Rebirth of the beauty of the peasant girl

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The first snow in winter fell intermittently for two or three days, and it didn't stop until the morning of the winter solstice.

In Liu Qingluo's impression, the winter solstice is just the longest night and the shortest day of the year, but in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the winter solstice is a very important festival.

Not only among the people, but even the imperial court will have a three-day holiday and hold various sacrificial programs.Most businesses in the private sector are also closed on this day, and they spend the longest night of the year at home with their relatives and friends.

In previous years, girls' schools would be on holiday, and Liu Qingluo would stay at home, waiting for Mrs. Du to make winter solstice balls and long-term noodles with glutinous rice flour.

This year was no exception, the girls' school had already been decided not to go on this day, and with the heavy snow blocking the road, she didn't go to the girls' school for two days.

Early in the morning, she was wearing a jacket and a thick cotton skirt, with a fluffy little red hat on her head, following Du Shi's buttocks, turning around...

"Niuniu, it's warm in the room, what are you doing behind me all the time?" Du said angrily half-truthfully.

Liu Qingluo chuckled: "I like to see my mother busy with the holidays. The kitchen is full of smells and smoke. It feels like a new year..."

"Silly girl, the New Year hasn't come yet, where does the New Year come from?"

Du Shi smiled and pinched her, and stuffed a taro dipped in sugar into her mouth.

Liu Qingluo narrowed her eyes, "It's delicious!"

"Greedy cat!" Liu Wenquan walked in with a basin, and shamed her when he saw it, "I'm so old, and my mother still spoils her so much, I will become a little squeamish in the future!"

"Brother is jealous again!" Liu Qingluo stuck out her tongue at him, showing off her mother's love for her.

Liu Wenquan hummed like a toothache, "I'm jealous of you? When you get married in the future, let's see who still spoils you!"

Liu Qingluo said unceremoniously: "Brother Quan's words are really sour. Next year, Yuehong's sister-in-law will come over, so naturally someone will love you, so don't be spoiled by then!"

"Okay, okay, I'll give you this too! As soon as I spoke, I pulled at Yuehong, can we still have a pleasant chat..." Liu Wenquan blushed, picked up another taro, stuffed it into her mouth, turned around and ran away ...

Liu Qingluo was proud.

Du Shi just laughed, "You bullied your elder brother, since childhood, he has loved you the most..."

"I know, this is not a joke with him..." Liu Qingluo tilted Du's face and acted like a baby, "Besides, Sister Yuehong is a good girl. If she gets married in the future, parents don't need to be angry. I can rest assured outside..."

Du's heart paused, and he asked in surprise, "Are you outside?"

"Didn't I go to Beijing to take an exam in the beginning of spring? I heard that the capital is far away, and I won't be able to leave for three to five months. At that time, sister-in-law Yuehong will pass by..."

Du Shi sighed: "That's right... three to five months, you have never been away from home for so long... How about asking your father to borrow an ox cart to take you to Beijing?"

Liu Qingluo sneered and said, "Mother really knows how to joke, how can anyone drive an ox cart so far? Besides, the family's field can't be planted in spring? Who can't plow the field with cattle, so they can borrow them?"

"Oh, it would be nice if our family had an ox cart..."

Du Shi began to ponder in his heart.

And Liu Qingluo's attention has long been attracted by the winter solstice circle made by Du Shi...

In the evening, Liu Heping was changing shoes at the door of the house, and was about to go to the old house for dinner, when he saw his younger sister Liu Yaoping, supported by her daughter Yushu, stepping on the snow, staggering in. ...

Liu Heping stood up and said with a smile: "The third sister is here, and Yushu is also here..."

"Brother." Liu Yaoping is already a woman in her thirties, wearing a gray coarse cotton padded jacket, with a little wrinkle around her eyes, but her complexion is fine, not as sallow as before.

"Uncle." Yushu is only two years younger than Liu Qingluo, and she is already an 11-year-old girl, but she is still thin and timid, with a big head and a thin body, and her eyes are surprisingly big.

These years, she has been staying at her grandfather's house, and she has become cowardly because of being disliked by all kinds of people.Liu Qingluo tried many times to pull it back, but was unsuccessful.

After the house in his own home was overturned, there was a vacant place, and Liu Heping's family also discussed to take Liu Yaoping's mother and daughter to live here.

At least I can have a full meal here, and I won't be disgusted by sarcastic remarks.

It's just that when Liu Heping went to the old house to talk about it, he was kicked out by Mr. Liu before he finished speaking.

Of course, Mr. Liu is not reluctant to part with his daughter.

Although the daughter who was dismissed and returned home would make people feel ashamed, but if he really let his daughter live with his eldest son, in the eyes of outsiders, he would think that he didn't even want his own helpless daughter and granddaughter.

Another important reason is that Liu Yaoping does most of the housework at home now. If she leaves, who will do it?
Someone cooks the food, washes the clothes, sweeps the floor, and the price for all of this is just two bowls of porridge a day!
Both Liu Heping and Mrs. Du felt sorry for this younger sister, and they often gave her food and food behind the backs of the people in the old house. Otherwise, they would suffer from some kind of illness...

As for Yushu, no one in the village wanted to play with her, so besides doing work at home, she could only come to Liu Qingluo.

The relationship between the two sisters is as close as ever.

Liu Heping saw that she was reserved, so he said: "Your sister Niuniu is in the kitchen, I don't know what to eat deliciously, Yushu is going to have a look..."

"Is Yushu here?" Liu Qingluo's crisp voice sounded in the kitchen, she poked her head out, waved to Yushu, and said happily, "I thought you wouldn't come today, come here, I'll give you something to eat of……"

Seeing Liu Qingluo, Yushu also showed joy on her small face, and walked away with small steps...

"Hehe, Yaoping, you will stay here later, and have dinner with your sister-in-law and Niuniu..." Liu Heping laughed.

Liu Yaoping shook her head in embarrassment, and said, "Brother, father won't let me stay here for dinner. Mother asked me to come over, and let me ask your whole family to go over there for dinner..."

Liu Heping frowned: "What? Didn't I say hello, did I go alone?"

"That's why Mother asked me to come, and said that if I didn't invite you all, I would tell Yushu to Li Mazi in the village..."

"Li Mazi?" Liu Heping's voice suddenly became louder, and he said angrily, "That's a rascal! Mother is not confused, how could she push Yushu into the fire pit!"

At this time Liu Qingluo walked in slowly with a plate of taro, twisted one and stuffed it into the third aunt's mouth, then said with a smile: "Father, don't worry, this is grandma scaring the third aunt."

"Really? How do you know?" Liu Heping still believed her daughter's words.

"I guess, she actually wanted Sangu to call us all over there. Except for Sangu, none of us would give face, so grandma said that on purpose..."

"She, she is really..." Liu Heping was angry and didn't know what to say.

No matter what you say, it is disrespectful to your elders.

Liu Yaoping lowered her head, looking ashamed.

The eldest brother and sister-in-law's family are all good to their mother and daughter. She does not want to embarrass her eldest brother from the bottom of her heart, but how dare she defy her mother's words...

(End of this chapter)