Chapter 4 The Golden Lock (4)

Daizhen asked Xiaoshuang: "Uncle came alone?" Xiaoshuang said: "There are also uncles and grandmothers, carrying four basket boxes." Daizhenge said with a smile: "It cost them." Xiaoshuang Said: "Grandma doesn't need to feel sorry for them. Come in with a full load, and go out with a full load. Not to mention gold, silver, round, flat, even odd shoe uppers and trouser waists are good!" Dai Jane laughed and said, "Don't be so wicked! You can go down. Her natal family seldom comes to the door, and the service is not thoughtful. It's time to make a big fuss again."

Xiao Shuang rushed out, and Qiqiao was asking Mrs. Liuxi at the stairs if she knew about it.Liu Xi said: "The old lady is chanting Buddha. , the third master crawled at the window to watch the wild scenery, and said that there was a visitor at the gate.The old lady asked who it was, and the third master looked carefully, and said that he didn't know if it was the uncle of the Cao family, so the old lady didn't ask further. "Qiqiao heard this, her heart became angry, she stomped her feet, muttered and cursed: "If you dare to pretend you don't know, forget it!The emperor still has straw sandals!There is such a snobbish person in this meeting, why did the three media and six hired people bring me here?Relatives who are constantly beheaded with sharp knives, don't say that you are pretending to be dead today, even if you are really dead, he can't kowtow three times in front of your soul, and you can't stand him! "While speaking, while going down.

In her room, as soon as she entered the door, there was a pile of golden lacquer boxes blocking her face, separated only by a few square steps.As soon as she lifted the curtain, she saw her sister-in-law knelt down to unload the drawer above the basket box, and checked whether the vegetables in the lower drawer had spilled.Her elder brother Cao Danian looked at him with his hands behind his back and bent over.Qiqiao couldn't stop feeling sad, she leaned against the cage, put her face on the sand blue cotton cover, and burst into tears.Her sister-in-law hurriedly stood up straight, stepped forward, took one of her hands with both hands, and called girl repeatedly.Cao Danian couldn't help raising his sleeves to wipe his eyes.Qiqiao used her free hand to unbutton the case cover, unbutton it and then button it again, but couldn't open her mouth.

Her sister-in-law turned her head and glanced at her brother and said, "Say something too! The family keeps talking about it all day long, and seeing my younger sister looks like a gourd with its mouth sawn!" Qiqiao said tremblingly: " No wonder he has nothing to say—he has no face to come to see me!" Then she said to her brother: "I only know that you don't plan to come to the door in your life! You have hurt me! If you leave, I will leave. No. You don't care about my life or death." Cao Danian said: "What are you talking about? It's fine if others say so, but you also say the same! If you don't cover up for me, your own face may not look bright either." Qiqiao said : "I don't say it, but I can't help others not to. Just because of you, I'm so angry that I'm sick here. Today, it's thanks to you to block me with this word!" Her sister-in-law hurriedly said: "It's his. No! It’s his fault! The girl has been wronged. The girl has suffered more than this, at least bear with it, there will always be a bright future.” Her sister-in-law said, “The girl has suffered more than this.” But those words penetrated deeply into her heart.Qiqiao mourned and cried, her sister-in-law shook her hands anxiously and said: "Look, I woke up my uncle." On the other side of the room, on the big Zinan bed in the dark, there was a pearl gauze curtain hanging silently.Qiqiao's sister-in-law said again: "Grandpa fell asleep, right? If you startle him, you should be angry." Qiqiao shouted loudly: "It's good that he wants to be popular." Her sister-in-law covered her eyes in fright. She said: "Farewell, aunt! The patient heard it and felt bad!" Qiqiao said: "He feels bad, but I feel good?" Her sister-in-law said: "Your uncle still has the rickets?" Qiqiao said: "Just This one is not enough, what else can I afford? The whole family here taboos the word tuberculosis, but it is actually bone tuberculosis!" Her sister-in-law said: "Would you lie down all day, and sometimes sit up for a while? "Qiqiao laughed frightenedly and said: "Sitting up, her spine slumps down, she doesn't look as tall as my three-year-old child!" Her sister-in-law couldn't think of words of comfort for a moment, and the three of them were stunned.Qiqiao kicked her feet fiercely and said: "Let's go, let's go, you guys! If you come here, I'll make me go through the whole story in my heart again. I can't stand such a fuss! Go away!"

