As soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passes, the smell of the New Year gradually dissipates. The number of visits to the banquet by the masters of relatives has gradually decreased. Sui'an Hall and the Yayun Xuan next to it also became lively again.

Su Su has no family, and she has nowhere to go on vacation on weekdays, and the older she gets, the more she grows, and her appearance is eye-catching, so Su Su never goes out to a banquet with the old lady, and she is also happy to stay honestly in Sui'an Hall to make a wine and make a fragrance.

Su Su's leisurely and leisurely call is also very impatient to go to the banquet, but the six girls who have to go are envious, no, no.

In the flower hall of Sui'an Hall, the four girls accompanied the old lady to eat, and after Su Su and several big maids served to rinse their mouths and clean their hands, they heard the six girls exhale very unladylike and said: ", It can be regarded as alive, for such a long time, counting this meal is the most comfortable, thinking of this half a month, I really have a narrow heart." ”

The old lady also knew the temperament of this granddaughter, and scolded with a smile: "You can talk nonsense, be careful that your mother beats you." ”

Among the granddaughters, the old lady loves the sixth girl the most, she is not afraid of her mother, and pouted: "My mother beat me, I don't accept it." Forget about the relatives' house, the banquet of the eunuch's family does not stop, for a while the girl of the family wets her skirt, and for a while the girl of this family loses a bracelet, or the housekeeper's daughter, more than eating than wearing jewelry, I can make them boast of flowers with a piece of clothing, I really don't know what to say. ”

Looking at the appearance of the six girls as little adults, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Although the fourth girl is a concubine, her temperament is the most hearty of the sisters, and she echoed: "You were still young before, and you didn't go out much, I don't know that our aunt didn't have a concubine and a concubine, and your uncle and my father didn't have an earl, in the eyes of others, we really don't know what to say, and now it's just a turn of romance!" ”

These two girls, one thirteen and the other nineteen years old, said something that made the old lady feel both amused and sad.

The old lady patted her head and said, "Don't talk nonsense outside, otherwise it won't be feng shui in turn, but the villain's will." Then Zhengse said: "You represent the face and upbringing of the Song family outside, we used to disdain flattery, and now we don't have to look down and disdain others." The heart of gain and loss can't be too heavy, otherwise there will be happy days. ”

The four girls all got up and said solemnly and solemnly in unison: "Thank you for your grandmother's teachings." ”

After that, the old lady asked the girls to disperse, and Su Su, Yang Liu, Ning Cui, and Bi Si took turns to eat and serve the old lady to take a nap.

Su Su whispered the "Heart Sutra" beside her, the old lady closed her eyes as if she was asleep, Su Su just put away the Buddhist scriptures, the old lady sighed softly: "The family has a big business and a big responsibility, I don't worry about a few brothers, but a few girls in the family have their own shortcomings." The big girl is a waste; The second girl's family affair is Changle Bofu, one of the eight uncles of the founding of the country, with her temperament, she can't remember it if she doesn't suffer a loss; The four girls are cheerful and easy-going, and the six girls are eccentric, but these two girls follow their grandfathers and have a chivalrous heart, and they are not the material for being the housewife; The most worry-free three girls have made a reputation for retiring from their relatives; As for the five girls, they are not very old but have 100,000 hearts. ”

Speaking of this, the old lady opened her eyes, and at this time, the four big maids who had their own errands had already put down their work and gathered around her.

Because it was said that the girls were the masters, and the four of them were not easy to answer, the old lady sighed. Seeing this, Su Su also sighed a few times, which made the old lady laugh and said, "At a young age, what are you sighing for?" ”

Su Su replied: "When the slave maid sees the old lady like this, it is good to sigh, but I don't know what kind of sea side it is, and what disease can be cured?"

The old lady was stunned for a moment, and then saw the other three maids holding back a smile, she didn't know that Su Su was naughty, and scolded with a smile: "But it's a sea above, and he specializes in promoting narrow ghosts!" ”

After that, he also smiled: "What disease can sigh cure, but I am in love, you girl!" ”

Ning Cui comforted: "You just think too much, as the old saying goes, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and several girls in our family are also top notch, so you can teach more in the future." ”

Yang Liu and Bi Si also said a lot of good things, and the old lady let go of this matter, but before going to bed, she told Su Su: "There is nothing to do in the afternoon, you go to play with the girls, what I said today is a little heavier, let them not think blindly, by the way, tell the third girl, get up tomorrow and learn to take care of the housework with her third aunt; The embroidery work of the four girls and the five girls cannot be wasted; Tell Xiaoliu not to know how to paint her beauty all day long, the rules are not good to learn, I am not partial to her. ”

Su Su wrote them down one by one, waited for the old lady to fall asleep, and quietly walked out of the house with the other three people, and first went to the backyard to get a few things from his own house before coming to Yayunxuan.

