Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Baoyu has always been in awe of Jia Zheng like a tiger. Hearing this, he immediately put his mind away, and hurriedly laughed with him: "I just don't want to play, my good sister, please don't tell your wife about it."

Xi Ren said: "Second master should also remember it. Now that he hasn't gone to school for a long time, don't always do these unimportant jobs. It's good to study for a while when you are free. Even if the master knows it, he will be happy. "

Baoyu didn't like to listen to these reading words the most, but he also knew that attacking people had good intentions, and he didn't want to argue with her, so he said perfunctorily: "Got it, I'll go to Sister Lin's room to have a look, and I'll talk about it when I come back."

After that, he ran away in a hurry.

Seeing this, Xiren sighed secretly. Baoyu has a eccentric temperament, and every time he advises, he just ignores it, and his heart is really depressed. He has to find a way to get rid of his weird temper. inside.

But people managed to coax Baoyu to get close to her for a while, but she was stabbed horizontally by the attacker, and she felt very upset. Seeing her virtuous demeanor again, she couldn't stand it even more, and opened her mouth to sarcasm, charming He had always been on good terms with her, so when he saw this, he tugged on her skirt and shook his head lightly, but he had no choice but to shut his mouth unwillingly.

The charming woman dragged her into her room, poured her a cup of tea, saw that her face was still angry, sat down beside her, and said with a smile: "What a big deal, why are you still so angry? I'm not afraid to let you People saw the joke."

Ke Ren sneered and said: "Who am I, but I just don't know the seriousness, a little girl who can only seduce the master and make trouble. She is a first-class girl, what can I do?"

Charm didn't like it when she heard this, and hurriedly said: "You are also confused, she is just afraid that the master and wife will find out, and it is for the good of everyone."

But Ren snorted coldly, and said bitterly: "I just don't accept it. We grew up here since we were young, and we have served Baoyu for the longest time. She is just a fluffy girl bought with a few taels of money from outside. Stepping on our heads? But I am used to being small-hearted and courteous, flattering and flattering, coaxing Baoyu to obey her, and everyone says she is virtuous, so we are bought from outside!"

She was originally a deacon girl assigned by Mrs. Wang to Baoyu's side, but later the attacker came, and she had to retreat to the second line. She fell back a shot.

Now Baoyu is 11 years old, every day seems to be getting older, after two or three years, it will be almost time for someone to take care of her. She is more than three years older than Baoyu, so she can't help feeling a little anxious.

Charming laughed

: "Since you are not convinced, you can pick out her faults. If you can pick out her mistakes, I will convince you."

Keren was speechless for a moment, pursed his mouth tightly and remained silent.

The charming man looked at her for a while, then smiled and said: "How? Can't you pick it out? That's all, she is in the old lady's house anyway, and even the wife wants to show some face. She didn't mean to do this today. To stab you, why do you have to make things difficult for her, let people know that you are stingy and can't tolerate others."

Keren pursed her lips and said, "I just can't understand her acting like Baoyu, bossing us around, treating herself like a concubine..."

Halfway through the speech, Fang felt a slip of the tongue and hurriedly stopped talking, but his face slowly turned red.

Charming stayed for a while, then suddenly realized, and said: "It turns out that you are because of this, it's just that Baoyu is so old, how can it be this time, and you are thinking too early?"

But people blushed when they heard the words, and said: "I don't believe you haven't thought about it at all? Could it be that you really want to be married to a boy when you are old? The daughter you gave birth to is still a slave! Or hire someone out to marry a poor man. Worry about the poor life of firewood, rice, oil and salt every day?"

The charming man blushed immediately after hearing this, and said nothing.

But the man snorted and said: "At this moment there are no outsiders anyway, and today I am not afraid to be ashamed, so I just made it clear.

You also know the rules in our house. Before the men get married, two people should be served in the house. The first aunt is the most respectable. As long as there is no serious mistake, even the master and grandma will give two points of respect. To be able to give birth to a son and a half daughter is to have a firm foothold, and the rest of the life can be counted as hope. "

The charming listened thoughtfully.

