[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

Xu Jian's new daughter-in-law Yu Shi is gentle and virtuous. On the second day of their wedding, Xu Jian and his new wife Yu Shi went to the front hall to meet the elders of the family.

Yu Ming returned to the yard with a heavy pandan purse in his hand, Li Wen was sitting on the kang teaching Yanyu and Daiyu how to do green embroidery, when he heard Yu Ming came back, he turned his head: "Sister Ming, does it look good to advise sister-in-law?"

"Of course." Yu Ming took off the red hibiscus stone bracelet on his wrist, which was as rich as a red color, cold to the touch, and dazzlingly beautiful.

Daiyu leaned over curiously and took a look before chuckling, "I remember reading the legend of the red hibiscus stone in a book."

Yu Ming asked: "The legend of the Red Hibiscus Stone?"

Daiyu said solemnly: "The red hibiscus stone is also a marriage stone. It is said that it is enlightened by the old age of the moon. This red hibiscus stone bracelet competes with sister Ming, and it is very suitable."

Yu next year will be twelve, which should be the age to discuss marriage; now let's talk about the marriage first, and wait until it's time to make a grand ceremony.

When mentioning the matter of marriage, Yu Ming's cheeks turned crimson, and he said angrily, "You're talking nonsense! What are you thinking about at such a young age!"

Bisheng Li Wen also came to join in the fun: "When sister Ming's wedding is approaching in the future, I will give her a mandarin luan and a Ming tent, okay?"

"How can there be a girl who has never left the court and is full of marriage and marriage! Don't be ashamed!" Yu Ming twisted the silk handkerchief and covered his upper lip lightly, lowering his eyebrows with a slight resentment.

Listening to their conversation, Yanyu caressed the crookedly embroidered peony under her finger, her thoughts drifted away.

Fairy Jing Huan once said that love affairs in the world are the cause of eight sufferings, even if she is the richest, most noble, most beautiful and most pure daughter, she cannot avoid her fate.

The embroidery needle accidentally pierced her fingertip, and Yanyu came back to her senses, staring blankly at a drop of blood falling on the embroidered silk peony.

Yu Ming took her hand, frowned and said, "Why are you so careless!"

Li Wen followed Yu Ming's words and said: "Whoever is an embroiderer has needle holes in his hands." She spread her hands to Yu Ming and said, "My mother is usually very gentle, but she is teaching our sisters how to do it." Embroidery is the most rigorous. It is said that only strict teachers can teach successful students, and my mother has always regarded it as a dogma."

"I heard that Aunt Li used to be the female teacher who taught the princess in the palace." Daiyu asked Li Wen curiously.

"I heard from the mother in the house that it is true, but mother never told us about the affairs of the palace." Li Wen said slowly after thinking.

Li Wen's mother, Jiang Shi, was called to the palace to be the female teacher of the princess and princess because of her name in Qingxi embroidery. Later, she got the emperor's favor and went out of the palace to be married. Married into the Li family, a famous eunuch in Jinling.

The nurse who taught Yanyu and Daiyu in the Lin Mansion was originally from the capital, and when mentioning Qingxiu embroidery, she also mentioned Mrs. Jiang; Mrs. Jiang was once valued by the emperor, and she also had a teacher-student friendship with the princess and princess. At that time, all the noble ladies in the capital admired Yan Yan endlessly.

But Yu Ming calmed down inexplicably, she frowned as if in deep thought, obviously absent-mindedly playing with the string of red hibiscus stone bracelets, the cold jade stones were tinged with warmth.The string of red hibiscus stone bracelets suddenly broke free from the silver thread and scattered all over the floor, Yu Ming just came back to his senses and looked at the jade beads all over the floor; she was stunned for a moment, then called the servant girl to come in and pick up the jade beads, and then went to find another The master re-strung them with silver thread.

Beads are scattered and jade is broken, it is auspicious!

Yu Ming looked more and more preoccupied.

