Evening Shaohua in the Red House

After the Grain Grain Festival, it was summer, and the weather was getting hotter. Everyone in the mansion took off their jackets and put on summer shirts.

One day, Li Wan was reading and doing needlework with Daiyu and Yingchun sisters. Suddenly, Amber from Jiamu's room came over and said: "The old lady has twisted her foot over there. The old lady asked grandma and the girls to go and have a look."

After hearing the words, all the people hurriedly put down the things in their hands, went back to their rooms to freshen up, changed their clothes, called Baoyu again, and went to Mrs. Xing's main room together.

When I met Mrs. Xing, I just sprained a little. Now that I have taken the medicine, it doesn't matter much.Li Wan first recounted what Jia Mu asked, and then everyone greeted him.

After listening, Mrs. Xing stood with her hands down, answered what Jia Mu asked, and saluted to the direction of Jia Mu's main courtyard. Then she asked everyone to sit down, and then she took Baoyu to sit on the kang, and ordered people to pour tea .

The maid served tea and fruit snacks. Mrs. Xing put two plates of pastries in front of Baoyu, looked at him lovingly, and said softly: "This is your favorite kidney bean cake and pea yellow. I asked someone to make it fresh. You can try it." like or not."

Baoyu saw that the kidney bean cake was as white as snow, small and exquisite, and really beautiful. He picked up a piece of kidney bean cake and tasted it according to his words. Eat, thank you ma'am."

Mrs. Xing liked it more and more, and said with a smile: "As long as it suits your taste, if you like it, I will send someone to make some more, and I will bring two dishes back with me in a while."

Baoyu responded sharply: "That's a good thing for the aunt."

Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "It's just a few snacks, not worth anything. I still have two very naughty things here. I'll ask someone to bring them to you after dinner."

Mrs. Xing is a house-filler, and her background is ordinary. Although there is some discord between Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wang, it is just a rift between the sisters-in-law. Baoyu is born very well, and she has always been sweet and well-behaved. a bit.

Baoyu agreed.

Mrs. Xing said to Daiyu and the others: "It's rare for you sisters to come here. It just so happens that there are fresh pheasant cubs delivered from outside today. I'll go after dinner."

Daiyu Yingchun and others agreed.

While eating tea, Li Wan listened to Mrs. Xing's words, and seeing her lovingly hugging Baoyu while she was talking, caressing Baoyu with her hands in various ways, she couldn't help being a little surprised. She rarely came to Mrs. Xing's side on weekdays. They don't deal with each other very much, but they don't know that she loves Baoyu so much, and this situation is no different from that of a mother and child.

The original Zhongfeng

My sister's evaluation of Mrs. Xing's character is very clear: she is stupid by nature, she only knows about Chengshun and Jia amnesty to protect herself, and secondly, she is greedy for wealth and goods for self-sufficiency.

It means that Mrs. Xing is stupid and stubborn, extremely stingy, and does not listen to advice. Of course, this also has an advantage. People like this are usually not people with a lot of hypocrisy. Whoever they like or dislike is written in the face.

Mrs. Xing has always been stingy. On weekdays, she is limited to Jia Lian and Yingchun's three brothers and sisters, but she is partial to Baoyu. She stubbornly gives a lot of food and loves her very much.

Li Wan remembered that after Jia Baoyu was beaten in the original book, he had been raised for several months before going out. Mrs. Xing not only came to visit her, but also specially sent fruit to express her condolences.

Li Wan thinks about the reason carefully, and he can probably guess a little bit. Baoyu was born handsome and lovely, Mrs. Xing never had children, and having such a caring and well-behaved little nephew inevitably touched his heart, and poured out his mother's heart On Baoyu.

It can be seen from the book that Mrs. Xing's dissatisfaction is mainly due to Jia's mother's preference for Mrs. Jia Zhengwang, and Sister Feng only cares about Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang's favor and does not pay enough attention to her mother-in-law. It is sincere love and love.

The second reason is that because Jia's mother loves Jia Baoyu the most, Mrs. Xing's actions naturally have two meanings to please her mother-in-law.

While thinking about it, Li Wan glanced at Yingchun, seeing that she was only drinking tea with her head down, turning a blind eye to Mrs. Xing's obvious preference, she couldn't help but secretly sighed.

Although everyone has their own fate, but Yingchun's temperament is too dull.

The ladies talked about the common language, and they didn't realize that it was dinner time.

The maids and women came over with four or five multi-colored silk-stuffed food boxes, moved the tables and chairs aside, and listed the cups and plates. After the mother, daughter and sisters finished eating, they sat down for a while, and Li Wan bid farewell to Mrs. Xing, and all the sisters When we go home, we have seen Mrs. Jia Muwang and so on, and we go back to our rooms to have a rest.

