After Zhang Hui left, Daiyu looked at Chenguang, and saw that the usual day break was over, so she simply called for grooming and makeup. Sure enough, as soon as I got it done, I saw Aunt Chen, Mama Wu, and Wu Yuan's family coming over together, and accompanied Daiyu to Lin Ruhai's courtyard to discuss matters. I won't go into details.

turned his head and said that Lin Daiyu's grandmother, Mama Wang, had been instructed by Daiyu to take care of Zijuan, so she stayed in the courtyard and did not go any further, and sent the little girl to her house to get a needlework and a needlework basket. I looked at the bed of Zijuan first, and sure enough, I saw that it was getting more and more wilted, not only was it not as good as when I got up earlier and saw it, but even when I fell ill at the beginning of yesterday, my face was more described, and I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart; was about to ask the snow goose, and when she turned her head, she saw the snow goose sitting next to the table, holding a small tea cup in her hand, half-hanging her head and pecking at the rice like a chicken. If you really want to be like this, and go to your own bed, or walk around outside, and wake up. Xue Yan heard her call, rubbed her eyes, and said, "I looked at Sister Zijuan." Mama Wang smiled: "I know that you have a heart, and I am good with your sister Zijuan." But there's always me here. Besides, I asked for the needlework first, but I forgot that the picture was still in the box. You should help me run an errand, and bring it with me. It looks like it's in a box at the foot of the bed at the east end of the house. The snow goose responded, smiled and ran out without mentioning it.

Mama Wang waited for the snow geese to go out, and called another little maid, Wen Que: "Go to the porch over there." Doctor Guan should boil cold water three times, let it cool, and then fry the three bowls into one bowl. Now only Xiangdao is looking at the medicine stove alone, but if there is something, you can't do it again, you go to take turns with her. Seeing that she went according to her words, Fang took the tea bowl and poured water, personally brought it to Zijuan, and called her: "Miss Zijuan is asleep? If you are awake, you might as well get up and eat a mouthful of hot water, sweat and then sleep." ”

This purple cuckoo is actually just closing its eyes to nourish its mind, although the movement in the room is not large, it is all in the ears. At this moment, Mama Wang came to speak and spoke, and quickly sat up from the bed, asked Mama Wang to persuade her, and took a pillow to support her behind her waist. Zijuan ate hot water with Mama Wang's hand and thanked her again. Mama Wang sighed: "You girl is too polite. Don't say you're still sick, even in your own house, you're not so stubborn. Or, in the end, the purple cuckoo girl reads her root surname Jia, and our surname Lin can't be regarded as a family, so she has to be so polite. This is going to make the big girl sad. ”

Zijuan couldn't help but be anxious when she heard this, and said, "Why did my mother say this suddenly? Although I am not a maid of the Lin family, I have also served with the girl for six or seven years. The girl treats me well, and I only have the girl in my eyes. Today, my mother said 'two families', but it poked my heart. ”

Seeing that she was about to struggle to get up as she spoke, Mama Wang hurriedly held on. While nodding, he said, "Don't worry, I'll just say that." It's just a purple girl, if it's really according to you, you only have our big girl in your eyes, you really treat us as a family, and some troubles should be said to your face, so that you can be comfortable and save the girl more worries. ”

Zijuan lowered her head and said, "I don't understand what my mother said." What do I have on my mind to tell the girl?"

Mama Wang shook her head and said, "This sentence is out of the way again." Are you really okay to say?" Seeing Zijuan shaking her head again, Mama Wang sighed and said, "That's it." Do whatever you say. I just think that when I went to Beijing with the girl, we have been together for the past six or seven years, I always thought that I was a little affectionate, I thought that I was a few years older, and you young people are usually willing to respect me, but whenever you really encounter something, you can be more or less an arm to rely on. Unexpectedly, it turned out that I was thinking too much about it. ”

Mama Wang said as she took the tea bowl and got up, but before she could take a step, the corner of her clothes was grabbed. I heard this purple cuckoo say: "Mother is clear." I have some things on my mind, but I don't dare to say it, and I'm afraid that I will be laughed at if I say it. ”

Mama Wang nodded, turned around and sat back on the edge of the bed, shook her hand and said, "Now it's us in the house, and there is no third person." If you have anything on your mind, just tell me, and I will not spread it. Besides, if you don't say it, you don't know how big it is, or if it's ridiculous, it doesn't matter much. But if it really matters, I'll be many years older than you, or I can help you with the cooking. It's just that you always have to say it, don't be depressed in your heart, and look scary - you haven't seen your face, but in the past half a day, it has become two people compared to usual, doesn't it make people anxious?"

