Evening Shaohua in the Red House

It turned out that Sister Feng had just turned 15 years old on the second day of last month, and the two families were planning to get married in February next year, but the old lady of the Wang family suddenly became seriously ill, and it seemed that she would not be able to survive this winter. But Jia Lian was already eighteen, and it was really inappropriate to procrastinate, so the two discussed and changed the wedding date to the second day of August, and welcomed Sister Feng in advance.

Although Sister Feng has only been in the family for two months, the Jia and Wang families are relatives by marriage, and they often come and go. Sister Feng has always been with her brothers and sisters in this mansion since she was young. It can be said that Mother Jia watched her grow up, and she looks beautiful. , bright talk, and sweet-hearted, Jia's mother likes it very much, and often asks her to come to make fun of her.

Since Sister Feng started her career, Mother Jia intentionally asked her to take over the housekeeping. After all, Grandma Dafang was a housekeeper, but she had been busy for the past few months, so she never mentioned it.

Earlier, the housekeeper of the mansion was Jia Lian's biological mother, Li Shi, who was born in the Li family in Shandong, a family of scholars for generations, and was well-known among scholars.

It's a pity that the Li family is unlucky. His mother died young, and the elder brother of the same mother and compatriots was a senior high school Jinshi when he was weak. But it was born by the stepmother, and the relationship with Li's family is even.

When Li gave birth to Jia Lian, he suffered from dystocia, and Jia Amnesty was absurd, and the family spent a lot of time drinking and drinking, and died of depression within two or three years.

When Mrs. Li died, her younger brother said that she was the harsh daughter-in-law of the Jia family. Jia Amnesty forced her ex-wife to death. She went to Jia's house to make a fuss and asked for half of the dowry back. Afterwards, she returned to her hometown in Shandong, and the two families were cut off from then on. contacted.

The reason why Jia Mu chose the Xing family was firstly because Jia Shen had an absurd temperament, and she was famous outside. No girl from a good family would agree, and she looked down on the worse ones; secondly, she was worried that choosing a stepmother who was too shrewd would be harsh on Jia Lian This was originally married to his son, so he finally chose Xing, the daughter of the fifth-rank official of the Ministry of Rites.

The Xing family delayed the flowering period because of filial piety. Hearing that it was the eldest son of the Rongguo Mansion Xijue who proposed to marry him, naturally there was nothing wrong with it.

After entering the family, the Xing family kept to themselves, but she entered the family when Jia Lian was four or five years old. It has been more than ten years and she still has not given birth to a child. He only knows how to flatter Jia Amnesty and control money, and ignore the rest.

The reason why Mother Jia let Mrs. Wang be the housekeeper at the beginning was that she was partial to the second wife, but the main reason was because Mrs. Xing was really unable to get on the stage.

, not suitable for housekeeping.

Now Jia Lian is married, and Sister Feng is the daughter of Prince Teng. In recent years, the prince has risen steadily and gained a lot of power, so there is nothing wrong with her being the housekeeper.

Even if Mrs. Wang didn't mention this matter, Mother Jia would ask Sister Feng to be the housekeeper, but she didn't expect Mrs. Wang to speak first. She was naturally very satisfied after being surprised. It makes sense, and I have exactly the same intention, let Feng girl be the housekeeper, and you yourself will suffer from all kinds of disasters, so you should have some time to rest and take care of your body."

Mrs. Wang agreed, and said: "Why don't you call Feng girl here now, and the settlement will be clear earlier, and I will rest earlier."

Mother Jia has no objection, so Mrs. Wang will send a girl to call Wang Xifeng over.

On the way, Sister Feng already knew the whole story from the girl. She was very happy in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She greeted Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, and said, "I don't know what your wife wants me to do?"

Mrs. Wang said: "I asked you to come here for no other reason. Seeing that it is almost the end of the new year, there are more things in the house. I thought you had been in the house for a while. I just discussed with the old lady. I will leave everything in this mansion to you to take care of."

Although Sister Feng had received the news before, she was still not sure. Now that she has received Mrs. Wang's approval letter, she has no doubts in her heart. I have experienced great things, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take on this important task."

Mrs. Wang frowned and said: "What's the matter? You used to be a housekeeper when you were at home, but now you only take care of some household affairs in this mansion, just like when you were at home."

Jia's mother also said: "That's right, you've always been thoughtful. I think you've done a good job helping with the housework these few days. If there's anything you don't understand, just send someone to ask your aunt."

When Sister Feng heard the words, she no longer refused, and said: "Since the old lady and the wife have ordered, then I would rather be respectful than obey."

People in Jia's mansion are always well-informed, and within half an hour, news about Sister Feng's steward spread throughout Rongning and Ning's two mansions. Acting means, secretly complaining in his heart.

This incident soon reached Li Wan's ears. She smiled slightly. This was expected. She had to admire Mrs. Wang's skill. Sister Feng was originally her niece, so she was closer than others. She is also Mrs. Xing's daughter-in-law, so if she is asked to be the housekeeper, even Mrs. Xing has nothing to say.

And Mrs. Wang seems to no longer housekeeper, but it is not

It's all about handling the housework by myself, leaving the small matters to Sister Feng to take care of, but she is still in charge of the major matters in the house.

But after all, this matter has nothing to do with her, Li Wan sighed and put it away without paying more attention.

The next day, Mrs. Wang handed over the pair of cards to Sister Feng, and ordered someone to handover to Sister Feng the accounts of the housekeeper in the past.

Jia Lian and his wife also moved out of the east courtyard where the long house lived, and lived in a small courtyard on the west side of the back porch of the main room of Rongxi Hall.

From then on, apart from going back to Mrs. Wang for major business matters in the mansion, Sister Feng was in charge of all other affairs.

