Tao Hongying brought a bowl of meat sauce, the kind with chili peppers, which was red and oily. She thought that she would tell her mother-in-law that she would eat braised noodles in the evening.
The juicy noodles are mixed with chili sauce, and a few tender cucumbers left over from the past few days are cut into shreds, and paired with two small cold dishes with sweet and sour taste. The whole family loves it.
As a result, as soon as she came out of the kitchen, before she could say anything, she saw her eldest brother coming back with a woman and a child!
She was stunned for a moment. She missed the step and almost dropped the porcelain bowl. In desperation, she could only hold on to the door frame.
When Boss Li heard the noise, he turned around and looked at his younger siblings. He immediately guessed that she had misunderstood, so he quickly said, "Brothers and sisters, is mom in the house? Someone said they knew you and mom, so I brought them back."
"Ah?" Tao Hongying blinked twice, her face turned red with embarrassment, and she quickly said: "Mom is in the house, taking Fu Niu'er to sew her purse."
Boss Li nodded and walked in with the woman and child. .
Tao Hongying looked familiar to the woman's back, so she called Shuiyun in the kitchen to take the porcelain bowl, and quickly followed into the house.
Jiayin woke up from her nap and ran to the west wing to play with the twins, which made the two babies scream.
Although Huiniang was not angry, the old lady couldn't let her granddaughter make trouble everywhere...
She called Aunt He and caught her granddaughter to do needlework together.
How old is Jiayin? It's still a little early for her to start learning embroidery seriously, and her family doesn't want her to be tired. Just a few days ago when Jiaren and others came back, they all joked about asking for the purse sewn by her sister.
The old lady now moved a small basket filled with various colored cloths, coaxing her granddaughter to work, passing the time, and chatting with Grandma He.
Originally, it was enough for Grandma He to teach the good news rules, but now the old lady has become a first-class wife. During the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Gaoming will go to the palace to meet the Queen Mother and the empress, so the old lady also decided to learn the rules.
Lest she know nothing when she really wants to enter the palace and embarrass the family.
Aunt He has stayed in the palace all her life, and there is no one she knows better than her.
The two old men and one young man were talking lively when Li Zhensheng suddenly brought someone back, and they were very curious.
Before the old lady could ask questions, the woman had already knelt down and said, "Aunt, wuwu, I am Mrs. Sun's nanny, serving Miss Nannan. Don't you recognize me?!"
Mrs. Sun? Nanny?
The old lady was stunned for a moment, lowered her head to identify carefully, and suddenly changed her face, "Oh, Sister-in-law Li, why is it you? Didn't you go back to your hometown with Mrs. Sun, why are you here?"
This Sister-in-law Li is not someone else, she is the one who was there at the time. When the Li family fled from Saibei to Junyang, it was the nanny of the Sun family who let them take a boat.
The wet nurse had the same surname as her own family, and she almost choked the young mistress because of her own mistake, but was saved by Mrs. Li, so she got along particularly well with the Li family.
Just two years ago, when the Li family was not doing well, Zhao Yuru and Tao Hongying still wore old clothes given by Sister-in-law Li!
Mrs. Li helped her up and saw that there was white in her hair and her face was sallow. She was completely different from the white, plump and friendly look before, which showed that she had suffered a lot.
Sister-in-law Li wanted to speak, but she couldn't help but burst into tears when she opened her mouth. "Auntie, please help me. Our wife is dead and the master is also missing. My uncle wants to sell our wife's dowry. I really have no choice, so I will take it with me." Miss Nannan escaped!
"Ugh, pity our wife, she didn't close her eyes until she died!"
Old Mrs. Li was confused when she heard this, but she also knew that the Sun family was in trouble, so she quickly helped Sister-in-law Li sit on the edge of the Kang.
Then he hugged the ignorant and silent little girl and put him on the kang, and told Jiayin, "Fu Niu'er, you play with Nannan for a while, and grandma will talk."
Jiayin nodded, quickly went to get the snack box, and put it in front of Nannan, little The girl immediately grabbed a piece and ate it.
The old lady felt even more sad when she saw it. She remembered that they boarded the Sun family's boat not long after Fu Niu was born. At that time, her daughter could already crawl and stand, and she was half a year old.
But now when I compare it, Fu Niu'er is almost a bit bigger than Nannan!
Li Zhensheng saw that his mother's face was not good and he didn't want her to be sad, so he changed the subject and said, "Mom, I haven't heard you talk about the Sun family?"
Tao Hongying poured a cup of warm tea for Sister-in-law Li and replied: "Brother I don't know, we fled from Saibei to Junyang outside Kyoto to seek refuge with my uncle, but we were blocked at the dock on the way. No boat was willing to take the refugees.
"Fortunately, the family picked up a dairy goat at that time and gave it to Fu Niu'er to drink milk. The Sun family happened to be passing by on a boat. Because my daughter was worried about having no milk to drink, they picked up our family and the dairy goats on the boat, and then we made it all the way to Kyoto. "
Yes," the old lady sighed, "Mrs. Sun is a very nice person and takes great care of our family." Later, I helped a little, and Mrs. Sun gave our family more than one hundred taels of silver, as well as a lot of clothes and supplies.
"It is because of these more than one hundred taels of silver that our family was able to successfully settle down in Junyang and meet these folks in the village. It is a pity that we moved the capital later and bought all the houses and fields in Junyang for nothing, and then fled here."
Sister-in-law Li wiped her tears and choked up: "I accidentally fell asleep at that time, and Miss Nannan almost died after eating snacks. It was Fu Niuer who started crying, and Auntie ran to save the miss.
"Our wife, we talked about it before Several times, I thought that my aunt's family didn't know what was going on.
Seeing that she had calmed down a bit, the old lady asked, "Did you just say that Mrs. Sun passed away? " What's the matter? "
Sister-in-law Li's tears flowed more quickly. She wiped them away and said, "Auntie, our wife was killed!" When our wife took the dowry and the young lady back to the south to join her parents' family, our master followed behind and led the clan members on the journey together.
"But when my wife arrived at her hometown, she found that both the old man and the old lady had passed away. She waited and waited but did not see our master coming. She even heard a lot of news saying that the master and his tribe were killed by barbarians, and our wife fell ill. ."
Perhaps thinking of the anxiety during those days, she frowned tightly before continuing: "But for the sake of the young lady, the madam is still very strong, but... our uncle and madam slowly changed their faces. At first they said Business was not going well, and later he said that the family did not have enough money, so he asked his wife to help him with some money.
"Of course our wife did not agree, and we wanted to buy a village and move out. As a result, my wife died within a month." My uncle said that my wife had a deep love for me, and she became so depressed that she died of illness due to excessive worry. "
At this point, Sister-in-law Li got a little excited and grabbed the old lady's hand, her lips trembling, "Auntie, when our wife died, her fingernails were purple. Our wife was poisoned! Moreover, he was burned three days after his death, his ashes were scattered into the sea, his wife's dowry was sold, and so were Chun'er and the others who served her.
"When I saw that things were not going well, I took the banknotes that the madam had hidden, and ran out with the young lady in my arms. My uncle also spread the news, saying that I was escaping anger and kidnapped the young lady, and had people arresting me everywhere..."