The green banana pavilion was quiet for the night. Bi Luo has been accustomed to following Jin Nuo since he was a child, and he likes to be organized in everything, because when he returned to the room, he saw that there were still some leftovers that had not been cleaned up, so he let Liu Cui wait for Jin Mei to sleep first. There are also two little girls named Yimei and Mochizuki, because they are afraid that they will be young and careless, so they deliberately call around and talk about their own young lady's habits, etc. - nothing more than what they heard in the house on weekdays.

After this arrangement, when the time comes, it will finally be appropriate, and it will be cleaned up and rested.

After listening to Bi Luo busy in the side room, Jin Nuo acted cautiously as the waiter himself in previous years, and he did not feel lonely for a while. It's just that the people and things I met at the end of the day made people feel uneasy, and when I fell asleep in the middle of the night, I was woken up by the sound of the overwhelmed snow falling on the banana leaves outside the window, so I went down to the ground and looked at the blue sky and was stunned.

When the sky was bright, someone outside the corridor suddenly whispered. In a blink of an eye, Liucui came to open the curtain, and saw that he was only sitting by the remnant fire with his clothes on, but he was startled, "How did the girl get up?" It was freezing cold, and I caught a cold carefully. While hurriedly coming over to help, seeing that Jin Mei had no intention of returning to bed, he had to take the charcoal fire again, and took the stove cover to cover the dust, and the copper branch gently dialed it.

"Who's talking outside the house?"

Jin Mei took the warm water handed by Yimei, chewed the willow branch and rinsed his mouth, and the silk printed the corner of his lips and asked.

"It's Ruyi in the big girl's house." Liucui twisted the towel and wiped her face. "Yesterday, the girl called me and Bi Luo to send something, but the eldest girl happened to have not returned to the house, so she accepted Ruyi in her room. This didn't just come as expected, saying that the eldest girl had contracted the wind cold after returning home, and she didn't have time to thank the girl for a while, so she woke up, so she sent her a pair of embroidered bags. said that although the thing was worthless, it was made by herself, and if the girl did not dislike it, she would keep it and send it away. I saw that there was no sound in the room, and I thought that the girl had not risen, so I took it. ”

Anyway, Liucui took a pair of silk peony sachets with plum blossoms from the flower stand at the curtain, and regardless of its texture, just the handwork, the end and bottom have been called delicate silk. Jin Mei looked at it and said, "The eldest girl really has a heart. Have you ever thanked someone for me? Liucui smiled: "Naturally." The eldest girl is the most amiable, and she is very thoughtful to her sisters and subordinates. Just now he said that if the girl is free, she should go to the garden and talk to her. ”

Jin Mei nodded, and said: "In the future, there are people in each room, you must reply to me in time, it's not rude, that's not good." ”

"That's what the girl said." Liucui smiled: "Since the girl has mentioned it, the slave will take it to heart." After speaking, he looked outside the curtain, and asked Jin Mei again: "Yesterday, the eldest lady sent someone to ask, did the girl eat in the house by herself, or did she originally move to the main room with the eldest lady?" The wife knew that the girl was inconvenient, and if she was willing to put it in the room, she could order the kitchen to bring the food cage over. ”

At this time, Bi Luo came in with a cup of warm water and handed it to Jin Mei: "This is what my aunt ordered before leaving, Miss must drink a cup of warm water before breakfast." Jin Mei thought that it was the way Yun Niang asked her daughter to recuperate her body on weekdays, so she took it as she said and drank it. After returning the cup, he said: "It's not far from the main house, and every day I naturally go to my wife's place to ask for peace, and then eat with my wife. ”

Liucui should get down, turn around and go out to Zhang Luo. Bi Luo changed his clothes and makeup for this side, and there was not much to say between the master and the servant.

When they arrived at the main courtyard, Qiu Cheng greeted them and led them to a row of four rooms on the left. It turned out that in the last month, Mrs. He changed the place where she lived and sat and slept on weekdays here, and the front main room was made a place for the eldest lord to entertain guests on weekdays, as well as a study. There is a courtyard out of the right corner door, but it is the residence of the two-room aunt.

The eldest aunt was originally Mrs. He who had been accepted before the door, and had given birth to a son, but died at the age of three, and then Mrs. He came to the door and gave birth to the eldest son He Shaojue, and the eldest aunt gave birth to the eldest girl Jinfang, and then the second girl Jinyong. If you talk about the origins of these young ladies in the house, except for the eldest young master, the second young master, the third young master, and the third girl and the fourth girl, who are from each room, the two girls in the rest of the eldest master's room, the fourth young master and six young ladies in the second master's room, and the fifth young master and five girls in the third master's room, are all from the house.

The eldest aunt in the big room has something to come out, but the second aunt has nothing. The eldest lord is in charge of the business of the He family's cabinet, and he rarely stays at home on weekdays, because the main room has given birth to two sons, so there is no more requirement in the wife's room. Only three years ago, when Mrs. He fell ill, the old lady saw that it was difficult for the eldest aunt to wait alone, so she temporarily took charge of the decision to accept a daughter from a distant relative's family to come in as an aunt.

The second aunt's surname is Ning, her name is Jiao'e, and she is really beautiful and colorful, only about 20 years old, and she is as bright as a red plum under the snow.

