Chapter 33
As the end of the year approaches, Madam Wan went home to reunite. The Xu family lecture hall was also on vacation like a county school. Classes will start after the Lantern Festival.
There is no need to study or learn etiquette. Xu Jin has been living a very leisurely life recently. Unfortunately, it is cold outside, which makes people want to hide in the house and not go out. There is nothing fun at all. In addition, his mother gradually showed her worries, Xu Jin also wanted to stay at home and try to help her mother with her work.
There are many shops in the Xu family. At this time of year, the shopkeepers of each shop come to report the accounts. The village farms will also come to send New Year gifts, chicken, duck, fish, meat, mountain fruit and wild game, all kinds of.
This year, my mother was not inconvenient to work hard. Most of these things were taken care of by my father. But I don’t know what my mother thought, so she asked her to accompany her.
Xu Jin asked her father privately, and her father told her with a smile that these shops and villages will be her dowry in the future. She is learning to take care of them now, so she won’t have to cram the moment in the future.
Xu Jin knew the meaning of dowry, but he was not shy, he was only curious: "Give it all to me?"
What should I do if my mother has another sister in the future?”
She envied Cui Xiao for having two older brothers since she was a child. She had no older brothers. Now her younger brother has finally arrived. Of course, Xu Jin hopes that her mother will add more younger brothers and sisters to her after giving birth. She is old and can help her mom coax them.
This kid thinks far...
Xu You smiled and replied: "Even if she has a sister, she will get married more than ten years later. Dad slowly saves new ones for her."
A Jin is not young anymore, and he will get married in five or six years. At that time, he was just starting out and probably couldn't put any makeup on. He could only try to give her the identity of an official lady so that she can marry better.
As for his future daughter, Xu You was confident and able to save a decent dowry. It turned out that the Jiang family's property would be given to A Jin.
Xu Jin looked at his father and stopped asking more questions.
Anyway, it will be a long time before she gets married. If Daddy doesn't save enough, she will leave for Daddy.
A few days later, Lao Zhang, the head of the village, sent an ewe and two little lambs. He specially prepared it after hearing that Jiang was pregnant. The ewe were kept to serve his wife and the two little lambs were given to the girl to play with.
The little goat is very cute, and Xu Jin likes this gift very much, so when her father finished talking to Lao Zhuangtu, she also went to give it to her.
The girl was so polite and polite that Lao Zhuang smiled so hard that his face was full of wrinkles. After congratulating her again and again, she led her son and daughter-in-law away.
Xu Jin stood at the door and watched them. Seeing that the three of them were about to turn, she was about to turn around and go in, but she saw two big horses walking over there, followed by a big white dog.
The little girl's eyes lit up, and she ran forward a few steps while shouting loudly.
When Dabai heard the master's call, he rushed over like an arrow, stopped steadily in front of the master, and raised his head to add Xu Jin's small hand.
Now it rarely pounces on Xu Jin directly, probably because it knows that its claws are dirty, and it is afraid of dirtying its owner's clothes.
The owner loves to be stinky and beautiful, so you can know this from the fact that the owner has to look in the mirror for a long time every morning.
Xu Jin happily touched Dabai's head and carefully checked it. Seeing that the snow-white hair was smooth and neat and without any blood stains, her heart fell to the ground and looked up at Qi Jing.
Dabai ran back, while Qi Jing drove his horse away without any hurry.
He wore a blue round neck robe inside and covered the squirrel cloak on the outside. He raised his legs and dismounted with a neat and concise position. He stood up straight and looked like a 15 or 16-year-old child. He was the most outstanding boy on the street. When everyone went to the market together, many girls would secretly glance at Qi Jing.
Xu Jin joked about this more than once, and Qi Jing was cold, but probably because the two met every day, so they were used to seeing each other, but Xu Jin didn't think Qi Jing was so amazing.
In her eyes, a real handsome man who is as gentle as jade as her father.
Qi Jing... is dark, too imposing, and gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression when he is calm.
"Uncle, A Jin, why are you outside?"
Qi Jing held the horse in one hand and walked towards this side.
Behind him, Pang Yong greeted the Xu father and daughter and entered the Qi family's gate.
Unlike Madam Wan, he has no relatives and family, so this time he is spending the New Year at the Qi family.
"I just came out to give it to someone, and our farm sent three goats over."
Xu Jin explained first, his eyes fell on him immediately, "What good thing did you hunt today?"
Last time, the master and apprentice hunted a mountain pig, and the three families gathered together to have a barbecue. Now, when Xu Jin thinks about it, he can't help but feel greedy. Mountain pork is much better than common pork.
Qi Jing looked at Xu You first, and saw that his elders didn't ask questions, then he focused on Xu Jin, "I'm lucky in the afternoon. Dabai hunted a fox and I'll give it to you."
After saying that, he turned around and walked to the other side of the mount, removed the already swallowed fox and handed it to Xu Jin.
The fox is more than two feet long, with snow-white hair and pure hair, and a fluffy tail behind it is even more beautiful.
Xu Jinda liked her from the bottom of her heart and was already thinking about asking Mama Wang to help her make a fox scarf.
But she was about to pick her up, and Xu You pressed her shoulder lightly. Xu Jin couldn't help but stop. Xu You asked in confusion: "Is this Dabai Hunter?"
His eyes fell on Qi Jing's face, with a little exploration.
The fox was not bitten, no wonder Xu You suspected it.
Qi Jing calmly explained: "It was Dabai who chased me. When Uncle Pang and I rushed over, the fox was lying on the ground, probably because he was scared.
