Poor Family Laity

  Chapter 86, holding an illusory thigh

  There is something in the house, the Shi family usually has dinner at Youshi (17~19 o'clock), and at the end of Shenshi (nearly 17 o'clock), Jingui stands in front of the bed and wakes up Shi Fuxin (Li Wuya) in a low voice.

  Shi Fuxin took the handkerchief from Jingui's hand, wiped her face, and asked, "What is my sister doing?"

  Jingui replied with a smile: "The third girl seems to have slept for a while, and she woke up a quarter of an hour earlier. Girl, I'm going to the old lady's for dinner soon. Let me help you comb your hair."

  Shi Fuxin nodded, walked to the dressing table and sat down, looking at the bronze mirror: "What hairstyle do you think I look good on?"

  Jingui tilted her head to look at Shi Fuxin, then said with a smile, "Girl's eyes are like water apricots, and her face is like a silver basin"

"etc."

  Shi Fuxin interrupted Jingui: "My face is like a silver basin, do you mean I have a big face?"

  Jingui smiled: "The girl's face is not big, but the lines of her face are round and soft, with almond eyes and pear dimples at the corners of her mouth, as long as she smiles, no one can resist your sweet smile."

The corners of Shi Fuxin's mouth immediately twitched: "Really?" As she spoke, she covered her face with her hands and smiled at herself in the bronze mirror, "I really like my face, it's very cute, yes wrong?"

  Jingui: "."

   When she met a master who praised herself, she didn't know how to respond.

Originally thought that the patriarch of the fourth master's family should be poor at the border. Facing the wealth and honor of the uncle's mansion, he should also be cautious and inferior, but seeing the girl in her family immersed in her own beauty and unable to extricate herself, she knew that she was wrong. up.

   How wrong!

  Jingui received special training in combing hair, communicated with Shi Fuxin, and soon combed her a single-snail bun.

  Shi Fuxin is only eleven years old now, and she is still young, so she doesn't need to wear too many bead ornaments, and only uses sky blue ribbons that are similar in color to the skirt on her body for decoration.

  There are white pearls hanging at the end of the ribbon, and when she shakes her head slightly, the ribbon dances immediately.

  Cute and pretty.

  Shi Fuxin shook her head and looked at herself in the bronze mirror, and sighed: "Anywhere is fine, but it's too dark."

  Jingui: "."

   Should she say that her girl is too confident, or should she say that she is too self-aware?

   "Girl, would you like some gouache and rouge?"

  Shi Fuxin looked at the dressing table.

  Her aunt still put her heart into it. On the dressing table, there was a whole box full of hair bands, velvet flowers, and pearl flowers. Rouge, gouache, and eyebrow pencils were all prepared.

   "Are the other girls in the mansion also equipped with these things?"

  Jingui nodded: "The mansion will buy rouge and gouache for the girls every season, and it will be distributed together with four sets of new dresses every season."

  Shi Fuxin: "What if I don't like these things, or are they not suitable for use?"

  Jing Gui: "... You have to pay for this one yourself."

  Shi Fuxin picked up a hibiscus flower in the box: "Do you make new jewelry every season?"

  Jing Gui shook his head: "As for jewelry, the mansion will make a set for every girl only during the Chinese New Year."

  Shi Fuxin showed surprise: "There is only one set? Is this too little? It can't be that you don't change accessories all year round." It's an uncle's house anyway.

  Jing Gui smiled: "Girls in the mansion will never lack accessories to wear. Although the mansion has few additions, the ladies will help."

   Speaking of this, thinking of Jin Yuee's situation, Jingui immediately stopped talking.

  All other wives have dowry, only the fourth lady doesn't seem to have one.

   "That. In fact, during the festivals, the old lady will also be rewarded. Also, if another family posts a post to invite girls from the mansion to go out as guests, the mansion will also buy other clothes according to the situation."

  Shi Fuxin nodded, she understood that the mansion will supply some girls' expenses, but if you want to use better ones, you have to buy them yourself.

  The girls have no income, and almost all rely on the help of their mothers.

  Shi Fuxin stared at the hairband in the makeup box, her velvet eyes flickering.

   These things are already very delicate for her who grew up in the border.

  However, exquisite is exquisite, but it is not very valuable.

