Chapter 120: Rupture
Chapter 120: Rupture
Dressed up, Daiyu smiled, this Mama Liu came from Jiafu with Daiyu, a family of four sold to Jiafu to do a third-class servant, the craft is not bad, but good at Jiangnan cuisine, in Jiafu is not very popular, and only in the kitchen, and then Daiyu went, accidentally ate the small dishes she made, I liked it tightly, this Mama Liu is almost dedicated to Daiyu cooking.
This time Daiyu moved out of Jiafu, it was not good to bring out the subordinates of Jiafu, but it happened that the Jia family's money could not be turned around a while, and in order to save expenses, a group of subordinates had to be released.
In this year, I was a slave for a day and a slave for life, leaving my master's house, Mama Liu, a lonely wife, with the eldest twelve, the youngest girl who was only one year old, how could she live? simply defected to Daiyu.
Daiyu is naturally welcome, although Mama Liu is a slave of Jiafu, but she has only been selling herself for more than three years, and she has not been stained with the bad habits of Jiafu, even if she likes to nag a little bit, but she still knows the rules, coupled with her superb cooking skills, the home-cooked food she makes is very in line with Daiyu's taste, and it is not easy to find such a person.
Got up, Daiyu rubbed her hands, put on a fox fur, looked out of the glass window, the snow was blowing one after another, the cotton wool was generally sprinkled below, the trees outside the window, the branches, were full of snowflakes, and many rough maids with thick cotton clothes were holding brooms to sweep the snow.
Mama Liu took a few kitchens to set up a big pot in the courtyard, the pot was still steaming, and the people passing by each scooped a bowl of ginger soup and poured it down, which looked very lively.
"Girl, it's so cold today, do you still want to go to Jia's house?" Bilian looked at her girl and sighed, Daiyu smiled, "By the way, is Zijuan well?" Do you want to change another Daiyu for her to see? ”
Since the marriage between Daiyu and Zhou Changqing was decided, Zijuan's body was not good, she could hardly get out of bed, Daiyu was sympathetic to her, so she was relieved to cultivate, this raising, that is, for several months, recently, Bilian was personally served.
"Back girl, Zijuan has gotten out of bed today, and she looks very good in spirit." Bi Lian paused, and didn't say anything, she came out of the princess's mansion, and she has always been very accurate in looking at people, Zijuan has been much better since she heard that her girl was going back to Jiafu to have a look, and she is no longer that sick, and she eats more...... If you can't guess the girl's heart, Bilian can't be among so many maids, and the princess is the only one who values her, and she was given to Lin Daiyu.
Thinking of this, Bi Lian couldn't help but have a sneer on her face, that Jia Baoyu, I heard that he is a man who doesn't know how to be motivated and likes to eat the rouge on the lips of the maid all day long, what is so good that he is worthy of Zijuan like this?
Because of the snow, Mrs. Lin had already sent a message to Daiyu not to go to ask for peace, so as to save the road slippery in the dark and make a mistake.
The kitchen has begun to cook, the stove in the flower hall is hot, and through the curtains, you can still see the garden outside.
"Ma'am."
Before the work of half a cup of tea was over, there was the response of the patrol lady outside, and then the bead curtain was lifted, and the wind chimes rang, Chunrui helped Mrs. Lin, and helped Zhiyun to step up the stone steps in October, and entered the door, Bilian hurriedly took a few little maids to greet her, helped put away the paper umbrella, went to the cloak, and put a stove in the arms of the two ladies.
"Going to enjoy the scenery in a while? Just now I saw red plums blooming in the courtyard, very beautiful, I guess, Daiyu, you must like it. ”
Daiyu saw that Zhiyun didn't even comb her hair, but tied it with a sky-blue ribbon, but she was so graceful that she was stunned for a long time, and it took a long time before she opened her mouth to salute the two elders and asked, "Hey, what about Yuanyuan?" ”
"That girl is sleepy, when it's cold, how can she get up early, until dawn, we won't see her."
Zhiyun is also helpless, she and Ouyang are not very regular in life, once they start experiments, they often stay up late at night and can't afford to do it during the day, but the children are educated according to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, their own Honghao and Hongday are very obedient, but the only girl makes Ouyang spoiled, and calling her to get up every day can make those maids and grandmothers lose a layer of skin.
A few naughty little ones in the family are not as difficult as her shy little girl, of course, Hongxi's child is still young and needs enough sleep, and the child is usually allowed to sleep until he wakes up naturally.
Daiyu also thought of the scene of Yuanyuan and Mrs. Ai fighting early in the morning a few days ago, and couldn't help but snort and laughed, now that Zhaoyu is married, even Xiao Hongxi, who happened to be playing, asked his father to take it back, Daiyu only has Yuanyuan as a playmate, so he can't help but be a little lonely.
