Chapter 12 Visitors

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, because it was snowing on this day, Xia Meizhen did not go up the mountain, and helped Jiang Yunxian make New Year's cakes at home (1). This is the custom of Xuanzhou Mansion, and New Year's cakes are made during the New Year, which are used to worship ancestors and entertain guests in the New Year.

Xia Meizhen has learned pastry, and when she sees Jiang Yunxian demonstrate, she will make it.

The two of them were talking around the kitchen board making New Year's cakes.

"Mother, the day after tomorrow is the New Year, should we go to Daddy's grave to have a look?" Xia Meizhen pinched the dough in her hand and asked casually.

"Of course I want to go!" A female voice came in from outside the house, and then a woman entered the house, "How lonely is my brother-in-law alone on the mountain, when you go, you can also greet me, and I will go and see." ”

The person who came was Jiang Yunxian's sister, Jiang Rong.

Xia Meizhen's face instantly turned cold.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Yunxian didn't give a good face, but the movements in his hands didn't stop.

"This is the New Year, of course I want to visit my sister, so as not to let those people think that my sister is a lonely person and a good bully." Jiang Rong took a step forward with a smile, wanting to find a place to sit by herself, but at a glance, she saw that this small kitchen could not accommodate a third person at all, and her brows immediately frowned in disgust.

"Yo, why is this place so small, sister, you are really, how can you find such a shabby place, where is this where people live, I asked you not to move out, you have to move out, you look at what kind of place you live in now." With a look of disgust, he gently covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, as if there was some unpleasant smell here.

"I don't need you to work anywhere I live." Jiang Yunxian continued to make New Year's cakes without raising his head, "If you're okay, go back, I'm still busy here." ”

Jiang Rong's face suddenly turned ugly, and she said in her heart: I really don't know what to do! Xia Zhiyuan used to support you, see who can still support you now, hum!

When he wanted to put on his face, he smiled again and said, "Sister, where is this, can't I come to visit you if I'm fine?" Then he beckoned to the outside of the house, and a person dressed as a subordinate handed over the three gift boxes in his hand, Jiang Rong continued: "What's more, I really have something to do, I'm here to give you a New Year's gift, you see, this is your brother-in-law's friends in the capital came a little bit of auspicious dim sum, a box costs five taels of silver, you are looking at this, it is also from the capital, what kind of purse is made by a famous family, I look at it and Sister Zhen'er is quite compatible, so I brought it to you......" crackled and said a lot, but Jiang Yunxian didn't respond to a word.

Xia Meizhen glanced at it secretly, then got up and went out, and when she came back after a while, she saw that she was still talking, so she said: "It's rare that my aunt still remembers me and brought a New Year's gift, so we can't be too cold, I don't have any good things here, so I just gave my aunt a few secret skills that my father left me at the beginning." As he spoke, he handed over the two boxes wrapped in his hand to Jiang Rong.

Jiang Yunxian stood up in surprise and wanted to stop it, but saw Xia Meizhen said very sincerely: "It's just that there is one thing, this thing can only be opened after my aunt takes it back, and it can't be known by others, after all, it's my father's secret technique before his death, and it's not good to let others know." ”

As soon as Jiang Rong heard the secret technique, her eyes lit up, the purpose of her coming here was precisely for Xia Zhiyuan's technique of digging bamboo shoots, and now Xia Meizhen took the initiative to send it to the door, or two, she was naturally very happy, and Jiang Yunxian had such an attitude, this thing must not be fake, so she quickly grabbed the box and said busily: "The little niece understands her aunt's mind, she will feel sorry for people, and she will definitely find a good mother-in-law in the future." ”

She thought to herself: three bargains can be exchanged for two of the dead ghost's two secret skills, what a bargain! While happily taking it, he didn't stay longer, and said, "Since you are busy, then I won't bother, so I'll go back." ”

Xia Meizhen sent it to the door with a smile on her face: "Go slowly, auntie." ”

When he turned around, he saw Jiang Yunxian with a dark face and said, "When did your father leave you a secret technique?" How did I not know? ”

Xia Meizhen smiled slyly: "She gave a New Year's gift, so naturally we have to return the gift, otherwise it should be out of order." ”

"Then tell me honestly, what did you give her?"

Xia Meizhen smiled slyly, leaned into Jiang Yunxian's ear and said, "I copied the "Women's Rules", as well as "Family Motto". ”

Jiang Yunxian's eyes widened when he said this, and he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh. This kid is really getting more and more lawless.

As if knowing what she was thinking, Xia Meizhen stuck out her tongue and said, "Didn't Daddy say that these two books are women's magic weapon secrets, and it's not wrong for me to give this to my aunt." ”

Hearing this, Jiang Yunxian had no choice but to pretend to be angry and nodded her forehead, sat down and continued to make New Year's cakes.

said that Jiang Rong took two boxes on the horse, and his husband immediately pounced on him to grab the box.

"Did you return the gift? Is it your dead man's secret technique? He said eagerly, but Jiang Rong flashed and dodged him.

"If you want to see it, you have to go home and see it, do you want to be seen by others when you look here?" Jiang Rong said proudly. It's so easy to get this secret skill, it seems that the little prostitutes are still afraid of themselves, and they are not in vain to get a ticket from the patriarch.

When Lao Wu heard this, he knew that his daughter-in-law was going back to please the patriarch, so he withdrew his hand, leaned on the carriage closet, hummed a tune, and said as if he remembered something: "You still have the means, no wonder even the patriarch's old goods are at your mercy!" ”

When Jiang Rong heard this, she kicked her angrily, "What are you talking about, I'm not here for our son!" ”

Lao Wu smiled and didn't speak.

In just half an hour, the carriage arrived at the Jiang family's main house, and the patriarch heard that they were back, so he waited in the hall early.

After a while, seeing Jiang Rong and his wife coming together, he rushed forward and asked, "I heard that you got Xia Zhiyuan's secret technique?" Show it to me. After saying that, he reached out and took the box in Jiang Rong's hand, opened it and saw that the word "Female Rule" came into view, which immediately made the people present dumbfounded!

The patriarch looked at Jiang Rong and then at Lao Wu, his face turned red and he immediately shouted: "This is the secret technique you got back!" As soon as the words fell, he raised his hand and smashed the box and the books inside on the ground, making a snapping sound, and Jiang Rong, who was frightened, couldn't help but shake.

"I don't know, I haven't even opened the box all the way, how can I ......" Jiang Rong's face turned white, and she immediately figured out that this was a trap given to herself by Jiang Yunxian's mother and daughter, and gritted her teeth and said: "I, Jiang Rong, want to be inseparable from you!" ”

"I don't think you want this year's admission list!" The patriarch Yin Owl's eyes stared at Jiang Rong, although he had long known that this woman was not a good thing, but he didn't expect that he would dare to fool him, and he was so angry in his heart, he really had never suffered it in his life.

"It's not me, it's really not me......" Jiang Rong wanted to explain, but it was not clear that could be explained in one or two sentences, even Lao Wu next to him was very anxious, but he was a slow brain turner, and he couldn't interject at all.

Note (1): The New Year's cake is changed by the author according to the custom of southern Anhui, where there is no solar term to make noodles similar to steamed dumplings, and this custom is used in the text just to make the story more plump and popular.