Chapter 23: Periwinkle
After a few days in a blink of an eye, the kitten gradually grew a little, and bought a few eggs from the outside not too late, hid them on his body and brought them into the house, mashed the egg yolk and mixed it in the paste, and the kitten ate it very deliciously.
The black cat hasn't come back since he left that day, but it's very relieved.
Whether it is color or temperament, kittens and black cats are not similar, it is estimated that with the female cat, a little big thing, lively, a ball of thread and a strip of cloth, you can have a lot of fun.
Don't hesitate to ask Minghui to name the kitten, Minghui is concocting periwinkle incense, holding a piece of lychee shell in her hand, hearing this, she looked at the lychee shell, and then looked at the kitten who was trying to bite Buchi's finger, and said casually: "Just call it lychee." ”
"Lychee?" Not late, I have only seen the lychee shell used to make spices, and I have not seen the real lychee, I only know that the lychee is produced in Lingnan, and it is not sold in Baoding Mansion, and there is no Qi County where Yunmeng Mountain is located.
Not long after, I suddenly felt that lychee is a very expensive name.
"Little girl, you have a name, your name is Lychee."
Lychee raised her little face and screamed, her voice was delicate and thin, and Minghui couldn't help but look at it, the little Lychee was really different from her father.
The eldest lady lay on the kang for a few days, and the eldest lady was in the study all day long, reading and practicing calligraphy.
Mingxuan is still young, and in addition to reading with Xixi every day, he plays with the little guys and stays by the eldest wife's side, only Mingya is the sick.
The eldest lady couldn't see her two sons, and the eldest man obviously didn't take her illness to heart, so she didn't feel interesting when she said that she had been sick for a few days, so she simply didn't pretend.
Hearing that the eldest lady was recovering, Minghui chuckled lightly, took the yellow calendar and flipped through it, and it would be Qiqi in a few days.
Early the next morning, just had breakfast, the eldest lady in the house came to get the right card again, Hu's mother was not there, the eldest lady was already sick again, and the pair of cards was withdrawn by the eldest lady from Mingya's hand.
Seeing that it was not too late, the eldest lady remembered Minghui, she was really a servant of the master, this is not too late, even her every move is a little similar to Minghui, and the eldest lady is angry when she looks at it.
But after all, the eldest lady is the housewife of a house, so she can't directly embarrass a little maid, not to mention, this maid is still a person next to her sister-in-law, not a child in the house.
The eldest lady gritted her back molars and had a cold face, but it was not too late to throw the pair of cards.
After a long smile, he thanked him, turned around and left, and his cheeky appearance followed Minghui.
"It's going out to buy things again, shopping and buying all day." The eldest lady swallowed the latter words back into her stomach, the old lady was too partial, and she didn't know how much silver she had quietly left for this old woman.
Although the Ming family in Xicheng is not rich and noble, it is also a wealthy family, after all, it is a family of two Jinshi, but even so, the Ming family is up and down, and there is no one like Minghui who lets the maid go out to buy things every day, if it is changed to Mingya, the eldest lady would have reprimanded several times, but it is Minghui, and the eldest lady can only be secretly angry.
When I walked out not too late, I happened to meet Mingya walking over with Bai Zhi, nodded before it was too late, and walked past Mingya.
Bai Zhi frowned: "It's not too late, why don't you understand the rules at all, even if she is the person next to the eldest lady, but she is just a maid, and she has to salute when she sees the second girl." ”
If it was not too late to change to the real one, he would take the initiative to salute Mingya, but today this is Minghui, Minghui...... I'm used to being an aunt.
Minghui walked far away before she remembered that there was such a thing, she knocked on her head, and she still had to be cautious and pay attention to details in the future.
It wasn't until it was too late to walk far away that Mingya withdrew her gaze, she suddenly became a little envious of Minghui, at least she wanted to buy something, so that she could let the maid out, which she couldn't compare.
