Chapter 37: Marrying

Xiao Dong touched his sideburns: "Yes, I haven't seen you for several years." My sister has always been good? Sister Qiang wrote to say that you still have a brother, why don't you see it? ”

Shen Fang paused: "It's inconvenient on the road, he stayed at his grandmother's." ”

Her expression was a little unnatural, Xiao Dong didn't ask any more questions, and touched the girl's head with a smile: "Huh? This is my little niece's daughter? How old is it? ”

"I'm going to be a year old soon."

"What's it called?"

"Baby's name is Bao'er."

Xiao Dong smiled and took off the bead string on her wrist and tied it to her placket, Shen Fang hurriedly said, "This is too precious, how can I give it to her." ”

"I'm her aunt, this is the first time I'll see you, let's play with it."

The pearl shone brightly, and Bao'er lowered her head to scratch it, and spoke a language that adults couldn't understand.

"Sister Fang, go sit with me."

On the way, Xiaodong asked Shen Fang: "Is my sister and brother-in-law visiting relatives or ...... when they come back to the capital?"

Shen Fang smiled: "Your brother-in-law has found an errand, this time we are going to live in the capital for a long time." ”

"Really? So, have you found a good house? ”

"He has relatives in the capital, and he has rented a place for us, in Zonghuafang, two courtyards inside and outside, more than a dozen houses, and a small garden behind the house, we have a small population, and we can live as much as possible."

"So, is it convenient to go up or something?"

"It's farther away, you have to go out early in the morning, but it's more convenient, it's close to buying rice and vegetables."

The capital is prosperous, but the life of small officials is not easy, and transportation is a big problem. The sedan car could not afford to sit, and the horses did not have the conditions to raise, so they had to walk back and forth every day.

Xiao Bao'er didn't recognize life at all, she crawled around on the mat by herself, grabbed everything and looked fresh, and was very good at entertaining herself, and then crawled over and grabbed the corner of Xiaodong's skirt, giggling.

"Sister Qiang also asked me to bring a letter." Shen Fang took out the letter and handed it to Xiao Dong.

Xiao Dong called someone to bring up the snacks and fruits that children can eat, and opened the letter first. Shen Fang picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "Sister Qiang is also married, her husband's surname is Ye, and she will marry after the New Year." ”

Xiao Dong was a little surprised: "So fast?" ”

"Sister Qiang is not too small." Shen Fang said in a tone of voice: "If you stay any longer, will you become an old girl?" My aunt picked and picked, and she was reluctant to do anything, this young master of the Ye family can be called talented and beautiful, and his family background is good, so he is a good family affair. ”

Xiao Dong began to feel that there was a generation gap between her and Shen Fang-

Maybe a woman who becomes a relative will change her appearance, regardless of age.

Shen Qiang's letter didn't write about her marriage, most likely because she was embarrassed. only said some trivial matters, and at the end of the letter, he also mentioned a sentence, saying that Shen Fang and her mother-in-law had a quarrel over the matter of not going to Beijing. Her mother-in-law didn't seem to want her to come with her, but Shen Fang argued, so her mother-in-law retreated and left her eldest grandson behind.

This seems to be a common problem for many mothers-in-law in this era, always wanting to hold their sons and grandchildren in their own hands and pinch them in the palm of their hands, and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are naturally enemies.

Looking at Shen Fang, who was sitting opposite and coaxing his daughter, Xiao Dong didn't show anything unusual on his face, and folded the letter and put it away.

Shen Fang said something about what she saw on the way to Beijing, and asked, "Why didn't Sister Xiaodong go to the school?" ”

"Well, I haven't been there since the Chinese New Year, and I'm learning some needlework or something at home."

"Yes," Shen Fang nodded in agreement: "The things learned in the school are just for the icing on the cake, in fact, they are not too useful, they can be blind without knowing a few words, and they will live by themselves in the future. ”

Xiao Dong smiled and said, "Well, everyone else says the same." ”

This is of course the truth, but Shen Fang, who used to be very good at calligraphy, painting and chess, said this, which inevitably made people feel a little weird.

Jia Baoyu said that her daughter's unmarried is a priceless jewel, and when she gets married, the beads are still beads, but there is no treasure. Slowly change, it will become a fish's eyeball.

That's no way, the girls before leaving the cabinet don't have to pay attention to the seven things of firewood, rice, oil and salt to open the door, and they don't have to calculate how much money to buy vegetables and how much money to tear cloth to make clothes. Naivety and dreaming of those things...... As Shen Fang said, you can't eat it as a meal after all. You are naïve, but can you continue to be naïve in the face of your husband's intercourse and concubines? You have dreams, but when your mother-in-law tries her best to rub you and fix you, can you still have dreams? Not to mention that after having a child, a heart splits out eight points on the child, and the child is good, and he is good. If the child is not good, he will not be happy.

At noon, Zhao Lu accompanied Meng Hui and Shen Jing, who came in a hurry, had dinner, Xiao Dong entertained Shen Fang's mother and daughter, Shen Fang took care of the child, although he didn't talk to Xiao Dong again, but there was a cute child in the middle, and it was not cold.

After they left, Hongfu put some purple cloud incense in the furnace, brought a cup of tea to Xiaodong, and asked softly, "Why are you unhappy?" ”

Xiao Dong held his cheeks, and flicked the crystal chess pieces for a while: "Sister Shen Fang used to ...... It's good to play chess and the piano. Hongfu, you say, is it true that women have become like this when they get married? ”

Hongfu smiled: "What does this make people say?" Eighty percent of them are going to change. People who want to run a family to live, how can they still have the time to make poems and paintings, that is the leisure of young ladies who have not been out of the cabinet. ”

Xiao Dong sighed and said in an old-fashioned manner: "What if you don't get married? ”

"It's nonsense again, how can anyone not marry."

"Huh? Master Wu didn't get married. ”

Hongfu immediately refuted this example: "But how is Master Wu doing?" I also do it day and night, and the silk brocade passes through my hands, and I still wear cloth clothes. Besides, she won't be able to do this job for long. Needlework requires not only hands-on skills, but also excellent eyesight. Master Wu's age is about the same, according to the consistent employment of the Needle Work Bureau, Master Wu will have to come down in the next two years, what do you think she will do when the time comes? ”

Xiao Dong lay down dejectedly: "Alas, but how good it is to live alone, why do you have to marry to make cows and horses for others, and have to face so many unsatisfactory bad things." ”

Hongfu smiled: "Ah, there are exceptions. If a rich and wealthy family has no good children, won't they also recruit sons-in-law? ”

"Ah, don't talk about that. But any man who has a way out will not be a son-in-law. ”

Hongfu wanted to make fun of Xiaodong, but after a while, she swallowed the words again. Xiao Dong is a good talker, but Hu Shi doesn't rub sand in his eyes, if she says a few words that are out of proportion, maybe how Hu will clean her up when she turns around.

Marry someone, marry someone......

Sigh, sigh......

Xiao Dong really wanted to find a sand pile to bury his head.

But a few days later, another piece of news came.

Zhao Zhi is also about to get married.

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New Year's greetings to everyone~~~Twist~~

I wish you all a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year!