peasant young lady

Chapter 203 The Sneaky Cheng Shang

Dahua had been waiting at the door of the house for a long time, when she saw Cheng Xia coming, she hurried to meet him, hugged Xiaolong in her arms very smoothly, turned her head and called Cheng You again, and saw Cheng You ran out like a gust of wind .

"Second sister, second brother-in-law, you are here, mother has been waiting for you for a long time." Cheng You smiled shyly.

Cheng Xia patted his little head, "Go play with Xiaolong, it's in the yard, don't go far."

Entering the room, I saw Mrs. Gu sitting on the chair without anger and majesty, and snorted angrily when she saw Cheng Xia coming in, "It's really shameless to drag your family here to eat."

Cheng Xia was in a bad mood, glanced at her coldly, and went straight to the kitchen to help Mrs. Zhang, talking to this unreasonable grandma was a waste of time.

"Mom, where's Eldest Sister?" Cheng Xia said casually while picking celery leaves.

Mrs. Zhang listened to Cheng Xia's question, and unconsciously raised her eyes to look out the window, "I was still in the yard just now, maybe I went out to find Cheng Qiu. Cheng Qiu has been staying at your second aunt's house for a while, and your eldest sister is also I can say a few words to her."

"Oh," Cheng Xia responded lightly. She just saw a man, and she was walking towards the depths of the bamboo forest in a hurry. It seems that Mrs. Zhang didn't know. "Mother, how is eldest sister staying at home these days?"

Mrs. Zhang paused her chopping hand, sighed, and said, "What can I do, I'm depressed, I don't like to talk every day, I don't talk to anyone, and I'm not in a hurry."

Cheng Xia handed the celery with the leaves to Mrs. Zhang, wiped her hands and took two green onions to peel them carefully, and continued to ask, "Then where are you going?"

"I don't know," Mrs. Zhang shook her head lightly, "You also know that your eldest sister has been divorced, and she must be in a bad mood. Even if mother talks to her, she finds it annoying, so mother doesn't bother her anymore. Fortunately, she is still willing to go out Take a breath and let her go."

In modern times, Cheng Xia heard many classmates talk about the best things in the family. Many of them were women who divorced and returned to their natal homes, but were rejected by their natal brothers and sisters. Wasn’t Qian Pan the same as before?If the second aunt and Cheng Qiu had done such a superb thing after Qian Pan's child was born, and Qian Pan's natal family didn't want her to suffer and took her back, maybe nothing happened later.

However, Cheng Xia has no position to criticize others, after all, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite.But now that Cheng Shang is divorced, Cheng Xia already feels very good that the Cheng family can treat her like this. After all, most of the family members despise the divorced woman.

But?Cheng Xia looked out of the window worriedly, but there was still no figure of Cheng Shang in the bamboo forest not far away, she always felt that she was not at ease.She can't guarantee Cheng Shang's character, and she can't even agree with it. The things Cheng Shang did before, including her current attitude, all show that she is not a person who can repent. Cheng Xia is afraid that she will do something wrong to Cheng Shang. Bad things happen at home.

Seeing that Mrs. Zhang was going to cut the celery into sections, Cheng Xia couldn't help asking, "Mother, what are you going to do?"

Mrs. Zhang smiled, "Fried celery to eat."

"Do we have meat at home?" Cheng Xia looked at the celery in the cabinet beside it with some dirt on it, and thought that it should be freshly picked and tender, and it would be better than celery dumplings when fried, which would be delicious.

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she quickly took out a piece of pork from the cabinet, "This is the last time the village tailor came to measure and make clothes for your elder sister. They brought them specially. Mother said she wouldn't accept them, so they insisted on keeping them."

Um? "What tailor? Male or female?" Cheng Xia frowned and asked.

Mrs. Zhang tapped her forehead amusedly, "You're stupid again, how can a woman be a tailor? Of course it's a man who shows up in public. I haven't seen this tailor much before. How can we use a tailor in our family?" Let’s make clothes, for the farmer’s family, you can just pull a piece of cloth yourself, it’s your eldest sister, she insists that what she makes doesn’t look good, and she has to ask a tailor to do it for her,” Mrs. Zhang said, looking carefully outside the kitchen, seeing Gu Shi was talking to that Xiu'e, and then continued, "When your grandma heard that she wanted a tailor to make clothes for your elder sister, she became anxious and cursed and said that your elder sister was a prodigal. Although mother thought it was not very good, but you Eldest sister has some money herself, so your grandma stopped scolding her."

Cheng Xia didn't care about this, an idea flashed through her mind quickly, but she didn't catch it, she couldn't think of it no matter how much she thought about it, and finally had no choice but to give up.But she still asked worriedly, "Mother, does the tailor come here often?"

"No," Mrs. Zhang was suspicious, "I made the clothes once, and sent them over when I was done, but I haven't been here since then. What's wrong?"

"No," Cheng Xia forced a smile, "I just saw that the elder sister was not at home all the time, and I was afraid that something might happen to her, so I asked casually. By the way, mother, this piece of pork is chopped up and mixed with celery to make celery dumplings. .”

"Is it delicious?" Zhang asked suspiciously, she hadn't made dumplings with celery yet.

"Guaranteed to be delicious," Cheng Xia said, taking the carrots and bean curd sticks aside, washing and soaking them separately, and preparing to make celery bean curd stick salad.

While it was soaking, I saw a figure flashing into the kitchen, saw Cheng Xia cutting carrots with a knife, and immediately exclaimed, "Little sister, you cut it so beautifully."

Cheng Xia looked up and saw that Xiu'e's face was not washed clean, and there was still a trace of yellow hanging from the corner of her eyes, and she felt nauseated.Mrs. Zhang glanced at Xiu'e angrily, "Go out."

