The winter in the south of the Yangtze River has always been rainy and cold. Although the temperature is not low, the humid air can penetrate the cold into the meridians and veins of people, making people feel cold and yin in their bones.

I lay on the big bed carved from pear blossom wood and slowly opened my eyes.

The house is large and full of fine furniture. In the east and west corners, two braziers were burning vigorously. Thinking that in the past, when I was in the capital, the house was covered with hot earth dragons, and people stood on the ground barefoot, and the soles of their feet felt warm.

I smiled faintly, what's wrong, why do you keep thinking about the capital recently?

Seeing the sunlight pouring into the room through the window, it was slightly dazzling.

There was some noise outside, listening with your ears pricked up, it seemed to be the sound of firecrackers, and if you listened carefully, it seemed that there was a child's laughter, intermittently, and it was indistinct.

Is it the New Year? How fast did the days go?

I stretched out my hand from the quilt, crossed my fingers and calculated, it was really the New Year.

Hey, year after year, it passed quietly.

In a flash, even the young lady has been gone for more than ten years, and my old bones are still alive, I really don't know if this god is taking care of me or punishing me.

It's not a good thing to live too long, people.

……

When Ah Song came in with the medicine cup and the curtain, with a cold air, I hid in the quilt, and I was excited for no reason. As soon as I get older, I am very afraid of the cold, and I can't blow a trace of cold wind.

"Mama, have you drunk the medicine?" Ah Song's crisp voice sounded as promised.

I frowned, looked at her fixedly, and sighed.

"Don't drink...... Okay, really...... It's bitter! ”

"Mama, how can anyone who doesn't drink medicine when you're sick. It is said that good medicine is bitter, good medicine is bitter, and if this medicine is not bitter, it is not medicine. When the grandmother wants to ask, the slave is not easy to reply. You are old, you still wait for the medicine to be cold, drink this medicine obediently, don't embarrass me! ”

Although it was a complaint, Ah Song's glutinous Suzhou dialect made me only feel comfortable listening to it, unlike people in the north who spoke, it was raw and hard, and it sounded like a quarrel. It's just that this Suzhou dialect, if a woman with a water spirit speaks, it is really soft and moving, and it can reach people's hearts.

But if a man talks about it, it tastes like a sissy. I still remember that the young lady was not less sick at that time.

At that time, I always laughed at Miss: "Miss, what she said is wrong." Our aunt is a dignified seven-foot man, and he speaks an authentic Suzhou dialect, why can't the slave and maid hear it at all? ”

The young lady glared at me shyly, and said angrily: "Mama, how can a character like my uncle be comparable to those ordinary people." ”

"Yes, yes, yes! There is no man in this world who is more handsome than his uncle, speaks better than his uncle, and is gentler than his uncle. I followed Miss's words.

When the young lady heard me praise my uncle, her lips were always full of smiles, and she was happier than praising her. It was this smile that made me hide a sentence in my heart, a sentence that had been hidden for many years, and I never dared to say it.

Miss, men who are handsome and speak well in this world are often unkind.

It's a pity that Miss was an aunt in her heart at that time, and she couldn't listen to this. And when I was able to listen to it, I couldn't say it anymore. Because of Miss, she has really tasted it.

The first time I saw my uncle, it was with my young lady at the Lantern Festival in the capital.

The uncle was wearing a cyan robe, carrying a rabbit lamp with exquisite workmanship in his hand, and hurriedly shuttled through the crowd.

The young lady wore a gorgeous and gorgeous embroidered jacket that day, and the emerald pearls were bright, which was really fragrant and radiant.

On such a good day as the Lantern Festival, even the young lady who lives in the boudoir has gone to the street, so naturally there are many people. When there are many people, the bluestone road is crowded.

In this way, the rabbit lamp in the uncle's hand hooked the young lady's green silk, and the fine coral gilt point green hairpin fell heavily to the ground and broke in two.

I clearly saw the anger in the eyes of the young lady The moment she saw her uncle, Ying Ying made waves, she even forgot the upbringing in the boudoir, and looked at her uncle for a long time, and smiled.

In all the years I have been with Miss, it is the first time I have seen such a smile on her face.

