Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Early this morning, after serving Mrs. Wang to wash and wash, Li Wan went to the upper room to greet Jiamu together.

After talking about gossip, Mrs. Wang glanced at Jiamu and said with a smile: "I thought that my niece is coming soon, and it's time to prepare the house and clothes. It's just that the person hasn't arrived yet. I don't know the size, so I will order her first." I opened the storeroom and prepared a few kinds of clothing materials, all of which were new materials brought in this year. I also ordered the goldsmith to pick up elegant and exquisite jewellery, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, as well as various calligraphy and painting antiques. Is there anything else to add?"

Mother Jia was startled when she heard the words, looked at Mrs. Wang in surprise, nodded and said with a smile, "That's right, you're the thoughtful aunt."

Mrs. Wang said with a smile: "In addition to these fabrics and jewellery, the bedding and curtains have also been ordered to the sewing room, and they will be available in two days, but the old lady has to ask the old lady to show me where to live. Whichever place the old lady thinks is good, she can order someone to clean the house as soon as possible and install the utensils."

Mother Jia's eyes flashed when she heard the words, and she finally understood why Mrs. Wang was so enthusiastic. She glanced at her and said lightly: "Now that it's the end of the year, there's no need to bother. Move Baoyu out first, and stay with me in the warm pavilion in the suite." , put Lin girl in the green gauze cupboard for the time being, and after the end of winter, I will tidy up their house in spring and make another arrangement."

Mrs. Wang laughed quickly when she heard this, and said, "The move of Baoyu made the old lady uncomfortable. What's more, the place of the green gauze cupboard is so small, it must have wronged the eldest girl."

Seeing that Mother Jia was silent, Mrs. Wang paused, and said with a smile: "I think it's better to put the eldest girl in the small courtyard behind the main room. close."

Mother Jia frowned and said nothing. After looking at Mrs. Wang for a long time, Fang said lightly, "It's a bit far away there. Let's tidy up the west wing. We live together with the three maids, just to be companions."

Mrs. Wang paused with a smile, glanced at Mother Jia's face, and hurriedly responded with a smile. No matter what, it was better than two people living in the same room.

Li Wan also secretly heaved a sigh of relief, this matter finally developed as she expected, as long as Mrs. Wang did not specifically target Daiyu, Daiyu's life in Rongguo Mansion would not be so sad.

In her previous life, she read a lot of comments on the Internet, and almost all of them believed that Mrs. Wang was a poisonous woman, saying that she was mean, greedy for money, stupid and vicious, could not tolerate Aunt Zhao's mother and son, and even poisoned Daiyu Jiamu and so on.

However, in recent years

After coming down, she felt that Mrs. Wang was not like the Buddha mouth and snake heart said on the Internet.

Li Wan could understand that she was mean to Aunt Zhao's mother and son. After all, no wife would be generous to a woman who shared her husband, let alone treat her husband's son with another woman. On the premise that the son may threaten the status of his own child.

On weekdays, Mrs. Wang just turned a blind eye to Aunt Zhao's mother and son. At most, she suppressed Aunt Zhao's limelight when she was jumping, but she never used any means to assassinate their mother and son.

She has been in charge of the family for more than 20 years, and she has never beaten or scolded the little girls. No one in the whole family will say that the second wife is generous and kind.

It makes sense that she doesn't like Daiyu. After all, she has a rift with Jia Min's sister-in-law, so naturally she doesn't like Daiyu, but Jia's mother wants to marry Shuangyu. Baoyu is Mrs. Wang's lifeblood, and she usually sees her. It looked like an eyeball, but it didn't poke her lung tube.

As for the idea of ​​poisoning Daiyu and Jia's mother, it is not very tenable, let alone Daiyu's matter, Jia's mother is a mother-in-law, and poisoning her mother-in-law is a serious crime in this era of filial piety. Even the children will be implicated, and they will not be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives.

She felt that unless Mrs. Wang was crazy, she would never do such a self-destructive thing.

The discussion here was settled, and Mrs. Wang was afraid that Mrs. Jia would change her mind again, so she hurriedly sent people down to make arrangements.

As the end of the year was approaching and Sister Feng had a lot of things to do, Li Wan took the initiative to ask for the job and personally took someone to tidy up and decorate Daiyu's bedroom.

Jia Mu's courtyard is the most spacious in the Rongguo Mansion, with five rooms in the east and west rooms, very neat.

The East Wing was used as a warehouse envoy, and the three Yingchun sisters lived in the last three rooms of the West Wing, only the first and second rooms were vacant.

After Li Wan asked Jia Mu for instructions, he ordered someone to open up the two wing rooms. The first room was used as a reception room, and the other room was used as a study room separated by a multi-treasure tree. Set up a book case, on which there are brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, famous calligraphy posts, and famous calligraphy and paintings on the wall.

The tables and chairs, bookshelves, imperial concubine couch, etc. in the room are all made of high-quality huanghuali wood.

The second room is used as Daiyu's daily living, sitting and sleeping place. There is a kang outside the bedroom and a huanghuali wood Qiangong Babu bed inside.

The newly made lotus-colored flower tent has been hung up, with exquisite and small sachets hanging from the four corners, and the bed is covered with brocade quilts that have been dried to dry.

