The maid of the red house

After the entertainment in Jia's mother's room, a group of women and servants, some who are envious or jealous, no matter what they think in their hearts, they all come up to congratulate without touching the ground.Xueyan smiled wryly in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face. Fortunately, she knows how to advance and retreat, and she is not the kind of frivolous person. After getting married, she wished everyone knew that her eyeballs could be put in the sky. So others saw that she was still as elegant and refined as before, and her heart was a little calm. Even so, Xueyan still went back to the room after a lot of twists and turns.

From Jiamu's upper room to the west wing where Daiyu lived, in the short distance of a few steps, Xueyan's speed was unprecedentedly difficult.

Zijuan had just finished tidying up the room, and greeted Daiyu to come in and take a seat and pour tea. Seeing her exhausted, she looked slightly sad, and said amusedly, "It's a good thing that others can't even hope for. What are you worried about?"

Xueyan glanced at her, and said: "Sister, don't you understand? Why don't you ask me?"

Zijuan narrowed her smile slightly, sighed softly, and said: "I know your heart, I am afraid of causing trouble for the girl, but this is the case, the old lady is interested, and the wife seems to have no objection, so it can be seen that she will not do it for Mammy Lai. The family has caused troubles, and since you recognize this kind of marriage, since you have support, it is unknown that our girls will live better."

Obviously, when Zijuan is around, it is very cheap to act, not to mention that it is more dignified to rely on everyone's goddaughter.

When it came to the character of the Lai family, Zijuan knew better than Xueyan, and comforted: "Let's not talk about Lai, she is the most well-behaved and decent person, and there is an old lady, Lai will never treat you badly." Besides, Chief Manager Lai and Mrs. Lai are very scheming. Although they treat you worse than Miss Lai, they will not lose the courtesy they deserve. If you go to give gifts and kowtow, they will not return the gift. Don't you Forget, you are the big girl next to the girl, if you are really wronged, the old lady will not ignore it."

Daiyu said: "This is the end of the matter, there is no use worrying about it, but I feel ashamed of the Lai family, and was dragged into these things by the old lady's words. Xueyan, since you recognize Lai Nanny as your grandmother, you should be filial to her old man." Mrs. and Mrs. Lai, don’t take the old lady’s thoughts to heart, treat them sincerely, people’s hearts are fleshy, and seeing that you have no desires, they will naturally look up to you in their hearts.”

After their persuasion, Xueyan felt a little relieved, as it should be.

Daiyu treats people with sincerity and is a philistine like her, so she must not insult Daiyu's mentality.

Daiyu said again: "You have to prepare the clothes you wear when you recognize your relatives. Show me what jewelry the old lady gave you, and match the clothes with the jewelry. You must not lose your identity in the house. Also, you The things for Mrs. Lai and Nanny Lai must also be prepared properly, and they will not look down on them later, and the things must be in good condition, so as not to be rude at that time."

Xueyan opened the box when she heard the words, and saw that what Jia Mu gave her was a set of emerald hairpins, red gold and silk inlaid with emeralds. Here, the phoenix tail looks very lively, and there are matching red gold emerald-studded temples, picks, combs, pair of bracelets, rings and earrings, set on the red brocade, luxurious but not vulgar.

Zicuckoo praised, Tao is a good thing.

Daiyu said: "It's all gold, it's not a few taels in total, and the gems are a little bit passable. I think they can enter the eyes of Lai's family."

Xueyan thought to herself, my girl, you can only see the top-grade emeralds, what kind of good things can catch your eyes?Of course, Xueyan thought of the things that Lin Ruhai had left for Daiyu, including many rare treasures. She had seen gemstones that were more even than this jewelry, and she was used to seeing her own good things since she was a child. No wonder Daiyu said so .

Zijuan smiled and said, "Nurse Lai knows this better than I do! I saw it before when I served the old lady. It is said that it is the headgear of the old lady's dowry. The old lady didn't wear it, but she took it out twice and fried it."

