Evening Shaohua in the Red House

The little girl brought the twig over, Dan Ju thanked her, and sat down after apologizing.

After saying something, Daiyu saw that Zijuan just stood aside, she couldn't help frowning slightly, and said angrily, "You're too lazy, why don't you go and pour tea?"

Zijuan said with a smile: "The girl has wronged me. Where is my laziness, she didn't want it."

Dan Ju also hurriedly smiled and explained the reason why she didn't drink tea just now.

Daiyu laughed and said, "It's rare for my sister to come here. If you don't drink tea, you can eat something else." After that, she turned to Zijuan and said, "I remember that the sugar-steamed crispy cheese sent by the old lady just now is still there. Some, you bring a bowl and give Sister Danju a taste."

Zijuan agreed, and said with a smile, "I'm confused too, and I forgot that there is this." After that, she went out and brought a small lacquered tea tray with a small bowl of snow-white crisp cheese on it. A small white porcelain spoon.

Dan Ju thanked her, Fang took the crispy cheese, tasted it carefully, and found it smooth and tender, sweet with sour, rich milk flavor, she couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, it's sweet and slightly sour, it's more sweet than usual. It tastes better."

Daiyu smiled and said: "Eat more if you like it, there are still some good ones, take some back later, this food is not durable, I have always had a weak spleen and stomach, so I dare not eat more, and the azaleas don't like to eat it. It’s a pity to let it go.”

Danju knew that Daiyu and Li Wan were very close, and had always treated them very kindly. She did not refuse when she heard the words, and thanked them with a smile.

While talking, the little girl brought in water, and Zijuan helped Daiyu wash her face, and re-dressed her face.

Daiyu was arranging the Nanzhu hairpin in front of the Linghua mirror, and asked Danju, "The weather is hot these two days, and I didn't go there either. What is sister-in-law doing at home?"

Dan Ju put down the spoon in her hand, and replied with a smile: "Grandma is also afraid of the heat, so she is too lazy to move. She has been reading at home these few days."

Daiyu nodded and smiled when she heard the words, and was about to speak, when she suddenly remembered something, she turned her head and said to Zijuan, "Go and get those books I found in the book case yesterday."

It turns out that the weather has been hot these past few days, and Daiyu seldom goes out except for Mrs. Jia Muwang's morning and evening appointments. Every day, she only enjoys playing the piano, reading posters, admiring flowers, sometimes playing with parrots, or teaching azaleas and snow geese to play chess. .

Yesterday Xueyan accidentally opened the book case to help Daiyu find a copybook, and unintentionally picked up some copybooks that Daiyu had kept before. Except for Daiyu's handwriting, most of them were old books brought from home back then, including several volumes. There are also Lin Ruhai's early comments on it.

Zijuan took the book as promised and handed it to Danju.

Daiyu said: "

This is annotated by my father when he was studying, and there are some crafting experience in it. I brought it from home. I have been piling it up in the box for the past few years and almost forgot it. I found it when I opened the box yesterday. I don't need it anyway, so you can take it to Lange. "

Although Danju didn't quite understand it, but she heard that Lin Ruhai had used it back then, and she also knew how precious these books were, so she hurriedly got up to thank her, and Fang took them.

Back in the courtyard, Dan Ju handed over a stack of scrolls to Li Wan, and said what Daiyu had said.

Li Wan was quite pleasantly surprised when he heard the words. Lin Ruhai was a senior high school student and had extraordinary knowledge. The books he annotated were all from his own experience. One can imagine the preciousness. After reading it a little, he still handed the book to Danju, and ordered: : "Keep it carefully, and give it to Lan'er when he comes back from school tomorrow."

During this period of time, the weather was hot, and Shen Yi worried that Jia Lan was young and frail and prone to heatstroke, so he let him live in the mansion and go home every three days.

Dan Ju agreed, put the book in a box, and put it on the shelf in the study room.

The next day, Danju served Li Wan for lunch, and was about to go back to her room to rest, when she suddenly saw the little girl Wutong running over and said with a smile: "Sister, come quickly, sister Xia Zhu is back, she brought a lot of fresh mulberries and water chestnut sweet dates. "

Dan Ju came to Xia Zhu's room and said with a smile: "Didn't you ask for three days' leave, why did you come back today? What good things did you bring back?"

