Lin Jinlou pushed the thrush away, frowned and asked, "Why do you apply so much fat powder on your face?" ”

The thrush was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "I usually like to use some fat powder, I am used to it, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't use it." As he spoke, he leaned up again, ** half-exposed, his eyes were charming, he untied his skirt with one hand, revealing his slender jade legs, and reached into his clothes with the other hand to stroke back and forth.

Lin Jinlou was used, rubbing the waist of the thrush with one hand, but when he looked up, he saw the thick fat powder on her face, how to see how disappointed, so he waved his hand impatiently: "Go, wash it for the master." There is a saying that 'clear water comes out of hibiscus, and it is natural to carve and decorate', and the face is painted so much to look at the chaos. ”

The thrush sat on Lin Jinlou's lap and didn't move.

"Tsk, let you wash it, why are you still sitting? Go quickly, go quickly, and come and serve after washing. ”

Thrush had no choice but to stand up slowly, put on her embroidered shoes, and walked to the basin shelf step by step, her clothes were slightly thin, but her palms were full of cold sweat. She was absolutely unwilling to remove her makeup in front of Lin Jinlou. From the beginning of her head, she learned to retouch her appearance, drawing her eyebrows with a pen, wiping her face with jasmine powder, moisturizing her lips with rouge, and often painting in the mirror for an hour. Thrush looked at her own glossy and pink appearance is much more beautiful than when she does not wear makeup, the layers of fragrant powder are fine and white, covering the unsatisfactory places on her face, slowly, she does not dare to see people without applying grease powder. When he was with Lin Jinlou, he became more and more heavy and wore makeup, and he never dared to wash his face, but fortunately, Lin Jinlou also came at night most of the time, and he couldn't see anything in the dim candlelight, but he didn't know why Lin Jinlou suddenly asked today.

The thrush reached into the basin, but hesitated to splash water on his face. Lin Jinlou is a merry person with a good color of fat powder, if he sees her appearance of removing her makeup, maybe she will fall out of favor because of this.

She turned around and forced a smile: "The water in this basin is cold, I'll let the girls change it." Why don't we eat food and drink first, and then I'll go freshen up when the night is resting. ”

Lin Jinlou took the wine glass in his hand, raised his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?" Don't dare to wash? Could it be that after washing the fat powder, what is there on your face? ”

The thrush's face turned white, and he forced a smile and said, "No, look at what the master said, what else can I see on my face." ”

"Then why don't you wash it off? With a flower face, the master looked troubled. ”

"Master, have you praised the rouge color on my face...... Okay, okay, I'll wash the ......" The thrush saw Lin Jinlou raise his eyebrows, and he was worried in his heart, and he didn't dare to argue anymore, so he had to wash his face, and just let the magpie take a big towel to cover his clothes, he heard a knock on the door, Shuran stood at the door, stiffened, and said boldly: "Uncle, the old lady just sent someone over and asked the uncle to accompany him to eat at noon tomorrow." ”

Lin Jinlou was stunned, touched his nose, and secretly said that his grandfather rarely went out of the yard, and he was annoyed by even his children and grandchildren, if he hadn't gotten any rumors, he wouldn't have called him over, but he hadn't done anything out of the ordinary recently...... He is the only jealous of Lin Zhaoxiang at home, the old man seems to be able to see his heart at a glance, now although he is old, he is still a tiger, although he has a lot of naps, he can control the entire Lin family, and the decisions he makes are all omissions, so that he is in awe from the heart.

Just thinking about it, he listened to the book and said: "Uncle Hui, Luan'er is not good, she is hot, and she starts to talk nonsense, but I am afraid that I can't wait for tomorrow morning, and I should invite a doctor to come in." ”

The room was quiet for a long time, and the book was clenched with his fists and hung his head and waited, only to hear Lin Jinlou say: "Go and please, take the sign and invite the doctor of Ji'an Hall, and let the old lady bring in from the corner gate." ”

Shuran agreed.

