Everyone in the palace had seen strong winds and waves. Liu was timid and was scared by Concubine Hui. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liu became ill.

Zhao Yanping invited a doctor, who prescribed a prescription for Liu to calm the spirit.

This shows that Liu's pure heart disease.

Zhao Yanping was a dull man, so he could only take Gillian and the children to find ways to make his mother-in-law happy. After raising her for seven or eight days, no news came from inside and outside the palace. No news was equal to good news. Liu finally slowly got up to her own mind, and the family was about to hold a wedding for Cui Niang, so Liu regained her spirits and smiled again.

Cui Niang’s marriage is scheduled to be on the tenth day of the first lunar month.

The Ye family deliberately held the New Year's banquet together with this wedding banquet, invited relatives, friends and friends from the village neighbors, and helped variously, and even arranged more than a dozen tables, including tables in the house, yard, and in front of the door.

It was lunch here for the Zhao family. After a while, Ye Changsheng led the wedding team to Lion Lane to pick up his wife.

Ajiao gave Cui Niang three days off. Cui Niang lived in the Ye family for these three days. When the bride was about to go back, Cui Niang came back and then stopped going back to Ye’s house. She just waited for the next holiday before going to live there. Ye Changsheng was fine. He went out to do things during the day, and he came to Zhao’s house to stay in the Zhao family when he wanted to be with Cui Niang. When his parents were sick or busy farming at home, he lived in the village. He would do whatever he wanted.

The bride got into the sedan chair, and Guo Xing went to see her off as his brother.

As the wedding team walked away, the sound of blowing and beating became lower.

Xiao Chujin likes Cui Niang's bride dressing very much. Chunzhu and Dongzhu clean the red paper of firecrackers falling from the courtyard. Xiao Chujin stood among her father and mother and said to her mother enviously: "Mom, I want to get married too."

Tong Yan Wuji, Ajiao picked up her daughter and asked with a smile: "If you get married, you have to live at the groom's house. You can only go home three or two times a year. You can't see your father and mother in normal times. Do you still want to marry?"

When Xiao Chujin heard this, he immediately hugged his mother's neck and never wanted to get married again.

Zhao Yanping watched from the side, breathing a sigh of relief, but still felt uncomfortable.

Time flies so quickly that he can keep his daughter for more than ten years at most. He will get married sooner or later, and he will not be able to keep it.

How ridiculous. When I got married, I wanted to let Gillian marry her soon. It was my turn to marry her daughter, but I hope her daughter would grow up a little slower and not be confused by the handsome boy from any family so quickly.

When Cui Niang was away, the Zhao family was made with Dongzhu and Bailing. The two maids rarely went to the kitchen and could eat what they cooked, but the taste was far from Cui Niang's cooking skills. The adults didn't say anything. Xiaochu was straightforward and the food was not delicious. She didn't want to eat it after taking a bite, which made Bailing feel embarrassed.

Zhao Yanping and Jiao discussed buying a little maid in the kitchen, usually helping Cui Niang, and learning cooking from Cui Niang. When Cui Niang returns to Ye’s house, or when she is pregnant and becomes inconvenient to cook, she will let the little maid cook, so as to save the other maids from making bad food and the whole family will lose appetite.

A Jiao thought it was feasible, so Cui Niang went to the house to live in. There was an extra room on the maid's room. The Zhao family now had the financial resources to use another maid. But the little maid wanted to leave it to Cui Niang to take care of it. It would be better to wait until Cui Niang comes back. When Renyazi brought people over, he also asked Cui Niang to take the initiative and choose someone who was well-behaved, smart and in line with everyone's eyes.

Three days passed by. On the day when he returned home, Ye Changsheng came back with Cui Niang.

Gillian asked Guo Xing to entertain Ye Changsheng, and by the way, she reminded Ye Changsheng of several family rules of the Zhao family. She called Cui Niang into the house to ask questions.

"What does his parents and grandmother treat you?" Jiaozhao asked with the most concern.

Cui Niang's face was flushed and said with a smile: "It's pretty good. I want to help cook, clean the pot and clean the yard. The family doesn't want me to do it, and I don't say anything because we want to live here. The neighbors are a little annoyed, and they come to visit each other a few times, and they actually want to see what I look like."

Gillian smiled and said, "It's like this when the new wife comes in. I was just with the official, right?"

Cui Niang still remembers that they were all old ladies and wives, who were looking for Mrs. Zhao, but actually came to see her wife.

