Evening Shaohua in the Red House

A group of people left the city, but arrived in less than half an hour.

Dan Ju took a look through the screen window, and saw that there were many restaurants and shops in the market, people coming and going, shouting and hawking, although it was not as prosperous as the capital city, it was quite lively.

It turns out that this red sandalwood castle is a small town, but because it is very close to the city, it can be regarded as the foot of the emperor, but it is also densely populated, with about seven or eight hundred households. horse.

After crossing the bridge, there is a gatehouse on Qingshui Ridge. After walking to the East Street for a stick of incense, we came to a house in front of two gates decorated with black lacquer. with couplets.

Surrounding the wall are pagoda willows and elm catalpas, in the wall weeds hang outside the wall, and on the black lacquered gate is written the word Zhou Zhai.

When I got to the door and stopped the car, a woman who was following the car took the post and came forward to inform.

The concierge of the Zhou family accepted the post, and knew that it was someone from the Rongguo Mansion, so he was taken aback. Seeing that the visitor was well dressed, he didn't dare to neglect, so he hurriedly greeted him into the main room, and while giving way to sit, he hurriedly sent an old woman who was in charge of him to go. There was a word in the inner courtyard that Fu Ling was confinement in the room, she was surprised and happy when she heard it, and hurriedly asked Chunlan, the eldest girl who was close to her, to greet her at the second door.

Then Danju and the others got off the car at Chuihuamen, Chunlan rushed up to meet her, held her hand and said with a smile: "Sister, please come in, I heard that my sister is here, grandma is very happy, but she can't come out, so she sent me here Pick up my sister."

While talking, he looked at Danju attentively, seeing her covered in silk, gold hairpins and jade bracelets lined with snow-white skin, it has grown better than before, and the fallen flowers and tender willows are more beautiful and neat, and she couldn't help but admire: " People say that women's college has changed in the eighteenth year, and after half a year, the younger sister has become more aggressive, with such a demeanor, I don't know which family's daughter she is."

Looking at the little girl at the side, she is also pretty and sweet in a light yellow shirt and white silk skirt. I can't help secretly admiring that the grandma of the Jia family can take care of people. Not to mention, my master also came from that side. The grandmas and girls from the officials' families she saw on a daily basis were even stronger, they didn't look like they were born as girls.

I can't help being very envious in my heart, they are all girls, and compared with others, I am like a heaven and an earth.

Danju pursed her lips and said, "Sister, don't be ashamed of me, it's just a willow, how can I be praised by my sister."

Chunlan smiled and said, "My sister is too modest, I'm speaking the truth."

The two walked inside while talking and laughing. Indus and the two

A woman followed behind with something in her hands.

Previously, Fuling brought the girl to Jia's mansion to pay her respects. Dan Ju came to Zhou's house for the first time. She carefully looked at the house while speaking, and saw that the house has a three-entry structure. Although it is not as gorgeous as Rongguo Mansion, it is still quite spacious.

After passing the hall, there is a stone-embedded cross road, and you can look into it with lush flowers and trees.

There are also Taihu Lake stones and goldfish ponds in the courtyard, which are elegantly decorated, with a few clumps of green bamboos and a few peach, apricot and plantain trees planted between them. The shade of green trees also brings a little coolness in this hot summer.

The corridors on both sides are connected, and the railings are tortuous. On the top is a hall, two rooms, and three main rooms: the east and west buildings have their own rooms; the south is three halls, which are spacious.

While talking and joking, Dan Ju raised her eyes when she came to the main courtyard, and saw five small rooms with verandahs in the north, three bright and two dark, and the east and west rooms on both sides are all window partitions with jade-colored gauze.

There are two big Xifu Begonias planted in the courtyard, hosta flowers are blooming under the south wall, and there are thirty or forty pots of flowers of various colors under the corridor, red and white, and the flowers are brilliant.

The little girl at the door hurriedly drew up the curtains, and as soon as she entered the inner room, she saw that the house was clean and tidy, and all the furnishings were very delicate.

The main room is not partitioned, it is very spacious, with gauze drawers on both sides, and several tables and chairs.

The narrow couch by the window is covered with embroidered Kang mats, a small asparagus bamboo Kang table is placed in the middle, and red embroidered golden mats are placed on both sides.

There are several pots of Suxin Jianlan on the vermilion lacquer stand on the right, full of fragrance.

Two pots of narcissus are planted in the Ding kiln pot on the left table, and some aragonites are piled up.

On the multi-treasure box next to it, there are gold incense burners, jasper vases, inlaid Ruyi and other things.

Chunlan smiled at Danju: "Grandma is waiting in the room, sister comes with me."

Danju agreed, and said to Wutong and the two family wives: "You wait outside first."

The three Wutong agreed quickly.

Chunlan brought Danju to the west room, raised the colorful threaded curtain on the door of the inner room, and smiled to the inside: "Grandma, sister Danju has arrived."