Immediately, Daiyu said again: "Although the things are not bad, they are not suitable for wearing. They are too ostentatious, and it seems that we can't wait."

Xueyan also doesn't like ostentatious and cumbersome jewelry, she prefers natural and low-key luxury such as jade, jade and pearls, so she said helplessly: "Isn't it disrespectful to the old lady if you don't wear the things that the old lady rewards?" Love Fuli, but also want to save face, like the people around her to be well-dressed, that's why she rewarded Xueyan with such gorgeous jewelry.

Holding the tea bowl, Daiyu turned her head and said, "You don't have to put your head up all over, carefully bend your neck! Besides, people are the masters, not clothes and jewelry. Let me see, you only wear hairpins, hearts, earrings, and rings." A few things are enough, too much would be cumbersome, others only care about clothes and jewellery, they don't pay attention to your appearance."

Zijuan also laughed and said: "It's nothing else, I have to wear the bracelet, it's not good to have an empty wrist."

Xueyan heard this, and raised her hand, and the emerald jade bracelet drew a blue light in front of Daiyu, and said, "I will wear this bracelet." Nanny Lai gave her a meeting gift, and put it on to show her respect for Daiyu. Mother Lai's respect.

"The color matches, and you don't need to wear the rest. You don't have to worry about getting tired if you wear three or four bracelets on one hand. Let's keep it simple." Daiyu looked at it carefully and said, she is very keen on dressing up, and she has the best eyesight , often sees elegance in the subtleties, and naturally loves bright colors, but Xiaozhong can't wear them, so he likes to color the maids around him, "For clothes, you can wear the silver mouse jacket with pine flowers and ink silk that was newly made a few days ago. Wearing a pink floral pleated skirt."

Recalling Xueyan's usual clothes, Daiyu frowned, then turned to Zijuan and said, "Did you accept the things I gave today?"

Zijuan is already familiar with these things, and hurriedly said: "It has been collected and asked to be put away properly, and the reward has also been given. The rice, grain and charcoal fire are placed in our boy's room, and the silver box and jewelry, satin and leather are locked next to the girl's bedroom. in the little warehouse."

Daiyu got up and went to the warehouse, telling her and Xueyan to follow.

Zijuan opened the box in the storeroom. Daiyu glanced at it, picked out a neat roll of mink fur, touched it with her fingertips, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Xueyan: "I remember that there are some mink fur in our fabrics. A few pieces of snow satin, you go and get one, use this mink fur to make a gown, and embroider the pattern of magpies and plum blossoms on the surface, and make me a jacket for the rest, no need to embroider."

Then he said to Zicuckoo: "I remember that there seems to be a bear belly skin, you find it and let Xueyan make a warm hat for Chief Lai."

Xueyan sighed, she had seen the bear belly skin before, it was left by Lin Ruhai in Daiyu's skin, the hair was shiny from root to root, it was extremely precious, this sister Lin was too careless, what kind of people could stand her like this spend?

She didn't know that Daiyu was very clear about the affairs of the Rongguo Mansion, she knew that she was helpless, her family's money would never be returned, no one was in charge, and there was no income in the mansion. I don't know if I can keep it. If I don't give it to those close to me, I'm afraid it will be in vain for others, so I am very generous to my own people.

It is a big deal for Xueyan to recognize relatives, Daiyu and Zijuan spare no effort to arrange for her, and the gifts needed for recognizing relatives are quickly prepared.

On October [-]th, there was auspicious snowfall and it was bone-chillingly cold.

When I woke up early in the morning, plum blossoms were in full bloom outside the window, and the rouge-like color was extraordinarily bright after being wrapped in ice and snow.

Jia Mu said with a smile, "it's a good day. The auspicious snow heralds a good year."

Because Xueyan had no parents, Daiyu prepared the wedding banquet, but it was Jiamu's money. It was a rare honor to hold the banquet in the side hall of the big flower hall behind Jiamu's main room.

Without him, Daiyu originally lived in Jiamu's courtyard, so she couldn't hold a banquet in Daiyu's wing.

