Mrs. Song's birthday is in late March, but the house is busy early, the flowers bloom just right now, if it is rare to be colored on the tree in winter, only the red lanterns are hung up before and after, and there are two hanging lights in front of the door, and there is a happy event in the house at a glance.

Ye's is even more constantly people every day, Chunyan Fanxing is so busy that her feet don't touch the ground, the housekeeper goes in to hold a birthday banquet without stopping, ten tables are to be opened in the courtyard, the water pavilion is opened to listen to the play, the men's and women's seats are separated, and the list is sent one by one, in addition to picking dishes, you also have to pick utensils.

Shi Gui has nothing to do, often goes to the main courtyard, Ye Wenxin doesn't know if it has been successful, and prays for her in his heart, but he still has to make two preparations, in case it doesn't work, she has to think about it here in the Ye family if she wants to redeem herself.

Ye Shi was not worried at all, the old lady showed her a mouth, this matter has been done, Ye Shi breathed a sigh of relief, although I don't know whether this pair is good or not, after all, it is to seek benevolence.

But this can't be leaked out first, lest others speculate that Ye Wenxin had something to do with Song Yintang when he was in the Song family, and his faces on both sides were not good-looking.

Chunyan didn't know, Shi Gui had no way to know, she came to the main courtyard from time to time, Chunyan also asked her to help run errands, there were more people in the yard, and I also met Song Mian, he was a showman, Chun Yan was not on his turn, counting the days and half a year, he studied more and harder, Shi Gui just thought, he didn't give him a pack of dried meat, when he went out to study, he could also pad his belly.

But Song Mian was in a hurry when she returned, and she left again after a short stay, Shi Gui couldn't speak a few times, so she simply sent a bag of dried meat to Zhile Zhai when Chunyan asked her to pass on the matter.

I was afraid that he wouldn't eat it, so I deliberately left my name, wrote a few words, and said that it was a thank you gift, the scholar was literate, but she didn't realize that a girl was also literate, and she didn't care about it, so she let her stay, and came back and took the cloth bag to Song Yintang to see: "It's amazing, there are literate girls in our yard." ”

Shi Gui followed Ye Wenxin to learn words, and what she learned was her best hairpin Xiaokai, a piece of paper was cut to a finger's width, and the thin strips were written on it, and when she picked it up, it was not badly written.

Song Mian was a child with rare paper, first in school to send paper, and then turned into a window paste, and then followed, even the paper was not sent, he practiced on the sand, in the end it is not as good as practicing on paper, this pen is not good-looking.

The old lady Song taught him to read, and the first thing assigned was to let him practice fifty words every day, Song Mian did not embellish every day, and the words were so good-looking, the old lady nodded easily, saying that now this pen can finally be seen, so that the end will not be dazzling.

Song Mian's face was flushed at that time, the old lady asked him to write fifty sheets, and he wrote a hundred, first with light ink, and then with thick ink, one piece of paper was eager to be used as two, so he practiced like this for half a year, Shi Gui practiced for half a year at most, and he could write like this,

I didn't think that such a little girl could write well, thinking that she was taught by Ye Wenxin to read, and the girls wrote so well, and I didn't know what Ye Wenxin's words looked like.

After reading the words, he opened the cloth bag again, took a bite of the dried meat with the smell of honey, and baked it thin and crispy. Thinking about thanking her next time, I took that note as an encouragement and sandwiched it in a book.

The girl in the secluded fence is so idle that her bones are rusty, and she is tossing and eating when she sees the sky, Shi Gui in addition to practicing calligraphy, she often walks around in the courtyards, and the gossip she hears is also more.

Shi Gui only then knew that the Zhao family was going to talk to the second girl, Mrs. Zheng drank peach blossom wine, and her wrinkled face was also smoked with wine, and she sighed and said: "The second girl is good luck, the old lady opened her mouth, and things are indispensable to hers, marry back to her mother's family, and be strong for such a lifetime, I don't know how to make a dowry fortune." ”

There are no grapes for her fun, she feels a little tasteless, Shi Gui added wine for her, Zheng Pozi ate a cup and a cup, she was drunk, and her tongue was not idle, she only looked at the small profit in front of her, saw that Yu Rong was married well, and regretted not putting the grapes in Yu Rong's yard.

The more Shi Gui listened to her, the more she didn't look like it, and she couldn't wait to shake out all the ideas in the old lady's house, and she felt funny in her heart, she just heard it, but she said it as if she had seen it with her own eyes, even the ancestors of the Zhao family were also poor people for eight generations, and they dug 10,000 sweet wells, and this Zhao family girl was a girl who grew up in sweet water, and she didn't know which one she married into the Song family.

Shi Gui helped her lie down on the kang, Mrs. Zheng couldn't stop snoring, she was full of alcohol, Shi Gui didn't sober her up, and when she returned to the house, she saw that the grapes were lazy and lazy, and she didn't eat any of the dishes she served.

"What's the matter? I'll give you a bowl of noodles?" Shi Gui finished speaking, and the grapes shook his head: "I can't eat it." His face was white for a while, covering his belly, and his hands and feet were cold.

Shi Gui frowned at a glance: "Are you popular?"

The girl is the most troubled when she comes to red, she has to be on an errand, and she can't rest, and she can't lie down for five or six days without moving, and the next person still takes Qiao, at most she drinks a few bowls of brown sugar water, and after the first two days, she goes back to work on an errand.

