peasant young lady

Chapter 283 The Soul of Gossip Burns Again
"Who are you seeing?" Seeing Shao Chen say this with a smile, Cheng Xia felt that the person she wanted to meet should be someone Shao Chen liked, but she didn't want to go anywhere now, she just wanted to be with Da Hua quietly, Listen to her tell the rest of the story.

"You will know when you go," Shao Chen said very mysteriously, but Du Zhong couldn't stand it any longer, "Oh, what are you two doing, aren't you just going to my house to see my parents? ?"

Cheng Xia was delighted when she heard it, go to Du's mansion, although she doesn't reject seeing anyone, but if Du Zhong's mother is as temperamental as that concubine Shao in the palace, it will be bad, after all, they are sisters.

Shao Chen saw Cheng Xia's worries, took two steps forward and took her hand and said affirmatively, "My eldest aunt has a very good personality, I promise."

Cheng Xia shrugged, noncommittal, what can he promise, it's been a long time, how can he be sure if the other party's personality has changed?If you don’t go there, just go, and you won’t lose a piece of meat.

"Sister-in-law, wait for me for a while. I'll come to you when I come back. Let's continue talking." Cheng Xia asked Dahua to live in this house first. There are so many houses, only Xiaolong Chengyou and two masters lived there, plus a special one. The nurse used to take care of the two children, the yard is very empty.

Upon hearing this, Du Zhong hurriedly said, "Miss Yun will go with you."

Cheng Xia was taken aback, "What is my sister-in-law doing?"

Du Zhong's face fluttered, seeing Cheng Xia, Dahua and Shao Chen looking at him together, he couldn't help but said awkwardly, "We brought something back from Qingxian Village, and put it in my house first, why don't you go and get it back?"

Dahua couldn't help but slapped her forehead, "Little sister, I really brought you something good. Just now, I didn't know what was going on with the Shao family, and I didn't know it was inconvenient, so I put the things at Du Zhong's house first. You just happened to Go over and have a look first, just bring the things here by the way." On the left and right are the houses that the younger sister bought herself, she can do whatever she wants, no one cares.

"Miss Yun, let's go together." Du Zhong said rather anxiously.

"No," Dahua waved her hand, "Just let the younger sister take the things back by herself, and I won't join in the fun. You are in a high-end courtyard, and I, a country woman, don't want to embarrass myself."

"What an embarrassment," Du Zhong was not very happy, "You also got off the carriage at my house just now, but who said anything to you?" Du Zhong's expression changed instantly when he thought of this possibility.

"No," Da Hua shook her head with a smile, "Your family members are all very well, but I really don't want to go, little sister, go early and come back early, I'll wait for you to come back."

Cheng Xia looked back and forth between Da Hua and Du Zhong. Why did she feel that she couldn't understand this routine?

Of course Dahua didn't go in the end, she wanted to stay for Cheng You and Xiaolong to cook lunch, and take a good look around the mansion in the third courtyard.

When we arrived at Du Zhong’s house, Du Shangshu and Mrs. Shangshu came out to greet me before I got to the main hall. Cheng Xia saw Du Zhong’s mother’s face and knew that she should have a good temper. feel.

Mrs. Du greeted her kindly, took Cheng Xia's hand directly, and said very considerately, "Why is it so cold, come in quickly, the house has floor heating, so it's warmer."

Mrs. Du was pulling Cheng Xia to walk in, while smiling, she slapped Shao Chen, "Really, it's so cold now, I don't know how to bring her a heater when I go out, such a pretty daughter-in-law, you don't feel bad if it freezes ah."

Shao Chen quickly confessed, "I have to feel sorry for it, it's all my fault, what my aunt taught me is that I will receive the punishment myself when I get home."

Seeing the smile on Shao Chen's face, Cheng Xia knew that he was really close to this eldest aunt.Shao Chen didn't have such a smile when facing Shao Lin and Concubine Shao in the palace, except for Du Zhong's mother.

And this Mrs. Du's smile is really comfortable, not hypocritical at all.

All the way to the main hall, Mrs. Du quickly ordered the little maid to bring the prepared small hand stove and stuffed it into Cheng Xia's hands, "Hurry up and warm up, it's the winter solstice today, and it's getting colder and colder. Women have to be nice to themselves, otherwise when you reach my age, you will have backaches and backaches and feel uncomfortable here, and you will feel uncomfortable there."

What Madam Du said was heart-warming, and Cheng Xia responded repeatedly, "What Madam said is true, I have written it down."

"What madam?" Madam Du made a gesture to hit her, "I'm Shao Chen's aunt, you have to follow him and call me aunt."

Cheng Xia smiled shyly, "Auntie."

"Hey," Mrs. Du replied loudly, her heart was also full of joy, "Look at this sweet mouth," Mrs. Du expressed her satisfaction, "When Ah Chen married you, Du Zhong came back and told us that after that he Every time you come back, you have to praise you to us, saying how delicious your cooking is, how active your mind is, and that you have a lot of knowledge and can completely compare with the ladies in the capital he knows."

Hearing Mrs. Du's eloquence, Cheng Xia couldn't help laughing, turned her head and looked at Shao Chen, and both saw the smile in each other's eyes.

Mrs. Du was in a great mood when she saw the flirting between the two of them. She patted the back of Cheng Xia's hand affectionately, "This Du Zhong also said that you are worthy of Ah Chen, which is really flattering Ah Chen."

