Chapter Seventy-Four: Birth

The sun is gradually turning westward.

Zhou Shaojin copied six pages in one go.

She rubbed her somewhat sore shoulders, and Biyu walked in with a melon: "Xiao Tan said that you came over, I don't believe it yet, I didn't expect you to really copy the scriptures in the Buddhist hall." I saw that you copied attentively, so I didn't bother you. This is a freshly cut melon, the old lady deliberately left this one that has not been used in well water, you try! ”

After getting along for a few months, the people in Hanbi Mountain House already knew Zhou Shaojin's habits.

Zhou Shaojin smiled and thanked him, and took the opportunity to look at Jasper's expression.

She smiled and talked like she usually did.

Is it that the maids in the Hanbi Mountain House have all practiced the ability to be quiet, or does she not know what happened in the upper room at all?

Zhou Shaojin muttered in her heart, and the Spring Festival Gala served her hands and face, leaving Jasper to eat melons together.

"Nope." Biyu smiled and politely refused, "Sect Lin's wife is here, and the old lady still needs someone to serve her!" ”

Zhou Shaojin was a little surprised.

Since the wife of the second room ancestor Cheng Xu's birthday Lin Jiaoyu spoke for Cheng Xu, Lin Jiaoyu's wife has become close to Mrs. Guo. However, in three or four months, Lin Jiaoyu's wife had already come to visit Mr. Guo three times. Almost once a month.

Biyu said with a smile: "The wife of the Lin Jiaoyu came over for her younger brother of her mother's family - her younger brother and the fourth master are classmates, and he was admitted to the Shu Jishi and watched politics in the Ministry of Industry. The museum will be closed this year. It stands to reason that he should be released in June, but his younger brother is still staying in the Hanlin Courtyard, so he wants to ask the eldest master to see if he can find an errand for her younger brother. ”

Things in the government are so intertwined that sometimes you can't figure out who has a relationship with whom.

There were many people who saved her brother-in-law Liao Shaotang back then, and she was no longer surprised by this matter.

Since Mrs. Guo knew that she copied scriptures and ate melons in the Buddhist hall, Zhou Shaojin sat for a while, estimating that Mrs. Lin should say goodbye, she went to the upper room to bid farewell to Mrs. Guo.

Sure enough, Sectarian Lin's wife had already returned home, and Mrs. Guo's expression was calm, and she couldn't see that she had lost so much temper at noon.

Zhou Shaojin said with a smile: "The weather is too hot and I feel irritable, so I will come over to copy the scriptures." ”

Mrs. Guo smiled: "It can be seen that you are a person with Huigen." And he said, "If you want to come, you can come here, and you don't have to have any scruples." The scriptures have been handed over to you. When you finish copying, we will go to Putuo Mountain and enshrine it to Fayu Temple. ”

Putuo Mountain is near Zhoushan.

Zhou Shaojin was stunned and said, "Are you going to Hangzhou Mansion?" ”

Zhoushan belongs to Hangzhou Prefecture.

Mrs. Guo smiled: "It's not me, it's us." I'll take you with me. ”

Zhou Shaojin was stunned.

Mrs. Guo laughed and said, "It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books." When I was your age, I accompanied my father all over Jiangnan. You ...... now. Many people agree that 'a woman's lack of talent is virtue', and some generations of eunuchs have not allowed girls to read and write, and they don't know if it's good or bad......"

Zhou Shaojin has been a human being for two lifetimes, and he has really never been out of the door so far.

She suddenly became excited and said, "Old lady, I, can I really go with me?" ”

"Do you want to go?" Old man Guo seemed to be in a good mood, and asked her with a smile.

Zhou Shaojin nodded again and again: "I want to go, I want to go." I have long heard that people in Hangzhou go to Putuo Mountain to worship Buddha on the first and fifteenth days of the new year...... I didn't think I'd be able to go once in my lifetime......"

