By Jia Xiuzhen

When Li Wan and the others arrived, Mother Jia was wiping dominoes with Nanny Lai. Yingchun and the others invited An Xian to go back to their rooms.Mother Jia took the cards Yuanyang handed over, played them out, and asked, "Lang Geer's medicine bath is ready? It's been a long time."

Li Wan replied: "Yes, it's all over by now. It's been nine months, three colored medicine packs, soaked every ten days, nine packs per ingredient, so it will take three months to soak one ingredient."

Jia Mu nodded and said, "It just so happens that the imperial physician will come over tomorrow, and Baoyu has been soaked a few times, so I always listen to the pulse."

Li Wan said: "That's just right. Although I didn't see anything other than a bigger appetite, I still have a heart, let the imperial doctor see that I have a bottom line."

Jia Mu said: "When I came back to see it a few days ago, I said that Brother Lang is strong. I think it's okay, so you don't have to worry about it." He played another card and asked, "I'll give you all the medicine bags for your medicine. wife?"

Li Wan said: "Except for the first two sachets, the rest have been sent over."

Jia Mu nodded and said: "After all, it's old stuff. You can't tell it's ugly after looking at it now. It's not that I favor the past over the present. It's just that these things are old after all."

Nanny Lai accepted Yuanyang's wink, played a card, and said with a smile: "The old lady is talking, we don't know anything else. A few days ago, my eldest daughter sent me a few bolts of cloth to make winter clothes. Taoism is rare nowadays. When I saw it, hey! It’s not as good as what the old lady rewarded me back then. She said it was rare, but she didn’t know if she was lying to me.”

Jia Mu pointed at her with a smile, and said to everyone: "Listen, listen, what a big tone! Poor your daughter is wronged for nothing. They are young, how much knowledge do they have, and they get good things to honor you , You are still picky, it shows that you are also used to it."

Nanny Lai smiled and said, "I'm used to it, but I'm not used to it from the younger generation. I followed the old lady for so many years and saw too many good things, so my vision is a little higher." Everyone laughed and scolded.Li Wan saw that there was no use for him in Jia Mu's place, so he got up to plead guilty, and went out to see Daiyu and the others.

Walking down the corridor, people's voices could be heard from a distance, only a little girl's crisp and tender voice: "These mothers are too different, others want them to buy things, that's something else. We have nothing to ask They, they are complaining! All of them have fallen into the eyes of money!"

Then someone stopped her and said: "Stop talking nonsense! How did the master explain it before you came? Now we are guests, so you should save me some trouble. How they are their business, you just ignore it, sir Say a few words, don’t you know that misfortune comes from your mouth?!” The little girl still felt annoyed when she heard this, but she didn’t dare to raise her voice any more, she only muttered a few words angrily and then stopped making a sound.

Li Wan knew that it was Xueyan who was so far away from Nanny Wang that she was the only one who could hear them, so she didn't know.When she got closer, Wang Momo saw that Li Wan was coming, so she rushed up to greet her, and closed the curtain to let her into the house.

Li Wan entered the room, Xueyan was about to report, Li Wan waved his hand to stop her, and signaled Suyun Biyue to stay outside, and went in to see Daiyu by himself.I saw a small figure sitting blankly at the table, with reddish eye circles.

Standing aside, Zijuan saw Li Wan hurriedly saluting, stepped forward to support her, and said, "It just so happens that the eldest grandma is here, please advise our girl, I don't know what you heard, she just sat here and wiped her eyes. Say anything, just say nothing."

Li Wan patted her hand and said, "Good girl, make me tea." Seeing Li Wan's eyes, Zijuan went out to make tea.When Daiyu saw Li Wan coming in, she got up hurriedly, but she felt embarrassed at first.

Li Wan took her hand with a smile, only to feel it was cold, and sighed: "When you touch your hand, it's cold to ice lumps. It's winter, and you are weak again. You don't care about your body, you fall Get angry with people who don't matter."

