Chapter 7·Xiangshi

Late March is the best time of the year for tea picking. For this reason, uncles Tang Songzhou and Tang Xuezhen go out early and come back late almost every day, busy picking tea in the tea garden. The Tang family's tea garden is not big, but every family has it at this time. The tea gardens were all busy grabbing spring tea, and the wages of tea pickers were doubling up. The Tang family couldn't afford to hire too many workers, so uncle and Tang Xuezhen took the shop's workers to the battle. Within a few days The two of them lost a lot of weight and got a lot of tan.

Mrs. Huang was heartbroken. While arranging to cook chicken soup for the two of them to recuperate, she murmured to Cui's mother, "The days are getting harder and harder these days. It was unthinkable before for me to be the shopkeeper picking tea." things."

Cui's mother comforted her, "Fortunately, the master and the eldest young master are both such good people. They don't care about women, they are hard-working, and they can always live a good life."

These words really spoke to Huang's heart, and she couldn't help but sigh, "What you said really spoke to my heart. Life is a bit more difficult. As long as the family's hearts are still together, nothing else matters. If he doesn't care about his family at all, only drinks and gambles every day, and even raises someone outside and brings back an illegitimate child, I really want to hang him with a rope." This 'him' is naturally her husband Tang Songzhou.

"I respect you and will never do such a thing." Cui's mother knew that Mr. Huang must have thought of Ms. Zhang again, and sighed.

Sure enough, Mrs. Huang said, "When I think of my miserable sister-in-law, I feel panicked. If she hadn't given birth to a son for her eldest brother, why would she have gone to that point at such a young age? My eldest brother is in the midst of blessings and does not know how blessed he is. I I remember in the first few years, no matter how late he stayed out to socialize, his sister-in-law would wait for him to come back, personally bring him water to wash his feet, and wait for him to rest before she would go to bed. I didn’t expect that my eldest brother would be so heartless and ignore the relationship between husband and wife. , and not long after that, I married a man named Xiang."

"How can this man live alone? It's pretty good for me to be able to support myself all these years." Cui's mother sighed, "How many men have had children before the hundredth day after their wives died."

Mrs. Huang also understands this truth, but just thinking about Mrs. Zhang makes her feel unworthy. Thinking about Mrs. Xiang, she has no favorable impression at all. Mother Cui added, "I heard that Mr. Xiang was also very respectful to the elder..."

"It took a lot of effort to marry her in, how can she be disrespectful?" Huang felt distraught when she thought of Xiang's appearance. She frowned and said, "I don't know why, but I always feel that Xiang is a coward. No. Like what a good person he is."

What else could be the reason? Of course it’s because you respect the Zhang family, so you particularly look down on the Xiang family. Cui’s mother only dared to think about this in her heart, but she didn’t dare to say it out anyway. The two of them said it After a while, when the chicken soup was ready, I called the boy Ah Shun to take him to the tea garden.

After Mrs. Tang heard about it, she also took out her personal money and asked Grandma Li, Mother Cui, and Mother Wu to make some cakes for the helpers. Tang Xueru and Bai Rongxuan, who were also in the room at the time, were both Stunned, the former didn’t understand why her grandmother treated the waiter so favorably. In Tang Xueru’s eyes, she still treated the waiter as a servant. But Bai Rongxuan felt that her grandmother’s approach was very clever. When a waiter works for his employer, he naturally has something to do. She couldn't tell her what kind of work she was going to do, but grandma regarded them as her own. Not only did she win over people's hearts, she was afraid that these guys would also be moved and work harder.

Sure enough, as she thought, Tang Songzhou and Tang Xuezhen returned home and said that the guys ate the snacks sent by their families and worked extremely hard. Although their family hired not many workers, they snatched more tea leaves than the neighboring tea gardens. Out doubled.

Bai Rongxuan felt that she could learn a lot from her grandmother that she had ignored in her previous life. From now on, she would pay special attention to her grandmother's subtle arrangements in life. This would naturally benefit her a lot in her future life. Of course, this is all for another day. .

Two days after the Tangjia spring tea was released, heavy rain fell in Hangzhou, and the weather suddenly became cooler. This rain continued for seven or eight days, and the tea leaves had passed the best time for picking. Many tea gardens did not even have half of the spring tea. If you snatch it out, you will have to pay high labor fees and lose all your money.

Because of the rain, Bai Rongxuan also had a rare few days of rest. The reason was that Mrs. Shen’s husband caught cold and his illness worsened. Mrs. Shen could not come out to teach and could only take care of her husband at home. She took advantage of this time to embroider She received the purse she promised to give to Tang Xuexuan, and planned to embroider two for her brother. Every year before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, her mother would ask someone to send some food, clothing, and other items to Nanjing, and then she would put them among these things and give them to her brother.

Although it is far from Hangzhou to Nanjing, there are still business contacts. Relying on the Tang family's interpersonal relationships, we can still find trustworthy people.

The purse was only half embroidered. After Mrs. Tang saw it, she thought she was helping Tang Xueping embroider the dowry, and asked curiously, "Why are you embroidering such a small object? You should prepare more large items for the dowry. When the time comes, It looks good when it comes out.”

