Mrs. He has the habit of drinking honey tea after meals, and after removing the table, Dongqing Qiucheng changed to a small table, and put two bowls of grapefruit honey tea and two or three kinds of candied fruit. Jin Mei doesn't like sweets, but because he has more Mrs. He in the past, he does not reject this grapefruit tea, and after his first tea, he casually took the small copper kettle on the stove and added some boiling water.

Mrs. He looked at it for a long time and smiled: "Your gesture is very similar to Nuo'er." In the past, when we had tea together, she was so attentive. Jin Mei smiled silently, and took a piece of sour ginger into his mouth. Mrs. He glanced at her twice, and sighed: "Speaking of which, both of you are my own niece and nephew, when I saw you when you were young, I always felt that you were not as generous and decent as Nuo'er. In the past two years, I'm afraid that Nuo'er has stayed with you for a long time, and this temperament has also changed, which is always good. Your mother sent you to me, and she did the right thing after all. ”

Jin Mei said: "Auntie's demeanor is outstanding, Mei'er is fortunate to be with her, if you can learn a little or two of your aunt's behavior, it will be no regrets." ”

Mrs. He held the tea ceremony, "It is a woman's duty to teach her husband and children, and if these two things are done well, it will be amazing." It is necessary for the daughter of the grandmother to learn the way of running the family, but you are different, you are born there, learn some boudoir training, and then know some virtues and words. Besides, if you want to learn this family, you can't learn it for three or five years. ”

This understatement is really mixed, and the sour ginger is in Jinmei's mouth, and I don't know what it tastes like.

"I didn't mean to belittle you," Seeing this, Mrs. He put the tea set and softened the color: "With your talent, it's not that there is no way out, everything depends on you." For example, the eldest girl, she is not from me, but she is obedient, I feel sorry for her in my heart, so I also made the decision to marry a famous matchmaker and find a wealthy family. Mrs. He stood up, "I have taken this far away." I'll have to go over to the old lady's side, so you can go somewhere else." I'll eat lunch in the old lady's house, and someone will bring you food when I get back to the kitchen. ”

After that, he took Jinmei's hand and went out together. Out of the gate, she led Qiu Cheng to the left, and Jin Mei and Bi Luo went down the right verandah to the Green Banana Xuan.

In the vast expanse of heaven and earth, the master and servant were speechless.

Walking to the moon gate in the garden, Bi Luo couldn't help it: "Miss, what did Mrs. Gu mean by that?" ”

Jin Mei's mind was at a loss, and he looked at her in a daze, but he didn't know how to answer her.

Mrs. He's words pierced her heart like a needle, in her seventeen years of career as a famous concubine, how could she ever hear such outspoken words? Especially the aunt who once regarded her as her own flesh and blood. If she hadn't become Ye Jinnuo, then she would really be grateful for all that she had endured in the past few days, after all, the Ye family was so defeated, and there was a relative with a big family who was willing to take her in and treat her as a distinguished guest, what a great favor it was.

But she used to be the eldest lady of Yefu who was pampered for seventeen years, and now even a concubine in the foreign mansion can humiliate her in public, a third young lady who is not as good as herself in the foreign mansion can make fun of her, and even the aunt who once regarded herself as her own does not hide her disdain, even if they are still polite on their faces, but how can this fact be accepted?

In the past, as Jin Nuo, Bi Luo was just a capable and trustworthy girl, even though they were like sisters, they knew that the fate of the two was different. She will be promised to a wealthy young man with a considerable family as the eldest lady of Yefu, and she will marry the master mother in a beautiful manner, and Bi Luo may become her companion, marry a male servant with an unknown surname, or become one of her husband's concubines because of her effective service...... But at this time, Jin Mei felt that her future was almost no different from that of Bi Luo. If the Ye family has not yet fallen, as a concubine, maybe she can still marry into a well-off family as a housewife, but now, it seems that everyone regards her as a concubine in advance.

Mrs. He's meaning couldn't be simpler, according to your current situation, if you don't become a concubine of a big family, you can only marry a small family casually and live a life of coarse food and light food. Either way, she didn't need to waste time learning how to run a family.

But even as a descendant of a declining family, she is dignified......

"Miss!" Bi Luo interrupted her reverie with a word, "The slave is stupid, and I know that Mrs. Fang Caigu's words make you uncomfortable. I think that when the lord and the eldest lady were there, which one was not stammering back and forth, but now that the Ye Mansion has ended up like this, everyone is polite on the surface, and secretly stepped on it together. Now that we are sending people under the fence, there are some things that we have to listen to, you think about Aunt Yun in the house and the master in prison, they are still counting on you, you must not vomit and hurt your body for these little things. ”

Jin Mei listened in a daze, looked at the Fusang flower branches that were bent by the thick snow, and smiled reluctantly. How could she ever be angry because of this, at most she just forced herself to accept reality. Then he said: "It's okay, I just remembered that the New Year is approaching, and my mother is home alone, and I don't know if I will be lonely." ”

"That's what it was!" Bi Luo put his mind at ease and stretched out his hand to support her: "It's easy, I'll send someone back to take a look at Ming'er, and give some words to my aunt to reassure you." ”

Jin Mei nodded with a sigh.

The two of them will go back to Lujiaoxuan.

Because the weather was unusually cold, Mrs. He said that there was no need to go to the main room to eat at noon, and after returning to the room, Bi Luo sent someone to cover the courtyard door, waited for Jin Mei to change into homely clothes, and made a fire in the room. Liucui packed up her clothes, laughed with each other for a while, and also revealed the morning's events for the time being.

In the afternoon, I read my son's book, and when I looked out the window, the snow stopped, and the sound of snow sweeping was heard everywhere in the house. In the Lujiao Xuan, too, Liucui called two small servants to carry hot water to wash the ditch, sweeping the snow on the road into several piles, and Yimei Wangyue and the two knocked on the ice under the eaves with a broom. Jin Mei held the stove and looked at it for a while, and on a whim also cut a few window flowers and pasted them on the door, and Bi Luo picked out a big red flower from it and hung it in front of the door, in order to be auspicious.

"Yo, it's so lively in this courtyard!"

Someone at the gate suddenly called out crisply. Under the half-withered creeper wall, there stood Aunt Ning in a pink skirt. In this cold weather, he didn't even wear a cloak, and his waist, like a water snake, was wrapped in a narrow jacket.

"Is Aunt Ning here?"

Biluo stood under the porch and greeted him, but he didn't mean to greet him. Aunt Ning stood up, and she was carried by Yahuan to this side.

"My cousin is so interested, the flowers and grass in this garden have been blessed by the girl!" Seeing the red window flowers hanging on the branches, Aunt Ning covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled. Jin Mei also smiled, "My aunt is not afraid of the cold, why did she come to me in person?" ”