CHAPTER XII
"Now that I'm old, I don't have to wait for my wife's daily life, just go over and order a meal every day, and I'm idle, and my family is also on this street, just accompany the girl to go over." Zhang's mother said with a smile, her eyes shining on Qiu Yehong's body like a searchlight.
"Didn't the girl sleep well yesterday?" Seeing the blue under the red eyes of the autumn leaves, Zhang's mother was startled, and a trace of worry appeared on her face, "Don't hide any grievances, you don't want to tell your aunt to go, come to me by yourself." ”
Talking and looking at Qiu Yehong's clothes again, Qiu Yehong has not officially changed her clothes, wearing an evergreen shirt and water red pants, while listening to her, she bites her head rope and pulls her hair.
"The girl's face is small, it's better to comb her hair in a bun." Zhang's mother said again.
It's good that Autumn Leaf Red can comb her temples, so she smiled and said no, and Zhang's mother reached over, she had to help, but Autumn Leaf Red couldn't, so she had to let her comb it.
"The girl's head needs to be matched with a pressed hair." Mother Zhang looked at it, nodded with satisfaction, and after speaking, she saw Qiu Yehong smiled faintly, and then saw that there was only one grate on the table, and there were no ornaments at all, so she hurriedly confessed, and said, "Which dress is the girl wearing?" Don't be detained, people say that the Buddha wants a gold dress, I said that the girl is a magnificent person, and she is also a Buddha if she doesn't want a gold dress. ”
Qiu Yehong laughed at what she said, looked at Zhang's mother and said: "Aunt Zhang is really a blessing, with Mother Zhang by her side, which day will not smile, smile for ten years, strange I saw my aunt so young last time, sitting with my big sister, not like a mother and daughter, like a sister!" ”
"Oh, Miss Hui is really good at talking!" Zhang's mother said with a smile, while watching Qiu Yehong open the clothes bag sent by Qingluan last time.
This is the birthday of the eldest girl, and she is a guest, and she is a guest who goes empty-handed, this pale white is just low-key, but it is a beautiful branch peony, just thinking about it, Zhang's mother has picked up a pink printed satin to face the placket, and said with a smile: "The girl is white, and she looks good in this." ”
Qiu Yehong didn't have much research on clothes and accessories, and saw that Zhang's mother was holding a gown and adding a white silk skirt, which looked as good as the one on the painting, so she also nodded, not forgetting to give a high hat, "It's still my mother's good eye, I don't understand this." ”
After dressing up in a harmonious atmosphere for a while, the eldest girl of the rich second grandfather's family held Zhang's mother's hand and went out dignified.
If you go east along the back door, you should be able to reach the girls' yard, but Zhang's mother helped her to the west.
"Your aunt has come out of the scriptures at this time, let's meet her." Zhang's mother smiled.
"It was as it should have been." Akiba Hong also smiled.
Crossing the two doors, looking at the three-story building hidden behind a wavy wall, the swaying green willows planted in front of the wall are the living yard of the eldest lady Zheng who came last time, and there are two maids standing on the back door, who are playing with the flower rope, seeing them coming, they hurriedly greeted them with a smile: "Mother Zhang, this is not too early or too late, what are you doing at the old man's house?" ”
"Mrs. is out of the Buddha Hall, right?" Zhang's mother smiled.
The little maids nodded and looked at Autumn Leaves with curiosity.
Entered the yard, and then look up and see the last time I saw it is different, the first thing I saw was a winding canal, verdant and green, the shore was dotted with rockery stones like beauty flower pillars, all carved empty, there were several clusters of osmanthus trees in batches, the two corner pavilions were hidden in it, along the Fushou stone road to both sides, then entered a hand-copying verandah, and then went to the back door of the main house that I saw when I came in last time, and there were still a few maids.
If you can stay for another thousand years, it will also become a tourist attraction, Akiba sighed in her heart.
"Miss Hui is here." Qingluan came out with a teacup and lifted the curtain, saw them and smiled, handed the tea to the little maid beside her, and opened the curtain herself, "The big girl, they just went to the garden, and they still said why Miss Hui hasn't arrived yet." ”
"We're coming from behind, we're going to fork in the road, or we're going to run into each other." Zhang's mother smiled.
Entering the room, bypassing the large partition screen, and not entering the main hall, Qingluan led them to the ear room on the side, opened the pearl curtain, and saw the big lady wearing a Ming Xiang gown and combing a begonia flower bun sitting on the couch reading Buddhist books.
"Auntie." Autumn leaves are busy saluting and saying hello.
"You're here." The eldest lady sat upright with a smile and put the book in her hand.
Qiu Yehong only felt a gaze look up and down on her, and then she heard her shout Qingluan, Qingluan hurriedly came in, looked down and listened to her whisper a few words, and then went again.
The eldest lady here just started to ask a few gossips, nothing more than whether your father is in good health.
"I heard that you went to the pharmacy outside to make a living?" The eldest lady asked suddenly.