However, she is preparing to get married, and her days are full, and she doesn't have much time to grieve and mourn.
The family was together, and they didn't pay much attention to it, so they sat around and ate a sweet and delicious, hot breakfast, and poured a bowl of brown sugar water into each person, and then hugged the stove and went to the conservatory to enjoy the scenery.
Now that it is winter, seeing that the New Year's Festival is coming, Zhiyun pulled Mrs. Lin and Daiyu to touch the cards, and discussed the festival without saying a word.
In fact, it's nothing, everything is just according to the old routine, the New Year's gifts have long been prepared, and the food snacks are also prepared, and when the account is finished, the red envelopes for the next people are set.
The snow fell a lot, but after a while, the dark clouds dispersed, the snow stopped, looking at the sun that looked a little pale in the air, Daiyu thought about it, and said: "I heard that my grandmother's old illness has recurred, and her headache is terrible...... Daiyu should go and take a look. ”
In Daiyu's heart, she is not worried. Jia's mother is old, although she usually looks at her body and bones are still strong, but the years are not forgiving, and the Jia family has been in chaos recently, but don't make a mistake.
Zhiyun squinted, a sneer hooked up at the corner of her mouth, and she didn't stop it, but just asked people to prepare the carriage and asked Daiyu to bring more people together. A few days ago, Mrs. Lin sent a letter to the old lady of the Jia family, and the letter said a few words about Daiyu's dowry, first briefly said the dowry that Mrs. Lin prepared for Daiyu, and reminded Jia's mother that don't forget to prepare the dowry that Jia Min left for her daughter back then...... As for the Lin family's more than 500,000 taels of silver, they didn't even mention it.
Mrs. Lin is from a scholarly family, the Jia family does not take the initiative to send the silver back, let her go straight to ask for the silver, she is really embarrassed to do it, if she changes Zhiyun, someone really dares to take the mage's things, even if she doesn't care, she has to not only let the other party spit it out, but also let him retreat when he sees him again in the future, and he doesn't even dare to raise his head.
Zhiyun personally sent Daiyu to the carriage, looked at the body that was gradually moving away, touched her chin, and couldn't help thinking: Now that the old lady is in a hurry to call Daiyu back, isn't it even the dowry that has been used?
The snow stopped for a while, and it was not big, but it was annoyingly lingering.
Daiyu came back before dark, and when she came back, Zijuan was no longer in the carriage.
Her face didn't look very good, but it wasn't too bad, her eyes were slightly red and swollen, but it seemed to have been compressed with hot water, which was not too obvious, and she was only holding a yellow rosewood makeup box in her hand.
Zhiyun and Mrs. Lin didn't ask anything, but Daiyu smiled and said, "It's nothing...... My grandmother said that she gave me my mother's favorite jewelry when she was a girl, so that I could remember it...... That's good, Zijuan, I returned her deed of sale and reunited her with her parents. ”
That night, Daiyu had dinner with everyone as usual, but she went to bed earlier than before, and as soon as it was dark, she entered the house and was covered and collapsed. In fact, Daiyu didn't complain that her grandmother had used her mother's dowry privately, and even, if it weren't for Jia's mother's somewhat evasive and deliberate evasive attitude that evoked her memory, Daiyu didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her mother's things left to her grandmother.
Money is something outside the body, as long as the grandmother speaks, not to mention the mother's dowry, it is something else, as long as the family has it, it will not be unwilling to give, looking at the grandmother's face The past kindness is still there, but the eyes are full of vigilance and calculation, and there is no longer a trace of sincerity in the past, as if she is not her granddaughter, but to dig out her heart and dig her lungs......
Daiyu suddenly felt cold all over her body, and her grandmother said that Mrs. Lin was not at ease at all, and wanted to encroach on her family property, and asked her to take care of the family property, and not to trust outsiders easily.
The second aunt is uneasy and kind? She is not a fool, who cherishes you for her sake, she can tell clearly, the second aunt is not good, is the second aunt good to her? If he really listened to his grandmother's words and separated from his second aunt, then he really wouldn't even have a home in his own family, and he wouldn't even have someone to rely on
She also said that in her early years, her mother told her that she would marry her to Cousin Baoyu, and said how she played well with Cousin Baoyu when she was a child, why she didn't guess anything, and she didn't care that there were many girls with broken mouths at that time......
She is the one who has made a marriage, how lax the mouth of the Jia family is, she has already understood, Jia's mother's words, it is estimated that within two days, it will be spread to every corner of the capital, if it weren't for Bilian's cleverness, she quickly said that the snow road is slippery, and she must hurry up before it gets dark and bring herself out early, she may lose control in front of her grandmother......
After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't sleep for a long time after tossing and turning, and when I was dazed and sleepy, Daiyu heard herself sigh, and felt that something in her heart cracked, dissipated, and passed away.