Two flowers bloom, each with one branch. Let’s talk about the tenth night of the first lunar month, people in Siquan Lane were sick and did not return home until the second half of the night.
Sister Go home a few times a year and talks about her future with her son Jixiang. “You are fifteen years old now. When summer comes, you will be sixteen. How to go ahead, you should have a plan in advance.”
She told Jixiang about the fact that Madam Wang promised that she would be promoted to Ruyi as a first-class maid this year:
“… Look at others’ wishes, look at you. Why do I use this favor to exchange for a chance to get better, instead of recommending you, actually looking at the door, I just look at the door, I give you the opportunity, I’m wasting opportunities. The inner house is always the world of women, and men can’t make a name for themselves in the inner house. Men still have to be like Cao Ding and Xia Shou, who are outside as managers and shopkeepers, making money for the Hou Mansion. The master leaks a little from his fingers, which is enough for us to eat. Look at Cao Ding, this year he bought a real estate in Beijing.”
“If you are willing to do this, I will find a way to get you to Cao Ding as a follower. You are not stupid. In just one year, you will be familiar with the work in Baoyuan Store. In the future, your father and Yang Shu will come back from the sea, and the skills you learn will be of great use.”
In Sister E’s opinion, this is the bright future of the Zhang family servant. As long as Jixiang nods, she can arrange everything for her son.
But Jixiang’s idea was even more ironic than his axe. Jixiang said, “Mom, I really have no interest in doing business. I don’t like fiddling abacus, reading the account book, and drinking and giving gifts everywhere.”
Sister E was so angry when she heard this, but during the Chinese New Year, it was difficult to beat, scold and scold her son, and just poked Jixiang’s forehead with her fingers, “What a Dou you can’t help.”
Then Sister E fell asleep in a depressed mood. Sister E got up early the next morning, and Jixiang was still asleep at that time.
Sister E thought about the New Year, and Ruyi Yanzhi was back. The children were afraid that they would go out to play for a few more days, so they would have to spend money, so they took a pack of scattered silver and placed it next to the auspicious pillow. Then she tiptoed out, closed the door, and returned to the second gate of Xifu to continue working.
Over the years, giving money seems to be the only way for Sister Go to express her maternal love. The rest of the expressions about maternal love were given to him by Ruyi Niang.
It’s hard to take care of both errands and children. Sister E didn’t regret it. She had to rely on herself to hire two families – her own family and Ruyi family. She just made money to support her family and became a parent like a man. Men never felt that they owe children like this. Why should women have to take care of both?
Jixiang woke up and saw the silver next to the pillow, he knew that his mother had left. He had long been used to saying goodbye, put the silver in the chest of drawers, then dressed and washed, and went to Ruyi family. At this time, the smoke from Ruyi family had already risen.
“Ruyi Niang, what to eat this morning”
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Every day is this sentence that starts a whole new day.
Ruyi’s mother always feeds Jixiang, and then lets him sweat outside, and her body is like a tiger and leopard.
On the 11th day of the first lunar month, Ruyi woke up and felt it was still early. She turned over and wanted to continue sleeping. Last night, she walked through Baiyan and almost all the bridges in Shichahai. She was very tired, but her stomach was rumbling and she had to get up.
Ruyi rubbed her eyes and walked out of the room. Ruyi’s mother was learning to carve radish flowers on the kang. “When she woke up, the rice was hot on the stove.”
Ruyi’s mother and Jixiang had already eaten it.
Ruyi heard the roaring sound outside the house, and knew it was Jixiang and practicing martial arts.
Breakfast was buns, millet porridge, and eggs. Ruyi didn’t sleep enough, and she ate listlessly and slowly.
Ruyi Niang said, “You go to bed after dinner, I’ll wash the dishes.”
Ruyi Niang loves to clean up, and she washes the dishes immediately after eating, and never saves them together to wash them.
My mother loved her, and she loved her mother too. Ruyi said, “No, I slept during the day and got sleepy at night, and it was even more uncomfortable. The days are short now, so I will go to bed early tonight.”
After Ruyi finished her breakfast, the auspicious martial arts voice outside the house was still there.
Ruyi put the dirty dishes and chopsticks in a bamboo basket, carried them out of the door, and said, “Jixiang, I want to wash the dishes, please help me get water.”
Jixiang was dancing an axe. He was wearing only a jacket, a pair of single pants on his lower body, and his forehead was still covered with fine beads of sweat. He opened his mouth and saw the cold air visible to the naked eye. He practiced in the winter for three nine years and summer for three days, without interruption.
Hearing this, Jixiang threw the axe gently, and the axe rolled in the air, accurately landing on a piece of firewood on the wooden pier, and accurately splitting the firewood into two with a snap!
Ruyi smiled with a basket, “Jixiang, you have cut wood with tricks, it’s so amazing.”
Ruyi’s words sound good. Many people will only laugh at Jixiang’s unique skill in chopping wood in the air, “What’s the use of chopping wood with flowers? It’s not just a gateway.”
After sweating, my body easily caught a cold, so Jixiang added a thick robe and went to Jingting with Ruyi. The well water in Siquan Lane is a sweet water well. The well was drilled very deeply. In winter, the four wellheads were covered with wooden boards and thick felt, so the well water would not be frozen hard, but there was just a layer of thin ice on the surface.
Jixiang first smashed a stone with a rope tied into a wellhead, smashed the thin ice open, then pulled the rope and lifted the stone up, then threw a wooden barrel inside and lifted the well water up.
Ruyi was about to rinse the dishes and chopsticks with well water, Jixiang said, “Let me wash it. You will still practice writing later. Be careful that your hands are frozen and you can’t hold the pen, and you will tremble when you write. My mother told me last night, “You are now.”The year is about to rise to a higher level, and this word must be written well. “
Ruyi smiled and said, “You know, too. I originally thought it was a carrot that Madam Wang hung in front of me. I don’t know when it will be able to be cashed and eaten into my mouth. Now Aunt E has used her favor to make this matter solid. Madam Wang owe Aunt E favors. I have to hold on to it tightly, so I can understand people by practicing calligraphy. ”
Just as on the day Ruyi entered the Summer Palace three years ago, Sister E told her that when working in the Summer Palace, doing things is second, and the most important thing is human nature.