"Madam, there is some good food." She said happily.
Cheng Jiaoniang took a look.
"Food is expensive, but fine food is not expensive." She said, reaching out to pick up one of the cooking cakes.
Banqin hurriedly broke off a small piece for her, revealing the dates inside.
"Ah, this is much better than the cakes in the Taoist temple." She said with a smile.
"It's not delicious." Cheng Jiaoniang shook her head and stopped eating after only taking a small bite.
Since my wife got well, although she hasn't eaten much, she has been extremely picky. Apart from traveling, most of the money they earned has been spent on food. I don't know how she came up with those exquisite meals.
For example, the cold Tao that the lady wants to eat is noodles made from the juice of green locust leaves and noodles, and the pork is fried in oil. There are not many ingredients for a bowl of noodles, and it takes as much effort as others to make a pot.
Fortunately, the ladies don't eat much, and sometimes a few snacks a day are enough. Otherwise, they might not be able to get home now.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at the food box and pointed.
"It's enough to fry this, tear this steamed cake into pieces and boil it in soup," she said.
Banqin was used to doing this, so she happily carried it out.
"You squat down, you squat down." Cheng Liu Niang turned left and right, pointed at the little girl as she thought of something, and said.
The little girl was timid and restless.
"Madam, let's go back, it's time for Madam to find you," she said.
Cheng Liuniang hissed at her.
"Keep your voice down! Don't scare the fool!" she shouted in a low voice.
The little girl almost cried.
"Madam, stop looking, fools will hit people." She said tremblingly.
For teenage children, fools are terrifying existences.
"This is my house. What are you afraid of? Hurry up and squat down. I'll climb up and see what the fool looks like." Cheng Liu Niang said, waving her hand and urging the girl to get down quickly.
The little girl had no choice but to lie down with tears in her eyes. Cheng Liu Niang supported the wall and stepped on the little girl, grabbed the window sill and looked into the window.
The sound of clattering footsteps scared Cheng Liu Niang and she squatted down. The little girl was so wobbly that she almost fell down.
"Madam, the pancakes are ready. You eat this first while I cook the pancakes and porridge."
Cheng Liuniang cautiously stuck her head out and watched a girl in a green cloth skirt running past. At the same time, a smell of burning aroma came over her.
"What's so fragrant?" she muttered, standing on tiptoe holding the window open, and there were two figures sitting opposite each other behind the bamboo curtain on the left.
"Madam, I'm going to serve the soup..."
"Madam, can you try this?"
The little girl came and went in the room, and her clear and crisp voice echoed, but there was no response except her voice.
"That fool can't speak." Cheng Liuniang turned her head and whispered to the little girl, with a bit of excitement about finding out the latest news.
The little girl was so scared and hurt that she was shaking so much that she couldn't kneel down.
"Madam, let's go quickly..." she said tremblingly.
"Don't move around. I haven't seen what she looks like, how long her nose is, and whether her eyes and mouth are crooked..." Cheng Liuniang said, turning her head again.
A pair of big eyes looked at her.
Cheng Liu Niang screamed and fell down to the ground.
The little girl didn't know what was going on and was so frightened that she also screamed. When she saw Cheng Liu Niang falling to the ground, she was so frightened that she screamed three times again and dragged Cheng Liu Niang away desperately.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at the two people rolling away in a gust of wind.
"Madam, who is that?" Banqin stood up and asked with a surprised and worried expression.
Cheng Jiaoniang's expression was dull.
Banqin murmured a few words, and when there was a faint sound of oil smoke on the stove, she turned around and ran away with an ouch.
"I don't know who it is." Cheng Jiaoniang finally spoke out.
After she finished speaking, she felt a little depressed herself.
My mind went through several twists and turns before the words came out of my mouth.
You have a monkey mouth with seven orifices, I will teach you to become a wooden mouth in the next life, and I will suffocate you to death.
A sentence suddenly flashed through her mind. Cheng Jiaoniang felt her heart aching suddenly. The pain spread from the seams in her bones. Her ears were buzzing. She couldn't stand anymore. She stretched out her hand to grab the window sill. Thoughts flashed through her mind. When she stretched out her hand,
It's already too late.