  A box full of beads and flowers, only one or two pieces of gold and silver jewelry, as for gems, there is no one to see.

  This Bo’s mansion is not as rich and powerful as I imagined, is it because the Shi family is diligent and thrifty in managing the family, or the financial situation of the Bo’s mansion is not very good?

  Jingui saw that Fuxin didn't speak when she saw it, and quickly opened the gouache.

  As soon as the box was opened, a strong fragrance wafted out.

   "Do you want to try, girl?"

  For accessories, Shi Fuxin knows little, at most she can tell whether they are good-looking or not. As for the quality, she can't tell, but when it comes to things used on the body and skin, that's her forte.

   This box of water powder smells bad.

   "The other girls in the house also use this kind of gouache?"

  Jingui thought for a while before replying: "This gouache is purchased uniformly by the mansion, and it will be distributed to the girls in the mansion every quarter. As for whether the girls will use it or not, I don't know."

Shi Fuxin glanced at Jingui, from her reaction and words, it can be seen that other girls in the house did not use this kind of rouge, no, to be more precise, girls who are not short of money and have a mother to help them would not use it. .

   In this way, it will be interesting.

  Girls are unwilling to use rouge powder, what can it explain?

  It means that the quality is not good!

  The quality is not good, but why does Fuli continue to order?

  Shi Fuxin suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart, this Wuchangbo Mansion is definitely not as glamorous as it looks on the surface.

   "I don't use the gouache and rouge, you can deal with it."

  Jing Gui froze for a moment, feeling very surprised.

  Yes, the quality of the rouge gouache issued by Fuli cannot be compared with the top rouge gouache, but it is not far behind. The gouache shop that Fuzhong often visits is considered above average in the capital.

  In any case, the girls are the petites of the mansion, and the old lady and the eldest lady will not treat the girls poorly in terms of food and food.

  In the mansion, except for the girls from the concubine who are supported by their mothers, all the girls from the concubine basically use the rouge and gouache uniformly distributed by the mansion.

  Jingui looked at her girl's expression, as if disgusted.

   This reaction really surprised Jingui.

   It stands to reason that the girl grew up in the border, so this kind of rouge and gouache should be considered the best, shouldn't she be happy to accept it?

  Suppressing the puzzlement in her heart, Jingui smiled and said: "The girl has bright eyes and bright teeth, even if she doesn't wear makeup, she is still radiant."

  Shi Fuxin smiled: "You have a sweet little mouth." Then she stood up and went to the room.

  Jing Gui signaled Yuan Bao to come over and tidy up the dressing table, and she quickly followed.

"sister!"

  As soon as Shi Fuxin stepped into the door, she saw Shi Fuxin (Li Erya) who had already dressed up.

  Compared to Shi Fuxin who has a baby face, Shi Fuyin's facial features are more heroic.

   There are two sisters, she should be more like Shi Zhenghe (Li Changsen).

  Fuyin was fourteen this year, and her body had begun to develop. She was wearing a lily bun, and she was wearing a light green and yellow skirt, making her look graceful and charming.

   "Sister, you are so pretty!"

  Shi Fuxin circled around Shi Fuyin, nodded while watching: "As expected, she is indeed my sister, except for being a little dark, everything else is good."

  Shi Fuyin was teased by her, and she took Shi Fuxin's hand to make her stop: "You just calm down, let's go, let's go and see if parents have cleaned up?"

  Shi Fuxin nodded, and the sisters went to the Secondary Hospital hand in hand.

  Jingui and Shi Fuyin's two servant girls followed immediately.

  Compared to before, the attitude of the three of them is obviously much more positive.

  Wearing shirts and skirts is the most test of the girls' figure and demeanor. The two girls are straight, without chest and hunchback at all.

  Indeed, apart from their poor skin, the two girls have good looks and manners, and the most rare thing is their bearing, which is faintly better than many girls in the house.

  The two girls are not as bad as they imagined. They also have hope, and they are naturally active in doing things.

   "Sister, have you named your maids yet? One of mine is named Jingui, and the other is named Yuanbao. How about it? Does it sound nice and easy to remember?"

  Shi Fuyin nodded: "It's quite in line with your money-lovers temperament."

  Shi Fuxin: "What's your maid's name?"

  Shi Fuyin: "Fuman, Fuying."

