After a few days, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, which happened to be the auspicious day of the zodiac, the old and young masters began to go back to the counter, but the wives were still walking between the various mansions to celebrate the New Year. In the meantime, there were also Beppu ladies who came to the door, but it was none of the girls' business, and the eldest lady stayed in the garden because she was instructed. Jin Mei was also afraid that there would be many obstacles to walking around in the main room, so she stayed in the room with peace of mind, and only occasionally played and laughed with the girls.

On this day, the eldest lady went to Xue's mansion, and Jinmei played chess with Jinhua for half a day, and fell asleep in the afternoon. It is also Qiu Cheng to send this season's clothes, because he said: "There is a happy event in the house this year, the satin is bought by the procurement staff in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the wives have six bodies each, and the girls have four bodies per person in addition to the eldest girl and the second girl, and the aunts also have it." These four horses were specially ordered by the wife to be given to the cousin in the morning. Jin Mei was surprised when she heard it: "Why don't the eldest girl and the second girl have it?" Qiu Cheng smiled: "The girl has forgotten, the eldest girl is newly married, and the clothes are made separately along with the dowry." The second girl was instructed by her wife, and she did two bodies, and she would do it again later. ”

Jin Mei remembered that the old lady hated Jin Yong, so she was deliberately harsh, so she didn't say much, and rewarded Qiu Cheng with two purses and received satin.

Bi Luo picked it up and looked at it, and the fruit was several fine brocades, including one small emerald green, one stamen yellow, one peony red, and one water blue blue.

Liucui compared it to Jinmei, and said with a smile: "The girl has a light temperament, and she wears plain colors on weekdays, but now these bright clothes are also excellent." Bi Luo glanced at her and said with a smile: "But I don't know which colors to send to the third girl's house?" Isn't it a big hit again? Liucui pursed her lips: "Speaking of this, do you remember the time you quarreled with the second girl?" In the morning, I obviously wore the big red jacket, but after eating, I went back to the house and changed my clothes. ”

Bi Luo pouted and said: "You don't know that you three girls, since you have always looked down on anyone who is stronger than her, you only think that you are the first beauty in the world, and you didn't dare to do anything in front of our eldest lady before, but now you see that our girl is gentle and kind and easy to deceive, so I can't help it." According to me, she doesn't look very good-looking, her brain is too big, thanks to being a girl now, she doesn't have to put up her bangs. When the time comes, I will be a daughter-in-law, will you take a look again? ”

The two of them said to themselves, and folded the satin back in their hands.

Jin Mei was drinking tea, and she didn't bother to pay attention to them for a while, so she looked at her and said, "You don't talk about this troublesome thing all day long, if people listen to it, don't think it's strange that I indulge you so frivolously." ”

The two of them were silent for a moment.

Jin Meiyin got up again, "My silk embroidered with light purple magnolia branches, help me find it, why haven't I seen it for the past two days." ”

Biro hurriedly turned around and opened the closet, rummaging through it. Liucui remembered: "I remember that day, the third wife invited me to eat spring tea, and the girl still brought it with me." ”

"Exactly, at that time, the eldest sister asked me for that trick. The pattern is gone, but I want to follow it to paint a picture with her, but I don't want to, but I can't find it. Jin Mei was also puzzled. Can you help me ask Yimei to see if she has washed it? ”

Bi Luo said: "The clothes to be washed are all sent by me, and I have remembered each one, how can she ever know?" I didn't even see the silk. ”

Liucui followed and searched for a while, but he was also gone.

Jin Mei thought about it for a while, and said: "If you really don't see it, it's okay, I'm afraid that I will accidentally fall somewhere." I'll go with her again. ”

With that, he stepped out of the curtain.

Seeing that she was going out, Liucui hurriedly took the cloak and put it on with her, took the stove herself, and followed behind.

As the eldest sister, although Jinfang was not born to the eldest wife, she was also quite happy with her wife because of Dun and Shaoyu, and Aunt Li has always been obedient, so she treats her differently. In the autumn of the old year, Liu Fuli came to the door to propose marriage for the second son of his own house, and the eldest lady read that the Liu family had run a tea business for half a lifetime, and the family background was quite solid, so she went back to the old lady and allowed this family business.

No, March 16 after the beginning of spring is the wedding period, since the previous punishment, the eldest girl is now more easy not to go out, morning and evening in addition to the wife and the old lady in the house to say goodbye, then also sit in the house to study the female precepts, or prepare some wedding clothes or something.

When the two Jinmei arrived at Linglong Garden, Liucui was called gossip by the familiar Yahuan. The yellow warbler under the corridor was feeding the parrots, and when she saw that Jinmei arrived, she hurriedly put the food pot and called "Hello cousin". Jin Meiyin asked, "What about you girls?" Huang Ying pointed to the window next door with Cui Sharo: "The second girl is here, doing needlework." Jin Mei withdrew her gaze, intent on scaring the two sisters, and with her index finger on her lips, she went in the door.

lifted the curtain, and saw that the sisters were indeed sitting opposite each other on the kang in the back room to be female red. The window to the window was slightly open, and the silver silk embroidered curtain hanging on the curtain was blowing ripples frequently. Jinfang, who was sitting in the east, had slightly plump skin, beautiful eyebrows, pink face, and only lazily pulled a bun on her head, a light moon hibiscus jacket on her body, covered with a goose yellow cardigan, a diamond embroidered skirt under her waist, and no shoes.

Jin Yong in the west is more pretty, carefully painted makeup, eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like apricots, not as plump as his sister, but more than two points of beauty. The bun is also very neat, with a gold-inlaid jade hibiscus hairpin on the side, and a silver and red pomegranate skirt lined with a water moon azure jacket, sitting crookedly.

Jin Mei was about to say hello, and suddenly heard a sigh from the east seat, only to see Jinfang said: "You and my sisters are so dependent on each other, I don't know how much time we can have?" ”

"Even if time is short, you can always get a time." Jin Yong hung her head and embroidered a pair of uppers in her hand, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she said after a while: "I'm worried about my sister now, others only say that my wife is the master of this family business, and I am promoting my sister, but I don't know that the second son of the Liu family heard that it was a medicine jar, and he has been taking medicine since he was three years old. It's annoying that my mother still said that this is all thanks to my wife's kindness, could it be that we are not her own son, so we deserve to be trampled on? ”

After hearing this, Jinfang raised her head in pain, and then lowered her head silently.

"Even if what you say makes sense, what can you do? This is obviously the kindness of the wife. Now that I am eighteen, if she were not in charge, would I have delayed until I was twenty or thirty years old? I am willing to die at home so old, but I am afraid that others will not want to. Wouldn't it be even more frightening if I were to marry someone of unknown origin? ”

"Sister! ……”

Such a conversation in the room made Jinmei, who was standing at the door, at a loss. When he turned around, he saw that the two of them had not yet noticed, so he withdrew and took two steps to stand still. Huang Ying arrived just in time and asked, "Why hasn't the girl gone in yet?" ”