Xiu'e rubbed her hands together and smiled shyly, "I want to watch my little sister cook."

Mrs. Zhang handed her a basket, "Go outside and pick some green onions."

"Isn't there?" Xiu'e pointed to the onions in the cabinet, "I told you I want to watch my little sister cook, so you can pick the onions yourself."

Mrs. Zhang threw the basket on the ground with a clatter, stepped forward and twisted Xiu'e's ear and pulled it out, "You can go if I tell you to go. If you dare to talk back to me in my house, you have stayed enough, right?"

"Hey, grandma," Xiu'e began to yell at the top of her voice, and kept patting Zhang's hand, "let go, it hurts me to death."

Listening to the movement, Mrs. Gu rushed to the kitchen door, and when she saw Mrs. Zhang's movements, she was about to jump, "Mrs. Zhang, it's up to the owner to beat the dog. Let go."

Mrs. Zhang pinched Xiu'e's ear and shook it in Mrs. Gu's direction, "We don't have dogs in our house." After speaking, he slammed the kitchen door shut, shutting Mrs. Gu out of the door.

Cheng Xia smiled appreciatively at Mrs. Zhang, "Mother, this Xiu'e doesn't look like a good person, so can't we let her go?" The Cheng family doesn't run a charity organization, so it doesn't make sense to support an outsider.

"Hey," Mrs. Zhang sighed heavily, "Who doesn't want to drive her away? Last time she sneaked into my room to steal my things, but I caught her right away, so I got angry and wanted her to leave. , your grandma insisted. I said we don’t keep such unclean hands and feet in our house, and your grandma also said that if I leave it in the room and don’t lock it, it’s just for people to steal it.” Mrs. Zhang smiled helplessly, “Your grandma She won't be reasonable, she was angry when she saw me at the time, and your father didn't say anything to her, she was about to hit the wall, saying we were unfilial, your father compromised, if you say stay, just stay, this matter will be over It's over."

It's really weird that he still wants to steal something.

"By the way," Mrs. Zhang patted her head suddenly, as if suddenly remembering something, wiped her hands anxiously, opened the kitchen door and walked out, "Wait for me."

Cheng Xia looked puzzled, and saw Mrs. Zhang hurried out and came in with a small box, closed the kitchen door carefully again, and then carefully opened the small box for Cheng Xia to see, "This is my grandma's secret at the time." Neither your aunt nor your grandmother knew what was left for me, but I have kept it until now. Now that my mother has given it to you, let it be considered as my dowry to make up for you. "

There was deep apology in Mrs. Zhang's eyes, and Cheng Xia smiled gently, "Mother, since your grandma left this for you, you can leave it alone and think about it." Cheng Xia looked at Mrs. Zhang all the way. Cheng Xia is really happy to become what she is now, shedding the previous unreasonable and domineering, taking off the cloak of vanity, and returning to her original kindness and kindness.She doesn't need any compensation, nor does she need a dowry, as long as the person she wants to care about and protect can live well.

"You take it." Mrs. Zhang insisted on giving it to Cheng Xia. "To you, Mother owes you too much. Mother was sorry to you before. This hairpin is worthless, so you can keep it."

When Mrs. Zhang said this, it was difficult for Cheng Xia to refuse, so she carefully kicked her in her arms.

The meal was quite harmonious, although Gu was always sneering and sarcastic, but no one paid attention to her except Father Cheng and Xiu'e, she felt bored and restrained herself.

However, she never came back during the process. Mrs. Zhang went out to look for it, but she didn't miss it if she couldn't find it.Left and right she often does this, and Mrs. Zhang is used to it.

July passed in a hurry, and when the annual rings of time entered August, Cheng Xia actually felt as if he had passed away.When she first traveled to the Ming Dynasty, she had planned to pay off the Yang family's money at the end of June, and she should be on her way to the capital in August.She didn't expect that in just a few months, the development of things had far exceeded her imagination.The road to the capital is still far away, and she even wonders if she can still witness the death of Emperor Xianzong and the ascension of Emperor Xiaozong.

Cheng Xia spent several days with Xiaolong, accompanied him to every corner of the mountain, took him to see different scenery every day, the child was still young, she couldn't let him be immersed in pain and tears all the time unable to extricate themselves.

Fortunately, in the past few days, Yang Dalang blocked the Chen family and Yang Erlang who had been wanting to visit, so that Cheng Xia could not see anyone who was an eyesore, and also prevented Xiaolong from being irritated.

On August [-]th, Cheng Xia decided to take Xiaolong to the market to buy some clothes for Xiaolong.The child's body grows fast, and she doesn't have Xiaolong's clothes to change here. Several times, the little guy can only sit on the bed wrapped in a small quilt after taking a bath, because his only clothes are wet by himself.

It was still Yang Dalang who was driving, Du Zhong's health was already recovering, but he seemed to be very busy these days, and he never showed up, so Yang Dalang brought his carriage over and took Cheng Xia and Xiaolong to the market himself.

Cheng Xia already had a full 1000 taels of silver, but this silver failed to save Lin Xiu's life, so Cheng Xia decided to save the silver and give it to Xiaolong in the future.

When we arrived at the county mile, Cheng Xia realized that something was wrong. Everyone was suppressing their voices and talking, and they all ran towards the county government. Cheng Xia frowned, and hurriedly asked the people beside him, Cheng Xia frowned even more. up.

The people ran to the county office one after another, because the new county magistrate came.

The new county magistrate is here?What about Zhao Dezhong, the original county magistrate?Dead or relegated?
(End of this chapter)