Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Tanchun smiled and said, "Forget it, anyway, we won't use these things at the moment, so what's the rush?"

During the conversation, melons and fruits came up, namely pomegranate, loquat, red bayberry and cherry.

The pomegranate seeds have been peeled out, and the ruby-like pomegranate grains line the white jade plate, and next to it is a plate of crystal-clear and beautiful cherries as red as agate, which is extremely beautiful.

The loquats have also been peeled and the pits removed. Each loquat is cut into two pieces and placed on a lotus-leaf-style jasper plate with a few small silver sticks beside it.

Everyone ate the melons and fruits, and suddenly saw the wet nurse carrying Jia Lan in, and said with a smile: "My brother has been looking for grandma since he woke up, and the servants really can't coax her."

Jia Lan just woke up, still a little dazed, rubbing her eyes looking for her mother.

Today he is only wearing a crimson satin apron embroidered with carps and lotuses in water red silk, a brand new silver red gauze shirt, light green gauze trousers, a red gold silk collar around his neck, a long life lock and a name talisman Waiting for things, the face is as white as jade, the small arms and legs are chubby like lotus root joints, pink makeup and jade carvings, red lips and white teeth, like the golden boy under the seat of Guanyin, very pleasing.

Seeing Li Wan, Jia Lan grinned and struggled to be hugged by her mother.

Li Wan had no choice but to put down the things in his hands, hugged the little guy over, nodded his little nose and said with a smile: "You are really a grinder, how long have you been sleeping?"

While talking, he took the wrung handkerchief from Xia Zhu's hand and wiped his face.

Jia Lan grinned happily, might as well suddenly see Daiyu and Tanchun who were smiling at him, frowned, and looked at them suspiciously.

Daiyu raised the fan in her hand, pointed at herself and Tanchun and said with a smile: "Brother Lan, I haven't seen you for a few days, do you still remember who we are?"

Jia Lan looked at Daiyu with his fingers in his mouth, looked at her seriously for a while, then looked at Tanchun, suddenly clapped his little hands and laughed, "Aunt Lin!" Then he smiled at Tanchun, "Third Aunt!"

Both Daiyu and Tanchun laughed, and said, "You're really clever."

Daiyu saw that Yuxue was cute, so she deliberately teased him, and said with a smile: "Brother Lan, I heard your mother said that you are studying recently, do you remember it? Can you recite a few sentences for aunt?"

Jia Lan immediately became happy when he heard it. It turns out that these days Li Wan often asked him questions like this, and rewarded him with a piece of dessert after answering correctly. Therefore, the little guy likes others to test him the most. At this time, he shook his little head and said in a milky voice: "At the beginning of human beings, nature is kind and similar, □□..."

He is almost three years old now, and Li Wan gave it to him personally.

He enlightened him and taught him to read some three-character scriptures, hundreds of surnames, Jia Lan was intelligent, although he didn't understand the meaning, he was able to read a few sentences.It's just that when I was young, I could only recite a short section of the front, and then began to recite intermittently and upside down when I reached the back.

However, it is not bad for a three-year-old child to have such a memory.

Both Daiyu and Tanchun nodded in praise, "Brother Lang is really smart."

When Jia Lan heard that the two praised him, he became even happier, dancing and talking non-stop.

I don't know why, Jia Lan is very close to Daiyu, and after reciting the book, he ran around the room without stopping for a moment, bringing fruit to Daiyu for a while, and giving her the daily stuff for a while, so Daiyu was so happy Yu became more and more in love with the little guy, and chatted with the little guy.

Tanchun looked a little jealous, pretending to be displeased and said, "Brother Lan, why is he only stubborn with Aunt Lin and ignores Third Aunt?"

Hearing this, Jia Lan hurriedly grabbed two fruits and ran to Tanchun, grinning, and said sweetly, "Third aunt, eat."

Everyone laughed, Li Wan couldn't help laughing and said: "This little ghost is really good at coaxing people. I just used this trick on me yesterday."

Tanchun couldn't hold back his laughter, he was so in love with him, he hugged the little guy in his arms and teased him to talk, seeing that he was articulate at such a young age, really smart, he secretly admired him, and thought of his own mother for a moment Brother Jia Huan, who is six years old this year, is more than three years older than Jia Lan, but he hasn't even finished three hundred thousand. In comparison, he can't help but sigh: "Lan'er is really smart, far better than He is Uncle Huan."

Seeing her sudden gloomy expression, Li Wan was startled for a moment, then understood after a little thought, and secretly sighed in his heart. Back then, Aunt Zhao relied on Jia Zheng's favor and tried several times to die and refused to let Mrs. Wang take her son away. Mrs. Wang went along with the situation and said He is not good and lacks energy, so Jia Huan can be raised by Aunt Zhao.

