I finally got home. There was no heater on the train back, but I was freezing to death. When I got off the train, my legs were frozen. After all, it was already over 20 degrees below zero, so I still need to have a heater. !
""Dividing line""
When Hehua entered the door, she saw Jasmine and Xiaoxiu helping Fang with cooking in the kitchen. He rushed forward and called out: "Sister-in-law, you're back!"
Xiaoxiu smiled and nodded: "Hurry and wash your hands and get ready to eat. I also brought smoked chicken back from the city."
"Where's the elder brother? I heard you brought me a book?" Hehua asked first as she was anxious to see what kind of book it was.
Jasmine picked up the bowls and chopsticks and walked into the house. After hearing this, she said: "I haven't seen anyone all morning. I waited until the food was ready before I came in. If I didn't help clear the table, I would just focus on your book. That book was lying there." If I can’t run away anymore, won’t it still be yours after dinner?”
But Xiaoxiu smiled very understandingly and said, "Your elder brother is packing things in our house, just go and find him." Then he turned to Jasmine and said, "They like reading books, so this book can be used as a It is really more attractive than food. When my father got a new book, he would eat and sleep without leaving his body until he finished reading it. I originally thought that only my father, a bookworm, was like this. I only found out after we got married. , your eldest brother is also in a similar situation. Although he is not good enough to hold a book while eating, he still refuses to sleep no matter how much he urges him to do so. He wishes he could finish reading it in one day."
Jasmine stuck out her tongue after hearing this and said: "It's not like the square characters are so attractive. I also learned a few characters from lotus, but I didn't feel like I couldn't put it down anymore. I spent a hundred days looking at lotus. At night, I held the book and read non-stop, and I felt that I really couldn’t understand it. She had so much energy, so she really couldn’t be better off practicing her embroidery work.”
Hehua ran straight to the west wing and shouted when she entered the door: "Brother, where is my book!"
Bo Rong is organizing the bookcases. The bookcase with four doors was originally made in the shape of lotus flowers for Zhu Yongxin to copy. Although the craftsmanship is not as good as that of a serious carpenter, it is better in that the style is simple and elegant, and it is very convenient to access books. Let Bo Rong like it very much.
Seeing He Hua entering the room, Bo Rong smiled and said: "I know you have to come and get the books first if you don't care about eating." Then he pointed to the desk behind him and said, "They are all in that bag. There are seven books in total, and there are two This book is given to you by Brother Tang. You can keep it and read it slowly. I asked my classmates in school to borrow the other five books for you, but they must not be damaged. You can read these five books closely first. If you think they are good, If you have any questions or can't read it, just copy it down first, and then read it carefully later. I will return it to you as soon as possible after you finish reading it."
Hehua went straight to the book. He saw that the seven books in the bag were travel notes, "Guangbian of Famous Mountains and Zhu Sheng" and "Collected Commentary of Xuncang". After looking through it, he found that one was about mountain travel and the other was about sightseeing. Water, these are two rare compilations. They contain miscellaneous notes or random reflections of many people in the past dynasties traveling to various places. After a brief glance at the catalog, they cover a lot of places. The ones that followed were basically story books, such as "A Needle Flying", "Collection of Demons", "Dragon Pattern", etc. The bottom two were covered with book covers, and the titles written on them were Qi Jintang's handwriting. The two books were "Ancient and Modern Anecdotes" and "Lang Ya Man Chao". She picked up the last one and flipped through it first, and said strangely: "The name of this book is really strange."
Bo Rong looked back and saw the book she was holding and said, "That book is really rare. It belongs to a very talented princess from the previous dynasty. She often talked about epic poems with some of her close friends. Later, in her later years, she began to organize all the essays and notes she had collected throughout her life, and added many poems and miscellaneous conversations by her friends. Finally, this collection was created, because her villa was named Langya Villa. , so this collection is named like this. Originally, this collection only had the handwritten copy of the princess herself. At that time, when the former dynasty was still at its peak, it was copied many times, but then the former dynasty gradually declined. After another dynasty change, there are fewer and fewer of them, and I don’t know where Brother Tang got them.”
"You two, you really don't even know how to go to dinner if you don't come to invite me!" Jasmine's voice came from outside the door, and Hehua hurriedly stuck out her tongue and said: "Brother, let's go, I'm afraid the table has been set up just for the two of us. ."
But Bo Rong suddenly stopped He Hua, and seemed to be hesitant to say: "He Hua, you, you used to have a good relationship with your sister-in-law. If you have time, can you ask her if she has something on her mind recently?" I always feel that she is a little strange these days, but when I asked her, she only said that she was fine, and I really couldn’t figure it out. Can you help me?"
