Chapter 40: Choosing a Concubine
First a small boat and then a big boat, Shi Gui was waiting in the Ye family's courtyard, so he followed the big boat, and there was Aunt Qian on the top of the boat, she was young because of her young age, and a few little girls lay on the side of the boat, seeing that the ferry was getting farther and farther away, she gritted her teeth and didn't cry, and couldn't help but comfort herself, so Chen Niangzi didn't send a letter, and Qiu Niang also came to see her, and she always knew that she went to Jinling.
I heard from a distance that there was a boat song on the other boat, calling the water waves to my ears, my eyes were sour, and I forced myself to endure the tears, through the smoke and water, and then looked at Sweet Water Town, Liangjiang pulled her sleeve, Shi Gui exhaled a breath, returned her with a smile, and the two entered the cabin together.
Although the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the boat is hotter than the mountain, and it is not as good as the land to put an ice basin, so I have to open the window to let in the wind.
In addition to being homesick two days ago, Shi Gui was in good spirits again, and he told Fanxing that he would always come back to spend the summer, not to mention that the Song family clan was here, only she would not leave the Song family for a day, and there would always be a chance to come back.
She hid this thought, carried water and food and ran forward, but did not get seasick, a can of pickled plums in a cabin, felt uncomfortable and took one, chewed in the mouth a little sour, but can stop vomiting, smeared with cold oil on the head, and sniffed snuff, in the end it was better.
There are no two people in the cabin, there are four or five girls sleeping in one room, Ye's here is quite good, Aunt Qian's girls are crowded in one room regardless of size, and the grapes only slept all night before coming to look for Shi Gui: "I'll squeeze it with you." ”
The bed can't stand it, so I make a bunk on the ground, and I can sleep for a day, but I have to walk for a month on the way to Jinling, how can I bear it, Shi Gui squeezed with her, and listened to her as usual how the Ye family pampered Aunt Qian, and rewarded the ice cream down, and the other two also waited, but Aunt Qian's share was left by the Ye family.
Shi Gui already understood that the leftovers in the back house were a matter of shame, and the big girl who waited close to her could get the master's reward, and the rest was decent.
It turned out that I didn't know that the ship was going to walk so much, but when I knew, Shi Gui understood that Aunt Qian was only afraid that she was not really favored, she was pregnant when she came, and she came to walk for a month, and the ship vomited colorlessly.
I wanted to mention it, but after swallowing it, I only advised the grapes to be more regular: "I know my sister's temperament, I have nothing to do in the past few months, don't stumble when I go back." ”
Grape stretched out his hand and pinched her face: "Little chatter, Sister Muxiang is chattering when she sees the sky, according to me, our aunt is very afraid, can't she compare to the two outside?"
is talking about Aunt Yao and Aunt Wang, who gave birth to two concubines, Ye's has a lot of tolerance, but it is to buy it to be an aunt, this can live well, like cardamom, first a first-class girl, and then an aunt, Ye's really loves her, why don't you keep her in Jinling, you have to take her out.
Rewarding things is not called pet, if you dare to ask her for something, that is called petting, Ye's person, even her own son, does not dare to be coquettish in front of her, just listen to a sentence that the eldest young master is the most dignified, and he behaves in a proper manner when he is young, so he knows that she is also very strict with this son.
She wanted to go back to Jinling with her, she didn't care about these things, and she had to think about it at this time, for fear that if she made a mistake and caused trouble, a violet could accuse her, not to mention the complicated personnel in the old mansion.
Thinking of Ziluo Hongluo, Shi Gui asked, and when Grape heard it, he chuckled: "You don't know yet, I saw it when I sent clothes for my aunt, and I didn't even dare to say anything when I saw it." Grape was slapped in the face, and she kept remembering in her heart that Ziluo Hongluo called to send it to the pulp washing room, and she sent a bag of clothes, saying that these two had knocked Aunt Qian's clothes off, and they were two ear brackets.
Shi Gui thought of Hongluo's appearance of crying and begging her to save her sister, although she felt that she was to blame, she was a little unbearable, why beat the water dog.
