441, fragile life
That night, Xiaoxiao had a bizarre and funny dream.
——First, the sisters at home became cold to themselves. After going to school, several friends ignored them. After going to Wen’s shop after school, Xizi also looked light.
Xiaoxiao in the dream felt aggrieved and didn't know who to tell him.
Just at this moment, Wen Xixiu lifted the curtain and walked in, wearing the snow-white silk robe he wore the most often worn, and the blue-white cloud hairpin was still on his head. The most common expression of smiles was hanging on his face, plain and clear, and a faint intimacy.
Xiaoxiao's heart suddenly became warm and she walked up to him and said, "Why did you come back?"
Wen Xixiu just laughed, not making a sound.
Xiaoxiao walked up to complain to him: "They ignored me."
He stepped forward and pulled himself up, lifted the curtain and walked towards the yard outside. He saw that the yard was full of trees full of snow-white flowers. He couldn't tell which tree it was for a moment. He just felt it was extremely beautiful.
"Luckily, you are still there," Xiaoxiao held his hands with him, walking between the branches of the trees, and felt both happy and nervous.
Both of them walked quickly, and the scenery flying on both sides was like a flash of moment.
There was a hint of regret in joy, Xiaoxiao said again: "They ignored me."
He asked, "Why?"
Xiaoxiao thought he was open-minded and could not figure out why, that was not why. After a while, he said in a coquettish tone: "The girls are jealous of me, and they say that I..."
Because it was too absurd, I woke up all of a sudden.
It was already bright outside, and Dan Tai Furong had already stood up: "What dream are you dreaming? You are still chanting poetry."
"Miscellaneous dream, in the dream, you don't care about me, for some reason." Xiaoxiao curled his lips, sat up, and sorted out his loose hair.
Dan Tai Furong covered her mouth and smiled: "I know why."
"Um?"
Dan Tai Furong got out of the bed with her shoes and was a little far away, then she said with a slight slight : "The girls are jealous of me," and she smiled so hard that she couldn't stand up.
Xiaoxiao was a little anxious and waved his hand quickly: "I really shouldn't have kept you last night! I didn't even have a dream!"
Suddenly, I remembered that I had read this sentence with Wen Xixiu in my dream, and my face turned red and I was embarrassed for myself.
"Okay, I'll just listen to it. Can't you tell me about it? It's just a dream!" Tan Tai Furong said as she walked to the window, lifted the curtains and opened it out, "The ground outside is wet, it seems that it was raining last night."
Xiaoxiao had not yet been unable to get out of that dream. She sat by the bed and looked at the water lilies embroidered on the slippers. She suddenly felt that she seemed to miss Wen Xixiu a little.
"After this rain, the peonies must have bloomed!" Dan Tai Furong was at ease with the situation, without thinking about homesickness at all. "I passed by the peony garden in your garden last night. The eldest one's flower was all about to bloom!"
"Miss Dan Tai is talking about the peony garden in Dongyuan?" Seeing that her girl seemed to be distracted, Wahong hurriedly spoke, and then instructed the little girl to bring in the wash water.
"Can't your house have more than one peony garden?" Dan Tai Furong said strangely.
Paihong smiled and introduced: "In addition to the rare peony garden in our East Garden, there is also a large area of colorful peony garden in the West Garden. The second wife of our mansion especially likes peony flowers, and built a peony platform next to the second house and planted a colored red peony."
"Wow, it seems that I'm right here this time~ I'm just enjoying the peony flowers at your house!" Dan Tai Furong walked to Xiaoxiao's dressing table with a smile, picked up the hairpin in a garland that had not been put away last night: "This hairpin is unique."
Xiaoxiao took the hot veil from the girl and wiped her face. After she woke up for a while, she looked at the hairpin in Dan Tai Furong. It was given to her by Mrs. Jin yesterday, so she didn't explain too much, but her thoughts changed: "When it comes to this garland, you can make that Xizi Xianglu headdress!"
"What Xizi Xianglu?" Dan Tai Furong gestured the hairpin on her head. She was not very satisfied and chose another tortoiseshell squirrel hairpin to try it on.
"It's the fragrance bottle you slandered last night, the double-snail bun that can be picked!"
"You mean, replace the double-snail bun with a garland?" Dan Tai Furong nodded repeatedly, "This idea is good and also suits the girl's dress! Besides, when Xizi was dancing the mountain ghost dance, she wore a circle of rose garlands on her head!"
"I'll let them change it today." Xiaoxiao smiled and saw Dan Tai Furong studying her makeup box, she said generously: "Pick it up, if you like it, I'll give it to you!"
