lucky star girl

Chapter 203
The weather was getting colder and colder, but Xu Shiqiu didn't send any news except for sending a letter back at the beginning.

Although the family knew from the beginning that Xu Shiqiu was going to the northern frontier this time, and it was not as easy to send letters to the family as the last time he exterminated the horse bandits, but the family was still worried because there was no news for so long.

The old lady Xu had experienced that Xu Zhenbei had been away for several months and had no news back, but this was the first time for Dong Shu to experience this.

At this time, Dong Shu hugged Yuan Xi and looked at the old lady Xu, who wanted to ask, but was worried that because of her inquiry, the old lady Xu would be even more worried.

How could the old lady Xu fail to see Dong Shu's embarrassment, but thinking that these were all she had to go through, she didn't point it out.

"Recently, there is something wrong with the wind in the capital. You will tell them to pay more attention when they go out to buy new year's goods." As soon as the old lady Xu spoke, Dong Shu immediately put away her original worry and looked Get serious.

Just after the twelfth lunar month, the price of goods in the capital has doubled, especially rice and meat, and the price is one price per day.

As for vegetables, in summer and autumn, basically every household will have a lot of dried vegetables in the sun. He lives on dried vegetables and pickled vegetables.

The Xu family has their own Zhuangzi, whether it is rice, meat or vegetables, they are delivered from time to time.

They didn't notice this at first, but the people left behind by Xu Shiqiu discovered it and reported it to Dong Shu, who then told Mrs. Xu.

After all, Mrs. Xu is a person who has experienced storms. As soon as she learned about this, she guessed that the capital might really be unstable.

Today is the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and two days later it will be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Now every family is starting to prepare new year's goods, even the Xu family will inevitably need to go out to buy some.

Therefore, Mrs. Xu made such an explanation.

Dong Shu nodded as she listened to Mrs. Xu's explanation, and at the same time thought of something that Xu Shiqiu had told her before.

"Before, my husband and I mentioned the annual ceremony of the family stewards, but originally he said, I just take care of the family, and he is in charge of the outside affairs. Now that the husband is not at home, what kind of annual ceremony should the outside stewards prepare? ,I am not sure as well."

As soon as Dong Shu finished speaking, Mrs. Xu understood what she meant, "This matter has been used in previous years. Except for the basic rules, everything else depends on how each of them manages this year. There are some additions and subtractions." Mrs. Xu spoke carefully, and Dong Shu listened carefully.

This is the first time that Dong Shu is in charge of these things as a housewife, and the Xu family was in Xiahe Village in the past few years. different.

But this year everyone is in the capital, these things will naturally be different from previous years.

Dong Shu kept the old lady Xu's words firmly in her heart, and based on her own judgment, made some slight adjustments to the annual gift list for each family.

Dong Shu is busy with work again, so she will spend much less time thinking about Xu Shiqiu, but what Dong Shu didn't expect is that although Xu Shiqiu has not sent any news yet, Yan Ye secretly climbed over the wall and entered the house on the seventh night of the twelfth lunar month Went to Xu's Shihuan Courtyard.

Fortunately, everyone in Yueyin who was on guard tonight knew Yan Ye, and when they saw him, they immediately stopped attacking and helped to call Dong Shu who was just about to fall asleep.

"Third Aunt, don't be busy. I'm just freezing. Just give me a bowl of hot soup. I've brought my own dry food." Yan Ye saw Dong Shu going to the kitchen to make dinner for herself, so he hurriedly called her .

After hearing what Yan Ye said, Dong Shu not only did not stop, but sped up a bit, "Don't worry, because there is always a fire in the kitchen because we will cook Laba porridge tomorrow morning. This is the first time for your new son-in-law to come to the house. I must make a bowl of noodles for you. It happens that there is mutton soup stewed in the kitchen in the afternoon, so I will cook a bowl of mutton noodle soup for you."

