Chapter 7: Gossip
On the third day after Hajlan's first birthday, the sky cleared, as she was feeling at this time, because her request to eat with Nalan the previous night had been approved.
Early in the morning, Hajlan came to the main room to welcome her "Qing Dynasty virgin dinner", in fact, Nalan was a little worried about weaning her, you must know that weaning children is not an easy task, some are crying for a few days to accept the facts, but these days are enough to bear. There are even more difficult children, I don't know how long it will take to quit successfully, and there are still seven or eight years old who can't do without breast milk. But the atmosphere in this house is relatively positive, not very indulgent to children, just break it. It is said that even the well-behaved and demure Qi Buchen made trouble for two months, and Erluli sent the nurse home and did not allow them to meet for half a year.
When I got to Hajran, it was very smooth. It's nonsense, you can't really get used to being breastfed, right? Especially when the people around her are eating, the aroma of pure natural and pollution-free meals tempts Hajlan all the time, but unfortunately her teeth have not grown at that time...... Hajlan ate the fragrant meal and was in a good mood. Amma looked at her smiling daughter and couldn't help but slightly curl the corners of her mouth, and her face was much softer than usual.
As the days passed, Hajlan was in the first period of rapid human growth, and she grew rapidly. I was finally able to walk around slowly and openly, and my range of activities in the small courtyard gradually increased. With that came more and more news coming about. For example, E-Niang doesn't just sit at home and manage which girl is lazy and which cook is greedy, she will also ask people to inquire about things outside......
The more he knew, the more embarrassed Hadiran became! Could it be that her common sense is still in the literacy stage? For example, in some bits and pieces of things that I remember, it is specifically said that as long as it is crossing, it must be a fight, it is a house fight at home, and it is a palace fight when you enter the palace, if you don't enter the palace and get married, it is to continue to fight in the house. In a word, women are born to be difficult with each other. But now, what is this?! However, there are two aunts of Amma's original owner, namely Aunt Li and Miss Wang. Aunt Li once gave birth to a boy, but unfortunately the first son born from the Nalan family died of illness in the front and back feet, and the infant mortality rate was high, which was the national condition of this era. Hajlan originally thought that there would be at least one character like Jia Huan here, and everyone had the rules of the top. Even Aunt Li, who gave birth to a son, is not a person who talks nonsense, Miss Wang is a maid in Tongfang (I heard Mama Shulu say that Miss Wang was originally a dowry maid of the Nalan clan and one of the members of the reserve army in Tongfang. Slightly younger, a little more lively, a little more talkative in front of the Nalan clan, a little bit of a pinch, but he hasn't been unreasonable, at least Hajilan hasn't seen or heard anyone gossip. Of course, it could also be because she was still young and hadn't been exposed to it yet?
Another example is the name, the name is a thing that others say more than themselves. Hajlan has a name, but she doesn't use it much, the maid grandmothers call her "Xiao Gege", and the brothers and sisters call her "sister". Another example, sister. Hajlan is not Lori after all, when he was young, he was very yearning when he heard "born calves are not afraid of tigers", and secretly wrote them down to encourage themselves to struggle, and only after growing up did he come back to the taste of "not afraid" is not the same as "beating", the tiger will not care if the cow is afraid of him, the tiger just eats! When you make up for the brain, you can make up for your own Wang Ba's spirit, and come to the dynasty for thousands of miles, just like this Qing Dynasty. When the matter comes to the eyebrow, Nanjing and Beijing will still sign a treaty to cede land and pay compensation. But my sister is too quiet and well-behaved.
Hajlan was depressed to find that some of the common sense she knew, if not unrecognizable, had been subverted in this square courtyard. The Qing Pu staff (Qing Piercing Knowledge Popularizer) didn't tell her, didn't tell her that she had to master bilingual, and Cao Gong didn't say what to do if the girl was very honest and attentive to take care of herself, and there was no one who sued the black cousin.
Common sense is useless, so I have to learn it now, "Marxism needs to be localized, and everything needs to be analyzed in concrete terms", Hajran comforted himself.
Hajlan absorbs common sense like a native of the Qing Dynasty, and many children's toys of this era can still be seen when Hajlan was very young, and when she grows up, they are replaced by Transformers and Barbie, and now I can't help but feel a sense of intimacy when I see these handmade zuò toys again. There are physical objects to teach, and speaking Manchu to apples is always more than pronouncing the image of "Apple Apple Apple" and remembering it clearly.
The house was still peaceful, and the grandmothers were still trying to teach Hajlan to speak, and they had taught simple greetings in addition to words, and now they began to work hard to teach long sentences. While teaching, he also boasted: "Xiao Gege learns so fast!" Nalan was very happy when he heard it, and the days were at the end of the year in such a smooth manner, and it was almost the New Year.
It's the New Year, and Erluli and Qi Buchen took their annual leave as a matter of course. In the afternoon of this day, when Erluli came back from school, Nalan said, "How is school today?" Are you naughty? Erluli said with a straight look: "Mr. today teaches "University", the master said that his son has studied well, and yesterday's homework was also handed in, and Mr. took a pen to circle several words on the practice. Nalan said to Erluli: "It just so happens that there is a palace in your study that has issued the "Eternal Calendar". I'll get it later, and you can say it. Eruri answered, and the servant woman in the main room was very discerning, and went to the inner study to fetch the book.
Turning to a certain page, Nalan asked Erluli what he meant. Eruri went to the Arhat couch and sat across the kang table from Nalan and listened to Eruri speak slowly. Hajlan was sitting next to Eniang, and he also craned his neck to look at it.
I saw that this is an almanac, traditional characters, I can't read it at all! Indeed, she knows every word she knows, well, the good student Hajilan knows the traditional Chinese characters, but it is very rare to understand them together, after all, the connotation of this kind of book is not the same as the "Book of Exhortations".
After the two finished discussing, they actually just talked about the recent things, and kept the rest to look at it slowly or ask when they used it. In a blink of an eye, seeing that Hajilan was also watching, Nalan smiled and said, "Hajilan likes to read? Then he pointed to a simple word for her to recognize: "This is the word 'A'." Hajlan's heart was happy, and it just so happened that he read it out. Eruri found it interesting, and pointed at the book indiscriminately, the words were all known to Hajlan for a long time, and he parroted his tongue to read along. Eruri became interested and offered to teach his sister how to read.
In the evening, after dinner, everyone got together to chat, and Eruri did not forget the stubble. Not only did he tell Ama interesting things in school, but a certain classmate was beaten in the palm of his hand. also said that he had time to teach his sister to read. Amma looked at Hajlan, who had a black line on his face, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Late at night, Hajlan lay in a daze, really bored, and thought to himself: "Amma hasn't had time to enter the bracelet space recently, I don't know what I'm busy with?" At this time, in the quiet night, I heard the content of her two girls and Jing'er's sleeper talk.
"You know, our Daqing won the battle with Lao Maozi this time." Finch said.
"Of course I know, our lord is one of the heroes of this time, and long live the lord may soon add an official to our lord." Jing'er broke the news.
"Did Mama Shulu say that?!" Finch said in a tone that I know where you came from.
"Yes." Jing'er said.
"You know,......" said the finch.
Oh, Amma is about to be promoted, no wonder he has been so busy lately that he hasn't seen anyone. "I'll definitely find a chance to ask Amma tomorrow." These were the thoughts of Hajlan before he fell asleep.