Chapter 3: Homecoming
After eating, Li Jinshu excused himself by eating too much to eliminate his appetite, and let the green calyx lead the way and walk around the house.
Lu Calyx said angrily as Li Jinshu walked: "The fourth lady is too domineering to spoil her with the old lady and the third room to spoil her, that jewelry box is our young lady's, and it is full of good things rewarded by the palace, how can it be so easily given to the fourth lady." ”
Li Jinshu remembered the route of the house in his heart, and said as if he didn't care: "It's just a box of jewelry, besides, didn't the old lady say it, she is still a child." ”
Green Calyx said eagerly: "Miss, you are a foreign doctor and live in the house, you may not know that for young ladies, a box of jewelry is not just a box of jewelry!" ”
"Okay, green calyx, the days are long, you can accompany me to visit this garden today."
Li Jinyao jumped back to her yard.
The personal maid Xiao Tao saw it and asked: "Why is the young lady so happy, it's just a box of jewelry, you don't have nothing, every time the second young master comes back, don't you bring you a lot of beautiful jewelry, and I haven't seen you so happy." ”
The third lady entered the door at the back, took Li Jinyao's collar, and scolded: "Why are you so ignorant, that jewelry box belongs to Li Jinshu, although it is a reward in the palace, but it is not a rare and valuable thing, saying that it is a good sister, but you have taken it all, it seems that our three rooms are so shallow!" ”
Li Jinyao broke free from the shackles of the third lady and said, "Oh, mother! My brother brought this dress back from the south, don't break it for me!" ”
She tidied up her collar and raised her eyebrows: "Yesterday, I heard that she was coming back, and the eldest sister said that we should be more intimate with her, treat her as our own people, and not see outside." I want whatever I want, and I am my own person who does not see the outside. ”
"The eldest sister also said that the second sister is very rich, she is a female official in the palace, she has a high monthly salary and rewards, and she has a lot of knowledge, so she will not take our sisters seriously."
"That jewelry box is just a small thing for her, a small thing, mother, what are you excited about."
The third lady slapped her shoulder with her fingers: "Then you shouldn't act like this in front of the old lady, it's just a box of jewelry......"
Li Jinyao dodged the third lady's hand and grinned: "Mother, sometimes a box of jewelry is not just a box of jewelry. ”
Walked to a courtyard, the carved beams and painted pavilions and pavilions were very beautiful, and the three words Chuyun Courtyard were written at the door, Li Jinshu looked inside curiously with his head swayed.
Green Calyx saw on the side and said, "Miss, why don't you go in and see the little master?" ”
Well? Little master?
Li Jinshu gave her a look and asked her to continue.
Green Calyx was bold: "Miss, you have always blamed the little young master, because the eldest lady died in poor health after giving birth to the little young master, the slave and maid dared to say a word, if the eldest lady saw your sister and brother in the sky so unfamiliar and resentful, she would not be at ease." What's more, giving birth to a child is a woman's catastrophe, and it's really no wonder that the little master is here. ”
"The little young master is talking to you every day, for fear that you will be wronged outside, you come back to the house this time, it is better to try to get closer to the little young master."
Yo, there's a younger brother!
Li Jinshu waved his hand and went in to take a look.
In the courtyard.
A figure sits in the shade of a tree, with a table full of dishes in front of him.
Li Jinyu used the chopsticks as a small wooden stick, knocked on the table, and said to the maid Qiuye beside her: "I want to go and see my sister." ”
Qiu Ye poured Li Jinyu a glass of water and put it in his hand: "At that moment, the slave maid accompanied the little young master over, and I heard that the eldest lady's yard raised two new singing birds yesterday, and the young master just went to see the excitement in a while." ”
Li Jinyu shook her head: "I'm not talking about the eldest lady, I'm talking about my sister." ”
"Oh, Second Miss." Akiba paused, "Second Miss has always disliked you, every time I talk to you, I am cold, Second Miss has just come back from the palace, she is already very tired, and she will be even more unhappy to see you." ”
Autumn leaves persuaded again: "It's better for you to go to the eldest lady's yard to play, they are all the young master's sisters, the eldest lady likes you, every time you go, there is delicious food and fun." ”
Li Jinyu lowered her head and didn't speak, seeing that her mood was even more depressed.
Qiu Ye handed him the chopsticks he threw on the table: "Little Master, it's better to eat more, when you grow up soon, you will grow stronger and stronger, and you will be able to protect the second young lady, maybe she will not hate you." ”
Li Jinyu took the chopsticks, looked at the dishes on the table, and muttered, "But I'm already full." ”
He thought about it again, gritted his teeth and picked up a large piece of fat elbow meat and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Little master, look who came to see you!" The green calyx shouted to the boy in the shade of the tree.
