Chapter 5 Gossip
Su Su saw Yang Liu's expression of "how do you know everything", and said with a smile: "On weekdays, you always say that I think a lot, but when you come here, why don't you think about it a lot, who is Grandpa Qiao." If the Huang family is really so snobbish, how could Grandpa Qiao have been friends with them for so many years, and he also promised the most powerful granddaughter to their family, Grandpa Qiao spoils you the most, and the brother-in-law of the Huang family can't pass his level, how can he hold a beauty? You don't trust others. Don't you still believe Grandpa Qiao! It's really a fan of the authorities. β
When Su Su said this, Yang Liu suddenly brightened up, and rolled into a ball with Su Su in his arms, "Good sister, it's a shame that you're here, or I'm really going to drill the horns?" β
Yang Liu hugged Su Su and rolled into a ball, Su Su looked at Yang Liu who was speechless, but he was comforted a lot. An eighteen-year-old girl who only graduated from high school in modern times is not considered a late marriage here.
Although Su Su is younger than them, but the core before and after the sum is also a person who is about to run four, in his heart, he only treats them as sisters, and now, all of them have a good home, Su Su is happy for them.
Su Su remembered her homecoming, so she said again: "Sister Bisi is married, you are also going to get married, a few days ago, Aunt Ning asked the old lady to say goodbye, and mentioned that she was also giving Sister Ning Cui a look at others." The old lady said that after the New Year, she asked Ning Cui to go home to prepare for marriage. β
Yang Liu heard it and said: "I can tell where the people are, Ning Cui is a few months older than me, Ning Cui's body should be in a hurry!" Su Su shook his head, "I didn't say it, I just said that I looked at each other first, and the old lady also had to close it, until the third girl settled down." β
Yang Liu said with a smile: "I know this, my mother came back and said that it was originally to let the prince choose from the same Jinshi, and the prince picked and picked, which can be described as picking bones in eggs, nitpicking, and several young masters also went to join in the fun." Later, the eldest lord was optimistic about a person, saying that he was the eldest son of the eldest master's colleague, and his character and appearance were good. I heard that I had also been married before, but my fiancΓ©e fell ill before I passed the door, and the marriage was delayed. β
Women are always so gossipy, it's nature, and it has nothing to do with age!
Su Su shook his head after listening to Yang Liu's words, "I have never liked to join in this fun, but I heard Sister Ning Cui say that although she is not as good as the young master of our family, her temperament is also gentle as jade, and she is very suitable for the third girl." Speaking of which, we have all met the wife and girl of their family, and it was Mrs. Sun who came to the door when the old lady came to the door for the first time when she held a banquet in the mansion. β
Yang Liu thought about it and also had an impression, "I remember that Mrs. Sun is very cheerful, and the girl in her family is also atmospheric, and there seems to be a cousin!" β
Su Su nodded, "It's her house." The third girl is also a good thing, and the son of the Sun family is a first-class jinshi this time. Because the second young master of our house did not get married, the marriage date of the third girl is uncertain. However, after marrying the second girl, the old lady will show the second young master, and then the third girl, the third young master, and the fourth young master, I feel that this has entered Beijing. It's really a happy event, and the subordinates have relented just to get the reward. β
Yang Liu pretended to be a fan of money, and said with a heartache: "What's the good of marrying, or I'll wait for the sixth girl to marry after she gets married." It made Su Su almost laugh, "I say I'm a money fan all day long on weekdays, look at you like this, why don't you wait for the eldest young lady to give birth to a little young master, and the little young master will marry after getting married, and I will give you a big red envelope!" β
The two were laughing, and there was a knock on the door, it was the little maid who was waiting for Yang Liu, "Girl, the second girl is here!" β
Yang Liu was stunned for a long time, and it took a long time to remember that these two girls were his cousins, and scolded with a smile: "Spring breeze, you stinky girl, you will be a demon, hurry up and let me in!"
Chunfeng smiled and pushed the door in, "Our sister Yang Liu is the most disciplined, I don't dare to make mistakes, I have to be punished." After speaking, he saluted Su Su, "I've seen Sister Su Su." β
Su Su pulled her in front of her, nodded her little nose, and said, "Why did you leave the house?" I remember if you shouldn't be resting today! β
Yang Liu pinched her round face, "I haven't seen you for half a month, it's getting more and more round, how many good things have you stolen?" β
"The eldest sister will bully me, Sister Su Su and Sister Ning Cui love me the most, where can I steal food!" Chunfeng was born with a smiling face, and when he said that he didn't follow, he was more like being coquettish, which made Yang Liu and Su Su laugh non-stop!
