Chapter 373： It turned out to be an acquaintance!

Chapter 373 Turns out to be an acquaintance!

Tao Hongying brought a bowl of meat sauce, the kind with chili peppers, red and oily, and thought about telling her mother that she would eat braised noodles in the evening.

The watery noodles are mixed with chili sauce, and a few tender cucumbers left over from the past few days are cut into shreds, and paired with two small cold dishes with sweet and sour taste. The whole family loves it.

As a result, as soon as she came out of the kitchen, before she could say anything, she saw her eldest brother coming back with a woman and a child!

She was stunned for a moment. She missed the step and almost dropped the porcelain bowl. In desperation, she could only hold on to the door frame.

When Boss Li heard the noise, he turned around and looked at his sister-in-law. He immediately guessed that she had misunderstood, so he quickly said, "Sister-in-law, is mom in the house? Someone said they knew you and mom, so I brought them back."

"Huh?" Tao Hongying blinked twice, her face turned red with embarrassment, and she quickly said: "Mother is in the house, sewing her purse with Fu Niu'er."

Boss Li nodded and took the woman and child inside.

Tao Hongying looked familiar to the woman's back, so she called Shuiyun in the kitchen to take the porcelain bowl, and quickly followed into the house.

Jiayin woke up from her nap and ran to the west wing to play with the twins, which made the two babies scream.

Although Huiniang is not angry, the old lady cannot let her granddaughter make trouble everywhere...

She called Grandma He and grabbed her granddaughter to do needlework together.

Jiayin is only a few years old, and it’s still a little early for her to learn embroidery seriously, and her family doesn’t want her to be tired. Just a few days ago, when Jiaren and others came back, they all joked about asking for the purse sewn by her sister.

At this moment, the old lady moved a small basket filled with various kinds of cloth, coaxing her granddaughter to work, passing the time, and chatting a few words with Grandma He.

Originally, it would be enough for Grandma He to teach the good news rules, but now the old lady has become Mrs. Gaoming. During the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Gaoming will go to the palace to meet the Queen Mother and the Empress, so the old lady also decided to learn the rules.

Lest she know nothing when it comes time to enter the palace and embarrass the family.

Grandma He has stayed in the palace her whole life, and there is no one she knows better than her.

The two old men and the young one were chatting lively when Li Zhensheng suddenly brought someone back, and they were very curious.

Before the old lady could ask questions, the woman had already knelt down on the ground, "Aunt, wuwu, I am the nanny next to Mrs. Sun, serving Miss Nannan, don't you recognize me?!"

Mrs. Sun? Nanny?

The old lady was stunned for a moment, lowered her head to identify carefully, and suddenly her face changed, "Oh, Sister-in-law Li, why is it you? Didn't you go back to your hometown with Mrs. Sun? Why are you here?"

This sister-in-law Li is no one else, she is the nanny of the Sun family who let them take a boat when the Li family fled from Saibei to Junyang.

The wet nurse has the same surname as her own family, and she almost choked the mistress because of her own mistake, but was saved by Mrs. Li, so she got along particularly well with the Li family.

Just two years ago, when the Li family was not doing well, Zhao Yuru and Tao Hongying still wore old clothes given by this sister-in-law Li!

Old Mrs. Li helped her up and saw that there was white in her hair and her face was sallow. She was completely different from her previous fair and plump appearance, which showed that she had suffered a lot.

Sister-in-law Li wanted to speak, but she couldn't help but burst into tears when she opened her mouth. "Auntie, please help me. Our wife is dead and the master is also missing. My uncle wants to sell our wife's dowry. I really have no choice, so I will take it with me." Miss Nannan escaped! "Ugh, pity our lady, she didn't even close her eyes until she died!" "

Mrs. Li was confused when she heard this, but she also knew that the Sun family was in trouble. She quickly helped Sister-in-law Li sit on the edge of the Kang.

He picked up the ignorant and silent little girl and put her on the kang, and told Jiayin, "Fu Niu'er, you play with my daughter for a while while grandma talks."

Jiayin nodded, quickly went to get the snack box, and put it in front of her daughter. The little girl immediately grabbed a piece and ate it.

The old lady felt even more sad when she saw it. She remembered that they boarded the Sun family's boat not long after Fu Niu was born. At that time, her daughter could already crawl and stand, and she was half a year old.

But now in comparison, Fu Niu'er is almost a bit bigger than Nannan!

Li Zhensheng saw that my mother looked unhappy and didn't want her to be sad, so he changed the subject and said, "Mom, I haven't heard you say anything about the Sun family?"

Tao Hongying poured a cup of warm tea for Sister-in-law Li and replied: "Brother, I don't know something. We fled from Saibei to Junyang outside Kyoto to join my uncle, but we were blocked at the dock on the way. No boat was willing to carry the refugees.

"Fortunately, the family picked up a dairy goat to feed Fu Niu'er to drink milk. The Sun family happened to be passing by on a boat. Because Fu Niu was worried about having no milk to drink, they picked up our family and the dairy goat on the boat, and then we all arrived in Kyoto. "

"Yes," the old lady sighed, "Mrs. Sun is a very nice person and takes great care of our family. Later, I helped a small favor, and Mrs. Sun gave our family more than a hundred taels of silver, and a lot more. Clothes and supplies.

“It’s because of these more than one hundred taels of silver that our family was able to successfully settle down in Junyang and meet these folks in the village. It’s a pity that we moved the capital later, bought all the houses and fields in Junyang for nothing, and fled here again.”

Sister-in-law Li wiped her tears and choked up: "I accidentally fell asleep at that time, and Miss Nannan almost died while eating snacks. It was Fu Niuer who started crying, and my aunt ran to save the girl.

“Our wife has talked about it several times before, saying that she didn’t know what happened to her aunt’s family.”

Seeing that she had calmed down a bit, the old lady asked, "You just said that Mrs. Sun passed away? What on earth is going on?"

Sister-in-law Li's tears flowed more urgently. She wiped them away and said, "Auntie, our wife was killed by someone! When our wife brought the dowry and the young lady back to the south to join her parents' family, our master was behind and took her with her. The clansmen are on their way together.

"But when my wife arrived at her hometown, she found that both the old man and the old lady had passed away. She waited and waited but did not see our master coming. She even heard a lot of news saying that the master and his tribe were killed by barbarians, and our wife fell ill. ”

Perhaps thinking of the anxiety during those days, she frowned tightly before continuing: "But for the sake of the young lady, the madam is still very strong, but... our uncle and madam slowly changed their faces. At first they said that the business was not good. , and later said that the family did not have enough money and asked his wife to help him with some money.

"Of course our wife didn't agree, and she wanted to buy a village and move out. As a result, she died within a month. My uncle said that my wife had a deep love for me, and she became so depressed that she fell ill and died because of too much worry."

Speaking of this, Sister-in-law Li was a little excited and grabbed the old lady's hand, her lips trembling, "Auntie, when our wife died, her fingernails were purple. Our wife was poisoned! And she died three days after she died. He was burned with a fire, his ashes were scattered into the sea, his wife's dowry was sold, and so were Chun'er and the others who served him.

“I saw that things were not going well, so I took the banknotes that the madam had hidden, and ran out with the young lady in my arms. My uncle even spread the news, saying that I was fleeing anger and kidnapped the young lady, and asked people to arrest me everywhere..."

(End of this chapter)