[Comprehensive Red House] Infinite Merit

It was just afternoon when Jia Rong and Jia Qiang returned to the mansion. Both of them were dressed in brocade clothes, jade crowns and hair, and they were dressed like young princes.But the cheeks of the two were flushed, and their bodies smelled of alcohol, so it could be seen that they had touched alcohol.

The courtyards of the two are close to each other. Wen Zhixuan, where Jia Qiang lives, is next to Ning'an Hall, and it is also a very neat secondary courtyard.Ning'an Hall is the main courtyard of the Ning Mansion, and it is gorgeous and solemn everywhere.

The people in charge of the two people's yards are all aunts who were carefully selected by Yi and arranged for them. One is called Wen Jin and the other is called Wen Shan.At least in the past few years of following the two children to take care of the courtyard housework for them, there has never been a single mistake.

But although they were given two children by Youyi, they were still loyal to Youyi in essence.

It was they who stabbed Youyi in front of the two children secretly drinking outside.

At this time, the two returned to the yard respectively, and Wen Jin and Wen Shan conveyed Youyi's instructions to go to Ningde Hall immediately after they returned to the mansion.

So the two expressed that they wanted to take a bath and change their clothes. The two aunts smiled and said, "Ma'am means to go 'immediately'."

Then, these two poor children met at the gate of the courtyard, and after the two had exchanged eye contact with the same degenerate people in the world, they resolutely went to Ningde hall.

They used to go out to socialize, and after returning home, they just had morning and evening sleep as usual. In the past, when they greeted Youyi, they had already bathed, changed clothes and took a nap to let off the smell of alcohol, but today is different.

Thinking of their mother/wife's attitude towards their drinking, the two looked at each other, knowing that today's affairs might not be good.

After entering Ningde Hall, Hongshao was waiting at the Hanging Flower Gate. The two greeted each other, looked at me and looked at you. In the end, Jia Qiang took a step forward, pulled out a simple and lovely smile, and asked with cupped hands: "Auntie, What is the matter with us, madam?"

Hong Shao shook her head with a smile, and said, "You two come with me."

Knowing that the people around her mother were always the tightest, Jia Rong curled her lips, knowing that there was nothing more to ask, so she pulled Raja Qiang's sleeve, and the two followed Hongtiao obediently.

After passing through the small hall, Hong Tiao led the two of them into the three open small side rooms on the east side of the upper house. This room is the place where Yi usually sits. There are not many partitions, only a moon door. Opening the inner and outer room, transparent jadeite beads are threaded into bead curtains and hung on the moon gate, and seem to be embedded in the gate. When you reach out and touch the pearls and jade, the sound is clear and crisp.

Ten steps away from the moon gate, there is a wooden kang, covered with soft cushions and a bamboo mat, with a table, soft pillows and cushions, which looks very comfortable.An emerald bead curtain was hung one and a half steps in front of the couch, and on the wall behind the couch was a picture of a beauty drawn by Yi herself, and on the side table were two volumes of books and a suet jade bucket used by Yi Guan.

This is the place where Yuyi used to rest.

But at this time Youyi was not on top, Jia Rong looked around again, and it turned out that Youyi was leaning on the mat under the west glass window.The hand is leaning on a sandalwood and gold-painted table, and the cushion under the body is the hibiscus mat bestowed by the palace. A hairpin is inserted obliquely on the top of the bun, which is also made of high-quality suet jade. Two jasmine flowers bloom side by side Standing on the branch, the craftsmanship is extremely high-quality.

On a low table in front of him, the charcoal fire was burning in the small red clay stove - the milky liquid in the small silver scorpion was tumbling, which was always fresh cow and goat milk.

You Yizheng casually picked some tea leaves with a small silver spoon and threw them into the small silver spoon. He heard that the two of them had come, but he didn't look up. He just waved his hands and said, "Get up."

"Yes." So the two agreed, and Jia Rong said, "I don't know what the mother called us to come here?"