Jin Mei and his entourage turned the verandah, and there was a red-clothed figure at the side corner door, like a red leaf floating in the vast snow, and raised the silk from afar: "Is the cousin girl in the Ye Mansion in front?" Jin Mei had no choice but to stop, turned around and smiled and said, "It must be the second aunt, Mei'er is so polite." Aunt Ning led Yahuan to walk a few steps quickly, and her figure was like a weeping willow in the wind: "Cousin is polite, what a coincidence, I'm also going to my wife's house, okay?" ”

Jin Mei smiled and nodded, and asked Aunt Ning to go first, but Ning took her hand affectionately and walked with her.

The two sides only got their names aware, and Holly lifted the curtain in the main room on the left: "The cousin girl is here?" As if he hadn't seen Aunt Ning, he came all the way to raise his eyebrows and welcomed her into the house first.

When she arrived at the house, Mrs. He was already sitting on the edge of the kang drinking tea, with a string of Buddhist beads and a sutra book in front of her, looking like she was getting up early and doing her homework.

Jin Mei knew that he had believed in Buddhism for many years, so he stood silently on the side and did not disturb. Aunt Ning, who came in later, looked around the room, then smiled and went to the kang and said, "Concubine, please be safe." Did my wife sleep well last night? Last night, the snow was so big and thick that people were sweating when they swept the garden! When the old man went to the counter in the morning, he almost tripped over the snow. ”

Ning said to himself, looking delicate and excited.

Mrs. He first closed her eyes, then counted the rosary and recited a few words silently, before slowly putting down the utensils in her hand, the corners of her lips blurred and looked at her with a smile: "Really? Yesterday was the fifteenth, I was going to wait for the lord to go back to the room to reconcile with me, where the night was windy and snowy, I actually fell asleep unconsciously, and I don't know when the lord returned to the house. DID YOU KNOW? ”

Aunt Ning was speechless for a while, and after a while, Fang Bao smiled and said, "The concubine body, the concubine body doesn't know...... It was because it was cold and freezing, and I went home late, so I was afraid of noisy my wife, so I slept in my room. ”

Mrs. He's smile deepened a little, and asked Qiu Cheng to put away the things on the kang table, picked up the tea and took another sip, and said: "I'm over forty years old now, but I'm afraid of being disturbed at night, unlike you who are young, and the wind and snow are not moving." ”

Aunt Ning's face was crimson, her hands were clasped, and she had nothing to say for a long time except for laughing.

Mrs. He said again: "It's cold and frozen, you don't need to make rules here, just go back to the room to warm up." ”

Aunt Ning quickly thanked her and withdrew.

Mrs. He didn't look at it, she lowered her head and took the lid of the cup to brush the tea foam, looking casual. Jin Mei stepped forward and said, "Mei'er, please aunt." Hearing this, Mrs. He raised her head, pulled her up in a slightly shocked manner, and regretted: "Look, why haven't you been silent for half a day?" The girls too, their mouths are like knives cut. I just said that you haven't arrived yet, and I blindly greeted my second aunt, but I snubbed you. ”

Jin Mei sat down with a smile, "It's Mei'er who can't bear to disturb my aunt's chanting, so that my sisters don't make a sound." ”

Mrs. He smiled and stroked her hair bun, while busy letting people come to set the meal. "Look at this cold hands, there is a charcoal stove in that house, you go and warm up your body, and then come to eat." At that moment, a little girl came to the front and led her behind the screen.

Jin Mei untied the cloak and gave it to Biluo, and then sat down by the charcoal stove, outside the translucent screen embroidered with magpies climbing the branches, and someone faintly came. And I heard this man calling, "Has the wife ever been able to eat?" The voice was a little old, and I could already hear the voice of the eldest girl's biological mother, the eldest aunt Li.

Mrs. He called her to sit down, "Wait for you to comb your hair, you are fine, and you will not come until this time." Li said: "Don't blame Mrs., it's not that I'm lazy, I saw the old man come out of her room in the courtyard early in the morning, and went directly to the cabinet, and then I saw her rushing to this side, I was afraid that something would happen, so I didn't meet her." There was a bit of forbearance in his words, as if he couldn't afford to hide.

Mrs. He stretched out her voice and said, "The master went to her room to spend the night, how can I not know the truth?" She wants to pretend to be nothing in front of me, and I don't bother to pay attention to her. ”

Li immediately snorted, "She's embarrassed!" Before, I chewed the root of my tongue behind my back, so that my wife was embarrassed in front of the master, but now I have nothing to do but come to please again, which is so easy! ”

Mrs. He sighed faintly: "I didn't want to embarrass her, after all, they are all the master's people, not to mention that they are assigned by the old lady, just don't be out of sight and out of mind." ”

"That's what Madame said." Lee agreed.

"I've got dinner here, do you want to eat a piece?"

Outside, the mother-in-law came in with a small square table, with more than a dozen snacks and dishes of all sizes on it, all of which were warmed by charcoal under the plate, and the aroma was warm.

Li stood up and took a handkerchief and handed it to her, and said, "Don't bother, Fang'er suffered from the wind and cold yesterday, I'll take a look, and eat with her in the garden by the way." ”

"It's okay," Mrs. He nodded, "In three months it will be her wedding date, although the Liu family's business is not as big as ours, but it also has some relationship in the officialdom, and the dowry should be placed, and you can't lose face." You, the mother, also ask her to see if there is anything she wants, report to me here, and it's okay to be ready, don't wronged her. ”

Li said with a smile: "There is a wife who bother, how can there be anything that is not thoughtful?" He responded a few more words and retreated.