When Daiyu heard this, her eye circles turned red again, and she bowed her head in silence.Li Wan thought of what Xueyan and the others had heard from afar just now, and said, "I don't ask why you were angry, these words are not something that can be said to a child like you. It's just that I always feel that You are a wise person, if you blindly coax you, I'm afraid it will make you paranoid.

Although our mansion is big, it is just such a courtyard, with thousands of people crowded in it.There is a saying that the common people have a hundred hearts, let alone this thousand people.There are always those who do not make progress, or who are greedy for small profits, or who hold high and step down. They are all habitual, and you can't fight them all, and you can't control them firmly.

I'm not afraid of people imitating their mouths. In the first two years, Lan'er and I valued filial piety, were cautious in words and deeds, kept etiquette, and were also afraid of being tabooed, so naturally we seldom interacted with others.Guess what?For this reason, the mothers-in-law and mothers who waited on me openly disliked the lack of oil and water in my yard, and they didn't have to say anything harsh or harsh behind their backs.

Last year, in addition to serving, I took the life of the old lady and took care of you girls, and occasionally got something to honor the old lady. There were too many things, and they also got some oil and water. Immediately, I became a Bodhisattva grandma again up.Look at these people, they just want to benefit from me.And why bother to be annoyed by their rude words that didn't benefit you, and don't feel comfortable being grateful for them benefiting from you.What does it have to do with you if they only have profit in their eyes? "

Li Wan said a long list, Daiyu was young after all, and no one had explained these things to her so directly, so she began to think about it.Li Wan didn't talk much anymore, and waited for Zijuan to bring the tea, and started to drink it slowly.After that long paragraph, it really needs to be moistened.After serving the tea, Zijuan went out to talk to Suyun Biyue and the others, only hoping that the grandma would persuade her to return to her daughter.

After a long time, Daiyu said softly, "I'm a stranger, and I came here to seek refuge. I don't do them any good. They should dislike me." She shed tears again as she spoke.

Li Wan sighed: "I have persuaded you astray. You say they dislike you, but it's not that they dislike you as a guest, but that the benefits are not enough. If you want them to be grateful, you should give them a lot of rewards. Naturally, you should say something nice." Yes. Would you? If you would, it would be easy."

Daiyu shook her head and said, "What do I want to buy people with good words? They can say whatever they like!"

Li Wan laughed and said, "Then why are you shedding so many tears?"

Daiyu blushed slightly, and said softly: "It's always because I'm a guest, if I'm at my home..." At this point, she bit her lip slightly, looked at Li Wan, and swallowed the following words.

Li Wan hugged her gently, and said slowly: "I said you are an idiot. If I said that you just treat this place as your own home, it would be perfunctory for you." After a moment of pondering, he said: "You will know when you grow up. , this person, it’s the same everywhere. Look at your second sister, third sister, and fourth sister. They are all in your own home, so how can you do whatever you want? Even if you are in your own home, your father is busy Official business, but who can guarantee that there will be no slaves to bully the young master?"

Daiyu thought about it for a while, and felt that it made some sense.Li Wan smiled and said, "I'll teach you to be a good boy. The greatest skill of a human being is the ability to live a happy life. If you only think about sad things in everything, then everyone will cry all day long. How can you live like this?" ?” Daiyu seemed to realize something after hearing this.

Li Wan knew that Daiyu was suspicious and self-inflicted by nature, but this could not be persuaded in a day and a half, and in this mansion, talking too much was not a good thing.So she stopped entangled in this matter, and talked about the way of eating and conditioning in early winter, which slowly distracted her mind.When the dinner was set up, Daiyu was already talking and laughing as usual, her eye circles were slightly red, but if she didn't look carefully, she couldn't see anything.

In a few days, I heard that Jiamu ordered people to send some money to Daiyu's room every month, and gave her as a reward for the servants.Daiyu's proportion is already comparable to that of Baoyu, but now this is the only extra one, but it all comes from Jiamu's room, and has nothing to do with the officials. I can only say that Jiamu favors her granddaughter, but nothing else.Baoyu also had a fit of some wives, who suddenly entered his room to frighten him, and Jiamu and Mrs. Wang sent them out at the discretion.Every day is trivial, piles of piles, and the weather is getting colder every day.

