Ma Dazhu put down the lid of the teacup in his hand and put it on the tea bowl, "Brother Zhang said so, then he must be able to make a lot of money." His words changed and he said: "If it weren't for Brother Zhang who stopped the old man and didn't let him go to the maritime business, he only let him buy goods from the maritime merchant and make a difference, the government would not have been able to develop so steadily." It's much better than those who are maritime merchants, at least there will be no big ups and downs, and people will be ruined. ”

Ma Dazhu is a thin old man who is nearly sixty years old, with the vicissitudes of life after the wind and frost on his face, and wrinkles crawling all over the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

It's kind of like the alien people in the book.

"We are people who live inland, not as good as those who live by the sea, who have been begging for a living at sea all their lives,......," Ding Kejian said with a casual tooth of teeth.

Ma Dazhu should talk to Ding Kejian, talking about how he traveled between several villages, and whenever he needed to take a boat to take the waterway, he would feel uneasy, for fear that something would happen on the river.

"Uncle Ma has worked hard! This time I came back to rest at home for a few more days, and then I asked Peony to send you two old ginseng trees, don't be reluctant to eat it! Ruoxue said.

Ma Dazhu owed a debt and said, "Thank you for the eldest lady who still cares about the old man!" This year's Spring Festival Gala can stay at home for half a month. ”

Zhang Jing also said that although the Mei family is rich now, it has no backer, and when the eldest master Mei Jiye was there, he also made friends with several officials, and now that he is gone, it is difficult to say how much he can leave behind the feelings he has made.

It just happened that there was such a thing as the prince of Jin Zhang, who borrowed silver, did business with him, pulled the corners of his clothes, and could make friends with him better than those officials.

It's good to enjoy the shade with your back against the tree!

Ruoxue nodded slightly while listening, the prince of Jin Zhang is indeed a big tree, if he can rely on it, there is only good and no harm for the Mei family.

How do you get up there?

Ruoxue smiled bitterly in her heart, although Zhang Jing didn't say it explicitly, the meaning of her words was obvious, it was nothing more than to let her, the eldest lady of the Mei family, stammer, stammer.

Ruohong also thinks it's good to lean on that persimmon, and the best way to get married is to get married, which is simple and reliable, she peeked at Ruoxue, and didn't know if she understood Mr. Zhang's words.

Ruoxue asked Ma Dazhu how much the harvest was on the Zhuangzi, and Ma Dazhu handed over the account book and talked about the output of several big Zhuangzi and the festival gifts to be sent to the house in the next year.

Ruoxue left the account book, she read it when it was empty, and told Ding Kejian to start buying the items for the New Year, as well as the New Year's gifts for several relatives, and also start to prepare.

After sending a few people away, Ruoxue and Ruohong returned to the inner courtyard and met a few more housekeepers' mothers before they could take a rest.

Sitting on the kang in Ruoxue's east wing, Ruohong ate a piece of hibiscus cake and asked about the steward named Fang Jin, who never saw him again after he came back, and he didn't come with those people today.

"He sent a batch of goods into Beijing two days ago, and he can still earn a sum of silver during the New Year's Festival." Ruoxue leaned on the pillow, holding the two-digit addition and subtraction that Ruohong had written for her, as well as the application questions of addition and subtraction.

Tonight, she will have time to write these questions, and after a little rest, she will go to the green calyx hall in the garden to see how the arrangement is there.

"Won't you eat two?" Ruohong picked up another piece of hibiscus cake, looked at Ruoxue and asked.

"I'll keep my stomach for lunch." Ruoxue smiled.

"Hahaha......"

Ruohong smiled and put the pastry on the plate, "I won't eat it either, I'll keep my stomach and eat it." She said.

This sister is sometimes quite funny, without losing her childish heart, and sometimes like an old man who has experienced wind and frost, calm and cold, not like a fourteen-year-old girl at all.

As a child, it's better to be a little childish.

Although people in ancient times matured relatively early, they were all people who plucked seedlings and helped them grow, forcing children to learn to do things like adults from a very young age, making them a lot less innocent and more mature and stable.

Behind a rockery in the back garden, the green calyx hall is a good place to view the scenery, and the four sides of the green calyx hall are separated by large windows, and after opening, you can see the scenery in the garden.

It's just that it's winter now, and everything is withering, and the dozen or so old plums in the west can still be seen.

Today's sky is very cloudy, and the snow began to fall before the hour, and it is getting bigger and bigger.

