Ding Hao returned to his residence full of doubts and saw mugwort hanging on the lintel. As soon as he entered the house, there was a smell of calamus and mugwort. When Yang saw her son coming back, she came up to him with joy and helped him dust himself.
The dust came out and he said happily: "I've been looking forward to it since morning, but I haven't seen you anywhere. Now you're back."
Ding Hao let go of his worries for the time being and said with a smile: "Mom, how are you doing these days? Have you taken your medicine on time? Zhu'er often comes to see you, right? If this kid doesn't be filial to my mother for me, I won't be able to spare him."
Yang laughed and said, "That kid comes here every day and is much more sensible than you. He helps me sweep, fetch water, cook medicine, and rush to do the hard and dirty work."
She wanted to tell the happy news that the master decided to let them move to the inner house, but her son was only thinking about leaving the Ding family, and now she didn't know if he had changed his mind. If she told him, he would not have any evil thoughts, it would be better to wait for him
After finishing the errand, it would be better to just move there. Thinking of this, Yang swallowed his words.
The two of them sat on the kang and chatted for a while. Yang then took out some colorful threads from her arms and said with a smile: "Come on, today is the Orchid Bathing Festival. Mom will tie a colorful string around your wrist to protect me."
My son is safe and my wife is safe."
Ding Hao said dumbfounded: "Mom, only children wear these things. How old am I?"
Yang said angrily: "Are you considered an adult? Even though you are a big boss now, you are still a child in my mother's heart. When will you become a family, you will be under the control of your daughter-in-law. Now my mother is in charge of you.
You are still a child, not a man. Haha, hold out your hand."
Ding Hao smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand. Yang carefully tied a colorful rope on his left wrist. Ding Hao looked at the gray-haired old lady carefully tying the colorful rope on himself, and felt warm in his heart. He remained motionless, just like a well-behaved girl.
My child, let me tie the colorful rope, then cut it with scissors, caressed my wrist, then cut it off, and put the colorful thread on the bed of the kang into my arms.
Yang asked curiously: "What are you doing with that?"
Ding Hao made a face at her and said with a smile: "Mom, there is no need to ask, my son has his own uses."
Yang smiled and did not ask any further questions, and then said, "Mom made rice dumplings for you. There was no fire in the house, but they were cooked on the big stove in the dining room. You sit down and rest for a while, and I will go and get them back."
Ding Hao said quickly: "Mom, please rest. I'll go and ask Liu Ming for some more side dishes." Ding Hao said, and quickly left the yard, but did not go to the dining room immediately. He turned outside the weaving workshop and explored
He looked in and thought: "I don't know if Dong'er is here or not. She probably hasn't gone home yet, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to find her. But this girl has a tender face, so I went in to find someone like this."
, isn’t she still embarrassed?”
Just as she was thinking about it, Luo Dong'er walked out of the weaving workshop carrying a few rice dumplings. She turned around and said to the people in the room: "Hey, thank you Aunt Li, I'll go back now."
Someone in the room agreed. Luo Dong'er closed the door and turned around. When she saw Ding Hao, a look of surprise appeared on her face. She rushed forward two steps, remembering her identity and the environment she was in, and then she stopped and just walked towards him.
Smiled shyly.
Ding Hao hurried up to meet him and took a closer look. He saw that Luo Dong'er had rarely changed into a lotus-colored shirt today and a narrow skirt of the same color. She had a pomegranate on her head like other women during the Bath Orchid Festival.
The flowers stood there with a smile on their faces. They were really more beautiful than flowers.
Ding Hao said happily: "Fortunately I met you here, otherwise I really don't know how to find you."
Luo Dong'er said happily: "Brother Hao, the slave family is also thinking about your return, but it's inconvenient to ask anyone, have you finished the errands in the city?"
Ding Hao said: "That's almost it. By the way, that old cunning woman hasn't given you any trouble these days, has she?"
Luo Dong'er whispered: "I still get beaten and scolded, but my mother-in-law got more than ten acres of land for no reason, so she is naturally happy. Besides, now that I am a needle girl, all my daily wages are given to my mother-in-law, so I am not treated too harshly.
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Ding Hao sighed: "Are you satisfied with just a few less beatings and scoldings? It's not convenient for you to talk here. When will you... come out easily? Are you still worried about that cunning woman?"
Luo Donger said: "Today is the Orchid Bathing Festival, and my mother-in-law went back to her parents' house to hide from the Dragon Boat Festival."
It turns out that it is a custom here that a married woman who can afford to go back to her natal family on Dragon Boat Festival must go back to her natal family, which is called "hiding in the Dragon Boat Festival". Luo Dong'er was supposed to go back to her natal family, but there was only an unscrupulous uncle in her natal family who 'sold' her to the Dong family.
The daughter-in-law then broke off all contact with her. She had no family to return to, so she had to stay here alone.
When Ding Hao heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, his face looked joyful, his eyes flashed with evil, and he said excitedly: "Seriously? Sure enough? That cunning woman has gone back to her parents' house? Haha, then I will go over to find you tonight, hehe..."
