The morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year passed in the sound of New Year's greetings, Xu Hao this year, as in previous years, was too lazy to go to socialize, and to raise his spirit at home to visit his mother-in-law tomorrow.

In the flower hall, Mu Ningxue teased her young son in the baby room next door, all her thoughts were completely on her son, and Xu Hao's status in her mind plummeted.

The maids who slept until three o'clock in the morning got up one after another, and gathered after freshening up. The little girl Yingchun begged Qingwen: "I was on night duty in the house yesterday, what clothes did my sister make to reward me?" ”

Spring has always been loose, and I don't like to stay at home alone, but I would rather be on duty on Chinese New Year's Eve for new clothes. Xu Hao, who was sitting on the Taishi's chair, smiled, and noticed that Xiuchun's spirit was a little sluggish today, and he sat alone with his head bowed and didn't know what he was thinking.

Qingwen will be rewarded for her merits, and said happily: "Okay, will I make you a cotton gown?" ”

Yingchun said: "I have two new cotton gowns, which are enough to wear, please make a leather." ”

Qingwen smiled: "What kind of skin do you want?" ”

Yingchun said: "I want the kind of blue satin that my sisters wear, and there are yellow and black cowhide gowns." ”

Xu Hao was stunned and said, "Who did you see wearing a cowhide coat?" How come I've never seen one? ”

Everyone in the room laughed, but Xiuchun was still worried. Qingwen scolded with a smile: "I'm lazy all day long, I'm thinking about new clothes, who in the family wears cowhide?" My yellow and black piece is a fire fox skin, and you can't afford it for three years.

My other rose and purple eight treasure satin with big white hair and black balls is a dark cloud leopard, and a moon satin embroidered in the flying squirrel skin, which can only be hunted in the depths of the snow-capped mountains and deserts, and you know the other mink lamb skins. You remember these three names, don't mess with any cowhide dog skin in the future, make people laugh. ”

Seeing that Yingchun agreed with a smile, Qingwen chuckled and said, "I know that Luan Er Qiaochun and they all have new leather jackets." The eyes are hot, and I took the initiative to be on duty last night. Well, I'm going to make you a green satin sheepskin gown for the next two days. ”

Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Yingchun hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and called out sweetly: "Thank you for Sister Xie's reward." ”

Xu Hao frowned, and said in his heart that you will kneel and kowtow for the sake of new clothes, of course, it is mostly fun, but what kind of dark cloud leopard leather jacket should I use to tempt you, and you must lie obediently in my arms immediately? Not to mention that the birth of a girl will worry about death.

Almost all the girls with spring characters in the house are orphans of their families who died in the war, so in Xu Hao's heart, it is like raising a group of daughters. It is inevitable to worry about this and that, for fear of being tempted by the bastards outside, and being taken advantage of by others in vain.

There are a total of five people of the appropriate age of the spring characters, namely Xiuchun, Yingchun, Qiaochun, Fangchun and Lanchun. Among them, Xiuchun has the best appearance, 14 years old this year, born handsome and lovely, and empathetic; Yingchun's appearance is second only to her, at the age of thirteen. The other three are all yellow-haired girls about ten years old, who have not yet grown, and their appearance is handsome and ugly.

Since Wuchun entered Daoxiangju, their status has been different because of Xu Hao. Everyone has to take a look at it, except for a few people such as Qingwen, no one dares to call them easily.

is also because Xu Hao looks at them differently, so there are not many people who covet them. is equivalent to another batch of Miss Xu's family, who can work hard for ten years less when she marries home. It's no wonder that Xu Hao is worried about the redundancy, it's really temptation everywhere.

Musk Moon hurried in from outside. said casually: "Xiuchun, you come and help me." ”

"Oh!" Xiuchun woke up like a dream, and Xu Hao asked when he saw this: "What's wrong with you today, you can't give up?" ”

"No, nothing." Xiuchun hurriedly turned around and ran.

Qingwen said: "Maybe it's a menstrual affair." "Really?" Xu Hao also made sense when he thought about it.

In the bedroom, Xiuchun helped Musk Yue remove the pearl and gold hairpin on her head, put on a pair of pearl earrings, took off her new clothes, took off the flower skirt, and replaced it with a half-old moon white gauze shirt, a green satin cotton jacket, and a blue pleated old skirt.

Musk Yue said: "Lingyu is sick and wants to move to the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, and the Qiuyu in the study is clumsy, that is, the person is tall and strong, and his strength is not smaller than that of the little girl. Don't you want to go to the study? Qiaochun also came to beg me just now, at most a month, the young master will agree. ”

Xiuchun said depressedly: "Forget it, let Qiaochun go." ”

"Aren't you always yelling about boredom?" Musk Moon was very strange, "You're a little weird today, what's wrong?" Did someone bully you? ”

Xiuchun was startled, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I'm just a little uncomfortable." ”

Musk Yue frowned and said: "Then hurry up and go to Xiangyu to take a look, don't be sick and infected Yu'er, last year the second girl's child died of fever, and the whole family was nervous." ”

"I know." Xiuchun agreed listlessly, and went out of the yard alone, and I didn't know where to go.

At this time, the old mothers who were doing chores outside carried the fruit basket to the door, and Qingwen called someone to pick it up, and snowflakes fell in the sky.

Hearing the movement, Xu Hao came out and stood under the eaves to watch, and saw Lan Chun rushing over, took out a few walnuts from the basket, ran to his side, spread a layer of white paper on the ground, and used the Danfeng carved from mutton fat jade on a multi-treasure plate, raised his hand and smashed it on the walnuts.

Xu Hao immediately gasped, but he didn't say anything, his eyes blinked vacantly, and he turned his gaze away.

