Because he slept for too long, Shaohua felt a headache when he got up, and then he couldn't sleep on the third watch. I finally fell asleep, and before the dream was finished, the sky was already bright. Under such a vicious circle, by the time Shaohua walked up the next day, the sun had already risen three poles.

Chu He and Youhan walked in with tea and towels for washing, and when they saw that she was still lazily lying on the bed, they sighed in unison.

"Fifth lady, if you lie down like this again, the lady and the third lady will come back." Chu He helped to dress Shaohua and comb her hair, while Youhan cleaned up the bed.

When Shaohua heard this, he was stunned for a moment, "Where did they go?" "By the time Youhan made the bed, Chu He had already helped Shaohua comb a small flowing cloud bun, and was about to pin a tourmaline bead hairpin to her, so Shaohua stopped her." Don't, I'll have something to do later, you can pile something else on my head. ”

"Five ladies, a pair of pearl hairpins will not hinder your walking, if you don't like this pair, then I will change you to a pair of red agate butterfly hairpins." Chu He put down the tourmaline bead hairpin and went to find another pair of red agate butterflies. The gold wire is wrapped around the agate with the size of a fingernail to form a butterfly, and the ends of the two long whiskers are inlaid with two small jades.

Shaohua stared at the two long whiskers with wide eyes, and immediately changed his mind, pointed to Fang Cai's Zhu Hai and said, "It's better to use it, right?" ”

Chu He covered his mouth and smiled, "On weekdays, the five ladies are not good at dressing up too fancy, for fear of competing with other ladies, and they don't have to go to school today, and they don't have to do it well." The seventh lady is the same age as you, but she cares more than you. Saying that, before Shaohua retracted his hand, he put a pair of shrimp bracelets on her again, "It's her business that she cares, I don't have to meet guests, why do you bring so many things" Seeing her helplessness, she let her go: "Madame originally wanted to take the third lady to the mansion of the feudal kingdom with you this morning, but the third lady saw that you couldn't wake up, so she went back for you." When the third lady comes back later, if she sees you still like this, she will definitely blame us. ”

Jinhua goes out every day to dress up brightly, and there will be multiple hairpins every three or five days. Ling didn't say anything, but Wanhua could see with her eyes that she must have begged Li Xunzhuo to buy it for her. Every time I get a new trick, I always have to take the opportunity to show off. Wanhua knows that her face is long, and it is not good to bring too much jewelry on her head, which looks cumbersome. It's just that Shaohua is a lazy bone, she has a round face, black and thick hair, and she looks good no matter what jewelry she wears. But she thought it was inconvenient to write with a bracelet and ripped it off, and she liked to walk with the wind, and several times she almost hooked the step to something. In the end, she didn't bring anything at all, Wanhua looked at it once and corrected it once, Shaohua also went in the left ear and out of the right ear, and was obedient and obedient in front of her, and ripped it off as soon as she turned around.

In the gap between Chu He and Shaohua's words, Youhan had already neatly put the breakfast on the table, turned around and smiled at them: "I think the third lady should be shy, for fear that the fifth lady will see her blushing." ”

Because Shaohua got up late, she didn't dare to prepare more early, for fear that she wouldn't be able to eat at noon. Shaohua walked over and was immediately seduced by a bowl of fragrant and hot wolfberry chicken porridge. The stomach beat the war drum in embarrassment, and then I realized that after a whole night, my stomach was empty.

Don't look at just a bowl of white porridge with minced meat and wolfberries, first wash the wolfberries and soak them in water to soak the rice, then sauté the meat and minced chicken with salt, wine, and ginger to bring out the fragrance, skim off the oil slick, pour it into the white porridge, and slowly simmer until the rice is ripe. At this time, the boiled rice can absorb the flavor of the meat and the meat, and will not make the minced meat in the porridge boil until it is tasteless.

Shaohua finished the porridge in three or two clicks and immediately moved to other battlefields. For breakfast, in addition to wolfberry chicken porridge, there is also a plate of golden white jade dumplings and a small bowl of chicken sauce bean sprouts. There are only two dumplings on the small plate of blue and white lotus leaves on a white background, a golden and crispy fried dumpling, and a crystal clear steamed dumpling. Fried dumplings are made with eggs mixed with flour and kneaded dough, wrapped in chicken with bean sprouts and a little white sauce, and then fried raw. The steamed dumplings are made with powder, and the inset is made with bamboo shoots, cloves, shiitake mushrooms and pork.

It looks like a golden skin with a white jade filling inside, and the bean sprouts are greasy, just against the greasy outer layer. One looks like mutton fat white jade, and the inside is full of golden yellow bamboo shoots, the meat provides fat for the winter bamboo shoots, and the excess oiliness allows the shiitake mushrooms to absorb it. Compared to fried dumplings, they have a delicious texture.

In contrast, a bowl of clear soup with a few thin bean sprouts floating seems much simpler.

"What's there to be shy about, it's all a matter of time, isn't this time in the name of the lady of the domain?" Shaohua ate very quickly, and after a while, he swept away the two bowls and one dish on the table. Shaohua touched his stomach, felt that he had only filled in two-thirds, and glanced at Chu He sadly. "Chuhe, I haven't eaten yet, is there anything else to eat?" Chu He shook his head, "Chenguang is not early, a little more, as soon as the lady and they come back, they will have breakfast, you have eaten too much in the morning, and you can't eat at noon." I'll peel a pear for you to eat later, it's just picked from the mountains, it's sweet. ”

Shaohua was helpless, so he had to nod, "What are you talking about being shy just now, what are you looking at, who is going to look at each other?" ”

Chu He glanced at her with an obvious expression, "Naturally, it's the third lady." After this year, the third lady will be sixteen. Now if you set a family affair, as soon as the Dragon Boat Festival passes next year, people can carry a sedan chair to marry. If you wait until the beginning of spring, you are afraid that you will have to stay up for one more Spring Festival, and most people say that they don't like to stay up for two springs. "Chuhe is already fourteen years old this year, and he will be in time for next year." If it is really settled, after the New Year, the book or chapter must be passed first. ”

"Why?" Shaohua was stunned, what kind of rules is this, why is she not impressed.

