Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Li Wan was very happy when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Call him in quickly."

As soon as the words were finished, Jia Lan ran in from outside the house. When he saw Li Wan, he took a step to greet him, kowtowed three times, and his eyes turned red.

Li Wan grabbed him hurriedly, and said: "Get up quickly." He took him to his side and looked at him carefully, and saw that he was wearing a lake blue inlaid collar, a white base, a small ball satin round collar, a mink fur waistcoat, and a white cross-collar jacket. , an ivory dark flowered silk jacket, and red trousers. She is much taller, her round cheeks have become thinner, and her face has become less childish and more handsome.

Li Wan was both happy and sad, and said with a tearful smile, "I've grown taller."

Jia Lan's eyes turned hot. No matter how smart and sensible he is, he is still only a [-]-year-old boy. He has never left his mother's side since he was a child. He has been alone in the south of the Yangtze River for the past two years. Although he has teachers, relatives and friends to take care of him, he is not like when he was at home. Every night when people are quiet, I can't help feeling homesick. At this time, being held in my mother's arms, I think of this lingering sick bed, dying, but there is no one close to me to accompany me. I feel an inexplicable grievance in my heart. In the mother's arms, she said with tears and grievances: "I thought I would never see you again."

Li Wan felt distressed, patted his shoulder lightly, and said softly: "It's my mother's fault, this time Lan'er was wronged."

Jia Lan cried for a long time before she stopped her tears, obediently asked her mother to wipe her tears, and still cuddled to the side, reluctant to leave.

Seeing that his eyes were swollen from crying, Li Wan couldn't help feeling distressed and funny when he saw that his eyes were swollen from crying, and told Xiu Zhu, "Go get a basin of hot water."

Xiuzhu suppressed a smile and went away.

It was only then that Jia Lan remembered that there were other people there, and when he looked up, he saw Daiyu looking at him with a smile, and the maids and women serving in the room also looked like they couldn't help laughing, thinking that he was crying so badly just now Everyone looked at her appearance, she blushed immediately, and after a pause, she greeted Daiyu in a low voice: "Auntie."

Daiyu burst out laughing, and seeing his little face flushed with shame, she was about to find a crack in the floor and slipped in. She quickly suppressed her smile, then turned to Li Wan and said, "Sister-in-law, talk to me, I'll go and see the table under the kitchen." How are the preparations going?" After saying that, he took the girl and mother-in-law out.

Xiuzhu brought the little girl over with hot water and a clean towel, and said, "Grandma, the hot water is ready."

Li Wan smiled and glanced at the little guy who was buried on his shoulder and refused to look up. Knowing that his son loved saving face the most, he quietly winked at Dan Ju and the others, signaling them to go out.

Danju and the others understood, knowing that the mother and son must have a lot of personal things to say, so they pursed their lips and smiled, and found a reason to lead everyone out.

The room suddenly became quiet. Li Wan twisted the handkerchief and wiped Jia Lan's face. Fang pulled him to sit beside him, and said softly, "Sit down, let's have a good talk."

Jia Lan put her arms around Li Wan's hand, her eyes were reddish, but her expression was full of joy, and said, "How soon did Mom come? When Aunt Lin sent someone to tell me just now, I thought I was dreaming."

Li Wan rubbed the top of his hair lightly, and sighed: "Last month, your aunt sent a letter to your home, saying that you were ill, so how could I sit still? Came here."

Jia Lan knew that it was not easy for her mother to come out, so she was both happy and ashamed, and said in a low voice, "It's the child who is unfilial, which made you worry."

Li Wan rubbed his little head, sighed and said: "Silly boy, tell mom what to do, as long as you are safe and sound, and don't scare me like this again."

Jia Lan put her arms around her arms with a smile, and said coquettishly, "Don't worry, Mom, I promise you, there will never be a next time."

Li Wan asked about Jia Lan's situation in the past two years, and said: "Although you have Aunt Lin and Mr. Shen here to take care of you, studying abroad is no better than staying at home. You are alone at a young age and have no one to take care of you personally. I'm really worried."

Jia Lan said with a smile: "Don't worry, my uncle and Aunt Lin treat the child very well, and they are very careful in eating and living. The master and the Jiang family's cousin and aunt often send people to pick me up at home for a short stay, and often send food come over stubbornly;

When I was studying in the academy, I lived with the teacher all the time. I had my own servants to take care of me. The gentlemen of the academy are also very kind. The children are young, and the students in the school also take good care of me. There are cousin Jiang Yan and senior brother Gu Zhan. Now, no one dares to bully me. "

Li Wan heard him talk about all kinds of interesting things about studying in the academy, and he liked this kind of life very much in words, so he felt relieved and said: "This time you are seriously ill thanks to others, and when you turn around, mother will prepare some thank you gifts. People go to say thank you."

