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A few days later, Mrs. Sun came to the door with the bayberry wine she brewed and the candied fruit she made.Jingxian smiled and said: "Our family's seniority is also messed up now. You are an old man next to Mrs. Xian. We all call him Mama Sun, but now Zhenghai calls me Godmother again." Xiaozhen said: "I read the "New Life" brought back by the second master two days ago. It said that these are outdated customs. People are just called according to the age difference. There is no need to use these empty words." Jing Jing Xianbai glanced at her, "This is hypocrisy. If you want to change your name someday, you should say so." Mrs. Sun smoothed things over, "What my aunt said is reasonable. Regardless of how old I am, I feel that this new life is a good idea. Well said." Then he pointed to Huanzhu who was playing hide-and-seek with Zhenghai and Lianzhou in the yard, and said, "Look, this little girl's feet are not bound, so there are many advantages." Jingxian and Xiaozhen are now both Let go of your feet, but the pain of that year is unforgettable.The three of them didn't speak for a while.

Zhaoshi also came out of the study to greet Mrs. Sun, "Sun Xiangli will return to Shanghai in a few days anyway, why don't you stay at home for a few more days and take a good look at Zhenghai, and feel at ease." Turning around, he called Zhenghai who was playing outside Come in, "Your mother is here, you don't have to spend more time with her, you know how to play outside." Zheng Hai smiled shyly and stood behind his mother.Mrs. Sun smiled: "Second Master's knowledgeable appearance makes people like it. I don't know how happy I am to let Zheng Hai learn more from you. He follows his godmother and Second Master, so why should I feel at ease? Yes. Grandma just told me that Zhenghai got into trouble a few days ago and said that he made the second master very anxious. This kid has been stupefied since he was a child, and he still likes to admit death, so the second master will mention it more in the future." Zhaoshi nodded and followed While Mrs. Sun was talking, she saw Xiaozhen winking at him at the entrance of the restaurant in the distance, and told Zhenghai: "Talk to your mother well, and I'll ask the kitchen to cut some fruit."

As soon as he entered the restaurant, Xiaozhen said anxiously: "Second Master, you have time to coax Lianzhou. Just now I saw Zhenghai's mother coming, so I asked me, brother Zhenghai's mothers are here, why is my mother still not here?" Luckily, Grandma was not in front of me. When I was nervous, I didn’t know what to say to him. He didn’t make a fuss, he frowned and didn’t know what to think about. Tell me about this kid, Grandma treats him so well, why do you still think about it? It’s his mother.” Zhaoshi shook his head: “I can’t blame him, he is a poor child without father and mother. To say something that shouldn’t be said, although I am grateful for the kindness of my sister-in-law’s upbringing, I feel like calling her sister-in-law Mother should too, but I often think of my own mother in my heart, let alone such a young child as Lianzhou." Xiaozhen asked: "Then what do you think?" This question stumped Zhaoshi, and he couldn't help but He was a boy in his teens who didn't have a family, so he scratched his head and said, "Let's try to coax him first, maybe he will forget it after a long time."

Xiaozhen remembered that Jingxian once told Lianzhou that his mother would come back when he was as tall as her sister, so she still used this method to coax Lianzhou.Lianzhou got up every morning and would drag her sister to compare her head.Zhaoshi felt that it was not a solution to let him think about this matter like this, so he said to Lianzhou, "People who go out only go home after the New Year. After the New Year, your mother will come."