"What's the matter?" Youyi prolonged her tone, and her slow tone naturally revealed a sense of laziness. She raised her eyes and glanced at the two of them, then chuckled: "How are young masters and young master Qiang playing outside? ? The lotus wind wine from Pinzhuju is not bad.”

The soft tone made the two of them sweat instantly.

Jia Rong was busy trying to explain, but Youyi was not in the mood to listen, so someone beckoned and someone brought two low tables and cushions, and then placed pens, inkstones, inkstones and some papers, the two of them were still puzzled, but they listened to each other. Yi said: "I ordered people to collect these. The test questions of the last Jinling Academy Examination. Now that you have passed two tests, you have the title of Tong Sheng. You should give it a try now."

As soon as she beckoned, a snow-white cat ran into her arms with a "meow~". While slowly smoothing the cat's fur, Youyi ordered Bai Shao to light incense, and said to the two: "Two How about this page of exam questions during the time of burning incense? It’s not too difficult for you.”

"No embarrassment." No wonder!

Looking at the test questions written in neat block letters on the thin piece of paper, Jia Rong and Jia Qiang looked at each other, and finally mustered up the courage to sit down on the cushion and began to study ink while reading. exam questions.

Then the more I wrote, the more frightened I became, and the blood rushing up with the smell of alcohol quickly lost its temperature.

Sweat kept dripping down like beads with a broken thread, Bai Shao raised her face and ordered the maidservant to put a basin of ice beside the two, but saw Youyi waved her hand and said: "Move the ice outside, their It's not hot, it's cold sweat."

Bai Shao was a little puzzled, but in the end obedience had the upper hand, she responded docilely, and after a while, two maidservants carried the basin of ice out.

The milk in the little Choshi had been dyed the color of black tea, You Yi raised her face, and a maid stepped forward to remove the little Chozi, and extinguished the charcoal fire in the furnace.

Holding a porcelain spoon, Youyi added a cup of milk tea for herself, and while ordering someone to turn off the stove, she said, "Bring some crushed ice fruit lotus root and jelly."

Bai Shao agreed, and asked again: "Do you want jelly with flower and fruit flavor?"

Youyi replied, "Mix goat's milk and fresh fruit, don't you have some pickled melon? I also cut it up and brought it here. I asked for a small plate of small pieces, as well as lotus root, and the rest with raisins soaked in honey." Son, poured yogurt to make it into a cold bowl, and then cut some fresh fruit to make a fruit plate."

He also ordered: "And prepare two copies, and send one copy to Mr. Xu's yard."

Bai Shao responded one by one, turned around and retreated.

Jelly is a small snack similar to jelly, which has been made by Yi Tao over the years, and then sold in her shop specializing in snacks, snacks and candied fruit.Because the raw materials needed to make jelly are quite expensive, jelly is not a cheap snack, but when has there been a lack of rich people in Chang'an City?

With its sweet and delicious taste, the jelly quickly spread among the rich families of Jin Dynasty.

Anyway, it's true that Youyi has made a lot of money.

Because Youyi often uses some small snacks, Ning's mansion will always prepare some jelly. At this time, just give an order, and someone will soon bring over what she wants.

An eight-treasure storage box, in which there are exquisite sunflower-shaped small white porcelain bowls containing what Youyi wants, and in the middle is an exquisite fruit platter.

Youyi turned around and took three small sweet white porcelain bowls from Babaoge, and rinsed them in cold water.Then slowly scooped milk tea into one of the small bowls, added crushed ice, fruit lotus root and other things, and finally scooped up two tablespoons of crushed jelly and poured it in. This is what Youyi created— —The ancient version of fruit pudding milk tea ice.

I made another two bowls in the same way, and pushed the two bowls to the other side of the table. At this time, the second incense was also burned out. Youyi glanced at the two people who were answering dumbly, and said softly: "Okay , the time has come."

