In July, the weather should have turned cooler, but these days have become more and more sunny, walking on the ground feel hot feet, green leaves can not make people stop to admire, and the sound of cicadas makes people who are already hot more and more upset.

The official residence of Jiujiang Mansion was originally narrow and cramped, but now the scorching sun has not retreated for a long time, and the room is like a steamer.

The small courtyard in the corner of the official house is the west sun, there is only a pot of ice in the house, and a little girl is sleeping on the beauty couch, wearing only a belly pocket, revealing white and tender arms and legs.

There sat a young woman of about eighteen or nineteen years of age, very beautiful, slender and delicate, and I felt pity. At this time, he was fanning the little girl, and his face showed distress.

"Haven't you found prickly heat powder yet? Look at Sister Shu'er's neck, the prickly heat has exploded. ”

The young woman who spoke was Xiao Fu, who was the wife of the official of Jiujiang Mansion.

After a while, two girls with buns came out from behind the interstitial, one looked more lively, and the other was much calmer. The two of them took out a packet of medicinal powder and handed it to Xiao Fu, and said lively: "It's not a way to go on like this." The slave maid heard that the four corners of the eldest lady were full of ice basins, and Aunt Su gave birth to two brothers and a sister, and also asked for four basins of ice, but we were like Aunt Ding, only one basin of ice. On such a hot day, how can a basin of ice be enough? ”

"Danhong, you don't have to talk too much." Xiao Fu is also full of thoughts.

Seven years ago, the news of the eldest sister's death came, and the eldest sister and brother-in-law have always been in deep love, and the brother-in-law even wanted to resign from the official position and keep the spirit. Seeing that her son was so affectionate, Mrs. Liu gave up her official position, because she went to Liu's house with her mother-in-law to mourn, and was met by her in-laws, Mrs. Liu, who knew that she had not yet decided to marry, and her appearance was five points similar to her eldest sister, so she asked to marry her.

That year, when she was about to be in her prime, she was treated indifferently by her husband when she first got married, and then the two gradually got acquainted, and even her husband stopped going to other concubines for her, and she also gave birth to Lishu's extremely lovely daughter.

Unexpectedly, at Lishu's weekly banquet, the eldest sister came back from the dead and came back from the field.

Back then, when her husband Liu Chengxu was a jinshi and the first commander of Shanyang County, Shanyang County was attacked by Xiangma, and when it was a thousand moments, he asked his confidants to escort his sister and a pair of children out. Originally, he thought that he would definitely die, but he never thought that Shangguan back then had the talent of Zhang Yi and Su Qin, and said that if he moved the horse, there was nothing wrong in Shanyang County, but his sister and nephews and nieces who were sent out had an accident.

Later, my brother-in-law sent someone to look for more than a month, only to find a female corpse, she was dressed in the same way that her sister wore when she went out of the city, everyone thought that she would die, and she also vigorously handled the funeral.

When the eldest sister came back, her situation was very bad.

The husband felt guilty for his eldest sister, and the family was handed over to her, and every time he appeared in front of him, he reminded his husband how unfaithful he was.

Xiao Fu is also a strong person, obviously yesterday was a lovesick person, but now she is acting like this, she can not appear in front of Liu Chengxu and not appear in front of him.

"Yes, ma'am, can't it go on like this? You are respectful to the eldest lady in everything, but how does she treat you? It doesn't matter if we adults are wronged, but how about the three girls? Other girls are refreshing, she is full of prickly heat, this is still small, what about marriage in the future? Danqing, who has always been calm, also began to persuade.

Xiao Fu is a rin, yes, she doesn't think about herself, she has to think about her daughter!

At present, the old man Liu Chengxu has two wives and two concubines, the eldest daughter of the Fu family, Aunt Su gave birth to two sons and a daughter, and Aunt Ding also gave birth to a daughter.

That is to say, the Liu family now has a total of three sons and four daughters, and the age difference between the four daughters is not much, and the marriage between each other does not depend on the degree of their father's liking.

She gently applied the medicine powder to a piece of red prickly heat on her daughter's neck with her hand, and secretly decided that she could no longer ignore her daughter's life and death for her self-esteem.

It is ice now, and it will be a dowry in the future, a marriage, and a status in the future.

"Danhong, Danqing, you open a money box for me tomorrow, and let Mama Du's son buy some incense pieces and plum powder for me to come back, and I want to make incense." Xiao Fu took a deep breath.

Danhong and Danqing are both happy, and the favorite of the old man was the incense powder made by his wife.

At this time, the little girl lying on the bed opened her eyes, her white and tender little hands tightly grasped Xiao Fu's hand, and Xiao Fu saw that her daughter woke up, "The baby is awake?" Why do you have to grab your mother's hand like this every day these days, is it a nightmare? ”

Lishu suddenly burst into tears for some reason, she had been thinking about her mother for too long, so she always thought that she was in a dream, probably drunk from the wine brought back from Qi State, but she caught her mother's hand several times in a row, and it was hot.

"What's wrong, isn't it uncomfortable?" Xiao Fu blamed himself more and more.

"Mother, I woke up that day and saw you drawing a baby, didn't you?" Lishu always felt that she might not be dreaming, as if she had really returned to thirty years ago.

Xiao Fu saw that she was articulate and knew that children sometimes crying may be nightmares, so she was a little relieved, and just smiled: "Yes, did you also have nightmares that day, and you insisted on holding your mother's hand." ”

At this moment, Lishu looked around and realized whether she was really reborn, or if she was back to when she was five years old.