As soon as the words finished, Dan Ju heard Fu Ling's voice with a smile saying: "Sister Dan Ju, please come in quickly, I haven't seen you for a long time, but I really miss you very much."

Dan Ju agreed, walked in and said with a smile: "I miss my sister too."

I saw a small room, with a small rosewood table on the left, and a three-foot-high, delicate and exquisite big Buddha's hand on the shelf on the right.

Against the wall is a dressing table with red rosewood lacquer, and to the east is a canopy bed with mother-of-pearl lacquer carvings. On the bed, there is a curtain of embroidered grapes wrapped around Yuebai Lake. Son, connected

Two small pomegranate gourds.

Fu Ling was leaning on the bed, with royal blue pearls tied on her head to wipe her forehead, a big red crepe silk jacket, and a silver and red flowered gauze quilt covering her body.

Dan Ju stepped forward to say congratulations, and said with a smile, "Congratulations to my sister for being Lin'er."

Fu Ling hurriedly smiled and said: "I'm bothering my sister to go here in the hot summer, please sit down and have a rest." After that, she hurriedly ordered Chunlan to watch the tea.

Chunlan moved an embroidered pier over, and asked the little girl to make tea.

Dan Ju thanked her and sat down.

Fu Ling then asked: "It's been more than half a year since I went to the mansion to pay my respects, how is grandma?"

Dan Ju said: "Grandma is fine, I just miss my sister." While speaking, she looked at Fu Ling's complexion carefully, seeing that her face was as pale as paper, and her expression was quite haggard, she couldn't help feeling a little worried, and asked: "I Seeing that my sister has no color on her face, and her spirit is also a little weak, but has the doctor looked at it?"

Chunlan was just taking the tea tray from the little girl's hand, when she heard the words she sighed and said, "Our grandma has suffered a great crime this time, it is even more difficult than when she gave birth to her eldest brother, but it scared us enough, luckily Aunt Zheng invited that Zhang The genius doctor is here, otherwise it will be really dangerous."

Dan Ju was taken aback for a moment before realizing that the aunt Chunlan was referring to was Mei Xiang, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on here?"

The person who announced the good news that day was vague, she didn't know that the situation was so serious at that time.

Fu Ling smiled and said: "People say that having a baby is like going around the gates of hell. It's not bad at all. This time I really narrowly escaped death."

After finishing speaking, he told Dan Ju what happened that day.

It turned out that Fu Ling had a difficult labor that day, and the doctors Wen Po who had been invited were helpless, but Mei Xiang was worried after hearing the news of Fu Ling's mobilization.

Danju was shocked when she heard it, she couldn't help chanting Amitabha, and said: "This is really dangerous. Fortunately, the Bodhisattva blessed me, my sister and nephew are finally safe and sound." She said: "Who is that miracle doctor? sharp?"

Fu Ling said: "The old man's surname is Zhang. I heard from Mei Xiang that he is the master's uncle of her family. He has excellent medical skills. He has been a famous doctor in Xinglin for decades. Even the saints once summoned him to the palace for medical treatment. It's just Zhang Miracle doctor does not like to be restrained, travels all year round, always like a wild crane in the clouds, his whereabouts are hard to find, this time is also my luck, coincidentally, Miracle Doctor Zhang came to Beijing to visit his younger brother, so I met him."

Dan Ju nodded and said: "This is exactly my sister's blessing."

After talking about the cold and warm, Danju asked Wutong to bring in the congratulatory gift, and said with a smile: "This golden set

The ornaments were given to my little brother by my grandma. In this package are two colorful clothes, two pairs of tiger-toed shoes, and a few bibs. They were originally made by the sisters together. The time is short, and the needlework is a bit rough, so I can wear it. , Sister, don't be disgusted. "

Fuling saw that the gold collar and bracelet were very light and chic, and the clothes were also specially selected from soft materials that would not hurt the baby's skin. The patterns and colors were all meticulous, and it was obvious at a glance that a lot of effort was spent. She was grateful and laughed quickly. "Sister, where is this? It's too late for me to thank you for such a good thing. How can I be disgusted? My sister will go back and thank grandma on my behalf, and thank you sisters."

Dan Ju handed over the congratulatory gifts from Sister Feng Ping'er and others, and finally pointed to one of the palm-sized red brocade boxes and said, "This is from Miss Lin."

Chunlan took it, opened it and looked at Fu Ling, it was a naive little pig, it was carved out of jasper, only three inches in size, round and round, the carving was very fine, even the mane on the neck was completely visible, Exquisite.

This year is the year of the pig, so Daiyu gave this zodiac pig.

Fu Ling secretly thanked Daiyu for her hard work, and said: "Go back and thank Second Grandma and Miss Lin for me, and say that I will kowtow to grandma and girls when I am older."

Danju agreed, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen my brother yet? But slept?"