Uncle Pang took the opportunity to knock the fox hard on the head, and the fox died."
He looked directly at Xu You, "Uncle, if there was no Dabai, we would definitely not be able to catch it, so you can accept it."
The boy looked natural and didn't dodge at all. Xu You was uncertain again. After all, his daughter was only eleven years old after the New Year...
He nodded and smiled and said to Qi Jing: "Then you are welcome, uncle, okay, go in and warm up quickly. Your grandfather and grandmother must also look forward to you coming back soon."
Qi Jing said "yes" and led the horse away, and did not look back until he entered the door.
Xu You laughed at himself, it turns out that he was thinking too much.
After getting the fox, Xu Jin was very happy and handed it over to her father to take it. She led Dabai into the yard.
The big, two little and three sheep were still tied up on the tree. When Dabai saw it, he lowered his body and grinned at them, revealing his fierce look.
The goat family of three had never seen such shiny and sharp teeth, and they immediately shrank together and shivered.
Dabai was very satisfied with this and stopped scaring them. He followed their master in the back. His tail shook slightly when he walked, and he looked up from time to time to add his master's hand. His pleasing look was completely different from what he had just done.
"You are not allowed to scare them."
Xu Jin gently tapped Dabai, who was acting like a good person.
Mama Wang said that drinking goat milk is good for her health. What if Dabai scares the ewe?
The big diphtheria hair let out a whimper, lowered its head, and then raised it again for a while, tentatively adding the master's hand.
Xu Jin couldn't help laughing. When Dabai saw it, his drooping ears immediately raised up.
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The next morning, Xu Jin woke up early, thinking about asking about Qi Jing's hunting situation when he came to pick up the dog.
Yesterday my father was by my side, and neither she nor Qi Jing could say a few words.
I don’t know why, every time my father is present, Qi Jing will be silent and serious, which makes her inexplicably afraid to pester him and ask, as if she would make a mistake if she did that.
Although Qi Jing speaks calmly and sounds less exciting and interesting, on such a boring day when he is cold and lazy, some people are already very satisfied with Xu Jin.
"Are the girl awake?"
Baozhu heard the movement outside and leaned in. Seeing Xu Jin wearing clothes, she smiled and said, "Miss, it's snowing outside!"
"real?"
Xu Jin was overjoyed and asked her while quickly putting on her clothes, "Are you still in the middle of the house?"
She likes watching snow the most.
Before Baozhu could answer, Xu Jin jumped off the ground and ran to the door to see that it was indeed covered with silver and the snow in the yard was about one foot thick.
Xu Jin took a deep breath and the air was refreshing.
This was the first snow this winter. Xu Jin was very excited, and Dabai seemed to be even more excited than her. He curiously ran to the path where the maids got up early to clean up, lowered his head and sniffed the snow beside the road, stretched out his front paw and pressed it down, and then a cute plum blossom paw print appeared on the snow in a blink of an eye.
Dabai looked at the claw prints and turned his head to look at the owner. He was stupid and cute.
Xu Jin walked over with a smile, raised his foot and stepped on the big white claw print, leaving hers behind.
Seeing that his master also liked to play like this, Dabai was relieved immediately and ran to the snow, throwing out a piece of crystal snow.
Its hair is the same color as snow. If it weren't for the two sprouted ears and black noses, people wouldn't have noticed that there was a dog there.
Xu Jin was not afraid of the cold. Seeing Dabai having fun, she was also attracted to the fun, bent down and threw a snowball at Dabai.
She wanted to play snowball fights with Dabai, but Dabai didn't know that, so he got up habitually and picked up the things thrown by his master like before. He didn't expect that the snowball was different from those things and would break it as soon as he bites it.
The cold touch in his mouth was too unfamiliar. Before Dabai could land, he quickly spit out the snowball that was poked through holes with sharp teeth on his mouth and fell into pieces.
"Wang..."
Dabai ran to Xu Jin and wagged his tail aggrievedly, indicating that it wasn't that it didn't want to pick it up. It was really that strange that Xu Jin made him laugh and bent over. After laughing, he continued to accumulate snowballs and throw Dabai and also throw the pearls.
At first, Dabai was hesitant and didn't know whether to continue to take it. Later, Baozhu hid several times and couldn't help but start fighting back. Dabai immediately understood that this was a new way of playing, so he stopped waiting wherever he was stupid and fled around the yard.
In the quiet morning, Dabai's continuous screams and the little girl's crisp laughter all clearly reached the two houses next door.
Joy is contagious. In the corridor, Old Mrs. Qi stopped and smiled and said to Qi Jing: "This girl, A Jin, must be naughty again."
Qi Jing didn't say anything, but he was very curious about what she was laughing at. This curiosity was too strong, like the tip of the leaves in the forest swaying on his face with the wind, and it was all the time, and it wouldn't work until it was blown away.
Anyway, it is impossible to enter the mountain in the past few days. Qi Jing thought about it, went back to the house to pick up "The Grandson" and went to the Xu family.
Before Xu You could talk about this, he couldn't help but read it first.
At this time, Xu Jin, who had changed his clothes again, drank a bowl of hot goat milk with his mother, and his face was flushed and gratifying.
Unfortunately, his daughter is so popular that Jiang still wants to scold her. After giving her sweet date, he scolded her: "How long has Madam Wan been gone, and you have your tail exposed again?
It is for your own good that you don’t let you play with snow, otherwise you will catch a cold and you will definitely suffer in the future... You don’t have to worry about it now. If you really suffer, you will regret it!"
Chapter completed!