Lin Jinlou threw the chopsticks on the kang table and muttered, "It's really outside the house, nothing is worry-free." Seeing that the thrush had not yet washed his face, he was annoyed, and it was even more unpleasant to look at the thrush, so he stood up and pushed the door back to the main room.

Lianxin had already received a letter from the magpie, saying that Lin Jinlou was resting in the thrush room at night, but he didn't expect Lin Jinlou to come back, only to see that there was still half a pot of warm water, so he was busy until the back was hot, Nuan Yue stepped forward to grab the errand of changing clothes for Lin Jinlou, Rushuang went to make the bed, and Tinglan took a few little girls to prepare the toiletries.

Lin Jinlou was picky about the water for a while, he didn't think the tea was rolling for a while, he scolded Nuan Yue for being stupid for a while, he couldn't even tie a waist button, the girls in the house were silent one by one, and they didn't dare to come out, Lin Jinlou simply waved his arm and said: "Get out, give me a retreat!" ”

The maids were as if they had been pardoned, and they were busy scattering.

Lin Jinlou lay down on the bed, thinking that Lin Zhaoxiang wanted to see him, he felt a mess in his mind, and wanted to hide in the yamen and disappear, but when he thought of his grandfather's power, if there was something bad, it would not be enough to apologize for wiping his neck, so forget it. He turned over a few times, became more and more upset, scolded a few words in his mouth, simply sat up, didn't bother to call the maid, put on his clothes in three or two, walked out, and the grandmother who was on duty at night on the ten brocade grid hurriedly came over and asked, "Where is the uncle?" ”

Lin Jinlou said nonsense: "There is something important in the camp, and you must go out." "Stride out. After passing the weeping flower gate, the little guy guarding the door saw Lin Jinlou coming out, and hurriedly ran back to wake up Jixiang and Shuangxi and said: "Two masters, get up quickly, the uncle is going out!" ”

The two of them hurriedly put on their clothes and came out, and sure enough, they saw Lin Jinlou standing at the second gate.

Jixiang wiped his face, went up and said, "It's so late, where is the uncle going." ”

Lin Jinlou said: "The house is so stuffy that I can't stay still, go out for a walk." ”

Jixiang and Shuangxi glanced at each other, and Shuangxi said: "It's so late, there is a curfew outside, and there is nothing to visit on the street, only Yihong Courtyard can go, the uncle has not been there for a day, and the turtle slave there also sent a colorful mandarin duck handkerchief embroidered by Ruixian to send to the uncle, saying that the Ruixian girl reads the uncle every day, and her eyes are crying and swollen." ”

Lin Jinlou sneered: "Can *Zi's words be taken seriously? Give it to me, give it to Xiao San'er, isn't he thinking about Ruixian. ”

As soon as Shuangxi heard this, he knew that Lin Jinlou was reluctant to go to Yihong Courtyard, and said, "Then Yicui Pavilion?" I heard that there is a girl who can play and sing, and she can make a whole set of "Qingyunyuan", and she looks like a handsome, and she says that she is not so standard. ”

Lin Jinlou's face was still unhappy.

Jixiang listened to it more and more dislike, quietly kicked Shuangxi, looked at Lin Jinlou's face, and said with a smile: "Those places are far away, it's so late, it's dark on the road, and it's difficult to walk with lanterns, it's better to pick a close place, in my opinion, it's better to go to Chen's house to find Miss Xianglan." ”

Shuangxi straightened his neck and said, "The Chen family? Isn't that farther than the Emerald Pavilion? ”

Ji Xiang hurriedly kicked Shuangxi again, and still smiled: "The little one looks at the Chen family just right." As soon as the girl Xianglan lived at home for two days, she missed the uncle, and when the uncle went at night, she just rounded her lovesickness, and she could see how caring and considerate the uncle was to her, and she was not moved and happy like anything; Second, let's go back this time, just in time to pick her up during the day. Third, take the path, the Chen family is familiar with it, and it is just right. ”

Lin Jinlou said: "Then prepare a horse and go to Chen's house." "Double Happiness and Auspiciousness ran off to pull the horse.

