Chapter Seventy-Four: Reflection
The second master picked up Chun'er and put it on his knees, and asked casually:
"What did Chun'er do all morning?"
"Father, Chun'er didn't like to drink the bitter medicine, so she told her mother, and her mother also said that the medicine was too bitter and not for people to drink, so she took Chun'er here and made sugar water for Chun'er to drink, and her mother said that she sweated after drinking sugar water, so she didn't need to drink the bitter medicine, so Chun'er drank it, and ate a snack, and her mother also told Chun'er a story, which was very good, but Chun'er fell asleep later, and didn't finish listening......"
Chun'er lowered her head embarrassedly as she spoke, thought about it, raised her head again and said:
"Father, Chun'er is really well, you touch it, it's not uncomfortable at all now, father don't let Chun'er drink that bitter medicine anymore, okay? Chun'er likes to drink the sugar water given by her mother, and when Chun'er is sick again in the future, she will come to her mother to drink sugar water, and it will be fine as soon as she drinks it."
As she spoke, Chun'er grabbed her father's hand with her little hand and pressed it on her forehead.
Xiao Jun touched it, it was indeed not burning, and looked at Mengxi suspiciously, she actually had such a gentle heart, she could treat his daughter so kindly, such a heart, how could she be such an arrogant and willful person who did not abide by women's morals as rumored in the market, for the first time, he used a calm gaze to see the little woman beside him clearly.
He didn't understand how Mengxi could cure Chun'er's illness with sugar water, and remembered the medicinal food she cooked for him, an arrogant woman, a woman who didn't abide by women's morals, would do this? I couldn't help but wonder, it was time to go to the Li Mansion to have a look.
Peeked at Mengxi, who was sitting calmly on the side, opened his mouth and wanted to talk to her, and asked her how she was cured of Chun'er, but remembering the recklessness just now, Xiao Jun couldn't open his mouth awkwardly, he couldn't be humble, he was the future head of the Xiao Mansion, how could he talk to his own woman.
The eldest aunt saw her daughter jumping around, and she also knew that she had misbelieved the words of the nurse, and blamed the second grandmother, kneeling there, not knowing what to say, seeing the second grandmother and the second grandfather sitting there without speaking, as if she had forgotten her, she was still kneeling on the ground, remembering that the affairs of the backyard were always in the hands of the second grandmother, and she was busy kowtowing to the second grandmother and said:
"The concubine mistakenly believed the words of the nurse, and just blamed the second grandmother, please punish the second grandmother"
Mengxi heard this, turned his eyes to look at the second master, and saw that he didn't mean to speak, so he picked up the tea and drank it for a while, and felt that the eldest aunt was almost kneeling, so he put down the teacup and said lightly:
"This time I should have punished you severely, firstly, for the sake of your hard work for the affairs of Xiao Xiangyuan day and night, and secondly, Chun'er is still sick and needs your care, for Chun'er's sake, this time I will not be punished, if there is a next time, don't say that I am not a heartless housewife, do you hear?"
"The concubine Xie Second Grandma is complete, and the concubine will definitely serve the second grandmother wholeheartedly in the future"
"Chun'er is my daughter, I love her as I should, and I really can't stand your tossing like this, you get up, take Chun'er back, Chun'er can't get used to drinking the bitter medicine, don't give her to drink, go back and mash the fresh lotus root and squeeze it into juice and peak honey to mix it thoroughly, and give Chun'er a few days in a row, it's fine."
The eldest aunt was busy kowtowing and thanking herself, so she got up, reached out and took Chun'er from the second master's lap, and held it in her arms.
Xiao Jun looked at Mengxi's somewhat reduced face, and there was a trace of unbearability in his heart, but he couldn't pull his face down, and secretly thought, seeing that it was time to pass the meal, she opened her mouth to leave him in the main room to eat, and he stayed, one was to compensate her, and the other was to stay in the upper room at night, no longer have to go to the backyard to drift, he subconsciously used the word bleaching, after being crazy for a while, he had a feeling of "floating", he felt that his home was occupied by her, and she didn't invite him home, Thinking that today I finally had an excuse to come back justifiably, I sat there drinking tea and waiting.