In the green calyx hall, Lian Xin and Ruoxian's maids painted bamboo, and two housekeepers and mothers commanded more than 20 little maids, and more than a dozen servant women arranged the tables and chairs in the house.

"You two be careful, this pot of orchids only bloomed yesterday, don't break the flowers, Miss Six won't follow it!" Lian Xin shouted at the two maids who were carrying flower pots, telling them to hold their hands steady.

Huazhu smiled and asked, "Why was it seen by Miss Six again, didn't you just move out of the conservatory?" ”

"Yesterday, the sixth lady and the eldest lady wrote together, and after writing, they got tired of writing, so they pulled the eldest lady and the third lady to go out to play.

At that time, it was dark, and there was nowhere to play outside, so the eldest lady took the two young ladies to the conservatory, but the sixth lady saw the pot of bluegrass. Lian Xin smiled.

"I'll just say it! How could it be so coincidentally seen by Miss Six. She said.

When Ruoxue and Ruohong arrived at the Green Calyx Hall, the Green Calyx Hall was already properly arranged, and the inside was warm, like mid-spring in March.

There are more than a dozen charcoal pots burning around the house, and there are specially guarded maids next to them to add charcoal in time to ensure that the green calyx hall is as warm as spring.

The middle of the Green Calyx Hall is divided into two halves by the Duobao Pavilion, half for the young ladies to play around, and half for the young masters to stay.

There is a round table on each side that can sit more than a dozen people, and there are small tables and chairs next to it, and those who can sit there and drink tea after eating.

The ladies stayed here, there were a few more pots of flowers in bloom, and it was more festive to look at the spring.

On the other side, it looks plain and empty, this is because the young masters are boys, and they are hairy, and there are too many things, so I am afraid that it will not be good if they bump into them.

Ruoxue looked back and forth in the house twice, stood next to Duobao Pavilion and asked Ruohong, "What does my sister think, what's wrong?" She said.

Ruohong also followed her back and forth for two years, listened to her question, and turned her head to look again, "It's better to replace the antique jade on the Duobao Pavilion with flowers and potted plants, which is also more eye-catching and pleasing to the eye." What does my sister think? She said.

"That's right." Ruoxue said.

Ruoxue looked at the green plants on the flower table on the side, nodded, and then asked people to send the ornaments on the Duobao Pavilion back to the warehouse, and exchanged them for a few pots of flowers and bonsai.

Lian Xin answered "yes", and ordered a few maids with nimble hands and feet, took off the jade ornaments on the Duobao Pavilion, and sent them to the warehouse.

Lian Xin called a few servants to go to the conservatory with her, and brought back four or five potted plants and placed them on top of the Duobao Pavilion.

After a while, someone went back and forth to say that the second wife, Aunt Yang, the sister-in-law of the Yang family, had entered the second gate with several young masters and young ladies of the Yang family, and they went to meet Mrs. Cao first.

"Big sister, third sister, I'm here." The delicate and soft and glutinous voice came in.

Ruolan held an oil-paper umbrella painted with bluegrass colorful butterflies, and a gust of wind seemed to run in, throwing down the umbrella and going straight to Ruohong.

Ruoxue reached out to catch her and picked her up, Ruolan giggled, and looked up to avoid being attacked by someone.

Ruofeng came in after her, "It's so naughty, you can't let her come out, and as soon as she comes out, she will run wildly......" she said.

After them, a few maids came in, all standing far away by the wall.

Today, there was going to be a birthday banquet for Ruoxian in the inner courtyard, and the Tao family detained Mei Zhishu and Ruolan, the two little ones, and didn't let them run around, so as not to bump into them and make trouble for others.

Ruolan said with a small mouth: "I just saw two children, children younger than me, so cute and fun!" ”

"Where's the kid?" Ruohong asked.

"It seems to be a child of the second sister's cousin's family, so I'll come over in a while." Ruofeng explained.

Ruoxue stretched out her hand and nodded Ruolan's little nose, "Follow your third sister for a while, don't run around, do you hear?" She said.

Ruoxue heard that there were two children coming, and she was worried that her little sister was a naughty one, and she was afraid that she would not be able to play without restraint and it would be bad for other people's children to collide.

"Uh-huh, I heard you." Ruolan pursed her mouth and said.

Ruohong understands Ruoxue's concerns, she is a preschool teacher, and she knows that there are many children, and many situations will happen, "Obediently, my sister will tell you the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the afternoon." She said.

"Okay!" Ruolan's eyes flashed with crystal light, and the two little chubby hands clapped it.