Xia Zhu was inviting the little girls to eat fruit, his eyes flashed when he heard this, and then he smiled and said: "It's not fun to be idle at home, so I came back early and brought some fruits back. It's all a wild idea in the countryside. My sister also came to taste it." .”

Danju peeled a water chestnut and ate it, it was really sweet and crisp, and tasted the mulberry, it was also very sweet, so I couldn't help eating two more.

Xia Zhu picked fresh and clean fruits, put them on plates and sent them to Li Wan, kept some for himself, and distributed the rest to the little girls.

The two talked while eating fruit, Dan Ju saw that her expression was sullen, she couldn't help being puzzled, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, I should be happy to go home, but why are you so angry, but who invited you?" Angry?"

Xia Zhu sighed after hearing this, and complained: "Don't mention it, it's not my sister-in-law. She really has shallow eyelids, can't get on the stage, and is the best at blowing fire with the wind. Last time, she said that she would go back to her mother's house for a drink. I borrowed it." I wore the skeined silk bracelet, and I said I would return it within two days, but after procrastinating and procrastinating, it was never seen again.

That's all right, who knows that the jadeite hairpin on my head became hot again when I saw the jade hairpin on my head before, and if I didn't give it to her, she would carry me and my mother behind my back.

She instigated, saying that I only cared about hiding my own house and didn't help the family. Yesterday, while I wasn't paying attention, she secretly went through my dowry, and she touched the things in my dressing box. I was afraid that the jewelry box would be emptied by her, so I was so angry that I came back early! "

They were more respectable than others who served their master personally, and Li Wan had always treated them generously, often giving them some chitou jewelry and the like, and there were rewards in the mansion during the New Year and holidays, and he had accumulated some decency over the years .

Her food and clothing expenses in this mansion are all from the officials, and the monthly money of a penny is not worth much. She has saved it all, and with the bonus money from festivals and festivals, it is almost the same after all these years. There are seven or eighty taels of silver, and besides that, thirty or forty pieces of gold bead hairpin rings have also been accumulated.

She used all the money to supplement the family, gave some hairpin jewelry to her mother, and later gave it to his brother as a dowry. The rest was originally kept by her as a bottom of the box in the future, but her sister-in-law was not greedy enough. , Even her private house has to be calculated.

Fortunately, she had been prepared for a long time, and this time she only brought a few inconspicuous jewelry, and left all the precious ones here, otherwise she might be evacuated.

Dan Ju frowned and said, "You didn't know you were coming back?"

Xia Zhu smiled wryly and said: "What can I do? My sister-in-law is the most delicate person. Those things are hidden and changed, and they have long since disappeared. She is also the best at rolling around. Since she gave birth to my nephew last year, she is at home. The more unscrupulous you are, if you ask her for something, it's a cat digging for loaches, so it's easier not to ask for it.

My mother and brother also helped her talk, saying that I got a lot of good things from my master, and it was only natural to help some at home. They also said that I would go out in the future anyway, and the wealth I saved would not be given to me. In the end, the family is cheaper than outsiders! "

Danju sighed when she heard the words, it is true that every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and it is hard to say anything at the moment, so she just explained to her, saying: "In the future, if you have nothing to do, don't go back, so as not to get angry."

While talking, Biyue suddenly came and said, "Sister Danju, grandma is calling you."

Danju Xiazhu then stopped talking and came to Li Wan's room.

In the evening, when Jia Lan came back from school, Li Wan asked Dan Ju to find yesterday's book and hand it to him, saying, "This is from your Aunt Lin."

Hearing that it was an annotated book by Lin Ruhai, Jia Lan was a little surprised, and hurriedly opened a book of handcrafted art, only to see densely packed small scripts in the blank space. After a quick glance, they were full of various opinions and experiences. , very impressive.

