Lin Xiaochu went out, and Chunhong felt uncertain. Under the pretext of picking up something, Chunhong went out to the old lady's room. Zhang's mother and Chunhong's family, who were waiting for the old lady, were fine, and Chunhong came to her again.

"It's true, the old lady also said yesterday that after the New Year, she will accept a room for her son, and it is okay to be a girl." Zhang's mother heard it clearly: "The master is not at home, and the second master has to take the responsibility of teaching." said that he went out the day before yesterday and saw his son and people going to eat flower wine. What is that place, come back and tell the old lady. The old lady called Childe over and tried hard to persuade him not to go, but Childe finally agreed to find someone. ”

Chunhong's heart skipped a few beats, and then asked, "Did Childe say who it was?" Zhang's mother wondered: "If you look for someone from your family, who can go over your head." Then he said, "Are you worried about the new girl?" The old lady doesn't seem to like her, so you can just let the old lady dislike her. ”

Chunhong, who went back, thought about all the girls in the room, the little girls don't count, and the hairy children won't like it. The big girls, just these few, Xia Lu and Winter Dye have family affairs, Qiubai is not a sour person, Chunhong plans to have her share in this room in the future, calculate it, several second-class girls are not coquettish people, only Lin Xiaochu is old, and when it is time to get engaged.

"Where is my sister," someone in front of her asked kindly, and Chunhong looked up to see that it was Yujie, the girl who followed the eldest girl. Yujie smiled all over her face: "I'm looking for our girl, where can my sister see it?" ”

Chunhong hurriedly told her: "Talk with you in the old lady's room," and asked Yujie not to leave first, and no one asked Yujie left and right: "I heard in a trance, is the eldest girl engaged?" Yujie sighed: "It's been a few days of trouble, but the person chosen by the second master is to fill the house." My uncle is not very old, four years older than the eldest girl, but our family is not an ordinary family, the second master is not in the middle, and the face of the master is outside. The eldest girl cries all night, and goes to accompany the old lady during the day, and she has to pretend to be smiling. What can we do now? The second lady was also moved by the second master, saying that he would have official luck in the future. ”

Chunhong was taken aback: "So, our eldest girl really wants to fill the house for others?" How does this make. Yujie can only cry behind the girl: "No, the arm can't twist the thigh, I persuaded our girl to say no to the old lady, the girl just was shy and refused to say, crying pitifully behind her back, even I feel distressed when I look at it." ”

Yujie complained angrily about the second master, and Chunhong teased her: "If the girl marries early, you can also get married early, and it is better not to have a private meeting in the garden." Yujie was said to be blushing, she was the one Xiao Chu and Chun Zhen saw when they went to the tea room, the person who had a private meeting under the bamboo shelf. It was this mistake that Chunhong's father and mother who were housekeepers held in their hands, and Yujie never knew everything to Chunhong, and said everything.

After saying these words, Chunhong went back to the room, and Yujie went to find the eldest girl Xiangzhi. When she came to Mrs. Chu's room, Yujie poked her head down, and Xiang Zhi, who was talking to her grandmother, had already seen it, and she said slowly: "The day is short, does grandmother still wipe the cards?" Mrs. Chu smiled: "I'll wipe the cards, you go back, the one who comes to talk to my grandmother every day is the most well-behaved Xiang girl." ”

Xiang Zhi said goodbye, and Yujie followed her all the way behind her and told her: "Then the Zheng family is here again, this time it is the eldest sister-in-law, and the second lady invites you to meet her." Xiang Zhi's flushed face stopped, tears swirled in her eyes again, and she brushed her sleeves angrily and said, "I'm not going." ”

The long sleeves hit the low trees around him, and a lot of snow flew on his clothes and necks. The cold in her neck was not as cold as Xiangzhi's heart, and she couldn't help but sob.

Yujie persuaded her in a low voice: "The girl sees it carefully, what if you don't go when the guests come." The second lady is to blame, and the second master is to blame. Seeing that Xiangzhi was just crying, Yujie said again: "It's really reluctant, why don't you go in and say to the old lady, please let the old lady be the master." Xiang Zhi choked up and said, "Parents are in charge, let me say what I say." Besides, today my grandmother also knew, and my father didn't know what to say, so my grandmother nodded. Yujie was also in trouble, first helped Xiangzhi to the small pavilion and then avoided for a while, and pondered to herself: "Who else can I ask for?" ”

There was a person walking on the road in front, and Yujie hurriedly said, "Girl, don't cry, someone is coming." "The person who came over, the green dress and the red dress is Lin Xiaochu. She had just seen Zhu Niang from the outside, carrying a jade-colored bag in her hand, and she was a little dodgy when she looked at people left and right. Yujie made Xiangzhi happy, pretending to be mischievous: "See what she wants to do?" ”

Xiao Chu was carrying the burden and was thinking about whether there was anyone to open the second door to see, and no one asked about the entry and exit of the spring traces. Once when I went in and out with something in my hand, the mothers came to take a look, and said that things outside were not allowed to be entrained. How can I bring these dozens of boxes of rouge gouache in my hand. Don't be greedy and bring in a lot at once.