Jia Lan agreed. In the past two years, he has also learned a lot of etiquette and rules for socializing and dealing with people outside with Lin Ruhai. It is inconvenient for his mother to go out. Now that he is getting older, it is naturally more appropriate for him to come forward for such a matter.

The mother and son talked for a long time, and Jia Lan suddenly asked, "How long is Mom going to stay here?"

In his heart, he hopes that his mother will accompany him for a while, but he also knows that there are strict rules in the family

Dare to have too much extravagant hope.

Li Wan didn't understand what he was thinking, so he nodded his forehead and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mom told the old lady and the wife before coming here, this time I won't hurry back, I will spend this year with you here .”

Jia Lan smiled when she heard this, and chattered non-stop, hugging Li Wan's arm: "There are many beautiful scenery here in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also close to our hometown Jinling. Get bored."

Li Wan listened with a smile, his gaze became softer.

The mother and son talked for a while, then saw Zijuan come in and said with a smile: "Grandma, the table outside is ready. The girl sent me to invite grandma and brother to go there."

Li Wan agreed, but seeing that the wind was still cold outside, he said, "Wait a minute, I'll come back with a change of clothes." After that, he took a pair of ermine gowns with moon white satin and put them on, also known as embroidered clothes. Zhu also opened the box to find a cloak with big red feather satin and white fox fur, and put it on Jalan before heading forward.

Following Zijuan, I walked through several secluded pavilions and painting pavilions, and saw some bamboo and potted orchids; along the corridor, I turned around a plum grove, and came to a small open hall, where I saw that Daiyu had already passed away. Take the girls to wait in the corridor.

Li Wan saw that the furnishings in the room were all exquisite and elegant, with a table in the middle.Daiyu gave way.Li Wan and Daiyu sat opposite each other, and Jia Lan sat on the right, with the bottom empty for serving.

Daiyu only asked Xueyan and Baihe to take a few daughters-in-law and maidservants here to wait on them, and the rest went down to rest and eat.

The food and drink at the banquet is naturally dried and fresh, so there is no need to repeat them.

Daiyu also ordered people to prepare other wine and food, and the two doctors from Beijing, Danju, Xiuzhu and other servants of the Rongfu family also had a table.

After lunch, Daiyu was considerate of Li Wan's journey, said a few words, and went back to her room to rest.

Li Wan went back to his room to freshen up, took a nap, and in the afternoon Daiyu brought over two boxes of eight treasures.

Suyun took it and brought it in. Li Wan opened it and saw that one box contained Linoguo and Zhuju, and the other box contained eight-color dim sum. Remembering that Jia Lan liked to eat this fruit, he asked Suyun to bring the two boxes of fruit and dim sum together. Put them all out and give them to Jalan to eat.

But Jia Lan refused to eat first, picked up a few extremely fat Linguo fruits, and gave them to Li Wan to eat.

Li Wan was very pleased, touched his head, and said with a smile: "Mom won't eat it, you like this, so I'll give you all of it, but it's cold today, so don't eat too much of these cold things."

After all, Jia Lan took a big vermilion orange and peeled it for Li Wan to eat. He had just eaten one.

Just after eating the fruit, I saw Danju saying back and forth that my aunt had returned home.

Li Wan listened, and pondered in his heart, although there is a difference between men and women, and her current status is inconvenient to meet outsiders, but Lin Ruhai is an elder after all, she is new here, and Jia Lan has been living here for the past two years, so she is under his care, so she does not go to thank her What a shame.

Thinking of this, Li Wan called Xiuzhu and said, "Find out the set of rare ancient books we brought, the Fang Chengni ancient inkstone, and the box of emblem ink."

Xiuzhu found it out of the box as she said.

Li Wan called Jia Lan, handed the things to him, and said, "Take these with you, and go to greet your aunt and grandpa on my behalf, and just say, 'My nephew and daughter-in-law kowtow to my uncle. My uncle took care of me, and this time I was seriously ill and I had to work hard, my niece and daughter-in-law are very grateful, these are a little filial piety to my uncle, I hope my uncle will not dislike it."

Jia Lan wrote down one by one, and agreed: "Don't worry, Mom, I'll send it right away."

Li Wan then ordered Danju to order a thank you gift and sent it to Daiyu, which was nothing more than silk and satin, pens, inks, paper and inkstones, food and other things, needless to say.

Not long after, Jia Lan came back, pointed to the things in Danju's hand behind her and said to Li Wan, "Grandpa only took the box of pine smoke and ink, but refused to take the rest, so I still asked me to bring them back."

Li Wan was startled, and was about to speak, when he saw Lin Ruhai also sent a girl over, and said with a smile to Li Wan: "Master said that they are all from his own family, and he has already accepted the gift, grandma can no longer be so polite, grandma, please just rest assured Stay here, if you need anything, just tell the girl, don't talk heresy."