"The children of the family, how old they are, dare to say 'lifetime'." Mrs. Guo said with a smile, "Then you strive to finish copying the scriptures this year, and we will go at the beginning of spring next year." ”

Zhou Shaojin's smile couldn't stop flowing from the bottom of his eyes.

It was different from the usual smile with a bit of restraint or entertainment, it was brilliant, bright, and a little longing, sweet, just like a child, and suddenly got the candy that he never remembered.

Mrs. Guo couldn't help sighing.

This kid is also a poor one!

She asked Biyu to pack a box for Zhou Shaojin: "Take it back and eat it slowly!" ”

Zhou Shaojin was a little embarrassed.

The box was full of sugar.

But she could feel Mrs. Guo's sincere care even more.

She squatted on her knees and gave a blessing to Mrs. Guo seriously, and then returned to Wanxiangju with the box.

Although it was just a box, after all, it was rewarded by Mrs. Guo, and it also told the truth that Mrs. Guo was satisfied with Zhou Shaojin, Mrs. Guan was very happy, opened the box and looked at it, and saw that there were almond cakes and pea yellow in the palace, so she smiled and asked Zhou Shaojin to put away the box, and said: "If you are free, you can also make a forehead like me for the old lady." ”

"The Cheng family has a special sewing room...... Zhou Shaojin hesitated, "I'm afraid that I will get an axe!" ”

"Nonsense." Mrs. Guan smiled and said, "I am reluctant to wear such a bright job, and I am going to keep it for the New Year, and the old lady will definitely like it." ”

To each his own heart.

Zhou Shaojin responded and told Mrs. Guan about Mrs. Guo saying that she was going to Putuo Mountain to worship the Buddha.

Old Lady Guan listened to the smile gradually faded, slowly frowned, and did not speak for a long time.

Zhou Shaojin didn't know what was going on, so he waited quietly and with bated breath.

After a while, the old lady Guan seemed to come back to her senses, laughed, and said to her: "In this case, you should copy the scriptures well, and strive to go out with the old lady next year to see it." ”

Zhou Shaojin smiled and replied "yes" and asked, "Then do you want to sue my father about this matter?" ”

"Of course, I have to sue your father." Mrs. Guan smiled, "But there is no hurry at this time. Wait until the specific date is set on the side of the long house, and then it is not too late to write to your father's appointment. ”

Zhou Shaojin took the opportunity to talk about returning to the ancestral house of the Zhou family during the Dragon Boat Festival: "...... If I hadn't met my grandmother who used to serve my mother, I wouldn't have known that the Zhuang family had an ancestral house next door to my cousin's house on Guanjie Street, and I sold it to my cousin. ”

Mrs. Guan was a little surprised, and a trace of confusion flashed between her expressions, and she said, "There is such a thing." Why haven't I heard of it? Does the Cheng family know that this is the ancestral home of the Zhuang family? Did you buy it when you were old man? Does your father know? ”

It seems that the grandmother did not know anything.

No wonder Cheng Lu was able to succeed in his previous life!

Zhou Shaojin decided not to tell her grandmother for the time being.

There are some things that she has to solve by herself, and if she can't solve them, it's not too late to ask for help from adults.

"I just think it's a coincidence," she said with a grin, "so tell my grandmother." ”

It seems that he came in and asked where the food was.

The topic was interrupted.

After that, Mrs. Guan and Zhou Shaojin did not mention this matter again.

After dinner, Mrs. Guan invited Cheng Wei to come over and speak: "...... Today Shao Jin told me that the old lady of the long house wanted to go to Putuo Mountain to worship the Buddha. She became more and more convinced. I'm afraid that the long house and the second room will tear your face, you take stock of the family's property, buy more sacrificial fields, and let out the outside business, don't be greedy. ”

Cheng Wei cautiously agreed, his expression a little solemn.

Zhou Shaojin went back to the house and wrote a letter to his father.

In her two lives combined, it was the first time she had written a letter to her father in person.

