Zhou Xi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Fang earnestly and eagerly.

Fang frowned slightly, "That's an occasion for people of the right age, what kind of excitement is she going to have at a little girl's house?" ”

"It's not all of the right age, aren't there people like me who go with me to help my own girl grow eyes?" Jian Ying pleaded for Zhou Xi, "Sister Xi'er hasn't been out for a long time, so let the concubine let her go out to breathe."

Just tell Sister Xi'er to follow me closely and not get involved with those people.

Isn't my mother worried that I won't be able to take care of her? ”

As soon as she said this, Fang remembered that not long after opening the Yuan Temple and coming back, she suspected that she had a body, so she pushed away all the entertainment, and even took Zhou Xi with a chance to go out.

She only cared about this in her stomach, but neglected her daughter.

Seeing Zhou Xi looking at her pitifully, his heart softened, so he relieved, "If you want to go, you can go, but there is one thing, you have to listen to your second sister-in-law, and you are not allowed to run around." ”

"Yes, my daughter remembers." Zhou Xi immediately laughed, "Thank you, concubine, thank you, second sister-in-law." ”

"Look, you're pleased." Fang Shi smiled and said, "You go to Mother Zhang yourself and ask her to pick out two pieces of material for you and make a set of jewelry." ”

Zhou Xi responded with a crisp "yes", and the other party and Jian Ying were blessed, and went out happily.

The Meiyuan Poetry Meeting is scheduled for three days after the 10th in Meizhuang, which is more than 20 miles away from the capital of Jinan.

The cold weather is not suitable for running back and forth, and it is necessary to stay outside for two nights. There are a lot of things that need to be brought, so the three of them are in a hurry, and the three of them are ready early.

Yuan Fang only stayed for two days before rushing back from home.

Because she was dressed too distinctively, the concierge was a poor relative of the housekeeper who came to fight the autumn breeze, and interrogated her very much. Jin Ping got the letter and went over to pick her up.

Jian Ying and a few big girls were very curious about why she was made difficult by the porter, and they were all stunned when they saw people.

I saw that she was wearing a colorful and obviously ill-fitting padded jacket. He wore a pair of wide, fat crotch cotton pants with two patches of different colors at the knees. He wore a pair of mud-stained cotton shoes on his feet, and he carried a large basket behind him.

When I went back, I judged it like two people.

"You've been robbed?" Jian Ying blurted out.

"That's right, where's your dress?" Xueqin asked more directly.

Yuan Fang rubbed her hands a little embarrassed. "My seven sisters all went back to my mother's grave, and my eldest sister's second girl was about the same size as me, and I took a fancy to the clothes, so I took it off to her."

Jian Ying suddenly realized that she had been robbed by her relatives.

"That'...... And what about your original clothes? Xueqin looked at her with some disgust. How did you dress like this and come back? ”

"Divided." Yuan Fang said with a smile, "My sisters heard that I had found a good job in the city, taking care of food, shelter and dressing at four o'clock, so they took my previous clothes and changed them and gave them to the children."

I took it, and there weren't many of them anyway. ”

Several big girls looked at each other, guessing that her seven sisters were not doing well, and they couldn't help their parents. Otherwise, I wouldn't let my youngest sister come out to make money and treat their injuries.

When Jian Ying saw that her body was looted all over her body on a trip home, she knew that she was reluctant to spend dozens of dollars to hire a car. must have walked all the way back, and hurriedly ordered: "Jinping, you quickly take her back to the room to take a hot bath, change into clean clothes, and tell her to rest and rest." ”

"Don't be busy yet, I brought something for the second young lady." As he spoke, he took off the basket behind him and put it on the ground with a "bang", and even the ground trembled, which showed that the weight was not light.

Xueqin cautiously poked her head in, "What's in here?" ”

Yuan Fang smiled at her. He quickly untied the hemp rope tied to the basket, lifted the lid, and first took out a bunch of dried mushrooms from it, "This is given by my eldest sister." She picked it up the mountain by herself, and it was fragrant to stew chicken. ”

Then he took out a square box made of bamboo strips, "This is my second sister's salted duck eggs, all of them are cooked, and they are cut into oil." ”

took out another cloth bag, "This is the dried sweet potato dried by my third sister." It's sweet and chewy, no worse than what you sell in the market. ”

While taking it out and explaining it, it didn't take long to put it on the ground. Most of the things are eaten, there are peanuts and melon seeds, pancakes from the new stall, home-made sauce dumplings, pickles, and a can of pickled monkeys......

In short, every sister has a part.

Finally, he took out a large coarse cloth bag from the bottom of the basket and spread it out, and inside was a neatly folded tiger skin, "My father has been hunting for more than 20 years, and the wolf has fought a lot, and the tiger has fought one."

An arrow went into his mouth, and there was no injury on the outside. My father specially went into the city to invite a famous master to peel off the whole skin. When you have time, you can take it out and look at it, and tell us about the hunting.

A few days ago, I broke my leg, and I grabbed medicine for a short time, and I was reluctant to sell it.

This is my father's most precious thing, my father said, the second young lady is a good person, this good skin should be matched with a good person, or it will be in vain. ”

Hearing these words, several big girls were a little moved.

Xueqin and Jinping took the tiger skin over, and one of them tore it apart, allowing Jian Ying to look at it.

The huge one, which is more than two meters long from head to tail, has smooth and oily fur, and it looks carefully managed.

Jian Ying just likes Yuan Fang's refreshing temperament, and pities that she has to take on the responsibility of supporting her family at a young age, so she takes special care of her and never thinks about returning. I didn't expect this small favor to make their family miss it so much.

There is no shortage of such skins in the palace, but what is valuable is this heart.

"I took it, you can go back next time and thank your father for me."

"Hey." Yuan Fang happily agreed, consciously completed the task entrusted by his family, and followed Jinping back to the room to take a shower and change clothes.

The rest of the big girls quickly gathered up the things on the ground and sent them to the kitchen in several trips.

"Second young lady, how should this tiger skin be disposed of and put into the warehouse?" Xueqin asked.

Jian Ying groaned, "Give it to Mother Jiang and let her weigh it to make me a tiger skin mattress." ”

Such colorful patterns are too ostentatious to wear on the body, and it is too wasteful to cut them to do something else, and they are just right to use in winter when they are made into mattresses.

"Yes." Xueqin agreed, folded the tiger skin, wrapped it in the coarse cloth as usual, and took it to Jiang's mother's room.

In the tea garden, Zhou Shu heard Hui Bai talk about the Plum Garden Poetry Club, and raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Didn't Gongzi Chu leave Jinan Mansion, why was he also invited?" ”

"It's been seven or eight days since Gongzi Chu came back." Hui Bai replied in a slow voice, "It's just that for some reason, I haven't shown up." ”

Zhou Shu's brows tightened, his eyes were dark for a long time, and he suddenly raised his head, "When you go to the third brother's side, just say that I have something to discuss with him." ”

- (To be continued.) )