old grace

Jiang Yingzhou has a bad behavior, usually only bullying her sister, and her work is extremely unreliable. Xie Qinghe said something to Jiang Erniang, but Jiang Erniang didn't care at all except for shedding a few tears.Jiang Youniang was different, she took advantage of the fact that the medicine powder was in her purse, and forced Jiang Erniang to tell what happened to her husband's house, Xie Qinghe just waited for her to explode——

Unexpectedly, Jiang Youniang stayed for a long time, and suddenly hugged Jiang Erniang, crying: "Sister, my poor sister!"

Xie Qinghe: "..."

Women of this age, who have encountered Jiang Erniang's misfortune, seem to have no choice but to cry and cry.

Xie Qinghe slowly lifted the desk lamp to the side of the table, and reminded: "Cry louder, and call your mother."

Immediately, Jiang Youniang didn't dare to cry anymore, she looked at Xie Qinghe with suspicion and unkindness.Xie Qinghe stuffed her sewing basket to her, and said, "Didn't you say that you have to hurry up and pay handkerchiefs? Please ask Second Sister to help you make some."

Without Jiang Youniang's request, Jiang Erniang often did embroidery work to help the family when she was not out of the cabinet. They were all familiar jobs. I asked Jiang Youniang to understand the pattern, and the two sisters started to make embroidery pieces from left to right very familiarly.Jiang Youniang felt that her younger brother was suspicious and looked up at him frequently.

Xie Qinghe is still thinking about how to say this.

Jiang Zhanwen and Mrs. Zhang would never agree to take Jiang Erniang home.

However, those two doted on Jiang Yingzhou, and Jiang Zhanwen was very concerned about saving face, so there was always a way.

This matter is difficult because Jiang Erniang herself is very hesitant.People say that a woman's marriage is equivalent to a second reincarnation, and reconciliation is equivalent to death.If one is lucky enough to remarry for the second time and find a new husband, then it can be regarded as reincarnated and survived in a dignified manner.If she doesn't get the chance to remarry, she is an abandoned widow worse than a widow, a living corpse who can only breathe, and cannot be counted as a human being.

In the end, Xu Nong is still beating people in a small way now, and it is not the time to break bones, beat him to death, and beg for help.

Suddenly calling Jiang Erniang and Li, she felt that the price was too high and the risk was too high.

——If she was asked to go home with Jiang Zhanwen, Jiang Erniang would not hesitate so much.

The problem is that even if Jiang Zhanwen knew that she was being beaten at her husband's house, he would not ask her to go home with Li.It was her unreliable younger brother who called her home.

Jiang Youniang suddenly whispered: "I heard something."

Jiang Erniang has already put that matter behind her, and she is embroidering with flying needles and threads. Jiang Youniang knows that she will not raise her head when she is working, and her ears are listening. This glance is mainly to see if Xie Qinghe is listening. She raised her head and looked at her younger brother seriously and calmly. She almost touched the tip of the needle with her left hand, swallowed, and then continued to whisper: "Uncle Yong in the country argued with Aunt Zaohua about building a pigsty. Isn't he stupid? Pi Pa Pa was speechless, and in a fit of rage, he grabbed Aunt Zao Hua's hair and beat her up."

"Aunt Zaohua asked Brother Gouzi to set a donkey cart for him that night and went back to his natal home. The master also asked Uncle Yong to prepare sugar and wine to pick him up at Aunt Zaohua's natal home the next day. In the end, it didn't arrive. At dawn, Aunt Zaohua brought eight brothers, twelve cousins, and twenty men to our hometown aggressively. They said, Master Fu, your family is a distinguished family of scholars, and we brothers are not to be offended. However, Jiang Zhanyong is also the son-in-law of our Huang family. After our sister married into your family, she had children to serve her in-laws, just for the sake of the dog, and there is no reason to beat her when she argues—"

"Twenty big men, in front of the master, tore up Uncle Yong's house and threw Uncle Yong into the pigsty. Before leaving, they said, "Our sister loves you so much that you beat her head up. Remember to thank you brothers, you can just scare me, don’t break my family—you married our sister, you Jiang Zhanyong must have burned high incense. If you dare to do anything to our sister in the future, all the shit will come out of you.”

