Second Aunt Yan looked at her, gently brushed her clothes, and sighed again: "Forget it, this matter has passed, he can't look down on me, and I can't look down on him!" Poor farmer! I won't say much, this girl's business, I paid my own money, I bothered you, I'm just such a girl, I can't wronged her, she is your sister, you have to know that a relative is estranged and close, when your mother was there, the family was not like this! Your surname is Fan, and you can't do without your mother's family when you get married, if there is anything wrong, you have to support your mother's family for you! Okay, you're busy, I won't say much, this girl has bought it, how much silver does it cost, you ask me to take it! Aunt Yan said, jumping off the kang neatly, Mrs. Fan endured her anger and sent her to the door of the flower hall, watching Aunt Yan walk away briskly, tears came out of her eyes, and she hurriedly pressed the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief to return to the flower hall, Yu Yan made a cup of hot tea and brought it over, looking at Mrs. Fan, who was bowing her head and sobbing, and persuaded: "The girl wants to open some." ”

"It's not a matter of wanting to open or not, what can't we discuss with Xiao Wu now? Xiao Wu doesn't say it, but he keeps it in his heart! But the second aunt just doesn't make sense, she is an elder, what do you say I can do? You can't force it back, can you? She is so temperamental, she refuses to eat at all. Mrs. Fan said with red eyes, Yuyan looked at her, and only after a while did she persuade again: "Why don't you talk to the fifth master?" ”

"Looking for her? As soon as she mentioned Yueting, she looked at you and didn't speak, if I asked her to say this, she would definitely look at you again and didn't speak, she was like that, where can I guess? Mrs. Fan put the cup on the table heavily, and Yu Yan hurriedly took the cup and said in a low voice: "Or, tell the master?" ”

"When did my father take care of all these household chores?"

Yu Yan lowered her eyelids and stepped aside, and Mrs. Fan stared blankly at the curtain of the flower hall for a long time, and weakly ordered Yu Yan to call the housekeeper to come in, and instructed Ren Yazi to send two more girls over.

Li Xiaoqi came back in the evening, half lying on the bed after bathing and reading the book, Wisteria came in with a bowl of red date soup, Li Xiaoqi sat up and took the soup, Wisteria got free, and said with a smile: "The newly bought girl was sent over today, first sent six, and then sent two more, I heard Yuyan say that she was going to wait for the girl in Yueting." ”

The soup in Li Xiaoyi's hand stopped at his mouth, stayed for a while, and then drank the soup casually, handed the bowl to Wisteria, rinsed his mouth, picked up the book and continued to look, Wisteria looked at it carefully for a while, and saw that Li Xiaoqi didn't seem to hear it, so he didn't dare to say more, and lowered his hand and retreated.

Kaiping Mansion is much colder than Taiping Mansion, after the middle of October, the first snow fell flutteringly, the snow fell overnight, the next morning, Shui Yan personally came to the door with great interest to invite Li Xiaoqi and Lu Feng to enjoy the snow, the three of them just had fun for less than two quarters of an hour, Su Zicheng sent someone to call Shui Yan and Li Xiaoqi back to work, and by the way, sent Lu Feng to go to the Huwei camp to give a word.

This first snow fell for a day and a night, although the snow was not big, inside and outside the city, it was also half a foot thick, Li Xiaoqi counted the days, Sister Zhang and they were about to arrive at Kaiping Mansion, such snow, I don't know if the road is good or not, think about it a little uneasy, simply sent Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun to ride a horse, all the way over.

There are still four or five days left in November, Sister Zhang and they finally rushed to Kaiping Mansion, Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Tiemu have lost weight several times, the same face of the two is black, and the lips are chapped, if it weren't for Zhang Tiemu's face is round everywhere, it is really a little impossible to tell who is who, Cheng Wang was already thin and thin, and he looked haggard and tired, Li Xiaoqi instructed Zhang Gouzi and Zhao Liushun to quickly take them to bathe and wash first, and have a good rest.

Sister Zhang is dressed in men's clothes, she is also very thin, but she is a lot more delicate, she got off the horse at the gate, Zhang Luo entered the second door with the car, Mrs. Sun squeezed in front of Li Xiaoqi and rushed to Sister Zhang, looking at the black and thin Sister Zhang, she didn't speak yet, she cried first with red eyes, Mrs. Fan was busy with joy and commanded the mother-in-law to put her feet and unload the luggage, Yan Er's aunt affectionately pulled the third aunt and others to ask for warmth, Yueting rushed over to pull Mingwan and said happily.

Li Xiaoqi took a half step back, smiled and looked at the lively reunion in the second gate, everyone was almost done, and Mrs. Fan led everyone to settle in the Fan house next door. Sister Zhang smiled and greeted Mrs. Fan: "You go first, I will say a few words to Xiao Wu." Mrs. Fan smiled, Mrs. Sun was reluctant to leave next to Sister Zhang, and Li Xiaoqi asked the two to go into the half-acre garden.