But people took a look at her and said: "Baoyu is getting bigger and bigger every day. In a few years, my wife will definitely arrange for two people. If Baoyu's heart can be captured first, then it will be the first one.

You look at the behavior of that Western Habar, isn't that the same idea?I won't let people do it anyway, if you don't care, you may be robbed by her at that time, think about it yourself. "

After saying that, he lifted the curtain and went out, leaving the charming woman in a daze.

After that, Keren really did what she said that day, she acted more attentively and carelessly, followed Baoyu everywhere, played games with him, and urged Baoyu to make her rouge cream.

Baoyu liked these things at first, but he couldn't resist being coaxed, and became more and more interested. It happened that the weather was fine that day, but people took the lead in making a fuss, asking Baoyu to teach them how to make rouge and gouache. I picked a lot of blooming flowers in the garden, and taught them how to wash

Chenghua juice, how to mix it with fragrance, and how to grind mirabilis seeds to make powder, etc., is very lively.

Xiren saw that the trouble was really not good, so he couldn't help admonishing him a few words, but Baoyu was in high spirits, so he couldn't listen to him, but Mrs. Wang assigned him to be with Baoyu, and he had deep qualifications. Those who came out didn't have much to say. Seeing that they couldn't be persuaded, they had to swallow their worries and went back to their room to do needlework.

But people just wanted to coax Baoyu to make rouge for him, and wanted to win over Baoyu, but he never thought that he would lose his life because of this.

It is said that Baoyu has made rouge, put it in a small white jade box, and sent it to Daiyu, saying: "I washed it with flower juice and steamed it with fragrant dew. Bring it here." Wiping your face is the most moisturizing and beautifying, and the color is also pretty, sister, do you like it?"

Daiyu was sitting under the window reading a book, when she heard that she had turned a page of the book, without raising her head, she said, "Thank you, second brother, for your kindness, but I am not yet old enough to use makeup, and besides, I am filial, so I can't use these things." , you take it and give it to someone else."

Baoyu pouted when she heard the words, and said, "I made this specially for my sister. You should keep it. It's good for sister Zijuan and the others. I'll make better ones for you in two years, okay?" good?"

Hearing this, Daiyu raised her head, glanced at Baoyu, put down the scroll in her hand, and sighed: "Second brother, I don't need you to make rouge for me. We are not children anymore. One year old and two years old, you Don't mess around with our team all the time."

After that, he ignored him and went into the house with his books.

Baoyu suddenly seemed to have poured a basin of cold water, and stood there in a daze, concentrating. Fang came out in a trance, but at a loss, with his hands behind his back and his head lowered, he walked slowly to the hall; Turning around the screen door, I didn't want to see a person coming from the opposite side, who was walking in, but happened to bump into Man's arms.Only to hear the man shout: "Stop!"

Baoyu was taken aback, and when he looked up, it was none other than his father.Unconsciously, he gasped and had to stand aside with his hands down.

Jia Zheng frowned and said, "It's fine, what are you doing with your head down!"

While speaking, you might as well see a bloodstain the size of a button on Baoyu's left cheek, startled immediately, and said: "What is this on the face? Where did you get hurt?"

Baoyu was stunned, and wiped his hands casually. When he saw a little bright red on his hands, he knew that it was splashed when he was mixing the rouge cream just now. After getting it, he faltered and said: "No... no

been injured. "

Seeing that he was not injured, Jia Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, but he was a little suspicious, "Since he was not injured, what are these things?"

Baoyu had always been afraid of Jia Zheng, but at this moment he was so frightened that his bones became limp and his tendons froze.

Jia Zheng saw that he was so flustered, he hesitated and dared not speak, he couldn't help being a little suspicious.Fang shouted: "The evil of death, you have not brought it from the truth!"

Baoyu was taken aback, not daring to hide it anymore, and said in a low voice, "It was just... just... when I washed the rouge cream for the girls."

