Evening Shaohua in the Red House

One day, Li Wan practiced calligraphy in the study. Seeing that the weather was warm, he ordered someone to move a rugan in the yard, put Jia Lan on the couch, watched him crawl around, and took a delicate rattle. make him talk.

The little guy has been eight months old, and has inherited the good looks of Jia Zhu and the original owner. He is chubby and pink, like a glutinous rice dumpling. He is wearing a royal blue jacket, which makes him look more and more beautiful. He is very clever, and now is the time to start learning to speak. Every day, Yiyi can't stop talking, and everyone loves him so much. He often teases him to talk, and he always laughs and talks every day.

In Li Wan's previous life, he also had a little nephew who was about the same age as Jia Lan. At first, he couldn't help feeling empathetic, but after getting along for more than half a year, he really felt like a mother to this little baby.

She had thought before that if she couldn't find a suitable person, she would not get married, and when she was old, she would go to an orphanage to adopt a child and live a good life.

Now that she came to this world inexplicably, although everything is very different from the life she expected at the beginning, she has gradually adjusted to it, and she thinks that she has carried out the original plan in advance, and Jia Lan is considered her adopted child.

Li Wan sat cross-legged on the soft bed, shook the rattle drum at Jia Lan, and teased him: "Lan'er, call mom—"

Jia Lan held his finger in his mouth and looked at her with big watery eyes. After looking for a while, he seemed to recognize who it was, and then he smiled, crawled over quickly, and reached out to grab the rattle.

Li Wan raised his hand to avoid it, shook his index finger at the little guy, and said with a smile: "No, I can only give it to you after calling my mother."

Jia Lan stared blankly at her, as if she didn't understand, she still reached out to grab her, but failed again and again, like this three or four times, Jia Lan couldn't catch her, and suddenly burst into tears.

Fuling and the others were doing needlework at the side, and they laughed to see the mother and son laughing. Seeing this, they hurriedly said, "Why is grandma teasing my brother? I will feel distressed again soon."

Li Wan hurriedly stuffed the rattle into his hand, and Jia Lan immediately stopped crying, holding the rattle and grinning at Li Wan with a rather smug expression.

Seeing this, Li Wan couldn't laugh or cry, nodded his little head, and said with a smile: "What a clever little ghost!"

The little guy was stubborn for a while, then the rattle stopped, he opened his hand to Li Wan to hug, and opened his mouth showing a few millet teeth, "Yiyi Yaya" to eat, which made everyone laugh so hard.

The nurse Zhang also stood by, and when she saw this, she wanted to hug Jia Lan to nurse her, and said with a smile, "Grandma will hand over my brother to you."

give it to me. "

Li Wan let Jialan eat some rice porridge since he was six months old, and now he has grown stronger, so he weaned him after a few months. Hearing this, he said, "Don't feed him today. Feed him egg custard, stewed tenderly, without salt and sugar."

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly agreed, and went down to give orders in person.

Not long after, egg custard was steamed, and the palm-sized porcelain bowl was very small, very smooth and tender. Li Wan hugged Jia Lan and fed it to him personally. He blew on it with a small spoon, and then tasted it. , Fang fed it to Jia Lan, and Jia Lan stuttered, each mouthful was very sweet, neither making noise nor crying, very well-behaved.

Mei Xiang watched from the side with a smile, rubbed the needle on her scalp, lowered her head and sewed a few stitches, then suddenly remembered something, raised her head and said to Li Wan, "March 26 is my wife's birthday, what rules does grandma have?"

Coincidentally, Mrs. Wang's birthday was exactly one month behind Baoyu's birthday. It's just that the Jia family didn't have the custom of celebrating birthdays for the wives and grandmas, but birthday gifts were still given.