Bai Rongxuan then remembered that Tang Xueping was getting married this year. Because of the age gap, Bai Rongxuan and Tang Xueping were not close. Instead, they were always pestered by Tang Xueru, who was several years younger than her. Because of this, she often ignored Tang Xueping's existence. . But she knew that Tang Xueping was well married, her husband's Zhang family owned several shops, and her brother-in-law was very capable. Other people's businesses were not improving, and they often even closed down. But he was the only one who not only managed the business It became very prosperous, and later the shops were opened in the Suzhou area.

Bai Rongxuan remembered that in her previous life, she seemed to have embroidered a pair of mandarin duck pillowcases as a gift for Tang Xueping. Because of the special color scheme, Tang Xueping liked it very much.

How about giving me pillowcases in this life?

But now she has to give away purses and embroider pillowcases. The purses have to be rushed before the Dragon Boat Festival. She usually has to attend Mrs. Shen's class. After all, time is a little tight. Bai Rongxuan feels that she can put down everything and give it to her brother. Bai Xiuzhi's purse had to be completed, because she had decided to embroider the pattern and words on it with the words 'live a long life and be immune to all diseases', as if it was to get a good fortune for her brother.

In order to rush it out as soon as possible, she stayed up for two days in a row and felt a little uncomfortable.

Upon seeing this, Wu Ma tried to persuade her, but seeing that it had no effect, she went to tell Mrs. Tang. As a result, Ms. Tang came over in person, confiscated her embroidery thread, and told her to be careful when doing these things during the day.

Bai Rongxuan could only sigh helplessly.

No matter in her previous life or this life, Wu Ma was most worried about her eyes.

She wanted to smile, but when she thought of all the things she had experienced in her previous life, the smile froze at the corner of her mouth.

But no matter what, there are still some changes. In the last life, whenever she thought about everything she had experienced, she couldn't help but want to cry, but now she didn't want to shed tears. God gave her a chance to do it again, and she would definitely You have to live a more wonderful life than your last life.

By the time I finished embroidering the purse I was going to give to my brother, it was already the end of April, the weather was getting hotter day by day, and Mrs. Shen had just finished all of the "Female Commandments".

For the reborn Bai Rongxuan, she clearly knows that in a few years, the world will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the status of women will also increase with wave after wave of movements. She often heard in Peking that Regarding the high-pitched voices of women during the parade outside, Wu Ma said that they were people of the new era, and their thoughts were different. They believed that women, like men, could hold up half the sky.

Wu Ma's tone was full of surprise, but she was lying on the hospital bed full of yearning.

After being inspired by such thoughts, Bai Rongxuan was somewhat resistant and disdainful when she came to accept the so-called Three Obediences and Four Virtues. Her mother was one of the women who was deceived by the "Female Commandments". After marrying into the Bai family, she had always been cautious. She lived a miserable life every day, but what did she gain in the end? Her husband died of illness in a foreign land, and she was pregnant. Wasn't she the saddest and most devastated one? But she was killed when she was pregnant with Liujia. The Bai family rushed out of the door.

She obeyed, she was virtuous.

But in the end - so what happened?

Bai Rongxuan rested her chin and wandered away. Madam Shen felt very unhappy when she saw her like this. After class, as if she wanted to prove something, she deliberately left Tang Xueru to talk. Bai Rongxuan went out without any trouble. , my heart was clear, it was almost time for the Tang family to pay Mrs. Shen’s tuition fees.

Bai Rongxuan returned to the room, and as soon as she took a sip of tea, Cuiping walked in quickly, "Miss Xuan."

"Why are you here free? Sit down quickly." Bai Rongxuan knew that Cuiping had been following Tang Xueping to embroider her dowry recently and didn't go out much.

Cuiping shook her head and did not sit down. "The eldest lady is here. The old lady asked you to come over."

Aunt Xiang is here?

Bai Rongxuan had wanted to see her for a long time. When she heard the sound, she quickly put down her teacup and followed Cuiping to the yard where Mrs. Tang lived. On the way, Bai Rongxuan asked, "Why is she here?"

Cuiping deliberately lowered her voice and said, "The person who sent me something knew that Miss Ping was getting married this year, so she sent some good stuff over."

Mrs. Xiang had always been a good person before she changed her face. Anyway, she was using things from her eldest uncle Tang Chongzhou as favors, so why not? What's more, what she was most anxious about now was to gain a foothold, and in this process, Mrs. Tang and Mrs. Huang Recognition is particularly important. Come to send a congratulatory gift to Tang Xueping, who is about to get married. Even Huang, who dislikes her, can't say anything.

This Xiangshi is really scheming and plans everything clearly.

If Bai Rongxuan hadn't been reborn once, she would have been kept in the dark by Xiangshi at this moment. She sneered a few times in her heart and asked again, "Is Miss Li here?"

"I came here with Aunt Xiang. I'll ask you as soon as I get here." Cuiping smiled softly.

Since the Chinese New Year, Bai Rongxuan has not had the chance to see Tang Xueli. Her uncle Tang Chongzhou is busy with the shop and is away from home for half of January. Tang Xueli has to help look after the house and has almost no chance to go out.

Mr. Xiang actually brought Tang Xueli to support the scene, so that even if Ms. Huang wanted to say something unpleasant, she wouldn't be able to say anything in front of the juniors. She really had everything figured out.

Bai Rongxuan walked into Mrs. Tang's room with a normal expression, and immediately saw Xiangshi sitting under Mrs. Tang with lowered eyebrows and bowed head.

She... is actually so young and beautiful?

Today is a good day, everything you want can come true.
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