Dowry maid's daily life [Red Mansion]

Since Eucommia's water dart fell into the water, until now, there have been too many twists and turns in the past half a year. The Du family's family has no income at all, and it is not easy to support it until now.The two little brothers and sisters looked at each other and laughed, as long as people are good, it doesn't matter if they are poor.

"I have also learned how to prepare several kinds of medicinal materials. It's just that it's too late to make new ones, so I have to buy ready-made ones. I'll make a list, and my brother will have everything ready tomorrow." Du Yun'an calculated: "Now is the time when the liquor store business is at its peak. When it’s good, let’s make a few cylinders of good medicinal wine and exchange some money for the new year.”

"In the future, my brother will grow up in Beijing, which will be convenient for us to start the medicinal wine business." This is a long-term business that will allow the brothers and sisters to settle down and live.

Eucommia gathered all the broken silver together, only about 14 taels.Originally, he still had a silver note of one hundred taels with him, but he spent all of it to buy an annual gift for the Rong Mansion.

Du Zhong thought about it, and took out a purse from the red lacquered round-foot cabinet in his room, and took out a stack of angular handkerchiefs from it, Du Zhong shook it, and a few small silver handles fell out.

"..." Du Yun'an glanced at it, and knew that the light pink handkerchief belonged to the girl's house. Brother, is the cycad tree blooming?

Looking at Eucommia again, he folded the handkerchief diagonally into a small tofu-like piece, still stuffed it into his purse, and then weighed the silver curly: "About a tael."

Looking at the total of 15 taels of silver, Du Zhong was a little worried. It stands to reason that these silvers are enough to live a healthy life, but if it is to buy medicinal materials to make medicinal wine, how many urns can it be.If An An could stay at home for a few more days, he could still take Junior Brother Song to the northern mountains to hunt some big game and sell it for a good price, but now it's too late.

Just as he was thinking about it, the silver curly in his hand was squeezed away by his younger sister's little hand. Du Yunan looked at the silver curly, there were bottles of Anruyi style and Begonia style, very exquisite, similar to the ones that were released during festivals in Rongguo Mansion The style of the scorpion is almost the same.

"Brother, where did you get this?" Yun An asked, looking at the one with the best looking crane.

Du Zhong laughed and said: "Others gave it to me." They treated me like a beggar.

Du Yun'an raised his eyebrows, giving this thing away?She reached for the purse, pulled out the veil inside, and shook it in her hand: "Is this also for you?"

"Hey!" Du Zhong hurriedly said, "It was his kindness..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw his sister's hand froze in the air.Du Yun'an hastily held the corner of the handkerchief with both hands and looked closely at the candlelight, his eyes were straightened, there is such a coincidence in the world?

Eating and sleeping with Yingchun for many days, Yun An naturally knew Yingchun's embroidery work, and the handkerchief with a few jasmine flowers embroidered on this corner was clearly the work of the second girl—Yun'an suddenly remembered that before Sister Feng came out of the cabinet, Mrs. Wang was waiting for Yingchun When someone went to visit Wang Ziteng's mansion, Yingchun lost her handkerchief that day, and she took out a box of handkerchiefs embroidered with winter jasmine flowers to help cover it up.

Du Zhong folded the handkerchief and put it in his purse, and at the same time told the events of that day: "You have received favors from others, and you should not be treated lightly." I just threw it out, but this piece of kindness is really rare-if Du Zhong was injured and really became a beggar, this bag of money could save his life.

Du Yun'an didn't tell Du Zhong that the veil was the second lady of the Jia family, she was also grateful to Yingchun in her heart, after thinking about it, she finally said: "I'm afraid I didn't notice it for a while, I didn't expect this, I don't know how flustered it is afterwards. In the future, if anyone sees this kind woman being involved again, brother might as well burn this veil."

Du Zhong fiddled with the purse for a moment, nodded and said: "Yeah." Then he stuffed the purse into his bosom, intending to burn it when he had time.

"A cylinder of [-] catties of soju usually costs two to four to five yuan, but now that the year is approaching, I'm afraid it will cost three or two. Nowadays, the big families in Beijing drink a lot of rice wine, and this kind of shochu is only bought for one cylinder, but it is better to have more Shaoxing wine. Come to a few pots." Du Yunan wrote and drew on paper. In this era, rice wine is the top grade. In the poems written by literati, there are sentences such as "rice wine is expensive to buy Lunsheng, and baijiu is cheap to buy Lundu". It only costs three taels of silver, but a jar of ten catty yellow rice wine costs one tael of silver. If it is Shaoxing wine and Huiquan wine, it is even more expensive.

