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"What does chivalry have to do with caring about other people's wives?" Shunniang asked, "Maybe she saved you because she saw you as a beauty."

Xie Erniang laughed: "The official's words are to measure the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. I think that if Miss Feng puts on a woman's dress, she must be a first-class beauty. You say that she is beautiful in her own right. How can you look up to me, the butcher's daughter?"

After hearing this, Shunniang felt even more uncomfortable, and said: "I listened to you, but you have fallen in love with him?"

"You..." Xie Erniang was about to argue a few more words, but out of the corner of her eye, she could see that Shunniang's face was darkened, and if she continued speaking, she was afraid that she would get really angry, and she would feel sorry for her, so she shut her mouth and didn't say anything. , instead stretched out his hand to hug her neck, leaned his lips together and kissed her brow, and said softly, "Look, how ugly this frown is, don't you usually persuade me, you often frown and age quickly , you won’t be beautiful when you get old.”

Shunniang couldn't stand her being gentle to herself, and as soon as the soft words hit her ears, she immediately felt less blocked.In fact, she also knew that she was jealous. It stands to reason that Feng Zhen rescued the lady from Bai Jinyi, not only the lady's benefactor, but also her own benefactor, and she should be grateful to him.But just because the other party was wearing men's clothing and being polite and kind to his wife, he was thinking wildly, and seemed to be narrow-minded.

Grabbing the hand between the lady and rubbing her eyebrows, she kissed the back of the lady's hand, and then said: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, I just applied the medicine for you, the smell is strong, you have suffered again Scared, I'll fetch water for you to wash, and then I'll bring you lunch, you can eat and sleep."

Xie Erniang saw that Shunniang finally stopped talking sour words, and she felt relieved, so she smiled and said yes.

Shunniang went downstairs to fetch water for his wife, Erniang Xie went to open the box and took out a set of homely clothes to change. The wife came over to wash her face and hands.Xie Erniang felt a little flattered, because since she and Shunniang got married, it seemed that only on the wedding night, Shunniang went to fetch water and twisted the handkerchief to scrub herself. There is more time when the water is twisted and the veil is given to Shun Niang.

With her face up, with a smile on her lips, she asked Shunniang to wipe her face, and then stared at Shunniang as she wiped her hands meticulously.

This made her feel loved by Shun Niang, which she liked very much.

However, she never asked Shunniang to do this, mainly because she felt that Shunniang was busy and tired every day for Xi's family's livelihood, and she couldn't bear to ask Shunniang like this.

Shunniang was also extraordinarily considerate to Xie Erniang this day, even she didn't realize it.

After wiping her face, Erniang Xie said, "Would you like to eat with me later?"

"Alright, then I'll bring the food up." After finishing speaking, Shun Niang went downstairs with the washing water.

After she went downstairs, she poured out the wash water, went to the kitchen to find a food box, and divided some of the meals made by her sister-in-law, packed them in bowls and plates, covered them and took them out.

"Uncle, what are you..." Mrs. Qi asked suspiciously. After all, since she moved to Bianliang City, she has never seen Shunniang and Erniang Xie take the food to the main room to eat.

Shunniang explained that Xie Erniang was a little tired after returning from Daxiangguo Temple, so she took the food upstairs for her to eat, and then she ate with her by the way.

Mrs. Qi nodded and remained silent. Looking at the back of Shunniang walking out of the kitchen carrying the food box, she really envied Erniang Xie. Shunniang was so considerate and kind to her.

Shunniang took the food box and went upstairs, set the table and chopsticks in the living room outside, took out the food, and asked Xie Erniang to come out to eat.

Xie Erniang agreed, came out from the inner room, sat down, and had lunch with Shunniang face to face.

While eating, Shunniang told Xie Erniang that she had already rented the yard on Mahang Street, signed a contract, and would pay for it tomorrow, one year at a time.What's more, tomorrow will arrange for someone to clean up the yard, and after the Lantern Festival, she will take Hei Wa to Heshan again, this time bring more coal back, and open the shop on Ma Xing Street, Start the coal business.

