Mrs. Gu took the tea handed over by the maid and held it tightly in her hand, her knuckles white.

"Mrs. ......"

“…… I'm fine......" Mrs. Gu spoke, her voice was low and hoarse, and she quickly took a sip of tea before asking in a low voice, "Have the master and son come back?" ”

After receiving a negative answer, Mrs. Gu only felt a splitting headache, let out a long sigh, and fell on the bed weakly, staring at the tent with her eyes half-open.

The maid on duty at night had to half-kneel on her foot, looking at her worriedly, where did she dare to sleep again?

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night!

The inside of the Yuming Pavilion is also brightly lit, the charcoal in the charcoal basin in the house is red, and the heating in the room is smoky.

Li Miaoyu sat on the big kang near the window, fiddling with a box in her hand, and said with a smile: "It seems that there are a lot more ladies and ladies in the house today than in previous years!" ”

Si Qin immediately took over the conversation, "Even this meeting gift is much richer than in previous years!" As he spoke, he picked up a string of red and translucent beads and said, "Miss, look, these coral beads are so red and bright, they must be of the highest quality!" ”

Li Miaoyu glanced at the things in Si Qin's hand, "It was given by Princess Nan'an, and it was in good condition, but it's a pity that Li Miaoxian also got the same hanging." As he spoke, he pushed Siqin's hand, and the string of coral beads slipped down the cracks between his fingers.

Si Qi glanced lightly at the various jewelry on the table, and his slender eyebrows twisted slightly, "Miss, why are these people suddenly so interested in the Anguo Mansion?" "Okay, it's confusing!

"What's so strange about that?" Li Miaoyu glanced at Si Qi, "Today's father has the blue eyes of the saint, who of those individuals is not born with a snobbish eye, what do we care about so much?" If you have something, just keep it. ”

She groped for those items carefully, "These things will be my dowry in the future......" Thinking of this, a figure appeared in front of Li Miaoyu's eyes, and a touch of pink flew on her face unconsciously.

The gentleman is unparalleled in the world, and the stranger is like jade.

It's really like a jade, and it's a rare warmth.

Thinking of the person's voice and smile, Li Miaoyu opened a box again, and there were three pairs of silk flowers in it, the flowers were bright in color, exquisite in workmanship, and dotted with some tiny pearls on the edges. "This thing is not bad, which one gave it?" As he spoke, he picked up a peony flower-shaped one and compared it on his head, took a small bronze mirror and looked at it, and smiled carefully.

"Miss is so beautiful!" Si Qin hurriedly praised a sentence, and then looked at the box very raw, so he asked Si Qi, and Si Qi also said that he didn't know.

At this time, a maid in the house who had been standing quietly as a back, and had cleaned up elegantly, hurriedly stood up and replied with a smile: "Miss, this is when Miss went out in the morning, the two sisters in the eldest lady's courtyard gave two of them, saying that it was Mrs. Aunt's intention, let Miss wear it to play, don't dislike it!" As he spoke, he pointed to an inconspicuous box on the corner of the table, "This is also sent by the eldest lady, saying that it is a newly made rouge, let the young lady try it." ”

The look on Li Miaoyu's face immediately turned cold, the box in his hand snapped shut, pushed it aside, and said to Si Qin: "Take it away, don't let me see it again!" ”

Si Qi was startled, hurriedly put away the two boxes, handed them to the book, and scolded: "Don't take it out quickly, don't dirty Miss's territory." As he spoke, he tapped his forehead again, "It's really bold, we're not here, so we collect things indiscriminately?" ”

I didn't dare to scream when I waited for the book, and came out on my knees with the gift box, so I bit my lip and shed a line of tears, but I didn't dare to let people see it, I wiped it in a panic, bowed my head and entered my room, and went back to serve with two empty hands for a while.

-- Dividing line --

Next is the routine New Year's greetings, at first Mrs. Tai and her son took the princess of Anguo Mansion to a similar mansion, and after two days, she was tired of it, but Mrs. Liu was not in good health and did not like to go out, Aunt Fang's concubine status was inconvenient to go out, and Mrs. Gu's marriage was too low, and the entire Anguo Mansion could not find a decent person.

Mrs. Fang couldn't bear the white eyes of others, and continued to lead a few grandchildren to socialize with An Guogong everywhere. Of course, there were also those who didn't go, so they only sent two sisters, Li Miaoxian and Li Miaoyu, to follow An Guogong.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Tai did not go out, and after the banquet was over, Li Miaoxian made an excuse to leave early, changed into men's clothes with Xiuzhu, and went to Mrs. Liu's dowry shop to take a look.

The inside has been renovated, and even the shelves and other items are being arranged according to the sketches drawn by the bamboo.

The only fly in the ointment is that the shop is in an alley, there is still some distance from the real downtown area, and the door face is not very eye-catching.

However, fortunately, Li Miaoxian did not mention any objection to this, and he was still very interested in turning the book to give this shop a suitable name.

Xiuzhu chuckled, watching her take a bunch of books and sit in front of the bookcase, flipping through the books for a while, pondering for a while, and noisily grinding the ink for a while, picking up the pen, and writing one stroke at a time on the snow-white rice paper.

When it was time to toss the lamp, he didn't come up with a satisfactory name, so he put down his pen angrily and muttered silently.

Xiu Zhu saw that she didn't write, so he wrote in the pile of names: Furong Pavilion. Then, he said, "Hibiscus is like a willow like an eyebrow." After reading it, he held the word in front of Li Miaoxian, and said with a smile: "But all women, as young as five years old and as old as eighty years old, there is no one who does not love beauty, and we are in the beauty business, why not take a name that is appreciated by both elegance and vulgarity?" ”

Li Miaoxian took Xiuzhu's hand, glanced at it, and glanced aside, "Then it's not Miss's shop?" The young lady's property, in the name of the maid? ”

Xiuzhu covered his mouth and whispered: "What is the name of the maid, it's not all up to the young lady to decide, if you call this name today, Ming'er can call it something else, can you still worry about the bad guy?" ”

After speaking, he ignored Li Miaoxian, picked up the pen to wash, poured water, carefully washed the pen he had just used, and hung it aside to dry. Then, he began to clean up the scattered papers and scrolls on the table.

Li Miaoxian sat quietly alone, pondered for a while, and gently stroked his palm: "Furong Pavilion is Furong Pavilion, who is afraid of whom?" ”

Then, he squinted at Xiuzhu and said with a smile: "Xiuzhu, grinding, Miss Ben wants to write these three words by herself." ”

Xiuzhu cleaned up, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but whisper "Miss"! Following Li Miaoxian's example, he squinted back and shouted, "Your old man is okay!" This one hasn't dried yet! ”