There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 40

[Chapter 40, Contrast]

“Daohua’s culinary skills are nothing to say, Laba porridge is eaten every year, and this year’s is the best.” Yan Zhiyuan praised Daohua without hesitation.

Mrs. Yan liked to hear others praise the rice flowers, and the smile on her face deepened after hearing Er’er’s words.

When Yan Zhiyuan saw it, he immediately praised a few more words, which made the old lady laugh continuously.

On the side, Dao Hua obediently sat next to Mrs. Li, with a decent yet polite smile on her face. She glanced at the third uncle who was honestly drinking Laba porridge, and then at the restrained and majestic Daddy. secretly.

Her second uncle, a white body, can get along well in the county government. Her eyesight and eloquence are indeed not covered.

Through these days of contact, she can also see that her second uncle is just a smiling tiger, talking nonsense when he sees people and talking nonsense, and he is very tactful.

Knowing that her grandmother favored her, she thought of a way to praise her, but she didn’t forget to mention other people, it really covered everything.

When Daohua was thinking about this, she felt her arm was touched, and when she turned her head, she saw the fourth brother looking at her with a smile: “Big sister, you have to cook more in the future, I like you so much!” Let ‘s eat.”

Before Daohua could speak, Mrs. Li said, “Don’t bother your sister, she wants to read and write, and she wants to learn how to be a female celebrity. Don’t you look at what she has tied her hands into. ?”

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Dao Hua’s hand.

Seeing her white and delicate fingers covered with red pinpricks, she was taken aback for a moment.

Daohua smiled faintly: “I’m a little stupid to learn from women’s reds. Yihuan’s sisters can embroider large pieces, and I can’t even embroider purses.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Daohua’s hand was grabbed by Yan Wenkai.

Yan Wenkai touched Daohua’s finger carefully, feeling distressed all over his face, then blew on the finger, raised his head and asked, “Does it hurt?” Daohua

shook his head blankly.

But Yan Wenkai became angry: “What’s the matter with Mr. Qin? The elder sister’s hands are like this, why do you want her to embroider some kind of purse? Will she be a master? If she can’t, find someone else to teach her.” ?”

If it was normal, Yan Zhigao would definitely scold Yan Wenkai at this time, but when he saw the eldest daughter’s hand, he also felt angry.

Earlier, Daohua was in a hurry to make Laba porridge, but he didn’t see it too clearly. This time, Wen Kai held up his hand, and the needles on his fingers made him a little numb.

Although the eldest daughter wasn’t around since she was a child, he still valued her very much. Seeing her hands tied like this, he instinctively felt that Master Qin had treated her poorly.

Yan Wenkai was still saying: “Mother, why don’t you exchange the eldest sister for the master, I don’t think Master Qin has much knowledge?”

Hearing this, Daohua couldn’t help but want to applaud.

During this period of time, she worked hard to become a female celebrity, although she didn’t intend to win everyone’s sympathy, but if she could change her wife because of this, she would be happy.

Daohua took a closer look at her cheap fourth brother, if she hadn’t seen the genuine concern on his face, she would have thought that this man was trying to trick Mrs. Qin on purpose.

He really is an upright kid.   Unexpectedly, in the next second, Yan Wenkai

said again: “My elder sister’s hands are used for cooking. If they are damaged by a needle, who will cook for us in the future?”

Immediately, the emotion on the table was over, and he quickly withdrew his hand, and glared at Brother Cheap, “I’m just a cook, right? I won’t cook in the future, if I want to eat, cook it myself.”

“Don’t!” Yan Wenkai immediately wailed, “My good sister, I was wrong, you have to make food, otherwise, how will I live in the future?” The

two chattered back and forth, and the dinner table became lively again .

The eyes of the others moved slightly. The Yan family knew the relationship between Mr. Qin and Aunt Lin. If Mr. Qin couldn’t please him, Aunt Lin would also lose face.

Yan Zhiyuan glanced at Mrs. Sun, who immediately changed the topic with a smile.

Seeing this, Yan Yishuang and Yan Wenbin heaved a sigh of relief. Before, they dared to tell their father Yan Zhigao at the dinner table, saying that Aunt Lin was eating alone and lonely. Laba porridge.

Mrs. Li took a panoramic view of the expressions of everyone at the table, glanced at Yan Zhigao who was slightly restrained, smiled and added another half bowl of Laba porridge for him.

Seeing this, Yan Zhigao also smiled and picked up a chopstick dish for Mrs. Li.

Beside, Yan Yishuang and Yan Wenbin lowered their heads in disappointment when they saw that Yan Zhigao did not mention Aunt Lin again.

Yes, Aunt Lin did not come to Songheyuan for dinner.

This was decided by Mrs. Yan, saying that there is no concubine in any family who can eat with the masters of the family.

Just now, when Yan Zhigao saw his family happily drinking Laba porridge, he thought of Aunt Lin who was eating alone, and felt pity for her, and just wanted to ask her to come over to eat together, but unexpectedly, his son Yan Wenkai disturbed him.

Now, because Master Qin made his eldest daughter’s embroidered purse tie her hands in a terrible way, he was also a little angry, so he let go of his thoughts.

On the side of Songhe Courtyard are Yan Xiaoyan, He He Meimei, and at this time in Shuangxin Courtyard, Aunt Lin is sitting alone at the dining table with a lonely expression on her face.

After so many years of being married to the master, this is the first time she spends the festival alone.

Her children, her husband, are all accompanying others now, they are a family, and she is just a concubine, a concubine who can’t even sit at the dinner table.

Never before has she clearly understood her identity and status in the Yan family like this moment.

Do you regret it?

Her father is a scholar, and her younger brother is also a scholar. With her family’s status, marrying someone else as the main wife is more than rubbish.

But she can’t help it!

In order to support his father’s education, the Lin family sold all their property. By the time the younger brother was studying, the family had no money left, but the younger brother was so smart, and all the masters in the clan praised him for his future success. How could she bear to see him? Seeing my younger brother doing nothing all his life because he has no money to study?

So, when Yan Zhigao went to the countryside for an inspection, she deliberately approached this honest and good official who was praised by everyone.

She was good-looking, and she learned to read and write with her father since she was a child. Naturally, her bearing was not comparable to that of ordinary women.

After meeting several times, under her intentional or unintentional contact, the master really fell in love with her.

Later, she successfully married him as a child.

With the support of the county magistrate, the family gradually got better, and the younger brother also went to school. A few years later, he successfully passed the scholar examination, and stayed with the master. With the support of his brother-in-law, the future of the younger brother will definitely not be wrong. .

She is also comfortable in the backyard.

The eldest wife of the Yan family, Mrs. Li, was born as a businessman. Although she is the main wife, she cannot compare with her in terms of family background, and she does not feel that she is inferior to her.

Moreover, based on her understanding of the master, she knew that the master also looked down on businessmen in his heart, which can be seen from the brothers who received his wife.

Mrs. Li herself knows this, so she doesn’t have much confidence in the Yan family, and she has a lot to avoid when she is favored.

She thought that she could spend her life in such a peaceful and stable way, reciting poems, chatting with the master, raising children in her spare time, but the old lady came, and the eldest girl came.

These two don’t know what it means to be tactful or what it means to be calm.

As soon as she came up, she just said something, put the most embarrassing side directly on the table, no matter how many schemes she had, she was helpless.

Now, when the whole family enjoys the holidays, the master can let her eat alone, but after that, will she have less and less place in the future?

(end of this chapter)