The girls and daughters-in-law held umbrellas, and I got off the bus at the second gate. The bluestone-paved pavement shimmers with a layer of moist water. I told Ping'er to reward the man who was driving the car, but the man refused to take it, didn't say much, and drove away again.

After this morning's tossing, my face and Ping'er's face are not very good-looking. Because of the rainy day, the fat powder also seems to have no color, and it sticks to the face like wall ash.

"Grandma, pass the rice or ...... first"

"Wash your face first, and then bring the rice in, let's eat it together." I asked the guy on the door: "Is your second master at home?"

"The second master went to the East Mansion early in the morning, as if Uncle Zhen asked the second master to discuss something. ”

I entered the courtyard gate and was walking inside, Sister Qing, the girl next to Second Sister You, was standing there probing her brain, and when she saw me, she hurriedly greeted me and called grandma, but she didn't say anything about the following words.

"What's the matter?"

"Aunt You's grandmother is not feeling well, she vomited after breakfast, and now she has drunk some water, and it doesn't look very good, so she went back and forth to grandma, did she send someone to ask the doctor to take a look. ”

I stopped and thought about it...... Could it be that Second Sister You has already begun to be happy now? This is earlier than the time of the reaction in the book.

"It's okay, when I'm done, I'll send someone to ask a familiar doctor to take a look. I continued to walk into the house, but Sister Qing followed suit.

I asked her, "Anything else?"

"No, no, no. ”

I glanced at her: "If you have nothing to do, go back to serve your aunt and ask if there are any light dishes for your aunt and grandmother in the kitchen today, what are you doing here?"

Sister Qing is not as clever as Sister Shan, and she is much more timid, so she turned around and went back to the East House by what I said.

Ping'er helped me into the house, changed clothes, washed my face, I was too lazy to put on fat powder, just put a layer of almond fat on my face, and after removing my makeup, my face looked a little yellow.

Maybe Sister Feng's physique needs to be enhanced, or maybe it is too different from her powdered complexion. But to be fair, Sister Feng, her skin is good, very delicate, she feels like silk, and there are no freckles or anything, a very clean face.

The girl brought the table in, and Ping'er followed, rolled up her sleeves for me, added a bowl of rice, and said, "You can eat too." ”

She agreed to sit down, and took some bamboo shoots for me before saying, "Sister Qing still wanted to say something just now." ”

"Hmm, what's the matter?"

"After we left in the morning, the Westinghouse and the Eastinghouse were at odds. Ping'er said: "I don't know where she heard it, she said that the East House was ...... before" Ping'er lowered her voice: "It's not clear, I pointed to Sang and scolded Huai and said a lot of ugly things." ”

"Then the people from the East House got sick because they heard this?"

"Not really," said Ping'er, "she is not the one who pretends to be Nacho." I get sick to my stomach when I get up early......" Ping'er suddenly thought of something, and the chopsticks paused halfway: "Will it be ...... in the East House?"

"Probably. "I didn't say anything to death. However, I didn't expect Qiu Tong to go to Second Sister You for trouble so soon. But this time the situation is different. The original Sister Feng instigated Zhang Hua to file a lawsuit, so that those things became known to everyone, and Second Sister You couldn't even get out. But this time I didn't publicize it, Qiu Tong's news is well-informed enough. The relationship in this mansion is complicated, even Sister Feng tied up two mothers-in-law who offended You's family, and she could turn three turns to lead Mrs. Xing to find the ballast, if Qiu Tong has a child in the family, the seven aunts and eight aunts are all in this mansion, and it is not difficult to know that things in the East Mansion are not difficult at all.

Ping'er is still complaining: "This is too indifferent to grandma." I smiled: "Qiu Tong probably thinks that he was given by the master, and he is not worse than me, but yesterday she just called her a girl with wine, but the second aunt and grandmother in the east room who was burning paper and carrying a sedan chair to marry outside, and she was not angry." Okay, don't talk about the two of them, after eating, you can go to the old lady, by the way, you tell someone, but you have to ask a good doctor to come and show the East House, if you are really pregnant, then there is naturally another reason. ”

Ping'er agreed, and looked at me again. I asked her, "What do you see?" She pursed her lips and smiled: "I see that grandma doesn't use fat powder, but it looks good, and it's different from fat powder." I guess that's not what she was trying to say, so I didn't ask again. I went out in the morning and tossed most of the morning, but my appetite became very good, I ate a full bowl of rice is not enough, and I added another rice, the chicken skin shrimp ball soup is very sour, I drank a lot, the stomach swelled, leaning there and not wanting to move, the little girl came in with a water cup and a gargle, and the two behind were holding a basin of towels, I rinsed my mouth and cleaned my hands. In this era, there was no running water and flush toilets, but there were many servants, clothes to reach out for food, and the lives of noble ladies and young grandmothers were as happy as pigs, and the servants provided various services and conveniences......

