Feng Jiaojiao shook her head and said embarrassedly: "It's a little unsteady." Liu Zhi smiled and took Xiaobao and put him on the bed, Xiaobao vaguely told her to fall asleep. The two friends lay beside Xiaobao on the left and the right, and they didn't talk for a while. "Xiaozhi, who is this Ah Ai? It's not like the maids hired here. There were servants from the locals in the house, and Feng Jiaojiao had already paid attention to it, Ah Ai was dressed completely differently from them, and she was wearing several pieces of valuable jewelry.

"Her name is Alice, whatever, there's a long list of names behind her, and the names of the feudal lords are weird. It's too troublesome to scream, so we'll call her Ah Ai. She is a little related to the governor, so Uncle Jue is in the outer room here. ”

After Liu Zhi finished speaking, he felt that it was inappropriate, but he couldn't take back what he said. She stammered and explained, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean you... It's none of your business... It's not... Oops... Anyway..."

The words became darker and darker, Liu Zhi couldn't go on, and when he was irritable, Feng Jiaojiao took a breath lightly and said with a smile: "It's okay, if you do something wrong, you should take responsibility for it." But you said that Ah Ai is a relative of the governor, so doesn't the governor support her? ”

"Many of their aristocrats are imaginary, and their families only have an empty name, so they come out to earn money. Ah Ai's family is very poor, there is no dowry, she used to serve the governor's sister, you see that the jewelry on her body was given to her by Uncle Jue. Speaking of this, Willow Branch also let out a long sigh, "I don't understand it, and I don't know if it's right to do it." It is also hard to say that Uncle Jue is alone in a foreign country, and it is not too much to have someone around him to serve, but it is not easy for grandma. ”

"I've seen the eldest grandmother before, she and the seventh wife, the second grandmother, the third grandmother, alas, in short, all the women in the family, the first thing they do every day is to burn incense and chant Buddha for the men who go out, and what do they copy and pick up beans at night. I think it's one thing to be worried, and it's also boring.

The women spend their days in the house day by day, taking care of their children, and they don't see men for years. finally brought up the children, and they all flew away like birds, just like Mrs. Seven; The man is still far away, there are other women around him, and he has children with other women. Thinking about it makes no sense these days. ”

The eldest grandmother gave birth to two boys and a girl, Uncle Jue and two aunts each had concubines and concubines, and Ah Ai also gave birth to two sons. And Bai Qiye has four or five local concubines in Zhancheng.

Happiness or not, the eternal topic between men and women, both of them stopped talking, were depressed, and simply fell asleep like this. After waking up after sleeping for more than an hour, I simply freshened up and took the two mothers and sons downstairs. Ah Ai was placing a strange teacup on a small round table, with a handle and a saucer underneath. When she saw them, she gestured and said something.

Ah Ai's current dynasty dialect was learned from Bai Jue, and it is not an official dialect but a Nanquan dialect, so it is great to be able to understand one out of ten sentences, but with the gesture movements, even guessing with Meng can roughly know what she means.

"They are used to having a snack in the afternoon, accompanied by tea, and their dim sum is delicious." Liu Zhi said to Feng Jiaojiao. I smelled an extremely sweet smell, and Ah Ai put a few plates of pastries. A boxy, golden color, much like honeycomb cake, willow branch said, "This is called a cake, made of eggs, milk and fine white flour." ”

The other is round and small, like a steamed bun, which is also golden. "It's called bread, and their dim sum is also made with noodles first, and then it's not steamed but baked over a high fire. The dough is also different from our steamed buns, and the taste is very sweet. ”

"yes, fluffy, so fragrant." Feng Jiaojiao was a little tired after eating two pieces of cake, and when she took a sip of tea, the tea was also very fragrant. She secretly wondered in her heart whether the Frankians had a less developed sense of taste and liked this aroma and sweetness when eating. Just like their overly gaudy appearance, their preferences are straightforward and exposed, Ah Ai sprayed flower dew, and a gust of fragrant wind hit before people arrived.