  Shi Fuxin: "Sister, let's not talk about the second elder brother, you are about to fall into the nest of fortune."

  The two sisters laughed, who could have no hope in their hearts.

   Secondary hospital.

  Jin Yue'e was still dressing, Shi Fuxin wandered around the house, and found that the mansion had matched her mother with a mother named Zhang, and four seventeen or eighteen-year-old maids.

   "Mother Zhang originally lived in the old lady's yard."

   When Fuxin didn't need to ask, Jingui took the initiative to introduce Zhang's mother's background.

   "In addition to us entering the house to serve, there are also two gatekeepers in Yigui Courtyard, and two cleaning maids."

"According to the rules of the mansion, every wife should have two mothers, four big maids, four second-class maids and four young maids; girls should have one mother, two big maids, and four maids. The preparation of a second-class maid."

   "However, the eldest lady considered that if so many people were sent here at the beginning, she was worried that the girl's family would not get used to it, so she only sent us over, and said that the missing people would be filled in later."

  Shi Fuxin nodded: "Auntie is really thoughtful." As she spoke, she thought of something, and asked Jin Yuee, "Mother, where is the purse we sewed before?"

  Jin Yue'e was sitting in front of the dresser, and Zhang's mother was still inserting ornaments for her: "Ask your father, when the manager came to give the salute before, it was something he packed."

   Si Zhenghe (Li Changsen), who was not very emotional when he was sitting on the step, came back to his senses, got up and took out a baggage from the cabinet: "Here."

  Shi Fuxin took the bundle, walked to Shi Fuyin and sat down beside Shi Fuyin, and opened the bundle.

   There are two medicine pillows in the burden, and the others are purses of different sizes.

  The medicated pillowcase and purse were all stitched by Jin Yuee and Shi Fuyin on the way back to Beijing from Rongcheng.

  The medicinal herbs in the medicinal pillow and purse were prepared by Shi Fuxin.

   This is a gift they gave to Shi's family.

  The two sisters sorted out their purses and put them on a tray. They were going to give them to the Shi family when they went to Yixiangtang for dinner.

   At the same time, the elder of the Shi family returned to the Shi mansion with a bad complexion.

   Yixiang Hall.

   Seeing the eldest son come back before dinner, the old lady showed a gratified smile on her face.

  The first meal for the second son's family back home, the whole family should be neat and tidy.

  Seeing that the eldest son looked down, Mrs. Shi took the initiative to ask: "Governor Huaiyuan has gone to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War must be busy, right?"

  Shi Zhengmao shook his head: "Governor Huaiyuan went to the Ministry of War, but he left without even drinking a cup of tea, and he didn't even see his son."

  Shi's old lady showed surprise: "How could it be? Even if you are in a hurry to enter the palace to meet the saint, you should write to the Ministry of War and have a cup of tea before leaving."

  Shi Zhengmao explained: "Governor Huaiyuan was blocked by people from Dali Temple on the road, and he was delayed for a long time before reporting to the Ministry of War, and then hurried into the palace."

  Lady Shi was even more surprised, even the old man Shi also looked over: "People from Dali Temple are blocking Governor Huaiyuan?"

  Shi Zhengmao nodded, also with a look of surprise: "Yes, it was Dali Siqing who came out in person."

  Shi the old man frowned: "Is something wrong?"

  Shi Zhengmao: "I heard that it seems that the son of Governor Huaiyuan's family helped Dali Temple arrest three prisoners, so the minister of Dali Temple personally took them to thank him."

   As he spoke, he sneered.

   "I think thank you is fake, flattery is real."

  The old man glared at the eldest son: "Don't say useless sour words here, if you encounter such an opportunity, you will miss it?"

   These words made Shi Zhengmao feel a little embarrassed, so he remained silent with a sullen face.

  Shi the old lady smoothed things over: "Okay, don't think too much, I haven't seen Governor Huaiyuan this time, so I'll just find another chance next time. Anyway, now that he has returned to Beijing, I'm afraid there will be no chance?"

  Shi Zhengmao's complexion improved a bit: "Yes, mother."

  The old lady smiled and said: "Wait a while and talk to your fourth brother, I see that his temperament and temperament are very similar to yours."

  Shi Zhengmao immediately said: "It's my son's fault that I couldn't personally welcome fourth brother home. I will apologize to fourth brother later."

