Chapter 14: Mother
In the main courtyard, Mrs. Lin, who was crooked on the collapse of the Dongnuan Pavilion, was coaxed by her daughter for an afternoon, and finally let go of the depression in her heart and showed a smile. Lin Yun deliberately let out a sigh of relief, put his hands together and recited: "Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless, Mrs. finally smiled." ”
Mrs. Lin hugged her daughter in her arms, rubbed her, and sighed, "I see that Jia Min is not a good person, but I am afraid that my son will be angry with my brother and sister-in-law in the future." At the mention of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lin's face sank again.
Lin Yun shook Mrs. Lin's hand with a smile, "There is a wife to protect me, and besides, my sister-in-law will only be good to me in order to please my wife, so it will be infuriating." Looking at my sister-in-law, she is a very smart person, and she would not do such a stupid thing. ”
"Snort...... Clever, not clever. Mrs. Lin sneered, "I'm afraid that her little bit of intelligence is used on your brother, it's only been a night and half a day, look at your brother, the soul has fallen on her, I just hope that her housekeeper can also have this cleverness." ”
Lin Yun smiled softly and lightly to relieve his mother, and secretly sighed on the other hand, although he had long known that his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were natural enemies, but it was only on the first day of marriage like this, and it was really rare for a mother-in-law to have a lot of opinions. On weekdays, Mrs. Lin has a gentle temperament, and treats her eldest brother and herself with a loving mother's heart, which is her father's aunt and concubine, and most of her words are gentle and rarely harsh. How can you deal with your daughter-in-law, you just pick your nose and eyes, and you don't have a sense of generosity.
Thinking of herself from Jia Min's situation, she is now twelve years old, and when her mother is in good health, she often takes her out to socialize, and she wants to help her see others. If her future mother-in-law is also like her mother to Jia Min, her life will not be easy.
Lin Yun secretly warned himself that when his father and mother choose a husband for themselves, they must keep their eyes open and take a good look, not only at the man, but also at what kind of person his mother is. The most important thing is to carefully observe the relationship between Mrs. Lin and Jia Min now, sum up the lessons and lessons, and never make Jia Min's mistakes.
After an afternoon of complaining with her daughter, Mrs. Lin picked up the teacup for the sixth time and drank half a cup of tea, before she breathed a sigh of relief and made a zuihou summary, "It's all your father's old fool, who only looks at the Jia family, Jia Dai is good at fighting bravely, and has to be reused by the emperor, so you have to set the daughter of the Jia family as your daughter-in-law for your brother." At the beginning, I didn't agree, the girl from the noble family, the girl from a serious scholarly family, has a good character, a docile temperament, and is sensible. ”
"Alas, now that I think about it, it's a pity that your cousin, one more girl, is a hundred times stronger than your sister-in-law. As soon as I said it, your father suspected that I was biased towards my mother's family, and used my son's marriage to pull your uncle, so that I couldn't say more. I knew this earlier, and I also reasoned with your father more at the beginning, but now I ...... Alas, it's too late to say anything. ”
Mrs. Lin was a little lazy, leaning on the pillow of the big red brocade forging surface, closing her eyes slightly, the corners of her mouth drooping down a little, looking deep, difficult to distinguish between joy and anger.
Lin Yun shook Mrs. Lin's arm coquettishly, "Madam, there are also differences between our family and the Jia family, it's only the first day today, you have to give your sister-in-law an adaptation period." ”
Mrs. Lin was so annoyed and happy that her little daughter made her angry, she opened her eyes and said angrily: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, what kind of benefit did she give you, so that you only said good things about her, and even didn't recognize your mother." ”
Lin Yun burst out laughing, and the person also posted it, "Mrs. is jealous." ”
"Go, play, don't monkey me." Mrs. Lin pushed her with a smile, sighed again, and said with an inexplicable expression: "What's the use of saying it, the daughter-in-law has already married back, can you regret it?" Now, I can only teach her more. ”
Lin Yun thought that he was still in charge of family affairs now, and it stands to reason that when her sister-in-law entered the door, she should hand over the affairs in her hands. Quietly glancing at Mrs. Lin's expression, she said tentatively: "Madam, now that my sister-in-law has entered the door, the housekeeper's affairs should be handed over to my sister-in-law." ”
Mrs. Lin frowned, and refused without thinking: "No, you can just take care of it for the time being." ”
"Oh." Lin Yun bowed his head slightly, secretly happy in his heart. The girls of this era have always required to be proficient in knitting women's red, housekeepers, directors and other skills, but there are few requirements for piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Of course, as the younger sister of Tanhua in the future, it is impossible for her to not know a single word. Reading and literacy, dancing and playing the piano, she thinks that she has learned quite well, but she spends less time on knitting female celebrities.
It's a pity that the housekeeper director only began to slowly try to contact when she was about ten years old, and the time is not long, but it is not short, and the actual operation has only started in the new two months. I don't know if I don't learn, but when she really took it up, she realized that there were many ways to do it, and it was by no means as easy as she thought before. The more this happened, the more she thought that she could take the opportunity to help her mother take the opportunity to practice more.
