Li Fei had a good night's sleep, and when the sky outside revealed a little brightness, she woke up, only to hear the rustling sound outside.

"What's going on outside?" asked Li Fei while lying on the bed in his underwear.

Youlu rubbed her hands together and opened the thick satin bed curtain of the tulip flower and said: "Girl, what about the ice slag, the wind is blowing and the rain is blowing, and the ice slag turns into water when it falls on the ground, which is colder than snow, it's not yet November, and the sky is so cold!"

Li Fei sat up and shook Yulu's hand, and his fingers were cold.

"It's cold enough, we came from the south, and the first year we were more and more intolerant of the cold in the north. Li Fei put on a big coat and said: "You open the money box and take twenty taels to the sewing room, you, the picture screen, Ah Ju Afang, the little peach Xiaomei in the Duofu house, count Huai Rui and Si Xiang as well, add two sets of cotton jackets, cotton pants, thick shoes and socks, and a bedding." ”

This is Li Fei's private room to supply the maids' winter clothes and quilts, Youlu thought about going to Beijing for two months, Li Fei spent money here like flowing water, so he wanted to save Li Fei a few taels of silver, and said: "We can have a few needles and threads, and we have spare time every day, so it is better to tear the fabric and ask for cotton to make it ourselves." Do it yourself, and the eight of us can't afford twenty taels. ”

According to the winter clothes and bedding sent down by the house, eight people were full of broken materials, and the cotton money was enough for fifteen taels.

"Youlu, you have to change your mind, this is not the Li family, not the southwest!" Li Fei sat at the head of the bed and stroked the hair that grew to his shoulders and said: "Don't be blindly diligent and thrifty, thrift and simplicity are not a virtue that everyone praises here." You have taken the money and gone to the needlework room, and you will have to tell you how those of you who came from the south could not bear the cold of the north. Twenty taels of silver, I have added winter clothes and quilts for you, and I have to listen to a few more kind words of 'the master's compassion'. ”

Five taels of silver leaked down, and the people in the sewing room shared one point, and good words were not heard in vain.

Youlu was stunned for a moment, pondered before responding, and then went out to give Li Fei hot water first.

After serving Li Fei to wash, Youlu opened the money box and took two silver ingots, and invited Ah Ju to do this thing, Huai Rui came to accompany Li Fei to do needlework, a kang was laid with a bunch of twenty or thirty kinds of threads, Huai Rui was responsible for threading the needle, occasionally pointing a few times, Li Fei was quietly embroidering a small quilt.

The red thick velvet brocade is embroidered with cumbersome flowers, birds and cordyceps, Li Fei didn't need to do this kind of fine needlework at all in the past, and she is not very good at these now, this quilt has been embroidered by an embroiderer for two months, embroidered out of the general appearance, handed over to Li Fei is to complete the last part of the needlework, stained with his hands and sent to the palace, it can be regarded as a full moon gift she gave to Princess Taihe.

It takes two hours a day in the morning and a night to embroider the back half of a butterfly's wings.

Li Fei looked up at the window to nourish her eyes, the bright sunlight fell on the wet ground, the broken light was shining, and in the distance, Xu Min walked in a silver-red woven gold cloak, her body was slender, her posture was graceful, and the silver-white sunlight fell on her face, illuminating her palm-sized little face more and more delicately and whitely.

Li Fei retracted his gaze, stopped the needlework, and took out the account books of the three shops on Jiuling Street, Huai Rui and the painting screen quickly put away the silk threads on the kang, Xu Min walked to the courtyard gate of the Yuqin Mountain House, stood slightly and reported, and was invited in.

Xu Min smiled on his face, and called Li Fei 'cousin' as soon as he opened his mouth, and sent two pairs of red and black wine jars and said: "It's the mulberry wine I brewed in the spring this year, the sweet and sour cousin drinks it fresh, the sisters and sisters in the house have it, two jars are for my cousin, and two jars, annoying my cousin to send them to Miss Song." ”

Early this morning, Xu Min went everywhere to salute, and all the concubines in the house, the surname Zhu, the surname Li, and the surname Song were all delivered, and each one was the same.

Li Fei sat on the kang and owed to Xu Min, and said to the painting screen: "Send it to Miss Song." ”

The picture screen went to hold a pair of jars, Xu Min took the hot tea brought by Si Xiang, saw an open account book on the kang table, did not avoid the past, and said, "Cousin is looking at the accounts? ”

Li Fei closed the account book, pushed the account book aside and said, "I just took over these things, there are many things I don't understand, read a little bit every day, and ponder a little." ”

Xu Min's eyes were taken back from the account book, and he didn't ask Li Fei what he had taken over, he only said to himself: "I also have to look at these when I am at home, my mother taught me to read the fish scale account when I was ten years old, I was impatient with those eight-and-a-half cents earlier, and it has only been more sensible in the past two years, and knowing these boring things is the truth of running a family." ”

"My cousin has now told the truth of housekeeping, it seems that she is very good at housekeeping......" Li Fei said and smiled, seeing Si Xiang hand over a copper chisel flower melon ridge hand stove to warm her, Li Fei took it in his hand and said, "It's cold today, take one for Miss Xu." ”

Li Fei's name is Mrs. Xu, and she doesn't want to have too much to do with the Xu family, so she is a little cold to Xu Min, but Xu Min is very close, and she raised her eyebrows and approached Li Fei and said: "I don't need this, I'm not cold now, my palms are warm." ”

As he spoke, he spread out his palms and placed them in front of Li Fei, his palms were white and red, his fingertips were round and full, and his touches were delicate and warm, Li Fei's slightly cool fingertips touched Xu Min's palm and smiled: "You're okay, I'm not good, now it's cold, it's almost the same as Kunming in the cold winter, I can't stand it at first." ”

Xu Min pursed his lips and said: "So my cousin took more money and added winter clothes and quilts to the maids, and the maids who followed my cousin followed a good master who was sympathetic." ”

Li Fei's eyes flashed, and he said, "I've been with the maids for a few years, so I'll appreciate a little more!"

