Now it has come to the winter season, and it is the birthday of the Qin family, because Lin Changzheng went to Shanxi, the house is not as lively as in previous years, the temple and Taoist temple have sent a few gifts, and the fresh fruits offered have also picked up the offering of Jian'er to save a big box, relatives and friends who often walk around also sent clothes, shoes and socks, purses, toys and other things. Because it is not a whole life, Qin's meaning is not a big deal, and even the practice of burning incense and praying for blessings in the temple is exempted, and only a few monks and nuns are invited to recite the blessing and longevity sutra for two days at home. However, Lin Changzheng has become a member of the party, and Lin Jinlou is in a high position, and the people who come to give birthday gifts will also kick the threshold through.

On this day, Xianglan was sitting on the big kang in the blue gauze cabinet to do needlework, looked up behind the screen, and saw Lin Jinlou sitting outside, holding a thick stack of gift lists, these have been picked out by his staff, and in the past two or three days, four silver plates were filled every day, Lin Jinlou put the collectible in one place, put the ones that needed to be returned in one place, and a few special ones were taken out separately. The book was dyed and the pen was dipped in ink, and marked on the gift list according to Lin Jinlou's meaning.

It has been a few days since the book was dyed back to the Zhichun Pavilion, and as soon as it came, it had the intention of setting things right, and the authority was all taken back, and the unruly girls and women were beaten, punished, and the people carried by Zidai were not left behind, and they were very proud. Zi Dai still went back to the Zhichun Pavilion, but it was gray, the town shrank in the room and didn't come out, even the door of the main house was not allowed to enter, and there were rough girls and mothers-in-law who were good friends with her in the courtyard. It is rumored that Xianglan's "flying and domineering" is just a shadow, and no one has really seen it, but Zidai let Lin Jin save face downstairs and drink Xianglan's footwashing water, which is obvious to all. It was rumored for a while, and in the end, it was falsely rumored that Zidai "seduced the masters" and failed, and drank Lin Jinlou's footwashing water, and her face had already been stepped on in the mud, which made Han's mother's face also blue.

"If it weren't for taking care of his wife's face, he would have sent her out a long time ago, there are a few guards around the uncle who are still playing singles, and Zidai's little hooves have a face when they marry them, which is much better than a boy. I'm afraid that Han's mother won't be able to get by, and then give his wife eye medicine, which will not affect the girl in vain. Anyway, I kept her first, and didn't ask her to come into the house, so that the girl would not be troubled by her. Shuran explained to Xianglan like this. She was very respectful to Xianglan, and personally selected four girls to call Xianglan, all of whom were well-behaved and clever. Xiaojuan is okay with "no great ambitions", but Chunling is afraid that she will be taken by the newcomer, so she becomes more and more attentive to Xianglan. Later, seeing that Xianglan handed over the four little girls to her, her heart fell to the ground, and she became a little proud.

At this time, Chunling sprayed soju on a piece of longevity peach embroidery, carefully ironed it with an iron, and entrusted it to Xianglan.

Xianglan carefully stretched the embroidery on a piece of silk, she was making a four-sided and he-purse, Qin's birthday, it was not good to be empty-handed. Lin Jinlou finished reading the gift list, read the posts one by one, took the book to the front study, got up and stretched, turned to the blue yarn cupboard, sat on the kang, stared at Xianglan for a long time, and said: "The master's purse is old, you can make one when you go back." As he spoke, he took off the square gold silk black brocade purse around his waist and threw it to Xianglan.

Xianglan took a look, the purse was not new, but it was also bright, and it didn't take long to wear it, so she raised her head and looked at Lin Jinlou without speaking.

Lin Jinlou coughed lightly and said: "It's cold, it's not good to wear brocade all the time, turn around and be a sheepskin gold-edged master." ”

Xianglan responded, and listened to Lin Jinlou say: "The master will not come to eat tonight, the Marquis of Yongchang invited the master to go to his house to eat and drink, it should be for the marriage of the third sister, his father and mother have long been gone, and the cousin is in charge of this layer for him, and he is afraid of treating our family slowly, the second uncle has committed an old illness in the past two days, and the old lady means to let me go." ”

Xianglan secretly wondered, she had bumped into Lin Dongya's tryst with a young man, she thought that this time the family had engaged her to do a family affair, according to Lin Dongyan's temperament, she would cry, make trouble and hang herself, and she would not be over, who knew that it was quiet, but the Wang family complained that the Marquis of Yongchang was old, although there was no blood left in the front room, but the two aunts in the room had given birth to children, and the eldest son was about to be the same age as Lin Dongyan, so that Jiao Didi's daughter married to fill the house, and Wang was very unhappy. But Lin Changmin is very willing to have such a beautiful son-in-law, and the Marquis of Yongchang is very saintly, prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is known as a bold and righteous person, Lin Jinlou often praises him, and the Wang family reluctantly admits it. It's just that I feel wronged by the lady in every way, and I've been trying my best to manage the dowry for Lin Dongya these days. Lin Dongya cried and made a fuss at first when she heard about this family affair, but then somehow it stopped.

