Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Chapter 144 Chapter 144

Li Wan had already guessed that it was Aunt Li and Li Wen and Li Qi who came, so he laughed and said, "My aunt has come to Beijing again, why are they all together? This is a miracle!"

Baochai also laughed and said, "Can we, Xue Biao and his sister come?"

While talking, everyone came to Mrs. Wang's upper room, only to see a dark place.

It turned out that Mrs. Xing's brother and sister-in-law brought their daughter Xiuyan to Beijing to vote for Mrs. Xing. It happened that Sister Feng's brother Wang Ren was also coming to Beijing, and the two parents came to help.

Halfway on the way, I met Aunt Li Wan, who went to Beijing with her two daughters, and Xue Panzhi, who followed her younger brother Xue Bian and her sister, came to Beijing to be married. Everyone told me that they were relatives again, so the several families went together all the way. Come together and visit your relatives.

Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang are very happy.On the one hand, I talked about some homework and received the gifts I brought; on the other hand, I ordered to stay for wine and meals.

Sister Feng is already out of confinement, and she is very happy to see her brother, so she is busy.Baochai naturally talked about parting with her aunt and sister.

Li Wan and Aunt Li invited Ann, and then met with Li Wen and Li Qisi.

Li Wan had only seen Aunt Li and two cousins ​​in the memory of the original owner before. Now Aunt Li is over [-] years old, and her appearance is better than in memory. It fell very beautifully and neatly.

Li Wen is two years older than Li Qi, and has a slimmer figure. Today she is wearing a white silk jacket, with a peach-red embroidered squirrel skirt with white plum blossoms on the outer cover, and a light pink pleated cotton skirt underneath. A melon-seeded face, bright eyes and white teeth, looking forward to shine.

Li Qi is wearing a gold-edged double-breasted jacket with flowers on a white background, a pink embroidered horse-face skirt, an oval face, apricot eyes, snow-skinned lips, and is charming and charming.

The three sisters talked about the temperature and cold, and Xing Xiuyan and Xue Baoqin also came up to greet them.

Li Wan had been curious about Xue Baoqin for a long time, and now she couldn't help but look at her carefully. After seeing her face clearly, she couldn't help taking a deep breath, there is such a beauty in the world!

Xue Baoqin is only thirteen or fourteen years old this year, but she has already shown a peerless demeanor. Today she is wearing a lotus-colored flowered cross-collar jacket, a silver-red woven gold satin double-breasted gown, and a light yellow silk flowered skirt tied underneath, her eyebrows are like emerald feathers , with skin like white snow, charming and bright, slim, standing quietly, but shining brightly like a pearl.

The two sisters Li Wen and Li Qi are rare beauties, and Xing Xiuyan is also elegant and beautiful, but standing with the young Xue Baoqin, they are all overshadowed.

In terms of appearance alone, even Daiyu Baochai is slightly inferior. Li Wan's beauty is the only one Li Wan has seen in his life.

When Jia's mother saw it, she liked it so much that she immediately asked Mrs. Wang to recognize her as her goddaughter, and she didn't even stop her in the garden, so she slept with her at night.

Everyone saw the ceremony and narrated that Xue Biao lived in Xue Pan's study, and Jia's mother left Xing Xiuyan to live in the garden. Mrs. Xing's brother and sister-in-law's family was originally difficult; I am very willing to give up help. ①

Aunt Li also has an old house in Beijing, which she bought in the early years. Although it is not very big, the location is good. It is just next door to Li Shouzhong's residence.

Aunt Li had sent a letter earlier asking Mrs. Li Shouzhong to help refund the rent, but now she hasn't cleaned up, and she wanted to leave home after chatting.

Mrs. Jia, Mrs. Wang likes Li Wan because she is virtuous, young and chaste, which is admirable. Now that her widow aunt is here, how can she ask her to live outside.

Although Aunt Li refused in every possible way, but Mother Jia insisted on refusing, so she had to obey, and sent her mother-in-law to Li's house to pass on the message.

Li Wan accompanied Aunt Li and Mrs. Wang to talk about some homework, and Mrs. Wang asked Li Wan to accompany her back to Daoxiang Village for resettlement. Li Wan agreed, but Aunt Li first asked Li Wen and Li Qi to follow Xing Xiuyan to Mrs. Xing and Sister Feng. After saying hello, Fang and Li Wan came to Daoxiang village.