As she said that, she kept sneaking glances at Xie Qinghe's face: "The Huang family was also afraid that father would go to the county to entrust them with contacts, and they also entrusted a scholar to visit the house. To make amends. Dad even wrote a special letter back to the countryside, reprimanding Uncle Yong."

Xie Qinghe asked Erniang Jiang: "What does Second Sister think?"

Erniang Jiang waved her hands quickly: "No, no. I get along very well with your brother-in-law. If you go and beat him up, how can I see him? Besides, he just looks thin, and he was a carpenter when he was young. His arms are full of flesh. That's powerful—you can't beat him."

"If I can beat him, will Second Sister let me beat him?" Xie Qinghe asked again.

Jiang Erniang was silent.

They lived in a small town, and there were only a few of them who had the reputation of being a scholar. Jiang Zhanwen was also very good at being a man. He often appeared at the banquets of all the wealthy businessmen in the town, and intersected with all kinds of famous people.In particular, Jiang Yingzhou hadn't offended An's family and An's cousin at this time, and Jiang Zhanwen's influence in the town was not small.

Xu Nong is just a carpenter who earns his living by hand. If Jiang Zhanwen came forward and warned his son-in-law not to beat his daughter again, would Xu Nong dare to continue beating Jiang Erniang?So, why did Jiang Erniang keep her mouth shut all the time, and refused to go back to her mother's house for help until she was almost beaten to death?

"Does the second sister think that she wants to live a prosperous life at her brother-in-law's house, with food and quilts, getting money from her brother-in-law, buying pork with soy sauce for mother's account, honoring father with three festivals and two gifts, and asking a thousand gold for younger brother?" Dr. Qiu, who is worth a tael of silver...does he have to be beaten in exchange? If he resists his brother-in-law's beating, he is disobedient to his husband's principles, disobedient to discipline, and will lose his brother-in-law's love and everything he got at his in-law's house?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Jiang Erniang was told by him that she had a headache in the center, and the tears she had just stopped fell again.

Going to my in-law's house alone to beg for a living, but also want to eat well and dress well, and also go to my mother's family to supplement the money, want to see the smile on A Niang's face, and want to hear A Niang praise her filial piety, is it all so easy to come by?The mother-in-law is a kind person of Amitabha Buddha, she really doesn't care much about it except for her love of chanting scriptures, except for her husband - without her husband's "favor", all these things will come to naught.

Therefore, Jiang Erniang didn't dare to resist at all, and she didn't dare to tell anyone about the grievances she suffered after marriage.

She can ask her father to stop her husband from beating her.But, can she let her father force her husband to "love" herself?

Xie Qinghe told Jiang Youniang again: "The second sister is different from the second aunt. The second aunt and the second uncle have been married for many years, and the dog cousin is going to marry a wife. Even if the second uncle has completely turned against her, she can still live by relying on her children , our second sister is still young."

He looked into Jiang Erniang's eyes under the warm light, and said seriously: "Second sister, you and your brother-in-law are divorced. If you want to get married and have children, let's choose a good one slowly. If you don't want to get married and have children, I say Yes, my brother will support you for the rest of your life. You are only 20 years old, let’s take good care of your body, and it will not be a problem to live another 50 years. With such a long life, why bother to be stuck in a square inch and not to breathe?"

He said everything too easily and taken it for granted, both Jiang Erniang and Jiang Youniang were yearning for it.

Before Jiang Erniang woke up from the dream, Jiang Youniang let out a piss and whispered: "I told you to raise it? Who will raise who?"

Xie Qinghe knew that Jiang Yingzhou's reputation in front of her sister was terrible, so she didn't want to fight with Jiang Youniang, she backed down and said with a smile: "It's okay for my sister to raise me. My sister is so capable. If it wasn't for the imperial court not allowing female households, there must be a man How could it be cheaper for me to set up a door-to-door household?"

