six-fingered peasant girl

Chapter 284 New Year's Gathering
On New Year's Eve, there was heavy snowfall, and the sound of firecrackers from every household was one after another. The faces of the people were full of joyful smiles. The so-called auspicious snow heralds a good year. The heavy snowfall on New Year's Eve also indicates that next year will be a good harvest year.

Cao's house was decorated with lanterns and festoons everywhere, and all the servants who came and went put on new clothes, with smiles all over their faces, and they were more joyful than usual.The Cao Mansion has a new mistress this year, and in the future there will be a young master born, this master is happy, and the reward money is more generous than before, so naturally he is happy.

Cao Mingzhu was married, so Su Liu and Su Xiao naturally stayed in the mansion to fulfill their filial piety for the New Year. Although Chen Ye was missing, the whole family had a reunion dinner together, chatting and laughing, and they were happy.

As night fell, countless palace lanterns were hung in the Cao Mansion, illuminating the huge Cao Mansion brightly. After the reunion dinner, Su Liu and Su Xiao accompanied the Chen family and Cao Kui to make fun of each other. Yan Yan made everyone laugh.

"It would be great if Brother Ye was here." Chen said with a sigh.

Su Xiao's smiling face narrowed slightly, she snorted, and turned her head away, the light fell on her pretty face, reflecting a little disappointment.

Seeing Su Liu, she said with a smile: "Mother, brother Ye will be here tomorrow, I guess it will be the third and fourth day."

Because Chen Ye had to add his name to the family tree again on New Year's Eve, he couldn't come back to celebrate the New Year. He would not be able to come back until the first day of the new year, so he wrote a letter early.

Chen said with a smile: "Look at me, I forgot again, this year has passed, and it really is one year older."

"Nonsense." Cao Kui disagreed and said, "Then I won't be an old man anymore?"

Su Liu and Su Xiao laughed when they heard this, and said: "Mother and father are both young, and they will add two more siblings to us in the future."

Chen's face was slightly red, and he clicked his tongue and said, "How do you speak with this mouth? You don't feel ashamed."

"That's a good word, I'll accept Liu'er's precious words." Cao Kui laughed, stroked his beard and said, "But don't worry if you don't have one. Your mother is getting old, and it's dangerous to have a baby."

Chen looked at him tenderly, her husband loves her and thinks about her body, how could she not be moved?
Both Su Liu and Su Xiao saw the interaction between the two, and they both pursed their lips and smiled, and changed the topic.

At midnight, the Cao Mansion set off firecrackers to welcome the new year, and everyone wished each other a happy new year, so they stopped talking.

In the early morning of the next day, the servants of Cao's mansion greeted their master, said a lot of auspicious words, and distributed red envelopes to reward money. Cao Kui started to go to various houses for banquets, and even Mrs. Chen took her two daughters away for several days. Families who know each other well.

The heavy snow fell for several days, and the roofs of Changping County were covered with thick snow. In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the Cao family's banquet, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

"Ma'am, the chariots and horses of my wife and aunt have arrived at the second gate." The servants came to report to Mrs. Chen.

"It's my sister who's back." Su Liu stood up first, and then said to Chen Shi: "Mother, it just snowed outside and the ground is slippery, so don't go out, I'll go to meet you."

"Hey." Knowing her body, Mrs. Chen responded, but she was also served by the maids and waited at the gate of the courtyard.

After a while, I saw Cao Mingzhu and Mrs. Song from a distance, surrounded by maids and women, walking slowly. Seeing Mrs. Chen waiting, Mrs. Song quickly stepped forward and said angrily: "Why did you come out, pay attention to this?" The ground is slippery." While talking, she glanced at the yard again, and saw that the snow had been swept clean and covered with non-slip bricks, so she felt relieved, but she still walked with Chen's hand go into the house.

Entering the room, everyone greeted each other according to their seniority and gave red envelopes, and some girls served tea, and then they sat down and had a conversation.

The guests in Cao's house were divided into two days, the fourth day and the fifth day. On the fourth day, because Cao Mingzhu went back to her mother's house, they only invited people from the same family, and Mrs. Song's side. Also let go.

From talking about the classics of childbirth, to the classics of children, and to the marriage of children, there are endless topics.

"Looking at the heavy snowfall this year, it's a good sign. I think the general should be back this year. Meiniang, the child's dowry has to be prepared." Mrs. Song looked at Su Liu and smiled at Chen. road.

"It's all ready." Mrs. Chen said happily after hearing this: "It depends on how many dowry gifts will come over there, and then add or subtract."

Hearing the mention of her own marriage, no matter how generous Su Liu was, she couldn't help but blush slightly, and said coquettishly: "Mother, why are you talking about this again?"

"It's a good thing, and it's justified." Mrs. Song said with a chuckle: "I have prepared a dowry here."

Su Liu blushed even more, and said: "You guys like to make fun of me, I ignore you, I'll go to the kitchen to have a look."

Seeing her shy look, everyone couldn't help laughing, Cao Mingzhu said: "I made you laugh at me in the past."

At this time, the servant ran in quickly to report: "Madam, Master Ye, Master Ye is back."

Mrs. Chen was startled, but then she was overjoyed and said, "Quick, please come in."