Early in the morning, Nanny Lai brought her family over to kowtow to Mother Jia. Mother Jia was getting old and did not shy away from seeing Lai Shangrong and his son, but the rest were reluctant to show up. They only greeted Mrs. Xing Wang through the screen.Seeing that Jia's mother was interested in being the master, although it was a servant's confession banquet, Sister Feng, Li Wan, Sanchun, Baochai, Baoyu and others all came with Mrs. Xing Wang.

The girls and women who kept looking in from the outside looked at the scene full of flowers inside, feeling envious and jealous, and said: "Miss Xueyan is so lucky, not everyone can have such a face."

"That's right, as the chief executive's daughter, she's the same as Miss Lai, and she can sit on an equal footing with our girls."

Witnessed by Mother Jia, Xueyan seriously kowtowed to Nanny Lai and Da Lai and his wife, and presented gifts that should be given, Nanny Lai's forehead wipe, Da Lai's warm hat, Da Lai's daughter-in-law There are several pieces of clothing for the shoes, the needles and threads are made of snow geese, and the clothing materials are picked out by Daiyu from the materials she brought. They are exquisite and rare in Rongguo Mansion.

Nanny Lai and Da Lai's daughter-in-law have seen Xueyan's beautiful appearance, and today they saw that the presents she gave were nice and decent, especially the warm hat made for Da Lai, whose skin was extremely rare, and they were very satisfied.

Lai Da didn't enter the inner courtyard, but it was the first time he saw her, and he secretly admired her, she was worthy of being Daiyu's personal maid, and she returned a pair of silver bowls and chopsticks, and a long-life lock with red gold dots and emeralds inlaid with precious stones. Clothes and footwear.With the ability of Lai's family, more expensive things can be obtained, but it is not in line with the etiquette, and Xueyan is not greedy for things, so he only prepared gifts in return according to the rules.

Lai's daughter-in-law patted Xueyan's hand, her face was amiable, and she said: "The house has cleaned up the room for you. I don't know if it suits you. If it doesn't suit you, you can clean it up tomorrow when the family comes. There are also two Girl and the two rough envoys, when you are free, send someone home and say that the family will pick you up for two days."

Xueyan hurriedly said: "Thank you grandma and parents for your concern, as long as grandma and parents don't dislike their daughter for disturbing the cleanliness."

Lai's daughter-in-law said angrily, "Why bother the family? I usually only have one girl, Xinrong, but now I have many daughters who are filial. I'm really looking forward to it! Go see your brother, sister-in-law and sister."

Xue Yanfang met with his elder brother Lai Shangrong, his wife Li Shi, and his elder sister Lai Xinrong.

Mrs. Li is a young lady from a farming and studying family outside. Although she is from a small family, she is gentle and beautiful, but her knowledge and experience may not be as close as that of the girl next to the master girl in the Rongguo Mansion. After many years of teaching by Nanny Lai and eldest daughter-in-law Lai, the one who asked to marry was no longer Wuxia Ameng. She accepted a pair of exquisite purses from Xueyan and returned a pair of red gold silk hibiscus bracelets. Wen Wan said: "Go home often and have a look, so we can talk."

Because they are of the same generation, there is no need to follow the rules in giving and returning gifts, so Lai Xinrong gave Xueyan a pair of white jade pendants and handkerchiefs embroidered on both sides, and said with a smile: "Everyone says my sister is good at sewing, so call me when you go home." Learn to be dexterous."

Lai Xinrong is neither humble nor overbearing when she sees Ying Tanxi and others. She also has a group of girls and women serving her. However, her family is from slaves, and her grandmother and mother are both maids of Jiamu. A god-sister felt a little displeased, but she didn't look down on Xueyan, she just felt that she was superior to herself.

Therefore, there was nothing wrong with the marriage recognition banquet, and no one gave Xue Yan any face.

Knowing that all this was done for Jia Mu's sake, Xue Yan breathed a sigh of relief.