Mrs. Shi smiled and shook her head: "They are all my brothers, what are you saying to apologize, but in the future you should take better care of your fourth brother, he must have a lot of discomfort when he first came to the capital, you, the eldest brother, should help more .”

  Shi Zhengmao responded with a smile.

  The meal time is almost here, and everyone from the Shi family came to Yixiang Hall one after another.

  The adults sit in the main hall and talk, while the children chat in the side hall.

  The center of the discussion between the two parties is Shi Zhenghe (Li Changsen) and his family.

   "Have you heard that the new Sixth Sister named her maids Jingui and Yuanbao, hahaha, Jin Yuanbao, she must have fallen into the eyes of money, it's too vulgar."

   "The names chosen by the third sister are slightly better, Fuman and Fuying, although they are also vulgar, but they are more or less catchy."

   "I really hope that the four new brothers and sisters in our family will not make any big jokes, otherwise we will also lose face."

   "Whimsical, what big joke can they make?"

   While speaking, Shi Zhenghe arrived with his wife and four children.

  As soon as he entered the room, Shi Zhengmao greeted him, and he held Shi Zheng and talked for a long time.

   Before the food was served, after bowing to Shi Zhengmao, Shi Dingxuan saw that the adults and children were sitting separately, so he took his younger siblings to the side hall.

  During the period, only the uncle of the Shi family took the initiative to say a few words to them, and everyone else was a little bit ignorant.

Regarding this, the four of Shi Dingxuan remained unmoved, and calmly found a place to sit down. Then, Shi Dingxuan and Shi Fuyin talked in a low voice, while Shi Fuxin and Shi Dinghao were unrestrained move around.

   "Father doesn't seem to be in a good mood? Mother is also holding on."

   "I also found out that there is no way to do it. The gap between us and the uncle's house is too big, and my parents are not used to it."

   "Mother may just not get used to it, but father's place was originally his home, but now he is out of tune with this place, how uncomfortable father must be."

   "Fortunately, the Li family didn't come, otherwise, I would feel bad too."

"Why"

  Shi Dingxuan and Shi Fuyin whispered about Shi Zhenghe and Jin Yuee, while Shi Fuxin and Shi Dinghao looked here and there.

   "Hey, don't touch it. It's a glass crystal ball from a foreign country. It's very expensive. This is the only one at home."

  A little fat man who looked about the same age as Shi Fuxin and Shi Dinghao suddenly stood up and loudly stopped Shi Dinghao.

  Shi Dinghao (Li Qilang) didn't want to touch it at first, but when he heard this and saw other people looking at him with condemning eyes, he felt angry: "I did it."

  Seeing that Shi Dinghao held the glass crystal ball the size of a grapefruit in his hand, the little fat man's eyes widened immediately, and he said eagerly, "Put it down quickly."

  Shi Dinghao: "I won't let it go." Then, he threw the crystal ball, raised his index finger, and let the crystal ball spin on his fingertips.

"you"

  The little fat man was angry and anxious, afraid that Shi Dinghao would break the crystal ball.

   There was no screen between the main hall and the side hall. As soon as the little fat man opened his mouth, the adults noticed what was going on here.

  Seeing Shi Dinghao turning the crystal ball triumphantly, and switching his hands back and forth, some people were angry and some were surprised.

   It was the little fat man's mother, the seventh lady of the Shi family, who was angry.

   Surprisingly, Mr. Shi and Mr. Shi both knew kung fu, and it was immediately obvious that Shi Dinghao's control of strength was precise.

  When Mrs. Seven was about to speak out, Shi Dingxuan stood up first, walked to his younger brother in a few steps, stretched out his hand, and quickly and firmly grasped the crystal ball.

After placing the crystal ball, I saw Shi Fuxin holding a round fan in her hand, and the round fan was turning back and forth in her hand very smoothly. Shi Dingxuan stretched out his hand, holding the handle of the fan, and took the fan out of his sister's hand Take it away.

   "Find a seat and sit down, don't shake around."

  Shi Fuxin and Shi Dinghao curled their lips and said nothing, walked to Shi Fuyin's lower seat and sat down.

  While watching this scene, the old man's eyes flickered, and he was a little surprised to find that Goro and Jiulang seemed to have some real kung fu.

  (end of this chapter)