Chapter 54, the sad story of the big girl
When Lin Xiaochu went out, Chunhong felt uneasy. On the pretext of getting something, Chunhong went out to the old lady's room. Zhang's mother and Chunhong's family, who served the old lady, were both good, and Chunhong came to her again.
"It's true. The old lady said yesterday that she would take a house for the prince after the Spring Festival. It's okay to be a girl." Mother Zhang listened sincerely: "The master is not at home, and the second master has to take the responsibility of teaching. He said that when he went out the day before yesterday, he saw the prince and people go to eat flower wine. Where is that? Come back and tell the old lady. The old lady called the prince over and bitterly persuaded him not to go. Finally, the prince agreed to find someone.
Chunhong's heart jumped a few times and asked, "Did you say who it is?" Mother Zhang was strange: "If you find a family, who can cross your head?" Then he said, "Are you worried about the new girl? The old lady doesn't seem to like her, just let the old lady like her again.
Chunhong, who went back, thought about the girls in the room. The little girls don't count them, but the young boy won't like them. These are the big girls, Xia Lv and Dong Ran have marriages. Qiu Bai is not a sour person. Chun Hong plans to have her share in this room in the future. Counting it, several second-class girls are not charming people. Only Lin Xiaochu grows up when she gets married.
"Where's my sister going?" Someone in front of her asked kindly. Chunhong looked up and saw Yujie, the girl who followed the eldest girl. Yujie smiled and said, "I'm looking for our girl. Where can I see it?"
Chunhong hurriedly told her, "Talking with me in the old lady's room," and asked Yujie not to leave first. No one asked Yujie: "I heard it in a trance. Are you marrying the eldest girl?" Yujie sighed: "It's been a few days, but the person chosen by the second master is to fill the house. My uncle is not old, four years older than the eldest girl, but our family is not an ordinary family. The second master is not in the middle, and the master's face is outside. The eldest girl cried all night, went to accompany the old lady during the day, and pretended to smile. What can we do now? The second lady was also persuaded by the second master, saying that he would have official luck in the future.
Chunhong was shocked: "In this way, does our eldest girl really want to fill the house for people? How can this make it?" Yujie could only sing behind her back: "No, my arms can't twist my thighs. I advise our girl to say no to the old lady. The girl is just shy and refuses to say anything. She cries pitifully behind her back, and it hurts even if I look at her."
Yu Jie's face complained angrly about the second master, and Chunhong teased her: "If the girl gets married early, you can also get married early. It's not better not to sneak around in the garden." Yujie blushed when she was said. She was the person Xiaochu and Chunhen saw when they went to the tea room to meet people under the bamboo shelf. It was this mistake that was held in Chunhong's parents as a housekeeper. Yujie never said anything to Chunhong.
After saying these words, Chunhong went back to her room, and Yujie went to find the eldest girl Xiangzhi. When she came to Mrs. Chu's room, Yujie looked down and saw Xiangzhi, who was talking with her grandmother. She slowly said, "The sky is short. Does your grandmother still erase the cards?" Mrs. Chu smiled and said, "I'm wiping the cards. Go back. The one who comes to talk to her grandmother every day is the most clever girl in Hunan."
Xiangzhi said goodbye, and Yujie walked all the way behind her and told her, "Then someone from the Zheng family came again. This time, she said it was the eldest sister-in-law, and the second lady, please go and meet her." Xiangzhi blushed and stopped, and tears rolled around in her eyes. She angrily brushed her sleeves and said, "I'm not going."
Long sleeves hit the dwarf trees around him, and a lot of snow flew around his clothes and neck. The cold in her neck was not as cold as Xiang Zhi's heart, and she couldn't help sobbing.
Yujie whispered to her: "The girl saw carefully that you can't go when the guests come. The second lady is to blame, and the second master is also to blame. Seeing that Xiangzhi was just crying, Yujie said, "I'm really reluctant. Why don't you go in and say to the old lady, please be the master." Xiangzhi choked and said, "My parents are in charge, what should I say?" Besides, my grandmother also knew it today. I don't know what my father said, so my grandmother nodded. Yujie was also in trouble. She helped Xiangzhi to go to the pavilion first and then avoided it for a while. She thought about it and said, "Who else can I beg for?"
A man came on the road ahead. Yujie quickly said, "Girl, don't cry. Someone is coming." The man in green and red dress is Lin Xiaochu. She had just seen Zhu Niang from the outside, holding a jade burden in her hand, and looked at people a little dodged. Yujie made Xiang Zhi happy and pretended to be naughty, "What does she want to do?"
Xiaochu was carrying a burden and thinking about whether anyone would let him open the second door, and no one asked him if he went in and out. Once with something in and out, the mothers came to take a look and said that things outside were not allowed. How can I bring in these dozens of boxes of rouge gouache in my hand? You shouldn't be greedy and bring in a lot at once.
Seeing that there was a pavilion in his eyes, Xiaochu sat on the pavilion and said to himself, "How can I bring this in?" In front of him, he remembered Chu Huaixian and said to himself, "I don't know when the prince will come back?"