Li Wan put down the small porcelain spoon in her hand, she is now Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law, she wanted to give something to show her affection no matter what, but she had no idea what to give, so she raised her head and asked everyone: "What do you think should be given? "

Xia Zhu was in charge of the various display utensils in Li Wan's room, and said, "Why don't you give me the twelve screens with red sandalwood, carved lacquer and embroidered flowers of the four seasons?"

Li Wan shook his head when he heard the words, "Although it's gorgeous, it's not to my wife's liking, that's not right."

Dan Ju and the others said that it was inappropriate to give antiques and furnishings, and others said that it was inappropriate to give jewelry and emeralds.

Mei Xiang thought about it carefully, and said, "Let's make some clothes for my wife."

Fu Ling nodded and said: "What Mei Xiang said is that giving gold and jade decorations is not as good as giving grandma the needlework she made herself. Although the gift is light, it can make my wife see our grandma's filial piety."

Li Wan thought about it for a long time, and it was indeed the most suitable idea, so he nodded immediately and said, "Just give me the clothes."

Jia Lan had already finished eating the egg custard in his mouth, and was waiting for another bite with his mouth open, but Li Wan only went to talk to Fu Ling and the others, the little guy waited for a long time and there was nothing there, so he couldn't help getting anxious and tugging at Li Wan "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Li Wan lowered his head when he heard the sound, and saw the little guy staring angrily at her with his chubby face, staring at her with big round eyes. Said: "It's my mother's fault, I forgot our brother Lang."

The little guy was satisfied now, and swallowed the custard with a loud "ah",

He happily waved his chubby arms like lotus root joints.

Li Wan was angry and funny, and nodded his little nose, "Snack."

Everyone couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "Don't say grandma, it's a blessing to be able to eat. Our brother has a good temper, and he will definitely not suffer in the future."

After playing around for a while, the egg custard in the bowl was finished, Jia Lan raised his chubby hand and rubbed his eyes, and quietly fell into Li Wan's arms, feeling sleepy.

Everyone hurriedly lowered their voices, Li Wan patted the little guy lightly, and handed him to the wet nurse when he fell asleep, and said softly: "Take brother back to the house to rest, and take care of him carefully."

Mrs. Zhang quickly agreed, took Jia Lan carefully, and took the two maids back to her room.

Li Wan began to discuss with everyone about making clothes for Mrs. Wang.

Since it is for Mrs. Wang, it is naturally much more cumbersome, and the style and color matching must be careful, especially the embroidery on the clothes. In addition to the clothes, you also need to make matching shoes and socks, forehead wipes, purses, handkerchiefs and so on.

Li Wan pondered for a while, then he had an idea in his mind, ordered Mei Xiang to open the cage, carefully selected several good silks and satins for use, drew a new pattern, first cut the fabric according to the size of Mrs. Wang, and chose a stable and generous one. After the patterns came out, they were matched with silk threads of various colors, and then they started to embroider with needles.

The original owner grew up in the south of the Yangtze River since she was a child, and she learned Suzhou embroidery. She is dexterous and very good at embroidery. After more than half a year of practice, she has completely inherited this skill, and she started stitching immediately.

After working for more than ten days, a set of clothes, shoes and socks, forehead wipes, purses, and handkerchiefs were embroidered.

On March 26, Li Wan got up early in the morning to wash up.

Although I am in Xiaozhong now, it is Mrs. Wang's birthday after all, so I can't dress too plainly, so I changed into a new lake green satin trimmed jade-colored jacket a few days ago, and a white silk elastic ink pleated skirt, wearing a homely dress. In the topknot, there were only two pearls and a jasper lotus hairpin to hold them down, and a pair of gold-encrusted pearl lantern pendants. After a little tidying up, he ordered someone to hold the new clothes, and carried Jialan to Mrs. Wang. on the room.

Mrs. Wang had just finished washing and washing, when she saw Li Wan coming over with Jia Lan in her arms, she was slightly taken aback, then smiled and said, "Why did you come here so early?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "Today is my wife's future, so I came early to congratulate my wife."