Qiu Yehong hurriedly replied with a smile, and the eldest lady shook her head and said: "Then how to make it, you are a serious girl's house, go to the messy people to mingle, I know that you have a hard time, what is a relative, even if you don't come to the door, you should take care of it, not to mention that you are here again," said and called someone, and a maid came in, "You go and tell Aunt Lin, the Hui girl who lives in the backstreet will be separated from the girls in the future, and then pick two capable and honest girls to serve." ”
This frightened Qiu Yehong couldn't care about etiquette and hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Aunt can't help it!" I know that this is my aunt's love for us, but one is out of order, and the other is that I have to ask my father before I dare to accept it. ”
Yes, although they come to the door now, they are not called Hanako, and sometimes the reward is not accepted casually.
Hearing her say this, the eldest lady called the maid, thought for a while and smiled: "That's how it should be, or so, today you just have to play for a day, these things are discussed by our adults." ”
Qiu Yehong breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't wait to raise her hand to wipe her sweat, obediently, rich people are generous when they speak.
Qingluan came in at this time, holding an embossed flower with red gold dots in his hand.
"I'll give you this, girl, don't be careful." The eldest lady said, pursing the corners of her mouth and looking at Autumn Leaf Red.
Qiu Yehong hurriedly lowered her head and smiled: "Yes, my niece will not dare to live up to her aunt's kindness." ”
Qingluan naturally smiled when she heard this, and came over to plug it in for her, and the eldest lady looked at it for a moment, then nodded with a smile.
"Madam, look at Miss Hui, this eyebrows and eyes are very similar to the eldest girl, if you go out, I'm afraid that people will say that she is the second girl, but our second girl is not like it." Zhang's mother covered her mouth and smiled.
The eldest lady said with a smile: "Qing Niang's eyebrows follow me, Ming Niang follows her father, and Miss Hui also follows her father, and the two of them are naturally like brothers." ”
"Madam, the girls over there are all here, I'll send Miss Hui over." Qingluan interjected.
The eldest lady nodded and said, "It's okay if you send it, tell Ming Niang, don't restrain Miss Hui, Hui Niang will come back and recognize her life." ”
Qiu Yehong thanked him and said goodbye, and then followed Qingluan out, and Zhang's mother hurriedly whispered: "Madam, what do you think?" ”
The eldest lady was silent, stroking the Buddhist book with one hand, and said for a long time: "It looks good, but it's not a child of Naqiao." ”
"Yes, he is also very open-minded, and he doesn't shrink in front of us, he is generous and very pleasing." Zhang's mother smiled.
The eldest lady smiled when she heard this, frowned again, sighed and said, "This character is good, I'm afraid, we can't hold her." ”
"Madam, this child is extremely filial, she is a girl, sooner or later she will get married, Mrs. takes care of her father so much, what else does she have to worry about?" Zhang's mother smiled.
The eldest lady was speechless, and stroked the Buddhist book in her hand one by one.
"It's just that my aunt doesn't like ........" Mother Zhang hesitated for a moment and said slowly.
The eldest lady didn't seem to hear it, took a few glances at the Buddhist book, suddenly put it down, and said: "The people of the Sun family have arrived in a few days, we should also prepare, the dowries of the three sisters are prepared by the old lady in the morning, but the Sun family now has a new deputy envoy of Shaanxi Jingluo, and the dowry of the young lady is less than that of her sister. ”
Zhang's mother immediately answered, hurriedly turned around and went out.
The son of the Sun family, I heard that martial arts are good, and books are also good, although there is no imperial examination, but since he was a child, he has followed his grandfather and father in the army, and sooner or later he will also enter the official, and his family background is not as deep as that of his eldest aunt, but this new prestigious family should not be underestimated, not to mention that this son is the only son in the family, unlike the eldest aunt, the family is complicated.
The eldest girl didn't look down on them at first, disgusted with their shallow foundation, and didn't want their rich family to be originally built by the emperor's reward, but now it is an old thing, but the Sun family has made new meritorious contributions, and has made great military achievements, the rich family is already at the end of the strong crossbow, and the Sun family is a new arrow.
Thanks to the eldest aunt's efforts, how far can the eldest aunt's family be able to look at?
Mother Zhang was so engrossed all the way that she didn't even hear the little girl's greetings, and went straight away.
At this time, Autumn Leaf Red was already sitting at the small banquet.
The girls' party is placed in the small garden where the girls live, it is close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is slightly cool, full of greenery, and the lotus pond is half dry and half open, which has a different flavor.
The maids holding all kinds of snack boxes came and went on the verandah, and when the autumn leaves came red, there were already seven or eight girls in the four-corner pavilion in the center of the lotus pond, all of them in brocade clothes, sitting or standing, talking or laughing, eating or drinking, or silent and meditating, or leaning on the fence to tease the fish.
Among them, there are no rich family room three girls.
Seeing that Qingluan personally sent Qiu Yehong over, the girls were shocked and envious, and some were expressionless.