The rest of the aunts sat at a table by themselves.
Mrs. Shen spoke first, and Shen Yunong toasted again, and first offered a glass of wine, saying that it was to everyone present. Everyone raised them up and took a sip.
Liu Qiqiao likes the pair of daughters of Shen Yunong and the second aunt. The eldest is Nian Ci and the second is Nian En, both of whom are a little over four years old and less than five years old.
Wearing one-style Luo skirts, they are all dressed in double buns, tied with two pink silk ropes, tied with a flower knot on the head, and hanging down, taking advantage of a small face, it is also pink and lovely.
Liu Qiqiao teased them, and said with a smile: "I heard that you are learning from your husband every day. Are you naughty. Can your husband beat him?"
Although Nian Ci is the boss, she doesn't like to talk. Nian En rushed to the side and said, "Mr. won't beat us. Mr. said, we are the smartest children he has taught. We will all read a lot of poems!"
"Really? Read one for the aunt?"
Nianen shook his head and started to recite. "At the beginning of man, nature is good..."
Liu Qiqiao listened with a smile. After she had memorized a short period of time, Liu Qiqiao was busy stopping her: "Okay, okay, auntie knows, you really know it, not bragging, for a while. Auntie has a reward!"
"What are you rewarding?" It was a kid, even Nian Ci stared at Liu Qiqiao with small eyes.
Liu Qiqiao turned around, Lan Xiang hurriedly took out two rabbit masters and handed them to Liu Qiqiao.
The two children looked at this Lord Rabbit. It was pinched with a mud ball. The rabbit's head was human, with two big ears erected. It was wearing gold and silver and painted on the body. It was very cute and funny. They liked it at first sight It’s terrible, I was busy taking it, cheering, Nianci showed it to the second aunt next to her, and Nianen took her rabbit, and ran to Shen Yunong all at once: "Daddy, dad, look, Qiniang gave it to us!"
Shen Yunong has always loved these two daughters, so she picked her up sideways, let her sit on her lap, and asked her with a smile, "Do you like it?"
"Like it!" said Nian'en, and Shen Yunong said again: "Thank you Qiniang?"
"Oh!" Nianen answered and shouted in Liu Qiqiao's direction: "Qiniang, thank you!"
Liu Qiqiao also hugged Nianci here. She liked this little girl with a pink fan, and kissed her on her small forehead. When she heard Nianen saying thank you, she smiled and said, "Nianen likes it. From now on, Qiniang will buy you new things when I see them!"
The second aunt on one side listened and said with a smile: "Sister, don't rely on them, you are used to seeing them!"
"No way, Nian Ci Nian'en is so cute, but it's not bad!" Liu Qiqiao laughed.
On this side, there was such a happy and harmonious family scene, on the other side, those aunts who watched the excitement were irritated.
"It will be such a small favor, and I am used to buying people's hearts!" Aunt Gao said. The third aunt Leng Rui is as calm as she is. Nowadays, listening to Aunt Gao say this, only the corners of her mouth tremble, showing a contemptuous smile, but she does not say What, she was not angry that Liu Qiqiao would be pleased, she was just jealous that the second aunt had such a pair of daughters.
Mrs. Young is not in good health. Everyone knows that Shen Yunong rarely sleeps in her house on weekdays. She can't get pregnant. It's nothing. It's been a long time since entering Shen's house by herself, but there has been no movement. This is unavoidable. Make her anxious. Because she was already twenty-six years old, which was not considered young anymore. She was afraid that she would have no children at all. As an aunt, she would have less to rely on without a child.
There is also He Yinshuang, Si Yiniang who has the same idea.
But He Yinshuang was cold and arrogant, thinking that she was not with Wu Yiniang, Liu Yiniang was the same, she was eating silently from here.
Only Wu Yiniang took Liu Yiniang's words: "Don't underestimate these little favors. I haven't seen how many people from the old lady to the maid below in the Shen family are praising her. I want to see you, this person. She still has a lot of shallow eyelids. People used a few tricks to buy how many people's hearts. She said that the gifts we brought to everyone when we came back this time were actually not all our Shen family's money, so she would be a human being!" Rolled her eyes, said that, and stroked her belly again. It has been more than four months. After the Chinese New Year, next spring starts, she will give birth. She thinks it is best to have a son and have a son next to her. In the future, who will she be afraid of? The Shen family is mediocre and value her offspring, so she will be more expensive for her mother and her child.
The whispers of these aunts can only be heard at this table, and the whole dinner party still maintained the illusion of being happy and enjoying the family.
After thinking of kindness and grace, Jiang Cuicui's eyes were attracted by the two rabbits.
After seeing her look, Liu Qiqiao said with some regret: "I didn't expect Miss Jiang to like it, I only bought these two!"
Jiang Cuicui smiled disappointedly: "I'm not a kid!"
Liu Qiqiao smiled in his heart: "You love to play more than children!"
