"You girl still know to come back! Yesterday I boasted about Haikou for you! I didn't expect you to embarrass me in front of the whole family for a maid! ”

The third aunt changed into a rose-red velvet curtain, and she was naturally beautiful, no matter what clothes she wore, she always looked noble and dignified. At this time, she was fiddling with the silver hairpin in front of the bronze mirror, and the silver hairpin was changed one after another, and none of them responded.

Linlang stepped forward with a smile, picked up the jade hairpin that the third aunt had just put down and inserted it on the soft and fragrant bun, and suddenly the dark green and rose red merged into one, and they fell generously. Seeing that the third aunt was smiling, Linlang made a regular salute and said, "I stayed at Aunt Xiang's last night." Before the third aunt could speak, Linlang hurriedly added: "But I heard news from there that an aunt must be interested!" ”

The third aunt glanced at Linlang too deeply, when did this girl learn to negotiate conditions. That's it! Who told me to be so coaxing? She raised her willow eyebrows and lifted her falling hair, "What's the news?" ”

"I heard that the eldest lady is going back to her mother's house a year ago, and the Jin family will not be able to eat the reunion dinner on this Chinese New Year's Eve!" Linlang paced to the left side of the third aunt, picked up a pearl stud earring to help put it on, and looked at the third aunt's slowly frowning brows from a distance.

"The eldest lady wants to go back to Longxi?"

"Nope! It's back to the capital! Linlang put on a pearl necklace for the third aunt. Suddenly, the white gooseneck glows. "General Li was stationed in Longxi and suddenly contracted a serious illness, and returned to Beijing overnight to choose a doctor for treatment. As the eldest daughter, the eldest lady should be filial! ”

"So that's the case, no wonder the eldest lady was always upset when she came last time!" The third aunt was too radiant, squinted her eyes and thought carefully, "Then what does this have to do with me?" Don't talk about it here! ”

Unknowingly, the third aunt has already regarded Linlang as a bosom maid. She relaxed, her pretty face tilted to look at the bewitching face in the mirror, the jade hand was raised and placed on the sideburns, and a pair of beautiful eyes sparkled to give full play to the charm of a mature woman.

"Madame, you only know one and you don't know the other." Linlang quietly changed the title of the third aunt, "Actually, the eldest lady has another purpose for returning to Beijing. ”

The third aunt glanced at Linlang too much, this girl is too good at appetizing, and the relationship is still important What I haven't said below. Qian's thin willow eyebrows tightened slightly, and said angrily: "Don't sell it, say it quickly!" ”

"Yes! In fact, this time the eldest lady returned to Beijing, and she still wanted to cure it......" Linlang was a little unspeakable when she said this, she pointed to her lower abdomen with a red cheek, and whispered: "The eldest lady has no children under her knees, how can she not have an idea for so many years!" ”

This sentence really shocked the third aunt.

For many years, the eldest lady has been alone, although she is mean, she can get by, and the Jin family's wealth will be inherited sooner or later. If the eldest lady conceives an heir and gives birth to a son and a half daughter......

"How does Aunt Xiang know about this?"

The third aunt vaguely felt that this matter was deliberately revealed by Aunt Xiang to remind her, and after marrying into the golden house, she felt that there was a mustard between Aunt Xiang and the eldest lady, and finally figured out that Aunt Xiang was the personal maid of the eldest lady of the Lin family.

Linlang rolled up her cuffs, picked up the cotton yarn and dipped it in rouge and gently grinded it on the third aunt's sideburns, and the fine crow's feet gradually disappeared. The fragrance of roses stretches and is fresh and tangy. After doing that, Linlang glanced down and changed to Dai Mo to outline his eyebrows.

The lead is peerless, and the eyes are like silk.

The third aunt seems to have changed a lot of time, and she looks like a sister to Linlang.

"When I was a child, I studied makeup with my mother, and it can hide people's real faces in the deepest depths!" Linlang didn't answer the third aunt's question directly, but she also gave her the answer she wanted to know.

The New Year's Eve is getting closer and closer, and the eldest lady in Jinxiao Garden is holding a letter from home in her hand, looking at the plum blossoms in front of the window, her eyebrows are locked, and her face is sad.

After his father entered Beijing with Emperor Yongle, he was sent to Longxi to guard, and now he serves the two emperors with high power. Although he has reached the age of the cane township, his body has experienced ups and downs, and he is as strong as standing. How can you suddenly get seriously ill when the end of the year is approaching? The eldest lady thought as she came to the grandmother's residence.