Who would have thought that Jiang Erniang's heart would be a little moved by what he said, but she still couldn't make up her mind: "I...I have to think about it again."

Xie Qinghe's stomach growled thinking about it again.

The two sisters looked at each other, and Jiang Youniang asked, "Don't you eat the wine?"

Jiang Erniang said, "He never ate."

Xie Qinghe picked a cat's ear and chewed it crunchy, and Jiang Youniang suddenly realized: "Oh——I said, you look alive after eating in the morning, and your complexion is better than before. Why did you suddenly fall ill? You pretended to be sick !"

Xie Qinghe was about to say that it is only natural for the younger brother to help the older sister, so there is no need to be too moved.

Jiang Youniang was so angry that she scolded him in a low voice: "Doctor Qiu from Qianjintang! It costs one or two taels of silver for a doctor's visit! I have to get you medicine, but I have to go to his shop to get it. You know how much my brother-in-law spent—"

Halfway through the scolding, Jiang Youniang took another deep breath, remembering that the second brother-in-law's money was spent from the beginning to the end, "Well spent."

Jiang Youniang has a temperament that distinguishes between love and hate. She felt that her younger brother pretended to be sick to help her second sister, and suddenly felt that her brother was pleasing to the eye: "Wait, third sister will cook egg fried rice for you, and steam the leftover braised pork at noon for you." Come on, it will be ready right away! Don’t eat so many cat’s ears, you won’t be able to eat meat later.”

Jiang Youniang bounced to the kitchen. Xie Qinghe saw the needle and thread she left behind, thought for a while, and asked, "How did you do this? Second sister, teach me."

"You are good at writing, Jin Gui, but you don't dare to do needlework." Jiang Erniang refused to teach.

I couldn't bear Xie Qinghe's face-to-face obsession, and her ability to sew was top-notch, so she only asked a pitiful question, and Erniang Jiang was defeated. She found two pieces of cloth from Jiang Youniang's sewing basket, and first taught Xie Qinghe how to sew flat stitches, flowing water Needle.

With Xie Qinghe's concentration and control, he can control all kinds of weapons delicately, and the same is true for needlework.

It's just that the qualifications of the new skin are extremely poor, and it took a little time to get used to it.Jiang Erniang just wanted to laugh at her younger brother's hand holding the needle a little crookedly, and the threads on the two cloth heads have become even and even, like the basic skills left by a 30-year-old embroiderer.Girls pick up needles at the age of five, and needlework is the most eye-intensive job. It is already an amazing and profound skill to be able to sew for 30 years. If you get older, your eyesight will not work.

Jiang Erniang was extremely surprised, but she didn't dare to praise her younger brother.How can a man do a woman's work?It's more like an insult to praise a man's needlework skills.

Xie Qinghe didn't care at all.

He is not very interested in needlework, and he doesn't think he can't do women's kung fu. He didn't learn it before because he didn't like embroidery very much.

The reason why I took the initiative to ask at this moment is to help my sisters.He thinks he can do things quickly and well, and he can learn quickly.He helped to make one, and Jiang Youniang made one less, so as not to be unable to hand over the handkerchief tomorrow, and being yelled at by Mrs. Zhang with a loud voice-he really hates this environment.

When Jiang Youniang came in with dinner, Xie Qinghe had already embroidered two handkerchiefs for her.

She saw Xie Qinghe holding her silk handkerchief, holding her needle and thread, and she was in a bad mood: "You—"

Xie Qinghe also imitated their sisters' movements, raised his index finger and made a booing gesture: "Are you going to quarrel with mother?"

Jiang Youniang quickly stepped forward to put down the tray, and said angrily: "Who told you to touch my needlework?" She went to grab Xie Qinghe's handkerchief and needlework, and then cared about Jiang Erniang beside her, "Second sister, don't you care about him here? This handkerchief is Those who want money, tens of dollars each, I... eh? eh?"