After Li Wan stood and listened, he knew that since Lin Ruhai had said so, this gift could not be given away, so he had to order someone to put it away for the time being, thinking of returning it at another time in the future, he thanked Lin Ruhai, Fang sat down and asked the girl to take a purse and give it to the visitor.

After dinner, it was already time to light the lamps, but Jia Lan snuggled up to Li Wan and acted like a spoiled child, refusing to go back to the front yard.

Li Wan shook his head helplessly, and said with a smile: "Forget it, let's sleep in the green gauze cupboard tonight."

Only then was Jia Lan satisfied, and went out to wash up with a beaming smile.

Li Wan ordered his mother-in-law to bring the stove over, put it in the green gauze cupboard, hung up the curtains, and spread brocade quilts and embroidered mattresses.

Since he was six years old, he has not slept with his nanny, so the nanny Wang Momo put another bed outside the green gauze cupboard and made a bunk near the south-facing door to sleep with him and prepare for getting up at night.

Li Wan called Dan Ju and said: "Go and tidy up the dowry, then move the smoker cage into Xinuan Pavilion, and I will sleep on it at night."

There is no kang in Jiangnan, only beds. Li Wan was from Jiangnan in his previous life, but after coming to this world, he got used to living in the north

The warm kang is not suitable for the wet and cold winter in the south of the Yangtze River.

Danju knew that she was afraid of the cold, so she ordered Suyun to open the box, took out a bed blanket and spread it on the cotton mattress, and the lotus color brocade quilt embroidered with twining peonies was also scented with soothing incense.

After washing up, Li Wan changed into pajamas and lay on the smoked cage. The bedding was freshly dried and exuded a warm and clean fragrance. He felt warm and comfortable all over his body, his eyelids gradually sank, and fell asleep after a while.

Xiuzhu and the others went to wash and rest one after another. Today is Danju's last night, so he spread out the quilt on the outer bed, filled the quilt with Tang Pozi, added charcoal from the brazier, burned benzoin, and closed the house Door, everything is in order.

When they came to the outside room, an old lady who had stayed overnight poured another small pot of white wine, took a bag of peanuts in one hand, and a bag of sautéed almonds with salt, and brought them to Dan Ju, saying: "Miss, drink a cup to drive away the cold."

Dan Ju shook her head and said: "I won't drink, you should drink less too, don't get too drunk, you'll get drunk all of a sudden."

The old woman said: "Miss, don't worry, we just have two sips of wine to warm our bodies, and we will never make trouble." At that moment, the old women went to drink by themselves, Dan Ju gave some instructions, washed up and went to sleep soundly.

The next day, after breakfast, Li Wan thought about preparing a few thank-you gifts and sending them to the Gu family, Shen Yi, and Yan Hui to thank them for their care for Jia Lan.

There is also Dr. Zhou Gong's family, it is more important to thank them for saving their lives, but they don't know their family's preferences, and they are a little embarrassed for a while, so they invite Daiyu to help.

The two were discussing, when suddenly a little girl came back and said that Miss Zhen had come.

Daiyu was overjoyed when she heard the words, and hurriedly said, "Come quickly."

Li Wan didn't realize it for a while, and was wondering who Miss Zhen was. Daiyu smiled and said, "My sister-in-law forgot, this Miss Zhen is Sister Yinglian. Her family moved to the city from Wu County last year, and they live in On West Street."

Only then did Li Wan remember that Xiang Ling had changed her real name back, and she couldn't help laughing: "I'm so confused, I forgot even this."

While talking, Ying Lian had already followed the girl in, she was surprised and happy to see Li Wan, and hurriedly saluted: "Greetings to Grandma."

Li Wan hurriedly helped her up, and saw that she was wearing a silver-red gold-woven satin double-breasted jacket, underneath was a Yang Fei-colored embroidered horse-face skirt, with a little rouge mole between her eyebrows, bright and charming, she couldn't help laughing and said: "I haven't seen you for a few years, Yingying." The lotus is getting better and better."

Yinglian's pretty face flushed, and she greeted Daiyu again, and everyone sat down.

The little girl brought tea and fruit, Yinglian asked the little girl who followed her to take out two volumes of poetry, handed them to Daiyu, and said, "I've finished reading The Complete Works of Wang Mojie, please go back and find me two more volumes."

Daiyu agreed, turned to Li Wan and said with a smile: "Didn't my sister-in-law just say that she would prepare a thank you gift for Mr. Zhou, now there is no need to bother, just bring the thank you gift to Sister Yinglian later."

Li Wan didn't understand what he meant, and asked suspiciously, "What do you mean? Is Mr. Zhou a relative of Yinglian?"

Daiyu laughed and said, "It's not just a family. Our sister Yinglian got married in August, and she was promised to Mr. Zhou's son. We will have a wedding in the spring of next year."

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