After hearing this, Jia Zheng became angry, and shouted: "You bastard! You were lying to me when you complained about your illness before, and you neglected your studies at home. It turns out that you are messing around with these things!"

For a moment, I remembered that Jia Baoyu didn't want to catch Zhou's other things. He only wanted to play around with the hairpin and hairpin, and he was always greedy for fun. And in one place, he became more and more angry, and immediately asked the boy to take it to the hall, and beat him with a board.

Fortunately, Jia Zheng was also afraid of causing accidents if he beat him seriously, and he was afraid of causing Jia's mother to worry, so he didn't hit hard, but stopped after hitting him a few times, and ordered someone to carry him back to the room.

When Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang heard the news, they were anxious and angry, and rushed to Baoyu's room. Seeing that it was only a flesh injury and nothing serious, they were relieved. They just felt distressed and cried around Baoyu.

Xiren and the others were also crying like tearful people. Those who were irrigated were irrigated, and those who were given medicine were in a mess.

Li Wan was eating fruit in Sister Feng's courtyard with Daiyu and Yingchun sisters, when he heard the news, he hurried over.

Later, Lai Lin's family and others also came to visit one after another. Baoyu's beating can be said to have made Jia's house very noisy.

After tossing for a long time, Baoyu finished taking the medicine, and put on the stick sore medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis on the wound, and felt that the pain was much better. Sisters-in-law and sisters, go back and rest."

Jia's mother was getting old, and she really couldn't hold on after this scene, so she ordered the maids to take care of her, and said to Baoyu, "It's a good time to take care of it. Just send someone to tell your sister Feng what you want to eat."

Baoyu agreed, and Sister Feng helped Jia Mu back to her room to rest.

Mrs. Wang also gave instructions, telling Daiyu and her sisters to go back to their rooms. Fang took Li Wan's hand and went back to the room. He called Zhou Rui's family over and said in a deep voice, "Go and find out why the master is angry. .”

Zhou Rui's family hurriedly agreed to go, and came back after a while, glanced at Mrs. Wang's face, and told the whole story about what happened when Jia Zheng accidentally bumped into Baoyu when she was asked to make rouge cream.

Mrs. Wang's face was as sinking as water, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I said, what did the good master beat Baoyu, it turned out that it was all caused by this little hoof!"

The companion of Zhou Rui's family said with a smile: "This guy looks like a good person, but who knows that it is so bad now."

Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth and said, "Go and bring Keren over here, as well as other girls, big and small, from Baoyu Courtyard!"

When Li Wan saw this, he knew that things were going to be bad. Baoyu was the lifeblood of Mrs. Wang, and now that something like this happened, he was afraid that he would be doomed.

Zhou Rui's family took the order to go, and brought over a group of girls from Baoyu's room after a while.

Seeing Mrs. Wang's expression was different from before, Xiren Keren and others trembled for a while, and kept silent like a cicada.

Mrs. Wang sat at the head, and said coldly, "Who made Baoyu make rouge?"

Keren suddenly turned pale, lowered his head and shrank his neck, not daring to answer.

Mrs. Wang glanced at Keren coldly, and said with a serious face: "Why, you dared to do it before, but now you dare not say it?"

But knowing that he couldn't escape, his knees softened and he knelt down.

Mrs. Wang took a look at her, and saw that she was wearing a pink flowered jacket and a jade skirt, and she was very neatly dressed. When she thought that she was hooking Baoyu to eat the rouge on her mouth, she became more and more annoyed, and sneered: "I looked at her before." You are a good man, so I sent you to Baoyu's side, but who would have thought that you would seduce Baoyu to make trouble first, and all good men will be provoked by you!" After saying that, he ordered the mother-in-law to take Keren out, "Take her The family called and took her out!"

But when the person heard that he was struck by lightning, he kowtowed desperately and cried, "I don't dare anymore! My wife wants to beat and scold, just let me go, don't tell me to go out!"