Sister Feng was determined not to let her husband down, and she also helped Mrs. Wang take care of some things after entering the school, and she is very familiar with the things in the house. Although she is in charge of the housework for the first time, she manages the house very well and neatly, and everyone in the house praises it.

As the saying goes, there are three fires when a new official takes office. In order to establish her prestige, Sister Feng found out a lot of deficits. It is common for compradors to falsely report prices and fill their pockets. , killing chickens to warn monkeys, eliminating many old items, and formulating many new regulations, the atmosphere in the mansion is one of the new.

Mrs. Wang was free, and she often worshiped monks and respected Taoism, gave away rice to distribute money, accumulated virtue and did good deeds, and she and Jia Zheng became more and more respectful to each other.

Previously, Jia Zhu left at a young age because Jia Zhu exhausted her efforts due to years of hard study. Although Mrs. Wang dared not say much, she felt a little bit resentful towards Jia Zheng in her heart. Besides, she had two sons and a daughter, and she was already a grandmother. Now, her position is stable, and she doesn't need to fight for her husband's favor to live a life, so she just eats fast and recites Buddha's name when Jia Zheng doesn't come.

Jia Zhu, Yuan Chun, and Jia Baoyu were all very good-looking, and Madam Wang's appearance was naturally not bad, but although she was born with a plump appearance, she felt that she was getting old, and she usually liked to wear dark, heavy and stereotyped clothes to show her dignity and stability. He looks like a wooden Bodhisattva all day long, and he is not as delicate and charming as Aunt Zhao, so Jia Zheng mostly rests in Aunt Zhao's room.

In the blink of an eye, it's October, and the weather is getting colder and colder. After more than ten days of recuperation, Li Wan's illness has been mostly cured, but after all, he has lost his body and is still a little weak. The root of the disease is troublesome, so Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang are worried, and just ask her to stay in the house for a while.

Li Wan was also afraid of leaving the root cause of the disease, so he followed the doctor's advice every day to take care of him carefully.

It's just that it's boring to be bored in the house every day, so she cut a piece of satin and started to embroider the handkerchief. She only embroidered a little every day, and it took four or five days to embroider.

Looking at the white handkerchief embroidered with lotus patterns in his hand, Li Wan felt

Xia secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally he could get away with it.

The original owner's needlework is excellent. Although she inherited the original owner's memory, she didn't really learn it by herself after all. Fortunately, she found some feelings after practicing a few times, so that she won't show any flaws. Although her skills are still a bit rusty now, she should practice hard for a while. Should be able to really master it.

Mei Xiang came in with a plate of fresh tangerines, and said, "Grandma, you have already embroidered a stick of incense, and it's time to rest for a while, otherwise what will happen if you hurt your eyes?"

Li Wan smiled helplessly, put away the needle and thread, rubbed his sore neck, and said, "Brother Lan, are you awake?"

Now that her body has basically recovered, she moved Jalan back to the east ear room today.

Fu Ling opened the curtain and came in, and said with a smile: "Brother just woke up once, now I feel sleepy after eating milk."

Li Wan heard the words and said, "I'll go and have a look."

In the east ear room, the nurse Sun was leaning on the small bed, her eyes were sleepy, she patted Jia Lan to fall asleep, she woke up when she saw Li Wan coming in, she wanted to get up and salute, "Grandma—"

Li Wan waved his hand lightly, the wet nurse understood, and quietly backed out.

The little guy in the cradle was sleeping soundly, his skin was pink and tender, like a small glutinous rice dumpling, his fleshy little hands were slightly curled up by his mouth, and his pink and tender mouth was moaning.

Li Wan's heart softened, he stroked his little face lightly, and sighed secretly, "Although time-traveling was not voluntary, I took your mother's body after all. No matter what, I will live on for her and take you Bringing up adults.

Instructing the wet nurse to take care of Jia Lan, Li Wan went back to the main room. As soon as he sat on the kang and began to draw flowers, a girl sent a message: "Second Grandma is here."

Li Wan was startled, then quickly put down the pen and paper in his hand, and said, "Please come in quickly."

The girl opened the curtain, and saw Wang Xifeng coming in holding the girl's hand, and Li Wan wanted to stand up and hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, sit down quickly, her body has not recovered yet, be careful and feel dizzy."

"It's okay, why is my sister here now?" Li Wan said with a smile, while giving up his seat, he ordered someone to watch tea.

Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "I haven't come to see my sister-in-law for a long time, is your body healed?"

Li Wan smiled and said, "It's much better, thank you for remembering."

Sister Feng pointed to the things in the hands of the maids and said: "It happened that some high-quality bird's nests were delivered from outside, and today I got some new home-made snacks and seasonal fruits from the palace. I specially sent them to my sister-in-law."

Following Wang Xifeng's girl and daughter-in-law, they brought a few paper bags and two carved lacquer

Put down the food box.

Li Wan thanked her with a smile, and Fu Ling took the girls to accept the things.

After a while, Mei Xiang served hot tea, "Second Grandma, please have some tea."

Sister Feng took the teacup, took a sip of tea, and looked at Li Wan attentively. She saw that she was wearing a homely bun, and she was wearing a stone-blue mop on her forehead. A pile of white hibiscus silk flowers.

He was wearing a moon-white satin jacket, a light blue cotton skirt underneath, a snow-white sweat towel around his waist, white silk socks and white satin shoes, sitting on the kang doing needlework, making his waist look even more slender. It is not full of hair, and although it is not full of makeup, it looks more and more like snow, with bright eyes like water, and the corners of the brows and eyes are full of books.

Wang Xifeng sighed secretly in his heart, it's a pity that such a person, born with a good appearance, had a bad fate, and was widowed at a young age, orphaned and widowed, he would only have a lonely blanket and cold pillow to accompany him for the rest of his life.