Xie Qinghe looked at the food on the tray.

A large porcelain bowl is full of fried rice with eggs, about two or three eggs are placed, and the green onions are sprinkled in a yellowish color, which is full of fragrance.There is another casserole with the lid uncovered, which should be braised pork.In addition, there is a bowl of white rice with pickles and dried radish lying on the side of the bowl, and a bowl of porridge with a little chopped dried radish sprinkled in the porridge.

This is what three people eat.According to the consistent rules of the Jiang family, the three of them ate three completely different meals.

Jiang Youniang leaned closer to the oil lamp to look at the handkerchief in her hand, her eyes were full of fascination, and she couldn't put it down: "This flower is so well embroidered, it's so thin and dense, it looks like it's real...Second sister, do you still have a handkerchief at your brother-in-law's house?" Are you doing embroidery for nothing? Did you suddenly become enlightened? How come you are so good at embroidery..."

Jiang Erniang couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "This is embroidered by my brother."

Jiang Youniang was still immersed in the realistic and delicate embroidery skills, and it took a while to react: "Ah? Brother? Him?"

"Let me embroider one for you now?" Xie Qinghe stretched out his hand.

Jiang Youniang handed back the handkerchief suspiciously, and looked at Jiang Erniang's face from time to time, thinking it might be a prank.Unexpectedly, Xie Qinghe took the handkerchief and glanced at it for a while, the flying needle and the thread were like a butterfly piercing a flower, he really did it quickly and well, Jiang Youniang was dumbfounded.

"Just, just... the movement of holding the needle is weird..." Jiang Youniang couldn't tell what was wrong.

Xie Qinghe knew it well.His movements with needles and threads are more like weapons. Ordinary Xiuniangs have a set of rules for handling needles and threads, which are the painstaking efforts summed up by the predecessors. Therefore, many times he directly used fingering or concealed weapon techniques to pop the needle out of the silk surface, and Jiang Youniang naturally felt that it was against the law.

"I'll be fine here soon, sisters, let's eat first." Xie Qinghe said.

Jiang Youniang held the porridge in her hand, moved closer to Xie Qinghe, and poked her head to see her younger brother's embroidered handkerchief.

The handkerchief in Jiang Erniang's hand was just finished. She tidied up her needle and thread, took the bowl of white rice, and said, "I can't eat such hard rice at night, young lady, can you share half of the porridge with me?"

Jiang Youniang didn't look back at all, her eyes were fixed on Xie Qinghe's fingers: "You eat first, we will change after eating."

Jiang Erniang began to eat, two bites of rice and one bite of pickles, and the dried radish was crunchy.

Jiang Erniang is Guining's daughter, so she is qualified to eat steamed dry rice, which is solid polished rice.Jiang Youniang is a daughter who has not left the court, so she eats porridge as usual.The two sisters have a good relationship, and they mix and share meals without distinguishing between you and me.

However, the egg fried rice and braised pork were placed in front of them, and the two sisters never took a second look.

This is a lesson learned through years of blood and tears of living under the same roof.

You must not touch your brother's things.

Xie Qinghe had no choice but to put down the needle and thread in his hand, lifted the lid of the casserole, and saw that there was only half a piece of braised pork in it.

The braised pork was the size of a palm, Xu Nong and Jiang Zhanwen ate two chopsticks when they were entertaining guests at noon.In the afternoon, Jiang Zhanwen drank alone for pastime, and ate a few more chopsticks, leaving only half a dollar.There is also thick oily red sauce soaked in it, and the aroma is overflowing.

Jiang Erniang ate well at her husband's house, but Jiang Youniang was more pitiful, and swallowed unconsciously.

Xie Qinghe directly poured Jiang Erniang's bowl of white rice together with the lying pickles and dried radish into the casserole, added some fried rice with eggs, and said, "Sisters, let's share it."

Both Jiang Erniang and Jiang Youniang were surprised.

