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Chapter 104 Gilded Butterfly Hairpin

On the first day of the first lunar month, wake up early in the morning and say "auspiciousness" to each other. After eating dumplings, and worshiping ancestors in the clan, everyone must bring joss sticks and paper money to the ancestral hall.

The largest ancestral hall in Qingliu Town is of course the Liu Family Ancestral Hall. Since the establishment of Master Juren, there is a memorial archway outside the ancestral hall, and a plaque hangs on the door beam. The atmosphere is very different.

The Song Clan's Ancestral Hall looks like an ordinary ancestral hall, with pictures of ancestors hanging up in rows, and the sacrificial utensils on display are all silverware.These silver utensils are cleaned by the women of each family, filled with clean pork and mutton, and dedicated to the ancestors.

The patriarch's wife assigned work, and Lily cleaned the sacrificial vessels with several aunts and sister-in-laws in the clan. Others were either preparing meat dishes or roasting pork, and they were very busy.

After the meat, steamed buns and other things are all offered on the table, the women have to rest and gather together to gossip.

Lily is dressed brightly today. The water-red cotton-padded jacket with lotus branches is tucked in an inch at the waist, and the thin waistline is pinched out. Even though it is a winter coat, it does not look bulky; Cloth cotton shoes.

The bun on the head is smooth, and a butterfly hairpin is inserted. The butterfly wings move and vibrate with the lily, as if alive.

Among the Song clan, there are those who live well, such as the patriarch's family, and those who live in a mediocre way, such as the Song old man's family, and there is Song Haonian, a family with little surplus food.

Birth Song Haonian was penniless in the old year, and a daughter-in-law almost died of illness at home. I don't want this year to be lucky, and now Lily can wear hairpins.

Many young daughters-in-law gathered around the lily and looked at it curiously: "Oh, isn't this gold?"

Lily shook her head again and again: "Where is the gold? It's copper."

Hearing that it is made of copper, many people calm down, and they don't find it dazzling when they look at the lily—whose family doesn't have one or two copper jewelry.

Lily said once again that this sister-in-law has exquisite earrings, and that aunt wears a pair of good bracelets. Everyone talked lively, and suddenly someone snorted coldly: "Prodigal woman!" Everyone fell silent for a moment.

It was none other than Lily's sister-in-law Song Xiuxiu who said such disappointing words.

Lily smiled slightly, pretending that she couldn't hear, and continued to talk to others.Those few people also couldn't understand Song Xiuxiu's appearance. Everyone was happy during the New Year's Eve, what did they do to her?

Song Xiuxiu looked like everyone else was inferior to her and owed her something.

Being ignored, Song Xiuxiu was so angry that her chest heaved, she felt that this group of people had been bribed by Li Da Niu, and she didn't know whether people's hearts were good or bad, so she sneered a few times, and turned her head to look for her mother and her sister-in-law.

Since Mrs. Niu and Mrs. Dong are here, Baihe can't just ignore them completely. After talking for a while, she still needs to meet up.

Niu and the patriarch's wife are of the same generation, and there is a seat in the house, and the daughter-in-law and daughter can only stand. Lily went to salute Niu and say hello to Dong.

Niu forced a smile on his face, and said, "You and the second child will go home for dinner in the afternoon, and our family will be reunited more often."

Lily was not happy in her heart, so she had no choice but to agree in front of so many people.

Mrs. Dong didn't have a good face, her face was so dark that ink dripped down her face, and several aunts and aunts frowned when she saw it, and then she whispered to her daughter-in-law: "The one at Hershey's is not a fuel-efficient lamp. I don’t even kiss my sister-in-law, can I kiss you? From now on, don’t associate with her!”

Niu made a few perfunctory remarks to Lily, then turned his head to talk to the patriarch's wife. The patriarch's wife had a good impression of Lily, and said: "I just praised you with your mother-in-law. I didn't want you to have long legs, so here I come."

Lily smiled and replied: "It's my mother-in-law who taught me how to be worthy of my aunt's praise."

No matter how much they resent each other inside, Niu Shi and Bai He can put on a harmonious appearance on the bright side, Dong Shi doesn't have this skill, and Song Xiuxiu is even more dumbfounded, thinking that her mother betrayed her, even talking and laughing with Li Da Niu , Stamped his feet angrily, turned around and went home.

There are a lot of people in the clan, and Song Xiuxiu's behavior is ignorant in the eyes of others, so Niu can only explain for her daughter: "I am still young, and I miss Jin Baoer at home, so I want to go back and play with my nephew."

Being playful is a trivial matter, and caring for your nephew is something to be proud of, as long as others don't call her daughter a fool.

In the afternoon, the members of the Song clan returned home. Song Haonian and Baihe packed up a package of New Year's goods, including two jars of wine, a piece of green cloth, two packs of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and a pack of four kinds of candied fruit.

Song Haonian specially told Lily: "Pick up a copy as usual, and go back to her mother's house tomorrow."

Lily smiled all over her face: "Okay." Every time Song Haonian delivered something to Lao Song's house, he never forgot to bring a copy to Lily's natal family. With such a thought, Lily was very grateful and would never be unhappy.

There was no custom of going to other people's houses to play on the first day of the new year. The young couple stayed at home with winter plums, lest she would wrong them, and repeatedly told them: "If you are hungry, cook by yourself, and if you want to eat melon seeds and candied fruit, you can find them yourself."

Lamei said: "Go quickly, I don't know if you can have a hot meal, if you don't eat well, I will cook dumplings for you when you come back."

Lily quickly said to her sister: "Lamei!"

It is true that the husband's family treats their young couple badly, but they are not close. How can a sister-in-law complain about her brother-in-law's family?
Song Haonian smiled with a good temper: "Don't worry, I will protect your sister."