Grape nodded, Shi Gui frowned and nodded at her: "You, you, why didn't you say it earlier, I had already boiled brown sugar water, wait." As he spoke, he went out of the door and raised the stove to cut ginger.

I opened the stove but there was no brown sugar at home, so I borrowed a bag from Jianbi, thinking that she didn't eat anything at all, so I beat a water egg into the brown sugar and sent it to the grape bed, so that she could eat it while it was hot, and the grapes drank half a bowl in one go, and then I felt a little hot in my little stomach.

She is thirteen years old, but in Aunt Qian's yard, it is not a good thing to be popular, Songjie said when she was still there, saying that because the master is not clean, these girls are becoming more and more cheap in the eyes of the master, she didn't understand what it meant at that time, but now she gradually understands.

Mu Xiang's family has begged Ye to ask Mu Xiang to go out to marry, Mu Xiang is a spicy one, and the grapes have seen the old man touch her hand by eating tea, Mu Xiang "missed" for a while and poured a cup of tea on the master's robe, and the clothes were thick because of the cold weather, otherwise, Sister Mu Xiang didn't know how to be punished.

These Aunt Qian all looked at it, but they just kept silent, Grape was still Aunt Qian was a good master at that time, she was kind, and she was generous with rewards, and when she saw the pine festival, she didn't take them seriously at all.

Some leaked out of her fingers, as much as she could give them food, she suffered a disaster, but she would never reach out, Shi Gui saw that the grapes' expression darkened, and she bit her lip to think for her: "If you don't report your illness too, as soon as Mu Xiang leaves, although you are not old enough, you can't guarantee it, Aunt Qian wants someone close to her to be on an errand." ”

If she comes out, even if she recovers from her illness and then goes to the yard, she still goes back to Aunt Qian on an errand, and there is no other place to ask for her, unless Aunt Qian herself doesn't want her, but looking at the situation, she can't do it anymore.

Grape shed tears: "I can't do it, you don't know ......" I don't know anything, but she didn't dare to say it, Grape is more than thirteen years old, his chest has been slightly raised, his waist is gradually slimmer, his face is pointy, he really has a bit of a posture, better than the pine knots, Song Wanghai is a meat vegetarian, Aunt Qian doesn't care about everything, she just thinks about wealth again, and she understands it, she is as favored as Aunt Qian, what's the fun?

Although she didn't say it, Shi Gui also understood, hugged the grapes, her chest rose and fell, and she beat the edge of the kang with hatred, but if she can do something, she will do it, but both of them are second-class girls, and the master's family is not enough to see, no matter how much she wants to think about it, no one will help.

Grape shook her hand: "I know I can't do it." Saying that, he cried again, Shi Gui had already said to Chunyan last time, but Chunyan didn't move for a long time, if this road can't be taken, it is up to them to do it themselves, how can they do it?

Shi Gui went to Yuancui Pavilion for the grapes to take a three-day vacation, Mu Xiang frowned, and sighed softly: "How good is this, it turns out that there are few people, saying that it was made up in the spring, but it has not been made up at this time, she is sick again, and there is no one left." ”

Shi Gui had to smile: "She wanted to come, but she was sick, she was taking the medicine, and she was afraid that she would be too sick to give the little master, so she didn't dare to come, so I came to ask my sister for leave." ”

Mu Xiang nodded: "I know, I'll go to urge the housekeeper tomorrow, what's wrong with this, no one has made up for it yet." "No one made up for it, but because no one was willing to enter Aunt Qian's yard, there was something in the world that could be hidden, and if you died a pine knot, you didn't dare to think about it, not to mention that this little young master couldn't get the blue eyes of the old lady and the old lady.

Shi Gui said goodbye and went back, and met Song Mian in the Muxi Fragrance Path, although Song Mian was studying, his eyes couldn't stop looking around, and when he saw Shi Gui laughing, he beckoned to her: "You come." ”

Shi Gui didn't know why, so he really walked over, but it was Song Mian who gave her a small kite the size of a palm: "I don't know what you like, I saw that there were some butterflies and birds sold outside, so I bought one according to it." ”

"How can I make Young Master Tang break the bank. Shi Gui knew that this was a return gift, Song Mian never accepted her things in vain, in addition to the kite, he also gave her a notebook: "I see that your handwriting is good, and I think this can be used." ”

This made her happier than winning a kite, and when she opened it, she immediately smiled: "I can only write small characters, and the big characters have no strength, and I can't write with momentum, thank you Young Master Tang." ”

didn't mock her for being literate and incompetent, she was a person worth dating, Shi Gui Xindao really didn't mistake him, and laughed at him more and more, Song Mian's ears were red, and the young man was a little shy, although he told him that he was selfless in his heart, he was still afraid of falling into the eyes of people, so he hurriedly swept it, and was relieved to see that there was no one.

Shi Gui said goodbye to him: "Next time I write, show it to the young master, and when the cousin girl enters the palace, there will be no one to guide me." Seeing that Song Mian agreed, he turned around.

At the end of March, a few days before Mrs. Song's birthday, the old lady came back with a frosty face and called Ye to him: "You prepare some white gifts and send them back to Yangzhou, your sister-in-law is gone." ”

The Ye family was stunned for a while, and the old lady Song let out a long sigh: "I'm afraid it will be gone at the end of February, your brother will not mourn and call ginseng, and the excerpt of the reprimand will be sent down soon." ”

Ye Shi only felt dizzy for a while, she had already sent a letter back, telling her sister-in-law that the matter was solved, and the old lady Song was willing to help, and she would never enter the palace to fill the hole in the private salt storehouse.