She said that this time it is estimated that a lot of capital will be needed, plus the money borrowed from Yue's family, and the money recovered in the next year, I am afraid that they will all be invested.The other thing is to arrange for Kecheng to enroll in school, and to buy a servant, and to train the master in the other school. At that time, the family will not have much money left, so we need to save some money.She also asked Xie Erniang to go home after the Lantern Festival and ask the Yue family when they needed money, so she could make arrangements and try to repay some of the money to the Yue family first in the next month.

Xie Erniang nodded silently, but she was thinking in her heart that today she went to Daxiangguo Temple to get advice from the Bodhisattva, and when she came back excitedly, she wanted to tell Shunniang about the shameful things her parents did.But later, she was entangled with that dude Bai Jinyi, which scared her and hurt her neck. After she came back, Shunniang was so kind to her, she was a little greedy for her kindness, and she didn't want to say it so quickly.

Now that she heard Shunniang's words, she thought it was better to wait until the Lantern Festival was over, but Cheng went to the Hua clan school, and went back to her mother's house to meet her parents, and Shunniang brought coal back from Heshan. The shop on Xingjie opened, let's talk to Shun Niang after the business is done.

She didn't want the whole family to have a bad Lantern Festival because of the scandalous things her parents did. This was the first Lantern Festival after Xi's family moved into the city.What's more, Shunniang has so many business affairs to arrange, and she doesn't want Shunniang to be affected by what she tells the truth, affecting her arrangement of business affairs.

As for after the Lantern Festival, when she told the truth, Shunniang was angry with herself, disliked herself, and was unwilling to adopt children. She was mentally prepared. She felt that it was the retribution she should suffer. If he did harm to himself and benefited himself, it was only natural that he would bear the retribution in the end.

After eating, Shunniang cleaned up the dishes, went downstairs, brought up the tea bottle when she came up, poured a bowl of hot tea for Xie Erniang, and held it for her to drink, then poured a bowl of tea for herself and said something to Xie Erniang gossip.

Because tomorrow she will take people to Ma Xing Street to pay the rent, sign the lease, clean up the new shop, and the Lantern Festival is two days away, so she is going to meet some dentists this afternoon and accompany Ke Cheng The young man of the Hua family study bought one back.So after drinking a bowl of tea, she asked Xie Erniang to go to bed, covered her with a quilt, changed into a cotton robe and went out.

Shitou drove Shunniang to the alley where the Yamen gathered in the city, and met some Yamen who had negotiated business with Shunniang in the past.

Before, Shunniang also bought Myolie through them and went back. When Shunniang passed by here a few days ago, she greeted them and said that she wanted an eight or nine-year-old boy, and she would bring her back to be a servant and accompany her. My nephew went to school to study.So, when she came this day, those dentists came to solicit business from her one after another.

In the end, she bought a little boy who was only eight years old. The little boy was brought to sell by one of his uncles because of the snowstorm in his hometown. Forever sell this man.This little boy is thin and small. He doesn't look like an eight-year-old child, but only five or six years old. In addition, this child has frostbite on his hands and face, and he has a cold and a runny nose. He looks very special. Sloppy, so most of the people who come here to buy servants look down on him.

Shunniang didn't look down on him at first, but she was begged by the uncle next to him, and the selling price was also cheap. It happened that she was about to open a new shop and was short of money, so she agreed to buy this small shop after thinking about it. boy.

The little boy was bought by Shunniang, and when he was about to leave with Shunniang, he just looked at his uncle and wept.

His uncle wiped his eyes and let him go, and said that it was better to go with Shun Niang who bought him to have food and clothes than to starve to death with himself, and also said that he should not blame himself for selling him, because his aunt was sick, The two children in the family are starving to death...

Shunniang couldn't see this scene, sighed, and asked Shitou to buy a sesame seed cake for this little boy named Lin.