Cao Danian said: "Little sister, listen to me. Don't say that you feel uncomfortable now. It's better to have a mother's family walking around. It means you have a bright future. The Jiang family is a big family, and the elders always use big hats to oppress others. , the juniors of the same generation are like wolves and tigers, which one is easy to mess with? To plan for you, you need a helper. In the future, you will need your brother and nephew a lot." Qiqiao spat Said: "I rely on your help, I am also unlucky! I have seen you through for a long time-I can beat them, you come to me to ask for credit for money, but you can't beat them, you go over there Originally, when I saw an official, I lost my soul. I shrank my head and let me die." Da Nian blushed and sneered: "When the money is in your hands, you will prevent your brother from dividing your money. It's not too late." Qiqiao said: "Since you know the money hasn't reached my hands yet, what are you pestering me for?" Da Nian said: "It's our fault that we came all the way to see you! Let's go Let's go now! In my conscience, I should use two of your money. If I was greedy for money and gifts, I asked Jiang's family for a few hundred taels of silver and sold you to them as a concubine, so I would have sold you too. "Qiqiao said: "Isn't grandma better than my aunt? Long-distance flying, hope is big!" When he was about to retort, his daughter-in-law stopped him and said, "Just say a word! There will be a time to meet again in the future. .In the future, when my aunt thinks of you, she will know that she has only this one real brother!" Danian urged his wife to tidy up the basket box, picked it up and left.Qiqiao said: "I miss you? When I have money, I don't worry about you not coming, I only worry about not sending you away." Although her mouth was hard, she couldn't hold back the sobbing sound, which sounded like a sound. He had held back his hatred all morning, and used this reason to vent it out to his heart's content.

Her sister-in-law saw that she clearly had some nostalgia for her, so she did everything she could to persuade her brother: half-arming and half-hugging her, leading her to sit on the Huali Kang, explaining in every possible way, Qiqiao gradually shed her tears.Brothers, sisters and sisters-in-law narrated some homework.The situation in the north is relatively peaceful, and the Cao family's sesame oil shop is still operating as usual.Danian and his wife came to Shanghai this time because his son-in-law, who had never been married, was working as a bookkeeper. He happened to be in Hubei when he was restored, and later came to Shanghai with his master, so Danian personally sent his daughter to get married. By the way Visiting girls.Da Nian greeted the whole family of Jiang's family, and wanted to see the old lady again, Qiqiao said: "It's fine if I don't see you, I'm vomiting with her." Da Nian and his wife were taken aback, Qiqiao said: "Why not?" What about being naughty? The whole family stomps on my head. If I was easy to bully, I would have been trampled to death. If this is the case, I will be so angry that I am sick!" Her sister-in-law said: "The girl has been twitching recently. No smoking, but opium, calming the liver and directing qi, stronger than any other medicine. The girl must take care of herself, and we are not around, who is a person who knows pain and heat?"

Qiqiao rummaged through the box and took out a few new rulers to give to her sister-in-law, a pair of four taels of gold bracelets, a pair of Pixia lotus hairpins, a silk quilt, each of the nieces a gold earring, The nephews either gave her a golden scorpion or a mink warm hat, and also gave her brother an enamel gold cicada reed watch, and her brother and sister-in-law thanked her endlessly.Qiqiao said: "It's an unlucky time for you to come. If you were in Beijing, when we were about to go on the road, we would divide a few boxes of things that we couldn't take with us, and give them to the maids and mothers. It's a waste of money for them." Her brother and sister-in-law were embarrassed.Before leaving, her sister-in-law said: "My daughter is done with work, and then come to see my aunt." Qiqiao smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't come, I can't afford to entertain!"

When the Danian couple left the Jiang family's door, her sister-in-law said: "Why did our aunt change? When she was not married, she was just stronger, and her words were more petty. Even when we went to see her later, she was more irritable than before. Some, there is still a sense of proportion, it's not like today's crazy and silly, if you don't say a word, there is no place to win people's hearts." Qiqiao stood in the room, folded her arms and watched Xiao Shuang Xiangyun and the two maids carry the boxes back to the original place, and stacked them one by one.The old things came back again: the Xinxiang sesame oil shop facing the gravel street, the black and greasy counter, the wooden spoons in the sesame paste buckets, and the large and small iron spoons hanging from the oil tanks.The funnel was inserted into the oiler's bottle, and one tablespoon plus two teaspoons just filled the bottle—a catty and a half.As for acquaintances, they count as a pound and four taels.Sometimes she also went to the street to buy vegetables, wearing blue linen shirts and trousers, with mirrored black silk trimmed.Across the dense row of copper bars hanging pork, she saw Chao Lu in the butcher shop.Chao Lu drove her to call Miss Cao.It was rare to call Qiao Jieer, so she slapped the meat on the back, and the countless holes swung over and pierced his eyes. Chao Lu took a piece of raw lard about a foot wide from the meat, and slapped it heavily on the meat. As soon as the case was thrown away, a gust of warm wind hit her face, the smell of stagnant dead flesh... She frowned.Her husband sleeping on the bed, that lifeless body...