Mu Fengju, because the ninth aunt is in confinement, this month can not open the door, the northerners have a saying, said that the cold wind in the blowing of the confinement of the mother-in-law, will fall into the confinement disease, the future can be painful for a lifetime, so this month in the delivery room needs to be covered tightly.

Although thick cotton curtains were specially added to the doors and windows of Mu Fengju, some gossip still reached Aunt Jiu's ears through the curtains.

Lan Ling is the companion brought by Li Wanjiao from her mother's house, her real name is not Lan Ling, in order to be consistent with all the big girls who are close to the master in the house, Aunt Jiu helped her change her name, called Lan Ling, and served Lan Xiang with the ration of Liufu, don't look at the two of them are big girls, in fact, in Li's heart, Lan Ling is a really reliable caring person.

Lan Xiang went to the kitchen to see if Aunt Jiu's red date millet porridge had been boiled, Lan Ling took the opportunity to get close to the pillow, "Miss, the slave maid has inquired clearly, there have been a lot of things that have happened in the house recently, and they are all a little strange." ”

Li Wanjiao frowned, this month she originally wanted to be quiet and quiet for a month, but the shape is not allowed, no, there is already muttering and talking outside, she can still lie down and pretend to be confused?

"The day after the little mute entered the bench room, she took the maid ring to see the eldest lady, and they seemed to have talked in the house for a while, and then the eldest lady ordered the plum tree in her yard to be dug up and moved to the corner courtyard, and said in public that the little mute was the daughter-in-law of the long house, and now she is a child daughter-in-law, and she will always grow up in the future. As soon as these words came out, the whole house rushed to the child daughter-in-law; this is not surprising, the most unbelievable thing is that the poor girl child daughter-in-law who is only promised, she suddenly proposed to ask for the four treasures of the study room in her yard, the slave and maid tried to ask from the mouth of the little girl ring next to her, the little mute is now okay to hide in the house to write, and I don't know what is written, anyway, there are few literate girls, Mrs. Aunt, do you say this is a strange thing, a daughter from a poor tenant family, can afford to read when she is a child? Also, those little girls are now picking plum blossoms around the plum tree all day long, and the petals of the buds are plucked off as soon as they are opened, and they are held in large baskets, and when the weather is good, they are called sunbathing, and when they are bad, they are moved into the house and roasted by the stove. No one could guess what the hell the hell this little mute was up to. ”

Li's face was cloudy, and he blinked his good-looking Danfeng eyes, "Hasn't the eldest lady always been indifferent to this family business, although she didn't have much obvious opposition, but she was never enthusiastic, and when she married her and entered the door, everyone could see it clearly, and they knew that it was the master who listened to Mr. Hexagram's words on a whim, so he bought a rough maid ring to call, and no one took it seriously." Why did the eldest lady suddenly change her mind now? I want to hold her in the palm of my hand? Who is in the best interest of the daughter-in-law of the long house?"

She fell into deep thought.

Lan Ling was entangled in another place, "A girl who can't read big characters suddenly knows how to write, isn't it strange for Mrs. Auntie?"

Li Shi was a little annoyed, thought of something, and his face turned dark, "What a virtuous and capable lady, she is really not the master who lies on the flat ground, it turned out that she buried a sum for us here, but her reaction is also a little faster, our little brother has just landed, and she can't sit still? Why, are you afraid that I will seize power one day?"

He sneered again and again.

Lan Ling was inspired and suddenly figured it out, looking at the master's face, "Miss, you have to recuperate quickly, there are still many things waiting for you to deal with in the future." ”

This sentence was said to be profound, and the meaning of it was understood by their master and servant, although Lan Xiang, who had just entered the door with a sand jar, heard a sentence or two, she was confused, she didn't dare to ask more, so she pretended not to hear anything.

At the same time, the fourth aunt who lived in Liuyun Hall, Tai Zhang Hanmei, held the tea cup offered by Yahuan's hands in her hand, pondered for a long time, turned around to look at Liu Yan's pretty face full of sorrow, "Yan'er, accept your fate, born in such a family, and you are a concubine's daughter, what else can you do except accept your fate?" For my mother, I have been arrogant all my life, and I always want to live a little more freely and detached, but you have also seen it, after many years of survival, except for you in front of my knees, I have nothing, and now even you have to leave my side and marry to that unsatisfactory place. ”

In just two days, Liu Yan has lost a lot of weight, two deep and dark circles under her eyelids, and a layer of white scabs on the outside of her lips.

She looked very low: "Mother, you say, that little mute, she is so young, she married into our family at that time, and her husband was a fool, what did she think in her heart? Could it be the same as now, sad and scared?"