Since Lin Dongya seemed to admit this family business, Xianglan would never talk much, and she didn't bother to care about the Lin family's affairs, so she only nodded blindly after listening to Lin Jinlou's words.

Lin Jinlou said: "If you are bored at night, find a few more people to talk to you, I heard Xiao Chu say that he has a female ancestor who can tell a story at home, and he will go back and ask our family to tell a few stories to relieve boredom." ”

As he was talking, Lin Jinyuan ran in, and when he saw Lin Jinlou calling "big brother", he threw himself into his arms. Although Lin Changzheng loves his youngest son, he can maintain his strict father's majesty, and he has always been a "gentleman who hugs his grandson but not his son", and he mostly disciplines with a straight face, which makes Lin Jinyuan a little afraid. As the saying goes, "the eldest brother is the father" Lin Jinlou loves him very much, goes home to play with him, and sometimes takes him out to run crazy, Lin Jinyuan has felt that the eldest brother is closer than his father since he was a child, and he always thinks about coming to the Zhichun Pavilion, but he is raised in front of the old lady and the old lady, and he has schoolwork at a young age, so he can't get out.

Lin Jinlou smiled, picked up his younger brother and lifted him to the kang, ordered the lotus heart to set up the cakes, and asked him to make a cup of sherbet from the palace. Lin Jinyuan rolled on the kang, giggled and threw himself at Lin Jinlou, Lin Jinlou grabbed Lin Jinyuan's ankle with one hand and lifted him upside down, dangling in mid-air.

Lin Jinyuan was so happy, he shouted and screamed, and the nurse and the girl who came with him stood at the door and were so frightened that they wanted to jump out, but they didn't dare to stop them. Lin Jinlou gently threw the child on the kang and said, "Okay, take a break for a while, and let Sister Xianglan peel chestnuts for you to eat." ”

Lin Jinyuan's face flushed with laughter, and Xianglan brought him the sherbet to drink. These days in Qin's room, Lin Jinyuan has long been familiar with Xianglan, he is precocious, knowing that Xianglan is the favored person in his eldest brother's room, usually the elder sister is short, the mouth is very sweet, he likes Xianglan gentle, lying on her lap at the moment, grabbing the snacks on the plate to eat.

After eating the second piece, the nurse came over and said, "Brother can't eat anymore." ”

Lin Jinyuan pouted, pointed at the nurse and complained to Lin Jinlou: "Brother, look at her." "Pulled a long note.

Lin Jinlou said: "It's just a piece of dim sum, why is this also detained?" ”

The nurse hurriedly smiled and said: "Uncle doesn't know, there is a maid in the third girl's room who has a pox, and the wife is frightened. This sugar cake is fried, and it's okay to eat two pieces, but I'm afraid it's not good to eat more. ”

Lin Jinlou frowned and said to Lin Jinyuan: "If that's the case, don't eat it." "Ordered the maid to take the plate away.

Lin Jinyuan pouted that the boss was not happy, he was in charge of the old lady and Qin's room, and he couldn't eat much snacks, so he was coquettish and stupid on Lin Jinlou at the moment.

Lin Jinlou leaned into his ear and said: "If you are obedient, I will give you a good thing, I have a Persian system of toys here, which is very delicate." ”

Lin Jinyuan immediately forgot about the cake and pisted on the Persian plaything. Lin Jinlou suddenly picked him up and went outside, which caused Lin Jinyuan to laugh again, and before leaving, he instructed Xianglan: "You pick up a box of light snacks and send them to Brother Yuan." ”

Xianglan looked at Lin Jinlou's smiling appearance, which was completely different from his usual cruel and violent description, and she was a little stunned for a while. After a while, he came to his senses, ordered Chunling to take a box with a round heart, picked a few snacks, thought about it, picked a few soft ones, and saved a box for the old lady alone.