Dong Shu insisted on making bowls for Yan Ye, the new son-in-law who came to the house for the first time. Even the old lady Xu who came from the main courtyard after hearing the news, nodded to Yan Ye and said: "Just listen to your third aunt. These are old traditions. It's rare that she still remembers them all. We, grandparents and grandchildren, are talking in Shihuanyuan, waiting for your third aunt to make noodles for you. When you finish eating, go to Yan Zhu rested in the yard before she got married, and someone has been tidying it up there." After saying this to Yan Ye, Mrs. Xu continued to ask: "Why did you come to the capital at this time? Where is Yan Zhu?"

Yan Ye was waiting in the front yard of Shi Huanyuan, where Xu Shiqiu usually used to receive juniors.

He did pay attention, although he went directly into the third aunt's yard, but he also knew that there was always someone in Dong Shu's yard, not her alone.

What's more, Shi Huanyuan is directly adjacent to the outer wall, so it is more convenient for him to enter.

Otherwise, he wouldn't risk the reputation of offending his elders and come directly to Shi Huan Yuan, after all, he knew that Xu Shiqiu was not at home.

Of course, both Dong Shu and Mrs. Xu have no objection to Yan Ye coming directly to Shihuanyuan. Not only is the loyalty of the people in Shihuanyuan not to be doubted, but more importantly, the location of Shihuanyuan is good.

At this time, they don't pay so much attention.

At this moment, Dong Shu saw that Mrs. Xu had rushed over, so she walked quickly to the small kitchen of Shi Huan Yuan and started cooking noodles.

In the kitchen, there are cook and good noodles, which are prepared for fear that she or Yuan Xi will be hungry at night, which will save time.

Because there wasn't much noodles, Dong Shu scooped up half a bowl of mutton in the bowl, afraid that Yan Ye would get tired, so she took a small plate and put two plates of hors d'oeuvres.

While Dong Shu was preparing mutton noodle soup in the kitchen, Yan Ye was also answering Mrs. Xu's words in the room.

"After I received the news from you and my third uncle, I was going to come to Beijing, but it just so happened that I had something to do at this time, so I was delayed for a few days." After saying this, Yan Ye felt that after being roasted by the brazier in the room, His frozen body finally warmed up.

Because of the warmth in her body, Yan Ye's tone couldn't help but soften a bit, "Because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to go back during the Chinese New Year, so I stayed at home with Yanzhu for two more days, entrusted her to Mrs. Sun, and came on my way The capital. Before I arrived in the capital, I received news from my subordinates that they found out that Ye Jingche was planning to do something during the New Year."

The old lady Xu only knew that Ye Jingche was unwilling to do something, but she never had any accurate information. After hearing what Yan Ye said, she finally knew the exact time.

"There are still twenty days left, and I don't know if I can send a message to your third uncle now, whether he can come back in time."

The old lady Xu sighed after she finished speaking, and before she could speak again, Yan Ye raised the corners of her lips slightly and said, "I just received the news, and I sent someone close to me to Beijiang to give my third uncle Sending letters, this time I hurried to the capital, and I also wanted to take advantage of Laba time to deliver letters to my aunt and uncle. If I get the confirmed news earlier, my uncle can also get ready earlier."

Listening to Yan Ye following Yan Zhu and calling Ye Jingxing, the fifth uncle, "uncle", the old lady Xu just paused, and then said as if she didn't hear Yan Ye's address just now: "In that case, you will finish eating later Go take a bath after dinner and rest early. Tomorrow we will not only deliver Laba porridge to relatives and friends, but your aunt will also come to deliver New Year gifts in person. Otherwise, she might not go out."

At this time, there must be many people staring at the Fifth Prince's Mansion, maybe someone in Ye Jingche is staring at the Fifth Prince's Mansion.

So as the end of the year approached, Xu Nuanwen didn't like to go out, but although she didn't like to go out, she would still come to Xu's house occasionally.

It's just that every time she comes to Xu's house, on the way and when she goes home, she always meets someone or something happens.

This also caused Xu Nuanwen to go back to Xu's house much less now.