In this way, the ten taels of silver are only enough to buy wine.Du Yun'an took out a pair of thin gold bracelets from his small bag, and said with a smile, "It's enough to add this."

Du Zhong refused, frowned and said: "Tomorrow I will ride a fast horse to get some prey. Now everyone is willing to get these wild animals, just delay for a while..." He made up his mind to leave in the middle of the night.

Before he finished speaking, Du Yun'an didn't even use scissors, and when he broke and pressed with both hands, the red gold two pieces became a lump of gold.

"..." When Eucommia just picked up the silver box, he found that An An's strength was much stronger. He thought it was because the little girl had grown up. Looking at the situation now, it was obvious that she was not just a little bigger.

"Brother, don't worry, Madam Li didn't give this to me. It was originally given by Miss Feng when she was out of the house when the mansion released rewards." It was labor income.

"There have been several snowfalls in the middle of Beijing, and the snow in the mountains will be even heavier. My brother is not allowed to go into the mountains at this time..." Du Yunan stared at his brother, "Don't worry, brother, I know the severity. The things Mrs. Li gave , when we leave in the future, we will return them to others.” The used cloth, fur and other items should also be written down and converted into silver for others—you should take them off cleanly, since you don’t plan to recognize your wife , you can't be greedy for the benefits of others.As for Mrs. Li's kindness towards her, Du Yun'an had no choice but to show filial piety to her during the few years he was still in Beijing, so it could be regarded as repaying one or two.

Seeing that his younger sister understood clearly, Du Zhong couldn't help being proud and sad. He touched the little bun on An An's head that was made into a peach heart, and vowed to be famous and give An An a good life.

When Yun An woke up the next day, he heard He Yue whispering to a little girl outside: "How old are you? Where is your hometown? Do you still remember the names and appearances of your parents? If you think about it carefully, if you can If you think about it, we can help you find out. If you really can’t remember, it’s okay, living with our girl is no worse than at home, our girl is the best person..."

"Heyue?"

When He Yue heard this, she hurriedly came in with a water basin: "Miss is awake! Uncle went out early in the morning, ordered us not to wake the girl up, and taught the girl to only sleep when she is full."

Yun An scratched her nose: "I'm still asleep, and I heard a little sparrow chirping in my ear early in the morning."

He Yue stuck out her tongue, pointed outside and said with a smile: "It's still early? It's already late—it's cloudy today!"

Yun An took out the silver watch from his pocket and opened it, and sure enough, the pointer was about to point to "ten", so he also jumped.

"Come in." He Yue waved to the outside.Yun An didn't have to be waited upon by others when washing her hands and face. Firstly, she was not used to it, and secondly, it was really uncomfortable for her to be presented with a picture of a little girl kneeling and holding a basin to ask her to wash up.

Yun An washed his face on the basin stand, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a handkerchief being held up tremblingly, and the newcomer who came in had a pair of golden lotuses slightly protruding from under his ochre-colored robe.

'A girl with bound feet? ' Yunan thought subconsciously, took the veil and wiped his face.

"Girl, the uncle has added a little girl to command you, please take a look at her!"

Du Zhong told Yun An last night that he bought a little girl and two maids for her, and it would be cheaper to have a few people bought by himself.Not only these three, but also three people added to their yard, an elderly man named Lu Bo helped take care of some housework, his mother-in-law took care of the laundry and cooking, and another lame man, Liu San, took care of the gate , as the porter and nurse.

Originally Senior Brother Song also often lived here, and it was not easy for a man in the yard to invite that girl of the right age to come in, so Du Zhong asked the little girl and two old women to temporarily live in a neighbor's widowed mother-in-law's house, and only asked them to come back this morning. Waiting for Miss in the future.

"What's your name?" Du Yunan asked looking up at her.

The little girl was not very old, at most twelve or thirteen years old, she was fair and pretty, but when she looked up, Yun An saw a rouge mole the size of a grain of rice on her forehead.

"..." Du Yunan stared at the little mole, and said with difficulty, "Your name is Xiangling?"

The little girl shook her head and fiddled with her clothes belt.

