Passerby's daily life

Chapter 27

Once the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is over, the taste of the year will gradually dissipate.The number of masters visiting relatives for banquets has also gradually decreased.The Yayun Pavilion next to Suian Hall also became lively again.

Susu has no family, and she has no place to go on her usual vacations. In addition, the older she gets, the more open she looks, and her appearance is attracting attention, so Susu never goes out to dinner with the old lady, honestly It's really a pleasure to stay in Suian hall to brew a wine and adjust the fragrance.

Susu's leisurely and leisurely manner made Miss Liu, who was impatient with the banquet but had to go, be envious.

In the flower hall of Suian Hall, the four girls accompanied the old lady to eat. After Susu and the big maidservants washed their mouths and hands, they heard the sixth girl exclaim in a very unladylike way: "You can be regarded as alive." It's been so long, counting this meal is the most comfortable, thinking of the past half a month, I really feel narrow-minded."

The old lady also knew the temperament of this granddaughter, she laughed and scolded: "How can you talk nonsense, be careful that your mother beats you."

Among the granddaughters, the old madam loves Miss Liu the most. She is not afraid of her mother, she curled her lips and said, "My mother beat me, but I don't accept it. It's fine with relatives, and the banquets of officials and officials will not stop after a while. The girl from that family got her skirt wet, and the girl from this family lost a bracelet later on, she was the housekeeper's daughter, and compared food and jewelry, even a piece of clothing on my body could make them boast, I really don't know what it means."

Seeing Miss Liu who looked like a little adult, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Although the fourth girl is a concubine, her temperament is the most cheerful among the sisters, and she echoed: "You used to be young and didn't go out very much. I don't know that our eldest aunt hadn't conferred concubines and concubines back then. When there was no earl, we were the ones who really didn’t care about it in the eyes of others, but now it’s just a whirlwind!”

These two girls, one thirteen and the other nine years old, said the words that made the old lady feel both funny and sad. In those years, they really knew the temperature of drinking water.

The old lady patted each other lightly, and said: "You are not allowed to talk nonsense outside, otherwise it will not be a feng shui turn, but a villain's success." Then she said seriously: "You represent the face and education of the Song family outside. , we used to disdain flattery, and now we don’t have to look down and disdain others. Don’t be too concerned about gains and losses, otherwise there will be no happy life.”

The four girls all stood up, solemnly and solemnly said in unison: "Thank you for your teaching, grandma."

Afterwards, the old lady told the girls to leave, and Susu, Yang Liu, Ning Cui, and Bisi took turns to eat and serve the old lady to take a nap.

Susu recited the "Heart Sutra" softly beside her, and the old lady seemed to be asleep with her eyes closed. Just as Susu put away the Buddhist scriptures, the old lady sighed softly: "The family has a great business, a great responsibility, and I don't have to worry about my brothers." However, there are only a few girls in the family who have their own weaknesses. The eldest girl is useless; the second girl's marriage is the Changle uncle's mansion, one of the eight founding uncle's mansions. With her temperament, if she doesn't suffer a loss, she won't be able to grow her memory the fourth girl is cheerful and easy-going, and the sixth girl is eccentric, but these two girls have followed their grandfather and have a chivalrous heart, neither of which is expected to be a mistress; Get a reputation for withdrawing from marriage; as for the fifth girl, she is young but has a hundred thousand hearts."

Speaking of this, the old lady opened her eyes, and at this time the four maids who each had errands had already put down their work and surrounded her.

Because it was said that the girls were the masters, and the four of them were not easy to talk to, the old lady sighed.Seeing this, Su Su also sighed a few times, which made the old lady laugh and said: "You are so young, why are you sighing?"

Susu replied: "I see the old lady like this, I just think it's good to sigh, but I don't know what kind of sea is above, what disease can be cured?"

The old lady was taken aback, and then saw the other three maids holding back their laughter, not knowing that Susu was being mischievous, and scolded with a smile: "It's a sea above the sea, who only treats narrow-minded ghosts!"

After that, I also smiled: "What disease can a sigh cure, but I am foolish, you girl!"

Ning Cui comforted: "You just think too much. As the old saying goes, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and the girls in our family are also the best. You just need to teach them more in the future."

