After finally twisting the handkerchief on three sides, the first thing she did to escape from Mrs. Shen this summer was to go to Uncle Beg. She knew that he overheard their conversation on the roof, and she guessed that he should be happy at the moment. Flowering.
"Uncle, did you hear it just now?" She walked in with a smile, but saw Uncle Beg worrying, "What's wrong? My aunt said this, why are you still sitting here?"
"She didn't say yes or no, what if she didn't?"
"Of course she meant Ken, and she's been waiting for you to speak... I said, why aren't you enlightened!" This summer was a little anxious, "Could it be that you're still waiting for my aunt to speak first?"
"No, I'm not... I'm afraid to embarrass her."
"You're embarrassing her if you don't say it." Jin Xia dragged him up and said fiercely: "Uncle, I've already asked you about it, and my aunt said that I've been waiting for you, but any man will always be there for you. Hearing her words, it is time to walk up to her generously and say that you are going to marry her. If you continue to be a tortoise, I will despise you!"
"... She waited for me to speak, would it be to make me give up?" Uncle Beg hesitated.
"Don't think about it, with your skills, three babies are born, hurry up..." This summer, I was going to take him out, and I thought about it, "Wait, you have to clean up yourself, take a shower first, put Shave your beard, comb your hair neatly, and change your clothes.”
"... Still have to take a shower? Don't be so troublesome."
This summer sternly said: "It is necessary, uncle! You think, when you ask, my aunt agrees, then what, the two love each other, the wind is blowing outside, the flowers are blooming, the atmosphere is so good, you have to hug Just hug her. As a result, you didn't take a bath, and you smelled sour, and you fainted my aunt when you hugged her. Do you think it's appropriate?"
"... She, can she let me hold her?" Uncle Beg felt that he didn't dare to think.
Xie Xiao went to the kitchen to burn the bath water for Uncle Beggar, Yang Yue shaves and combs Uncle Beggar's hair, Cen Shou's stature is most similar to Uncle Beggar, he lent his robe to Uncle Beggar... This summer and Chun Yumin in Shangguanxi The steps to get married were discussed in the room, and it was a little difficult for the three girls who had not left the cabinet.
According to folklore, there are six festivals for getting married, including asking the name, accepting the collection, accepting the Ji, accepting the levy, requesting the period, and welcoming in person. In simpler cases, the four rituals of accepting the collection, accepting the levy, asking for the period, and welcoming in person are required. Now that Uncle Beg and Mrs. Shen are married, although Mrs. Shen is a widow, it can be regarded as a second marriage. They don't understand what folk customs say this summer.
"I remember that when my sister got married in the past, in addition to silver, gold and jade, there were also decorations, curtains, bedding, pillows and seats, and then cheered and supported the guide and sent the dowry all the way." Chun Yumin recalled.
"Among them, it is best for the bride to embroider on the curtains and pillows." Shangguan Xi said, "Even if you are a poor female worker, you have to embroider two stitches to make it look good."
This summer, he sighed and asked, "What about the man's dowry?"
"Cow, pig, sheep, bonus, cloth, etc. are always required, which means that we do not lose the meaning of Jingbu." Shangguan Xi said, but there was a bit of bitterness in his heart. Three years ago, the Xie family sent a betrothal gift, and her family sent a dowry. , the result is...
Since money is really limited, it can be saved if it can be saved. This summer, a decision was made immediately: "Since it means Jingbu, then it is enough to have cloth. As for the dowry, Mrs. Shen has embroidered so many handkerchiefs that she can count them all. … Other things, red candles always have to be available, I will go to the streets to go around, and if I have them, I will buy them back first, so that they can use them in the next few days.”
When I entered the city yesterday, it was late, and I was very unfamiliar with Xinhe City this summer. I walked around and found that just as Xu Bo said, the whole city felt uneasy, the pedestrians on the road were all in a hurry, the shops There is no bargaining in every business in it, and there are only clear and neat ones.
In the Gengxu year, when the army was approaching the city, it was probably the same situation in the capital. This summer, I sighed secretly and found an incense candle shop, so I went in and bought two red candles. After thinking about it, I bought a few window flowers cut out of red paper, which must be very festive.
When walking back with the paper candle, a pedestrian approached her. She glanced inadvertently, and was about to move away, but found that the oncoming person was a small Japanese pirate leader in a village outside the city of Hangzhou. A bundle of fritters.
How could he be here? !
