[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

The next day, I went to Shi Taijun to say hello, and it happened that Sanchun was also talking with Shi Taijun.

When Shi Taijun saw their sisters, he smiled and beckoned them to his side, and said to Sanchun: "The two sisters of your Lin family are staying in the house for a while, you should get along well with them."

Yingchun lowered her eyebrows gently and obediently, and said softly: "Don't worry, ancestor."

Tanchun also smiled brightly: "The sisters of the Lin family are very nice, and they all like to play with the sisters of the Lin family."

After eating in Shi Taijun's house, they let the little girls go to play separately.

Sanchun lived in the Nuan Pavilion behind Shi Taijun's main house, and Jia Baoyu was separated from Jia Baoyu by a moon gate, which should have been separated after their siblings moved in.

When Daiyu heard that Baoyu was also living in Nuan Pavilion, she couldn't help but hesitated; she also heard that the second master Bao was moving out of Nuan Pavilion, which was very strange.

"Father said that the second elder brother is getting older and can no longer live with his sisters in the backyard, and will move to the front yard to study." Tanchun saw that Daiyu seemed suspicious, so he explained, "Brother Qianzhu and Lian The second elder brother also grew up in the front courtyard. It was the ancestors who were reluctant to part with the second elder brother, so they wanted to keep the second elder brother in the backyard."

Daiyu listened thoughtfully, and Yanyu asked Tanchun, "Then can grandma let second cousin move out?"

She had already heard from her mother that Baoyu was the heart of Shi Taijun's palm, and she held it in her palm for fear of falling and melting it in her mouth; while the second uncle was a famous dutiful son, and he obeyed his grandmother most of all.If the grandmother loves her grandson and does not allow her son to discipline her severely, even the second uncle has nothing to do.

Yanyu's eyes dimmed, evoking a somewhat weird smile.

Entering the East Nuan Pavilion, I saw that the layout was almost the same as the back cover room where their sisters live now.

"My eldest sister used to live here. Later, my eldest sister entered the palace to be a female historian, and this place became vacant." Tanchun pointed to a room with a closed door and told them that when mentioning her eldest sister Yuanchun, they The sisters' expressions also obviously showed admiration, "Big sister is beautiful and smart, she loves and takes care of my younger siblings, and the nuns always say that big sister will be better than ordinary people in the future."

At first, Yanyu thought it was very strange, why did the good girl of the Duke's mansion enter the palace to be a female historian?But now, after hearing Tanchun's words, I have some guesses.

The eldest sister, Yuan Chun, is beautiful and intelligent, and even the mother-in-law praises her.Wanting to come to the Jia family, they took a long time to send Yuan Chun into the palace as a concubine, hoping to give birth to a prince like Concubine Zhen, and Jia's family as a prince's kinsman would also be able to survive; Afterwards, the emperor ordered that no more concubines be elected, and as Yuanchun grew older, he could no longer wait for the next concubine election, so he could only enter the palace under the name of a female historian, hoping to be favored by the emperor. .

Yan Yu felt it was a bit of a pity, but it was a pity that she couldn't see what that beautiful and intelligent cousin looked like.

Entering Xichun's room again, seeing rice paper and brushes on Xichun's desk, Yanyu's eyes lit up, and she heard her younger sister say something before her: "So fourth younger sister also likes to paint? Sister J does the same!"

Xichun smiled lightly: "So sister Yan can also draw?"

Yanyu glanced at Daiyu, then smiled lightly and said: "When I was young, my father taught my sisters to read, and J is not as good as Yu'er. She only likes to copy the pictures in books on rice paper." Speaking of the embarrassing things in her childhood, she didn't think So embarrassed.

The picture scroll on the case is only half drawn, and the simple appearance can already be seen, Xichun's painting skills are already good at a young age.

"Elder sisters have their own strengths, and J can only do some tricks." Seeing Yanyu's eyes on the desk, and a little blush on her fair cheeks, Xichun said in a low voice.

"Such a beautiful painting, it will become everyone in the future." Yanyu suddenly remembered what Mr. Zhao said when he saw her painting, and she couldn't help talking to Xichun with a light smile.

Xichun lowered her eyelids, hiding the smile in her eyes.

Tan Chunyu smiled and said, "Then I will write it down for the fourth younger sister. If the fourth younger sister becomes a generation of masters in the future, you should thank Sister Yan for her good words."

Even though she knew that she was speaking eloquently, Yanyu was willing to joke with them, so she said, "J will just wait."

Xichun seems to seldom speak, but she has a kind of affection for Yanyu.

Sanchun walked around the garden with Yanyu and Daiyu for a while, getting familiar with the layout of the mansion.

In the afternoon, the scorching sun intensifies, and the heat is pressing.

The sisters of the Lin family grew up in the south of the Yangtze River, where the water is beautiful and clear. They thought that going north to the capital would reduce the heat in summer, but they never expected that it would be even more sweltering than Yangzhou.

The maid who followed her was afraid that the girls would be too hot, so she persuaded the girls to go to the pavilion in front to escape the heat.

"Sister-in-law and Lan Geer live in the front yard. Let's go over and ask for a bowl of mung bean soup." Tanchun thought of saying to his sisters.

Suddenly hearing Tanchun mention Li Wan's mother and son, Yanyu pretended to be curious and said: "Speaking of which, you have never met Lan Geer! I heard that Lan Geer is very smart and intelligent, and children of the same age are incomparable. .”

