Futsuki, Kifu.

"Seventh sister, come and try this chilled lotus seed lily soup, Sister Yin Hong in the wife's room just sent it." Qing Qing came in with a glass crystal bowl, and her elbow opened the bead curtain with a tinkle sound, but she was careful in her hands and the wind under her feet.

I saw a soft woman lying on the elm chaise longue, with ice muscles like snow, jade cheeks slightly reddened, wearing a honey-colored wide-sleeved gauze shirt, carved and embroidered pink apricot branches, scattered petals, lined with moon-white embroidered blouse, and covered with a bud yellow smoke yarn scattered flower skirt. Hearing the sound, the little face was lifted from the slender arm, the beautiful eyes were looking forward to the waves, the ring was ringing, and the smile was like a flower.

Qingqing can't help but look stupid, although the seventh sister is only nine years old, she is already a beauty embryo, not a small jasper, but a charming disaster.

Qing Qing hurriedly shook her head, and muttered in her heart, "Bah, what kind of disaster, Miss must marry into a family and be the housewife, how can she be compared to ordinary women." "In her opinion, everything is good for Miss.

"I've thought about it for a long time, but my mother never liked me touching it." Ying Ning got up and sat upright, brushing the sleeves of her tulle shirt slightly. Zitang, the big girl on the side, put down the silk fan, took the glass crystal bowl from the case, and a burst of coolness hit.

"Madame is a tight girl. The girl is not better than those brothers who study and practice martial arts in the hot winter and summer, and the girl is naturally more delicate. Zitang handed over the ice bowl and said, "If Mrs. didn't feel sorry for the girl, how could she ask Sister Yin Hong to send this." In previous years, the ice should have been used in July, but now the ice soup has been sent to you early, and the second sister, fifth sister, and sixth sister must not have it. ”

Yingning stretched out his hand to take the glass bowl, the crystal clear glass was burned, the cold soup was held, the lotus seeds were stewed crispy, the lily was icy and jade, poured with mint dew, acacia honey, decorated with mint leaves, the lotus seeds were rotten in the mouth, the lily was sweet and delicious, cool and penetrating. Ying Ning instantly felt that most of the heat had gone.

"The second sister is okay, after all, she is the daughter-in-law of my wife, and she is the eldest sister of our girl. How can the fifth sister and the sixth sister compare with our sister Ning, they were originally born to concubines......"

"Cyan, don't talk nonsense." Ying Ning gently wiped the corner of her mouth with Juanpa: "Mother is a mother-in-law, she treats her sisters and sisters equally, and treats the fifth and sixth sisters as her own, and she has been raised by her side since she was a child, how can she be partial." If your words are heard by those who have a heart, you may not know how to arrange your mother. ”

Qingqing pouted: "What Miss said is that I am talking nonsense." ”

Zitang took the lotus seed and lily soup that had been eaten for most of the time, and said with a smile: "Cyanqing has always been straightforward and fast-talking, it must be unintentional." ”

"Yes, yes, my faithful miss, no one can compare to Miss in the hearts of slaves."

"You little girl." Ying Ning smiled, and her beautiful eyes were looking forward to it. When she saw it, she felt that her own young lady was the most beautiful, and the one who could compare with the young lady should be the concubine in the palace": The young lady is beautiful and filial, and I don't know which man will be blessed in the future. ”

Although Ying Ning is young, she is not an ignorant child, she is a girl in the boudoir, and she has been reading the women's books "Internal Training", "Female Commandment", and "Female Fan Jielu" since she was a child. Hearing this, I couldn't help but blush.

"I don't know how old I am, where did I get these pickled words, go down quickly, and send the glass bowl back to my wife's house quickly." Zitang waved his hand.

"Hey, I'll go now, the glass bowl is precious, and if it is broken, it will definitely be peeled off." Blue blinked, grinning as she held the bowl and stepped back.

Yingning Waner, after drinking ice soup, he was in a good mood. "Slow down, it's time for Mother to get up, let's go over and say goodbye. Although my mother loved me and avoided my greetings, my mother greeted my grandmother every day. Zitang, go to the eight-treasure pattern vertical cabinet and get the small clothes I sewed for my mother, the silk fabric is the coolest to wear in summer. ”

"Yes. Our wife is loving, obedient to her mother-in-law, and loves her children. Without a wife, a slave and maid cannot serve the young lady. Zitang turned around and took out the copper key.