This summer, with a shudder in his heart, he turned sideways to avoid him, not forgetting to lower his head slightly. At this time, she was wearing a snow-green shirt made by Mrs. Shen, and her hair was combed by Mrs. Shen to look like a girl's gentleman. It was very different from the appearance of the fight that day. Didn't notice that she would be the catch of the day.
After walking a few steps, he turned around naturally this summer, pretending that he forgot to buy something, and walked forward, keeping up with him not far or near.
For her, who is good at tracking, tracking is not a problem, she looks at the shops on the left and right with interest, and only uses the corner of her eye to fix the little boss. Not too far, the little boss turned the corner and went straight into an alley. It was not easy to follow him this summer, so he had to keep walking forward and stopped in front of a pastry shop pretending to be picking out pastries.
After picking it for a while, the little boss didn't come out. This summer, I chose a few pieces of Dingsheng cake and asked the store owner, "I'll go to Lord Chunyu's mansion in the east of the city later. Can I get closer from this alley?"
The shop owner shook his head and said, "This alley leads to the Qingbo River. You can go far away when you go to Master Chunyu's mansion."
"Qingbo River? By the way, I still want to buy fish. When does the fish market here start every day? Where is it?" asked again this summer.
"Crossing this alley and walking towards the east, there is a big locust tree. Under the locust tree is the fish market. If you want to buy a girl, you have to buy it early. "
This summer, I thanked the shopkeeper with a smile, paid the copper plate, picked up the cake and walked back.
As soon as she entered the other courtyard, she saw Uncle Beg coming up to him with a face full of spring breeze, thinking that she had heard what she wanted to hear from Mrs. Shen.
"Where did you go? If you don't come back, your aunt will ask me to go out and look for you."
This summer, he put the red candle in his arms: "I know that your good things are coming, look, I have bought the most important thing! With it, you can bridal chamber whenever you want."
"You child, can you be serious?"
Uncle Beg was angry, and he held the red candle firmly in his hand without any ambiguity.
"I'm just talking about it!"
This summer, he slipped Dingsheng Cake, carried a large roll of red paper-cuts and walked inside. When he arrived in the inner hall, he put down the objects, and called Yang Yue to help. He didn't want everyone to come out except Shangguan Xi, who had inconvenient legs and feet.
Chun Yumin took the paper-cuts and unfolded them one by one. There were fish leaping from the dragon gate, lucky and longevity stars, and fish every year... She couldn't help but pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Miss Yuan, the store is afraid that they will take the goods that are at the bottom of the warehouse. Come to sell you, you see, this is only used for birthdays, this is only used for Chinese New Year, not for weddings."
"No, there aren't many paper-cuts for his store's happy events, so I asked him to give me the rest as well." This summer, he took the paper-cut of a fat doll holding a carp, and smiled, "It's okay, let's paste them all. Marry my aunt, For my uncle, it is equivalent to a big birthday, a new year."
"Who said that!" Uncle Beg retorted, earnestly correcting, "I am more than a hundred times happier than those."
The crowd laughed.
Taking advantage of everyone's busy work, this summer, Yang Yue was quietly dragged outside and told him that he had met the little leader of Japanese pirates today. Yang Yue was taken aback: "How could he come to Xinhe City, you have to report to the official quickly."
"Don't forget, we are the official family."
"But we can't deal with him at all." Yang Yue pushed his forehead annoyed, "By the way, this is General Qi's station, and we can report to General Qi."
"Wait, wait, it's not here yet." Jin Xia said, "You think, he went to Hangzhou to give Xia Zheng to Hu Zongxian. Hu Haifeng must have valued him a lot if he could hand over this matter to him. I just want to figure out what he's doing in New River City first."
Cen Shou suddenly appeared from behind Yang Yue, startling this summer.
"If you are a cat, why are you walking silently?"
Then Xie Xiao also appeared.
"You don't tell me there are Japanese pirates, you two want to steal it?" He asked Yang Yue's shoulders.
Wanting to hide it or not, I sighed secretly this summer, wanting to cry without tears: "Brother, who dares to rob you... I know you are good at kung fu, but you can't touch this person now, I'm going to put a long line to catch big fish!"
"I want to swallow a big fish." Xie Xiao poked her in the forehead.
"Not really..."
Cen Shou crossed his arms and looked at them angrily: "You two are bold enough, you suffered such a big loss in Hangzhou last time, how dare you cover up this time? If something happens again, how can I complain to you? The eldest son explains!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I tell you, I tell you all."
There was no way this summer, so I had to tell them the story of meeting the little boss.
"..." Xie Xiao listened, stunned for a long time, "You have lost everyone, what else can we say, where should we go to find someone?"
