.

"It's cold this day, Madame come in quickly, the old lady has come to the door to look at it several times, and she will ask the old man to look for it in the field." The old man said loudly.

Because Liu Xiaohu was not at home, Zhu Xianling felt that the three women were not at ease at home, and found an old man to come to see the door, called Zhang Si, who had been in the army before, and had a good martial arts, but now that he is old, he has no relatives at home, and he builds a nest at the door of the county government every day to beg for food, Zhu Xianling sympathized with him, and saw that he was a loyal and courageous man, so he told Lindsay Yu that he came to the house to see the door, and came these days, honestly guarding the door and not going to the yard to take one more step or say a word, Liu was very satisfied in his eyes.

"It's okay, I'm afraid that this heavy snow will collapse the shed, and I can't relax if I don't look at it." Lin Saiyu rubbed her hands together and sighed as she spoke, while hurrying through the middle hall, walking up the steps of Liu's house, stomping on the slush at the door, lifting the curtain and entering.

The warmth in the room was thick, a pair of gauze lamps hung in the room to reveal a warm light, and a pot of charcoal fire, Liu and Ying'er were sitting on the side to roast the fire, talking and laughing, I don't know what to say, Ying'er laughed and leaned forward and leaned back, until Lindsay Yu entered the house and realized that she jumped up and dusted off the snow for her, while taking off her clothes with her, revealing her wearing a hydrated jacket and blue cloth narrow pants, and the trousers were full of slush.

"Come up and roast, carefully freeze your feet." Liu Shi saw Lindsay's wet shoes and said distressedly.

Lin Saiyu threw off her shoes with a smile, and when she saw that the socks were really wet, she tore them off and threw them on the ground, jumping barefoot and sitting down by the brazier.

Liu stretched out his hand and slapped her on the head and said, "What a look!" ”

Lin Saiyu just smiled, Liu was busy asking Ying'er to go to the back room to get clean shoes and socks, Ying'er went for a long time and didn't come out, the anxious Liu shouted, Ying'er just came out, and said with a smile: "I cleaned up the bed kang with my hands, put down the tent and quilt, and this will take the quilt for Mrs., and sleep directly without the fire, okay?" My grandmother shouted at me what to do. ”

There are only three of them in the family every day, Liu's temperament is good, and Lindsay Yu has no concept of dignity and inferiority, Ying'er is nominally a handmaid, but in fact she is like a relative in the family, and she is getting used to talking without much size, Liu and Lindsay Yu don't care, hearing her say this, Liu just smiled and said, "It seems that you are diligent." While hurriedly asking Lindsay Yudao, "Have you eaten?" ”

Lin Saiyu nodded and said that she ate, Liu urged her to go to sleep, Ying'er had already fetched water, Lin Saiyu stayed in the field for a day, it was really cold and tired and couldn't stay up and went to sleep, leaving Liu and Ying'er in the hall around the brazier while talking softly, while making shoe uppers, not long after hearing Lindsay Yu snoring slightly, the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Grandma, are you hungry? I'm going to get the steamed buns and slice them, can we bake them and eat them? Last time, Madame made a strange and delicious meal like this. Ying'er laughed.

Liu nodded her head and said Delicious ghost, this winter night is long, Lindsay Yu will not be popular, the upper of the family's shoes depends on the two of them to make it, and she is really hungry when she stays up late at night, Ying'er smiled and did it, and after a while, a faint fragrance wafted out of the house, penetrating the tight windows, and drifting away with the scattered snowflakes, leaving only the soft light shadow reflected on the snow.

In a blink of an eye, it was the eighteenth day of the lunar month, looking forward to the heart of his son, Liu's family didn't care about the cold, and had to wait at the entrance of the village every day, but only waited for a letter and a bag of New Year's goods, it turned out that Kaifeng Mansion encountered a big cold wind and snow, and most of the old and sick orphaned beggars inside and outside the capital died, the emperor was sympathetic to the people, and ordered the officials in Beijing to be exempted from vacation to go to the preferential care, and because of the fear of wheat frost, Liu Xiaohu's duty was not allowed to return home, and the words of guilt and comfort full of five pieces of paper did not play a role in Liu's family.

Liu only saw that his son could not return for the New Year, and suddenly became embarrassed, Lin Saiyu hurriedly put the New Year's goods brought back by Liu Xiaohu in the house to see, trying to divert her attention, Liu looked at it strongly, and saw that there were not many things, just two black woven gold unicorn satin and one emerald blue cloud satin, and some gold and silver heads, Liu knew that it was for Lin Saiyu, so he asked her to take it, Lin Saiyu just laughed, and didn't dare to take it, picked up two silver hairpins, Liu picked up a comb back and gave it to Ying'er, so he put these away, and didn't laugh, I wasn't even in the mood to eat, just lying in the house every day, Lin Saiyu couldn't be comforted, and said that Liu was in a hurry, and complained that it was not strange that the daughter-in-law had to plant some land, and what contract did she sign to plant lotus roots, and she would be more implicated, otherwise she would buy the land and go with Erlang, saving him from being alone in the New Year, and shed tears when he said it.

