Practical Life in the Red Mansion

Lin Yang had seen his girlfriend's ears pierced in his previous life, and the good earlobes turned into Maitreya Buddha's earlobes. Naturally, he was very worried about Daiyu, but Daiyu automatically ignored Lin Yang's worries, and happily discussed with Jia Min about what to wear. As for the earrings, Jia Min specially asked someone to make several pairs of delicate and light stud earrings for her. There are plum blossom-shaped earrings, lilac-shaped earrings, butterfly-shaped ruby ​​inlaid earrings, and pearl-inlaid earrings inlaid. Daiyu couldn't put it down.

Jia Min chose a warm spring day to make holes in Daiyu's fair earlobe.Lin Yang lay by Jia Min's side and saw mung beans, silver needles, tea stalks and other things in the box brought by Xu Hua's family. Lin Yang couldn't help shivering when he saw the silver needle, and Jia Min glared at him. , let Daiyu sit on the chair.

Daiyu held Lin Yang's hand, did well obediently, and closed her eyes.Lin Yang saw that Xu Hua's family took two mung beans and rubbed them back and forth on both sides of Daiyu's earlobe. When Daiyu's earlobe turned red and numb, Xu Hua's family took the silver needle that had been roasted on the fire and slammed it through. Yang didn't dare to look, but felt Daiyu's hand holding him hard, and heard Daiyu's muffled groan.Xu Hua's family said softly: "Girl, it should be on the other side."

Only then did Lin Yang open his eyes and see that there was a tea stalk inserted into Daiyu's ear hole. The tea stalk has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and also prevents the ear hole from growing. He couldn't help hissing, feeling pain all over his body.While Lin Yang was in a daze, the other side was also ready.

Only then did Daiyu dare to open her eyes, which were as red as rabbits. Jia Min hugged her daughter distressedly, and asked Chunyi to open the palm-sized box, revealing the newly made earrings inside, and said, "Here, these are yours. Yes, I can put it on in a few days." She also instructed Daiyu not to touch it with her hands.

Jia Min was worried and then instructed Daiyu's nurse Wang Momo, with a harsh tone: "The girl is still young, you have to watch carefully, don't let the girl's earholes get wet, and watch her not to touch her with your hands." Touch, pay attention to the diet of some girls, don't get hair on them." The wet nurse bowed her head and said yes.

Jia Min touched Daiyu, who was a little unhappy: "Does it still hurt?" Daiyu shook her head and leaned against Jia Min's arms. Jia Min adjusted her posture so as not to touch Daiyu's ear, and said, "It won't hurt after a while, wait a minute." Hello, I will lead you to make earrings, you can choose any style you want." Then he said to Lin Yang: "Okay, I asked you to comfort my sister, but you were really scared, go quickly Go read."

Lin Yang said yes, and teased Daiyu a few more words. Seeing that she was in a better mood, he left. He will participate in Qiuwei next year. He hopes that he can go to high school in one fell swoop.

Yang Xi is capable. He compiled a booklet similar to the 30-year rural examination papers and 50-year rural examination simulations. It also includes articles that have been selected over the years. The examiners of each session have liked it.Lin Yang got up early to do a set of punches to exercise his body. After hanging his wrists to practice calligraphy, he pondered over the country test questions. He was doing the last one. Yang Xi corrected it for him. , Lin Yang reviewed the two articles he had done before going to bed.In Lin Yang's words, it's the tactics of the sea of ​​questions in the college entrance examination.

Knowing that his son studied hard, Jia Min asked Wu Hong's family to take good care of Lin Yang's basic necessities of life. He also thought that Lin Yang didn't have a big girl around him, only Xin Yi and Mu Lian, who were recently brought up, should choose a few honest girls for his son. girl.Daiyu's side is also a young girl who has just grown her hair, and there is not even a big girl who can take care of things. Daiyu is also growing up, and many things have been added to the room one after another, and the wet nurse can't take care of them all.