Shi Shi stuffed the hot biscuits into his hands, and said: "Pine nuts, eat it, don't cry, follow my boss, you have fallen into the nest of happiness. By the way, my name is Shi Shi, and when you come to the boss's house At home, we can still see each other often, and when I am free, I will take you to play."

Shunniang bought this little boy and named him Songzi, so Shitou called him that.

The pine nuts were brought to sell by his uncle. In the morning, his sick aunt struggled to get up and gave him a bowl of porridge. The family had been out of food for several days, and the rice for cooking porridge was borrowed from the neighbor's house next door.There was more rice in the bowl of porridge he drank, and after he drank it with pickles, he looked at the two cousins ​​who were holding a bowl of rice soup with some embarrassment.Then he willingly followed his uncle to go out. The uncle said that he would be a servant with other rich people, so that he would be able to eat enough, and his aunt would have money to see a doctor, and his cousins ​​would eat thicker food. Congee, survive this calamity year.He thought this would be a way to repay his uncle for raising him for more than two months after his parents died, so he followed his uncle into the city.

He only drank a bowl of porridge when he got up in the morning, the snow had not yet melted in the first month of the lunar year, and he was dressed thinly. He was hungry and cold early in the afternoon, and he couldn't hold on anymore.

The stone stuffed a hot sesame seed cake into his hand and asked him to eat it. He held it in his hand, and as soon as the long-lost noodle fragrance wafted into his nostrils, his soul was taken away, and he forgot about it. With tears in his eyes, he couldn't bear to leave his uncle.

"Eat, eat." Shun Niang patted him on the shoulder, "Go, eat in the car."

Songzi took a big bite of sesame seed cakes, gobbled it up, and obediently followed Shunniang into the car. Shunniang put down the curtain and asked Shitou to drive away.

After eating a sesame seed cake, the inside of the car was warmer than the outside, the pine nut leaned against the wall of the car, and fell asleep after a while, Shunniang looked at the child, feeling all kinds of things in her heart.

Back home, Shunniang took the child to see Mrs. Qi directly, pointing to Mrs. Qi and said, "This baby was born in the first month of the lunar year. He just turned eight years old a few days ago. His surname is Lin, and his nickname is Lin. Songzi, let him accompany Kecheng to study in the Hua family's school in the future. In the past few days, you have taught him how to serve Kecheng, and get started earlier. After the Lantern Festival, I will send Kecheng to the Hua family to study. He's good to follow."

Then Shunniang asked Songzi to salute to Mrs. Qi. Songzi was very nervous at first following Shunniang into the strange place of Xi's house, but after seeing Mrs. Qi, he felt that she spoke softly and looked at him with the same eyes. His dead mother was almost the same, and he was not so afraid all of a sudden.

Shunniang bought pine nuts and came back. After a while, Kecheng, Huier, and Xinger all came to see him.

A circle of children surrounded Songzi, and Songzi also secretly looked at them, only feeling curious.

Seeing the child's appearance, Mrs. Qi felt sorry for the child, and hurriedly asked him to follow her to the kitchen, and she gave him something to eat.

Shunniang gave another bundle to Mrs. Qi, saying that it was the clothes, shoes and socks that she bought in a shop along the way when she came back. After a while, Songzi followed her to the kitchen and ate something, and then burned some. Give him a good wash with water, and change his clothes after washing, Song Zi will be a member of the Xi family from now on.

Mrs. Qi took the burden, and greeted Songzi to follow her to the kitchen in a harmonious voice. Xing'er and others also ran away, asking Songzi from time to time, and Songzi would answer honestly as long as she understood.

As for Shunniang, she also went back to the house, and settled the matter of accompanying Kecheng's boy who went to study today. She felt that there was one thing missing in her heart, but she walked with ease.

When she came upstairs, she went straight to the inner room, and saw the lady was already sitting up with her clothes on, and she looked sleepy. Then she went to sit by the bed, shook her hand and asked, "Why don't you sleep more?" Son?"

