It was only dusk when Gu Yin returned to Zhenyi Lane, but due to the bad weather, dusk came early.
The entrance of the alley is so narrow that horses and carts cannot pass.
After thanking the driver, Gu Yin got out of the car and walked home.
As soon as he reached the entrance of the alley, he saw a black shadow quickly passing in front of him, turning into another alley and disappearing.
Gu Yin stopped and squinted, and when he looked closely, he saw Wu An with a small hood sticking out half of his head from the alley.
"Mother! Sister-in-law is back!" The little guy shouted and came up to hold Gu Yin's hand.
Gu Yin dodged and avoided, "I'm cold."
Xiao Wu'an obediently pinched the corner of her skirt.
One big and one small walked home slowly in the alley, Gu Yin said with a smile: "I just saw a small black shadow jumping past, what do I think it is. It turns out that you are a little one."
Xiao Wu'an shook his head quickly, "I didn't run around, I've been standing behind the wall and waiting."
The two were talking, and Mrs. Wang hurriedly greeted them and urged, "If you have something to say, let's talk about it after entering the house, why are you drinking outside?!"
After speaking, without waiting for Gu Yin and Xiao Wu'an to answer, Mrs Wang grabbed one with one hand and dragged the two into the house.
There was a brazier burning in the house, and as soon as she entered the door, Gu Yin sighed comfortably.
Mrs. Wang put away her umbrella and put it at the door, closed the door of the main room, came in and took off the big cotton robe for her, then pushed her to the bench, and stuffed a fresh soup lady to keep her warm. , and entered the stove again.
Gu Yin saw that Xiao Wu'an's nose was red from the cold, so she let the old woman give up a bit of space, and the two of them covered it together.
"Sister-in-law's hand is so red." Xiao Wu'an reached out and touched Gu Yin's finger lightly, fearing that it would hurt her, she immediately retracted her little hand.
Gu Yin looked down, she didn't feel anything on her hands when she was outside, but now that she was warm, she realized that her fingers and the back of her hands were red, swollen, and thick.
She joked, "Do my sister-in-law's fingers look like pickled radish sticks? When you're hungry at night, will you grind your teeth?"
Xiao Wu'an was amused by her giggling.
Mrs Wang came out of the kitchen with hot water, and scolded with a stern face when she heard the words: "It's all like this, and you're still in the mood to joke? If I knew it was so snowy in the afternoon, I shouldn't let you go out if you say anything!"
Gu Yin immediately stopped laughing and did it on the stool honestly.
Wang Shi put the tub with hot water in front of Gu Yin, and the man squatted down.
Gu Yin quickly retracted her feet and said embarrassedly, "Mother, I'll do it myself!"
Wang Shi glared at her, "Why are you still embarrassed? When you first came to our house, you were scared to pee on the kang at night, and it wasn't the old lady who gave it to you..."
"Mother!" Gu Yin's face was flushed, although it was Yuan Shi's childhood, but now she has completely integrated Yuan Shi's memory, which is equivalent to listening to the embarrassment of her own childhood.
Xiao Wu'an covered her mouth and snickered, and Mrs. Wang stopped talking, twisted Wu An's body, turned his back to the two, and then lifted her skirt to help her take off the snow-soaked shoes and socks.
The shoes and socks were taken off, and Gu Yin's fair and jade-like insteps were exposed first, but her toes were not so beautiful - like fingers, ten small toes were all red and swollen.
Wang shi held her feet and did not put hot water directly, but said to her with a stern face: "I had a lot of inquiries with people today, and only then did I know how to treat this frostbite. If you come back from outside, you have to use hot water. Soak your feet in water. But you can't directly soak your feet in hot water, you have to warm them up first. Otherwise, if you soak your feet directly in hot water, ten toes will fall off for you!"
Gu Yin listened to her frightening herself as if she was frightening a child, forcibly restrained her smile, nodded and said, "It's my mother who knows a lot, I'll listen to you."
But when Wang shi finished speaking and was about to put her feet in her arms, Gu Yin was extremely embarrassed and wanted to pull her feet back.
"I've been walking for a day!" she said in a somber voice.
Wang's hand was like a pair of pliers and he didn't let it go, "Why didn't you just listen to me? Now you're embarrassed again, right? I think you learned to pour manure with me when you were eleven years old..."
"Mother, you are my mother! What you say is what you say!" Gu Yin helplessly begged for mercy, and did not dare to struggle any more.
Wang snorted smugly, and almost wrote the words "I want to fight with me, the little girl is still a little tender" on her face.
After covering it for about a quarter of an hour, Mrs. Wang touched Gu Yin's feet to warm up, and put her feet into the water basin.
Gu Yin sighed comfortably again. Mrs. Wang went to the stove to wash her hands, then brought out a pot of hot water, and sat down on the small bench beside Gu Yin's feet.
