Chapter 5 Loss of Dowry

Yesterday, the new lady returned home, and the two-room spring boudoir was lively for half the night. The pen is www.biquge.info hanging lanterns and advocating the noise, and the maids, maids, and cooks are all smiling. If someone you don't know knows sees it, you should think you're marrying a bride!

Nalan Qi didn't feel a little sleepy until the second half of the night, but she slept very unsteadily, only feeling that the pit was burning hot, and she was sweating a few layers.

"Look, it's snowing." "Huh? It's all March days, why is it still snowing? ”

Before dawn, she was woken up by the sound of a few maids chirping and playing. The Orchid Pavilion in the east courtyard where Nalan Qi lived was originally taken care of by a few old ladies and a maid with great rules. The rest of these difficult people are not afraid of the owner of the inner house at all, and they make a lot of noise outside.

Unable to sleep left and right, Nalan Qi simply put on a snowciver fluffy coat and stood under the half-open door to look at the snow scene.

"What a noise! Didn't you see that the young lady was still asleep in the back room? The familiar pungent accent sounded, and there was a sudden silence outside.

"Xia He, come in, I'm up." A gust of wind came in with a round-faced maid, Xu had just walked in the snow, wrapped in a compelling cool air.

"Yikes! Miss! It's a cold day, why don't you stay in bed well? Because of the hurry, Xia He's flushed face was still covered with a layer of fine beads of sweat, and she didn't care about wiping it, so she yelled.

Nalan Qi looked at the round-faced maid who had just passed her 15th birthday last month with some amusement, while holding a teacup to warm her hands and taking a sip of hot tea.

"That's right! Miss, look at my memory. I just met the spring warmth in the eldest lady's house on the road, and she said that the eldest lady plans to wait for your 6th birthday this month, and call the second-class maid Dongmei in her house. ”

Dongmei! Nalan Qi's sleepy eyes froze violently.

Her eyes turned to the plum blossom in the corner of the window, only two or three feet long, but the snow was full of flowers, and the branches were divided, or like a cockroach, or like a zombie worm, lonely like a pen, and bright as fire in the snow.

It really doesn't deserve this name, Nalan Qi shook his hand, and a sneer appeared on his lips.

"Yikes! Miss, how do you get the tea on your body? Xia Ju looked at the abrupt brown tea stains on the snow beaver coat, and shouted hurriedly, with a sense of anxiety in her tone.

Then, she saw that her master's color had not changed, and asked cautiously, "Miss Mo doesn't like Dongmei?" ”

It's a smart maid, but it's a pity that she's too anxious.

"No, your young lady is overjoyed. I'm wearing that pink pomegranate dress today, and when Qiu Ju comes back, let her comb me an ingot, it's time to say hello to the new lady. ”

Nalan Qi glanced lightly at Xia He, who was hanging his head and was anxiously rummaging in the closet, and said slowly.

"Miss, the new lady said that it was a snowy day today, so there was no need to ask for peace, and just now the eldest lady's house also passed on someone who said that there was no need to ask for peace." said that Cao Cao arrived when Cao Cao arrived, and a figure in a blue-gray cardigan skirt hurriedly ran in, carrying a compelling cold air.

"Miss, something big happened this morning!" This is a melon-faced maid, Xu is panting roughly because she just ran in, but she can't take a break, and she crackles and says.

"What's the matter?" Before Nalan Qi could speak, Xia He, who was plucking the wick, jumped out, looking impatient.

Nalan Qi looked at his two frizzy maids in the candlelight flickering from side to side, angry and funny.

"Say it." She took a sip of hot tea before speaking unhurriedly.

"This thing is novel, this morning when the new lady's personal maid was sorting out the dowry, she found that two pieces were missing!"

"What? Lost the dowry! Which two? Xia He spoke recklessly, and the gloating in his round pupils could not be concealed.

"Isn't it?" Qiu Ju frowned slightly, cautiously glanced at her own miss, and saw that although Nalan Qi's pretty face flickered in the candlelight, she didn't see annoyance, so she pulled Xia He to squat beside her young lady and spoke again.

"A few months ago, didn't the new lady and his father rise again? Worship a product! What was lost seemed to be the two golden silk fragrant wood inlaid cicada jade beads that the emperor gave to the new lady's father. By the way, in the past few days, you have made the second- and third-class maids in the house more stable, and it is said that when the new lady returns to the door, she will have to take care of it! Qiu Ju covered her mouth with a green flower handkerchief and whispered.

"Isn't stealing what the king has given you death? But this new lady is just an outer room, and when she returns to the door, do you really think she is a bride? Xia He was stunned for a moment, and shouted with a white face.

"Be quiet!" Qiu Ju happily gave her a chestnut shot. The little maid rubbed her head and muttered with a broken face. She glanced at the young lady who had not changed her expression, and saw that the young lady did not have the slightest idea of making decisions for herself, so she stopped very self-consciously.

Nalan Qi still stood by the window without moving, but his thoughts flew to his previous life.

What a thief shouts to catch a thief! The rectification is rectified, but the poor nurse was beaten to death! If you don't have courtesy, you really can't afford the opportunity to love God and live a lifetime again.