No, to correct it, it's still different from pigs. After all, pigs don't have to use their brains, but when this second grandmother has to be careful from time to time, it's really tiring.

I put on a little grease powder again, because I heard that the powder of this era is added with lead in order to maintain quality and preservative, so it is generally called lead powder, and there is a word that does not say "wash away the lead". It's a little scary when I think about it, but I still don't want to use it. But you can't meet people. The women of this era, even the mothers-in-law I saw sitting on the night watch, also painted some powder on their faces, and hung pendants on their ears, even if there was no hairpin hairpin, they had to get a headscarf and pick up their own neatness.

When I went out, I made a special detour, although Wang'er has become a family, but both of them are on an errand with me, I walked from the east side, bypassed the hall, there is a lower room on the left side, Wang'er is now lying in it humming and chirping, I stand at the door, there is a musty smell in the house, I don't want to go in.

"Is it badly hurt?"

Ping'er helped me and sneered on the side: "How can it, he has already padded cowhide and cotton in advance, listening to the crackling sound, it really has less than one-twelfth of the strength that falls on his body, this is for those people to see." ”

Wang'er was lying there smiling, thanks to his cooperation today. Although I did find out that he had done something in the middle, but today he let him carry all the black pots, and it was impossible for him to say in his heart that there was no grievance and complaining.

"Okay, you're playing tricks in the middle, don't you know? This time, I washed my hands, and you got out of it. After a few days, you will go to Dongshan Zhuangzi, where the original head of the village, Wang Fu, I have already allowed him to leave the house, and you will ......be there in the future."

Before I finished speaking, Wang'er was already about to get up from the bunk and kowtow, looking at his movements, I knew that there was no serious injury at all, but he still put on a pitiful look of being seriously injured, and he wanted to make a courteous gesture, I couldn't help but laugh: "You lie on your stomach, don't get up again." You pretend to be hard too, I can't help laughing and enduring hard work, my stomach hurts. ”

Ping'er accompanied me to take a shortcut to Jia's mother's yard, and the little girl followed with an umbrella. Ping'er whispered: "Grandma, Xing'er said just now that the car has rushed back, but the wheels are broken, and they have to be sent to Haosheng for repair." ”

"Well, just fix it, I won't sit for the next two days. ”

"Also, just now I ordered someone to invite Imperial Physician Wang, but when I came back, I said that Imperial Physician Wang was no longer in Beijing, and my family said that I had already left Beijing before I had sought a military service. It just so happens that there is a Doctor Hu next to Doctor Wang, so why don't you invite him to come and have a look?"

Doctor Hu?

I whispered a sentence, but Ping'er didn't hear it clearly, and looked at me with a pair of clear eyes.

"I haven't heard of this person, and I don't know how good he is. ”

"Hengzhi is also in the hospital, shouldn't it be wrong?"

"Is it called Hu Junrong?"

"I don't remember this," Ping'er thought for a moment, "It seems to be called this name, right?

In fact, this Imperial Doctor Hu may not be a very confused quack, and ordinary doctors will not even be able to diagnose the happy pulse. What happened to Second Sister You in the book is most likely that Sister Feng instructed the fierce medicine used by Imperial Doctor Hu in the back.

"Don't invite this person," I said, "I have a thousand gold departments, and I invite one of those who specialize in women and children, and it is not an emergency, so there is no need to go to the doctor." ”

In fact, there is no suspense in this matter, because I know that Second Sister You is indeed pregnant, but she looks thin and does not look too strong, even if no one calculates, I don't know if she can give birth smoothly...... After all, in this era, the probability of a child dying is four or five out of ten, almost half to half is fast.

Ping'er looked at me again, and I asked her, "What do you see me doing again?"

She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled: "It's nothing, I see that grandma is in good spirits today." ”

Talking like this, they have walked all the way to Jia's mother's yard, and the girls have said, "The second grandmother is here", and the curtain came up to support her. I asked, "Has the old lady taken a nap?"

As he was talking, the mandarin duck came out of it and said with a smile: "Second grandma go in, the old lady is not taking a nap today, and she is looking for his aunt and wife to play cards together, and the second grandmother came just in time." ”

I saw her wearing a duck egg green long jacket vest, standing by the door like a gnolia flower. The mandarin duck's hair is particularly good, both black and thick, and there is no need to wear a wig after pulling it up. She is the top of all the maids in Jiafu, although she is not wearing heavy makeup, she is naturally different from other girls. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the golden silk five-phoenix title hairpin on her hair must be rewarded by Jia's mother, this jewelry regardless of style, workmanship, and the texture of the pearl are very delicate and gorgeous.

She turned her head again and instructed the little girl: "The old lady told me to invite the girls to come, talk and relieve boredom together, don't be bored in the house on a rainy day, just sit and gather together." ”