Evening Shaohua in the Red House

They rested all night, and early the next morning, Li Wan got up to wash and tidy up. Just after the first day of delivery, the boat had entered the river mouth and arrived at the pier in a short while.

Li Wan heard the boatman yelling to come to the shore, and the servants on duty were busy calling Liu Youfu and Dong Cheng, the steward of the Rong Mansion, to come and talk.

The servants went away for a while, and led the two of them to the middle cabin to stop. The daughters-in-law entered the cabin and replied: "The two stewards have arrived."

Li Wan ordered the tents to be put down, told him to go to the door of the cabin, and first said to Dong Cheng: "You send someone to report to the aunt's house first, and then tell everyone to pack their luggage and move across the ship in a while. "

Dong Cheng agreed, saying: "Don't worry, grandma, the luggage has been packed, and I will move it later."

After finishing speaking, he went out and called a young servant of his attendant to go ashore, first went to Lin's mansion to report, and then ordered everyone to move the box and cage out of the cabin, and move down when the Lin mansion's chariots and horses arrived.

On this side, Li Wan ordered Dan Ju to take five taels of silver and eight taels of money to give to Liu Youfu, and said: "I have prepared a few taels of money here, and you take them to reward the boatmen and helmsmen on the two ships."

Liu Youfu also agreed, took the money and went to take care of it without mentioning it.

Suzhou, Linfu.

One day, Daiyu got up early in the morning, washed up, had breakfast, and was relaxing under the window, when suddenly the daughter-in-law in charge came in and said, "Miss, the grandma of Rongfu is here, and she is at the ferry."

Hearing that Li Wan and others had arrived, Daiyu was both surprised and delighted, and hurriedly said: "Go and prepare the sedan chair, and ask Wang Xing's family to arrange for the women and servants to carry the luggage."

The daughter-in-law in charge agreed when she heard the words, and hurriedly went out to spread the word.

Xueyan smiled and said, "It's exactly the same as the girl's guess. It really is the eldest grandma who came, and the girl has become a god."

Zijuan couldn't figure it out. She knew Mrs. Wang's temperament, and she always thought that it would be Jia Lian who came, so she couldn't help but wondered: "How can the girl calculate so accurately? It's so inconvenient for the grandma to go out, and the old lady and the lady will come." Loosely agree?"

Daiyu shook her head when she heard this and said, "You don't know, although the eldest sister-in-law looks elegant and quiet, and has a gentle and easy-going temperament, she is actually soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she always has her own opinions in her actions. If she makes up her mind, no one can persuade her." Yes. Lan'er is her own son, if such a big incident happened this time, how could the elder sister-in-law be able to sit still, she must come in person."

After hearing this, Zijuan recalled what Li Wan had done in the past, and it was exactly as Daiyu said, so she couldn't help nodding her head in admiration, and said, "Young lady can understand."

Daiyu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "I told you earlier

Is the Tingtao Garden prepared for my sister-in-law ready? "

Zijuan laughed and said, "Miss, don't worry, it's been cleaned up long ago, the curtains and curtains are all ready, and the newly made bedding has also been sent to the front of the sewing room, and it has been stored in a big crate in the west wing. Coincidentally, it was a big sun yesterday, so I just took it out to dry, and I will take someone to spread it on the bed, and it will be warm when I sleep for a while."

After saying that, he wanted to go out, but Daiyu stopped him after taking two steps, "Wait a minute."

Zicuckoo stopped in her tracks and asked, "Miss, what else do you want?"

Daiyu thought for a while, and said: "Let Xueyan do the tidying of the bedding, and you go to the ferry for me to meet my sister-in-law first."

Li Wan traveled thousands of miles, naturally for Jia Lan, and I don't know if they met those two groups of messengers on the way. If they didn't meet them, they don't know how anxious they are now. Then said: "When you go, remember to tell sister-in-law about Lan'er's recovery, so as not to worry her."

Zijuan agreed, and hurried back to her room to wash and change clothes. Xueyan also took the girl to listen to Taoyuan to pack the bedding.

Daiyu said to a pretty girl next to the desk who was wearing a silver-red waistcoat: "Baihe, go to the kitchen and send a message to prepare a good table of noodles for Grandma Zhu to clean up the dust, and then tell the flower language to tell the stewards' wives." If there is nothing important to do today, there is no need to talk back and forth, and then I will send someone to Shen's mansion to send a letter to tell Lan'er that sister-in-law is here."

