Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Fu Ling pretended to be annoyed and said, "I did it all for grandma, but grandma came to make fun of me instead."

Li Wan pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "I'm telling the truth. Not only is Miss Fu Ling calm and considerate, but she's also a good account manager. I don't know which one will be cheaper in the future."

Fuling might as well let Li Wan say these words, she is sixteen years old this year, she is getting to know people, she blushes, and said angrily, "What do you say, grandma?"

Li Wan said sternly: "This is a serious matter. You are sixteen this year, you can't follow me all the time, and life-long events should almost be seen."

Danju Xiazhu covered her mouth and snickered, looking narrowly at Fuling.

Fu Ling's cheeks flushed with embarrassment, she held her face and stomped her feet and said, "The more grandma says, the more she doesn't look like it. I will stay with grandma for the rest of my life, so I won't go out!"

Seeing her blushing cheeks, Li Wan smiled, and said: "Speaking nonsense, a boy should be married and a girl should be married. What's so embarrassing about it? Anyway, there are no outsiders at the moment, you and Mei Xiang followed. I am one, I naturally have to plan for you.

Don't worry, I've already made up my mind. In two years, you will be eighteen. At that time, Danju and the others will have experienced it, so I will let you go out. When you find a suitable family, I will let you go out. I will give you a dowry each.You are not alone, Danju and the others will be the same in the future. "

There has always been a rule in Jia's mansion that all the maids in each house reach the age of marriage when they reach 20 years old. They can either be released or married. Fu Ling and Mei Xiang have always been loyal, so she naturally has to arrange a way out for them earlier.

Fu Ling lowered her head and said nothing when she heard the words, but she was very grateful in her heart. Girls like them can't help themselves to life and death. When they reach their age, they are only pulled out to be a servant. The children born in the future will still be slaves in the house. When it's not good, it's common to beat and scold at night, but now that Li Wan has spoken, her life in the future will naturally not be much worse.

Dan Ju was also a little embarrassed, she held her face with her hands, Xia Zhu was still young and didn't understand human affairs, she just watched the fun, glanced at Fu Ling who was blushing and said with a smile: "Sister Fu Ling is sorry."

Fuling was already embarrassed, but she blushed even more when she heard the words, and cursed: "Little hooves, no one will treat you as dumb if you don't speak." After saying that, she made a gesture to tear her mouth, Xia Zhu hurriedly begged for mercy: "Good sister! , I know I was wrong, so please forgive me.”

The two circled around the table, Dan Ju stopped ironing her clothes, and just smiled and watched the fun

Seeing that the two of them were out of breath and their temples were in disarray, Fang stepped forward to stop Fu Ling, and said with a smile: "My good sister, she already knew she was wrong, just put her hands away for Grandma's sake."

Li Wan was sitting on the kang with the stove in his hands, eating melon seeds, but now he couldn't help laughing and said: "Forget it, seeing her pitifully, let her be spared."

Fu Ling gave up, pulled back her loose temple hair, panting, "I'll let you off this time, next time you have to be more careful with your skin."

Xia Zhu stuck out her tongue and made a grimace, then quickly hid behind Dan Ju.

Fu Ling gritted her teeth angrily, "Be careful, don't fall into my hands!"

After laughing for a while, the night was getting dark, Dan Ju put away the ironed clothes, Xia Zhu went to the kitchen to fetch hot water and came over to help Li Wan wash up.

As soon as everything was tidied up, Fu Ling removed the lamp and lowered the curtain, and waited for Li Wan to take off her hairpin and undress before quietly leaving.

The sound of the rain outside the window gradually subsided, dripping on the bamboo shoots, making it more and more quiet and cold.

Li Wan lay on the bed but didn't feel sleepy. Ever since she came to this world, she never wanted to get married. Not to mention her current status, just her education and experience. The person who loves you is really slim, and it is better to live a quiet life alone than to marry a man who will fight endlessly in the back house for the rest of his life.

Now she only wants to raise Jia Lan, and when she leaves Jia's house in the future, she will go back to the south of the Yangtze River and find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to live a free life.

Thinking of going back to Jia's mansion tomorrow, Li Wan couldn't help sighing, he was at ease for a few days, and when he went back tomorrow, he would be detained in the inner courtyard again, and he would not be free. It was not until later that he fell asleep in a daze.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhou Rui's family came to Muni Courtyard to pick up the family with a servant girl. Fuling and the others had already packed their luggage. Li Wan bid farewell to Master Huiming, boarded the carriage and went home.

The way back was a lot more troublesome than when we came. The roads at this time were not like those in later generations. They were all dirt roads, and the wheels were hard wheels with wooden outer rings nailed with iron nails. Even on sunny days, they were dusty and rough. After a rain, the road was muddy and became softer and harder to walk.