"Sister Ming, are you alright?" Yanyu looked at Yu Ming with a bad expression, and asked.

"It's just that I accidentally tore off the bracelet." Yu Mingqiang said with a smile.

It happened that it was said that the old lady had delivered lunch, so Yanyu Daiyu and Li Wen followed Yu Ming to the old lady's courtyard.

The descendants of the Xu family are also considered to be thriving, except for the second master who is still a magistrate in Anzhou, the eldest master, the third master and their daughter-in-law all honor their mother in the old house.Each of the three masters has a son, except for the eldest grandson Xu Jian who is newly married, the other two children are still young; and Yu Ming has four cousins, all of whom are married now, only Yu Ming is still waiting in his boudoir.

The new daughter-in-law, Yu Shi, followed her mother-in-law Li Shi and two aunts to serve the old lady, with a quiet and respectful attitude.

Seeing the resemblance between Yu Shi and Yu Jing, Yan Yu also had a good impression of this sister-in-law.

Old Mrs. Xu asked the girls to sit down beside her, and led them to talk about homework.

"Grandmother doesn't love me when she sees a few cousins." Yu Ming said coquettishly to Mrs. Xu with a smile.

"Ming'er is still so spoiled in front of my younger sisters, so I'm not afraid of being laughed at by my younger sisters." Li Shi smiled apologetically.

The old lady always loved her granddaughter very much, so she said indifferently: "They are all sisters of my own family, and the children have played together since childhood; you are too careful as a mother."

When Mrs. Li heard what her mother-in-law said, she responded with a smile.

After all, the Xu family only returned to Yangzhou three years ago, and the food in the house is all from Kyoto; the cool and refreshing pea yellow melts in the mouth, and the silver candy is fluffy and sweet. Because Mrs. Xu is not good at speaking, she often eats these soft and delicious dishes. Sweet and greasy pastries, sour plum soup is the most suitable for summer cold drinks.

"Are you used to eating?" Mrs. Xu asked the girls lovingly.

"Auntie and grandma have never seen the food here before." Daiyu was drinking sweet noodle tea, and nodded when she heard Mrs. Xu's question.

Li Wen also said: "This peach cake is sweet and delicious, I only ate it before when I went to Beijing with my parents."

The old lady Xu asked the maid to put the plate of peach cakes in front of Li Wen, and said to her with a smile, "You children, eat more. Li Sheng's family can make all kinds of Beijing cakes, so you can tell her what you like. "

Li Wenyan smiled: "Thank you, old lady."

We ate lunch in Mrs. Xu's yard, leaving only sister-in-law Li and the new granddaughter-in-law Yu Shi to talk, and let Yu Ming and three cousin girls go to play.

Yu Ming took out the treasured spices, asked the maids to light the stove and put them on the table, and said to them: "I got an ancient fragrance recipe, called Langhuanlu. My mother found the original fragrance and asked me to play with it." .”

Azure porcelain vases are placed on the paulownia table, and the faint fragrance wafts through the cork.

"Lang Huanlu?" Yanyu vaguely remembered something familiar, so she couldn't help but speak in confusion.

"Langhuan is the blessed cave in the fairy world. There is a cloud in ancient books, Langhuan jade, smelling like orchids, the room is full of fragrance, like the fragrance of the land of the fairy mansion." Yu Ming unfolded the ancient book prescription carefully to observe, and read slowly road.

Daiyu thought for a while and said, "I remember seeing some records about Langhuanlu in "Xiang Ci", but the prescription has been lost. I didn't expect to see the ancient prescription of Langhuanlu here at Sister Ming."

Yanyu looked back at her sister and asked, "So you read these miscellaneous books at home?"

"My sister is still talking about me!" Daiyu glanced at Yanyu casually and said lightly.

