Spring is late. It was late spring, but the sky suddenly cooled down, and after a few drizzles, the vegetation became more and more lush.

Xianglan put her gold and silver soft and close to her body, put the two clothes into the burden of peony and flowers, and walked out of the Zhichun Pavilion with brisk steps. This is the first time she went home to visit after going to the Zhichun Pavilion, Qinglan was in a good mood because Lin Jinlou had a meal in the East Chamber, so Xianglan mentioned going home to see her permission for the next day's leave, and said that it was too late to stay at home for a night, and it would be made to open the door of the house early tomorrow morning and come back.

Xianglan was naturally happy, hurriedly tidied up, and left the house early the next morning. Xianglan's family lives in the alley of the back street of Linfu, and because she has been promoted to the second class, a mother-in-law will be sent home with her at the second door. The mother-in-law's surname is Cai, she was born short and capable, and her attitude towards Xianglan was very courteous, and she said with a smile: "My sister came out of Aunt Lan's side, and my aunt's body is good?" We are looking forward to my aunt adding a brother to my uncle, which can be regarded as a great joy. ”

Xianglan smiled lightly: "My aunt's body is so tight, and I also worry about my mother." ”

While talking to Xianglan, Mrs. Cai ordered someone to prepare a small sedan chair, but Xianglan hurriedly stopped her and said with a smile: "My house is in the alley behind the house, it is very close, and it is only two steps away, why do you need a sedan chair?" ”

Mrs. Cai smiled and said, "My sister, which decent maid who goes out of the house doesn't take a sedan chair?" If you are farther away, you will need to prepare a carriage. The silver butterfly next to your Aunt Lan was originally a third-class, and there was nothing particular about going out, but you should also give the porter a few dollars, saying that her legs hurt, so she prepared a sedan chair to go home, in fact, everyone knows very well, it is a leg pain, and this is what you want...... What's more......" Mrs. Cai looked at Xianglan's face, grinned, and showed a mouthful of yellowish teeth, "What's more, my sister lives in the alley behind the house, so she should have a child?" You take a sedan chair to give your father and mother a long face, those in the back streets, holding high and stepping low, and the scenery goes back, which also makes people look high. ”

Xianglan didn't want to sit in a sedan chair, but after hearing Mrs. Cai's words, she changed her mind, and secretly praised the old woman for knowing and knowing.

Xianglan sat in the sedan chair, lifted the curtain from time to time to look out, only felt that these few steps were extremely far away, but some alleys were narrow, and the sedan chair went around before arriving. There are children playing at the mouth of the alley, and a few old women are sitting in a place grinding their teeth, and they all squinted when they saw a sedan chair coming, and when they saw that the person on the sedan chair was Xianglan, they all turned their heads and ears.

Xianglan gave the palanquin man and Mrs. Cai a few dollars, asked them to come back at three o'clock, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, only to see Xue Shi was facing away from her in the courtyard to dry clothes, Xianglan walked over briskly and shouted: "Mother!" ”

Xue Shi hurriedly turned around, and when he saw that it was Xianglan, he was overjoyed, wiped his hands on his apron, and said happily: "Why are you back?" Quick, get inside the house. As soon as he took Xianglan's hand, he went to the house, and when he entered the house, he poured tea and took food, and let Xianglan drink the hot tea that had just been brewed, and at the same time let her eat the spiced melon seeds she bought yesterday, as well as the two pieces of rock candy and crispy sesame dumplings that the neighbor's family made a wedding package last month, and she was very busy.

Xianglan's heart was warm, and she stopped Xue Shi and said, "Mother, don't be busy, let's talk well." Then he asked, "What about my father?" ”

Xue said: "Your father is still in the shop, when he comes back at noon to see you, he will be very happy, we were still talking about you last night, he was still angry that he didn't stop you from entering the house, and he didn't know if you were doing well in the house, whether you were wronged, the last time you came back, your face was sallow, not worrying, we asked someone to inquire, I heard that you went to serve the cousin girl...... What kind of good person is that cousin, I didn't fall asleep all night with your father......" said and squeezed Xianglan's hand, looked up and down, and couldn't help but feel distressed: "It's better than the last time I came back, and I'm still ...... thinner than when I left home."

Xianglan's nose is sour, she gritted her teeth alone in the Lin Mansion and carried the wind and frost, carefully walking on thin ice, forgetting that she was loved by someone, and someone treated you as a thing at will, but her father and mother always regarded you as a piece of meat in her heart, and carefully held it in the palm of her hand. She hugged Xue's arm and shook it, and said coquettishly: "I'm very good in the house, don't worry, Daddy, Cao Lihuan has already driven his wife out, and now I am serving in front of my uncle's aunt, and I have been promoted to the second class." ”

Xue Shixi said: "Really? Promoted to the second class? ”

Xianglan nodded with a smile: "My aunt is generous and has rewarded me with a lot of things."

Xianglan pulled Xue Shi to sit on the kang, opened the small baggage, showed the contents to Xue, and said softly: "This is the reward I got after entering the mansion." ”

Xue Shi first picked up the jade bracelet and held it up under the light to look at it, then looked at the agate gold hairpin and coral earrings, and said with a smile: "You are just following your aunt's girl, and you can get such a reward, it is really decent enough." ”

Xianglan said: "Uncle dotes on his aunt, and he actually gave her a shop in private, not to mention the usual rewards, and an extra monthly subsidy for her expenses, this bit of silver is just a drop in the bucket for Aunt Lan." As he spoke, he took the bracelet over and put it on Xue's wrist, and said with a smile: "These are all taken back to honor you, and my mother will wear whichever she likes." ”