She can't remember many things when she was a child, because her mother died when she was ten years old, and she immediately got married to the Zheng family after her death. Even if he doesn't have a son, he can't posthumously give him a fate.

The world only knows Mrs. Fu Chunhua, but no one knows Fu Qiujun.

Before getting married, she opened her mother's relics, only a box, all the boxes were painted by her mother, she knew that her mother was good at Danqing, and she would put an easel to paint her when she had nothing to do.

Lishu raised her eyes to look at Xiao Fu, she saw her mother's appearance for the first time in her impression, she never thought that Xiao Fu was so beautiful, especially without any fat powder on her face, she looked naturally beautiful.

"Mother's kiss is good-looking." Lishu stood up and kissed Xiao Fu's face.

Xiao Fu was stunned for a moment, then smiled again, and Lishu looked around, she probably knew where this was.

The Liu family is the Jinghu Ding clan, Lishu's great-grandfather is the famous minister Liu Tianshi, the first in the world, in weapons, water control and even medical skills are quite attained. Grandfather Liu Dongye, because of the Wenchen Yinwu, was named Jinyi Wei Zheng Qianhu, Tianxi ten years in the martial arts Jinshi, Jinyi Wei in charge of the guard Governor Tongzhi, the general Ti Cai, because of the matter involving the eunuch attached to the A, forced to Shi, was named the Zuo Governor, the prince Taifu, and the Jinyi Wei commander.

As for his uncle Liu Chengzong, he was the first in the Wuju Township Examination in the eighth year of Tianxi, and his father was dismissed, and he was implicated and also resigned.

And his father was originally a third-class jinshi, and his father was still in Beijing at that time, so he was naturally able to stay in Beijing, and then because of his father, he invited himself to be released for several years, and he is now the official of Jiujiang Mansion.

There is a fixed number of servants that officials bring when they take office, and foreign officials below the fourth rank can bring 20 servants, so there were originally servants and acquaintances in each room, but now they only bring two or three people.

The reason why she remembers Jiujiang so clearly is because she almost broke her appearance when she had chickenpox when she was six years old, especially when she had a very small pit between the eyebrows on her face, which ordinary people couldn't see at all, and only knew when she painted her own thrush.

There is also a mother who seems to have been pregnant, because Danhong hugged her when she held her after her mother's death and said: "If Mrs. was born back then, my sister would have a brother at home to help her." But that year, my sister and son had chickenpox, and Mrs. worked hard for a long time to take care of you, so she went out and fell again, and the child was gone. Otherwise, there won't be even a person who throws the pot. ”

Thinking of this, Lishu secretly made up her mind to protect her mother and her parents, and she couldn't let her die as a lonely ghost.

But seeing that she was more than five years old, because of the heat in the room, she was only wearing a red belly pocket, and she was ashamed to wear clothes: "I want to wear clothes." ”

Xiao Fu shook his head: "It's too hot, you see that you are hot and painful from the prickly heat here." ”

Lishu knows that she is precocious, she can speak in six months, and she can recite Tang poems and Song lyrics when she is more than a year old, others think she is extremely smart and clever, but in fact, she is also taught by Xiao Fu.

So Lishu's mouth was very slippery, and now that Xiao Fu disagreed, she said: "That's because my mother raised her daughter fat, so the flesh of my daughter's neck was stacked, and she got prickly heat." ”

"Little guy, who made you greedy, the peanuts are clamped one by one, and the chopsticks are better than adults." Xiao Fu likes to touch his daughter's arm like a lotus root.

Other people's money is spent on dressing up, and Xiao Fu spends all of it on food.

Just like now, she said to Danhong: "Today, I still let them add an extra dish of mung bean and lily soup and send it over, as well as cut some marinated pig ears, Sister Shu likes to eat it." ”

Danhong went to open the money box, and muttered while taking the money: "The eldest lady wants to cut the degree, she has enough there, where the kitchen dares to be lazy, give everything the best." As for us, there are half of the portions and half of the ice, and the people are used to watching people cook, and they have to spend more than 200 dollars every day to eat something good. ”

"Alright, shut up. The eldest lady's thrift is also a good thing, the lord is still boasting, the lord is still on the seventh grade, the top and bottom need to be dotted, and the family has to buy New Year's etiquette, so it is also for the good of this family. Xiao Fu said.

Danhong suddenly didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly went out.

Lishu heard something unusual, because after she was sensible, she was in office with her father, and the eldest lady was sick and weak at that time, and she was Aunt Ding's housekeeper, and she had never been so frugal in food and clothing.

Looking at Xiao Fu again, Xiao Fu Zheng said to Danqing: "Dan Hongkou is fast, he is a straight man, you go to the kitchen in the future." Don't let people hear me and think I'm complaining about something, that's not good. ”

"Got it." Danqing said busily.

Xiao Fu smiled again: "Don't worry, such days won't last long, sooner or later I won't let Sister Shu be treated like this, I want her to be the most noble and enviable girl in the Liu family." ”

This is a bit subverted Lishu's imagination, she always thought that her mother was unhappy and was a person who did not fight or rob, so she left depressed. Yes, if she is really depressed and has no power to fight back, how can she make her marry Zheng Hao.

Zheng Hao's grandfather is a cabinet minister, his father is the son of the country, the Zheng family in Xingyang is a thousand-year-old famous family, and Zheng Hao himself is a first-class literary talent. But he was ten years older than him back then, and in terms of age, the eldest sister was obviously more suitable than her, but this marriage fell on her.

Could it be that there is Xiao Fu's promoter in this? Therefore, the maids Yuping and Yulan beside Fu said that their mothers are not favored, and it may not be true.