Suyun had already got the news, and led someone to tidy up the west wing of Li Wan's courtyard. All the furnishings, bedding and curtains were brand new.

Li Wan ordered someone to tidy up a table of food and wine to clean up Aunt Li's mother and daughter.

At that time, Jia Lan also came back from school and visited his uncle, grandmother and two aunts.

In the evening, the banquet was held in Li Wan's upper room. On the kang was a big table, five sets of cups and chopsticks, four meat, four vegetables and eight dishes. Candles were shining brightly on all sides. Suyun held a silver jug, Biyue and others Serve and serve dishes.

Li Wan and Aunt Li toasted a glass of wine, and gave way with a smile: "Auntie and the two younger sisters are here today, and I don't have any good wine or food to greet them here, just some home-cooked meals, Auntie is no wonder."

Aunt Li laughed hurriedly and said, "Don't be like this, aunt, you are all from your own family, so why bother to talk heresy."

Li Wen and Li Qi also raised their cups and laughed, "I'm bothering my sister."

Li Wan also returned a toast, and said with a smile: "The two younger sisters will only regard this as their own home in the future, and just tell the girls and women what to eat or drink."

Jia Lan smelled the aroma of wine and couldn't help feeling a little moved, and said with a smile, "Mom, I should also respect my uncle, grandmother and two aunts."

Although the wine at this time has almost no strength, it is still not suitable for children to drink too much, so Li Wan has not allowed Jia Lan to drink too much, and he can only sip it during the New Year and holidays.

Small mouth.

Knowing that the child was greedy, Li Wan took a look at him, then turned to tell Suyun, "Go and get one of the set of jade cups on the cup in the inner room."

Suyun pursed her lips and smiled, and sure enough, she went back to the room and took a jade cup for Jia Lan.

Everyone couldn't help laughing, it turned out that it was a small jadeite cup, very small and delicate, about the size of a thumb.

Jia Lan also found it funny when she saw it. She poured a glass of wine by herself, and then poured it with Aunt Li, Li Wan, Li Wen and Li Qi.

In fact, Jia Lan couldn't drink either. After drinking a small glass of wine, her face turned red. Seeing this, Li Wan hurriedly ordered the girl to serve the food. Jia Lan rinsed his mouth after eating, and sat down again. After drinking a cup of tea, he got up and went to the front yard to rest.

Aunt Li was exhausted from traveling and traveling, and she was overwhelmed with alcohol. After drinking two glasses of wine, she went back to her room to rest.

The three sisters in this room were talking about sex, and Li Wen and Li Qi told Li Wan about the conditions of their hometown in Jinling, many things on the road, and the scenery they saw along the way.

Li Wan also gave a rough account of his situation over the past few years, and then told the two of them in detail the temperament and preferences of the people in the Jia family. It was not until the day was over that the three sisters broke up and went back to their rooms to freshen up and go to bed.

But it is said that Xing Xiuyan and others lived in Jia's mansion. Unexpectedly, Zhongjinghou Shi Ding was appointed as a high-ranking official from another province, and he would take his family to take office soon.

Then Jiamu sent someone to pick up Daiyu. At that time, Xue Baoqin was talking with Xiangyun and others to accompany Jiamu. Hearing that Daiyu had come, she hurriedly stood up.

Not long after, a girl came in surrounded by maids and women. Baoqin looked carefully and saw that she was holding her hair in a bun, wearing a sable cape embroidered with plum blossoms in light yellow satin, and wearing gold silk lanterns and pearl earrings by her ears. Wearing a moon-white bamboo-patterned golden satin white fox fur jacket, a white crepe embroidered ermine skirt, a green-gold flashing green butterfly belt around the waist, and a white jade pendant with concentric lotus and mutton fat hanging from it. , elegant demeanor, more and more like a fairy.

Baoqin couldn't help but stared dumbfounded, and praised secretly, feeling quite ashamed.

When the two met each other, they sat together and talked.