"In the past, the winter in our place was not as cold as it is here. Today, I heard your aunt Xu talk all the way, and only then did I know that many people here suffer from frostbite and freeze to death every year! I'm scared to death when I hear it. If it snows in the future, you You must never leave the house. I also bought you an ointment for frostbite today, and you can apply it immediately after soaking your feet…”
Gu Yin responded gently, and the temperature on her feet spread to her limbs and bones, and even her internal organs felt as if they were soaked in hot water. All the mishaps during the day seem to be nothing.
After changing the hot water three or four times, Mrs. Wang wiped Gu Yin's feet dry with a towel, and took out another white porcelain box from her arms.
The white porcelain box was exquisite and small, and the ointment inside was translucent and lustrous. After a while, the itchy and painful feeling like being bitten by insects disappeared.
Wang looked up and saw Gu Yin's eyes falling on the porcelain box in her hand, and said, "What are you looking at? Apply it three times a day. When you finish eating, you have to apply it on your hands too."
"This ointment is really comfortable, isn't it expensive?"
Wang shi said with a stern face: "Do you have so many children?" Then she thought that she had handed over the financial power of the family to Gu Yin before, and it was normal for her to ask questions, so she added: " Anyway, I didn't move the money at home, it's the private money you gave me before."
In the beginning, Mrs. Wang got 22 taels of silver from her mother's family. Later, when she started to do business, it cost a lot of money, and there was not much left. In the end, all that point was given to Gu Yin. The business of the small stall in the back became more and more prosperous, and the money finally given by Wang's family didn't come in handy, so Gu Yin returned the two or three taels to her, and let her use it as her private money, separate from the family's money.
Seeing that she refused to speak, Gu Yin guessed that the price must be expensive. But this is because the mother-in-law at home is kind, and she no longer asks.
After applying the ointment, Mrs Wang went to wash her hands again, and by the way brought out a large pot of meatball soup and a few sesame seeds from the stove.
The meatballs were made from the meat stuffing that Gu Yin had prepared before, and there was also white radish in the soup. The meatballs are round, fragrant and soft, and the white radish also stews the soup flavor, and the glutinousness melts in the mouth. The sesame cakes are freshly baked after the Wang family bought them in the afternoon. The crispy skin is full of sesame fragrance.
Gu Yin didn't eat lunch, and only put down the chopsticks after eating two large sesame cakes.
Wang shi looked at her in a hurry to eat. It was obvious that she had been busy all day and didn't bother to eat lunch. She probably guessed that her going out to see work that day was not going well. She would definitely have to ask carefully at rest, and then slap the person who didn't have long eyes and didn't choose her daughter-in-law.
But seeing that Gu Yin didn't mention it herself, she still held back and didn't ask.
After the evening meal, Gu Yin was pushed back to the house by the Wang family, and she was not allowed to wash the dishes.
Gu Yin went back to the room and lay down on the bed. She began to think about the day's events. She always felt that something was wrong—
It was mainly the matter of the Wang family's big house. At that time, the couple in the Wang family had just found out that the Wang family had brought them back, so they could not wait to come to the door. They were pretending to be poor and introducing the ship's work. They wished they could fool the Wang family overnight. .
At that time, Gu Yin thought they were just afraid of Wang's blowing the autumn wind.
Later, the Wang family took out the letters from their deceased parents. Although the Wang family was reluctant at that time, under the auspices of the patriarch, they did not play any other tricks.
This should have ended here.
But today, when she saw the scale and passenger flow of Wangyuelou, she knew that the big room was definitely not bad for money. The life of the big room is so good, the second room couple is only more shrewd and capable than the big room, and they know that they will not be worse than them.
Not to mention the daily gold, it will not look like it will take so much trouble for one or two rooms. And at that time, they didn't know that the Wang family had a letter left by the two elders, and they wanted to share a room with them. Why is there such a rush to strike first
It seems that they just don't want to see their mother-in-law go back to their parents' house
For a while, Gu Yin couldn't figure out the key points, and with the drowsiness after a day of running around, she almost fell asleep in a daze.
The door creaked, and Mrs. Wang broke the hot water and came in again, "Soak your hands before going to sleep."
Gu Yin rubbed her eyes and got up, sat down at the table, and obediently stretched out her hand and put it into the water basin.
Wang Shi saw her head drowsy little by little, like a chicken pecking at rice, and her eyes crooked with laughter.
After she had soaked her hands, Mrs Wang helped her apply the ointment, and urged her to take off her outer skirt and go to bed, and while covering her with the quilt, she said, "Just sleep like this for now, and I will burn you one tomorrow morning. A large pot of hot water. Wash when you get up."
Gu Yin couldn't open her eyelids, so she gave a nasal "um".
Seeing that she wouldn't resist for a while, Wang shi climbed up the pole and said, "Then it's agreed that we won't go out tomorrow!"
Gu Yin's brain was dizzy, and she answered again.
Wang shi lightly carried the water basin and went out, thinking that since she agreed, no matter what Gu Yin said, she would not be able to let her out again tomorrow!
However, the Wang family still miscalculated, because Wen Peifeng personally came to look for it early the next morning.