Chapter 37: The House of Literature (Part II)
Li Qing and Mama Zheng hurriedly smiled and thanked her, Li Qing glanced at Mama Zheng, her eyes rolled slightly, Mama Zheng understood, stepped forward and bent her knees and smiled:
"It's really troublesome aunt, these half a day, thanks to my aunt for taking care of me!"
While talking, she quietly handed a silver ticket to Mama Zhuang's hand, Mama Zhuang swept the silver ticket from the corner of her eyes, and immediately bent her knees with a smile on her face and thanked her:
"Old slave Xie Qing girl reward! The young girl is so polite. ”
Li Qing smiled shyly and replied with a half-salute, and Mama Zheng continued with a smile:
"Our girl has just arrived, and I will ask my aunt to teach me more in the future, so Miss Wanru, what does my aunt think our girl should be called?"
Mama Zhuang smiled and said diligently:
"Miss Wanru is our aunt Chen's niece, because of the love of my aunt, I have been raised in the house for several years, I am seventeen years old this year, a few years older than the young girl, and the girl is called a sister."
Mama Zheng said with emotion:
"The house is really worthy of a famous family, this kindness and generosity is really impressive!"
Mama Zhuang was suffocated, embarrassed for a while, showed a sneering smile, and said after a while:
"Don't mention this in the future, Mama won't mention it in the future, the house ......"
Mama Zhuang looked back at Li Qing, who was tired and weak with her eyes down, and let out a long sigh in her heart, why did she think of going to Wenfu?!
The three of them walked along the verandah, crossed a small bridge, and entered a delicate courtyard in the west of the garden, the pink and white moon door was written in seal script above the word Linghua, Zhuang Mama stepped forward and knocked on the door, after a while, the door opened, a little girl poked her head out, saw Zhuang Mama, hurriedly opened the door, and greeted with a smile:
"Mama Zhuang is here! Please come in, and I'll go and report to the girl. ”
Saying that, she turned around and ran in, Mama Zhuang turned around and greeted Li Qing with a smile:
"Young girl, please come in, the little girls are not sensible."
Li Qing smiled, helped Mama Zheng's hand into the yard, the yard is full of all kinds of flowers and bonsai, such a solar term, a gloomy, want to come to the spring and summer, it must be very beautiful, the yard is very small, there are three main houses, there are two ear houses in the east and west, all of them are green tiles and red columns, exquisite.
A slender and pretty girl came out of the main house, smiled and said:
"Mama Zhuang is a rare guest, Mama, please come into the house."
While talking, she looked at Li Qing and Mama Zheng, Mama Zhuang laughed, let Li Qing go, and the three of them entered the house. Li Qing entered the house, only to feel that the warmth was sandwiched with a rich fragrance of flowers, the house was full of all kinds of half-open narcissus, and there was a half-human tall plum bottle full of red plums in the east and west corners.
In the middle of the room, a girl wearing a pink sprinkled flower jacket and a moon-white dark flower silk pleated satin skirt, with a small figure and a delicate and beautiful face, greeted Mama Zhuang and said with a smile:
"Hello Mama Zhuang, why does Mama have time to come to Linghuayuan today?"
Mama Zhuang stepped forward and blessed her, and replied with a smile:
"Today is the order of the second grandmother, send this young girl to the Linghua Courtyard, the second grandmother said, now as today's cold and freezing, and be busy with the New Year, wait for the spring to clean up the yard for the young girl, this winter will temporarily let the young girl in the Linghua Courtyard and Miss Wanru squeeze."
Chen Wanru was stunned for a moment, turned her head to look at Li Qing, Li Qing stepped forward with a smile and gave a salute,
"Li Qing greets Sister Wanru."
Chen Wanru hurriedly smiled in return,
"My sister is polite."
Turning his head, he looked at Mama Zhuang and said with a smile:
"I said that the second grandmother just now suddenly let people send two sets of bedding over, and the little girl who sent things couldn't say clearly, I thought that I didn't add people here, and the bedding of several girls was new. It turned out that there was a guest coming. ”
A slight sneer flashed in Grandma Zhuang's eyes, and she didn't agree with this, but said goodbye with a smile:
The two girls spoke slowly, and the old woman retired first, and she was already in the moon, and she was busy outside.
Li Qing bent her knees slightly and thanked Mama Zhuang, and Chen Wanru smiled hurriedly and told the girl to send Mama Zhuang out. Seeing Mama Zhuang go out, Chen Wanru turned around and greeted Li Qingdao:
"Sister, please take a seat."
There were only two armchairs on the left and right sides of this room, Li Qing chose the second seat on the right hand side and sat down, Chen Wanru's eyes flashed with satisfaction, and she sat down on the first seat opposite Li Qing, and asked with a smile:
"What kind of tea does my sister drink? Cloud? Bead tea? White eyebrows? ”
Li Qing was stunned, there was a cloud, this Chen Wanru didn't seem to be living badly in this Wen Mansion, after all, she was Aunt Wen's niece.