Hearing that she didn't speak, Grape pushed her: "What's the matter, you don't know that the pleasure, there is also her day!" was already angry, but he was still angry, as if his cheeks were still burning with pain, he let out a long breath and snorted: "This time they also followed, and life in the old mansion is even more difficult." ”
Shi Gui pillowed his hands, the boat swayed, the waves slapped on the hull, and gradually he couldn't even hear the whispers clearly, and he fell asleep after a while.
There is nothing to do in the boat, Aunt Qian's maid-in-law on the other end is the hardest, she has a big belly, she can't stand it and wants to vomit when the boat shakes, she vomits all the sour water, the intestines are burning in a panic, don't have a sharp face, she is easy to raise meat on her body, and she will lose weight after a few days on the boat.
As soon as Grape returned to the cabin, she was so tired that she lay down, rubbed her waist and her arms, and asked Shi Gui to press her shoulders for her, complaining incessantly: "When the time has come for this ship, if we vomit like this, our aunt will not be able to stand it." ”
She said loudly, Shi Gui pinched her, the grapes "ouch", looked at the rest of the people, stuck out her tongue and didn't speak, the reward of the Ye family was not broken, and Aunt Qian also ate it, but the intestines were like straightening, and she vomited as soon as she ate it, so it was easy to swallow it, and she spit it out all of them, and if she spit it out like this, how could her body stand it.
Walk to the water out of a small matter, the old lady and the old lady in front of the mandarin duck eyes big white cat ran away, suspicious is connected to the sampan ran over, sent someone to ask, the boat looked for a time, did not see it, for it stopped for two days, but failed to find, Aunt Qian just felt that it was useful, the boat set off again.
The boat was in a hurry, everyone was cleared, and when they were about to arrive in Jinling, the Ye family received a letter from the Ye family, the prince chose a concubine, and the daughter of the Ye family was among the daughters, and wanted to entrust her daughter to live in Ye's place for two months. This time I hurried back to Jinling, and it was precisely because of this incident that not only the daughter of the Ye family had to choose, but even Yu Rong Zezhi and the two had to choose.
Ye Shi received the letter for a long time without speaking, and as soon as he squeezed the letter paper, he let go of his hand and ordered: "Pick up a clean yard and transfer two people over." "Just this sentence, nothing else.
She has had little contact with her mother's family, except for the four seasons of the festival, even her father and mother did not send a word, but the letters of the Ye family came one by one, the Boxing Rites are four kinds of eight things, and the Ye family is four boxes and eight boxes, all of which say that the Ye family is a light-hearted person, which is too light.
There are not many things on the ship, Ye is not good, and he doesn't like people to be noisy, so he doesn't want so many girls in the house, and he knocks his teeth when he rests in the cabin.
"To say that Niangniang really loves the prince, there is no such case. "Even the rules set by the ancestors have been abolished, and the original concubine was only selected among the people's daughters, and now the queen's mother is from an official family, but that account has to be recorded on the first emperor, so she chose the official daughter for her son, which has never been since the founding of the country.
Shi Gui has entered the Song family, everything she has seen and heard has never been thought of at all, even the girl can talk about the harem, she listened while tying knots, only to know that there is only one queen of the saint today, and the emperor and queen are a pair of fairy couples who are envied by everyone when they are in the palace, a princess and three princes, all of whom are from the queen.
"The crown prince is not a few years old with King Rui, this time I am afraid that the two concubines will be chosen together, and there will be a lot of excitement to see. After finishing speaking, I guessed the appearance of the daughter of the Ye family, the hosta's mother is an old man in the house, and I heard the family say something about the Ye family's marriage: "I heard my mother say that when the wife enters the door, there will be a show, and there will be a lively and good look." ”
Ye didn't care about his niece, he only said that he was looking for a clean courtyard, but Mrs. Song knew about it but arranged it for her: "You too, you haven't seen you for many years, you are still a family, how can you not arrange it carefully, in the end, you are a guest." ”
Ye Shi nodded naturally after hearing this, and the old lady Song asked the courtyard near the lake to be vacated for the Ye family to live in, and asked Ye to transfer two clever ones to wait, Ye only smiled, but did not nod and agree, "The letter said that all people and things are complete." ”
Linhu is the closest to the Ye family, she is not close to her mother's family, and this girl is strange, so she didn't come down: "There are people in the courtyard, she is to be selected, and she is looking for a quiet place." ”
The Ye family is not without an old house in Jinling, Baba has to be sent to the Song family, and he has a very good idea, the Ye family understands when he hears it, the princess must be selected in the spring of tomorrow, and she is sent in the morning at seven and eight in the morning, but it is getting bigger and bigger.