Jia Min thought about the girls around her, so she gave Daiyu one of her second-class maids named Yao Huang. Yao Huang is the niece of Xu Hua's natal family. Thinking that she was promoted to be a first-class maid, she selected an eloquent maid from among the maids around Daiyu to be promoted as the first-class maid, and changed her name to Wei Zi.

Jia Min's ears were pierced by Daiyu today, which aroused Daiyu's future education. Thinking that Daiyu is already four years old, she should start learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, needlework, but the name of a scholarly family is face, Let Daiyu learn calligraphy slowly first, but it's time to take care of all the corresponding things.To raise one's spirit, Daiyu should also have a serious nanny beside her to teach Daiyu how to behave. People like them have been practicing etiquette since elementary school. When they invite a nanny, it's not just to teach them, but to teach them by example. Correct the inadequacy, so that these can be engraved in the bone, so that it can be elegant and natural.She thought again that it was time to save a dowry for Daiyu. She had saved some good wood earlier, and it was time to ask craftsmen to make an exquisite Babu bed for Daiyu.

Jia Min thought about these scattered things carefully, and he also had a charter in his heart. He couldn't help but sigh secretly, raising a daughter is not easy. When Lin Yang was young, Jia Min only needed to take care of Lin Yang's daily life, and He moved to the outer courtyard early, and Lin Hai was mostly worried about it, but Daiyu, a girl, could only be taught by her mother's precepts and deeds. make small.

When Daiyu went to Jia Min's room for dinner at night, she found out that she had two maidservants by her side, one was Yao Huang, and the other was a familiar girl named Wei Zi.Jia Min told her that after the Dragon Boat Festival, she was buying a few maids, and that she had a monthly payment from this month, and she had also set up ledgers and registers in the house.Jia Min roughed things up in Daiyu's room, but still felt that there were too few maids in Daiyu's room, so he had to make do with it first.

Daiyu's small west courtyard is connected to Jia Min's courtyard. There are three large upper rooms and east and west rooms in the courtyard. Mother Wang lives in the east room, while Yao Huang and Wei Zi live in the west room.Regarding Yao Huang being transferred to Daiyu's place, Jia Min's yard said everything, some were jealous of her, some satirized her for not being reused, and laughed at her for being courteous to his wife for nothing in the past.She didn't pay any attention to it, and after hearing the letter, she immediately packed up her things and moved them to the small west courtyard where Daiyu lived.

Yao Huang is not stupid, so he naturally understands Jia Min's intentions. Jia Min chose an honest and careful nun as Daiyu's wet nurse.Jia Min let her go to take care of the affairs of Daiyu's house. She is seven or eight years older than the girl. When the girl gets married, she can just be a daughter-in-law and accompany the girl to marry. In the future, she can also be like an aunt and be a mother in charge .

Jia Min sent the Dragon Boat Festival gift to Beijing, and guessing that Jia Zhu's posthumous child was about to be born, she also prepared a three-baptism gift and a full-moon ceremony to send to Beijing together.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Jia Min arranged for his servants to hang calamus and wormwood early. The family of four took a bath with the medicinal soup made from five poisonous herbs, changed into new clothes, and each of them carried a sachet embroidered by Jia Min himself.In the past, Jia Min would make clothes for Lin Yang every festival. In recent years, as soon as Daiyu was born, there were many things to do at home. Jia Min often made small things for Lin Yang, such as the sachet for the Dragon Boat Festival, which was only the size of a longan and contained Cinnabar, realgar, and fragrant medicine are wrapped with silk cloth, which is full of fragrance, and then tied into ropes with red, yellow, white, blue, and black silk threads to make various shapes and form a string. I like it very much. After the festival, I received them all in the box.

Daiyu was also getting old, so she justly refused Jia Min to wear a tiger shirt, a tiger hood and a tiger hat on her body. She was only willing to wear a pair of shoes with the five poisons embroidered on the soles. Holding the hundred-year-old thread and wrinkling her face again, Lin Yang dipped in realgar and cinnabar to write a king character on her forehead.