From the great-grandson's daughter-in-law to the old Fengjun today, Jia's mother has never lacked scheming methods. How can she not see Mrs. Wang's intentions?It's just that she never liked her concubine very much, and among her grandchildren, Baoyu was the only one in her heart, and she didn't care much about the other two grandsons born of concubines, and rarely called Jia Huan and Jia Cong to her, so she just opened her eyes. Close one eye.

Smart people know the benefits of keeping a concubine in the name of the aunt, and it will be much cheaper to talk about marriage in the future. However, Aunt Zhao is shallow and vulgar by nature. Relying on him, he was only afraid that his son would be divorced from him, and refused to let Jia Huan get close to Mrs. Wang.

I don't know how many people watched Aunt Zhao's jokes behind their backs, but she still liked it.

Zizi, rather proud, did not understand what stupid thing he had done.

After Baoyu was five years old, he invited a well-known Juren as his teacher to teach him to read alone in the mansion.

Jia Huan is now six years old, but he only messes around at home, he doesn't even have a serious teacher, and he has no one to guide his homework when he returns home. , From time to time, I want to look for opportunities to be greedy for petty gains, and I can't get on the table even more.

Jia Zheng has never been used to vulgar things, and when he comes home from get off work, he just recites poems and draws pictures with the Qing guests, and doesn't care about everything.

Mrs. Wang is even more happy and carefree, she never asks about Jia Huan and lets Aunt Zhao take care of her.

Even Li Wan couldn't help but admire Mrs. Wang's methods, but they couldn't find a single fault.

No one in the whole family would say that Aunt Zhao was vulgar, and Mrs. Wang, the mistress, was generous and kind.

It's just pitiful for Tanchun, with such a mother-in-law, she would make a fuss from time to time, or she would blow pillow wind in Jia Zheng's ear, say that Baoyu was not doing her job properly, and make fun of the little girls, which caused Baoyu to be reprimanded by Jia Zheng several times. Therefore, Mrs. Wang loathes her very much, and she even has a little indifference towards Tanchun.

It's just that Li Wan didn't have much to say about these things, so he smiled and changed the topic: "Lan'er is not light, I'd better carry it, you all come and help me arrange a pair of these things, and then look at the gift list Are there any errors or omissions in the registration?"

Daiyu is intelligent by nature, and naturally knows what Tanchun is thinking, and she is very cooperative when she sees this, so she pulls Tanchun forward to help.

The general was busy for half an hour, Li Wan and the others prepared all kinds of rituals, and sent them to each family the next day. Although Li Shouzhong ordered a school errand, Li's mother, elder brother Li Heng and his wife were in Beijing, and there were several other family friends So old, even Yan Hui from Shoushan Bo's mansion also sent a copy.

Not long after the Dragon Boat Festival, the stewards and fellows from Li Wan's shop who went to Jiangnan to buy goods also came back, bringing back Lin Ruhai's reply.

Li Wan didn't know what was written in Lin Ruhai's letter, but he saw that Daiyu's spirit had improved a lot since then, and her disposition had become more cheerful. They will help Daiyu bring the letters.

Daiyu was grateful, and the relationship between the two became better.

The time of prosperity is easy to pass, but in the blink of an eye, two years have passed, the end of winter and the return of spring, the flowers in the garden are also blooming one after another, colorful, bees and butterflies are dancing, it is very lively.

Some time ago, Baoyu asked for leave due to sickness, and she hasn't gone to school until now. She just spends her days in the room changing her body and making her powder, hanging out with the maids.

But people come out after washing and changing clothes,

Seeing Baoyu lying on the couch reading a book, looking a little bored, she couldn't help pursing her lips and smiling, stepped forward and pulled Baoyu's skirt, and said with a smile: "I just rubbed sweet and fragrant rouge on my mouth. How can you do it now?" Do you want to eat or not?"

Baoyu liked it very much when he heard the words, and said with a smile, "My dear sister, let me taste it quickly." After saying that, he threw the book away, and the monkey ate the rouge on Keren's mouth.

After a while, Baoyu let go after eating, tasted it carefully, and said with a smile: "The rouge sold in the market outside is not good, the color is thin, and the taste is not very sweet. I read a book yesterday, and it is exactly what I said. The ancient recipe for making rouge, I'm free now, so I'll make some for you."

But Xinxin was very proud, he glanced at the other people in the room calmly, and said with a smile: "That's good, I'll just wait for the second master's rouge."

Everyone knows Baoyu's love of red, and they have long seen the strangeness. They all laughed and said, "My sister is so lucky. The rouge made by the second master has always been good, and it is much better than the one sold outside."

Xiren happened to come in with his clothes in his arms. Hearing this, he couldn't help frowning and said: "This problem will be corrected sooner or later. The wife of the former son told us not to allow the second master to mess around. When the master finds out, it will be another disturbance."