[Red House + Space] Falling Spring

"Is Sister Siqi in the house?" When Siqi was ironing clothes in the house, he heard a voice from outside, looked through the window, and it turned out to be a little girl named Lianhua from our hospital, because she replied "I'm at home, come in." Hearing this, Lianhua ran in with some flower patterns and a few pieces of paper in her hand, and begged loudly: "Good sister, I have some fresh flower patterns here, help me." Describe it."

Siqi put down the iron in his hand, took it, flipped through it, and found that the shape of the lotus flower was different from the usual ones, exquisite and novel, unique and unconventional, so he said: "I just cut a skirt. I was about to embroider on it, and because I thought the patterns we used every day were old, I said I needed to find a new one, I think the ones you brought are pretty good, where did you get them?"

"I just found this from Sister Saori. There are several samples of patterns from Sister Saori. It is said that they are the most popular and new ones on the market. My sister should be able to pick the one I like from there." Lianhua He leaned close to Siqi's ear, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "I just saw Shuangxi's sister from the wife's room sending money in Miss Six's room, and I also vaguely heard Sister Shuangxi talking to Miss Six. It seems to say that the money is for Sixth Miss to use first, and Shuangxi sister told Sixth Miss that if she is short of money in the future, just send someone to tell her wife, and don't take it for nothing."

"It seems that the sixth girl didn't know what she did, and she was so tight that she ran out of money, and even almost pawned things." Regarding the monthly payment of next month's money, only Lianhua, who was left with [-] taels of pocket money, couldn't understand why the monthly money would not be enough, so she asked in bewilderment: "The food and clothing are all in the public, and even the medicine is in the public." I don't see Miss Six having anything to spend money on. Sister Siqi, what do you think Miss Six did to lose all the money in her hand, so that she asked the wife to send money to her?"

Siqi was opening the drawer to look for a pen, because Lianhua's words brought back the past, so he sneered, "What do you care about Miss Liu? She just threw the money into the water and listened to it, it doesn't matter, isn't there still What about my wife! Miss Liu is my wife's own daughter, so my wife naturally wouldn't just let Miss Liu suffer poverty. No, as soon as she knew that Miss Liu had no money, she sent money here. Unlike our girls Poor, no one cares, no one cares!"

Lianhua's tone of voice was wrong when she heard Siqi's words. Although she didn't know that she had stepped on a "landmine", she still knew that she should not get involved in topics such as Yingchun and Luochun, which are disputes between sisters and concubines, so With a dry smile, he said, "Sister Siqi, please help me draw the pattern first, I still have something to do, so I'll go first, and I'll come back to pick it up later." He raised his feet and ran away.

Seeing that the lotus was avoiding him, Siqi muttered angrily, "It seems like there is a tiger chasing after him. What about it?" The few pens he found in the drawer were all bald. In desperation, he had to get up. Go find a new pen, and then sit down and trace.The more she traced, the more she felt that the pattern was beautiful and unique, so she thought about going back to Shazhi's to have a new look and embroider it on her new skirt.

At the moment, Sazhi, who is missed by Siqi, is carrying a few albums of new designs and Luochun to Mrs. Xing's house.Mrs. Xing pulled Luochun to sit beside her, looked at the things in Saori's arms, and asked, "What is this?" It’s time for my uncles to arrive, and the fashion in Beijing is different from other places, so I thought about whether I should cut some clothes for my uncles and prepare them to wear after they arrive in Beijing. This is a fancy shape, so I brought it here for my mother to see Mom will help you choose."

Luo Chun's words were very sweet, but Mrs. Xing didn't know that her daughter was helping her to dress up, but it was just to make her natal family dress more decently, so as not to embarrass herself.Mrs. Xing nodded and sighed: "You are very worried." Then she said to Jinping: "Remember to take out two bolts of satin and send them to the sewing room and let them cut them into clothes." Jinping quickly agreed.

Mrs. Xing flipped through the album, took a look at Luochun, and sighed helplessly: "No wonder you don't have enough monthly money. You should have someone send these flowers to you outside, right? There are in Mingming Mansion, but you You have to spend money to buy it, and if you spend it like you, how much money you have is not enough!"