The master and servant went through the side door. Jixiang is familiar with the door, leading everyone to Chen's house, Shuangxi went to smash the door, at this time people have been asleep, the dog in the courtyard heard the sound and barked first, the doorkeeper Liu Pozi hurriedly came to answer the door, only to hear Shuangxi said: "Chen shopkeeper, we are the Lin family, open the door!" ”

As soon as Mrs. Liu heard this, she opened the door, and when she carried the lamp, she saw Lin Jinlou standing outside the door, and her soul was half bluffed, and she was busy going to the courtyard. The lights in the main room and the east and west wings were also turned on, Chen Wanquan came out with his clothes on, and saw Lin Jinlou standing in the courtyard, his legs were so frightened that his legs were weak, his face was busy squeezing into a smile, and he stepped forward on crutches, and he couldn't speak, and said: "Yuan, Yuan, it turns out that the uncle is here, hurry, sit in the house." Then he shouted, "Hurry up, boil water and make tea!" ”

Xianglan had already fallen asleep, and suddenly heard the door slamming outside, and listening to the commotion in the yard, someone shouted: "Uncle Lin is here!" "Where can I still lie down, thinking that something has happened, I quickly got up, put on a thick cloak and pushed the door out to see.

Lin Jinlou was still standing in the courtyard, when he heard the movement, he saw Xianglan standing at the door of the wing, so he walked over, turned his head and said to Chen Wanquan: "You don't have to be busy, Xianglan will serve me." As soon as he pushed Xianglan, he entered the house.

Chen Wanquan only felt that Lin Jinlou was not in line with what he was doing, and he was hesitating, auspicious and bright, and he was busy pulling Shuangxi over to greet Chen Wanquan. Chen Wanquan knew that these two people were very good in front of Lin Jinlou, and he was also very careful, and asked, "Uncle came so late, is he here to pick up Sister Lan'er back?" ”

Ji Xiang smiled: "This is not going to happen, I'm just afraid that I will have to live here tonight, and my brother and I will have to ask Shopkeeper Chen for a place to live." ”

Chen Wanquan was busy ordering people to clean the house, get bedding, etc., and the cauliflower went to place the horses, and it took a while to calm down.

But it was said that when Lin Jinlou entered the house, he first smelled a warm fragrance, which made people feel comfortable for no reason. Look around, only to see a "Water Moon Guanyin" on the facing wall, which is an ancient painting of the previous dynasty, and there are couplets on both sides of the couplet "A dream of the moon and the wind, and the rain of the deep courtyard window", and the three words of "Jialanxuan" in the upper regular script. Set up a case, there are crystal bags on both sides, there are a lot of chrysanthemums inserted in it, the size of a bowl of flowers, a lotus tripod in the case, the incense has been burned out, only if there is nothing, there is a thin smoke.

The windows are pasted with red curtains, an embroidered bed on the left side, hung with a green embroidered brocade curtain tent, next to the begonia red few, a few tea bowls and phlegm boxes and other things, two embroidered low chairs in front of the bed, next to the pair of shark silk brocade. In front of the window, there is a bamboo Xiangfei couch, which has been covered with a mattress of Huayin brocade, a few green and red backrest cushions, and a few books scattered, which are obviously lost there by Xianglan after reading it.

Lin Jinlou opened the curtain and sat on the bed, stretched out his hand to touch it, the quilt was still hot, and he couldn't help but lie down, only to smell the futon and see a faint fragrance. Xianglan came in from outside with a tray, saw Lin Jinlou lying on the bed on all fours, bit her lip, walked to her and said, "Uncle, please use tea." ”RS