In the Songfeng Courtyard, Cheng Mo and Ye Ze, who had taken a nap, were in a daze in front of the account book spread out on the pit table. Traditional Chinese characters look very awkward, and they are arranged vertically, which makes the two very unaccustomed. Especially the numbers used in accounting, all of them are Chinese characters, "one, two, three......" didn't look at it for a while, Ye Ze felt that there were ghosts in front of him.
He rubbed his eyes vigorously and buried his head on Cheng Mo's shoulder in frustration, "Momo, my eyes are spent." ”
Cheng Mo frowned, his eyes moved with his slender index finger, and the more he looked, the more his brows wrinkled: Who remembers this account, it's a mess! Where did the fifty taels of silver come from? Obviously, the monthly case was sent only the day before yesterday, and the example of these fifty taels was not explained, so it was directly counted on the total. Also, this one hundred and seventy taels is weishenme spent? What about the reasons for spending? Even if Lin Ruhai took it away, he had to write it down, and at a certain time in a certain year, month, and time, the uncle took out a record of one hundred and seventy taels of silver! It's good here, if you don't write half a sentence, the total is less than one hundred and seventy taels.
And here, a glass bowl was a set of six a month ago, and two are left a month later? Who let those four eat!
"What a mess this remembers it is!" Cheng Mo slapped the table hard, "Nima, if this is the old lady's subordinates who remember the account, the old lady directly asked him to eat the account book in front of the old lady!" ”
"Shh......h Momo whispered. Ye Ze quickly covered Cheng Mo's mouth, and put a finger in front of his lips, making a "shhhh......hhh
Where Cheng Mo wanted to be, she was embarrassed to wink at Ye Ze, signaling that she knew.
Ye Ze patted his chest, made a relieved expression, and was just about to speak, when he heard the green plum outside ask softly: "Grandma, what are your orders?" ”
Cheng Mo said: "Change the pot of flower tea." ”
"Hey." Lumei responded crisply, and then saw that the soft-forged curtain with peach-colored embroidered lilies on the door was provoked, and Lumei, who was wearing a purple vest and a green onion yellow skirt, came in with a smile, and blessed Ye Ze first, and then came to take the teacup, and then retreated lightly.
Ye Ze stared at Lumei's slender back thoughtfully, Cheng Mo glanced at it, reached out and pinched him, raised his eyes and said, "What are you looking at?" ”
Ye Ze hurriedly admitted his mistake, hugged Cheng Mo's body and shook it lightly, and deliberately used a new title: "Grandma, I was wrong, I was really wrong......
Cheng Mo couldn't help but laugh at him, and pushed him casually, "Okay, okay, don't make trouble." ”
The two of them were silently laughing for a while, Ye Ze sat upright, lowered his voice and said, "Momo, didn't you notice, Lumei and Bailan are a little like you." ”
Cheng Mogang wanted to deny it, but in time he thought that she was now wearing Jia Min's skin, and what Ye Ze said was like Jia Min. She pursed her lips and said lightly, "Yes." ”
"The green plum looks a little similar, and the white orchid looks a little similar." Ye Ze replied with great certainty.
As she was talking, Lumei walked in lightly carrying a lacquer plate of red and gold, holding two sweet white tea cups, and walked until the two followed, curtling her knees, "Uncle, grandma, this is a freshly brewed jasmine slice." "The slender white hand, holding the sweet white tea cup, is not inferior to the delicacy of porcelain.
Cheng Mo picked up the teacup, widened the tea leaves, and took a sip, "It's okay, go down." ”
Lumei owed a debt and quietly retreated. Cheng Mo saw that her figure was blocked by the soft curtain, and lowered his voice, "She and Bai Lan were both specially selected by Mrs. Jia, and they were not Jia Min's personal girls before. ”
Ye Ze Moming felt a chill on his back, and hurriedly corrected his attitude, almost raising his hand and swearing that there would be no two thoughts in this life, this life, and the next life. Cheng Mo glanced at Ye Ze and blocked the words he was about to blurt out in his throat.
The voice was softer, and when I heard it in my ears, there was an unusually fluctuating sense of unreality, "To say that Jia Mu is also a good mother, she has really done a lot of work for Jia Min." Jia Min's four big girls who were originally close to her were all married before she got married, and then the husband and wife came over together. Just because the big girls have been serving Jia Min since childhood, they are too clear about Jia Min's personality and hobbies, and they are afraid that they will climb Jia Min's husband's bed and have two hearts, which will hinder Jia Min. Now the four personal girls, Cuizhu and Moju are all raised by second-class girls, Bai Lan and Lumei are specially selected to pass through the room, and they did not serve by Jia Min's side before. ”
"Isn't it......" Ye Ze scratched his hair in confusion, "Mother Jia is really so good to Jia Min?" When I watched Hongmenglou, didn't everyone say that she only liked Jia Baoyu's little white face and her own status as an old feudal lord, and even harmed her granddaughter in order to take charge of the family power or something......"
"This is the original Dream of Red Mansions that you read?" Cheng Mo asked strangely.
"Huh...... Hehe......" Ye Ze smirked, "What's that...... I just glanced at you twice...... What's that...... Novel...... Hey hey ......"
"Oh, Momo, I was wrong, I won't read a book next time......"