The clever maid of the red mansion

In the blink of an eye, because the main family will sacrifice the stove at night, after breakfast, the kitchen must start preparing sacrifices such as soup, rice, fruit incense candles, and sugar melon cakes.

In addition to stealing time to eat, Aunt Zhang opened a small stove for Liu Er, and also got some fried beans with stove candy. The stove candy was bought from outside. It was stuck, and sister Qin and Qiuhong were not laughed to death.I didn't even eat fried beans, so I stuffed it with Taohong.

Because the New Year is coming, the master and the needlework master are no longer here, so everyone has a lot of leisure for a while.

However, Sister Qin still urged Brother Mo to practice big characters every day. It is said that this year's Spring Festival couplets will be written by Brother Mo, so he really has to step up his handwriting.

The two siblings sat opposite each other on the kang table, while Qiu Hong and Liu Er waited on them, their hands were not idle, Qiu Hong embroidered purses for sister Qin, and Liu Er helped the three of them, and also served tea and snacks for the three of them. , the room was quiet for a while.

Suddenly, there was a commotion and noise outside. At first, everyone didn't pay attention to it. Occasionally, a salesman or a peddler passed by, and the shouting and shouting of the neighbors could also be heard.

But after a while, the inner courtyard remembered the thumping of footsteps, which seemed to be in a hurry, and Granny Li gasped and shouted urgently: "Grandma, grandma..." The following words were lost because of people entering the room.

Sister Qin seemed to have thought of something, she put down her pen, and while getting off the kang to put on her shoes, she ordered: "Liu Er, look at Brother Mo, Qiu Hong will follow me."

Seeing my sister taking the girl out, I was a bit impatient at first, Brother Mo couldn't stay still, twisted his buttocks and wrote two words, looked up at Liu'er, lowered his head and took over making the purse Liu'er didn't look at him , Throwing down the pen in a fit of anger: "I'm going to pee." As he said that, he was about to jump to the ground.

Liu'er didn't raise her head, and said coolly: "It's really peeing. There is a spittoon outside for brother to use. If you are lying, there is a feather duster in the vase on the outside table. When the girl comes back and sees that brother has not finished writing, she will give it to me." You use."

Brother Mo is not afraid of his mother, but he is a bit afraid of his sister, so he hesitated, and he was not convinced to be frightened by a little girl, and curled his lips: "You write for me, or I will tell my sister to pinch me later!"

A big-fart monkey boy will know how to sue him!

This is really not to scare people. Regardless of his young age, Brother Mo has a little less heart than his sister, and he has actually done frame-up things to see who doesn't like it.

Once, Taohong couldn't hold back her craving, and took him a piece of snack, thinking that other people didn't take it seriously.As a result, the kid didn't say a word at the time, and in a blink of an eye he yelled that he lost his dim sum purse, but found it on the Taohong shop...

Thinking of this, this little devil really can't offend him.Liu'er stopped her needlework, and looked up at Brother Mo, until staring at the little boy felt a little guilty, her eyes dodged, and she said, "What do you want?" My heart is also itchy, not to mention that I love to join in the fun with Brother Mo.

Brother Mo straightened his back, he is a man, how could he be afraid of a little girl!

"Help me finish writing these words, hurry up!"

"Oh? Then what?"

"Then find my mother to have some snacks, I'm hungry! Did you hear me, little girl, I'm so happy, master, I'll give you a few candies too!" Because of the holiday, there are several kinds of candy seeds and melons he just bought in his house.

Eating little monkey candies, Liu'er felt that she would be so greedy, but...she hadn't touched a pen and paper seriously for several days, her hands were itchy, and she could watch the excitement... So, fake The little girl Liu'er succumbed to the majesty of the fake men, and both of them were very happy.

From then on, Brother Mo fell in love with secretly threatening Liu'er, and he felt a sense of accomplishment.

In the whole family, Liu'er was the only one who was afraid of him, so that the little one could wake up with a smile in his dreams.

After imitating Mo Geer's handwriting and writing big characters, he tidied up for the two of them. He dragged Mo Geer, who was half a head taller than himself, out of the house, and saw a few maids standing at the door of the main room, poking their heads and whispering. She didn't dare to go in and disturb her if she had something to say, so Qiu Hong also stood aside, but she didn't see sister Qin.

Liu'er thought about it, she better not go in to make people dislike her, the master is in a depressed mood, and it is also possible for the slave to vent his anger with no winks, so she turned around and discussed with the little monkey in a low voice: "Let's go to the kitchen to make up for it. The kitchen has made a lot of fruit snacks, and I heard that there are red dots filled with sugar fillings, milk buns, and sugar triangles."

Brother Mo likes to bring red dots and desserts filled with sugar, and when he heard that, he nodded: "Go and eat first, come back and find your mother."