Mrs. Wang is indeed a kind and generous person, and she has never hit a girl before, but because of Aunt Zhao, she hates romantic and beautiful people the most in her life, and she regards precious jade as her heart. Today, Keren's behavior like this really offends her Even though Keren begged hard, he refused to take him in. In the end, Keren's mother was called to take him out.

That lovely person went out with shame and humiliation, he didn't want to hear other people's sarcasm often after returning home, at the same time he felt ashamed and ashamed, within half a month he recovered from his illness, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

But she said that Mrs. Wang was afraid that the girls would teach Baoyu badly, so she kicked out Keren, and started attacking people again, so that the little girls who did rough work watched them all in person.

Instruct Xiren, Meiren and others: "Be careful! If you let me know that Baoyu is instigating nonsense again, I will not forgive you! Go!"

Meiren and the others were already heavily clothed with sweat, and their faces were as white as paper. Hearing this, they hurriedly agreed.

When everyone returned to the room, Baoyu knew the whole story. He only thought that Mrs. Wang was just asking someone to reprimand her, and it was no big deal.She wanted to intercede for Keren, but she expected it would be irreversible, and when Mrs. Wang was furious, she didn't dare to say much, she just cried secretly.

Baoyu was only injured on the skin and flesh, and after seven or eight days of care, he was basically healed, but he still excused his illness and refused to go to school.

Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang felt sorry for him when he was ill, and they were omnipresent, so Jia's mother passed on a message to Jia Zheng, saying that Baoyu would be spared from going to school, and even family contacts, morning and evening, and so on were at his discretion. up.

Jia Zheng wanted to take care of it, but Jia's mother was dissatisfied before, and now she dared not say anything more.

Moreover, Jia Zhu's youth died early because of studying too hard and hurting his roots. Now there is only Baoyu, a legitimate son, born weak, and Jia Zheng dare not force him to study, for fear that he will suffer like the eldest son. body, and finally ended up dying prematurely.

Half a month later, when the news of Keren's death came, everyone was a little surprised. The charming mandarin ducks and others grew up together with Keren, so they were very sad.

Li Wan also secretly sighed for a while. Originally, among secular men, few men respected their daughter's family like Baoyu. Different from the concept of patriarchy in today's world, his idea of ​​equality between men and women is actually higher than that of the world. However, he is hard to escape. Dude's habit, today's Keren, and future Jin Chuan'er, although they have their own shortcomings, but if Baoyu hadn't acted unscrupulously, they would not have ended up like this.

When Baoyu heard that Keren had died, he wept bitterly, and quietly asked someone to send a few taels of silver to Keren's family, but he did not dare to let Mrs. Wang know.

But as soon as the person left, there was a vacancy around Baoyu, so Mrs. Wang planned to call Caixia, the second-class girl beside her, to Baoyu's side, and talked to Jiamu about it when she said hello that day.

After hearing this, Jia's mother said, "Let's call Qingwen beside me. I remember that Baoyu liked the needlework made by this girl very much before. Qingwen has always been clever, so I will hand over all the needlework in Baoyu's room to her in the future.

Besides, the girl Qianxue in my house is also safe, so I gave it to Baoyu together. "

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wang laughed quickly and said, "Of course the old lady's girl is good, but she missed Baoyu."

Mrs. Wang was naturally pleased that Jia's mother loved Baoyu so much, but

Then I thought that as Baoyu's own mother, I couldn't even make decisions about a girl's affairs, and I couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

The next day Qingwen and Qianxue went to Baoyu's room. Baoyu was sad because of Keren's death. Now that she had Qingwen's two very smart and beautiful girls, she gradually felt happier.

But because of Baoyu's beating, Jia's mansion was in a hurry. Seeing that it was almost the twelfth day of February, Daiyu's birthday, there was no movement in the mansion.

Li Wan sighed secretly, this year Daiyu's tenth birthday, just looking at Mrs. Jiamu Wang and others seemed to have completely forgotten about it.

Even in later generations, the birthdays of the full moon, one year old, ten year old, and adulthood are extremely important events, and elders must come forward to host a banquet for relatives and friends.