"Xia He, at this point, it's time for my father to get up and go to the study, you go to find an inlaid enamel bottle on the back of a red plum case. Qiu Ju, you ask the maid in charge of flowers and plants to cut off a few branches of red plums in the corner of the window. ”

Nalan Qi blinked his eyes and hid the ruthlessness inside. Fu put the cup in his hand on the square table of the three-bent leg lotus lotus root, breathed a sigh of relief, and then spoke.

"Miss! The new lady has ill intentions, this loss of dowry may be aimed at us, and I don't know how many dirty things will be in the future! Miss, why are you still so laid-back? ”

Xia He's face flushed in a hurry, and he didn't care about the difference between dignity and inferiority, and muttered quietly. But when she met her own young lady's glass-bead-like eyes, she felt at ease for no reason. After pursing his lips, he finally didn't say anything, got up and went to work.

At three o'clock, the neatly dressed Nalan Qi held the cloisonne bottle, put on a moon satin embroidered magnolia flying butterfly robe, and went out with two maids.

Last night's snow had stopped, and the ice and snow blown in by the west wind on the promenade of the Spring Boudoir had been swept clean by a few rough maids. The air was not too cheerful, slightly gloomy, and the corridor was like a giant snake with a white back, stretching out into the gray mist in the distance. The deliberately designed bumpy ground in the garden to the west was also filled in by the early spring snow, turning it into a white flat land.

"Huh? Isn't Mo the second master in the garden? ”

The sharp-eyed Qiu Ju was the first to shout, and a pair of slender eyes that were not too big were almost narrowed into cross-eyed eyes by her.

Nalan Qi raised his head when he heard this. In the distance, she could only see a vague outline, but she knew it was her father.

Behind the man, there is an extremely green pine and cypress, the mouth invades the Bihan, the forest towers the green peak, the shape of the crane is like a cover, and the pan is like a dragon. Shaking in the snow, but still standing upright.

"Stand here, I'll go to my father."

Nalan Qi turned around and instructed his two maids to walk out of the corridor in broken steps. "Squeak, squeak, squeak," some melting snow and ice make a string sound.

Dozens of steps away, she could already clearly see the pine bamboo outlined with gold thread on her father's bright silk milky white placket, and the dark purple silk crown hanging from both sides of the white jade hair crown that held the bun in place. The man still holds an ancient book in his hand and stands elegantly.

"Eight or nine days of typhoid fever, rheumatism fighting, body pain, unable to rotate to the side, no vomiting or thirst, pulse is weak and wet, the main of cinnamon branch aconite soup."

The clear and clear sound echoed in the cold and quiet garden of the early morning.

Nalan Qi remembered some secrets from his previous life and wanted to laugh. Everyone in the world knows that the Nalan family has a second son who has a daughter in a painting - Nalan Junyi, but they don't know that he is still a medical idiot, and he always sits with a wonderful dream of rejuvenation. However, his talent is limited, and the power of this prescription is not as good as his own daughter. was so angry that he always patted his young daughter's head and shouted: "Why doesn't Qi'er share some talent with his father?" ”

"Four taels of cinnamon branches, peeled; ginger three taels, cut; three aconite, cannon, peeled, broken into eight pieces; licorice two taels, broiled; Twelve jujubes, broken. ”

The playful and childish children's voice is like a trickle, and the melting snow and ice are slowly flowing in the early spring morning.

"Huh?" The man looked at the ancient book in his hand before turning around.

But he saw a girl standing in front of him, covered tightly by a moon satin embroidered magnolia butterfly robe, revealing only a delicate little face with a light smile. The girl was also holding an enamel vase with plum blossoms in her hand, which made her skin more and more snowy, and her eyes were bright.

The man rubbed his eyes in disbelief and blinked a few times before raising his eyebrows and half-squatting to speak.

"Isn't this Qi'er? Qi'er hasn't gone to school yet, how can she know this prescription? ”

The girl ran forward with a smile, stayed in front of the man, stopped, made a series, and replied crisply, "Isn't it Qi'er?" Daddy didn't drink too much wine last night, and people couldn't tell the difference. ”

As he spoke, he shook his five fingers in front of the man.

"Nonsense, at a young age, who did you learn to talk nonsense, why did your father go to drink flower wine? How do you know this prescription? The man stretched out two fingers as if in exasperation and pinched the girl's upturned nose.

"I said, I said. If you collapse your nose, Qi'er will not be beautiful. The girl hurriedly raised her hand to say goodbye.

"Last month, Grandma Fang, who was next to my grandmother, was sick, and I happened to be on the side. Lin Langzhong said that it was typhoid fever, so he reported this prescription. ”

"Really?"

"It's more real than my grandmother's gold jewelry! By the way, Daddy, I picked the red plum and placed it in your study, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing to refresh your mind? ”

Nalan Qi glared at his father with pupils as wet as small beasts, his eyebrows fluttering and smiling, and the bright color on his face forced the lingering mist to disperse.

"Okay, go with Qi'er for your father, so that you don't have to wait for someone to cry and mumble that your feet hurt." The man bowed down and picked up Nalan Qi familiarly. The faint and elegant fragrance of ink came to her face, Nalan Qi felt that there was a mist of wetness in her eyes, and she silently buried her head in her father's placket.