As Duanyang was approaching, the weather was getting hotter. Daiyu was bored this day, so she asked Tanchun to come to Li Wan's courtyard to talk to Li Wan, so as to relieve the tiredness in the afternoon. unknown.

The two came to the room along the veranda, only to see the little girls in Suyun Biyue outside who were dozing off bit by bit, seeing the two woke up suddenly, they all stood up, and wanted to go in to report, Daiyu was busy Put up your index finger and give a 'hush', and whispered with a smile: "Come on, you guys rest, we will go in by ourselves."

Biyue and the others also knew that they were close on weekdays, and when they played around, they would scare each other.

Some of them smiled and said nothing, and continued to sit and doze while they were free.

Daiyu and Tanchun looked at each other with a smile, and nodded as a signal. They held up the round fan, lifted the hem of the skirt and walked in lightly, turned around and looked in through the bead curtain. Ju sat on the Luohan bed, and there were a lot of things piled up on the small table beside her. One person counted the items, and the other took a pen to record something.

However, Li Wan was leaning on the hibiscus mat, wearing a moon-white home-made gauze shirt, and his dark hair was simply tied with a jade hairpin. He was looking at a red gift list in his hand.

Daiyu looked at it for a while, then smiled inwardly through the bead curtain: "It's a hot day, what are you busy with?"

Mei Xiang and the others were startled, looked up and saw that it was Daiyu and Tanchun, they both laughed and said, "The girls came sooner or later, and they didn't make a sound, which really surprised us."

Daiyu pulled Tanchun and lifted the bead curtain to come in, waving the round fan in her hand and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is working hard, why do we have the nerve to bother you?"

Tanchun also smiled and said, "Who knows we've been standing there for a long time, and you haven't noticed it yet."

Li Wan also didn't know whether to laugh or cry, put down the gift list in his hand, and said angrily: "I'm getting more and more mischievous, why did I come here now, I walked under the sun in this hot day, what should I do if I get heatstroke when I come back?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "It's okay, we came from the shade of the trees on the other side of the road."

At this moment, Danju and Meixiang had stood up to give up their seats, and Meixiang went out to ask Suyun to pour tea. Li Wan said, "I don't need tea in this hot day. Go and get two bowls of sour plum soup. The melons were brought outside yesterday." If you wash some of them out, splash them in the well water and bring them back."

Suyun agreed to go.

Daiyu saw that there were many incense cakes, incense balls, incense bags, incense beads, incense strings and other things piled up on the table, so she couldn't help laughing and said: "Sister-in-law is planning to open a shop?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "Where is it? It will be the Dragon Boat Festival in a few days. I will prepare gifts for the festival. Besides, when summer is here, the fragrant purses that I usually wear at home, the spices for smoking clothes, and the anti-heat medicine. Refreshing medicine and so on, I'm afraid these are not enough."

After the Dragon Boat Festival is over and summer is coming, there are many flies and insects everywhere, and people are prone to sweating, so people pay attention to wearing sachets and sachets, one is to get rid of bad smell, and the other is to avoid snakes and insects.

Tanchun picked up two sachets and smelled them, nodded and said: "Sister-in-law, these spices are clean and elegant, unlike the ones sent by the comprador before, the fragrance is too strong."

Daiyu said: "There are no good fragrances and fragrances sold in the spice shop outside, and the spices prepared are limited, and the powder is also light and thin.

It's not as clean as our own. "

Tan Chun sighed and said: "No, the spices and powders bought from the comprador are really unbearable. I don't know where to get some. It's just a name, and it's not worth it at all. The girls in my room are all paid for. The money was bought by someone else’s nanny’s brothers and sons now, and it was only then that I sent it away. I’ve spent two money, and I’ve lost half of the things for nothing.”

Li Wan secretly admired that Tanchun really has the talent of a housekeeper. He can see things so clearly at a young age, and said with a smile: "I don't use makeup now, but my skin is better than before. In fact, those good palace powders used to wipe the face They are all prepared with fine lead powder and borneol, and it is not beneficial to the body if used for a long time.

You are still young, you can’t use these, and you will use them in a few years. In my opinion, you would rather go to the trouble then, buy some spices and rouges and mix them yourself. "

There are many spice shops on the market. In addition to selling spices, they also sell "peach powder", "goose egg powder" and "cotton rouge" for daily use by ordinary people.The so-called "mouth fat noodle medicine", "bath bean sachet", "palace powder and musk fat" are all made in the workshop of the spice shop.