[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

Yanyu returned to the courtyard in a daze and lay down on the cool fungus, as if in a trance dream.

As for Tianxuan Xingjun and Mu Ran, they should only exist in dreams.

The sky was getting light, and the fragrance of smiling orchids and honey in the room gradually dissipated. Yanyu put on a newly cut moon skirt with lotus and dark flowers and went to Nanjia Courtyard. She saw Daiyu sitting on the plum blossom stool and fiddled with the embroidery frame; she got up when she heard Yanyu come in. Holding the embroidery frame, I smiled and asked my sister, "Sister, look at the embroidery pattern I drew."

Faint traces are drawn on the silk, and the rouge-colored embroidery thread outlines the flower with several stamens embroidered in the embroidery frame.

The two sisters sat down on the bamboo couch together, and Yanyu deliberately teased her: "Is Yu'er embroidering a dowry?"

"I want to embroider a silk handkerchief for my sister! It seems that my sister doesn't want it, so I won't give it to my sister." Daiyu gestured to take the silk handkerchief out of the embroidery frame, but Yanyu stopped her with a smile : "Our Yu'er is really the best girl in the world! Others envy me for having such a good girl."

Daiyu turned her head and teased her: "If my sister is a man, I really don't know what a good girl I have to deceive."

Yanyu cried out for herself: "This is really wronging me! Even if I was born as a man unfortunately, I am also a good boy, how can I be so unbearable by the girl!"

"It's my sister's luck that she was able to steal half a day's leisure and talk to me about my daughter. Otherwise, like Yan'er, my parents would have sent me to the outer courtyard to study with my husband." Daiyu covered her lips and smiled lightly. .

Yanyu took the embroidery frame and looked at it carefully, then casually outlined some shades with Kodan, and then handed it to Daiyu: "Look at this, how about changing it to this?"

"Sister, you are asking too much." Although Daiyu said so, she also re-edited the drawing pattern in a good manner.

"Or can I draw you another painting of beauties in the city?" Yanyu deliberately teased her.

"Nowadays, there are no beauties in the city. They are all turned into loess." Daiyu seems to be very touched by beauties in the city, whether it is Mrs. Li, the northern beauty in the beauty song, or the beauty who was once called the beauty in the city. Concubine Zhen Gui is now a dead person.

The picture of the beautiful woman in the city that Yanyu painted for Daiyu before has been hung in the inner room, and it was not until the Zhen family was raided that the picture of the beautiful woman in the city was rolled up and placed in the cabinet.

At that time, Daiyu was still very bored and said: "It turns out that this alluring beauty has always been the same."

It was only then that Yanyu interrupted the topic: "Sister Ming was studying Hengwuxiang before, and it has a peculiar fragrance; the story of Hengwuxiang is also related to Mrs. Li."

"Historical records have different opinions, who knows!" Daiyu only said.

Yu Ming once said the same thing as Dai Yu, the records in the ancient books are too confusing, and he can only find the truth of the historical scrolls through the fog.

The room is smoked with green lotus dew, with a sweet and elegant fragrance, like the fragrance of the breeze blowing by the green lotus pond.

Daiyu lowered her head while she was embroidering a silk handkerchief, when she heard Yanyu talking next to her: "My mother said that we will go to the Qixi Festival Lantern Festival with Sister Ming on Qixi Festival. In the past, Sister Ming has been talking about going to the Qixi Festival Lantern Festival at Loufang in the north of Chengbei." , It’s a pity that I spent a few years begging for Qiao with my sisters at my grandmother’s house.”

After hooking up an embroidered flower, Daiyu put down the embroidery frame and put it aside: "But didn't mother say that she would worship Seventh Sister with her sisters on Qixi Festival? Sister Bao will enter the palace after Qixi Festival to be elected. I heard that Yingchun's second sister's marriage is also very important." It's settled."

Jia Min helped to see Yingchun's marriage. It was a son surnamed Qin, who was distantly related to Mrs. Xing's natal family.

Shi Taijun looked at it and said that Jia Min was attentive. Although Mrs. Xing was careless, she felt that it would be good for her to marry Yingchun to her natal family, so she wholeheartedly agreed.

Originally, the marriage between Yingchun and Qin Juren was a sure thing, but something went wrong on the way.

Jia She felt that Shi Taijun was directly in charge of his grandchildren's affairs. He had already told him about the Spring Festival, and he would come to propose marriage soon.Shi Taijun was so angry that he said that his mother had come forward to talk about the daughter's marriage here, and he, the master of the family, came forward to manage the girl's marriage, but did not tell his wife, it was really outrageous.But Mrs. Xing has always obeyed Jia She's words. She is the eldest wife who is the successor and has no children, so she can only rely on the master.

Shi Taijun naturally only said that her daughter's marriage is the fate of her parents; as a grandmother, she asked Jia Min to help her with the marriage, and she was also worried that Yingchun's marriage would not be settled.

The person Jia Amnesty showed to Yingchun was surnamed Sun, the young master of the Sun family, Sun Shaozu, who had first taken up an official position, and is now waiting for a promotion in the Ministry of War.

When Jia Min heard about this situation, she felt sorry for this marriage.Originally, Qin Juren was also a very good family, simple and honest, and he was taught by Feng Cong, a scholar in charge of the Imperial Academy. It is very suitable for Qin Juren.

Since he was an undesired person, Jia Min didn't care much about it.

Before Qixi Festival, Jia Min took care to send sisters Yanyu and Daiyu to the Xu family to be with Yu Ming. Before leaving, she said in a warm voice: "Now Miss Xu Wu will not stay for a few years when she returns to Beijing. See you later." It's not easy; if you're still a girl in your boudoir, don't stick to it."