The spring breeze was not annoyed, and when she saw Su Su's smile, she was dumbfounded. Xindao: No wonder Sister Su Su has always been gentle and dignified in front of people, if this look is for others to see, I don't know what to arrange?
Yang Liu saw her stupid appearance and said with a smile: "Yes, in addition to the six girls, you also need one more minister under the skirt."
Su Su didn't bother to take care of this person to go crazy, and pulled the spring breeze to sit down, "But the old lady has something to order?" β
Chunfeng came back to his senses, a little embarrassed, and said with a red face: "It's all the eldest sister's trouble, I almost forgot about business." The two mothers-in-law went back to the house, and if they went back to Sister Ning Cui, Sister Ning Cui had already been ordered by the old lady and was waiting. When he heard the reply, he was about to send someone, but it happened that I was fine, so the errand was given to me. The old lady said, I thought that I would let my sister stay with the eldest sister for two more days, but I never thought that as soon as my sister left today, Prince Gong's Mansion sent someone to post, saying that Qingning County would mainly set up a small banquet tomorrow, and invited a few girls to the banquet, and specially mentioned Sister Su Su, which was a serious post according to the identity of the guest, and the old lady should go down, and asked my sister to go back after dinner at our house today, and come back another day when she has time. β
Then Chunfeng said: "I also have my sister's light, I can stay at home for a long time and go back with Sister Susu."
The lord of the palace gave a serious post to a maid, and in the eyes of outsiders, it was a big face, but Su Su didn't like it very much. It's not what she wants to be like a Western view, but with such a look, there is no ability to do anything worse.
Presumably, the old lady also thought of this, so she should do it.
Yang Liu naturally knew Su Su's heart knot, and it was through Su Su that Yang Liu understood that growing up well was sometimes unpredictable. couldn't help but comfort: "Don't think about it, go to the banquet and go to the banquet, now that you are a serious person, you have a house and land, I think the old lady should also consider your family affairs."
As soon as she heard this, Su Su pinched her and dared to say anything.
The spring breeze is still young, it's a bit inexplicable, such a decent thing, why doesn't Sister Su Su smile at all!
Su Su saw that the atmosphere was a little gloomy, so he said: "Don't talk about this, say something happy, the spring breeze has caught up with a good thing, and it will definitely make your eldest sister bleed!" As he spoke, the burden brought by the future tense was opened, and inside were two boxes, one large and one small.
"Over the years, the two caravans on land and in the sea have run farther and farther, the business has become bigger and bigger, and good things have flowed into the mansion like water, and the number of caravans delivered to Sui'an Hall this year is more than in previous years. The old lady privately rewarded a few big girls with some things for a private room, and the old lady said that she also had your share, so as not to marry in the future, so she would not come to the door. β
Yang Liu has already got the winter this year, knowing that it was the old lady who was worried about it, but she didn't expect to give something in private, and she was moved and didn't know what to say.
Chunfeng is also envious in his heart, not only for things, but because of the old lady's affection for the people around her.
Chunfeng knows the eldest sister's dowry list, except for the fields and Zhuangzi, the remaining ten thousand taels are all saved by her eldest sister herself. Her mother has to nag her at every turn, let her work hard, and she won't have to worry about anything if she saves half of her eldest sister's dowry in the future.
At this time, Chunfeng didn't know that the things on Yang Liu's dowry list were only half of her private room, and half of them were all exchanged for silver to press the bottom of the box.
Su Su opened the two boxes, "It's all new things this year, not to mention the spices, the single gemstone pearl is like no money." Just to make the book neat, it took me and Ning Xiang and Wutong a month of time, so I almost finished it, if I ran into the rent of the New Year's Rite in various places, how could I get out! β
I have seen a lot of good things in the willows, although the things this time are valuable, but they are not rare, but the spring breeze is almost dazzled.
Su Su brought two boxes: in the big box is a bronze gilt carved twig pattern clock, delicate and extraordinary, the spring breeze has only been seen in the old lady's room, I heard that it costs five or six hundred taels of silver.
The other small box was no more than the size of a palm, but there were a few gems and pearls scattered on the black velvet, shining with starlight. A cat's eye the size of a fingernail costs more than two hundred taels of silver; A ruby the size of a pigeon's egg, as red as a pigeon's blood; There are also emerald jadeite rings, sapphires cut into diamond shapes, etc.
