in spring

Chapter 133
Chunying put down the burden in her hands, sat on the edge of the bed, patted the soft bed a few times, feeling very good.

This is the first time she has returned to her new home. Although the house is very old, it looks brighter and has more space than the original one because of the repainting.This was originally the east wing of a large courtyard house. There are three rooms, one bright and two dark. Raised two daughters.Qiuyu was not at home, so Chunying occupied the whole room by herself.

The layout of the room is a bit like the second-class girl's room in Huanhuaxuan, with two beds side by side, a dressing table in the middle, a large wardrobe and suitcase in the bed room, and a washbasin stand by the door.Most of the things are old, but there are also one or two new pieces of furniture, perhaps because the room has not been lived in for a long time, and the surface is covered with a thin layer of dust.Lu's mother threw a broom and a rag in and said, "Clean up quickly, come out and help me cook!"

Chunying agreed, swept the floor casually, then took a rag to wipe east and west, opened the dressing table and the suitcase and wardrobe.Qiuyu's things were already placed inside, but half of the space was left, which seemed to be for myself.After Chunying finished cleaning, she hurriedly put her belongings in, turned her head to touch the new room, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.

This is much better than sharing a kang with my parents and younger brother. Although the room is not as big as Huanhuaxuan's room, it is at most a staff dormitory, and the second uncle's place is only temporary. This room is better. I want to do it here. Do whatever you want.It would be even better if this house was bought by the family instead of being "rewarded" by the masters of the Hou Mansion.

When Chunying heard her mother's urging, she reluctantly looked at the room again, while thinking about when to get some red paper to cut a window grille, so that the window would not be so monotonous, while walking towards the kitchen.She noticed that apart from Lu's house, the other houses in this yard were all empty. Although they didn't belong to their house on the surface, her mother was very used to stacking sundries in front of other people's houses.If those rooms were not locked, maybe she would have used them long ago?

Chunying washed rice, cooked rice, and cut vegetables very skillfully. Mother Lu looked at it for a while and felt quite satisfied: "I have lived in your second uncle's house for more than half a year, and my skills have improved. You stay and look after the house, and I will pick you up." Brother come back."

Chunying complied, and continued to work swiftly. After finishing the preparations, she stopped, planning to wait for her parents to come home before cooking.

A young man's voice came from outside the door: "Uncle Lu is at home? I'm Xiao Wu!" Chunying went out hurriedly: "Is it Brother Xiao Wu? My father is not here, what do you want from him?"

Xiao Wu stood at the gate of the courtyard and poked his head around. He could vaguely see a carriage parked behind him, with a strange young man sitting in the front of the carriage.Chunying looked at him curiously, and then heard Xiao Wu laughing: "That's really unfortunate. I thought he had already gone home." He took a step forward, just blocking Chunying's sight: "Chunying My son and sister, are you feeling better? Did you come home already?"

Chunying nodded with a dry smile: "Yes..." Speaking of this matter, her mood was a little complicated.In fact, the reason why she moved back was that apart from her father's return home, the more important reason was: Xiao Wu saw her at the door of Uncle Lu's house that day, and when he came back, he told others. Knowing that she is "healed from her wounds".In addition, Hu Fei had already left, and the second uncle suddenly became busy again, so she had no choice but to move back home.This is actually an accident, the third young master shouldn't mind, right?
She cleared her throat, and smiled at Xiao Wu: "What is Brother Xiao Wu here for?"

"Ah, I came here as a thank you gift." Xiao Wu shook the cloth bag in his hand, "When I was in the south, Uncle Lu took good care of me. My mother said that I should thank him well, so she prepared a small gift and ordered me to give it to me. Come on. Sister, take it for uncle, it's not a good thing, it's just a wish." After saying that, he stuffed it over.

Chunying was stunned for a moment, and saw a pile of plum-patterned material from the seam of the bag. The texture was smooth, although it was not top-grade, but it was worth some money, and the bag was quite heavy, so she pushed it back: "Young brother Wu, you are welcome. , take things back. My father’s helping people is not for these.”