Seeing that there was a pavilion, Xiao Chu went to the pavilion and sat down, muttering to himself: "How can I bring this in?" Thinking of Chu Huaixian in front of him, he muttered to himself: "I don't know when Gongzi will come back?" ”

Someone behind the pavilion laughed: "What are you thinking?" Yujie and Xiangzhi both smiled when they came out, Lin Xiaochu didn't blush, but just protected the burden in his hands with a weak heart. Xiang Zhi wanted to laugh even more: "What shouldn't you bring?" Xiao Chu suddenly remembered, opened the burden to show them, and then took out a box and sent it to Xiangzhi to please her: "This box is for the girl, you use it well, take care of my relatives' business." ”

Xiang Zhi was made laughing, because she was worried that she would not be able to bring it. took the rouge box and opened it, it was just an ordinary high-grade rouge, and Xiang Zhibai, who was in a teasing mood, accepted people's things, and praised it: "Not bad." Xiao Chu looked at Xiang Zhi's face worriedly: "Tell me, girl, is it good or not?" ”

This worried expression made Xiang Zhi smile again: "This is a high-grade rouge, it's good, it's good, but it depends on whether the price is suitable?" Xiao Chu quoted the price, and Yujie also stretched out her head to look: "This is sold at the price of medium rouge, so cheap are you not afraid of losing money?" There were dozens of boxes in the baggage, and Yujie said, "This is stolen and robbed?" ”

Xiao Chu smiled: "It's legitimate, but make less money." I took some and wanted to ask the sisters in the family to help see if it was okay, and the eldest girl said yes, and I was relieved. Then he was courteous to Yujie: "Sister has a box?" ”

The master and servant clapped their hands and laughed together: "You are a person, this is going to be a business." Xiao Chu was embarrassed and made up some words: "The house is overwhelmed on this snowy day, and her business can't be done normally, so I am helping so I sell it cheaply." Look, I've brought these, and I don't know how to get in. ”

"No wonder you thought of Childe just now, will Childe give you a good beating when he sees it?" Yujie joked, and Xiang Zhi's heart moved. When I was a child, I felt that my eldest brother was kind, and when I was older, I avoided talking very little. Now that my grandmother is also moved by my parents, the unwilling Xiang Zhi thinks about it, the eldest brother is in the next room, but he is a brother and sister, can I beg him?

Xiangzhi's master and servant went in with Xiao Chu, and no one checked it. After coming in, Yujie smiled: "Your box of rouge is working." The three of them talked and laughed, and asked the mother who was guarding the courtyard door, Chu Huaixian happened to be in the room. Although Xiangzhi is shy, she came in for her life. Xiao Chu went back to the room, and Xiang Zhi asked softly outside the room, "Is the eldest brother in the room?" ”

The eldest girl is looking for the eldest son, and the last time was a few years ago when she was young. Spring red and summer green came out to pick it up together, and Chu Huaixian, who was writing in the side room, also stepped out: "Big sister, please sit." ”

Xiang Zhi sat down, her face was red and her head was low, she looked up for a while and felt red and red, and for a while she was hindered by the girls, she was restless. Chu Huaixian asked the girls to go out, and the big and small girls were curious to guess outside, what is the matter with the eldest girl looking for the eldest son? Xiangzhi wants to be engaged only Chunhong knows, and Chunhong listens to the room according to the wall.

“…… That's it, I, I'm reluctant, I'm ......" let Xiang Zhiming say that she wanted to find someone equivalent to a teenager, but she couldn't say it. The stammering Xiangzhi was at a loss, but "I" kept coming. Chu Huaixian stopped her: "I know." Xiang Zhi looked at her eldest brother pitifully, and there were tears in her eyes.

Chu Huaixian's face was calm, the second uncle had to manage his head and feet, and he only wanted to achieve his daughter's desire to get rich. Chu Huaixian has to take care of this matter, and there are no juniors and elders who are married to theorize? Chu Huaixian was wondering how to dispel this family matter, and someone outside spoke again: "Is the eldest girl here?" Second lady, please go back to your room. ”

Xiang Zhi hurriedly wiped away her tears, bowed deeply to Chu Huaixian, didn't say a word, and went back with the people who came to find her. The girls came back in and looked at Chu Huaixian's expression. Lin Xiaochu walked in from outside, stood for a while and got a girl out, and then came back with both of them laughing; After a while, another girl went out, and Lin Xiaochu opened a business at home.

Lotus sat in the candlelight, and also got a box of new rouge, and said to Xiao Chu happily: "Don't be too public, everyone in this yard knows that they can buy rouge when they are looking for you." ”

Lin Xiaochu was counting the money, and said happily: "Small profits but quick turnover, if you don't sell quickly, you won't make money." In the sound of copper coins jingling, Lin Xiaochu pulled the lotus flower to help count the population: "How many people are in the inner house, how many yards?" Lin Xiaoyi sat on the couch and wrote and laughed, and Chunji was also writing while sitting next to her, interjecting from time to time: "You don't know about Yulan." "It's a bustling house.

In the second master's room, he was angry. said to Chunhong in front of him: "You came to say that it was very good to me, but how did the eldest girl think of saying it to her son?" ”

"The eldest girl came with the new girl, who is very clever and has a lot of ideas. said that her relatives were selling rouge, and she helped many girls to bring rouge. ”

The second master was furious: "This is worth it!" The girls can only wait wholeheartedly, and say that they are not allowed to pass things in. Alas, this Huaixian, no matter what kind of person he is, gets into the house. ”