Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 66 The Pious Cousin

Xu Shouliang surrounded the chicken pen for his niece, and Ning Xiang put twenty chicken cubs and two little yellow geese in it.

The chicken cubs ran around chirping, but the two little yellow geese seemed more stable and walked slowly.

Amu stood watching at the gate of the fence, with the corners of his mouth curled up, as if he had forgotten his uncle and aunt who had just left.

Mrs. Li began to prepare lunch, and the smoke rose from the kitchen.Ningxiang patted her younger brother's head, went back to the house and changed into her own skirt, washed the skirt that Mrs. Pan borrowed from her, hung it on the clothes rail, walked to the east yard after washing, saw her cousin squatting in the kitchen room picking beans , she also leaned over.

"Xiang'er is not allowed to help them, you know that?" Shi Li asked worriedly while lighting the fire, fearing that her niece would be soft-hearted.She hid under the eaves and heard what Cui said to her niece in the house, that smelly and shameless woman, she had the nerve to speak!
Ning Xiang smiled at her, "Don't worry, Auntie, I have a sense of proportion, it is the clothes of the second aunt of the Lu family, can you return them for me?"

Mrs. Li guessed that the niece was avoiding the three brothers of the Lu family. Although she wanted to match the niece and the second child of the Lu family, she also felt that it was not good to be too proactive. It seemed that the niece was not wanted, so she nodded, "Okay, the clothes are dry this afternoon." I'll go."

The mothers were talking, and Xu Huai came back, dressed in dusty coarse clothes, with mud spots on his trouser legs, his handsome face was slightly flushed from the sun, and the sweat on his forehead was shining brightly in the sun.There was a house in the village to the south, and he and Xu Shouliang went to help. They could earn forty Wen a day, but this kind of work was hard to come by, not every day.

"Where's your father?" Li Shi asked her son wonderingly.

Xu Qiu'er scooped up another basin of water and took it out to wash his brother's face.

Rolling up his sleeves, Xu Huai said, "I ran into Uncle Liu when I came back, and asked my father to come over. I don't know what's going on."

Mrs. Li thought for a while, and said with a smile: "The eighteenth day of this month, his youngest son married a wife, and he must have asked your father to help."

When marrying a daughter-in-law, you have to hold a banquet. The village is not big, there are only a hundred or so households, and almost every family has to follow the party. When eating, those who are close to each other pay more money, and the whole family usually pays as guests, and those who are farther away give money. If there is a small number, the man who is in charge of the family will go. Counting the relatives on both sides of the man and woman, at least a dozen tables will have to be set up.Don't look at the fact that it's usually the daughters-in-law who cook, men have to do the big things like this, steaming rice, cooking vegetables and serving dishes on the table, all have to be done by men.My family has a good relationship with the Liu family, and my husband will inevitably go to work for two days.

"Xiang'er hasn't had a wedding wine for several years, and this time I'm going to have fun." Li said to her niece with a smile.

Ningxiang smiled, picked up the last bean and said: "I won't go, such a big person."

"What's the big deal, as long as there is no engagement, girls of seventeen or eighteen can go too." Li Shi immediately objected, her niece should show her face in front of the villagers more now, so that everyone knows that her niece has returned from her redemption, and those daughter-in-laws are still there. No nonsense, no nonsense, and someone showed his face before someone came to propose marriage.

Her niece is so good, Li Shi has to find a husband for her niece.

Ningxiang didn't reason with her aunt, but she made up her mind not to go.Over the years, she has been getting farther and farther away from the villagers, and her childhood playmates don't talk much anymore. Maybe they think that she has become a city girl and is out of tune with them. Ningxiang also feels strange to them.It doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong, it's just that the relationship has faded.

After a break in the afternoon, Amu was sleeping on the kang, and Ning Xiang quietly took out the mahogany comb that Lu Cheng gave her.

The brand new comb smells of mahogany.

