Evening Shaohua in the Red House

In August, Li Wan received a letter from Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, urging her to return to Beijing as soon as possible. It has been nearly a year since she left Beijing. Now that Lan Geer has passed the exam, it is time to go back.

In addition, Jiang Zhifu's term will expire in three years in the spring of next year, and the twelfth lunar month of this year is the [-]th birthday of the old lady of the Jiang family, and Jiang Yan has previously engaged in a marriage with Zhang Ying, a girl from the Zhang family. Hui then decided to take a pair of children back to Beijing first.

It just so happened that Gu Zhan was going back to Beijing to prepare for next year's autumn. If the imperial examination went well and he was lucky enough to pass, with Gu Zhan's talent and learning, he was very likely to be admitted to the Imperial Academy.

According to the practice of this dynasty, first-class imperial examination scholars were awarded Hanlin editors and editors. In addition, young and talented people were selected from the second-class and third-class to enter the Imperial Academy as Shujishi, which was called "selection hall".

Shu Jishi usually lasts for three years, during which time he will be taught by experienced people in the Imperial Academy and impart various knowledge.Three years later, the assessment will be carried out before the next meeting, which is called "dissolution".Those with excellent grades will stay in Hanlin, where they will be awarded editing or review, and officially become Hanlin, which is called "staying in the hall".

Others were sent to the six ministries as directors and censors; some were also sent to serve as officials in various places.

If the imperial examination is unfavorable, if you fail, you can wait another three years in the capital, and you can also enter the Imperial College to study. No matter what the result is, it is impossible for Gu Zhan to leave Beijing in the next few years.

Therefore, Gu Yan and Lin Ruhai discussed it and decided to get married after the test. By then, Gu Zhan will be nineteen and Daiyu sixteen. Regardless of whether Gu Zhan is in the middle or not, it is not appropriate to delay it any longer. The marriage should be done in the capital. Anyway, both of them have mansions, which saves the inconvenience of traveling back and forth.

In August next year, it will be the autumn, and in March the next year, it will only be more than a year. After thinking about it, Lin Ruhai also decided to return to Beijing with everyone. Firstly, he wanted to buy Daiyu's dowry, and secondly, Gu Zhan After all, he was young and had a special status, and Bo Yun in Beijing was treacherous, so he was really worried.

Although Gu Yan is a great Confucian, knowledge is not enough for many officials in the court. Lin Ruhai has been an official for decades, and he dare not say anything else. This experience is more than enough to teach Gu Zhan. He only has Daiyu A daughter, although Gu Zhan is a son-in-law, she is no different from a parent-child, so it is natural to consider everything carefully.

So everyone discussed it, and finally decided that the four families would go back to Beijing together.

After hearing Li Wan's question, Zijuan smiled and said: "I'm still cleaning up. I don't know how soon I will come back when I go to Beijing this time. What the master means is to take all the things in the house with me. I have already sent Steward Zhang to go to Beijing." Renovated the old house,

These days, our girls are watching people counting things in the warehouse, packing boxes, and our girls’ dowry for the Sunrise Pavilion. We have to take care of it. We are so busy these days that we don’t even have time to drink saliva. "

Li Wan nodded when he heard the words, and he understood very well that the accumulation of the Lin family for generations is not a small sum. It is not easy to count them one by one at this time. After thinking about it, he asked: "How is sister Lin's dowry cooking Already? But what else is missing?"

Usually, for girls from a wealthy family, the dowry has been accumulated since childhood, and all kinds of furniture, large and small, must be made of wood. A Qiangong Babu bed for Jiangnan daughters is even more indispensable, and they also need to buy houses, farms, pavements, antiques, gold and jade. Jewelry and so on, this is the ten miles of red makeup when she came out of the cabinet.

Zijuan said with a smile: "The house, farm and shop have been set up by the master long ago, and all the wood for the girl's furniture has also been packed, just waiting to be loaded on the ship. Other antiques, gold and silver vessels, calligraphy and painting ancient books I'm still counting and making books, so there's no rush for makeup, silk and satin hairpins, anyway, there are still two years left, and I'll buy them when I get married, lest they lose their color over time."

Li Wan listened to Zijuan talking eloquently and clearly, so he couldn't help laughing at everyone: "You only listen to Zijuan girl's mouth, it's like an upside-down walnut cart!"

While talking, I looked at her carefully, and saw that she was wearing a white silk jacket today, covered with pink satin embroidered with rhododendrons, and tied with a water-green skirt underneath, with a golden bead hairpin ring. He patted Zicuckoo on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Good girl, she was like a saw-mouthed gourd when she was young, but she never expected to have such insight and eloquence in the past few years with Sister Lin. It is true that a strong general has no weak soldiers.

It's just that when your girl goes out in the future, I don't know which one will be cheaper. "

Zijuan's face flushed with embarrassment when she heard the words, she held her face and said, "You're talking serious things here, why is Grandma making fun of me?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "This is the truth, not a joke. If you don't tell the truth about your personality, no one will treat you as a young lady."