Zijuan listened to this heart-to-heart, admired in her heart, and couldn't help but cry in her eyes, shook Mama Wang's hand and said, "I heard Mom's words." It's just that things have been annoying these days, and I don't know how to have a lot of thoughts in my heart, I'm afraid, but it's not a decision to break into a chapter, I just want to confess to the girl, and I don't know where to start, let alone explain it clearly...... Think about the helplessness, so I won't say it. ”

Mama Wang stroked her back and comforted: "I'll just say that you have a heavy mind, you are already tired, and you are tired, and your illness is not good, but it is getting heavier and heavier." Now don't think about it, just sue me, there is a sentence that can always be straightened out. Speaking of this, he stopped, thought about it carefully, and said, "You say you are afraid, but what are you afraid of?"

Zijuan lowered her head and was bored for a long time before she said, "I'm afraid that the girl won't want me anymore." Mama Wang just said, "Where does this come from", and Zijuan hurriedly said: "What Mom said before, Mom, Snow Goose and Regardless of it, the Qinghe and Qingmiao here are also the most able to get along, I shouldn't be more uneasy." However, in the end, I am not from the Lin family, and I am in the same group as the mandarin ducks who attacked people in the capital. When she gave me to Miss Lin, she was very good with me, ten times better than what she brought from Suzhou and Yangzhou. In the past six or seven years, I have been with the girl, and I can't leave it for a moment. I always thought that wherever the girl went, I would have to go with her. Now that the girl has returned to her home, there is Master Lin to take care of her, and she has decided to marry again in a blink of an eye, and she will go in two years. I'm just afraid that the girl won't get used to it, so I will take it with me temporarily, and when Qinghe and Qingmiao get started, they should always go back to their home. There is another case, just as Aunt Qian said, whether it is the Lin family or the Jia family, they will never do anything to break up human flesh and bones. My mother, although I have been looking at houses in Nanjing for the past two years, this year, the old lady and the second grandmother of Lian have shown their mouths, saying that the mother of the mandarin duck is weak, and the house is very hard. This time, it is more and more necessary to go to this house, and it is a girl, and she must not let her go in order to live up to the friendship of Su Ri. So no matter which end it is, there is actually no reason to follow it all the time. When I thought that the day came, and the girl said that I would go, I was troubled and worried, and my heart was like being caught by a thousand-pound weighing weight, and I could not relax. ”

Mama Wang listened to this, nodded and said, "It turns out that you are for this." Sure enough, it is difficult: if you are separated, you will leave behind the love of all these years, and if you do not separate, how can a person give up his own family lightly? Don't talk about you, even the people next to me feel embarrassed when they hear it. In the end, you have served the eldest girl in close quarters for all these years, and even the snow geese have relied on it, and it is better than others, so you can have these thoughts, and it is not in vain for the eldest girl to treat you; ”

Zijuan sighed, "When I think of this, I really don't know what to do. I can't tell anyone, and I don't dare to let the girl know about it. It's just that this body is not angry, and I can't get it right after taking medicine, so I made the girl anxious for me. Speaking of this, he took Mama Wang's hand and pleaded: "Mom, you are the most kind-hearted and well-informed person, and you have been compassionate, caring and tolerant of me all these years, and I remember it all in my heart." Now I just ask you to show me another mercy and show me the way forward, and I will accept your love for the rest of my life. As he spoke, he struggled to get up.