When this niece was born, the Ye family was already married, and the daughter born to the brother of the same mother should be a close relative, but she was a Ye family member who didn't want to see her.
This matter was handed over to Chunyan, and Chunyan knew that twenty-seven or eight people had been brought over there, so in order to send the girl to be selected, she couldn't answer for a while: "There are so many people, how to arrange it." ”
Ye Shi glanced at her: "Come out of an empty courtyard, someone will arrange it." Although she said this, Chunyan was afraid that the errand would not be done well, so she laughed and said, "Either two of our courtyard will be transferred, and the old lady will ask for it, and it will be okay." ”
Ye Shi supported his head with one hand, and it was inevitable that he would be a little nauseated when the boat was moving fast, with a sour plum in his mouth, he frowned and nodded: "You just look at it, there are many rules on that head, pick up two younger ones." ”
Chunyan should say the next word, go back and count with Fanxing, which quiet yard is vacated for the Ye family girl to live, Fanxing was bought from outside, but Chunyan is the daughter of Ye's companion room, I heard that my mother leaked a sentence and a half, and wanted to empty the secluded fence once and report it to Ye's, Ye's still faint: "It's also a place to live." ”
Chunyan got the Ye family's orders, this is not a beautiful difference, the Ye family is not close to the Ye family, but the Ye family who came can't be lazy, so the Gan family saw the joke, knowing that this is still a girl, and thought about what kind of things can match in the warehouse.
There was nothing else to do on the boat, Shi Gui simply learned to embroider, she paid attention to it, these girls will always do something regardless of size, Qiu Niang has also taught, just started, the line has not been learned, it is too early to learn embroidery.
When there is no wind, the boat moves steadily, and the cloth is spread out on the table to paint patterns, Shi Gui has a talent on this, that is, Fanxing praised it when she saw it, saying that she looked good and made a pair of winter socks for his wife: "This pattern is what my wife likes, and she can't come to her body when she is full of flowers, it seems that there is a picture scroll like this." ”
The feather pattern embroidered with silver thread on the snow blue background is used as a petticoat inside, Chunyan is in charge of internal affairs, but the clothes and jewelry are cooked by apricots, and she feels that Shi Gui's painting looks good, so she simply asked her to draw a few more pictures: "Mrs. never likes glamorous colors, it is nothing more than some blue, purple and green, you think about how to be brilliant, the August Festival is over, and the back is Chongyang." ”
Since Shi Gui stayed in Ye's courtyard, he was still late according to the word arrangement, and Mrs. Zheng couldn't help it, so she had to put some effort into it, and she sent it to the picture, but it was not made into a skirt, Fanxing took it and put it on the sleeves of the placket, and made a light blue inner silk garment, and then sent it up, and Ye said that she lived a good life.
Fanxing gave Shi Gui a string of red agate beads: "You are a clever person, when you see these many flowers and leaves, your wife said that the appearance of this silver thread is rare, and asked me to make another one for her." ”
Shi Gui immediately smiled: "Where do I know what tricks, since my wife likes it, I will describe two more, and Sister Lao Fanxing will take a look." "Fanxing is righteous and squandering money, although Shi Gui is useless, but he is very grateful to her in his heart, two taels of silver may be nothing to her, but for Shi Gui, if it really happens, it is life-saving money.
Fanxing already likes Shi Gui's legs, and knows that she is a loving person, but she is willing to mention her, and when she sends Wenzhu tricks up, she will bring a sentence for her, Ye nodded: "The hand is skillful, if you are capable, just keep it for use." ”