Zijuan has a beautiful appearance, a gentle and considerate temperament, and is literate. She is no worse than the daughter of a poor family. Li Wansu likes her honesty and naturally hopes that she will have a good result in the future.

But now that sister Lin's fate has changed, Zijuan's future will not be too bad.

Suyun and others all laughed and said: "Our Zijuan girl is outstanding in appearance, hurry up and find a talented person tomorrow, maybe she will be an imperial wife in the future!"

Zicuckoo smell

Ashamed and ashamed, he spat on Suyun and scolded: "Little talkative little hoof, I dare say you are in a hurry to find a young son-in-law, so you are in a hurry to be a matchmaker, and if you talk about it carefully, I will tear your mouth !"

For a moment Suyun also blushed, begging for forgiveness in a hurry, and said with a smile: "My good sister, please forgive me this time, if I talk about it again, you will become the wife of the emperor tomorrow, and I will become a big bastard for you. Carry a monument for a lifetime!"

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard the words.

Li Wan couldn't help laughing, seeing Zijuan's face flushed like blood, knowing that she was very embarrassed, he quickly suppressed a smile to smooth things over, and said to Suyun: "Your sister Zijuan is rarely here, go and bring the dim sum you just made. She has a taste, and asks the small kitchen to make some of the western desserts from last time."

Suyun was very eager to hear the words, and hurriedly went out to spread the word.

Not long after, Suyun came in with a snack box, took out some delicate snacks and put them on, one was rose cake, the other was crystal cake, a plate of chicken oil rolls, and the other was snails soaked in butter.

Zicuckoo took a crystal cake and ate it. It was sweet and soft and glutinous. She also ate a buttered snail, which melted in the mouth. She couldn't help laughing, "The buttered snail made at grandma's house is the most delicious. It's different from other places."

Li Wan said with a smile, "Eat more if you like it. It just so happens that the small kitchen made some fresh snacks yesterday. You can take them back and give Sister Lin a taste."

Ghee abalone, also known as dripping crisp abalone, is somewhat similar to Western-style desserts of later generations. It is a sweet food made of ghee that looks like a snail. Oysters, long like snails, are sweet and delicious, and melt in the mouth. As early as the Song Dynasty, they were one of the more common snacks.

Zijuan agreed after hearing the words, and said with a smile: "The few western dim sums sent by my grandma before are very delicate. The girl loves them like something, but I am embarrassed to ask grandma again."

Li Wan said with a smile: "It's nothing, these prescriptions were read from a book by chance, since sister Lin likes it, she will ask Dan Ju to copy it for you and bring it back to you."

She was also on a whim and had nothing to do. She happened to think of those western-style pastries she had eaten in her previous life, so she asked the kitchen staff to try to make them. Unexpectedly, she actually made a few, although they were not as good as those pastry masters in her previous life. The ones that came out were authentic, but the taste was very good, so Li Wan sent some to each family.

Lin Ruhai, Shen Yi and the others are fine, but try something new, there are few girls who don’t like sweets, the cake is soft and delicate, it melts in the mouth, the egg tart is sweet and mellow, soft and delicious, Daiyu and Yingxue

It's not enough to love everyone, even Yan Hui and Mrs. Gu are full of praise.

Zijuan knew that Li Wan and Daiyu were very close, and they would often give each other valuable antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and a few snack recipes were nothing, so she didn't refuse immediately, she got up and thanked her, and said with a smile: "Then it's off to grandma." Good stuff."

Dan Ju went to the study to copy the dim sum recipes according to her words, Li Wan thought for a while and said: "Pick up some fruits from our garden, and also pack some lotus root powder from Mr. Shen's house this morning. Take Zijuan back together."

Dan Ju agreed to go.

Not long after, the snacks in the kitchen were ready, and Dan Ju also ordered someone to pack up two baskets of grapes, two baskets of cantaloupe, two baskets of peaches, and a basket of lotus root starch wrapped in oiled paper.

Zijuan saw that the lotus root powder was in flakes or granules, and the color was white and red, so he couldn't help laughing and said: "I heard that this West Lake lotus root powder is made from the best fresh lotus root, ground into pulp and dried, and the price of ten catties of fresh lotus root is only a few taels." Lotus root powder was brought in as a tribute before."

Li Wan nodded and said: "Although this lotus root powder is not more expensive than bird's nest and ginseng gold, it is easy to digest, has the effects of promoting body fluid and clearing heat, appetizing and nourishing lungs, nourishing yin and blood, and is very suitable for babies, the elderly, and the sick. Sister Lin has always Weak spleen and stomach are suitable for eating this, remember to send your girls to eat when you are free."

Zijuan was very happy, and promised with a busy smile: "Don't worry, grandma, I will serve our girl to eat when I get back."

After eating half a cup of tea and sitting down for a while, Zicuckoo left.

Back at the mansion, Daiyu was looking at the warehouse account books presented by the steward's daughter-in-law.

