Chapter 5 Section five

During the two and a half days, Sister Deng Yao seldom did anything.Only the next day, when we kowtowed in front of the grave, she came to help burn a few stacks of money paper; when preparing meals, she helped my mother cook two dishes in the kitchen. ——The old rules of our family: the usual dishes are cooked by Lao Yang in the kitchen; if dad wants to eat something special, or when there are guests, the eldest sister should help; Take the elder sister to do it, most of the elder sister will use the knife, and the mother will cook. ——My mother refused, she said: "Madam, I am not a person who likes to eat good food. You can try my handicrafts, if you want more, you can come to help your wife when the housework is not good in the future." Find something to do in the kitchen."

The elder sister had already washed her hands, and urged her mother, "Don't wait for daddy to find out. Let Deng Yaojie make fish and tendon for a try. We can also change the taste, and you will also avoid the oily smoke from smelling badly on your sleeves. of." Mom was still hesitating: "It's a matter of offering to the ancestors!..." She had snatched the spatula away and said with a smile, "Madam is too serious, I am clean!" In addition to these two things, she is always talking with her mother and elder sister.It's also thanks to her talking a lot, saying this and that, all day long, I only hear their voices.

She has small feet, slightly larger than those of her mother and eldest sister, but she is very thin and sharp, and she walks vigorously.My mother once praised her feet for being well bound, not like the cucumber feet of ordinary country girls.Aunt Deng explained that she had been fond of it since she was a child, and she had bound her feet when she was seven years old, and she had never been able to find a master; Not only her feet are good, but her head is also good. Her jet-black hair is rich and smooth.The hair is parted, and a round braid is tied behind the head. There is no silk net, and there is no messy hair; the braid is tied with a pink foreign hair rope, and a silver hairpin is attached.Other country women like to wear a white cloth turban, one to cover the dust, and the other to protect the sun tendons. What country women are most afraid of is the pain of the sun tendons; When Jile reached the back of the towel, he pinned the back of the towel obliquely to the towel with a big silver needle. In this way, it can not only cover the dust, but also be outstandingly pretty.The eldest sister asked her where she learned to dress like this.She shook her head and said with a smile: "Miss, I told you, you are going to laugh... It was last winter, when the father of Jin Wazi went to the church to hold the foreign winter solstice festival, he saw a foreign woman like this. Dressed up...do you think it looks good?"

Her clothes are also elegant, with lotus brown trousers with big feet, rolled with a wide edge of blue foreign satin, and trimmed with a light blue bogus braid.I don't know what material and color the jacket is made of, because it's covered with a clean light-white foreign cloth shirt, the cuffs and shoulders are hunchbacked with blue wide brims, and a sapphire blue cloth apron is tied on.On the necklines of the inner and outer clothes, there is a fashionable shallow collar, revealing a long neck. Although it is not very white, it looks very smooth. She seemed to like to laugh very much. From the first time she talked to her mother, she laughed so much. Until the end, I didn't see that she didn't smile right away.Probably the reason why she makes people think "this woman is interesting" at the first sight must be that besides her strong feet, long figure, pretty dress, and a pair of curved bean eyes, her smile must be It is also one of the elements.She herself can't say that she doesn't feel that she has such strengths. Can we not believe that she smiles anytime and anywhere, but she doesn't intend to use her strengths?

Her face was originally thin, so thin that two cheekbones protruded.But when she smiled, there were still two dimples on her powdered cheeks.The most strange thing is that her golden baby's pair of dead fish eyes took a long time to turn around, but when she smiled, there were two clear and evocative eyeballs in the corner of her eyes.The son is not like the mother, but must be like the father. Her eyebrows are not good, they are short, and although they are drawn thinly, they are not curved.The bridge of the nose is round, and the wings of the nose are not big.The mouth is not good, the mouth is slightly large, and the upper lip is a bit raised. Even when she is not smiling, her white and shiny teeth can be seen, and the corners of the mouth are a little hanging on both sides.Jinwazi's mouth is exactly like hers.But his damn mouth can be used to speak as well as it can. His mouth is probably mostly used for eating.

Her forehead is narrow, her forehead is pointed, and with two high cheekbones, she becomes a face with two pointed ends and a big middle.Later, I heard from my mother and the others that this is called Qingguo face. Not only is she not annoying in appearance, but she is also active and has a good temperament.When speaking, the voice is clear and delicate, especially when laughing, it sounds really nice.My mother likes her, my elder sister likes her, even Wang An, who is so weird that even dogs don't get along with her, and she often looks old-fashioned and annoying to us. ——Be nice to her too.I saw with my own eyes that after breakfast the next day, she came back from washing her clothes by the ditch, and when she walked to the edge of the bamboo forest, Wang An suddenly ran out of the bamboo forest and put her ear close to her, not knowing what to say, she laughed, After taking a sip, she wanted to leave; Wang An salivated, reached out and grabbed her arm, she stopped, just looked at Wang An and smiled, I deliberately ran out of the kitchen to look for Jinwazi, Wang An blushed and threw away her hand. Gone, she miles, just laughing.

Only Daddy was alone, and he didn't seem very happy with her.When she was in front of him, although he looked at her with his eyes, he didn't talk to her much.The meal was served that day, and while we were eating wine, Dad ate two pieces of fish, and praised the fish for being well cooked, tender and flavorful.He raised his glass and said, "After all, the live water fish in the countryside are different. The taste alone is much better!" Mom was silent, the eldest sister just looked at her and smiled, and the second sister spoke quickly. The fish was made by Sister Deng Yao."

Dad looked at Mom with wide eyes, and Mom smiled slightly: "She did it. I have to rush out to put on a gown and kowtow, so I asked her to do it for me. I think she is still clean." Daddy put down his wine glass, paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "I can't see that this woman has such a good ability....Everything is good....It's a pity that her character is too bad!" At that time, I naturally didn't understand what my father meant by "poor conduct".It's not easy to ask.Mother and eldest sister naturally know, but refuse to say.Until I got home, I was still ignorant and only knew that it was a bad criticism.It wasn't until several years later, when gathering rumors from all parties, that the sentence my father criticized was such a mediocre and very common story.