Chapter 14 Eat enough with thick skin
I took a general look at the situation in the room, the room was full of old things, a musty smell came to my nose, and some paper-cuts were scattered on the table in the center.
On the other side is a bed, and the quilt on the bed is neatly folded.
She sighed secretly, people live in the world, and each has its own suffering. Bitterness is the norm, and happiness is the condiment.
Zhou Ning's mother-in-law walked over and pointed to the stool, her eyes seemed to be a little bright, and she looked at her carefully, as if she still couldn't remember who she was.
"Mother-in-law, sit down!" Du Ruo said.
Zhou Ning's mother-in-law opened her mouth half, and most of the teeth in her mouth were almost lost, and she pointed to her ears to Du Ruo, indicating that she couldn't hear clearly.
Du Ruo had no choice but to raise her voice and ask her to sit down, and Zhou Ning's mother-in-law sat down.
Du Ruo picked up the paper-cut on the table and took a look, it was a dragon and phoenix with an auspicious pattern, a dragon with teeth and claws, a phoenix with wings spread out, the dragon and phoenix were relatively hovering into a circle, and in the middle were flying clouds and the sun, which were much more complicated than Du Ruo imagined, although the corners and corners were not handled very well, probably because of her age, her eyes could not see clearly, and her hand movements were a little blunt.
Du Ruo smiled slightly, picked up other paper-cutting and embroidery samples and looked at them, and sighed in his heart, this old man's craftsmanship is not ordinarily good, although she can draw, but the cutting skills are not fine, and she needs to practice more.
She picked up scissors and pieces of paper, made a cutting motion, handed them to Zhou Ning's mother-in-law, and motioned for her to cut.
Mother-in-law Zhou Ning waved her hand and pointed to her eyes.
Du Ruo had no choice but to put it down and look at the existing things on the table again, "Mother-in-law, how long do you cut this flower?" β
Zhou Ning's mother-in-law looked at her with a smile and didn't answer.
"It's really hard work, the village chief's family took away those few pictures, it took me three days, your painting is so complicated, it takes a lot of time, you are old, you should take care of your eyes!"
"How often does your daughter visit you? Do you usually cook and eat by yourself? Didn't farm? β
"Hey! I guess you can't teach me anymore, and I often come over to see and learn from the scriptures in the future, and explore by myself, do you mind? β
Zhou Ning's mother-in-law couldn't hear it, Du Ruo seemed to be talking to herself, sitting there while watching and expressing her opinions, asking some questions that did not respond, chattering, she found that she had said a lot, more than she had said these days.
"It's simple, but it's also chic."
"Maybe I can cut a few chic ones and use them as a faΓ§ade for people to see......
After sitting for most of the day, Zhou Ning's mother-in-law still looked at her with her hands on her head and smiled, and her face full of ravines looked amiable. Listening to her, occasionally saying a sentence or two, it is also a non-answer, probably because she has been living alone, and few people have come to talk to her.
Finally, Du Ruo stood up and said goodbye, she had to go home.
When she returned home, Mrs. Wang came to urge her again and asked her if she had traced the patterns on the red silk.
Du Ruo smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, are you still afraid that I will not be able to take down your precious piece of red silk cloth?" β
She wanted to delay her for a few days, and she found something else for her to help with.
"Put the work under your hands first, and tighten my business!" Mrs. Wang stared at the movements in her hands and couldn't help but glare.
"Done! I'll do yours quickly. Du Ruo said.
Although she said yes, she still had to do what she should do, just don't do it.
Mrs. Wang sat in the house and talked to Cai's family, and when Du Ruo entered the house from outside to drink water, Mrs. Wang changed her words and said to Cai's family: "The eldest daughter of the Su family is getting married!" In the past two days, Zhang Luo's daughter's dowry began, and Lao Feng went to walk around their door to take a look, and invited four or five embroidery girls, all of whom were women in the village, and their wages were calculated by the day! The Su family is rich! The daughter's marriage must be lively! β
Du Ruo paused as he drank water.
"The second daughter of the Su family, Huiniang, looks handsome and ingenious, it's a pity!" Cai Shi glanced at Du Ruo on the other side, and continued: "I haven't seen her for a long time, and I don't go out often." β
"At that time, Su Qun'er was thinking about marrying her daughter to Ju'an!" Mrs. Wang also glanced at Du Ruo, remembered this interesting incident, and narrowed her eyes with a smile.
"Which village did her eldest daughter marry into?" Cai also asked with a smile.
"Chishui Village! It's not far away! β
"How is his eldest son-in-law......
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The two of them slowly diverted the topic as they talked, and Du Ruo put down the porcelain bowl in his hand, turned around and walked out of the house.
Entering the West House, Du Ruo picked up the scissors in the sewing basket and the drawn embroidery patterns to cut them attentively and quickly, and took out the other two embroidery samples from Song Ju'an's books.
"Thick-skinned enough to eat enough ......," she muttered to herself, walking out.
Walking to the gate, with her hand on the wooden door, she hesitated again, was silent for a few seconds, and then went back into the house.
"Du Shi has no dignity at all, her reputation has long been shameless when it is so bad, not much more this time, less this time is not much......" Du Ruo muttered to himself again.
So she went out again, but before she could get out of the yard she stopped again, and after standing there and thinking for a long time, she finally stepped out of the house with a face of death.
The Su family is not far away, they all live at the back of the village, she did some ideological work for herself while walking, and said in her heart: Such days are still long!