The carriage was swaying along the way, Li Wan's head was a little dizzy, and his stomach was overwhelmed, but Fu Ling remembered the ginger in the assortment box, quickly took out two pieces, and said: "Grandma put it in her mouth, it will Feel better."

Li Wan had a lump in her mouth as she said, and Fu Ling massaged her scalp with her fingertips, and then she gradually calmed down.

Half an hour later, the carriage entered

After arriving in Chang'an City, Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief, "It can be considered that we have arrived. After sitting for half a day, my bones are sore."

Fu Ling laughed and said, "When I get home, let Mei Xiang beat Grandma's back, and make some fragrant soup to rest."

Before the words fell, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes outside, followed by a neighing sound, the car body tilted, and Li Wan fell straight forward, almost hitting his head. Fortunately, Fu Ling reacted quickly and supported her in time to avoid being hurt. doomed.

At this moment, the carriage had already stopped, and there was a burst of noise outside the carriage. Fu Ling frowned, lifted a corner of the curtain, and asked, "What's going on?"

The old Cangtou who was driving hurriedly said: "Miss, just now a gentleman galloped past on his horse, and our horse was startled and kicked its hoof, so it almost overturned the car."

Fu Ling asked suspiciously, "Who is so bold to gallop a horse in a busy city?"

The coachman said: "Who knows, all the people are gone now, it's just that just now everyone panicked and avoided, knocking over a lot of stalls. Unfortunately, a woman passed by with a child, and when she dodged, she was smashed to protect the child." That's really bad luck."

Li Wan was startled when he heard the sound, and hurriedly lifted the curtain, looked out through the screen window, and saw a wooden cart not far in front of him, with some broken wood carvings, clay figurines and other things scattered on the ground, a gray-haired old man was walking Sitting on the ground and crying loudly, while crying, he yelled something to the woman sitting paralyzed on the ground next to him.

The woman clutched her left arm in pain and kept shaking her head to defend herself. There was a little boy kneeling with a frightened expression beside her.

People in a circle around were talking about it, but no one stepped forward.

Li Wan frowned, and at this moment Zhou Rui's family hurried over with the servant in the car, and asked anxiously, "How is grandma, is she hurt?"

Li Wan said: "I'm fine, sister Zhou, you can send someone to look ahead and ask what's going on."

Zhou Rui's family breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words, and agreed: "Grandma, wait a moment, I'll send someone to ask."

After finishing speaking, he gestured to a servant woman beside him, who nodded and turned away.

After a while, the servant came back and said, "Grandma, I found out clearly that the old man is a craftsman who sells wooden and clay figurines. He was kicked over by a horse just now, and many things were trampled to pieces. The woman lost money.

The injured woman brought her son to Beijing to seek relatives, but was stolen and entangled on the way, unable to continue, just now she injured her arm again, and the horseman disappeared again, where can I find him?

Money compensation?It's not like this meeting is full of trouble. "

Li Wan sighed secretly, the one who dared to ride a horse on the streets of the capital would not be a simple person, even if the old man and the mother and son found someone, they would have nowhere to turn.

Thinking of this, Li Wan said to Zhou Rui's family: "It's not an option to block it like this now. Since we have met this matter, we can't just sit by and watch. Sister Zhou, you send someone to give the old man a sling of money to sell the wood carvings on his stall. Buy them and the clay figurines, and then send someone to take the mother and son to the clinic, and ask a doctor to show her."

Zhou Rui's family agreed and went to cook.

Not long after, the crowd in front dispersed, but the old woman came back and said, "Grandma, this lady refuses to go to the medical clinic no matter what, she must thank grandma herself."

Li Wan was slightly taken aback, and said: "It's okay, let them come over."

The woman turned around and went, and she brought the mother and child over after a while.

Li Wan took a closer look and saw that the woman was in her thirties, she was dressed in a coarse cloth skirt, and her clothes were very clean.

The boy she was holding was about seven or eight years old, with delicate features and thin clothes, his face was blue and purple from the cold wind, and he was shivering.

The woman came to the car and bowed solemnly through the curtain, "Little lady Lin Zhou, thank you grandma for helping me."

Then he said to the boy: "Song'er, thank you benefactor quickly."

The little boy immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

Li Wan hurriedly asked someone to help him up, seeing that Zhou's speech and behavior were very decent, unlike ordinary village women, he asked, "Have you ever read?"

Mrs. Zhou said in a low voice: "My father was once a scholar. My family learned some characters with my father when I was young."

Li Wan nodded and asked, "I heard that you are visiting relatives in Beijing, but have you found them?"

