Chapter 25: Gu Xun (1)
The autumn cold is getting heavier, and it rains in autumn this night.
There was rain on the window lattice, crackling, a chill, Lin Jinrong woke up, looked at the dim celadon oil lamp in the corner of the house and was stunned, she didn't have nightmares, after seeing Lu Xuan, she didn't have nightmares again. Is this a good thing?
When he was stunned, he suddenly heard a soft sound of the door, Lin Jinrong quickly closed his eyes, and looked out through the eyelashes, Mama Gui hugged a quilt, lightly added it for her, and walked to the oil lamp to check whether there was still lamp oil, and saw that everything was in order, so he gently retreated and closed the door.
Lin Jinrong tightened the quilt. Mama Gui is a dutiful nurse who always gets up once or twice a night to see her and Guiyuan. If you add a quilt to yourself at this time, you must also add a quilt to Longan. It's a pity that Mama Gui has longan; And Gui Yuan, fortunately, has Gui Mama.
Lin Jinrong reached out and touched the two keys in the pillow box, and smiled lightly, the look and entanglement of Gui Yuan's desire to speak these days were all in her eyes, but this key, Gui Yuan would never want to go back. It's like there are some things that are hers, and if she doesn't want to give them, no one wants to take them. Want, unless she doesn't want to.
She remembered that incident again - she remembered that in many places because of the distance from the capital, it was difficult to transport goods in kind, so many taxes were changed to levy silver or convert silver, and this year Pyongzhou had a bumper harvest, and next year Pyongzhou would still be a bumper harvest, and next year would be a turning point for Pyongju and Cheongju, and the money offered was changed to buy silver as tribute. There were many taxpayers who had no money, so they exchanged money with the silver shops, the exact amount she did not know, but she remembered that there were people in Pyongju and Cheongju who made a fortune that year. After that, some people often went to Beijing to buy silver and make a profit when taxes were collected.
So she especially wants to open a silver shop, but this wish is afraid that it will not be easily achieved, but at least she can make a little money from it, right? But when it comes to capital, the only one she can make up her mind is Dow. The Tao family is rich, the Tao family marries a lot, which has a lot of gold and silver things, if you can get the support of the Tao family, and then unite the Tao family, the Tao family comes forward to do this, it is difficult not to make money!
But she is a deep girl, and she has basically never gone out to see the world, and suddenly opening this mouth will definitely make people feel funny and unbelievable at first, and then wait until the incident really happens, which will make people feel strange and cause suspicion and cause a lot of trouble. How can we achieve this in a safe and orderly manner? Lin Jinrong thought about this question for several days, but still didn't have a clue, and then thought that tomorrow the mother and son of the Tao family would return to Qingzhou, but he was grounded in this palm-sized world, unable to go out, the opportunity was fleeting, and he couldn't help tossing and turning.
At dawn, the rain still did not stop, and the house was a little darker than usual, Lychee brought the hot water for washing in as usual, and was ready to wait for Lin Jinrong to get up, but saw that Lin Jinrong had already sat neatly dressed by the window, facing the window with a thin slit and looking at the misty rain and fog outside.
"Why does the girl get up so early? Nor does it appeal? Lychee put the copper kettle, ran to Lin Jinrong's side worriedly, looked sideways at her face, but was startled by Lin Jinrong's two light cyan eye circles, and couldn't help blurting out: "But I have nightmares again at night?!" ”
Lin Jinrong shook his head lightly and said worriedly: "Tomorrow, my aunt and eldest cousin will leave, and I don't know when we will see each other again." I wanted to see them off, but I was afraid of embarrassing my mother. ”
Lychee groaned, "It's not convenient for the third lady to intercede for you now. ”
With a series of seizures of Mrs. Lin, the second master was reprimanded, the third master was beaten, Lin Yizhi, the twins, and Lin Jinrong were punished, Lin Shenzhi was taken to Tingtaoju to be enlightened and taught, and the matter of Tao's confrontation with the old lady that day was also brought out by someone with a heart. It was only when the Wu family delayed leaving that this matter was temporarily pressed.
But this account is always to be calculated. Therefore, what Sanfang wants now is to be low-key, Lin Jinrong should obediently hide in the room and copy and write when he is punished, and reflect on being a female celebrity, even if he goes out to have a farewell meal with his aunt and cousin who are about to leave, where does the third wife or Lin Jinyin dare to intercede for her!
Lin Jinrong put his thin white hand into the brass basin and unconsciously stirred the water, and sighed softly: "You take out one of my pair of ancient pottery xun, find a beautiful box to put it in, and take it to the fifth girl." I just said that my aunt came this time and gave me some excellent dragon and phoenix group tea, and I was reluctant to enjoy it alone, so I asked her to share it together. ”
It's okay to drink that tea, after all, it has to be drunk, but the meaning of that ancient pottery is different. Lychee was distressed: "Girl, that pair of ancient Taoxun is your baby, or is it the twelfth birthday gift that my uncle did everything possible to find for you, so I gave one to the fifth girl, didn't she really like it, didn't she waste good things......"
The girls all have some elegant hobbies, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flowers and grass, fragrance and tea, etc. Lin Jinrong likes to share tea, but he likes to blow the whimpering-sounding Xun. As for the five girls, I didn't like it, but later I saw the pair of Guxun that Uncle Tao gave to Lin Jinrong, and after hearing that it was simple and elegant, she tried every possible way to get the Guxun from Lin Jinrong. But she doesn't really like it, and she doesn't know how to blow it, so Lin Jinrong refuses to divide her. I didn't expect to take the initiative to offer it with both hands today.
