Chapter 118: I am self-willed to cloth sandals and linen shirts (Part 2) (1)

Soon after we moved into the house, winter came.
Huangjia Village has no surplus land, so we need to spend every day, but we don't make money. Although Xihe and I brought a lot of money, it was not a solution for a long time. What's more, we are not people who sit and eat the sky, so we naturally want to find some work to do.
Xihe often goes hunting in the mountains with villagers. We eat part of the prey we get, and part of the prey he gets will be sold to the market with Brother Huang. This way we have some money, but there are few days to enter the mountains, plus it’s winter. Naturally, not much money came.
Aunt Huang knew about our situation, so she often gave me a part of the washing job she got, but the river was cold in winter and my hands got frostbite several times, and Xi He didn't allow it anymore.
Aunt Huang's son-in-law has a good martial arts skill and a few words, so he was admitted to the prefectural government office in the autumn and moved to Hanyang with his wife and children. Her daughter goes back to her natal house much less often.
In a blink of an eye, it was the winter solstice, and the folks attached great importance to this festival, the so-called "safe and calm". Although the folks are poor, they accumulate false loans within a year, and now it is easier to get new clothes, prepare food, and enjoy sacrifices to their ancestors. However, the officials of the imperial court placed off guard, the army was on standby, the frontier fortress was closed, business travel was closed, relatives and friends each gave food to each other, visited each other, and happily spent a "safe and quiet" festival.
Aunt Huang’s parents are gone, so they will definitely come back to visit Aunt Huang this day. Early in the morning, Xihe and Brother Huang went to the mountains to hunt some rabbits and pheasants. I went to Aunt Huang’s house and worked with her wife to help her cook.
According to the custom of the winter solstice, dumplings are to be eaten. Aunt Huang and I went to the town to buy the ingredients a few days ago, and privately asked Xi He to go to the town to buy a lot of meat.
Last night, Xi He and I brought meat to her home and said that I didn't make dumplings well, so I asked her for help.
Aunt Huang guessed what I meant at once, and didn't want to, but I pretended to be sad.
"Aunt Huang, you saved Vier's life. We treat you as an elder of your relatives. When we first come here, if we live with two people, it will inevitably be lonely, so we want to eat dumplings together tomorrow and have a lively festival." Xi He grabbed me and said softly: "If Aunt Huang doesn't want to, don't you treat us as your own family?"
Aunt Huang waved her hands again and again: "If I could have a daughter like Xie Niang, that would be a blessing for Xiulai. It's just that there is so much meat, you don't have to work, spend so much money, my old woman feels uncomfortable."
I hurriedly smiled and said, "Auntie, don't blame us, you will give us some tips later."
Xihe also laughed: "I bought all this meat. It would be more wasteful not to eat it. Aunt Huang, please do it for us."
Aunt Huang only agreed. But we still blame us for spending money, and we must never do this in the future.
I looked at Xi He and smiled, chatted with her for a while, and then left.
Aunt Huang originally intended to make some meat dumplings, and the rest were vegetarian dumplings. Because we bought meat, we prepared two fillings on this day, one with carrot and lamb stuffing, the other with cabbage meat stuffing. Just fry some more vegetables.
While helping her wash the vegetables, I chatted with her about the fun things of the past years. Aunt Huang Xuxu said that when her husband was still there, the family and He Meimei were sitting around the table. Although the days were not as good as now, the food was simple, but they were very happy.
"Xie Niang, how do you spend the winter solstice there?" her daughter-in-law asked me while rolling out dumpling wrappers.
I took a rolling pin and rolled out the skin like her, but it was not what she looked like. I was a little discouraged. Aunt Huang pouted and smiled when I saw me, "Aren't you eating dumplings over there? This skin needs to be rolled more." How many times can I slowly become proficient."
I nodded, thought for a while and said, "We have glutinous rice over there."
Once in the palace, Shen Xiyao would give it to all palaces on this day. If the concubines in the north are naturally dumplings, the concubines in the south are dumplings. And concubines give each other gifts, almost every palace has two kinds. It's just that the emperor's gift will naturally be eaten, but who will eat the gift from another palace?
"Then let's make some dumplings today." Aunt Huang looked at me with love in her eyes: "If you are not used to eating dumplings, there are dumplings to eat."
I waved my hands again and again: "No trouble, aunt, eating with everyone is the happiest thing."
Aunt Huang shook his head: "This is a habit on your side. You can't change it just because you got here. It's not difficult anyway, just because you're afraid of the uneven filling materials."
I looked at her kitchen, thought about it and said: "Brown sugar is good."
Aunt Huang blinked at me and took out a bag of sesame seeds from the cabinet: "This is what your sister brought before. I wanted to squeeze the oil and eat it, so let's make a dumpling."
My heart trembled, my tears almost fell, I wiped it off with my hand, and nodded.
Soon after midday, Xihe and Huang Da Ge returned from the mountain and hunted back three hares and a pheasant. Huang Da Ge prepared these simple game dishes and waited for the evening to cook them together.
"Brother Xie's arrow is really good. This hare runs fast, but he still shot it with one arrow!" Big Brother Huang took two hares and handed them to me: "You bring them back."
I shook my head, afraid to look at the rabbit.
"Brother Huang, we often come to my aunt's house for dinner, this is at my aunt's house, let's eat together." Xihe stood in front of me and smiled: "Tomorrow I will shoot you a target and teach you how to shoot arrows."
When Big Brother Huang heard it, he naturally agreed, his eyes narrowed with a smile.
"Okay, Yuhuan and Xie Niang have to go back and change new clothes. You two will also go back. You will come back when your sister and them come." Aunt Huang said to her son and daughter-in-law.