Zitang is not a child of the family, but Mrs. Ji saved him in Xianzhuang. At that time, the family members of the Jifu family returned to Ningde Villa in Qingzhou to escape the summer. It coincided with a major drought. Zitang's family is the only one left, and when she is hungry, she even eats Guanyin soil. Mrs. Ji couldn't bear it and brought it with her. Later, it was pointed out to Yingning.

Mrs. Ji Yang was born in Qingzhou and is the eldest daughter of the prefect of Qingzhou. Although it is a four-grade prefect, it is a scholarly family. The ancestors of the Yang family have been appointed by the saint to the Jinshi, and they have been given the "Jinshidi", and several farms are located in the southern suburbs of Qingzhou. After several generations of business, although Yang's father did not have the same achievements as his ancestors, he also had 100 acres of fertile land, a few shops, and a solid family. Yang's elder brother was smart since he was a child, he studied literature at the age of three, and passed the township examination, and was admitted to the juren at the age of 18. When I went to Yang's place, I didn't have to worry about food and clothing, I was really raised by Miss Everyone, not to mention reading and writing, and since I was a child, I learned to take care of the Grange shop with my mother, and I was a housewife early, virtuous and virtuous. When it came to the age of marriage, Yang Fucha was said to be the matchmaker's stepping on the lintel, Yang's mother was reluctant to let her daughter marry early, and those five-grade and six-grade foreign bachelors must be unsightly, so they picked it up unhurriedly.

Until Yang met Master Ki from Kyoto. Otherwise, how can I say it, people's marriage is doomed. One is far away in Tiandu, and the other was born in Qingzhou.

Mrs. Ji's Liu is weak and must come to Qingzhou every year to escape the summer. The Ji family's Zhuangzi is not far from the Yang family's Zhuangzi. Unexpectedly, Master Ji never forgot when he saw the Yang family, and inquired in many ways, the beautiful woman was actually the daughter of the Yang family, and he invited the matchmaker to come to the door a few days later.

Mrs. Yang was overjoyed when she heard that it was the second son of Taifu who asked to marry, and she was worried about the difference between the family and the family, and there was no master of the six gods for a while. But in the end, they made up a good marriage.

"Yuebai, quickly take the bamboo incense basket, the seventh sister is going to Moyun Hall to greet his wife." Zitang took out his small clothes and shouted at the door.

Yuebai was sitting under the porch and napping from the heat, bored. A thin layer of sweat broke out from the hot bridge of the nose. Hearing the girl's summons, she responded to the call, shook the crumpled blue-green thin cotton undergarment, went to the ear room to get the incense cage, opened the beaded curtain and entered the boudoir of the seventh sister.

As soon as I entered the house, I listened to Zitang's persuasion: "The girl is also a flower-like age, how can she not like those red, green, green, gold, and blue things." I look at the terrine that the girl is wearing. Look at the second sister, red gold flowers, gold inlaid hostas, and gold-inlaid Dongzhu earrings, which are not rich and magnificent, just as good-looking. ”

"I don't want those mundane things, pick up a flower hairpin, and come to the white jade earrings. If it's too late, my mother will go to my grandmother's Wanjudo. "The woman in the bronze mirror, although the white jade face is only slightly powdered, the beautiful and refined temperament has made people unable to take their eyes off.

"Our girls are naturally beautiful, and they don't have to be beautiful to be beautiful." Yuebai, who was on the side, listened to what Qingqing said, nodded and smiled hurriedly, carefully put the small clothes into the incense cage, and covered it with a thick cloth. "That's my vulgarity." Zitang smiled.

Ying Ning looked at the woman in the mirror and was distracted. Since the last birthday, the strip has been drawn faster, and the jaw has gradually sharpened. is often sighed by the elders and subordinates that the seventh sister was born well. She didn't think about how much wealth she wanted, she just wanted to live a peaceful life with her mother.

After crossing the covered bridge and stepping steps, I saw two girls outside the gate of Moyun Hall, one wearing a scattered flower Ruyi cloud smoke skirt, and the other wearing a smoke and water flower skirt, laughing and coming.

"Fifth sister and sixth sister, you are so Yaxing on such a hot day, what a good thing is so happy."