Hearing what Jia Min said, it seems that Yu Ming is already discussing marriage.

Xu's family was full of joy. Xu Jian's wife, Yu Shi, had just conceived a child, and she took her eldest son to play the role of elder brother in the courtyard, directing the maids and mother-in-law to hang up colored lanterns.

As usual, I went to visit Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Li, and went to Yu Ming's yard.

Yu Ming's yard is brighter and wider than when he lived in Yangzhou before, and the newly planted shades of green in the yard look lush; turning around the white crane veranda, he saw Yu Ming sitting at a stone table under the shade of greenery and brewing wine.

"Fifth Miss, the two cousin girls from the Lin family are here." Xia Lu, the big maid beside Yu Ming saw Yanyu Daiyu, turned around happily and raised her voice to report.

Yu Ming just put down the cooking utensils and got up: "Why didn't you say in advance when you're here!" Yu Ming smiled, and his tone was tinged with a slight smile, "I'm pleasantly surprised now!"

Yanyu smiled and said: "Then next time we come over, we will write a greeting card half a month in advance and send it to Sister Ming."

"Poor mouth!" Yu Ming continued to smile, and pulled their sisters to sit down at the stone table, took out the wine cups and poured half a cup for them, "This is the Huanghuai autumn wine that has been brewed under the Huanghuai tree for five years. Try it How does it taste."

"Sister Ming, don't coax us. The wine is clear and sweet, sweet and clear, it doesn't look like five-year-old Huanghuai wine." Daiyu picked up the wine cup and sniffed lightly, then looked at Yu Ming with a smile, "this should be Is it the Green Lotus Seed Bar? Use the fresh lotus seeds in summer to core and brew, and it only takes one month to make this Green Lotus Seed Wine."

Yu Ming poured himself a cup of sake, and then laughed: "Yu'er not only has a deep knowledge of tea, but also knows this wine so well. I can't fool you, this is the green lotus seed wine."

Take a sip of the sake, it really is the lotus flavor aftertaste.

Thinking of it, Daiyu took out her purse and put it on the stone table to Yu Ming: "Sister Ming's return to Beijing is really a happy event. This is what my sister and I brought for Sister Ming. Look at it, you like it."

Confused, Yu Minghu opened the purse and saw a palm-sized box inside, containing five or six black-brown incense pills, the first time he opened the box, he could already smell a strong fragrance hitting his face.

"This is..." Yu Ming looked surprised, and took the incense pill to the tip of his nose to sniff, but he still couldn't remember what kind of incense it was.

"It's a box of fragrant pills that we got by accident two years ago. I heard that it is a Prajna seed from the Western Regions. I think sister Ming will like it." Yan Yucai explained.

"Wisdom Wisdom of the Western Regions. I remember seeing it in ancient books, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes." Yu Ming said happily, and carefully closed the box to let Xia Lu put the incense pills in the incense cage in the house In the middle of the night, I turned around and said to their sisters, "I really like this Wisdom of the Western Regions very much! It's just that you still miss me."

Yanyu said: "We sisters don't understand this ancient way of incense, and it is only with Sister Ming that it can be used. It is said that swords are given to heroes, and red powder is given to beauties, so this incense pill is most suitable for Sister Ming."

Yu Ming smiled slightly: "I just prefer this way."

They each poured wine and drank two cups, Yu Ming ordered Qiuhua to watch the wine vessel, and she and Yanyu Daiyu entered the room together.

"My place is probably a bit messy." I remember that there were many spice plates and incense cage boxes still on the crescent table, Yu Ming told them before entering the door.

After the moon gate, I saw the spices that accounted for most of the time. Even though I was mentally prepared, I couldn't help but be surprised.

Yu Ming only took them to sit down by the window, and then said with a wry smile: "I used to have nothing to do in Yangzhou, and I could only tinker with honey fragrance to pass the time, but now I have brought all the fragrance pills to the capital." After a pause, he continued. Said, "If you like any fragrant pills, you can tell me all of them, and I will prepare them for you."

"You don't need to worry about it anymore. The incense pills you gave us last time are still on the stove." Yanyu quickly declined.

"The scented pills must be smoked according to the season. In the cold winter, if you smoke warm sheep, the room will be warm soon."

Yu Ming picked out a bottle of Qiu Nuan Xiang to show them, put Qiu Nuan Xiang Pills on the lid of the hot wine cup, and soon the warm fragrance filled the room.

The hot summer is coming to an end, and autumn has not yet arrived, but the warm fragrance is out of season.

Yu Ming smiled slyly: "What do you think?"

Daiyu held the round fan and shook it lightly, deliberately exaggerating: "Sister Ming is worthy of being a master of incense making. If you burn a piece of warm incense in summer, this room will no longer be able to sit."

"Little girl dares to tease me!" Yu Ming grabbed the fan and pretended to hit her.

I opened the carved windows to diffuse the faint warm fragrance in the room, and served iced sour plum soup for the sisters.

In the evening, we had dinner in Mrs. Xu's yard. Mrs. Xu smiled kindly and told them: "It's fine if you go to the Qixi Lantern Festival, but you have to wear the bamboo hat and stay with the attendants well."

With Mrs. Xu's permission, the girls quickly agreed with joy.

"In two days, the younger sister of my daughter-in-law will come to Beijing. That girl is about the same age as you; then you will go to the Qixi Festival Lantern Festival with the girl from the Yu family." Mrs. Xu said again, remembering this.

Admonish sister-in-law's sister?Yanyu suddenly thought of Yu Jing from Gusu, but isn't sister Jing already a monk who has become a cultivator with hair?Yanyu was still a little puzzled.