Lin Saiyu smiled and said, "It's the daughter-in-law, so you can buy it." "Just say not to move, holding the porridge with fragrant herbs for Liu's to eat, Liu's actually understands that these lands can't be sold, their family now has the current situation, it's not all dependent on the things in the field, even if they follow Shangjing in the future, they can't sell it, Liu Xiaohu alone is a fortune, where is it enough to buy Zhuang goods to support his family? But whoever is an official has no land to support, just talking about angry words, but this daughter-in-law does not give a step down, and laughs at her with words, and beats the bed angrily: "You are a mouthy daughter-in-law, and your mother-in-law's words dare to be ridiculed, so you can't take it and pinch it?" ”

Lin Saiyu laughed, put the porridge aside and said: "Mother, what I said, I still have to play with that heart eye in the family, wouldn't I be tired to death if I live?" It's all because my mother is a person who understands, so I say what I want! Mother, don't eat this porridge, my daughter-in-law will make you a good banquet to apologize. ”

Liu couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it, he grabbed it and ate it, and laughed while eating, thinking that his daughter-in-law's words were right, and then thinking back to the past, none of them can compare to today's state of mind, just two words, relieved, daughter-in-law said everything openly, he didn't feel overstepped, but felt very happy, thinking that at the beginning, such a big family, whoever sneezed had to guess for a long time, it was really tiring.

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, Lin Saiyu arrived in the field early in the morning, and four or five tenants came out of the shed wearing robes and hats, and hurriedly took them in.

"Madame, do you think that's enough?" Cao Hong hurriedly asked.

Lin Saiyu looked at it and said: "I can't afford more, no matter how much it is counted, it is not enough for every family to eat the New Year." Everyone laughed and said enough, enough is enough, it's good to worship the ancestors and gods for the New Year, it's good to have filial piety, is it possible to eat a regular three seasons? So they called people to go separately, saying that the main family was going to share the dishes for everyone for the New Year, and for a while the whole village was lively, holding baskets and waiting for the place.

It turned out that a few days ago, when Lin Saiyu was checking in the field, he saw a tenant beating a few children with a stick, it turned out that those children were greedy for the fresh fruit growing in the ground, and they secretly picked and ate it while the adults were not paying attention, and they were caught by their parents and were going to be beaten, Lin Saiyu felt a little uncomfortable when she saw it, and she responded to what Lu said, the bare feet who sell shoes, and the silkworms have no clothes, and they are tenants who grow vegetables, but they have never eaten a bite of the vegetables they grow, and who is willing to eat those expensive objects that can be exchanged for money? I just hope that after planting well, I can harvest more and exchange more grain for food.

Lin Saiyu went home and told Liu that she wanted to pick some vegetables and distribute them to the tenants because of the excellent harvest this winter, so that they could also have a happy year. It was also proposed to give some to those in the village who did not cultivate their land, and distant relatives were not as good as close neighbors. At present, the people in Shifang Village have had an excellent year, the tenants of the Liu family each got a basket of fresh vegetables, and the people who did not farm got half a basket, and for a time everyone praised the Liu landlord's family for being kind-hearted, in addition to Cao Dashan, it turned out that Lindsay Yu still remembered the old incident of destroying the shed years ago, where was he willing to befriend him.

On the night of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Liu took Lindsay Yu and Ying'er to burn incense and sacrifice to the stove, put sugar and yellow rice, Ying'er held the chicken, burned incense and kowtowed to send away the stove prince, after finishing Ying'er grabbed a handful of stove sugar and ran out, Lindsay Yu hurriedly shouted: "Don't eat it yourself, give it to the children outside." Ying'er answered, pedaled away, and listened to a burst of excitement outside, this time the stove sugar was brought from the capital by the people from Lindsay Yutuosu's shop, where did the children in the village eat such good sugar, and for a while the outside of Liu's house was very lively.

The old man Zhang Si simply opened the door, preparing to paste the door god outside, Liu and Lin Saiyu stood at the door of the house wrapped in clothes and watched, the children were running outside with newly tied lanterns chasing Ying'er, Lin Saiyu laughed while sipping melon seeds, and suddenly heard Liu sighing beside him, knowing that he was thinking of Liu Xiaohu again, and just about to open his mouth to persuade him, he saw a bustle outside the door, Ying'er almost rushed in, and shouted: "The little official is back!" In a panic, Liu and Lin Saiyu almost fell down the steps, and ran out in three steps and two steps, Liu Xiaohu jumped down from a green horse wrapped in a navy blue velvet big coat, and his cheeks were bruised in the wind.