Xiao Wu pushed it back again: "You must accept it! This is a thank you gift, if the girl pushes it, she will look down on me."

Chunying was in a dilemma, mother Lu came back with her son in her arms, and after asking what had happened, she took the burden with a smile, bumped her daughter secretly, and let Xiao Wu come in for tea.

While giving way, Xiao Wu walked into the house, looked around, saw that Lu's mother had put her son back in the room, and was about to make tea, and hurriedly pushed: "I really don't have to work, I feel embarrassed by my aunt."

"What's so embarrassing? When you came to our house, why don't you just leave without having a cup of tea? Others will definitely gossip about me! Sit down, Chun'er, and bring some snacks for brother Wu." Mother Lu ordered With one sentence, he took the teapot and went to the kitchen to flush the water.

Chunying stood at the door, wanting to see her younger brother very much. After Xiaohu entered the door just now, he didn't look at her. Could it be because he no longer recognizes his second sister because he hasn't seen her for more than a year?But speaking of it, Xiaohu has really grown up a lot, and she looks more and more like her modern cousin "Xiaohu".

Although she was conflicted in her heart, she still turned around and took out the dim sum plate, which was actually the steamed cake she bought on the way.Turning around, she saw Xiao Wu lifted the door curtain of the ear room to look in, and paused: "What are you looking at?" So fast! I almost didn't recognize it!"

Chunying smiled and put the snacks on the table: "Come and eat, this is just bought, and it's still steaming." Xiao Wu took a bite with a smile: "It's delicious!" Then he looked at the other ear room: "Which room are you sleeping in now?"

Chunying stared at him: "Yes, but I just moved back, and the house is in a mess, so no one can see it."

Xiao Wu smiled and lowered his head to eat the cake. Mother Lu came back with the teapot. Chun Ying hurriedly took the tea, Xiao Wu only ate half of the cup and said: "I have to go, there are people waiting for me outside. Thank you aunt for inviting me Eat cakes. It will be Qingming in a few days, my mother will go outside the city to worship, and on the eighth day of the lunar new year, she will go to Longfu Temple to fulfill her vows, so I asked my aunt if she would like to go together?"

Mother Lu hurriedly said: "I'm going too. When his father was away, I went to Longfu Temple to ask the Bodhisattva to bless him to return home safely. Now that he's back, I'm going to fulfill my wish. What time is it? I'm going to find your mother."

"Go at Chenshi, I'm afraid there will be too many people when it's late." Xiao Wu said, "On the seventh day of the lunar new year, she will be making a nest for offering sacrifices to Buddha. Auntie might as well come over and do it together. It will be more lively." After saying that, he bowed and went smiled and left.Chunying watched him go out, and saw him whisper a few words to the strange man, then got in the car and left.

Lu's mother was still muttering: "It's just right, I still want to buy glutinous rice to make nests. I will save a lot of money by doing it with them. I only need to bring some jujube paste and pea yellow to make stuffing."

Another person came from outside the door, but it was an old acquaintance, Aunt Ma, with a flattering smile on her face. When she saw Chunying, she said, "Are you back? Come back, your mother is so bored at home, and it's hard to work alone." Thank you, you are back, and she has a helper."

Chunying responded with a dry smile, and didn't want to spend more time with her, so she went back to her room to coax her younger brother.Sure enough, Xiaohu had forgotten her, even if she took out the cloth tiger he made by himself to coax him, he would cower at the foot of the kang with a face full of wariness, but he couldn't come over.After coaxing him for a long time, she finally persuaded him to come over and let her kiss him, then turned around with his back in his arms, only pointing his butt at her.

Chunying laughed and poked her head over: "Why don't you recognize Second Sister?" Xiaohu turned his head to stare at her, blinked, then turned back to play with himself, Chunying walked over unwillingly: "Second Sister is so sad, you The cloth tiger in your hand was made by the second sister herself, don’t you want more? Hey? Would you like to be a pony?”