Jiang Youniang couldn't help looking him up and down several times: "You today...couldn't you be possessed by a ghost?"

Xie Qinghe was also responsible for sharing the rice with the two elder sisters who were too embarrassed to stretch out their chopsticks. The bibimbap porcelain bowl scooped out was returned to Erniang, and there was a lot of oil and sauce in the casserole, which was served to Jiang Youniang who had been eating plain food all year round.Jiang Erniang also took the braised pork out of the bowl and put it in the bowl of egg fried rice: "I'll just eat some oil and water, you eat meat."

Xie Qinghe handed them all to Jiang Youniang, and said: "I was drunk yesterday, and I had a sleepy dream."

Jiang Youniang was busy returning the piece of meat to Jiang Erniang, and hurriedly took a bite of the meal, her face full of satisfaction, she didn't care about his dream, and obviously she wasn't very worried about her brother not being possessed by a ghost—if it was true A ghost is possessed, this ghost is much cuter than my brother.

Besides, I only heard that ghosts suck the yang energy of men, but she is a girl who only has yin energy, so she is not afraid of being sucked by ghosts.

Jiang Erniang pricked up her ears and listened carefully.

"In my dream, I knew that my second sister was dying after being broken by her brother-in-law, and almost died." Xie Qinghe said.

Jiang Erniang covered her mouth.

Jiang Youniang also came to her senses: "I just said how do you know about the beating of the second sister! Did you dream about it? So clever?"

"I also knew about the big sister in my dream." Xie Qinghe hinted at Jiang Erniang.

Jiang Youniang didn't know about Jiang Yuanniang's miscarriage, and Xie Qinghe couldn't spread it around.Jiang Erniang was selected to buy medicine for Jiang Yuanniang, in order to persuade Jiang Erniang, and by the way, use it to recuperate Jiang Yuanniang's body, so as to prevent Jiang Erniang from letting her go home.

In fact, Jiang Yingzhou didn't know about the miscarriage of his eldest sister, and he didn't even know how Jiang Yuanniang was doing in the Li family.

Jiang Yuanniang's situation was wrong, it was entirely Xie Qinghe's inference based on clues and medical skills.

Jiang Erniang immediately became more convinced of his dream.

Jiang Youniang was at a loss: "What's the matter with big sister? Second sister? You know? Why don't I know?"

Jiang Yingzhou was originally a cold hearted person, and he didn't care about his sister, or even his parents' lives, but no one would admit that his brother didn't care about him. Xie Qinghe wanted to lie, and the Jiang sisters would easily believe it.He said sincerely: "I am brutal, selfish and ignorant, but my sisters are my blood relatives. No matter how stubborn and selfish I am, I can't just sit and watch my sisters get caught in the flames..."

"So, I want my second sister to come home." Xie Qinghe looked innocently at Jiang Erniang with his big eyes.

Jiang Erniang was seen crying by him again, and she kept wiping her eyes: "I just said, our younger brother is just not sensible... He grows up, and it will be fine when he grows up... Will there be a day when he grows up..."

Xie Qinghe thought coldly, it's a pity that your brain-dead brother killed the whole family before he could grow up.

The Jiang family sisters themselves have little knowledge, and in the countryside, the theory of ghosts and gods is even more popular.Xie Qinghe said that he was dreaming, and he accurately verified Jiang Erniang's beating and Jiang Yuanniang's miscarriage. Jiang Erniang immediately believed his words and believed in him.Jiang Youniang didn't have much doubts about her younger brother's rhetoric except that she kept asking her elder sister what happened.

After all, the annoying little brother in the family suddenly became so "caring and sensible", without the theory of ghosts and gods in dreams, it can't be justified.

Jiang Erniang was a little shaken at first, but after this incident, she reluctantly made up her mind to make peace with Xu Nong.

"But." After Erniang Jiang made her decision, she felt that the road was full of thorns, "How can I get away? He doesn't beat me hard now. If I say I want to go home with Li, I'm afraid my parents will Kill me first."