That Baoqin is young, hot-hearted, and intelligent by nature. She has been able to read and write since she was a child. She has lived in Jia's mansion for two days now, and she probably knows who she is. Ken snub.Among them, it is also seen that Lin Daiyu is outstanding, and her appearance and talent are rare in the world, so she is even more affectionate and respectful to Daiyu.

Daiyu also loves Baoqin's character very much. She drives Baoqin to call her "sister" and doesn't mention Dao's surname. She really looks like a real sister.

so-so. ②

At this time, there were so many girls in the Grand View Garden, and it became more and more lively.

It's winter now, and the weather is getting colder every day.

When Li Wen and Li Qicai entered the room, they saw Li Wan wearing a moon-white ermine satin jacket embroidered with folded branches of magnolia, a white crepe silk skirt embroidered with ink, and a ginger-yellow three-blue embroidered crepe sweat scarf, covered with sky blue brocade Sitting in a double-breasted fox fur coat embroidered with folded branches, sitting on the smoke cage in the warm pavilion, with a small multicolored cloisonné enamel hand stove in his hand, he couldn't help laughing: "Sister, do you think it's cold? It's getting cold so fast! Just now I saw that the clouds in the sky are very chaotic, I'm afraid there will be snow falling!"

Aunt Li also came in, saw it and smiled and said, "Since you are so afraid of the cold, I'll ask someone to bring a brazier in."

Li Wan got up to give up his seat, and said with a smile: "I have ordered Suyun to take care of it. I didn't feel it before. I just came back from our wife's place and felt cold when the wind blew."

Not long after, Suyun led the two women and brought a small three-legged cloisonné enamel brazier with short legs.

The weather was getting colder and the north wind was howling outside. Aunt Li went back to the house to take a rest, and Li Wan and Li Qi chatted around the stove.

The old women lit up the braziers at the four corners of the warm pavilion one by one, and lit a small red clay stove in the middle to heat hot water.

Biyue took the little girl to do needlework, Suyun saw the water was boiling, and asked the little girl to fetch a bowl and spoon, rinsed the sugar-preserved roses, and mixed several bowls of sugar water.

After Li Wan ate half a bowl, he felt much warmer. Li Wen and Li Qi also ate with him and chatted a little.

Li Wan suddenly remembered something, and said to Suyun: "Madam Feng is full moon, and the housekeeper's business is about to be handed over to her. You should hand over the accounts to Ping'er in these few days, so as to save you from panic when you come to the end. .”

Suyun smiled and agreed, and said: "I guess it's about the same, just now I'm checking the account with Biyue."

After hearing this, Li Wen was about to speak, when she suddenly heard the little girls outside shouting, "It's snowing!"

Li Qi is still young, childlike innocence, heard the words and hurried to push away the fan, only to see pieces of snowflakes floating over, Li Qi took a few pieces in his hands, clapped his hands and laughed: "It's wonderful, it really snowed heavily .”

Li Wan also stepped forward to look at it for a while, and saw that the snowflakes in the sky were as big as goose feathers, and the ground was covered with a layer of silver after a while, and he couldn't help laughing: "This is the first heavy snowfall in winter, and it seems to be bigger than usual. some."

After speaking, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "What time is it today?"

Everyone said: "Yesterday, I just passed the sixteenth."

Li Wan smiled at the Li Wen sisters and said, "Sisters before,

I started a poetry club, and it is scheduled to open on the second and sixteenth of each month. In this way, I missed the official day of the poetry club yesterday. Fortunately, it is snowing again today, so I can enjoy the snow and write poems together. "After that, he sent the girl to invite Daiyu and others to come over.

Li Wen and Li Qi laughed and said: "Sister Tanchun mentioned this before, but our sisters are not very good at poetry, I'm afraid we will make a joke."

Li Wan heard this and said with a smile: "Our poetry club is just playing tricks, whoever takes it seriously, I usually only judge once, and I don't do too many poems, so it's easier to meet The rhyme of the title of the poem is just one song."

This poem composing is really her weakness, her thinking has long been solidified, and she can only appreciate it. Asking her to compose poems is really not that spiritual, and no matter how much she practices, it is mediocre. Fortunately, Yuan is not good at poetry, so no one doubts it.