The value of these books

Needless to say, Jia Lan was extremely grateful to Daiyu, and said to Li Wan, "I said before that I was going to find some books on art making. This time, it's really good. Thank you, Aunt Lin. It just so happened that I brought some things back with me." I will send someone to Aunt Lin to send some later."

After finishing speaking, he asked someone to bring in two boxes.

When I opened it, I saw that there were all kinds of Western things.

Li Wan was startled when he saw this, and wondered, "Where did this come from?"

Jia Lan said with a smile: "Brother Yang Qing from the third uncle's family came back to Beijing to do business. He brought these back from Guangdong. As a meeting gift, I gave the teacher some more, but the teacher didn't like it, and there were no female relatives at home, so I gave it all to me."

Only then did Li Wan recall that Yang Yan, Gu Yan's third disciple, was previously the governor of Guangdong and Hai, so he was also an official of the frontier.

While talking, Dan Ju, Xia Zhu and the others had packed up their things, and after a while, the table was full of things, making people dazzled.

Li Wan saw that one of the three-foot-square carved boxes was very delicate, and he was a little curious. He stepped forward to open it, and couldn't help being startled. It turned out that the box was full of glass vials, all six inches in size, with screwed silver caps. , Some notes said "Osmanthus Clear Dew", some wrote "Rose Clear Dew", and "Rose Clear Dew", etc. There were about twenty or thirty bottles.

These things are precious, they are all tributes in the capital, they are extremely rare, she remembered that in the original book, Jia's family only had these things after Yuan Chun became a concubine, but this time Mr. Yang just gave them a box.

Looking at the others, there are ivory fans, incense beads, glass cups, Western diamonds, music boxes, Western enamel pocket watches, chime clocks, rose perfume, ivory and other things, as well as four pieces each of sky blue, scarlet, royal blue, and crimson feather satin and feather yarn, Twelve bolts of Dolomites of various colors, twelve rolls of western cloth, in addition to several large packages of high-quality official bird's nest, tuckahoe cream, various spices, etc., all of which are of great value.

Li Wan looked at it and couldn't help sighing: "This is too expensive."

Jia Lan didn't care about it, and said with a smile: "The teacher has a lot of these Western things at home, and they are all piled up there to make ashes. I heard from the teacher that there are many Westerners doing business in Guangdong, and these imported products are very cheap. A catty of tea can be exchanged for better.

It is only because of the long distance and inconvenient transportation that it becomes a rarity here, but it is common there. "

Li Wan naturally understands the truth, but even so, this meeting gift is too heavy after all, and he still has to find a way to pay it back in the future, as long as

But he didn't tell Jia Lan what he said, and only asked him to pay his respects to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, and ordered Dan Ju to pack up some bottles of fragrant dew, various kinds of feather satin and feather gauze, and some rare things, and asked some women to hold them up. , said to Jia Lan: "It is also your kindness that you take these to honor the old ladies and wives."

Jalan agreed to go.

Li Wan picked some more things, divided them into several parts, and ordered Danju to take people to Mrs. Xing, Sister Feng, Daiyu, Baochai, Baoyu, Sanchun and others.

Xia Zhu continued to take the girls to register and register, and saw a delicate glass vial, took a closer look, and said with a smile: "So this is rose water, I heard it is the dew from the Western side, just a drop of it is fragrant. very."

Li Wan took the small bottle, opened it and smelled it, it was fragrant and sweet, similar to the scented flower essential oil in her previous life, but she was a widow, so she couldn't apply makeup, and these perfumes were not very suitable, thinking of Yan Huisu's love of fragrance, she put the cork on the bottle Said: "Put it away first, order a gift tomorrow, add some fresh melons and fruits, and send them to the third grandma of Jiang's family together."

Xia Zhu wrote it down one by one, and didn't mention it when she went to cook.

In this room, Jia Lan first went to ask for Ann for Mother Jia, talked for a while, and then turned to Mrs. Wang's room. After asking for Ann, she presented things and explained why.

Mrs. Wang loved Jia Lan for ten minutes. Seeing her little grandson so filial, she liked her even more. She just pulled him to sit beside her, kept rubbing her hands, looked at her for a long time, and sighed: "I haven't seen you for a few days. See, it’s cleared up a bit, but you’re not used to eating in that mansion?”