It was Xichun who answered the words: "Sister-in-law is very strict with Lang Geer, and Lang Geer gave him eulogy books when he was still very young. The wife said that Lang Geer was still young and could not understand the words of those poems and books." .”

Tanchun also said: "But it seems that my sister-in-law still has an idea."

Yanyu tugged Daiyu's sleeve silently, and winked at her; Daiyu realized what she meant, and immediately blushed and lowered her head.

When she was at home, Daiyu often read poems and books to Yan'er, and Yan'er liked to listen to her sister's poems very much, as if she could understand them with relish.

While they were talking, they walked to the courtyard where Li Wan's mother and son lived.

When Jia Zhu and Li Wan got married, they lived behind the Rongxi Hall, but later Jia Zhu passed away; Li Wan was a young widow, so he moved to live in the yard behind the bamboo bushes, so he could raise his young son with peace of mind.

Seeing the girls coming, Suyun, the maidservant next to Li Wan, hurriedly welcomed them in, and said, "Grandma is reading to Brother Lang."

When I went in, I saw Li Wan sitting on the Arhat's bed holding a book, and beside him was a little child, presumably Lan Ge'er.

"Eldest sister-in-law." The sisters called out cordially as they entered the door.

"Sisters are here!" Li Wan got up after hearing the words, and Lan Ge'er's wet nurse who was waiting next to him hurriedly picked up Lan Ge'er; seeing Yanyu and Daiyu's sisters were also there, Li Wan was stunned for a moment, and then broke up a few times Smiling, he said gently, "The two younger sisters of the Lin family are here too!" He asked them to sit down and called the maid to serve tea to the girls.

Lang Geer has just learned to speak; children of this age should be the most naughty, but he was held in the arms of the nanny without crying or fussing, watching his mother talking to a group of aunts quietly, with round eyes He looks very clever.

It seems that the relationship between Li Wan and his sisters-in-law is very good, and even Yingchun, who has always been taciturn, is much more energetic when he comes to Li Wan.

"It's the first time for the younger sisters of the Lin family to come here." Li Wan personally served tea to the sisters and said kindly.

"It's just that j looks very kind to the elder sister-in-law." Daiyu took the tea with a smile and said to Li Wan cheerfully.

What she said was truthful, and she directly expressed what was in Yan Yu's heart.

Their sisters have a good relationship with the sisters of the Li family, and they treat Li Wan with some unusual feelings; when they first met Li Wan, Daiyu whispered to Yanyu, and Yanyu nodded secretly.

Li Wan just smiled decently and talked to them.

Tan Chun glanced at Yan Yu with a light smile, and then said to Li Wan, "Sister Yan is talking about Brother Lan and wants to come and see Brother Lan!"

Li Wan asked the nanny to come over with Lan Ge'er in her arms. The child already recognized him, and when he saw the three aunts who often came to see him, he called softly.

"This is the aunt of the Lin family." Li Wan taught him to recognize people. Brother Lan looked curiously at the two aunts who had never met before, and obediently obeyed his mother's words and called Aunt Lin.

Brother Lang and Yan'er are about the same age, Yanyu and Daiyu both like it.

After talking for a while, Li Wan asked the wet nurse to carry Lang Ge'er down to rest, and then called the maid to bring them mung bean soup.

"Sister Yan, Sister Yu, I heard that the mung bean soup in Yangzhou is sweet?" Xichun was drinking the iced mung bean soup when she suddenly remembered what someone had said and asked the sisters of the Lin family curiously.

When she asked this question, Yan Yu and Dai Yu felt very strange, but after taking a sip of mung bean soup, she realized that it was actually salty.

The two sisters looked at each other in surprise, and then understood what Xichun said just now.

It's just that I'm used to drinking sweet and refreshing mung bean soup. Although this salty mung bean soup is also cool to relieve the heat, it feels inferior after all.

Yanyu pretended to drink a couple of sips, then nodded with a smile: "That's true. In the hot summer, I boiled mung bean soup, added sugar and then chilled it; even in hot summer, I drank a small bowl of mung bean soup. I don’t even feel the heat is hard to endure.” After a pause, he seemed to recall, “Two years ago, J and Yu’er were studying in Mrs. Li Si’s school, but the mung bean soup in the school was filled with mint. That’s another story. What a taste."

When Yan Yu mentioned Mrs. Li Si, Li Wan's expression changed obviously, and then he seemed to have a faint smile.

It has been four or five years since Li Wan married in the capital, and her natal family was far away thousands of miles away so she couldn't see each other. Now that she suddenly heard them mention her aunt, she couldn't help but feel a little more touched.

At dusk in the afternoon, the girls bid farewell to their sister-in-law and went home, and Li Wan asked Suyun to send the girls out.

The bamboo shadows outside the courtyard are mottled, and the sparse sunlight is reflected on the bluestone path through the bamboo shadows, which seems to be a different world from the prosperous and luxurious Rongguo Mansion outside.

Yanyu turned her head to look at the yard thoughtfully, feeling vaguely that she had overlooked something.

Usually the girls ate in Shi Taijun's house; because it was still early, the girls walked slowly towards Shi Taijun's yard.

At this moment, he saw a figure approaching in front of him, dressed in a red robe as bright as the morning sun, but it was Jia Baoyu who had just returned from school, and the young boy who followed him helped him carry the book bag.

Yanyu's heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously slowed down her pace.