Chapter 19: Xue Baochai's Birthday
After the memorial, Lin Daiyu went back to the old house in Suzhou, and the daughter-in-law of the long house wanted to stay but didn't dare, so she had to watch her get into the carriage and leave. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Since then, there has been an endless stream of relatives visiting the house in Suzhou, and Daiyu has asked Aunt Ye to accompany her, hiding in the room by herself, and doing embroidery work with Zijuan and Snow Goose. From these people who visited, Daiyu let Yan Niang watch quietly, and also picked out a few down-to-earth and capable people, and let them take over a few errands.
On this day, two more people came, and Aunt Ye smiled when she saw it, and pointed to the room: "Inside, I am learning needlework with the girls." Lin Daiyu's third aunt and fifth aunt looked at each other and smiled, and a girl had already stepped forward and quietly opened the curtain.
Daiyu looked up and saw that it was them coming, and she couldn't help but smile on her cheeks, and hurriedly got down from the kang, stepped forward and said, "Why are the third aunts and fifth aunts here, and they don't ask anyone to say anything." Zijuan, go and pour tea. Zijuan pursed her lips and went out with a smile.
The two of them looked at Daiyu carefully, and saw that she was wearing a thin moon-white sprinkled cotton jacket with a snow-colored gown on the outside, which made her even thinner; A little face was red from the heat of the room, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and his eyes were painted, and he smiled crookedly when he saw them coming. I don't know where the faint fragrance of flowers came from in the house, which is very elegant and refreshing.
The third aunt took Daiyu's hand and sat on the kang, looked at the embroidery work done by the girls, and saw that there was still an unfinished daffodil on the table, so she asked Xue Yan: "Who is this?" Xue Yan smiled and said, "That's Sister Zijuan's." This is Miss's! As he spoke, he handed over an unfinished embroidery on the table.
Daiyu hurriedly snatched it from her hand, and said with a smile: "It's not good to embroider, auntie still don't look at it." Xue Yan answered with a smile on the side: "Third wife, our girl is shy." Just now we all looked around, and it was different, I don't know what kind of flowers and plants it is, but it looks pretty good. ”
The third aunt said: "Since the embroidery is rare flowers and plants, it should be taken out and seen." While taking out the embroidery bandage from Daiyu's hand, I saw that there was a light cyan grass embroidered on it, and a small string of delicate beads, although the embroidery was still immature, it looked very pleasing to the eye.
The third aunt looked at it, and handed it to the fifth aunt, who took it and looked at it carefully: "We are all lonely and unheard, what kind of grass this is, but I don't recognize it." Daiyu watched them take it away, and had to say generously: "The two aunts have naturally never seen it, this is a place I dreamed of, there is a grass like this, with a small string of crimson beads, and a stone next to it." I thought it would be chic to embroider it like this, but I couldn't use red thread, so I used the ochre color first. ”
It just so happened that at this time, Zijuan went outside to make new tea because the color of the tea in the house was old, and the little girl Pei'er hit the curtain, and a cold air rushed in. Daiyu felt the cold air invade her body, and couldn't help but cover her mouth with a handkerchief and cough a few times. Zijuan hurriedly entered the house, asked Pei'er to cover the curtains, she came over to serve tea to Daiyu's two aunts, and helped Daiyu put on the snow-colored gown that was caged outside.
The fifth aunt sat on the chair with a thick jacket that Daiyu usually writes, put aside the tea served by Zijuan, and said to Daiyu: "Dai's girl looks like she is weak, can you ask Lang Zhong to see it in the early years?" Daiyu replied, "Yes." When his parents were still there, he also invited many famous doctors, and he didn't care about taking a lot of medicines, but only one Langzhong prescribed ginseng Yangrong pills and kept taking them. Later, at my grandmother's house, I also saw a doctor, but I thought about the formula of the pill a little. I've eaten everything I've brought in the past two days, and I haven't had time to match it yet. ”
The third aunt put down the embroidered bandage next to Daiyu, took Daiyu's hand, and combed her scattered hair, and said with a smile: "Don't be busy dispensing pills first, I have a famous doctor, who happens to be a local, and it's not too late to dispense medicine after you see him." ”
The fifth aunt took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law must know that I want to recommend a good man to Dai Yatou to take a look, so she immediately robbed me." I also have a candidate, in our Wu County, surnamed Ye Tianshi, not only accurate pulse, but also good at tonifying the body, and his reputation has spread out of Suzhou Mansion. It's better to invite him to take a look at Dai Yatou first, and if it's not appropriate, then change the candidate in the third sister-in-law's heart. ”
The third aunt smiled and said, "I don't have any other candidates, that's what I'm talking about." ”
Zijuan hurriedly said next to him: "It's better to hurry up than to be in a hurry, while the two wives are here, it's better to post and invite it today!" She said to the third and fifth aunts: "The two ladies don't know, since we came back from the long room a few days ago, we girls have not slept well, and we toss and turn every night until dawn, and only then do we close our eyes for a while." ”
Lin Daiyu said angrily: "You are too talkative." "She usually has a problem with not sleeping well, and it has become more serious these days. When I closed my eyes at night, I actually went to mourn Hongxuan to read those manuscripts, and I felt a little sleepy every time it was about to dawn. When I didn't want to toss and turn in bed, I was remembered by Zijuan in my heart.
