pastoral wedding

Chapter 60

Su Jin picked up the child, but she was only 13 years old, so she couldn't raise it, but she was worried about entrusting it to others.Fortunately, Mrs. Liu is also fond of children. After discussing with Su Wenshan, she decided to keep the child and raise her by herself.Su Wenshan is a kind person, besides, he is the child of his second brother, and his family's conditions are much better. It's not the time when he opened a steamed stuffed bun shop and couldn't get enough to eat.

The child was named Su Qiao, Liu asked Hong Xing and Wisteria to buy goat milk for her to drink every day, and she took care of it herself.The little girl is also very likable, she can laugh early, and she loves to laugh very much, she often laughs when she falls asleep.Liu Shi felt comforted when she saw her. This scene reminded her of the time when she gave birth to her own children.

Because of the matter of the sunflower seeds, Su Jin went back and forth to Liushu Village every day for the next half a month, and met Xiao Lu a few times, but she always wanted to get cheap, and she still didn't mention the child. , it can be seen that she still doesn't know about the child being taken away by Su Jin.Su Jin didn't intend to tell her either, if she found out, there would be another commotion, maybe she would go to her own house to bring the child back and sell it again.

The sunflowers have already been taken back, so they cannot always be stored and ignored.Taking advantage of the clear and clear weather, Su Jin asked her second sister and Liu Yi to help, plus Qiu Liang, Qiu Ye, Da He, and Xiao He, but how could the five of them be busy? Knock out the sunflower seeds in the sunflower plate before they can be fried.

There is no other way, so I can only hire the villagers in the village to help, and calculate the money according to each flower plate, so as to avoid lazy people passing by.Xiao Lu heard that there was money to be made here, so she brought Su Mei and Su Qing here.Su Jin and Su Shuang ignored them when they saw them, but they didn't give them any preferential treatment, they just stuffed two pieces of candy into Su Qing's mouth.

This day, Su Jin was trying to fry sunflower seeds in the kitchen. She wanted to fry two flavors: original, salty and spiced.

Da He and Xiao He helped to clean out the impurities in the melon seeds. First, they fried a handful of original flavored ones over medium heat for a few minutes, then changed to low heat, and kept frying until the melon seeds turned yellow and released their fragrance.The salty melon seeds just need to put large salt grains when the pot is preheating, and when the salt is heated to a certain level, put in the melon seeds and stir fry quickly. When you hear the sound of the melon seeds exploding and the melon seeds change color slightly, you can close it Fire, and then filter out the large salt particles.There is only one thing, after the melon seeds are fried, they must be spread out to dry and cool thoroughly.

But how to fry this five-spice?Su Jin had a headache, and after thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't think it through completely, so she simply gave up thinking about it, grabbed a handful of salted melon seeds, walked to the door of the kitchen, sat down and ate.For some reason, Han Yu rode a tall horse into the yard. There were many young girls in the yard, and they couldn't take their eyes off Han Yu when they saw him. It is estimated that many girls have secretly agreed.

Su Jin thought it was funny, raised her hand, and threw the melon seeds in her hand. Han Yu hurriedly walked away, walked to her side with a smile and sat down, and instructed Xiao He to grab him the melon seeds to eat.Su Jin patted the skin of the melon seeds in her hands, and asked Da He for tea.

"What are you doing here?" Su Jin threw the handkerchief into his arms while drinking water, "Look at your sweaty head, isn't it hot today?"

Han Yu accepted it with a smile, intending to take a sip from the teacup in her hand, but she dodged it, and was even glared at, so he asked Dahe for another cup resentfully, and drank it all in one go before he had time to reply. , "I'm here to find you."

"what's up?"

Han Yu smiled slightly, lowered his head to eat the melon seeds, and threw the melon seeds all over the floor, "It's okay, I just came to see you."

"What's so interesting about me." Su Jin didn't believe it, "Quickly tell me what's the matter, or I'll kick you out so you don't get in the way."

After pondering for a long while, he ate up the melon seeds in his hand, and then said: "The wife of the county magistrate is betrothed to Siyan."

"Engagement?" Su Jin was taken aback, "Why did you get engaged? Didn't you say that you had asked Madam Xi to teach you the rules a few days ago? And which family did you book? Who is the other party? Okay? "

Hearing this, Han Yu smiled wryly, "How do I know this, I only heard that the other party is a powerful family in Beijing, and he said he was the son of a general. People, the life of the bastard will definitely not be easy." After finishing speaking, he clenched his fists with both hands and put them on his chin, staring into the distance in a daze.

The older daughters and younger daughters-in-law in the yard looked this way frequently. Fortunately, the yard was not too small, so even if they could see it, they couldn't hear what they whispered.

"Why don't you want to marry Siyan, she is a good girl, you shouldn't let her down." Su Jin also looked a little dazed.

"You don't know why?" Han Yu turned his head and stared at her seriously.

Su Jin smiled faintly, "Han Zicheng, don't be stupid, I don't like you, don't miss out on a girl as good as Siyan for me, you will regret it."

Han Yu also smiled faintly, and Su Jin looked at him sideways, as if seeing frustration and pain in his eyes, but he was indeed smiling, "Don't worry, you can like others as well as you don't like me, But I only like you, just like Siyan persistently likes me, everyone has something they are willing to cling to and look forward to, if I don’t force you, don’t you force me too?”

