Chapter 477 New Year's Eve
Firstly, he respected his master, and secondly, he also had some thoughts in mind. He wanted Mr. Yun to see his sincerity and give Shao Yunduan a legitimate master-disciple relationship.
Mr. Yun praised her cooking skills highly. He had traveled to many places, and Qiao Xuan knew a wide range of dishes. She could cook specialties from many places, and there were also many dishes that he had never tasted.
I heard that Qiao Xuan is the daughter of the magistrate of Heshan County. I was deeply impressed by the fact that she learned half of her skills in the kitchen and half from books as well as her own understanding and study.
How blind was the magistrate of Heshan County to turn a blind eye to such a good girl!
Old Mr. Yun enjoyed the meal and taught Shao Yunduan more attentively. He lived very comfortably in the main house of the Shao family.
The villagers soon knew that there were guests at the Shao family's main house, but no one paid too much attention to it.
The Shao family's eldest wife is different from everyone else, so it's not surprising if there are so many guests coming to the house.
The second and third wives saw that the man was an old man, and they were not interested. They grumbled in private that it was heartless and ungrateful for him to leave his brothers alone while letting outsiders stay at home for the New Year.
After the Little New Year, it’s New Year’s Eve in a blink of an eye.
On New Year's Eve, the whole village is filled with a joyous atmosphere.
Every household starts putting up Spring Festival couplets and window decorations in the morning. Some of them will even hang two pairs of big red lanterns under the eaves to make it look festive.
The eldest branch of the Shao family celebrated the New Year in their new house this year. Everyone was very happy. Couplets, blessing characters, and window decorations were indispensable. Red lanterns were hung under the eaves of various corridors, making the yard look very prosperous and lively.
Taotao, Xiaoqi and others put on beautiful new clothes, shoes and socks, with their pockets full of snacks such as melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, almonds, etc., and played and laughed with the children in the village. The clear laughter like silver bells rang out in the village from time to time, and some people set off firecrackers, which made the village even more lively.
Shao Xiaozhi and Shao Meiling also made new clothes, and the two of them went out together to play with people of the same age. Naturally, they met Taotao, Xiaoqi and others. Xiaoqi also brought Shao Junyan with him.
Taotao was wearing a rose-red dress with embroidered crabapple flowers on the edge. There was a circle of fluffy white rabbit fur on the collar and cuffs. She also wore a light pink skirt and thick deerskin boots, which made her look outstanding and beautiful.
The material of the dress is not silk, but fine cotton cloth which is better than ordinary ones. The workmanship of the dress is more refined and delicate. Wearing it like this, it looks good among a group of friends without being too abrupt.
Taotao is naturally very beautiful, and when she dresses up, she becomes even more enviable.
She brought a lot of snacks, was very friendly, had a lot of friends, and her friends liked to play with her.
Shao Xiaozhi and Shao Meiling were very happy wearing new clothes to go out, but when they saw Taotao, their faces changed.
Taotao had always been inferior to the two of them and was only worthy of the things they left over. Now that everything had been lost, one could imagine how upset the two of them felt.
If it were in the past, the two of them would have snatched away all of Taotao's silk flowers, silver hairpins, and snacks in the morning, and they would probably have pestered Uncle Shao to ask Taotao to give them this set of clothes.
But now I don't dare to do it.
Shao Xiaozhi and Shao Meiling would always deliberately bully Taotao and secretly tell others not to play with Taotao or pay any attention to her.
But Taotao had a lot of snacks and was generous, so everyone was happy to play with Taotao, which made Shao Xiaozhi and Shao Meiling very angry.
The two of them felt more and more bored and went home with gloomy faces.
(End of this chapter)
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