"I still have to ask Third Sister what she thinks." Xie Qinghe deliberately asked Jiang Youniang, "Second Sister's incident, the world will always blame my family for the wrongdoing. Maybe it will delay Third Sister's marriage..."

Jiang Youniang's face turned green and pale, and it took him a while to ask him: "You only support the second sister, don't you support me?" She was extremely disappointed.

"I also want to open a sewing workshop with my second sister. In the future, you will take care of the affairs of the cabinet, and my second sister and I will take care of the embroidery work. Why can't the second sister go home with Li and I can't leave the pavilion? Are you Do you think I'm too fierce and don't like me?" Jiang Youniang asked weakly.

"Since the third sister has no worries in this regard, things will be easy to handle." Xie Qinghe said.

Jiang Erniang and Jiang Youniang are very confused.How could this be easy?

"If dad supports you and Li, will this matter become easy?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Both sisters nodded, Jiang Erniang frowned and said: "But, father will not support me and Li. This matter will ruin the family style so much, and it will affect father's reputation. It will be inconvenient for him to go out to dinner as a companion in the future."

"What if he hates brother-in-law very, very much?" Xie Qinghe asked again.

"Father has never liked your brother-in-law very much, but if he hates it very much? That's true." Jiang Erniang said.If you really, really hate Xu Nong, how can you marry your daughter to him?I just feel that this son-in-law is disrespectful, and I don't think much of it.

"If the second sister-in-law has been taking care of me when I am sick at home, and the second brother-in-law has urged me several times to not come back, he feels angry and comes to my room to question me. If we disagree, he will fight and beat me seriously. What about it?" Xie Qinghe asked back.

Both Jiang Erniang and Jiang Youniang were shocked.Jiang Erniang faltered and said: "He... he probably won't come to beat you... I can't stay for long, right? Even if I don't want to go back, my parents will urge me to go back."

Jiang Youniang grabbed her sleeve and said, "My brother pretended to be sick and won't let you go. If you are here, he will be in good spirits. If you leave, he will be bedridden. Parents will definitely come back to you. Do it a few more times. The second brother-in-law will always come to pick you up. When the door is closed, the parents are not in the room. The younger brother said that the brother-in-law beat him, and I also said outside the door that I heard the second brother-in-law swearing and beating. Then, second sister, you just need to cry It's..."

Jiang Erniang asked Xie Qinghe again worriedly: "Then you can't be seriously injured..."

Xie Qinghe smiled and said, "Of course I know how to pretend to be sick."

Jiang Youniang was full of excitement: "Yes, he pretended well!"

The three siblings discussed the future. After eating, Jiang Youniang went to wash the dishes, and Xie Qinghe went on to help her embroider the handkerchief.Jiang Youniang came back to take over, Xie Qinghe said: "I can do it fast. If you want to do it, don't you have needles and threads?"

Jiang Youniang said helplessly: "There are needles and threads, but there are only two embroidery frames. You use mine, and the second sister uses mother's."

Xie Qinghe removed Sipa from the stretcher.

Jiang Youniang was saying that you can give me the rest, but she saw Xie Qinghe flying the needle with the soft silk handkerchief on the fingertips, and the effect was exactly the same as that on the embroidery frame, it was still smooth and delicate, without One blemish!

Jiang Erniang and Jiang Youniang opened their mouths wide at the same time, and Jiang Youniang even got closer and looked at the needle and thread he had embroidered carefully, amazed.

After confirming that her younger brother's freehand embroidery was fine, Jiang Erniang and Jiang Youniang sat down and quietly embroidered.The two of them looked at each other occasionally, thinking that the scene of sitting with their younger brother embroidering handkerchiefs was really ridiculous, but Xie Qinghe, who was sitting beside her, didn't notice it.

The two of them had only embroidered two handkerchiefs, and Xie Qinghe had already embroidered all the plain handkerchiefs. As soon as he put down the needle and thread, he said, "Sleep."