Luo Dong'er regretted his words. Looking at him now, with teeth and claws bared and drooling, as if he was about to pounce on him and swallow him whole, she felt even more frightened. Although he didn't know what he was going to do, look at him.
He knew it was not a good thing even though he was beaming, so he hurriedly said: "No, you can't go."
Ding Hao smiled and said: "Xiao Dong'er, why are you so timid? No one is at home. I'll go see what's wrong with you."
"No! You...if you really go, people will never pay attention to you again." Luo Dong'er stamped her feet anxiously, her angry look so cute.
Although Mrs. Dong Li is not at home, her scent seems to linger in every corner of the house. How can she have the courage to take Ding Hao back to Dong's house? Moreover, she can barely accept it psychologically if she is warm with him outside.
.But after all, she is still the daughter-in-law of the Dong family. If she takes him back to the Dong family, Luo Donger will not be able to accept it.
Seeing that she was really anxious, Ding Hao changed his mind and said: "Chengchengcheng, then I won't go. Tonight, the moon will rise above the willow trees, and we will still be in the same place. Come and see me."
"I don't. Every time I come out, people are frightened. It's rare for you to come back for a few days, so stay with Aunt Yang."
In the distance, the foreman Li Shouyin walked over with his butt stuck out. He always lowered his head when walking, as if he was picking up money on the ground. Before he saw the two of them, Ding Hao said hastily in an unquestionable tone: "It's settled.
It’s our old place, Moon on Willow Tops, if you want me to wait all night, then don’t come!”
After Ding Hao finished speaking, he hurriedly turned to a house in front and walked away in a flash. Luo Dong'er didn't even have time to say a word of rejection. She couldn't help but widened her almond-shaped eyes and said angrily: "I owed you something in my previous life? She will be cruel to me!"
I paused and didn't know whether I was angry with him or myself.
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Ding Hao took the rice dumplings and asked Liu Ming for a few plates of side dishes. Since it was not yet dinner time, when he returned to the room and just set up the Kang table, Xin Zhuer rushed in with the festival gifts that Ding Hao had bought. Ding Hao smiled and said: "
Your legs are long enough, so you came just in time, come on, come on, sit down and eat together."
The three ladies sat cross-legged around the kang table. After eating, they made a pot of tea, then moved the kang table to the porch outside the door, took three more tuna and sat there drinking tea and chatting.
The whole family was enjoying themselves, talking and laughing. Ding Hao's sharp eyes suddenly saw Miss Lan'er, the maid of the upper house, arriving. Today is the Orchid Bathing Festival, and Miss Lan'er also wore a new set of clothes. A lavender one with narrow sleeves.
Wearing a short coat and a single skirt with a star-studded flower tied around the waist, she looks both handsome and neat.
Ding Hao hated her for being snobbish at first, and he felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart when he saw her slightly protruding lips. Now that she is his brother's favorite, he loves her so much that he doesn't dislike her anymore, so he stood up and said hello.
, smiled and said: "Miss Lan'er, are you here to see my brother Daliang?"
When Xizhu'er heard this, he turned around hurriedly and said happily: "Lan'er, you're here."
Lan'er glared at him angrily, stopped his forward steps, then gave Ding Hao a slight blessing, and said with a sweet smile: "Manager Ding, the eldest young master is very happy to know that you are back, and he invites you to the back house for a drink.
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Before Ding Hao spoke, Yang stood up and said happily: "Miss Lan'er, you said that the eldest young master would like to invite my Hao'er to have a drink?"
Lan'er smiled sweetly at Yang: "Yes, Aunt Yang, the eldest young master regards Manager Ding as a confidant. These days when Manager Ding has been in the city, the eldest young master has been lonely and misses him very much. Today I heard that Manager Ding is back.
, the eldest young master specially prepared a banquet in the courtyard and invited Steward Ding to come over for a drink."
When Yang heard this, his face glowed with joy, and he quickly urged: "You kid, why are you just standing there stupidly? The eldest young master calls you, why don't you go quickly."
Ding Hao originally wanted to spend more time with his family, but he had no choice but to agree. As soon as Ding Hao left, Lan'er turned around and followed her. Xizhu'er followed behind Lan'er with a shy face, smelling the fragrance of her body.
I wish I could have a few thoughtful words with the girl I love, but I hesitate to speak.
Lan'er noticed someone behind her and turned around to see him following him. She couldn't help but glare at him. Lan'er glared at him and was immediately frightened and didn't dare to follow. Lan'er said angrily: "What are you doing here, you bastard?"
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"I...I..." Xian Zhu'er hurriedly took out a sachet from his arms, leaned over and said, "I went to the city today and bought you a sachet."
Lan'er turned her anger into joy, took it in her hand, rolled her eyes at him cutely and said, "Huh, if you are thoughtful, you still remember me."
Xian Zhuer smiled and said: "Of course I only think of you in my heart. Although this sachet is not worth a few dollars, it is my heart."
"I know, I'm leaving." Lan'er turned around lightly, raised her hand to him, and left without looking back. Xizhu'er followed two more steps and muttered: "Young Master is so stingy.
I fetch medicine for him every day, but I have no merit but hard work. Since you invited Dumb, why not invite me?"