Li Jinyu heard the shout, turned around, and saw the person standing in front of her, she seemed to be a little stunned, stunned: "Sister? ”
Li Jinshu looked at the young man who turned his head in front of him, and almost didn't snort out of joy.
How to describe it?
This young man...... It's too rounded!
The boy is still young, and he hasn't grown yet, but he's too fat.
The face is fleshy and you can't see the chin at all, the eyes are squeezed into a line by the flesh, and the flesh of the cheeks is chubby and protruding outward, and the whole is a crayon Xiaoxin's face!
The exposed arms are also like lotus roots, white and fat, just like Michelin tires!
The fat body is full of meat, and the hand holding the chopsticks can no longer see the joints, and the fist is a ball!
Li Jinshu remembered that her table mate in the first grade of primary school was also a little fat man, and the teacher talked about the big moon and the small moon in the 12 months, so let him take out his hand and clench it into a fist, starting from the bone joints, the prominent one is the big moon, and the concave one is the small moon. The little fat man raised his little fat hand at the same table to ask the teacher for help, and the teacher has no bulge or concave on my hand at all, it is all flat! The whole class laughed, and they all gathered to observe his fat ball-like hands.
Li Jinshu remembered what happened when he was a child, and then looked at the face of the very comedic crayon Xiaoxin in front of him, he couldn't help it, and laughed hehehehe.
"Miss?"
"Sister?"
Li Jinyu and the two maids didn't know what she was laughing at, and asked inquiringly.
Li Jinyu was a little nervous, why did my sister laugh? Are you laughing at him? Sarcastic about him? Don't like him?
Li Jinshu saw the uneasiness in the young man's eyes, smiled, and reached out to rub his head.
This action is intimate and casual, Li Jinshu has never been so close to him, Li Jinyu felt the warmth on his head, and was reluctant to leave the hand.
Li Jinshu looked at the maid standing beside Li Jinyu and asked, "What's your name?" ”
Qiu Ye knelt down and kowtowed: "Back to the second miss, the slave maid Qiu Ye is the big girl next to the little young master." Second Miss, it's really good that you're here, just now the little young master was still thinking about the eldest lady and you, so you came over. ”
"Oh," Li Jinshu asked with a smirk, "Akiba, right?" You turned out to be the second lady's person? ”
Qiu Ye nodded: "Yes, the slave maid was the eldest maid beside the second lady before, and she was given to the little master by the second lady to serve the little young master." ”
She is the maid before the second lady, the old people in the house know about this matter, and it is not unusual for Li Jinshu to know, but she has been serving Li Jinyu for many years, and she has never seen Li Jinshu ask, why did she suddenly ask about this today?
In the past, when Li Jinshu heard the mention of the late eldest lady, he would send his emotions to Li Jinyu, but why did he reach out to Li Jinyu today? Did you perceive something? It's unlikely, Li Jinshu doesn't care about this younger brother at all, and he doesn't care about the affairs of the house and rarely returns to the house, and he has never seen her pay attention to her for so many years.
Qiu Ye looked at Li Jinshu's eyes, a little weak, and asked tentatively, "But what is the place where the slave maid is not good to serve?" Please punish the second lady. ”
Li Jinshu looked at the maid kneeling in front of him and said, "It's nothing, occasionally I hear the old women talk about it, so I just ask casually, you serve very well." ”
Qiu Ye looked at Li Jinshu's ununusual expression, and her heart settled down, how could she find out, this is all the private means of the women in the courtyard of the deep house, she is a little girl who has not been out of the pavilion, where does she understand this.
It must be those broken mouths of the old women who are talking about her behind her back, so that Li Jinshu overhears it, and only then does she know that she was the second lady, and those dead old women are always jealous that she came to the little master on an errand.
The little young master is young, lives and relaxes, he doesn't have to be beaten and scolded to see the master's face, occasionally reward some good things, and secretly enrich his purse, and when the little master grows up, he can also mix a girl in the room, and then beg for it and be an aunt, become half of the master, it's really a beautiful difference, and I don't blame them for their red eyes.
Akiba calmed down, and stood up after saluting: "Second Miss, do you want to accompany the little young master to have some more meals?" ”
Li Jinshu looked at the table full of thick meat and fatty fish and said, "No, it's too late today, I also ate it at the second lady's." ”
She looked at Li Jinyu's lost eyes and said, "Another day, I'll come to see you again." It's late today, don't eat it, the children have to go to bed earlier to grow taller. After that, he rubbed his head again.
Li Jinyu's chubby eyes flashed, and she asked expectantly, "When will my sister come again?" ”
Li Jinshu smiled and said, "Tomorrow." ”
Watching Li Jinshu walk out of the courtyard gate, Li Jinyu happily ran to the house, and said eagerly as she ran: "Autumn leaves, you hurry up and keep up, my sister told me to go to bed early, go to bed early to grow up!" ”