It snowed for seven or eight days only halfway through November, and it continued to be cloudy for several days.

After dinner in the morning, Mao Xiaosui went to the grain house, rummaged here and there, and finally walked out the door, stopped by the wall, and called Mao Mingzhu.

Mao Mingzhu came out and asked her, "What's wrong?"

"Do you still have cabbage at home?" There were only three left from the eight before, which was not enough for the New Year.

"No more." Mao Mingzhu replied.

Mao Xiaosui was about to go to the market to buy some, but Li Lianxin came out and shouted, "I have some at home."

"Five coppers?" she asked.

"Five copper coins." Li Lianxin asked, "How many do you want? I'll get them for you."

"Give me ten."

Li Lianxin hurriedly responded and entered the door.

Mao Xiaosui went back to the house and counted out the money.

Li Lianxin came up quickly, and Li Mei each carried a basket.

Li Lianxin smiled and said, "Can you take a look?"

Mao Xiaosui glanced at it, made sure it was okay, nodded and gave her the money.

"Auntie, count."

"No more." Li Lianxin said, "I trust you."

The two walked out, and Li Lianxin asked casually, "Where is Li Yunshan? Why didn't you see him?"

"Auntie." Li Yunshan came out of the hut and called her.

Li Lianxin said "Oh", "I'm back."

Mao Xiaosui nodded, entered the door with Li Yunshan, and asked him, "Will the food be paid soon?"

"The village chief will inform you."

After talking, the village chief came at noon. When he entered, he teased Li Ankang for a while, and then said, "I'll go to the town tomorrow."

Li Yunshan nodded in agreement.

After the village chief left, he went to the grain house to carry grain.

There were a lot of messy things inside. Li Yunshan packed the nuts in sacks and put the bones into the basket.

Mao Xiaosui came in with a basin and dug out a bowl of white flour to make noodles. Li Ruyi and Li Ankang shouted for cakes as soon as they saw Mao Xiaosui kneading the flour.

Mao Xiaosui responded nicely and kneaded the dough first before digging out a bowl of white flour and boiling it with boiling water to make sugar cakes.

Most of her family eats rice, and there is still some flour milled last year. If she steams more steamed buns during the New Year, she may not have much left.

Thinking of this, she asked Li Yunshan, "What are you going to do today?"

"Nothing to do, just chop wood and kill rabbits in the afternoon."

"Then grind some noodles. There won't be much left after the New Year."

"Okay." Li Yunshan nodded, "I'll go as soon as I finish."

Mao Xiaosui said "hmm" and started making cakes at Li Ruyi's urging.

When she finished kneading the dough and started wrapping it in honey, Li Yunshan also went out carrying the food.

The sugar cakes were made quickly. When the first cake came out of the pan, she tore it in half and divided it between the two children. The second cake came out of the pan and put it into a bowl. She looked at the two of them and asked, "Do you want to send a cake to daddy?"

"Yes." Li Ruyi raised his hand.

She carried a bowl by herself, and when she took another bowl, she found that she couldn't eat, so she poured half of her own into it, put on her clothes, and went out with it.

Li Ankang followed like a follower.

She couldn't make many sugar cookies for a bowl of noodles, so she ate one, and after the two children were full, she took the rest and ate it with Li Yunshan.

Li Yunshan was grinding the mill with one hand and eating the cake with the other. He did not forget to urge her, "Go back, it's cold in the brothel."

"Are you cold?" she asked with a smile.

Li Yunshan shook his head, "I'm not afraid of the cold."

Mao Xiaosui was going back with the bowl in hand. At the intersection, he saw a woman coming up from the village entrance. She looked quite old and was holding a flowered handkerchief.

Women in the village also use handkerchiefs, mostly mended from useless clothes. They usually use them to wipe their hands, but most of the time they don't always hold them in their hands like she does.

She murmured in her mind what this man was doing. After staring for a while, she saw the man running to the top without hesitation.

When she saw her, she pointed at her home and asked with a smile, "Is this Li Yunshan's home?"

"Yes." Mao Xiaosui nodded, "What's wrong with you?"

The man grinned with yellow teeth, as if he had picked up silver. "Of course something happened, a good thing."

Mao Xiaosui raised his eyebrows, "What's a good thing?"

The man came closer to her and whispered, "Li Yunshan's good deeds."