Jia Lan said with a smile: "Everyone in the teacher's house is very dedicated, and the food and use are the same as the teacher's. It's just that the grandson has a bit of a bitter summer, and it has always been like this. It's okay, it will be better after a while. "

Mrs. Wang shook her head and said: "Although Mr. Shen treats you like a child, you are not at home after all, and you want to read and practice calligraphy. How can you be so comfortable." While talking, she suddenly saw a red mark on Jia Lan's finger, and asked quickly, "What's wrong with your hand?" ?”

Jia Lan said with a smile: "The other day I saw a master carving gourd lanterns in the teacher's house. I thought it was interesting and learned for a while. I accidentally scratched the tip of my left thumb. Don't worry, my wife. It's just a small injury. alright."

Mrs. Wang pulled her over and looked at it for a long time. Seeing that there was no serious problem, she felt relieved and said with a sigh: "It's really naughty, learn what to do, what will happen if you cut your hands tomorrow? Don't do this again next time. "

Jalan smiled and agreed.

While talking, suddenly several women from Sister Feng's office brought a large bamboo basket of watermelons, cantaloupe, and flat peaches, and two other women held large boxes of silk in their hands, saying that they were uncles and wives.

It was sent over there.

When the holding box was opened, there were several multicolored glass bowls and dishes containing seasonal fruits, and in the other box were several cans of almond cheese.

Mrs. Wang couldn't help laughing, "Yesterday, Zhu'er's daughter-in-law brought some more, and now I'm bringing some more. I won't be able to finish eating them in a while." Then she ordered: "Take them all down. Wash the dishes and fruits. Come, put a bowl of almond cheese for Lang Geer, and another can for the old lady and concubine, and put the rest on the ice in a big silver can." The woman agreed to go.

Jia Lan finished eating the almond cheese, talked for a while, and saw that it was getting late, so he stood up and said goodbye to leave.

Mrs. Wang said: "Wait a minute, my son got something earlier, you can take it with you."

After that, he called Jin Chuan'er and said, "There is a glass box on Duobaoge, go and get it."

Jin Chuan'er went back to the house as she said, and brought back a glass box more than one foot long and three inches wide, carefully placed it on the table, lifted the lid of the box, and took out an exquisite carved wooden armrest and handed it to Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang handed it to Jia Lan and said, "Your uncle and grandma brought these from the south. There is a pen holder and an arm rest. The pen holder was given to your second uncle, and the arm rest is for you."

Jia Lan thanked Mrs. Wang, and took a look at it. It turned out to be a sandalwood carving of Tang Minghuang's Tour of the Moon Palace. The carving was exquisite and lifelike, and he liked it very much. Even those musical instruments are so finely detailed, it's really hard for him to do anything!"

Coincidentally, Baoyu, sister Daiyu and others also came to pay their respects. After hearing this, they took a look. Seeing that Su'e was dressed in feathers and neon clothes, she had a beautiful appearance, a colorful dress, and a national beauty, just like life. Thinking blankly, he thought to himself: It is said that Tang Minghuang made up the neon clothes and feather dress dance when he saw the moon palace fairy. I don't know how beautiful Yang Taizhen is compared to Xian'e. It's a pity that such a peerless beauty ended up hanging to death in Maweipo fate.

At this time, Baoyu's thoughts were ups and downs, and he stared blankly at the armrest, and couldn't help but read a sentence: "You can bring your soul with sincerity".

Daiyu heard this and said to Jia Lan, "Take it quickly, or your uncle will go to the Moon Palace too." Baochai Tanchun and others laughed when they said that.

Baoyu handed back the arm rest to Jia Lan and said, "I'm just feeling in vain."

After talking and joking for a while, the lamps had already been turned on, and everyone went to Jia Mu's room to have dinner, and then they dispersed without talking all night.

The author has something to say: I finally finished my work, and I will resume normal updates tomorrow~

ps: The description of Tang Minghuang's tour of the Moon Palace is based on "A Dream of Red Mansions" written by Gu Taiqing of the Qing Dynasty.

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