Chapter 17: Happy Reunion
My aunt took me to the room that had been prepared for me to rest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info room in the west wing, my aunt explained that it was the yard where my mother once lived, and my mother had been empty since she left home, and my grandmother didn't let people move things out, but ordered people to clean it every now and then, as if my mother would come back to live at any time. This empty space is more than ten years, my grandmother also went, but the room and courtyard are still the same as before my mother left, and has never changed. My aunt left another maid to serve me in the future, as for Xiuniang, my aunt said that she had worked hard over the years, and when she rested for a few more days, she still let her come to my room to take care of her. I thanked him with a sigh of relief.
When I left the "Lixiangyuan", my uncle only ordered me to bring two sets of clothes to change on the road. It's really inappropriate to wear it in the house. was hesitating, the maid Suyue had already smiled and brought a new set of dresses, saying that my aunt had already instructed, because I hadn't seen me in person, it was not good to make clothes, I was the same age as Rushuang, so I temporarily took her new clothes this season to wear, and then called someone from the garment workshop to come to me tomorrow to measure the clothes.
After changing his clothes, he lay on the bed where his mother had rested, the bedding and pillows on the bed were new, and in this hot afternoon, the tentacles were cool and silky, with a faint incense. The fragrance is pleasant, wisps of into my mind, these days of bizarre turning and abrupt changes, the mother's delicate but thin life, just recognize the grandfather who has run out of oil, I don't know if the twilight snow Qiaohui has been safe? A lot of questions and worries are crowded together, and people can't rest in peace.
I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep on the bed for a while, and then I opened my eyes, and I realized that it was dark outside, and it was almost evening. I thought that my aunt was afraid that dinner would come soon, so I got up quickly. The dressing table near the window is erected with a plain silver trimmed diamond flower bronze mirror that is one foot wide, and the mirror light shines on people, and the shadow of the person is reflected in the distance, thinking that it is because it is often wiped. Mother's Girlhood sits in front of the window every morning and evening, tidying up her temples. The mirror reflected her delicate and beautiful face like a flower, at that time, did she ever dream that she would marry a man with outstanding grace and knowledge in the future, have children, and grow old together. But I don't want to end up, a cup of loess buries the bones of the wandering in a foreign land.
If, I mean, if I hadn't been born prematurely, then it would be completely reasonable for the people in the Su Mansion to spurn and despise us, then who is my biological father? My mother has never mentioned half a word to me, and Xiuniang has never revealed half a word, do my uncle and aunt know? But, no matter who he is, he can leave our mother and daughter for more than ten years without asking and not listening, which indirectly leads to the tragic life of my mother.
Just thinking about what was on her mind, Su Yue knocked on the door and invited her to the front hall for dinner, and tidied up her hair and clothes slightly, so I went with her.
By the time I arrived, everyone but my aunt had already taken their seats, and I was a little surprised, and secretly blamed myself for not missing the hour in the room with my thoughts, so that everyone had to wait for me. When I first came to Fuzhong, I was not familiar with the things in the house, and although it was a family, I had never met since I was born, and I was always a little estranged. On the way back, I kept thinking, I don't know if the relatives in the house will like me, and there is no one around me to mention it, so I have to be careful about etiquette and proportionality at all times in every word and deed, so as not to lose the face of my mother, but I am still negligent. There is a seat on the left and right of the uncle, below the vacant seat on the left is Sister Rushuang, and below the vacant seat on the right is Brother Ning Xuan. I stepped forward, very entangled, I was the youngest in the house in terms of generation and age, and my mother was deceased, it seemed that I should not go beyond Sister Rushuang and Brother Ning Xuan, and I hesitated and didn't dare to sit down.
My aunt had already arrived at this time, and sat down on top of Sister Rushuang, seeing that I was still hesitating, she smiled hehe: "I asked me to arrange the seats like this, Chen'er, you can sit next to your uncle, when your mother was at home in the past, she also sat like this." ”
Uncle also nodded and motioned for me to sit down, and I just wanted to excuse myself, but Shen Ningxuan had already stood up and pulled me generously to the seat next to him: "Good sister, just sit down quickly, brother, I have been eating wind and sand in the frontier for more than two years, and I am looking forward to this delicious meal at home." ”
His joke immediately amused everyone in the room, and his aunt Yanyan scolded with a smile: "You deserve to ask for yourself, don't let the guards in the capital do it, you have to follow your father to the Huangsha Gobi to practice, the most pitiful of me, a mother, I can't see my husband all the year round, and now if I want to see my son, I have to look forward to it." If you feel bitter now, would it be good for your father to go to the emperor and transfer you back? ”
Shen Ningxuan hurriedly excused himself: "Don't don't, don't I'm just saying this, to make our sister happy, right?" Sister Chen. After saying that, he didn't forget to be naughty and made a grimace at his aunt.
My uncle looked at me and smiled lovingly: "Back to your own home, don't be so restrained, your brother has been sticking to your mother since he was a child, and when your mother just left, he was not very sensible, crying all day long to find his aunt." After a pause, he was a little sad: "You are back, and he will love you like his own sister in the future." ”
Shen Ningxuan smiled at me a little embarrassed, and patted his chest proudly and promised: "Father is right, Sister Chen'er, there will be a brother to protect you in the future, whoever dares to bully you, my brother will never spare him!" ”
My eyes were a little hot and moist, and the emotion in my heart came up layer by layer, appeared in my eyes, and turned into crystal tears. My aunt smiled and said, "Look at it, it's good, it's made your sister cry again, hurry up and eat, and plug your mouth." The food is almost cold, let's eat! ”
After the meal, the remnants of the banquet were removed, and immediately another maid brought up the tea cup. I have always been greedy for cold, and in this hot summer, I am not very enthusiastic about drinking tea, and after the maid put it down, I did not pick it up and drink it, but smiled and answered some trivial questions about my aunt's usual preferences one by one. Shen Ningxuan took the tea handed over by the maid, but as soon as he stretched his neck, he drank it, and I couldn't help but be speechless. My aunt obviously saw my stunnedness, and laughed and blamed: "I still can't change your monkey temperament, let your sister Chen'er see the joke." Chen'er, you also taste the tea in our house, this is according to the practice of the palace, in the summer, it is specially designed to relieve the heat and eliminate food, and it only rose in the first year, and this ice cellar was built in our house this year. ”
My aunt said this, and I noticed that this tea cup was not steaming like ordinary hot tea, and when I took it and held it in my hand, I felt that it was very comfortable, and I thought it was because of the ice cellar that my aunt said. When I opened the tea cup, it was not the incense piece I usually drink, but I saw a slightly yellow and bright ****, with a few small and fresh chrysanthemum petals floating on it. Before the entrance, it was already a cold fragrance and sweetness that first drilled into the nose, and then tasted carefully, and it was slightly sweet with a little sour, slightly sour with a hint of coolness, slowly dissolved at the tip of the tongue, and suddenly felt that the lips and teeth were fragrant, in this hot summer, as if a cool breeze was blowing, making people refreshed, and the internal organs could not be said to be appropriate. I don't know what materials are used, I must have boiled it carefully, filtered it several times, mixed honey, put it in an ice cellar and hid it, and when it was taken out, sprinkled with freshly picked chrysanthemum petals. This kind of drinking, where can ordinary people have such meticulousness, and this ice cellar is not something that money alone can do, it is necessary to dig thick ice cubes on the riverbed in the harsh winter, bury them in the deep shade and dry underground, and wait until the weather is hot, and then take them out for cooling and chilling. Not to mention the cost of manpower and financial resources, it is also extremely fast to use, so even the princes and magnates may not be able to enjoy it every day.