The little maids beside the five girls and the six girls, Xingbai and Lushen, were busy and blessed with their bodies": Miss Seven. ”

"Yesterday, my mother just tasted pea yellow, and the sixth sister had to make the mung bean cake and sent it today, and it was just a good one, but it was filled with a full plate. I think the sixth sister was greedy and begged Aunt An to do it. Mother will give her food in the end. You, be careful to eat like a fat girl. The fifth sister smiled and pinched the sixth girl's cheek. Although Aunt An loves the sixth sister, she doesn't like her daughter's gluttony, saying that she doesn't look like a lady.

"The fifth sister said nonsense, my mother has little appetite since the summer, only my aunt's handiwork, and my mother can barely eat some ......" The sixth sister's face was slightly red and a little embarrassed, and she protested.

"Aunt An's craftsmanship has always been good, I'll try it later." Ying Ning took the sixth sister's hand and entered the main courtyard of Moyun Hall together.

Although Ji Yingxue and Ji Yingyao are concubines, they have been raised in the main mother's house since childhood, learning and reading together, and then living in Qingzhi Pavilion. The housemother is kind, and she eats food, jewelry, clothes, and fat powder every month, and she never deducts these things, and she raises them like her daughter. The character of the raised is dignified and generous, but it is no different from the grandson.

As a result, Mrs. Ji often sighed that it is really important to choose a virtuous housewife, to be filial to the elders, to teach the children, to manage the accounts, and to do everything beautifully.

Standing on the porch in front of the house were two second-class maids from Moyuntang. Seeing a group of girls and slaves coming slowly, Magenta hurriedly greeted her, took the incense cage in Yuebai's hand, and said that the girl had a heart. Yan Yan hurriedly turned around and opened the glass bead curtain, and reported: "Madam, the girls are here to greet you." The Seven Girls also came. ”

Yang was talking to the two aunts, and when he heard the news, he hurriedly put down the tea cup in his hand and pursed his lips with a handkerchief: "The seventh sister is the most afraid of heat, why did she come over in the scorching sun today." The fifth sister and the sixth sister are too, isn't there no need to say hello? Quickly call them in, and ask Yan Hong to cook a lotus leaf tea for the girls to taste. ”

"Hey, slave and maid are going." The face is clever.

"The girls are filial. Although the weather is hot, it shouldn't be a problem to come with a silk umbrella. Aunt Qian said: "It's just that the old lady is old and weak, and I'm afraid it's a troublesome thing to suffer from heat stroke......"

"Mother, Yingning has come to greet you. What happened to my grandmother? Are you sick? The seventh girl, who had just stepped into the house, asked around the large Nanmu pastel screen.

"Mother." "Mother." Five girls and six girls are blessed.

Mrs. Ji shook her head": Your grandmother was hit by heat stroke the day before yesterday, and after the doctor's pulse, she prescribed a few medicines. Yesterday I didn't seem to be getting better. The old lady knows that you are filial, and on this hot day, she ordered me not to disturb you. ”

"It's hotter this year, much hotter than last year. The old lady is already afraid of heat, and she is a person with a sixtieth birthday, so it is inevitable that she will be a little unbearable. I'm going to make some cool fruit cake and mint soup for the old lady to eat. Aunt An sighed.

"You all go back and get ready, let's get up and go to Qingzhou earlier this year. When the old lady is better, let's go. ”

The two aunts nodded.

Ying Ning was overjoyed, and Ying Xue Yingyao on the side looked at each other excitedly.

"Qingzhou is the coolest, and those flowers and warblers are also very different from those in the house. You can also see things outside on the road. Ying Ning sat beside Yang, a small face shining brightly.

"It's just that you're the most playful, are there any of these sisters in the house who are the same as you?" Yang said angrily, and nodded the tip of the seventh sister's nose lovingly. Mrs. Ji gave birth to two brothers and one sister before the seventh sister. Lord Ji and Mrs. Ji love this girl the most.

"My sister is innocent and the most lovely." The fifth sister smiled.

At this time, the little girl brought the cooked tea.

Ying Ning took the teacup, gently skimmed off the foam with the edge of the lid, carefully sipped her small mouth, and suddenly a fresh lotus smell poured into her throat, and she couldn't help sighing, "Sister Yanhong is a good craft, how did you think of cooking tea with lotus leaves, and I will try it too." ”

Yan Hong replied, "If the seventh sister wants to drink, come to Mrs. here, although this lotus leaf tea is fragrant, it is not easy to make." The lotus leaves are easy to obtain, pick the young leaves and cut them into shreds to dry and fry, but the water for boiling tea is difficult to do, you must take the morning dew on the lotus leaves before the sun comes out, a total of a few drops, it takes two or three days to cook a pot of tea. ”

"Yan Hong's heart is ingenious, those fruits and flowers can be used by her to make tea, and even bamboo leaves can make tea. Don't say it, the tea made of bamboo leaves is very different from the usual drinking, and the indescribable refreshing taste, you can come and try it again. ”

"Really? The people around my mother are really coincidental. Yingyao was still reminiscing about the lotus leaf tea.