Seeing that she was nervous, He Yue smiled and said, "Girl, the uncle bought her from Ren Yazi, and she doesn't have a name yet."

The little girl felt that He Yue was poking her in the back, but she was quite clever, so she knelt down with a plop, and said timidly: "Please give me a name, Miss."

"Get up." Yun An pinched his brows and asked, "Talk about your own experience first."

Seeing that she was kind, the little girl was not too afraid, so she said in a soft voice: "I don't remember my parents' hometown, and I was kidnapped since I was a child. As long as I can remember, that person beat me and told me His name is Daddy. He used to live in a rented house in Jinling, but one day the city was full of thieves and they searched every house..."

Du Yun'an heard her talk about the past, and knew that this was undoubtedly the Xiangling that Xue Pan beat to death and snatched away.

It turned out that when Xue's family fled away, the third-bedroom old lady of Zhen's family died of anger. At first, Zhen's family only thought that Xue's family was hiding, so they searched for people in Jinling City, and alarmed Yin Tianfu.This Ren Yingtian Fu Yin is also a wonderful person. Taking advantage of the momentum of Zhen's family tossing around the city, he simply checked the population of the city, caught many thieves who committed crimes, and uncovered a large number of human traffickers who abducted and sold good women and girls. The gang... The person who abducted Xiangling was never found out, but the abductor was a guilty conscience, fearing that one or two of the arrested kidnappers and traffickers who knew him would also confess him, so they ran away with Xiangling at night , Just caught by the officers and soldiers.

In fact, it seems that the children abducted by Xiangling and others were originally children of good people, and they should be taken back by their parents.Fu Yin then ordered her to be sent to a nursing home for support along with the remaining children who were not brought back by their parents.But Fu Yin is good, but all the petty officials under him are good, some of them have a wrong heart, and secretly sold the few outstanding ones to familiar officials.The official Yazi had been colluding with them for a long time, so he refused to buy and sell in the local area, so he diverted people to the dental shop in the capital.

When Du Zhong was in the escort company, he was very familiar with the three schools and nine schools in the capital, so he said that he wanted to buy a good girl for his sister, and if he was familiar with him, he would keep a few good ones for him.Du Zhong picked Xiangling, who seemed the most blessed, to come back—the rouge mole on the center of the girl's eyebrows is very reminiscent of the "white hair between the eyebrows" of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, isn't it just a blessing.

"The girl is going to call her 'Xiangling'?" Heyue Baba asked, looking very pitiful for the girl, "That's a good name."

Du Yun'an originally wanted to change her real name to "Yinglian", but thought that it would be difficult to explain this name when she found her biological parents in the future, so she broke the pot and replied, "Let's call it Xiangling."

Xiangling hurriedly thanked him.

"Don't be afraid." Yun An said with a smile, "I know you are also a girl from a good family, how can you not want to find your parents and relatives. In this way, you can rest assured that I am here first, and I will ask someone to help you find out, maybe Can you find it?"

"I have heard people say that there are kidnappers who have kidnapped the children of a good family and raised them for a few years, and then sell them out in a pretentious manner. They are usually locals who know the place well, and they won't go far after they get it. You are hiding in several big cities nearby—you have lived in Jinling for six or seven years, so you guessed that your hometown is not far from Jiangnan." Du Yun'an racked his brains to make the words more reasonable: "Looking at your appearance, you are not It looks like a girl that can be raised by a rural family, I guess it must be from a few good places near Jinling, or from Gusu, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang Prefecture, and Changzhou Prefecture.”

Xiangling's eyes were full of tears, and there was nothing to be grateful for.

He Yue hurriedly pushed her: "What did I say, our girl is the best person!"

Xiang Ling knelt down and worshiped, Yun An hurriedly asked He Yue to support her, thinking to herself, she is not a kind person who saves all sentient beings, but she just knew Xiang Ling's origin, and knew that her father was wandering away because of losing her His mother is struggling to survive, but she has to pretend not to know that Xiangling is a slave and a maid, and she is not allowed to reunite with her parents, and she has fallen below the bottom line of life.Just help out when you can.

Thinking about it, Yun Anyin said: "Don't worry, this matter can't be found out in a day or two - you often think about it yourself, maybe you can think of something, then it will be easier. "At least to inquire about this for her, you need to wait until the family has income and spare money.