Fu Ling smiled and said: "I took her out to nurse earlier, and I slept for an hour, and now I want to wake up." After saying that, she said to the girl standing beside her: "Go and see if my brother is awake, call him when he wakes up." The nanny brought it to my aunt and grandma to see."

The girl agreed to go.

Not long after, the nanny came out with a bright red swaddling baby.

Dan Ju saw that the little guy was soft and soft, but she didn't dare to hug her, she just looked at it carefully from the side, it was so small that she couldn't tell who it looked like at the moment, but her eyebrows and eyes were quite delicate, so she couldn't help laughing and said: "This child He is a lucky person, he can tell at a glance that he will be a handsome man in the future, and he doesn't know who he will look like."

Fu Ling smiled and said, "He's still young, you'll be able to see it when he grows up in a few days."

As he was talking, someone suddenly reported that Aunt Zheng was coming, and Fu Ling hurriedly called for someone to come in.

After a while, several girls and servants came in surrounded by Mei Xiang.

Dan Ju stood up, stepped forward to see her, and said with a smile: "We are ahead of my sister."

Mei Xiang smiled and said: "I said I would come here earlier, but the little devil at home was making trouble again, so I was able to go out after tossing for a long time." While speaking, she fanned the wind and said: "It's really hot today, with a steamer Like."

Fu Ling saw that she was wearing a silver-red gauze shirt, covered with green satin

Underneath the waistcoat is a white silk pleated skirt, and a small and exquisite jasper pendant is tied to the lapis lazuli double rings around the waist. Although she is a mother, her figure is extremely light. The ten-year-old girl was about the same, she couldn't help being very envious, and said with a smile: "You are still afraid of the heat like this, I am the one who suffers the most. I gained a lot of weight when I was pregnant, and I have to stay in the house for a month, but I can't use it." ice."

Mei Xiang smiled and said: "There's nothing you can do about it. Confinement is the most difficult time this summer. Who told my little nephew to choose a good day? You mother can only accept your fate."

Everyone who said it laughed.

After joking for a while, Mei Xiang ordered someone to come in with eight red boxes and a big red cloth bundle, and said with a smile, "The box is for my sister, and the bundle is for my brother."

Fu Ling hurriedly thanked her, and said with a smile, "Why bother?"

Mei Xiang smiled and said: "It's just some household items, not worth anything." While speaking, she looked around, but she didn't see Fuling's eldest son Zhou Yan, so she asked, "Why didn't you see Brother Yan?"

Fu Ling smiled and said, "Just now his father took him to the front yard to meet guests, I'm afraid he will be back soon."

As soon as the words fell, the girl outside said: "Brother is here."

After a while, I saw a woman leading a little boy in. The little boy was only about two or three years old, wearing a red polo gauze blouse, pine green poke gauze pants, tiger shoes, raw powder makeup, delicate and lovely.

The woman was quite old, she was wearing a long green crepe vest with two moon-white crepe sleeves exposed, and a blue-gray horse-face skirt underneath. Although she was dressed plainly, she didn't look like a servant.

Danju was still a little puzzled at the beginning, but then she remembered that Fuling had said before that there was a distant aunt who took care of the housekeeper. Sure enough, Fuling pointed at the old woman and said with a smile: "Sister Danju must not know her when she first came here. This is my sister. Aunt Zhen."

Dan Ju hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "I have seen my aunt."

That Mrs. Zhen hurriedly supported her, and said with a smile: "Miss, you don't have to be polite, I can't afford it."

Only then did Dan Ju see the face of the other party clearly, her hair was gray, she seemed to be about five or sixty years old, her face was gentle and kind, but her face was full of dimples, her eyes were also full of vicissitudes, and she knew that she had experienced a lot of hardships at a glance.

However, even though her face is full of wind and frost, she can vaguely see her delicate features. One can imagine that this Mrs. Zhen must have been a rare beauty when she was young.

But Dan Ju was a little puzzled, wondering why this lady had such a good-looking face, she always thought she had seen it somewhere, but couldn't remember it for a while.

While meditating, I suddenly heard Fu Ling calling his son to come forward

Greetings to my aunt, Dan Ju came back to her senses, and saw Zhou Yan arched her small hands, clasped her small fists in a bow, and said in a milky voice, "Greetings to my aunt."

Dan Ju withdrew her thoughts, hurriedly helped the little guy up, and said with a smile: "This is unacceptable, get up quickly."

After saying that, he turned back and took off a pouch with multicolored silk embroidered with Ruyi cloud patterns from his waist, which contained a pair of Ruyi pen ingots, and even hung up the pouch for the little guy himself, and said with a smile: "We met for the first time, there is nothing good. Brother take it and play it."

He actually knew to ask for another greeting, and said thank you in a childish voice.

He made everyone very happy, and said with a smile, "Sure enough."

The author has something to say: I'm too sleepy, I'll catch bugs tomorrow, good night little angels~