Du Zhong hurriedly raised his hand to cover his lips and coughed a few times dryly. He could feel Shao Chen's killing intent beside him, probably because he disliked himself for talking too much.His own mother kept nagging, "Mom, once you see my sister-in-law talking like this, you will have no limit. If you really like it, you might as well take her home and live here."

"Hey, what are you talking about, you little bastard," Mrs. Du was fine if she didn't look at Du Zhong, and she became angry when she saw him, "Look at Achen, and then look at you, it's okay to ask you to beg for a wife It's like killing your life, why is it so hard. If you don't like this one, you don't like that one. If you want me to tell you, you are suitable to find a tigress to come back and cure your lazy temper. By the way," Du Madame suddenly thought of something, and blinked at Du Shangshu next to her, "Did someone report just now that Du Zhong brought a beautiful girl into the house, and put something in the yard, I'm still waiting Du Zhong brought the man to me, why did he leave in such a hurry?"

"That's not it," Du Shangshu drank a cup of tea leisurely, and replied unhurriedly, "Since Du Zhong brought the girl back, why didn't you come in to meet your mother and I, we are not pedantic people, we don't have to pass by What parents' order, as long as you think it's appropriate, we won't say anything."

Uh, the corner of Cheng Xia's mouth twitched, the beautiful and flowery girl that Du Shangshu and Du Fu talked about, couldn't be a big flower.

Cheng Xia quietly raised her eyes to look in the direction of Du Zhong, and found that Du Zhong's complexion was a little rosy. "Auntie, is the woman you mentioned just now my sister-in-law?"

"Ah," Du Zhong suddenly screamed, interrupting Cheng Xia's words, "I said, my dear mother, today is the winter solstice, don't you want to eat dumplings, it's almost noon now, didn't you say you want to keep my brother and Is sister-in-law eating at our house, you must not explain it."

"Oh, look at me," Mrs. Du slapped herself with a smile, "Look at my memory, I tend to forget things when I talk, today is the winter solstice, you are not allowed to leave, just stay here and eat dumplings .”

"Okay," Shao Chen replied without any hesitation. When he saw his aunt again, the memory of his childhood came over his face. Since he was a child, he could only feel the warmth of home at his aunt's house. "Auntie, Cheng Xia cooks. It's delicious, and making dumplings is also, you can ask her to teach you how to make some different dumplings."

Mrs. Du couldn't help nodding, "I've heard from Du Zhong a long time ago, you are very clever, come and teach me, I can't wait."

Although Cheng Xia wanted to verify her thoughts with Du Zhong, and went to see what Dahua had brought her, but Mrs. Du had such a request, and she had to follow it. Cheng Xia smiled and followed Du Zhong. Madame went into the kitchen.

Cheng Xia originally thought that in such a big Du mansion, Madam Du, as the housewife, did not need to cook, but she did not expect Madam Du to cook for herself. In Madam Du's own words, she cooks for her husband and children , is to enjoy rather than burden.

The more she talked with Mrs. Du, the more Cheng Xia liked this open-minded and kind-hearted woman. She could clearly see that Du Shangshu loved her wife very much, and her eyes could not be faked.

Cheng Xia knows that there is a habit of eating dumplings during the winter solstice in the north. It is said that this custom is to commemorate the "medical sage" Zhang Zhongjing who gave away medicine in the winter solstice.This dumpling, formerly known as "Jiaoer", was invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty.At that time, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters continued in various places, and many people froze their ears. Zhang Zhongjing came up with a blind medicine and named it "Quhanjiaoer Decoction". The method was to wrap the stuffing with dough and put it in the soup Boil it, and then give it to patients to dispel cold.After the patient ate it, his whole body became hot, his blood flowed smoothly, and his ears became warm. After eating for a while, the rotten ears would naturally heal.Later, in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, there was a habit of eating dumplings during the winter solstice.

Cheng Xia saw that Mrs. Du was preparing the dumpling stuffing with great care, so she wanted to make some colorful dumplings, using celery juice to make emerald green dumpling skins, carrot juice to make red, pumpkin juice to make yellow, and The purple cabbage is mixed into purple juice, so that the four colors come out.

Mrs. Du was dumbfounded, she never knew that pasta could do this, it was really pretty.

Taking advantage of the time when the dumplings were in the pot, Cheng Xia quickly slipped out of the kitchen to look for Du Zhong.After asking the servant girl that Eucommia had gone to the backyard, Cheng Xia hurried over. When he arrived in the backyard, Cheng Xia was stunned when he saw several large porcelain altars in the yard.

This porcelain altar is so familiar, could it be that this is what Dahua brought back to her from Qingxian Village?
When Du Zhong saw Cheng Xia, he immediately raised his eyebrows proudly, "How about it, I didn't expect that, Dahua brought you all the bean paste from the ten porcelain altars that Dahua put you in front of the bamboo house to hide." Du Zhong said He grinned seriously, "Oh, I really worked hard. In order to transport the bean paste in these ten large porcelain jars, I specially hired three carriages to send them to the capital. Tsk tsk, it was really exhausting."

Cheng Xia was amused when he heard it, "I said Mr. Du, in fact, you just let my sister-in-law stay in Chong'an County, and you don't have to bother with these porcelain altars so much."

"How can I do that?" Du Zhong raised his voice instantly, "It's not like you don't know what kind of person your brother is. It's dangerous for her to stay there by herself."

"Oh?" Cheng Xia said meaningfully, "Is my sister-in-law in danger? What does it have to do with you?"

(End of this chapter)