This era is also similar, but the coming-of-age ceremony is slightly different. Women reach the age of [-], while men reach the crown at [-].

Daiyu now lives in Jia's mansion, so the elders in Jia's mansion will naturally have to take care of her birthday, and it is her first birthday after her filial piety. There were two tables of banquets to celebrate, as Fang said, this was also a big event, but no one in charge of Jia's family remembered it.

Jia Mu always loved Daiyu, but after all she was old and forgetful, and she had to be reminded of many things by the maids around her, but now she didn't express anything, so she must have forgotten.

Not to mention Mrs. Wang, she always treated Daiyu indifferently, but recently she was bothered by Baoyu's beating, how could she remember this.

Sister Feng is similar, with many and complicated things, and Ping'er needs to be reminded about which people's weddings and weddings, which ones should give gifts on birthdays, etc. on weekdays.

Daiyu is a guest, so it's not easy to say anything, but if no one reminds her, I'm afraid this matter will pass by like this.

Thinking of this, Li Wan frowned slightly, lowered his head to think for a moment, called Danju over, and ordered: "Find a reason to find Ping'er, and quietly ask her if you have made any preparations for Miss Lin's birthday, and if not, call her Remind Feng girl in private."

That's all she can do.

Danju understood, took two flower patterns and went to Sister Feng's courtyard.

When I came to Sister Feng's courtyard, Ping'er was reconciling accounts with Sister Feng. Seeing Danju, she hurriedly got up to give up her seat, and said with a smile, "Sister Danju is here, please sit down quickly." He also asked someone to serve tea.

Danju greeted Sister Feng, and Fang smiled and said, "I just came over after tea, so don't be busy, sister."

Sister Feng laughed and said, "You are here now, but what's the matter with your grandma?"

Dan Ju hurriedly laughed and said: "It's not about our grandma,

It was my ex-son, Tuo Ping'er, who did some work and came here to pick it up today. "

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Ping'er and said with a smile: "I've sketched out the pattern my sister asked for earlier, and I'll bring it to you today. Have you ever done the wirework I asked you to do?"

Ping'er was startled for a moment, then understood, and said with a smile, "It's kept in my room, you follow me."

Dan Ju bowed to Sister Feng, and they went out.

Sister Feng glanced at the two of them, smiled and said nothing.

After a while, Danju went, Ping'er opened the curtain and came in, waved to the girl serving in the room, everyone saw that they knew that the two of them had something to talk about, so they went out.

Sister Feng saw that her expression was different, so she asked: "What's the matter, what did Dan Ju come to tell you?"

Ping'er told the story, with a bit of shame on his face, he said: "I was also confused, I forgot to remind grandma, I almost forgot Miss Lin's birthday."

Sister Feng was also taken aback, and sighed: "How can I blame you? There have been a lot of things going on in the house recently, Baoyu was beaten, and the eldest wife was ill again. I was in a hurry for a while, and I forgot about it. .” Having said this, he frowned again and said, “Why doesn’t anyone else remember.”

Ping'er sighed: "What's so strange about this? Although the old lady loves Miss Lin, she is old and can't remember so much; the wife is forgetful about many things, let alone Baoyu, who never pays attention to these things.

The second girl can't take care of herself; the third girl has Aunt Zhao who goes to make troubles from time to time; the fourth girl is still young and withdrawn, so she doesn't care about these things.

Only the eldest grandma is careful, kind and kind, and specially sent Danju to remind us. "

Sister Feng said: "Although she doesn't care about things, she has a book in her heart. She knows everything, but it's rare that she never points fingers. She has always treated people very well. If she didn't remember this time, I'm afraid the house will forget it. When the old lady finds out, she will definitely be angry, and even my wife and I will suffer."

Jia Mu had always loved Daiyu very much, and even the Yingchun sisters had come to rely on her, if she knew that the mansion had neglected Daiyu so much, she would be the first person to blame her, the head of the house.

