Ninefold Purple

Zhao Biru took Dou Zhao's hand and walked back slowly.

Dou Zhao asked Zhao Biru: "What is my favorite food?"

Zhao Biru was stunned, but she still said meekly: "As long as it's sweet and crunchy, you like to eat it!"

Dou Zhao asked again: "When was the last time you came to our house?"

Zhao Biru looked at Dou Zhao with even more surprise: "The day before Lidong. Dad asked me and my sister to ask my aunt if my uncle has come back. We sent my aunt the map of the nine winters, and my aunt rewarded us with a pair of beaded flowers. My sister I also spent a long time turning the rope with you. Is something wrong?" [

Dou Zhao shook his head.

The relationship between the two families is so close, and my aunt wants to pick her up to play with her cousins, why would she bite her aunt?

Back in the main courtyard, the maids serving in the room were all standing under the verandah. Seeing Dou Zhao and Zhao Biru, they came forward to salute Zhao Biru respectfully with a smile, and said with a smile: "Miss Biao, please sit in the wing room for a while, my uncle and wife are talking to grandma." Woolen cloth!"

Zhao Biru glanced at the lattice of the main room in confusion, and followed Hanxiao submissively to the side room, but Dou Zhao ran into the inner room in a hurry, just in time to hear his aunt say angrily: "...It's so unreasonable! If their Wang family dares to come, Don't say anything, lest you lower your value, I will come forward to argue with Gao Shi!"

The mother's voice was still choked with sobs: "Sister-in-law, why bother! The turmoil was overwhelming, but it gave the members of the Wang family a place to talk. No matter what, it's all because of the ten thousand yuan."

The aunt sighed a long time, and said after a while: "My sister is just too soft-hearted!"

The mother smiled and said: "Husband and wife are one body. He lost face, and I also don't look good. I accept my sister-in-law's wishes, and I ask my sister-in-law not to tell my brother when she goes back—it's just a concubine, isn't it? Do you want to alert my natal brother to put gold on the Dou family's face?"

"I know." The aunt said, "When the time comes, I'll just come here quietly."

"Thank you sister-in-law." The mother said, "I think the quieter this matter is, the better."

Aunt nodded.On the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, I really came alone.When the eldest aunt asked, the aunt only said that the uncle wanted to study behind closed doors, and the eldest aunt didn't ask any more questions. She took the aunt's hand and went to the flower hall to meet the third aunt, fourth aunt, sixth aunt and other in-laws. Gamble money.The female family members of the Dou family served the table, and those who read the cards looked at the cards, laughing and laughing, which was very lively.

Only a few of my father's elder brothers were invited outside, and everyone was talking and drinking tea.

There was no one from the Wang family.

The sedan chair carrying Wang Yingxue stopped directly at the flower hall, and Wang Yingxue, who was wearing pink rose makeup and gown, got off the sedan chair with the help of a maid, and offered tea to her mother in the flower hall, which became a ceremony.

Nanny Yu led Wang Yingxue to Qixia Courtyard. The people in the flower hall were playing cards, joking and joking. They made a fuss until the third watch before they dispersed one after another.

Wang Yingxue breathed a sigh of relief.

The maid who helped Wang Yingxue pouted, and said dissatisfiedly: "Miss shouldn't be persuading grandma, look, how can this look like a wedding?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Wang Yingxue frowned and scolded the servant girl, "I'm being a concubine, isn't it something glorious? Grandma's coming is just a waste of humiliation. Be careful what you say in the future. Let me hear such presumptuous words, and I will send you back to Nanwa immediately."

When the servant girl heard this, her eyes turned red immediately, and she bent her knees and said, "I will never dare again."

Wang Yingxue was still a little worried, and repeatedly told the servant girl: "You have to bow your head when you are under the eaves. You stay with me honestly, and remember not to cause trouble." [

The little maid is only right.

Someone reported, "The seventh master is here!"

Wang Yingxue's eyes lit up.