Xie Erniang smiled softly: "I'm not used to taking a nap in the middle of the day. Today, I was a little tired and took a nap before waking up. When I heard you talking downstairs, I knew you were back, so I woke up. By the way, you Did you buy back the boy?”

Shunniang: "Bought it back, he is eight years old, his surname is Lin, and his nickname is Songzi. His family was hit by a snowstorm last year, and his parents died. His uncle brought him to the city to sell, so I bought him. , It took fifteen guan. After bringing it back, I gave it to my sister-in-law, and asked her to teach him how to serve Kecheng, and accompany him to study. "

Xie Erniang couldn't help lamenting that Songzi's life was pitiful, his parents died at a young age, and he was sold by his uncle to be a slave, so he wanted to treat him better in the future.

Shunniang nodded, but she still wanted Xie Erniang to take care of the management of the servants in the house, not to be too kind and kind, to be kind and powerful, especially to build up prestige first, and then to show kindness, otherwise it would be difficult to manage servant.As for her, she felt that her wife was too kind. For example, she didn't act like a master to Xing'er.

"Okay, okay, I get it. Speaking of Xing'er, if it wasn't for her today, I don't know what would happen. I don't even know that I can sit here now. I should treat her better."

"You, when our family property grows, there will be more servants in the house. If you don't show some prestige of the master's wife, you will be bullied by the slaves sooner or later."

"Officer, I remember it, don't talk about it, by the way, I'll get up and have a look at that pine nut too."

"Don't go, I just said that I want to show the appearance of the master's wife. Songzi is just a servant of our family. You should go to see him. How decent is it? Let's go, I've been running around for a day now , tired, let's lie down together, you stay with me for a while. Go down again at dinner time, and I will ask my sister-in-law to bring pine nuts to salute you."

After finishing speaking, Shunniang took off her outer clothes and shoes and got on the bed, forcing Erniang Xie into the bed.

Xie Erniang had no choice but to move inside. The two were covered with a quilt, one was lying down and the other was sitting and talking.

As they talked, the two talked about how to spend the Lantern Festival. Shunniang said that she had already stayed out that day and did nothing but spend the festival with her family.However, because I had to go out to watch the lanterns that night, if I left my old lady at home alone, my old lady would feel lonely. Besides, she would not feel at ease if she was left alone at home. If Xing'er or sister-in-law were left to take care of her at home Well, my sister-in-law and Xing'er can't see the lanterns either, so she has decided to rent two more cars and take my old lady out that night, asking her to go and see the Lantern Festival in Tokyo.

Xie Erniang had no objection to Shunniang's arrangement, but she also said that the Shen family sisters made an appointment to watch the lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival, and they said that they would meet in front of Fan Lou at that time.

"The Fan Lou is the most crowded place, and they just made an appointment there, so it's hard to find someone then." Shun Niang said casually.

Xie Erniang smiled: "They said that that day they would all wear red, and if they stood on the shaft of the chariot, they would watch from a distance."

Shunniang also met Shen Wuniang, and felt that she was ordinary, so she said, "If you are a lady, I will never let you stand in red and stand on a high place. On that day, you and your sister-in-law should dress plainly and wear a veiled hat." , so as not to cause trouble."

Encountering Bai Jinyi's entanglement in Daxiangguo Temple had already frightened Xie Erniang, and because of carelessness, she forgot to bring a veil when she went out, and the accident happened.

So when Shunniang said this, she nodded repeatedly.

In the evening, the two of them went downstairs to eat, and when they returned to the main room to have tea, Mrs. Qi brought pine nuts, which had already been bathed and hair-washed, and put on clean clothes.

After having a full meal, taking a bath and hair, and putting on clean and well-fitting clothes, the sloppy pine nut also changed into a decent-looking servant.

He saluted and kowtowed to Xie Erniang and Shunniang, Xie Erniang and Shunniang asked him to get up, and after the two confessed to him, he was led down by Qi.Before dinner, after he took a shower and changed his clothes, Mrs. Qi took him to see her mother-in-law first.Mrs. Liu knew that this child would be the boy who would accompany her grandson Kecheng in the future, so she looked at him for a while, gestured to him, and asked Xing'er to talk a lot about how to serve Kecheng and obey the rules of the Xi family. He followed Qi Shi out.