The Lin family has accumulated for hundreds of years, and it has been handed down for several generations. The dowry of several generations of mistresses has never been divided. There are not a small number of farm houses and shops outside, and there are countless antiques, gold and silver utensils, etc. Ancient books, calligraphy, painting, gold, jade, jewelry, etc., and the collection of antiques, calligraphy, painting, books, and gold and silver in the warehouse alone has filled more than a dozen warehouses.

Daiyu looked at the account book for a few days, and was a little bored. Seeing that Zijuan came back with a lot of things, she smiled and said, "Why did you bring so many things back?"

Xueyan Baihe and the others also gathered around, helped to take the food box, and said with a smile: "It smells so good, are these Western dim sum given by my grandma before?"

Zijuan ordered the mother-in-law to put the basket on the ground, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said with a smile: "The grandma ordered someone to make it now, and asked her to bring it for the girl to taste, and even copied the prescription for me." Then he took out the dim sum recipe.

Daiyu liked it very much when she heard the words, she read it carefully and asked Huayu to accept it, and said: "Give it to the small kitchen, and make some for Dad to taste tomorrow."

Flower language promised, be careful

it is good.

Daiyu distributed the snacks to everyone, and everyone was full of praise. Daiyu especially liked the Yuzhi milk cake, and even ate two pieces before stopping.

After taking a bite of Yuzhi milk cake, Xueyan felt relieved, and smiled at Zijuan: "Just now, Mother Wang told us to pack up quickly, it's just something that the girl brought out from Beijing. I've been tossed and turned, and now I have to go through it again, and I need my sister to help me."

Zijuan said with a smile: "You don't remember that I was sick at that time, and you took care of it. I didn't even touch my hands, and I didn't even look at it. Now it seems that I have nowhere to intervene. Okay. Sister, I'll leave it to you to handle it alone."

Bai He and Hua Yu only pursed their lips and smiled.

Xueyan and her good sister begged for a while, and then reluctantly shared the remaining few pieces of snacks, and the three of them finally agreed.

At the moment when the flower language was being transcribed, the three of them, Baihe Xueyan, counted and tidied up. Zijuan suddenly found a long painting scroll in a box. She couldn't help being a little puzzled, took the painting out of the box, and said to Baihe: "This painting Who put it in? Why wasn't it put in the painting and calligraphy box."

Bai He frowned and said, "I forgot too."

The four of them looked at each other, Xueyan said: "If you open it, you will know." Then he took it, opened it and watched it with the three of Zijuan, and saw that it was a picture of a spring outing, with green mountains and clear waters, brown pavilions and huts , as well as the continuous green hills, all the bamboo trees, rocks, streams and bridges, and the scenery in Fanyuan are all available.

In the depths of the flowers and bamboos, there are several peach trees. A young girl in light yellow clothes is holding a green peach blossom, and she is lowering her head to smell the fragrance of the flowers.

Huayu looked at it again and again, and said with a smile: "It's a girl who looks like a girl, how can she look so similar!" Zijuan saw the inscription at a glance, and understood in her heart that the three white cranes were still staring at her, Xueyan couldn't help but wondered: "This When did the girl draw the picture? Why can't I remember?"

Zijuan laughed softly and said, "Why are you so confused? Didn't you see that this is the dress our girl wore when she went to Panxiang Temple to offer incense in March, and then look at the inscription on the painting. Where is the girl's handwriting?"

Hua Yu took a closer look, saw the inscription seal, suddenly understood, and laughed in a low voice: "So it's my uncle's handwriting, it's strange that our girls cherish it so much."

After looking at it for a while, Zijuan brought the painting to Daiyu and asked, "Girl, is this painting still in the cage here, or is it in the same place as the previous ones?"

Daiyu opened it, her face flushed, and she handed the painting to Zijuan and said, "Let's put it alone, it's better to keep it."

, Be careful not to break it. "

Zijuan understood, smiled secretly, and agreed, took the scroll, carefully rolled it up, and put it in the cage.

After another six or seven days of busy work, I packed up all the dowry, large and small objects, boxes and cages, and so on.

Jia Lan and Jia Lian's group also returned to Gusu, Shen Yi was overjoyed when he learned that his apprentice had won the prize, Gu Lao and Lin Ruhai were also very happy, Dan Ju and the others were even more happy and just laughed for some reason.

Li Wan was really happy in his heart, but he was going back to Beijing soon, and his status was limited, so he didn't throw a big banquet with much fanfare, and set up a few small banquets to celebrate, and invited Yan Hui, mother and daughter, Daiyu, Mrs. Gu, Yinglian, etc. A group of people; and a few seats were set up in the front yard, and Gu Yan, Shen Yi, Lin Ruhai, Gu Zhan, Jiang Yan, etc. were invited, all of whom were greeted and entertained by Jia Lan.

After a lively day, they ate until sunset, when everyone left.

Since then, each family has been busy packing their bags and boats and accompanying attendants. Lin Ruhai has already hired five large ships. All bags, large and small objects, boxes and cages, and necessary utensils and food are numbered and numbered.

The author has something to say: Good night little angels, the next update is Thursday~

感谢在2020-02-1900:25:16~2020-02-2301:53:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: there is no need to return 69 bottles in the slanting wind and drizzle;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!