The Mighty First Wife of the Red Chamber

Before Jia Lian entered the room, Xia Ye was calling the nurse who usually brought the eldest sister with her, teasing the eldest sister while talking some homely things.

The little doll is really changing every day. When Xia Ye first wore it, the eldest sister could only speak simple words, but after a month, her eyebrows and eyes seemed to grow a little bit, revealing the unique appearance of a little girl, obediently shouting Saying "mother", she climbed onto Xia Ye's lap, sat on her lap, tilted her head, looked at the embroidery shed on her kang table, patted her hands, and said, "Huahua, Chongchong!" .”

Xia Ye doesn't know how to embroider. In her previous life, she was not a person who was good at manual work. She definitely couldn't embroider and knit a sweater. If a button of the clothes and pants were missing or the socks were torn, she could fiddle with the needle and thread a few times and travel through time. It’s different here. The requirements for women’s morality in ancient society included a female worker. Although Lin Daiyu is so weak, she still has to embroider one or two sachets a year, so Xia Ye came up with the idea. An idea, let Ping'er put her half-embroidered embroidery shed by her hand to pretend. She is the housekeeper's grandmother, and besides, she is sick. It would be nice if she could embroider a stitch or two every now and then. Well, I have to rely on the special needleworkers in the mansion.

Xia Ye teased the elder sister with the half-drawn embroidery shed, and asked, "What's the name of this bug? Does elder sister know?"

The eldest sister grinned, and for a long time she popped out a word: "Grasshopper!"

Both Xia Ye and the nanny laughed.The nurse said, "Sister, this is not a grasshopper, but a cricket. The grasshopper is green, the color of a blade of grass, and the cricket is black, like the bottom of a pot."

The elder sister half-understood and said: "Oh, it's a cricket! Mother, this is a cricket! Brother Lan gave me a grasshopper!" Li Wan's only son, Jia Lan, is eight years old this year. The thing that the little baby likes is here. The last time I came here, I gave the elder sister a straw cage with a weaving in it. Jia Lan told the elder sister that it was called a grasshopper, so in the eyes of the elder sister, anyone with this shape The bugs in my life are called Grasshoppers, and I only recognized it today.

According to the customs of the Jia Mansion, all brothers and sisters are taken by the wet nurse. First, it is convenient to eat human milk, and second, the wet nurse coaxes them to sleep at night, so the wet nurse is more like a mother than the biological mother.

The eldest sister is only a little over one year old now, so naturally she is still drinking human milk from her nursing mother. The ancient customs believed that human milk is nutritious. As long as the baby is willing to drink it and does not resist, she will continue to drink it. Some even drink it until they are five or six years old. wean.Although the Jia Mansion is not like this, most of the brothers and sisters drink until they are three or four years old before weaning. Even if they are weaned, they still keep the wet nurse to serve the brothers and sisters. It is necessary to take the responsibility of restraining the maids in the master's house and helping to teach the young master's words and deeds.In particular, the nurse of the girl is often married with the girl, so it is even more important.Xia Ye used to be familiar with the Red Mansions, and remembers a few details very clearly. Yingchun is about to get married, but she still has to be taught and beaten by her nurse, but her nurse is a shameless one. In order to be punished, she still stole Yingchun's Leisi Jinfeng District to make up for the shortfall, and even made a fuss for the soft-tempered Yingchun to say good things to her and keep her out, otherwise she would make trouble.In addition, Baoyu's wet nurse, Nanny Li, was not a fuel-efficient lamp. She took a big bag in Baoyu's room. Later, Baoyu drove her out to protect Xiren and other favorite maids. The management of wet nurses is relatively extensive, and at the same time, wet nurses often use money to waste money because they have nursed brothers and sisters, which also happens frequently in Jia's mansion.

As for Xia Ye, since he traveled here and took over the original owner's body, he naturally wanted to treat the original owner's daughter as his own. Therefore, the nurse who surrounded the eldest sister all day long and her way of raising her was naturally Xia Ye's. The first object of investigation, there is no room for a little difference.

Fortunately, after Xia Ye's careful consideration, this wet nurse is still a duty, and she doesn't have those flowery thoughts that try to be a domineering one based on the credit of nursing the eldest sister. However, the wet nurse is a wet nurse after all, and she has never read a book. I have learned to read and raised children by relying on the old experience and methods passed down from generation to generation. In Xia Ye's eyes, it is inevitable that they are some bad habits. During the period, before the responsibility of the housekeeper fell on her completely, Xia Ye often asked the wet nurse to bring the eldest sister over, and taught it to the wet nurse herself.