Xue Shi hurriedly took off the bracelet, stuffed it into Xianglan's hand and said: "I wash and wash all day long, sew and mend, and wear these good things are ruined, you are the age of Aimei, and the family can't buy anything for you, so it's easy for the master to appreciate some ideas, or you keep and wear them." I also came out of the Lin Mansion, and I knew the snobs in the mansion, and when I saw people dressed shabby, I looked down on them, and stepped forward a few times when I saw the opportunity. ”

Xianglan smiled: "I still have it, these are for my mother, and I don't like these anymore." He took the needle and thread out of his bag and said, "I have to make a pair of shoes for each of you, and the material is for my aunt to make summer shirts, and the rest are all excellent silk cloth, which is cool to wear in summer." Mom is getting older, don't stay up at night to do needlework to patch up the family, it hurts your eyes too much. This bag is my case silver, enough for a while at home, but don't let my father know, so that he won't take the silver to buy wine with those fox friends and dogs. As he spoke, he stuffed a small purse into Xue's hand.

Xue Shi pinched his purse and said, "I will save all this money for you as your dowry." ”

Xianglan was a little uncomfortable when she heard the word "dowry", and lowered her head and did not speak.

Xue picked up the silver ring of Qinglan's reward again, looked at it again, folded his hands and recited the Buddha, and said: "Your aunt and grandmother are really the heart of the Bodhisattva, you have to remember the kindness of others, and serve well on errands." ”

Xianglan fiddled with the scattered jewelry on the bed and said, "She treats me kindly, and I will naturally repay her well." ”

Xue glared at Xianglan and said, "What is the good repayment?" You are her girl, and it is your duty to be loyal to your master. ”

Xianglan took a sip of hot tea and said casually: "It's just a good reincarnation, what kind of master girl, I never had this idea in my heart, she treats me well, I naturally repay it with sincerity; If you treat me poorly, why should I be loyal? Thinking in his heart, if the Xue family knew that she had complained to the Qin family twice, she didn't know what she would be frightened and worried about, and sighed softly, "Now that I am a subordinate, who knows what will happen in a few years?" Maybe they will all call me 'grandma' or 'ma'' in the future. ”

Xue Shi was useful to say this, with a smile on his face, and said: "The ambition is not small, your father and I don't expect you to be any grandmother's wife, as long as you are safe, we will be content." After thinking about it, he hurriedly added, "Don't let others tell you what you just said." ”

Xianglan smiled and said, "Then where can I be, but just talk about it at home." ”

The mother and daughter talked and laughed.

At noon, Xue was busy around the stove and fried several pandan favorite dishes. When Chen Wanquan returned home, he was naturally overjoyed to see Xianglan come back, and he heard that Xianglan had been promoted to the second class in the mansion, and he was so happy that he couldn't see his teeth and eyes, straightened his waist, drank all the wine in the wine cup, laughed and said: "It's strange that Ma Xiangu said that Xianglan has two points of creation, how long has it been in the mansion, and it has been promoted to the second class, the second daughter of the Gong family, how many years has she been in the mansion, but she is only a third class, and she is still bragging in front of me, phew!" Look at my Chen Wanquan's daughter...... My son, I hope you will soon be a deputy miss. ”

Xianglan rubbed her forehead: "Dad, you can't say this outside." ”

Chen Wanquan glared: "Tsk, how can it be said that it is 'muddy talk'?" ”

Xianglan said helplessly: "Isn't it annoying that Dad goes out to show off?" Besides, there are a lot of second-class maids in the house, and boasting about this is not a joke. ”

Chen Wanquan became more and more displeased: "Why can't you say it?" This is a good thing, and I am not allowed to talk about it well? ”

Xianglan sighed silently, her father in this life, although he is kind in nature, is cowardly and afraid of things, and loves to brag the most, often a point of things can be exaggerated to ten points, and he is a philistine. Because of this temperament, he has the ability to identify antiques, and he can only be a third shopkeeper in the shop. Xianglan wanted to say a few more words, but when she saw Chen Wanquan's face full of pride and relief, she closed her mouth and thought secretly: "I'm in the house, and it's rare to go home, why bother with my father about this?" Besides, he was just bragging about the people who ate with him. ”

Xue Shi put a chopstick dish in Xianglan's bowl, and said with a smile: "Sister Lan has been promoted to the second class, and it is different to say that the relatives are different, what is the Liu shopkeeper's family, the Huang shopkeeper's family, now it looks like none of them are ...... A few days ago, the second sister-in-law Xia who was on the other side of the door still wanted to marry our family and mention her nephew to me...... Her nephew is a flat-headed commoner, I heard that he is good at reading and wants to be an official in the imperial examination, and now he is studying hard at home and wants to take the Xiucai exam. I used to think that his family was poorer, and I was afraid that the scholars would have a high vision, and Sister Lan would be angry when she got married. But now that Sister Lan has been promoted to the second class in the mansion, she is stronger than the ordinary lady's family, and the Xia family must be happy! ”

The more Xue Shi spoke, the happier he became, and a smile bloomed on his face: "When I get the right time, I'll take a look at that little Xia Xianggong, if he looks good and has a good temperament, he will book it as soon as possible." ”

Chen Wanquan frowned and said: "The situation of the Xia family is not as good as ours, just knowing how to study is a fart, turning around and being poor and sour, wait for Xiao Xia Xianggong to take the exam." ”

Xue snorted: "It's too late for the examiners to be admitted to the show, and I don't know how many people are willing to get married." Besides, everything is as you want......"

Xianglan listened more and more disagreeable, and hurriedly ripped away the conversation, and turned to talk about why Cao Lihuan was expelled from the mansion, and only concealed her whistleblowing and the fact that she was almost violently abused by Sishun'er. Her father and mother were shocked and sighed, and talked about Cao Lihuan for a while, and put aside the matter of Xiao Xia's husband for the time being.

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