Chapter 130

130 widow Huiwen

Shen Qingru wandered around the Wu family's sister-in-law every day. At the beginning, the Wu family's sister-in-law was so worried that she didn't bother to pay attention to her. Shen Qingru is not angry. She follows sister-in-law Wu's ass as usual every day. When she fed the pigs, Shen Qingru actively picked up the broom and swept the house for her. When she chose dishes, Shen Qingru took them to the well for her to wash. By the way, she secretly picked a fresh and tender cucumber. One was divided into three and chewed it with two skin monkeys of the Wu family.

When the cucumbers on the shelf were almost picked, sister-in-law Wu's temper was almost ground by Shen Qingru.

The Wu family's sister-in-law originally intended to stay away from the general's wife. She ignored the general's wife when she showed up to cook. After a long time, she was boring herself, so naturally she didn't want to come to the Wu family.

Who knows, the general's wife is more and more interested.

She was cold and didn't speak. Shen Qingru took the eldest child and the second child to chirp behind her, telling jokes to make her laugh. She shut her mouth and said nothing. The girl put her face on the window and made strange faces at her. Sister-in-law Wu wanted to laugh and had to hold it back. It was very hard.

Wu's sister-in-law looked at Shen Qingru, who was running wildly in the yard with her eldest child and her second child, who was in a water battle, and sighed helplessly.

Where did you take an apprentice? Obviously, you raised another baby.

"I said, general's wife..." sister-in-law Wu spoke, and Shen Qingru turned a deaf ear. The girl's skin is thicker than the city wall. You call her lady. She looks like she can't hear. Change her name to Qingru. The girl immediately smiles like flowers and answers happily.

"I said Qingru..." sister-in-law Wu sighed and asked the question she had been concerned about: "when are you going to go back to the general's house?"

Shen Qingru replied with a smile: "it depends on when you let me graduate, master."

Wu's sister-in-law immediately shut her mouth. Shen Qingru's current cooking level barely scrambled an egg without pasting the pot. As for others... She can't let her graduate without conscience.

The girl looked smart, but she was surprisingly stupid in cooking. Sister-in-law Wu scolded and trained. After being trained, Shen Qingru still smiled at her and continued to make noise in her ears. Sister-in-law Wu had no way to take her.

After a long time, Wu's sister-in-law got familiar with the girl. She slowly chatted with Shen Qingru about the major and minor events at home.

Later, if Shen Qingru couldn't come one day, sister-in-law Wu said, "I'm free today", but she felt something missing. Wu Heizi has been in the army for a long time, but she hasn't been home for five of the ten days. She was used to it. Now there is more girl to accompany her. Although she dislikes Shen Qing as stupid, she also feels that she has this girl in her heart. The originally deserted courtyard is much more lively than before.

On that day, when Shen Qingru went to the Wu family, she saw her sister-in-law set up a big pot in the yard. The firewood under the pot was burning vigorously, and the boiling water was boiling. Her sister-in-law threw in the washed cabbage and radish, scalded it, fished it up, and then put it into the cold boiling water basin for a while.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Shen Qingru picked up Wu Erwa who lay at her feet and looked at the pot curiously.

"Pickles." Wu's sister-in-law replied to her in a hurry: "you should fill here with fresh vegetables all year round? If you don't prepare some pickles in advance in winter, you will be blind in cold winter and December."

The washed and lying cabbage and white radish are placed in two jars separately. First code a layer on the jar floor, then grab a handful of coarse salt and sprinkle it, then code a layer and sprinkle a layer of coarse salt, so many times.

Wu's sister-in-law muttered as she pickled: "don't underestimate this pickle. If you want to eat vegetables in winter, you can point to it. Every family will do it in winter. The residents of the frontier fortress, even if they have a war with the Xiongnu, decide not to forget the pickle. The men can't even eat a mouthful of vegetables when they come home after the war."

Shen Qingru helped her spread the cabbage evenly into the pickle jar and interrupted with a smile: "sister-in-law, why don't I buy a few kilograms of cabbage another day? Teach me how to make pickles?"

Sister-in-law Wu's face eased a lot. She watched the girl bend over and carefully code the scalded cabbage. Sweat dripped from her white forehead. She couldn't care to take out her handkerchief and rubbed it on her sleeve.

The Wu family's sister-in-law suddenly felt a little distressed. The girl was still young. I heard that she was also the daughter of the prime minister's house in the capital. It was estimated that she was also a charming young lady with clothes, hands and meals at home, and groups of slaves and maidservants. Now the married general has to follow his husband to the frontier fortress under difficult conditions. There is no fancy clothes, no food, only boundless cold and sandstorm.

In the past, the charming noble lady is now here to pickle with her and get scolded by her. Not to mention the prime minister's daughter, even the daughters of ordinary people have long left angrily. Only this girl still comes to learn cooking from her with a smile every day.