Bai He agreed with a smile, hung the cleaned brush on the red sandalwood pen holder, and went out to spread the message.

It turns out that Baihe and Huayu are the two big maids that Daiyu has acquired in the past two years. They are both the sons of Lin's family. With some chores in the house.

In the past few years, Daiyu has managed her family well, and the internal and external rules of Lin's mansion have been cleared up.

However, she is not like Sister Feng who intervenes in everything and refuses to delegate power. Instead, she distributes various matters and hands them over to each person. Wait for the four girls to make the decisions.

But Daiyu and the others were busy welcoming Li Wan, and all the luggage of Li Wan and his party had been packed. Except for a few soft boxes containing gold and silver, the other boxes and cages included Mrs. Liu and Dong Cheng's family with their servants. When he arrived on the deck, he just waited for the people from the Lin family to come and load the car.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is already damp and cold, but just now it has snowed outside again, making it even more chilly. Li Wan and the maids were warming up and talking in the cabin, when they saw Dong Cheng

The family member came over and said respectfully, "Grandma, Miss Lin has sent someone to pick her up. She wants to greet grandma."

Li Wan was overjoyed when he heard the words, Dan Ju opened the curtain and saw that a large sedan chair was parked beside the boat, behind him were several carriages, and there were more than a dozen mule carts pulling luggage. luggage.

Leading the way were a few servants with kind faces, and a slender young girl, wearing a purple silk jacket, a silver-red satin squirrel jacket with flowers, a white silk embroidered skirt, and a blue silk umbrella. I don't know who it is.

Everyone was wondering, when they suddenly saw the man put away the umbrella, revealing a familiar face, with apricot eyes and sharp lips, gentle and beautiful, it was none other than Zicuckoo.

Everyone was surprised and delighted, Li Wan laughed and said, "Zicuckoo, why is it you?"

Zijuan handed the oil-paper umbrella to the woman who was following her, walked over to Fushen and said, "Greetings to Grandma, and hello to all sisters."

Li Wan got up quickly and said with a smile, "Why did Sister Lin send you here?"

Zijuan looked up, but saw that Li Wan was wearing a satin jacket with moon-white landscape patterns and dark flowers, lotus satin embroidered with flowers and ermine hexagrams on the front, a white horse-face skirt embroidered with wisteria and rose flowers, and a blue satin multicolored silk skirt on the outside. The cloak in the white fox fur, with the snow cap attached, made the already fair skin look even whiter than the snow, with the same eyebrows and eyes.

Zijuan admired secretly in her heart, thinking that she hadn't seen her for a few years, the grandma hadn't changed at all, she looked younger, and said with a smile: "The girl heard that the grandma is here, she is very happy, but it's inconvenient Welcome, specially sent me to welcome grandma."

Li Wan smiled and said: "I also miss your girl, how has she been in recent years?"

Zijuan smiled and said: "Okay, the girl has always remembered the method taught by her grandma, and she will take a quarter of an hour to walk in the garden every day. In the past two years, her appetite has grown a lot, and her body has become much stronger. Cough disease, I haven't had it once this year."

Li Wan was very relieved when he heard this, nodded and smiled, "That's good."

While talking, I saw four women carrying the sedan chair to the door of the cabin, and respectfully invited Li Wan to get on the sedan chair.

Li Wan put on a snow cap and came out with a stove in his arms. He saw countless boats on the river, constantly coming and going. Even though it was winter, the ferry was still bustling and lively.

The little girl, Wutong, is only 13 years old this year, but she is very tall, even taller than Li Wan. At this time, she held an oil umbrella to cover Li Wan from the snow, and said, "It's windy outside, grandma should go into the sedan chair."

Li Wan got into the sedan chair, and the maids and women who served her personally, such as Dan Juxiuzhu, followed in the car

Aunt Liu, together with Dong Cheng's family, watched the servants carry the luggage.

Li Wan staggered in the sedan chair and almost fell asleep, only to wake up suddenly when the sedan chair landed. He had already entered the Lin Mansion, and when he opened the corner of the sedan chair curtain, he could only see whitewashed walls and black tiles, terraces and pavilions, though not as large as the Grand View Garden. It is vast, and the stream path is quite winding, with a Jiangnan flavor.