You don't need to ask, and you don't need to look at the papers. Youyi knew that the answer must not be very good just seeing the two people looking sullen.

She chuckled lightly, and said: "Put down the paper first, come and sit down, I have something to tell you, and you can take the paper to your husband later."

The two looked at each other, and replied: "Yes, mother/madam."

The milk tea that Youyi added was very tasty. She used it one spoonful after another. The sweet taste floated into the noses of the two along with the breeze of the white peony fan, which also made the two unconsciously move their index fingers. .

Jia Rong quietly reached out to the small bowl on the table, Youyi didn't look at him, and said quietly: "This bowl of food, jelly, lotus root, Qihong, milk, costs no less than [-] yuan."

He also pointed to the brocade robes on the two of them: "Suzhou's specialty jade warm satin, a piece is worth no less than a hundred taels."

Raising his head, his eyes fell on the tops of the two heads, "The quality of jade is top-notch, and the carving is top-notch, and each top is no less than 500 taels."

"Not to mention the rest of the daily expenses, the two of you only spend a quarter of a thousand taels on clothes for a season. Before you went back to the south of the Yangtze River to take the children's exam, you spent at least 3000 taels. These days, you deal with people, treat guests, and wipe out the odds. , I only count as 1000 taels."

You Yi took a mouthful of the cold bowl, raised her eyelids and looked at the two of them: "The annual harvest of Ningfu's property is only 600 taels, Rong'er, you are a first-class marquis, and you have a salary of [-] taels a year, but that is only your one season's salary." Pocket flower, you are like, who do you rely on to live your life now?"

Before Jia Rong could speak, she pointed to the Baibao Pavilion behind her: "Coral bowls, agate potted plants, suet white, violets, Ru kiln sky celadon, any one of the things on this shelf is enough for a household." I don’t know how many years it’s been spent.”

She said: "I hope you can understand that all my expenses and even the wealth you can enjoy today are all because of me. If you rely on Ningfu alone, you can indeed be a rich young master, but if you didn't I, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep this mansion."

She straightened up, looked at Jia Rong, and said meaningfully: "So you have to be clear, the reason why the Ning'an Hou's mansion is rich now is because of my good management, and also because of the beneficial prescriptions I offered back then. You can only be an ordinary rich man, Lord Hou? Heh, you are lucky to be a fourth-rank general!"

Jia Rong bowed her head and said nothing, Jia Qiang sat on the sidelines and was anxious but helpless.

Youyi finally took a sip of the cold milk tea and said, "Got it now? Young master, of course you can be frivolous, you can be young and ignorant and carefree, but I hope you can understand that I can protect you from the wind and rain for a while, but I can't protect you." In your life, my business will be donated to the national treasury after a hundred years, and then? What will you do?"

She sighed for a long time, stretched out her hand and patted Jia Rong's shoulder, "Think about it carefully, your father left early, and your grandfather devoted himself to cultivating, it's because I have pampered you too much these years and raised you so that you don't know the dangers of the world. "

"Later, you and Qiang'er will go to your husband's place, bring the answer sheet, and you don't have to come to me when you're done, just go to the ancestral hall and kneel, and reflect on yourself in front of your ancestors. Think about what you have handed in recently. What kind of friends! Then I will send you to the gymnasium on the outskirts of Beijing to stay with your grandfather for a while, there are some things that I can't teach you."

Speaking of her getting up to leave, Jia Rong hurriedly hugged her leg. Even though she was trying to be calm, she couldn't hide the panic in her heart: "Mother, mother, where are you going? Are you angry? Rong'er is wrong! "

Youyi was stunned for a moment, then chuckled vaguely, and dismissed Jia Rong casually: "I just plan to live in Yizhu for a while, the summer in central Beijing is hard to endure."

She sighed leisurely, waved her hands, and left with her sleeves.

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Xiaowazi's rebellious period is gone!

But... just kidding, is sister Yu afraid of you?