Mao Xiaosui looked at her, then looked into the brothel, and asked her, "What good thing does Li Yunshan do?"

The man still wanted to laugh, so Mao Xiaosui asked directly, "Tell me what's good."

"Someone asked me to be a matchmaker for Li Yunshan."

Mao Xiaosui had almost guessed it from this man's attitude, but he was still a little surprised when he heard it from his own mouth, "He already has a wife, so why should he be a matchmaker?"

"Who doesn't know that Li Yunshan's mother-in-law is a bought fool?" The man disagreed, "The girl in that family who asked me to be the matchmaker is really handsome..." She wanted to praise her again, but Mao Xiaosui smiled and asked her, "I am so handsome." ?"

The matchmaker looked at her, leaned over and whispered, "That's not true. You little lady is really fair and handsome."

Mao Xiaosui turned to Li Yunshan and shouted, "Someone is trying to match you, come here and listen."

Li Yunshan had seen these two people talking before and thought it was something. After hearing Mao Xiaosui's shout, they also walked out, thinking he heard wrongly.

"say what?"

"Matchmaker." Mao Xiaosui looked at him with a smile, "Hurry up and invite the matchmaker to come in and sit down."

Li Yunshan frowned and just as he was about to speak, Mao Xiaosui started to flick his wrist and said, "Please come in and sit down."

Li Yunshan glanced at her inexplicably, then called Heizi and took the matchmaker home.

Mao Xiaosui didn't hold his voice down, and some people who heard the commotion had already come out to watch the fun.

Mao Xiaosui asked him to go in first and waited for Heizi to come over.

Heizi lay down in the brothel, what's going on with Mao Xiaosui among everyone? Are you really here to mediate with Li Yunshan? Li Yunshan won’t really marry, will he? He calmly returned home amidst various remarks, called Li Ruyi and Li Ankang to go out to play, and blocked the courtyard gate.

Li Yunshan stood in the main room, and the matchmaker kept talking.

He was obviously confused when he saw her coming in. He looked behind her again and said for a long time, "Are you Mao Xiaosui?"

"Yes." Mao Xiaosui asked her with a smile, "Who is that girl you just mentioned? How old is she?"

It was the first time for the matchmaker to see such a person, and she was a little confused by her smiling look, so she still said "from the Liu family."

"Liu family?" Mao Xiaosui looked at Li Yunshan, "Where are they?"

"It's a bit far." Li Yunshan was even more confused than she was.

Mao Xiaosui nodded, "Continue."

The matchmaker came to the door happily, but now Mao Xiaosui asked her about her misconception of being interrogated.

Reply honestly, "That person is still a relative of your family."

"Relatives?" Mao Xiaosui still nodded, "Whose relatives are they?"

The matchmaker's voice became much softer, "That person is Li Yunshan's cousin."

Not to mention Mao Xiaosui's confusion, Li Yunshan also couldn't understand.

He still had work to do, so he said impatiently, "Who are you talking about? Tell me clearly."

"Her aunt is your second aunt. Didn't your second aunt mention this to you?"

Mao Xiaosui showed a look of realization and said, "Then why didn't she come along? She wants to get married and she expects Li Yunshan to go see her."

The matchmaker's eyes widened, "Do you agree to let her in?"

She remembered that when Liu Fang first asked her to be a matchmaker, she said that Mao Xiaosui was a shrew. Looking at it this way... how could he look like a shrew? She was obviously very talkative, and if she hadn't promised to give her five taels of silver afterwards, she wouldn't have done such an unethical thing.

Seeing that Mao Xiaosui was so talkative, he immediately laughed, "Okay, okay...I'll go back and tell her."

"You have to be able to speak, don't let the girl think I'm trying to intimidate her."

"Okay..." The matchmaker was about to leave immediately. After opening the curtain and going out, she suddenly remembered that the person meant to drive Mao Xiaosui out. Then she thought that it was none of her business if she couldn't be kicked out. She was just a matchmaker. "

After they left, Mao Xiaosui turned around and found Li Yunshan staring at her.

She looked confused, "What's wrong?"

Li Yunshan still stared at her, his brows a little unhappy, "Why aren't you angry at all?"

"Angry?" Mao Xiaosui bared his teeth, "Do you see that I'm angry?"

She snorted, "You'll know how angry I am when you see how hard I slap people."

Li Yunshan smiled after hearing this, "I'm going to grind flour."

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