The Spring Festival is coming faster than Zhaoshi imagined, and it is the end of the twelfth lunar month before he has figured out how to deal with Lianzhou.The Shen family invited a tailor to come and make new clothes for the family.Xiaozhen asked Jingxian with a blushing face: "Can I add a western-style woolen overcoat? It was worn by my aunt and grandma when I came to the house. I was envious at the time. It is windproof and beautiful. It is much better than a cotton cloak. Now I see movie stars in magazines wearing this to take pictures." Jingxian said angrily, "It's because Zhaoshi's kid went home with "New Youth" and "New Life". "Xiaozhen didn't dare to make a sound, Jingxian laughed instead, "Let's do it, and choose another piece of material to make an improved cheongsam, so you can wear it when you go out. Nowadays, there are no women wearing jackets and skirts on the street. Choose the material for me too. , I do too. This year I will also make western clothes for Zhaoshi and Huanzhu. Lianzhou is still small and it is inconvenient to wear a suit for activities. Let’s talk about it in two years.” Xiaozhen was very happy. The grandmother not only agreed to make western clothes, but also let him Make clothes for the door.All these years since she married into Shen's family, she just wandered around in this three-story mansion. She didn't even go to the garden very often. She really wanted to see the real Shanghai Bund.

Even though Lianzhou is small, she knows how to measure for new clothes, probably because it will be Chinese New Year.He wanted to ask the second uncle if his mother should come, but the second uncle seemed to be avoiding him for the past two days.He had no choice but to climb into Jingxian's big bed at night.He shook his mother's arm, "Mom, Second Uncle is a bad boy, he lied!"

Jingxian caressed his back, and asked with a smile: "When did the second uncle lie, you tell mother." Lianzhou pouted and said: "He lied to me that my mother came during the Chinese New Year. I have come here to make new clothes for the new year, and my mother didn't come, isn't this a lie?" Jingxian's hand stroking Lianzhou's back suddenly stopped.She felt a tightness in her chest and was short of breath.Feeling the ups and downs of her mother's chest, Lian Zhou turned her face and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you? Are you angry? I'll call my second uncle to apologize, don't be angry." As she said that, she was about to get out of bed, but Jing Xian shook her head. Pulling Lianzhou into her arms, she began to cry.Lianzhou was terrified, and stretched out her little hand to wipe Jingxian's tears.However, mother's tears kept falling like broken beads, and his hands were too small to catch them.The child was so anxious that he had no choice but to lean on his mother's chest and cry aggrievedly.Jingxian held Lianzhou's small face in her hands: "Lianzhou, I will pick you up when your mother comes, so mother can't see you. Mother is sad and wants to cry when she can't see Lianzhou." Lianzhou closed her eyes After pondering for a while, he asked, "Will I not be able to see my mother after I leave? What about the second uncle? Where are my elder brothers, sisters and aunts? They won't be seen anymore?" Seeing her mother nodding, Lianzhou put her arms around her neck again Said: "Then you tell my mother, let her come back in a few days. I want to play with my brothers and sisters for a few more days."

Xiaozhen came in and saw red circles under one big and one small eyes, she didn't know what happened, coaxed Lianzhou out, and then looked at Jingxian suspiciously.Jingxian wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said: "Lianzhou misses his mother. I said that if he leaves with his mother, he will never see me again." Xiaozhen was a little anxious: "What did he say?" Jingxian smiled "He said, he still has to play for a few days, let him pick him up in two days."

On the night of the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Jingxian suddenly asked Xiaozhen, "Has it snowed at home this year? Shouldn't it be time to seal the eels today?" Xiaozhen knew that the home she was talking about was her natal family in Ningbo, so she hurriedly said with a smile: " Today is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, isn’t it the day when eels are to be sealed off? I don’t know if it’s snowing or not, so what do you do, don’t you eat eels if it’s not snowing?” Jing Xian said: “Don’t you I know, if there is no snow, there will be no northwest wind, and if there is no northwest wind, then the taste of eels will be bad." Xiaozhen said with a smile: "Don't worry about the annual eclipse of your mother's family, but how will we celebrate the New Year this year? What do you say Here is a charter, so I can do it." Jingxian tilted her head and thought for a while: "You and Zhaoshi are whispering about new culture and new life in my ears every day, and now we are also living a new life. Go ask the family If you are willing to go back, I will give them a red envelope to send them back to celebrate the New Year. If you don’t want to go back, stay with us and have a reunion dinner with us on New Year’s Eve. If Sun Xiangli’s family is willing to celebrate the New Year with us, that’s fine. If you want to live in your own family, send Zhenghai back. Mama Tao in the kitchen can take care of the things for worshiping the ancestors. You will manage the New Year’s Eve dinner, and ask Zhaoshi, Huanzhu and Lianzhou to help. Then ask Zhaoshi to buy some fireworks. After the New Year’s Eve dinner, let’s set off fireworks in the yard.” Xiaozhen said, “When I was making clothes two days ago, I heard from my grandma, maybe I’ll go for a walk, can you let me go and see what I want to buy for the New Year? "Jingxian pursed her lips and smiled: "I just made some sense, and you are anxious to go out to play. Go, let the driver drive you to Yong'an Department Store, and take a few children with you."

