“…… The third girl said that she would not come if she was not good, but I also saw her set up a table of fruit cakes in the Autumn Cutting Pavilion, eating and drinking, appreciating huā and feeding the fish, so unpleasant. Where is the illness, it is clear that I don't want to come. Shutong said while rolling up his sleeves and grinding Lin Dong's embroidery.

Lin Dongxiu was carrying a brush to copy a list of items, raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and sneered: "The third sister is like that, she looks stupid, she has no eyes, and she doesn't have a good temperament. ”

Shu Tong said: "It's not, yesterday I and my wife's sister Rose also mentioned the girl, saying that although the girl was born soft and quiet, she was a very strong person in her heart, and she was actually a very decent lady, so big spirit, the things that my wife explained were all the girls who were thoughtful and thoughtful, and all the girls who were idle were compared." That is, the second girl is the wife's child, and the wife is personally training, so she is better than the average person, and the girl is not taught, and the second girl does not have to be worse, we look at it coldly and are a step higher! Not to mention the eldest girl who has already married, the fourth girl who is lazy all day long, and now among the girls, she is just a top child. "This Shutong was originally a second-class maid who served Lin Dongxiu, because there were cold branches to suppress everything, and I always felt that it was difficult to stretch my ambitions, but it happened that a few days ago, the cold branches made Lin Jinlou order people to beat people and couldn't get out of bed, and Lin Dongxiu had no personal person to serve her, so she appeared. She knows that Lin Dongxiu likes flattery and pomp the most, and these days she is full of joy and respect, which is very pleasing to Lin Dongxiu.

Lin Dongxiu really smiled when he heard this, and couldn't help but put the brush on the pen holder, raised the tea bowl, and said with a smile: "You too, why did you chew me up with the people around your wife, and compare me with the second girl, and drive Ming'er to reach his wife's ears, and I don't know what to do!" ”

Shu Tong smiled: "What about what? The second girl is about to get married, and there is not even a girl around the wife who can be used, so she will not be able to pay attention to the girl at that time? Besides, it's all a family, and the girl has to call her wife 'mother', and in the future, the girl will soar, and the benefits of her mother's family will inevitably be indispensable. ”

These words were just in Lin Dongxiu's heart, and he couldn't help but feel proud, and said with a smile: "You are really a well-behaved person who knows what to do, and you understand this truth." Raised his eyes and glanced at Shutong, and saw that she was wearing a green satin jacket, a water-red cotton silk skirt, a round and square face, big eyes and a wide mouth, a slightly yellow complexion, and a fat powder on her face. ”

Shu Tong smiled: "The girl is right, I am a stupid head, and the girl teaches me well." These days, the girl goes out early and returns late, studies hard, and pulls the abacus beads when she goes back, and we are distressed when we look at it. I thought that someone as smart as the girl would work so hard, let alone us idiots. ”

Lin Dongxiu smiled and took a sip of tea, and suddenly sighed and said, "What can you do with your efforts?" It's all bad fate, I didn't give birth to my wife's belly, no one hurts like me, I can only earn my life by myself, you look at the third sister, you don't have to do anything, naturally her mother cooks for her. I heard that her father is planning to find her a good family, and it is glamorous. My father meant to tell me a scholar, and it didn't hurt to say that his family wealth was shallow. ”

Shu Tong smiled and said: "It's nothing good for me to look at, no matter how bright the door is, there are a lot of families in it, and there are a bunch of mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, and they are not clean." The girl's character, if she finds a scholar to marry, shouldn't they be offered to the Bodhisattva? It's more comfortable than that glossy. ”

Lin Dongxiu said this comfortably, endured and was happy, and casually said a few light words, and then revealed the matter.

For a while, the people in each room came to receive the ruler, Lin Dong embroidered the order of Dredging Tongnian, and checked it with a brush. Zhichun Pavilion is a book with two little girls. Lin Dongxiu hurriedly stood up, took Shuran's hand and said with a smile: "Yo, this is such a trivial matter, why did Sister Lao come in person." A stack of voices said, "Hurry up and take out the parts of my big brother's room." ”

Shuran smiled: "Idle is also idle, just come over for a walk, and also come to see the four girls." Yesterday, an uncle asked someone to bring two boxes of fine snacks from outside, both of which were crispy and fangzhai, and I left one for the girl, and saved a plate to bring over. The four girls try it, not necessarily as well as the cook at home, just taste it fresh. As he spoke, he picked up a small food box.