After a while of gossip, the wind and snow blew up outside in bursts, and the snow fell, and it became colder and colder.

Suddenly I heard a message from the girl: "Brother Lan is back."

As soon as the words were finished, Jia Lan came in wearing a sable cloak trimmed with blue satin and holding a large branch of cinnabar plum in his hand.

Li Wan suddenly felt his eyes light up, and said with a smile: "What a beautiful plum blossom, where did it come from?" As he spoke, he brushed the snowflakes off his shoulders and took off his cloak.

Jia Lan handed the red plum to the maid, and said with a smile: "The teacher's house planted a very high-quality cinnabar plum, and it bloomed very well today. I thought that my mother usually likes plum blossoms, so I broke off a branch and put it in the vase."

Suyun had already brought a white Ding kiln porcelain vase, filled it with water, and put plum blossoms in it.

Li Wan looked at it twice, shook his head and said: "This bottle is not suitable, it is too small, and the flowering branches need to be trimmed."

Li Wen and Li Qi admired it for a while, Li Wen said: "It's better to change to a shrug bottle."

Jia Lan laughed and said, "I remember we have a beautiful shrug bottle in our house after the rain. The glaze color is very good, and it seems to be suitable." As he talked, he asked the girl to fetch it.

Li Wan picked two pearl-sanded red plums for a while, and gave Li Wen and Li Qi hairpins to Li Wen and Li Qi respectively. Does this flower look good?"

Li Qi looked carefully in the mirror, and saw that the red plums made her skin whiter and whiter. Not only did her face spring up, but her breath also smelled of fragrance, which was fragrant and refreshing, and she couldn't help smiling at the mirror.

Li Wen shook his head and laughed, and was about to speak when Jia Lan sneezed several times in succession, which startled everyone

Li Wan hurriedly said to Jia Lan: "Come here, I'll try it on your forehead, don't catch a cold when you come back from the snow."

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Jia Lan wiped his nose and walked forward with a blushing face. Li Wan touched his forehead with the back of his hand, then touched the palm of his hand, and said: "The palm of the hand is not cold, but the fire in this room is too hot. , you came in from the outside just now, one cold and one hot, but you didn't feel a little cold."

After finishing speaking, she asked Bi Yue to make ginger soup, and urged Jia Lan to go back to her room to wash and change clothes.

Fortunately, Jia Lan is in good health, but after blowing some wind, she got cold in vain, took a hot bath, drank ginger soup, covered herself again, and sweated.

This side of Daiyu and Tanchun came to Daoxiang, and just entered the courtyard, they saw Li Wan sitting in front of the tea table with his cuffs rolled up, a beautiful woman shrugged after the rain, and a porcelain vase was placed on the tea table, Li Wan was holding a sparse cup in one hand. Red plum blossoms with slanted branches, and they are pruning the flower branches with scissors in one hand.

Li Wen and Li Qi also gathered around to help tidy up the scattered flowers and branches.

The red plum blossoms are very good, with twists and turns, and the fragrance spreads everywhere. The flowers are placed in the porcelain vase with colored glaze and ice patterns chiseled from azure, and the red and green complement each other, making them even more gorgeous and extraordinary.

When Tanchun saw it, he smiled and said, "It smells so good! What a gorgeous flower!"

Li Wan raised his head when he heard the sound, quickly put down the scissors, gave up his seat with a smile, and asked the little girl to serve tea.

Then Baochai sisters and others arrived one after another, but Baoyu was not allowed to come because Jia Zheng called him away.

Biyue had already ordered someone to set up a foot stove and smoked the incense again. Biyue brought up two filigree boxes, one plate of jujube paste yam cake, one plate of lotus cake, one plate of almond pine nuts, and one plate of dried almonds. Egg rolls, a plate of fried cheese, and a plate of soufflé with red bean stuffing, all laid out neatly.

Daiyu laughed and said, "Hurry up and bring your good tea."

Li Wan then asked Biyue to cook the Pu'er tea that she had put away earlier, and called Suyun: "Put up the windows, the room will be warm now, and you won't be afraid of even some winds. It's just a good time to enjoy the snow scene outside. The plum blossoms are blooming." Go to the desk, lean against the window, and borrow the scent of plum blossoms to help the tea."