But Dan Tai Furong pouted and shook her head: "Although you are unique, they are all too simple. I still like those big jade and gems, or the red gold that is particularly complicated in carved! Anyway, it must be shining with golden light and stunning!"
Xiaoxiao likes Dan Tai Furong - under no circumstances does it hide your preferences, and it is often difficult for ordinary people to be so straightforward.
"I believe what you said. I remember that when we first arrived at Dawangzhuang, you were wearing your golden gauze."
"That piece was washed away by the river." Dan Tai Furong felt a little regretful.
Xiaoxiao remembered something and ordered Xiao Dier: "Put the rings that the lady gave her to reward."
"All of them are brought?" Xiao Dier couldn't help asking.
Xiaoxiao remembered the box of gem rings that Shunhua admired last time, and felt that they were all too obvious, so she smiled and said, "Pick out a few good-quality gems from it, just bring them."
Tan Tai Furong smiled and said, "I especially like that big gem ring! But they all say they look like a Persian boss lady!"
The two started washing while laughing. Xiaoxiao was very happy about Dan Tai Furong's arrival. Dan Tai Furong was also full of curiosity about Xiaoxiao: "You are so fresh here! Even the brush brush is different from other people's homes! There is also this washbasin shelf, with a mirror above, and you can see yourself after you wipe your face!"
"It's not simple. Just make one set of me as it is for you to send it!" Xiaoxiao couldn't help but joke with her, "No, I have to make two sets, and I will give one set to the Ning family~"
Dan Tai Furong wiped her face with a hand towel. After being joked too much, she gradually lost her children's mood: "I remember what you said, two sets~ one set of red sandalwood and one set of golden nanmu!"
"Okay, remember it~" Xiaoxiao patted some peach blossom dew on his face, "I have peach blossom dew and jasmine dew, and loofah dew."
"I also use peach blossoms. Anyway, I don't have tinea tractworms, so I don't have any signs of flowers~"
After the two of them pounced on the peach blossom water, they applied another layer of wood scent paste, and Dantai Furong also applied a layer of purple jasmine powder, and simply drew their eyebrows. Since they had to go to school, they did not put on any further makeup.
When the Dan Tai family replied last night, they brought Dan Tai Furong's clothes and bags, and prepared learning skirts and some home-cooked clothes.
The two of them changed their skirts, and it was only half a minute later. Yu Xiaoxiao said that it was not too early, but Dan Tai Furong said rarely: "We slept late last night, but we got up early today!" He saw the girls preparing to have dinner outside, and it was even more surprising: "Can you get up so early on weekdays?"
Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "I have the habit of climbing mountains in the morning. I often get up before the hour of Mao, and it is exactly this time when I come back."
"Climbing the mountain?" Dan Tai Furong looked at the monkey in the mountains and smiled.
"It's the lingbi mountain in my home. It's not high at all. It can be played back and forth in less than half an hour." Xiaoxiao combed her double snail bun today, and chose a lilac lilac from the bamboo plate brought by the girl. She put it into her hair with a bamboo hairpin. Dantai Furong looked at it and selected a few layers of Guanshan cherry blossoms from it.
"No wonder you quickly adapted to the life of Dawangzhuang. It turned out that you were always insisting on strengthening your body." Dan Tai Furong was deeply impressed. She had to be coaxed and urged by four girls every morning to get up.
Xiao Dier brought in a small box with black paint and gold lace. Xiaoxiao took it and took it. There were more than ten rings inside: "See if you like it?"
Dan Tai Furong walked over and saw it, and was stunned. It was rare to have such a good quality big gem, but it was even more rare: "This emerald is so noble. I can wear it until I was 80 years old! And this big ruby, this big tourmaline... What guy, what does your aunt's family do? Why are you so rich?!"
He smiled and pursed his lips: "Well... he is a fur in Shanxi." - Shunhua must not be able to talk about what happened, so he had to use his aunt as a shield first.
"No wonder people say that Shanxi merchants are rich and are indeed heroic." Dan Tai Furong picked up an extraordinarily exaggerated citrine ring and looked at it for a long time. The crystal was as big as a chestnut, and it was particularly exaggerated on her fingers. Dan Tai Furong smiled and said, "I like this."
"Does Mr. Ning know these things about you? You like big gems and beautiful clothes." Xiaoxiao asked curiously.
"He probably knew that I was no different from you in front of him. But my second sister, she obviously likes these things like me, but she always deliberately pretends to be fresh and refined in front of others. It's really boring." Dan Tai Furong said, and suddenly her face turned red and smiled, "He said earlier that I am more sincere than my sister."