Xiangling wiped her tears and said: "Thank you for your kindness! I know it's extremely difficult, and I'd rather wait. It may take three to five years, or I won't be able to find it for the rest of my life. With this hope in my heart, I will Enough!"

Yun An hurriedly waved her hands, telling her not to do this: "Go and wash your face, it hurts."

Cracked face?Du Yun'an rubbed his cheek, and suddenly remembered that his brother said, 'You look bad, your face is gray'... "Heyue, let me take a look with the target mirror."

He Yue glanced at the newly polished shiny bronze mirror on the dressing table, and wondered in her heart: Girls always like to look in this kind of big mirror, saying that the photos are complete, and they don't like to use the palm-sized Western glass mirror. What's wrong.

Thinking about it, He Yue swiftly took the target mirror from the dresser drawer and held it in front of Yun An's face.

"I'll do it myself." Yun'an took the target mirror, looked left and right, and indeed his complexion was not very good, although it was not 'gray', it looked dull and dull.

Du Yunan buckled the target mirror on the table, and added one more item in the small notebook in her heart - not only herself, but also her brother, or brother Song who had been traveling for their brothers and sisters for a long time, the three of them should be good Replenish the body.

He Yue thought that she was not used to this small mirror, so she smiled and said: "I remember my wife gave me a half-person tall glass mirror, which just happened to be stored in an unopened box in the small warehouse of Pingming Building. Find it and put it in the girl's room."

"I thought the girl was as afraid of using the glass mirror as everyone else, so I didn't show it."

"afraid?"

He Yue giggled: "That's right, some people say that this Western mirror can take people's soul, and it is unlucky to take it for a long time. There are a lot of people who believe in it, and even some wives and grandmas dare not use it."

Yun An shook his head: "After the bronze mirror is polished, it is as clear as the glass mirror, but the skin color is not visible. If the glass mirror is unlucky, then simply not allowed to look in the mirror!"

He Yue clapped her hands and laughed, "I think so too!"

Before she could say a word, she suddenly heard the sound of cars and horses, people, and dogs outside, and He Yue looked out through the cracks in the leather curtain: "Girl, it's Grandpa and Young Master Song who have returned. There are so many things!"

Outside, Eucommia thanked the wine shop for its work and sent people out, only then did he and Song Chen unload the wine vat and jar.

Du Yun'an wanted to lift the curtain and go out to help, but He Yue was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly stopped her: "It's not easy for the girl to go out, there are..."

Du Yun'an gently took her hand off, and said seriously: "I am not a daughter of a high-ranking family, and my wife recognized me as a goddaughter, and I am also a daughter raised by a small family. Neighbors and neighbors are generally the same, why bother to raise your eyebrows to coax your eyes, and fool yourself. You just want to think that when you are at home, do you just sit there and wait for your parents and sisters to take care of you? According to Missy’s score, what kind of person have I become?”

After that, he lifted the curtain and went out.

He Yue was stunned for a long time, then suddenly scratched her head and giggled: Sister Yun'an is still the same as before!No, Sister Yun'an has never changed. Not only has she never put on airs, she has never treated herself and Mei Yue as current people.

He Yue thought to herself, since the girl is so nice, she just treats the girl with the same heart as before. Anyway, she used to listen to the girl, and she would do whatever the girl asked her to do!

Even separated by a leather curtain, the words inside could not be hidden from the two warriors with good ears in the courtyard.Du Zhong heard it and couldn't help grinning.Even Song Chen paused slightly, and the expression on his face softened a bit.The two senior brothers suddenly relaxed their expressions, and they startled Ruburt, who was helping at the side: the two black-mouthed and black-faced young masters in the family suddenly became so hot as if they were blowing the vernal equinox?

When Du Yun'an came out, he said hello to "Brother" and "Senior Brother Song", and then helped to clean up.

"Hey, miss!" Ruburt hurriedly stopped, he had seen it yesterday, it turned out that the young lady in the family is much more expensive than his elder brother, good guy!When he came back, he took a girl and two women with him, and the three people that the young master had bought earlier were served by the young lady—one young lady, and a total of six people waited on her!

"It's okay." Yun An smiled, and took a large bag of medicinal materials from the car.

Ruburt saw that she was exceptionally quick, quick and good, so he didn't know what to say, thinking that the young lady is not delicate, is she?