The fifth aunt said: "This is easy to do, take a blank post, I will write it for you, let the little maid invite." Zijuan went to the box and took out a blank post, the fifth aunt took it, and after a while, she wrote it with a pen, covered it with a piece of paper to absorb the excess ink, and asked the little girl to take it and hand it to the little girl Song'er in the outer courtyard.
The third aunt sat beside the kang and asked the snow goose, "What kind of incense is burning in your house, it is not musk or sandalwood, it smells strange." Xue Yan replied with a smile: "Back to Mrs., we never smoke any incense in the house, and I am afraid that the girl's body will not be able to stand it; Second, our girl is also eccentric, she said, 'Good clothes, smoke and burn', so don't let incense be smoked. Even the clothes of the girls under us don't smell incense. What my wife smelled must have been the scent of dried plum petals. Aunt Ye went back to her hometown once, brought us back a few jars of dried petals, and it happened that Yan Niang made a white plum Baifu gown and sent it to the girl, Sister Zijuan put her clothes on the mouth of the jar containing dried plum blossoms and put them overnight, and it was only wrapped today, it was the fragrance of plum blossoms. ”
After listening to the words of the snow goose, she pulled Daiyu's clothes and looked at them carefully, only to see that the five-petal white plum embroidered on it was staggered, which almost blended with the color of the clothes, which corresponded to the poem "I know that it is not snow, but there is a dark fragrance".
The fifth aunt asked who Yan Niang was, and Daiyu said: "It's a relative of the side branch here, and her younger brother is Lin Mo who went to Yangzhou to pick up the spirit." The two aunts were a little familiar with the name Lin Mo, so they asked Yan Niang to come over. When Zijuan got the words, she opened the curtain and went to the corner house on the west side to ask Yan Niang to come and talk.
There were two elders present, Yan Niang and Daiyu carefully described their generations, only to know that they were the same generation, so they changed their words to "sister" to call Yan Niang. Yan Niang accompanied Daiyu to talk to the third aunt and the fifth aunt, and Qing'er outside reported outside the curtain: "Third wife, fifth wife, the Lang Zhong who sent someone to invite just now has arrived." ”
Daiyu hurriedly turned around and went back to sit in the tent, and the two aunts and Yanniang avoided behind the screen. After a while, sure enough, a young man who was standing close to him came in with a medicine box on his back, dressed in a Confucian temperament and wearing a green cloth cotton robe.
He saw a small and thin girl sitting solemnly behind the tent, who looked to be only ten years old, and knew that it was the patient who had invited him to see her. Immediately put down the medicine box, carefully checked the pulse, and said to Zijuan with a smile: "According to me, your family's daughter doesn't need to take medicine, as long as she cooks porridge or rice with grains every day, and insists on eating it for a year or two, she will be cured of any disease." This is originally a congenital weakness and a diet that is too delicate. If you use some drugs to make up, it is important to know that the drugs are also somewhat toxic, although they seem to be getting better at the moment, but they hurt the root of the body. There is no need to treat today's illness, just boil a bowl of ginger soup, put two spoonfuls of brown sugar, drink it hot, and let it dissipate wind and cold. ”
The purple cuckoo and the snow goose all wrote it down carefully. Daiyu hurriedly asked Zijuan to seal the diagnosis gold, but Ye Tianshi politely excused himself, still carried the medicine box and walked out of the house, accompanied by Song'er out of the hospital, and sent it back in good health.