Ping'er was a little puzzled, and said: "I see that although my wife treats Miss Lin politely, it's only on the surface. Everyone knows what's going on in my heart. Why is the grandma treating Miss Lin so wholeheartedly? Isn't she afraid of offending Mrs. Lin?" ?”

Sister Feng shot her a sideways look, "Little hooves, you are also the one who said the madam's gossip, let people listen carefully."

Ping'er said angrily: "There are no outsiders here, but we are in private

Tell me, what does it matter. "

Sister Feng took a sip of tea, and Fang said: "Don't look at my sister-in-law who is usually indifferent to everything, but in fact she has the most ideas, but she doesn't show it very much on weekdays.

She treats me and the girls very well, but she is more congenial with Sister Lin. She was the one who helped Sister Lin in front of his wife several times before. The wife will be so pleasant to sister Lin? "

After hearing this, Ping'er was silent, and said for a long time, "Miss Lin is also pitiful."

Sister Feng said: "Forget it, don't talk about these things, now there are only five or six days, so hurry up and take care of it.

Uncle Lin sent money and things here every year, and last year he sent 3000 taels of silver, but we even forgot Sister Lin’s birthday. Not to mention that Uncle Lin knew that we would be angry when we neglected Sister Lin, so it spread to people. If you know it, you have to laugh at our rudeness. "

He bowed his head and thought for a while, then ordered Ping'er to say: "Send someone to the big kitchen to say, first draw up the menu list for the banquet, and ask the buyer to prepare the things in advance; in addition, go to the warehouse to find some horses for the market Good silk and satin gauze, let the needleworkers rush to make four sets of good-colored clothes, and the color-matching embroidery workers must pay attention to it, and it must be done delicately."

Ping'er agreed, and Fang wanted to go out, but Sister Feng said again: "Wait a minute, then go to my dowry and find that red gold silk ruby ​​crested hairpin and the pair of jasper bracelets, and give it to Sister Lin as a birthday present."

Ping'er agreed and went to cook.

Sister Feng also washed up, changed her clothes and went to Jiamu's room.

It didn't take long to hear that Mother Jia gave Sister Feng 200 taels of silver to cook for Daiyu's birthday banquet.

Li Wan also felt relieved after hearing the news.

The next day, Li Wan was coaxing Jia Lan to sleep when she heard the girl outside say: "Miss Lin is here."

Li Wan looked up, but saw that Lin Daiyu had come in holding Zijuan's hand, and said with a smile: "Sister, please sit down."

Ask someone to carry the sleeping Jialan down, and ask Suyun to serve tea.

Daiyu sat down and took a sip of tea, then nodded to Zijuan, Zijuan led the maids down, Li Wan knew that Daiyu had something to say, and waved her hand to let Danju and others go down.

Daiyu saw that there was no one here, so Fang Zheng made a salute and said, "Good sister-in-law, thank you very much."

Li Wan's heart moved when he heard the words, and he turned sideways to avoid it, but said with a smile: "Sister, thank me for what?"

Daiyu took her hand and sighed: "Sister-in-law, don't you know that I don't know? Yesterday Zijuan said that she saw Sister Danju going to Sister Feng's courtyard.

Sister Laifeng went to the old lady's house again, and then began to help me with my birthday. I knew it was your credit. "

Li Wan secretly thought that Daiyu Bingxue was smart, seeing that she had guessed it, she no longer denied it, and said with a smile: "This is just a trivial matter, why should my sister be so polite."

Daiyu shook her head and said, "Good sister-in-law, I really thank you. I have been here for so many years, and my sister-in-law has always thought of me, and she thinks about everything in detail. Shouldn't I thank you for speaking?"

After finishing speaking, she lightly leaned on Li Wan's shoulder, and said with tears in her eyes, "Good sister-in-law, besides the old lady, you are the only one who treats me sincerely!"

Even though Jia's family is relatives' family, they are no more comfortable than their own family. Since coming here, she has been careful every step of the way, always caring, lest she be ridiculed and lose face of the Lin family.