"Okay, mother, let's not say that there is one in the house. What do they look like? They are just old-fashioned things that are the same. Those compradors always use these things to prevaricate people. There are tricks like you and the old lady. It’s a new look, like us little girls, not even a single change, fortunately we don’t go out very often, otherwise when we go out, people will definitely be laughed at to death, I don’t know when we wear the ‘old antiques’ on our bodies.” Whether it is in modern times or ancient times, fashion is always changing, even if there is a trace of folds, a lace is different this year from last year.As a young girl, even if she doesn't catch up with fashion, she can't be too far behind, and on this point, Jia's house is already far behind.

Hearing this, Mrs. Xing couldn't help but said: "Hmph, this is the good house managed by your second aunt, and that's all! It's said that the servants in the mansion praised your second aunt for your kindness and compassion, but it's just to hold the public office. It’s all about buying a ‘fake name’ with money, who wouldn’t be such a family!”

When Luo Chun saw that the topic was about to fall into the proposition of complaining about Mrs. Wang, she quickly changed the subject, took out a piece of paper from her sleeve pocket, and said, "Mother, these are some Beijing academies I asked people to inquire about. See which one is suitable, and wait for uncle to come, so that he can be sent there."

Mrs. Xing was indeed distracted by the topic of Luochun, but she disapproved of Luochun's behavior of choosing an academy for Xing Dequan, and said: "Then what's the trouble, isn't there a family school in our family, and I heard that now the management The family learned from your grandfather's uncle, who is well educated and virtuous. When your uncle comes, just let him go there."

Hearing that Mrs. Xing wanted to send Xing Dequan to study at home, Luochun almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. Are you sure you want Xing Dequan to study?Luochun doesn't know what the family school looks like now, but when Baoyu and Qin Zhong went to school later, it can be seen that the atmosphere inside is very chaotic.This matter definitely did not happen in a day or two, so Luochun can guess that even if the current situation of Jiaxue is better than when Baoyu and Qin Zhong were in school, it is not much better.Luo Chun asked puzzledly: "Why did mother come up with the idea of ​​letting uncle go to school in the house?"

"Is there anything wrong?" Mrs. Xing asked very strangely: "I have inquired about it. The family education department in our mansion was established by the old man. The old man fears that the children of the clan are poor and cannot hire a teacher. Enter this school to study. All the officials and nobles in the family will provide silver taels, and help according to the amount of salary, which is the cost of studying. Specially select young and virtuous people as the masters of the school, specially for the training of children. And this family Not all the students in the school are members of the same family, and some are children of relatives. Your uncle is my younger brother, no matter what, I am the eldest wife of the mansion, isn't he qualified to study in the family school in the mansion?" The relationship between some relatives and children in the family school is much farther than that between Xing Dequan and the mansion.

"That's not what I meant." Seeing that Mrs. Xing had misunderstood, Luo Chun hurriedly explained: "I'm not saying that uncle is not qualified. It's just that mother, we sent uncle to study, and we didn't intend to make uncle read something ugly. , just to correct my uncle's bad habits, so that he can go on the right path. I don't know how the family education in the mansion is, so I don't comment, but what is the situation of these men in the mansion? My mother has spent half her life in Jia's family , It should be clearer than I can see. Do you think it is really reliable to send uncle to the mansion to study at home?"

Mrs. Xing fell silent when Luo Chun said this, with a look of hesitation on her face.Seeing this, Luochun quickly added another brick: "Mother, didn't we discuss it at the beginning, send uncle to the boarding college, only by locking him in the school so that he can't come out, will he not continue to learn bad things, and then Then ask the teachers in the academy to be good students and teach uncle..."

"But in this way, it will cost another sum of money. Calculated in this way, the annual expenses such as training and tuition are quite a lot of expenses." Although Mrs. Xing was a little moved, the stingy habits she had developed over the years made her She couldn't help feeling distressed, especially since there was a school in front of her that she didn't need to spend money to go to, it made her feel that spending the money was extraordinarily painful.