But tomorrow is Laba. According to the custom, a married girl will come back to give her natal family a new year gift. In the past ten years, Xu Nuanwen didn't have the opportunity to return to her natal family in Laba. She will definitely not miss it this year.

So it was a good idea for Yan Ye to secretly come to their house and wait in the dark. It happened that Xu Nuanwen would arrive after breakfast at dawn.

Yan Ye also had the same thoughts, so he hurried to the capital in the past two days and arrived in the capital on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh day.

Just as Mrs. Xu and Yan Ye were talking about this, Dong Shu also entered the room with a tray.

The aroma of mutton noodle soup drifted into Yan Ye's nose as Dong Shu walked in. This was really too tempting for Yan Ye who hadn't had a good meal for two days and only relied on snow water and dry pancakes up.

Mrs. Xu and Dong Shu could both see Yan Ye's distress, especially his bloodshot eyes, which showed that he hadn't had a good rest recently.

"This mutton soup contains medicinal materials specially formulated by Doctor Du. You should eat more and sweat. I will ask Mrs. Wang to bring some servants to bring more hot water to Yanzhu's yard later." Having said that, Dong Shu suddenly After finishing it, he continued: "I guess there are also your clothes in Yanzhu's yard. She probably made them when she was at home and didn't take them away. After you go, look in the closet, and you will definitely find them."

Dong Shu guessed from Yan Ye's coming over the wall that he didn't want too many people to know that he was here, so after thinking about it, she didn't send anyone to serve her.

Yan Ye was very satisfied with Dong Shu's arrangement, and she grinned happily when she heard that Yanzhu's yard had prepared her own clothes.

After taking out a few letters wrapped in kraft paper from his arms and handing them to Mrs. Xu, Yan Ye began to eat noodles with his head down.

First, he took a sip of the rich mutton soup, because there were green onions in the soup and some expensive and scary pepper, Yan Ye felt that his whole body was refreshed after taking a sip of the soup.

The old lady Xu glanced at Yan Ye who was eating noodles with her head down, with a smile on her lips, and then picked up the letter from Yan Ye and began to look at it.

Just by glancing at the envelope, Mrs. Xu knew that these letters were written to them by Yanzhu.

The old lady Xu handed Dong Shu the letter with the words "Third Aunt's Invitation" on the envelope, and kept it for herself, and she was going to read it later when she returned to her yard.

For the rest, she glanced at it and handed it to Dong Shu, saying: "For your sister, you keep it first, and give it to her when she comes tomorrow." After saying this, the old lady Xu yawned and endured the drowsiness Continuing to Dong Shu: "Go and arrange for Mrs. Wang and the others to boil water and send it to Yan Zhu's yard. Remember to remind them to light the brazier in the house and make the beds thicker."

Dong Shu heard the old lady Xu's order, hurriedly put away the letter she handed over just now, turned around and walked out of the house.

After Dong Shu left, the old lady Xu looked at Yan Ye and reminded: "You can sleep peacefully tonight, I will send my confidant servant to guard Yanzhu's yard, and no one will disturb you. Look at you like this , I knew you hadn't rested for many days, and you'll sleep until you wake up naturally tomorrow morning. And your third aunt doesn't know so many things, when you talk to your aunt tomorrow, avoid your third aunt." After saying this, Mrs. Xu thought for a while and continued: "If all of them come, I will let them go to Yanzhu's yard to look for you."

Yan Ye was chewing his noodles, unable to answer Mrs. Xu's words, so he could only nod his head at her.

Yan Ye has not felt the care from his elders for many years. The care Mrs. Xu gave him is different from Mr. Sun, but because of his status, Mr. Sun is more concerned with teaching himself academically.

But Mrs. Xu's concern for these little things made Yan Ye feel the strong love from the elders again.

Mrs. Xu is old and mature, so how can she not see Yan Ye's emotional changes, she didn't say anything, and when Yan Ye left Shihuanyuan after eating a bowl of noodle soup, she also left.

Tomorrow is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the family is still busy.

(End of this chapter)