As she was talking, she heard the sound of chaotic words outside, and Lianxin waved her hand to let the little maid and the servant woman retreat through the back door.

The maid opened a thick cotton curtain, and Ruoxian Ruofei led three girls in.

The three girls who followed Ruoxian in were her cousin Yang Wanqing and her two younger sisters, and the three sisters were wearing large lake-blue cloaks outside, with hoods covering their hair buns and hairpins.

When they entered the house, a maid went up and helped them take off their cloaks.

Yang Wanqing is a little older, she is sixteen years old this year, she wears a set of ruby hair on her head, surrounded by red glow in her movements, and her not very beautiful face also adds a lot of color.

Yang Wanqing's two younger sisters, both eleven or twelve years old, have a childish agility on their faces, and after entering the house, they turned their beautiful apricot eyes, looked at the decorations in the house, and the countless little maids in the house.

The age of the three girls of the Yang family, the three of them wore a one-color magenta jacket skirt, but the embroidery and style on it were different, and they looked different in it.

Behind them came two maids, holding a boy and a woman, two children, the girl looked a little older and more than two years old, and the boy was younger and had just turned one year old.

Ruoxue greeted Yang Wanqing and shouted: "Sister Wanqing,......" The two of them greeted each other, and said polite words that they hadn't seen for a long time, and exchanged a few words of greeting with the two younger sisters of the Yang family.

Ruoxue was enthusiastic and alienated, she did not forget the scene of her sister in her dream, who was abused to death by the Yang family, and when she saw the Yang sisters, she felt a little strange in her heart.

The maid came up and took the cloaks of the young ladies and retreated to the side to stand.

The two children took off their cloaks outside, and became even more small and lovely, and sucked the eyes of the people in the room out, and wanted to rub them like toys.

Ruohong also likes it when she sees it, and she really wants to hold it and rub it!

Ruoxue had seen the sisters of the Yang family before, and the two children had seen them for the first time, so she asked Lian Xin to take two small locks made of purple jade as a meeting gift to them, and let the two children play with them.

Yang Wanqing looked at the purple jade crystal and moist, and knew that it was a valuable thing, so she refused to accept it, "Such a rare purple jade, it's not good for them to play with, it would be a pity if it was broken." ”

When she saw her aunt and sister-in-law talking to her aunt, she took her nephew and niece over to play for a while, but she didn't think of the meeting gift, which made her seem to have brought the child to ask for the meeting gift.

Yang Wanqing's face was a little embarrassed, but she didn't dare to accept it.

Ruoxue smiled and said: "This is the corner of the big block, it's not worth anything, let the two children play with it, and it doesn't matter if it falls." As he spoke, he squeezed the child's chubby hand.

The two little people are small and cute, with round faces and dark eyes, which look particularly big and bright.

Ruolan only glanced at the people who came in, and stared at the two children who were much younger than her, she leaned on Ruohong's ear and whispered, "That little brother is so cute!" I really want to take a bite ......."

The two pink and cute little people also looked around with big black and bright eyes, and looked at the past, as if they couldn't see it.

Ruolan's voice was not loud, but some people still heard it, and they were all amused by her words.

Ruohong laughed and touched her forehead with her forehead, "That's not my brother...... thought for a while, it should be a nephew, and said, "That's a little nephew, I should call you...... Call your aunt. Right? ”

The last sentence was asked by Ruoxue, and she wasn't sure if it was right or not, the relationship between people in ancient times was so complicated.

Ruoxue smiled and nodded, Yang Wanqing hurriedly led the two maids over with the child in her arms, and asked them to call their aunt, "This is the sixth sister, right?" I haven't seen it for more than half a year, and I'm getting more and more beautiful. Hurry up and call the third aunt and the sixth aunt. ”

The two children looked at Ruohong, and then looked at Ruolan in her arms, and shouted in a milky voice: "Three doots, six doots,......"

"Haha...... That's good! Ruohong said with a smile.

"Speak!" Ruolan said.

Yang Wanqing also wondered, "I was at my aunt's place just now, and I didn't talk no matter how I teased, but now I'm talking." She said.

Ruohong hugged Ruolan and wanted to reach out to touch the child, but she couldn't hold Ruolan with one hand, Ruoxue saw it and reached out to take Ruolan over, and pinched her little face dotingly.

Ruolan didn't know what "aunt" meant, she also wanted to follow her sister's example, and wanted to give things to the two children, she looked at it, took out a handful of dried plums from her purse, and reached out to hand it over, "Eat, it's delicious." ”

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