Everyone was very happy, Su Xiao even stood up, and felt that he was too obvious, so he sat down and said: "He knows that he is back, I thought he would not be happy in that house." That being said, his eyes were on the door.

"This child has a big temper." Mrs. Chen clicked her tongue, sat up straight and looked towards the door.

Soon, the girl opened the curtain and sang: "The young master is back."

Chen Ye walked in with strides, and saw that he was wearing a brand-new green robe, a mouse-hair cape, a purple belt around his waist, a jade pendant, his hair tied into a bun, and a green jade hairpin. Hairpin, tall and tall, gentle and elegant, at a young age, he has the demeanor of a nobleman.

When Chen Shi saw him, her eye circles turned red, and she choked up and called, "Ye'er."

Chen Ye took off his cloak and handed it to the girl standing beside him, walked up to Mrs. Chen in three or two steps, lifted the hem of his clothes, knelt on the futon prepared by the servants, and kowtowed three times.

"Mother, the child is back, and the child is not filial, so I wish my mother a happy new year and good health." Chen Ye looked at Chen with bright dark eyes.

"Get up, get up." Chen Shi wanted to reach out to help her, but Chen Ye was already one step ahead of her, and stood up.

"Good boy, how long has it been? Why have you become so skinny? But you didn't live well in that house? If it's not good, come back." Chen took his hand to check it up and down, and said with a distressed expression.

Chen Ye pursed his lips when he heard this, his eyes were flushed, and tears welled up in his eyes. In such a house, there would always be intrigues, insults, neglect, and schemes, how could he live well?Even for meals, he dare not eat at home, and Cui Fu always buys food from outside.

But he still smiled and said: "It's good, my family treats me well, but I miss my mother so much, and I also miss you, eldest sister." His eyes looked around for a week, and finally fell on Su Xiao.

Su Xiao snorted and turned her eyes away.

"I don't miss me, and I didn't give me New Year's greetings." Cao Mingzhu pretended to be sour.

"Hurry up, give New Year greetings to your mother-in-law, and to your eldest sister." Chen wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and smiled.

Chen Ye nodded, then knelt on the futon to pay New Year's greetings to Mrs. Song and the others, and got a red envelope.

Mrs. Chen pulled him to ask this and that, but in the end it was Su Liu who said: "Mother, you have to let Brother Ye take a breather, you haven't visited your father yet."

Mrs. Chen was startled, and quickly asked a question. Knowing that Chen Ye came back, she came here to salute first, and said, "Then go to pay New Year's greetings to your adoptive father first. Your brother-in-law and the others are also in the study."

Chen Ye also knew that this place was full of female relatives, and he was thirteen years old. Men and women had different seats at the age of seven, so it was not good to stay here forever, so he saluted everyone, and then went to the study room. Su Xiaodao: "Xiao Xiao, I brought back a lot of fans from Yunzhou this time, and I'll send them to your yard later."

Su Xinxin was slightly sweet, but he looked at him and said: "Who cares about your things, hum!" After speaking, he felt that his tone was too indifferent. She looked at him apprehensively.

Chen Ye was not annoyed either, a hint of doting flashed in his eyes, and he said, "I'll be there in a while, and I'll show you how your handwriting is doing."

Su Xiao had been practicing calligraphy under Chen Ye's guidance before, but his handwriting was very bad. After hearing this, he blushed and gave him an annoyed look: "Who wants you to deal with?"

Seeing her angry look, Chen Ye smiled more and more. He resisted and stretched out his hand to rub her head, said something to Mrs. Chen and the others, and then went away without mentioning it.

Mrs. Song saw it, and looked thoughtfully at the angry Su Xiao and Chen Ye's performance just now, raising her eyebrows.

"Brother Ye, it's been a long time since I've seen him, but now he looks like he's thirteen."

"No, I look so thin." Chen felt a little distressed, and said to Su Liu: "Liu'er, go to the kitchen and tell me to make ginseng soup for Brother Ye."

"Hey."

"Mother is biased." After hearing this, Su Xiao pursed her lips and said, "I didn't even stew it for me. He left as soon as he said, and Mother still missed him."

"You want to eat this vinegar too. If Brother Ye hears it, it will make people feel cold. In the past, didn't he just protect you? He didn't even want to give some soup to others?" Chen said angrily.

Su Xiao curled her lips, remembering what Chen Ye said about Yunzhou fans, so she dragged Song Ying to her room.

Cao Mingzhu was also getting heavy and sleepy, so she went back to the former boudoir to rest under the care of the girl, and only Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Song were left talking in the main room.

"What do you think of a small marriage?" Mrs. Song asked: "I have some eyebrows, but I look at it, and the child may not have such a heart. And Brother Ye, you still have to watch more Just a little bit, don't make it unclear, it will be a joke in the future."

Chen was taken aback: "Brother Ye?"

Mrs. Song shook her head and said, "It's a pity that you are still a mother, so you haven't seen Brother Ye's love for Xiaoxiao?"

"What?" Mrs. Chen was so bluffed that she almost knocked over the teacup in her hand, and said in shock, "You mean Brother Ye has that heart for Xiaoxiao?"

No way, this is still a child, the two of them are arguing, it's clearly sibling love, why?
Chen suddenly felt sad, one side was the adopted son, the other was the daughter, if this was the case, what should I do?
(End of this chapter)