Yang Liu remembered how she looked when she saw these things when she was a big girl, and nodded a little spring breeze, "Don't look like you haven't seen the world, serve the old lady well, and you can't get these!" β
As he spoke, he picked up two rubies, two tourmaline rings, and two lotus seeds and rice-sized Dongzhu, and put them in a small purse, "Take them and put them away, and ask your aunt to save them for you!" β
Chunfeng saw that Su Su and Yang Liu didn't care much, and felt a little embarrassed, so he ran back to his house with a small purse, and said before leaving: "I won't give it to my mother, but in her hands, I must have saved it for my brother."
Yang Liu was speechless, the second aunt was good at everything, but she was patriarchal, and she already made her daughters very distrustful.
Su Su and Chunfeng had dinner at Qiao's house, and Qiao's housekeeper and son and daughter-in-law returned home, and after greeting for a while, it was dark, and then the mother-in-law sent the two to the back door.
The two went back to Sui'an Hall together, and when they arrived at Sui'an Hall, it was almost seven o'clock, the spring breeze went to the back room, and Su Su came to the upper room.
There were two sheep's horn palace lamps hanging under the porch of the main room, and there were two rough maids standing in front of the door, and they saw Su Su smiling and saluting, "Sister is back!" β
The old lady is kind-hearted, and after dinner, she doesn't have to wait in front of her, except for the maid on duty. On a cold day, it is a rough maid, and there are also thick cotton jackets and shoulders. But the cold weather in the north also made a group of maids from the south a little unbearable, and no one wanted to be on duty outside.
Su Su thought of a way, one shift at a time, equipped with a hand stove for hot tea, but let some little maids who bought from the capital shout "fell into the nest of blessings", so that the old lady was happy to hear it, and asked Su Su to pack up some small jewelry to reward them.
Therefore, in Sui'an Tang, who is the most popular, except for Mama Qin, there is no one who can compare with Su Su, who has the support of the old lady.
When he entered the door, he felt a burst of heat rushing to his face, and Su Su turned into the east corner room first, which was arranged as a pantry, and it was also the place where the maids were on duty to listen to orders.
The two third-class maids and the two second-class maids on duty were snorting melon seeds around the round table, very leisurely, and saw Su Su busy saluting.
Su Su took off the cloak outside, the third-class maid Qingzhu took it very brightly, and the second-class maid Mingyu hurriedly poured Su Su a cup of hot tea and said, "Sister Yangliu is good?"
Su Su took a sip of hot tea and felt warmer. Although she was a northerner in her previous life, she stayed in the south for seven years in this life, and she was a little uncomfortable with the cold of the north for a while. Especially since there is no greenhouse effect yet, it is really cold. In the afternoon, the sky is not good, I am afraid that it will snow.
Su Su breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "Sister Yang Liu is fine, but she is bored at home, and she misses the old lady and you."
Hearing laughter in the main room, Su Su asked, "Who is serving by the old lady's side?" Mingyue, another second-class maid, hurriedly said: "Ning Cui, Yun Duo, and Mingxiang are all here, and several girls and Mrs. Shizi are accompanying the old lady, Mama Qin has been sore since she entered the winter bones, and now she is heavier, and the old lady told her to rest early."
People are so together, presumably it is also for the small banquet set by the lord of Prince Gong's Mansion Qingning County tomorrow!
Su Su put down the tea bowl, "I'll go in and have a look, and after a while, I'll ask the little maid to go to the east ear room to have a look, Mama Qin can't stand the cold, and the fire kang and fire wall should be burned." β
Mama Qin's health is not good, Yang Liu is out of the house again, and Su Su, who likes to be lazy on weekdays, has to worry about everything, but fortunately, there is still Ning Cui now, but Ning Cui can't stay for long. When she left the house, there was one less person close to her, not to mention, just the interpersonal contacts made Su Su have a headache when she thought about it, and it was really difficult to be exquisite!
While lamenting that his future life as a rich idler is gone, he softened his facial expression, walked to the West Warm Pavilion, and complained in his heart: It's not the same as what is on the outside, it's really a journeyman!
The masters are all in the Xinuan Pavilion, Su Su picked up the curtain and went in, and saw a look of talking and laughing, so lively!
The old lady was full of smiles, looking at her granddaughter and daughter-in-law under her knees, and her eyes were full of love. I saw Su Su by mistake, and the smile in my eyes was even bigger.
"Yang Liu, that girl can accommodate you to come back, how is Zhao Yapo?"
Su Su first saluted the old lady, the prince and a few girls before standing beside the old lady.
"Mother Zhao is fine, and asked the slave maid to greet the old lady for her, thank you for remembering her, as for Yang Liu's ......" Su Su paused, and said with a little crying and laughing: "Such a big person, when I came back, I just had to pull the slave and maid to roll around and play crazy, and I was clamoring to come back with the slave and maid, but it was only after the big housekeeper Qiao trained me to stop!"