Mrs. Wang smiled slightly, nodded and said, "You have a heart."

Li Wanfu hugged Jia Lan again, and said respectfully: "Lan'er also sends her regards to my wife. I wish my wife a blessing like the East China Sea and a longer life than Nanshan."

Jia Lan has always been well-behaved, never crying or making trouble, smiling at Mrs. Wang with a small face, Bai Nen

There are two deep dimples on the tender and chubby little face.

The little guy is beautifully dressed, making people unable to take their eyes off him. He is also good-natured and laughs when he sees everyone.

Mrs. Wang was also unavoidable, and when she thought that this was the only flesh and blood of her eldest son, her compassion suddenly arose, and she looked at Li Wan more and more pleasing to the eye, and said: "Thanks to your careful teaching, Lan'er is getting better and better now. gone."

While talking, he stretched out his arms to hug Jia Lan, looked down at his smiling face, and saw that he was like a snow ball, like the jade boy sitting on Guanyin, and he had a good appearance, which was very similar to Jia Zhu when he was young. Unconsciously, he was both happy and sad, and said: "Lang Ge'er is getting more and more excited. If my Pearl is still there, I will be happy to see her."

After all, shed tears immediately.

Li Wan rubbed the corners of his eyes concealingly with a handkerchief, stepped forward to persuade: "Miss, take care of yourself—"

Jin Chuan and a few girls on the side also hurriedly gathered around, and persuaded: "Today is a good day for my wife, you can't cry, besides, the eldest grandma brought Lan Geer to celebrate her birthday, wouldn't it make you cry?" Are Grandma and Brother Lang also sad?"

Just at this time, Jia Lan also burst into tears, with two tears in his big black and round eyes, which was very pitiful.

Mrs. Wang suddenly felt distressed, wiped away her tears, hugged Jia Lan and said, "I'm confused, why cry hard, it scared Lan'er."

Jia Lan seemed to understand, stopped crying, said "ahhh" a few times, and raised her fleshy little hand to touch the tears on Mrs. Wang's face.

Everyone hurriedly said: "Look, my brother is also feeling sorry for his wife."

Mrs. Wang's heart softened immediately, and she couldn't bear to let go of the little guy.

The little guy didn't recognize his birth, he put his arms around Mrs. Wang's neck and talked non-stop, "babbling and babbling".

Li Wan pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "Today is a good day for my wife. I made a dress to congratulate my wife." After finishing speaking, he winked at Mei Xiang beside him.

Mei Xiang understood, and stepped forward holding the tray.

Mrs. Wang nodded, and Jin Chuan stepped forward to unfold the bundle, and saw that inside was a stone-blue gold-woven gauze gown, with open skirts on the left and right sides, white silk collar and sleeve edges on the collar and cuffs, and a collar on the skirt. It is embroidered with flowers of the four seasons, and the hem is a pattern of Sihe Ruyi clouds.

I saw that the flowers were all vivid, different and exquisite, and there was no trace of stitching on the clothes.

It is matched with a pine-colored double-knee horse-face skirt with a wider upper skirt decorated with peony patterns and a narrow lower skirt embroidered with magnolia and osmanthus flowers.

Folded branches of flowers, delicate stitches, not complicated, but extraordinarily dignified and elegant.

In addition, the matching shoes and socks, purses, and handkerchiefs are also very exquisite, with impeccable colors, patterns, and stitches.

Mrs. Wang usually wears clothes made by the big girls around her, but they are far less exquisite than this set of clothes. She looked at them carefully and was very satisfied. She immediately praised: "It's so bright! You can't even see a single stitch." , must have put a lot of effort into it, so it's hard to bother you."

Li Wan smiled slightly, and said: "My wife has praised me absurdly. I should be filial to my wife."

After talking and laughing for a while, I heard the girl outside say: "Second Master Bao, Second Miss and Third Miss are here to celebrate my wife's birthday."