When Jiao was relieved when she learned that the elders of the Ye family were very nice to Cui Niang, she asked Ye Changsheng if he was good to Cui Niang.

Cui Niang blushed, lowered her head and twisted her fingers, and she was extremely shy.

Men treat her well, but they are too clingy at night, like a strong cow. They have to plow two or three times a night, which makes her waist sore. Fortunately, she doesn't have to do things at the Ye family these days, otherwise she would not have the strength to get up early to cook.

Gillian was a person who came here. When she saw Cui Niang's face, she guessed that the couple had a very good relationship. Without asking any more questions, she patted Cui Niang's hand and mentioned that she wanted to buy a little maid at home.

Cui Niang was not happy at first, thinking that she could manage the kitchen well and there was no need for the official wife to spend an extra penny of hiring people. Until Gillian mentioned that she would be pregnant sooner or later, even if she could be busy until she had a baby, she would have to rest during confinement. Cui Niang was not so happy to agree.

On the second day, Gillian asked Yazi to bring a few little maids, all of whom were about ten years old.

These little girls are either orphans or sold by their parents. They all look like little bean sprouts, and each looks pitiful than the other. Gillian sympathizes with sympathy, and she can't afford to support so many idle people at home. She asked Cui Niang to take a few little girls to the kitchen for the exam to see who has the talent to cook.

The assessment hosted by Cui Niang was nothing more than checking whether the knife skills were sophisticated and whether it was done smoothly. When he brought someone out, Cui Niang pointed to the shortest yellow-faced girl and said, "Madam, don't look at her youngest, she has the most skillful hands and feet. She should have cooked food at home before."

Gillian called out the little girl and asked her what she was named, where she was from, and what was happening at home before.

The little girl was thin and small, with a hungry face. When she looked at Ah Jiao, she said nervously: "My name is Zhaodi. She is nine years old this year. She is from Jizhou. Her family is poor, so her parents sold me. Madam, I am very obedient. I will learn whatever you ask me to do. You can buy me!" After that, the little girl knelt down.

Since she passed Cui Niang's assessment and looked sensible, Gillian bought her with four taels of silver. Zhaodi's name was not good, Gillian gave her a new name, Qiao Niang, hoping that the little girl could learn Cui Niang's good cooking skills.

Qiao Niang kowtowed to the master with gratitude, followed Renyao back to pack up her things, and then came back with a worn-out bag. According to the rules, she opened the bag and inspected it for the owner. There were only two sets of patched clothes inside, and a wooden cicada carved from the wood, which looked a little old.

Gillian asked her where Mu Chan came from.

Qiao Niang lowered her head and red eyes and said that when her parents sold her, her younger brother stuffed it to her. Her younger brother liked this wooden cicada the most and didn't usually give it to her, but she suddenly gave it to her that time.

Ajiao guessed that the situation at Qiao Niang's house was also guessed, and sighed and asked Dongzhu to send Qiao Niang to the placement.

Xiao Chujin has been staying with her mother. After Qiao's mother left, she asked her curiously: "Mom, why did Qiao's parents sell her?"

Gillian sighed: "Because my family is poor and I can't live anymore, I have to sell people to exchange for money."

Xiao Chujin blinked her clear big eyes: "Then why not sell Qiao Niang's younger brother?"

Gillian didn't know how to explain to her daughter.

When my mother didn't say anything, Xiao Chujin suddenly felt a little nervous and hugged her legs and asked, "Mom, do we have money? Our family can't live anymore. Will you and Daddy sell me too? Don't you sell my brother?"

The child didn't know anything. Gillian's eyes heated up, and she picked up her daughter and said in secretly: "If you don't sell it, you and your brother will not sell it. Our family has money. Even if we don't have money, my father can go to the wharf to carry rice, and my mother can help people make needles and threads. She will not sell it to you and your brother no matter what."

Xiao Chujin felt relieved and patted her mother on the shoulder: "Mom has no money, I still have New Year's money, I will give it to her."

Gillian burst into tears and laughed. Her daughter is so young, she already knows how to be filial to her mother.

Xiao Chujin is not only filial to her mother, but she also understands that Qiao Niang is very pitiful. After she separated from her mother, Xiao Chujin went to look up two toys she liked and asked to give them to Qiao Niang.

Liu agreed, but Gillian did not stop him and turned around and told Zhao Yanping about this.

Zhao Yanping praised his daughter for being sensible, but thought to himself that even if he died of poverty, he would not be able to sell his children.
Chapter completed!