The wind gradually picked up, the wild chrysanthemums in the yard radiated a faint fragrance of flowers, and the unique breath of autumn rushed to people's faces, the sky gradually became gloomy, the clouds were very low, and the weather was still clear and beautiful just now Suddenly there was a strong wind, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger. People who were blowing directly couldn't open their eyes.

Liu Yi and Su Shuang didn't come today, only Su Jin brought Da He and Xiao He to supervise the work.Seeing this, Su Jin hurriedly asked the villagers who came to help to move all the sunflower disks into the house, and lit the lamps in the house to work.

"Girl, if it rains heavily, we probably won't be able to go back at night." The man who followed the driver was Sun Zhu who worked in Suji Restaurant. , come to sue Su Jin.

Su Jin nodded, "If the bet is really too big, I won't go back tonight, we'll talk about it tomorrow." Sun Zhu nodded and went to work.

Han Yu was still silent at first, but when he saw Sun Zhu suddenly, he raised his head and looked at his back, and said in surprise, "Why does this person look familiar, where did I meet him?"

Xiao He came over with warm tea, and interrupted with a smile when she heard the words, "It's not surprising that Master Yu feels familiar. Sun Zhu has lived in our house for a while, and he came here earlier than our sisters, and he often helps us. The girl drives the car."

Han Yu took the tea and said "Oh" before saying anything else.

Su Jin glanced at Xiao He thoughtfully, and saw that she turned around to boil the water again, so she didn't ask again, but turned to look at Han Yu, "You should stay here tonight too, the rain is really temporary It won't stop for a while."

Han Yu responded, holding a teacup in both hands to drink tea, looking up at the door, there were already strings of rain curtains hanging on the door frame, and the dark clouds were so low that it was hard to breathe.He shook his head and smiled, why did he remember what she said about running wildly with a man in the rain again.After he finished thinking and turned his head, Yi Ren had already rushed to the yard to rescue the bent wild chrysanthemum that was drenched by the heavy rain. He was so startled that he hurriedly shouted: "Come back quickly, I'll move it!"

In the early morning of the second day, Su Jin woke up early, as if she could still hear the sound of rain hitting fallen leaves, and was about to put on her clothes and get up to see what happened, when she saw her door was pushed open, and Xiao He came in with her hands in her hands. There was a water basin inside, and a cloth towel for wiping his face was placed on it. His bangs were wet, and there were still a few drops of water hanging on his face.

"Is it still raining?" Su Jin put on her clothes and got up, stretched her waist and asked with a smile.

"It's going on, but it's much smaller than last night." Xiao He put down the basin and smiled and walked over to help arrange Su Jin's clothes on the bed. "Da He got up early and went to the stove to boil water. The girl has warm water for getting up early, who would have thought that Mr. Yu would run into him, he was already on his horse and was about to leave, and when he saw Dahe, tell her to tell the girl that his mother is picking up trouble at home again, so you can go and see our house when you have time Big girl." Because Da He and Xiao He are twins, and they both work as maids for others, it's not good for the elder sister and younger sister to call each other, so they only call each other by their first names.

Hearing this, Su Jin sat up straight all of a sudden, "Where is Da He, call her here and I have something to ask."

"Da He was asked by the Second Madam to help make breakfast in the kitchen. I think she's still in the kitchen right now. Girl, wait a minute. I'll call her." As she said that, Xiao He hurriedly went out to call for someone.

In the room, Su Jin quickly got up and dressed, washed her face and combed her hair, and then Da He came, "Da He kept the girl waiting for a long time."

"It's okay." Su Jin didn't care. It must be her second aunt who refused to let her go. Since she sold Xiao Qiao'er, her grandmother asked her to work before she was confinement. The two servant girls were resting at the grandmother's side, and she must have been thinking about ordering Da He and Xiao He to help her with work. "What did Han Yu say?"

Da He said it again, and Su Jin became a little anxious. It seems that the eldest sister has had a hard time recently, but she is also busy recently. I forgot that my eldest sister hasn't come back for a few days, so I should go home and tell my mother to let her visit the Han Mansion.No, I'd better go and see by myself, not to mention that Mother will bring Xiaoqiao'er, and if the elder sister is really wronged, even with Mother's aggressive temper, she can't go all out with others. tell her.

After thinking about it, he said, "Let Sun Zhu get into the carriage, and you go home with me, ask the second sister to replace me, and say that I have something to go back in a hurry."

Da He agreed to go, but Su Jin thought about it and called her back, "Go after dinner."

Lu's was still as picky as before, and there was nothing delicious for breakfast, it was just corn noodle soup, a plate of pickles and a few steamed buns. Later, at Su Ran's request, he added scrambled eggs with chopped green onion and fried two plates. One plate was placed in front of Su Ran, the other circled around in front of Xiao Lu and placed in front of Su Jin.

"Girl Jin, eat more." Rarely, Mrs. Lu deliberately treated the three sisters better because she didn't like the little Mrs. Lu.Su Jin responded, but when she was not paying attention, she secretly put a few chopsticks into Su Qing's bowl, and wanted to give it to Su Mei, but she stared back, so she had to eat by herself.

(End of this chapter)