When Jia Lian entered the room, Xia Ye was holding the eldest sister in her arms, feeding the baby sweet apple puree with a small silver spoon, and told the wet nurse: "The eldest sister has teeth now, but she would rather be weaned. Feed her some delicious food. Also, these fresh fruits have to be eaten every day, the elder sister has weak teeth and can’t chew, so she scrapes them into mud with a small spoon and feeds her like rice paste.”

The eldest sister swallowed a mouthful of apple puree, grabbed the ground with her little hand, and said, "Mother, it's delicious, eat again."

"Okay, take another bite." Xia Ye smiled and raised the small silver spoon again, scooped up a full spoon, and fed it to the elder sister's mouth. The elder sister was so happy to eat that her eyes curled up with a smile, and said: " Delicious, more."

Xia Ye fed the eldest sister again, then raised her eyes, glanced lightly at Jia Lian who came in, and said, "Second master is back?"

Jia Lian was a little embarrassed. It seemed that he came and went in a hurry every time, and left without saying a word to his wife. He was also very negligent to his daughter. His impression was still of the eldest sister who was crawling around on the kang when she was a month old. At that time, a few months passed in a flash, and the eldest sister could speak.

Because Dad always leaves early and returns late, or even doesn’t come home, the elder sister has never seen him very much, but seeing that Jia Lian is different from the women in the room, tall and imposing, she shrinks her neck in fear and turns her head towards him. Xia Ye slipped into her arms, crying in a childish voice, "Mother, be afraid, be afraid!"

Xia Ye looked at Jia Lian, her tone was light but full of sarcasm, and she said, "Don't be afraid, elder sister, this is Daddy. Daddy is a busy person, so he doesn't see him easily, but he rarely sees him once, and he has a dark face like a door-to-door debt collector." Same, no wonder the eldest sister is afraid."

Jia Lian wanted to refute, but there was no way to refute, so he said awkwardly, "Who is like a debt collector? Am I not good-natured?" He squatted down again, softened his voice, and shouted: "Elder sister, Be darling, come to Daddy, Daddy loves eldest sister the most."

The eldest sister turned her head in Xia Ye's arms, glanced at Jia Lian, then plunged into her mother's arms again, hugging her tightly and not letting go.

Xia Ye helplessly shrugged her shoulders towards Jia Lian, and said, "Eldest sister doesn't even know her own father, so it's no wonder she sees you less often than she sees Baoyu. You don't call you a father, but an uncle. She might still believe it."

Jia Lian smiled wryly, the feeling of guilt towards his wife and daughter in his heart swelled from the size of soybeans to the size of peanuts.

Xia Ye was too lazy to play around with Jia Lian, and without saying a word, she said that her daughter should rest, and sent the nurse to carry the eldest sister back to the house to go to sleep, and she yawned herself, saying: "I went to the garden today. , I spent quite a while with Miss Lin, and now I'm tired, so please forgive me for not being able to accompany you, let An'er take care of you and make arrangements earlier."

Jia Lian didn't have much to say, firstly, she is now withered, and her daughter-in-law is not well, so she can't share the same room; secondly, she feels ashamed about marrying Second Sister You secretly, and she is afraid that she will ask something, so they go to bed. The houses are relatively safe, so I'll rest in An'er's house tonight.

An'er was graceful and graceful, serving Jia Lian to go to bed. Jia Lian was not in the mood today, and went to bed by herself, and was about to fall asleep, but An'er came forward and pushed his shoulder, saying: " Second master, I haven't had the ginseng soup yet."

Jia Lian took the cup from her hand, drank a couple of sips, then suddenly put the cup on the small cabinet next to the bed, frowned, and asked, "Well, what kind of soup and medicine do you drink every day, even good people become sick from it! "

An'er shrunk her neck in fright, and replied timidly: "How could it be? This is the second grandma who ordered the kitchen to prepare it for the sake of conceiving the servant girl. It was sent by someone. How could it make people sick? Second master But think too much."

"Second Grandma?" These words were like a flash of lightning flashing across the sky, and Jia Lian's mind was suddenly sober. He stared at An Er strangely for a while, and then showed a furious expression, and immediately stood up and put After getting dressed, he picked up the unfinished cup of decoction and strode out.