Mrs. Zhou became more and more worried when she heard the words, she shook her head and said, "I don't have a clue yet."

It turns out that Zhou's family is from Huai'an. Her husband was conscripted in the military in the early years, and there has been no news for several years. Everyone said that he died in the battlefield. Last year, his parents-in-law died, and his family property was seized by his uncle. This time it is Bringing the child to Beijing to find a husband.

It's just that she only remembered that three years ago her husband sent someone a message saying that after winning the battle, she was promoted to a higher level and entered the Xishan Camp, and she didn't know the rest.

She is a woman with a child, and she came to the capital in disguise along the way, but was stolen and entangled, and Xishan Daying did not allow idlers to enter, so she couldn't get any information at all. In order not to live on the streets, she had to give Men do some starching, no

Might as well suffer this catastrophe again today, almost losing his life.

Everyone felt sympathetic after hearing this. Since ancient times, people have died for money and birds have died for food. The clan is very powerful. There is no man in the family to set up a family, and the family property is naturally coveted.

Li Wan sighed and asked, "Do you have a place to stay now?"

Zhou said: "For the time being, I rented a room in the Dizang Nunnery to live in. I will make plans when I find someone."

Li Wan frowned, she remembered that this dizang nunnery was not far from Shuiyue nunnery, and that the dizang nunnery was full of filth, and that dizang nunnery could not be kept clean, so she pondered for a moment, then said: "I heard that idlers in Xishan Daying are not allowed to enter without permission. However, soldiers in the fifteenth battalion have a one-day holiday to go home to visit relatives on the first and fifteenth day of the new year.

There is a Muni courtyard outside the west gate, only thirty miles away from the west mountain. The abbot, Mrs. Huiming, is also very talkative, and more than a dozen families at the foot of the mountain are the homes of soldiers from the Xishan camp. You might as well go and live there. For a period of time, you can inquire carefully. "

After all, seeing that the clothes of Zhou's mother and son were thin, she ordered the mother-in-law to find two old clothes, wrap some food and ten taels of silver, and wrapped them in a plain satin furskin, and handed them to the mother and son, saying: "See It's winter, and this bundle contains two clothes, some snacks, and a few taels of silver, just take it to keep out the cold."

Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, ten taels of silver is just a piece of cake for her, but it can save lives for the mother and son.

Mrs. Zhou was startled, her eyes turned red immediately, she hesitated for a long time, and glanced at her son with a frozen face, she still gritted her teeth and accepted the burden, and solemnly made a big gift, "Grandma is so kind and virtuous, my family has no teeth to forget, come here It must be reported daily."

The child was also very clever, and when he heard the words, he fell to his knees with a plop, bowed his head when he accepted it, and kowtowed very loudly.

Li Wan stopped in a hurry, and asked another woman to hire a mule cart, first took the mother and son to the doctor's office, and then sent them to the Muni Hospital.

Back at the mansion, Li Wan had no time to wash and change clothes, so he went to greet Jiamu and Mrs. Wang first.

It happened that Mrs. Wang was taking Jia Lan to serve in Jia Mu's room. When Jia Mu heard the girl said that Li Wan was coming, she hurriedly called in.

The girl opened the embroidered curtain, and as soon as Li Wan entered the room, he saw Mrs. Wang sitting under Jia's mother, talking and laughing, and hurried forward to greet her.

Jia Lan, who was sitting next to Jia Mu eating snacks, stopped suddenly, biting his finger and looking at Li Wan, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.

These days, Jia Lan is under the care of Mrs. Wang, and the grandfather and grandson are getting closer and closer. Mrs. Wang can't leave him for a moment. Besides Baoyu, she asks Lang Geer every day.

Mrs. Wang took Jialan to Jiamu every day to have fun. Jiamu was old and finally

I like to watch the grandchildren and granddaughters around her knees. Jia Lan's natural makeup and jade carvings are now more and more articulate. When they were together, they would smile and talk a lot more, and their relationship was closer than before.

Jia Mu called Li Wan to get up and said, "It's hard work. Sit down and have a rest."

Mrs. Wang was also about to speak, so Jia Lan suddenly jumped up. It turns out that the little guy has a very good memory. The mother and son have not seen each other for many days, but he still recognized his mother. Mother!"

Li Wan also missed little Pangdun very much, he caught up with Jia Lan and hugged him in his arms, the mother and son were very close.

Mother Jia couldn't help but feel a little jealous when she was funny, and said with a smile: "It's really the nature of mother and child, just now they were clamoring to be hugged by me, but now when the son sees his mother, he throws away his great-grandmother. It can be seen that he loves him for nothing."

Everyone who said it laughed.