Knowing that she was thinking of Lin Ruhai, Li Wan couldn't help feeling a little sad, stroked her hair lightly, and persuaded: "My good sister, there is no need to say these heretical things between you and me, you usually think too much about everything, don't you?" Didn't I ruin my own body, making the old lady look more troubled? Besides, my sister's illness is caused by excessive worry on a daily basis, which hurts her blood. You just need to relax and take care of your body, and you will be fine. , so as not to worry Uncle Lin."

Daiyu understood what she meant, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, nodded and said, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I understand."

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the twelfth day of the second month, and Daiyu changed into a newly made lotus-colored satin jacket, a red satin gown with double breasts, and a five-color gold cotton satin skirt, elegant and charming, just like fresh flowers and tender willows.

Sister Feng really did it very lively. She set up six tables of banquets in Jiamu's main room, and invited a group of very famous operas from outside. His wife, Qin Keqing, Li Wan, sisters Sanchun, Xiangyun and the other masters and girls of the Jia family all came.

Four tables were set up outside, and we invited Lai Da's, Lin Zhixiao's and other respectable daughter-in-laws in charge.

The banquet was held with the utmost excitement, which can be called a feast for the guests and host.

Today everyone has birthday presents. Apart from birthday peaches and silver thread noodles, Jia Mu also gave a set of extremely exquisite purple jade noodles; Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing are one set of clothes, shoes and socks, and two golden jade noodles. Necklace; Sister Feng is a red gold silk phoenix hairpin and a pair of jasper bracelets; Youshi is still a set of clothes, a pair of shoes and socks; A white jade bracelet; Baoyu sent a pair painted by himself

Fan noodles; Yingchun Xiangyun sisters all do their own needlework.

The rest of Lai Lin's family also had their own birthday presents, so there is no need to repeat them one by one.

In a blink of an eye, it was April again, and the weather was warm. Li Wan was practicing calligraphy under the window that day when he suddenly saw the steward's daughter-in-law coming in, holding a post in her hand, bowing and saying: "Grandma, a post was sent outside, yes For grandma."

Li Wan was startled when he heard the words. Yan Hui sent someone to deliver things two days ago. Who else would send her a post at this time? While thinking about it, Ming Suyun took it over, opened it, and immediately smiled: "Who am I? It turned out to be this girl."

Xia Zhu was tidying up her clothes. Since Mei Xiang went out last year, she has been in charge of Li Wan's clothes and jewelry. Hearing this, he asked in confusion, "Who is grandma talking about?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "Who else is our talented lady, your sister Fu Ling."

Now Fuling is the wife of a scholar, not a maid of the Rongguo Mansion back then, and a guest rather than a servant, so it is reasonable to deliver a letter of worship before going to the door.

Xia Zhu said happily: "Is it really Sister Fu Ling?"

Dan Ju happened to come in with a plate of washed fruits, and she was also very pleasantly surprised when she heard the words, "Didn't Sister Fu Ling say that she would go back to the south of the Yangtze River? Now she is back?"

Li Wan said: "Last year, she followed her husband-in-law back to Jiangnan to study for the exam. Now that she has returned to Beijing, there must be some reason."

Xia Zhu said: "Anyway, I'll just ask her tomorrow."

Li Wan nodded and ordered someone to reply to the post.

The next day, when the sky was clear and the sky was clear, a gray-haired old man was driving a blue cloth mule cart with simple decorations and walked unhurriedly in the crowded streets of Chang'an City. Although the old man was dressed plainly, But the blue cloth gown is very clean, and the material is also excellent muslin, passers-by can tell which servant it is at a glance.

Not long after, the car slowly arrived at the bustling part of Ningrong Street, and it was heading for Rongguo Mansion.

The carriage went to the second gate of Rongguo Mansion by itself, and when the coachman left, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old little girl got out of the carriage first, with a red headband tied in a double bun, wearing a red satin jacket and a green satin waistcoat, she was quite clean. pretty.

When the girl got out of the carriage, she raised the curtain and helped a young woman about 20 years old out.