"No wonder he took the initiative to borrow the book for me. It turned out to be for a purpose." Hehua held the book and closed her eyes. Seeing that Bo Rong's expression was indeed very serious, she said, "I'll just ask for you. But I can’t guarantee whether you can ask me. Could it be that you made my sister-in-law angry? If so, I won’t turn on you."
"It would be better if I made her angry. At least I know the reason. Now I am really confused and can only ask you for help." Upon seeing this, Bo Rong made a begging gesture towards Hehua, and then Jasmine's urging voice sounded outside: "If you two don't come, we'll have to eat vegetable soup."
"Oh, it's coming, it's coming!" He Hua ran back to her room with the book in her arms and put it in the cupboard. Then she went to the east room to eat.
Seeing that the whole family was sitting together, Mrs. Fang said: "The whole family happens to be here today. Let me tell you something. Someone came to our door these days to marry Jasmine. It is the Jiang family of Fangzhuangzi. The child is with I have also asked your grandma’s family about the scholar who was selected by our family, Borong, and it is indeed a family with a good reputation." After that, he asked Borong, "Do you have any impression of Jiang Shiyan? How is that person? ?”
Bo Rong recalled for a long time, and finally shook his head and said: "We didn't study together before. We met once when my sister-in-law got married. We didn't know each other at that time. Later, we met when we were taking exams and releasing results in the city, but we didn't. It was just a friendship, and he was not selected as a student, so he is probably still studying at home, and I am really not familiar with him."
Jasmine's face had already turned as red as an apple. She was holding the rice bowl and just lowered her head to pick out the rice grains with chopsticks. She put them into her mouth one by one, as if she was savoring the taste, but in fact she probably didn't even taste it. The taste comes.
Xiaoxiu smiled and joked: "Jasmine, I added corn kernels to my rice today. Do you think it tastes good?"
"Yeah, it's delicious!" Jasmine replied without hesitation.
The whole family burst out laughing when they saw this. When Jasmine came back to her senses, she saw that she was holding a bowl of rice. She blushed even more and said to Xiaoxiu: "Sister-in-law, I thought you were a good person. Who?" I know how to play tricks on people every day, just like He Hua."
Hehua pretended to be aggrieved and said, "Sister, what you said is wrong. It was my sister-in-law who taught me bad things, but you said the opposite."
"The two people on the left and right are not good people, so they just come to make fun of me." Jasmine finished the rice in the bowl in a few mouthfuls, put down the bowl and chopsticks and said, "I'm full, you can eat slowly." After that, Got up and went back to the house.
Seeing this, Zhu Yongxin smiled and said: "This girl usually looks fierce at home, but when it comes to marriage, she is more ashamed than anyone else."
When He Hua saw Jasmine leaving, she took the opportunity to say, "I'm going to the old courtyard today. My grandfather said that we should make the decision on my eldest sister's marriage. My grandma also told me that my grandpa and grandma think the Jiang family is pretty good. Let my parents see it." Just do it.”
When Mrs. Fang heard this, she thought it was Zhu Yongxin who had made peace with her, so she didn't ask too much. She just said that she would reply to the matchmaker first, and then talk about other things after making up her horoscope.
After lunch, Bo Rong stood up and said, "I'm full. I'm going to see Mr. Fu in the afternoon." After that, he winked at Lotus and went out.
After clearing the table and washing the dishes, He Hua kept looking at Xiao Xiu quietly from the corner of his eye. He saw that her eyebrows were a little depressed. Seeing that there was no one in the kitchen, he asked: "Sister-in-law, what, my brother has made you unhappy?" "
Xiaoxiu came back to her senses and said, "No, what's the matter?"
"I look a little unhappy when I see you!" Hehua tilted his head and looked at her and asked.
"Can you tell at a glance?" Xiaoxiu raised her hand to touch her cheek and sighed with a somewhat lonely expression, "Actually, it's my own business. I've heard people say before that if I went to worship the Guanyin, I would be able to If you catch the clay doll, you will be pregnant immediately, but I... I haven't heard anything yet, and I am always worried that something is wrong."
Hehua didn't expect such a problem, and was a little stunned for a moment. She recalled that it had been less than a month and a half since Xiaoxiu went to pay homage to Guanyin, and even if she had a child, she might not be able to notice it, and Bo Rong It had only been two months since she got married to Xiao Xiu, and she was really in a hurry... But He Hua couldn't say these words. After all, she was only a nine-year-old child now, and no matter what she said, it was okay. It was inappropriate, and I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed for a moment, not knowing what to say.
