The widowed mother of the red mansion

Li Wan and Daiyu glanced at each other, and when they walked into the room, they saw a mess all over the place, Ping'er was trembling with anger, Sister Feng sat cross-legged on the kang with a blank expression, and a daughter-in-law was squatting on the ground, her face was so harmonious. sick as ugly.

"What's the matter?" Li Wan said with a smile, "Ping'er has been very angry recently, and she didn't get angry like this every day."

Ping'er cried and said to Li Wan and Daiyu: "Grandmaid, Second Grandma Bao, you saw it with your own eyes today, and I'm not telling lies. Our grandma usually eats light food, and the saved portion is distributed to everyone." The servant, I didn’t take anything too much. It’s a good thing now, this servant who worships the high and tramples on the low, asked her to bring a bowl of chili oil sauce for grandma’s meal today on the fasting day, and actually brought the moldy one .”

Li Wan carefully looked at the ground and realized that the sauce was really unbearable, so he scolded the daughter-in-law: "How do you do things, you dare to send moldy things to the second grandma's room?"

The daughter-in-law muttered in a low voice, "I asked for some sauce all of a sudden, but it was hard to scoop it out from the jar. The sauce was stinky, who knew it was moldy."

Li Wan sneered and said: "Very well, Suyun, you ask someone to lock her up, and she is only allowed to eat this sauce for three meals a day, and she is not allowed to give food, but only cold water. Before the jar is empty, she is never allowed to be released. Whoever dares to violate some privately will be kicked out with forty boards."

The daughter-in-law was shocked, and when she wanted to argue, Suyun led a group of thick women to hold her down.Ping'er felt aggrieved and said, "Why didn't Grandma punish her more?"

Sister Feng opened her eyes and said, "Don't blame her, I know she is doing it for my own good."

"Second sister-in-law, why are you bothering?" Daiyu was a little sad, and said to Sister Feng: "If in the past..."

"You know, it's not the past." Sister Feng smiled and said, "Why do you have time to come and see me today? Is Baoyu willing to let you come?"

Daiyu blushed: "You are not serious, I will ignore you."

Sister Feng laughed.When Ping'er came over with tea, she was still indignant: "The eldest sister's wet nurse is not a good thing either. I couldn't see it at first, but now she is away from the Lord, and she looks like she is going to die every day. It's really a bunch of immoral whores. /woman!"

Sister Feng said to Ping'er: "Since we moved here, you have become irritable. I'd better send you to the new grandma to serve. I used to love you so gentle, but now I am just as aggressive as me." , it's not painful at all, so what's the use of keeping you?"

Ping'er lowered his head with tears in his eyes, Feng'er brought a plate of dim sum, and said with a smile: "Sister Ping'er come with me to peel melon seeds for the grandmas, my hands are sore all by myself." Ping'er had to go along with her.

Daiyu said bluntly: "She is not a new grandma."

Sister Feng said: "When I give birth to a brother, I have to move my seat to her. The Wang family is useless now. If I divorce, I will just give them some money. The second master has money now, and that money is nothing. What."

Li Wan said: "You are so willing to go out, what will the elder sister do?"

Sister Feng remained silent, and said for a while, "If it wasn't for my sister, I would have thought of a way to get out."

Seeing that Sister Feng had no intention of being attached to her, Li Wan chatted with her for a while, and before leaving, she called Ping'er and gave Daiyu some instructions in a low voice, and then went back with Daiyu.

It was late autumn, and the two of them were wearing deep jackets and skirts of the same texture with sleeves rolled in silver silk. They were like two silent butterflies waving across the bluestone ground, and a large group of maids and servants followed quietly, like shadows. No sound.

After Baoyu got married, she didn't waste her studies. On the contrary, she studied harder, which made Mrs. Wang's last worry disappear, and she treated Daiyu and Li Wan calmly.Daiyu and Li Wan are sisters-in-law now, and they often do needlework and chat together, and their relationship is getting better day by day, even better than that of direct sisters, there is no such thing as common open and covert fighting between ordinary sisters-in-law, which arouses the envy of others.

Daiyu likes Lingxi very much, and often hugs her in his arms. Li Wan teased her and said, "Let me give you a hug first, and I will definitely hug her back in the future."

Daiyu pretended not to know, bowed her head and only played with Lingxi.Lingxi knew hobbies even at a young age, watching her fairy-like aunt giggling, her pink-like hands just twisting Daiyu's sleeves to play, almost dripping her saliva.

Jia Li had letters from time to time at first, but then the war over there became urgent, so the news gradually stopped.Li Wan was not in a hurry, she invited Jia Li's natal lamp from the Nebula Realm, and poured "lucky" oil into it every day, praying sincerely.

One morning, after Li Wan had finished praying, he saw the little girl next to Aunt Wu walking in a panic and said to her, "Grandma is not well, our aunt suddenly developed phlegm, it looks really bad!"

Li Wan was taken aback, and hurriedly followed along to look.I saw Aunt Wu foaming at the mouth and scratching in the air with her hands. Aunt Qian poured some boiling water for her and burst into tears.When Aunt Qian saw Li Wan coming, she rushed over and cried, "Grandma, she didn't have this symptom before, why did she suddenly..."

