Chapter 019.

　　Since she was a child, her stomach and spleen are not good, the doctor said to drink congee to nourish the stomach, so Song's let people change the pattern for her to make congee. 　　Vegetarian porridge, meat porridge, but where she feels good, Song will not be stingy money, the sky and the north and south for her to find delicious ingredients. On the contrary, she has been pampered by her mother since she was a child, and the princesses in the palace are afraid that this is the case. 　　Thinking like this, Xie Shuning couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. 　　But those porridge food, her favorite is sugar porridge. 　　Boiled with glutinous rice, to the grain blossom, the aroma filled, soft and sticky time, and then drizzled with finely ground red bean paste as a topping. If it's autumn, you'll want to add some sweet osmanthus flowers to the top. The sweet flavor, even after many years, still lingered in Xie Shuning's mind. 　　"Ah Ban, the sugar porridge is time-consuming, so I'll have someone boil it for you some other time, okay?" Song hesitated, and finally inquired. 　　How could Xie Shuning not know that sugar porridge looked simple, but boiling it was extremely time consuming and laborious, and she would mention it on purpose. So she raised her head and looked at Xie Yuanmao pitifully with her watery eyes, calling out, "Father, Ah Ban can use the rice later." 　　Xie Yuanmao sniffed and laughed, reaching out to gently scratch on the bridge of her nose, responding, "Fine, if Ah Ban wants to eat, daddy will make sure to let Ah Ban eat it in her mouth before he does so." After saying that, he then turned to Chunping and ordered, "Let's make the dishes from the northern part of the country, and only ask the cook to add a sugar porridge. Choose the best pearl rice and boil it carefully." 　　"Yes, slave girl remembered." Chunping looked slightly different, smiled and answered, then retired. 　　Gui mom then also quietly retired, re-guarded the outside, and in the process redistributed the people brought from Yan Ling. Not many people, and are in the Song family as generous family with a long time, to this time is to be a good knock some good. 　　The house was quiet again. 　　Xie Shuning looked at her parents' expression, threw away the red rope in her hand, nestled into Song's arms, and quietly instructed her brother to follow suit and leaned into her father's arms. 　　And then she only giggled twice, playing with Song's white, thin and smooth fingers, while not raising her head to ask Xie Yuanmao: "Father, yesterday Barbara went to bed early, you didn't even tell Barbara, how did it take so long to come pick us up." 　　Some words, she was sure that her mother also wanted to ask, but her mother had never put her father's face in the first place, so she must not have asked directly in this way, so she did it for her! 　　Similarly, as she expected, the father simply could not speak clearly in front of the child. 　　She then added: "Father, are you not coming to fetch Ah Bán for such a long time because of that aunt we met yesterday?" As the words fell, she muttered in a voice that everyone could hear, "Barbara knows that person doesn't like Barbara." 　　Xie Yiyi also followed, "Yiyi'er also knows!" 　　"How could that be!" Xie Yuanmao's face was a little embarrassed, turning to carefully look at Song's expression, explaining, "She ...... is also not an aunt, in the future, do not shout like this." 　　Xie Shuning widened her eyes, staring at him with a curious expression, "If not an aunt, then who is she?" 　　Xie Yuanmao was speechless by his own daughter's question. 　　"Mother said that there is only father's cousin in the house, but that person made brother call her mother." Xie Shuning furrowed her brows in confusion, "Then if she is the mother, who is Mother? How could my brother and I have two mothers?" 　　"What nonsense, there is naturally only one mother!" Xie Yuanmao's embarrassment took on a bit of irritation, almost subconsciously fleeing. But after saying such words, he suddenly remembered that he himself also had two mothers, didn't he? It really is a pool of muddy water, and the more it flows, the muddier it gets! 　　Fortunately, Song did not care about his appearance, but instead persuaded, "Now that it is near the end of the year, it is not the time to talk about these things, so let's wait for the New Year first." 　　Xie Yuanmao slightly relieved, forced a smile, after a while heard that the seventh master of the Xie family Xie Yuanting came back, then hurried out to meet people. 　　Outside the snow is falling, intermittently rain, pattering cold. Xie Yiyi pestered Xie Shuning to play for a while, and recited a few poems to Song, was the temperature of the hot bed smoked a little drowsy, not much longer will be buried in Song's embrace head to sleep. Song called for someone to come in. 　　Xie Shuning was lying on her back on the kang, her small hand propped up on her jaw, and carefully looked at Xie Yiyi. 　　This kind of quiet time, she has not enjoyed for a long time. It is really greedy, even a moment is not willing to miss. 　　Just lamenting, Xie Yiyi side serving the big maid Bai Shao shrinking thin shoulders with Gui mother came in one after another. 　　Song's saw and laughed, "How come it's cold like this?" 　　There was a fire pit burning outside, so it shouldn't have been this cold. 　　Bai Shao smiled innocently and didn't say anything. 　　Mrs. Gui couldn't help herself, so she lowered her voice and said, "I didn't want to mention it, but the people we have on hand are all from the south and can't stand the cold, so I wanted to ask for more charcoal. This charcoal is worth a few silver dollars. Even the best silver wire charcoal, not much, but the housekeeper mom said that the charcoal of each room is a fixed amount, not a penny short of ours, there is no extra." Finished, she also seems to be a little angry, "slave girl thought, probably that person has the intention to trample on us. But you said, this kind of behavior is that the small family can not do is. Who would believe that? Which family buys charcoal for the winter and doesn't have more? If they don't, they can just send someone out to buy some more." 　　"Don't be ridiculous." Song's thinking more, "If she even wants to be catty about this, then she is not to be feared. I'm sure it wasn't that person's intention." 　　Xie Shuning listened on the sidelines and thought that it shouldn't be Chen's intention. Chen no matter how much she disliked them, she would never treat them harshly in terms of usage, and if she did so, it would only be her who would lose face. This matter is probably the lower part of those in charge of the mother's own initiative, want to take the opportunity to step on them in front of Chen's appearance. 　　But this was also an opportunity for them. 　　--She would not let go of this opportunity. 　　Xie Shuning then sat up and pretended to be worried, ''Mother, look at how Sister Bai Shao is freezing like this. Why don't we send someone out to buy some charcoal ourselves, otherwise, what if she gets sick from the cold? The bitter medicine, Ah Ban doesn't like it, and Sister Bai Shao definitely doesn't like it either." 　　Gui mama saw her talking like a young adult, and saying something so agreeable, she immediately agreed: "Mistress, the slave girl thinks that miss has a point, it's better for us to buy our own to prepare than to beg and look at others." 　　"Will this ...... thing be inappropriate?" Song was a little worried. 　　Gui mom also know in her heart that this will probably cause the old lady to be more unhappy, but she is afraid that even this small thing to be soft, the future Yanling group of people in this house will have more and more face. If the subordinate has no face, how can the master have any face? 　　"Mother, this is something Barbara understands." Xie Shuning put her hand on her chin and said with a smile, "If we didn't ask for charcoal from the government and went out to buy our own, that would be our fault. But didn't Nurse Nipple say that she had already sent someone to ask?"