I walked side by side with Xihe on the mountain road. At that time, all the trees in the mountains were left with branches. I picked up a broken branch and played with it. Xihe looked at me with a smile.
"Vil, this is the first holiday we have together." He took my hand, and we stood face to face. His eyes were full of sweetness: "I am very happy. I will have every holiday in the future. Spend with you."
I looked at him with a smile: "I will spend it with you, He."
His eyes were full of satisfaction, but he was a little worried: "I'm so afraid, I'm afraid one day you will leave me."
I took a step closer and took his hand: "Xihe, I will not leave you."
He nodded my nose: "I'm not Xihe anymore." There are sly eyes in his eyes.
I smiled brightly: "Yuhuan, I will always be with you."
He bowed his head and kissed my forehead.
Because it is the winter solstice, everyone is more likely to wear new clothes. Xihe and I both changed into the clothes we brought from the palace, and because we did not bring any woolen clothes when we came out, we went to town the other day to buy back two squirrel gowns to wear.
I changed my clothes and sat in front of the mirror. I picked out a few grass and velvet flowers from the jewelry box and put them on my head.
Xihe stood behind me and looked at me in the mirror, "Vil, don't you wear some jewelry?" He asked me with a smile.
I shook my head: "Zhilan, the jewelry I prepared is very valuable among the folks." As he said, he took out a gilt and stalked lotus pearl and shook it. "I looked at it and it was the simplest. This girl, I'm afraid of me. Live without money."
Xihe looked at the step in my hand and said, "Today is an important holiday. If you are in the palace, you need a lot of makeup. The color of this step is not as good as what you need to wear."
I shook my head: "Yu Huan, we're done and we won't mention what we used to be."
Xi He looked at me: "I'm afraid I will wrong you."
I looked back at him. He was dressed in a purple tang-colored curly-grained curly-necked and narrow-sleeved robe, with a white shirt underneath the neckline, a black leather belt, and a wooden crown on his head. Although they were all ordinary fabrics, he wore this. In one body, Fengshen Yajun's posture makes people unable to look away.
I looked at the purple and laughed, knowing that he chose this color to wear it. His gaze fell on the wooden crown on top of his head, and he said lightly: "In fact, if this hair crown is replaced by the Prince's Hetian white jade crown, it is the best."
I believe he understands what I mean.
He turned his head slightly and looked at my outfit carefully, as if dissatisfied: "I still think it would be more beautiful if I wear a hairpin."
Before I answered, I saw him conjure a gold-plated butterfly hairpin and a dotted begonia hairpin from his sleeve, and then gestured and inserted them in my hair bun.
"Look, okay?" His eyes were full of doting.
I looked at the person in the mirror. I was wearing a lilac-colored skirt full of embroidered butterflies and wisteria with a straight collar and collar, with light blue leaves on the skirt. The butterfly was embroidered on the skirt with the remaining silk thread from mending the skirt, and each one came alive, so that the skirt looked very delicate. The hair was pulled in a concentric bun, and the two hairpins matched the embroidery on the clothes just right, and a smile couldn't help but bloom.
"The bun embraces the spring clouds and the pine jade hairpin, and the eyebrows are light and the Qiushan is ashamed of the stage." He looked at me and said softly: "Vil, you are so beautiful."
I reached out and pressed the two hairpins: "It's your hairpin."
After that, look at the sky and say to Xi He: "Yuhuan, we should have passed."
Xihe nodded, thinking of something again, with a playful smile on his face.
I looked at him puzzled: "What are you laughing at."
His eyes were full of admiration: "Look at you making glutinous rice today, I want to eat two more bowls tonight."
I grinned: "Most of them are from Aunt Huang, I'm still unskilled. Do you think I am clumsy?"
He shook his head: "Anything you do is beautiful." He said and read a poem: "Thinking about longan round and round, it takes time for the stubborn to eat.
Mix the clouds and slowly scoop the silver jar of water, tuft the snow and lightly rub your palms.
Push into the soup pot to drive the white duck, and roll the yellow beads in the sugar bowl.
Every year the winter solstice is cooked at home, do you know if you are a year old? "
Although I was smiling on my face, I felt emotion again in my heart. Xihe's talent shouldn't be wiped out in this ordinary mountain village, so he will still regret it in his life.
"Yuhuan..."
Before I could speak, he interrupted me and put a squirrel gown on me, "Let's go."
I took the words in my heart back. He couldn't listen to what he said at this time, and it was so out of place.
When we arrived at Aunt Huang's house, her daughter and son-in-law had already arrived. Because she has moved to Hanyang and worked in the government office, her family is much richer. Therefore, her daughter and son-in-law wear more and more wealthy clothes. In contrast, my clothes only look more delicate.
"Xie Niang, your dress is so beautiful. Where did you buy it?" Her daughter took my hand and looked at it carefully.
Turning around, she said to her husband: "Yuanshan, look, Xie Niang's clothes are so beautiful, I look better than the clothes in the biggest shop in Hanyang."
Her husband was surprised to see Xihe and I, but quickly calmed down.
Xihe smiled at him with a very gentle and kind smile: "I am Xie Niang's husband-in-law, Xie Yuhuan."
Aunt Huang's son-in-law gave Xihe a fist and said, "I am Bilian's husband, Zhang Yuanshan." Then he smiled at me with a silly smile.
I looked at Aunt Huang’s daughter’s pink satin winter dress with a blessing pattern and said with a smile:
Sister, the fabric is really good, but the pattern is a bit old. If it’s moire, it will look younger.
I pointed to the embroidery on my body again and said: "Most of these embroidery are made by myself. If my sister likes it, I will embroider one for you."
After speaking, she looked at her and smiled slightly: "Sister's size and appearance, if there is a pine-colored dress, embroidered with fish and lotus leaves, it will match her name."