"Don't! You fell carefully!" Song Chenfang turned around, and saw that Yun An had put away the medicinal materials and picked up another jar of rice wine, sweating from shock, he rushed up to help her hold it up in two steps.

Du Yun'an only felt the heat in his hands, and the weight he was holding lightened. He was startled, and then smiled and said, "Senior Brother Song, I can move it."

The jar of rice wine weighed ten catties, General Song Chen was only afraid that he would hurt someone when he dropped the jar, so he subconsciously helped her to hold it up before he realized that his palm covered something soft.Song Chen withdrew his hand as quickly as if he had touched a soldering iron, and nodded as normal as possible: "Yes. Be careful."

Du Zhong only saw his younger sister take advantage of Junior Brother Song and Lu Bo's backs, carrying a rice wine jar in one hand, and put it on the ground lightly and neatly, but in front of the two of them, she was holding a wine jar and putting it away slowly - good brother Pressing the corner of her mouth, she felt that she could rest half of her heart, and the girl in the Rongguo Mansion was not the enemy of her sister alone.

"Huh? There are too many." Du Yun'an counted, He Yue and Xiang Ling brought a pile of dustpans from the backyard, which had been scrubbed clean by the two girls just now, and now they poured herbs into the dustpan together.

"There are too many medicinal materials and too much wine." Du Yun'an asked Du Zhong: "Brother, did you pay the shop on credit?" That piece of gold and a dozen or so taels of silver can't buy these many things.

Du Zhong laughed and said, "Your Senior Brother Song has invested in the shares, and he will hold [-]% in the future."

In the past, Song Chen used the infused medicinal wine that the Du family made. Every time a new batch came out, the senior brother specially set aside some for him. Song Chen knew very well that this wine was better than the ones outside.At that time, Du Zhong asked him to buy a few shares several times, and the two senior brothers sold them by the way. Song Chen felt that he was taking advantage of the senior brother for nothing, and would rather find goods to sell by himself than agree.This time, Du Zhong was short of envoys, and Song Chen didn't want to teach him to negotiate credit with the shopkeeper in a low voice, so he immediately put down Zhang Bailiang's bank note to pay for him, but Du Zhong hurriedly decided that the money was for his junior brother to buy shares. The poor can't afford to live for years, and those who are appointed will not pay back.

The medicinal wine of the senior brother's family has already gained some fame, as long as it is formulated, there is no need to worry about selling it. With this kind of skill and craftsmanship, the shortage of money is only a moment.Song Chenyuan refused, so Du Zhong pressed his head and punched him twice, insisting that if he didn't agree, he would return the product—"[-]%." Song Chen didn't turn his head, kept his hands on it, but said it on his mouth.

"Brother, why don't we make a written statement, and let's think of a famous name, so that people will know that it is a good medicinal wine from our family when they mention it?"

"An'an is right! You must choose a good name!"

The two brothers and sisters talked to themselves, and quickly wrote the paper.Du Zhong held his junior brother's arm, Du Yun'an quickly wiped the red mud on senior brother Song's thumb with his left hand, and slapped the two papers one by one with his right hand. Stand up.

Du Zhong blew on the ink and took one of them on the chest of his junior brother.Song Chen looked at the four words "Dujia Medicinal Wine" solemnly written on the paper, and couldn't help but twitch his lips: Is this the 'sounding good name' chosen by the two brothers and sisters?

"An'an, what wine do you pair with this time?"

While checking the quality of the medicinal materials, Du Yun'an said, "This time the rice wine is paired with 'Zhou Gong Centenary Wine', and the shochu is paired with 'Imitated Changchun Wine'."

"Imitation?"

"Well, nowadays, as long as it is 'palace-like' and 'inner-made', it is popular, such as the purse in Longfu Temple. It is said that the style was drawn by Ouchi, and most people in the capital go to the temple for the purse. Yes... I heard that there is a secret recipe in the imperial palace called 'Changchun Yishou Pill', and I happen to know a recipe that also has the effect of prolonging life, why don't you use the name to make a use of it?" There is a medicinal wine called Shaojiu With a good name, those wine shops are more willing to bid.

Song Chen listened in his ears, his right hand seemed to be scalded from time to time behind him, he couldn't help rubbing it, his ears turned red.

In this small courtyard, Du Yunan didn't know it. He only wanted to make money, so he directed and began to make wine...