Li Wan held Aunt Qian steady while ordering the doctor to come and see.Since leaving the capital, the Jia family naturally didn't want to hire an imperial doctor, they just sent famous doctors and experts. Every day there were different people, different virtuous and foolish.It just so happened today that the person who came was an expert who could only bump into but not find, he took a look at Aunt Wu, took out a silver needle and only pricked a few acupuncture points, Aunt Wu settled down, but the corners of her mouth were still drooling.

"Doctor, what's going on?"

"If she doesn't have such symptoms, it's likely to be a problem with her diet." The doctor said while collecting things, "I'll prescribe a prescription, just grab a few of them and give her to eat. Is she alright? Just you."

It turned out that the doctor was well aware of the struggle between the women in the mansion. This time he saw Aunt Wu was poisoned and Li Wan was the mistress. He only said that she was playing tricks behind her back.Li Wan is such a smart person, he doesn't understand the mystery, but he can't defend himself, and said: "Thank you, doctor."

Suyun took two taels of silver to thank the doctor, and ordered the little maid to go get the medicine without mentioning it.Li Wan asked Aunt Qian: "Do you usually get your meals from the kitchen? Do you mix food delivered by others or bought outside?"

Aunt Qian cried and said: "She and I usually have snacks, and occasionally let the servants buy some hot cakes and sunflower seeds outside the second gate. I really can't tell. As for the others, except for grandma who rewards some delicious food on weekdays, who can eat them?" Will you give us something?"

Li Wan asked Aunt Wu's maid who was wearing her personal clothes to interrogate her. The maid tilted her head and thought about it for a long time: "My aunt had dinner with Aunt Qian last night, and she drank a bowl of Pu'er tea before going to sleep. I only got up this morning and gave him jujube soup to wash my face." Mouth, this disease developed within a short while."

"Who made the jujube soup?"

"It was sent by the kitchen."

Li Wan comforted Aunt Qian and asked her to take good care of Aunt Wu, while he led his people to the kitchen.Now the kitchen of Jia's family is under the care of Zou Siniang, a distant relative of Zhou Rui's family. The kitchen has always been a place of trouble.

She had always known that although Li Wan had a soft and smiling face, he was one of the few strong-backed masters in the Jia family. He trotted all the way to meet him and smiled, "Oh! I don't know what wind blows Grandma too." After I came, I cleaned up the ground, and grandma hurried in and sat down, the smell inside had just been diffused with incense, and it wasn’t stuffy at all.”

Li Wan and the maid walked into the kitchen and saw that everything was tidy and tidy, and said with a smile: "I just drank a bowl of red date soup elsewhere and felt very good in my heart. They said that you made it by your aunt, so please give it to me again." I'll make a bowl, and I'll keep it for supper at night."

Zou Siniang was elated when she heard it, and she patted her legs and said, "Grandma wants to drink it, so I'll make it tonight and send it away, why should I let it cool now? This red date soup is not a valuable thing, what is important is that it is fresh and clean, and must be used Remove the core and hard skin of the red dates and stew them over a low heat, then mix them with ice water and sugar juice, cover them and send them away immediately, the aroma will dissipate after a while."

Li Wan made a regretful look: "Since this is the case, I can't wait for the night, so you can make me a bowl now."

Zou Siniang responded, and made tea for Li Wan with her own hands, and asked the little maid to bring out cakes for Li Wan to eat, while she cleaned up the jujubes and stewed the soup. tight.After the soup pot was placed on the fire, Li Wan talked to her without saying a word, pouring out all the words she was so happy about.After the jujube soup was ready, Li Wan ordered Bi Yue to give her a few silver coins, but after she declined several times, she accepted it gratefully.

Li Wan didn't dare to drink the jujube soup, so he took it back and fed it to the cat.Seeing that the cat was fine, Li Wan stared out the window in a daze, as if he had something on his mind.Bi Yue boldly said in a low voice: "Grandma, maybe Aunt Wu herself has an emergency, a disease that is usually invisible, and it can kill people."

Li Wan said: "That doctor is good at medicine, so he can't be wrong. He said that there is a problem with the diet, and it will never be an emergency."

Suyun said: "But Aunt Wu usually only stays with Aunt Qian, who can she hinder?"

Biyue was full of surprises: "Fourth Aunt Zou is usually a bit snobby, but she might not do such an outrageous thing."

The three of them messed up for a while and still couldn't figure it out, Biyue saw that Li Wan's cheeks were flushed, and persuaded her to sleep: "Grandma, sleep well, maybe tomorrow you will think something is wrong."

Li Wan said with a smile: "There are too many things going wrong in our family recently, how can I sleep well."

Suyun has always agreed with Biyue on this issue: "Grandma, please rest quickly, let's ask an inconspicuous little maid to squat near the kitchen and stare at Aunt Zou, and if there is anything to do, I will be the first to come over and talk to you." Say, okay?"

Li Wan nodded, knowing that the two of them had a heart for him, so he took off his clothes and makeup and went to sleep.Suyun and Biyue murmured for a while, and chose Juan'er, the most unobtrusive maid in the courtyard, to keep an eye on.That Juan'er didn't like to do heavy work in the first place, she often wandered here and there, and when she heard the two promised money and sweets, she immediately slapped her chest louder than anything else: "Good sister, just watch! That aunt relieved me several times a night." Let me show you too."

Su Yun scolded with a smile: "Who cares if she wakes up at night! It's just to see if there are any people coming and going. If someone asks you what you bumped into there, you just say that something important is lost there and you need to find it, you understand?"

Juan'er nodded, stuck out her tongue, and left in a hurry.