Someone behind the pavilion laughed: "What are you thinking?" Yujie and Xiangzhi came out with a smile. Lin Xiaochu did not blush, but just protected the burden in his hand with a guilty heart. Xiangzhi wanted to laugh more: "What should not be brought?" Xiaochu suddenly remembered, opened the bag to show them, and then took out a box and sent it to Xiangzhi to please her: "This box is for the girl. You use it well and take more care of my relatives' business."
Xiangzhi was made to laugh. It turned out that she was worried that it would not be easy to take care of. After taking over the rouge box and opening it, it was just an ordinary top-class rouge. Xiang Zhibai, who was teased away, took people's things and praised: "That's good." Xiaochu looked at Xiangzhi's face worriedly: "Girl, tell me the truth, is it good or not?"
This worried expression made Xiang Zhi laugh again: "This is superior rouge. It's good, but it just depends on the price?" Xiaochu quoted the price, and Yujie also stretched out her head and said, "This is sold at the price of medium rouge. Are you afraid of losing money when it's so cheap?" There were dozens of boxes in the bag. Yujie said, "Is this stolen?"
Xiaochu smiled and said, "It's right, but earn less. I brought some to ask my sisters to help me see if it was okay. The eldest girl said it was okay, so I was relieved. Then he was attentive to Yujie: "Sister, can I have a box?"
The master and servant clapped their hands and laughed together: "You, let's start your business." Xiaochu was embarrassed and made up a sentence: "This snowy house is overwhelming. Her business can't be done normally. I'm a helper, so I sell it cheaply. Seeing that I took these, I still don't know how to get in?
"No wonder you just thought of the prince. Will he give you a good beating when he sees it?" Yujie teased, and Xiangzhi's heart moved. When I was a child, I felt that my eldest brother was kind and had to avoid talking very little when I was old. Now my grandmother has also been moved by her parents, and she is unwilling to think about it. The eldest brother is a separate room, but it is a brother and sister. Can I beg him?
Xiangzhi's master and servant and Xiaochu went in together, and there was no one to investigate. After coming in, Yujie smiled and said, "Your box of rouge works." The three of them talked and laughed and asked the mother who guarded the gate of the courtyard. Chu Huaixian happened to be in the room. Although Xiangzhi was shy, she came in for herself for the rest of her life. When he went to the room, Xiang Zhi asked softly outside the room, "Is the eldest brother in the room?"
The eldest girl looked for her eldest son. The last time she was young a few years ago. Chunhong Xialu came out to pick up together, and Chu Huaixian, who was writing in the side, also stepped out: "Big sister, please sit down."
Xiangzhi sat down, her face was also red and her head was low, and sometimes she looked up and felt red, and sometimes it hindered the girls. She was restless. Chu Huaixian asked the girls to go out. The big and small girls were curious to guess outside. What's the matter with the big girl looking for the eldest son? Only Chunhong knew that Xiangzhi wanted to get married. Chunhong listened to the room on the wall.
"...that's it, I, I'm reluctant, I..." asked Xiang Zhiming to say that she wanted to find a teenager, but she couldn't say it. Xiangzhi, who stuttered, was at a loss, but "I" kept. Chu Huaixian stopped her: "I know." Xiangzhi looked pitifully at her eldest brother, with tears in her eyes.
Chu Huaixian's calm face, his second uncle took care of himself, and his daughter only wanted to get rich. Chu Huaixian has to take care of this matter, and the juniors and elders who have not married will argue? Chu Huaixian was distracted about how to get rid of the marriage, and someone outside said, "Is the big girl there? Second lady, please go back to your room.
Xiang Zhi hurriedly wiped away her tears and bowed deeply to Chu Huaixian. She stopped saying a word and went back with the person who came to look for her. The girls came in again and looked at Chu Huaixian's face. Lin Xiaochu walked in again, stood for a while to get a girl out, and then came back and both of them laughed. After a while, another girl went out, and Lin Xiaochu started to do business at home.
The lotus sat under the candlelight and also got a box of new rouge. She was overjoyed and said to Xiaochu, "Don't be too flamboyant. Everyone in this yard knows to find you to buy rouge all night."
Lin Xiaochu was counting the money and said happily, "Small profits and quick sales. If you don't sell quickly, you can't make money." In the tinkling sound of copper coins, Lin Xiaochu pulled the lotus to help count the population: "How many people are there in the inner house and how many yards?" Lin Xiaoyi sat on the couch and wrote and laughed. Chunhen sat next to her and also wrote, interrupting from time to time, "And Yulan, you don't know." There is a red fire in this room.
He is angry in the second master's room. He said to Chunhong in front of him, "It's good for you to tell me, but what did the big girl think of saying it to the prince?"
"The big girl came with the new girl, who is very dexterous and has many ideas. It is said that her relatives sell rouge and help many girl to bring rouge.
The second master was furious: "That's not good! The girls can only wait wholeheartedly, and don't send things in randomly. Alas, this Huaixian, no matter what kind of person comes into the house.