No matter what the purpose is, after all, there is no food to forget mother, Liu'er suppressed a smile and quickly praised him for being sensible and filial, and Ma Liu'er dragged him to the kitchen.

Aunt Zhang and Liu'er are friendly and have a tacit understanding. Here they quickly took the table and stool to let Mo Geer eat, and the same gossip about Liu'er: "I ran to watch the excitement, but you came It’s time, let’s eat, it’s not sure when we can have lunch.”

Liu'er was curious, and asked why in a low voice. Aunt Zhang glanced at Brother Chi Huanmo, holding beans in her hand, and lowered her voice: "I also heard a few words from my cousin, Aunt Li, and I went to the uncle to have a brother first." , I can’t study well, I can’t do things well, I eat too much all day, I’m too lazy to study, because the old lady spoils the youngest son, everyone can’t do anything about it. Later, I got involved in gambling and lost the old house passed down by the ancestors. The old lady was angry and ashamed I couldn't afford to be sick, and I went away within a few months. The old man was also very angry, and he lost his house, and he was sick for half a year after a fire, but he was also disheartened. Some are thin and thin, gritted their teeth and used the dowry of the grandma, and went south and north to do business. Fang resettled this house. Before the old man left, he married his youngest son and his daughter-in-law and kicked him out. Not two years old man The relapse of the old disease has also gone. It stopped for two years, and then it is estimated that life is difficult. The brother-in-law and his family come to have a good time every once in a while. Noisy, especially during New Year's Eve, it's not that, it's coming again."

This is true, it is difficult for every family to recite scriptures, and it is rare and shameless to hit the widow's wife on the head with the autumn wind.

Aunt Zhang seemed to feel the same way, and said with a sneer, "That's all, there are people who can't laugh or cry. I heard from your Aunt Li that this brother has fallen in love with this house in the past year. It is said that the old man stayed behind and also has his son. One share. It's also ridiculous, actually saying that his sister-in-law and widow are unemployed and pulling the two children is not easy, and there is no elder to take care of them. In the future, nephews and nieces will also hinder their marriage. , I’m sorry for his dead brother! Listen, listen, you really don’t know what a human face is like, but a beast.”

"Since this kind of person, after calling out and counting, let them come in and make trouble, isn't it self-inflicted?" According to Liu'er's temperament, this kind of person doesn't talk to them at all, and he is not polite at all. Enemies are no different.

"Hey, isn't this just bullying grandma's good nature, wanting to save face and being afraid of being laughed at by the neighbors in the neighborhood? Spending money to eliminate disasters, anyway, as long as they don't let them empty-handed every time, and donate to him, grandma is not bad. That little thing."

She has seen shamelessness before, but Liu Er has never heard of such shamelessness. She stared blankly for a moment, the world is full of wonders, and she has learned a lot.

As for Grandma Chun's family, Liu'er had also heard gossip from women, so she probably knew something about it.

Her husband's surname is Xu, Uncle Xu, Xu Jichun, was originally a scholar, and his studies were passable, but his health was not very good, and he married Chunniang, an abandoned baby who grew up with him since childhood.

Originally, the family was decent. Mr. Xu earned his fortune in the silk business in his early years. He had a mansion with three entrances and a silk and satin factory in a good location. However, he gave birth to a prodigal son, Mr. Xu, who was not worrying since childhood.

First, the brothel competed with others to get jealous, beat up a rich dude with a background, and the shop disappeared.

Besides gambling, the family house is gone, and at the same time, the old mother who always doted on him is gone, and the old father is angry and sick, almost gone.

If it wasn't for him, Uncle Xu probably wouldn't have passed away so early.

This is Chunniang. Since childhood, the old masters and old ladies have treated her like a daughter. Chunniang also knows how to repay her kindness. She respects her elder brother and loves her younger brother.

Otherwise, if it's an ordinary sister-in-law, with a little bit of temper, she broke off contact with Xu Erye long ago, and she is exhausted and has not avenged her family, how can she allow him to be arrogant.

However, this time, things were obviously a bit tricky. After Liu'er and Mo Ge'er finished eating, Liu'er dragged the ink for a while, and then returned to the main courtyard. The yelling grew louder.

The woman's sharp and high-pitched cursing, the man's hoarse and cold threat, and Aunt Li's angrily retorted, almost came out clearly.

The little girls and women in the front yard poked their heads at the second door, but Qiu Hong and the others were gone outside the main room, and they probably went inside to help out.

Obviously, Mo Ge'er had never seen this situation before, and couldn't hear his mother's voice, so he was a little frightened for a moment, opened his mouth and cried out to cry, scared Liu'er covered it, and dragged him to the wing room where they lived, heartbroken. Master Dao, don't make trouble.