At this moment, Xiao Xiu also realized that it was inappropriate for her to say anything to He Hua about giving birth to a baby or being pregnant. She lowered her head and continued working with her cheeks flushed, and said in a complementary tone: "I, I was just imagining it. I think, you, just pretend I didn’t say anything,”
He Hua raised her hand and touched the tip of her nose and said, "I didn't understand what my sister-in-law said. I'd better ask my mother to ask. I'll just wash the dishes."
Xiaoxiu didn't seem to want to let Mr. Fang know at first, but now she had told Hehua. She thought it would still reach Ms. Fang's ears, so she might as well go in and ask herself. She thought of this and said After cleaning my hands, I took off my apron and entered the east room. When I saw Mrs. Fang working on the kang, I hesitated again. I stopped and wanted to turn around and go out.
Mrs. Fang heard the movement and saw that it was Xiaoxiu, so she called her and said, "Xiaoxiu, come and sit on the kang. What's going on? Is something okay?"
"Mom, I..." Xiaoxiu hesitated, half-sitting on the kang as if she wanted to get up and leave at any moment.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Xiaoxiu's appearance, Fang was thinking the same thing as Lotus, "Did Bo Rong bully you?"
"No, mother, he is very good to me. It's just me, myself..." Xiaoxiu lowered her head and rubbed the corner of her clothes and said, "I feel like there is no movement in my stomach until now. The last time I went to the city to pay homage to Guanyin, everyone else was It’s said to be very effective, but…”
When Mrs. Fang heard about this, she was a little confused about whether to laugh or cry. However, seeing Xiaoxiu's really sleepy look, she didn't want to laugh at her, so she just took her hand and asked her to sit down on the kang, and said softly: "Silly boy, I thought it was almost a year since I got married to your father before we got Borong. How long had it been since you got married to Borong? How could it be so fast? And you two are not too old, Borong. I'm still studying now, and my parents are not in a hurry to have a grandson. We haven't rushed you yet. Why are you so anxious? If we should have children but haven't yet, then I mustn't be more anxious than you?"
After hearing this, Xiaoxiu felt relieved. She lowered her head and smiled sheepishly: "Mom, my mother died early. I don't understand many things. It's really inconvenient to ask my father. I Dad can only tell you to ask your aunt if you have any questions, but my aunt’s words are a bit unreliable, so mom needs to teach me more in the future.”
"This is natural. Mom is happy that you are thinking about this. But sometimes, whether or not the child will be born is not what you are anxious about. What's more, you are anxious too early." Fang told the story. Xiu comforted her and then let her go back to the house by herself.
He Hua chased her into the house and leaned against the door frame and asked, "Sister-in-law, how are you? Did you ask me clearly from my mother?"
Xiaoxiu's face turned red again, and she said shyly: "Mom, I've already made it clear. As a kid, don't ask about this."
"Sister-in-law is so heartless. I came to see you just because I was worried that you were still in a bad mood, but it turned out that I came in the wrong place." Hehua said and turned to leave, but Xiaoxiu grabbed her.
"Good girl, I know you are doing it for my own good. I just said it casually, but you are not allowed to eat your heart." After saying this, Xiaoxiu picked up a bundle from the bed, opened it layer by layer, and said, "Here are you guys. This rouge and gouache is just right for Jasmine. I’ll teach her how to use it soon. I also know that you don’t like applying makeup and powder, so I found a pen washer and a square of ink from the mess at home. Take them. Use it. Boning now studies and writes every day, and I also bought him a few pens. The remaining piece of ruler happened to be what was left at home, a medium-sized piece. It’s a pity that I don’t know how to save it if I don’t cut it. What should I do? I can’t tell what age the cloth is. Maybe it’s leftover from something I did in the past. I felt it was still strong, so I asked my mother to make clothes for Shuanzi! There are some here. I will give my mother some acupuncture supplies, and this is the medicinal wine prepared by my father. I heard that my father has been suffering from leg pain recently, so my father said to try using this for a few days."
"Sister-in-law, you are so good. You always bring things from our house every time you come back. No wonder people say girls are outgoing, and they are really right." Hehua looked at the big bag and couldn't help but tease Xiao Xiudao.
