Chapter 20: The Two Jade Meet
Daiyu was taken by her two aunts to think about the two uncles and ask for peace. Zhang Shi saw that the hour was not early, and asked Sister Lu if she would like to leave? Sister Lu didn't want to leave, and said secretly, I haven't finished reading it yet.
Wang Xifeng was busy at noon, and it was extremely rare to take out such a period of time to meet guests, and as soon as the guests left, they confessed in a hurry, and went back to the council, and other people also knew about her, and they didn't care that she came for a while and left.
Li Kun has nothing to do and has been waiting for Jia's mother, and when she saw Sister Lu squirming, she said to Zhang, "If my sister wants to stay, let her stay, we still don't have a house." This sister thought to herself before Miss Lin came, how could this Miss Lin be separated?"
When Jia's mother heard this, she said, "Yes, yes, Brother Zhen's daughter-in-law will go back to your mother-in-law to pass on my words, saying, this Lu girl lives with me, and it will not be possible to go back later." ”
Zhang's couldn't, so he had to agree, "Then the granddaughter-in-law will go back, sort out some of my sister's common things, and let people send them." ”
Sister Lu was happy, waved her hand directly, and said, "Go, go, go!"
Zhang Shi looked amused and helpless, pointed to her head with a finger, and said angrily, "Don't be greedy." "After all, it's a sister-in-law, and I don't dare to say more.
After Sister Lu waited for her sister-in-law to leave, she sat next to Jia's mother, talking and laughing with the two sisters, and Jia's mother watched with a smile on the side.
After a while, the mandarin duck came and said that it was time to eat.
Wang Xifeng led a group of people up with a lunch box, and when they were setting up the meal, Mrs. Wang led Daiyu over.
Li Kun holds the rice, Xifeng Anji, Mrs. Wang enters the soup, and Chen's serves tea. Mother Jia sat alone on the couch in front of her, with four empty chairs on both sides, and Xifeng hurriedly pulled Daiyu to sit on the first chair on the left. Daiyu was very pushing.
Mother Jia smiled: "Your aunt and sister-in-law don't eat here. You are a guest, and you should have sat like this. Daiyu took a seat and sat down. Mother Jia ordered Mrs. Wang to sit.
According to the Red Mansion, the three of them should sit in the first position on the right hand of Yingchun, the second on the left of Tanchun, and the second on the right of Xichun, but Xichun is not a granddaughter raised in Rongguo Mansion now, and she is now a guest. The original arrangement made her the first on Jia's mother's right hand, but Xichun had to be next to Daiyu, and everyone looked at her as the smallest, and they all respectfully let her, that is, the second on the left hand, and Tanchun did the second position on the right hand.
The maid next to her persistently brushes the dust, gargles, and towels. Li and Feng stood next to the case. Although there were many daughters-in-law and maids waiting outside, they didn't even hear a cough. After the meal was over, each maid brought tea with a small tea tray.
Sister Lu saw that Daiyu was not as lively as a child, but had a cautious taste, and when she saw this, she felt very sorry for Daiyu. Relying on the appearance of a child, leaning on Daiyu's side, asking for this and that, the quiet scene was made cheerful by her. Mother Jia was originally a happy and lively character, and when she saw this, she didn't care, but she also joined in the excitement and served vegetables for Sister Lu. Rongguo Mansion has always taken the words of the ancestors as rules, and there is nothing to say.
Daiyu was busy eating her own food, and at the same time, she had to take care of Sister Lu, and she couldn't remember anything to be cautious for a while.
After eating, Sister Lu didn't like to drink tea, and Jiao Qian tasted the warm goat milk that had been prepared for a long time, and asked, "I don't like to drink tea after eating, so I always have goat milk juice and the like, what about Sister Lin?"
Lin Daiyu carefully wiped the milk marks on Sister Lu's lips with a handkerchief, and said, "Father warned me to cherish my blessings to nourish my body, wait for the rice to be swallowed after the cloud, and eat tea after a while, Fang" Daiyu paused, looking at the rules in Jia's mansion, but still didn't say the "don't hurt the spleen and stomach" behind him.