He whispered in his mouth to persuade: "Brother, don't cry, grandma is reasonable with others, you have distracted grandma by disturbing her, but I can't talk about your second uncle. You didn't hear the voice of the second uncle's family It’s so big, it’s because grandma took a breather, and immediately grandma counterattacked, which definitely wiped out the anger of your second uncle and aunt, so that they don’t dare to make a fuss anymore, calm down, let’s go in.”

Mo Ge'er pulled Liu'er to cover his mouth and hands, and shook his head with tears, so pitiful.

Liu'er stopped and raised her head to stare at him: "Let's agree, I'll take your hand away if you don't cry." Seeing Mo Ge'er nodding, she let go of her hand covering his mouth.

Brother Mo had no time to speak, and said anxiously: "My mother will be fine, will my second uncle beat my mother?"

Liu'er felt sad, when he was not naughty, he was indeed a sensible and filial person, and he was not praised in vain.

Pulling him into the room, while waiting for him to rinse his mouth and wipe his face and hands, he said affirmatively: "Don't worry, grandma is a powerful person, as well as your sister, Aunt Li, Qiu Hong, and a few maids. Son, there are many people on our side, but your uncle and aunt are just two. Don’t listen to them being loud and petty. They can’t quarrel with our side when they quarrel; Lier, there is a big fuss, and the officials came to arrest them, and they will also eat in prison, and they will be clean in the future."

At least Mo Geer was appeased, and he took the spinning top and let him play on the floor in the house, while Liu Er grabbed the crack of the door and looked outside to listen to the movement.

Sure enough, it took less than a stick of incense, the footsteps were chaotic, Liu'er took a look, and a tall and thin man in an indigo cotton robe rushed out, with stigma all over his body, angrily, flashed by, Liu'er didn't see what he looked like .

However, following the fat woman, she took a closer look, the plum red overcoat and the same color rouge on her mouth complemented each other nicely.

Walking sideways, he was still talking: "His auntie should think about it, the opportunity is rare, after this village, there will be no such shop..."

For some reason, just after leaving the main room, sister Qin suddenly became furious, grabbed the side and pretended to sweep the floor, but actually heard the big bamboo broom in the hands of the old woman, stepped forward, chased and beat the fat woman all the way, and shouted : "Get out! My family doesn't have relatives like you, so get out! Get out!"

"Hey, you don't know what to do..."

"Sinister! There is a father who was born but no father to raise, no respectful little beast, ungrateful thing, today I will teach you a lesson for your father!"

The man in the green robe at the front, seeing his woman being beaten, became so angry that he couldn't hold back, turned around to meet him, pushed Sister Qin away and waved the guy over, stepped forward and slapped Sister Qin .

Grandma Chun had a bad complexion at first, but when she saw that her brother-in-law was going to do something to her daughter, she couldn't care less, she hurried forward and grabbed the man's arm and pulled it back desperately, but her lips trembled angrily, and she couldn't speak Come.She really listened to that sentence of ungrateful, she asked herself that she was worthy of him, of their family, with the conscience of heaven and earth!

All the women also rushed forward, pulling their arms and arms, hugging their waists, the man couldn't move for a while, he could only curse like a beast in his mouth, the whiskers on his lips couldn't stop trembling, and his hat was crooked Yes, to describe it as embarrassing and wretched.

"Killer—come on—"

Everyone was only focused on tearing the man apart, and didn't pay attention to the fat woman for a while, so she had time to go up and grab Sister Qin's wrist, howl and then start yelling.

It wasn't a big deal at first, after all, it's not a big deal for a woman to drag a girl to cry twice.But this man's heart is so dirty, he grabbed and struggled with Sister Qin all the way, wiped his nose and tears with one hand and rubbed it on Sister Qin's green silk jacket, and pulled the hairpin jewelry on Sister Qin's head and the bracelet on her wrist She tucked it into her arms with such swiftness that Sister Qin couldn't break free for a while.

Seeing that the girl was wronged, Grandma Chun struggled to go over and help her. In the midst of her haste, someone tripped her and fell to the ground. It hurt her so much that she took a deep breath and couldn't stand up all of a sudden.

The rest of the people are too busy messing around with a big man, they didn't notice sister Qin's side, even the willow branches were just struggling to help their master, so they didn't care about other things.

Liu'er looks like she is lying on the crack of the door, especially the fat woman, she is disgusting in her description and hateful in her behavior, she is no worse than those old wives with fishy eyes in Rongfu, this is simply ruining the face of other girls Tender, and at the same time robbed with open fire!How nasty!

She was originally a hot-tempered and straight-tempered woman who hated evil as much as she could, and if she couldn't bear it, she raised her hand and was about to open the door and go out.