Xu Min stepped back, blew the teacup, and talked to Li Fei about this winter for a while, until the painting screen came back with something sent, holding a one-foot-long box in his hand and said: "Miss Song said, thank you Miss Xu for the gift, this is the Pu'er tea cake that Miss Song gave Miss Xu, Miss Song can't say that it is respectful, please Miss Xu taste this taste." ”

Song Duofu returned the gift, and Li Fei also immediately returned the gift and asked Si Xiang to take two jars of rose marinade.

After saying that, Xu Min hadn't gotten up yet, so he said with three points of familiarity: "It's rained this morning, and the sky is getting clearer and clearer in the second half of the morning, my aunt said that I want to take my daughters to visit the shop, and my cousin will also go shopping with us?"

Li Fei maintained a smile and said, "I won't go, I have to learn the rules from Aunt Lu in the second half of every day." ”

"That's it......" Xu Min finally stood up and said with a smile: "Then we went out for a walk and saw something interesting for my cousin." ”

Xu Min resigned, and met Song Duofu who was coming to him, the two stood and said a few words eagerly, Song Duofu took Xiao Tao Xiaomei into the Yuqin Mountain House, Xiao Tao and Xiao Mei thanked Li Fei for the reward first, Song Duofu said with a smile: "I met Miss Xu halfway, Miss Xu is a cool and bright temper, and I exchanged names, and I was commensurate with my name." ”

Li Fei leaned on the brocade cushion behind him and said, "This one is younger than us, but today's human practice is more sleek than us!"

In the afternoon, Xu took Zhu Miaocong and Xu Min to go shopping, along the most prosperous Jinguan Street in the capital to shop for clothing shops, rouge shops, musical instrument shops, and saw a copper shop through the car curtain, Xu Min smiled and said: "Auntie, when I came out, I said that I wanted to bring something interesting to Cousin Li, I haven't found it yet, go to that shop to have a look." ”

Xu Shi nodded Xu Min's head and said, "What are you doing with that girl so affectionately!"

"There's no intimacy, it's just courtesy. Xu Min pointed to the pile of things in the car and said, "My aunt bought me so many things, I should also bring something for my sisters and sisters at home, in addition to Cousin Li, there are also Miaoxian and Miaoqin." ”

Xu knew that Xu Min was right, but she was impatient to pick things for Li Fei and the two concubines, so she let Zhu Miaocong and Xu Min go to the bronze shop to choose, and she rested in the car.

A slightly narrow shop with one after another Duobao Pavilion, the lattice displays wine jugs, wine bottles, pan jian, and other various utensils, Zhu Miaocong and Xu Min looked at one by one, suddenly, a tall and majestic figure passed by in front of them, the man who came was in his early twenties, wearing a narrow sleeved blue brocade robe, standing straight in front of his waist, like a strong pine, tall and martial arts, and his profound side face was full of heroic spirit, exuding rigidity and Ling Ran.

At that moment, a happy mood that penetrated into the heart and spleen swam all over Xu Min's limbs, Xu Min looked at the man in front of him in a daze, and said in his heart, it is such a tall and majestic man who is the husband!

Cheng Anguo noticed the eyes behind him, and when he looked back, Xu Min lowered his head shyly and covered his heart.

In the past few months, since Mrs. Cai's sudden death at the end of May, the second elder of the Xu family wanted to send Xu Min to the capital, and went to the capital to take the old road of Mrs. Gu, with her outstanding appearance and supple temperament to fight back to a good son-in-law, so these days Xu Min is thinking about her future all the time, Xu Min has read books, managed the house, dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and also pondered one or two about the world, she is a girl who has some ideas and aspirations. So although yesterday's blow embarrassed her, it was a pity that she did not fall behind.

Zhu Qing is only thirteen years old, so she doesn't like it very much. In a normal marriage, the family finds a wife who is older than the husband, that is, the family wants to find a woman to continue to love the son, she is not ready to hurt a young husband for the rest of her life, she is looking forward to having a heroic and steady husband to love herself. Besides, being matched with my aunt's eldest son is a little different from a normal marriage, if the eldest and youngest can get along in harmony for a lifetime, it would be okay to help each other, if the brother wall is estranged, is she towards her mother's family or her husband's family?

Leaving aside the noble status of the eldest son of the princess, the thirteen-year-old Zhu Qin can hardly be said to be a good match.

At this moment, indescribable love threads, Xu Min stood behind a strange man, looking at him wearing a golden crown and a jade pendant at his waist, and the finely made blue brocade robe wrapped in a fine, tough, and already adult man's body, Xu Min suddenly thought of a sentence in the Book of Poetry: There are bandit gentlemen, such as gold and tin, and Gui Rubi.