It happened that Xia Zhu came out with a girl and woman, the young woman was overjoyed when she saw her, and said with a smile: "Sister Xia Zhu, why don't you come?"

Xia Zhu also smiled all over her face, and said with a smile: "Okay, thank you for remembering me, sister."

As he spoke, he stepped forward to support her, and looked at her carefully, only to see that she was wearing a pair of begonias and red butterflies with flowers on her body, and she was under her clothes.

Wearing a long emerald flower dress, with a lily bun on her head, in the middle of the bun is a plum blossom hairpin inlaid with red gold silk and red treasures, and a crimson peach in a pile of gauze is on one temple, with sporadic dots in her hair. Holding a few finger-sized rice bead flowers, and a pair of gold inlaid pearl lantern earrings swinging gently on the ears, she couldn't help but admire: "Oh, my sister, I haven't seen you for a year, and it's getting better."

Fu Ling pursed her lips and smiled, "My sister is getting better at talking."

Xia Zhu said with a smile: "Let's go in quickly, grandma has been waiting for a long time, and has already asked people to come and ask me several times."

Fu Ling said: "It's time to greet the old lady and the wife first."

Xia Zhu said with a smile: "Today, the old lady and the second grandma have gone to the Yongchang Princess Mansion for a banquet, and they won't be back until evening, so let's go see grandma first."

Fu Ling agreed with a smile, and walked in slowly while talking, the little girl Cui'er saw the grandeur of the Hou Men's mansion, she didn't know what to do, she just lowered her head and followed tremblingly.

Along the way, I met a lot of maids and women who knew Fu Ling. Seeing that her dress was different from before, and she had a different bearing in her words and smiles, they were very envious. They were all servants of this mansion, but they met She is a good master, she was given grace and released to marry a good family, and now she is a talented lady, wearing gold and silver, calling slaves and maidservants, no different from the master's grandmother.

After walking for about a stick of incense, I arrived at Li Wan's courtyard.

Li Wan hurriedly ordered people to welcome them in. They hadn't seen each other for many years, so it was a great deal.

Fu Ling invited her to greet her, and then she gave them a salute, all of which were from the south of the Yangtze River. In addition to fresh silk and satin, tea, porcelain, incense fans, incense beads, and many snacks and fruits, there were two extra gold and jade necklaces and a box. Medicinal materials, containing two high-quality wild ginseng.

Li Wan saw that the two gold and jade necklaces were made of red gold and silk, and the pearls on them were the size of lotus seeds, crystal clear and round; the two ginseng plants were also as thick as a thumb, and they were worth 30 taels of silver when they were bought in the market. It was easy, and he couldn't help frowning: "Come here, why send these things? It's too expensive."

Fu Ling pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "I haven't come to say hello for several years, these two collars were given to Brother Lang alone. The two ginsengs were given by an uncle in the family. His old man also went to school when he was young. , then abandoned the books, and started some business of selling medicinal materials. These were collected by his old man from Changbai Mountain, and only cost a few taels of silver. If you don't want to accept something, then I can do it next time

I dare not go to the door again. "

Over the years, Fu Ling has always been grateful for Li Wan's kindness. Although she was born as a girl, she has been able to read and write with Li Wan since she was a child. people.

Her husband loves her very much. She has no parents-in-law, no sister-in-law and sister-in-law. Although there is an old grandmother, she is kind and generous. In the Zhou family, she is the master of the house and lives happily. She got her son by her side, and her husband and son-in-law won the Juren. If there is good luck in the future, maybe she can earn her a royal order and come back.

If it wasn't for the grace of her master back then, she wouldn't have such a good day today.

Having said all this, Kuang Li Wan also knew that her family was not in a difficult situation, so he ordered someone to accept it.

After gossiping for a while, Li Wan knew that Fuling's husband-in-law had won the Juren, and he was also happy for her, saying: "This is a happy event, but since he won the Juren, why didn't he return to Beijing this year to participate in the Spring Festival?"

The author has something to say: I made a small repair, the timeline is wrong, and Daiyu has already been born at this time