Suyun agreed to go.

It happened that Xishan Zhuangzi sent a lot of fresh game and vegetables. Li Wan sent some to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, and asked the chef to cook some fresh dishes, and invited the sisters to stay and try something new.

This room discussed about writing poems tomorrow, and the sisters would write poems, play chess, or gossip around the stove, so happy.

Baoqin plays Go with Daiyu, Li Wan and Baochai welcome the spring to watch the game, Xichun and Li Wen discuss Danqing, Li Qi, Tanchun, Xing Xiuyan and Baochai play Go.

After playing for a while, I saw that Mother Jia sent Amber to bring some exquisite snacks, and Mrs. Wang also sent her mother-in-law to bring two plates of red oranges.

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Several sisters-in-law pushed Daiyu to sit in the back, Li Wan sat on a chair carved with bamboo and fragrant sandalwood on the ground, Li Wen, Li Qi, Baoqin, Xiangyun, Baochai and others all went to the kang and sat around the table.

The maids brought up the dishes, a plate of colorful shredded venison, a plate of stir-fried yellow sprouts, a plate of roasted roe roe, a plate of stir-fried pheasant and melon seeds, a bowl of ham and winter bamboo shoot soup, a bowl of gold and silver hooves, a plate of Stir-fried three shredded vegetables, another plate of rouge goose breast, fried quail, one plate of crispy crispy rolls, one plate of walnut crispy mushroom stuffing, and the rest of the side dishes are also exquisite and delicious.

Everyone is free to eat what they like.After eating, the maids brought hand towels, took the gargling bowl, and everyone rinsed their mouths before they began to drink tea.

Li Wan said: "Tomorrow will be as we have just discussed. I have already sent people to go to the caged kang in Luxueting, and we all have a stove to write poems. The old lady may not be happy to think about it. Besides, our little things are only for Feng girl. Just a letter, food and drink are ready-made anyway, and it is enough for me to pay a total of two or three taels of silver."

Baochai and the others knew that she had a rich body and it was not difficult to do so, so they agreed together, because they also drafted a title to limit the rhyme.Li Wan said with a smile, "I've already made up my mind. When the date comes tomorrow, I'll know anyway." Go to Jia Mu.

At this time, the heavy snow had not stopped, and a group of women hurriedly opened oil umbrellas, and the maids also waited for them to put on their cloaks and Guanyin pockets.

Li Wan saw that all the sisters were either satin or gauze or scarlet gorilla felt, all of them were brightly dressed, only Xing Xiuyan was dressed plainly, wearing only a silver-red snow gown and a squirrel cloak, all of them were half-new Not old, I vaguely remembered that it was the old clothes of Yingchun, so I couldn't help sighing slightly.

After sending everyone out, Li Wan called Suyun and said, "I remember that there were a few boxes of good-colored clothes that I didn't wear, so you go and find them."

Suyun agreed, but was a little puzzled, and said with a smile: "Those boxes and cages are still piled up in the warehouse, and grandma doesn't wear them, what are you looking for now?"

Li Wan sighed: "Just now I looked at Sister Xing wearing the second sister's old clothes. I thought it was because the family was in a difficult situation, and I never bought winter clothes. Now the weather is cold, and the second sister doesn't have much money. Anyway, my clothes are moldy if they are left for nothing. It's better to wear it for sister Xing, you go and pick some brightly colored winter clothes, then take a bag of broken silver, pick some hairpin jewelry, and send them to Miss Xing quietly after a while, and pick a few more sets for sister Wen and Qi younger sister."

Li Wan has rewarded those previous clothes one after another since his widowhood, only the dozens of sets of clothes in the dowry have not been touched. The lint single yarn is available in all seasons, and they are all high-quality materials. If they are not useful, they are official. The furs used for winter clothes are all high-quality fox fur, mink fur, Suyun and others can't wear them, so they are locked in the box all the time.

The author has something to say: Note ①②: Quoting Cao Gong’s original work.

This chapter has a lot of plots from the original novel, so I edited it a bit, changed the ending, and added [-] words, which can be regarded as compensation for everyone.

感谢在2020-05-3022:46:54~2020-06-0703:49:19期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Jun Shao 1;

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

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