Against the wall are large cabinets with carved lacquer mother-of-pearl top chests, a diorama dressing table, and the rest of the desks and sofas are all available for display.

Utensils are of the highest quality.

Jiamu also ordered Yuanyang to pack a few boxes of things from her body. There were two boxes of plain and elegant silk and satin in various colors, exquisite and unique head and face jewelry, antiques, famous calligraphy and paintings, etc. Good things that money can't buy anywhere.

Li Wan looked at it, thought for a while, and then ordered someone to put two pots of wintersweet and two pots of narcissus on the window sill, and in the room, fresh melons and fruits such as bergamot and red orange were placed to take their fragrance.

After four or five days of busy work, it was finally cleared up.

On this day, Li Wan came to Jiamu's room to greet her, and Jiamu said: "Zhu'er daughter-in-law, Miss Lin will be arriving tomorrow, is the house ready? If you need anything, just go to the warehouse with Yuanyang to get it."

"Going back to the old lady, everything has been packed, and the furniture and curtains are all set up, just wait for sister Lin to come over." Li Wan laughed.

Mrs. Wang was sitting under Jia Mu and drinking tea, when she heard the words, she glanced at Li Wan inexplicably.

Jia's mother was very satisfied, "Well, good, I said you are a proper child, it is really good."

Li Wan glanced at Mrs. Wang, and said with a smile: "It's all Madam's intention. It is said that all furnishings must be carefully selected, and must be elegant and delicate, so as not to wrong sister Lin."

Mother Jia was more satisfied when she heard the words, she nodded approvingly to Mrs. Wang, and said, "You have a heart."

Mrs. Wang raised her eyes to look at Li Wan, and smiled while holding the Buddhist beads: "This is what a daughter-in-law should do."

She was originally displeased with Li Wan's devotion to Daiyu, but at this moment her heart turned around. Now Daiyu is the most important person in Jiamu's heart. Even if Jia's mother doesn't say anything on the face, she will definitely be unhappy in her heart.

And Li Wan represented the face of their second wife, who was thoughtful and also had a good face.

Thinking of this, the two points of displeasure in Mrs. Wang's heart have long since disappeared. At this time, seeing Jia Mu's expression of approval, she felt more and more satisfied with Li Wan.

Although she didn't like Daiyu, she was only a little angry because of Jia Min, and she was not dissatisfied with Daiyu herself. As long as she stayed away from Baoyu, she would not deny her the dignity she deserved.

The next day, just after breakfast, the messenger said that Daiyu's boat had arrived at the pier, and it was estimated that it would arrive in less than half an hour.

After receiving the letter, all the people in Jia's house came to wait in Jia's mother's room.

Li Wan stood beside Jia Mu, absent-mindedly chatting with her about homely gossip, but couldn't help imagining what Sister Lin would look like in her mind.

After waiting for a meal, Jia Mu couldn't wait any longer, and sent someone to ask about it after a stick of incense.

, Those little servants who passed on the message were sweating profusely as they ran.

While Jia Mu was waiting anxiously, someone came back and said: "Miss Lin has arrived at the gate and will be there soon."

Mother Jia was overjoyed when she heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up, call someone to Haosheng to pick up Miss Lin."

Mrs. Wang hurriedly ordered people to spread the word, and asked Zhou Rui's family to take people to the second gate to meet Miss Lin.

After a cup of tea, I suddenly heard voices from girls outside: "Miss Lin is here!"

Li Wan's eyes lit up, and he stared at the door intently.

After a while, the girl opened the curtain, and saw a girl in plain clothes come in surrounded by maids and wives.

The little girl in front of her is only six or seven years old, but she has a snow-like appearance and picturesque eyebrows.

I saw her wearing a moon-white jacket, a lotus-colored waistcoat embroidered with white plum blossoms, and a white silk embroidered pleated skirt. On the skirt was a white mutton fat jade ring carved with hundreds of flowers, and on the ring was a light yellow Ruyi Silk sash, wearing a snow satin cloak embroidered with green calyx and plum blossoms, elegant and chic, without any floral decorations.

The black hair is tied with a hair rope, which is often worn by girls nowadays, and it is divided into small buns. A strand of black hair is left on the left and right ears, and the rest of the black hair is lightly scattered on the chest.

There are two simple and elegant pearl flowers dotted in the hair, and a chic white silk flower on the bun, and only a small white bead is inserted obliquely, and a pair of delicate and exquisite pearl earrings are gently tied on the ears swing.

Looking at Daiyu's appearance again, it is exactly as Cao Gong said: two eyebrows that seem to be frowning but not frowning, and a pair of eyes that seem to be weeping but not weeping.

Two dimples are born in the state of worry, and the disease of being delicate is attacked all over the body.Tears dripped, panting slightly.

When it is quiet, it is like a delicate flower shining in the water, and when it is moving, it is like a weak willow blowing the wind.The heart has one more opening than the stem, and the disease is like Xizi's three points.

Li Wan was both happy and sighed in his heart, she was worthy of being the sister Lin of the fairy land outside the world, she was graceful and graceful, extraordinary and refined, she was indeed not in the world.