"It's a pity that my sister is the youngest in my family, and I don't have a caring direct sister." Yu Ming pulled Daiyu to sit next to him, pretending to sow discord, "Sister Ruoyan dislikes Yu'er, from now on Yu'er will be my relative My sister." Turning back to Daiyu seriously, "Sister Ming will love you from now on."

Li Wen covered her lips and smiled lightly: "Sister Ming also said the same when she saw my sister Qi."

Yu Ming raised his eyebrows, casually picked up the Xiang tassel next to him and threw it at Li Wen: "Let you talk!"

Li Wen smiled, and excused herself by saying that she didn't know how to mix incense. She sat on the stool and picked up the embroidery frame to start embroidery.Yu Ming poured some agarwood from a porcelain bottle and ground it carefully; Daiyu learned how to mix rose dew and honey, and put them in jars to make Langhuan dew.

According to ancient records, the preparation method of Langhuanlu is similar to that of Huajianlu.

Take the petals of flowers and herbs, soak them in snow water, steam them with floral dew, grind them with agarwood, and condense the blended honey into fragrant pills.The fragrance of Langhuanlu is light and pleasant, as if you are in a foreign country, listening to the soft sound of flowers blooming; it is prepared by blending a hundred flowers, and the fragrance is rich and striking, which shows the elegance and rarity of Langhuanlu.

Yanyu suddenly remembered that she had heard the God of Flowers mention Lang Huanlu, which was a potpourri fragrance made from fairy dew, and she had seen it in Lihentian Baihua Division.

"Yan'er, do you smell the fragrance?" Yu Ming suddenly lifted a blue porcelain vase to the tip of Yanyu's nose, and the rich fragrance hit her face. Emperor Wu dreamed that Mrs. Li gave incense, and the emperor was startled in his dream. The fragrance lingered on his clothes and pillows for several months.

"Isn't this the legendary Hengwuxiang?" Daiyu asked in surprise when she heard Yu Ming's allusion about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Mrs. Li.

"Smart!" Yu Ming said happily, tapping Daiyu's head.

Yanyu shook the begonia and acacia fan, thoughtfully: "Isn't that the fragrance left by the gods?"

Yu Ming closed his eyes and sniffed the fragrance lightly, and said after a long time: "There are ancient recipes recorded in ancient books, and I make incense according to the ancient recipes, and it's not bad."

Yanyu even wanted to ask Yu Ming for that ancient book to read, it really has all kinds of fairy prescriptions.

This made Li Wen say first: "What kind of prescription does Ming sister have? Let me see it too."

Yu Ming continued to grind the agarwood, and then slowly dried it on the stove, gradually filling the room with fragrance.

"Lang Huanlu, Heng Wuxiang, is sister Wen interested?" Yu Mingcai asked Li Wen with a smile.

"Compared to this, I'm still more interested in the story of "Supplements of Relics." Li Wen lowered her head and caressed the Laurel Rabbit she embroidered before chuckling.

Daiyu said: "I remember that the Huan Hun Xiang recorded in "Han Wu Nei Zhuan" is very similar to the Hengwu Xiang in "Shi Yi Ji". The Huan Hun Xiang was a tribute from the Dayuezhi Kingdom; Let the cigarette lead the lady's soul to meet, so it is the incense for returning the soul."

Li Wen also loves to read these ancient books of unofficial history, and he was deeply moved after hearing Daiyu's words: "After all, it is a story of a long-standing former dynasty. After careful study, the storytellers in the east and west of the city have not been able to unify their caliber, let alone a hundred thousand years ago."

Seeing that the two girls were happily exploring unofficial history books, Yanyu and Yu Ming continued to discuss the way of incense.

"The fragrance of hundreds of flowers is strong, how to adjust the fragrance of the flowers to be light and suitable?" Yanyu rubbed some powder and sniffed it, and asked Yu Ming.

"There are some ancient prescriptions recorded in ancient books, and I'll try them all to see which one is better." Yu Ming grinds the powder finely as before, lowering his head and speaking in a soft voice.