Mama Wang hurriedly held her down, and said in her mouth: "Speak well, why are you so anxious to get up and do something? You are willing to entrust your heart, that is, you can trust my old bones, and you have to be polite, but not on the contrary? Lie down properly, we will speak in peace." Then he said: "If you believe me, I won't go around in circles, just ask you a true and accurate word." ”

Zijuan said, "Mom, excuse me." ”

Mama Wang said: "As the old saying goes, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both. What I want to ask you is this accurate sentence: What is the proposition of this matter in your own heart?"

Zijuan lowered his head and stared blankly at the hundred fruits tattooed on the face of the summer quilt on his body. After sitting for a while, he raised his head, looked at Mama Wang's two eyes, and said word by word: "Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both." Although I am stupid and useless in everything, I have followed the girl all these years and finally learned some basic truths. My old son has an older brother, a sister-in-law, and a younger brother, even if I am in front of me, it is only a matter of a few years, and I am going to leave my parents after all. On the contrary, it was a girl, and when she was a little away, she felt a little uneasy in her heart. I would rather follow the girl for the rest of my life, take care of the girl's sitting, cooking, soup, food and clothing, and take refuge under the girl's blessing cover for the rest of my life. ”

When Mama Wang heard this, she sighed, nodded again and again, and said, "I think you're good, and you're really good." To have such a volunteer, I really don't owe the girl to you this time. It's just that since you can have such a volunteer in your own family, you would rather follow the girl, why don't you believe our big girl, and insist that she will not want you and is willing to let you go? So it's better to say it in a real way. Since you feel that you can't open your mouth, then believe me, and I will try to make a plan to fulfill this wish for you. But there is one thing that you must first obey me. ”

Zijuan hurriedly asked what was the matter, and said, "Don't say one, ten hundred pieces will also depend on it." ”

Mama Wang smiled and said: "If you trust me, the matter is on me, and you can only take care of your illness." If you are well, you can be by the girl's side for a long time, right? I just worked hard again, but I should be tired. Don't talk anymore, lie down and sleep with a relaxed heart, and the disease will be half gone. He didn't allow Zijuan to speak again, drank a cup of hot water with her, tucked the corners of the quilt for her, and watched her close her eyes and fall asleep. After the purple juan fell asleep, Mama Wang slowly got up and quietly walked outside the house. It happened that the snow goose trotted into the yard with a needlework and thread basket, and when she saw Mama Wang, she opened her mouth to greet her. Mama Wang hurriedly waved her hand to stop it, took the basket, and scolded in a low voice: "What are you running with your hooves? In the house, your sister Zijuan is so easy to sleep, what if you wake her up?" Xue Yan hurriedly covered her mouth, looked inside the house, and then lifted her skirt and tiptoed into it step by step.

When Mama Wang saw her like this, she couldn't help but laugh and followed in. After Xue Yan looked at Zijuan's bed, she beckoned her to the other side of the room and said, "I just remembered something to tell Aunt Wu." You look over here. There is just one incident, so that your sister Zijuan can rest peacefully, except for the doctor who is sick, no one will be allowed to disturb her. If the man doesn't listen, say it's mine, and if you don't listen, go to the girl and break it up. ”

Xue Yan nodded again and again, and said, "Mom, don't worry, I will definitely take this door seriously." He pouted: "If only there was a mother in the first half of the day." I don't know where so many things came from, people came and went, and they didn't finish for half a day. Sister Zijuan is sexual, so she has to get up again and again. ”

Mama Wang asked, "Who came for the first half of the day?"

The snow geese pointed out one by one: "Mother Song who is in charge of clothes and cages, sister-in-law Ping who is in charge of the sedan chair, Grandma Cui who is on the second door of the original house, and Li Touer who is in charge of lamps and candles." Then Aunt Qian brought a woman Cai, who was in charge of the contact between the gold shops outside, and asked the girl about the size of the jewelry in the house. Sister Zijuan's memory during her illness was not as good as usual, and she even confused the drawer where the brochure was placed, so she sent me to run to the girl twice. ”

Mama Wang said angrily: "Aunt Qian is also confused. It's not a rush. Just take it easy, can you still be without fresh jewelry and gadgets with the girl in the past few days, can you still be angry with her? Next time you ask about this, don't be afraid to open your mouth, just block it. The snow goose was full of joy when he said it, and immediately responded with a crisp "yes". Mama Wang smiled and whispered a few words, and then she got out and went to the side yard to find Wu Yuan's house.