Ignore him this summer and go to see Cen Shou.
Cen Shou pondered: "He is carrying fried dough sticks, and he should not be far from where he lives."
"House to house?" Xie Xiao frowned.
"You don't have to go door-to-door, you can find him at the fish market under the big locust tree by the Qingpo River tomorrow morning." said this summer.
Xie Xiao looked at her in surprise.
"Brother, if you don't catch fast, I won't care about you." This summer explained to him, "I told you just now that the man was carrying a bundle of fried dough sticks and had a fishy smell on his body. When I passed by, there were some locust flowers in my hair, and there were fish scales on the boots, and there were more than one kind of fish scales. I asked the store again, and I knew that the fish market was under the big locust tree in the Qingbo River, so… Tomorrow we can go buy a fish to eat, Dayang, steamed or braised? The fish head is also very good in soup, and the fish body is made into fried fish sticks, I haven’t eaten fried fish sticks for a long time.”
The second half of the conversation has been distracted by her, and Xie Xiao and Cen Shougan stared at her.
"Does it work?" Cen Shou reminded her to bring the topic back.
This summer's summary statement: "In short, you can't touch him now, this is the most important thing."
"If you don't kill the Japanese pirates, do you keep them for you to dry for dinner?" Xie Xiao, "We came all the way from Jiaxing, and I don't know how many Japanese pirates we have encountered, but I have never heard that you can't kill them."
Cen Shou was relatively calm: "There are reasons for not killing, why don't you talk about it?"
"I saw a rattle in his arms," looked at Yang Yue this summer, "You know, he has a baby who is still in the swaddling clothes."
Yang Yue frowned: "So, he even brought his wife and children to Xinhe City?"
Xie Xiao said angrily: "How many people did he kill, could it be that having a child becomes a gold medal for avoiding death, a joke!"
"Brother, listen to me, when I met him outside Hangzhou that day, he was a small boss, and there were seven or eight people around him, including the Orientals. Today, he even goes out by himself for fried dough sticks. Buying, it can be seen that there is no one around, and he brought his wife and children to live in Xinhe City, it seems that he is deliberately hiding in the market." This summer explained.
"Could it be that he changed his ways and decided to get rid of the Japanese pirates?" Xie Xiao guessed.
This summer, he shook his head: "Impossible. If he wants to change his ways, he should take his wife and children to fly away. The farther away from Zhejiang and Zhejiang, the better."
Cen Shou took it over: "So you think he's hiding here because he has ulterior motives?"
"Yes, if Hu Haifeng can put Xiazhi in his hands, he will definitely not be an ordinary Japanese pirate." Looking at them this summer, "Several brothers, why don't we put a long line to catch a big fish and see what he is trying to do."
Cen Shou pondered for a moment: "It's good, it's good, I just have to find someone to keep an eye on him, but I can't show it. You and Yang Yue, he has seen each other. It's best that you two don't appear in front of him again, so as not to startle the snake."
"This is easy to handle," Xie Xiao stiffened his chest. "Isn't he a fish seller? I'll also go get a boat to sell fish and see who he interacts with."
"You? Do you know how to fish?" Cen Shou didn't trust him.
"My father grew up by the water. Fishing is a piece of cake."
"Brother, I know you're fine with fishing, but... you mustn't show your faults and let others see the flaws." This summer said worriedly.
"I know what I know, don't worry, if there are big fish to eat, I will not be greedy for small fish."
Now this summer, Xie Xiao has made up his life experience, which is very similar to his own life experience. The entrance and exit are in the middle of the family. Make money and treat my sister. Yang Yueyuan also wanted to prepare a set of shabby points for Xie Xiao, and Cen Shou directly brought the set that Uncle Beg had replaced before to Xie Xiao.
"No, this smell... At least you have to wash it before you can wear it, right?" Xie Xiao covered his nose.
This summer, he helped him out: "No, this person has seen my uncle in Hangzhou and can't wear his clothes. If he finds it familiar, wouldn't it be bad."
Hearing this, Xie Xiao was relieved.
The final solution is to take away a whole set of Xie Xiao's robes, shoes and socks this summer, and let her take care of the old ones.
"You six doors are really..." Cen Shou actually wanted to say a few words of appreciation, but he didn't know what to say when the words came to his lips.
Yang Yue only said that he wanted to sneer again, and said: "You can rest assured that you can leave the old things to this summer. She is proficient in handling the details. Although she dare not say that it is seamless, even the insiders may not be able to see the flaws."