Hearing Mrs. Xing's words, Luochun couldn't help laughing, she wondered, didn't she tell Mrs. Xing to send Xing Dequan to boarding school, why did she suddenly change her mind again, it was really a miserly mistake again .She persuaded with a smile: "Looking at what my mother said, in order to let my uncle and his family come to Beijing, I bought a house of several hundred taels of silver without blinking an eye. How can I feel sorry for this little money again?" ? Considering my uncle’s age, even if I send him to study, how many years will he be able to study? What’s more, when he went to the college, although the expenses there were increased, the expenses here were reduced. How much will it cost. Besides, compared with my uncle's future, it is worth spending a little money."

"I know." Mrs. Xing said with a sigh, her expression was quite unwilling: "It's just that our house pays a lot of money for the family school, but in the end there are not many people in the house to study. It's such a waste of money, it's not worth it." Mrs. Xing was calculating the expenditure in her heart, and couldn't help feeling sorry for the mansion, "In the early years, there were boys like Zhen, Lian'er, and Zhu'er in the mansion over there. In the home school, there is only one Baoyu left now, but he still "fishes for three days, and hangs the net for two days", pretending to be sick and refusing to go to school, the old lady is hurting and pampering him, seeing him not going to school I also depend on him, the money is wasted."

Luochun smiled slightly, and said: "Grandfather built this family school at the beginning, it was built for the children of the clan, not just for the two prefectures. Besides, wouldn't there be Huan'er and Cong'er later? And Brother Zhu stayed behind. Lan'er's eyes will grow up by then, and they also need to study. The money is not in vain. But the second brother Bao is sick, has mother ever visited?"

Mrs. Xing snorted lightly, and said: "When I went to the old lady's side, I took a look at him. He said that he was blown by the wind and had a headache, but I saw that his face was rosy and he was alive and kicking. It seemed that there was nothing serious about it. Knowing whether it is a real illness or a fake illness, I guess most of them are lazy to go to school and make excuses."

"Whether it's a real illness or a fake illness, anyway, the old lady said that the second brother Bao is ill." Luochun didn't intend to pursue the truth, and directly accepted Jia's mother's statement, and suggested to Mrs. Xing: "Mother, let the kitchen cook Make some nutritious food and send it to Brother Bao to show your concern, it can be regarded as a fancy purchase."

"Why bother!" Mrs. Xing said indifferently: "Baoyu lives with the old lady. He is the best of the old lady's heart, and the old lady's treatment is the best in the house. Whatever the old lady has, he will give it to her." Yes. Following the old lady, does he still lack the things from me? People may not be interested in the things from my side, and they may not be willing to eat even if they send them over. "

Luochun said meaningfully: "Although the things on the surface are for the second brother Bao, they are actually for the old lady and the second aunt." Sometimes it's useless to please Mother Jia directly, but from her side Some people start with it, it may not be ineffective.

Madam Xing rolled her eyes, and immediately understood Luochun's meaning, she pulled the corner of her mouth, showing a bitter and bitter smile, and said sadly: "Hehe, I didn't expect that my eldest aunt, in order to please my mother-in-law, To please my nephew first, what kind of effort is my daughter-in-law doing!"

Seeing Mrs. Xing's smile, Luochun felt sore, and couldn't help but tears in her eyes, and said, "It's all my daughter's fault, it's me who made up my mind to make mother sad. I just think that mother is also very sad on weekdays. What hurts the second brother Bao is that they can't see the mother's role as an old lady, which is a waste of mother's affection. I put forward this idea not only to let my mother please the old lady, but also to feel that in this mansion, some If you do something, you have to be seen by others, otherwise you have spent all your energy and painstaking efforts to no avail, that's why you said that. However, mother, if you don't want to, just forget it, and pretend that I didn't say anything just now."

Mrs. Xing stroked Luochun's head, and sighed: "Silly girl, mother understands what you mean. It's just a matter of me opening my mouth, and I don't need to do it. It's the money from the public, and I don't need to pay a penny. It turned out to be the best of both worlds, so why would I be unhappy. It’s too late for mother to thank you.”

Even so, Luochun and Mrs. Xing will not bring up this topic again in the following time.