Saying that, remembering the scene when he came back, he fell on Ning Cui's shoulder, "Old lady, you haven't seen Yang Liu's scoundrel, even the big housekeeper Qiao is happy." β
After that, Su Su learned to learn from the appearance of Yangliu and the words of remarrying after the sixth girl got married, which made the master and subordinates in the room laugh, and several girls were also ashamed and funny.
The sixth girl was still young, but she didn't feel shy, so she pulled Su Su and said with a smile: "Sister Yang Liu's house another day, she will definitely take me, and I will give her my red envelope first."
When it was getting late, everyone dispersed, and Mrs. Song and the four big maids entered the bedroom in the west room, and the five masters and servants calmed down and spoke.
Listening to Su Su say in detail that everything was fine with Yang Liu, the old lady and Ning Cui really put their minds at ease, as for Yun Duo and Ming Xiang, they didn't have such a deep relationship with Yang Liu, so they just cared about a few words.
Ning Cui asked someone to bring hot water, and served the old lady with Mingyu and Mingyue, who were listening to the orders outside, to wash her hands and feet, and change into a nightgown. The old lady was half-lying on the kang and asked Mama Qin, and only sighed when she heard the little maid say that everything was fine.
"Yunduo, you don't need to serve here, go and take care of your godmother, she suffered from the cold when she was young, and she was better in the south, but she suffered a great sin in the north."
Ning Cui comforted: "The old lady is also relaxed, didn't the imperial doctor say it, this first year is not suitable for a more serious one, and it will be fine next year."
The doctor in the house also has a family and a job in Yangzhou, so he did not follow to Beijing, and he can recruit a doctor with the rank of an old lady. But the old lady has always been in good health, and the first time she recruited the imperial doctor was for Mama Qin, so Mama Qin was so moved. And in private, the old lady also asked the imperial doctor to take Su Su's pulse, and drank the decoction for more than half a year, although it was uncomfortable to come to Kwai Shui, but it was finally not so painful!
The imperial doctor also said that the symptoms of palace cold have been greatly improved, and he will pay attention to it in the future, which will not have much impact on the heirs. This made the old lady let go of another matter.
When Su Su heard that he didn't need to drink the unpalatable and terrible decoction, it was rare for the child to cheer angrily, which made the people in the know laugh and angry.
At this time, the old lady listened to Ning Cui's persuasion, and could only nod helplessly, "There is no other way, let her cat winter in the house these days, don't come out, fortunately, the east ear room is also connected to the kang, and sleeping on the kang in winter is more comfortable than the bed, but it is a little dry, thanks to the 'snow drifting' incense pill that Su Su tunes, it smells cool and cool." β
There is a fire kang and a fire wall in the bedroom, which is a few warmer than the warm pavilion in the hall, Su Su has already taken off his small jacket, and there is a jacket left, sitting on the embroidery pier, and using good rose oil to paint the old lady's hands and feet. Hearing this, he said: "The north is like this, it is dry at any time, you don't like to drink that fragrant dew, but you can't help but drink those cans of Fengmi grapefruit tea prepared by the slave maid!"
The old lady said with a smile: "That honey grapefruit tea is really good, sweet and sour, this time after the sweet pomelo from the boat is distributed, there is still a lot left, pick up a few and eat fresh, and make the rest into grapefruit tea." There's not much left of what I did last year. Tomorrow you will go to Prince Gong's Mansion to get a jar, and add a bottle of plum blossom dew, four kinds of snacks, and four newly collected velvets, which is also very novel and decent. β
After the old lady instructed Su Su a few more words, except for Ning Cui to keep vigil, Su Su and Ming Yu all went down to rest.
Coming out of the main room, the cold air hit the face, Su Su tied his cloak, took advantage of the light of the Sheep's Horn Palace lamp, opened the door of the west ear room, there was already a rough mother-in-law waiting, moved in two braziers, a bucket of hot water and two soup women, Su Su thanked and closed the door.
Because there is a fire wall and a fire kang in the upper bedroom, there is no need for a carbon basin, but a lot of good silver charcoal and red charcoal are saved, and the old lady rewarded a lot to the four big girls.
The two charcoal basins were burning, and the room was warm after a while, so Su Su changed into pajamas, and after some washing, he sat in front of the dresser. Just by candlelight, I looked at the fairy-like girl in the glass mirror. Sometimes there is always a trance, the ordinary but stubborn face in the memory is becoming more and more blurred, and the memory of the past life is also sealed in the bottom of the heart.
The future life is uncertain, she has no time to reminisce about the past, only in this way can she dare to relax in the dead of night, and rearm herself tomorrow.