All the servants in the Lin family had to bring flowers that day. Jia Min wore a hollyhock and inserted a damselfly hairpin, and asked the maids to put pomegranates, hollyhocks, calamus and wormwood in the Ru kiln spherical vases.

The family of four packed up and went out to watch the dragon boat race. It was also because Daiyu was young that Jia Min was willing to let her out.After the dragon boat race, Jia Min politely declined other people's invitations and returned home early. His servants had already prepared the Twelve Reds, including realgar wine, yellow croaker, salted duck eggs, ham, deep-fried shrimp, roast duck, amaranth, and roses. Sand (sugar), rose flower, pomegranate flower, cherry, loquat.Zongzi is also indispensable. Jia Min is from the capital, while Lin Hai is from Gusu. The Lin family has all kinds of zongzi, including fresh meat, cloud legs, red beans, candied dates, and salted eggs.And drink realgar wine, even a child like Daiyu has to take a sip to keep up with the solar terms.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Jia Min was busy picking girls for Lin Yang and Daiyu again.

The little girls who came to Jia Min were all selected by Xu Hua's house. There were twenty of them in total.Jia Min said to Ren Yazi: "Our master is an official, he may be transferred away at any time, and he will not let him go easily. If there are any who don't want to sign a death contract, you can take them back."

Ren Yazi was a woman in her 40s, dressed neatly, and replied respectfully: "Madam, don't worry, we've been doing this for a long time, so we know about it. I've already explained it to the family members of these girls."

Jia Min nodded, and asked the little girls to answer their surname, name, age, who is in the family, and what they know in turn.Some are smart, some are shy, but overall they are not bad.

Jia Min picked two steady ones, and sent the two clever ones to Lin Yang.Picked six little girls for Daiyu.There are two first-class maids from Daiyu, and four second-class maids, named Kongshan, Late Autumn, Yuezhao, and Zhuxuan.The six new girls have no rank for the time being, and they have to wait for them to learn the rules before they can enter Daiyu's yard.Daiyu followed Lin Yang and named the maids from medicinal materials. The six new maids were named Su Mu, Su Ye, Su Zhi, Ginkgo, Bai Kou, and Bai Wei.

After completing the girl, Daiyu's courtyard is considered to be responsible for her own duties. Wang Momo is in charge of Daiyu's food, Yao Huang is Daiyu's financial manager, including the table gifts Daiyu received, monthly records, jewelry, decorations, antiques, etc. And other things, Wei Zi is in charge of Daiyu's clothes, makeup, accessories, spices, medicinal materials, etc., and everything is registered in the register.Kong Shan finished his embroidery with skillful hands, combed Daiyu's hair, and did the needlework in Daiyu's room.Literate in late autumn, she was in charge of Daiyu's study, and in the future she would follow Daiyu to serve her in reading and writing.Yuezhao is in charge of cleaning Daiyu's yard, and Zhuxuan is in charge of delivering messages.

Jia Min finished handling the affairs in Daiyu's yard, and was about to write a letter asking her to hand over her handkerchief to Daiyu to invite some female gentlemen and nuns. Before Jia Min started writing, Lin Hai came back in a hurry. Lin Hai was rarely seen during the day. Back in the inner courtyard, Jia Min was startled, stood up and hurriedly asked, "Master, what happened?"

Seeing his wife's worried expression, Lin Hai said, "I scared you. There is a letter from you."

Jia Min was a little puzzled, his letter shouldn't be delivered directly to his room, why it was in Lin Hai's hands, Lin Hai handed it over: "It was included in the letter to Ziqi."

Jia Min opened the letter, handed it to Lin Hai after reading it, and sighed, "What a poor child. I remember him being three years younger than Brother Yang."

Lin Hai also read the letter: "Treat him as your own nephew in the future."

"Don't worry about it." Jia Min folded the letter paper, "After all, it is the only blood left by Sister Hui."