Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 131 Something is wrong

As soon as Mai Xiang entered the house, Mai Huang, Mai Qing, and Mai Lu surrounded her.

"Sister, where have you been? Just after you left, the wife and family next door also left. The wife and wife originally wanted to foster the child in our house, but knowing that you were not at home, she took the child away. Let her keep the child." Mai Qing said first.

Mai Xiang didn't understand for a moment, looked at Mai Huang and asked, "What's going on? One moment he said the child was taken away, and another moment he said the child stayed. Where is the child?"

"The child is at our house, playing with Mai Di, and his father and mother are watching." Mai Huang said.

"Did Master tell you where the capital is?" Mai Xiang guessed that Tang Village had left, otherwise, Cao Xueqin would be so sick that there was no need to rush to the capital. Also, at the Dabei Temple that day, the master in the temple allowed Cao Xueqin Bending down the mountain, this must have been counted, but this Tang village is only in its thirties this year, so it is really a pity to leave like this.Mai Xiang recalled the last time he saw him, and felt that he was not in a good state of mind, but he did not expect that his physical state was also not good.

Seeing Mai Xiang pondering, Guan Yu asked, "Miss Mai Xiang, what else is there to go to the capital?"

"No, Madam Guan, I don't know where the other party lives, and besides, I'm afraid it's too late to go now."

"Then the old woman will not bother Miss Mai Xiang."

Just as Madam Guan was about to leave, when she saw Ye Dafu coming out, she hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said, "Our Fujin Liumaixiang girl has been staying for a few days, please forgive me for any inconvenience caused to the family."

"Guanmai, don't be like this, our child is causing trouble to the family." Ye Dafu hurriedly replied.

After hearing this, Guan Nanny didn't try to defend herself, she saluted Ye Dafu again, and said, "We won't bother you today, we have to hurry back to the mansion. I'm afraid we won't be able to enter the city gate if we go back late."

"It's cold and the road is slippery, be careful on the road." After hearing this, Ye Dafu didn't hold back any politeness, he just gave some advice, and then ordered Mai Xiang to make a pot of hot tea and bring some snacks for Nanny Guan to eat on the way.

"Son, come on, tell Dad, why did you rush to the city that day?" Ye Dafu asked Mai Xiang, holding him back.

"By the way, Dad, did you want to come back that day, or did they ask you to come back?" Mai Xiang also felt strange.

"After you went in, I saw that no one greeted me, so I asked the boy at the door to come in and look for you. Later, a young girl came out and knew that I was your father, so she called me in and asked me to stay, saying You probably want to stay for a few days. When I heard that there is no place to live here, the carriage is borrowed from someone else. Seeing this, the little girl asked me to come back first. Seeing that my legs and feet are not convenient, she sent a special The boy sent me."

When Mai Xiang was talking to Ye Dafu, Mrs. Zhao came out. Mrs. Zhao didn't care about these things. What she cared about was that Mai Xiang brought back so many gifts, and these gifts didn't seem cheap.

"Mother, don't touch these things." Mai Xiang hurriedly stopped her when she saw Mrs. Zhao rummaging through these things.

Mai Xiang hasn't looked at these things carefully yet, but she knows that there are at least 200 taels of silver, a pair of pure gold jewelry, and she doesn't want to scare Mrs Zhao. looking for trouble.

"Damn girl, it's okay to look at it, I won't go out and talk nonsense." Zhao's heart was itching.

"Mother, who is watching Mai Di and Cao Ji?" Mai Xiang suddenly thought of a question, the Zhao family came out, where are the two children?
"Both of them are playing on the kang, it's okay, the kang is big."

"You mother-in-law, the child can crawl, if it falls, you, you..." Before Ye Dafu finished speaking, Mai Xiang had already run to the backyard. Fortunately, the two children are all fine, she is happy Lie down on the kang and play with the rattle in his hand.

"Mai Xiang, I'll take care of the child, you go and pack your things." Ye Dafu also followed.

When Mai Xiang returned to the front hall, she saw Mrs. Zhao holding a piece of pink-purple silk and gesticulating on her body, and asked Mai Huang if she looked good.

Mai Xiang remembered that when she first came here, Mrs. Sun wore a new cotton dress of this color. Presumably Mrs. Zhao also remembered this, so she wanted to make a new silk dress of the same color. She compares.

Mai Xiang looked at Mrs. Zhao, thinking that she was always the original mother, and said, "Mother, you can use this to make a new coat, and wear it during the Chinese New Year. You should have time to make it now, right?"

"Really, give me a new silk jacket for the Chinese New Year?" Mrs. Zhao felt a little surprised when she heard this. She had wanted to make a new silk jacket for a long time, but Mai Xiang just disagreed, saying that the peasants couldn't afford it.

"It's only worn during the Chinese New Year and when going out as a guest. We usually wear cotton cloth at home. After all, we are from the countryside." Mai Xiang warned.

"Hey, I see."

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she also picked out a piece of peach-red silk with dark patterns, and said, "Mai Huang, Mai Qing, and Mai Green, what do you think the four of us sisters will wear during the Chinese New Year?"

"Really, big sister, we also wear silk?" Mai Huang jumped up.

