Chapter 5 Serving Tea
"Are you alright?" Lan Sheng asked softly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Well, it's fine." I replied. Although this body is not as strong as my original body, it is not weak either. After a good night, although there was some soreness in my body, it was not as serious as if it had fallen apart.
"It's raining outside." I said again.
Lan Sheng smiled and said, "Fortunately, it's only now, if it's yesterday, it will be inconvenient." ”
I pursed my lips and didn't say anything. In fact, I remember hearing the old man say that it is unlucky to have a rainy day when you just get married, but it is good if it is sunny.
But what does it matter, no matter what kind of weather it is, from today onwards, I will work hard for the rest of my life, please my mother-in-law, be harmonious with my husband, and then create another time and space.
Thinking of this, I no longer attached to the soft and warm quilt, and sat up with a "free".
Lan Sheng was a little surprised and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
I moved my legs out, put on my shoes, and said, "I'm going to wash it, and I'll give my mother tea later, and my mother should get up at this hour." ”
"Hmm." Lan Sheng didn't seem to have turned his mind a little.
I was about to get up, but Lan Sheng suddenly grabbed me, squeezed his eyes at me, and said, "Do you want to go so early?" After the mother gets up, she usually recites the Buddha first. ”
Then I'll sort it out first and wait, I can't be late anyway.
But looking at Lan Sheng's meaning, it is for me to accompany him in the bed first. I patted the back of his hand, leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, "Don't you know?" Women are very slow to clean up, I'm afraid it's too late, you lie down for a while, and then call you up when I'm almost cleaned up. With that, he gently withdrew his hand.
Lan Sheng had no choice but to give up and turn his face to look at the bed tent above his head.
I walked to the door, pulled it open a bit, and shouted "Moon Reflection" to the west wing of the courtyard.
Yue Ying was alert, as soon as I finished calling, the door of the wing room opened, and Yue Ying said, "I'll come over to serve Zhu Niang to clean." ”
I walked over to the dressing table, picked up a comb and combed my hair, and Lan Sheng also got down and paced in front of the dressing table.
After a while, Yueying came in with hot soup. She first put the hot soup on the table, then blessed it, and said happily: "Slave to my aunt and Zhu Niang!" ”
I put down my comb and smiled.
Lan Sheng smiled: "Yueying's clever mouth! Then he turned around and went to the cabinet to take out the reward, handed it to Yue Ying, and said, "Such a talking maid should be rewarded!" ”
Yue Ying smiled and said, "Aunt Xie! ”
Lan Sheng doesn't have a maid to serve closely, and I have always come by myself for things like washing. So when Yueying took the hot soup to the bathroom, I let her out.
There were only two people in the bathroom, Lan Sheng and me, and he twisted the handkerchief while saying, "You said that you only need Yueying and a maid by your side for this reason, no wonder, it is useless for you to have more." ”
I smiled slightly and said, "If I can do it myself, I'm used to doing it alone." "Thinking about Yueying's residence again, my original intention was not to let Yueying be wronged, but Yueying's identity is a maid after all, and letting a maid live in a room is not too ostentatious in the eyes of outsiders, which will be unfavorable to Yueying.
When I talked to Lan Sheng about this last night, I didn't have time to think about it, but when I thought about it today, I felt that something was wrong, so I discussed with Lan Sheng: "Why don't you rearrange a place for Yueying to live, is that room a little bigger?" Isn't it a little inappropriate for Moon Ying to live? ”
Lan Sheng smiled and said, "What do you think?" He pursed his lips and continued: "Compared with other maids in the house, it is indeed a little inappropriate. After a pause, he said, "That wing also has a dark room, why don't you let her live there?" ”
That's a good arrangement, and I nodded approvingly.
After washing, I called Yueying in and asked her to help me comb my hair. Lan Sheng had already dressed, sat on a chair and read a book, quietly waiting for me to finish it.
When I went out, I asked Yueying to take out a small box and take it with me. There was a string of Buddhist beads in the box, because I heard Lan Sheng say that my mother-in-law likes to recite Buddha, so I went to Jinshan Temple in Qiantang to ask for a string of Buddhist beads before I got married, so that I could give it to my mother-in-law after passing the door.
Because I stayed here for about ten days in my previous life, I still have some impressions of the layout of this house. The yard where Lan Sheng and I live is in the front yard, and we have to cross the garden to get to the backyard where my mother-in-law lives.
It was raining lightly outside, and Yue Ying and I held an umbrella, and Lan Sheng held an umbrella alone.
Walking through the garden, we came to the main house in the backyard.
The door of the main room was open, Lan Sheng and I entered the house, and saw the maid Mei Xiang helping her mother-in-law out of the inner room. I glanced at it casually, and there was a Buddha statue enshrined in the inner room.
The mother-in-law's body is actually very healthy, and her gait is very steady, and Mei Xiang's posture of supporting her mother-in-law fell stiffly.
My mother-in-law sat upright on top of the high hall, and Lan Sheng and I knelt upright in front of her. A maid came over with tea next to me, I took it, held the tea cup, lowered my head, and said with great respect and solemnity: "Shuzhen invites my mother to use tea." ”
After doing this for a while, the mother-in-law finally took the tea cup.
She took a sip of her tea and her gaze fell on me.
In order to show joy, I specially picked out a robe with flowers for Luan Feng today.
After being silent for a while, my mother-in-law took a red paper bag from Mei Xiang and handed it to me, but she didn't say anything.
I bowed and said, "Thank you, mother." ”
Then the mother-in-law spoke, "Get up and sit down." ”
I stood up and motioned for Yueying to come forward, then took the small box in her hand, held it to my mother-in-law, and said, "Shuzhen heard that my mother is a person who believes in Buddhism, so I went to the temple to ask for a string of Buddhist beads, I don't know if my mother likes it or not." ”
A smile appeared on her face, and she motioned for Mei Xiang to take the box over, and said, "You kid has a heart." ”
Although she said it with a smile, her eyes never fell on the Buddha beads.
I laughed, forced to hide my disappointment, and said, "It's just a little heart, my mother has won the award." ”
She picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said, "The rules in this house have long been established, if there is anything you don't know, ask the housekeeper," after a pause, she said, "It's okay to ask me." ”
"Yes." I said respectfully, "Shuzhen just entered the door, if there is anything inappropriate, please ask my mother for guidance." ”
She let out a "hmm", looked at Yue Ying, and said, "This is the maid you brought over?" ”
"Yes." I replied.
"That's it?" She frowned and said, "I'll arrange a few more for you." ”
"No need." I politely refused, but I felt that this was inappropriate, so I hurriedly remedied, "Thank you for your kindness, Shuzhen has always been a maid by her side, and my mother doesn't need to add it to me." ”
"That's good." When she finished speaking, she stood up and said, "Let's go have breakfast." ”