Mr. Ning gradually discovered Furong's goodness and was attracted to him - although Xiaoxiao was a little worried about his previous pursuit of Dan Tai Shaoyao.
Finally, I couldn't help asking: "Would you mind what he had done to your second sister before?"
Furong was wearing all the rings on her fingers at this moment, and her hands seemed to have traveled through a rainbow: "What's that? He just started with color to my second sister, but was loyal to me. It's incomparable to heaven and earth."
It is rare to have such an open-minded person. Once such a person meets happiness, he will definitely be more secure than others.
Xiaoxiao smiled: "I've given these rings to you, you're wearing them beautifully."
"No, I'll just pick one, these are too expensive!" Furong, who has always been unstoppable, has also pushed it off at this moment.
He smiled and said, "You and I love each other more than gold, so how can you compare with a few rings? It's incomparable."
Dan Tai Furong thought about it carefully, then accepted it after thinking it through.
The two sat down to have breakfast together. After a while, the Dantai family sent someone over here. This time, a fat girl came. Dantai Furong called her Zhuxiang affectionately, but Xiaoxiao felt that it was really not worthy of her name. This girl had nothing to do with Zhuzi.
Tracking Hong hurriedly asked someone to move an embroidery stud for Zhuxiang to sit on. Zhuxiang pushed it but then sat down under Furong's order. The girl's voice was particularly soft and made people sound very comfortable.
"Mei Xiang's face is better?" asked Dan Tai Furong.
"As the girl's instructions, I used the best medicine, and now the swelling has been eliminated."
"Yes." Dan Tai Furong wanted to ask something, but was speechless for a moment.
"The old lady asked her to pack up a few large bags of things to send. In addition to the gifts given to the Tang family, the rest were the girls' daily food and fun. The old lady asked the girls to stay for a while and go back when they miss home." Zhuxiang said these words slowly.
But Dan Tai Furong couldn't eat anymore: "Grandma... how did the old lady sleep last night."
Zhuxiang replied softly: "I heard from the girl in the old lady's room that the old man had turned on the lights all night and said that when the girl came back, she would live in the old lady's yard until she got married, and no one could interfere."
Dan Tai Furong's eyes suddenly turned red: "I'm just a dog-tempered person. My grandmother doesn't know me yet, so why bother to follow such a big fire."
"Miss, I don't know that early this morning, the old lady did not accept the greeting from the master."
"They deserve it." Dan Tai Furong rolled her eyes, "By the way, how is the second girl?"
"Miss Second Girl is so aggrieved. She locked herself in the room and saw no one," Zhuxiang paused and continued: "Today, the wife of the Shen family is coming to play cards at home."
"Which Shen family?" Dan Tai Furong wiped her eyes with a veil, and just now she couldn't help it when she remembered her grandmother.
"It's Liuli Shen's family."
"Wow, it seems that Shen Yingwu will completely give up Wen Xizi this time." Dan Tai Furong recalled that year, under the instigation of her second sister, she had fantasized about marrying into the Shen family, and for the tempting family business, thinking of this, she couldn't help but say: "This is in line with my second sister's wishes."
"I heard from the girl in the wife's room that maybe this time it's for the uncle of the Shen family." Zhuxiang said.
Several girls in the room were serving him quietly, but they were all listening to him. The eldest son of the Shen family was Shen Yingbai. The reason why the Shen family was able to get up was entirely due to this person.
Although Xiaoxiao was not very concerned about such gossip, she still asked: "Uncle Shen's family? Didn't he marry Xue Hui? It was rumored to be a good story at the beginning."
Dan Tai Furong looked at him sideways and smiled: "Are you sure you are a woman in the business circle?"
"how?"
"You don't know that something big happened to the Shen family?"
"This... doesn't have much business dealing with his family. What happened to the Shen family?"
"When the eldest grandmother of the Shen family was about to give birth, she couldn't save her life. The adults and children were all gone."
Xiaoxiao took a breath: "When did this happen?"
"It was almost the Chinese New Year last year. I miss our senior sister Xue, who just left her so much, leaving only one-year-old sister, who can only make a living in her stepmother's hands in the future." Dan Tai Furong also sighed deeply, "Oh, this is fate."
Xiaoxiao has never met Xue Cong's sister Xue Hui, but she has heard many stories about her. This is a generous and intelligent woman. She once won seven consecutive awards in the Xieying Girls School and is still praised.
Chapter completed!