In the letter, she first thanked the Li family for her own money, and then told her father that she was going to make him a few more winter clothes, asked him if he had any favorite colors and fabrics, and then jokingly told her father about Cheng Lu buying the mansion on Guanjie......

Early the next morning, Ma Fushan's family entered the house and took the letter out.

Zhou Shaojin looked at the distant background of Ma Fushan's family, and breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling that the heart that had been hanging in these days had finally fallen.

Cheng Ji came to Zhou Shaojin: "You said you could make Pan Qing lose face, what are you going to do?" ”

She took off her outer gown, wore only a Hangzhou silk shirt, and lay on the cool bed in the house and asked Cuihuan to fan her.

Zhou Shaojin said: "I think she is very face-saving, and sometimes she can't help but lose her temper. It can be seen from her dealing with Wu Baozhang - as half of the master, when Zhou Shaojin pushed the matter to her, she should be more generous and save some face for Wu Baozhang. But because she looked down on Wu Baozhang in her heart, she couldn't help but trample Wu Baozhang on the soles of her feet, and insisted that Wu Baozhang couldn't get off the stage, "If there is tea spilled on her body at that time, or the arranged seats are not good...... With her temper, if she can endure it once, she may not be able to endure it twice, as long as she breaks the gong, the elders will see it in their eyes, with her strength, she will definitely not be able to stay in the Cheng family...... Especially in the presence of Mrs. Yuan......"

Cheng Ji listened to the spirits, climbed up suddenly, and high-fived: "You have a good idea!" When the time comes, we will let her 'show off' in front of the eldest aunt no matter what......" She giggled, as if she saw Pan Qing's embarrassed appearance, "In order to participate in Lao Anren's birthday, she has been jumping up and down to prepare clothes and jewelry these days...... When the time comes, I don't believe she'll be able to endure the clothes she's carefully prepared......"

"But if she can't hold back," Zhou Shaojin left room for Cheng Ji, "Maybe a few ladies will praise her for her generosity, you can't lose your temper stupidly, then you just dig a pit for yourself and jump." ”

Cheng Ji rubbed his hands and promised: "If I am reprimanded by my mother, Pan Qing doesn't know how to be happy in his heart!" Don't worry, I will never let my relatives and enemies be happy! ”

Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but laugh when she looked at her.

Cheng Ji didn't think so, and ran over every day to discuss various "accidents" with Zhou Shaojin.

Zhou Shaojin felt that even if Pan Qing didn't want to lose his temper at that time, he might not have a good face if he was provoked again and again by such a trivial matter.

By the time of the old lady's birthday on Wuzhuang in early July, before dawn, Zhou Shaojin and her sister put on the new clothes sewn by Zhou Shaojin when she was just reborn, dressed up refreshingly, and went to Jiashutang.

Mrs. Guan had just gotten up, and Mrs. Chuda, Cheng He, and Cheng Yi had already arrived.

Cheng He saw that Zhou Shaojin was wearing a plain gown with light ivory, but he embroidered two strange stones, a cluster of orchids, and two butterflies in the lower corner of the right placket. The strange rocks are craggy, the orchids are sparse, and the butterflies are fluttering, but it is a rare orchid sketch, and he can't help but look at it twice.

Mrs. Chu's eyes fell on Zhou Chujin.

She wore a willow yellow skirt, an oily green horse-faced skirt, the skirt was plain, but the horse-faced skirt was inlaid with a ruler-wide skirt, and the edge was embroidered with pink lotus, white honeysuckle, rose-purple hibiscus, and willow yellow passionflower, the color was very bright but not vulgar, but there was a kind of magnificent and noble, which made Zhou Chujin more dignified and beautiful.

Mrs. Chu hesitated: "This, did it by Shaojin?" ”

Sisters, today's update!

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I still have a chapter to add to this, can I rest this Sunday?

PS: Tomorrow's plus watch is still around 3 p.m.

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