When Jinru's mother first married the Marquis of Changfeng, she fell in love with the wife of the Marquis of Qingrong in Linfu, Jiang. Later, after Fan's death, Jinxuan Jinru was raised by Jiang's own for several years. Therefore, all the women of the Fan Mansion are extremely kind to Jinyi.

Mrs. Fan beckoned Jin Yi to come closer, sat down next to her, looked at her carefully, looked at her for a long time, and smiled at everyone: "Look at it, how much Peugeot looks, this skin is so white that it is dazzling, and these purple eyes are exactly the same as her mother's, and they are more delicate than our Ru'er......"

turned back to Jinru and smiled and said, "I can compare you to it." ”

Jinru smiled coquettishly, "Good grandmother, you can hurt me a little more, don't just care about my sister." ”

Everyone laughed.

Mrs. Fan asked someone to take a rosewood brocade box and give it to Jinyi, "See you for the first time, some small jewelry things, don't laugh at the girl, put it away and play." ”

turned around and joked with a smile, "Grandmother just hurt your sister, but you look greedy?" ”

Jin Ru smiled and took it from Jin Yi's hand, opened it for her and saw that there was half a box of pearl stones inside, and on the other half, there was an amethyst jade butterfly pattern shaking.

Jinru exclaimed in a low voice, "Grandmother, this is not the warm smoke purple jade you have been collecting for a long time. ”

Old Madam Fan smiled and said to Jin Yi: "This purple jade is the most beautiful for your eyes, I can't think of anything else to give you, this pearl stone is taken back and built according to the style you like, which is more in line with your heart." ”

The rarest of the purple jade is this warm smoke purple jade. The stone is warm and moist, warm in the palm, and the purple in the stone is pervasive, like smoke and fog. A piece with a large nail cover costs dozens of silver, and this half box is full of thirty or forty pieces, and there is a piece half the size of a palm, which can be made into a ring pipe.

This gift is extremely heavy, Jin Yi is embarrassed, and laughs softly: "The old lady's gift is too precious, Jin Yi doesn't dare to accept it." ”

Mrs. Fan smiled kindly, "You are not so polite as me, in the past, when your mother came, I treated her like my own daughter, and now I treat you like Ru'er." ”

Because I saw that Jinyi was wearing a silk-colored silk jacket with a blue cinnamon pattern, and below it was a skirt with a snow-blue embroidered pattern, with a simple peach heart bun on her head, and only a hairpin with a topaz flower spike, which looked simple and elegant, gentle and moving.

Old Madam Fan shook her head and said with some pity: "It's too plain to dress." Knowing that her stepmother at home did not treat her kindly, she sighed regretfully.

At one time, he called Mrs. Ying over and asked her: "I remember that in those years, Jinyi's mother still had a lot of properties in Beijing?" ”

Mrs. Ying thought for a while and said a little vaguely, "There are some, and they haven't been good in the past few years." ”

Mrs. Fan nodded, and knew that she knew the inside story, and there were many people in the room, but it was inconvenient to say. She saw that Jin Yi was sitting with Jin Ru and talking in a group of sisters, so she said to her: "There are many people in our house, and there is a lot of noise, and the guests are all panicked when they come." Go back and take Ru'er and her sister to sit in your yard. Come back at lunchtime. ”

Mrs. Ying understood, got up and took Jinru and Jinyi to her room.

The four pots of Baozhu camellia sent by Jin Yi are being moved into Mrs. Ying's yard by the subordinates. Mrs. Ying smiled when she saw it, "Hey, this camellia grows so well, it has produced so many buds." ”

"I have pruned these two pots, and they have thirteen flowers of different colors. It can be called the 'Thirteen Taibao'. Jin Yi smiled and said to her: "Although there are not many flower branches in the other two pots, the flowers are pure, and these five flowers are the 'Five Blessings'." The other pot is called 'Drunken Eight Immortals', the fragrance of flowers is mellow, and you will get drunk if you smell too much. ”

Mrs. Ying was shocked to hear it, "There are so many elaborate names for this camellia, I have never heard of it before. ”

turned around and ordered someone to go to the small kitchen to prepare pastries, and pulled Jin Yi and the two to walk back, "Go and have a look in my conservatory." ”

The backyard is specially set up as a garden, with a small pool of blue water spraying in the middle, surrounded by various flowers, but in the middle of winter, there are no flowers in full bloom.

There is also a greenhouse with earthen wallpaper windows on the southeast corner of the garden, when the weather is good at noon, the window is opened to let in light, and the fire dragon is burning indoors and underground, which is as warm as spring. Inside, the Ditang, the yellow cypress orchid, the purple jasmine, etc. are blooming purple and red, warm and fragrant, all of which are raised in porcelain pots.

Mrs. Ying ordered someone to move the four pots of Baozhu tea in, and asked Jinyi with a smile, "What do you think of my greenhouse?" ”

Jin Yi smiled and nodded, "This greenhouse flower garden is very well set up, these flowers are well cared for, and the vases and incense making are complete in winter, and there is no shortage of hairpins for flowers." Madame is so attentive! ”

Jin Ru walked up to a pot of delicate red flowers and looked at it carefully. The petals are as thin as silk, smooth and silky, and seem to shake without wind.

She leaned over the lithe corolla, about to smell it. Qiao Wei grabbed her by the side, Jin Yi frowned slightly, and then smiled again: "It's okay, Qiao Wei is too careful." ”

Turning his head to Mrs. Ying, he said, "This pot of Lichun flowers is blooming well." ”

Mrs. Ying glanced at the safflower and said with a smile: "I don't know what the name of the flower is, but it looks strange and beautiful, and it is easy to take care of, it blooms for a long time, and it is cold-resistant." It blooms at its peak in winter. ”

Jin Yi smiled lightly, "This flower is also called poppy, flowers and fruits can be used as medicine, cough and pain." However, if the dosage is too much, it can cause fainting. It's okay to keep it in the garden, not in the house. ”

Mrs. Ying was a little surprised when she heard this, and asked again and again if Jinyi was really harmless.

"In fact, many flowers and plants can be used in medicine, but the medicine is three parts poisonous, and it doesn't hurt if the amount is not too much. For example, this Ditang flower can be used to cook water, and it is good to drink it in summer. The seeds of this purple jasmine are ground and mixed in the incense powder rubbed every day, which can be used for a long time to make the complexion white and tender, and can also eliminate the rash on the face. Jin Yi casually pointed to the flowers in the room and came one by one.

Mrs. Ying nodded approvingly, "Sister Yi knows a lot, you will come to me more often in the future, and I feel very comfortable talking to you." ”

When she returned to the garden to drink tea and eat snacks, Mrs. Ying said to Jinyi about the Xu family, "Your stepmother's maiden family is a side branch of the Xinye Xu family. In the past, it was very prosperous, but now there are not many officials in the court. Several uncles in the family are married to women from the merchant family, and the concubines often fight openly and secretly. There are also many sisters in their generation, and quarrels are inevitable. ”

She took a sip of tea and laughed a little contemptuously, "I heard that the Xu family had some trouble with your father when she was a girl, and then somehow married your father as a concubine." She was also a concubine, and I heard that there was a big quarrel with her family at that time. ”

Jin Yi was stunned, he was already a little strange, the lintel of the Xu family was not low, how could he be willing to be a concubine? It turned out that they really met before they got married.

"Now it's considered to be out of the blue, and I've become the wife of your Qingrong Marquis Mansion." Mrs. Ying looked at Jinyi, "Your mother's dowry is now in her hands. ”