It turned out that Lin Jinlou asked the little girl to bring it back to Xianglan, but where could Xianglan eat, thought about it, picked a few exquisite things, put them in a painted box, invited the book to dye, and personally gave her to eat. These days, Pandan always sends something to dye the book from time to time, sometimes a hairpin, sometimes an embroidered half-arm dress, sometimes two bowls of fine vegetables, and so on, all of which are good things, but a little bit of each time, but they are not valuable. Sometimes the book dye gives one or two pieces back, and Xianglan also accepts it, and will give her more valuable ones next time. Please shuran to speak, and only talk about whose embroidery is good, whose clothes are beautiful, which maid is matched with a boy, whose young lady is married to a high door, and never mention the side. Shuran secretly praised Xianglan in his heart, although he sent a little bit every time, but he couldn't stand a send-off every three or five times, there is a way to take people short, and over time is to owe Xianglan a lot of love. But she couldn't say anything, seeing that Xianglan was Lin Jinlou's celebrity, it was too late for her to coax carefully. Xianglan seemed to have no desires and no desires, as if she really wanted to be her bosom sister, she took her hand and invited her to come often, and gave her something when she came. Therefore, after a few days, Shuran himself couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to go to Xianglan's room and deliberately mention some things about Lin Jinlou. Xianglan just pursed her lips and smiled, listening to her tell some anecdotes about Lin Jinlou, etc., and praised the book without a trace, and only occasionally asked. The book was wary, but Xianglan was really beautiful and kind, so she slowly let go of her heart, and unconsciously, she said what she shouldn't have said. By the time she realized that it was too late, Xianglan seemed to have forgotten about it after hearing it, and she didn't care about it at all.

Shuran couldn't tell what kind of character Xianglan was, saying that she was smart, but she could frequently make Lin Jinlou angry; It's said that she is stupid, but she is clearly a sensible person. She could see that Xianglan was a generous person, and she intended to let Luan'er get close to Xianglan, but Luan'er stiffened her neck and said, "What? Let me behave with that little woman, you might as well let me wipe my neck!" "It's going to be urgent to persuade again, so Shuran had to shake his head and leave.

This time she got a box of snacks from Xianglan, she tasted two pieces by herself, and it happened that a maid came to let them go to the warehouse to get something, and Shuran pondered that she hadn't seen Lin Dongxiu for a long time.

Lin Dongxiu smiled: "It's hard to think about you." Ordered Shutong to take the dim sum, took Shuran's hand and sat down on the edge of the kang, with a long and short greeting in his mouth, and said a few warm words.

Lin Dongxiu asked, "How is the big brother?" Still in the barracks and didn't come back? ”

Shuran said: "No, I heard that the seaside is not peaceful, and the uncle has gone to the town." ”

Lin Dongxiu said: "The eldest brother is busy all day long, and he can't see anyone. He leaned closer to Shuran and asked in a low voice, "What about the new one he received?" What about living in the main house? ”

Shuran said: "No, it's still alive." ”

Lin Dongxiu pouted and said: "The little fox spirit has a face, it really has a means." ”

Shuran said: "It's not easy for her, she always makes the uncle angry, and the uncle ...... before leaving" Thinking of this, he paused, and felt that it was inappropriate to tell an unmarried girl's family about this, so he hurriedly stopped his mouth.

Lin Dongxiu asked, "What happened before leaving?" ”

Shuran said vaguely: "Anyway, she made the uncle unhappy." Xin said: "Xianglan has been lying in bed for several days, and she was able to go to the ground yesterday, and it is really a ...... of evil."

Lin Dongxiu snorted coldly.

Shuran talked to Lin Dongxiu again, and then led the little girl back. When he entered the yard, he saw Xiaojuan walking into the house with a box of things, so he stepped forward and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

Xiaojuan said: "Sister Xianglan said that she wanted to paint, let me find some paper, I found her, and she said no, what is raw and cooked, this paper is still raw and cooked?" And the pen, what wolf and sheep's hair, where can I tell it, just turned out some in the small storeroom, and I took it all in one go. ”

Shuran looked at it and said, "It's all useless, I'll go back and find some good ones." So saying, he went into the house with the little juan.

I saw Xianglan sitting upright behind Lin Jinlou's bookcase in the main room, wearing a gown with peach embroidered gold and bamboo leaves and colorful huā patterns, a moon-white satin skirt, and a bun on her head, dressed in a homely manner, and her face was not powdered, but she looked more energetic than a few days ago. A piece of paper was spread out in front of her, and a huā'er had been drawn on it.

Shuran stepped forward and smiled: "Hey, you still have such Yaxing, let me see what the painting is." ”

Xianglan said with a smile: "It's okay to be idle, just have fun." ”

Shuran picked up the painting, smacked his lips and said, "The painting is so good, and it is said to be a joke." He also said: "If you want these painting things, you have to go to the back box to find them, all of them are the leftovers that the uncle used before, they are all good things, and half of them should be able to be taken out. ”

Xianglan was surprised: "Uncle use the rest?" ”

Shuran said with a smile: "When the uncle was a child, the old lady said that he was too strong, and he was afraid that he would be angry and cause a big incident, so he asked him to cultivate himself in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and invited several masters to teach him, and some people came to the door to ask for words and paintings. ”

Xianglan said in her heart: "The Lin family is also a hairpin for many generations, and the descendants are not only proficient in poetry, couplets, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also able to talk with each other." It is not uncommon to come to the door to ask for words and paintings, in the previous life, my eldest brother, who would write words and write poems, and Qing guests came to beg, in fact, it was just to please the master, and it was just a matter of tending to be inflammatory. Lin Jinlou's arrogant bastard thing, there is no elegant bone on his body. (To be continued.)