Zhang shook his head, "Silly child, how can you compare with her, she is born dumb, such a person, in fact, compared with us, her mind is still crippled, she doesn't know anything in her heart, so she doesn't think about anything, she doesn't worry, she doesn't worry, so what is there to talk about sadness and fear? Alas, sometimes my mother thinks that it is better for us to be a dumb like her in this world, live carefree, eat and sleep, eat when hungry, and don't have to think about anything in the world." ”

The girl's good-looking eyes flashed with a dreamlike brilliance, and she murmured: "Mother, if one day, you wake up and find that Yan'er is gone, and you can't find it in this world, will you be sad?

Zhang's face turned around, and his face changed in horror, "Yan'er, what are you talking nonsense? I don't allow you to think nonsense! It's not easy for my mother to bring you into this world, a handful of and urine pull you to an adult, if you dare to do something that makes your mother sad, your mother will die immediately to show you!"

Zhang's people were bold and resolute, and his words were cold and hard, and Liu Yan hurriedly closed his mouth and didn't dare to say anything more.

And the owner of Shuanghe Garden, the third aunt, this woman who died three daughters and two sons in a row, and was then diagnosed by the doctor as neutered, was sitting in front of a one-man high embroidery frame, on which was stretched a thin and almost transparent white rhombus yarn, and her knees were densely covered with multicolored silk threads, and she was embroidering on the white yarn with her head up. Stitch by stitch with soft silk thread slowly passed through the tulle, and there was a gossip in his mouth, "You mean, the eldest lady suddenly began to give up meat?

The person asked was a thin woman in her fifties, with a shrewd face, she stretched out her whitish tongue and gently licked her ulcer lips, "If they didn't deliberately hide it, the old body really couldn't notice, the third aunt, you don't know, the middle courtyard is naturally impenetrable, the old body still asked from the kitchen lady's mouth, I have a distant relative who is doing things in the kitchen, it is she who secretly sued me, saying that it has been very strange recently, the eldest lady has a meal in the house, and they are all vegetarian fried, rarely put aside oil, and must be freshly shoveled back in the greenhouse." You said that who in this house doesn't know that the eldest lady is famous for her love of meat, and she used to be hungry when she didn't eat meat, but now it's good, and she suddenly eats vegetarian, this thing is not weird. ”

The third aunt's thin five fingers, twisting a small embroidery needle, the long and soft silk thread, wrapped around the snow-white transparent arm, made her extremely delicate, and she couldn't help but be weak.

But she was very concentrated, and kept staring intently at the tricks, as if she hadn't listened to the gossip at all.

The mother-in-law yawned boredly, looked up at the widowed sky outside the window, and got up to go down to work.

Everyone knows the temper of the third aunt, and she is the most quiet and calm, and rarely tells right and wrong. The mother-in-law's words are also used as jokes, and everyone will quickly forget them after they finish speaking.

But the third aunt stood up slowly, patiently untied the messy threads wrapped around her clothes, walked to the window, looked at the sky in the distance, frowned and fell into her heart quietly.

It was dinner time again, and a little servant came to the door to spread the word, saying that the master was eating in the study today, and the eldest lady didn't have to wait. The mother-in-law who passed the rice took the maids and rings to carry all kinds of plates and plates, and sent the fish from the kitchen to the middle courtyard.

Liu Wan had just fallen ill half an hour ago, and now he fell asleep, and his own maid picked a few cooked meat and vegetables into a food box, and sat on the stove to warm them for him.

The ladies of Liufu came to eat in twos and threes.

Eating with their mother is a duty and task that they have insisted on since they were very young, and they have long been accustomed to it over the years, as for the aunt who gave birth to them, they do not have the right to eat here, they can only be served and eaten by the maid in their own room.

A table of meat dishes was set up.

Xide Liu Xue only clapped her little hands, "Wow, it's so hearty, there are braised beef hips, stewed lamb chops, and cold mixed shredded chicken...... It's so much, my saliva is coming down!"

The sisters are very reserved, so naturally they will not be as naughty as her.

Chen sat on the top, his eyes swept around the crowd lightly, Liu Yan didn't come, didn't come, didn't come for a few meals. She quietly suppressed the displeasure that had come up for a moment.

Chen didn't eat it, watched the children eat, and put a chopstick dish for this one, pointed out that the posture was not elegant enough, and criticized Liu Xue for chewing and swallowing without a girl's appearance.

"Mother, why don't you eat?"

Liu Xue asked with a raised face.

Chen smiled: "Mother has a bad appetite recently, her heart hurts, and she can't eat big fish and meat, just wait until you finish eating Mother and drink some rice porridge." ”

Where do children care about what adults eat and what they don't eat, no one cares about Chen's rhetoric.

Liu Ying was absent-minded from the moment she got on the table, Cousin Bai was not here today, she felt that the food on the table suddenly lost its luster and fragrance, and eating it in her mouth was as dull as chewing wax.