Carpenter's Lady

Chapter 96

"Sister Su, how many handkerchiefs have you embroidered this day? It's my Maolin's naughty, who said that I will give you a handkerchief you embroidered for five taels of silver. That's it, I've been tired these days!" Li The lady brought a cup of warm tea to Mrs. Su, and at the same time condemned her own daughter!
"Don't talk about these polite words, Maolin and Xiangyi are also my students, isn't it? If their housekeepers are really capable in managing money, it's because I have a good face!" Su Niangzi took the tea, tested the water temperature, and took a sip. road.She has been embroidering for many years, and she doesn't care about these few days, but she really didn't expect her handkerchief to be looted so much!Including the ones taken out from her today, there are more than 100 handkerchiefs in total!

Su Niangzi smoked her eyes with the hot air from the teacup, raised her head and smiled softly at Li Niangzi: "Those girls are going crazy now, purses and book bags are much more time-consuming than handkerchiefs! "There were some bamboos or stones embroidered on the previous book bag, or some simple characters, but this is so, this temporary rush is enough for those girls to be in a hurry!
"Hey, even Aunt Liu and Grandma Wang helped rush to do it! I'm probably the only one idle in this academy!" Mrs. Li couldn't help teasing herself when she said this!She has been a noble and talented woman who has not been involved in vulgar affairs for more than 20 years. When she comes to her daughter, it is much more lively!

"Hey, Mrs. Li, have you seen Amu?"

In the scorching yard, the sweat on Ding Erniang's forehead was dripping out, even the New Year's season in the town in the past, never been so busy these few days!
"I saw A Muxiang in the kitchen just now!" Mrs. Li responded.

After finishing speaking, Zhang Mu inside replied, "Mother, I'm washing the rice dumpling leaves!"

Ding Erniang looked at the dense beads of sweat on Zhang Mu's forehead, walked over in two steps, snatched the zong leaves from her hand, and reprimanded: "Where have you done this before, you can touch Fufu's face later. She has to turn her head away!" The rice dumpling leaves have been washed too much, and the skin on the hands has to be rubbed off, which is the worst thing to do!My daughter-in-law here, she knows that she has been good at sewing since she was a child, and she hasn't done much work on the stove!
As soon as Ding Erniang entered the kitchen, she smelled the warm aroma of rice. In the steamy kitchen, Ding Erniang saw several discolored bamboo tubes on the stove, and hurriedly pushed Zhang Mu out of the kitchen, saying : "It is enough for you to make these many bamboo tube zongzi, and I will do the rest!

After finishing speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and washed the remaining palm leaves in a clatter. Zhang Mu and Li Niangzi looked at each other with helplessness on their faces. She was going to show her hand.

Mrs. Li lined up Zhang Mu's shoulders with a smile, and shook her head at her. Amu is really lucky to meet such a mother-in-law. How many people's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are in trouble, it is she who is determined to defend herself for her husband. I don't want to be seen by my mother-in-law, otherwise I would take my young daughter back to my mother's house to join my brother!
Seeing that her daughter-in-law did not come to meddle, Ding Erniang was satisfied, and shouted to Zhang Mu: "Amu, Fufu is at Aling's place, go and see!"

Zhang Mu also had no choice but to go to the front yard to find her husband and daughter, and prepare to make zongzi after washing the palm leaves. She has been thinking about this year's Dragon Boat Festival for several months!

Last year during the Dragon Boat Festival, I was pregnant with Fufu and had a big belly. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, I already felt stuffy and flustered, and I was not in the mood to fiddle with food. This year, I have Aunt Liu, a culinary expert. After a year of culinary training, the children are quite good at cooking. Zhang Mu thought of many modern Dragon Boat Festival delicacies, and unconsciously licked his lips!
Not to mention realgar wine and mung bean cake, but rice dumplings. Zhang Mu has had a knot in her heart for many years. When she was in elementary school, she heard her classmates say that the salted duck rice dumplings made at home were delicious. The squinting of the eyes is so enjoyable that Zhang Mu has been thinking about the salted duck rice dumpling!

But her old lady ignored her wish every year, not to mention the meat, it would be a great favor to just stuff a red date, which caused Zhang Mu to buy a few meat dumplings every time he saw them outside!But I never got rid of my hunger!