The mothers at the door looked at this scene secretly, and when they went back, they inevitably talked about it, saying that compared to the ignorant Lan Chunlai, the young master was really too loser, and let the little girl use the priceless treasure as a hammer.

Zhulan came to the yard when she had something, and looked at Lan Chun, who was squatting on the ground and picking walnuts to eat, the white jade danfeng was shockingly smashed her entire head, like a slaughtered chicken, dying, and said distressedly: "You don't care?" ”

Xu Hao came back to his senses and said, "This jade is not strong, let's change it to a harder one, and see that the little hands are broken." ”

Zhulan sighed weakly, since Xu Ye Ripple was born, even if the good things in this family have been catastrophic, it is not easy to understand something, and here are the two stupid girls who are bastards and stiff.

Xu Hao doesn't take it seriously, how did the local tyrant make it? How creative is it to smash walnuts with jade? The next time he goes out to fight with his son, Lan Chun will definitely be a blockbuster, this is a talent.

Zhulan went in and said to Mu Ningxue for a while, and when she came out, she attached it to Xu Hao's ear, muttering a few words softly, and Xu Hao's eyes narrowed.

But said that Qiaochun was about to get a new leather jacket as he wished, happily took his old leather jacket, hurried to send it to his sister-in-law, walked out of the inner house to the west, turned the screen door and walked out of the hall, and went down the steps to the right side of the road. I couldn't walk more than thirty or forty steps, and I was just about to turn around, but I didn't know that one of the people inside also turned out, and the two people bumped into each other face to face.

"Oops!" Qiaochun, who was holding his clothes, raised his eyes and recognized it as Sang Xinshan, and his face was full of red. Seeing that he was drunk again, he looked at himself stunned with crooked eyes, and said with a smile: "It's Qiaochun, I'm going." ”

Seeing him walk away step by step, Qiao Chun's heart almost jumped out of his throat, his hands and feet were cold, and he secretly said How did I ask the men to touch it? Fortunately, no one saw it, otherwise it would have been a shame.

"I don't have long eyes when I walk, why do you let a drunk man in? Moms are dizzy. ”

Qiao Chun scolded angrily, very angry, walked forward to the door of the small courtyard, saw that the door was half-hidden, took the opportunity to look into the crack of the door, and saw Grandma Sang was busy tying her skirt in disheveled clothes.

Thinking of the new handle of Sang Xinshan just past, Qiaochun's face was enthusiastic and heartbeat in an instant, and he hurriedly went to his sister-in-law's house.

The snow is falling heavier and heavier, and in the blink of an eye, the sky and the earth are white, which is called poetry for the rich. Xu Hao and Mu Ningxue looked out the window side by side, and Lan Chun and a few other little girls were running around in the yard, fighting each other's snowball fights.

Xu Hao said: "It is rare to see snow, and I have a hunch that some guests will come uninvited. ”

Mu Ningxue chuckled and said: "It's a festival again, and it's snowing again, so it's naturally a good day to open a poetry club." ”

The so-called opening of a poetry club is actually an excuse for women's gatherings, writing poetry is secondary, and gossiping and gossiping together with girlfriends is the main thing. Sure enough, two handsome men wearing red gorilla felt snow hats, fur mink suits, and black boots on their feet came to meet the snowflakes in the sky.

Mu Ningxue hurriedly said, "Hurry up and pick up the two of them with an umbrella." ”

The maid stepped forward with an umbrella, and the person on the left lifted his hat briskly, it turned out to be Mu Qingshuang dressed in men's clothes, and the other was the county lord Zhu Xianyuan.

Xu Hao said with a smile: "Your theme today is either snow or plum, and you want to watch a play for a day today." Forget it, I'll wash your hands and make soup for you. ”

"Brother-in-law, do you know how to cook?" Mu Qingshuang looked suspicious, while Zhu Xianyuan's eyes widened, looking incredible.

"You can't eat the dead anyway." Xu Hao raised his feet angrily and walked to the small kitchen on the side.

Soon Xu Miaojin and Xu Cuiliu arrived as scheduled, Zhang Chai and Gu Hongyun came together, but Xu Qinglian and others had no time to be separated as daughters-in-law.

In the kitchen, Xu Hao asked his sisters-in-law to sit on the fire with three copper pots and pour water. Cut eggplant and other vegetables into cubes, put them in a pot and boil, then add seaweed, minced meat, ham, and fine salt, turn off the heat and cool naturally after a quarter of an hour.

Tear the cleaned bird's nest, put it into the pears with the flesh removed, add some rock sugar and wolfberries, and an appropriate amount of water, put it in a porcelain bowl and simmer in the pot for half an hour.

The other pot was used underneath, Xu Hao took out seven blue and white foundation soup bowls from the cupboard, waited for the boiling water in the pot to bubble a few times, fished out the noodles and put them into the soup bowl one by one.

Scoop out the soup that has become warm before, and add pigeon eggs and duck paws, etc., and simply cross the water, the taste is nothing special, it is better to be clean and refreshing.

Musk Yue led someone to send seven bowls of noodle soup and seven chime rock sugar pears in, and walked out with a smile: "The girls are very happy to eat, and they said they want another bowl." ”

Xu Hao waved his hand and said, "There is half a pot of soup left, and the noodles are boiled and sent away." ”

Walking to the window outside the flower hall with his hands behind his back, he listened to Qingshuang inside and said: "Love this is lovely, everyone is lovely, you have to pity me, I pity Qing." ”

Xu Hao replied on a whim: "The frost of Erhai Cangshan is like snow, and the spring willows of the cloud window are like smoke." (To be continued......)