Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

Unfortunately, there were three or four women in charge standing in the yard, and Jia Lu just remembered that, unlike the housekeepers of the Ning Mansion, the morning greetings at the Rong Mansion were postponed by Mother Jia's love for Baoyu, except for a few who went to school. There are not many early risers among the masters. After getting up, Wang Xifeng wants to go to Jiamu's house again to play leaf cards with her, but the housekeeper can't solve the problem within an hour, so she moves. It was noon, it was only noon now, not many people came, and more people would reply one after another later.

Although he felt regret in his heart, it was such an unlucky time to come, but he thought about coming, so he came, and he didn't want to make a trip in vain, to say hello to Ping'er who was talking to the mother-in-law, past the mother-in-law waiting outside the door.

"Why is Fourth Miss here? The sun is bright but not warm, and the wind is howling. Come in and rest!"

Ping'er lifted the curtain and led Jia Lu into the house.

Jia Lu replied as she entered,

"Sister Ping'er, my mother is here to borrow something. I don't want to go to bed at noon. I thought it was too early for class, so I took this one. I don't want to,"

Jia Lu pointed to the three or two women outside, quite embarrassed to say,

"No, sister-in-law Feng is busy, it's a coincidence..."

Seeing Jia Lu pretending to be an adult at such a young age, Ping'er was overjoyed to see Jia Lu pretending to be a grown-up, shy and embarrassed at the wrong time, and chuckled softly.

While talking, Wang Xifeng asked inside, "Who is coming outside?"

Ping'er squatted down, Jia Lu waved her hand to show she didn't care, Ping'er went into the back room and said to her master, "It's the fourth girl who came and said she wanted to borrow something!"

"Hurry up and invite someone in!"

Jia Lu heard it too, thought there was no one inside, so she lifted the curtain and went in, and said it before saying hello,

"Sister-in-law, my nephew is back, my brother is happy, and wants to invite some guests..."

Just as I was talking, I didn't want to see an old woman with a dark complexion, wrinkled face, and a shrewd but awkward smile sitting on the small book, and a boy who was two or three years younger than herself was standing beside her. Wang Xifeng's family often wore a sable Zhaojun suit, surrounded by Zanzhu Lezi, and wore a peach red flowered jacket, a squirrel cape carved in stone and blue silk, a big red crinkle silver mouse skin skirt, pink, glossy and fat, and leaned against the lock on the back. , holding a small copper fire chopstick in his hand to shake the ashes in the hand stove.

Jia Lu was also quite embarrassed. There were guests here, so Wang Xifeng let her in. She came in so carelessly and without manners. She knew in her heart that it was because Wang Xifeng looked down on the old and the young, and didn't take them seriously. for the sake.

Seeing the old and the young, Jia Lu thought of what Jiao Qian had said about the old and the young looking for Zhou Rui's family, and then looked at their obvious peasant attire, and knew that it was Grandma Liu and his grandson, Ban'er.

If you say that in this world, respect is respect and humbleness is humble, these two relatives who are far away from the autumn wind don't know which side, which serious master would care about it, let's look at Mrs. Wang who is familiar with Grandma Liu, not to mention showing her face , didn't even pay any money, let Wang Xifeng figure it out.

And Wang Xifeng, who was two generations younger than Grandma Liu, didn't act as a serious guest when entertaining them, so she let her sister-in-law in casually.

They can ignore it like this, but Jia Lu can't. Jia Lu knows Grandma Liu's character well, and she admires such a simple, kind and grateful person the most. In her heart, respecting the old and loving the young, and respecting the guests is far more important than the king and the people. It is important to be humble, so seeing my faux pas being seen by the old man, and a child next to me staring at me with radiance, my ears blushed immediately, and my actions became more polite.

Jia Lu first blessed Wang Xifeng and said,

"I don't know that the second sister-in-law has a guest here, but it's rude, and I don't know how to call it?"

Wang Xifeng didn't care much and responded,

"This is the second wife and my natal family's relatives who have been connected before. You can call her Grandma Liu."

Hearing this, Jia Lu took a step forward, saluted, and said hello, "Grandma Liu."

Grandma Liu didn't dare to accept the gift, so she got up quickly, turned her body, said again and again that she didn't dare, stretched out her hand to pull, and frightened the young lady again.

Grandma Liu is a bit old, and her eyesight is not very good. She stood far away before, only to hear that this girl's voice is better than that of the oriole. As soon as she came closer, Grandma Liu secretly looked at her.

I saw that the girl combed her hair, and there were two pink beaded silk flowers embedded in the bun, which looked like real flowers. If Grandma Liu hadn't been an old man for many years, she knew that there would be no pink flowers like this in this season. Be deceived by it!Two tassel pendants hung down beside the silk flowers, shaking as Jia Lu moved.

He was wearing a bright red brocade jacket with narrow sleeves inlaid with butterflies and flowers, and a half cloak with a large hood of white sable leather on the outside. Underneath were green trousers with outer satin and inner cotton sprinkled with floral flowers. Instead of embroidered shoes, she wears lambskin boots with buckskin lining.

It is red, green and white. Ordinary people only think it is gaudy, but this girl is born well, with small dimples hanging on her white and tender face. Grandma Liu can't speak, so she feels like a Guanyin seat The little fairy in the picture, the little boy in the New Year's picture, is made even more festive and pleasant by the bright clothes.

Grandma Liu is not an ignorant person, from the concierge's teasing, Zhou Rui's family's secret display, and this grandma who seems to be enthusiastic and talkative, but in fact she is superior and doesn't care. Grandma Liu was not angry when she was looked down upon by her poor relatives. She knew it was human nature, so they didn't just drive her away to wait for others. Instead, they offered chicken, duck and fish. This is a very charitable family. up.

But the girl took a look, and she knew that this kind of serious lady in the duke's mansion was actually saluting to her poor old woman in the country. Waiting in a wealthy house is as comfortable as drinking ice well water in the dog days.

When I came back to my senses and saw this board, I just looked at the girl stupidly and didn't know what to say, so I couldn't help pinching her. She was about the same age, one was the clouds in the sky, and the other was the mud in the ground. It's really incomparable, so he hated iron for being weak and cursed, "You kid, you only know how to eat, but you don't know how to say hello, for this..."

Seeing that Grandma Liu didn't know Fourth Miss, Ping'er was afraid that she would make a joke about her as her mother-in-law, so she hurriedly continued,

"This is our grandma's fourth younger sister, the eldest lady in Ningguo Mansion next door, her boudoir name is Jia Lu."

Grandma Liu of Ningguo Mansion knew about it. When she came here, the family next door to the east of Rongguo Mansion was Ningguo Mansion. She once heard from her son-in-law that this Ningguo Mansion was the residence of the long house and the patriarch. Girls from the master's family should not be more noble than girls from ordinary families, so Grandma Liu forced Ban'er to say hello to the fourth girl.