My uncle's low, gentle voice sounded faintly: "I'm really sorry, I offended Miss and broke Miss hairpin, I should be compensated, I only have something important to do here, and I don't have so much silver on my body to compensate Miss for my hairpin." If the young lady can be trusted, please send someone to Jiang's house in the west of the city tomorrow to get the silver. ”

The uncle did not stop, put the rabbit lamp in his arms, and turned to leave.

I clearly felt the young lady holding my hand, and gradually oozing sweat.

A few days later, I learned that the important thing my uncle said that day was to send a rabbit lamp to his fiancée, who had been engaged for six years, because the young lady of the Xu family belonged to a rabbit.

On that day, I was instructed by the young lady to give the Hou Ye and Mrs. the clothes she had sewn for her parents, and I heard Mrs. Madame's soft voice clearly outside the door, faintly mixed with worry.

"Jiang Zhen is a person who has been married, I heard that he seems to have visited the church in Suzhou Mansion, and you must not agree to Qing'er's request."

My body was almost unsteady, my hands were tightly covering my mouth, and my fingertips became cold in an instant.

"The good daughter you raised, you have taken a fancy to herself, and she wants to die or live, what can I do?"

Mrs. sighed lightly: "Our Hou Mansion Zhong Ming Ding Food, rich and noble, there is no reason for the eldest lady to be a concubine, it is just a small Jiang family, Hou Ye wants to find a way......

"It's not that there is no way. The Xu family, who is married to the Jiang family, will soon be in my hands, and I heard that the Xu family is the most prosperous in the hundred-year-old jade family...... I'll hold ...... when the time comes."

I was drenched in cold sweat, and I didn't dare to listen any more, so I quietly retreated.

The fresh air in the garden calmed me down. Years of life in the Hou Mansion have taught me that there are some secrets, and you can only keep them in your heart before you can survive.

Since then, I have often wondered how amazing it must be to make such a handsome man really like a woman!

……

From childhood to adulthood, Miss Danfan wanted to get something, and Hou Ye never disappointed her.

On the day of Miss's wedding, the Jingnan Hou Mansion was decorated with lights, and the guests gathered, and it was not very lively.

I walked beside the wedding sedan chair carried by eight people, looking at the black and oppressive family send-off team behind me, and I was faintly worried in my heart.

Because I saw my aunt riding a tall horse and wearing red silk on his chest, his face was always pale from the beginning of entering the door of the Jingnan Hou Mansion.

As soon as this worry came to my heart, I was overshadowed by this joy in the sky. I even thought optimistically that although Miss's family business was not so glorious, with Miss's family background and love for her uncle, as well as the dowry brought to the Jiang family, she could more or less please the Jiang family.

Unfortunately, I was wrong.

When visiting the church, the smile on the faces of the second elder of the Jiang family, like that of my uncle, was faint, and I couldn't see joy in their eyes, and even some sadness.

I know that it is not a matter of time for them to accept Miss, but on this good day, I should also make some smiles, otherwise, it will be unlucky.

……

In the new house that night, after the uncle picked off the young lady's red hijab, he never appeared again.

The young lady guarded a pair of dragon and phoenix red candles, waiting for him to come on the left, waiting for him not to come on the right, sitting for half the night, the smile in her eyes faded little by little.

She frowned and asked me, "Mama, go and see if he has been drunk too much!" ”

I said in my heart that the guests at the Jiang family's tables, which one would pour him wine. But looking at the pitiful eyes of the young lady, I finally nodded, and quietly groped to my uncle's study.

To tell the truth, the Jiang family's mansion is not much worse than the rich and monstrous Jingnan Hou Mansion. I searched for a long time before I found the door of the study.

When I looked at it, the fire in my heart was strung together.

Where did my uncle drink too much, he was wearing a homely shirt, standing firmly next to a bare plum tree with his hands behind his back.

There was a faint moonlight shining on him, and the whole person seemed to be hazy with a layer of rain and mist. A gust of wind passed, and his clothes fluttered, and he wanted to ride the wind away.

No wonder Miss hurt Acacia with just one glance, such a character is really ......

I stood still slightly, and was about to step forward, when my uncle suddenly turned his face, and I saw with sharp eyes that there were tears on my uncle's handsome face.

This look has wiped out all the fire in my heart. Thinking of the methods of my own Hou Mansion, I sighed slightly in my heart, 1152 (..) (Miss Jiang Si.) /0/602/)--

( Miss Jiang Si )