This day, Li Wan asked Suyun and the others to pack up all the Ruyi skins that I mentioned earlier, and for a moment he couldn't decide whether to give them to the fur or send them away after they were finished.Nanny Chang looked at it and said: "Grandma's leather is not common. If you give it a whole piece, what will you do if the rest is not in order? Anyway, we have enough manpower here, but it's just a few girls who have a big dress for each of them. Why don't we make it?" Get one and send it away."

Li Wan also felt reasonable when she heard it, and Madam Yan said from the side: "That's the reason, even though it's grandma's own thing, after all, the whole family lives there. If it's leather, all the girls will get it, but Second Master Bao doesn't have it. It's a mouthful. It's made into clothes, because grandma cares about them, and it's the heart of sister-in-law. I don't complain about my sister-in-law for not caring about my uncle's clothes, so I feel relieved."

Li Wan listened and nodded and said: "If you want to talk about things, I'm not short of one or two. It's just that the old lady at Baoyu's place can't think of anything, and I don't need to add flowers to the cake."

After Biyue heard this, she stopped what she was doing, touched the leather of Ruyi, and said: "Grandma is really, she is too generous, this is such a good thing, don't keep it for Lange, old man Thinking about this and that."

Li Wan laughed out loud when he heard this, and said to Jia Lan: "Listen, there are some people who are wronged for you. How can you put it this way, do you feel sorry for what your mother gave you?"

Jia Lan was nestling on the kang, flipping through a book, when she heard this, she waved her hands and smiled, "I'm a man, mother said, the most important thing is to make the iron hard, and your body's bones are well-repaired, and the ability to withstand the cold is the ability. What about leather? I have enough clothes. Wouldn’t it be better to make clothes for my fourth aunt? When I grow up, I will find mink fur and lynx cat to make clothes for my mother. Biyue, don’t feel bad about this idea. something!"

Biyue became more dissatisfied when she heard that, she pulled the skin and let Jia Lan take a closer look: "Brother Lang, look, this is not comparable to mink or lynx, it is not common outside!"

Jia Lan looked at it, stood up from the kang, tapped Biyue's forehead, and said, "Tell me about you, whether it is common or not, can you keep it and grow a little skin? It's not for Others, my aunt is one of my own, why are you so stingy? Yes, you must like this leather yourself, so let your mother do it for you too."

Bi Yue anxiously said: "What kind of famous people are we? How can we wear such things! Brother Lang is going to school, and he will be more and more able to reason!" Jia Lan continued to bury her head in her book and ignored her.

Li Wan said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I think Biyue really feels sorry for me. She's such an idiot, your grandma and I are idiots who want to feast on guests when we don't have enough to eat! Just relax , can’t freeze the people in our house.”

Suyun tugged at Biyue, and said: "No wonder she, I'm in the palm of grandma's things, she doesn't know what to do, seeing grandma keep moving outside, she's not worried."

Seeing that everyone was looking at her happy, Biyue couldn't figure it out for a while, she just remembered that Miaoer said that the second grandma and his wife were both anxious to make money, and she was anxious for her own grandma.But seeing that everyone didn't seem to be thinking about it, they couldn't figure it out for a while, so they kept mumbling to themselves.

Let's say that Li Wan and the others made an agreement, and they also found silver, red, magenta, blush and jade-colored makeup and dark damasks to cut and sew according to each person's size.Several colors are prepared for Sanchun. Daiyu is still in the filial piety.Li Wan chose dark jade-colored satin, embroidered green bamboo covered with snow, and made a crane cloak with her.On the third spring equinox, silver, red, magenta and red makeup satin are embroidered with magnolia, peony and begonia, which are also made of cloaks.After more than half a month, Suyun and others sent them off on a certain day. They were very happy to receive the clothes, and they all went to Li Wan's place to thank them.