"Of course, isn't this the new year?" Seeing that Mrs. Zhao and Mai Huang are so happy, Mai Xiang also thinks it's worth it. Anyway, the family has collected a lot of silk and satin materials recently.

Mrs. Zhao, Mai Huang, and Mai Qing led Mai Lu to the big kang in the house to cut the silk. The day before yesterday, she brought the cotton cloth to Mrs. Liu to cut some new clothes. Use the gourd to draw a ladle.
Mai Xiang took the opportunity to tidy up her things. In addition to the 200 taels of silver, she also had two pairs of gold jewelry, two jade pendants and a pair of jade bracelets. Mai Xiang put the things away. She couldn't explain the money to Ye Dafu at the moment. , because Uladomin just gave Mai Xiang 100 taels of silver, it makes no sense to give another 200 taels.She wanted to wait for a while before slowly taking it out to buy land.

Ye Dafu watched Mai Xiang pouring things into his room, and didn't ask much. The family's present day is all due to Mai Xiang, and he is already very content.

Mai Xiang thought that all the women in the family made silk clothes, and Ye Dafu couldn't be the only one, so she dug out a piece of blue silk from the pile of clothes.

"Father, does this make you look good?"

"Son, don't waste it. There is no way to make short silk clothes. Dad looks like this, and he can't wear long robes." Ye Dafu hurriedly waved his hands.

"Father, it's just for Chinese New Year. You should also have good clothes. We all wear silk for Chinese New Year this year. It's just that this robe will not be cut until the teacher's wife comes."

"Mai Xiang, sit down. Listen to my father telling you that I really don't want this silk. My father is just an ordinary farmer. If you let me wear a long robe, others will laugh at my father, and my father will not feel at ease. My father knows that you have This heart is enough, let's talk about this cloth when it is serious and useful."

Mai Xiang glanced at Ye Dafu, although Ye Dafu was not bad looking, but he dealt with the land all the year round, from appearance to temperament to skin color, he told others that he was a real farmer.Such a person would not be a prince even if he wore a dragon robe, but he could tell at a glance that it was stolen.

"Okay then, I'll make a new padded jacket for dad." Mai Xiang could only wait to transform him slowly.

Cao Xueqin and Liu Huilan came back three days later. Not only did Cao Xueqin's wind and cold not heal, but it got worse. Not only that, even Cao Fu fell ill. After all, Tangcun was his only son, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man again. , This kind of pain knocked Cao Fu down again.

Cao Xueqin did not let Cao Fu go up the mountain, but left Cao Fu to take care of his body. Mai Xiang sent some food and pills over after knowing about it. Cao Ji still stayed at Mai Xiang's house, because Liu Huilan had to take care of two patients, and they couldn't tell each other apart. She was born to take care of the child, and there was another point, she was afraid that the child would get sick after taking it back, and it would be even more troublesome.

This New Year is Mai Xiang's first New Year since she came to this other world, and it is also the first New Year when Mai Xiang and Cao's family moved into the new house at the same time. Cao Fu's illness, not to mention that the Cao family is not interested, Mai Xiang is also unhappy.

But Mai Xiang is not interested, which does not mean that Mai Huang and the others are not interested. It is the first time to live in such a beautiful big new house, the first time to have new clothes to wear during the New Year, and the first time to eat openly during the New Year. One is counting the days on his fingers, not only the two of them are living the days, even Ye Dafu, who usually talks very little, suddenly talks too much, reminding Mai Xiang what to do almost every day.

"Mai Xiang, today is 23. It's the new year. Dad is going to send the Stove Lord to heaven. Dad will give you sticky melons to eat."

"Mai Xiang, it's 24 today, and we have to clean the house. Our house is a new house, so we need to make a show of it. Although the windows don't need to be glued anymore, you should put up the window grilles and New Year pictures."

"Mai Xiang, it's 25 today, go ask your fifth uncle to help us grind tofu."

"Mai Xiang, today is the 26th, and our meat is going to be stewed. If you don't cook for a few days during the Chinese New Year, you will cook it during this time."

"Mai Xiang, it's 27 today, your mother gave us a big rooster, kill it today, you go to boil hot water."

"Mai Xiang, I'm 28 today, so I called your fifth uncle and aunt here to help us distribute the noodles. Besides, there is a lot of white flour at home, so let's make dumplings and put them outside in a big vat to freeze."

"Mai Xiang, I'm 29 today, I'm calling your fifth uncle and aunt to help us steam the steamed buns."

In this way, under the reminder of Ye Dafu, Mai Xiang prepared things for the New Year step by step. The winter in the north is so good. Outside is a large natural refrigerator. Ye Dafu taught Mai Xiang to buy several large tanks. It stores meat, dumplings, steamed buns, tofu and other food, and there is also a kind of sour and sweet little frozen pear, which can be taken as you like.

"Eldest sister, why does dad teach you to do this and that every day these days, as if you don't know how to do it?"

Mai Huang was watching Ye Dafu teach Mai Xiang how to freeze steamed buns and dumplings under the wall with a curtain, and then put them in a big vat. Thinking of these days, he felt a little strange.

"is it?"

As soon as Mai Huang said, Mai Xiang also felt that something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)