Ning Xiang rubbed gently, and Lu Cheng's handsome face appeared in front of his eyes, as well as his words "I miss him once I comb it".

How could he say anything?

Natural thick skin.

She was scolding him for being dishonest in her heart, but the person smiled unconsciously. Ning Xiang sat on the edge of the kang, untied her long black and soft hair, tilted her head and combed it gently, without thinking about anything, quietly enjoying the rare tranquility.

As for Zhang's family ten miles away, Cui was not in a good mood for her niece, so she went to the West Wing while her husband, daughter and young son were asleep.Walking to the door, I reached out to push it habitually, but I couldn't push it open all at once.

"Hong Lin?" Cui called out in a low voice.

There were three wing rooms in total, all of which were cleaned up for Zhang Honglin's use. The southernmost one was used as a study, the middle one was used as a bedroom, and the northernmost one was used as a hall. Cui Shi and others all entered from the hall when they came to find Zhang Honglin.

In the bedroom, Zhang Honglin was wearing a tunic on his upper body, covered with a thin quilt, half leaning on the pillow, holding a booklet in one hand, and hiding under the quilt with the other hand, not knowing what he was doing, his fair face was strangely red.Just as he was in high spirits, Zhang Honglin couldn't help frowning when he heard his mother calling him, and raised his voice while speeding up his movements: "Wait a minute, come as soon as you finish writing this word."

Probably it was more exciting to be caught by my mother for doing bad things, and he snorted not long after he finished speaking.

Cui couldn't imagine what the eldest son had really done, so she waited patiently under the eaves.

After a while the door opened, she looked up and saw that the eldest son's handsome face was slightly red, only thinking that he was too hard to study in the summer, so she persuaded distressedly: "Why don't you sleep in the middle of the day? Don't you usually talk about combining work and rest?" , Hong Lin, mother knows that you work hard, but your body is the most important thing, it is not too late to study after we have rested."

Without guilt, Zhang Honglin invited his mother in.

Mrs. Cui was about to go inside. Zhang Honglin was afraid that his mother would smell it, so he asked her to sit outside without any trace, and poured tea for his mother filially, "Mother, do you need me?"

"It's not your cousin's business." Cui said irritably, looking at the eldest son with a teacup, with a suspicious expression on her face, "She said that the son is upright, but the more I think about it, the more I think it is her polite words, we have never met the son Why don't you let her say what the prince is like? I think she just remembers the grudges of the past, and deliberately doesn't help us! A dead girl, just like her mother, looks weak and weak, but is actually full of bad water!"

When it came to the hospital examination, the heat on Zhang Honglin's face gradually faded, and his mind changed.

The courtyard exam takes two exams every three years, and next year will be Qiu Wei. If he misses this time, he will have to wait for three more years.Although there are also many people who participate in Qiuwei and Chunwei at the age of 50 or [-], Zhang Honglin does not want to be compared with those who are destined to have no great future.Obtaining fame three years in advance means entering the officialdom three years in advance, even if it is just a trivial official, three years of qualifications is better than wasting three years waiting for Qiu Wei.

So this year he must pass the examination of scholar.

Zhang Honglin originally had great confidence in himself, but after last year's blow, he felt that it was better to be on the safe side this time.There is no way out at home, so he has to rely on himself, but his cousin is related to the Zhenyuan Hou Mansion, so why didn't he seize such a god-given opportunity?

Looking at his mother who was always mean and stingy, Zhang Honglin pondered slightly, and said: "Back then, my mother refused to borrow my cousin's money. It is human nature for her to hate you. How about this? I will go with my younger siblings in a few days, and let's not ask for mercy. For the matter, let’s leave as ordinary relatives and dispel my cousin’s vigilance.”

A 14-year-old girl is so smart, he doesn't believe that he can't coax her.

Moreover, Zhang Honglin also wanted to know, after more than three years, what the once skinny little cousin had become.

(End of this chapter)