"Mother-in-law, I received a letter from home today, saying that my father is seriously ill. There are no children in the family, and the eldest daughter is filial! I also hope that my mother-in-law Shu Yun'er will not be able to accompany you for the New Year. The eldest lady stiffened her head and whispered. She must rush back to the capital as soon as possible, and when she returns to Beijing on the seventh day, she can still pay a New Year's greeting to her father before the first day of the new year!

On the mahogany bed, Grandma was wearing a thick bearskin blanket and leaning on the edge of the bed. The room was smoky, and the smoke from the charcoal burning mixed with the burning sandalwood made the eldest lady always itch in her throat, and she couldn't help but cough a few times. But the grandmother was most taboo for others to cough in front of her, and the eldest lady blushed, holding back the cough and waiting for the grandmother's reply.

"Is General Li in good health?"

Grandma seemed to be old and confused, and she didn't figure out the general's critical illness at all. Although she cleared her throat before speaking, her words still had a crackling sound, and it sounded like a mouthful of thick phlegm.

The eldest lady was worried about her father, and the tears in her eyes could no longer be controlled, "Mother-in-law, my father is critically ill!" Yun'er wants to leave today and return to Beijing to fulfill her filial piety! ”

"Let's go!"

Suddenly, the grandmother sobered up, a pair of cloudy eyes suddenly opened and stared at the eldest lady, and the crutches in her hand knocked on the bed "crackling". "Let's go! Chi'er hasn't come to see me all year round, and you're leaving again when it's almost the New Year! This family is about to break up! It's going to be scattered——! Ahem, ahem! ”

Before the sky cleared, the drizzle turned into goose feather snow in a blink of an eye, paving a layer of white brocade on the slippery road.

The eldest lady put on a blue velvet coat and lifted the window to look at the golden house, and her white fur was stained with snowflakes and stuck to her cold face.

"Drive!"

The coachman jerked the reins, and the two horses threw their heads back and neighed, pulling the green vine cart away, leaving two deep ruts on the long road. The eldest lady left, and the sound of the horse's hooves tied her heart to the capital, and the long horse neighed away with her thoughts.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier! It was no more than my ankle overnight. At dawn, the long-lost sunlight casts a rainbow-like halo on the eaves, and people can't open their eyes.

The third aunt wore light makeup with the help of Linlang, stretched her waist lazily, and stood up. "Linlang! Accompany me to Beiyuan, some days did not ask my mother-in-law for peace, the day before yesterday Chinese New Year's Eve, the old man did not come back, and my mother-in-law was too lazy to come out and chat with us! ”

Linlang chuckled in her heart, is it too grandma? In the past ten years, she has changed from a resolute Jin family shopkeeper to an aging woman, if it were not for her dots, the Jin family would not have been able to eat all the property of the Lin family. Linlang's eyes flashed with hatred undetectably, nodded and said, "It's even colder after the snow, Madame wear this golden wisp of xiaxia!" ”

The cloister gradually recedes at the foot, and the carved beams and paintings are twisted and turned. The corridor of the golden house adopts the style of a southern town, and the north garden imitates the style of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with small bridges, bamboo forests, window scenes, etc.

Linlang has stayed here more than once, indulging in the pleasing scenery. Today, the snow is covered in snow, which is a different sight. It's just that now, Linlang followed behind the third aunt and felt uneasy in her heart, and she had no intention of appreciating the scenery.

"I heard that these seven purple gold bamboos were specially transplanted from the south by the old man, and for some reason they only lived for six years. Perhaps they are afraid of the cold of the north and lose their luster overnight! It's a pity, it's a pity that they withered before I came to the Jin family, and I didn't get to see them. ”

The third aunt pointed to a row of brown purple and gold bamboos not far away and introduced to Linlang, who looked even more petite against the background of the snow. The third aunt pursed her lips slightly, and there were some words she held in her heart and didn't say it. In the Jin family, Mrs. Lin's affairs are taboo, not to mention that this is the residence of Mrs. Lin's grandmother who hates Mrs. Lin the most.

Along the way, Linlang was silent, and it was not until she looked up at the bronze gossip mirror hanging on the door in front of the Beiyuan Gate. After all, the grandmother knew that she was wrong, and she was afraid that she would ask a gossip mirror to hang it to block the trouble.

"Madame, I ......"

The third aunt looked back at Linlang, and gently lifted the hair that fell on her forehead and smiled, "Don't worry, my mother-in-law can't see you in a dazzled way, don't be restrained!" This sentence seemed to be intentional and unintentional, she seemed to see through Linlang's heart, and said gently: "Although my mother-in-law has a bad temper, she is good to me!" ”