"Do as your father said, you have grown up in the south, you have lived a fine life, and you have brought a frail body from the womb, and you are more careful than us rough people in the north. Someone brings a glass of warm water. Jia Mu listened to the words of the two sisters and said.
As soon as he finished speaking, he asked again, "Is it okay to have warm water?"
Daiyu nodded, "Yes." ”
Seeing that Daiyu was drinking well, Jia Mu nodded with satisfaction. He said, "Go, let us speak freely." "
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she got up hurriedly and said two more gossips, and Fang led Li and Feng to go.
Jia Muyin asked Daiyu what book she was reading. Daiyu said: "I just read the "Four Books". Daiyu asked the sisters what they were reading.
Jia Mu pointed to Yingchun and said, "These two girls are now in school, and they only recognize two words, not blind people with open eyes!"
He pointed to Sister Lu, who had been leaning on Daiyu, and said, "This girl, she started her enlightenment when she was three years old, she loved her, and she was reluctant to let her suffer, so she taught herself, and she was still just learning some words and some words." ”
Sister Lu thought that she had indeed been too lazy in the past two years, and the literacy project had been dragging on, so she suddenly blushed and hid behind Daiyu.
Daiyu also smiled and whispered to soothe.
Still smiling, I heard a sound of footsteps outside, and the maid came in and smiled: "Baoyu is here!"
Before the maid finished speaking, a young man had already entered: he was wearing a purple and gold crown with a bundle of hair and inlaid treasures, and he was wearing a two-color gold butterfly with a big red arrow sleeve with flowers, and a long spike palace strip with colorful silk knots; he was covered with a stone blue and flowered eight-group satin tassel gown; and he was wearing a small court boot with a blue satin foundation. There is a golden mantle on the neck, and there is a five-colored silk strip, tied with a piece of beautiful jade.
Daiyu looked at it fixedly, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
I saw this Baoyu asking Jia's mother for peace. Jia's mother ordered: "Go see your mother!" Baoyu turned around and went. When I came back for a while, I looked at it again, and I had changed the crown belt: the short hair around the head was all braided, the red silk ended, and the hair was accumulated to the top of the middle of the tire, and the chief weaver was a big braid, black and bright as lacquer, from the top to the tip, a string of four large beads, with gold eight treasures to fall the horns; he was wearing a silver and red half-worn jacket sprinkled with flowers, still carrying collars, precious jade, name locks, amulets and other things; the bottom was half-dewed pine flowers sprinkled with green silk trouser legs, brocade edge elastic ink socks, and thick-soled red shoes.
Jia Muyin said with a smile: "Before the outsiders saw it, they took off their clothes and didn't go to see your sister!"
Baoyu had already seen that there was an extra sister, so she expected that she must be Aunt Lin's daughter, and she was busy making trouble. After seeing it, I sat down, and looked at the description carefully, as if I had seen it.
blurted out, "I've seen this sister before." ”
Before Jia Mu could say anything, she heard a "flutter" sound, looked at the place where the sound came from, and saw Sister Lu'er's fat fleshy paws covering her mouth, and her eyes were wide with smiles.
Tanchun has always been favored in front of Jia's mother, and now there are two Daiyu and Sister Lu, who are more favored by Jia's mother than her, and they have long been dissatisfied in their hearts, they are younger, and it is not easy to endure it until now, seeing Sister Lu smiling unscrupulously at her favorite brother Bao, her tone was slightly rushed, and she said bluntly,
"Fourth sister, what are you laughing at?"
Sister Lu glanced at her and said, "Of course Brother Bao feels familiar, you look in the mirror every day, don't you see it." ”
Everyone was stunned, looking at Daiyu and Baoyu are really a little similar, as the saying goes, nephews are like uncles, Daiyu is like Jia Zheng, and Baoyu also has a little bit of Jia Zheng's appearance, which is naturally quite similar.
Jia Mu laughed, "No, my cousins and sisters-in-law naturally look alike." ”