However, it was said that Wu Yuan's family followed Lin Daiyu, Aunt Chen, and Mama Wu to Lin Ruhai to discuss matters, and was called, and just came down from the courtyard over there, came out to order the distribution of people, and was secretly eating tea from the house. Seeing Mama Wang coming, she hurriedly threw away the teacup to greet her, and said with a smile: "Where did the old girl come from? I just got a little tea, just when you come over, just to taste it together." So he asked the little maid to boil water and pour tea again.

Mama Wang thanked her, and after a while, the tea came up, took a bite, and said with a smile: "But the tea that the master appreciated? It's just that girls are rare, and they are really reluctant to eat. ”

Wu Yuanjia said with a smile: "Ouch, listening to this sentence is actually sincere to fight the autumn wind." In this case, you call a good sister, and I will give you half of the family to eat!"

Mama Wang hurriedly said: "Then I'm really welcome, good sister!"

The two laughed for a while, and the Fang of the Wu Yuan family asked if there was another order from Daiyu, and said: "Zijuan is sick, it must be very close, so I specially asked the old girl to run this leg." ”

Mama Wang said: "Although it is not the girl's order, it really should be close to the body." In fact, it is the purple cuckoo. The girl was sick, and the girl also let her recuperate with peace of mind, but before dinner today, six or seven people came and went in the courtyard, and she had to ask her one for big and small things, and some of them didn't just say. She was a patient, and she had to stay up for a long time, and her situation was worse than last year. When the girl saw her in the daytime, she was annoyed and asked me to take care of the block. I wanted to treat the symptoms and the root cause, so I came to ask Sister Wu for ideas to see how to do it. ”

Wu Yuan's family hurriedly said: "It's my negligence, it's only that there have been a lot of things in the past two days, and it's a guest, so I didn't expect this one." I'm going to go. As he spoke, he called the little maid over and instructed him to pass the word to the open hall where the discussion was going on, "In the future, no one is allowed to go to the courtyard over there to ask, and they will all come to my side first." Then he said to Mama Wang, "I'm not considerate, you just have to sue me." ”

Mama Wang smiled: "The people below have Sister Wu, this sentence is enough." ”

Wu Yuan's family was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, his face was not good, and he exhaled angrily: "Why is this unconscious again? I said a long time ago that she shouldn't be allowed to get involved-since she often said that she was sick and weak, she should rest in the hospital regardless of everything." However, Aunt Chen is soft-hearted, refuses to trespass, and always wants to pull her; but whenever she receives a errand, she will have trouble, and it is not uncommon for a three-foot wind and waves to rise on the ground. Because asked: "But what did she say to Zijuan's girl under the sign that she was also a member of the family's house?"

Mama Wang said: "I don't know what happened, Zijuan didn't say much, there was probably a sentence to return to the family and reunite the flesh and blood in two years." It's just that although this Zijuan is a member of the first wife's family, but the girl has to serve by her side when she goes to the house over there, and I have watched grow up in the past five or six years, and her temperament is the most reliable and honest, and she is loyal. Now that the girl is older, she has set up a family, and it should have been a time when everyone was happy together, but this girl was so busy that she was tired and sick, but after half a day's work, she had a lot of boring thoughts without warning, and suddenly she was embarrassed between the girl and the family. I asked who the snow geese were, but no one else was suspicious, so she covered up an unimportant matter, and sent the snow geese away halfway. ”