Sending snacks to the old lady's room is a bad face, Xiaojuan is not there, Chunling also disdains to rob the little girl about this, just walked to the porch and wanted to call a girl, only to see Zidai coming from the verandah, when I saw her, I smiled and greeted her and said, "What are you doing standing here?" Do you want to send something? I'm having to be idle, so I'll make a run for you. ”

Chunling squinted at Zidai, and said angrily: "Excuse me, don't you dare to work for your drive, and then it will be rumored that our girl is arrogant, and she dares to support Aunt Zi's grandmother to send things, but it really breaks my life." It just so happened that Cunxin was waiting for a few girls to catch up, so Chunling beckoned her to come over, put the box in her hand, and said: "I'll give you a good thing, send these two boxes of snacks to the old lady's room, the square one is filial to the old lady, and the round one is the fourth master, go." ”

Cun Xin was originally Luan'er's maid, but later Luan'er was expelled, and she also pushed her to the back, until the book was dyed back, and then she was brought back and called to Xianglan. Chunling responded in her heart, she didn't want to see her, and suddenly gave her this errand, and she was a little overjoyed, and said in a stacked voice: "Sister, don't worry, the appointment is done." "I hugged the box and went with the wind on the soles of my feet.

Chunling snorted and turned around, and said to herself: "The face is so thick, ordinary people would have been ashamed to death, and it is really disgusting to stay here with a dead face......" deliberately turned up the volume to make Zi Dai listen to it.

Zi Dai Deng was so angry that he trembled all over, tears rolled down in his eyes, and he hurriedly covered his face with a handkerchief.

The thrush stood quietly behind the pomegranate tree in the courtyard, and took in the sight. Today, she wore a half-new blue satin cloak, and only two or three golden hairpins of Fu Lu Shou were decorated on her head, although her face was heavy makeup, it was much lighter, and this beauty also had a style. She cherishes her appearance very much, and she is also a good makeup person, but when she went out today, she picked out clothes for a long time, but she secretly hated in her heart: "The clothes are all bright colors, and now in this situation, it is to find death if you dress up again, but the plain clothes are mostly a few years ago, and they are too shabby to wear." "Some are discouraged. Thinking of Lin Jinlou's good color, the person he has already made him annoyed, no longer dress up properly to hook up some old feelings, I am afraid that he will really let him be sent to the family temple after the year. I had to cheer up, pick out my clothes again, and even my face carefully.

Shibacao stood on one side, looking at the delicate side face of the thrush, silent. She was originally a third-class girl, but because she was instructed by Zhao Yuechan to push Lei'er, she almost caused Brother Parrot to slip and was relegated to the outside. Later, there was an incident with the charm, and the magpie and others next to the thrush made Lin Jinlou beat him half to death and dragged him out to buy it. Shu Ran saw that Zhicao was tall and strong, so he picked her to serve the thrush, saying that it was to serve, but in fact, it was two old mothers who supervised the thrush together. The thrush was a clever man, and after a few days of silence, he took out the silver jewelry and dotted it, and the two old mothers softened a lot, and bought the sesame grass.

The thrush stood for a moment, and Zhicao urged: "The girl should go, and she turned around and missed the time to kneel in the ancestral hall." ”

The thrush lowered her eyelids and responded, and went away.

The girls who swept the yard saw it, and they all turned their heads and said: "The little hooves of the thrush are strange, and they are not ashamed to go out to kneel in the ancestral hall, and they are dressed like this, as if they are traveling with the grandmother in the house." ”

"What 'grandma', it's not a grandma for a long time, the uncle's legs are growing in the main room, haven't you seen that you have dyed all the books to Xianglan? She's grandma. ”

The thrush fell on deaf ears and made his way to the ancestral hall. Zhicao took out a mat and laid it on the ground, and the thrush knelt on it. This mat is covered with thick fur, and the cold can't penetrate it, and the huge ancestral hall is quiet. Zhicao pretended to stand for a while, then went out, closed the door with his hand, took out a few coins and stuffed them into the hands of the mother-in-law guarding the ancestral hall, and gossiped with her.

The thrush sat down on the mat, and Zhicao crept in and brought her two rounds of hot tea, and sat for about an hour before she got up and went back. The sun was shining outside, and Thrush became more and more irritable, and stopped and said, "I'm bored, I'll walk around the garden and then go back." ”

Zhicao was embarrassed: "This ...... It's not appropriate. ”

"What's wrong, but it's a big deal."

"I want to let the uncle know...... Well, you can walk away from your uncle and wife. Zhicao said as she put the dozen or so money that Thrush had stuffed into her pocket.

The thrush turned around on the side near the second room, only to see that half of the pond of dry lotus has been exhausted, the chrysanthemum remains are still hanging on the branches, the west wind is getting cooler, and there is more depression. Rao is a thrush such a sentimental utilitarian person, but also evoked self-harm, only to feel that he is the branch of the remnant chrysanthemum, still hugging the branch, but precarious, go home to face the wolf like a tiger father and brother, left to be sent to the family temple, but with which ended up with a "black hair like silver, red face like a tree" result, can't help but shed tears.

I was embarrassed, and suddenly saw a fire coming out from behind the rockery, and the thrush was startled, only to hear someone behind the rockery: "Huairui, you want to die, how can you burn such a fire, don't you see the wind blowing here, almost burning my hair!" ”