Su Su first arrived at the half-bent pavilion where the three girls lived, the three girls were half-leaning on the back of the lock brocade of the big kang near the window, holding a book in their hands, and a copper gilt hollow carved pumpkin-shaped hand stove with entwined branches and birds on their legs, with a camel hair blanket on their knees, and saw Su Su come in and said softly: "It's such a cold day, why are you here?" But does grandmother have something to command? ”

Then he asked Su Su to sit down and asked someone to hurry up and serve hot tea.

Su Su smiled: "But I haven't seen her for three years, and the girl has become more and more polite." ”

After sitting down, I saw that what she was watching was actually "The Female Rule", Su Su thought about how to reply, and thought for a while before saying: "The old lady said, the girl's knowledge and embroidery work are all good, our girls learn these just to follow the crowd, and it will be passable, and in the future, the master of the house will still learn more housekeeping housekeeping, and from tomorrow onwards, he will ask the girl to follow the third lady, learn to be a housekeeper first, and when she is okay in the afternoon, she will follow other girls in class." ”

The third girl seemed to be a little unable to believe what she heard, stared at Su Su, and saw that she was really smiling, so she was sure that what she heard was true.

Because of her mother-in-law's family affairs, she made the means to make the eldest uncle find out that there was a lot of trouble in the city, and now she has withdrawn from her family, for the reputation of the Song family, she originally thought that even if her grandmother did not marry her far away, she would marry into the life of the merchant landlord's family, but she didn't think that her grandmother did not give up on her, and she didn't want to marry her casually when she came back.

The third girl was only fourteen years old, no matter how calm she was, and she cried with joy for a while, but Su Su did not dissuade her, blaming her for looking down on the old lady's heart and feeling pitiful for her.

After a long time, the three girls cried enough, so they asked someone to fetch water to wash and put on makeup again.

After cleaning up, the third girl said embarrassedly: "I made you laugh." ”

Su Su then said: "The old lady is the girl's own grandmother, and she only loves you more in her heart. Unfortunately, the incense ran out, because it was made by the slave maid herself, and there was no outside, and she was busy in the year, so she had to be air-conditioned, and she only got it yesterday. ”

As he spoke, he took out a small flat box half the size of a palm with a green jade carved bird pattern from his purse, and after opening it, it contained sixteen pills that were no more than the size of lotus seeds and rice, and there was a refreshing feeling just by smelling it.

The more the third girl took it, the more she liked it, "I didn't expect Su Su that you are still a perfumer!" What is the name of this incense? I've never seen such a special incense in Beijing. ”

Su Su waved his hand modestly and said: "It's just reading some miscellaneous books and messing around, I didn't really want to make something, where can I be called a teacher!" There was a dragon stove burning in the house, it was very dry, and it felt cool and cool when it was lit, so the slave and maid gave it a name, called Xuepiao. ”

"The snow drifts are very elegant and suitable. Isn't it cool when the snow falls? The third girl was full of praise, and asked how to use it, and she personally put a pill on the ground and put it in the stove in the corner, and the fragrance immediately came out.

The remaining three girls asked the maid to put it away carefully, and asked someone to take out a red sandalwood box, put it on the small table in the middle of the kang, and opened it to see, full of gold, silver, gems, pearls and jade.

She personally picked out a butterfly love flower pendant blue jade bead from the wrong gold step shake and a string of beeswax hands asked someone to wrap it up for Su Su and said: "This is given by those ladies and wives in this year's New Year's Festival, although it is not as valuable as the grandmother's gift, fortunately, it looks exquisite, don't dislike it, take it to play." ”

These two things are worth two hundred taels of silver, but Su Su is not a shallow eyelid, not to mention how many outsiders can't imagine how much she has saved in the past five years. Su Su refused a few times, but she couldn't refuse, so she took it and thanked the three girls.

After saying goodbye to the third girl, Su Su went to the fourth girl's snow garden, but the fourth girl was not there, the maids said that the girl went to the sixth girl with the painting utensils, and Su Su simply went to the fifth girl's Rou Yi Zhai first.