"Look, I've hooked out the sixth sister's gluttony again." The five girls teased, and everyone covered their mouths and laughed when they heard this.

After sitting like this for a while, and eating some mung bean cakes, Mrs. Ji took a few girls and aunts, plus slaves and maids, and a group of more than a dozen people went to Mrs. Ji's Wanshou Hall to say hello.

As soon as I walked around the verandah, I smelled the fragrance of medicine. Approaching, there was the sound of a wooden fish with "tuk, tuk......".

"The old lady is in good spirits, and she actually recites the scriptures?"

The eldest girl Xingzhi heard the report from the next person, and greeted her early at this time: "The ladies and girls came here today, and the old lady just came to the afternoon with some energy, so she can get up and talk." The minced pork porridge was accompanied by a few side dishes before eating a small half bowl, which is not chanting in the inner room. Huang Qi, go to the pot Dongting Biluochun to relieve the dryness of the wife and girl. ”

Mrs. Ji Liu, since the death of the former Fu Ji Chengkang, only burns incense and recites Buddha all day long, lives a simple life, does not like extravagance, and must eat fast on the fifteenth day of the new year, and at least half a month in January is vegetarian.

When I entered the inner room, in addition to the smell of medicine, there was only sandalwood left. On the table of the eight immortals of Nanmu, the white smoke in the copper-inlaid gold incense burner rose and spread out ethereally.

When the old lady saw everyone coming in, she slowly lowered her hammer and was about to get up with the help of Apricot and Crimson.

"Mother recited the Buddha and looked carefully." Mrs. Ji stepped forward to help Liu, and sat on the sandalwood half-branch lotus Taishi chair all the way.

"Don't worry, after drinking the medicine for two days, I feel a lot more refreshed when I wake up at noon today. It was a nightmare last night, and although I had forgotten most of it after waking up, I felt a panic in my heart, so I picked up the key again, and I felt better after reading it for half an hour. After waking up from Liu's nightmare, he only vaguely remembered that the seventh sister was shouting at her grandmother, and she seemed to have a son, Ji Yihuai, but she couldn't remember what she dreamed about.

Who would have thought that the disaster she suffered later would be a thousand times more terrible than in her dreams, but it would be difficult to hear her beloved granddaughter crying out to her grandmother. If Liu had known about these things later, he would have dragged his sick body to chant Buddha and kowtow every day.

"Mother thinks about it a lot, the sky is falling, and the old man is on top of it. The lord is filial, seeing that your mother is sick, I specially asked me to arrange the departure, and when you are well, we will go to Qingzhou to avoid the heat. ”

"If it's hot, no one can heat you, grandmother." Ying Ning blessed her body, and when she saw the old lady stretching out her hand lovingly, she took her grandmother's hand and sat beside her.

"Little girl, she doesn't grow up, but she has the ability to coax people." The old lady pretended to look at the seventh sister. Ying Ning smiled mischievously.

At this time, Huang Qi brought tea up.

Ying Ning took the teacup, the white clouds in the cup rolled, took a deep breath, the fragrance hit people, and pouted gently, a tea fragrance mixed with a sweet taste spread in the throat, so he couldn't help but take another sip.

The sisters and aunts at the bottom couldn't help but sigh that it was really good tea.

"If you like to bring some back, I, an old man, don't need these good things, and I don't like them."

"I still have it, mother, you can keep it for yourself."

"Yes, this is the lord's filial piety to you. I'm a layman, and I'm going to be ruined for me. Aunt Qian said.

"What kind of vulgar people are not vulgar people, I don't like these things, but I am also vulgar." The old lady laughed at herself. Everyone laughed.

"Then this place is my most elegant, and I have a different tea every day." Ji smiled.

"Gai Ming'er's mother brought some lotus leaf tea to make the ancestor elegant and elegant."

Listening to the fifth sister say this, everyone was happy when they heard it.