When the two went to Lao Song's house, they first gave gifts. Niu Shi glanced over, nodded, and locked him in his cage.Although it was the New Year's Eve, there were no melon seeds and candied fruit for guests at home, but Mrs. Dong was making dumplings under the kitchen and called Lily to help.

The cooking could not be postponed, Lily went to the kitchen to wash her hands, and saw Mrs. Dong rolling out the dumplings, while Song Xiuxiu was gnashing her teeth making dumplings, so she went to a bench to sit down and wrapped them up too.

The stuffing is leek and egg stuffing, probably because the leeks were not "killed" before mixing, the stuffing is full of soup, and the dripping is not good.

Lily only wrapped two pieces, and Mrs. Dong exclaimed in a fuss, "How can you afford to wrap so many!"

Lily was taken aback, and when she looked again, the fillings she made were almost twice as much as Song Xiuxiu's, each of them was plump and round, and the dumplings made by Song Xiuxiu were all lying flat on the bamboo plaque.

Not counting her own family, she couldn't help herself, and Lily didn't insist on reducing the stuffing like Song Xiuxiu did, but Dong still refused to shut up and talk about thrift and so on.

Lily said in her heart: Even if you don't eat well, what are you doing to save so much money?

Song Xiuxiu seldom talked. While making dumplings, she couldn't stop looking at Lily's head. Her eyes were so straightforward that even Mrs. Dong could understand. She asked Lily, "Where did you get this hairpin?"

Lily smiled and said, "It looks good when I go out on New Year's Eve, buy it back and let me wear it."

Dong's face was distorted immediately with anger, Song Haoshi had never given her such a good thing, they are all brothers, why is there such a big difference in life?

Song Xiuxiu curled her lips and sneered, "Second brother doesn't know how to be filial to his parents, but he knows how to please his wife."

Lily added a sentence neither soft nor hard: "Your second brother's filial piety to his parents is all in his mother's box. You are not a mother, so how do you know he is not filial?"

It is also rare for a girl to treat herself as a mother.

Song Xiuxiu had endured it for a long time, but now she couldn't hold it anymore, she dropped the chopsticks in her hand and walked out. Mrs. Dong didn't dare to bother her, and Lily wouldn't ask her to apologize, she just speeded up the speed of making dumplings.

After cooking the dumplings for dinner, the two daughters-in-law did not have a seat as usual, Song Haonian glared, and pulled Lily to let her sit.Old man Song and Niu remembered what happened last time because their second daughter-in-law didn't have a seat, so they could only admit it with their noses pinched.

Song Haoshi wanted to play prestige at this time, and scolded Mrs. Dong: "You don't have eyes, why don't you come and sit down quickly, ask a table of people to wait for you, and treat yourself as nothing!"

Angry and ashamed, Dong did not dare to say anything to Song Haoshi, but just gouged Lily with her eyes.

Lily pretended not to be seen, and ate in silence. The dumpling wrappers were a bit sticky, and the fillings were not flavorful enough. She didn't want to eat much after eating a few. Song Haonian saw that she didn't use her chopsticks very much. If there was leftovers, she might cause trouble again. In a fit of anger, he took the initiative to take a few dumplings from her bowl, leaving only two for her.

Lily glanced at her husband gratefully, but Song Xiuxiu called out, "Second Brother, why are you robbing Second Sister-in-law's meal?"

Both the young couple looked at Song Xiuxiu in surprise, they never expected that Song Xiuxiu would speak for Lily one day.

Song Xiuxiu smiled at Lily, and Lily's hairs stood on end in fright, she said something wrong in her heart: Could it be that this sister-in-law was bumped into by someone?
Not only did they think it was wrong, everyone at the table looked at Song Xiuxiu like a ghost except Niu Shi - everyone knew what kind of person she was, and even more knew her relationship with Lily.

Song Xiuxiu ate the dumplings and said, "What are you looking at, why don't you like me and my second sister-in-law?"

Lily was startled, and quickly lowered her head to pick up the dumplings in her bowl.Song Xiuxiu wanted to lead her to talk, but Baihe acted appropriately and answered one of the three sentences, so that others could see that her aunt and sister-in-law were in harmony.

Song Haojie sniggered from the side, leaned into Song Xiuxiu's ear and said something, Song Xiuxiu stomped on Song Haojie's foot, the latter let out an "ow", Niu hurriedly said to her daughter: "What are you doing? Don't bully your third brother!"

Song Xiuxiu shrank back and didn't speak, and she didn't forget to give Baihe a smiling face. Baihe couldn't understand it, she didn't know where she had chosen her sister-in-law's fate, and she suddenly liked her.

Song Haojie's feet hurt from being trampled on by her sister, and she said loudly in retaliation: "Xiuxiu wants the second sister-in-law's hairpin!"

There was a moment of silence, and everyone looked at the shiny hairpin on Lily's head, and the atmosphere was extremely awkward.

Seeing that Song Haojie exposed her little plan, Song Xiuxiu simply stopped pretending and said carelessly: "Second sister-in-law, I think your hairpin is pretty good, just give it to me."

Before Baihe could speak, Mrs. Dong hurriedly chimed in: "That's right, it's rare that Xiuxiu likes it, so you should be more generous with the second child."

Now Baihe understands why Song Xiuxiu pretends to be nice to her, it turns out that she is here waiting for her because she wants to plot her hairpin.

Not to mention that this hairpin was bought by Song Haonian all the way for her, even the mahogany hairpin she used to wear, according to Song Xiuxiu's way of being a sister-in-law, she would not give it to her.

The family doesn't want to order something good all day long, they only think about how to plan for sister-in-law's things, how can they be such a sister-in-law!
(End of this chapter)