Dou Shiying walked in quickly.

Wang Yingxue rushed to greet her, bowed her knees and said, "Grandma Seven...do you know?"

"I know!" Dou Shiying laughed, "She was the one who urged me to come here."

Wang Yingxue was a little excited when she heard the words: "Thank you Grandma Seven for saving my face, I will respect her like a real sister in the future."

"Don't you think of Gu Qiu as your biological sister before?" Dou Shiying joked, "I told you earlier that Gu Qiu is a very virtuous person."

Wang Yingxue's smile faltered, and said: "I am not kind in this matter. I owe sister Gu Qiu a lot, and I am afraid that she will bother me. Even though I think of her as a real sister in my heart, I don't know if she treats me as a real sister. My younger sister... Now it seems that I am over-hearted, after all I am not as magnanimous as my sister."

Dou Shiying chuckled, looking proud.

Wang Yingxue's eyes darkened slightly, but she soon recovered her smile.

After welcoming the Stove King and sweeping the dust, it will be New Year's Eve.

The east and west sinuses went back to Beilou village to worship their ancestors together.

Wang Yingxue followed Zhao Guqiu with low eyebrows, and when someone's eyes fell on Wang Yingxue, Dou Zhao, who was holding her mother's skirt, would sweetly call "Aunt Wang", and everyone suddenly praised Wang Yingxue for her good looks. Mama explained on the side: "It's a girl from the Nanwa Wang family." Wang Yingxue's face turned purple with shame.

Mother just reprimanded Nanny Yu for a few words, and when relatives asked about Wang Yingxue, Nanny Yu didn't say anything more.

Dou Zhao only hated himself for being young.

Wang Yingxue glanced at her mother gratefully.

Mother ignored it and continued joking with relatives in the clan.

But Wang Yingxue's identity was still spread.

During the Spring Festival, Wang Yingxue hid at home and was unwilling to go out to pay New Year greetings to relatives: "They are all serious grandmas, and it is not appropriate for me to follow."

Nanny Yu smiled and persuaded: "Is there anything suitable or not? Grandma has Aunt Wang by her side. Firstly, she has a companion, and secondly, there is also someone who serves tea."

Wang Yingxue was very embarrassed, her father couldn't help frowning, and looked at her mother: "Is this what you mean?" [

The mother bowed her head and took a sip of tea, then said calmly: "In that case, Aunt Wang should stay at home. It will also prevent the fetus from moving!"

Father hesitated to speak.

Mother went out with Dou Zhao in her arms.

My father immediately followed and said in a low voice, "You will only make your relatives laugh at you."

"I see." The mother said with a straight face, "When the baby is born, should I tell my relatives that it was premature?"

"You!" Father glared.

Mother has stepped into the carriage quickly.

Father stomped his feet, and after a while he reluctantly got into the carriage.

Dou Zhao buried himself in the big pillow in the carriage, and sighed deeply.

Mother's concerns are justified.

This kind of thing, although trivial, is annoying.

It's like a flea that lands on your body. If you ignore it, it will make your whole body itchy. If you take it seriously, you can't say it.

Didn't my father say that he wanted to send Wang Yingxue to Zhuangzi?

After the new year is over, I have to remind my father!

Thinking about it, Dou Zhao ushered in his three-year-old birthday.

Father, mother, Wang Yingxue, grandfather, grandmother, aunt Ding, aunt, and several aunts all gave her birthday presents, and mother returned with birthday noodles; the servants at home kowtowed to her in the yard, and mother rewarded them with five dollars each. Money and silver.They are very happy, even happier than the New Year.

The lanterns were turned off on the Lantern Festival, and the wind blew on my face without the chill.

It's time for spring plowing.

Dou Zhao said in his heart, arguing for his mother to go to see his grandmother.

Mother was surprised: "Didn't you see it during the Chinese New Year?"