Wu Yuan's family nodded and sneered: "I know." She has been in power and taken care of things in the past few days, and her life is too relaxed, and she refuses to relax when she tastes the sweetness, so she wants to beat the girl's idea again. Seeing that the master only has this bit of blood and bones, and there is no grandmother in charge of the family, he will have to rely on the girl in everything in the future, thinking about first encircling the people around the girl, and then encircling the girl, so that the master can work hard for her - but she is really a good one, why go around far and go around in such a big circle?" said and couldn't help but take a sip of tea to compress her breath. I didn't want to eat and eat, but suddenly another thing came to my heart, and I hurriedly turned my head and asked Mama Wang: "However, speaking of which, this Aunt Qian and Zijuan, after all, are both daughters of the family in Nafu, and they have the same background and the same roots." I'm afraid that if I can talk and I will listen, I will have some other meanings, but I have to be on guard. ”

Mama Wang hurriedly said: "This is not enough. The purple girl is a good one, and she can be regarded as a loyal servant of the girl. Again, she's still young, and she won't think about anything else. ”

Wu Yuanjia shook his head and said, "Fifteen or sixteen-year-old people are not young. And I can't hold back my thoughts about everything. Even if she didn't open her mind before, someone wanted to jump up and down in front of her, and she was not stupid and blind, she couldn't see or think of it. What's more, this is an extremely common thing in the big family, and you also said that there is no one in the house who will not let go of people, and it is much more common every day, so isn't it natural to take it as a matter of course?" Seeing that Mama Wang lowered her head and didn't speak, knowing that she didn't want to think about it, Wu Yuan's family sighed and said: "Old sister, it's not that I don't believe that you look at people, and think about the bad in everything, it's just that our wife went early, and the girl was raised in the capital and just returned home, so we really can't help but keep an eye on her." ”

Mama Wang said: "Sister Wu, how can I not know your heart? Purple Juan girl here, I am determined to pack a ticket, but there are other people who pay more attention to me and keep all those pickled things out of the girl's eyes, what else can I be dissatisfied with? I just don't want me to come, but I put her name in your eyes." ”

Wu Yuanjia smiled: "What? Are you afraid that I will be unfair in my dealings? If she is really good, it is a blessing for me to watch and remember it all the time." While he was talking, a little maid came in and said, "Uncle Shen came over at the gate of the garden, saying that there was a steward in the Rongguo Mansion in Jinling and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law held a post from the prince of Xiaozhang and asked to see Uncle Wu here." Uncle Wu is now in front of the master. Uncle Shen asked Aunt Wu how she replied. Wu Yuan's strange words: "This really can't say right and wrong." Why did the people from Jinling Jia Mansion come to see me?"

Mama Wang next to her thought about it first, and asked, "Sister Wu, let's see if the steward's surname is Lu?"

Wu Yuan's family said: "It is the surname Lu, and the post says Lu Cunshou and his wife." ”

Mama Wang said: "These two are the grandmothers of the purple juan girl. ”

Wu Yuan's family suddenly smiled and said: "Presumably the girl has a heart, so she asked Xiao Zhangxiang to summon them to come over to visit." In this way, I can't sit here anymore, I have to lead the girl to kowtow first and thank you. With that, he got up with Mama Wang. Mama Wang returned to the courtyard of Zijuan. Wu Yuan's family instructed the little maid to spread the word at the door, and at the same time sent someone to see Lin Daiyu's whereabouts, and his family kept walking towards the garden gate; So according to the routine, he first visited Lin Ruhai, and then met Daiyu, and finally Daiyu assigned Mama Tan to accompany him to see Zijuan. As for his grandmother and daughter, he was surprised and admired, and he will not repeat it.

But when he said that Zijuan and Mama Wang had a conversation, their hearts had been opened, and their parents had seen each other, and they were happy and happy, and they were more and more uplifted, and since their spirits had recovered, the illness went away quickly, but after two days, the diet and action were all as usual. Here, the Zhang and Lin families also cleaned up their own tidy, and after another day, they resigned to Mrs. Zhang. During this period, there are all kinds of reluctance and melancholy, but after all, it is not worthy of filial piety and compassion, and the love of returning home is strong. The Huang Xing brothers and the people of the palace saw off Zhang and Lin at the Tongjimen Wharf, and saw the big boat go to Changzhou from the waterway.

Predict what will happen next, and see how it will be broken down next time.