But this time, Xiao Xiu didn't feel blushing. She just reached out and poked He Hua's forehead and said, "Aren't you a girl yourself? I want to see if you are outgoing or not in the future!" He tied up the baggage in his hand and said, "Besides, many of these things were sent by the patients my father had cured. They were more or less just to express his feelings. When he couldn't push them out no matter how hard he tried, he had no choice but to accept them. As a result, the family became more and more unhappy. I have saved a lot of things that I don’t need on weekdays. Now your eldest brother usually studies in school. Sometimes if he has a lot of homework, he will stay in the school overnight. I can help my dad at home with washing, washing, mending, and not much else. When things were done, I slowly tidied up everything in the house. When I saw that my father didn’t need anything but our family could use it, I slowly brought it back. Doesn’t this mean that everyone is happy? My father’s It frees up space, and our family saves money."
"Sister-in-law has not made any progress in other skills recently. Now she is getting better and better at talking. She always talks in the same way. I have to be more careful in the future and don't let you catch the mistake." Hehua listened. Xiaoxiu stopped being polite to her after saying this, but she was planning to go to the city to pull two pieces of cloth, and together with Jasmine, make some clothes for Dr. Zheng and send them back to express her feelings. Such a thing made Fang Mrs. If you don't do it properly, it will make people gossip, but Lotus and Jasmine are both juniors, and it is natural for them to wear clothes, shoes and hats.
It was almost evening when Bo Rong came home from school. When he entered the house, he heard that Hehua was feeding chickens behind him, so he went straight to the backyard and asked softly: "Hehua, have you asked?"
Hehua put down the ladle in her hand, looked around to see if there was no one there, hooked her hand towards Borong and motioned for him to bend over, then whispered in his ear: "Sister-in-law didn't know who Hu Xin heard, saying that she got the clay doll." She was pregnant right away when she got back, but there was no news yet, which made her think there was something wrong with her. However, my sister-in-law went to chat with her mother, and she was smiling when she came out. I think she is fine. Well, brother, how about you go and see for yourself?"
When Bo Rong heard that He Hua said she was pregnant, he blushed and said with some annoyance: "Xiao Xiu too, I'm telling you this, how old are you."
Although Hehua usually likes to make jokes, she also has to pay attention to the situation. This joke is not something that a child like her can make casually, so she pretends to be innocent and blinks her eyes: "Yeah, I don't even understand, sister-in-law." Let her ask her mother what she said."
After hearing this, Bo Rong felt a little relieved and said to Hehua: "Well, this is an adult's business. It's okay for children not to know, so don't ask any more questions."
Hehua looked at Bo Rong innocently and said, "Brother, I didn't ask anything."
"Cough!" Bo Rong coughed awkwardly, "I just didn't ask, so what? I'm going back to the house for dinner."
Borong and Xiaoxiu stayed at home for another day and were preparing to go back to the city in the afternoon. During lunch, Borong said to Fang: "Mom, at the end of the month, several classmates made an appointment to go hiking. I will go hiking that day." I won’t come back, I’ll go home on the tenth day of the next month.”
Hearing this, Ms. Fang said: "Okay, actually I told you earlier that you don't have to come back every time. It's so tiring to travel all the way. You usually work very hard to study, so it's so easy to have a rest." He even ran back specially."
"Mom, we took a ride back and forth, we didn't walk back by ourselves, and I can help you with some work when we come back. Besides, I miss home too!" Bo Rong comforted Fang with a smile, then turned to Hehua and said: "If it's sunny on the sixth day of June, don't forget to take out all the books to dry them. As the saying goes, on June 6th, if you dry your clothes, they won't get moths, and if you expose your books, they won't get moths."
"You said it all yesterday, but now you say it again, no matter how bad my memory is, it's never this bad!" Hehua pointed at Bo Rong and asked Xiaoxiu, "Sister-in-law, eldest brother is usually such a nag. Nagging?"
Xiao Xiu pursed her lips and just smiled without saying anything. Others couldn't help laughing. Fang patted He Hua twice and said, "Having this girl at home never makes people feel bored."
After sending Borong and Xiaoxiu away, Mrs. Fang asked Zhu Yongxin to go to Fangzhuangzi and tell matchmaker Guo that she had agreed to the marriage. She also asked the horoscopes in the horoscope. The two people's horoscopes were consistent, and they were still the same person. With the good divination of a prosperous family and a prosperous fortune, Fang felt more and more that the marriage she had chosen for Jasmine was indeed the right one.
After the draft was changed, Matchmaker Guo came to the door again that day and said: "Ms. Moli, the Jiang family has also joined the zodiac sign. It is said that it is a good marriage. I am here to congratulate you, old lady."
"I accept your kind words!" Mrs. Fang's attitude toward Matchmaker Guo was now much more affectionate than when she had not yet made her intentions clear. She invited her to sit down in the east room and asked Jasmine to make some tea. .