"I didn't say anything." Dou Zhao said, "Grandma stood far away during the ancestor worship, grandma didn't say a word during the New Year's Eve dinner, and my father asked me to accompany my grandfather to watch the night... On the first day of the new year, I will go to grandma Happy New Year, she has already returned to the farm."

"Didn't she leave you the New Year's money?" The mother smiled and took a peach blossom from the crystal plate and put it on Dou Zhao's bun. "What the hell are you planning?"

"No tricks." Dou Zhao muttered, but said in his heart, after her grandmother died, she left the farm to her, and she arranged for capable people to manage the farm, and it took a lot of hard work to keep the harvest from droughts and floods. She was one of the few One of the few things I'm quite proud of.

Although she was not sent to the farm in this life, she had a very deep affection for her grandmother and the farm.

"I'll take you there in a few days." Seeing that Dou Zhao was not happy, his mother said, "After a few days after the spring plowing in each farm is over, your father and the steward will go to inspect the farm. We will go with your father then."

It's no secret in the Dou family that grandpa doesn't like grandma.In order not to offend the grandfather, the mother, like the Dou family, chose to turn a blind eye to the grandmother.

Dou Zhao felt very sad when he thought of that kind woman.

Mother smiled and said, "Shall I take you to play at Uncle's house? We haven't been back to Anxiang for some time."

Dou Zhao noticed that every time his mother talked about her natal family, she always liked to use the word "Hui", as if Dou's family was not her family.This seems to be a common problem with many women.However, this does not include Dou Zhao.

After she married into the Wei family, she just felt a long sigh of relief, she was much more energetic, and she felt quite elated.

Maybe it's because I never regarded Dou's family as my natal family?

Dou Zhao thought about it, and went to Anxiang with his mother.

In the countryside, there are not so many rules.

The aunt got the letter and led her two cousins ​​to wait for them at the gate.

The eldest cousin, Zhao Biru, and Dou Zhao already know each other. The second cousin, Zhao Ru, is nine years old, and the third cousin, Zhao Zhangru, is five years old.Their sisters are very similar, but Zhao Ru is shy and Zhao Zhangru is lively. When they saw Dou Zhao, they dragged her into the house: "Mother Peng fried candied chestnuts, and my mother said that I will wait for you to come." eat!"

Dou Zhao was staggered by her dragging, so he had to run in with her.

Tuo Niang hurriedly followed.

Everyone laughed and entered the gate.

The Zhao family is at the head of the village. After entering through the black-lacquered copper ring door, there is a horse stable on the left and a grass shed on the right, with carts and furniture piled up.There are several long-term workers living in the two wing rooms on the left and right. After entering the second gate, there are five blue brick and tile houses facing you, and three wing rooms on the left and right. The lattices are pasted with white Korean paper. , clean and tidy, spacious and stylish.

As soon as the mother and aunt entered the room, Zhao Zhangru rushed in, grabbing the lapel of Madam Peng who was carrying chestnuts fried in sugar, and turned around to urge Dou Zhao: "Hurry up! Chestnuts won't taste good when they're cold."

It made everyone laugh again.

After finally sitting down, Zhao Biru and Zhao Ru peeled chestnuts for Dou Zhao and Zhao Zhangru to eat like sisters.

The mother and aunt were sitting on the hot kang and talking: "If you count the days, it's time for the eldest brother to enter the arena, right?"

"Hmm!" My aunt was a little worried, "If you fail this time, you will have to wait another three years."

The mother pondered after hearing this: "I heard from Yu Daqing that my sister-in-law sold ten acres of fertile land a few days ago..."

My aunt blushed and said in a low voice: "I borrowed it years ago. I didn't dare to tell your brother that your brother went to the capital to sell the field and made up for the previous deficit..." She said quickly, "Sister Don't worry. I still have some dowry, but it's all on the booklet, and I'm afraid your brother will be unhappy if he finds out, so I didn't dare to move."

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I'm going to work again tomorrow...~~~~(_)~~~~

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