A visit to Fangchun

It is not too late.

Jia Tanchun went to complain to Wang Xifeng the next day: "Sister Feng, who installed Qiu Shuangzhai when I sent people back then? Now these little girls are all clever ghosts. But this clever It's too much, let us Chan'er sweep the whole big yard every day. That girl is only ten years old, she is light in strength and small in stature—not as tall as the broom she is holding. You can't give me Find a few who are a little older? Thirteen, fourteen, fourteen, five? I can also be a person to use her!"

Wang Xifeng naturally knew what was going on with the people in Qiushuangzhai, but she didn't dare to let Tanchun complain to the old lady, and said with a smile, "I'll pick and choose for you!"

Jia Tanchun pouted, but before he spoke, it happened that Xiaohong was ordered by the attacker to send everywhere the small obsolete treasures that Baoyu bought from outside the city.

Wang Xifeng thanked it with a smile, but put it aside indifferently, but Jia Tanchun's eyes were glued to it, and he hurriedly said, "Bring it to me."

Xiaohong understood, and handed it over with both hands, but it was a incense box cut out of a whole bamboo root, simple but not vulgar, straight but not clumsy.

Jia Tanchun looked around, clicked his tongue in admiration, smiled and said to Wang Xifeng: "Sister Feng, I like this very much, why don't you give it to me?"

Xiaohong pursed her lips and smiled, but didn't speak.Wang Xifeng noticed it, and said with a smile: "It seems that someone has something to say. Say what you say."

Xiao Hong bowed her knees first, and Fang smiled and said: "The second master brought back a box, which was marked up in the house and distributed among the various places. The third girl's house is a set of small baskets made of willow branches and A wind stove made of clay. Our second master picked it out on purpose, saying that these two must be loved by girls, and even if they were given to others, they would be snatched by girls."

Tan Chun blushed a little, and glared at Xiao Hong: "You are a very bad girl. Others don't learn, just follow your grandfather to learn that bad thing, make fun of me!"

However, Wang Xifeng was attracted by Xiaohong's clever tongue, and asked her with a smile: "What's your name? How old are you? How many years have you been in Baoyu's room?"

Xiaohong replied one by one: "The original name was Hongyu, but now it is only called Hong'er because of the importance of Bao Erye and Miss Lin. This year, I am 14 years old. I was a sweeper in the original Yihong courtyard, so I followed Bao Er. Lord."

Tanchun immediately saw Wang Xifeng's face in surprise: "Sister Feng, are you going to give me this girl?" Without waiting for Wang Xifeng to answer, he looked Xiaohong up and down, blinked, and suddenly laughed , clapped his hands and said: "It's just right! I'm too embarrassed to grab someone else's. But since it belongs to the second brother, then I will accept it!"

Wang Xifeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she shook her head and said, "You are wrong. I can make decisions about other people, but Baoyu's people must either ask the wife for instructions, or the old lady will speak!"

Without saying a word, Tanchun pulled her with one hand and Xiaohong with the other, and kept saying, "Come on, come with me to serve the old lady for dinner!"

Wang Xifeng was too lazy to socialize with Tanchun, so it was exactly what she wished for to push this matter to Jiamu.So he hesitated, shouted "Feng'er follows, Ping'er looks after the house", pulled on a handkerchief and followed.

Xiaohong blushed, bit her lip and bowed her head without speaking.

When I arrived at Jiamu's place, I caught up with Jiamu and some old mothers who had finished wiping the dominoes and were joking.Seeing them coming, the old nuns left and went out, Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun hurriedly said goodbye with smiles.

As soon as the old mothers went out, Tanchun got tired of Jia Mu: "Old lady, there are several girls' nests missing in my place. Today, Sister Feng picked one for me, but it's the girl who sweeps the yard of the second elder brother." Why don't you ask the second brother for me?"

Wang Xifeng immediately dismantled the stage and waved her hands again and again: "I didn't mean to pick for you! The old lady didn't know that he was going to deliver things to me, but she only said a few words, she looked at him neatly, and fell on me without saying a word. He didn’t say that I was going to recruit someone from Brother Bao, or that he was going to be sent to her. Then he dragged me here without any explanation. Look, I’ve lost three hairpins along the way! "

Mother Jia laughed haha, first hugged Tanchun into her arms, then looked at Xiaohong who was down-browed and obedient, asked her age and name, thoughtfully, then turned her head and asked Yuanyang: "I vaguely remember that she is Lin Zhixiao." daughter?"

When Wang Xifeng heard it, his heart skipped a beat.

Oops!This must be the person Mrs. Wang quietly left behind for Baoyu!

Yuanyang smiled and nodded: "Yes. There are many people in our family, so she never came in to do errands. Later, the garden was built and people were everywhere. Lin Zhixiao's family couldn't say that others would send their children to the garden, so the first The one sent her daughter to Yihong Courtyard for sweeping, and then called all the newborns from every family.”

That is to say, Lin Zhixiao never had the idea of ​​letting his daughter continue to serve as a slave in the mansion.

That's not bad, when I look back at my age, I will marry directly from Tanchun.Thinking of this, Wang Xifeng felt a little relieved.

Mother Jia also wanted to understand, and she nodded with a smile: "He is a good boy. There are girls and women in Baoyu's yard. There is no more than one of you, and there is not much less than one of you. But there is a lack of capable ones with your third girl. You can go." .Your old lady, I will speak for you."

Xiaohong blushed and knelt and said yes, not a single word more.

Jia's mother was even more satisfied, and said with a smile: "Young girl Feng said that her parents were deaf and dumb, and they couldn't make a sound when they were pierced with an awl. Look, this girl is also cautious in words and deeds, so good very good."

Xiaohong immediately understood, she pursed her lips and smiled blushingly, and replied: "I would like to follow the old lady's instruction."

Jiamu smiled at Tanchun: "Third girl, I asked you a girl, how can you thank me?"

Jia Tanchun immediately stood up, rolled up his sleeves with a smile, "I'll show off today and get some appetizing dishes for the old lady!" As he spoke, he beckoned to Hu Po and wanted to leave.

Mother Jia's eyes looked greedy, and she hurriedly asked, "First you told me what to cook for dinner."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly pulled Tanchun and winked: "Don't talk about it! You have to cook that dish slowly, and let the old lady scratch it for a while before bringing it up!"

Tanchun looked at her innocently: "Huh? Lian's second sister-in-law, I know that among the martial arts you are best at, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges is a very powerful move. But for a girl like me who is filial, kind, simple and not scheming Home, no matter how much you teach, you can’t teach it!”

When Jia Mu heard this, she leaned back and laughed, pushing the mandarin ducks and laughing, "Go, go! Tear those two mouths off! One has a belly full of bad water, and the other is so thick-skinned that he can go to heaven!"

Xiaohong opened her eyes wide and stood beside her, her eyes gradually brightened up.

Neither she nor her parents knew that the third girl's dignity in front of Jia's mother had reached this point!