Mrs. Sun held Sister Zhang, Li Xiaoqi tilted her head and looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "Eldest Sister is back, Brother Erhuai is in a hurry, and he sent someone to ask if you have come back, it snowed a few days ago, Brother Shui said that he was so anxious that he didn't sleep all night, and scolded God for not having long eyes and being confused, what snow is it at this time!" Mrs. Sun couldn't stop laughing, and Sister Zhang didn't know if she was blushing, her face was too tanned to see it, so she only raised her hand and patted Li Xiaoqi heavily: "I still love jokes so much!" ”

Li Xiaoqi changed the topic with a smile: "Originally, it was the best for the eldest sister to live here, but if you think about it again, it is the most inappropriate to live here, how can anyone live in before the door?" I discussed with Sister Fan, the eldest sister lived in Fan's house first, lived with Sister Fan, and then married from Fan's family when she turned around, Sister Sun moved out and moved here to live, Sister Sun married from our family, does the eldest sister think this is appropriate? ”

"Okay!" Sister Zhang agreed coolly, Mrs. Sun tried her best to look generous, but her face was as red as a red cloth, and the three of them didn't say a few words, and they arrived at the gate of the half-acre garden.

Sister Zhang came out uncomfortably, raised her sleeves and said in embarrassment: "Little Wu, these clothes are slippery, how can I wear the coarse cloth freely?" Li Xiaoqi jumped off the kang, pulled Sister Zhang back and forth, turned her head to look at Mrs. Sun and exaggerated her admiration: "Look at it, our eldest sister is dressed like this, this style, this momentum, the full official lady is not!" ”

"Not really! It's much more decent than Brother Erhuai! Mrs. Sun followed and coaxed, and Sister Zhang stretched out her hand and slapped Li Xiaoyi: "Talk to my sister well!" Look at it, how can you do this job when you wear this clothes? This silk is good silk, and it can't be held if it's slippery!" Li Xiaoqi pushed her to sit on the kang, Liuyun hurriedly knelt forward and helped her take off her shoes, Sister Zhang was startled, she put her feet in hard, waved her hands and shouted: "Girl go busy, you go busy, I •••••• these shoes myself" Li Xiaoqi pressed her, Liuyun smiled and shrugged his shoulders and helped her go to the shoes, Wisteria aimed at Li Xiaoyi, and quietly signaled to Tingzhu and others, Tingzhu held the tea tray, bent his knees and served it to Sister Zhang, Mrs. Sun hurriedly reached out to take the cup, held it to Sister Zhang with both hands, and said seriously: "Girl, please use tea." ”

Sister Zhang was dizzy when she looked at people, and kept waving her hands, Li Xiaoqi smiled and bent her eyes, hugged Sister Zhang and sat next to her on the edge of the kang, turned around and signaled to Wisteria, Wisteria understood, and quietly withdrew from the house with a room full of little girls. Sister Zhang saw that everyone was going out, exhaled softly, took the cup from Mrs. Sun's hand, took a closer look at the delicate jade-like cup, drank it carefully, and drank it again, before drinking in, Mrs. Sun took the cup, poured a cup of tea and handed it to her, Sister Zhang also drank it in one gulp, then she breathed a sigh of relief, turned her head to look at Li Xiaomi, Li Xiaomian didn't speak, leaned on her shoulder, tilted her head and looked at her with a smile, Sister Zhang turned her head and carefully looked at Mrs. Sun standing in front of her, Stretched out his hand and pulled the coarse linen filial piety clothes on Mrs. Sun's body, Mrs. Sun said with a smile: "The eldest sister is so thin, she can wear Xiao Wu's clothes, Xiao Wu's clothes are all good, this one on your body is called brocade, it is scary!" ”

Li Xiaoqi moved, stretched out his hand to pull Mrs. Sun to sit down, turned her head to look at Sister Zhang and said with a smile: "Sister, let's go down the mountain now, Brother Erhuai has done everything, and I want to earn you a seal in the future, now and before, it's different, you don't have to work, just take care of the girl's mother-in-law and family servants to work." Sister Zhang looked at Li Xiaoqi with a smile, and suddenly reached out and touched Li Xiaoyi's cheek: "Fifth master, I am like a dream, you don't know, along the way, I dreamed that when I first went to the West Mountain of the pen frame, I was so hungry that I couldn't sleep, the fifth master went up the mountain, we were full of food, and now, it is like a dream." Mrs. Sun wanted to laugh, but she didn't laugh, but her tears fell down, and Li Xiaoqi was also a little emotionally moved by what Sister Zhang said, and hurriedly smiled and diverted the topic: "Okay, don't talk about this, how much business is it!" ”

Sister Zhang came to her senses and hurriedly turned around to find the burden she didn't dare to leave day and night: "What about my burden?" Alas! Where is the baggage? Mrs. Sun hurriedly took the burden from the kang and handed it over, Sister Zhang sighed, took the burden, opened it layer by layer, revealing a stack of silver tickets, a few pieces of broken silver and a few strings of copper coins inside, Sister Zhang nodded, and pushed the silver ticket and the burden in front of Li Xiaoyi: "The two thousand taels of silver you gave before I left, a total of six hundred and thirty-four taels were used, and the rest are here, you order." Li Xiaoqi looked down at the neat silver tickets and the odds and pieces in the baggage, thought about it, reached out to wrap the silver tickets, turned around and put them on the kang table, and said with a smile: "Eldest sister is hard, this is here first, I still have something to discuss with you, it's almost November, and everyone is busy with the New Year." Sister Zhang handed back the silver ticket to Li Xiaoyi, breathed a long sigh of relief, easily shook off her skirt and sat cross-legged, looked at Li Xiaoqi and said, "You say, I listen, I also have something to discuss with you." ”