"Thank you, sister, white eyebrows."
Chen Wanru smiled in her eyes, instructed the girl to make tea, turned around, and slowly interrogated Li Qinglai, Li Qing was tired and unusually tired to deal with her interrogation, and when the girl made tea, she took two sips, then diverted the topic and said directly:
"Qing'er has been weak since she was a child, and today she has been on the road for another day, and she is very tired at this time, so please forgive my sister,"
Chen Wanru's eyes flashed with a hint of annoyance, paused, and said with a smile on her face:
"My sister is in a hurry, and I don't have time to clean up in this Linghua courtyard, two wings, the east side is now where Chunqiao and Dongyun live, and the west wing is empty, otherwise, I let Chunqiao and Dongyun move to the west wing, how about my sister living in the east wing?"
Li Qing hurriedly excused himself and said:
"Sister is polite, I'll live in the West Wing, this cold and frozen, it's really not suitable to move around, besides, I'm really tired, I just want to clean up early, so I can rest and rest."
Chen Wanru nodded with a smile on her face, and turned around and instructed Chunqiao:
"Go and call a few little girls, and quickly clean up the house and come out, so that Sister Qing can rest and rest."
Li Qing hurriedly got up and thanked him, and Mama Zheng laughed beside her:
"Annoying spring girl, can you call some hot water? So that our girl bathed and washed, this way, it was really tired and dirty. ”
Chunqiao looked back at Chen Wanru, Chen Wanru smiled and nodded,
"But I was negligent, but my sister's luggage was sent in? What is lacking and what is missing, just talk to Chunqiao. ”
After a while, the little girl replied that the hot water was delivered, and Mama Zhuang also asked people to send luggage over, and Mama Zheng waited for Li Qing to finish bathing and washing, changed into old clothes, put on a fox fur, and entered the west wing.
The west wing room has been cleaned up, Li Qing's luggage is a little messy outside the wing, Li Qing looked at the luggage carefully, Mama Zheng looked at her with a smile in her eyes and said:
"Don't worry, girl, this luggage was turned over when I took the clothes just now."
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and seriously instructed Mama Zheng:
"Mama, our luggage needs to be seen, now, there are only two of us, Mama must be very careful, and when Qiuyue and Liuli come, Mama can rest for a while."
Mama Zheng nodded,
"Rest assured, the girl knows the severity. Before we settle down, we have to be careful! In this mansion, it is not a worry-free place, and the girl should be careful. ”
Li Qing looked at the luggage one by one, faintly felt that something was wrong, hurriedly wrapped the big gun, squatted down and counted the luggage, Mama Zheng couldn't help laughing beside her, and said while laughing:
"The girl doesn't need to order, there are four less burdens, it was Lian Qing who brought it, Lian Qing asked Ding Yi to talk, saying that he and Mu Tong and Sang Zhi did not enter the house, so they were placed outside, and that Ding Yi also let him tell the girl, saying that the prince left him in Pingyang Mansion to listen to the girl's summons, and he arranged for the little girl to wait at the Lingyun Teahouse at the east end of the street, and the girl had something to do, so let people go there directly to find him, or let the little girl Shuangzhe and Shuangshou around the old lady Wen go and call him. By the way, he also said that the prince returned to Pingyang Mansion on the twenty-second day of the month. ”
Li Qing straightened up a little embarrassed, coughed lightly twice, stomped his feet and said angrily:
"Mama is really, and I didn't say it sooner! Our belongings are all in those four baggage, and it scares me......"
Mama Zheng smiled and helped Li Qing to the inner room, and whispered in a low voice:
"The girl should take a rest first, and relax, those silver tickets are sewn into Lian Qing and Mama's underwear, Lian Qing has sewn the girl's gold tickets since her clothes, and she didn't even dare to take off the clothes outside along the way. How dare you put so much in your baggage?! ”
Mama Zheng paused, lowered her voice, and continued:
"I sewed it on my body, took it off and brought it to Lian Qing, and only the back of the clip with a small amount of two thousand taels sewn on it was worn closely, which was prepared for the girl's daily use."
The two of them said and entered the room, it was cold, Li Qing shivered slightly, Mama Zheng's face was gloomy, let go of Li Qing, walked to the kang in a few steps, stretched out her hand and touched the futon, paused, lifted the futon again, probed his hand inside, and came out with some anger on his face, Li Qing knew that the kang must be cold, frowned, thought about it and said:
"Mama, don't worry, this West Chamber, no one lives on weekdays, we are in a hurry, this kang must be burning now, and it will take some time to get hot."