Chu He only thought that Shaohua grew up in the countryside and didn't understand the rules of Beijing, so he explained to her with a relaxed temperament: "I don't know if there are such rules in other places." But in the capital, all the rich and noble families do it. The lady began to say kiss at fifteen or sixteen, and within three months of setting up a family affair, she would send a lady's personal maid over, and the beautiful name was to help the lady clean the house and yard, but in fact, it was to watch Lang Jun and not let him give birth to the side thoughts. And nine times out of ten, the maid who sent it over is going to take over the house, so go there early, so that you can gather the people of the husband's family. ”

"That's not all, some rich and noble families have sent several, saying that they have taken it, but they haven't passed through the door, but it's almost the same. If there is some side trouble in Lang Jun's house before the lady passes through the door, it will not be good for the lady. So I simply sent my maid over, and the horizontal and vertical were my own people. When Youhan spoke, her cheeks flushed slightly, and one of her and Chuhe would also go first to guard the future Langjun for Shaohua in the future.

"It's so troublesome, wouldn't it be nice if you got married early!" Shaohua thought about it and felt that something was wrong, "No, I remember my sister...... I mean, when the eldest brother got married, General Dingxi didn't send a maid. "Not only no, but it was the Li family who wrote a letter to ask about it, and the Dingxi general Xin Maoshan just expressed his intention, and before the letter was sent, the Li family asked people to accompany Li Sijin to come in person.

Xin Maoshan saw that Li Sijin was dignified and graceful, and he also respected and admired Li Gelao. agreed to this family affair immediately, and even exempted the treatment of relatives that year, and directly asked the Li family to carry the sedan chair to marry their daughter back. Although Li Sijin's marriage is indeed due to a reason and is set in a hurry, Chu He has never heard of any of the rules Shaohua just said, even when the emperor gave the marriage, she has not experienced it.

"That's different, our eldest young master is no better than other rich and noble gentlemen, and he doesn't even have a maid by his side, so General Dingxi is naturally relieved." Youhan was a little unimpressed.

Chu He looked at Shaohua's frowning brows, thought for a while, and said, "What are the five ladies worried about?" ”

Being asked like this, Youhan also hurriedly collected her emotions and said: "Fifth lady, don't worry, in the future, Chuhe and I will help the lady watch my aunt." ”

That's why I'm even more uneasy. Shaohua glanced at them lightly and said, "How did I hear that many families don't treat their relatives and marry their mothers directly." "Even if you are familiar with someone, you are an outsider to yourself and your future husband.

Hatsuho nodded, which was considered a default. "This is also true, after the age of sixteen to talk about kissing, there is no such thing as waiting for relatives. Some of the time to stay with relatives has not arrived, but unfortunately the old man in the family has passed away, and the marriage will be completed within 100 days. According to the old tradition, firstly, it is to test Langjun's sincerity, and secondly, the mother's family has raised the lady for many years. I was always reluctant to marry like this, so I asked to stay for an extra year, and slowly became a waiter. Chu He said slowly, not forgetting the work in hand, "It's not something that every family has, and when the time comes, everyone in Beijing will do this, and they will follow the public." It's just that the lady who is waiting for her relatives is not having a good time, and she can still go out to play before she is married. After the decision, the lady can not see anyone except her own family, let alone go out, and she rushes to make wedding dresses in the house every day, so that everyone looks beautiful. ”

After listening to Chu He's words, Shaohua felt better. If she wants to get married, she has to send the maid over to warm her husband's bed first, then she would rather not have a maid. Besides, she's having a headache right now about how to get out. For no reason, she had to wait for two more years before she said goodbye, and then she didn't know if the young man of the Yan family would marry.

"So, the third sister is determined today?" Letting go of his own thoughts, Shaohua couldn't help but gossip. When asked about Wanhua that night, she blushed and didn't say anything, but said that she listened to her mother's arrangement.

One shook his head, the other nodded, and Shaohua was confused.

"What does this mean, do you know it or don't you know?" After listening to Shaohua's words, the two glanced at each other. As a result, the one who nodded turned into a shaker, and the one who shook his head nodded. Seeing that Shaohua was angry and raised his face, Youhan opened his mouth to explain: "Fifth lady, this is such an easy thing to say. It is almost the same as the next hiring, and it is also necessary to beat gongs and drums and come seriously. It's just that now there are several ladies who are asking the third lady, and we don't know who the lady has set in her heart, but I heard that today I made an appointment to go to the vassal mansion to meet, and I think it was a candidate. ”

Chu He and Youhan both came out of the Ling family's house, so when they inquired about the news, I am afraid they knew better than Wanhua.

"So we have to wait for them to come back." Shaohua looked a little disappointed. "I thought that A-Niang had already chosen someone in her heart."

Chu He covered his mouth and chuckled, "A good woman asks for a hundred families, and Mrs. naturally has to slap more eyes for the third lady." After the fifth lady made the ceremony, the lady had to get busy again. Shaohua held her head in her hands and buried her face on the table sadly, but Chu He and Youhan thought she was shy.

"Fifth sister, what's wrong?" A delicate voice sounded in the doorway.