Early the next morning, Xiaozhen happily asked Jingxian for instructions: "I have asked about the Chinese New Year. Mama Tao and Miantao are willing to stay home for the New Year, and I have sealed red envelopes for everyone else. Zhenghai said he wanted to stay with us. Hello, please tell Sun Xiangli and Mrs. Sun, and invite them to celebrate the New Year together. I asked Mama Tao to buy glutinous rice, sesame seeds, suet, herring and rice cakes in the past two days. Cook rice cake soup for New Year’s Day, and then we Let’s make glutinous rice balls, fish balls, and egg dumplings together. I also told the cashier to spend all the money for the New Year before the new year.” Jingxian laughed at her: “I didn’t learn anything else, so I just paid for it from the account. The fastest. You just said it so neatly, what’s going on next?” Xiaozhen opened her mouth, was stunned for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: “Grandma, you must not have been transformed by Sun Dasheng, how could you see What about the words in people's stomachs?" Jingxian couldn't help laughing: "You are the monkey spirit, I don't know you yet, after doing so much work, there must be something behind." Xiaozhen bit her lips, "You If you think my arrangement is right, allow me to go to the department store in the afternoon." Jingxian laughed out loud, "I guessed right. If you have a short day, you don't need to take a nap, just go after lunch."

After lunch, Xiaozhen took Zhenghai, Huanzhu and Lianzhou to the department store.Boys don't like to go shopping after all, Xiaozhen bought candies and tin cars for the two of them, and coaxed Zhenghai to wait at the toy counter with Lianzhou.I walked with Huanzhu layer by layer.When I go back in the afternoon, I also carry home the big and small bags.Jingxian muttered in the living room: "I really can't let you go out. This is against the sky. I want to move all the department stores back to me." Xiaozhen opened a package and said, "This package is not among those things." , this is my monthly money to buy.Grandma also came to see how I looked. "Jingxian smiled: "The people I train, how bad can their eyesight be? Xiaozhen took out one by one, and kept saying, "This is the lipstick I bought for you. It's really much better than those rouge creams I used before."These are leather shoes bought for Huanzhu, made of lambskin, with no gaps between feet.The toys bought for Lian Zhou and Zheng Hai have already been played with.He also bought a hairpin for the little girl Miantao. "When he touched the last one, his face turned red. It was a gray checkered handkerchief for men. He lowered his head and said, "This is for the second master. If grandma thinks it's inappropriate, leave it to Zhenghai." Jingxian thought for a while and said: "It's really inappropriate to say that you gave him something."Everyone in the family has it, but he doesn't have it and it's not suitable.Zhaoshi taught you to read a lot of books, even if you are a student, thank you to the teacher. "

Xiaozhen took the handkerchief to the door of Zhaoshi's study, thought about it but didn't knock on the door to enter.Fiddled with that handkerchief, finally waited until dinner, and gave the handkerchief to Zhaoshi in front of the whole family at the dinner table, "Thank you, Second Master, for teaching me to read." After finishing speaking, he bowed his head and gave a blessing.Zhaoshi was quite embarrassed, "How can this work? I can't let you spend money." Jingxian smiled beside her: "This is a thank you gift from her as a student to the teacher. You can accept it."