At this time, the maidservants brought the moon cakes and presented them. Everyone took a piece of cake. The moon was full in the sky, and the people on the ground were reunited. Mrs. Shen couldn’t help being touched by the scene. Such a family reunion has to be said to be sheltered by the ancestors.
Shen Yuyuan asked his servant to bring a bottle of sweet-scented osmanthus wine brewed in the south, and he personally poured it on Mrs. Shen, Mrs. Shen, and the elder brothers: "This is from the wine provider in previous years. Good. The osmanthus wine, the old man said, hello to the old lady, and wish the old lady good health and success in everything!"
Mrs. Shen took a sip of wine and smiled: "This wine shop has been in friendship with us for decades. Since your grandfather was here, you have sent a jar of sweet-scented osmanthus wine every year at this season..." , Thinking about her long-dead husband, her eyes were reddening, she suffocated her tears, smiled and said to the children and grandchildren below: "Come on, everyone will taste this! Enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes, and drink sweet-scented osmanthus wine, this It's all together!"
Everyone was busy responding, Liu Qiqiao took a sip on this side, but thought in his heart, this wine is poured, if a large number of them can be added at this time, it must be in short supply at this time.
On the other side, Jiang Cuicui also drank and screamed for a good drink. She had a good drink volume. Since she was a child, she had been fishing in the river with her grandpa. Grandpa loved to drink. No one drank with him. Xiao Cuicui tasted the taste, and fed it a little bit like this, and actually got the drink out.
On this table, Jiang Cuicui, Liu Qiqiao, and Shen Xiurong are all about the same age, and the three people are similar in temperament, and they are all children. After a while, they all talked together.
The moon had risen at this time, and it was clear and bright, and inside was the legendary sweet-scented osmanthus tree.
Shen Yunong embraced Nian Zinianen and told them the allusion of Chang'e flying to the moon. Huangfu Haoyue and her second aunt sat aside and listened quietly. Both of them are quiet and kind, one master and one servant, then Harmony.
Wu Yiniang said that she was inconvenient, and called the maid to help herself, and went back to her own yard to sleep.
Three and four sisters were together, looking at the moon with interest, they joined the poem with the moon.
Aunt Gao's poems were limited, and she didn't participate in it. She only listened to their poems, and she drank by herself.
Although Shen Xiurong is a young lady, the Shen family is different from those of officials.
When Shen Xiurong was three or two years old, she was taken by her father and brother. He walked from south to north. He had seen the big cities and towns of the Dayu Dynasty. He also visited a lot of famous mountains and rivers. Shen Yunong loved his sister very much and searched for her. There are many rare and precious things, so Shen Xiurong's knowledge is naturally more than those of the ladies who do not get out of the door.
At this time, she talked to Jiang Cuicui about the custom of walking the moon in the south.
"According to legend, the girl who wanted to get a good couple in the past burned incense in front of the gods at home to worship, tell her heart, pray for the gods to instruct the direction of listening to the incense, and then follow the directions on the road accidentally or overhear the first sentence, keep it in mind. The family then throws wild rice, judges to explain the good and bad things of the divination. For example, divination is a lifelong event, and when you hear something like eating a cookie or a flower blooming, a full moon, it means a good omen and the happy event is near." Shen Xiurong whispered, almost whispering. Yes, said to Jiang Cuicui.
While Liu Qiqiao heard it, she smiled and covered her lips. She had heard it before, and she wanted to try it, but she didn't make it.
As the saying goes, the speaker is unintentional and the listener intends.
Shen Xiurong just treated Jiang Cuicui as a strange person, but Jiang Cuicui's mind was simple and straightforward.
This night, she drank too much sweet-scented osmanthus wine, her face was enthusiastic, and the same grandfather who drank too much, entered his room and fell asleep. The snoring sound would lift the roof, and Cui Cui could not sleep anymore.
This is no better than the place where she lived. It turns out that if she can't sleep, she runs to the river, swims, or sits by the river and blowing willow leaves. It is her pastime.
Nowadays, the sound of bamboo outside the window is quiet. In this courtyard, outside the east wall, there is a bamboo forest. She looked over it, and it was quiet and quiet. The moon had already started to go west. She suddenly remembered what Shen Xiurong had said.
There were leftover fruits in the room. She arranged them, found the incense, and inserted them into the empty cup. She knelt down and said her wish.
The girl's heart is nothing more than meeting her lover and praying for her lover.
Although there is Shen Yunong, when she first rescued Shen Yunong, she also liked him. She looks so good and handsome, but Cui Cui really has a headache. He has so many aunts, and his body is so different. I haven't been well. I've always seen him this time, like a paper-paste person, falling down as soon as he blows, and it will melt as soon as the sun is exposed. Cui Cui didn't like this anymore.
It was boring anyway, Jiang Cuicui put on a shoulder-to-shoulder, combed her hair indiscriminately, and went out like that.
She moved extremely lightly, and the four maids were not disturbed, and she left the small yard.