There are still ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Xifu is preparing for the festival, and early in the morning, there are people from Zhuangzi and the shop who come over, some send things, and some come to reconcile.

Mrs. Jin asked Jiao to help Song Xiuzhu take care of the festival, Jiao didn't treat herself as an outsider, and besides, this is what she is used to doing in the old mansion, although Xifu is in the capital, but the population is simple, Jin Min's official position is low, and there are not many relatives and friends in Xifu on weekdays, and the gifts to be given are limited, but there is no festival pomp in the old mansion.

In the morning, Jiao's asked Mrs. Jin to say goodbye, and a little girl told her that the mother-in-law who was in charge of purchasing dry goods was waiting for her in the courtyard.

Jiao Shi came out and walked across the courtyard with three or four maids. At present, Mrs. Jin is in charge, and she will not take care of everything herself, in addition to asking Song Xiuzhu and Jiao to help her, and letting the first-class maids around her, Juying and Jin Lu's family, also come over to help, but Song Xiuzhu and Jiao both understand that these two are here to stare at them.

Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, the chrysanthemums in Chunhui Hall are also blooming, purple and red, and the chrysanthemums are bursting. Jiao Shi looked at the chrysanthemums, and was about to ask the maid to cut a few branches and insert them, when he saw the second-class maid Begonia next to Mrs. Jin standing behind a row of stone flower shelves, as if talking to someone.

The hollow lattice could only see the begonia, and the person's body was blocked by the flower pot.

Jiao's heart moved, and he glanced at the maid Chu'er beside him, and Chu'er followed him knowingly.

Jiao took the other maids to the small cross-courtyard to work.

I didn't come back until the fourth watch last night, and I had to go to Mrs. Jin's place in the morning to calm down, and Linglong didn't sleep enough. I drank two cups of strong tea in a row to refresh myself.

Jin Yu remembered that her mother thought she didn't know about the fifth sister, so she asked her: "Fifth sister, didn't you sleep well at night?" ”

Linglong has no ill feelings towards this sister-in-law, she was not born when her mother had an accident, she smiled: "I forgot the hour when I embroidered last night, and I slept late." ”

Jin Yu asked again: "What did the fifth sister embroider?" ”

Linglong said: "I'm embroidering a screen for my second cousin." ”

Jin Yu was only a seven or eight-year-old child, and when she heard it, she became curious: "What kind of screen is it, can the fifth sister let me take a look?" ”

Linglong smiled and nodded: "It's flowers and birds, you can see it if you want to see it, I still have some handkerchiefs and purses there." If you like it, pick it. ”

Jin Yu and Jin Yuan live together in Wanghe Garden. On weekdays, I always heard the third sister scolding the fifth sister, and she thought that the fifth sister was a bad person at a young age. At this time, I talked to Linglong for a few words, but I felt that the fifth sister was not as bad as the legend, and the third sister never allowed her to touch her own things. The fifth sister not only asked her to see the screen. He also said that she could pick a handkerchief and purse.

"Then I'll be over in a moment." After speaking, she muttered a little again, in case her mother and third sister knew. Will they count her down, she turned around and asked the maid Dongmei, "Can I go to the fifth sister?" ”

Dongmei was stunned, a little embarrassed, looked at Linglong, and said, "Didn't you say yesterday that you would let Sister Lianxiang wrap your nails?" When the maid saw her just now, she also said that she had picked a lot of impatiens. ”

Jin Yu hummed, a little disappointed, but still said to Linglong: "Then I'll go to the fifth sister's house another day, and the fifth sister will keep the handkerchief and purse for me." ”

At this time, Song Xiuzhu was going to the cross-garden with Lixiang to manage the tent, and Jin Yu saw her and ran over.

Rika is dressed up very prominently today, with a newly sewn pink gown, a gold-inlaid jade hairpin on her head, and her face is bare, more handsome than usual. When she came to greet Mrs. Jin in the morning, Song Xiuzhu had already told Mrs. Jin that this was the room where the third master had just opened his face.

It's just a room, and the old lady Jin didn't ask much, and also rewarded two red gold hairpins and two bright-colored materials. Her old man is from the past, and she doesn't have to think much about this kind of thing to understand in her heart, this Lixiang was Song Xiuzhu's maid, and the things here are clear at a glance.

