Chapter 46: Sacrifice

It's the time of the spring breeze.

Lin Yan took the medicine and walked in from outside. She had already taken off her thick winter coat and changed into a spring shirt. The light gauze shirt embroidered with willow in apricot yellow, with twelve Hunan skirts embroidered with lotus lotus embroidered begonias below, is graceful and slim.

More than thirteen years old, cardamom tips in early February.

After entering the age of thirteen, Lin Yan's appearance has been growing. Since returning to Beijing, it seems that they have changed their appearance. The height has grown by half an inch, and the small steamed buns on the chest that seem to be fermented have gradually bulged, and the graceful demeanor of an adult woman can be gradually seen.

Lin Yan glanced at Mrs. Zhuang who was lying on the recliner in the center of the room, and walked over with a smile on her eyebrows: "Grandmother, it's time to take medicine." ”

Mrs. Zhuang was snoring "whirring", as if she was sleeping very soundly.

Lin Yan put the tray on the low table, turned her back to Mrs. Zhuang and said while filtering the medicine: "Grandmother, it's useless for you to pretend to be asleep." ”

Mrs. Zhuang continued to fall asleep.

Lin Yan picked up the medicine bowl, and there was brown medicinal juice inside, and it was steaming hot.

Lin Yan looked at Mrs. Zhuang and continued to smile lightly: "If my grandmother doesn't open her eyes again, I will tell my mother, and my grandmother will change the wine and hide it under the osmanthus tree in front of the courtyard." ”

The snoring stopped immediately, and Mrs. Zhuang opened one eye, the other eye was still closed, and secretly went to look at Lin Yan.

Lin Yan raised the medicine bowl in her hand and smiled intently.

Old Madam Zhuang finally opened her eyes, and said dissatisfiedly to Lin Yan with a flat mouth: "Yuan Yuan, you are becoming less and less cute." ”

Lin Yan stuffed the medicine bowl into Mrs. Zhuang's hand, and said with a smile: "When you finish drinking the medicine, I will show you cuteness immediately." ”

Old Madam Zhuang had no choice but to drink the medicine, and as soon as she finished drinking, she stuck out her tongue and frowned and said: "Bitter death, bitter death, which doctor who killed a thousand knives prescribed medicine, the old woman will pour him ten bowls of Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"

Lin Yan took the empty bowl from her hand, put it on the small table, wiped the medicinal juice stuck to the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and coaxed her: "Good medicine is bitter, good medicine is bitterΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·

Lin Wan poked her head in from the outside, rolled her eyes, and then ran to Mrs. Zhuang and Lin Yan with a smoke, holding the mahogany box in her hand, and said to Mrs. Zhuang: "Grandmother, there is candied fruit here for you to eat." ”

Old Madam Zhuang touched her head with a smile and said, "It's still a young jade." ”

Lin Wan laughed happily, opened the box herself, took a piece of candied fruit and handed it to Mrs. Zhuang's mouth, and said, "Grandmother, you eat." ”

Old Madam Zhuang smiled and said yes, and then ate the candied fruit with her hand.

As soon as the candied fruit was entered, Old Madam Zhuang frowned: "Bitter? ”

Lin Wan covered her mouth and snickered, her face full of prank and triumph.

Old Madam Zhuang deliberately said to her with a straight face: "Youyu, you are not better than your sister. ”

"Youyu, you're playing tricks on your grandmother again." Lin Yan reprimanded.

She pulled the quilt for Mrs. Zhuang, and said: "Okay, grandmother have a good rest, this medicine is sweating, and when the sweat comes out, grandmother's wind and cold will be cured, and Youyu and I will not disturb your rest." As he spoke, he took the medicine bowl and called Youyu to go out together.

Lin Wan couldn't stay idle, so she left her sister and ran out first.

Old Madam Zhuang beckoned to Lin Yan from behind and stopped her: "Yuan Yuan, you come, you come." ”

Lin Yan put down the medicine bowl, walked back to Mrs. Zhuang, and called, "Grandmother." ”

Old Madam Zhuang searched for a rosewood box from under her, and stuffed it to Lin Yan, "This is for you." ”

Lin Wan also ran back from outside, and when she saw the box in Lin Yan's hand, she pouted dissatisfiedly: "Grandmother, you secretly gave my sister good things again." ”

Old Madam Zhuang looked left and right, and said to him: "Who, who gave it." ”

Lin Wan spread out her hands and said to Mrs. Zhuang: "I want it too, my grandmother can't be partial." ”

Mrs. Zhuang said, "No, it's all for your sister." ”

Lin Wan said: "I don't believe it, my grandmother must still have it." My sister has it, and I want it too. If my grandmother doesn't give it to me, I'll tell my mother that you secretly hid the wine outside under the tree. ”

Old Madam Zhuang stretched out her hand and patted her little head, and scolded with a smile: "You little girl, why can't you suffer so much." He added: "Yours will be given to you when you grow up and leave the cabinet." ”

Lin Wan thought for a moment that it would take a long time for her to grow up to be like her sister, so she objected: "No, I want it now." ”

Mrs. Zhuang said, "Don't give it." ”

Lin Wan said: "Then I'll tell my mother to go, grandmother's wine Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"

Mrs. Zhuang also said: "Then I will also tell your mother to go, you stole my wine last time." ”

Lin Yan looked at them and pursed her lips and laughed.

She opened the box and looked inside, and there was a box full of jewelry. , look at the quality is very good.

Lin Yan picked up a bracelet and looked at it, and said strangely: "These don't look like things from this dynasty." Looking at the mark on the inner ring of the bracelet, he said, "It looks like something from the imperial palace of the previous dynasty." "The mark on it is the mark made inward.

Old Madam Zhuang said: "This is what your grandfather gave me back then, that old thief, I don't know where to grab these good things." I've been reluctant to move, and now I'll give you a dowry. ”

The emperors of this dynasty were not taboo against the previous dynasty, and these things were not considered contraband.

Lin Yan closed the box and said to Mrs. Zhuang with a smile: "Then I will take it and pass it on to my children in the future." ”

Old Madam Zhuang nodded, leaned back on the recliner a little tiredly, and asked again, "When is the wedding?" ”

Lin Yan said: "Seven days later." ”

Mrs. Zhuang said: "After becoming a parent, live a good life with the emperor, treat your husband well, let him like you, and then have a few more children." Although he is an emperor, he is also a man, if you treat him well, he will always see your goodness. Don't think that if he likes you, you're sorry for your aunt, your aunt is dead after all, you are still alive, you still have to live, there is no reason to wronged the living for the sake of the dead. ”

Lin Yan said: "Grandmother, I know what to do. ”

Old Madam Zhuang sighed, and then said: "Yuan Yuan, you are very good and kind-hearted, if you marry outside, your grandmother will not worry about you not having a good time at all." But it's the palace, and my grandmother is afraid that you will be too wronged for the Lin family and the prince when you arrive. ”

Lin Yan smiled: "Grandmother, I am not a person who will wronged myself, nor am I a person who is willing to suffer. My grandmother and father would not be willing to let me be wronged. ”

Old Madam Zhuang said in her heart, if she was really reluctant to let her be wronged, how could she send her to the palace. In the final analysis, under the balance between the fate of the family and Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan is still the one who was sacrificed. This kind of thing really can't be escaped no matter what kind of family you are born in.