Lin Jinrong lowered his eyes: "I will just think about it back in the future." If my uncle had known what had happened, he wouldn't have complained about me. Lin Wu didn't really like it, so she let Lin Wu pass this freshness, and when she had money in the future, she would find other valuables to exchange it for, and the most important thing at the moment was to meet the mother and son of the Tao family.
There is really no other way than to ask the big house to turn around in the middle. Lychee sighed, took out a finely crafted carved red sandalwood box from the bookcase against the wall, opened the lid, lifted the brocade, and revealed a pair of simple and elegant, finely made Tao Xun: "That's the case, the girl will pick one she likes and keep it." ”
Lin Jinrong's fingers touched Tao Xun lightly, then retracted it, and said with his eyes aside: "Any one is the same." "This pair of Xun, in her previous life, she had a problem shortly after she took it to the Lu family as a dowry. That day, Lu Mian asked her to take it out and play with it, only to find that one was inexplicably missing, and she couldn't find it, Lu Mian also ridiculed that Xun had wings and flew by herself, as if she deliberately lied to him, although she had tracked down, but nothing was found, and the whereabouts of this Xun have always been a mystery. Why did you think far again? Lin Jinrong shook his head and suppressed his thoughts.
Lychee had no choice but to follow her usual observations, keep the one that Lin Jinrong often plays, find a small and delicate brocade box and put another Xun on it, hit an oil umbrella to face the continuous autumn rain, and stepped on the bluestone road.
"The girl has been wronged." Mama Gui saw it clearly on the side, and used a silver hairpin to pick out some of the carefully prepared Xiangxue dough from the porcelain box and applied it to Lin Jinrong's face, neck, and hands, gently rubbed it for Lin Jinrong, and sighed silently.
Lin Jinrong smiled: "It's nothing, doesn't the nurse think I've grown up?" ”
"The girl has grown up." Mama Gui looked at the smiling Lin Jinrong with a complicated expression, the girl is getting bigger and bigger, more and more ideas, and she doesn't love to discuss things with herself as much as before, but loves to pull the lychee to discuss secretly behind her back, and she has also taught the lychee to write and read these days...... But the girl in Guiyuan, who had no heart and no lungs, was lazy and slippery, and shouted for herself to ask the girl for the key to the gold and silver box.
If it weren't for her own daughter, she would have dared to open this mouth to persuade the girl that there was no other daughter's daughter who ran away with the key by herself, but it was her own daughter, and she couldn't open this mouth. Besides, the girl is so tolerant of letting Guiyuan, a dead girl with no rules, not because she is raising her and doing her best to take care of her face? No matter how greedy you are, you don't have enough people's hearts.
Therefore, Mama Gui finished what she was doing, and she retired: "The old slave went outside to take a look, why did this girl Gui Yuan go to get breakfast early, why did she work so hard and never saw her come back?" ”
Lin Jinrong smiled, fortunately Mama Gui never spoke.
Mama Gui stood under the curtain for a short time, and saw Gui Yuan holding an oil umbrella and carrying a food box and walked over gracefully, got on the Ruyi stack, first handed the dripping oil umbrella to Dou'er, and then wiped the water stains on the shoes on the palm mat, Fang greeted Mama Gui, and said in a low voice: "Mother, did you tell the girl?" ”
Mama Gui glared at her coldly, took the food box with one hand, secretly pinched her with the other, and said coldly: "No, you are not allowed to mention half a word, otherwise the old lady will invite you to eat fried hamstrings and tendons on bamboo boards!" ”
Gui Yuan grinned in pain, but he didn't dare to shout, he entered the house with a calm face unhappily and followed Gui Mama into the house, looked at the back room, and while arranging the dishes and chopsticks with Gui Mama, she asked curiously and whispered: "I met Lychee just now, where is she going in a hurry?" ”
Before Mama Gui could speak, she saw Lin Jinrong walk out and said gently: "I asked her to invite the fifth girl to have tea, I want to accompany my uncle's wife to have a farewell dinner tonight." ”
Gui Yuan immediately pouted again, she used to do it when she ran errands to get a reward, but now why has it gradually become a lychee? So the look of grievance came to her face, and Mama Gui hurriedly coughed lightly: "Hurry up and hand the hot handkerchief to the girl to wipe her hands!" As he spoke, he took a step forward and blocked Guiyuan's expression, so that Lin Jinrong would not be bored when he saw it.
Lin Jinrong had already seen the expressions and manners of the mother and daughter, and only cared about eating, and never heard or saw what he did. In addition to lychee, who is around to serve is different? At least Mama Gui treats her sincerely, and she still knows how to be measured.
Lychee rushed back with a body of moisture, and said, "Girl, the fifth girl received Xun, she was very happy, and promised to come over immediately." But the slave maid saw that the people in her room were packing up their things, as if they were going to go out, and they didn't know if it was too late? ”
"Did you ask what's the matter?" Lin Jinrong looked out the window, the autumn rain was still falling, but the girl of the Lin family was going out in this weather, so she must have encountered something unusual.
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At the end of the year, I was too busy working during the day, and I could only look forward to going home at night. Dan Su ...... Holding his head in pain, from 8 o'clock in the evening on the 13th, the power has been cut off at home, and most of the city has been stopped...... If I continue like this, I'm afraid I'll break off......
Ami Tofu, fix the circuit quickly...... The power outage is very cold, and there is no food to eat, and the people with black eyes can't afford to hurt it!!