After eating snacks, the two of them took Xiaobao to explore this exotic house, the dinner was not particularly abrupt, the cook was brought by Bai Jue from home, but the species in the two places are different, and it is also different and fresh.

The fish and meat are all made of local famous spices, the smell is strong, but a cold salad is very appetizing, with the local green papaya shredded, together with mint green cabbage leaves tore and stirred, and the raw pickled small crab is the familiar taste of the hometown, which is an unexpected joy. Feng Jiaojiao almost ate these two things by herself, and when she found out, she said embarrassedly: "Look at me, I really can't help it." ”

"It's a good thing to be able to eat." Willow branches can eat a little bit of everything. She especially likes the rice here, which is boiled out and has a slender stick, which is very fragrant, and can be eaten without having to eat it.

Feng Jiaojiao looked at Ah Ai with a small silver fork and spoon to eat, and she didn't eat rice, there were a few pieces of that kind of bread in a small basket, and Ah Ai ate that and drank soup.

Li Chun only came back the next afternoon, and he still took Xiao Jia with him, "He said he wanted to see you." ”

Xiao Jia, it should be called Liu Jia, I haven't seen a lot of changes in Su Nian, and the kind of soft and reliant temperament I used to have is gone. He was born fat, and the days of grinding removed all his soft and white fat floating flesh, and his whole person seemed to have shrunk a circle, but he looked a lot better, the meat was firm, and the facial features and body contours were prominent, although he was not handsome, but at least he was a very spiritual young man.

"Big girl is good, big girl Feng is good" is really a long time since I heard this kind of title. At this moment, hearing Liu Zhi in this foreign dusk is really mixed in her heart, she doesn't know what to say, and she only looks at Xiao Jia with caution and curiosity in her big eyes.

"I used to be ignorant, so I made the big girl worry about it." The voices are all mature.

"You've turned black," Willow Branch found only one sentence.

Xiao Jia scratched his head, smiled a little embarrassedly, and said very sincerely: "When I got outside, I realized that I was happy before." When the wind blows and the sun blows, it turns black. The big girl used to be too good to me, but I didn't fight for myself. ”

"Well, don't mention the past, it's good if you have a good time, after all, I brought you out from such a distant hometown. I'm relieved to see you like this now. ”

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Liu Zhi left Xiao Jia to eat, Feng Jiaojiao was even happier than Liu Zhi to an acquaintance who could speak freely and speak his hometown, and when Feng Jiaojiao and Xiao Jia chatted, Liu Zhi went back to the room to find Li Chun first.

"Brother Xiaochun" she screamed, there was no one in the house, but the white sugar cake jumped down from the soft collapse with a "meow" and ran to her feet and rubbed it. Liu Zhi shouted a few times in the corridor holding the white sugar cake, and saw Li Chun leaning out from the stairs on the third floor: "What's wrong with Xiaozhi?" ”

Seeing him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and Liu Zhi pinched one paw of the white sugar cake and waved to him: "It's okay, I just want to call you, now it's okay, you can get busy." She knew that he had come here for serious business, and the third floor was a study and a place for conversation, and she rarely went up. She has no curiosity in this, men's affairs are men's affairs, so in essence, Willow Branch and Lady Pearl are two completely different people.

Li Chun smiled at her: "Well, I'll wait to accompany you, you and Jiaojiao will play with them." ”

Back in the living room on the first floor, Ah Ai had already helped them serve a table of snacks and tea like yesterday, and Feng Xiaobao and this new uncle had gotten along very well. The little boy always needs the companionship of male elders, Xiao Jia is talking about what he saw and heard on his journey, the legend of the monk of the sea, the turtle spirit stealing the pearl of the night, and Feng Xiaobao pinched a piece of cake in his hand and pinched it into powder, and his big eyes did not blink.

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