The Su family is a small rich family, the house is beautifully built, divided into front and back yards, green walls and blue tiles, spacious and spacious. Passing outside, looking up, you can see clusters of flowers and trees planted in the courtyard of the Su family, tender green vines climbing the wall, and flowers and bones of various colors are dotted among the vines.
Du Ruo walked around the corner of the wall with the embroidery pattern in his hand, and a person who didn't pay attention collided with the person walking on the other side of the wall.
She covered her head with an 'ouch', and was knocked back a step, before she could see who the person opposite was, the two of them pushed her hand over, very hard, and pushed her back five or six steps before standing firmly.
Du Ruo rubbed her forehead and saw Hong Si'er's daughter-in-law Pan Shi looking at her with a smile: "Oh, you're blind?!" No one in front of you can see it, so they just bump into it! β
Du Ruo looked at her with a cold face, it is said that that Pan went to Beishan that day and caught her man committing adultery with a widow in a neighboring village, but in turn he was beaten by her man.
Hearing that Mrs. Wang said that Hong Si'er beat her not lightly, Pan's didn't come out to see anyone for several days, just cried. Later, Pan ran to the door of the widow in the outer village and scolded her, saying that she was shameless, seduced her man, and all kinds of swear words were unbearable.
"If you're blind, I can't be blind!" Du Ruo said sarcastically.
"Rotten!"
"Sister-in-law of the Hong family, don't scold yourself like that!"
"Stinky bitch! I'm scolding you! β
Syllable!
Pan's face was slapped, and the slap was loud and crisp, without any mud.
"I don't care if you scold yourself, I should be beaten if you scold me, I was unprincipled before, but I will have it later!" The corners of Du Ruo's mouth hooked a sneer, her right hand was numb, she shook it a few times, and walked forward.
Pan Shi was stunned at first, and when he reacted, he immediately rushed towards Du Ruo like an old hen with flapping wings.
Du Ruo is not a fool, knowing that she will catch up and fight, take a few quick steps and turn from the corner, and quickly run to the gate of the Su family, the Su family happened to face someone coming out, Du Ruo only felt that his clothes were pulled from behind, and he couldn't move forward anymore.
However, she was slightly surprised, because the people who came out of the Su family were Song Ju'an and Su Mingyang, the only son of the Su family, and the two were also surprised to see her.
Then Du Ruo was pushed hard from behind, and his body rushed forward.
But the next moment, she didn't fall to the ground, but was caught by Song Ju'an.
She grabbed Song Ju'an's sleeve, looked up in his arms and complained: "An Lang! The sister-in-law of the Hong family chased after me and beat me and scolded me! I walked so hard that I didn't know how to offend her! β
"Sister-in-law, is it okay?" Su Mingyang stood next to her and hurriedly asked her, and then glanced at Pan, who was panting and angry next to him.
Song Ju'an frowned and quickly let her go, Du Ruo had no choice but to stagger and stand up straight, walked to Song Ju'an's side, and turned to look at Pan.
Pan Shi crossed her hands on her hips and looked at the three of them, at this time she was stimulated by Du Ruo and there was not much left, "Song Ju'an!" Your mother-in-law actually beat me just now! I can't spare her now! The old lady was not beaten casually! β
Du Ruo reminded her very calmly: "Didn't Hong Si'er just beat you up a few days ago!" β
Pan's face was red and blue for a while, if it wasn't for Song Ju'an, she would have pounced and tore Du Ruo!
"Don't rely on your man to be here, just talk nonsense and make up nonsense, cheap hooves dare to beat me! See if I don't tear your mouth! Pan stretched out his hand and stepped forward, and the shrew didn't care about the image at all.
Du Ruo hurriedly walked behind Song Ju'an and asked him to block him.
At this time, many people sitting in the courtyard of the Su family also came out one after another to see what was happening at the door. The Su family wanted to marry their daughter, and invited many people to come to the house to work, this time, there were men and women, more than a dozen people, as well as Su Qun'er, the head of the Su family, and his daughter-in-law Li.
Everyone came out, and Pan's restrained a little, but he was still blocking the door, burning with anger, "Du Rulan, don't want to run today!" β
Du Ruo lowered his head and raised his head, quickly put on a pitiful face, glanced at the onlookers embarrassedly, and said to Pan's family: "Sister-in-law of the Hong family, why do you always have trouble with me, last time on the bank of the fairy river, you beat me a lot, and now I met and beat again, where did I offend you?" β
When everyone heard this, they all looked at Pan Cuicui. Pan is also a cheeky thief mother-in-law, good at scolding the street, compared to the stupid Du Rulan, she is much more shrewd.
Su Qun'er's daughter-in-law, Li, couldn't get used to seeing Pan's arguing at the door of her house, and said unhappily: "Pan's, don't bully people too much, Du's doesn't look like bullying you!" β
Without waiting for Pan to answer, Li looked at Du Ruo, who was standing behind Song Ju'an with a 'grievance' on his face, and asked, "Rulan is here to find Song Xianggong?" β
Song Ju'an was here, and the Li family didn't show an expression of disgust for her, otherwise she would have let these two mothers-in-law stay away!
Du Ruo shook his head and pinched a few embroidery patterns in his hand hard, at this time everyone looked at her, even Song Ju'an looked at her, and he thought that Du Shi was looking for him.
She pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Actually, I'm here to find Aunt Su!" I heard that Qingniang is getting married, and your family is busy, so I'll come over to see if there's anything I can do to help! β
As soon as her voice fell, everyone showed a look of surprise, as if they didn't believe that these words came from Du Rulan's mouth.
The sun is coming to eat in the west? When did Du Rulan ever be diligent? When did the mouth become so sweet?