Chapter 114 It's Laba Again
At noon the next day, everyone had another meal. After the meal, Shutong's marriage came to an end. Mother Dong and others packed up and went to the shop to prepare the ingredients for tomorrow's breakfast.
Su Ruojin noticed that Uncle Hua Ping hadn't come again, "Is he so busy?"
Dashi smiled and replied: "Brother Huaping has been looking for help on the street recently, saying that he wants to make money to marry a woman."
Was Shu Tongshu's marriage a stimulus to him? Was she too stingy?
When Xianggui heard these words, she lowered her head and stood quietly in the crowd, without any sense of existence at all.
Mother Dong glanced away quietly and then looked away, looking at the two new servants in the house. Mother Ji was holding Su Silang and standing in the corridor in a sheltered and sunny place, making the child laugh. There was another person standing behind Mao Ya in a daze, staring at whoever spoke. He was even more numb than when Xiang Gui first came. Second Madam was really kind-hearted. She bought a girl like this. She shook her head secretly.
Su Ruojin thought about it and decided to tell her master when he came tomorrow morning that if he liked any girl, he should tell her and she would take the money.
It was nothing, so Mother Dong and her group left the Su family courtyard.
Except for some red silk, the courtyard was tidied up and tidy, and it returned to its former tranquility.
Lu Dani was a person who could not sit still. As soon as everyone left, she rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen to help. After a while, Cheng Yingzhen and Su Ruojin were left standing at the kitchen door.
The mother and daughter looked at each other.
Su Ruojin smiled and said, "Mom, you and Mother Ji can go to the side room to do needlework. I'll watch here for a while."
Cheng Yingzhen also found that she could not help, so she went to the side room with Ji's mother who was holding Silang. She closed the door as usual, and the two of them sat together to talk about family matters.
After cleaning up the pots and pans, it's time to start cooking dinner, and the day repeats itself over and over again.
Li Xiuzhu made the fire, Mao Ya helped, and Lu Dani prepared a light dinner under Su Ruojin's guidance. Three days of feasting were filled with rich fish and meat, which was too much for them.
Lu Dani has a talent for cooking. Whatever Su Ruojin says, she can make it, and the taste is almost the same as what Su Ruojin wants.
She raised her eyebrows with joy, this was a new capable general!
In ancient times, there was a custom for a new bride not to go out for a month, but Lu Dani did not follow suit. After lunch on the fourth day, she went to help at her own stall. She originally refused to eat lunch at home, and Su Ruojin saw through it. She felt embarrassed to eat the Su family's meal for free.
Not to mention that she is Uncle Shu Tong's wife and all the food she eats belongs to Uncle Shu Tong, just to say that she is busy at the Su family, this is enough for her to eat.
Su Ruojin told her not to feel any psychological burden and just treat it as her own home and do what she should do. Lu Dani choked up with sobs when she heard this. When she returned to her parents' home, she told Lu Er and his wife all the good things about her host family.
Lu's second wife sighed, "What a good life!"
In the cold twelfth month of winter, the northwest wind was getting stronger day by day. When you went out, the wind blew on your face like a knife. After teaching the children basic skills and simple boxing and kicking moves in the sheltered corridor, Hua Ping said, "From now until the end of the first month of next year, I will come every five days. The rest of the time, you can practice on your own. When the weather gets warmer, we can practice every day again."
Su Ruojin watched Hua Ping about to slide towards the gate and quickly stopped him, "Uncle Hua, are you so busy?"
"What's the point of being busy? It's cold in winter, I'll go back and get into bed early."
Su Ruojin stared at him with her big eyes, as if to say, "I'm just watching you talking nonsense."
Hua Ping was shocked: "Su Erniang, are you hiring someone to monitor me?"
Su Ruojin rolled her eyes, "Who are you to be? Why should I find someone to monitor you? I asked you to come to Uncle Shutong's bridal chamber and you didn't come. After dinner, you ran away like there was a needle behind your butt. You didn't even come to lunch yesterday. What are you busy with?"
Hanahira: ...I can’t tell you what I’m busy with.
Su Ruojin said: "It's heartbreaking to see others marrying, so just take action. If you like a young lady from a certain family, tell me and I'll pay for the wedding."
Hanahira: ...Just skip getting married and have someone give me a daughter like you.
Su Ruojin frowned: "Don't you believe what I said?"
Hanahira: ...Are you serious?
Su Ruojin shouted, "Sister Mao, help me get a hundred taels of Jiaozi."
"Hey, hey, don't, don't..." Hua Ping hurriedly walked to the young lady and stopped her with a smile, "I'm not hanging out here to find a lady. Recently, a few friends came to Beijing to play, and I'm here to accompany them."
"real?"
"Of course it's true."
Su Ruojin looked unconvinced.
Hua Ping reacted, "Hey, Su Erniang, you care about me?"
"You are my master and the guard of my shop. As the master, shouldn't I ask you where you have been fooling around?"
Hanahira: ...This little housekeeper, will she continue to control me like this even when she has a daughter in the future?
In the blink of an eye, it is Laba Festival again. It seems like last year's Laba Festival just passed, and it is the day to make Laba porridge again. Last night, I soaked and washed all kinds of soybeans, red dates and other ingredients, and started to cook before dawn.
Lu Dani wanted to get up, but Shu Tong held her back, "Sleep a little longer."
Lu Dani was embarrassed and insisted on getting up, but Shu Tong said, "It was all prepared last night, just Ah Zhu can cook it, there's no need for you to get up early."
"Then I'll go do something else."
Shu Tong, that's right, hold the lady down, then...
When Mao Ya got up, she found that Li Xiuzhu's bed opposite her was empty. She had gone to cook Laba porridge. Although she was still as wooden and unwilling to speak, it was enough for her to do her job.
By the time she finished washing up and went to the kitchen, the porridge had already boiled and was simmering over low heat.
The hot water for the hosts in the connected big pot had been prepared, and they were just waiting for the hosts to get up. She then prepared the bowls, plates and pickles, and waited for everyone to get up at daybreak.
Ever since Li Xiuzhu came, Su Ruojin asked Mao Ya to sleep in the bedroom with her. Now she is the only one sleeping in the bedroom. She feels very comfortable and sleeps with her head buried in the quilt until dawn.
She didn't stay in bed. Although Hua Ping only came every five days, she got up every morning to run in the courtyard, without missing a day. Today was no exception. When she got up, Su Yanli and his son also got up and were doing warm-up exercises in the corridor.
"Morning, Dad! Morning, Big Brother!"
"Ajin, why don't you get some more sleep?"
"If I'm lazy for one day, I'll be lazy for two days, and slowly I won't be able to get up. Forget it, I'd better get up."
This does make sense. Su Yanli smiled. His son and one daughter were beside him. The three of them were running in the yard. Mao Ya from the kitchen also ran over and followed Su Ruojin. After the three of them finished running, they took a break. She started boxing and was panting hard.
Li Xiuzhu stuck her head out of the stove and looked towards the skylight. Mao Ya's thin but not weak figure looked fierce and energetic, and people who saw her couldn't help but feel their blood boiling. If she also had these fists and feet, could she beat the people who bullied her so hard that they couldn't get up?
(End of this chapter)
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