Xingyu went to the toilet just now, came back at this time, and asked Bai Lu quietly: "Does the old lady have any orders?" ”

Bai Lu said in a low voice: "That's not true, my cousin's wife and a few relatives of the old lady's mother's family will come over in a while, all of them are foreign men, and the old lady will let Mrs. Song, Miss, and aunts all go to their own places, so there is no need to wait here." If we hadn't waited for you, we would have gone back long ago. ”

Linglong saw that Xingyu was back, so she said, "Let's go, I didn't sleep well yesterday, I'll go back to make up for sleep." ”

Back in their small courtyard, Xingyu sent out the white dew and the spring equinox, and Linglong asked, "You have been gone for so long, is there any news of Jin Sheng?" ”

Xingyu said with a smile: "No wonder the master gave Miss this name, this is the seven tricks of exquisite heart, and the maid can't hide it from you when she goes to a toilet." ”

Linglong took a sip of mung bean soup and said, "You've been there for too long, what did the begonias say?" ”

"Sister Haitang said, the one named Jin Sheng and his son, this will be in the woodware shop on Haobrim Street, we only have that woodware shop in Xifu, and the business has not been good, Mrs. Song and the third master are thinking about transferring this shop out, then Jin Sheng is worried that he and his son will not even be able to stay in the capital, so they will be sent to Zhuangzi, so they came to find the old lady, in the sense of the word, they came to ask for peace, in fact, they wanted the old lady to take them back to their hometown in Wuzhong."

These people were all given to him by Mrs. Jin when Jin Min came to the capital. When Feng was there, these people had a good time, and when Song Xiuzhu was in charge of the house, he sent all the old people away, and this Jin Sheng was lucky and stayed in the shop in the capital.

"Well, I'm fine here, you went to get the right cards, just say that I almost didn't have the five-color silk thread mixed with gold silk in the house, and let you buy it."

Xingyu promised to go out, picked up the curtain and folded it back: "By the way, Miss, when I was talking to Sister Begonia, I saw someone hiding behind the flower table with some lips, Sister Begonia asked me to go first, I went around the flower shelf to see, it turned out to be Xiao Chuan next to Mrs. Fourth." ”

Linglong nodded, this fourth aunt Jiao was afraid of being forgotten, and she wanted to come in with a foot everywhere, she really thought that this was an old mansion.

If she Jiao is smart, then she will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and work hard like this to stir up trouble everywhere, and in the end she doesn't know which one is unlucky.

"Fifth Miss, the third master has come to see you."

It was the spring equinox that came in, and the little girl was still young, and she was fuss when she saw Jin Zifeng coming back.

Linglong dressed neatly, came out of the ear room, and when he came to the main house, Jin Zifeng had just stepped into the threshold.

Linglong gave Jin Zifeng a blessing, Jin Zifeng looked at his sister, and saw that she was wearing a half-new folded branch pattern gown, combed a double snail bun, fat powder was not applied, long eyebrows into the sideburns, lips like cherries, like a pearl jade on the side. He sighed in his heart, in another two or three years, I am afraid that among the ladies in the entire capital, there is no one who can stand out more than his own sister, no wonder Gu Jinzhi is still so young.

"I saw that you didn't have much energy in the morning, and the third brother was worried that you were sick again, so he came to see you."

Linglong thanked Bai Lu and asked Bai Lu to serve the jasmine slices, Jin Zifeng took a sip and said: "This jasmine is dried by yourself, no wonder the second cousin always praises you for your ingenuity." ”

Linglong smiled: "If the third brother likes it, I will let someone send it to you." ”

The two brothers and sisters broke up unhappily since the last time they were in Zhuxiangyuan, and it was the first time they spoke alone, Linglong didn't know why her brother came to her, a thought flashed in her mind, but she didn't think it would be so, although the Jin family was not a scholarly family, but the brother was also a scholar, even if he wanted to tie up the powerful, he wouldn't do it too obviously.

Jin Zifeng smiled: "You are not a female celebrity all day long, you are fiddling with these flowers and plants, you should also go outside to walk around, I will go to Gu Jiayuan in a few days, Gu Jiayuan is a scene in the capital, you and the third brother go together, the sixth and seventh ladies of the Gu family will also go." (To be continued......)