Song Zi was arranged to sleep in Kecheng's house that night, and Mrs. Qi built him a plank bed and a quilt, and let him sleep next to Kecheng's sleeping bed.

At the beginning, he didn't know how to serve Kecheng, but when Kecheng woke up to pee in the middle of the night, he still fell into a deep sleep, and didn't wake up until Kecheng pinched his nose.

But Chengcheng asked him to bring the tiger's cubs for him. Songzi was stunned for a while before realizing that he was the servant of the little boy in front of him now. Listen to the little master, and do whatever the little master tells him to do.And the most common thing to do at night is to pour water for the little master when he is thirsty, and bring him a tiger if he wants to pee.

So, he turned over, got out of bed and fetched the tiger cub, and waited for the little master to pee.

But after urinating, he directed Song Zi to pour water for him, drank half a bowl, and then went to bed again.

He used to do these things by himself, but last night her mother specially told him that he would ask Song Zi to do anything in the future. Song Zi was his servant, and his duty was to serve him.As for Kecheng, he also needs to get used to being served by pine nuts, because when he enters the Hua family school, most of the children who study are served by servants. If he does not let the servants serve him and does it himself, he will be different from others. If you are different from others, you will not be able to make friends, and you will be isolated by others.

But Cheng didn't really understand what he said to his mother, but he only remembered one sentence, if he is not used to serving pine nuts, he will not be able to make friends, and other children will not be able to play with him.As for him, he doesn't like no one playing with him.

Song Zi stayed at Xi's house for two days, and soon learned to serve Kecheng with a book, pour tea, and pass a pen and ink while Kecheng was reading and writing.

Kecheng also learned how to direct pine nuts to work.

Soon it will be the Lantern Festival. On this day, every household will eat Lantern Festival and hang lanterns. Shunniang specially arranged this day to stay at home with her family and cook some delicious food. The family reunite to celebrate the new year, and then have dinner. The most exciting time for Xing'er and the children has come.In addition to the donkey cart driven by stones, another donkey cart and a donkey cart came in front of Xijiazhaizi.

Shun Niang arranged it like this: she and her wife would ride in a donkey cart driven by stones, sister-in-law, two children and Song Zi would ride in another rented donkey cart, and my mother would ride in the donkey cart pulled by two big green mules. The carriage of the mule cart is relatively large, and it is enough for Shun Niang and Shi Shi to work together to put the custom-made wooden wheelchair that the old lady is sitting in, and then Xing Er will serve at the side.

The Xi family boarded three cars and headed for Fanlou in a mighty manner.

At this time, the sky was just getting dark, and every household along the road hung up lanterns of various materials and shapes.

There are also more and more pedestrians on the street, and the people in Bianliang City have all come out to celebrate the Lantern Festival and enjoy the lanterns.

There are all kinds of scents floating in the street, including the scent of flowers, the scent of powder, the scent of all kinds of clothes, and the scent from the sachets worn by many people who love fragrance, not to mention all kinds of snacks all over the street. And the aroma of the food was gone.

People come out to enjoy the lanterns, not only to look at the lanterns, but also to see people, taste delicious food, and buy things, from all kinds of interesting gadgets to cosmetics, jewelry and clothes.

Therefore, those hawkers and merchants should also seize this rare Lantern Festival Eve and vigorously sell their goods to the passing citizens.

There is laughter and laughter everywhere, the city is full of noise, and the lights are brilliant.

Shun Niang, who was sitting in the car, felt that tonight was more lively than during the day.

Sitting next to her, Erniang Xie raised the curtain of the car from time to time, curled the corners of her lips, and looked outside with great interest.The bright lights all over the street illuminated her beautiful eyes and pink face, making her young face shine.

Shunniang also leaned over and looked outside with her with great interest.