Cen Shou patted him on the shoulder, indicating that he didn't mean to look down on him, and said with a smile, "I only know now that the eldest son has his reasons for seconding you from Six Gates."
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When giving Shangguan Xi the medicine, Xie Xiao told her about it and said with a smile: "I also said that I have nothing to do these days, so I will definitely be bored, but I didn't expect this to happen again. If you don’t get it right, you can really catch a big fish.”
He was alone in danger, Shangguanxi was very worried, but he couldn't resist, so he couldn't help but look worried.
"Sister, are you worried that no one will take care of you?" Xie Xiao comforted her when she saw her gloomy expression, "I made an agreement with this summer that she will take care of you, and Mrs. Shen is here, so you don't have to worry about your injury. By the way, Mrs. Shen, we will soon have to call her Mrs. Lu!"
Shangguanxi smiled and said, "I know that Uncle Lu has waited for so many years, and finally it's finally here."
"I said he deserved it. He was too timid to speak. If he had spoken a few years ago, the baby would have been able to make soy sauce." Xie Xiao guessed that the medicine should be cooler, so he handed it to her.
Shangguanxi took the medicine and drank it slowly one by one. Seeing that Xie Xiao couldn't sit still and went outside, he couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
"That girl took my clothes to make them old, and I don't know how many holes they have worn out. I'll take a look." Xie Xiao said.
Shangguanxi was startled: "Which shirt is yours?"
"It was in Yangzhou that you wanted me to see my father. You chose the one that you forced me to wear." Xie Xiao had already traveled far, and his voice came from far away.
Still remembering that it was a Qinglian Weiluo straight body, she sighed secretly and said in a low voice: "Since you know that I picked it, why do you..."
The medicine gets colder and more bitter.
There was only a wall between her and A Rui, sitting on the bed with a wry smile on his lips. The scars on his face were itchy, and he couldn't help it. He rubbed the back of his hand, and a piece of dead skin was rubbed off by him. He was surprised, but he couldn't find it in the whole room when he wanted to look in the mirror.
It turned out that Jin Xia and others were worried that he would be unhappy looking in the mirror, so they deliberately took away all the mirrors in his room.
Ah Rui couldn't, he only got a closer look in front of the water basin, and there was a small piece of pink and tender new skin where the peeling was done. Although the knife edge was still visible, it was not as terrifying as before.
The waves on the water blurred his vision, A Rui's chest heaved unsteadily, he tried to calm down, and quickly walked out to find Mrs. Shen.
It seemed that Mrs. Shen expected it completely. She just looked at the place where A Rui peeled off, and said, "Scars on the body will start peeling soon, and it will be a little itchy. You can bear it. Continue to use the medicine and repeat it again and again. After peeling off the skin three times, the knife marks will be much lighter.
Although it was not dark, in order to let Arui see more clearly, Xia Te lit a candle and took a mirror to show him.
A Rui's hand trembled slightly, and he didn't dare to touch the small piece of new skin. He just looked at it carefully and couldn't believe it: "Then, can you still see my original appearance?"
"If you had dark skin before, then you wouldn't even be able to see the knife marks, so you would be the same as before," Mrs. Shen replied.
Seeing Ah Rui forcibly suppressing the joy in his heart this summer, he smiled and said, "Soon, you won't have to wear a veil, and we don't have to lie to her that you are Ah Jin."
A Rui was stunned, and said in a flash: "No, don't tell her, I..."
"Why? She's looking for you too."
"No, if she knew that I was in the gang for the sake of meticulous work, she would definitely not forgive me." When Ah Rui thought of this, his heart was disturbed, and the original joy disappeared, and he turned and left silently.
Seeing this, Jin Xia sighed and said worriedly for them: "If I knew today, why bother in the beginning."
Mrs. Shen lightly squeezed the wick with her hand, extinguished the candle, and said, "If there is a cause, there will be an effect. There is nothing to complain about."
"Auntie, my uncle finally opened his mouth, and you agreed to him." He asked this summer, "When are you going to have a wedding? I have bought red candles."
"Why do you have to do any more happy events? When you go back to your hometown and kowtow in front of your parents' graves, you will be done." Mrs. Shen said lightly.
"... My hometown is in Quanzhou, Fujian, are you and my uncle going back?" He asked this summer without thinking much. As soon as he said it, he realized that he had missed it.
Mrs. Shen raised her eyebrows slightly and asked slowly, "I don't remember that I mentioned this to you. How could you know that my hometown is in Quanzhou, Fujian?"