Mengxi is not a roundworm in his stomach, who knows his thoughts, seeing that he is silent, he doesn't know what he wants to do, because of the misunderstanding he just had, she is also angry, and she doesn't want to talk to him, besides, she and he really have nothing to say, after all, it is the boss, he doesn't leave, she has to sit there and accompany him speechlessly, the enemy doesn't move, I don't move.
Xiao Jun waited for a long time, peeked at Mengxi, and saw her sitting there calmly, as if nothing had happened, and said in his heart: The whole stupid melon, why don't you keep him, is it difficult that she doesn't understand his thoughts? Finally, Xiao Jun coughed and said:
"Since Chun'er is fine, we..."
He meant to say let's pass the meal, but he couldn't say the rest of the words awkwardly, so he stopped, thinking that she could understand what he meant, and took the words and passed the meal directly.
But helplessly, he really ran into a nerd, Mengxi thought he wanted to say that he wanted to go to the backyard, and he was embarrassed, after all, he was wrong to blame her just now, it was not good to say that he would leave immediately, he thought about it, don't be embarrassed for him, he is here, the two of them are sitting, they are both guilty, they really hate each other, and they are relatively speechless. So the interface said:
"Second master be careful on the road, Chun'er just sweated, don't let Chun'er suffer the wind again"
Xiao Jun was stunned for a moment, then stood up and said:
"Okay, I'll go to the bamboo garden first, Xi'er can eat by herself"
Mengxi and the others hurriedly got up to send each other, and the eldest aunt and Aunt Zhang also followed behind and walked out, Zhiqiu said secretly: Finally sent away this plague god.
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In the afternoon of this day, Mengxi had nothing to do to make a few colored snacks, ordered the maid to take it, held Zhiqiu's hand and sent it to the old lady, and when he arrived at the Shouxi Hall, he ordered someone to pass it on, and after a while, Shiqin walked out, and saw the second grandmother hurriedly stepped forward and said:
"The second grandmother is here, come in, the old lady and the eldest lady are talking in the side room, let you go in directly"
Shiqin led the second grandmother and Zhiqiu directly to the side room while talking, and entered the room, only to see the old lady sitting on the kang, leaning on a green satin backrest pillow, four chairs on the side of the kang, all with green satin chairs, the eldest lady sat on the chair, and was talking, Mengxi hurriedly stepped forward to greet the salute and sat down under the eldest lady.
After Mengxi sat down, he turned around and took the snack box handed over by Zhiqiu, and said:
"Old lady, granddaughter-in-law thought that the days were long in this summer, and dinner would be late, so she made a few snacks and sent them to the old lady to pad her hunger, and she didn't delay dinner, and the old lady compensated."
As he spoke, he opened the food box and took it out the same way, and the waiter hurriedly stepped forward to take it and put it on the kang table, and said while swinging it:
"The second grandmother is skillful, and the dim sum she makes is not only delicious, but also looks at the color, just let people look at it, and they are reluctant to eat it," the waiter said cleverly.
"This stupid girl, just looking at it can be full, and the daughter-in-law will also come to compensate, Xi'er is doing very well, the old body is so old, the teeth are not as good as a day, it is rare for Xi'er to make such a soft and delicious snack, sweet but not greasy, very suitable for the appetite of the old body, you see, how many days, the old body is thinking about it every day"
The old lady laughed and scolded the waiter, took the wet handkerchief handed by the waiter, wiped his hands, took a small snack handed by the waiter, and ate it.
The eldest lady gave in, and finally cleaned her hands, took the snacks handed by the waiter, and ate them.
The old lady saw that there was a color of pastries on the table that she had never seen before, and pointed and asked: "This is a new pattern made by Xi'er, I haven't seen it before, what is the name?"