Xiaohu opened his eyes wide: "Little Ma?" Chunying nodded: "Little Ma. Then... what should you do?" Xiaohu rolled his eyes twice, and rushed forward to kiss her. Chunying was satisfied Smiled: "Okay! I'll make it tonight! How big do you want?" Xiaohu threw away Buhuo, opened his arms and drew a big circle desperately: "It's so big!" "It's so big..." Chunying hugged it, Smiling and tickling him, the siblings laughed together.

Aunt Ma's voice came from outside: "Just now I saw that little Wu from the Wang family leaving your house, why do you still have contacts with his house?"

"What's the matter? Everyone is an old acquaintance, and I made an appointment with his mother to go out with Qingming and Chuba."

"Oh, my good sister, why are you so confused? His family is surnamed Wang! Who is behind the Wang family, you don't know yet? Now your man is in charge of the wife's subordinates, your uncle is in charge of the young master, the two of you The master doesn't get along with that person, and you still associate with his family, aren't you just looking for boredom? Listen to my advice, get estranged early, even if you are old acquaintances, you should be considered close, right?"

Chunying frowned in the room, feeling that Aunt Ma's speech was out of tune.What happened to the surname Wang?Shi'er is also surnamed Wang, but the Wang family is a powerful family among the sons of the Hou family. There are more than a dozen families surnamed Wang in the entire back street. Not all of them may be from the second young master, right?The person Xiao Wu waited on was obviously the young master!

She put Xiaohu down and let him play with the cloth tiger by himself, but she walked lightly to the door and listened to the conversation outside the door.

Mother Lu seemed to be a little hesitant: "Brother Xiao Wu sent a few thank you gifts because Xiaohu's father took good care of him in the south. Do you want me to drive him out? Besides, everyone is going out of the city to worship ancestors during the Qingming Festival." If you go the same way, there is nothing wrong with walking together."

There were a few sounds of turning over things outside, and Aunt Ma said again: "Tsk tsk, it's just two pieces of broken material and two pairs of cloth shoes, he can afford such a shabby gift? What's in this purse? Silver curly Is that all right? It’s just that this gift is thin enough. Sister, I didn’t say that your family’s status is different now, so you should put on airs so as not to be looked down upon by others. If he just wants to thank you for such a thin gift, So I reluctantly accepted it. But if he wants to ask your family to do something, don't agree!"

"Working? What can our family do?"

"Who says it can't? My aunt came back from the south, but she brought a lot of things. If she wants to live in Beijing for a long time, she must add some property. These properties must be taken care of, right? Xiao Chen is a busy person, naturally Don't care, didn't you say that you are going to be promoted to a manager? Simply ask for this fat job! It will definitely be done! At that time, you will be the lady in charge! Just don't forget to give us a hand, we old horses Still at home idle..."

"Mom!" Chunying couldn't listen anymore, she opened the curtain and came out, "Xiaohu and I are both hungry, when will we have dinner? Didn't Dad tell us not to wait for him? Why don't we eat first?" Turning to Aunt Ma again : "Auntie, isn't she going back to cook too?"

"Ah! Is Xiaohu hungry?" Lu's mother hurried into the room to see her son. Seeing that he was fine, she turned around and cursed, "I told you to scare me! Just bear it, I didn't see that I was with your Aunt Ma say?"

Chunying glanced at Aunt Ma, saw that she was still drinking tea and eating snacks in a leisurely manner, and said, "How can you bear it when you're hungry? I just came home from outside, and it's been a while since I had dinner with you..." She hugged The mother's arm acted like a baby: "Just once! I want to eat my mother's cooking quickly!"

Mother Lu felt a little soft-hearted, and said to Aunt Ma embarrassedly: "Sister, look..." Aunt Ma was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Ah, it doesn't matter, you go, I'll just have tea here. Everyone like that It's ready, you're welcome."

Chunying's eyes widened, and she secretly spurned her thick skin. When she rolled her eyes, she dragged her mother out: "Come on!" When she got to the kitchen, she stopped laughing and said to her seriously: "Mother, Ma! What's going on with Auntie? You just listened to her talking nonsense?!"

(End of this chapter)