Matchmaker Guo took a sip of tea before saying: "This time I came back mainly because of another matter. The father and mother of the little brother Jiang are at home now. Although the marriage is decided by the grandma above, she also wants to take a look at her son. What kind of character is the daughter you like? After all, it is the heart of every parent in the world, Moli Niang, I think you should be able to understand, right?"
"That's natural. Whether you are marrying a daughter or a wife, who doesn't want to find someone who knows everything about her and is compatible with her?" Mrs. Fang nodded when she heard this, "Then the Jiang family wants a wife?"
"That's it!" Mrs. Guo slapped her thigh and said, "Actually, it doesn't need to be formal. I just want to meet your Jasmine and take a look. What do you think?"
"Look at what Auntie is asking. My wife is a vulgar daughter. Since she wants to see me, what can I do to stop her? But no matter how you look at it, Auntie has to reveal her true identity to us first. Son?" Mrs. Fang also knows that marrying his wife is also the right of the groom's family. If she is not allowed to see her, let alone whether the marriage can be successful, I am afraid that no one will dare to come to propose marriage in the future, but she The daughter-in-law also has a lot of particularities, so she also needs to ask the husband’s family what their plans are.
"What can I say? His family doesn't want to embarrass you, but they just find a restaurant or restaurant in the city. Your family will take their daughter to drink tea or have a meal, and they will go and see how her daughter is doing. That’s it!” Matchmaker Guo explained with a smile.
"If you go to a teahouse or restaurant, you have to choose an elegant room. Otherwise, if you are in a large public place, it would be okay if you give me a hairpin. But if you give me two pieces of cloth, where will my family's reputation go? My Jasmine will do it in the future. How can you meet people?" Fang asked carefully. The rule for marrying a daughter-in-law is that the two families have agreed on a place. The boy's family will take their son, and the girl's family will take their daughter. When they get to the place, they will look at each other for a few times. If the groom's family thinks they like it, they will go up and insert a hairpin on the girl's head. It means that I have taken a fancy to you. If the groom’s family feels that the appearance is not to their liking or something else is not to their liking, they will give two pieces of cloth to the girl’s family to express that I have not fallen in love with you. I will give you two pieces of cloth to calm down your shock and cover up the situation. Covering her face, so what Fang said was actually to test the Jiang family's parents, whether they just wanted to take a look and recognize their faces, or whether they might not like it and push forward the marriage.
Matchmaker Guo has been telling people about matchmaking for so many years, but she still can't figure out the secret behind it. She also knows that the Jiang family is very rich. If she can get this match right, she can get a lot, so naturally she wants to do better. What was said in it, Mrs. Fang asked, "Actually, I've also asked for it for you. The parents of the little brother Jiang are actually not troubled people, but they have been away from home for many years. It is not easy for them to come back this time." Just in time to catch up with the child to talk about the marriage, his parents said, why didn't the child wait for them to come back before talking about the marriage? If they hadn't come back by chance, they might not even know about it. As a result, the old man and the old lady were not happy either. He said that you are so busy outside that you don’t even care about home. You never come home even after sending people to look for you. If I had waited for you to come back, your child’s marriage would have been delayed. If the old man and the old lady said this, then The Jiang family also felt that this was the case, and felt that they owed their son a lot, so they put great thought into the wedding this time, saying that it must be done properly and everything should be done according to etiquette. I just said that I wanted to have a look. After all, this is a serious procedure. As for whether it is a hairpin or a piece of cloth..." Matchmaker Guo lowered her voice slightly and said, "I would like to advise you to relax. Now the Jiang family is the younger brother. His son must have taken a fancy to Jasmine. Naturally, his grandparents would never refuse as long as their grandson was willing. Therefore, the look between his parents was just a formality to show that they were still very concerned about their son's marriage. That's all. If he really gave Jasmine two pieces of cloth, what would happen if he went home and made a big fuss? Taking a step back, are you still afraid that people will look at you with Jasmine's appearance and character? Just let it go. With a hundred hearts, whoever sees such a good girl would not like her!"
》《Push the dividing line》》
The Oolong Couple of Online Games—Xiao Yi—
Passerby A: Yo! Great God, who am I? Where is your wife?
Master Lingjue(╰_╯)#: I went to grab the BOSS with the Liusha Gang.
Passerby B: Yeah! Great God, why are you alone again? Where is your wife?
Master Ling Jue(╰_╯)#: I went to grab money with Qian Baijin.
Passerby C: Hi! Great God... Huh? Where are people?
Narrator: I went to steal my wife with BOSS and Yinzi.