Banqin came over happily carrying the food box, and when she heard a thud, she saw that Cheng Jiaoniang had fallen to the ground.
This scream, accompanied by the sound of the food box falling to the ground, finally attracted the maid at the front door.
When Mrs. Cheng came over, the doctor she had invited had just sent her away, and the servant girl was talking.
"It's nothing else. I'm just frightened. Just take care of it and it'll be fine," she said.
Mrs. Cheng Er's face was sallow, it had only been half a night, and the green powder under her eyes could not be covered.
"Why are you so frightened when you are at home?" she said, feebly half-explaining and half-questioning to Mrs. Cheng.
"Maybe it's because we moved to a new place." Mrs. Cheng said, "That kind of child has the same mind as a child of a few months old and doesn't understand anything."
Mrs. Cheng Er forced a smile.
"That's what the sister-in-law said." She said, and looked at the servant girl with raised eyebrows, "Don't think that I don't know, and go to the aunt's house one by one like a monkey. If anyone does this in the future, they will be beaten out and sold on the street.
You can see enough of everything.”
The servants and women shrank their heads and lowered their hands, not daring to say anything. They knew that it was not them going to see the fool, but gathering together to talk.
Immediately they knelt down and apologized repeatedly, saying they didn't dare. Mrs. Cheng Er sent them out.
"It's hard for you." Mrs. Cheng looked at her and said.
Mrs. Cheng Er burst into tears immediately. She didn't know why she was crying. Anyway, she just wanted to cry. She just felt aggrieved and suffocated.
"Qiniang is about to learn the rules. Brother Xi is young, and the second brother has to prepare for his appointment. All three girls in my family are married, and only Liu Niang is left. Your eldest brother is in charge of the house and outside the house, so I don't have to worry.
Let me take care of this fool first." Mrs. Cheng thought for a while and said.
Mrs. Cheng Er stood up and saluted.
"How can I trouble my sister-in-law? This is my responsibility." She choked.
"Okay, what does one family say to two families?" Mrs. Cheng said, reaching out and patting her hand, "Anyway, we live in the yard, I just let an old lady take care of it, and there is no need to worry about the others.
, you can rest assured, educate the children at home well, and let the second brother go to work with peace of mind. Our Cheng family relies on the second brother to support us outside."
It would be hypocritical to refuse at this time, but Mrs. Cheng's generous and sincere thanks, which temporarily relieved her worries.
The servants and women outside gathered together again.
"Tell me, what does he look like?" Several people asked curiously as they gathered around the maids who were lucky enough to hear the scream and went in to serve Cheng Jiaoniang.
"She looks like the exact same mold as the late Madam." A servant girl said with a bit of amazement.
Mrs. Zhou had a good appearance, and several old servants in the family still remember her clearly.
"It's just a pity that I can't even walk, and I can fall down even if I stand upright." The servant girl shook her head again and sighed, "She's so stupid that she doesn't even know she's awake when she's awake. No matter how she looks at it, she's soulless.
I haven’t eaten the food I went in. I don’t know if I can eat by myself.”
The servants here sighed, and the girls at home over there also gathered together.
"The eyes are so big..." Cheng Liuniang said, reaching out to make gestures on her face.
The sisters sitting there all looked surprised and scared.
"And there are no eyeballs!" Cheng Liuniang added suddenly and opened her eyes forcefully at everyone.
The girls couldn't help but scream, and held each other's hands on the mat.
"It's so scary. It's so scary." Everyone said one after another, "Liu Niang, don't go looking anymore. I heard that fools can even beat people!"
Cheng Liu Niang felt a little proud.
"I'm not afraid. I have a brother. If she hits me, I will let my brother hit her." She said with her hands on her hips.
The second bedroom only has one son so far, Brother Xi, who is lying on the bed sucking milk. The first bedroom has three sons, and having an older brother to protect him is something that girls envy. There are some differences between a biological brother and a cousin.
There was a loud sound of clogs, and Cheng Qiniang didn't bother to take off her clogs when she entered the house. She walked straight in and left obvious marks on Cheng Liuniang's favorite mat with patterns of flowers, birds, and fish.
"Liuniang, that fool is your sister now." Cheng Qiniang shook her small fan, her arms covered with gauze and silk, and said loudly and gracefully. (To be continued)