Here she is thinking that she has not satisfied her hunger, and Fufu in the front yard is also worried about her not satisfying her hunger. Fufu has weaned off milk as early as April, and now he feeds her some custard and minced meat porridge every day. But this little ox had a tooth in May, and his teeth were itchy all day long, wanting to gnaw on things everywhere!

The beauty is always inseparable from Fufu, and one person and one cat are as good as one. Zhang Mu realized the greatness of their friendship. Once when he woke up in the middle of the night to watch Fufu, the girl actually held a small salted fish in her little hand. Biting or licking!

It is a little salted fish specially for beauties!

As soon as Zhang Mu stepped over the arch and came to the front yard, the beauty jumped up to her. Xiao Fufu also waved her little hand and kicked Wu Ling vigorously, trying to get off him!
Zhang Mu glanced at it, unmoved at all!
Although Fufu is less than a week old, he is tall and has strong feet. Wu Lingyuan only hugged her lightly, and was a little bit overwhelmed by her kicking, so he had to coax his wife: "My lady, Take it over, she really wants you this time!"

Zhang Mu watched his daughter's eyes narrowed into small slits with a smile, and slowly stretched out his hand uncertainly.

"Crash, crash!"

Fufu shrank into Wu Ling's arms, hugging Wu Ling's neck tightly, seeing the tangled expression on his mother's face, he smiled even more happily!
"This girl has played this trick for dozens of times, why is she still not tired of it!"

Zhang Mu pulled his daughter out of his father-in-law's arms sadly, she would be fooled at such a young age, but when she grows up, she still doesn't know how bad she will be!

"My lady, when you are stupid again, she will get tired of it!" Wu Ling twisted his daughter's little face, feeling reluctant to let go.

"Haha, Fufu and Ah Zhu really looked alike when they were young. That kid also liked to play this trick when he was young!" Second Master Ding raised his head from the bamboo strips and said with a smile.

"Father, tell me, shouldn't it be time for Ah Zhu to come back? Didn't the previous letter say that it wasn't the end of May? Tomorrow will be the Dragon Boat Festival. If we come back, we can celebrate the festival together!" Zhang Mu gnawed on the little finger that his daughter stuffed over him, side asked.

"Well, I guess it will only be two days!" Ding Erye thought of his youngest son's return journey, and a little hope appeared on his face. Ah Zhu is only fifteen this year, and the fifteenth Jinshi, the entire Wu Dynasty, is afraid that there are only a few. Come here!

"Brother Ah Zhu is really coming back?" Mao Lin asked excitedly after recovering from the ledger behind the counter.

"Mao Lin, when did you care about A Zhu so much?" Zhang Mu looked at Mao Lin's happy rosy face and asked in a strange way.

After asking, I remembered that Maolin was only nine years old this year, so I really thought too much!
"Brother Ah Zhu promised me to bring me candied haws from the capital!" Mao Lin replied crisply.

"Candy, candy" Fufu waved his little hand, pushing his mother, asking for candy!
Fufu was still young, and Zhang Mu didn't even dare to let her touch the white sugar, and he would break it on weekdays. Wu Ling once took a candied haws for her to lick. I was afraid that she would swallow the candy, and it had been a long time since I licked candied haws for her, but this girl missed it!

"Okay, when your Uncle Azhu comes back, you will have candy to eat!"

What Zhang Mu said was unintentional, but God meant it. Azhu, who had been away from home for almost three months, finally returned home on the last day of the Dragon Boat Festival. She wore seven-pin powder-soled black boots, a brocade green robe, and a jade face. The handsome appearance of the scholar, passing by the mouth of Liuye Alley, dazzled the eyes of all the young ladies.

Wu Ling from behind looked at Azhu who was like a noble son in front, his eyes were slightly moist.

Azhu received the appointment letter from the imperial court, and came back to pick up an errand from the county magistrate of Zhou. Originally, because Azhu was young, lively and cute, he was very popular with saints, and I wanted him to stay in the Imperial Academy to grow slowly. honed!
However, Yunyang Hou Shizi said, "My lord, Mr. Ding Xiaolang is just a green young man, I'm afraid he will lose his temper if he is placed in the Imperial Academy!"

The next official had better eyes and ears, so he immediately reported that the county magistrate of Tongtai County was seriously ill and had to resign, so A Zhu was driven back!
(End of this chapter)