The daughter of the powerful family, who grew up in rich clothes and food, was suddenly thrown into the frontier fortress with poor conditions. It's like a basin of delicate orchids suddenly sent to the pigsty. It's good to survive safely. No one can smile like Shen Qingru every day.

Fortunately, this girl is heartless.

Wu's sister-in-law sighed piteously in her heart, but she still had a stiff face on her face and said in a loud voice, "you girl are too stupid to do small things like food. Go and stay..."

Shen Qingru smiled faintly. She knew the kindness of sister-in-law Wu. After getting along these days, she has a very clear understanding of the character of sister-in-law Wu: a good wife and mother who looks hot and shrewd, seems difficult to get along with, but is kind and honest.

Such a person looks cold and hard to approach, but once she brings you into her own range, she will treat you with all her heart and lungs.

Shen Qingru also felt tired and thirsty. She stopped to hold the herbal tea in the bamboo jar and poured it fiercely. Her eyes looked away. The Wu family courtyard is located in a high position. You can clearly see the situation in other people's courtyard from here. At this time, it was time to have dinner. Oil lamps were lit in the courtyard, dotted. Only a small courtyard nearby was dark.

Shen Qingru took a closer look. Compared with other people's houses, the small courtyard was very shabby, small and broken. A lot of thatch on the house was blown away by the wind, exposing the bare ridge. The thin figure in the yard seems a little familiar?

"Sister Wu, whose family is that?" Shen Qingru asked, pointing to the shabby courtyard.

Sister-in-law Wu glanced: "who else can it be? Your sister-in-law Huiwen's."

Sister-in-law Huiwen is the silent middle-aged woman Shen Qing saw when she first came. Shen Qingru said "Oh" and heard sister-in-law Wu sigh: "speaking of it, she is also a poor person."

It turned out that although sister-in-law Huiwen was a weak woman, she was also literate. Among these frontier fortress women who didn't know a few big words, she could be regarded as a literate. She used to be a young lady of the scholar's family, but she fell in love with a poor boy who was a soldier. She didn't hesitate to disobey her elders and want to be with the poor boy. After marriage, sister-in-law Huiwen came to the frontier fortress with her husband and gave birth to a son the next year.

Unfortunately, sister-in-law Huiwen's husband was killed in a sneak attack by the Huns, and sister-in-law Huiwen has become a widow since then. Her parents in Beijing also died of illness, and sister-in-law Huiwen, who had no one to rely on, could only continue to live in the frontier fortress with her son.

Even though Huo Qijun and other generals took care of sister-in-law Huiwen's widow, sister-in-law Huiwen was quite stubborn and unwilling to be favored. On weekdays, orphans and widowed mothers depend on each other, and life is very difficult.

"Sister-in-law Huiwen doesn't want to be favored. How do they live as orphans and widows?" Shen Qingru asked in a hurry.

"She made a vegetable field in her yard. She usually grows her own vegetables. When she's free, she makes her own embroidery and changes her family." sister-in-law Wu sighed. She also sympathized with sister-in-law Huiwen's situation. A weak woman with a young son, how can Japan be better? But sister-in-law Hui Wen stubbornly insisted on living on her own and did not accept money. She could only send some food to their mother every three or five times.

"Sister-in-law Huiwen can embroider?" Shen Qingru's eyes turned, as if she remembered something. Wu's sister-in-law nuzui the bib on her little son's neck: "well, that's what she did."

A majestic tiger is embroidered on the small cotton bib. The tiger's eyes are very vivid.

She doesn't have much research on embroidery, but the embroidery on this bib is much more exquisite than the embroidery women in the prime minister's house in the past, both in terms of composition and creativity.

Sister-in-law Huiwen is too stubborn to receive any favor. Even if she sent a bowl of dumplings at night, sister-in-law Huiwen pushed it off. However, she would send her some embroidered things the next day, which had been shown in return.

Unfortunately, in places like the frontier fortress, even if the embroidery is exquisite, it can't sell at a price. Sister-in-law Huiwen worked hard every day, and the money she got in the market was only enough for their mother and son to barely feed and clothe, but she couldn't save some money.

Shen Qingru looked at the bent figure of sister-in-law Huiwen from a distance, a thoughtful appearance.

In the yard, sister-in-law Huiwen rubbed her eyes, counted the embroidery carefully, and neatly stacked it in the bamboo basket at her feet.

It was getting colder and colder, and the night came earlier and earlier. She wanted to save some lamp oil money, so she embroidered it outside for a while, but her sour eyes almost made her unable to wear it.

Well, let's stop here for the time being. She turned back to the room and called to the room in the dark, "Xiaobao?"

I haven't heard my son read for a while, and sister-in-law Huiwen didn't care much. Her son is always diligent and studious. She has never worried about reading. What happened today?