Not long after getting off the sedan chair at the second door, Daiyu was already waiting there with the girl and woman. Seeing Li Wan's eyes lit up, she stepped forward quickly and said, "Sister-in-law!"

Li Wan supported her with a smile, and saw that she was wearing a red feather gauze cloak, a light yellow satin double-breasted jacket, and a Yang Fei-colored horse-face skirt. Although her figure was still slender, she looked much more energetic than before, and her appearance was also longer than before. Open it up a bit, and it becomes more and more charming, and she couldn't help laughing: "I haven't seen you for a long time, my sister has grown a lot taller, and her appearance has become more and more elegant, I almost can't recognize her."

Daiyu blushed a little when she heard the words, and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, sister-in-law is still such a joker."

Li Wan asked Lin Ruhaian first, and then Fang asked Jia Lan, "How is Lan'er doing now?"

Daiyu said with a smile: "Daddy went out to meet friends today, and I'm afraid he won't be back until afternoon; Lan'er's illness has also recovered, but the doctor said that he has just recovered from a serious illness, and now he is still weak and can't stand the fatigue, so he still needs to rest. The previous son, Mr. Shen, sent someone to pick him up for a short stay, but he hasn't come back yet, I have already sent someone to report to Shen's residence, and I think he will be back soon."

Li Wan was very grateful for hearing this, held Dai Yu's hand tightly, and said, "Thank you, sister, if uncle and you hadn't worked so hard this time, I don't know what would have happened to Lan Er!"

Daiyu hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, don't say that. When I was at my grandmother's house, my sister-in-law didn't know how much I took care of me. Besides, Lan'er is my nephew. These are all internal affairs. My sister-in-law said that, but heresy."

Li Wan laughed and said: "Okay, I said something wrong, don't blame my sister."

Danju and the others also came forward to greet Daiyu, and everyone talked about the cold and warm. Li Wanfang took Daiyu's hand and came to the garden. There are only a few plum trees, green bamboos and green pines that complement each other, which is very interesting.

Not long after, everyone arrived at an exquisite small courtyard with two entrances. It turned out that the Tingtao Garden arranged by Daiyu for Li Wan was located on the northwest corner of the Lin Mansion. There are three rooms each, an upside-down room and a rear-covered room. There are a total of about twenty rooms. Red plums, green pines, and green bamboos are planted in the courtyard, which is very elegant.

Once in the inner room

, I saw that the house is clean and tidy, the laying is neat, and all the furnishings are extremely elegant.

The red sandalwood flower stand was used as a partition, and there were gold censers, jasper vases and other things on the box, and there were several Hanyu antiques on the table.

Several pots of Suxin Jianlan are placed on the vermilion lacquer shelf, full of fragrance.

There is a red sandalwood hanger beside Babu's bed, and a moon-blue crepe curtain hangs on the bed, with gold thread Su embroidery running water, gold-plated curtain hooks on both sides, and a stack of two silk quilts, matching the colors.

Daiyu said with a smile: "The house has been tidied up early in the morning, and the bedding and dowry are all ready-made, but these furnishings are arranged randomly by me, and I don't know if it suits my sister-in-law. What is missing from my sister-in-law? I'll send someone to deliver it in a while."

Li Wan looked around, liked it very much, and said with a smile: "This is already excellent, elegant and not vulgar, there is no need to change anything."

At this time, some boxes and cages were also brought over one after another, and Danju Xiuzhu and the others began to install utensils and tidy up the dowry.

Boxes and cages are placed in the two side rooms, and old ladies, maids, etc. are placed in the back room.

After the arrangements were completed one by one, Daiyu ordered someone to bring rice, flour, charcoal, and fresh vegetables. After that, Li Wan could start a fire in the small kitchen, which was cheaper.

The mothers-in-law also lifted up the caged stove, and the house was suddenly warm as spring.

Li Wan cleaned up and changed into a white silk double-breasted jacket and light yellow silk skirt, took off the sheepskin satin boots, and changed into embroidered warm shoes in lotus green satin squirrel skin, and sat by the fire with Daiyu While talking, I suddenly heard Wutong laughing outside: "Grandma, my brother is back."

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