Yang Liu and Bisi also said a lot of good things, the old lady let go of this concern, but before going to bed, she told Susu: "Nothing to do in the afternoon, you can go and play with the girls, what I said today is really good. It's heavier, so they don't want to think about it, and tell the third girl to learn housework with her third aunt tomorrow; the embroidery work of the fourth girl and the fifth girl can't be neglected; Beauty, if you don't learn the rules well, I won't favor her."

Susu wrote down one by one, when the old lady fell asleep, she made a gesture with the other three and quietly left the house, went to her own room in the backyard to get a few things, and then came to Yayunxuan.

Susu first arrived at the Banwan Pavilion where the third girl lived. The third girl was half leaning on the back of the Suozi brocade on the big kang facing the window, holding a book in her hand, and on her lap was a gilt copper hollow carved flower and bird pattern. A pumpkin-shaped hand stove, with a camel's hair thin blanket on the knees, saw Susu coming in and said softly: "Why are you here in such a cold day? But grandma has something to order?"

Then he invited Susu to sit down and asked someone to serve hot tea quickly.

Su Su smiled and said, "But after three years of seeing each other, the girl has become more polite."

After sitting down, she saw that what she was reading was "Women's Rules". Susu was thinking about how to answer, and after thinking for a while, she said: "The old lady said that girls are very good at embroidery, and our girls learn these things." It's just following the trend and getting by. In the future, if you are the master of the house, you still need to learn more about housekeeping. From tomorrow onwards, let the girl follow the third wife, learn about housekeeping first, and attend classes with other girls when you have nothing to do in the afternoon."

The third girl seemed a little unable to believe what she heard. She stared at Susu and saw her really smiling, so she was sure that what she heard was true.

Because of the marriage arranged by her aunt, she used means to make her uncle find out and cause trouble all over the city. Now that she has retired, for the sake of the Song family's reputation, she originally thought that even if her grandmother didn't marry her away, she would just marry into a merchant. The landlord's family was doomed, but the grandmother did not give up on her, and she was not recruited to marry her casually.

No matter how calm the third girl was, she was only 14 years old. She burst into tears of joy, but Susu didn't stop her. She blamed her for underestimating the old lady's heart, and felt that she was pitiful.

After a long while, the third girl had cried enough, and then asked someone to fetch water to wash and put on makeup again.

After tidying up, the third girl said embarrassingly: "I made you laugh."

Susu then said: "The old lady is the girl's real grandmother, and she only loves you more in her heart. When the girl came back a few years ago, she just mentioned that the incense from Suiantang smells good, so the old lady made a note of it and asked her maidservant to bring it to the girl. .Unfortunately, the incense is used up, because the slaves made it themselves, there is no outside, and the year is busy, so I have to air-condition it, and I got it yesterday."

As he spoke, he took out half a palm-sized flat box of sapphire carved with patterns of flowers and birds from his purse. After opening it, it contained sixteen pills, which were only the size of a lotus seed meter. Just smelling it gave a refreshing feeling.

The third girl took it and liked it more and more, "I didn't expect Susu to be a perfumer! What's the name of this fragrance? I have never seen such a special fragrance in Beijing."

Susu waved her hands modestly and said: "It's just reading some miscellaneous books and messing around. I didn't think about making something. How can I call it a teacher! There is an earth dragon heater in the room, which is very dry. Light it Feeling refreshed and cool, the servant girl named it Xuepiao."

"Xuepiao, it's very elegant and suitable. Isn't it refreshing when the snow falls." The third girl was full of praise, asked how to use it, and put a pill in the corner of the stove by herself, and the fragrance immediately came out.

The remaining three girls asked the servant girl to put it away carefully, and asked someone to take out a red sandalwood box and put it on the small table in the middle of the kang. When I opened it, I saw gold, silver, precious stones, and jade.

She personally picked out a golden step shaker with butterfly love flower and sapphire beads, and a string of beeswax hands and asked someone to wrap it up for Susu, saying: "This is given by those wives and wives during this year's festival. It’s not more expensive than what my grandmother gave me, but it’s also exquisite in appearance, so don’t dislike it, just play with it.”

At least these two things are worth 200 taels of silver, but Susu is not short-sighted, not to mention how much money she has saved in the past five years.Susu pushed and refused several times, but she couldn't refuse, so she took it over and thanked the third girl.

After bidding farewell to the third girl, Susu went to the Jiangxue Garden of the fourth girl, but the fourth girl was not there. The maids said that the girl had gone to the sixth girl with her painting tools, so Susu simply went to the fifth girl's Rouyizhai first.

(End of this chapter)