Minghui knew that Wang Zhenren usually didn't go out, so she went directly to the small courtyard, but saw a donkey cart parked outside the yard, Cui Niangzi was directing people to move down, and the door of the fat aunt's house next door was open, and the family was moving there.
"Aunt Cui, has the yard of Aunt Fat's house been rented?" Minghui asked.
Cui Niangzi saw that it was not too late for someone to come, and said with a smile: "The fat aunt's family left yesterday, alas, in a hurry, saying that the old woman in the capital was seriously ill and wanted to go over to serve the sick, and she also asked the dart bureau to escort it." ”
Minghuiwaner, where is the escort of the dart bureau, it is clear that the fat aunt asked her mother's family to support her.
Minghui's heart moved, and her father repeatedly told her on his deathbed that he wanted her to return to Baoding Mansion and marry in the Ming family in the future, instead of staying in Yunmengguan, thinking that she wanted her to support her mother's family in the future.
Minghui sighed silently, in her previous life, she had failed her father's hopes.
Even in this life, she will not stay in the Ming family, let alone marry Huo Yu.
As long as he thinks of Huo Yu, Minghui's back is a pain to the bone.
She took a deep breath, threw Huo Yu's name out of her mind, and said to Cui Niangzi with a smile: "How good is this, Uncle Haiquan and Wang Ping Wang An can also live here in the future, and take care of each other." ”
Cui Niangzi was busy and said to Minghui: "It's not too late, you brought a letter to the girl, the real person is inside, you can go quickly." ”
Minghui jumped into the courtyard, and the cotton curtains of the hall were replaced with thick cotton, light blue plain noodles, and a few white plums were embroidered.
As soon as Minghui walked under the porch, the curtain was lifted from inside, and a small person poked her head out, it was Liu Sanniang's little daughter.
Compared with a few days ago, the little girl is a little fatter, her face is red in protein, and her hair is shiny.
Minghui reached out to touch her head, but the little girl quickly shrank back, put down the curtain and ran away.
Minghui entered the house and saw Wang Zhenren playing with the incense ash with a silver spoon, and saw that he was about to open his mouth when he came in late, but he called "master" sweetly when he heard it.
Wang Zhenren's brows moved, he looked the little girl in front of him up and down, and suddenly snorted and said, "It was you last time." ”
Minghui grinned, sat down next to Wang Zhenren, and took out a box from the basket.
"Master, try this and see how it works."
Wang Zhenren glanced at her, took the box, and before she opened it, she smelled a faint fragrance.
"Periwinkle? Where did it come from? Wang Zhenren sniffed.
"Master, can't this be made by me?" Minghui is half coquettish and half serious, "Sichuan Qiong, Xinyi, rhubarb, frankincense, Jianghuang, sandalwood, and sweet pine each take half a tael, clove, cloves, Guangrue, Shannai each take one tael, thatch, succulent, peony skin take two taels each, root root, Angelica angelica, Duhuo, horseshoe incense each take two taels, Huoxiang one tael and five coins, lychee shell one tael, plus four taels of baijimo......"
Wang Zhenren broke a small piece of incense cake and burned it until it was red, and put it in the incense burner with a copper lotus pattern, the aroma gradually spread, and the surface of the incense cake gave birth to yellow clothes, and the fragrance became more and more elegant and far-reaching.
"There's nothing wrong with the recipe, I taught you, but when you were on the mountain, you only remembered the incense recipe, and never made it yourself." Wang Zhenren said.
Minghui was silent and did not speak.
Wang Zhenren reached out and pinched her face, but also did not speak.
In the fragrance that is more elegant than orchids, the master and apprentice sit silently.
After a long time, Wang Zhenren said: "Don't tell me, these are all you learned in your dreams, and it's just a matter of making incense, after all, this is the recipe I asked you to write down, but what about this disguise, this method on the rivers and lakes, I'm afraid it will take ten or eight years to learn, who are you?" ”